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BCBG MaxAzria sent their fall/winter 2014/2015 collection down the runway today at New York Fashion Week and showed a much darker collection than in the past few seasons. The color palette featured black, dark navy, deep burgundy with shades of grey, white and dark camel. The handbag collection was made to match in a large amount of dark navy and black.
The dark navy and black handbags on BCBG MaxAzria's fall/winter 2014/2015 runway today at New York Fashion Week were shown in medium sizes and soft fabrications. There were shoulder bags, satchels and totes in soft leather. The dark handbags offered chain straps and classic, clean styling making the overall handbag collection from BCBG MaxAzria for fall/winter 2014/2015 timeless.
In the recent past, BCBG MaxAzria has shown color blocked handbags with mixtures of texture which are bold and noticeable. The fall/winter 2014/2015 handbag collection from BCBG MaxAzria is understated, dark, simple and classic. This is a bold move for the ready-to-wear brand which is known for a more stand-out handbag collection.
To view photos from BCBG MaxAzria's fall/winter 2014/2015 collection shown today at New York Fashion Week, please click on the slideshow associated with this article.
For live updates from the runways in New York, join me on Twitter and/or Instagram where I will be documenting fashion week live from New York!
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My dear mother this morning was trying to convince me I shouldn't be drinking skim milk and need to switch to whole milk. Well, let me say I struggled with weight after I hit puberty, and the way I learned to control it was by removing extra calories I don't need, (whole milk, regular soda, sugary cereals) and began eating more nutritious foods (without the calories!) I'm really concerned about putting on a lot of weight this pregnancy because the women in my family STRUGGLE with getting the excess baby weight off, and I don't want to have that.
What percentage of milk do you ladies drink?

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The UMass women's soccer team won it's second Atlantic 10 match in a row this past Saturday, closing out it's homemstand with a 3-1 victory over URI.
Kaitlin Boyer of the Daily Collegian had this recap of the match.
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Release Date: 2001-10-17 (FL Film Festival)
Genre: Drama,
Rating: R
Duration: 1hr 44min
Suddenly Naked is a sexy comedy that tells the story of thirty nine year old Jackie York, a successful, respected novelist who must choose between her carefully crafted public image and her desperate life. Caught in a downward spiral of loneliness and one night stands, Jackie finally meets the one person who can change her life; Enter Patrick McKeating -geeky 20 year old boy-genius. Sharp tongued. Off the wall and witty, Patrick is unlike anyone Jackie has ever met before. Jackie's public façade is soon destroyed as Patrick takes her on a wild journey that teaches her how to live, laugh and love out loud.
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- Directed by Anne Wheeler
- Produced by Gavin Wilding
- Written by Elyse Friedman
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First time making these buns, I was quite successful to shape them, wasn't I! The photo was taken by my phone, the quality was off.
To be honest, I have never been a big fan of dumplings even when I was in Vietnam. Let's say if I am involved in a lot of beautiful love stories with street food in Hanoi then dumpling was always a mere fling. The smell of steamed flour together with the tempting fragrance of pork and dried mushroom blend in, bringing me back to a street where I had the most dumplings in my high school time. I took a literature extra class there in late afternoon every two day.
Such a youthful and nostalgic fragrance!
Earlier last Christmas I bought a ready-mix dumpling flour in Paris but I decided to mix flour on my own as mixing flour is fun and not that difficult.
I have tried different recipes for the dough and this one below is the best, which gives you a soft moist texture and the signature smell of the buns sold in Vietnam. I learned the recipe from someone to whom I owe an apology for not having taken note her name. As I tend to read lots of recipe before I cook something and took note in different notebooks (well I'm not very well organized) I could not find the piece of paper that I noted down this recipe for the first time.
So this is my adapted version:
Yield 10-12 buns
250g AP flour or bread flour
50g cake or AP flour
1tbsp vegetable oil
1tbsp lemon juice
a pinch of salt
110ml milk
75g powdered sugar
1/2 tbsp instant yeast
1tsp sugar
1/2 tbsp baking powder
For the fillings you can use a wide range of ingredients that you want.
250g minced pork
12,5g dried mushroom, soaked in boiling hot water for at least 30minutes, finely chopped
1 scallion finely chopped
1/8 a dried onion or 1small golden onion finely chopped
(1/2 can or 70g water chestnut) finely chopped
Chinese sausages thinly sliced
1tbsp oyster sauce
a pinch of salt
1/2 tsp fish sauce
1/8 tsp pepper (or to taste)
1/2 tbsp honey
3 hard boiled eggs (cut in quarters)
To make the fillings, just simply mix them together.
Sieve flour and powdered sugar.
Pour flour, sugar, salt, instant yeast, lemon juice in a food processor, pulse a few times to blend. Using plastic blade.
Keep the machine at speed 2, gradually pour in milk for 30-40second or until the dough form a ball.
Knead by hand 2,3 times. Let it proof in warm place (24-29C) for an hour until it doubles its size.
When done proofing. Sieve 50g flour with baking powder and mix with this proofed flour dough. Let it sit for a second time for 1 or 2 hours.
Knead it in a long tube, cut into 10 or 12 small even pieces. Flatten the pieces with a rolling pin. Stuff in the fillings and let it proof 30 minutes before steaming for about 12-15 minutes on high bubbling water. Don't let your lid open during steaming.
Tips: To whiten the dough, pour some vinegar into the water.


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I don't think I could stomach Governor Christie as Veep; not just for his coziness with Islam, but his horrendous record on the Second Amendment. That said, I would find it highly unusual for a Governor from the Northeast to pick another Governor from the Northeast to run as his Veep so I am not going to get all worked up about this. A Christie Veep makes no Geo-political sense while Christie's anti-gun views, among other things, would be a polling disaster out here in 'Bitter-Clinger' country.
Further detail about the Gov's islam Problem may be found here.
Chris Christie's Islam Problem
He has repeatedly sided with some nasty characters.
By Daniel Pipes & Steve Emerson
A Quinnipiac poll in April showed Chris Christie as the most popular potential Republican vice-presidential candidate, thanks to his budget cuts and standing up to government employees' unions. But the governor of New Jersey has a problem, specifically an Islam problem, that can and should get in the way of his possible ascent to higher office. Time and again he has sided with Islamist forces against those who worry about safeguarding American security and civilization.
Some examples:
2008: When serving as U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Christie embraced and kissed Mohammed Qatanani, imam of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, and praised him as "a man of great goodwill." He did this after Qatanani had publicly ranted against Jews and in support of funding Hamas, a U.S. government–designated terror organization, and on the eve of his deportation hearing for not hiding an Israeli conviction for membership in Hamas. In addition, Christie designated a top aide, Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles McKenna, to testify as a character witness for Qatanani.
2010: After Derek Fenton burned three pages of a Koran at a 9/11 memorial ceremony, his employer, New Jersey Transit, got Christie's approval to fire him. Protecting Islam at the expense of the constitutional right to free speech, Christie endorsed Fenton's termination: "That kind of intolerance is something I think is unacceptable. So I don't have any problem with him being fired." The American Civil Liberties Union successfully represented Fenton to get his job back.
2011: Christie appointed an Islamist, Sohail Mohammed, to the New Jersey state superior court. Mohammed's record includes serving as general counsel to the American Muslim Union (which has stated that a "Zionist Commando Orchestrated The 9-11 Terrorist Attacks"), acting as spokesman for Muslim prisoners who went on a hunger strike after being jailed during Ramadan, defendingPalestinian Islamic Jihad operative Sami Al-Arian (his indictment, Mohammed said, was "nothing but a witch-hunt"), and helping Qatanani's legal defense. Mohammed established himself not just as the Islamists' lawyer but as one of them.
When members of New Jersey's Senate Judiciary Committee asked Mohammed appropriately tough questions about his enthusiasm for Islam's archaic law code, the Shari'a, Christie ridiculed the lawmakers: "Shari'a law has nothing to do with this [appointment of Mohammed] at all. It's crazy. It's crazy. . . . So, this Shari'a law business is crap. It's just crazy. And I'm tired of dealing with the crazies. I mean, you know, it's just unnecessary to be accusing this guy of things just because of his religious background." For this outburst, unsurprisingly, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) thanked and applauded Christie.
2012: The revelation that the New York Police Department had conducted surveillance of Islamists in the New Jersey towns of Newark and New Brunswick prompted not gratitude but outrage from Christie, who termed the action arrogant and paranoid while mocking NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly as "all knowing, all seeing."
In short, Christie has hugged a terrorist-organization member, abridged free-speech rights, scorned concern over Islamization, and opposed law-enforcement counterterrorism efforts. Whenever an issue touching on Islam arises, Christie takes the Islamist side against those — the DHS, state senators, the NYPD, even the ACLU — who worry about lawful Islamism eroding the fabric of American life.
Two factors render this pattern especially curious: First, soft-on-Islamism policies are common among Democrats but rare among Republicans (Grover Norquist being the major exception). Second, Christie takes an ostentatiously pro-Israel stance, as reflected by his speeches and his recent "Jersey to Jerusalem" trip; this makes him unusual, for a pro-Israel stance typically goes hand-in-hand with concern about Shari'a. How does one reconcile the Christie contradiction?
It could be ego: The governor is more brilliant than we are. It could be that, other than fiscally, he is not a conservative. Or, as several analysts suggest, it could be cynical double pandering: Muslims get what they want most and Zionists get what they want most, with each side ignoring what Christie does for the other. Indeed, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut pursued this double-track policy (soft on Islamism, staunch on Israel) and he became the Democrats' vice-presidential candidate in 2000, when practically no one noticed the contradiction.
Whatever his reasons, we conclude that Chris Christie lacks the moral compass and integrity needed to serve as vice president of the United States.


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As we enter the final days of Lent, Christians throughout Columbia will be sharing their own beautifully written 'letters from the heart.' Each is accompanied by corresponding relevant scripture verse(s), and linked to sources for further study. If you would like to join Columbia's Lenten journey in 2015, please submit your 'letter from the heart' by email. Especially meaningful submissions will be printed. Let us complete our journey of repentance, meditation, and anticipation through the final days, to its joyous resurrection on Easter Sunday.
Today's scripture reading is from the Gospel of John 18:1 and 19:42.
The Passion of the Christ covers the final twelve hours of Jesus' life beginning with the agony in the garden. It is the story of a man. That is not to say it is not the story of God as well, but it is to me, above all, the story of a single man's act of incredible love.
There have been times in every life where the dread of an upcoming event paralyzes. Dread keeps us up at night, it turns our stomachs, and it grays our hair. For many, it causes us to seek every avenue to avoid the dreaded event, either actually or emotionally, refusing to face the inevitability of the circumstances. Moments we dread most are those created by our own mistakes or omissions, when we are called to face the music for a self-inflicted wound.
Whenever I read the story of Jesus' hours of dread and sacrifice I am reminded of three things. First, I try to recall the gut-wrenching moments in my life when I would have done anything, paid any price, not to have to confront the circumstances that faced me. Then I try to recognize just how insignificant the things I have had to face in my life are in comparison to the ordeal, the pain, the mockery and ultimately the final price that Jesus faced in the hours before He died. This helps me to understand that His sense of dread had to be orders of magnitude greater that any I have known.
Finally I realize that it was not the mistake or omissions of Jesus that put Him in this position. In fact, it was me. I wonder what it would take for me to bear knowingly such a situation, amplified many times over anything I have ever felt, all because of the neglect and selfishness of others, and to save those responsible.
Then, I know better than any day of the year the incredible love one man had for me, for us all.
Joel Smith
Columbia, South Carolina
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Lego sets
Any one here also bulding the SW lego sets. I just got the Death Star last week. Got the Ultimate AT-ST at Christmas. and have the star destroyer, and ultimate tie advanced. Then about 25 other of the smaller sets
I really want the Star Destroyer set, but I just have no room for it. The stuff I do have are:
Rebel Blockade Runner
TIE Fighter
Republic Gunship
Imperial Shuttle
Republic ARC-170
Jango's Slave 1
and the Obi-Wan/Grievous chase set thingy
Pretty much all of the sets from the introduction run of the Lego SW series...then a lot of Episode 1 sets...but I've got an assortment of others from all of the movies.
Here is my death star finally put together..
oh my... that's pretty
Hum, very nice.I have had a ton of the smaller sets in the past.I got the AT-AT awhile ago.I had two sith infilterator's and Jango's Slave 1 and Bobba's Slave one.Would like to eventualy get the death star.
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Tahira Mateen's Recipe (Kam Kharch Bala Nasheen)
Categories: Iftar, Eid, Desserts, Baking
Cooking chocolate 1 cup melt in microwave for 40 seconds
Baking powder 1 tbsp
Cocoa powder ¼ cup sieve all these dry ingredients 2 to 3 times.
Eggs 4 beaten
Castor Sugar 2 cups
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Salt a pinch
Walnuts as required
Fudge Sauce
Cream 1 cup or 200 ml
Cooking Chocolate 1 cup
Butter 1 tbsp
Once the chocolate melts add it to butter and mix both on double boiler till a smooth syrup like consistency is fomed and allow it to cool down to room temperature.
Now put eggs and keep on mixing with hands, next put in castor sugar,(Seive together cocoa powder, maida and baking powder 2 to 3 times.) add maida, cocoa pwd, baking powder, then vanilla essence, a pinch of salt, Sprinkle some flour on nuts and add to batter this will prevent nut from drowning at the bottom and allow them to settle evenly within the brownie batter formed. Now once properly mixed pour it in already greased and buttered paper baking tray. Bake at 170 degrees for 30 to 35 mins.


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All the talk of bug out bags and the like on here has got me thinking. Most of the year (until this summer, then who knows where I will be after graduation) I spend in Columbus at school, and the rest of my family is in Cincinnati, about 100 miles away. So today while doing work on the truck I decided to take stock of what I have in it, and add appropriately.
The main plan for a big SHTF right now is to utilize my trucks 4x4 and off road capabilites to go accross all the cornfields in the way (thats most of the 100 miles), to my parent's place, where they have supplies stocked up, and most of my weaponry is year round (high property crime rate around campus and parent's rules means that I usually only have one or two pistols and maybe a shotgun at school), the rest, along with ammo for them, are kept in Cincinnati area. If I can't make it all the way in the truck, well then thats why I have feet, but the plan is to get as far as possible with the truck, avoiding roads. The truck always has at least half a tank, which is more than I would need for the drive. And I have done it all back-roads and no expressway (didn't figure the farmers want me drivin in their fields, but if SHTF, then they will prolly have bigger concerns.
So in the truck's tool box I have:
Craftsman mechanic's tool set, the big one, with just about any hand tool I would need to fix my truck
Hayne's manual
Spare fluids for truck, pre-mixed coolant, transmission fluid, motor oil
Electrical work tools and supplies, splices, wires, crimpers, ect...
duct tape
work gloves
15 feet of chain for towing
21 foot tow strap
2 10 foot moving straps
7 assorted length bungee cords
4 12 foot rachet tie down straps
spare blanket still in plastic wrap
spare hooded fleece
4 way tire iron
flat tire repair kit
safety flares
8x10 tarp
flashlight and batteries
winter gloves
In a shoulder bag in the tool box:
4 bottles of water
2 candles
swiss army knife
7" blade survival knife (not a name brand, but it has years of abuse in the woods and is still sharp and hasn't broken)
3 packs of ramen noodles (college kids always have a surplus)
2 protein bars
extra socks
flashlight and extra batteries
In the cab:
first aid kit, nothin too fancy, but I added a snake bite kit, and it has enough for anything I can fix myself
moving blanket, one of the thick ones you see mover's use, light blue on one side, dark green on the other
fire extinguisher
CB radio
Maps of Ohio
Spare ammo for firearms, abotu 100 rounds each
4-D mag light
And on my person would be my EDC pocket knife, whatever firearms I had in C-bus (I never leave any in my Apt. up there, so at least my .45 and .357, and prolly Mossy 500 persuader), ID, cell phone (always charged) and cash.
Sorry about the long list, but maybe something on here will make someone else think and possibly help them. Any suggestions on things that I am missing?


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New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson will welcome 31 fellow members of a very exclusive club to New Orleans today as the NFL owners begin their annual meeting. The champagne is likely to stay corked.
Although league officials insist a variety of topics will be on the agenda, one clearly dwarfs all others: The league is dealing with its first work stoppage since 1987 as the contract it held with the players union is kaput. The owners, seeking more money from a deal they believed short-changed them, opted out of it. The union dissolved, and now both sides are headed to court for what could be a protracted, acrimonious case.
However, in the midst of those storm clouds, Benson is striving to be the gracious New Orleans host, proving to some of America's richest men that the city has moved from recovery to renaissance and that its beloved Saints, whatever may transpire elsewhere, are thriving.
In an interview last week, Benson acknowledged the current problems but nonetheless reveled in what he considers exciting developments in his 27th year as the owner of the Saints.
Major construction projects are under way or planned at the Superdome and the team's Metairie headquarters.
Despite the disappointing wild-card playoff loss in Seattle, his confidence in the championship caliber of his Saints remains unshaken.
And as he made clear at the outset, the talk of furloughs and pay cuts percolating through the halls of other clubs as a lockout begins is not heard in his organization.
"This is pretty much business as usual for us," he said. "I don't want our employees to feel sorry for themselves during this period of time. So we're not laying anybody off, and we're not cutting anybody's pay. Good way to start our conversation."
Focus on collective bargaining
The league and the public's primary focus concerns the dissolution of the NFL collective-bargaining agreement, a development that has hobbled a $9 billion entertainment behemoth. The owners come together this week in a condensed format that will run through Tuesday at The Roosevelt hotel.
Since the talks with the players collapsed, the league has embarked on a public relations offensive, claiming the owners offered a variety of sweeteners, all of which were rejected by a recalcitrant union negotiating team. In response, several players, including Saints quarterback Drew Brees, who was an executive in the decertified union and is now a lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking an injunction against a lockout, announced they do not want to negotiate further with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the league's executive vice president Jeff Pash, a gambit that NFL spokesman Greg Aiello brushed aside this weekend while saying the league is ready to negotiate at any time in any location.
"Nobody wins in the courtroom, as far as I'm concerned," Benson said. "We've got to just sit down and work this out together and what's good for this game and the future of this game. If it costs so much to do business, then you've got to raise prices more. We've got to stabilize this thing across the board, and you've got to hold your costs someplace. And this is what we're trying to do."
Benson lobbied hard to get the meeting in New Orleans, an effort that began long before the current labor impasse, and was tied to the city's successful effort to land Super Bowl XLVII in 2013. Although the format has been condensed to two full days rather than something closer to four, he feels a sense of accomplishment.
"You know, a lot of people around the country, they think New Orleans is still, has been reduced so drastically in size that everything remains a big problem. And they see that New Orleans is only 300,000 people -- and as you and I know, if you take all (the parishes) into consideration and that a lot of the growth has been outside of downtown New Orleans. Our community is more vibrant today than ever before, I really feel that."
Construction projects
With legal fights looming, Benson declined to discuss collective-bargaining agreement specifics and turned instead to rosier matters that seem to animate him more. At the top of that list, he said, is his plan to build a 5,000- to 6,000-seat stadium on land between the Saints' current complex on Airline Drive and Zephyr Field.
Benson owns 10 acres across the street from the club's complex, a lot currently holding some woods and a couple of overgrown soccer fields. With crowds at the team's training camp practices thronging the uncomfortable bleachers nowadays, Benson noted the stadium would provide an ideal spot for them to settle in and watch practice or a scrimmage, and perhaps, though he left this part unsaid, enjoy a cold beverage and chili dog.
The Saints would also make the stadium, which he envisions opening in 2012, available for high school games.
"Right now the architects are making plans for improvements to these buildings," he said, casting his gaze over the two grass practice fields between Airline Drive and his office. "We would practice there, and then when these 5,000 people come they've got a place to go, we've got a nice place available for them. So you can see how positive we feel about everything."
Benson paused for a moment, struck by the gap between his vision of growth and the static state of affairs in the NFL.
"Well, not everything," he allowed. "But we feel good about the New Orleans Saints. It's true in everything that's going on -- they're supporting the Saints. We've got 98 percent renewal on our season tickets. That's money in the bank, that's not somebody saying, 'Gee, I'm going to do it.' "
Meanwhile, at the Superdome, an $85 million project is under way. On a Friday visit to the site, wearing his personal hard hat with a black fleur-de-lis, Benson surveyed the ongoing project with the wide eyes of a kid, and gushed about how the latest tricks of stadium architecture will be incorporated into the Superdome.
"If you hadn't seen it for 20 years, and now you came back to it -- it's got a beautiful color to it, you see windows and you can see inside it, and you can look outside and it's not like you're all in some closed deal, all right?" he said. "On top of that, the reconfiguration of it! It's like the new stadiums, now they're square more, even the end zones are going to be square. This is what we're going to have here: We're going to have the same thing that any new stadium that has been built has. And we're going to be able to see better in 72,000, 73,000 seats, depending on some little things. We're going to have more seats available and better seats."
There's something contagious about his optimism inside the dusty Dome. A worker walks by wearing a Saints T-shirt, and smiles broadly when Benson compliments him on his attire.
And yet the folksy touches belie the fact such expensive stadium renovations -- built in some places more, in others less, on the backs of strapped taxpayers -- are precisely the sort of money-makers owners lust for, and therefore one of the driving forces behind their effort to reconfigure revenue distribution.
'They love being here'
Of the topics separating the two sides, such as a proposed 18-game regular season, permission to skim more money from the top before revenues are divided, and some sort of pay scale for rookies, Benson touched only on the last, voicing his wholehearted support for such an introduction.
Similarly, he said he and the Saints' coaches he has talked to favor the proposed changes to the kickoff, alterations that will make the game safer but also seem likely to limit the explosive potential of the play.
As for football, Benson likes what he has. "We're going to win the Super Bowl next year," he boldly predicted.
With the draft coming up, Benson says he leaves most of that to General Manager Mickey Loomis and Coach Sean Payton, although he will meet with players the team likes enough to bring to Metairie for workouts.
The Saints, like any team, have unresolved roster issues made only more complicated by the labor uncertainty. The club has 17 players who could become restricted free agents, with three to five years of service, if there is an arrangement to play with the 2010 rules. And there are a dozen more who would be unrestricted, with six or more years of service. Thus far, the team has sent qualifying tender offers to eight of the 17 restricted free agents.
Neither Benson nor any other member of the organization will talk about players who are not currently under contract.
"They love being here," Benson said of his players. "A player's going to make as much money as he can, sometimes money will come into play. But I think that if they've got a choice, they'd rather stay here. And in some cases maybe they'll stay for a little less money. I'm not sure about that. You hear that, but I'm not sure about that."
Brees' contract
Brees is under contract for one more year. Benson hinted he cannot imagine the Saints without their signal-caller, and although a new contract for Brees will be on the table, Benson said the quarterback's lead role in the labor dispute will not be an issue. Business is business, these things must be compartmentalized, and Brees simply isn't capable of doing anything without complete dedication to it, Benson said.
Brees did so by taking a lead role for the union in federally mediated talks in Washington. He has the accomplished resume and, arguably more important, the gravitas that makes him an admired person on both sides of the negotiating table.
Brees has never spoken sharply against Benson -- "All I see is a guy giving us every chance he can to be a winner," Brees said at his locker in his season-closing comments last January -- and Benson waved aside any concern that lingering resentment from the labor situation might bleed into contract negotiations.
"With regard to Drew, I have tremendous respect for Drew and just like everything he does he does passionately," Benson said. "Like he performs on the field is like how he performs as a member of the executive board of the union. But at the end of the day, no player or owner or coach or (general manager) is above our league and the history of our league. That is why I am confident he will be back playing football for our fans."
He is also confident the NFL owners will return to New Orleans, if only because his wife's plans were spurned.
"My wife had a luncheon at our home for the wives, and that had to be canceled because most wives are not coming since this is really just a business meeting and there are no social activities as such," he said. "She was very disappointed about that, and she said to the commissioner, who wrote her a nice little note, she called him and told him, 'You know what that means, Roger? That means you've got to come back here so I can have my luncheon.' "
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Each helped lead their team to a first-place finish at the Baker Spring Invite at Alvamar Golf Course in Lawrence, Kan., last week.
Zuzelski was a medalist at the Baker Spring Invite, as the senior from Syracuse, Kan., fired a 78 followed by a 77 to claim third-place and help Baker win the team portion of the tournament.
Strecker claimed her first individual championship last week as she won the Baker Spring Invite. She shot an opening-round 85 and held on for a one-shot victory to lead the Wildcats to the team victory.
Baker will now take on the HAAC Championships, as the men will travel to Maryville, Mo., on Apr. 29-30 at Mozingo Lake Golf Course and the women will compete in the HAAC championships on May 6-7 at Spring Lake Country Club in Quincy, Ill.


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USA Cycling 4-Cross Pro Mountain Bike National Championships
Angel Fire, N.M. May 25
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Sep 7, 2013
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By Geoff Thurner
PORTLAND, Ore. - The Fresno State volleyball team fought hard against its second returning NCAA Tournament Regional semifinalist to cap action in the Portland Nike Invitational Saturday evening at the Chiles Center.
The Bulldogs (2-4) ultimately came up short to the preseason Missouri Valley Conference favorite Wichita State (5-1) by a 19-25, 25-16, 25-23, 25-11 score.
For Fresno State, senior right side hitter Holly Franks landed a new school record in aces (7), and improved upon the prior best of six by Lisa Gera (2007) and Christy Burnett (2002) from five- and four-set matches, respectively.
The Tollhouse, Calif., native also led the team in hitting (.333) for the second time this season , and stood second in kills (12) and digs (11) with her second double-double of the season.
One kill ahead, senior outside hitter Korrin Wild paced the squad in kills (13) for the fourth time in five matches, and added two aces and six digs.
In her first college start, freshman libero Maggie Eppright led the team in digs (14) for the first time this season, and improved upon her previous career high (8) that she tied in a set of action Saturday morning.
Five Bulldogs registered single blocks, and junior setter Cori Ehmen led the assists column (36).
Team-wise, the squad logged 10 aces for a new season best and held a 10-6 advantage. The Shockers held other edges in kills (44-43), assists (41-40), hitting (.299-.145), blocks (10-3) and digs (55-44).
Outside hitter Sam Sanders was the lone Wichita State player with double-digit kills (13, .545), and Elizabeth Field (8 kills, .533) also topped .500. Other category leaders included setter Chelsey Feeking (36 assists, 8 assists) and libero Alyssa Carney (18 digs, 3 aces).
In the first set, junior outside hitter Jaimee-Lee Morrow served a six-point run that put the `Dogs up 8-2, and included the team's first ace of the night. A pair of kills from junior middle blocker Maci Murdock helped Fresno State extend its lead to 12-5 on a four-point run behind Wild's serving, but the Shockers battled back with a 12-2 run of their own to go up, 17-14. The `Dogs, however, refused to yield and ended the set with 9-2 streak that included another of Morrow's season-high two aces, and three by Franks in the 25-19 stanza. The `Dog back-row defense helped the team hold the Shockers to .000 hitting for the set with their five kills and five errors on 24 attempts.
In the second set, the Shockers bounced back to hit .433 as a team and limited the `Dogs to a set-high run of two points on three occasions. Wichita's biggest scoring run was a 10-4 streak mid-set that pushed its lead to 18-9. Five of Fresno State's points came courtesy of Franks via four kills and another ace.
In the third set, the `Dog shadowed the Shockers by 1-3 points until a Franks ace finally tied the score, 15-15. The teams traded points through five more ties, and another Franks ace retied it again, 23-23. However, a pair of kills by the Shockers' Sanders ended the 25-23 stanza. The Bulldogs posted their best hitting mark of the match (.297) thanks to nine kills by Wild - a team season high for a set in '13.
After a 5-5 tie in the fourth set, Wichita State went on a five-point run to go up, 10-5. After a disputed call led to an eight-minute referee-coach conference, Wichita State was awarded a point for a 13-6 lead on a Fresno State out-of-rotation call. The Shockers used another six-point run to jump ahead, 22-9, and later ended the match, 25-11.
Earlier in the weekend, the `Dogs beat UP, 3-0, and lost to West Coast Conference favorite and No. 25 BYU, 3-0.
Looking ahead, the Bulldogs return home to host the Bulldog Classic Presented by Deli Delicious, next Friday-Saturday, September 13-14.
The tournament welcomes a pair of 2012 NCAA Tournament returnees - national runner-up Oregon and Belmont - and CSU Bakersfield to the two-day, six-match tournament at the Save Mart Center.
Tickets are available at www.GoBulldogs.com, and fans can watch action live online at the www.TheMWC.com website.
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could anyone please indicate a general strategy (if there is any) to get the PDF (or CDF) of the product of two random variables, each having known distributions and limits? After having scanned related questions, I suspect there is no general strategy and the solution will depend on the distributions.
My particular need is the following:
$w=u \cdot v$
PDF of $u$: $\frac{1}{\pi u}\frac{1}{\sqrt{u^2-0.25}}$,for $z>0.5$
PDF of $v$: $\exp{[-\frac{v}{v_0}]}$, for $v_1<v<v_2$
what's the PDF of $w$?
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?uestlove Moves to Cabo, Mexico, Becomes ¿uestlove
CABO SAN LUCAS – In an impulsive move to find his roots, ?uestlove has relocated from his Park Avenue apartment to Cabo San Lucas and has legally changed his name to ¿uestlove.
His publicist shared with TRI that the artist moved after learning his conception actually occured while his mother was on spring break at the Hilton Cabo.
Upon arrival, ?uestlove was immediately faced with looks of confusion and utter befuddlement. The customs agents in the Cabo airport spent over an hour trying to interpret his passport and only granted him his visa because he laid down an unbelievable beat for the officials.
Dr. Joaquin Alvarez, Professor of Linguistics at El Universidad de La Madre Del Guadalupe was puzzled: "This is all wrong. There can be no upside-down question mark without a right-side up question mark to follow it. It just doesn't make sense. Where is the emphasis?"
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Postgame will be posted a few hours after each game during this baseball season.
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- On deck: vs. Arkansas, 1 p.m. Sunday, Alex Box
- In the hole: vs. Southern Miss, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Zephyr Field, Metarie
The Studs
- Mark Laird, LSU RF: Laird was 0 for 10 before he smacked a walk-off, RBI single to left field. He took a high fastball the opposite direction for his first game-winning hit since he was a senior in high school two years ago.
- Joe Broussard, LSU RHP: Broussard, for a second straight game, showed he can be clutch in late-inning situations. He retired two of the three batters he faced to close out the ninth (the other was an intentional walk). He got his first decision, claiming the win. He got his eighth save in a 5-3 win Friday night.
- Andrew Stevenson, LSU CF: Stevenson scored a run after walking in the fourth inning. He also went 2 for 2 at the plate and his sac-bunt in the ninth inning moved Jake Fraley in scoring position, setting up Laird's game-winner.
The Duds
- Michael Gunn, Arkansas LHP: Gunn entered the game to start the ninth inning having not allowed an earned run this season. He seemed to be just off with his fastball, missing high. He walked Chinea and allowed that game-winning single from Laird on another high pitch.
The Turning Point
- Chris Chinea led of the ninth inning by walking. That was the undoing for Gunn and the Razorbacks. It turned the game, indeed,
The Quote
- "It was a thing of beauty." – LSU coach Paul Mainieri on Mark Laird's game-winning single


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Sony Xperia UL with Snapdragon 600 CPU gets photographed for the first time, shows all angles
The upcoming Sony Xperia UL has been caught in the wild for the first time, and a few photos resulted. This is the first time we get a look at the Xperia UL, a smartphone that was first rumored in March. Back then we heard it would be headed to Japan, and more specifically to KDDI, one of the carriers over there.
The Sony Xperia UL is going to sport a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chipset, 2 GB of RAM, 32 GB of internal storage, and a 2,300 mAh battery, according to both the first rumor on the matter as well as information sent to CNMO today alongside the pictures you can see below.
Whether or not this device will be a KDDI exclusive or not is up for debate at this point. It might have a version tailored to that carrier's requests, but then who knows, maybe it will get an international launch as well.
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A bottler pours a taste of "kosher for Passover" Diet Coke for a local rabbi, 1983. During Passover, Coke uses a formula free of corn syrup for its kosher Coke. (Detroit Free Press/Ira Rosenberg)
These chemists deserve much of the credit for the remarkable growth in kosher food products. Of course, clever food marketers have played a role, too. The famous tagline "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's" along with Hebrew National's brilliant phrase "We answer to a higher authority" have doubtless expanded kosher food's appeal. But both advertising campaigns rest on a claim that kosher food is more reliable, safer, and more consistent in its contents than nonkosher food because rabbis' devotion to their faith places their judgment above suspicion. And these claims in turn depend on the hard work done by Rabbi Geffen and the ranks of kosher chemists who have been scrupulous in their application of kosher law to modern food.
The result has been widespread interest by nonkosher consumers in kosher food. In the late 1980s the prestigious market-research firm Packaged Facts issued an influential report showing that only one in four purchasers of kosher products were in fact Jewish. Twenty years later a similar report would show that only one in ten kosher food purchasers were observant Jews. Today this fact is widely accepted among food manufacturers, who also maintain the corresponding belief that kosher certification can in many cases bolster their product's image and increase sales, not only to observant Jews but also to many other consumers concerned about what they eat.
The diligence of kosher chemists has made it possible for kosher food to have such a broad appeal. Insistence on stringent standards for ingredients and processing means that Muslims can trust that kosher-certified food will not contain any ingredients originating from a pig. Vegetarians can be confident that kosher food labeled as dairy will contain no meat products. Conversely, lactose-intolerant or allergic consumers know that foods labeled meat or parve will not trigger milk-based health problems.
Ironically, kosher food's appeal to nonkosher consumers was an entirely unanticipated outgrowth of kosher chemistry. When Orthodox rabbis developed the rigorous rules governing the production of Coke and other processed food products, they were not thinking about the non-Jewish consumer. They were concerned exclusively with being true to the principles of Jewish law. But this unintended consequence has made the growth of kosher-certified products a mitzvah, a good deed, from which many have benefited, not only observant Jews.
Roger Horowitz was a 2009–2010 Gordon Cain Fellow at CHF's Beckman Center. He is currently the associate director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. This article is drawn from a book he is writing on the history of kosher food in the United States.
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Pooping into a petri dish is becoming standard practice as part of some college biology courses.
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Caltech's Frances Arnold is honored for her work on directed evolution.


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Hence not much time for sleep. Truth be told, I never sleep much when we're apart. I don't like sleeping alone. That's why I'm so productive when I travel. I stay up really late and get up super early. A vacancy in the bedroom just leaves me restless in the dark.
Yet I'm a BIG believer in spouses spending time apart. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. I learned this when we were dating. We thought we were in love. But we didn't know we were until we spent a summer on opposite coasts. That's when we realized we couldn't live without each other.
In marriage it's good to be reminded of that. It makes the moments together more like the love of novels. Lydia flew home from Utah Thursday night. We had one night in the same zip code before I left for San Francisco, then onto New York, D.C. and Boston.
I practically ran people off the road en route to the airport to get her. It's exhilarating to want a woman that much.
After a perfect embrace, we went shopping at one of her favorite clothing stores and ate dinner at our favorite restaurant. It was storybook — the sautéed beets, the lazy jazz music, the conversation, the curve of her lips. Then we drove home and stayed up ridiculously late talking.
We did the same things when we fell in love in Seattle in the '80s. We'd eat really late dinners on the waterfront and then I'd take her home and we'd sit in her driveway for hours, just talking. Her parents thought we were doing something else in the dark car. But we were really just talking.
Every time!
We were so fascinated with each other's thoughts and opinions and dreams. Now that we're in our mid-40s, I'm infatuated.
I want my daughters to be loved this way. I want them to meet boys smitten by their outward beauty, yet fascinated by what's beneath the skin. I'm talking about boys that care about what books my daughters read; what musical instruments they play; what poems they cherish. I want a boy that cares about her dreams as much as his.
I'm talking about boys who don't view pornography. There's nothing casual about porn. I want a boy whose image of girls isn't warped by what is so easy to see on their touchscreen. If one of those boys gets close to my girls — they aren't hard to spot — I intend to send him howling. I've got ways.
My girls know this. I read to them every night that I'm home. Our favorite book is Julie Andrews' collection of poems, songs and lullabies. It includes Steven Sondheim's "Not While I'm Around." I read the lyrics to my girls often. While Lydia was away, I gathered my girls on my bed for story time and to hear Barbra Streisand sing Sondheim's song:
Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around.
Nothing's gonna harm you, no sir, not while I'm around.
Demons are prowling everywhere, nowadays,
I'll send 'em howling,
I don't care, I got ways.
No one's gonna hurt you,
No one's gonna dare.
Others can desert you,
Not to worry, whistle, I'll be there.
Being close and being clever
Ain't like being true
I don't need to,
I would never hide a thing from you,
Like some …
When it ended, my girls said: "Daddy, can we listen to that again?"
That's music to my ears.
Jeff Benedict is a magazine writer and the author of 10 books, including "The Mormon Way of Doing Business." His website is www.jeffbenedict.com.
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National security and Anthony Weiner are definitely related!
Not to mention the economy as Anthony Weiner memorabilia is selling-out and crashing websites!
Can we have our politicians doing immoral acts that violate their marriage vows or even the law? Absolutely as has been proven time and time again (see the definition for politicians with examples given for tax evasion and infidelity)!
Are these immoral acts any of the public's business given the fact that a man's private life is his private life?
Not as long as the politician has retired from office and is living as a private citizen.
Blackmail and Weiner
It may sound cliche but when a man (or woman) can potentially be blackmailed into deciding or pushing certain issues that fit into someone else's agenda, all due to information being held over that politicians head, it is a public matter!
Who knows how the Weiner Twitter relationships started. Most likely he initiated them and they were as innocent as they could possibly be, but what if a crafty group or organization had lured him in?
Stranger things have happened throughout history. The bottom-line is that when politicians make the commitment to serve they need to keep their pants zipped until they are out of office.
If they can't, then stay in the private sector!
The anatomically correct Anthony Weiner doll, Weiner T-shirts and Weiner condoms are all selling very well!
"Due to the controversy and nature of the Twitter acts there is a Weiner doll complete complete with penis that has been selling like hot cakes for $49.95 atHeroBuilders.com. The company expects to sell 1,000 this week with interest in the doll so intense that the website crashed.
There is a T-shirt from Zazzle.com with the tag-line "Tweet your meat, lose your seat" and Weiner condoms with his picture on the wrapper from Practicesafepolicy.com that has sold 6,000 units." (The Political Commentator)


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Baltimore, Maryland
In 2002 the Goldseker Foundation released a report,
Frog's Lesson: The Baltimore Region 2002 (PDF), that
evaluates Quality of Life, Natural Environment, Land Use, Economy,
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Atlanta, Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia, St. Louis,
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the Baltimore region needs to pay close and thoughtful attention
to reducing crime, improving the natural environment, protecting
open space, improving mass transit, attracting jobs with a better-educated
workforce, and retaining and attracting highly talented people,
including those from abroad.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Sustainable Cambridge Coalition was formed
in 1991 as a part of the Cambridge Civic Forum to find
solutions to problems threatening community sustainability.
The coalition is comprised of non-profit organizations, city
representatives, community activists, educators and residents.
In 1992, the Coalition published the "Sustainability Profile
for the City of Cambridge" which compiled 1990 and 1991 city
data as indicators in the following categories:
Elizabeth Kline, researcher and author at the
Global Development
and Environment Institute at Tufts University, also
developed example indicators for her hometown of Cambridge to
test the validity and practicality of a conceptual framework
for sustainability indicators. The 100
indicators are published in a report "Sustainable Community
Indicators: Examples from Cambridge" (available for order from
and are divided into the following "Characteristics" and "Pathways":
Kline has written other valuable articles and
reports regarding sustainability indicators, some of which are
available online as PDF files, including Planning
and Creating Eco-Cities: Indicators as a Tool for Shaping, Developing
and Measuring Progress (1999), Indicators
for Sustainable Development in Urban Areas (1999) and
Community: Topics and Indicators (1997).
Chattanooga, Tennessee
In an effort called Chattanooga
Venture, a group of 50 leaders met in 1984 to find solutions
to widespread concern over Chattanooga's decline in quality
of life. In response, they created a nonprofit organization
called Chattanooga Venture to help the community rethink its
collective image and start making progress towards becoming
a more attractive, healthy, economically-sound place to live.
In 1985, Chattanooga Venture initiated a five-month
process called Vision 2000 through which over 1,700 people in
the community cooperated to create a vision for Chattanooga�s
future. The Vision 2000 program set forty goals for improving
Chattanooga and the lives of its citizens over the next 15 years.
Chicago, Illinois
Metropolis 2020 conducted an extensive process of public
meetings and opinion polls in 2001, to help Chicago identify
12 shared goals. The group now compiles the Metropolis
Index, an annual report card on how the region is doing
in addressing those goals for regional economy, transportation
and land use, housing, community life, education and natural
Cincinnati, Ohio
Sustainable Cincinnati has developed a list of 14 sustainability indicators for the Cincinnati region, addressing Economic Prosperity, Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy People and Healthy Communities, and Justice for All. Information is being collected on these indicators while additional indicators on Energy, Availability of Housing, and Regional Cooperation are being developed.
The Jacksonville
Community Council Inc. began measuring trends in Jacksonville's
quality of life in 1985, using 82 indicators to assess nine
quality of life "elements":
Indicator Program Reaches for Sustainability"
An article from the Florida Sustainable Communities Center news
provides three views on the success of the indicators program
in Jacksonville, Florida, in its second decade.
Kalispell, Montana
The Sunrift Center for Sustainable Communities produces a biannual
report to the community on the long-term trends in sustainability.
The report offers indicators in the areas of Economic Viability,
Social Equity, and Environmental Sustainability.
Contact Information:
Milt Carlson
The Sunrift Center for Sustainable Communities
15 Depot Park
Kalispell, MT 59901
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Minneapolis Sustainability Roundtable has released a report titled Fifty-year Vision and Indicators for a Sustainable Minneapolis (PDF 112 KB). Key elements of the 13-part vision for transforming the city include improving water quality by increasing permeable surface area, improving air quality by reducing pollution, strengthening the local economy by paying livable wages, framing "green" tax policies that create incentives for sustainability practices, building increasingly transparent processes for civic governance, and creating high-quality sustainable housing that is affordable at all income levels. The Roundtable developed 30 core indicators and 113 background indicators to help the city measure progress toward its vision. Some of the core indicators include: acres (and geographic balance) of leaf canopy, acres of natural space that sustain natural ecological communities, teen suicide rate, transportation mode split by percent, and percentage of renewable energy used, by sector.
A report by the City of Minneapolis in 2004 sets environmental goals and targets to help measure the results of the city's new focus on sustainability. Titled Minneapolis Environmental Report: Towards Sustainability (PDF 284 KB), the report is organized by six categories: green neighborhoods, sustainable transportation, air quality, water quality, energy conservation in city operations, and environmental justice. Under each of these environmental goals, the report notes steps that the city has already taken towards the goal, sets a target, and includes additional strategies and measures that the city will use to accomplish the goals.
Missoula, Montana
In 1994, the City and County of Missoula, Montana, defined
a set of 25 key benchmarks that it could use to measure progress
toward a healthy community. These benchmarks later merged
with task force efforts in preventing urban sprawl, resulting
in the Missoula
Measures project, beginning in 1998. Missoula
Measures are divided into the following four sections:
The Missoula Measures website provides information, data, and
links for community health indicators.
Pasadena, California
As part of the California Healthy Cities Project,
the Pasadena Public Health Department in 1990 called together
a cultural cross-section of 150 residents and civic professionals
to determine Pasadena�s relative health and well-being. The
initial outcome was a 1992 report, titled "The Quality of Life
in Pasadena: an Index for the 90�s and beyond," which established
10 broad categories for civic well-being.
Specific indicators are organized within the
following 10 categories:
Pasadena Quality of Life Index 2002, including data, demographic
information and a guide to using the index, is available online.
San Francisco, California
In 1993, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
established a Commission on San Francisco�s Environment to draft
and implement a sustainability plan for San Francisco. To gain
wide public participation and support for the plan, several
commissioners and community members formed a collaboration of
city agencies, businesses, environmental organizations, elected
officials, and concerned individuals. Sustainable
City: Working Toward a Sustainable Future for San Francisco
reports on progress working through the five-year sustainability
An integral part of the plan is a section on
indicators. Over 50 indicators were chosen in the following
Air Quality
Energy, Climate Change, and Ozone Depletion Hazardous
Parks, Open Spaces, Streetscapes (The Urban
Economy and Economic Development
Risk Management (Activities of High Environmental
Environmental Justice
Food and Agriculture
Human Health
Solid Waste
Water and Wastewater
Municipal Expenditures
Public Information/Education
Hazardous Materials
San Jose, California
In 1995, the City of San Jose�s Environmental
Services Department formed a Sustainability Indicators Team
to begin the process of evaluating and developing quantifiable
and relevant indicators of sustainability. In a February 1996
report, "Sustainability Indicators for the City of San Jose,"
the team identified 52 preliminary indicators in the following
The "San Jose Sustainable City Status Report" from
June 1998 reported on the City's progress with its Major Strategy
within the General Plan to become a Sustainable City. The report
is available online in the Sustainable
City Strategy portion of San Jose's website.
Santa Barbara
South Coast, California
Preliminary efforts toward indicators development in the Santa
Barbara South Coast area began in 1994 with the Community Environmental
Council. Full development of indicators began later in 1997
with extensive community involvement. The area's first indicator
report was published for 1997-1998 and included indicators on
social, economic, and environmental quality of life. Now social,
economic and environmental indicators for Santa
Barbara are available online as part of the UCSB
Environmental Studies Program Indicators Project.
Santa Monica, California
Consistent with Santa Monica�s tradition of committment
to safeguarding its natural and human resources, the City Council
adopted a Sustainable City Program in 1994. The program established
city policy goals in four main areas:
Santa Monica published Sustainable City Progress and Status reports
in 1996, 1999 and 2002. For more information,
see the Santa
Monica Sustainable City Program website.
San Mateo, California
In May 2002, Sustainable
San Mateo County (SSMC) released their sixth annual
report, Indicators For A Sustainable San Mateo County, A
Report Card of Our County's Quality of Life. Most of the
research, writing, and editing of this report was performed
by community volunteers and student interns. The report analyzes
the sustainability of San Mateo County's quality of life through
the use of over thirty indicators. The indicators cover the
"three E's" of sustainability: Economy, Environment,
and Social Equity.
Seattle, Washington
Sustainable Seattle is a volunteer network and
civic forum working to improve the region�s long-term cultural,
economic, environmental, and social health and vitality. The
network/forum grew out of a one-day conference in 1990 sponsored
by the Global Tomorrow Coalition in which a diverse group of
community leaders met to discuss the idea of citizens choosing
their own ways of measuring long-term community well-being.
The most recent report, "Indicators of Sustainable Community,
1998" uses a list of 40 indicators to chart Seattle�s progress
toward or away from sustainability. The 1998 report presents
a mixed bag of improving, declining, and neutral trends showing
that Seattle is indeed making progress toward a more sustainable
community in some areas, but that much more must be done if
sustainability is to become a reality.
To obtain the full report :
Highlights of Seattle's most recent indicators
report are available at the
Sustainable Seattle website.
Silicon Valley, California
The Silicon Valley Environmental Partnership was established
in 1993, to promote environmentally sound business and community
practices through collaboration and education. The 2003 Silicon
Valley Environmental Index is called "Taking the Pulse
of Silicon Valley's Environment." To view the report, or
an evaluation of its results, see the Silicon
Valley Environmental Partnership website. The website
also offers a How-To Manual on How
other communities can create their own environmental indicators.
Tucson, Arizona
In the fall of 1996, the Mayor and Council of
the City of Tucson adopted a policy to evaluate City projects
and programs in light of three priorities: economic vitality,
community stability, and a healthy environment. The Council
created the Livable
Tucson Vision Program to identify community priorities
that would guide the City budget process, increase government
accountability, and shape future programs and services.
The program is currently exploring the following
themes identified by over 700 participants in a ward forum process:
2. Engaged Community and Responsive
3. Safe Neighborhoods
4. Caring, Involved Healthy Families
and Youth
5. Excellent Public Education
6. Infill and Reinvestment, Not
Urban Sprawl
7. Abundant Urban Green Space
and Recreation Areas
8. Protected Natural Desert Environment
9. Better Paying Jobs
10. Clean Air and Quality Water
11. People-Oriented Neighborhoods
12. Respected Historic and Cultural
13. Quality Job Training
14. Reduced Poverty and Equality of
15. Strong Local Businesses
16. Efficient Use of Natural Resources
17. Successful Downtown Business District
Bay Watershed, Washington
In 1995, Willapa Bay Alliance completed a three
year research project which gathered data on the region�s environmental,
economic, and social conditions from nearly eighty government,
private, and non-governmental agencies. The
data was analyzed and compiled into eleven primary indicator
categories for a report titled "Willapa Indicators for a Sustainable
Community." The aim of the indicator project is better understanding
of past trends so that the community can influence the future
direction of development of the Willapa Bay Watershed region.
The eleven primary indicator categories reflecting key concerns
and challenges are:
An updated 1998 Willapa
Indicators for a Sustainable Community report can be
viewed online.
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Hmm! I may have to join! And I just happen to be off from work that day, too!
http://nra.meetup.com/24/Meet other local members and friends of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and fellow competitors in the shooting sports. Gather and discuss current NRA topics, shooting events and skills development.
Next meeting: Wednesday, Jul 11, 2007, 6:30 PM
100 Jerusalem Drive, Morrisville
Morrisville, NC 27560
919-465-1900Eidt: Group was disolved by originator.This is intended as a social gathering to discuss issues pertinent to the shooting sports. Eventually, we will be organizing group shoots, instructional events and shooting sport demonstrations.
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Bruce, Life Member: NRA, NCRPA, GRNC, GOA
Naval Air Museum Barbers Point
"I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."--Jane Wagner
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
-Isaac Asimov
Hmm! I may have to join! And I just happen to be off from work that day, too!


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California State University, Chico professors Roger J. Lederer and Carol E. Burr have recently published the book The Birds of Bidwell Park. This new book was authored by Lederer, a professor emeritus in the Department of Biological Sciences, and illustrated by Burr, a professor emerita in the Departments of English and Multicultural and Gender Studies.
According to Lederer, "The book includes more than eighty illustrations, and although not a comprehensive field guide, the book will enable anyone taking a casual stroll or a long hike to identify almost any of the birds they might see."
"Bidwell Park is a wonderful place to see birds because it is both semi-wild and very accessible," added Lederer. "It is good bird watching for both the beginner and the expert. Nearly two hundred species of birds have been seen in Bidwell Park, and some of those are seen only at certain times of the year."
The book is now available at the Big Chico Creek Nature Center, the official information center for Bidwell Park, as well as at local bookstores.


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Paolo Fresu: Angel
Paolo Fresu (trumpet)
Angel (BMG 74321558642)
Paolo Fresu (trumpet),
Nguyęn Lę (guitars), Furio di Castri (bass), Roberto Gatto (drums).
Composed by Jimi Hendrix.
Recorded: Rubiera, Italy, September 25-29, 1997
Rating: 87/100 (learn more)
It starts out with Lę's Hendrix-inspired guitar playing a noisy introduction, quickly followed by the rock- oriented rhythm of bass and drums. Then Fresu's mellow muted trumpet launches the melody… and drags the whole band towards a more "angelic" climate, while Lę's guitar maintains the freaky spirit of his left-handed idol. A very strange and uninhibited version of one of Hendrix's hits, by an Italian-French quartet whose members think that the spirit – not the repertoire – is the main basis of a good jazz tune. Here is a 4:24-long masterful demonstration of their theory.
Reviewer: Thierry Quénum
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Home is a subject which is close to our hearts, and something well worth exploring, as women and as mothers. The word 'home' conjures up all sorts of feelings and imagery in our hearts and minds. But exactly how to we achieve that sense of home. Where is our 'home'? Does our home feel like 'home'? The last 9 months has seen me involved in a Red Tent women's sacred circle. In our most recent meeting, we meditated on the subject of 'Home', and what I write here is taken from this group. Thank you to the women of our Red Tent (you know who you are) for inspiring, supporting, and being with me, on this journey.
Whilst there are many ways of running these groups, we decided to run ours with guidance from Goddess archetypes. From Doreen Virtue's Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards, this is the message from the Goddess Vesta:
"There's an undying flame within your soul, and it's the light, seed, and spark of your consciousness. Your outer world reflects your inner world. Take a look around your home. Does it reflect warmth? If not, this is easily remedied and oh-so-important to do. It's a simple task of using your creative imagination to add warm energy to your household, such as lighting the fireplace or some candles, adding cosy blankets and pillows, or displaying greeting cards and fresh flowers. By warming up your outer world, your inner flame responds to meet it. This increases your energy level, which automatically shifts all outward appearances toward the better. Watch how these simple steps recharge the flame within everyone in your household. This flame cleanses away negativity and brings in the new with vigour and irresistible invitation."
I chose this card from a selection we drew before the group began in earnest, and over the next few months, I was gifted gems of information to guide us in this exploration. I began this journey at a time when my physical home environment needed some attention, as well as my marital relationship. The next few months saw me setting those two cornerstones in order, leaving space to contemplate my inner experience of 'home'.
The book 'Woman: A Unique Tribute' by Dorothy Boux is a beautiful book where the author 'draws on her deep fund of experience and wisdom to shed light on what it means to be a woman today.' In the section on home, she states, in lovingly crafted calligraphy:
"Deeply embedded in humankind is the desire to found a home, a shelter where one can feel safe and secure. Whether we dream of a country cottage, a mansion or a simple room, sooner or later we shall choose four walls and begin to gather possessions about us. It is in the gift of woman to endow her surroundings with beauty and peace by remembering that every task is an act of service to those surrounding her. Today, the daily round may also encompass work in city and office; nonetheless, the opportunity to connect with the subtle and spiritual worlds is ever present, and can lead… to great acts of love and compassion."
Next I quote from Sogyal Rinpoche:
"Nature is always an unfailing fountain of inspiration. To calm your mind, go for a walk at dawn in the park, or watch the dew on a rose in the garden. Lie on the ground and gaze up into the sky, and let your mind expand into its spaciousness Let the sky outside awaken a sky inside your mind. Stand by a stream and mingle your mind with its rushing; become one with its ceaseless sound. Sit by a waterfall and let its healing laughter purify your spirit. Walk on a beach and take the sea wind full and sweet against your face. Celebrate and use the beauty of moonlight to poise your mind. Sit by a lake or in a garden, and breathing quietly, let your mind fall silent as the moon comes up majestically and slowly in the cloudless night.
Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation. A smile, a face in the subway, the sight of a small flower growing in the crack of a cement pavement, a fall of rich cloth in a shop window, the way the sun lights up flower-pots on a window sill. Be alert for any sign of beauty or grace. Offer up every joy, be awake at all moments, to the news that is always arriving out of SILENCE."
But what does this have to do with 'home'. This suggests to me that home is not just about our physical homes, but about how we feel 'at home' with ourselves. Walking in nature, and being in nature has always brought a deep sense of peace, and feeling of 'home' to me, and here I share with you some wisdom about our Earth home from Satish Kumar taken from his book 'Earth Pilgrim'. Satish is editor-in-chief of Resurgence Magazine, and as a young man embarked on a peace pilgrimage, walking, with a friend, from India to America. Here's what he says about home:
"Economics and ecology share the same etymological roots in the Greek word 'oikos'. 'Oikos' means 'home'. 'Logos' means knowledge. 'Nomos' means management. Ecology is the knowledge of home, and economy is the management of home. To take care of anything you have to know it, understand it, and then you will be able to manage it well. If you don't know your home, how are you going to manage it? If you don't know where your living-room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom are, or where your garden is, how are you going to put furniture and tools in the appropriate places? Therefore, knowledge of home is essential in order to manage it.
But 'home' is not just the bricks and mortar, not just a building – it is more than purely a house. It is a place of relationships. When one says, 'I am going home,' it means 'I'm going to the place where I have relations. My father, my mother, my daughter, my son, my wife, my husband, live there with me.' Wherever your relations are, that's your home. In the context of ecology, home is earth itself, where humans, animals, mountains and forests are in relationships. All species, humans and other-than-humans are members of this planet home, this Earth family, this Earth community."
Again, the notion of 'home' is expanded from house-home to family to the Earth itself. I particularly like the way Satish brings in the idea of relationships and home, since the human experience is ultimately one of relationship. How we relate to members of our family, and how we relate to all aspects of the Earth must be considered in our exploration of 'home'.
Finally, I'd like to share with you, these thoughts, edited from a piece by Rabbi Howard Cooper:
"What does it really mean to feel 'at home' in the world? Relaxed, casually, gracefully, 'at home' in this fractious, tempestuous, unredeemed world? Where are we 'at home'? In our families? In our work? In our local community? In our religious institutions? All these have the capacity to make us feel at home and the potential to make us feel unsettled or alienated. None of them have the quality of 'at homeness' as a given. All can let us down, just as the material world can let us down. But maybe looking outside ourselves to feel at home is looking in the wrong place. Maybe we should be asking: do we feel 'at home' in ourselves? Can we rest inside ourselves? How often do we feel distracted, on edge, ill-at-ease – we know so well how fragile things are inside us. Not just our body's state, but our emotional state, and our psychological state. We know how prone we are to swings of mood, pettiness, irritation, anger, jealousy, possessiveness, envy… Are we ever really 'at home' with ourselves and in ourselves?"
Today, working at my children's school as a teaching assistant, I took my regular group of children for a language enhancing session of storytelling and talk. One of the children, in particular, is often very agitated, and struggles to join the group and engage with the story. At the end of the session, I noticed that his breathing was very quick and shallow. I wondered if some deep breaths might help. And so, I introduced the 'dragon breath'. Close your mouth, take a deep breath in through your nose and 'haaa' the breath out of your mouth, as though breathing fire like a dragon. Several of these later, and I had a much calmer child on my hands. I wonder, could it be this easy, just to feel a little more 'at home'?


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A few months ago there was plenty of skepticism whether Hideo Kojima's highly anticipated two part Metal Gear Solid title would be able to take advantage of Sony's Remote-Play feature. On January 14th, 2014 those doubts were put to rest in spectacular fashion.
Hideo Kojima took to his personal Twitter account to tease Metal Gear Solid: Phantom Pain for the PS4, no real big surprise since the game has been announced for months. He sent the internet a wry, showing off the visually stunning game running on the PlayStation Vita.
This adds value to the struggling handheld which many in the gaming community have written off as a dud. The PlayStation Vita has been gaining momentum as of late with the indie developer community, and Sony's announced gaming cloud service, PlayStation Now. This begs the question, will the PS Vita receive standalone AAA title support in the future? Given the benefits of Remote-Play, saving time and resources to developers may off-set creation of unique gaming experiences which take advantage of the handheld's many features.
Game publisher Konami Corp. is undoubtedly revving up its marketing machine engine. Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, the prelude to Metal Gear Solid: Phantom Pain is due this March.


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Feb 23, 2014 8:35 AM
Would that we could switch places with our pooches, settle into the center of this Buffalo Plaid Circle Bed ($98-168) from Waggo (which has been conveniently dragged next to a heading vent), and sleep the day away with nary a thought about the cold weather. Alas, it's our jobs as the humans to get up and brace ourselves against the wintry onslaught so we can bring home the bacon-flavored Beggin' Strips.
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A former eighteenth century coaching inn in the Cumbrian market town of Brough, Swanson House provides luxury bed & breakfast accommodation and a fully licensed restaurant, specialising in dishes made from the highest quality local produce. Swanson House offers a taste of Cumbria to local residents and visitors to the Eden Valley. Swanson House offers two luxury ensuite bedrooms.
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