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The type of beef I buy most often is ground beef. One of the main reasons I buy ground beef is because I use it to prepare many of the foods my family loves, including chili, meatballs, tacos and meatloaf. After my visit to a cattle farm, I feel even more confident about choosing beef for dinner.
Illinois Field Moms went to Larson Farms in Maple Park on a beautiful September day. We were there to learn about how farmers "finish" cattle. The cattle don't spend their whole life at Larson Farms; the first part of their life is spent grazing on a grass pasture with a cow-calf farmer. When the calves are weaned, some of them are sold to either a backgrounder or stocker to spend more time grazing on grass. The final farm is the feedlot, which is the finishing phase.
One of my goals as a Field Mom was to learn more about hormones in our meat products. As a breast cancer survivor, I've always been concerned about hormones in the food that my family eats. My tumor was estrogen positive, which means that estrogen fed my cancer. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that chicken and pork are not given hormones at all!
When cattle are being raised as a source of beef, a hormone pellet is often placed underneath the skin in their ear. The hormones, including estrogen, help the animal use its feed more efficiently as a lean beef source. Beef has a very small amount of hormones; in fact, the amount of estrogen in a 3 ounce steak is much smaller than naturally occurring estrogen in many of the vegetables we eat. A baked potato has 225 nanograms of estrogen while a 3 oz. steak has only 1.9 nanograms of estrogen. The same size steak from hormone-free steer has 1.2 nanograms of estrogen. Keep in mind that a nanogram is one billionth of a gram and only 10% of the hormones we eat are actually absorbed by our bodies.
Here's what I learned about choosing beef for dinner:
- Cook ground beef to a temperature of 160 degrees.
- Look for steaks with a lot of marbling. The marbling (our host,
Mike Martz, calls this "flecks of flavor") in steak is monounsaturated fat which is similar to olive oil. It's the good kind of fat!
- Back fat is the unhealthy fat. It is the thick layer of fat that might surround your steak, and should be cut off and not eaten.
- Larson Farms uses ultrasound technology to determine the back fat and marbling content of a steer before it is taken to market.
- Cattle that has been started on a grass diet and then finished with a grain diet tastes best!
Christa Grabske, Mt. Prospect, IL
Christa is one of the Illinois Farm Families 2013 Field Moms. Throughout the year she visits several Illinois farms to learn more about where food comes from. Following each tour, the Field Moms share their thoughts by blogging about what they experience on these farms, including five things they found most interesting. Want to learn more? Read Our Story: Chicago moms meet farmers. You can learn more about Christa on her blog: Lemon Drop Pie


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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:52:31 -0800, Mike Keithley wrote:
> Hello group,
> I have installed Slackware 12.0 on my Dell Dimensions 8400. The system
> works fine except for one show-stopping problem: the record functions
> are not present on my SoundBlaster Audigy card. Playback functions are
> there and work very well.
> But I can't record. I can raise the mic and line inputs, but there are
> no switches that set these inputs for use.
> In /etc/asound.state, the card is called SoundBlaster Audigy2, but lspci
> just calls this card Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04). Perhaps Alsa is
> mis-interpreting my card.
> This was a problem in Slackware 11.0, but I could re-compile the kernel
> to use the oss version of emu10k1 and all was well. Unfortunately this
> module seems to have gone away in the 2.6.21 kernel so I can't use the
> oss alternative. I've got to solve this problem or fall back to my old
> system.
> If anyone can help I'd appreciate it very much.
I had a problem that sounds very similar to this. In my case what
happened was that, besides the SB board, I had a motherboard built-in
sound device that was enabled in my BIOS. Somehow this was working fine
under Slackware 10.2, but when I upgraded to Slackware 12 I started to
observe what you point out: I could play sounds with no problems, but
recording would just not work. Things started working fine again after I
made sure to disable the built-in sound device in my BIOS.

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During high school, there are plenty of recurring events each year. From homecoming and prom, to midterms and finals, they are almost acts of tradition. One aspect of high school that tends to be a headache each year is scheduling classes.
Going into freshman year, scheduling is relatively simple. You are asked what classes you would like to take, and those scheduling tell you they will try their best to give you what you request. However, the following years are not this way. Rather than just asking you to choose classes, you must also decide what period you want to take each class. At first, this sounds like a privilege until you realize just how complex putting together a complete schedule is.
Each class is only offered certain periods of each day. Taking that into consideration, as well as our school's classes alternating every other day, fitting in all of the classes you want can be more difficult than you would think. The first step is typically to determine the classes you are required to take and when you would like to take them. Students must decide if they would like to take regular classes, honors classes, Advanced Placement classes, or dual enrollment classes. The decision is extremely important, as it will impact the rest of a student's future, resulting in quite a bit of pressure riding on class choice.
Once you have planned out all of your core classes like English, math, science and history classes, the most difficult aspect of scheduling arrives - electives. In theory, deciding your electives should be the easiest part of scheduling. However, this is usually not the case.
Electives are most students' favorite classes. They are the classes that you were not forced to take, but choose based on your interests. Unfortunately, these are also the classes that are the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to prioritizing your schedule. They are usually offered very few periods of the day, leaving students trying to squeeze them into their schedules wherever they can. This also means that sometimes a student's preferred electives may not fit into their schedule at all.
Once students manage to plan their ideal schedule, the most difficult part is over. The responsibility is then taken off the students, as their role in scheduling is complete. The next piece is simply waiting until schedules are sent out towards the end of the summer. Students can only hope that their schedule looks like the one that they had initially submitted. Scheduling priority depends on grade level, meaning that seniors are scheduled before juniors, juniors before sophomores, and so on. This means that a class may be filled entirely before a student's scheduling request is even given a second glance.
Not knowing if you are going to get the classes you requested can be stressful. If even one period of a class you requested gets filled up, it can throw your entire schedule off. In turn, this may mean you lose several classes you want from just one not working out. However, if a student plans carefully with this in mind, they should end up with a schedule very close to their ideal one.
Thankfully, my schedule was relatively easy to plan this year. As I do not have to take a math class this upcoming year, my schedule was freed up quite a bit. With a bit of luck and careful planning, my junior year schedule will come out pretty close to perfect!


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Ava Araujo, 6, gets tangled up in a lane divider at the start of the 4th annual Cardboard Regatta early Saturday morning August 3, 2013.
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Global One TV: Multimedia for Mystics
God is Closer to You than Your Self
Art by Alex Grey
In order to answer the question, "What happens when I die?" I feel it is important to take a look at something a bit less speculative and that is the question of what happens when we live.
There is no way to understand death if you don't know what life is. What happens between the moment you take your first breath and the moment you draw your very last?
Who is it that is looking out through your eyes?
Is it not the same quality of awareness that existed right before you read these words? Is that quality of awareness not the same quality that existed yesterday and the day before?
And that awareness, the pure state of awareness was there before you could form words or even knew your name. It is independent of personal history, of labels, of nationality of ethnicity of religion of political orientation or even a gender. This is the essential self. And the awareness of this self, even if momentary, is what is often referred to as "Self Realization".
The essential self is not contained within the boundaries of worldly identification, although it plays in those fields.
The essential self is not limited in perception by the body's sense organs, although it is having an adventure, experiencing that perception.
The self that is eternal is not limited by space and time, although it uses space and time to creatively express its essence.
The Realized Self came from nowhere and is going nowhere, but may choose different manifestations perhaps throughout the many physical manifestations of your consciousness.
The brain that tells the lungs to breathe will die with the body, but the Awareness that animates the organ called the brain is eternal.
You are not your thoughts. You are not your story. You are not your body.
The brain-body organism that thinks it's you is merely the tip of the iceberg. But don't take my word for it. Look inward and see for yourself.
Experience your thoughts, experience your story, experience your body, as none of it will last.
Everything comes from Zero and returns to Zero as Zero is infinite - everything and nothing. These are the same things but called by different names.
How could you be separate from that which is Infinite?
That which experiences remains constant. We can call that constant the "Self" - the real self and not that which masquerades as you.
So when you ask the question, "What happens when I die?" I would have to ask you a question in return...
Who is asking?
Views: 311972
I started to look at life as a Game, even though I had a after death experience when I was seventeen and everybody that I loved died rather young. I did not start accepting the "Game" as a game till I Heard over and over again through the adventures of my own mind. It was when it was reiterated on the Elias forum did it start to make sense.
Death is Life, do not but importance on this world on less you want to play the Game and make the Goal of remembering who you truly are.
I am not the body- I am not the mind. I am Om
Alexi - For me personally when I was 39 and 40 was coming at me fast and I felt like it was all over, my sense of mortality was in the foreground. I wrongly thought that my best years were behind me and I was afraid of growing old and eventually dying. I needed to know what happens when I die. I eventually made peace with it (See "A Fear of Death") but it is a question that has a tendency to bring many of us to the "Who Am I?" a question - which is at the core of spiritual inquiry.
I'm curious - why do you think this blog has so many views over others? Is it resonating for a particular reason? Am I missing the "Wow, now I totally get it!" moment (I am grinning as I write that question), or did it perhaps get picked up and cited by a major publication? It's a fantastic piece, don't get me wrong - there is just so much great content on this site I'm really, really curious why this one in particular is getting so many eyeballs. Thoughts?
Nichiren Daishonin said, "Sufferings are nirvana only when one realizes that the entity of human life throughout the cycles of birth and death is neither born or destroyed".
I escape to my dreams when Im tired of being alone. Could that be a transcending truth?
And if so. Why not genuinly enjoy my own creation?
Even if time is an illusion its there. My body, my history and my mind are all fabrics of eternity, but they are still there. Ive been searching, and I still am. But I think ill settle as a human and embrace my search until I find something else I want.
I guess love can be the thing I crave and Im starting to realise Im alone is responsible for the outcome of this great mystery. See even if I cant fly like a bird or swim like a dolphin I can love them and feel myself in their place. I think thats why human love is the closest thing to love yourself on this physical level. To grasp wholeness makes you appreciate the ever changing uniqueness in the world. And Im sad to say it, I dont believe it can be tought. It can be introduced as a possibilty, and more important, a critical approach to life must be rewarded if we want to come to any understanding.
But Im not even sure of that. I dont even think we can understand anything, we can only percieve and chose love or hate, trust or mistrust, forget or forgive, etc etc.
And these words are only symbols Ive come across on my journey reflecting something I wish to believe in.
Im struggling, but Im beginning to like it.
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Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
Testimony of Beth Givens, Director
Legislative Hearing: Outsourcing California: Our Jobs and Privacy at Risk
Senator Liz Figueroa, Chair
California Senate Business and Professions Committee
California Senate Select Committee on International Trade Policy and State Legislation
We at the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse commend Senator Figueroa and the two Senate Committees for conducting a hearing on outsourcing, and for considering not only the employment implications but also the potential risks to the privacy and security of records containing sensitive personal information. I restrict my comments to the issues of privacy and security.
Advances in data communications in recent years have made outsourcing increasingly viable. Now back-office and customer-assistance operations that have been handled by contractors in the U.S. can be shipped to companies in lower-wage countries such as India and the Philippines where English is commonly spoken as a second language. As a result, customer records containing highly sensitive personal information are transmitted to, processed by, and stored within such overseas companies. And that is where we at the PRC focus our concerns.
Consider the data elements in a typical tax return or mortgage application, documents that are increasingly being processed overseas. They contain the customer's Social Security number, date of birth, and financial account numbers, for starters. It's not only financial-related companies that are sending customers' records offshore. Many healthcare providers and medical contractors are doing the same, sending highly sensitive information about patients' health as well as their SSNs and dates of birth overseas.
I do not want to infer that companies outside the U.S. are less capable of protecting records containing personal information. On the contrary, news accounts of several such offshore companies describe security practices that far exceed the privacy protection strategies of many U.S. businesses.
Rather, our main concern is that of consumer protection.
- What recourse does an individual have if his/her personal information is handled improperly by an overseas company? Most countries to which data is being transmitted have no data protection laws on the books.
- If a U.S. law or regulation is violated, will the appropriate U.S. regulatory agency, such as the Federal Trade Commission or the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, send investigators to the offshore company to conduct an investigation? Probably not likely.
- If an employee of an overseas company observes improprieties and wants to blow the whistle, who can he or she contact to file a complaint? And will that individual be protected by U.S. whistleblower laws? Again, not likely.
- If an individual becomes a victim of identity theft and is able to trace the illegitimate access to his or her personal information back to an overseas company, can that individual attempt to take legal action against that company for its negligence? Technically perhaps, but realistically probably not. A bigger question is if the victim of identity theft would even be able to trace back to the source of the data breach. Not likely.
- How would California's law requiring that individuals be notified of security breaches involving sensitive personal information be promulgated and enforced if the illegitimate access to computer files were to occur in an offshore company? (California Civil Code section 1798.82-1798.84)
- How will U.S. companies be able to prevent overseas firms from subcontracting the work to other companies who then subcontract it to yet others? In a widely reported incident, a subcontractor in Pakistan threatened to expose the personal information contained in the medical records she was transcribing if she were not paid what she was due. (David Lazarus, "A tough lesson on medical privacy: Pakistani transcriber threatens UCSF over back pay," San Francisco Chronicle, October 22, 2003.)
Certainly, the majority of U.S. companies that hire offshore companies to handle data containing sensitive personal information will establish contracts to attempt to ensure that such data is processed in a secure environment with proper information-handling practices. But it is questionable if even the most iron-clad contracts are able to overcome the fact that data processing is occurring outside the U.S. legal and regulatory infrastructure.
In the final analysis, the question remains: Is there sufficient oversight and accountability to adequately protect sensitive personal information when data processing occurs in overseas companies?
Once again, we commend you for tackling this challenging public policy issue.
Beth Givens, Director
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse


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I have no idea what you're talking about, so here's a picture of Michael Jackson chugging vodka with midgets on his lap
Also, I'm 99.9% sure the midget on the right is the one from Seinfeld, on the episode "The Stand In"
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hey i looked it up, you are right the actresses name is Debbie Lee Carrington, she was on seinfeld. She did a movie with Jackson in 1985 called Captain EO. The one on the left is probably Cindy Sorenson , also in that movie.
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Easter, the celebration of rebirth and renewal. Whether you're remembering a fallen martyr, worshipping a giant bunny, or sacrificing an animal to your bloodthirsty deity, chances are at some point you'll end up cramming sweets into your face until you're dizzy and sick, because that's how we celebrate literally everything.
Man Cave Daily certainly isn't knocking this approach. Only a few generations ago people would celebrate Easter by rolling a hardboiled egg down a hill, which, as far as we're concerned, is the biggest, most depressing argument against time travel ever devised. We'll take the damoclean shadow of type two diabetes over wholesome family fun any day of the week.
Our only problem with Easter treats is that they're too gosh darn predictable. Eggs? Bunnies? Are we so pedestrian? Come now, internet, don't be so bashful– show us where the really stupid Easter treats are hiding…
Chocolate Zombie Bunny!
Perhaps you've taken the springtime resurrection metaphors a little too literally, perhaps because your ability to appreciate subtlety was burned away by a million Facebook image macros. If that's the case, then this Chocolate Zombie Bunny is for you! Unlike most Easter treats, this sugary monstrosity seamlessly blends the eternal messages of chocolate, bunnies and semi-ironic appreciation of played-out memes.
Uncle Urnie's Candy Ashes!
Death is a big part of life, and while springtime begins the world anew, it does so from the soil of winter's death. Cheer up, goth, have a gothball. Or if you're feeling really morbid, why not have someone's cremated mortal remains— in candy form! Have them inscribed with the name of a much-missed relative! Give them as a present to your niece or nephew! Never get invited to birthdays again!
Jesus Feet!
Springtime celebrations are as old as history, but for many it is a strictly Christian gig, so if you feel the Easter period is a time for religious reflection, then why not try these "Walking with Jesus," sandal-shaped jelly sweets? For does the Bible not say "And lo, I shall walk among you, on sandals made of delicious luminous jelly?" Well, no. No it doesn't.
While we're on the subject of Christianity themed sweets, then you should treat yourself to a Testamint! We think you'll agree that there is no more disposable way to inscribe quotations from one of the most influential religious texts in history than by wrapping them round something you use to mask your onion breath. Most likely Testamints are a completely earnest attempt at spreading the word of God, but we can't help thinking that they're a subtle joke by a sarcastic band of atheists with too much time on their hands.
Bunny Chew!
Bunny Chew's sole selling point seems to be that it looks like pet food. So much so that they had to write "Treats for kids!" in fairly big writing. A thoughtful man might wonder what hallucinogen fueled marketing executive decided that what children really wanted was pet food, and indeed, whether said marketing executive had ever cared for a pet or child, and indeed, how tragically that last scenario would have ended.
Supposedly Bunny Chew can double as a treat for the actual Easter Bunny, but why would a magic rabbit with an infinite supply of chocolate eat pet food? We sincerely hope somebody got fired over this…
Easter Bunny M&Ms
This one makes the list purely for the astonishing amount of laziness involved. It's hard to believe that a globally recognized snack product's entire Easter strategy was "awkwardly jam some bunny ears onto our mascots." The ears don't even fit properly! I mean, look at the facial expressions of the mascots. Sure, Red is trying to make light of the situation, but Green? Green is seriously considering her life choices at this point.
Edible Grass!
If you were asked to describe the wonders of springtime and you said "grass" then you are either a joyless dullard or a cow that can talk. Are you a cow that can talk? It seems unlikely. Saying that, even a talking cow knows that candy grass is a stupid idea.
"But how else am I supposed to festively decorate my child's Easter basket?" You say, eyes bright with righteous fury. "With edible straw? Like some kind of heathen? Avaunt!"
Well, sooner or later your child is going to have to learn that not everything is candy, and that things can be appreciated in ways other than eating them. Failure to instil these important lessons in your child may lead to tragic choking incidents on the receipt of his or her first medal, degree or newborn baby.
Eat $£%!
Rabbits aren't the only cute animal associated with springtime, so why not eschew bunnies in favor of an adorable plastic cow that dispenses… wait.. wait, is that.. is it pooping? That cow is pooping. You want me to buy this pooping cow. And then eat its poop. No, I don't care if the poop is candy, there's a principle at stake here and some lines are not worth crossing. Eating poop is one of those lines. Now get the hell out.
Steve Stevenson has gotten chocolate all over his keyboard. It's gross. Follow him on twitter why don't you?
For more holiday related shenanigans from Steve, check out What the Heck is Lammas? And find out if you agree with his assessment of The Worst Jobs In Video Games.


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Trulia has this information although in this area it looks to be a bit sparse. Still, you can see the sale information for a few homes in Saint Joseph if you access the link below and you can always add additional neighborhoods to your search as well.
Best Wishes,
Emily Gibson
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djdee2005 wrote: Whoa, a buncha liberatarians up in here....
djdee2005 wrote: But gun control is a neccessity - gun violence in this country is at epidemic proportions.
djdee2005 wrote: And if the government decides to make this a police state, a 9mm isn't going to help you.
MessiahCarey wrote:
Compared to WHOM!?!
MessiahCarey wrote:
Of course not, but 200 million cats with 9mm's could certainly deter a police state longer than 200 unarmed pieces of fodder.
See...I agree that guns are a problem. I just disagree on the solution. How does "gun control" keep the average inner city cat (the people who are more apt, statistically, to use it) from copping a weapon?
"Gun control" can only be employed on law abiding citizens that try and obtain weapons legally with permits, etc. Most of those people don't commit crimes or kill anyone with their weapons anyway, so the administration of these things becomes yet another government expense that could be used for social programs....more "gun control" = more federal employees = more money out of my pocket that should be going to feed those unlucky enough to be born where they can't find jobs, etc...maybe even a universal healthcare system or something. ;-)
djdee2005 wrote: Are you aware of where the "average inner city cat" gets his guns? From people who bought guns LEGALLY. Its not like there's somebody smuggling all these guns into the country. They're already HERE. The onyl way to keep guns out of the inner city (or other poor areas....it always seems the city is the target, but its a problem in poor rural areas as well) is to not buy guns anywhere else.
Reggie wrote:
You're wrong about this. Most guns in America's inner-city have come from U.S. Military stockpiles.
Reggie wrote: People are equipped with a hell of a lot more than just handguns these days. If there ever was a civil war in the U.S. you'd see what people are stockpiling. I have seen some crazy shit stashed in people's basements.
But you know, all of this is part of a far-reaching propaganda campaign to make people want to give up their right to bear arms. Little Billy finds his dad's handgun in the nightstand and blows his sister's head off--and we're supposed to blame the gun, not the neglectful parent.
Some disenfranchised outcast teenagers spray up a high school, and we're supposed to blame the guns, not the brutal system of popularity enforced by students and teachers alike.
We can't comprehend what a gun would do against the U.S. Military's awesome might, because we can no longer comprehend banding together to fight a common enemy. We fear our own neighbor--because they might have guns.
It's fucked up, I know.
Some disenfranchised outcast teenagers spray up a high school, and we're supposed to blame the guns, not the brutal system of popularity enforced by students and teachers alike.
djdee2005 wrote: Reggie wrote:
You're wrong about this. Most guns in America's inner-city have come from U.S. Military stockpiles.
What?! Where do you get that information? Do you have a source? How on earth do they get access to military stockpiles?
djdee2005 wrote: I'm sorry, but that's just stupid. They have "brutal" systems of popularity across the world. If you think that's the reason these kids did this, then you really don't have any sort of grasp of that at all. The kids were fucking CRAZY. I'm not blaming their school for some CRAZY ass kids. And there are crazy people in this country. Tons of them. And the fewer guns in their hands, the better.


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Pete Burns: 'I was attacked by fan'
Eighties singer Pete Burns claims his bag was stolen after he was attacked by a fan in the street when he refused to pose for a photo with the stranger.
Believed to have frittered money away on surgery.
Celebrity Big Brother All Stars needs to happen. Who would be in your line up?
Jodie Marsh has vowed not to do 'crap reality TV' in favour of more educational shows. Here's what she's been in
Chantelle Houghton cooked up a storm on Celebrity Come Dine With Me when she joined Pete Burns, Cleo Rocos, Andrew Stone and Bobby George and became confused over what a whisk was.
Pete Burns has slammed Celebrity Big Brother's Darryn Lyons' enhanced six-pack as 'repulsive', saying that he thinks the paparazzo looks like he's wearing a fatsuit.
Kerry Katona reckons Jordan looks like cross-dressing plastic surgery fan Pete Burns, he of Celebrity Big Brother/You Spin Me Round fame.


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Hickory Grove Country Store
We are your convenience stop when you need much more than a convenience store! Come by and see the unique specialties offered every day at our store! Don't forget to gas up your vehicle while you shop for your favorite snack foods! Need to do some laundry? Well, we have a brand new laundry facility just waiting for your dirtiest clothes! If you are planning a party or get-together, then you'll want to visit our delicious deli! It's full of fresh cut meats, cheeses and salads! Grillin' out for the guys? Come on in and get great deals on fresh cut steaks and your favorite beer and wine! We have something for everyone…including a Shake machine for the whole family!! Stop by and say "Hello". We'll be glad to see you!


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One Hope United
111 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL
In honor of National Child Abuse Prevention Month, One Hope United has launched a digital Blue Ribbon Month campaign at BlueRibbonMonth.org. We're asking you to join us in supporting this campaign, which raises awareness and much-needed funds for programming and services that benefit our most vulnerable children.
Child abuse cost the US nearly $124B last year and nearly 3/4 of a million children were abused, which is why prevention is crucial. Together, we're working to strengthen families and communities while preparing all children for a prosperous future.
For example, our Northern Illinois / Wisconsin Region is holding a series of fundraisers and public events throughout end of the month, including the 10th Annual Blue Ribbon Event in Lake Villa, IL on April 21.
We hope you will Join One Hope United in its efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect and prepare children for a prosperous future, during Blue Ribbon Month and beyond.


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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner Chapter 23 Summary
- Amir is in the hospital. He's coming in and out of consciousness. He remembers riding in a car with a boy (Sohrab) and someone who's driving way too fast (Farid). Beeps, the faces of his nurse and doctor, Farid, and memories of Soraya.
- Amir even imagines he's in the Sulaiman Mountains with Baba. Baba seems to be wrestling a bear. It's a nasty fight. Amir realizes that he is actually wrestling the bear. He is Baba. He wakes up and sees Sohrab and Farid. Blacks out again.
- Amir is awake long enough to add names to some faces and figure out what's going on. His doctor's name is Armand. He's in a hospital in Peshawar. Assef broke a few of Amir's ribs, punctured a lung, split his upper lip in two (there's a nod to Hassan's harelip), and more. Amir can't even open his mouth. But he's going to be OK.
- Farid and Sohrab visit Amir. Amir formally meets Sohrab – the showdown at Assef's didn't really allow time for chitchat. Farid tells Amir that Rahim Khan has left him a letter.
- Here's the important stuff from Rahim Khan's letter: Rahim Khan says Hassan told him a few days after the alleyway incident what happened. So Rahim Khan knew about the rape all along. He also says he's ashamed he and Baba didn't tell Amir that Hassan was his half-brother – that they lied for so many years.
- Rahim Khan opens up a little about Baba, too: how much Baba loved Amir, how hard Baba was on Amir, how Baba couldn't love Hassan openly. Finally, Rahim Khan tells Amir he's left him some money in a bank in Peshawar.
- Amir gets a much-needed morphine injection.
- Amir takes a look at his face in a mirror the nurse hands him. He looks terrible. He and Farid agree that the sooner they get out of Afghanistan, the better. Farid goes off to look for Thomas and Betty Caldwell, the American couple in Peshawar who are supposed to adopt Sohrab.
- Amir and Sohrab play a card game called panjpar. Sohrab tells Amir that his father, Hassan, said Amir was "the best friend he ever had" (23.97).
- A nurse's assistant helps Amir walk around. Amir and Sohrab play panjpar the whole next day. That night Amir dreams Assef is standing in the doorway to his hospital room. Assef says something to the effect that Amir is really his twin, not Hassan's, even though Hassan and Amir nursed from the same breast. Go away, Assef.
- Amir decides to leave the hospital. It seems kind of rash, but he's probably got to get out of Afghanistan. He's going to drop Sohrab off at the Caldwell orphanage and ditch this country. One problem: Farid informs Amir the Caldwells don't exist.
- Amir and Farid get Rahim Khan's money from the bank. They decide Sohrab should go to Islamabad, Pakistan with Amir.
- Amir sleeps most of the way to Islamabad. Amir dreams a lot. He only remembers bits and pieces of the dreams, which seem more, actually, like memories: Baba marinating lamb; making love with Soraya; a trip to the strawberry fields in Jalalabad with Baba and Hassan; the blood dripping from Hassan's pants after the rape.


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Two-time welterweight titleholder Andre Berto spoke to RingTV.com regarding the controversy surrounding his positive drug test, his relationship with former BALCO founder Victor Conte, and his HBO-televised clash with contender Robert Guerrero, who told RingTV.com that plans to test Berto's "soft chin."
Berto-Guerrero is slated for Nov. 24 at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, Calif.
Berto (28-1, 22 knockouts) tested positive for the banned substance norandrosterone under the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association, forcing the cancelation of a rematch against Victor Ortiz that was scheduled for June.
Having blamed the positive test result on a contaminated substance, Berto, 29, was granted a one-year license by the California State Athletic Commission in July to fight in the state after having tested negative for "anabolic steroids and masking agents."
Berto does not blame, and, in fact, absolves Conte, who has served time in prison and claimed to have cleaned up his act, having aligned himself, most notably, with Nonito Donaire and pushed for a comprehensive, random method of drug testing boxers.
Guerrero (30-1-1, 18 KOs), who will be after his 15th consecutive victory and his 10th knockout during that run, initially turned down an offer to face Berto over concerns regarding his positive test. But the fighters have contractually agreed to mandatory drug testing by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
After being decisioned and dethroned as WBC titleholder by Ortiz in April of last year during a fight that featured two knockdowns each by both boxers, Berto rebounded with a fifth-round knockout that took the IBF welterweight belt from Jan Zaveck in September.
Having vacated the IBF title to face Ortiz in a non-title fight, Berto said he is confident that he can overcome Gerrero, who represents the fifth southpaw Berto will have faced in seven fights.
Berto has also conquered left-handed fighters such as ex-beltholders Luis Collazo and Juan Urango by unanimous decision victories in January and May of 2009, and an eighth-round stoppage of Carlos Quintana in April of 2010 that ended an 11-month ring absence.
But Guerrero is coming off a unanimous decision over Turkish-born Selcuk Aydin in July, and believes that he will carry more power into his fight against Berto, despite being in his sixth division after having started out as a junior featherweight.
Guerrero's victory over the previously unbeaten Aydin for the WBC's interim belt ended a 15-month ring absence. In Berto, Guerrero faces a man who will have been out of action for 13 months by fight time.
Berto, of Winter Haven, Fla., shared his thoughts with RingTV.com in this Q&A.
RingTV.com: What do you want to say to your fans about the positive drug test?
Andre Berto: To all of my fans, who have been supportive, you know, everybody who knows me, they know that everything that I've always accomplished has just been through hard work.
And when it comes to the positive test, that was just a situation that was unfortunate. It was a situation that didn't get properly explained to the public on what it was and what caused it.
I believe that's what really made an uproar about everything. You know, like I've said, I've never been a cheater. Never have and never will. I've never injected anything in any type of situation of all.
So when it comes up as a positive test, it didn't have anything to do with any type of drug enhancement, or any type of testosterone or EPO or none of that type of stuff that a lot of guys probably use.
It wasn't anything like that. It was… after we got the positive test, we just needed to know what it was. Because we knew that everything that we were doing was straight forward.
And after they put the news out, that's when we found out exactly what it was. Then I had to go through all of the right processes and the hiring of the lawyers and things like that.
So it was basically just taking my sample test and just really proving the fact that it was a contamination of something.
I'm not sure what it was, but it was just a contamination of small grains of something that caused the positive test. It wasn't anything to do with any sort of enhancement at all.
RingTV.com: How does your relationship stand with Conte?
AB: You know, me and Conte, we've always been good. We're still good right now to this point, because I know that nothing that I took on his end caused the positive test at all.
And I know that the route that he has decided to take in talking about this has been very positive and very graceful. I asked for the VADA testing because I know that it is tremendously effective.
So, in that case, and with that being said, you know, why would you call and ask for a sensitive and effective test that you know that you're not going to beat if you're going to try to be dirty.
I mean, that just doesn't make sense at all. But, you know, it is what it is. You know, so we had to go through all of the steps that we had to go through and now it's just the case of getting back into the ring and doing what I do.
RingTV.com: What are your thoughts on Guerrero's reference to your soft chin and his own relative power at 147 pounds?
AB: That's fine, you know, it is what it is. He can say what he wants to say. I've been in there with big punchers, and it doesn't matter. When fight time comes, it's going to be time to go, it's as simple as that.
You know, it doesn't matter if he has power or he doesn't have power. I've been sitting for a while, so, definitely, we're going to unleash a beast that has been caged up for a while. So it is what it is.
AB: Well, you know it's just a fact that I've had a really good training camp. That's all that it is. You know I've been in camp working on a game plan and we'll get the sparring partners.
But I'm not worried about any sort of ring rust, because we've always been working. We're not worried about that at all.
RingTV.com: How do you assess him as an opponent, particularly in his last fight with Aydin?
AB: I mean, let's be realistic. In his last fight with Aydin, being realistic, I was there and I sat there and saw it. I thought that the fight was a lot closer than they scored it.
It wasn't anything that caught my eye. Aydin is just a straight-forward puncher, and that's it. He just comes straight forward and doesn't throw too many punches.
But when he throws punches, he throws hard punches, and with me sitting in the front row, I saw a lot of those punches hurting Guerrero.
So, like I said, I'm a completely different fighter than Aydin. I'm a guy who can box, I can punch, and I've got speed and I've got power, and so it's going to be a completely different situation.
I'm definitely going to be a winner. That's the only thing that matters to me right now. I'm definitely going to go out there and be the winner.
Photo by Thorsten Roth, Naoki Fukuda, Getty Images
Lem Satterfield can be reached at email@example.com


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Seeking the Inflation Cure
Central banks' balance sheets don't matter. Until they do.
There's a running debate about whether central banks are too cautious in expanding their balance sheets to generate economic growth or that they're taking catastrophic risks.
So far the "haven't done enough" brigade has the upper hand. Despite massive quantities of quantitative easing, which is to say expanding their balance sheets through buying sovereign debt, central banks have managed to give their economies only modest boosts. Even at their post-crisis peaks, growth in major developed economies has been paltry.
In the U.K., where the Bank of England has been one of the most aggressive proponents of QE, the economy has barely been treading water.
The solution? More QE alongside fiscal stimulus argue economists like Paul Krugman.
The flip side argue that massive central bank balance sheet expansion will eventually prove to be highly inflationary.
Anyone looking at Japan's routine deflationary episodes during the past twenty years would be right to be sceptical.
And yet, it could be that both perspectives are right. More QE is needed to spur economic growth. But it will also eventually spur a high inflation rate.
To see why, it's worth running through the most likely way by which QE is expected to work. Although central banks offer up a grab bag of mechanisms, some preferring one over another, they all agree that QE is intended to lift inflation expectations to forestall deflation and to get overly cautious people to pull money out from under their mattresses and put it into physical assets, thus getting money circulating.
Unfortunately, central banks have done such a good job of killing inflation in the decades since the 1970s and in convincing people that they will pursue price stability, which generally means 2% inflation, at all costs. Not so long ago,
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said he was 100% certain the Fed could keep inflation from soaring away. Others, like Bank of England Governor Mervyn King, have argued that while central banks might not know how to deal with deflation, they have clear mechanisms for how to handle inflation.
Of course, 2% inflation will, over many years, erode the debt piles that overleveraged economies are struggling with even without significant economic growth, as long as interest rates are low enough.
But central banks want a more rapid solution.
And the only ways to achieve this is either for central banks to come out and say convincingly they are pursuing higher rates of inflation. Or, alternatively, to convince people that while their intention will be to aim for price stability, circumstances will be too far out of their hands to stick to their remits. Like if their balance sheets have been expanded so much they start to fear any hint of unwinding will cause a bond market panic and thus lose control over lending and inflation.
Will it happen? Yes, say the likes of Societe Generale strategist Albert Edwards.
But for now, Japan is the canary in the coal mine.


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FreeCause Mixer – 6/5
FreeCause is hosting another Mixer – this one Tuesday, June 5 from 5:30-7:30PM at our Boston headquarters. The last Mixer we held in January was very well received – we had great attendance, people really seemed to enjoy themselves, and we met a lot of interesting people, one of whom we hired!
This informal event is a great way to introduce yourself to FreeCause, meet our team, tour our office, learn more about what we do and the opportunities we have, and enjoy some food and drinks.
So mark your calendars for the 5th! We're looking forward to seeing you there.


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This year, Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah fall on the same day—that's the first time that's happened since 1888, and it's possible it won't occur again for another 70,000 years! So here are some fun (and diet-appropriate and—at the very least—healthy-ish!) recipes to consider while you're planning your Thanksgiving-meets-Hanukkah menu.
Amy Kritzer's Nutella Rugellach:__
Joy of Kosher's Light and Fluffy Matzoh Balls:
Eating Well's Healthy Sausage Stuffing:
Blogilates' Skinny Mac N Cheese:
Food Wishes' Almost Fat-Free Green Onion Potato Salad:
Everyday Food's Potato Latkes:
Hilah Cooking's Whole Roasted Cauliflower:
The Official Hungry's Vegan Pumpkin Pie:
__OK, so what's on your Thanksgiving menu thus far?


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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. - Eleanor Tatum Welch, 62, died Oct. 30, 2001, at her home.
Born June 23, 1939, at Deventer, Mo., she was the daughter of the late Dee Tatum and Helen Evans.
Survivors include: one son, Robert Welch of Moline, Ill.; two daughters, Kerri Mayer of Addison, Ill., and Tracey Welch of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; two sisters, Norma Johnson of Sikeston, Mo., and Dorothy Laster of Altamonte Springs; three brothers, Frank Tatum of Sikeston, Bobbie Tatum of East Prairie, Mo., and Dee Thurman Tatum of Westland, Mich; and six grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by three sisters.
A memorial services was conducted Nov. 11 in Chicago, Ill.


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Embark on a great adventure based on J.R.R. Tolkien's legendary novel, the forerunner to the Lord of the Rings.
Try to safely navigate your way to the Lonely Mountain and reclaim all the treasure that the evil dragon Smaug is hiding... but beware: the treasure is fiercely guarded and must be won in battle!
Will you trade your jewels for adventure points? Can you successfully answer the riddles or recite the songs? Do you have the courage to steal a jewel right from under Smaug's nose?
On this adventure you'll travel through the Edge of the Wild, the Misty Mountains, the Carrock, Mirkwood, Long Lake, and finally confront the Desolation of Smaug. Each terrain will yield magical encounters and valuable treasure. All your wit, luck and skill will be tested.
Are you up to the challenge to be crowned King Under the Mountain? This is a game that will entertain and enchant you time and time again!
Product Information
Asmodee North America, Fantasy Flight Games
Year: 2001
Players: 2 - 6
Ages: 10 and up
Weight: 1,420 grams
Language Requirements: This is an international edition or domestic edition of an imported item.
- gameboard
- 72 Gandalf/Adventure cards
- 2 six-sided die
- 1 twenty-sided die
- 6 hobbit figures
- 60 glass gems
- 6 tracking cards
- 1 Lonely Mountain
- 1 cut-out dragon
- 6 markers
- 1 spinner
Product Reviews
Average Rating: 1.7 in 3 reviews
This really is a children's board game. People expecting the same strategy level as Reiner's Lord of the Rings will be greatly disappointed. Please don't make the same mistake I did and bring a copy to your weekly gaming night. Halfway through the game we realized it was a 'kids' game and almost everyone immediately quit.
However, it is quite an enjoyable family game. The rules are about the same strategy level as Sorry, so even small children can play. There is very little 'screw your opponent' and the violence level is very low. If you have small children and you want to gradually mold them into Tolkien fanatics, the Hobbit is the best game to buy. If you want to buy a game for your weekly gaming nights steer well clear of the this one!
Even regarding this as a children's game, it's of no interest apart from the must-have-it-all LOTR fans. This game should give Hasbro a bade taste in the mouth.
There's plenty of GOOD children's games out there, so don't get fooled by the fancy packaging and lots of plastic inventory.
This game is extremely weak. If it weren't for the LOTR craze, this game probably would never see the light of day.
Each player takes turns rolling dice and landing on spots which are either take a gem (either a freebie or stolen from Smaug), buy a random item for the gem, or have an event. Sometimes, the random item allows an automatic victory for the event, but most of the time, the event is resolved by playing Rock Paper Scissors against a spinner, with the spinner even winning ties.
Only a handful of events are resolved other ways, including answering very simple riddles or repeating a phrase back. Since there are only about 10 riddles, the answers are quickly memorized.
The game is almost entirely luck and not that entertaining. After two plays, this game will probably never come off the shelf again.


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An unseasonable upper level closed low positioned over South Georgia and a surface low over the Florida panhandle combined to bring two distinct storm environments capable of supporting supercells to the Jacksonville County Warning area through the day on October 9, 2008. The first round of convection affected mainly southeast Georgia where widespread discrete supercells produced large hail. During the afternoon, low level instability over north Florida supported stronger surface based storms in advance of the approaching surface low and its attendant cold front, and several of these storms produced significant rainfall amounts and downburst winds.
Regional 12Z (8 am EDT) soundings and water vapor imagery positioned an unseasonably cold upper level closed low over South Georgia (figure 1). The surface low was over the Florida panhandle, with a surface warm front extending from the surface low eastward across Southeast Georgia (figure 2). A trailing surface cold front extended into the Gulf of Mexico. The 12Z Jacksonville sounding revealed stable and dry low level conditions just above the surface fog inversion (figure 3, orange circle). Satellite imagery and surface observations indicated widespread fog and low stratus blanketed much of north Florida during the early morning. Other regional soundings and model analysis alluded to 500 mb temps from -10 to -12 C across much of the Jacksonville County Waning Area, just under the upper level low. The sounding also revealed plenty of elevated CAPE to support hail growth and wind shear aloft to support the hailstones reaching the surface as large hail (figure 3, red and yellow lines; blue box). Thus, we anticipated that our Georgia zones would be impacted first by severe hail storms during the morning, while the low stratus over most of North Florida keeping the airmass capped and stable.
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|Figure 2
|Figure 3
By 18Z (2 pm EDT), the upper level low and attendant surface low shifted slightly eastward (figures 4 (note from 12Z 10/10/08) and 5). The strongest convection over Georgia was focusing toward the Atlantic coast, while a cluster of severe storms developed over North Central Florida in advance of the surface low and cold front. Once morning low stratus lifted, diurnal heating raised surface based temperatures into the low to mid 80s across North Florida. In addition, a southeast flow off of the Atlantic raised dew points into the lower 70s. After modifying the 12Z Jacksonville sounding for a maximum temperature of 84 F and surface dew point of 70, surface based instability across northeast Florida rose significantly with CAPEs now over 2500 J/kg with lifted indices just above -8 (figure 6). Our concern was now shifting from severe hail across Georgia, to heavy rainfall and downburst wind potential across Northeast Florida during the late afternoon and evening.
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|Figure 6
Evolution of Convection
Our first Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued just before 9 am for Clinch and Atkinson counties in Southeast Georgia. Through noon, 6 more Severe Thunderstorm Warnings for large hail were issued for southeast Georgia and 2 Tornado Warnings were issued. Widespread reports of penny to golfball size hail were received across Southeast Georgia with these morning storms, and one confirmed tornado touched down briefly about 7 miles North of Fargo causing some tree damage. We believe that the tornado was spawned where a strong inflow notch developed and wrapped a tight micro-scale low pressure center in the storm. Storms continued to fire across Southeast Georgia during the afternoon and early evening, mainly along and east of U.S. Highway 1, as the upper level low slowly tracked offshore of the Atlantic coast.
At noon, the first Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the Suwannee River Valley of north Florida was issued. This cluster of storms progressed slowly eastward through mid afternoon. There was broad rotation in these first cells, but not strong enough to indicate a possible tornado. The main affect from this first round of afternoon storms, especially in Gilchrist County, was very heavy rainfall in a short period of time. One NWS Skywarn Storm Spotter measured 4.57 inches East-Northeast of Trenton within 2 hours. Widespread trees were blown down across Alachua County as the storms progressed eastward, with most reports concentrating around Gainesville between 2 and 3 pm.
At 2 pm, the first Northeast Florida Tornado Warning was issued for Alachua, Bradford and Union Counties. This circulation persisted and tightened as the cell neared Putnam county, and around 1:50 pm, the Tornado Warning was reissued. As these cells tracked farther east, the storms continued to produce severe size hail (penny to quarter size) as well as down several trees and power lines. Just after 4 pm, the first Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for Flagler County. As this storm tracked toward the coast, it tapped into plenty of low level instability, which combined with relatively cool temperatures aloft, prompted strong updraft formation, and, consequently strong downdraft formation. At 4:38 pm, a significant downburst wind leveled a large warehouse in Daytona North (figure 7), which is about 10 miles west of Bunnell. The storms continued to track east and moved offshore of the Atlantic coast during the evening. In the wake of the storms, a NWS Storm Spotter in Palm Coast, Linda Kremkau, took some gorgeous pictures of mammatus clouds (figure 8).
|Figure 7, photo by Flagler County Emergency Management
|Figure 8, photo by Linda Kremkau


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From 1963 to 1989, the Capital District's top students looked forward to their day in the sun – a chance to compete on WRGB's 1960's televised quiz show "Little Red Schoolhouse," which was later rebranded "Answers Please" in the 1970's and 1980's. In its nearly 30 years of existence, the show's format remained relatively the same – two teams of high school students were challenged to answer questions of varying degrees of difficulty.
This program can trace its roots back to two different shows – one on radio, the other on television. "Little Red Schoolhouse" was a staple of WGY's radio broadcasts in the 1940's – for example, a team from Kingston High School won eleven consecutive weeks in a row from March 16-May 25, 1941.
In television station WRGB's infancy, they aired several quiz and panel programs (which, in those early broadcast days, were quick and cheap to produce), and a show in 1945, "Telequiz Kids," was broadcast for a few weeks. The show featured a host, who asked several desk-seated students questions about history and general studies.
In 1963, the idea of a high school quiz show was revived with the premiere of "Little Red Schoolhouse." The host of "Little Red Schoolhouse" was Dave Kroman, an on-air radio and television personality. Kroman, who wrote a contract bridge column for the Times-Union, was married to WGY radio personality Martha Brooks, and for many years they hosted a "Breakfast with the Brooks" radio show on WGY. The show premiered on February 3, 1963 at 12:00 noon, just before TV Tournament Time.
In "Little Red Schoolhouse," two teams answered questions in which right answers earned that team points – and if a team answered enough toss-up questions, they would receive bonus questions that they could answer without interruption by the opposing squad. The winning team would be invited back next week to face another school; if the school won three straight matches, that school retired undefeated.
"Little Red Schoolhouse" was so popular, it was eventually broadcast as part of WRGB's evening prime-time lineup, and would air in place of various NBC shows that would have normally aired in that timeslot.
"Answers Please" actually began as a summer version of "Little Red Schoolhouse," in which two teams of adults faced each other in a battle of brains. One of the teams would be comprised of various WRGB and WGY on-air personalities, as such people as Ernie Tetreault and Howard Tupper matched wits against various other community teams.
By 1970, however, the "Little Red Schoolhouse" name was retired, and "Answers Please" became the de facto high school quiz show from that point on.
At some point in the program's history, WRGB started announcing a disclaimer on the program, noting that the show was a test of recall and not a test of which school had a better academic program. This was done to prevent people from saying, "Oh, my school is academically superior to your school because my school beat the pants off your school on Channel 6."
"Arthur Garland, an executive within WRGB, asked if I would host Answers Please," said Tim Welch, who worked with the station as a meteorologist in the 1970's and 80's. "Little known fact – some of the questions that I used on Answers Please at the time, I actually paid my brother – who was a fireman – to write them for me."
Getting on "Little Red Schoolhouse" and "Answers Please" was a major source of pride for Capital District students and schools. Many yearbooks show an "Answers Please" four-person team, along with their faculty advisors. Scores and results are often listed – especially if that team happened to retire undefeated.
In some seasons, there was actually a "tournament of champions," in which teams who had retired undefeated that year would come back and face each other in a battle of unbeatens.
But in June 1989, "Answers Please" – along with another WRGB production, the "Big Money Movie" – were canceled. The last episode aired on June 24, 1989. At the time, WRGB general manager David Lynch called the show's cancellation "a very tough decision to make."
So, to the best of my ability, here are the schedules and opponents and scores for the shows"Little Red Schoolhouse" (1962-1970) and "Answers Please" (1966-1989). I've added photographs courtesy of the Schenectady Museum's archives, and if anybody has more information, please forward it to me and I will update this list.
Little Red Schoolhouse, 1962-63 (host – Dave Kroman) (aired Sunday 12n, then moved in April to Saturday at 530p)
- February 3, 1963 – Berne-Knox High School def. Corinth High School
- February 10, 1963 – Schalmont Central High School def. Berne-Knox High School
- February 17, 1963 – Schalmont Central High School v. Hudson High School (game ended in a tie)
- February 24, 1963 – Hudson High School def. Schalmont Central High School
- March 3, 1963 – Hudson High School def. Bishop Gibbons High School
- March 10, 1963 – Hudson High School def. Saratoga Springs High School (Hudson High School became first team to retire undefeated)
- March 17, 1963 – Shaker High School def. Albany High School 250-120 (earliest recorded score available)
- March 24, 1963 – Troy High School def. Shaker High School
- March 30, 1963 – Troy High School v. Ravena-Selkirk High School. Show moves to Saturday, 530p
- Colonie High School defeated Troy High School.
Little Red Schoolhouse, 1963-64 (aired mostly Monday nights at 7pm)
- September 23, 1963 – Marylrose Academy defeated Watervliet High School
- September 30, 1963 – Ichabod Crane Central School played against Marylrose Academy
- October 21, 1963 – Clayton Bouton Junior-Senior High School faces Margaretville Central.
- November 4, 1963 – Philip Schuyler High School defeated Schuylerville High School.
- November 11, 1963 – Philip Schuyler High School defeated Chatham High School.
- November 18, 1963 – Greenwich High School defeated Philip Schuyler High School 170-140.
- November 25, 1963 – Greenwich High School v. Draper High School.
- March 2, 1964 – Middleboro Central v. Milne High School.
- March 9, 1964 – Canajoharie High School defeated Ballston Spa High School.
- March 16, 1964 – Canajoharie High School defeated Germantown Central High School.
- March 23, 1964 – Canajoharie High School defeated Shenendehowa High School, retired undefeated.
- May 4, 1964 – Mayfield Central School 170, Cobleskill High school 140
- May 11, 1964 – Mayfield Central School v. Stillwater High School
Little Red Schoolhouse,1964-65
- airing on Monday nights, 7pm
- February 1965: Marylrose Academy retired undefeated (three wins), setting a new scoring record (Knickerbocker News, Feb 19, 1965).
- March 8, 1965: Saugerties High School competed on the show.
- April 1965: Greenwich Central School def. Philip Schuyler 220-70, retiring undefeated (three wins and one tie)
Little Red Schoolhouse,1965-66
- airing on Wednesday nights, 7pm
- St. Mary's Institute (Amsterdam) won two weeks in a row.
- November 3, 1965: Germantown Central defeated St. Mary's Institute (Amsterdam).
- January 28, 1966: Linton High School def. Lynch High School, 230-190.
Answers Please, Summer 1966
- "Answers Please" was designed as an adult version of "Little Red Schoolhouse," and prepared on June 10, 1966 with a team of department heads from Linton High School, taking on a team of personalities from WRGB and WGY. The set was re-designed, but you can still see that the arrangement of the two teams on two separate levels uses the same format as "Little Red Schoolhouse."
Little Red Schoolhouse,1966-67
- October 1966, airing on Monday nights 830p
- December 5, 1967: Johnstown High School appeared on the show.
- February 1967, airing on Monday nights 830p
- April 1967, airing on Monday nights 830p
Little Red Schoolhouse, 1967-68
- December 1967, airing on Tuesday nights 730p
- Fort Plain High School played for three weeks and retired undefeated.
- A team from the Fonda-Fultonville School District won on Little Red Schoolhouse; according to this website, they actually started a fund to preserve the Plank Road Schoolhouse and relocate it from possible demolition. The building was moved in 1973 to safer ground; it was restored and repainted, and reopened in 1985 as the "Little Red Schoolhouse Museum."
- Hudson High school defeated Fort Plain High School in the spring.
Little Red Schoolhouse, 1968-69
- November 30, 1968 – Perth Central High School competed on the show.
- This is the last season in which the quiz show was known as "Little Red Schoolhouse."
Answers Please, 1969-70
- March 1970 – Guilderland Central High School was scheduled to appear on the show.
- 1970 – Congregation Agudat Achim played for three weeks on the show and retired undefeated.
- March 28, 1970 – Wilbur Lynch High School in Amsterdam competed on the show.
- May 23, 1970 – Northville Central HS participated on the show.
- Broadalbin Central High school competed on the show.
- This is the first season in which the quiz show is known as "Answers Please."
Answers Please, 1970-71
- Berne-Knox Westerlo won two matches, tied a third, and then lost that tiebreaker the next week.
- November 19, 1970: Northville High School, having already won previously, faced Cobleskill High School.
- February 10, 1971: Long Lake Central School participated on the show.
- February 27, 1971: Johnstown High School participated in the show.
- Draper High School participated on the show (lineup: Linda Walz, Cynthia Coleman, Don Vitch, Fran Pugilese)
Answers Please, 1971-72
- Show may have aired as late as 5pm on Saturdays.
- October 3, 1971 – Bishop Scully HS (Amsterdam) participated on the show.
- December-January 1971-72 – Chatham Central High School retired undefeated, including wins over Lansingburgh HS and St. Joseph's HS (Catskill).
- March 1972 – Scotia-Glenville High School won three weeks in a row and retired undefeated. Their third win was against St. Patrick's Central of Catskill on March 26, 1972.
- April 22, 1972 – Mount Greylock Regional High school won their first game.
- April 29, 1972 – Mount Greylock Regional High School faced St. Peter's High School of Saratoga Springs.
Answers Please, 1972-73 (host was Ed Dague)
- October 20, 1972 – Berne-Knox-Westerlo against Warrensburg Central School.
- December, 1972 – Scotia-Glenville HS won three weeks in a row and retired undefeated.
- January 1973 – St. Mary's of Hoosick Falls defeated Perth Central.
- Johnstown HS wins three weeks in a row, including one win over Hunter-Tannersville, and retires undefeated.
- In the Tournament of Champions, Johnstown HS won three weeks, including the Champions Final against Albany HS.
Answers Please, 1973-74
- June 8, 1974 – Mohonasen High School defeated Webutuck High School, 210-150.
- Johnstown HS wins three weeks in a row and retires undefeated.
- In the Tournament of Champions, Johnstown HS won three weeks and claimed the Champions Final.
Answers Please, 1974-75
- The February 1975 edition of the Niskayuna High School newspaper, "The Warrior," noted that the school would be fielding an Answers Please team for the first time in school history.
- The Niskayuna High School team won their first two games, which were the last two games taped for the season.
- Johnstown High School was scheduled to appear on Answers Please, but had to postpone their initial taping date because several of the students that made up the "Answers Please" team were also participating in the school play during the date of taping.
Answers Please, 1975-76
- Show aired at 4pm on Sundays.
- October 18, 1975 – Niskayuna High School def. Albany Academy, 340-275; combined with their two wins in the last weeks of the 1974-75 season, Niskayuna High School retired undefeated.
Answers Please, 1976-77
- December 16, 1976 – Maple Hill High School (Castleton) won three weeks in a row and retired undefeated.
- Niskayuna and Guilderland played a four-game series. This may have been a Tournament of Champions final; information came from the Niskayuna High School "Warrior" newspaper.
- Niskayuna and Guilderland tied 100-100.
- Niskayuna defeated Guilderland 160-105.
- Guilderland defeated Niskayuna 130-125.
- Niskayuna defeated Guilderland 170-55.
Answers Please, 1977-78
- Hoosac Valley High School won two weeks in a row, including a 170-65 victory over Schalmont High School, but lost the third game.
Answers Please, 1978-79
- Hoosac Valley High School won three weeks in a row and retired undefeated.
- Perth Central won two weeks in a row.
- Cooperstown High School defeated Perth Central.
- February 10, 1979 – Webutuck High School and Schalmont High School battled.
- March 17, 1979 – Warrensburg Central School wins.
- March 24, 1979 – Warrensburg Central School participates.
Answers Please, 1980-81 (host – Tim Welch)
- November 20, 1981 – Schoharie High School def. St. Joseph's (Pittsfield).
- November 29, 1981 – Schoharie High School def. Broadalbin High School.
- February 1981 – Cooperstown High School wins final game, retires undefeated
- March 2, 1981 – Street Academy of Albany 145, Albany Academy 105
- March 9, 1981 – Street Academy of Albany 185, Keveny Academy 105
- March 16, 1981 – Street Academy of Albany 150, St. Mary's of Hoosick Falls 60; Street Academy of Albany retires undefeated.
- Schalmont HS defeats Hudson HS 135-110. This is the last game of the season.
Answers Please, 1981-82
- Beginning with the 1981-82 season, the Tournament of Champions was revived; any team that wins three weeks in a row is invited to return at the end of the year for the Tournament of Champions. If more than four schools retired undefeated in a season, the four schools with the highest cumulative point totals would participate in the post-season tournament.
- September 1981 – Schalmont defeats Corinth HS 205-30.
- September 1981 – Schalmont defeats Catskill 170-95. Counting their win on the final game of the 1980-81 season, Schalmont is credited with three wins and retires undefeated.
- October 1981 – Hoosac Valley High School loses their first game of the season. It is the first time Hoosac Valley has competed on Answers Please without winning at least one game.
- Averill Park High School won one week, then lost in their second week.
- Taconic Hills High School wins three weeks in a row and retires undefeated.
- Johnstown HS wins three weeks in a row and retires undefeated.
- May 1982 – In the semi-finals of the Tournament of Champions, Taconic Hills defeats Johnstown 145-105. They later face Schalmont for the season championship.
Answers Please, 1982-83
- Oct 23 1982 – Berne-Knox-Westerlo and Heatly High School tied, 65-65.
- Oct 30 1982 – Berne-Knox-Westerlo defeats Heatly High School.
- November 1982 – Roxbury High School defeated Berne-Knox-Westerlo; however, a protest was filed regarding the correct answer to one of the questions, and the game was later declared a tie.
- November 1982 – Roxbury High School and Berne-Knox-Westerlo faced each other
- 1982-83 season – Tamarac High School won three times in a row and retired undefeated.
- May 29, 1983 – Webutuck HS defeated Cairo-Durham HS, 120-75.
Answers Please, 1983-84
- Aired at Saturday, 1130 am.
- Schalmont HS defeated Jefferson HS.
- Schalmont HS defeated South Glens Falls HS.
- Schalmont HS defeated Middleburg HS and retired undefeated.
Answers Please, 1984-85 (host is John Wagner; Tim Welch hosts when Guilderland High School is on the program, as Wagner is a Guilderland HS faculty member)
- Cherry Valley High School appears on the show.
- Albany Academy appears on the show.
- Berlin Central wins their first game.
- Mohonasen defeated Berlin Central.
Answers Please, 1985-86 (Aired Sunday, 12n)
- December 1985 – Ballston Spa High School appeared on the show.
- Guilderland Central High School won three weeks in a row and retired undefeated.
- Coxsackie-Athens High School played at least two weeks on the show, facing Keveny Academy and Cooperstown High School.
- In the postseason, Coxsackie-Athens High School defeated St. Joseph's High School in the semifinals.
Beginning with this season, WRGB made a slight change to the format of the show; teams were now expected to have two boys and two girls as their four-person squad; as well as one boy and one girl for alternates. In a May 22, 1986 letter to the Schenectady Gazette, the faculty advisor for the team at Hoosac Valley High School in Adams, Mass. took issue with WRGB's decision that each four-person team must be made up of two boys and two girls. The argument made was that WRGB wanted to make sure there was no discrimination on the basis of gender; however, the faculty advisor wanted to put the best team together, regardless of gender. "Hoosac Valley High School selects its starting team by means of a testing system, whereby the highest scores determine the team members. Therefore, our teams are rarely composed of two boys and two girls. This is a violation of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, as well as Chapter 622 of the Massachusetts General Laws … We at Hoosac Valley strongly protest this policy, and urge that it be abolished."
Answers Please, 1986-87 (host is John Wagner)
- November 24, 1986 – Niskayuna HS defeats Albany HS 180-125.
- Colonie High School won three weeks in a row and retired undefeated.
Answers Please, 1987-88
- December 3, 1987 – Berne-Knox-Westerlo defeated Saratoga Spa Central 145-130.
- May 7, 1988 – Schuylerville High school defeated Academy of the Holy Names.
- May 14, 1988 – Schuylerville High school defeated Schalmont High School.
- May 21, 1988 – Schuylerville High School battled Christian Brothers Academy.
Answers Please, 1988-89 (host is Jim Brennan)
- Aired Saturdays, often switching timeslots from 11:30am to 12:00 noon. This was the show's final season.
- October 22, 1988 – Maple Hill High school defeated Greenwich Central High School.
- October 29, 1988 – Maple Hill won their second game of the season.
- November 5, 1988 – Webutuck High School defeated Maple Hill High School.
- November 12, 1988 – Webutuck High school defeated Edmeston High School.
- November 19, 1988 – Granville HS defeated Webutuck High.
- Amsterdam High School wins in consecutive weeks against Johnstown HS and Averill Park HS.
- February 28, 1989 – Amsterdam HS 150, Hoosac Valley HS 15. Amsterdam wins three weeks in a row and retires undefeated.
Okay, now here's the fun part. And I'm asking all you blog readers out there.
- Did you ever appear on "Little Red Schoolhouse" or "Answers Please?"
- What school did you represent?
- Who were your teammates?
- Who were the schools you faced?
- How did you do on the show?
- Do you remember the month and year in which your school appeared?
- Do you remember who hosted the show?
- Do you have any photographs or video footage from your appearance?
- Do you have any memories of your time on the show?
Feel free to comment. In fact, I hope you do comment. Any information or images you have will be added to the list above.
Much of the material for this blog post was provided by the Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium, Schenectady, N.Y. The assistance of the museum and of its archivist, Chris Hunter, is greatly appreciated.


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A strongly alkaline solution, especially of potassium hydroxide, used for washing or cleansing.
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- For example, sodium oxide dissolved in water yields sodium hydroxide, or lye.
- To make the Biodiesel, we heated the oil, then mixed in a measured solution of methanol and lye.
Old English lēag, of Germanic origin: related to Dutch loog, German Lauge, also to lather.
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- For most federal and state student aid, you must have financial need. Unsubsidized loans and parent loans are exceptions.
- You must be a United States citizen or an eligible non-citizen.
- You must have a high school diploma or GED.
- You must have a valid Social Security number. Your name on financial aid applications must exactly match the name on your Social Security card.
- You must make satisfactory academic progress (SAP).
- You must register with the Selective Service, if required. If you are a male age 18 through 25 who has not yet registered with Selective Service, you can register at ww.sss.gov or you can give Selective Service permission to register you by checking a box on the FAFSA.
- You must sign the FAFSA statement certifying that you are not in default on a federal student loan and that you do not owe money on a federal student grant.
- You must be admitted to an eligible program as a regular student working toward a degree. (You may not receive aid if you are enrolled as a guest student.)
Academic Standards required for Financial Aid Recipients:
Students who receive federal or state financial assistance (including student and/or parent loans) are required to make satisfactory progress toward the completion of their degree. Satisfactory progress is measured by the number of credits successfully completed (academic progress) each year and students' cumulative grade point average after each semester. In addition, students are limited to 125 percent of the published timeframe for their degree. This policy sets the minimum standards for evaluating satisfactory academic progress for federal and state financial assistance. State Grant programs are an exception to the 125 percent rule, their programs are limited to 8 semesters.
Academic Progress —
Academic progress for financial assistance is based on the number of credit hours completed each academic year. Students must complete 80% of the hours they attempt per academic year. Students have the summer semester to make up the progress required. If a student has extenuating circumstances, a letter of appeal should be addressed to the Financial Aid Office.
Cumulative Grade Point Average —
Financial Aid recipients are required to maintain the minimum grade point average as they progress toward the achievement of their degree. The Cumulative GP is based on the University's academic standards found in the University's Catalog. The Registrar's Office determines the GPA at the end of each semester. Students who fall below "Good Academic Standing" are placed on Academic Probation. A student is allowed one semester to bring their GPA back up to the required GPA. If the student is placed on Academic Probation a second semester consecutively the students loses their financial aid until the GPA requirement is met.
Penalties for Drug Law Violations —
A federal or state drug conviction can disqualify a student for FSA funds. Convictions only count if they were for an offense that occurred during a period of enrollment for which the student was receiving Title IV aid. If a student was convicted of both possessing and selling illegal drugs and the periods of ineligibility are different, the student will be ineligible for the longer period.


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Explore the UA Dance Program
The University of Akron Dance Program offers students traditional technical training combined with an academic program leading to a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree in Dance or Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Dance with a Business Cognate. A minor in dance is also available.
The UA Dance Program prepares students for:
- performing careers
- teaching careers
- graduate studies in fields related to dance such as arts administration (available at The University of Akron School of Dance, Theatre, and Arts Administration), physical therapy, dance therapy, dance history, dance ethnology, or dance education
Dance Program credit and time policy
In the dance program, lecture courses meet for 50-minute per credit hour each week for 15 weeks, with the expectation of two hours of work per credit outside of class. Majors level dance technique classes meet for a minimum of 100-minute per credit hour each week for 15 weeks.
Dance Degrees
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Dance
The B.F.A. dance major is designed for the student who wishes to pursue professional training in dance through an emphasis in ballet and modern dance technique. This program offers extensive training in technical, performing and choreographic skills and is supported by a core of coursework in dance history, pedagogy, and physical analysis. The B.F.A in Dance prepares students for performing, graduate studies in performance and choreography, fields related to dance such as arts administration, dance history, physical therapy, dance therapy, dance education, or dance ethnology, as well as teaching in private studios.
To learn more about the B.F.A. in Dance curriculum, click the following link.
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Dance with Business Cognate
This B.A. degree is designed to offer students a broad learning experience in dance, including ballet, modern, tap, and jazz, ballroom, and world dance forms supplemented by business studies. Core coursework includes choreography, dance history, pedagogy, and physical analysis. This program prepares students for dance studio management, graduate studies in the fields related to dance such as arts administration, dance history, physical therapy, dance, therapy, or dance ethnology, as well as teaching in private studios.
To learn more about the B.A in Dance with Business Cognate, click the following link.
Dance Minor
The Dance Program offers a minor in dance for 20-21 credits. The curriculum includes study in dance techniques, World Dance/Ballroom Dance, Dance Somatics, in addition to dance history and electives such as choreography and Learning Theory for Dance. See "Minor Areas of Study" in the current Undergraduate Bulletin for the Dance Minor requirements.
Undergraduate Bulletin
Additional information on majors and minors, such course descriptions, may be found in the undergraduate bulletin.


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While there is no official confirmation yet by Microsoft, Winrumors are reporting that the service pack 1 for Windows 7 will be released on February 16 for MSDN customers and February 22 for all customers. Close Microsoft partners have apparently been information about the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) milestone and the release dates. The information has to be taken with a grain of salt because of the missing official confirmation.
According to their information, build 7601.17514.101119-1850 is the final RTM build indicating that it has been completed last year. It is likely that Microsoft will make an official release announcement shortly to inform customers and users about the upcoming release.
Only a few new features are added to the operating system by the service pack. Take a look at the listing below for an overview:
- Additional support for communication with third-party federation services – Additional support has been added to allow Windows 7 clients to effectively communicate with third-party identity federation services (those supporting the WS-Federation passive profile protocol). This change enhances platform interoperability, and improves the ability to communicate identity and authentication information between organizations.
- Improved HDMI audio device performance – A small percentage of users have reported issues in which the connection between computers running Windows 7 and HDMI audio devices can be lost after system reboots. Updates have been incorporated into SP1 to ensure that connections between Windows 7 computers and HDMI audio devices are consistently maintained.
- Corrected behavior when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents – Prior to the release of SP1, some customers have reported difficulty when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents (documents containing pages in both portrait and landscape orientation) using the XPS Viewer, resulting in all pages being printed entirely in either portrait or landscape mode. This issue has been addressed in SP1, allowing users to correctly print mixed-orientation documents using the XPS Viewer.
- Change to behavior of "Restore previous folders at logon" functionality – SP1 changes the behavior of the "Restore previous folders at logon" function available in the Folder Options Explorer dialog. Prior to SP1, previous folders would be restored in a cascaded position based on the location of the most recently active folder. That behavior changes in SP1 so that all folders are restored to their previous positions.
- Enhanced support for additional identities in RRAS and IPsec – Support for additional identification types has been added to the Identification field in the IKEv2 authentication protocol. This allows for a variety of additional forms of identification (such as E-mail ID or Certificate Subject) to be used when performing authentication using the IKEv2 protocol.
- Support for Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) – There has always been a growing need for ever more computing power and as usage models change, processors instruction set architectures evolve to support these growing demands. Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) is a 256 bit instruction set extension for processors. AVX is designed to allow for improved performance for applications that are floating point intensive. Support for AVX is a part of SP1 to allow applications to fully utilize the new instruction set and register extensions.
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Take a sneak peek at the new NIST.gov and let us know what you think!
(Please note: some content may not be complete on the beta site.).
NIST Posts 51 Entries for New Hash Algorithm Competition
From NIST Tech Beat: December 23, 2008
Ben Stein
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the first-round candidates for its open cryptographic competition to select a new state-of-the-art "hash algorithm"—to be known as SHA-3—that will be added to government standards for securing digital signatures and other applications. (See "NIST Issues Call for a New 'Hash' Algorithm," Tech Beat, Nov.8, 2007.) Out of 64 submissions received by this past fall's deadline for the competition, NIST found 51 entries to be "complete and proper" and has posted those candidates on the competition Web site. Since the candidates have been posted, three of their submitters have conceded that their algorithms are broken. This and other information on the algorithms is being regularly updated on the competition Web site, which welcomes public comments on the entries. Submitters of the first-round candidates are invited to present their submissions at a conference in February. By 2012, NIST plans to hold two more conferences to narrow down the candidates and decide upon the finalist. The first-round candidates have been posted at NIST's Computer Security Resource Center.


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The basic styling of the CRF series is a centralized mass with triangular proportions. The mechanism is packed into the triangular area in the body center, and the long suspension system extends from there. This is the design basis for the off-road model.
I see! What makes the off-road model look so sturdy is its inverted triangular proportions. That is why I totally relied on it without noticing!


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The Simon school at the University of Rochester has appointed UCLA marketing professor Andrew Ainslie as its next dean. Prof Ainslie will take over from Mark Zupan on June 30.
Prof Ainslie grew up in Zimbabwe before studying for an undergraduate degree and MBA at the University of Cape Town. He received a PhD in marketing and statistics from Chicago Booth in 1998.
He has been senior associate dean for the full-time MBA programme at UCLA Anderson since 2010 but had a 10-year career in business before starting his academic career, starting as an electrical engineer. Joel Seligman, president of the University of Rochester, described Prof Ainslie as "an individual with a talent for leadership".
Prof Ainslie emphasised that Simon was a leader in analytics, including in his own subject of marketing. "It [the Simon Business School] has been at the forefront of an analytic, rigorous approach to business from its inception and today the business community is just beginning to understand the importance of that approach."
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Microsoft Corp. and Nikon Corp. have signed a patent cross-licensing agreement to further the development of each company's current and future product lines. The agreement covers digital cameras made by Nikon as well as a broad range of other consumer products each company manufactures and sells. Although the contents of the agreement have not been disclosed, the parties indicated that Microsoft is being compensated by Nikon.
The agreement was signed by representatives from both companies at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash.
Microsoft and Nikon have a long history of collaborating to bring high-quality, cutting-edge consumer products to the market, including wireless cameras and RAW processing technologies. The companies believe that this patent cross-licensing agreement will substantially benefit customers of consumer products including digital cameras. Both parties will be able to innovate openly with each other's technologies, enabling new features and products to come to market.
"This agreement will extend and enhance our already successful, long-standing collaboration with Nikon, and will allow us to provide even better products to our customers," said Josh Weisberg, director of the Rich Media Group at Microsoft.
"This agreement is another great example of how industry leaders are coming together to collaborate through intellectual property licensing, and by doing so enabling innovation that will ultimately benefit the consumer," said Horacio Gutierrez, vice president of intellectual property and licensing at Microsoft. "We are proud of the quality of our broad, global patent portfolio, and we are pleased to be working with an industry leader such as Nikon."
"At Nikon, we want to continue to lead the industry in pioneering photography solutions and give our customers access to innovative technology," said Naoki Tomino, director, member of the board and General Manager of Intellectual Property Headquarters at Nikon. "This agreement is a natural extension of our long-standing relationship with Microsoft, and we look forward to collaborating and bringing exciting new products to the market."
Microsoft's Commitment to Licensing Technology
The licensing agreement is another example of the important role IP plays in ensuring a healthy and vibrant IT ecosystem. Since Microsoft launched its IP licensing program in December 2003, the company has entered into more than 500 licensing agreements and continues to develop programs that make it possible for customers, partners and competitors to access its IP portfolio. The program was developed to open access to Microsoft's significant research and development investments and its growing, broad patent and IP portfolio. Over the past two years, Microsoft has entered into similar agreements with Alpine Electronics Inc., Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd., Kenwood Corp., Kyocera Mita Corp., LG Electronics, NEC Corp., Nortel Networks, Novell Inc., Olympus Corp., Onkyo Corp., Pentax, Samsung, Seiko Epson Corp. and Victor Co. of Japan Ltd. (JVC).
More information about Microsoft's licensing programs is available at http://www.microsoft.com/ip.
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HP (NYSE: HPQ) announced the HP Pavilion Mini Desktop and the HP Stream Mini Desktop, powerful and smart desktop PCs boosting performance in a small, contemporary, and energy-efficient design that looks beautiful in any room in the home.


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Lime Jello and Pineapple Salad
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 3 hrs
A good old standby and another way to get kids to eat some vegetables. Besides, it always looks good on the table especially when the center is filled with green seedless grapes.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (85 g) package lime Jell-O gelatin (jelly crystals)
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1⁄2 cup chopped canned pineapple ring
- 1⁄2 cup grated carrot
- 1⁄2 cup finely chopped celery
- 1⁄4 cup finely chopped pecans (optional) or 1⁄4 cup walnuts (optional)
- 1 cup boiling water
- Using a large bowl completely dissolve Jello in the boiling water.
- Mix in sour cream and whisk until there are no lumps.
- Stir in pineapple, carrots, celery and nuts.
- Pour into a ring Jello mould.
- Place in refrigerator and chill for at least three hours.
- When ready to serve unmould Jello by dipping the bottom in very hot water for a few moments, place a plate over the top and turn upside down.
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Yummy and a great way to get some nutrition! I made some healthy tweaks to this by using fat-free sugar-free lime jello, and non-fat sour cream. I also left out the nuts. Subbing cucumbers for the celery works well too! Thanks!! [Photo uploaded with comment]


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I changed the skin of our blog today. I think it reflects our corporate web site better and ties in nicely. I also changed the look of the AgencyWeb blog today. Now that we have this one updated, AW and the iMadness blog running maybe I'll start to blog on a regular basis!
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