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Two British expatriates are looking to raise the bar for global fashion trade shows in Hong Kong.
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Richard Hobbs and Peter Caplowe, who founded Entrepot Asia last year as a consulting business aimed at helping fashion brands gain a foothold in China and throughout Asia, have founded The Hub as a semiannual show to be held at Hong Kong's Asia World Expo, starting with a three-day event beginning Aug. 28. The company has committed to two other shows — in February and August of 2014 — and has options to extend the agreement.
Initially, the show will occupy about 60,000 square feet in a single hall of the Hong Kong facility and the principals hope to draw between 100 and 120 exhibitor companies. But the space can be expanded to up to 165,000 square feet in three separate halls, with a proportionate expansion in the number of exhibitors.
"We want the first event to go smoothly and for everyone to leave with a smile on their face," Hobbs told WWD. "It needs to look right and smell right as a fashion trade show and not like a flat, corporate Hong Kong trade show where they just might as well be selling ball bearings."
The show will be divided into four separate sections — Indigo, Heritage, Street and Contemporary — with each bearing its own design personality. The Indigo and Heritage sections, for instance, will feature wood and other natural and recycled materials, while Contemporary will be distinguished by bamboo and stone and Street by an urban setting characterized by metal frames, scaffolding and chalkboards.
Hobbs and Caplowe are residents of Hong Kong who've served as matchmakers between Western brands and both retailers and prospective distribution or licensing partners in the Far East. Hobbs had worked with Mecca USA before a more recent association with Pepe Jeans, and Caplowe was the architect of Evisu's international expansion.
"We'd both been doing pretty much the same thing, running around the region serving as marriage guidance counselors to brands from Europe and North America that know they need to be in Asia," Hobbs said. "It finally hit us that we needed to create the thing that's missing, what Las Vegas has with Project and Berlin has with Bread & Butter."
He said he recognizes that many of the world's largest exhibition companies have attempted to establish a venue like the one now being planned. "But the difference is they weren't here," he said, "or they were here for a week. There's no one in the world who doesn't want to do more business in China and throughout Asia, but there hasn't been the right platform before this."
The two have a majority stake in the company as well as a silent partner and are seeking additional sources of capital. Although initially interested in a direct association with a trade show company, they decided to form a series of other alliances, including one with Shanghai Mart, which will give them showroom space and access to the facility's database of more than 400,000 companies in the region, and another with InvestHK, a government organization that aims to attract visitors.
There are also efforts underway to house a group of designers at downtown hotels and to arrange for participation of representative groups from other trade shows.
Hobbs said that he has commitments from exhibitors that would take about 20 percent of the space available and feels confident about the prospects for another 20 percent. "We're ahead of our sales targets," he said.
Among those already signed up for participation are Adidas Y3, Barbour, J.W. Anderson, Johanna Ho, Tkees and Mata Hari. "Barbour will be a marquee brand in Heritage and I can see Y3 sitting where Contemporary and Street come together," Hobbs said.
The organizers expect about half of their exhibitor base to come from Europe, with most of the rest fairly evenly divided between North America and Asia.
"It's pretty clear that any brand anywhere in the world that's doing its homework wants to sell more into Asia," Hobbs concluded. "We're doing what we have to do to bring the people in to buy from them, and it's pretty likely that they'll be others coming in with the idea of buying some of them too."


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I saw this video explanation of SPD recently, and I thought it was really helpful and accurate to the information I know about this disorder.
Daniel mostly deals with sensory over responsiveness, as well as discrimination issues (being able to know where certain sensations are coming from and also interpreting what they mean).
Jaymz also has some sensory issues which interfere with his everyday functioning, and he is definitely more under responsive to sensory input than the average person (and certainly so when compared with Daniel). Ironically, when I showed Jaymz this video he was so distracted by the audio that he was unable to read the words, so we had to watch it on "mute" for him to glean the content from it.
I continue to be fascinated by how our brains work, how they are all different from each other, and what we can learn from those incredible differences.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Monday Morning Movie: Sensory Processing Disorder
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This is the first time I am using Outlook.
I added a mail account (Google Apps - Gmail) account to my Outlook. Although when I added the account, it created an entry in the left panel "All Mail Items" called "email@example.com", which is fine.
Although I would like all the mails to come in the main "Inbox" folder and not just in "Inbox in firstname.lastname@example.com"
How could I do this ?


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text: For 2013, Higher Limits for HSA Contributions and Out-of-Pocket Expenses for High-Deductible Plans By SHRM Online staff 4/30/2012 Permissions UPDATE On May 2, 2013, the IRS announced higher limits for calendar year 2014 on contributions to health savings accounts (HSAs) and for out-of-pocket spending amounts under the high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) linked to them. Please see the SHRM Online article "For 2014, Higher Limits for HSA Contributions, Out-of-Pocket Expenses for High-Deductible Plans." The Internal Revenue Service announced the 2013 limits on contribution and out-of-pocket spending amounts for health savings accounts (HSAs) and for the high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) to which HSAs must be linked. In Revenue Procedure 2012-26, issued on April 27, 2012, the IRS provided the inflation-adjusted HSA contribution and HDHP minimum deductible and out-of-pocket limits for 2013. The higher rates reflect the cost-of-living adjustment and rounding rules of Internal Revenue Code section 223. A comparison of the 2012 and 2013 limits is shown below: Contribution and Out-of-Pocket Limits for Health Savings Accounts and for High-Deductible Health Plans For 2012 For 2013 Change HSA contribution limit (employer + employee) Individual: $3,100 Family: $6,250 Individual: $3,250 Family: $6,450 Individual: +$150 Family: +200 HSA catch-up contributions (age 55 or older)* $1,000 $1,000 No change** HDHP minimum deductible amounts Individual: $1,200 Family: $2,400 Individual: $1,250 Family: $2,500 Individual: +$50 Family: +$100 HDHP maximum out-of-pocket amounts (deductibles, co-payments and other amounts, but not premiums) Individual: $6,050 Family: $12,100 Individual: $6,250 Family: $12,500 Individual: +$200 Family: +$400 * Catch-up contributions can be made any time during the year in which the HSA participant turns 55. ** Unlike other limits, the HSA catch-up contribution amount is not indexed; any increase would require statutory change. (To learn more about health savings accounts, health reimbursement arrangements and high-deductible health plans, see the SHRM Online article Consumer-Driven Decision: Weighing HSAs vs. HRAs.) HSAs and Health Care Reform HSA penalties for nonqualified expenses Effective Jan. 1, 2011, the penalty for using HSA funds for nonqualified medical expenses for those under the age of 65 (unless totally and permanently disabled) increased from 10 percent to 20 percent of the funds used for nonqualified expenses. Funds spent for nonqualified purposes also are subject to income tax. HSAs and coverage of adult children up to age 26 While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) allows parents to add their adult children (up to age 26) to their health plans, the IRS has not changed its definition of a dependent for health savings accounts. This means that an employee whose 24-year-old child is covered on their HSA-qualified high-deductible health plan is not eligible to use HSA funds to pay for medical bills for that 24-year-old. If account holders can't claim a child as a dependent on their tax returns, then they can't spend HSA dollars on services provided to that child. According to the IRS definition, a dependent is a qualifying child (daughter, son, stepchild, sibling or stepsibling or any descendant of these) who: Has same principal place of abode as the covered employee for more than one-half of taxable year. Has not provided over one-half of their own support during taxable year. Is not yet age 19 (or not yet age 24 if a student) at the end of the tax year, or is permanently and totally disabled. Related Articles: For 2013, IRS Raises 401(k) and Pension Plan Limits, SHRM Online Benefits, October 2012 IRS Issues Guidance on $2,500 FSA Limit for 2013, SHRM Online Benefits, updated October 2012 Study: Switch to CDHPs Cuts Health Care Spending, SHRM Online Benefits Discipline, June 2012 HSA Plan Growth Continues; Most Provide Decision Support Tools, SHRM Online Benefits Discipline, June 2012 More Health Plan Users Investigate Prices for Services, SHRM Online Benefits Discipline,June 2012 Rand Study: CDHPs Could Save Billions in Spending, SHRM Online Benefits Discipline, May 2012 Study: CDH Plans Saved $9,700 per Employee over Five Years, SHRM Online Benefits Discipline, February 2012 Boosting HSA Participation, SHRM Online Benefits Discipline, February 2012 Consumer-Driven Decision: Weighing HSAs vs. HRAs, SHRM Online Benefits Discipline, May 2011 Quick Links: SHRM Online Benefits Discipline SHRM Online Health Care Reform web page Sign up for SHRM's free Compensation & Benefits e-newsletter. Permissions Related Content IRS Seeks Comments on 'Cadillac Tax' and Account-Based Plans 2015 Employee Benefits CDHPs Continue Growth to Avoid 'Cadillac Tax' Regs Limit Use of HRAs for Exchange-Purchased Coverage May 2012: Health Savings Accounts--The Good, The Bad and the Misunderstood ADVERTISING LINKS


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Oracle Service Bus 2-Day Training
By Chuck Speaks on Oct 17, 2008
PTS is rolling out 2-day training classes for our partners on Oracle Service Bus (formerly BEA Aqualogic Service Bus), BPEL on WebLogic, and BPM. Starting next week, I will be delivering OSB training with former BEA'er and product expert Steve Waterhouse and long-time PTS integration expert Lawrence Kikuchi.
This class will walk you through the product and its features. OSB brings a lot to the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack and leverages our new strategic application server, WebLogic.
I invite all Oracle Partner Network (OPN) members that are interested in attending OSB training - or any of the other classes I mentioned - to reach out to your OPN representative. If you don't know who to contact, drop me a comment and we can get you pointed in the right direction.
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Two prominent investors, one a bull, the other a bear, actually agreeing on one thing while disagreeing about just everything else. To wit, Legg Mason's Bill Miller and GMO's Jeremy Grantham part company on most questions regarding the economy and the stock market.
But they both think high-quality U.S. stocks provide the best prospective long-term returns of any major asset class over the next decade. That said, Miller thinks the U.S. equity market, as defined by the Standard & Poor's 500 index, currently is roughly 10% undervalued while Grantham reckons it's 30% overvalued.
Stocks, by contrast, have spent "10 years in the wilderness," leaving high-quality, large-capitalization stocks cheap relative to bonds, Miller contends. Merck (MRK) trades at 12 times this year's earnings and yields more than 10-year Treasuries. International Business Machines (IBM) has record earnings; trades at 12 times next year's forecast earnings; buys back shares every and has increased its dividend 25% over the past five years.
As for Grantham, he sees "high-quality" U.S. stocks providing a 6.8% annual return over inflation during the next 10 years, slightly more than the overall market's historical real return of 6.5%. But overall large-cap U.S. equities should provide a real return of just 1.3% annually and 0.5% in real terms for small-cap stocks.
The seeming anomaly that the best-quality stocks also have been the cheapest has been a recurring theme of Barrons.com and Barron's magazine. Last week, Barrons.com featured a positive profile of Procter & Gamble (PG) while the print publication has published bullish stories on blue chips such as IBM, ExxonMobil (XOM), PepsiCo (PEP), Altria (MO) and AT&T (T) in recent weeks.
In addition, last week, the magazine also ran a feature on the so-called Dogs of the Dow, the highest yielding stocks of the Dow 30 Industrials ("Groomed for a Comeback," Jan. 18), which included such blue chips as DuPont (DD), Boeing (BA), Home Depot (HD), Merck, Chevron (CVX), Kraft (KFT), McDonald's (MCD), AT&T and Verizon (VZ.)
So, whether you agree with Miller and think stocks have further to rise, or Grantham, who believes the market is vulnerable to a pullback, you ought to stick to the top-shelf stuff, not the bland lite beer.
Disclosure: The Div Guy owns shares of PG, XOM, PEP, T and VZ at the time of this post.


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Friend of the PFR Blog Carl Bialik is hosting a sports reading event in NYC this week for Gelf Magazine. This week, it's an all-NFL edition with guests Anthony Gargano (sharing an inside look at the brutal life of a player), N. Jeremi Duru (speaking on the history of the Rooney Rule), and Chad Millman (talking about the 1970s Steelers).
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Junior Jessica Woodward was a Second-Team All-Conference USA selection after scoring a career-high three goals this season.
Nov. 2, 2010
IRVING, Texas - After dropping its final game of the 2010 season on the road to Marshall, 1-0, in double-overtime last Thursday, Oct. 28, the East Carolina (9-9-1, 4-6-1) soccer team had three players named to the All-Conference USA squads according to an announcement by the league Tuesday afternoon. Junior Jessica Woodward was selected to the second-team, while fellow upperclassmen Amanda Broz and Amanda Malkiewicz were third-team honorees.
ECU's three selections mark the sixth consecutive season the Pirates have had at least three players on the All C-USA Teams.
The all-league selection was the first of Woodward's career, who started all 19 games at midfield. The Wake Forest, N.C. native ranked second on the team in points (11) and assists (5) behind Malkiewicz and netted her first career game-winning strike at William & Mary. On the season she scored a career-best three goals, registered five assists (three in league play) and played every minute in 14 of 19 games. Since stepping on campus Woodward has started 60-straight matches, scored seven goals, dished out 11 assists for 25 points.
Broz was a key member of the Pirate defense that held opponents to a 1.45 goals-against average and recorded shutouts against in-state rival N.C. State and UTEP. She was one of six Pirates to start all 19 games and pushed her career starting streak to 28 games against The Herd in the season finale. The Spring, Texas netted her lone goal of the season at ODU on a header off a corner kick for a game-tying goal. In all, Broz recorded eight shots (five on goal) with one penalty kick and played every minute of the Pirates last 16 contests. She was a preseason all-league selection and one of the Top-20 C-USA players to watch by Topdrawersoccer.com. The four-year letterwinner closed out her career with 43 starts in 77 games, scored seven goals (four game-winners) and helped the Pirates record 31 shutouts. She is a two-time All C-USA performer (2009-10) and was an all-freshman team selection in 2007.
Malkiewicz took home her second career C-USA accolade after being named to the all-freshman team in 2008. The Forked River, N.J. native completed her best season to date leading the Pirates in goals (7), assists (6) and points (20), which were all new career-highs and ranked among the league leaders. She started all 19 games playing nearly 1,200 minutes and pushed her consecutive starting streak to 60 matches. In league play, she has netted four goals (one game-winning vs. Rice), three assists and 11 points. Malkiewicz, who joined Broz as a preseason all-league selection and one of the Top-20 C-USA players to watch by Topdrawersoccer.com, closed out the season ranked fourth all-time on ECU's career charts in assists (16) and points (50), while ranking sixth in goals (17).
A complete list of the three all-conference team selections and specialty award winners follow:
Offensive Player-of-the-Year
Tishia Jewell, UCF
Defensive Player-of-the-Year
Lizzy Simonin, Memphis
Vendula Strnadova, Memphis
Jordan O'Brien, Tulsa
Susan Bush, Houston
All-Conference USA First-Team
F: Tiffany Brown, Colorado College
F: Lauri Byrne, Houston
F: Tishia Jewell, UCF
MF: Katie Jackson, UCF
MF: Jordan O'Brien, Tulsa
MF: Katelyn Rhodes, Houston
MF: Vendula Strnadova, Memphis
D: Amy Beger, Rice
D: Lauren Shepherd, SMU
D: Lizzy Simonin, Memphis
GK: Aline Reis, UCF
All-Conference USA Second-Team
F: Erika Duncan, Marshall
F: Laura McCalla, UAB
F: Kim Newsome, UCF
MF: Kristin Medeiros, SMU
MF: Carolyn Polcari, UAB
MF: Jessica Woodward, East Carolina
D: Marissa Diggs, UCF
D: Kaitlyn Eidson, SMU
D: Sierra Keeler, Colorado College
D: Danielle Munoz, Houston
GK: Caitlin Hulyo, Colorado College
GK: Cami Koski, Houston
All-Conference USA Third-Team
F: Britney Lyman, Colorado College
F: Amanda Malkiewicz, East Carolina
F: Claire Nicholson, Tulsa
F: Hope Ward, Rice
MF: Katie Dorman, UTEP
MF: Alena Strnadova, Memphis
MF: Sarah Vinson, Marshall
D: Amanda Broz, East Carolina
D: Freya Holdaway, Marshall
D: Bianca Joswiak, UCF
C-USA All-Freshman Team
Sierra Keeler, Colorado College
Cami Koski, Houston
Jasmine Martinez, Houston
Danielle Munoz, Houston
Rasheeda Ansari, Memphis
Alena Strnadova, Memphis
Jessica Howard, Rice
Hayley Williams, Rice
Claire Nicholson, Tulsa
Jordan O'Brien, Tulsa
Marissa Diggs, UCF
Azia Nicholson, UTEP


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Be Defined Or Be Counted
From: "Joel"
To: "Positive Atheism Magazine"
Subject: Positive Atheism Letters Section
Date: October 16, 2001 9:39 PM
Thank you for your well written and reasonable thoughts. I am going to subscribe to your publication.
I agree that we could be a force for change in this country and it may be time to stand up and be counted. I have suffered silently for long enough. You are right, it is hard to be defined by the absence of something, but it is doubly hard to watch as our government quickly becomes defined by the presence of dogmatic superstition and hate.
I have attached a reply I wrote to Kathleen Parker after reading her USA Today article. Feel free to post it or reprint it.
Thank you again,
Sarasota, Florida
From: "Positive Atheism Magazine"
To: "Joel"
Subject: Positive Atheism Letters Section
Date: October 17, 2001 3:16 AM
The balance I'm looking for is this:
1. It is hard to identify by our mutual absence of religion. So, perhaps the energies we might spend trying to form an alliance based upon our mutual atheism could be put to better use elsewhere.
2. We do have specific socio-political goals; that is, we have needs that, if met, would enhance our lives or remove barriers from our ability to live normal lives. I don't think any of these goals is a concern that's unique to atheists. Almost every socio-political goal I can think of that an atheist might work toward is a matter that likewise concerns many theists. Thus, socio-political activism is not an issue of atheism or theism. I argue this point in the letter "Why Advocate For Individual Activists?" with Juan De Gennaro. In it, I show that even curbing antiatheist bigotry is in certain theist groups' best interest!
The only uniquely atheistic angle I can think of would be the antireligion angle, and I don't think this is something I'd want to see developed into an "outreach" program.
Face it: Let's just find the issues that concern us the most and the goals we think we need to work toward. Next, it should be quite easy to find out which groups need some help (hint: all of them!) and then go out and join their efforts. If nobody's working toward a specific goal, let's start a group and get busy -- but never should we start an atheists-only activistic organization.
3. While we're out there working with and among other activists (most of whom happen to be theists), we can keep our eyes open looking for ways to reduce or eradicate the stigma and bigotry. Sure we're going to bump into some problems, because bigotry is natural among humans and antiatheist bigotry is pretty much institutionalized in America. Even those of us who are trying to address our own bigotry still have problems with it at times. But rather than allowing this to become a problem for us, we can instead use it as an opportunity to study what's going on and see if we can work out some effective solutions.
Then, when we come home at night, we can log on and describe the incident and ask others who are working on the bigotry problem for their feedback or suggestions. We can take those suggestions back the next day and see if what was suggested works: does this or that response, etc., effectively reduce such and so behavior. Most importantly, since it's activism that we're doing in the first place, we stand a good chance of meeting people who belong to other groups that have had it just as rough as we have. Most of those groups are well on their way to coming to their own terms, and many of them have actually made it into the mainstream. This means that we might be able to ask them for some balance or even some advice. Always, though, we're coming home and adding our experiences and thoughts to the discussion of this particular matter.
That's a sort of rough overview of what I've been trying to put together over the past several months.
Cliff Walker
Positive Atheism Magazine
Six years of service to
people with no reason to believe
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From: "Van Citters"
To: "Positive Atheism Magazine"
Sent: October 17, 2001 2:11 PM
Subject: Positive Atheism Letters Section
Dear Cliff,
I agree with you. My position has never been "antitheist" and I believe that an outreach based on such a concept is doomed. People can do all the praying they want to; as far as I'm concerned that is a private matter. My activism (goal) is directed at the growing use of public funds and the public square by religious organizations for money laundering, advertising, recruiting, etc., and the endorsement of one brand of religion over all others.
I certainly do not want the government to endorse atheism either. I want it to be silent on the issue. However, attempts by our government to be silent are quickly interpreted as anti-God. I agree that a move toward a more secular government would benefit "we the people" as a group composed of both atheists and theists and I am willing to work with both groups toward that end. I am a member and supporter of "Americans United for Separation of Church and State" and the "Freedom From Religion Foundation." The main message from these groups is not "antitheism" but why it is in the best interest of everybody that superstition remain a private matter.
I think the "theocracy is best" crowd got a rude wake-up call when they realized that the faith based initiative and school voucher programs have certain pesky strings attached such as accountability to the government and not discriminating when hiring or rendering services. A series of "revelations" showed that the Constitution is a "two way street." I think they had become accustomed to driving one way in both lanes.
Thank you,
Sarasota, FL
From: "Positive Atheism Magazine"
To: "Van Citters"
Subject: Positive Atheism Letters Section
Date: October 17, 2001 8:33 PM
My activism (goal) is directed at the growing use of public funds and the public square by religious organizations for money laundering, advertising, recruiting, etc., and the endorsement of one brand of religion over all others.
Yes, and as I've been trying to point out for years, our most powerful position in trying to accomplish these goals is in league with theists, simply because a majority of the active Separationists are theists. This makes sense because theists have much more to lose than atheists if the government endorses one religion over another. Most atheists simply ignore the problem, seeing that a little superstition never hurt anybody: it's not like the demons are real, or anything like that!
I certainly do not want the government to endorse atheism either. I want it to be silent on the issue.
Here is where we need to be careful to be very precise in our wording.
If by atheism you mean the claim that no gods exist, then yes, the government must remain silent on this issue. Thus, I like to say that the government ought never have an opinion as to whether or not a God or gods exist.
However, to me, atheism has always been the simple lack or absence of religion. In this sense, atheism is the default perspective when it comes to religious matters. Thus, I could conceivably make the case that the recommended position of the government is rightly called "atheism."
A similar case can be made for agnosticism: if the government ought never have an opinion, then we rightly describe the official government position as "agnosticism."
So, when stating the position that I advocate, I like to say that the government should have no opinion on the God-question (and I capitalize God out of respect). If somebody brings up the notion that the government ought not endorse atheism, I reiterate my first line of thought: the government ought never have an opinion on whether or not a God or gods exist. I then remind myself, out loud, that the word atheism means different things to different people.
I agree that a move toward a more secular government would benefit "we the people" as a group composed of both atheists and theists and I am willing to work with both groups toward that end.
I still prefer using the language neutral over secular when describing the role of government regarding the God-question. The word secular is a hot-button word in some circles, and can only blind some potential supporters to the real point we are trying to make.
I am a member and supporter of "Americans United for Separation of Church and State" and the "Freedom From Religion Foundation." The main message from these groups is not "antitheism" but why it is in the best interest of everybody that superstition remain a private matter.
Religion is a private matter, but some people are bent on enforcing their narrow views upon the rest of us, either by legislating draconian prohibitions based upon their religious viewpoints or by tricking, coaxing, or browbeating the government into endorsing one specific sect -- even if that "one specific sect" happens to be the bulk of Protestantism, as is the case with posting the Ten Commandments: they inevitably want to post the Protestant version!
As much as I love Dan Barker, I still sense quite a bit of what most would call "antitheism" coming from that particular camp. I'm not saying this is wrong, only that some of what they do comes off, to myself and others, as "antitheistic."
Certainly there is a time and place to openly criticize certain religious views. The context that I've been exploring lately is that of building resources for those who have decided to abandon the faith of their heritage. I am not quite ready for the concept of engaging in the atheistic equivalent of missionary work. Others are, and I will not try to hinder their efforts, but neither will I endorse a program to recruit theists to atheism.
Rather, I think an entirely legitimate context for critical treatment of the religious beliefs themselves would be helping former theists adjust from a faith-based outlook to one based in human reason. This is a lot of what goes on in my Letters responses, that is, why many of my responses are a lot longer than they otherwise need to be.
I would have several advantages in such a field of work: I was raised completely without religion (except minor exposure from neighbors, schoolmates, schoolteachers, and relatives). However, I did spend two brief periods in high school thinking I might want to be a Christian (and some even briefer moments exploring several Eastern viewpoints). I also have spent years studying (but not practicing) what some would call the occult: like British occultist Aleister Crowley, I don't consider any of it "real," but simply enjoy exploring some of the riddle-like or puzzle-like aspects of the occult. I also like what I call the "dark aesthetic" in some expressions of the occult. Finally, I spent three years during my mid-20s as a Fundamentalist Christian, spent perhaps as much as five years after that trying to "come down" from that experience.
As a result, it is almost second-nature for me to recognize the differences between faith-based thinking and reason-based thinking. Argentinean Skeptic Juan De Genarro and I have lately been discussing the problem of atheists, particularly atheistic activists, who have not adequately dealt with the residual or vestigial thinking that one acquires while she or he was a theist. We've each noticed that the style of thinking that marks a fundamentalist in theism can easily be applied to the defending atheistic outlook. I had written "Atheism & Fundamentalism," which explores some of the differences between Fundamentalistic thinking and rational thought. This difference can show up in how we deal with individual subjects, how we respond to stress, and ultimately how we defend the atheistic position. In a worst-case scenario, a group of atheists caught up in the fundamentalist thinking style is indistinguishable from a group of fundamentalist theists, and some have described various atheist groups in precisely those terms!
I think the "theocracy is best" crowd got a rude wake-up call when they realized that the faith based initiative and school voucher programs have certain pesky strings attached such as accountability to the government and not discriminating when hiring or rendering services.
I hope I'm wrong, but since fundamentalism is by definition "not wrong" (at least in the fundamentalists' minds) some of these will get no kind of awakening! Never happen!
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OHSU Family Medicine at Richmond
Mission: To provide high quality, comprehensive health care services for the community of Southeast Portland, especially its vulnerable residents, while teaching healthcare professionals.
Location: The OHSU Richmond Clinic is located at 3930 SE Division in PortlandAcross the Willamette River from "The Hill" or main OHSU campus. It sits in southeast Portland, surrounded by an economically diverse neighborhood, lively business districts, and the expansive wooded parks of nearby Mt. Tabor.
Time from OHSU:15 minutes by car across the Ross Island Bridge from OHSU to Richmond. Some residents bike to Richmond or live in nearby neighborhoods.
Physical Plant:
Richmond was built from the ground up in the summer of 1995, and was designed as a community family medicine residency training center. Features include:
- More than 16,000 square feet
- 28 exam rooms – expanding to 30 exam rooms and five talking rooms by July 20156
- 1 procedure room
- 2 phlebotomy rooms
- Onsite radiology
- Onsite pharmacy (340B pricing)
- Shared faculty and administrative offices
- Large staff lounge with lunch room and showers
- Conference room
- 3 dictating/work areas with OHSU networked computers
- 1 resident/precepting office with networked computers
- Resident work area and lounge
Patient Demographics
Richmond patients reflect the economic diversity of the surrounding neighborhoods. Richmond became a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Look Alike in August 2004, and by June 2012 became a full grant-funded Community Health Center/FQHC (allowing it to care for a larger number of uninsured, Medicaid and Medicare patients from its service area which comprises a population of 75,000. The population is especially culturally diverse, from southeast Portland's Russian, Latino, Chinese and Southeast Asian immigrant populations. As is true of all OHSU family medicine practices, our patients range from the newborn to the elderly.
Clinical Resources
Richmond has tools that a community family physician would require in his or her practice, including sigmoidoscope, colposcope, tympanometer and very functional procedure rooms. Patient blood samples are sent by courier to the OHSU lab results are returned through OHSU's clinical computer network. Digital x-ray is on-site. Level three Patient Centered Primary Care Medical home which includes integrated behavioral health team.
Specialty clinics include ENT, cardiology, Pain Clinic, Orthopedics, Psychiatry, Podiatry, Sports Medicine, Integrated Movement Therapy and Acupuncture.
Faculty Mix
- 14 MD faculty (Medical Director is also Associate Residency Director)
- 9 mid-level providers (FNP, PA, PsyNP)
- 3 LCSW/PsyD Behavioral Health Team
- Community physicians who assist with precepting
Aspects to Consider
- As a Federally Qualified Health Center, Richmond provides access to many underserved patients
- Distance from the main campus keeps us rooted in our community, but at the expense of travel time.
- Clinic Activities
- Frequent Potluck lunches to socialize with staff.
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Film Screening: 'My Dog, An Unconditional Love Story'
Friends of Animals Utah will present a free screening of Mark St. Germain's documentary "My Dog, An Unconditional Love Story,' not rated, on Thursday, March 13, in the Jim Santy Auditorium of the Park City Library and Education Center, 1255 Park Ave. The film will begin at 7 p.m. For more information, visit parkcityfilmseries.com/movie.php?uid=824.
Stress and Hormones: What's the Connection
Alpine Apothecary will present a free workshop titled Stress and Hormones: What's the Connection on Thursday, March 13, at the Reid Building-Reid Real Estate Conference Room, 750 Kearns Blvd., from 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. Marcia Scoville will provide a comprehensive overview of how intertwined adrenal (stress response) health is with hormonal balance.
Saints & Sinners Ball
Park City Institute will host its third annual Saints & Sinner Ball at St. Regis Deer Valley on Saturday, March 15, beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets to the Saints & Sinners Ball are $175 per person or $1,600 for a table of 10. Tickets can be purchased by calling 435-655-3114 or visiting www.ecclescenter.org .


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When LPC
Group filed for bankruptcy on April 2, independent comic companies lost
their top distributor for bookstore and other mainstream retail outlet
With the growing importance of the trade paperback segment of the comic
industry, as well as the desire on the part of many publishers to reclaim
market share outside of specialty shops, the bankruptcy was a serious blow,
and a near-crippling blow to companies like Drawn &
Friday and Monday, the dominant specialty shop distributor, Diamond
Comics Distributors, announced that two of the independent comic companies,
Oni Press and AiT/Planet Lar have entered into a contract that makes
Diamond their US exclusive distributor for bookstores and other mainstream
retail outlets.
Given that Diamond doesn't have a strong history in the bookstores,
although the company is now making a more aggressive push into that segment
of the market, the decisions by AiT/Planet Lar and Oni may have caused a
few to scratch their heads in confusion. Perhaps foreseeing such confusion,
AiT/Planet Lar publisher Mimi Rosenheim sent a letter to the creators the
company publishes this week and shared it with CBR News:
"Hello AiT/Planet Lar Creators!
"I wanted to update you on the mass market book distribution situation.
"AiT/Planet Lar has signed with Diamond Comics Distributors to be our
exclusive North American direct AND book market distributors. After LPC
went bankrupt, we had many, many distributor options. Both David Wilk and
Robert Boyd were very helpful in talking about the pros and cons of the
different options and we had very serious discussions with CDS (the vendor
that managed the operational side of the distribution for LPC that also is
a full-service distributor to the book trade). While CDS has signed big
comics companies like Marvel, Cross-Gen and TokyoPop, we felt that Diamond
presented a more powerful partnership opportunity.
"Diamond has signed many publishers for book market distribution
including Dark Horse and Top Shelf. Both we and Diamond are committed to
growing each other's businesses and understand that we need to work
together to do so. Diamond has hired a number of sales and marketing folks
with years of experience at book publishers as well as graphic novel buying
experience at some of the major US book store chains. Larry and I will be
meeting with the brand managers and sales force to discuss past sales with
buyers, upcoming books, and marketing strategy. Diamond is a smart, solid
business, with people who know and love comics. We're a smart publisher
with amazing creators who are putting out extremely creative work.
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How to Take Money Out of an IRA for a First Home
Original post by Mark Kennan of Demand Media
One of the few exceptions that allows people to take money out of a traditional IRA penalty-free before turning 59 1/2 years old is to buy a first home. To qualify as a first-time home buyer, you, and your spouse if applicable, must not have owned a home for the past two years. The Internal Revenue Service caps this exception at $10,000 per person, so a couple could each take out $10,000 each, for a total of $20,000. Taking the money out of your IRA is the easy part. Once you have done so, you have to properly report it on your income tax return.
Step 1
Request a distribution from your IRA. Your financial institution may require an institution-specific form, but it cannot stop you from taking money out.
Step 2
Pay for the qualified acquisition costs of your house within 120 days of taking the distribution. If you wait more than 120 days, you do not qualify for the first-time home buyer exemption.
Step 3
Complete Form 5329 to denote that you claim the first-time home buyer exemption from the early withdrawal penalty. On line 1, report the total amount of your distribution. In the space next to line 2, enter the code "09." This code alerts the IRS that the exemption you claim is for being a first-time home buyer. As long as your distribution does not exceed $10,000 and you use it for qualifying costs, you do not owe any early withdrawal penalty. If you elect to withdraw more than $10,000, you will owe a 10 percent penalty on the amount exceeding $10,000. For example, if you take out $15,000, even if you have $15,000 of qualifying costs, you would owe the early withdrawal penalty on $5,000.
Step 4
Report the amount of your distribution as a taxable IRA withdrawal on line 15b of Form 1040. This amount increases your taxable income for the year. Even though you avoid the early withdrawal penalty, you cannot avoid the income taxes.
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Things Needed
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Was it luck that Snowden landed in Russia and gain asylum or did he have help from Russian Intelligence? asks Mike Rogers, a Republican representative from Michigan on Sunday's NBC's Meet the Press, according to the Guardian today.
Mike Rogers, House Intelligence Committee Chairman, said Snowden was 'a thief whom we believe had some help', and added that there was an 'ongoing' investigation into whether Russia had aided Snowden.
'I believe there's a question to be answered there,' Rogers said. 'I don't think it was a gee-whiz luck event that he ended up in Moscow under the handling of the [Russian intelligence service] FSB.'
Rogers added: 'Let me just say this. I believe there's a reason he ended up in the hands, the loving arms, of an FSB agent in Moscow. I don't think that's a coincidence.'
The Democratic chair of the Senate intelligence committee, Dianne Feinstein, a staunch defender of the NSA's programs, also spoke to Meet the Press. She said, 'Snowden had joined the NSA 'with the intent to take as much material down as he possibly could.'
Representative Rogers and Senator Feinstein both noted that Snowden took more than just metadata files on his laptops but matters that related to the government matters that did not relate to privacy issues of the American citizens.
Feinstein said Snowden had joined the NSA 'with the intent to take as much material down as he possibly could.' Snowden has admitted that in interviews with the BBC.
Asked if he was aided by the Russians, Feinstein said: 'He may well have. We don't know at this stage. But I think to glorify this act is to set a new level of dishonor.'
Rogers' comments were backed by Michael McCaul, chairman of the House committee on homeland security. Speaking from Moscow, the Texas Republican told ABC's This Week: 'I believe he [Snowden] was cultivated by a foreign power to do what he did.'
Snowden said there was 'zero-percent chance' that Russia had received any documents and that he had handed all his NSA data to journalists from media outlets including the Guardian, before leaving Hong Kong. 'What would be the unique value of personally carrying another copy of the materials onward?' he said.
Snowden has consistently denied any involvement with foreign spying agencies and said he leaked the documents because he believed the NSA programs were against the best interests of the US people. But he asked Brazil for asylum and has told them he would give them information about U.S. surveillance on Brazil officials.
Rogers made it a point to state: 'He was stealing information that had to do with how we operate overseas to collect information to keep Americans safe … and some of the things he did were beyond his technical capabilities.'
Separately, Bruce Riedel, director of the Intelligence Project at the Brookings Institution in Washington and a former CIA official, said Friday that one key question now in the Snowden affair is 'Is it really Edward Snowden who is doing this, or is there a larger apparatus? I know that many people in the intelligence community… now no longer regard Edward Snowden as a thief or a traitor…. They regard him as a defector who has gone over to a foreign intelligence agency.'
Rogers was also critical of Obama. He told CNN's State of the Union the president's speech had created more uncertainty in the intelligence community and was potentially dangerous.
'We really did need a decision on Friday and what we got was lots of uncertainty,' he said, 'And just in my conversations over the weekend with intelligence officials that level of uncertainty is already having a bit of an impact on our ability to protect Americans by finding terrorists trying to reach into the United States.'
He added: 'I just don't think we want to go to pre-9/11 just because we haven't had an attack.'
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We care enough about you to say, "If you're going to go bronze, use a light hand. You're too important to us to end up looking like Tara Reid after a bender." Okay, that said, American Beauty has come out with this limited edition Youthful Bronze Look Kit ($30), designed to bring us all into the "bronze age." Please, just heed our "take it easy" advice.
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The NFL Draft is three days away. Take some time and hang out (in Google style) and talk New Orleans Saints football and the draft with Mike Triplett and Larry Holder.
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Volt drivers already know about recharging their batteries, but these wellness hot spots recharge the body, mind and soul
By Greg Barbera
As a Volt driver, you know how important it is to keep your car charged. But you also know how important it is to keep your mind, body and soul charged. Below are some destinations that will allow you to do both.
A city known for its thriving arts and culture scene, Asheville is also a popular spot for spiritual travelers. If the route you take to get to it—either through the Great Smoky Mountains or through the Blue Ridge Mountains—doesn't clear your head, some of these activities might.
Hot yoga
Often associated with the Bikram style, this is yoga done in a heated studio (usually about 105 degrees), which is said to help with deeper stretching and lessening stress.
Chinese acupuncture
A holistic approach to treating medical ailments, acupuncture can treat a variety of conditions including high blood pressure, sinus infections and depression, to name a few.
Reiki massage
A Japanese-inspired form of healing that involves a hands-on approach in which the energy from the practitioner's palms—placed carefully over various meridians on the body—can heal and soothe.
Maybe due to its cultural ties to Native American culture—or the majestic views of the Rio Grande—or the visually stunning adobe architecture, Taos is often associated with the New Age movement. Once you've arrived (most likely with your windows down), try experiencing a sweat lodge, the Chinese breathing and movement known as Quigong or take part in a drum circle.
Sweat lodge
A ceremonial sauna made popular by the Native Americas, a sweat lodge is generally used to purify and repair the body's spirit and soul. Water is poured over heated rocks to create a steam effect. Sweat lodges can last anywhere from 90 minutes to three hours.
Drum circle
Simple, repetitive drumming can induce a trance-like state that is conducive to meditation or prayer. Drums circles and drum ceremonies are easy ways to stimulate your mind, body and soul. As a result, they're considered therapeutic.
Nestled north of Los Angeles and south of Santa Barbara, and easily accessible from the Pacific Coastal Highway, Ojai has long been a spiritual retreat center. Known for its pink sunsets, Ojai is also known for being one of the early adopters of organic farming—a trip to the Ojai Certified Farmers' Market is a must. If your body needs healing try a myofascial release (a technique of soft-tissue massage therapy) or a mud bath.
Myofascial release
A unique form of soft tissue therapy focuses on trigger points where the practitioner can gently apply indirect or direct pressure to deep tissue, similar to "rolfing," where knuckles and elbows are used to apply pressure.
Mud bath
Hydrate your skin, relax your muscles and allow your mind to decompress with a mud bath. Mud baths and wraps are good for joint pain as it can ease inflammation. They also act as a purification therapy as the body will sweat out toxins during the treatment.
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Our natural consumer instincts always want the best deal—we can't help ourselves. It's always a bonus, then, when the cheapest option is also the greenest—and that's why I love buying food in bulk. Scooping my own flaxseed, granola and yogurt pretzels from my local grocery store's bins saves me money, lets me buy exactly as much as I want, and creates a lot less packaging waste.
Buying in bulk saves money and lessens packaging waste. Photo By Chelsea Oakes/Courtesy Flickr.
Last year, bulk food sales rose almost 15 percent over the previous year, and all signs point toward bulk food being a trend in money-saving, according to the Bulk is Green Council. According to the organization, bulk foods save consumers 30 to 60 percent over packaged goods, require less overall transportation because they don't have packaging, and can be packed more densely onto trucks and store shelves.
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Joe Bastradi is THE GO-TO meteorologist. His modeling is based in history and similarities of past parameters instead of pure computer modeling. Joe is reality based and is very seldom wrong. I hope he is wrong about what is going to happen this weekend.
Joe Bastardi Forecasts Irene To Be A Top Mid Atlantic Hurricane
August 25 08:43 AM
by WeatherBell Admin
WeatherBELL Analytics Meteorologist Joe Bastardi predicts Irene to be a cross between Hazel and the Mid Atlantic Hurricane of 1821. This will make Irene a top three hurricane since 1800.
Joe Bastardi's track for Irene as of the morning of August 25, 2011:
Irene's track compared to Hazel and 1821:
FYI: Bastardi was the first to predict and show the more western path for Irene, other models are now coming in line with his prediction form days ago that had the path farther out to sea to the east.
Here is more important models and predictions from WeatherBELL, please read this if you are on the East Coast:
The meteorologists at WeatherBELL Analytics believe we have an extremely dangerous situation on our hands. It is important that everyone in the potential path of this storm understand the consequences of Hurricane Irene's track.
While there is still some variation in the computer models, the possibility of a devastating hurricane on Long Island and New England is very real.
The European computer model has Irene north into New Jersey, New York and up the Hudson River and so even NYC is not out of the woods yet. The HWRF model is similar to the GFS model with a track over eastern Long Island. See storm surge maps for various scenarios including the 5 boroughs at the end of the article.
The storm surge is greatest near and to the right of the storm track and where the slope of depth increases more gradually or where the shape of the water body (Naragansett Bay in 1938) channels the water as in these animations.


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The Lincoln neighborhood of Tacoma is flush with Vietnamese restaurants, and with many similar restaurants across the street and next door to each other, is there a true winner in the neighborhood? The best restaurant should have great service to match tasty food, and it should feel like a place I want to spend time at. I've found my favorite amid the competition on South 38th: Pho Dragon.
Pho Dragon's menu features the typical spread of spring rolls, noodle soups, and rice dishes, but offers a handful of dishes that are trickier to find in some of Tacoma's many Vietnamese restaurants. I'm a sucker for banh xeo, a Vietnamese crepe usually filled with pork, shrimp, and bean sprouts. Pho Dragon's rendition is absurdly large with a shatter-crispy crust housing the filling. Sweet chili sauce, herbs, and lettuce ride shotgun and can be added as you like. Food always comes out of the kitchen quickly and is served with tea
I'm a fan of the atmosphere and service at Pho Dragon. The owner, who is almost always there and frequently serves your table himself, is energetic, friendly, and obviously cares a great deal about improving his business for his guests. The restaurant is overall very comfortable to be in, though if I have one complaint, it would be the enormous television that dominates most of one wall; it can be loud and distracting. Otherwise, Pho Dragon is a welcoming space with great service.
Pho Dragon offers solid food made by people who care. It's not a once-in-a-lifetime kind of restaurant, nor does it pretend to be; it's a casual spot to grab a tasty bowl of noodles and relax. Pho Dragon hits all my marks for a good place to eat, and it's definitely worth a trip to 38th to check it out for yourself.


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The Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernian (LAOH) women will soon start ramping up their fundraising efforts to increase their charity giving. These are a group of woman that take their Irish Catholic heritage seriously. The Order is comprised of a group of women that promote Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity among its members and the community. This also foster the ideas, history and traditions of the Irish culture.
Each year the ladies host several fundraising events to provide for local community and national charities. These woman have a long list of charitable works that they provide for. " It is not all hard work, some of the work we do is fun and enjoyable, like cooking breakfast for the families at the local Ronald McDonald House. We ladies have a blast feeding and talking with the families. It is about getting to know them." reports the division president, Margaret McAlpin. A list of charities they support can be found on their website.
This year they are continuing with the 5th Annual Irish American Heritage Fundraiser Night at The McGynns Pub in Newark. Each year in June, the ladies sponsor a "Restaurant Night" at McGynns Pub located at 8 Polly Drummond Shopping Center in Newark, Delaware. This year the fundraiser will be held on June 26, 2014 from 5pm to 9 pm. For more information contact Pat Taylor, at firstname.lastname@example.com, or 302-378-3170. A copy of the restaurant coupon can be obtain from Pat Taylor or from the LAOH website.
They are also releasing a 2015 Irish Tea Time Calendar this year. This is something new in fundraising for the ladies. Each month of the calendar will feature a different tea pastry with a companion recipe. The calendar will also have a Irish Mothers dedication page that will showcase the Mary Mother of Hope houses and the services they provide. On the back of the calendar are the donating sponsors of the calendar. The calendar will be released in the July with the proceeds benefiting the Mary Mother of Hope Women's Shelter. Calendars can be purchase with a donation through their Crowdraise fundraiser site. Also, calendars can be purchase with donation through the LAOH website and at the annual Irish Night at the Blue Rocks on June 4th. Come out and talk with the ladies on Wednesday, June 4th and support your Irish Heritage!


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This is a wooden scale model (1:20) of the Astro-1 observatory designed to fly on Space Shuttle in 1986; the observatory included a Field Camera to observe Comet Halley. The three major instruments on Astro-1 included the Hopkins UV Telescope (HUT), the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope and the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment. The Challenger accident led to a four-year delay and removal of the Field Camera because the Comet Halley was no longer in sight. After shuttle flights were resumed, the observatory was installed on the orbiter Columbia with an x-ray telescope in place of the comet imager. On its nine-day flight from December 2 to 11, 1990 the observatory functioned smoothly and made numerous astronomical observations. The full-scale flown HUT (Catalogue # 20010307000) is currently on display in the Explore the Universe gallery, and the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope from Goddard Space Flight Center has also been added to the collection. This scale model is displayed in the Explore the Planets gallery in a section on Comet Halley.
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- Country of Origin
- United States of America
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
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- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Exploring the Planets
- Type
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- Painted surfaces on wood
- Dimensions
- Overall: 8 in. tall x 11 in. wide x 15 1/2 in. deep (20.3 x 27.9 x 39.4cm)


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Olivia Wilde did a crazy version of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. This actress from "House" decided to pour breast milk on her head instead of water. On Sunday, New York Daily News shared about her new challenge and the way that she changed it up.
As she did it, Olivia said, "I hope it's OK, I couldn't find any water, so I'm going to use breast milk. Took me all night to make this." It is really unknown if that was all breast milk. It was a bucket full and you wouldn't think that this mom would have that much to just dump on her head. It was possibly just real milk.
Olivia Wilde has been very open her entire pregnancy that she breast feeds and wants to promote that it is great to breast feed your children. She did her nominations including one for the artist who used to be known as Prince. Olivia Wilde also dedicated it to her friend Scott and is making her donation in his honor. Make sure you check out the video of her challenge.
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Tupelo, Lee County and Nettleton schools have all held their district-wide spelling bees in advance of next Tuesday's Lee County Spelling Bee. That contest will begin at 4 p.m. at the Hancock Leadership Center.
Representing Nettleton schools will be eighth-grader Brittany Hieb (first place), fourth-grader Trey O'Neal (second place) and seventh-grader Parker Tipton (third place).
The Lee County Schools bee was won by Mooreville Middle School eighth-grader Will Pate, who correctly spelled the winning word, ballerina. Aliyah Lee, a fifth-grader at Plantersville Middle, was second, and Nikki Hankins (eighth-grade at Mooreville Middle) placed third.
Milam sixth-grader Treyce Bannerman won the Tupelo Public Schools spelling bee, where the winning word was exfoliate. Rankin Elementary fifth-grader Achintya Prasad was second. Sam Bates (fourth grade at Lawndale) and Val Lawson (fifth grade at Rankin) tied for third. Bates won the spell-off to advance to next week's county spelling bee.
The top three finishers from each contest advance to the Lee County Spelling Bee.
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Celebrating the Classics: Mint
On grey Seattle days that have all of us clutching coffee cups and donning rain jackets, it's easy to forget that we've already enjoyed a good taste of summer in the city this spring. This month started out as one of the driest and warmest on record, with multiple days stretching well into the 80's, enough for a few of us to achieve our first sunburns of the year. Here at Theo, we're dreaming of the sunny months ahead and all the joys that come with the blue skies of summer, not the least of which is, of course, ice cream.
If you own an ice cream maker, you already know that making ice cream at home is simple, satisfying, and tastier than anything you can buy. It doesn't get any fresher than licking it, soft and melting, straight out of the bowl the second it's ready (or maybe even a bit sooner). If you have the desire and the time, you can even make ice cream without a machine (see below).
To help inspire your summer ice cream endeavors, we're sharing an easy and delectable recipe celebrating mint. With its refreshing flavor and abundance in our gardens, mint is an ideal partner for homemade ice cream.
To make mint chocolate stracciatella, we used the same combination of mint found in our 70% dark mint bar: spearmint and peppermint. Spearmint, recognizable by its large, bright, lime-colored leaves, is the variety most commonly found in backyard gardens. Its flavor is somewhat grassy and herbal. Peppermint, with its small, purplish leaves, is less abundant but has the refreshing, nostalgic flavor of a candy cane or peppermint patty. If you don't have access to fresh peppermint, you can certainly make this ice cream with spearmint alone, but the flavor won't be as vibrant or complex.
What's mint ice cream without chocolate? We finish this recipe by drizzling a melted Theo 70% dark chocolate bar into the batch at the end of churning. The chocolate freezes on contact with the ice cream and is broken into small pieces by the machine or by hand-stirring. This results in crispy little chocolate bits scattered throughout the ice cream, a delightful texture the Italians call stracciatella. We think you'll agree that the result is far superior to any mint chocolate chip you can buy.
Make, share, and enjoy in the sun, if at all possible!
Mint Chocolate Stracciatella
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup whole milk
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup finely chopped spearmint leaves
1-2 tbs finely chopped peppermint leaves
3 oz (one bar) Theo 70% dark chocolate, melted
Combine milk, one cup of cream, and sugar in a pot and bring to a bare simmer, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Add mint leaves, cover the pot, and steep for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, pour the remaining cup of cream into a bowl and set in an ice bath (either in a larger bowl or the kitchen sink). After 30 minutes, pour the mint mixture through a fine mesh strainer and into the remaining cup of cream in the ice bath. Press the mint solids to release as much flavor as possible.
Stir over the ice bath until cold, then cover and store in the fridge for at least several hours or overnight.
When ready to churn, you have two options:
1. Pour the base mixture into an ice cream machine and process until it is the texture of soft serve, drizzling in chocolate at the end and allowing the machine to stir until well distributed (Depending on your machine, you may need to stop churning occasionally and help distribute the chocolate by hand if it is not mixing properly).
2. Place the ice cream base in the freezer, removing every 30 minutes or so to whisk vigorously, making sure to scrape the frozen ice cream around the edge of the bowl into the liquid mixture in the middle. Continue this process until the ice cream is the texture of soft serve throughout, about 3 hours. When the ice cream is ready, drizzle in the melted chocolate and stir to incorporate, returning to the freezer to set.
Your mint chocolate stracciatella can be enjoyed immediately or stored in the freezer to harden.


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What's wrong with Drew Brees?
You've undoubtedly heard the question or asked it yourself during the past 48 hours.
Two days after Brees' ugly four-interception performance against the Cleveland Browns, it remains a hot topic, not only around town but across the NFL.
For the first time in a long time, Brees is being seen as the cause of -- not solution to -- the New Orleans Saints' struggles.
Sixty percent of the nearly 1,000 fans polled by ESPN on Monday said Brees was primarily at fault for the Saints' stunning 31-17 loss to the Browns.
It's an unusual position for Brees. He's supposed to be a savior not a sinner.
"It definitely eats me up, " Brees said of his uncharacteristically poor play. "Because coming into the season, obviously, I had high expectations, personal goals that will help us achieve the team goals. Obviously, I think we've faltered in all those areas."
Brees still leads the NFL in several major passing categories like touchdowns (14), completion percentage (69.7) and third-down passing (109.8 efficiency rating).
But he also leads the league in the quarterback's Cardinal sin: interceptions.
His 10 interceptions are tied for the most in the NFL and just one shy of his 19-game total from last season.
Moreover, many of Brees' mistakes have been game-changers.
Three of his interceptions have been returned for touchdowns in the Saints' past two losses. Another occurred inside the Saints' 5-yard line and essentially gift-wrapped another touchdown.
Amazingly, in the Saints' past two losses, their opponents have scored more touchdowns off Brees' passes (three) than they have off passes from their own quarterbacks (zero).
Theories abound about Brees' struggles.
Some fans believe the recent birth of his second son, Bowen, has robbed his focus.
Others believe he's distracted by his numerous off-field requirements.
ESPN analyst Merrill Hoge said Brees isn't getting enough help from his teammates and coach.
Hoge's colleague, former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer, said he's simply trying to hard.
In truth, myriad factors have contributed to the problem.
Protection breakdowns have been an issue. While Brees has been sacked only 11 times, he's been hit and hurried countless other times.
Eighteen of the 24 quarterback hits recorded against Brees have come in the Saints' three losses.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
As Gregg Williams will attest, hurrying the quarterback, disrupting his timing and moving him off his landmark are just as effective as sacking him.
For example, Brees' first interception against the Browns came after he was pressured and hurried on a play in which three Cleveland pass rushers beat six Saints blockers.
Injuries also have played a factor. Without Reggie Bush and Pierre Thomas around, the Saints have been less apt to call quarterback-friendly screens and check-down passes. Ladell Betts, who has been pressed into a prime-time role in their absence, has played key parts in two of Brees' interceptions.
Bad luck also has factored into the equation. Three of Brees' picks have come off tipped balls, including the seeing-eye ricochet Pick Six by David Bowens on Sunday.
Brees was guilty of poor judgment on the play, but the pinball carom to Bowens seemed almost like divine gridiron retribution for the Meachem Miracle in Washington last season.
"Ninety-nine percent of the time that ball hits the ground and you're on to the next play, " Brees said.
Play selection also might be partially responsible. Payton admitted Monday that the right play has not always been called at the right time.
He didn't specify, but one obvious example would be Brees' deflected interception on first down from the 1-yard line before halftime of the Cardinals game.
"It would be easy to say that we call the plays and the players go execute them, " Payton said. "We look constantly at if we're giving them the right stuff each week. That's important to be critical of."
For his part, Brees said he's working as hard as ever. In fact, he said he's spent more time at the Saints training facility this season than in past years. For whatever reason, the extra work has not transferred to the field on game days.
"Maybe we've put a little too much pressure on ourselves, " Brees said. "I think we're all in the midst of trying to put our finger on what exactly is going on."
One other possible explanation: He's human.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Brees can't cure diseases or walk across Lake Pontchartrain
Has he possibly been distracted by the birth of his second son and the myriad demands on his time post-Super Bowl?
Undoubtedly. Who wouldn't be?
Like the Saints, it's unfair to expect Brees to duplicate last season's performance. He's played the position the past two years as well as anyone in NFL history. He set one of the league's most hallowed passing records -- Ken Anderson's season completion percentage mark -- and threatened another -- Dan Marino's season yardage total.
A decline was inevitable, even if few saw it coming.
Brees has not played to his usual lofty standards. The same could be said for the rest of the roster. Other than the run defense and punting, what aspect of the Saints' game is improved from a year ago?
As Carl Nicks said Sunday, it's gut-check time for the Saints.
It's also time for them to rally around their leader.
Even a savior needs to be saved now and then.
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In my environment (RHEL) I have a bunch of script that are written in either csh or bash.
Some of them are used to deal with a tomcat server.
I want to keep the definitions of CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE in one place, such that csh and bash script can source the variables from one single file.
I am more familiar with bash, and has very limited exposure to csh. So for the bash scripts it is what I will do:
. ~/tomcat.settings
And in tomcat.settings, I will have
export CATALINA_HOME=/mnt/apps/tomcat/6.0.20/linux
export CATALINA_BASE=/home/app1/server
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Ask any American older than 30 what the country was like when they were growing up and with few exceptions, the answer will be uniformly positive, and certainly more positive than its perceived to be today. Indeed, even young adults in their 20s recognize that the tone of the nation has changed in recent years. This is not merely a case of viewing the past with "rose tinted glasses." Examining the nearly unanimous optimism of past decades, particularly the 1950s and 1960s, can be downright staggering by today's standards, where expectations get lower every year. Only a few (mostly older folks) still maintain that improvements are even possible.
One need only examine the writings of the past to see how true this is. Take for example this article in Time Magazine from February 1966 called "The Future: Looking Toward A.D. 2000." In it, the author describes a plethora of imaginative predictions about what it will be like to live in the future. They say the next 30 years will include underwater farms, a fully automated society run by robots where only ten percent of the population is employed and planes that can carry up to 1,000 people, which by the end of the millennium "will of course be old hat." In general, they are the usual predictions you'd expect to read from such a periodical, but the consulted "experts" go further still.
In a Rand Corporation study, "82 scientists agreed that a permanent lunar base will have been established long before A.D. 2000 and that men will have flown past Venus and landed on Mars." The article also predicts flying hover cars and the casual use of drugs to help avoid "a wife or husband [that] seems to be unusually grouchy."
Not all of the predictions were so bold. The article did successfully predict the use of artificial organs, pharmaceuticals, artificial limbs and the general rate of population growth on the planet. There is however, one immediately noticeable and disconcerting exception to Time Magazine's otherwise whimsical predictions. Toward the end of the article, the author warns:
There are some who gloomily expect a society run by a small elected elite, presiding over a mindless multitude kept happy by drugs and circuses, much as in Huxley's Brave New World. But most futurists believe that work will still be the only way to gain responsibility and power.
Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel predicts a highly structured future in which mankind has surrendered its rationality and liberty for vapid pleasures devoid of new ideas. Time continues:
Futurists are earnestly considering all kinds of worries: the possible failure of underdeveloped countries to catch up with the dazzling future, the threat of war, the prospect of supergovernment. Today's 'New Left' predicts the need for political movements to break up big organization. But the skeptics are plainly in the minority. Some futurists, like Buckminster Fuller, believe that amid general plenty, politics will simply fade away. Others predict that an increasingly homogenized world culture—it has been called "the culture bomb"—will increase international amity…
Harvard's Emmanuel Mesthene, executive director of a ten-year, $5 million program on Technology and Society commissioned by IBM, believes that for the first time since the golden age of Greece, Western man 'has regained his nerve' and has come to believe, rightly, that he can accomplish anything.
'My hunch,' says Mesthene, 'is that man may have finally expiated his original sin, and might now aspire to bliss.'
Mesthene's attitude and indeed the tone of the entire article is absolutely baffling today. In the 1960s, the United States was at the absolute peak of its political, economic and spiritual fulfillment. In less than four years after this article was published, that same nation put a man on the moon. Optimism was widespread throughout the culture. There was a belief that we could achieve anything, solve any problem, and that the future was so bright it would be unimaginable to most.
Russian American sociologist Pitirim Sorokin wrote in his 1941 book, The Crisis of Our Age, that mankind's successes seemed "limitless."
[W]e are proud of man. It is not strange that our culture has become homo-centric, humanitarian, and humanistic 'par excellence'. Man is its glorious center. It makes him "the measure of all things." It exalts him as the hero and the greatest value, not by virtue of his creation by God in God's own image, but in his own right, by virtue of man's own marvelous achievements.
It substitutes the religion of humanity for the religions of superhuman deities. It professes a firm belief in the possibility of limitless progress based on man's ability to control his own destiny, to eradicate all social and cultural evils, and to create an even better and finer world, free from war and bloody strife, from crime, poverty, insanity, stupidity, and vulgarity. In all these respects we live, indeed, in an era of a truly great glorification of man and his culture.
Years ago I even remember reading how President Taft's son, Charles Taft gave a speech in November 21, 1963 (the day before President Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas) about how mankind had escaped the ups and downs of "cyclical history."
Clearly, Taft was wrong; the nation was merely in ascendancy at the time. By the mid-1980s, the nation had begun to move toward a nation that produced, to a nation that consumed. Deficits were larger. Finance was riskier, personal savings were declining. The abundance of the prior era was born of a generation's steadfast efforts to live modestly and to deal with challenges directly. In George H. W. Bush's words, his generation was inclined to "see life in terms of missions–missions defined, missions completed," but future generations were increasingly disinterested in addressing the nation's problems.
In the view of historians and economists William Strauss and Neil Howe, who predicted there would be a crisis back in 1997, the nation's past success was leading to its undoing. To quote Scottish historian Alexander Tytler:
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
And where are we now? Beginning in 2008 with the financial crisis, and now going on five years, we've seen economic stagnation even despite unprecedented economic stimulus. The nation has nearly doubled its total debt, now at about $18 trillion. If you count unfunded liabilities, it's well over $100 trillion.
During this time, the employment population ratio has not moved at all, meaning the economy hasn't added any new jobs after accounting for population growth (see this chart). The number of Americans on Food Stamps has doubled from 27 million to 48 million. One in 6.5 Americans are now on Food Stamps.
The Federal Reserve has set interest rates at zero percent for seven years and is printing money at a rate of $85 billion a month to keep long term interest rates suppressed. Global currency wars have broken out on a scale not seen in at least 40 years. Couple all of this with the knowledge that the government is massively corrupt and owned by Wall Street. And that's just the beginning.
As many of our more astute cultural critics have noted, the nation has gone from having a sense of spiritual emptiness that epitomized the 80s and 90s, to a embracing a completely dejected and near apocalyptic tones. Peak oil theorist and writer James Howard Kunstler wonders why we haven't had civil disorder on a broad scale yet. "Civil disorder would at least mean something. A consensus of dissatisfaction about how life is lived," Kunstler writes. "Instead, we only get mad outbursts of tragic meaninglessness: the slaughter of innocent children in school, or movie theater patrons mowed down by a lone maniac during the coming attractions."
This feeling of wanting substantive action, of resolution, is not unjustified nor unexpected. It's typical for collapsing societies to embrace the promise of burning down the house and starting from scratch. For many, it seems our only hope. Some are content to wait, hoping the system implodes upon itself, while others want to take more direct action. Author Chris Hedges notes that the poorest people are more likely to embrace violence and nationalism because they see it as the only way out.
"Violence is a frightening attempt, by those who are desperate and trapped, to escape through invented history their despair, impoverishment and hopelessness," he writes. "It breeds intolerance and eventually violence. Violence becomes in this perverted belief system, a cleansing agent, a way to restore a lost world."
While it is true that reform never comes without conflict of some kind, it's never as glamorous, never as direct, and never as satisfying as the fools imagine. More often than not, it is a disaster, and that's where we're headed.


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Nov. 3, 2013
By Jason Clay
By Jason Clay
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Fresno State quarterback Derek Carr has been named the Walter Camp Foundation National Offensive Player of the Week, presented by Generation UCAN, on Sunday after yet another record-setting night in a Bulldog victory.
This is the second time in Carr's career he has earned the Walter Camp national honor, the first time coming back in his junior season of 2012.
In leading Fresno State to the 41-23 win over Nevada, Fresno State's eighth-straight victory to open the season, Carr was 39-of-55 passing for 487 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions. He also added one rushing touchdown, as he was responsible for 4-of-5 Fresno State touchdowns in the Bulldogs' 41-23 victory.
Carr completed eight passes of over 20 yards with a long of 57 and this is his fifth 400-yard passing game this season and eighth of his career, which is the most of any active FBS quarterback.
In the process he became Fresno State's all-time leading passer in the game and he now has 10,821 career passing yards.
Entering the fourth quarter it was a one score game. Carr was 5-for-6 passing in the fourth for 95 yards and a touchdown, helping the Bulldogs outscore Nevada 17-7 in the last 15 minutes of the game.
Carr has now thrown 183 consecutive passes without an interception and has 28 TD passes against just four interceptions this season.
He also tied another Mountain West record by throwing for a TD pass in 21-straight games since the Bulldogs joined the league in 2012. Overall, he has now thrown for a TD in 28 consecutive games, which is the longest active streak in the FBS.
This is the 10th year that the Walter Camp Football Foundation will honor one offensive and one defensive player as its national Football Bowl Subdivision player of the week during the regular season. Recipients are selected by a panel of national media members and administered by the Foundation.
"Catch the Wave" - Tickets for Fresno State regular season finale against New Mexico on Nov. 23 are still available and can be purchased online at gobulldogs.com, over the phone at 559-278-DOGS (3647) or in person at the Bulldog Ticket Office located at Bulldog Stadium. The official home of the Fresno State Bulldogs is 940 AM ESPN Radio.
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