text:
RSS | Free Trial
Home | Advertise | About | Contact
Sign In
Reader Comments (0)
December 11, 2013 | Volume 100 / Number 50
Christine Celello Piper, 74, died Nov. 21, 2013, in Lake Havasu, Nev. In this life a little bit of grace goes a long way, and Christine had a lot of grace. Though she passed from this earth, her life continues in memories of the many she touched.
She was born Sept. 4, 1939 in Hurley, Wis. She was a creator. What started as a love between her and an ER patient with a "cold," developed into 10 children, 27 grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.
She painted rocks and made jewelry, often in the company of a grandchild. She made the best peanut butter, marshmallow and chocolate chip...
For access to this article please sign in or subscribe.
The Glasgow Courier | 341 Third Avenue South, Glasgow, MT 59230
Ph: (406) 228-9301 | email@example.com | www.glasgowcourier.com Content and information copyright 2015 Glasgow Courier, Inc.
Powered by ROAR Online Publication Software
© Copyright 2015 Lions Light Corp.
— Software for newspapers & magazines


text:
Sarah Jessica Parker Goes Carrie Bradshaw For 'In Vogue: The Editor's Eye' Screening [PHOTOS]
Parker posed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a vintage dress (with the bra showing at the back, in true Carrie fashion) with pastel splashed snakeskin heels. Let's not forget the electric blue velvet coat. Did Patricia Field dress you tonight, darling?
I love. It reminds me of the good old days of Sex And The City.
Dianna Agron's blunt bangs aren't doing anything for me, but I'm kind of loving her Bottega Veneta dress.
Vogue's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour was there, with nary a hair out of place. Wintour is the film's subject, showing off a different side of herself than what was portrayed in The Devil Wears Prada. Co-director Fenton Bailey called Wintour, 62, "accessible, smart and fuzzy," according to the Daily Mail.
Rumor has it that Wintour is on a shortlist to be the new US ambassador to London, since the current ambassador, Louis Susman is leaving his post.
Wintour remains tight-lipped about the subject, and an insider says that she is "very happy with her current job." However, a White House spokesperson confirmed to the Mail that she is on their shortlist. However, "we have no personnel announcement to make at this time," they said.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Rumphi — United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has expressed gratitude to Chimyanga Community Rights Committee CRC in Rumphi for venturing into fish farming to help Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children (OVCs) in the community.
UNDP Programme Analyst for Democratic Governance Clemence Alfazema told Malawi News Agency (Mana) Thursday after assessment exercise carried out in the Northern Districts of Karonga, Rumphi and Mzimba respectively.
"I am generally impressed with initiatives people at community levels are taking to save their own communities the OVCs in particular," articulated Alfazema.
The programme analyst discussed further that development in any societies should be claimed both in circles of Human Rights and Physical Development by everybody if Malawi is to realize governance transformation.
"It's much pleasing to see people initiating relief projects like fish and animal farming so that the proceeds are used to save their neighborhood.
"We need to see fair trade, good education, good health enjoyed by every member of any society in the country, they should be able to claim their rights and see it fulfilled," concluded Alfazema.
He, however, extended his gratitude to project implementers Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP), Development Communications Trust (DCT) and Democracy Consolidation Programme (DCP) which harmonize the whole project.
Treasurer for Chimyanga CRC Penjani Mhone said, "We recommended to organize fish farming after noticing a group or orphans staying idle at their homes due to lack of school necessities like exercise books, ball pens to name a few.
"It was pitiful to see many young children failing to access education; but is it now a closed chapter. We buy them everything and we knock every door in the villages to force every child to go to school," added Mhone.
Nonetheless, Chairman Arthur Gondwe revealed that they have now a lot of fish and that assistance was extended to other children whose parents cannot afford some requirements to their school going children.
"We have stretched out largely, now we constructed fifty fish ponds to contain 3,000 fish from the 400 we got at first. This has enabled us to scale-up our assistance to the needy," he said.
Group Village Head Jowe, thanked the DCP for mobilizing his people to solve problems affecting their lives.
"My area is hunger free; children are forced to go to school regardless of social status of their parents. I work hand in hand with Chimyanga CRC it has proved to be a very good team, many issues are now simpler than before. The DCP should accept my gratitude for helping us," expressed Jowe.


text:
Sydney Opera House
1984 (20 October)
Sydney Opera House celebrates its 10th Anniversary
The 10th Anniversary celebrations reach their peak in October when the Trust, in association with Musica Viva Australia presents the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields.
To celebrate the 10th birthday on 20 October, 1983, the ABC broadcasts a day-long series of FM radio programs about the history and personalities of Sydney Opera House and presents a concert featuring the famous English mezzo-soprano, Janet Baker with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
There are a significant number of events staged during the hectic and exciting days of October. On the evening of 20 October, the Trust gives a 10th Anniversary Cocktail party for 400 friends of the House. The Guest of Honour, Jill Wran, speaks about Sydney Opera House and its significant relationship with the people of Australia. Mrs Wran observes, "Only in Australia is our greatest building a monument to the arts - to human creativity and imagination."1985
Jørn Utzon is made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) (Honorary Award) for achievements in the field of Architecture.
Work starts to transform the Forecourt
When Jørn Utzon submitted the designs for Sydney Opera House, he envisaged an open plaza leading up to the main flight of steps. It was to provide an unobstructed view of his soaring architectural concept and give it the space to make an unchallenged impact on the environment of the Sydney Harbour.
For the first 12 years of its operations, however, the Forecourt was a rambling car park – never open to the public and an eyesore in aesthetic terms.
In 1986, the first major steps of a far-reaching transformation takes place as part of the NSW Government's Bicentennial project. This gives Sydney Opera House an approach worthy of its spectacular architecture. Parked cars are banished from the Forecourt. A second promenade, containing shops, a cafe and an information centre is constructed below the existing level, giving pedestrians cover from the weather without disturbing the vista from any direction.
Granite cobblestones fan out over the upper level in an unobtrusively decorative way and result in a handsome new perspective at Sydney Opera House. The project is managed by the Public Works Department, John Holland Constructions Pty Ltd, Ove Arup and Partners on behalf of the Government Architect Andrew Andersons and Peter Hall.
The cost of the project is around $24 million. It includes the construction of a new sea wall and the two level structure which allows pedestrians to approach the building at water level.1986
Lin Utzon unveils geometric plaque in Forecourt podium
Jørn Utzon's daughter, Lin, unveils a geometric plaque in the Forecourt podium.
Jørn Utzon lets the Trust know he was very pleased "that the Government has decided to finish the Forecourt as the originally planned open plaza."
Scissor lifts installed in Concert Hall
The installation of hydraulic scissor lifts under the Concert Hall stage proves quickly to be a good investment. They replace the "podest" rostrums which had to be brought from their storage area to the concert platform. This process used to take, on average, a stage crew of eight people one hour to set up and 45 minutes to strike. With the new scissors platforms, it takes two stage technicians 10 minutes to set up and five minutes to strike.
His Holiness, Pope John Paul II addresses assembly in Concert Hall
His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, addresses an assembly of the religious in the Concert Hall, and meets with management, the media and the public assembled on the Monumental Steps.
Sydney Opera House announces Major Maintenance Program
Sydney Opera House Major Maintenance Program launches as 10-year program with 650 projects relating to the structural and architectural fabric of the building, the services within the building and the technical stage services.
The program is designed to redress rule of thumb calculation for general building maintenance expenditure and to raise the level to the more commercially acceptable level of maintenance funding of 1-2% of asset value.1988 (26 January)
Sydney Opera House venue for Bicentennial Australia Day
A late decision by the NSW Government to convene the Australia Day ceremony on the Sydney Opera House Forecourt precipitates a mammoth exercise in preparation over 15 weeks. Between the breakfast party for invited guests and the spectacular fireworks display at night, the range of events include the formal commemoration with the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Bicentennial Wool Collection fashion event, outdoor concerts with orchestra and chorus, jazz bands, pop groups and, on the harbour, a magnificent parade of Tall Ships. This marks the beginning of a much higher focus on civic celebrations for Australia Day on the day itself.1989 (1 May)
Elizabeth Butcher, AM, starts her tenure as Chairman of the Sydney Opera House Trust.
Image credit: Arup
HE – His/Her ExcellencyHRH – His/Her Royal HighnessTRH – Their Royal Highnesses1982His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of SwedenHis Imperial Highness Prince Yoshihito of Mikasa of JapanMr George Bush, Vice-President of the United States of AmericaMr Konstantinos Karamanlis, President of Greece1983TRH the Prince & Princess of Wales1984HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhornv of Thailand1985Their Excellencies Sir Kingsford Dibela GCME K St J, Gov-Gen of Papua New Guinea & Lady DibelsDr Patrick John Hillery, President of the Republic of IrelandTheir Majesties the King & Queen of Nepal, Princess Sherada & Mr Kumar Shah, Foreign Minister of NepalMr George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, KBE & Patricia, Countess of Harewood (Former GM of Royal Opera Covent Garden)HRH the Duke of Edinburgh1986Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II & HRH the Duke of EdinburghHE Mr Shinyong Lho, Prime Minister of the Republic of KoreaHis Holiness Pope John Paul IIHRH Puanku Putra, King of Malaysia (Ruler of Perlis Malaysia)1987His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IVHer Majesty Queen Margarethe II of Denmark, HRH the Prince Consort Prince Henrik & HRH Prince JoachimHis Majesty King Bedouin I & Her Majesty Queen Fabiola of the BelgiansHis Holiness Pope Shenouda III, Patriach of AlexandriaTheir Excellencies Sir Baddeley Devesi, GCMG GCVO Governor-General of the Solomon Islands and Lady Devesi1988TRH the Prince & Princess of WalesHE Hon Francesco Cossiga, President of ItalyHRH Prince Tupouto'a, Crown Prince of TongaHer Majesty Queen Beatrix & HRH Prince Claus of the NetherlandsHE Mr Li Peng, Premier, State Council of People's Republic of ChinaHRH Prince Andrew1989Mr Dan Quayle, Vice President of the Unites States of AmericaHRH Princess Benedikte of Denmark
© Copyright 2016 Sydney Opera House


text:
Your business success is
directly tied to the
strength and stability
of your mission-critical
systems; outages can
be costly in terms of
dollars, customer impact,
and reputation. With
Premier Mission Critical
Support, you receive
the highest level of
service and support Microsoft
can offer to help drive
higher performance and
uptime of your critical
solutions built on Microsoft
With Microsoft Premier Mission Critical Support,
you receive enhanced support for your mission-critical
solutions through guaranteed response times backed
by financial credits, round-the-clock access
to expertise, and prioritized access to Microsoft
product development teams. These services help
Higher performance and uptime in demanding
and mission-critical environments
Business continuity
Improved ability in your IT teams to manage
new technologies
With services spanning from solution validation and
architectural reviews to proactive and problem-resolution
services, Premier Mission Critical Support delivers
personalized support coverage through designated
support professionals who understand a customer's
unique solution configuration and deployment
environment, helping to provide faster response
time and more effective problem resolution. These
services can include:
Review of your infrastructure for opportunities
to reduce risk and optimize support
Partnership with a Microsoft Solution Engineer
who facilitates proactive services, remediation,
and problem resolution measures, as well
as sharing best practices and materials
Expedited, round-the-clock support coverage
for high-severity incidents from a select
team of experienced Microsoft support
If you depend on external e-commerce and
collaboration solutions, Microsoft Services
can put your mind at ease by providing
a solution that helps improve health
and performance. Premier Mission Critical
for Collaboration and Commerce protects
your collaboration and business-critical
process workflows, safeguarding your
systems against failure.
Email is the most widely adopted online collaboration
tool in the world, and the demand for
high availability has never been stronger.
Premier Mission Critical for Global Email
helps increase performance and uptime
when your email is more than just communications
and collaboration—your revenue and business
processes also depend on it.
Platform modernization promises increased speed,
more flexibility, and new features to help your
business respond to quickly changing demands.
Premier Mission Critical for Platform Modernization
with Microsoft SQL Server helps you realize this
promise by focusing on the best performance possible
in your solution environment and fastest solution-based
response time available from Microsoft, if issues
Moving to cloud computing involves more than just
building a private cloud. The challenge is to
leverage your existing investments, infrastructure,
and skill sets to build a cloud that will work
for you today and in the future. Premier Mission
Critical for Datacenter and Private Cloud helps
maximize the performance and uptime you and your
customers expect.
Combining components that run on different systems
and platforms to create a single, coherent system
is a significant undertaking. Reacting to changing
business requirements is key to meeting your
objectives, but you still require access to your
legacy systems. Premier Mission Critical for
Mainframe Integration helps maximize the performance
and uptime of your legacy systems during the
Microsoft Dynamics AX integrates every aspect of
your business. Premier Mission Critical for Dynamics
Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 helps
you lower program and people risk of failure
associated with ERP change, access state-of-the-art
operational support, and receive the fastest
response times available from Microsoft for your
RDW, the Dutch motor vehicle agency, migrated its records
for millions of active vehicles, driver's licenses,
and environmental inspections without slowing its
nearly 1.3 million information exchanges a day with
Dutch police, insurance companies, municipalities,
and other organizations. RDW saves US$1.5 million
a year with the new system and has dramatically improved
transaction performance.
This government agency streamlined processes, reduced
cost, and eliminated multi-day delays in support
resolution caused by different vendors owning pieces
of their systems. Plus, in the words of the IT director,
"With the peace of mind we get through our Premier
Mission Critical plan, we can focus on strategic
initiatives instead of constantly worrying about
troubleshooting the latest problem."


text:
The Blue Ridge Parkway in the Fog
or, Where did all the Chipmunks Go??
Joya and Perry 2012
A two day journey on the Blue Ridge Parkway capturing the fall colors in the fog. Presenting a different perspective than traditional fall color photography. The images were taken by a couple, Joya and Perry, on their first trip together.
Comment posted.
Log in
or create an account to post a comment.
Blurb Sites


text:
Letter as submitted to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
January 29, 2014
Honorable Max Baucus, Chairman
Committee on Finance
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Comments on December 18, 2013 Energy Tax Reform Discussion Draft
Dear Mr. Chairman:
We compliment you and the Committee for taking on the immensely important challenge of comprehensive tax reform.
Anticipating this effort, on November 9, 2012, the NEMA Board of Governors – on behalf of the more than 400 member companies of NEMA and the electrical and medical imaging industries – adopted a policy supporting corporate tax reform and a system that is "predictable, efficient and has rates that are comparable to those of other advanced economies" – achieving this by broadening the tax base and lowering the corporate income tax rate.
If the Committee deems it appropriate to broaden the tax base and retain a limited number of high priority incentives – which seems to be the current policy direction -- we strongly support your inclusion of technology-neutral incentives to increase energy security and reduce emissions.
At the same time, we believe that achieving the goals of energy security and reduced emissions must include incentives for energy efficiency.
The United States currently wastes more energy than it consumes, making energy efficiency an essential part of any technology-neutral package aimed at reducing emissions and increasing energy independence. Put simply, the energy we don't use is the cleanest and cheapest form of energy.
In fact, as the attached analysis explains, energy efficiency incentives compare favorably with the cost of clean energy production incentives.
We therefore urge the Committee to include the attached technology-neutral energy efficiency tax incentives in any legislative package that is offered for Finance Committee consideration.
In addition to achieving your goals of reducing emissions and improving energy security, energy efficiency technologies will boost economic productivity and competitiveness, and mitigate outages after major storms.
Attached are a detailed explanation of the energy efficiency incentives package we propose for inclusion in tax reform, as well as further elaboration on why energy efficiency incentives are a vital component of any legislation aimed at reducing emissions and improving energy security.
Our member companies and NEMA's staff of experienced engineers, spanning more than 50 industry sectors, stand ready to assist your Committee in the important task of achieving sensible tax reform that grows the economy and improves America's competitiveness and security.
If you have questions about our tax reform submission, please contact Chuck Konigsberg, Vice President, Strategy and Policy, 1300 North 17
thSt. STE 900, Arlington VA 22209, (703) 841-3200.
Evan R. Gaddis
President and CEO
Honorable Orrin Hatch, Ranking Member, Committee on Finance
Honorable Ron Wyden, Chairman, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Honorable Lisa Murkowski, Ranking Member, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Members, Senate Committee on Finance
Members, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
House Committee on Ways & Means
Members, House Committee on Energy & Commerce
NEMA Energy Tax Reform Comment Letter to Chairman Baucus


text:
Home » Wales » South Wales Police
April 29, 2013, 9:50 am
Police in Swansea have arrested a man following an incident which happened at LC , Oystermouth Road, at about 5.40pm on Saturday 9th March.
The 56 year old man was arrested on Friday 26th April following an allegation of inappropriate behaviour in the changing rooms of the LC where a mirror was dropped to the floor near a cubicle where a 34-year-old woman and her 12-year-old daughter were getting changed.
He has been charged with an offence under the Sexual Offences Act and has been released on bail to appear at Swansea Magistrates Court on Wednesday
View full article on Crime and Justice - UK Crime News
Source: South Wales Police


text:
Editor's Note
The Burden of the Past
Clive Ponting
Earth, Wind, Water and Fire: Resource Exploitation in the Twentieth Century
J. R. McNeill
Ecological Displacement and Transnational Environmental Justice
Paul Wapner
Confronting Environmental Racism in the Twenty-First Century
Robert D. Bullard
How Much Should a Person Consume?
Ramachandra Guha
'If We Are Not Getting into Trouble, We Are Not Being Effective'
INTERVIEW: George Monbiot
The Perils of Panglossism
Ernest Partridge
Climate Change: The Need for Action
Dinyar Godrej
Preserving the Forests: The Promise of Community Control
Roger D. Stone and Claudia DAndrea
Justifying Sustainable Development: A Continuing Ethical Search
Holmes Rolston III
Ecofeminism, Lifeboat Ethics and Illegal Immigration
Victoria Davion
The Animal Invitation: Extending Human Rights to Other Apes
Paul Waldau and Sarah Whitman
REVIEW ESSAY: Ten Pinches of Salt: A Reply to Bjorn Lomborg
Tom Burke
Book Review
Debunking the Myth of a Lost Eden
Martin Hellicar
Book Review
A Social Contract for the Future
Mike McMullen
Book Review
Water Wars?
Hussein A. Amery
Volume 4 ● Number 1 ● Winter 2002The Fragile Biosphere
Earth, Wind, Water and Fire: Resource Exploitation in the Twentieth Century
This is not to say that the environmental effects of human action in the twentieth century were inconsequential: far from it. Rather, it is to say that those effects proved, and are proving, more troublesome in departments other than those usually anticipated. The world in the twentieth century did not run short of coal, oil, natural gas, timber, nickel or uranium. It depleted its supply of all these things, but not seriously. It did not even run short of food, despite a 4-fold expansion in human numbers, although patterns of food distribution meant that famines still took place. No, the most serious overexploitation was that of sinks for wastes. That is because for many human uses there are no substitutes for air and water; and because the reigning conceptions in economics and law meant that the price mechanism did not provide useful signals. The second most serious overexploitation, paradoxically, was of renewable, biological resources.
The Magnitudes of Change
Let me begin with some rough estimates of the size and intensity of environmental changes, worldwide, in the twentieth century, and with estimates of the strength of the social and economic forces driving these changes.
Raw population growth was, in my opinion, the second most important driving force behind twentieth-century environmental change. Whereas throughout most of human history global population grew very slowly, by 1900–50 the rate attained nearly 1 per cent per year. And by the second half of the twentieth century, the rate climbed to 1.7 per cent per year, and indeed at times to over 4 per cent in a few countries. The global population growth rate peaked in the late 1960s, and has since been in decline, although total population continues to grow. Of all the years lived by hominids and Homo sapiens over the past four million years, about 20 per cent were lived in the twentieth century. The global population growth rates of the late twentieth century were about ten thousand times greater than those prevailing in pre-agricultural times—that is, for most of human history. Our times, it can hardly be emphasised enough, constitute an extreme departure from the patterns of the deeper past.
They also constitute a departure from the patterns of the future. While we cannot predict the demographic future with precision, we can be quite sure that growth rates of 1–2 per cent, the twentieth-century experience, will not last. Demographers predict steady declines in growth rates over the next fifty years. They may be wrong, but they will not be far wrong. If twentieth‑century growth rates were to persist, within a few centuries the earth would be encased in a mass of human flesh expanding outward with a radial velocity greater than the speed of light. We can rest assured twentieth-century growth rates will not long endure.
The world's economy grew even faster than population in the twentieth century, which is why we are (on average) richer than our grandparents and great-grandparents. The size of the world's economy has grown by about 130-fold since 1500, and about 15-fold since 1900.1 Today Japan alone produces as much as the whole world did a century ago. All of us alive today have come to regard such a fantastic expansion of wealth as normal, as it has been throughout our lifetimes with only brief interruptions. But it is anything but normal by the standards of the more distant past. Much of this growth was driven by population, the rest by technological and organisational changes. On a per capita basis, average incomes grew 4-fold in the twentieth century. This is an average, which of course disguises gross inequities. The average Mozambican has an income well under half the global average of five hundred years ago and less than 2 per cent of the average German's or American's. The twentieth century saw a tremendous expansion in inequality as well as in the creation of wealth.
A big part of the reason that economic growth outstripped population growth lies in the history of energy use in the twentieth century. This I regard as the single most important driving force behind modern environmental change and resource use. The world's total energy use grew by nearly 5-fold in the nineteenth century and then by another 13- or 14-fold in the twentieth century. The chief reason for this was the development of fossil fuels, mainly coal and oil, but since 1950, also natural gas. Nuclear energy and hydropower played much smaller roles. Around 1890, fossil fuels came to provide more than half of the world's energy supply, so the twentieth century was truly an age of fossil fuels.
In the hundred centuries from the dawn of agriculture to 1900, humanity used only about two-thirds as much energy (most of it from biomass) as it used in the twentieth century. Indeed, it is likely that humankind used more energy in the twentieth century than in all preceding human history put together. From the point of view of energetics, the twentieth century was extremely peculiar.
The twentieth century was peculiar in many other respects directly relevant to resources and environment. The world's total urban population grew by about 13-fold, and the proportion of people living in cities by nearly 4-fold. The world's total industrial output grew by roughly 40‑fold, its freshwater use by 9-fold and its irrigated area by 5-fold. All this stood behind the incessant quest for more food, coal, oil, mineral ores, water and almost every other resource one can think of. The scope and scale of these changes, which occurred in a mere three or four human generations, will probably in the fullness of time come to seem the most important thing about the twentieth century.
Resource Stress and Shortage
Since at least 1789, not long after James Watt's decisive improvement of the steam engine that made coal the central fuel of the Industrial Revolution, Englishmen were calculating how long their island's coal supply might last. The early forecasts averaged around three hundred to four hundred years. In 1865 the English logician and economist William Stanley Jevons published a book called The Coal Question, by far the most careful of these efforts. He took stock of the escalating figures concerning coal consumption in Britain, consulted the estimates of how much coal remained in the ground, and concluded that a crisis of coal supply lay ahead. While he never said that Britain would run out of coal, he forecast that by 1950 or 1970 the price of recovering further coal would be so high that Britain's prosperity would be a thing of the past. The work won Jevons wide renown and a chair in political economy.
But Jevons was mistaken. There was plenty of coal left underground in Britain. When the price of coal crept upward, as it did from time to time, British miners and geologists found coal in new places and engineers devised new machines that made it worthwhile to dig out more from old places. Eventually the miners and their employers convinced Parliament that coal was so essential that they extracted subsidies from the government, encouraging the quest for coal that would otherwise have been unrewarding to mine. Even today, billions of tons later, there is still plenty of coal in Britain. Most of it is probably destined never to be mined. And Britain is far more prosperous than in Jevons's day, although it is no longer the richest country in the world. Britain's coal industry is indeed in decline, but that is owing to a conjuncture of events in the 1980s: the rise of a British oil industry in the North Sea and the determination of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to rid British politics of the power of trades unions.
What was true of British coal was true of the world's: the estimated supply of global coal reserves doubled between 1913 and 1990 despite the mining in the meantime of two hundred gigatons. Global coal reserves today stand at some three hundred years' worth, based on the consumption rates of the 1990s. Some authorities estimate six hundred years' worth of coal.2 People keep finding more coal and devising cheaper ways to mine it.
In the early 1900s, when the United States was pioneering the conversion of both transport and industry to oil, worried observers undertook the same sort of calculation for American oil as Jevons had made for British coal. The first estimates implied only a ten-year supply. As late as 1930, given the best estimates of existing reserves and trends in oil use, it seemed the oil might run out by 1940. (If it had, the Second World War would have turned out differently.) But these predictions proved as inaccurate as Jevons's and for the same reasons: oil was found in new places, and price rises and better drilling techniques made it possible to find more in the same old places.
In the United States, more oil was found in the 1930s than in any decade before or since. Prevailing estimates of potentially recoverable oil continued to grow, by 4 to 7-fold between 1940 and 1980. Most of us can remember that in the early 1970s, when political events brought about a quadrupling of crude-oil prices, dire predictions about oil supply followed. The US Central Intelligence Agency in 1978 estimated that global production would have to decline by 1988 at the latest because of shortages. But within ten years the proven reserves of oil had jumped to an all-time high: once again higher prices had made it rewarding to find, drill and pump up more oil. Indeed, since 1920 the ratio of oil reserves to annual production has remained between twenty-five and forty, that is, a twenty-five to forty-year supply (the same is true for natural gas, despite the sharp increase in consumption since 1960). The price mechanism, even in the regulated and subsidised fossil fuel markets, has to date produced a rough equilibrium. High prices provoke exploration and production, leading to oversupply and lower prices, in turn resulting in less exploration and production, which eventually leads to tighter supply and higher prices again.
Throughout the twentieth century this cycle has inspired inaccurate predictions for coal, for oil, for copper, for uranium (which in the 1970s was thought to exist in supplies sufficient to last only until 2000 or 2020 and is now expected to last another one hundred years) and sundry other raw materials. At the moment, the best estimates are that there is about forty-one years' worth of oil left at current consumption rates. But these rates will probably fall as oil gets more expensive, which it will from time to time (and has been doing since 1999). Oil will still be in the ground a century hence. It is not, of course, that there is an infinite supply of these things on the earth: there is not. But we shall never dig out the last ton of coal or pump up the last barrel of oil, because long before we get to that point it will be economic to substitute other sources of energy. And, for that matter, if we did burn all that coal and oil, the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere would be several times higher than at present, and the globe probably as warm as at any time in the earth's history. This leads to the heart of the matter.
But before we get there, I want to emphasise one thing. While I claim that there was no coal crisis or oil shortage on a global basis, this does not mean that everyone always has enough. In 1919–20, my grandparents passed a cold Toronto winter without coal because they did not have money to buy it, even though there were trillions of tons in the earth and billions in Canada. Every year many people die of hunger, but the world is not short of food. Overall supply and distribution are quite different matters.
The Overexploitation of Sinks
The atmosphere and hydrosphere are used as sinks for all manner of pollutants. So are soils. Air, water and earth all have the capacity to absorb, break down or recycle certain amounts of certain pollutants. But there are thresholds beyond which pollutants accumulate faster than they can be dissipated. In the twentieth century the atmosphere and hydrosphere were obliged to accept overloads. As a consequence they became durably polluted—in places acutely so—with unwelcome consequences for living things in general and human health in particular. These are the most important overexploitations of resources in the twentieth century. Happily, they are also among the most reversible—technically at least. Actually reversing such trends requires political coalitions that are difficult to create.
Air pollution, most of which came from the combustion of fossil fuels, increased—very roughly speaking—by 2 to 10-fold in the twentieth century. Ecosystems were affected most by acidic emissions, mainly of sulphur dioxide, but also from nitrogen flux. In the long run, they may be yet more affected by carbon emissions via global warming, but that belongs to the future.
The most important air pollution problem for human health was the prevalence of particulate matter in urban areas and indoors. Sulphur dioxide and lead emissions also produced health problems. In the 1990s, urban air pollution killed about half a million people annually, a bit fewer than auto accidents, and a quarter of the toll from malaria or tuberculosis. All told, urban air pollution probably killed somewhere around twenty-five to forty million people in the twentieth century, numerically about equal to the great influenza pandemic of 1918–19 or the combined casualties of the two world wars; equal to, but not equivalent to, because the death toll from air pollution came over a century, rather than in a few years, and because the respiratory ailments caused by air pollution tended to kill the very old, the very young and those already sick, whereas war and influenza killed far more people in the prime of life.
Indoor air pollution, mainly in poor countries where fuel wood and coal are used in domestic heating and cooking stoves, surely killed far more people. I have found no reliable data and will make no estimates. In any case, this is not a matter of overexploitation of resources, unless one considers indoor air as a resource.
The overexploitation of water as a sink for wastes was more important still. The rub came with fresh water because salt water (which accounts for 97 per cent of the earth's water) is no use for most human purposes. Most fresh water is deep underground or locked up in ice sheets. Getting the right amounts of fresh water in the right places (cities, fields) at the right times has always posed a challenge to societies. Those that have answered it successfully enjoyed (and enjoy) great advantages in health and productivity over those that have not. At times, freshwater supply served as the key constraint on population and economic growth.
Pollution of fresh water aggravated these problems. For thousands of years people have dumped wastes in the nearest stream or river. Most of these were biological wastes. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the emergence of chemical and fertiliser industries, people started dumping large quantities of chemical wastes as well, occasionally obliterating all life in some bodies of water. From the viewpoint of human health, however, biological contamination in the form of pathogenic microbes remained by far the most important water problem. Today, water pollution kills about five million (some estimates say ten million) people per year, some ten times the toll from outdoor air pollution. Most of these fatalities are in poor countries where sanitation infrastructure is weak. A very rough guess of the twentieth century's death toll from polluted water is three hundred to five hundred million. Most of these were and are small children, but dysenteries, typhoid and cholera also killed plenty of people in their most productive years. This in itself is a good argument for the proposition that the most serious overexploitation of resources in the twentieth century was of freshwater sinks.
Pollution Control
An encouraging feature of the twentieth century was its attention to the problems created by overuse of sinks. For centuries, people had sought to segregate waste water from drinking water, but only rarely with consistent success. With the emerging science of bacteriology in the late nineteenth century, it became possible to take effective action, to convince relevant political bodies of that possibility, and to improve the health of hundreds of millions. The decisive steps—wastewater treatment, large-scale metropolitan waterworks—occurred between 1890 and 1930 in most of the rich countries and in some colonial settings.3 In poorer countries this "sanitation revolution" took place only after 1950 and is by no means complete today.
Lowering the actual pollution loads of the world's waters was a different matter from safeguarding the supplies of drinking water. Efforts in this direction became increasingly common in the nineteenth century, at least in Britain where rivers were dangerously polluted. But the most effective measures came only after 1970 as part of the worldwide ecology movement. At very modest cost it proved possible to reduce drastically the pollution loads from factories and city sewage systems, although not from farms. The modern history of the Rhine river is a prominent example of how quickly waterways—at least rivers—can be cleaned up, to the point where fish species long absent will return.4 Lakes, which retain their water for years (rivers keep a given drop only for weeks), proved much harder to clean up, but several modest successes occurred, as in the North American Great Lakes.
Such successes, it must be remembered, were more common in prosperous lands—Japan, Western Europe, North America—than elsewhere. The pollution loads of the Yangtse, Ganges, Volga and Nile continued to mount throughout the twentieth century, ruining fisheries and the health of many of those who needed these rivers' waters to drink. By 2000, among the dozens of major rivers in Latin America, Africa and Asia, only two featured ecosystems undamaged by pollution: the Amazon and the Congo, which carry so much water that they can dilute the modest volumes of pollution they must absorb.5
The ambition to control air pollution also long predates the twentieth century. Some London regulations go back to the thirteenth century. But effective, intentional reductions in urban air pollution date only from the mid-twentieth century. St Louis was a pioneer in this respect, creating an unlikely coalition of politicians, businessmen, crusading journalists and irate housewives in 1940–1 that sharply reduced smoke, soot and sulphur emissions from the coal‑powered city. Pittsburgh, London, Osaka—a threesome of heavy air polluters—managed sharp reductions in their emissions between 1955 and 1970. They achieved it through fuel substitutions, using less coal and more natural gas, through various technical improvements to smokestacks and auto engines, and various regulations. The resulting improvements in air quality and human health were correspondingly sharp in these and other coal-fired cities of Europe, North America and Japan.
Similar achievements marked the late twentieth-century history of a few cities outside the rich countries. Ankara, which uses a lot of heating fuel in winter, switched from Turkish lignite (an especially dirty fuel) to Siberian natural gas in the early 1990s, sharply improving its urban air quality. Mexico City struggled with its gargantuan air pollution problems, by some reckonings the worst in the world. Mexico City suffers from the exhausts of a huge vehicle fleet as well as the emissions from tens of thousands of industries, a legacy of the centralisation of the Mexican Revolution (1910–20). These modern problems were rendered more acute because of the city's location, in a bowl surrounded by mountains, which allows for frequent temperature inversions that trap pollution. (When the Aztecs chose it for their capital in 1415 they had other considerations in mind than air pollution.) By the 1980s air pollution in Mexico City reached such heights that, on one occasion at least, it killed birds in flight. But in the course of the 1990s, local and national authorities recorded some successes, lowering concentrations of some pollutants and stabilising others. The United Nations recognised Mexico City more than once as a leader in efforts against urban air pollution.
Meanwhile, however, many large cities at the end of the century suffered from increased, rather than decreased, pollution loads and for whatever reasons did not focus on air quality in the way that Mexico City did. In Delhi, Bangkok, Cairo and Seoul, burgeoning vehicle use and/or reliance on coal combined to make for particularly unhealthy air. In several cities of north China, heavy reliance on a particularly dirty coal created what are probably the most polluted cities on the earth today. Urban air quality, which a hundred years ago was much worse in the rich countries than in the poor ones, is today among the many reasons life is easier in the rich world.
On a global basis, the whole atmosphere was seriously overexploited as a sink in the twentieth century. This was especially true for two classes of pollutants: ozone-rupturing chemicals such as CFCs, and greenhouse gases. These stories are very familiar by now and I shall not rehearse them. I will only say that the consequences of depleting stratospheric ozone and of loading the atmosphere with greenhouse gases are durable across several human generations, widespread around the world and potentially acute. The full range of consequences is not yet apparent, but it seems quite possible that they will one day appear as the principal costs of overexploitation of the atmospheric sink. We should know definitively in a century or less, which inconveniently will be far too late to do anything about it.
Renewable Resources
It is one of the ironies of environmental history—a field rich with ironies—that several so-called renewable resources came under greater stress in the twentieth century than non-renewables such as coal and copper. For example, fisheries and forests: as biological resources these are renewable. But in the twentieth century the global marine fish catch climbed from about two million metric tons to about seventy-five million (not counting the inland fish catch or aquaculture). If official figures are at all accurate, the seas surrendered more fish in the twentieth century than in all previous centuries combined. As a result of intensifying fishing efforts and the lack of effective regulation, one marine fishery after another collapsed in the twentieth century.
The greatest collapse came in 1972 in the world's richest fishery, the anchoveta and jack mackerel grounds off the Peruvian coast. Between 1967 and 1971, Peru's fisheries accounted for a fifth of the world's total. But beginning in 1972, the catch fell off by 60–85 per cent, with the absolute nadir coming in 1982–3. The costs to Peru's economy and society were considerable. Since 1983 the fishery has recovered somewhat, but harvests have yet to return to the levels of the 1960s. The Peruvians were more fortunate than some. The California sardine fishery, a mainstay of the central Californian coast in the early twentieth century, collapsed after 1945 and disappeared entirely in 1968.
Some fisheries recovered, some did not, but the total catch continued to climb as new fisheries were discovered and old ones subjected to more efficient methods. The last frontier was the pilchard fishery of the southeast Pacific, opened up in 1971. There are no significant new fisheries left to tap. Since the late 1980s, all marine fisheries have been exploited at or above sustainable levels. To maintain the catch at more or less the same levels, increasingly uneconomic fish are targeted, destined for market as fish meal for use as fertiliser. About a billion people depend on marine fish as their chief source of protein, most of whom have had to pay more for it recently. Beyond overfishing's consequences for humans, marine ecosystems, especially those of coastal waters, underwent dramatic reorganisation as fishing eliminated top predators such as tuna or cod.6
Efforts to regulate fisheries so as to prevent overfishing made only modest progress. Fishermen normally have every incentive to get to the fish before their competitors do. Any restraint is wasted if it merely allows another fisherman to catch more fish. The most promising efforts were pioneered in the 1980s by New Zealand and subsequently imitated by about fifteen other countries. New Zealand's system essentially privatised fisheries, giving fishermen tradeable quotas for specific fish in specific areas. This altered the fishermen's incentive structure and reduced overfishing, allowing stocks to survive and generate sustainable harvests. But making the same scheme work in international waters, without the oversight that the New Zealand government could provide, proved much more challenging.
The history of the world's forests in the twentieth century is another case, somewhat less acute but perhaps more consequential, of overexploitation of a renewable resource. Forest and woodland area shrank by about 20 per cent in the twentieth century, accounting for perhaps half of the net deforestation in world history over the last ten thousand years. Of the twentieth century's total deforestation, about half occurred in the tropics after 1960, mainly in South-East Asia, West Africa, Amazonia and Central America. People clear forests in order to use the timber or to use the land (or, rarely, both). Over the course of the twentieth century, about 80 per cent of forest clearance was motivated by the wish to farm the land, about 20 per cent by the quest for timber.
The temperate and boreal forests of the world had a different history. They were much reduced in prior centuries, but by 1910 or 1940 their extent stabilised and in many places began slowly to grow. In Western Europe, forest area grew throughout the twentieth century, as it did in the United States from about 1930 onward. The deforestation in the tropics was so rapid, however, that the net global effect was to make the twentieth century by far the worst in this respect in world history. As of 2000, the world retained three large blocks of forests, one in northern North America, one in northern Europe and Siberia, and a third, shrinking fast, in the Orinoco and Amazon basins of South America.
The full consequences of this massive forest clearance, one of the hallmarks of the twentieth century, are unclear. Surely it reduced biodiversity somewhat, although measurement remains elusive here. Surely it also added plenty of carbon to the atmosphere, perhaps 10–20 per cent as much as fossil fuel combustion did. Surely it changed local climates and exposed millions of hectares of soil to erosion. It also added to the world's cropland, which doubled in the twentieth century, making it possible to feed more people than ever before. It will take time and much work to figure out what the full meaning of this modern history of forest clearance might be.
Awaiting History's Verdict
While I remain persuaded that the most important overexploitations of resources in the twentieth century were those of the atmosphere and of fresh waters as sinks for wastes, this can only be a provisional judgement. Biological resources were also overexploited in the sense that their stocks declined, and in the case of fisheries in the further sense that their yields diminished, sometimes to zero. A collapse of biodiversity on the scale of the five prior extinction spasms in the earth's history—a catastrophe that some ecologists have lately begun to predict—would alter this perspective.
It is in fact too soon to tell just which overexploitations will ultimately prove the most significant. Fish populations sometimes bounce back in a year or two from severe declines. The California sardine population might make a miraculous recovery in a few years. Aquaculture might eventually allow all oceanic fisheries to recover (at present about 15 per cent of the marine "catch" comes from farmed fish). Forests usually can recover in a century or three, depending on conditions. Some probably can never recover. The stratospheric ozone shield will return to its former robust state by 2080 or so, if emissions of ozone-rupturing chemicals are checked, as to a considerable degree they have been since the Montreal Protocol of 1987. Cheap desalinisation of seawater would at a stroke reduce the costs of freshwater pollution. And the future history of global warming will determine how seriously one ought to regard the twentieth century's (and the twenty-first's) loading of the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. The end of history is nowhere in sight.
2. See, for example, K. S. Deffeyes, Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Crisis (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001), and Vaclav Smil, Energies (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000).
3. For the US story, see Martin Melosi, The Sanitary City (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
4. See Mark Cioc, The Rhine: An Ecobiography (Seattle: University of Washington Press, forthcoming).
5. World Commission on Water, cited in Marq de Villiers, Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), p. 88.
6. See Jeremy B. C. Jackson et al., "Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems", Science 293 (2001), pp. 629–38.


text:
Census collection (1801-1981)
The regular ten year census of population for the UK began in 1801. Held in the Law Library are the volumes for every ten year census from 1841 up to 1981.
Malthus' work of 1798 on population levels and subsistence of food resources created a major debate on issues around population. In the early decades of census publications details were recorded of the number of houses, total population, employment, marriages, births and deaths, male and females statistics, and more.
From 1851 details of religion and education were included, and from 1861 the Scottish statistics followed a similar outline. No census took place in 1941, but the 1951 census broadened the range of questions asked and statistics collected.
Date range: 19th-20th century
Size: c. 200 volumes.
Language: English
Keywords: English, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, statistics, population.


text:
Here is a download for your eReading device, Dinner and Wine for $20 or Less! This is great for entertaining friends or a special dinner date at home. These two gals know their stuff and is a must for any wine lover!
Remember, with these downloads, you don't need a Kindle or NOOK to read them. You can read on any eReading device or even a PDF reader! You can also download free software to read Kindle books or NOOK books on your computer. And, grab the download now when it's free since the prices change without notice.
You will be able to snag this freebie until 1/25/2013.
Search the Free Stuff page to see all a comprehensive list of active Freebies!
Disclaimer: This post contains a link to an affiliate. See my Disclaimer Policy for additional information.


text:
MCSO: Woman crashes car after beating boyfriend
PHOENIX - Officials are searching for the woman who allegedly beat her boyfriend with a stick in Phoenix.
According to MCSO, the woman left the scene before officers arrived.
MCSO said the woman lost control of her vehicle and crashed into a canal near 99th Avenue and Thomas just before midnight on Monday night.
After crashing into the canal, the vehicle caught fire. The woman got out of the burning vehicle and is still on the loose.
A description of the suspect is not known at this time.
The condition of the victim has not been released.
No other vehicles were involved in the crash.


text:
Arrange a safe haven for your pets in the event of evacuation. DO NOT LEAVE YOUR PETS BEHIND. Remember, if it isn't safe for you, it isn't safe for your pets. They may become trapped or escape and be exposed to numerous life-threatening hazards. Note that not all Red Cross disaster shelters accept pets, so it is imperative that you have determined where you will bring your pets ahead of time:
- Contact your veterinarian for a list of preferred boarding kennels and facilities.
- Ask your local animal shelter if they provide emergency shelter or foster care for pets.
- Identify hotels or motels outside of your immediate area that accept pets.
- Ask friends and relatives outside your immediate area if they would be willing to take in your pet.
Emergency Supplies and Traveling Kits
Keep an Evac-Pack and supplies handy for your pets. Make sure that everyone in the family knows where it is. This kit should be clearly labeled and easy to carry. Items to consider keeping in or near your pack include:
- Pet first-aid kit and guide book (ask your vet what to include, or visit the ASPCA store to buy one online)
- 3-7 days' worth of canned (pop-top) or dry food (be sure to rotate every two months)
- Disposable litter trays (aluminum roasting pans are perfect)
- Litter or paper toweling
- Liquid dish soap and disinfectant
- Disposable garbage bags for clean-up
- Pet feeding dishes
- Extra collar or harness as well as an extra leash
- Photocopies of medical records and a waterproof container with a two-week supply of any medicine your pet requires (Remember, food and medications need to be rotated out of your emergency kit—otherwise they may go bad or become useless.)
- Bottled water, at least 7 days' worth for each person and pet (store in a cool, dry place and replace every two months)
- A traveling bag, crate or sturdy carrier, ideally one for each pet
- Flashlight and extra batteries
- Blanket (for scooping up a fearful pet)
- Recent photos of your pets (in case you are separated and need to make "Lost" posters)
- Especially for cats: Pillowcase or EvackSack, toys, scoopable litter
- Especially for dogs: Extra leash, toys and chew toys, a week's worth of cage liner.
- Mosquito repellant
You should also have an emergency kit for the human members of the family. Items to include: Batteries, duct tape, flashlight, radio, multi-tool, tarp, rope, permanent marker, spray paint, baby wipes, protective clothing and footwear, extra cash, rescue whistle, important phone numbers, extra medication and copies of medical and insurance information.
You can upload free emergency warning apps to your phone.Description
This is the App of the popular NOAA Extreme Weather Information Sheet (NEWIS). NEWIS is designed to be a "one stop" reference with links to national, state, and local websites and phone numbers that coastal residents can use before, during, and after weather emergencies.
NOAA on National Weather Forecast on O`ahu. Forecast includes Honolulu & Vicinity (808) 973-5286.


text:
CH Biggie Smalls
These bullies are gorgeous. Do you mind sharing what they eat? Any other advice?
Hey Biggie & Doris! Looks like you had a wonderful walk in the sun. Hopefully the sun stays out!
Katie & Tucker a.k.a "Porkchop"
k...i want them!lol
but can these two be more beautiful!!!
smoochies the scrunchy faces
I didn't even notice, my eyes were so drawn to those two beautiful bullies!
Looks like they had a great day in the sun. They all have such beautiful coats, you should be very proud of your self cause you have 3 beautiful companions...
Cory & Penelope
beautiful looking bullies...
Deborah & the NC gang
photos! (as always!!!) Just beaut-i-bull !!! :-)
Our sweet Archimedes "MEATY" Bones (or as we say...boneSHHH!) ---born 11/28/08---- our first bullllyyyy!!!
And SOPHIE Bubbles *Rapscallion* (LOL!) ---born 4/3/11----our second bulllllyyyy!!!!
Sophie's very first day home with us....awwww........May 2011.......tooo sweet for words!!!
Looks beautiful. The dogs seem to be enjoying the sun.
So gorgeous....I love those two:-)
Amy and Sophia


text:
Aug 18, 2008 7:43 AM
This Viso Louis 1 Chair ($936) offers seating fit for a
king queen. A modern look at a French classic, the Louis 1 features solid hardwood construction made comfy with colorful vinyl upholstery. In three shades, for pleasing all the royalty you host with regularity.
If you've got a product or service that you'd like to promote on Outblush, click here to find out about our advertising opportunities.
Outblush is a blog for girls who love to shop. Our staff digs up the best clothes, home stuff, beauty items, and more. New items are posted every day — bookmark us and check out:


text:
January 6, 2012
Mira Books (UK)
Harlequin (NA)
the bluestocking brides series book 5
find out more about this series...
Sally Bowes is a scandalous figure in Edwardian London. The owner of the outrageously fashionable night club, The Blue Parrot, Sally guards her business and her heart well. But when she meets Jack Kestrel, both come under threat…
Jack Kestrel is known as the last rake in London. Descended from the ancestral line of the devastatingly attractive Dukes of Kestrel, Jack is dangerous and dissolute and irresistible. When Jack and Sally start a passionate affair, neither of them think that the last rake in London might finally lose his heart.
Excerpted from Chapter Two
Dan met her as soon as she stepped off the bottom step and onto the marble floor of the entrance hall. Sally raised her brows at the look on his face.
"Yes." A frown wrinkled Dan's broad forehead. "Mr Kestrel is the Gold Salon. Said he wanted to play a few hands of baccarat."
"And?" Sally kept a smile plastered on her face as a noisy group of diners passed by and paused to compliment her on the quality of the Blue Parrot's service.
"And now the bank is down five thousand pounds."
"Damnation!" Sally felt a twinge of real alarm. A little while ago Jack Kestrel had threatened to ruin her business, but she had not thought he would do so that very night by breaking the bank at her own gaming tables.
"There's worse," Dan said in an undertone, taking her arm and hurrying her along the corridor towards the casino. "The King is here."
"What?" For a moment Sally felt faint. "The King? King Edward?"
"Himself." Dan nodded in gloomy agreement. "Playing at the same table as Mr Kestrel. And losing to him like everyone else."
"Hell and the devil." Sally's heels clicked agitatedly on the marble floor as she quickened her pace. Damn Jack Kestrel. She thought she had contained the threat he posed, had imagined him sitting at table harmlessly drinking her champagne and here he was beating the King at baccarat and bankrupting her in the process. Matty was right. He was dangerous. She should never have let him out of her sight.
"I wouldn't like to say that he was cheating, now," Dan said, in his rich Irish brogue, "but—" There was puzzlement in his blue eyes. "I've been watching him and either he is extraordinarily lucky or—" He let the sentence hang.
Sally paused discreetly within the doorway so that she could watch Jack Kestrel at the baccarat table without being observed herself. He sprawled in his chair, a lock of dark hair falling across his forehead, his cards held in one careless hand. He had discarded his jacket and the pristine whiteness of his shirt looked stark against the darkness of his tanned skin. Seeing him there, Sally thought once again of his rakish forebears. There was something about him, something to do with his air of lazy arrogance, the perfection of his tailoring, the casual grace with which he wore it, that recalled the gamblers of a previous century, the rakes who made and lost their fortunes in the London of the Regency, a time like the present one that was full of the glitter and the lure of money and scandal.
"Miss Bowes?" Dan said with increased urgency, and Sally's attention snapped back.
"I'm thinking what best to do."
"Better think quickly then," Dan said grimly. "We're down ten thousand now."
End of Excerpt. Like It? Order It!
"Cornick gives the reader a fine overview of the Edwardian period. She combines a handsome rogue and an independent woman in this sexually charged romance that shows how true love can overcome guilt and heal wounded hearts."
"Utterly delectable, superbly written and mesmerizing... a rip-roaring tale that will charm and delight readers everywhere! Fast-paced, poignant and romantic, The Last Rake in London is an outstanding historical romance by one of the genre's brightest stars!"
"There aren't nearly enough historical romances written in the Edwardian period, and lucky for readers that Cornick has written an especially fine one. Snap it up."
"A steamy, enjoyable historical romance. I could not put this book down… Witty dialogue, sizzling, seductive romance, irresistible secondary characters and the well-matched hero and heroine make this a memorable read. The Last Rake in London is a book that I will keep to read repeatedly."
I originally wrote The Last Rake in London in 2008 to celebrate the Mills & Boon Centenary. I had never written a book set in the Edwardian period before and found the research for it fascinating.
The more I read up on the Edwardian period, the more similarities I noticed between it and the more familiar period (to me) of the Regency. Both eras are known for the dazzling opulence of high society, the lavish country house parties and the glittering London Season but beneath that seethes layers of poverty and violence and deprivation. In both cases the extremes of affluence and poverty were very marked. I think that the more you study it, the more the parallels become apparent.
One of the things that struck me very hard was that some aspects of the society and culture seemed very modern and familiar whilst others seemed utterly alien and divided from the present by an enormous gulf of years and experience. Technology was further advanced than I had realised � There were cars on the streets and I was astonished to discover that some of the London Underground was up and running and that it was already called "The Tube" as it is today. The other thing that fascinated me was the fight for women's suffrage, which I had studied a little as part of my MA course at Ruskin College, Oxford. I am someone who believes in exercising her right to vote but when I was reminded of the struggle my forbears had gone through to gain me that right, it was very humbling.
For readers interested in finding out more about the Edwardian period, this is how I approached writing the book. I started off by watching some costume dramas set in the period, such as the Duchess of Duke Street and Upstairs Downstairs. I felt that would get me into the right mindset and give me a feel for the period. It was great to rediscover those series as they were programmes I had enjoyed in my youth! I also drew on my memories of some of the National Trust properties that I had visited that had Edwardian interiors, such as Lindisfarne Castle, which although it was originally a Tudor fortress was redesigned by Lutyens in 1903.
Once I felt that I had absorbed something of the atmosphere of the period I turned to my reading. Some of the books I enjoyed the most and found the most useful were:
The Edwardians by Roy Hattersley
The Edwardian Country House by Juliet Gardiner
Victorian and Edwardian London by A R Hope Moncrieff
Now, of course, we have the marvelous Downton Abbey to give us a flavour of the Edwardian period!


text:
I have an .app executable generated for MacOSX. Is it any easy way to install this app into Applications so it can be used by end users, via script? (need to install on multiple computers and really don't want to create intermediate .pkg installer for it)
Here is a specific example:
This recursively copies the folder for, in this example, the Opera web browser, from my computer to a computer (named CES-iBookGR4-88) that I have an ssh account on.
More generically:
Where App.app represents the application and the remote destination is the IP name or address of a computer that you have a user account on with ssh access. (Turn on Remote Login in the Sharing Preferences).
To go the other way, do this:
In both cases, you will likely be asked to verify the other computer (just type in yes when asked to id it) and will be asked for the user's password.


text:
Established: 1878
Total Number of Members: 2,062
Out of State Members: 202
Membership is: Voluntary
Membership in other Bar Associations: New England Bar Association
Bar Profile:
To assist the members in improving the practice of law, to cultivate the science of jurisprudence, to promote reform in the law, to facilitate the administration of justice, to elevate the standards of the legal profession, to cherish a collegian spirit among its members, and to perpetuate their memory.
51st Annual Mid-Year Meeting, (educational)
March 27-28, 2008
Hilton Hotel, Burlington, Vermont
130th Annual Meeting, (educational)
September 25-26, 2008
Lake Morey
Fairlee, Vermont
State Contact
Board of Bar Examiners
2418 Airport Road, Suite 2
Barre, VT 05641
Phone: (802) 828-3281
S. Stacy Chapman, III
Webber, Chapman & Kupferer, Ltd.
PO Box 807
25 Washington St.
Rutland, VT 05702-0807
Phone: (802) 773-9109
Fax: (802) 773-5966
Email: email@example.com
Douglas L. Molde, Esq.
Molde, Black & Govoni, P.C.
92 School Street
PO Box 353
Johnson, VT 05656-0353
Phone: (802) 635-7145
Fax: (802) 635-7146
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Edward J. Tyler, III, Northern Trial Associates
120 North Main Street
St. Albans, VT 05478-1551
Phone: (802) 524-2178
Fax: (802) 868-5621
Matthew F. Valerio.
VT Defender General's Office
14-16 Baldwin Street, Drawer 20
Montpelier, VT 05620-3301
Phone: (802) 828-3168
Fax: (802) 828-3163
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Continuing Legal Education Director
Kevin F. Ryan
Phone: (802) 223-2020
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Membership Director
Jennifer Spooner
Phone: (802) 223-2020
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Public Information & Services
Robert Paolini
Phone: (802) 223-2020
Email: email@example.com
The purpose of this division is to stimulate the interest of government & non-profit attorneys.
Chair: Edward G. Adrian
VT Secretary of State's Office
9 Baldwin Ave.
Montpelier, VT 05609-1101
Phone: (802) 828-1217
Fax: (802) 828-2389
Email: email@example.com
The purpose of this division is to promote the objects of the Vermont Bar Association within the field of women and the law.
The purpose of this division is to provide assistance and information to the membership relative to the issues & concerns of particular importance of short tenure in the practice of law.
Chair: Erin J. Gilmore, Esq.
First American Title Insurance Company
70 S. Winooski Avenue
PO Box 1509
Burlington, VT 05402-1509
Phone: (802) 658-8717
Fax: (802) 658-8779
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
From A Wiki of Ice and Fire
Khaleesi is a title that the Dothraki use to designate the wife of a khal, which is the leader of a khalasar. Due to the Dothraki bias against women, usually a khaleesi has less influence than the kos or bloodriders. If her husband dies before her, the khaleesi is taken to Vaes Dothrak, the holy city of the Dothraki people, to serve as a counselor for all khalasars as one of the dosh khaleen.
Known Khaleesis
- Khaleesi Daenerys Targaryen


text:
Crime Prevention
University Police officers participate in seminars and workshops available to all students, faculty, and staff on a regular basis. The Director, or his designated representative, gives a crime awareness-safety security presentation at the beginning of each semester to all residence hall members as well as during student parent and new employee orientations. Topics available for discussion include:
- General Crime Prevention
- Identify Your Property
- Bicycle Security
- Rape Awareness and Sexual Assault.
Information concerning safety and security is regularly provided to students, faculty and staff by the use of seminars and workshops; crime alert bulletins; crime prevention posters and brochures; KXUL, the University radio Station; Smoke Signals, the employee newsletter; and the Hawkeye, the student weekly newspaper.
A University Police Escort service is available from dusk to dawn for the safety of anyone walking alone on campus at night. This service is available for anyone at any time during weekends, holidays, and during summer sessions. This information is presented at all residence hall orientations.
One full-time investigator staffs the Investigation/Crime Prevention section; however, officers who have received specialized training in several major crime areas supplement the area as required. Programs available through this section are Crime Prevention and Awareness, Sexual Assault Presentations, Identify Your Property, Abuse of Alcohol and other drugs and Controlled Substances.
Proper lighting and building security are major factors in determining crime on campus. The University Physical Plant Director maintains the University buildings and grounds with a concern for safety and security. The Director, or his representative, inspects campus facilities regularly, authorizes repairs as quickly as possible affecting safety and security, and responds to reports of potential safety and security hazards, such as broken locks and windows.
The University Police Department assists Physical Plant personnel by reporting potential safety and security hazards on a regular basis. Students, faculty and staff may also report any safety and security hazards by calling 318-342-5170 or 318-342-5350.The ULM campus is routinely inspected by a University Safety Committee which walks and inspects the entire campus to review lighting and other environmental concerns for safety and security.
Most University facilities are open to the public during the day and evening hours when classes are in session. During the times that the University buildings are closed, only faculty and staff are allowed entry. With proper authorization, students are allowed access.


text:
British entrepreneur who attributes his success to living with passion and pushing boundaries.
He founded and now serves as CEO of the cutting-edge tech startup Duedil.
"One of my greatest affections in life is traveling. I've been lucky enough to visit over 100 countries, from Papua New Guinea to Guatemala. Exposure to so many cultures has really opened up my eyes. It's made me realize that trust is the global social capital of business and that it can be quantified. This type of exposure just increases your passion for life, and for me there is nothing worse than speaking to someone who has no passion. With the right amount of passion you can make anything stimulating."


text:
In a White House ceremony today, Sgt. Kyle White, formerly of Seattle, will officially receive the Medal of Honor for his heroic acts during combat in Nuristan, Afghanistan, in 2007.
That fateful day, Sgt. White was a 20-year-old platoon radio operator caught in the middle of a brutal firefight in the mountains of northeastern Nuristan Province. In an instant, he made a decision to risk his own life to save the lives of a Marine and two fellow Soldiers.
The Army released this statement about White's heroic efforts:
White will receive the Medal of Honor for his disregard of his own life while trying to save the lives of a Marine and two fellow Soldiers after his team of 14 U.S. Soldiers and squad of Afghan National Army soldiers were set up and ambushed by a much larger and more heavily armed Taliban force who engaged in a three-prong attack from elevated ground.
Sgt. White was assigned to "C" Company, 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade at the time of the battle.
White, now 27, retired from the Army in 2011, and currently lives in Charlotte, N.C.
Additional details here from www.Army.mil.
Examiner's Note: On April 21, via Facebook, the Army provided a rare opportunity for private citizens and military personnel to ask the newest Medal of Honor nominee questions. Over 5,000 people reached out to Sgt. White and I was privileged to be one of them.
My question was simple: "Who is YOUR hero?"
Just minutes later, Sgt. White answered, "My heroes are the six battle buddies we lost on 9 Nov. 2007." And with his answer he provided an "arm selfie" of the stainless steel bracelet he wears engraved with the names of his six comrades who lost their lives in the fight that day.
The National Military Examiner publishes military-related content that often misses mainstream media on this site and here on Facebook. "Like" the page for additional news from around the globe. Follow on Twitter@ExaminerSusy.
Please email me at email@example.com if you find errors with content information or spelling. Thanks for reading and thanks for supporting the troops.


text:
What is in this article?:
- Lack of nematicides slows use of variable rate application in peanuts
- Looking for Temik replacement
- Readings can be dramatic
- Crop rotation is best solution
• In recent years development of site specific delivery systems on row crops has been virtually stopped by a lack of reliable nematicides to deliver.
More About:
ESTILL, S.C., grower Doug Jarrell used variable rate nematicide technology on peanuts and cotton.
Crop rotation is best solution
"By far, the best solution to nematodes is crop rotation. Or, if the problem is significant, we do have one root knot nematode tolerant variety, TiftGuard, but it has some other limitations," Monfort adds.
Mueller says the high cost of using Telone II intensifies the need of what he calls 'ground truthing'.
"The first step in deciding whether to use variable rate application technology is to determine whether you have a nematode problem that is costing more than the $40-50 per acre cost of applying Telone II, regardless of how it's applied," he says.
The Veris-generated soil map can be used to help make a variety of management decisions.
These maps can't tell you whether you have nematodes in the soil, but they can tell you where the highest risks are in a field.
By using these maps a grower can map some logical decisions as to which fields are in a high risk category and save some money by sampling first in these areas for nematodes.
"If these samples come back with high populations of nematodes, the next step will be to determine how much yield damage they are likely to cause and then make a decision as to whether to apply Telone or some other nematicide, like Vydate, which can be used on peanuts, but rarely is used," the South Carolina plant pathologist says.
"If hot spots of nematodes occur sporadically across a field, a simple on-off system of applying Telone may be a good option. Certainly, it would be considerably less expensive than applying a uniform application of the material," he adds.
Mueller points out that the nematicide application system used by Doug Jarrell, and a few other South Carolina growers, isn't technically a variable rate application.
"A true variable rate applicator would be much more expensive, and in truth, we don't have the data set to support using a highly sophisticated variable rate application system," he says.
"The growers who have used the on-off system developed by Khalilian and others here at the Edisto Station works fine, and if the nematicides we tested are available, I am confident in some situations with high nematode pressure, it could save growers some money and improve yields," Mueller adds.
Other articles in the series:
New, improved varieties leading way for U.S. production
X-ray vision points to more efficient peanut grading system
Early-season disease control keeps peanut yield foe at bay
Water-use efficiency becoming priority for peanut producers who irrigate
Taking guesswork out of determining peanut maturity


text:
Usually traded over the counter (OTC), exotic options have special conditions attached to them that meet the individual needs of investors.
Standard options (vanilla options) are normal call and put options with standard terms, strike prices, and maturity dates applied to them. Though highly traded and on market, they are restricted as to their flexibility.
Exotic options have special conditions attached to them that meet the individual needs of investors.Exotic options are often customized to investor needs. Because of their flexibility they tend not to have a standardized pricing mechanism, and are generally more expensive than vanilla options (though not always).
For ease of explanation, the following five exotic options will be explained as call options (unless otherwise stated). Of course, if you believe an asset is going to fall, you should buy the relevant put options.
Imagine that you bought shares at $50 and they moved to $70, but, rather than take the profit, you decided to hold on to see if the price would move higher. Suddenly the share price collapses to $40. You are left thinking, 'if only I had sold at $70'.
Similarly, if you watch a share price move from $50 to $100, but had not bought any shares, you would probably think to yourself, 'if only I had bought them at $50'.
In other words, with hindsight you would have acted differently, in the first instance selling at $70 stock you had bought at $50, and in the second buying stock at $50 that you could now sell at $100. Hindsight is the best trader in the world! LookBack options allow you to trade with hindsight. At the time of expiry, you can look back at the price action and exercise the option at the most advantageous price.
These pay the difference between the strike price and the highest price achieved in the market during the lifetime of the option.
With the price of ABC shares at $100, you buy a fixed strike lookback call option with a strike price of $100. The share price rises to $120, before falling to $80 at the time of expiry of the option. At this time, and in this example, a plain vanilla option would be worthless. However, with the lookback option, you can exercise and take the profit of $20 (the difference between the strike price of $100 and the highest lifetime price of the underlying asset of $120).
Fixed Strike LookBack options are always settled in cash-- you never end up with shares of ABC at the end.
Floating strike price lookback options completely remove the need to time the market.This type of lookback option allows you to profit from the widest price difference seen during the lifetime of the option. Whereas fixed strike price lookback call options negate the need to time a market exit, these completely remove the need to time the market (save for the expiry date).
With ABC's share price at $100, you buy a floating strike lookback call option. The share price falls to $80 before rising to $120. At the time of expiry, the underlying share price is $90. You can exercise the option at the high price of $120 with a strike price of $80, giving you a $50 profit.
Floating strike lookback options allow the holder to buy the underlying shares at the lowest price seen during the option lifetime instead of cash settlement if wanted.
While lookback options take away the problem of market timing, this flexibility comes at a price and the premium can be expensive. Flexibility comes at a price. If the underlying security does not move by enough, then the premium paid for the option could wipe out any potential profit.
Barrier options can be 'knock-in' or 'knock-out', and work like vanilla options except they are activated, or de-activated, according to a pre-set barrier price.
These become active when the price of the underlying asset crosses a pre-determined price (the barrier). If this price is not breached, then the option will expire worthless, regardless of the price of the underlying asset.
A knock-in call option, with a strike price of $50 and a knock-in barrier of $60 is bought when the price of the underlying asset is $40. If the price of the underlying asset rises to $58 at expiry, but has not crossed the $60 knock-in barrier, the option expires worthless. If the underlying price has crossed the barrier level during the lifetime of the option, then the option may be exercised at the strike price of $50.
These become inactive when the underlying price of the asset crosses a pre-determined barrier price. If the knock-out barrier is breached, the option becomes worthless.
When an asset is priced at $45, you buy a knock-out barrier call option with a strike price of $50 and a knock-out barrier of $55. Now, if the price of the underlying asset rises above $55 the option becomes worthless, irrespective of price at the time of expiry.
Knock-ins are used by those investors expecting a large market move, while knock-outs are used by those expecting far smaller moves.
There are four types of barrier options:
Up and in, as the knock-in described above;
Up and out, as in the knock-out described above;
Down and in, in which the asset needs to move down and below the barrier price for the option to become active;
Down and out; where the option becomes deactivated if the price moves down and below the barrier price.
It is possible to trade a Double Barrier Option, sometimes known as a double knock out option. The price of the underlying asset must remain between the up-and-out barrier and the down-and-out barrier for the option to remain active. Such a position acts like a short straddle, though at a far cheaper premium.
Barrier options are far cheaper than vanilla options, though the risk of the option expiring worthless is greater. Their lower cost can result in far higher profits than achievable with vanilla options.
Asian options can be cheaper than vanilla options, because through the averaging process the volatility is decreased.These were first introduced in Japan in 1987 and seek to eliminate the possibility of market manipulation on the underlying price of an asset at expiration time. Rather than using the price of the underlying asset at the time of expiry of an option, the maturity price of the asset is calculated by reference to a pre-determined averaging process. Asian options can be cheaper than vanilla options, because through the averaging process the associated volatility of the underlying asset is decreased.
As well as the exercise price being averaged, some Asian options have an averaged strike price rather than a fixed strike price.
For investors who believe one asset will perform better than a second, an outperformance option is a more efficient way to trade a traditional pair. The holder receives the amount of the outperformance of one asset over another, multiplied by the nominal investment. If the asset selected as the outperformer does not outperform the second asset, then the option expires with no value.
An example is if an investor expects the Dow Jones Industrial Index to outperform the Nasdaq 100, he should buy the outperformance option which pays a the notional multiplied by the outperformance of the Dow as against the Nasdaq.
The pricing of such options are calculated by reference to the correlation between the two assets.
With a Cliquet Option, the strike price is reset at pre-determined and regular intervals on its way to its final expiration date. As each reset date is reached, the option will expire worthless if the price of the underlying security is below the strike price. The option is then 'reopened' with the strike price set to the lower security price.
On the other hand, if the security price is higher than the strike price at the date of the reset, then the investor recieves the difference between the strike and the security pirce, and the strike price is reset to the new higher security price.
An investor opens a three year cliquet option in ABC with a strike price of $100 and annual resetting.
The first anniversary of the option is reached and the share price is $120. The investor will receive a $20 pay out, and the strike price is reset to $120.
On the second anniversary, the share price has fallen to $110. The investor receives no pay out, and the strike price is reset to $110.
At final expiry date, the final pay out will depend upon the final price of the underlying security. In this example, an underlying asset price below $110 means that the option will expire with no further pay out, and a price above that level will be reflected in a final pay out.
This type of option is sometimes called a ratchet option.
I really do not appreciate these exotic options, if only for the fact that they are more or less very expensive for me to get into. I really don�t want to pay more and to be honest who here actually sells their options before maturity?
Thanks for the rundown here, I think that this is a great introduction into exotic options. Especially for someone like myself who has been shopping around for something better than standard options.
Definitely looking into Asian options now. Thanks for the heads up!
Login or join the community to add your comment!
By joining, you agree to all the legal stuff & fine print.
Debt security with a maturity of greater than one year; a corporate IOU. Many different kinds of bonds are available to investors, such as convertible...
Continue Reading


text:
Feb. 13, 2004
TEMPE, Ariz. - The Arizona softball team saw its record improve to 7-0 with wins over Texas A&M and Texas State on Friday at the Fiesta Bowl tournament hosted by Arizona State.
In the first game against Texas A&M, sophomore pitcher Alicia Hollowell won her fifth game of the season, limiting the Aggies to one unearned run. Hollowell struck out nine Aggies in the matchup, holding her ERA at 0.00 in the Cats' 8-1 victory.
Arizona struck early, scoring two in the first inning and adding three in the second. Freshman shortstop Kristie Fox went two-for-four, with a single, a home run and a sacrifice fly to score sophomore Jackie Coburn in the top of the seventh.
Senior Wendy Allen went two-for-two with a pair of walks, a run, and an RBI, improving her batting average to .444 on the season. Sophomore Autumn Champion went three-for-four in the game, with three singles and three runs scored, improving her season batting average to .500.
In the second game of the day versus Texas State, pitcher Wendy Allen held the Bobcats scoreless, striking out 11. Allen's ERA improved to 0.58 in the Wildcats' 5-0 shutout.
Sophomore Shelly Schultz, who is hitting .500 on the season, hit her third home run of the year in the bottom of the third inning, knocking in her 10th RBI and putting the Cats up, 4-0. Champion continued her hot streak, going two-for-four with two singles, and third baseman Jackie Coburn went two-for-two with a walk. Junior Crystal Farley also notched a pair of hits and an RBI.
The Wildcats will continue tournament action on Saturday, versus Dayton at 3:15 p.m. and Texas at 5:15 p.m. at the Rose Mofford Sports Complex in Tempe.


text:
College grads and seasoned workers alike are pounding the pavement around Denver and the country in search of gainful employment. If you're having a tough time convincing a company to hire you, have you looked lately at what employers are really seeking in their new hires and their employees? Recently, OI Partners surveyed its career consultants on which characteristics and qualities are most in demand by employers in 2013. Compare yourself against the list of qualities below as well as this top-five list so you can begin to position yourself to stand out from the crowd in the job search.
"Career-related resolutions tend to focus on what employees and job-seekers want, rather than the skills that employers are demanding today," says Shawna Simcik, Managing Partner of OI Partners-Innovative Career Consulting in Denver. "People will be more successful in their jobs and job searches by validating that they are the best fit."
Flexibility. When discussing the goals for the coming year with your manager, look for opportunities for cross-training to provide coverage in your department during co-workers' vacations, sick leaves, etc. Employers appreciate workers who keep focused on meeting the organization's goals, especially when resources are stretched.
Anticipate. Being able to anticipate possible needs or problems is highly valued. "Companies reward people who see that there will be a resource gap, bring it to management's attention, and propose some possible solutions. If you are interviewing for a position, share a story about a time that you did this in your career or explain how you would do this if hired," said Simcik.
Persuasiveness. Ability to win over others, including customers and colleagues, is in demand. Persuasive employees know how to craft their messages to meet others' needs and, at the same time, accomplish their objectives. Since most work today is accomplished by obtaining information and support from peers in other departments, the ability to influence and persuade is a critical skill.
Leadership. With most companies developing their future leaders from within their organizations, rather than recruiting from outside, they are looking for workers with high leadership potential. "Future leaders are those who take initiative, don't take 'no' for an answer, and find ways to be positive even in challenging situations. Management wants to hear potential leaders say how things can be done, and how problems can be solved, not why things won't work," said Simcik.
Authentic. While it is important to adapt to an organization's culture, it is also essential to demonstrate who you are and what makes you unique as a person and employee. Be clear about what your special talents, skills, and contributions are and how you believe those things make you more effective.
It may seem like a long list (and don't forget about these top five qualities employers are seeking), but unless you start demonstrating to hiring managers that you've got what they want, it's going to be ramen noodles and bologna sandwiches for a while longer. This may be a whole new mindset for you, but it's well worth the effort to land a job where you'll succeed.
About this Examiner: Kathryn Marion is the award-winning author of GRADS: TAKE CHARGE of Your First Year After College!, the most comprehensive resource for navigating the world of work and independent living after graduation, as well as host of the book's companion resource site, www.GradsTakeCharge.com. The print edition of GRADS: TAKE CHARGE is available through Amazon and other online booksellers. The e-book edition is available through e-junkie.
Kathryn also coaches students, graduates, and career changers as well as consults with small businesses and aspiring authors.
Follow her other Examiner columns: Job Search and Life After College. And even more articles on SelfGrowth.com.


text: French food and drink How to cook the perfect ... A recipe for perfect coq au vin - video Sorry, your browser is unable to play this video. Please install Adobe Flash™ and try again. Alternatively upgrade to a modern browser. Felicity Cloake revives an old dinner party favourite - the perfect coq au vin Felicity Cloake and Elliot Smith, theguardian.com Thursday 24 March 2011 00.00 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ Share on WhatsApp Share on Messenger Topics French food and drink Food & drink Reuse this content


text:
The numbers are in, and Record Store Day 2014 has gone down as a big success. Overall record sales at independent record stores rose 11.2 percent compared to this time last year, according to Nielson Soundscan. Considering Record Store Day is ultimately about helping independent shops stay in business, this April 19th had been the best RSD ever.
According to Billboard, this Record Store Day was also the biggest sales day for a number of record stores around the country, including: Permanent Records in Brooklyn; Waterloo Records in Austin; Stinkweed Records in Tempe, Arizona; the Sacramento-based chain Dimples; and Hungry Ear Records in Kailua, Hawaii. Boston-based chain Newbury Comics also reported this RSD as one of their highest-grossing sales days.
As far as individual sales are concerned, Nirvana came out on top for the best-selling vinyl single, according to Billboard, with "Pennyroyal Tea." Surprisingly, Childish Gambino's Because the Internet topped the best-selling vinyl album chart.
In the arena of more good news, year-to-date vinyl sales are up 36 percent compared to this time last year, according to Nielson.


text:
Sept. 18, 2011
FRESNO, Calif. - Picking up their fifth shutout of the year, the Fresno State women's soccer team topped Air Force 2-0 Sunday afternoon on the road.
Sophomore Lauren Lindstrom headed in her first goal of the year to open scoring for the Bulldogs. Lindstrom's goal came in the 15th minute off a corner kick by senior Molly Nizzoli, her fourth assist of the season.
Fresno State (4-3-2) held onto their 1-0 lead through the first half. With less than four minutes to play, sophomore Morgan Castain knocked in her fifth goal this season unassisted from 20 yards out.
The Bulldogs defense spent a full 90 minutes on the pitch in the shutout. Freshman Katie DeVault picked up nine saves in the win.
Air Force (4-5) out shot the 'Dogs 17-14 and were led by Bridgett Murphy. She finished with five shots, three on goal.
Fresno State returns to California for the final game of their four-game road stint. The Bulldogs face Cal Poly on Friday, Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. before returning home to face No. 9 Pepperdine on Sunday, Sept. 25.
"We Are Your Team!" Look out for the Bulldogs big promotion during their next home match against No. 9 Pepperdine on Sept. 25 at 1 p.m. Every fan in attendance will receive a prize. You can always stay connected with Fresno State Athletics on Facebook (fresnostateathletics) and Twitter (@FSAthletics).
|Email this article
|Printer-friendly format


text:
The upcoming Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony is just weeks away.
And with the event comes some controversy with the soon-to-be inducted members of Kiss, especially when it comes to former members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss.
'What we had at the beginning was magical. Not because we were virtuosos. Magic in rock and roll isn't dependent on virtuosity. Ace and I played great together. But in my mind it's a crime what Ace did. He threw away incredible potential and talent. The Ace I played with when the band first started out was a comet. And not [Frehley's late-Eighties band] Frehley's Comet! But he was burning bright and really had the ability—and this would rub him the wrong way—to be a real contender. But he stopped practicing. He got involved with a whole lot of things that really diluted and diminished his craft. I saw that comet grow dim,' Paul Stanley told 'Guitar World' in a recent interview.
Unfortunately for their many loyal fans, Kiss will not be performing at the highly anticipated induction ceremony next month.
Read more from Paul Stanley here.
In other Kiss news, Stanley's autobiography 'Face the Music: A Life Exposed' is available April 8th.
Visit Stanley's official website to see if the rocker is doing a book signing in your town, click this link.


text:
I've got an ASCII print job coming from a legacy system that I don't control. Currently it's aimed at a regular printer.
I'd like to be able to catch the job with the Generic/Text Only driver and send it to a file location for import.
I can set up a local port with the path in the name and the data will end up there just fine. The problem is that it always overwrites the previous file.
Is there a way to specify an environment variable or something in the path to create a dynamic file name so that each job has a unique name?