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Putting the Emo in Emoji
Arika Okrent (previously and previously and previously) is known here as MentalFloss.com's language maven, usually looking at linguistic history, like English language words that only survive as parts of idioms and a group trying to revive the Lakota language. But her latest short piece clearly deals with the Future of Language: Emojis. And how the depiction of emojis for certain emotions vary between different devices/systems, sppecifically Apple/iOS, Google/Android and Samsung's proprietary sub-system for the Galaxy S5. [more inside]
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. -- Stewart Brand
Steam to sell productivity software [main link]. Gabe's dislike of the Windows 8 app store [BBC] may be explained. It's particularly interesting given that Steam is about to launch on Linux [Valve] [previously on Mefi]; it's one app store across all three platforms. [more inside]
1 button or 2? Answer: No buttons
"What kind of a**hole enters his game in the IGF before it's done and then decides to delay release for 2 years?" The creator of Monaco discusses the philosophy of one or two buttons in gaming. His answer: None. (NSF People who don't like Penny Arcade.)
Gone in a Flash
Microsoft announced today that Internet Explorer 10, part of Windows 8 and a massive UI and structural redesign, will come in two flavors: a desktop app that will continue "to fully support all plug-ins and extensions, " and the flagship version intended for touchscreen devices called Metro, which will be as "HTML5-only as possible, and plug-in free". Specifically, Metro won't support Adobe Flash. [more inside]
Sienfeld wants you to buy Vista, Shatner wants you to buy a Vic 20
The How-To Geek
The How-To Geek provides hints and tips for a variety of operating systems and popular pieces of software. The how-tos cover a pleasing range of head-slapping I-should-have-known-thats to relatively advanced techniques. Follow the latest page to read the site in blog form.
Death to IE?
Death to IE? If Firefox wasn't enough to ween you off Internet Explorer on Windows, perhaps Safari for Windows will be.
Small Number of Video iPods Shipped With Windows Virus
Small Number of Video iPods Shipped With Windows Virus. As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it. Oops!
Hot, hot, XP on Mac action!
Windows XP booting on Apple hardware: confirmed. The $14000 contest to get Windows XP to boot on the new Intel hardware from Apple is over as of today. While considerable work in the realm of device drivers needs to be done, (and the rumored method may violate the Windows EULA) much of the hardware is straight Wintel. Considering that the MacBook Pro and Intel-based iMac (not currently working) both pack ATI Radeon X1600s, serious PC gaming on Apple hardware via dual-booting may finally be in the realm of possibility. [Via: slashdot, engadget]
Someone is mad that paid too much for their MCSE
The clueless reviews the Mac Mini His chief gripes are "The Mini boots up into a stripped-down operating system which Apple calls OS X, similar to the stripped-down WindowsCE OS found on many handhelds." and "No serial ports, no way to connect a printer, no PS/2 ports, no floppy drive, no 5.25" bays." Let the hate mail campaign begin!
iTunes for Windows
iTunes for Windows! iTunes for Windows! The new phonebook's here! The new phonebook's here!
Celebrate, Windows users, you too can use the world's best MP3 player, with the final release of XPod today, which gives iPod compatiblity to Windows.
And this is not the only option, ephPod does the same thing, but does require you to buy a copy of MacOpener first.
Didn't Apple say they were coming out with their own Windows drivers for iPod eventually?
And this is not the only option, ephPod does the same thing, but does require you to buy a copy of MacOpener first.
Didn't Apple say they were coming out with their own Windows drivers for iPod eventually?
Fakeintosh - Have you ever wanted to run Mac OS 8 on your PC, but couldn't? Well now you can with this flash animation. I'm amazed at how detailed it is.
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Did you know there's a printable version of the graphic on the left? You can find it here, if you like to plan your own menus and grocery lists.
If you like the planning done for you, you're in the right place. This menu has 2 slow cooker meals included. One of them is a whole chicken in the slow cooker. Use the left over meat to make Italian Chicken and Rice Casserole later in the week.
As always, you get 6 dinners and 1 dessert. Serving suggestions are included on the menu in bold and on the grocery list in curly brackets {}.
Here's what's on the menu this week:
- Italian Chicken and Rice Casserole
- French Dip Sandwiches in the Slow Cooker, Quick Cole Slaw, Oven Fried Potatoes
- Mexican Beans and Rice
- Chicago Style Pizza Pot Pie
- Honey Cashew Pork Stir Fry
- Whole Chicken in the Slow Cooker
- Brownies with Chocolate Glaze
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text: recreation Why are we such gear freaks in the NW? By Charla Bear • Jun 8, 2012 Museum of History & Industry and Charla Bear In the Pacific Northwest, we know that yoga pants, polar fleece and hiking shoes are great for grocery shopping. But when we head into the great outdoors, we love to pile on the high-tech gear. Sure, the weather here demands a certain level of protection from the elements. But what is it that compels people in the Pacific Northwest to want every piece of equipment out there? Read more on I Wonder Why ... ? Washington ski areas may expand recreation opportunities By The Associated Press • Oct 20, 2011 clappstar / Flickr BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Congress has approved more summer activities at ski areas on federal lands. The Bellingham Herald reports the Ski Area Recreational Opportunity Enhancement Act the cleared the Senate Tuesday will allow ski areas to be used for more than winter sports.


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Good Afternoon! Buenas Tardes! The chat with Estela Hernandez will begin
at 1:00 PM, Please ask thoughtful questions, read other peoples questions
to see if they ask a question you had planned to ask and read Estela's
answers to see if they give you an idea for a new question.
[ BW/MAC-B.W./CarlisleAlternativeSchool -
1 - 12:58:32 ]
Hello people!
[ Susan/NASAChatHost
- 2 - 13:02:55 ]
Hello! Estela is here! You can ask her question now!
[ Estela/Ames -
3 - 13:03:33 ]
Hello! Buenas tardes!
[ Jake-Cindie/JohnJacobMiddleSchool - 6 -
13:06:05 ]
Hello Estela it's great to be here.
[ Estela/Ames -
7 - 13:06:06 ]
RE: [BW/MAC-B.W./CarlisleAlternativeSchool] Hi. What programs
have you worked on at Ames?
I've worked on the Space Shuttle, Chinook and several others.
[ Estela/Ames -
9 - 13:07:23 ]
RE: [Susan/NASAChatHost] How were
your results on the Space shuttle sim?
The result on the Shuttle were great. We got through the experiments that
we wanted.
[ Estela/Ames -
11 - 13:09:08 ]
RE: [Jake-Cindie/JohnJacobMiddleSchool] What
have you been working on today?
I'm working on a presentation to brief management on the last Space Shuttle
[ Estela/Ames -
12 - 13:10:07 ]
RE: [BW/MAC-B.W./CarlisleAlternativeSchool]
What missiles did you help simulate while you were at Lockheed?
While at Lockheed, I worked on the THAAD program.
[ Estela/Ames -
15 - 13:12:59 ]
RE: [Jake-Cindie/JohnJacobMiddleSchool] Have
you been working on any programs for the International Space Station?
No, I have not worked on the International Space Station. Although, there
are people at Ames that do.
[ Estela/Ames -
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RE: [BW/MAC-B.W./CarlisleAlternativeSchool]
What exactly is the THAAD program?
Missiles that can go at very high altitudes. They are still working and
testing the missiles.
[ Estela/Ames -
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RE: [Susan/NASAChatHost] Estela, Did you speak English
before you started school?
For the first six years of my life I only spoke Spanish. I learned English
in first grade.
[ Estela/Ames -
20 - 13:20:04 ]
RE: [BW/MAC-B.W./CarlisleAlternativeSchool]
How many of your brothers and sisters went on to college?
Three out of seven went to a 4 year university. The others went to trade
[ Estela/Ames -
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RE: [Anders-Anders/Sweden] Hi!! Sorry I´m late.
I wonder how much it costed to develop the space shuttle simulator.
I'm not sure how much the space shuttle simulator cost. The astronauts
have several different types of simulators.
[ Estela/Ames -
27 - 13:26:39 ]
RE: [BW/MAC-B.W./CarlisleAlternativeSchool]
What did you want to be when you were a child?
Growing up I did not have a specific idea about what I wanted to do. Although,
I always enjoyed math and science classes. I decide to take a variety
of classes to see what interested me the most.
[ Susan/NASAChatHost
- 29 - 13:28:42 ]
RE: [Anders-Anders/Sweden] Have the Canadian
"transferring arm" an own simulator?
Andres they have that at Johnson Space Center and the simulator that Estella
works on gives the astronauts a chance to practice landing the STS.
[ Estela/Ames -
30 - 13:29:47 ]
RE: [Jake-Cindie/JohnJacobMiddleSchool] Estela
I love science but I really struggle in math. Can you give some suggestions
on how I can overcome my math anxiety?
I think the hardest thing is tying to make sense of things. Ask as many
question as possible until things make sense to you. Don't give up until
you are satisfied with an answer.
[ Estela/Ames -
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RE: [Anders-Anders/Sweden] Has it happened
that an astronaut started to feel sick in a sim?
Some times pilots do feel sick in the simulator. I've only heard of pilots
getting sick but not while I was working. You eyes are seeing one thing
but you body is not experiencing what it's seeing so that is usually when
the pilots get sick.
[ Jake-Cindie/JohnJacobMiddleSchool - 34 -
13:33:16 ]
Thank you for the advice I will use it alot!
[ Estela/Ames -
36 - 13:37:04 ]
RE: [BW/MAC-B.W./CarlisleAlternativeSchool]
Your parents must have been very supportive in order to raise seven children
who were educationally successful and career-minded. What did they think
when you told them you wished to pursue a career in engineering/aeronautics,
which tend to be " male dominated" occupations.
My parents have been very supportive in my decision of being an aeronautical
engineer. They have always encouraged us to pursue what really interest
us. Although, there are not many women in engineering today there will
hopefully be more in the future.
[ Estela/Ames -
37 - 13:38:11 ]
RE: [Anders-Anders/Sweden] Do the sim operate
with compressed air or compressed oil??
It actually uses nitrogen.
[ Estela/Ames -
41 - 13:40:22 ]
RE: [Anders-Anders/Sweden] When was the shuttle
sims develop.
The Space Shuttle sim at Ames was developed in the late '70s. There is
usually 2 simulations a year that last around five weeks. The astronauts
do some of their training here.
[ Estela/Ames -
43 - 13:40:41 ]
RE: [Anders-Anders/Sweden] When was the shuttle
sims develop.
The Space Shuttle sim at Ames was developed in the late '70s. There is
usually 2 simulations a year that last around five weeks. The astronauts
do some of their training here.
[ Estela/Ames -
44 - 13:41:44 ]
RE: [BW/MAC-B.W./CarlisleAlternativeSchool]
If you ever stopped working at Ames, were would like to work instead?
I would eventually like to teach. My plans are to get my masters and teach
at a junior college.
[ Estela/Ames -
47 - 13:43:17 ]
RE: [Jake-Cindie/JohnJacobMiddleSchool] What's
the favorite part of your job?
My favorite part of my job is that we get to fly the aircraft. I've flown
helicopters, transports, the Space Shuttle and fighter planes.
[ Estela/Ames -
48 - 13:46:17 ]
RE: [Anders-Anders/Sweden] Do you like to chat
with students??
I think it's a great way to interact with students. I think that if I
would of had the chance to do this when I was a growing up I might of
know what I wanted to do sooner in life. It took me about three years
at a junior college before I realized a wanted to be an engineer.
[ Estela/Ames -
50 - 13:48:33 ]
RE: [Anders-Anders/Sweden] Is the sims going
24 hours a day?? I mean is it hard to get time with the sims?
No, the sim is not 24 hours. It usually runs for about 8 to 9 hours. The
sims are usually scheduled about a year in advance.
[ Jake-Cindie/JohnJacobMiddleSchool - 51 -
13:49:37 ]
I joined the CAP and I love to fly what types of fighter jets have you
[ Estela/Ames -
52 - 13:50:14 ]
RE: [BW/MAC-B.W./CarlisleAlternativeSchool]
Why a junior college and not a major university?
At a junior college you can concentrate more energy on the students and
not worry about publishing papers.
[ Susan/NASAChatHost
- 53 - 13:51:33 ]
Wow this chat is almost over already, send in your last questions!
[ Estela/Ames -
54 - 13:52:21 ]
RE: [BW/MAC-B.W./CarlisleAlternativeSchool]
Is the flying you do "virtual" like in a sim, or do you actually go out
and fly these aircrafts?
No, I don't get to fly the real aircraft but just the simulator. It's
a motion based simulator so you get a great sense that you are really
[ Estela/Ames -
63 - 13:53:38 ]
RE: [BW/MAC-B.W./CarlisleAlternativeSchool]
Is the flying you do "virtual" like in a sim, or do you actually go out
and fly these aircrafts?
No, I don't get to fly the real aircraft but just the simulator. It's
a motion based simulator so you get a great sense that you are really
[ Jake-Cindie/JohnJacobMiddleSchool - 66 -
13:54:08 ]
Estela thank you for a wonderful chat I realy enjoyed it!
[ Anders/Sweden - 67 - 13:55:12 ]
Thanks for this wonderful Chat Estela!!
[ Estela/Ames -
68 - 13:57:32 ]
RE: [B.W./CarlisleAlternativeSchool] How difficult
was the transition from Mexico to the U.S.A.
I was very young when I came to the US. I'm sure that since there was
a language difference that it was difficult.
[ Susan/NASAChatHost
- 69 - 13:59:06 ]
Thank you kids for the wonderful questions, thank you Estela for the great
answers! I enjoyed the Chat, come again!
[ Estela/Ames -
70 - 13:59:28 ]
RE: [Anders/Sweden] Is it hard for a Swede
to become a engineer on NASA??
Unfortunely, you have to be a US citizen in order to work for NASA but
there are contractors that will hire non US citizen that do the same jobs
that NASA employee do.
[ BW/MAC-B.W./CarlisleAlternativeSchool -
71 - 14:00:32 ]
Thank you for having the patience to answer our questions. Good day everyone!


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U.S. Senior Open Background
The fourth of five majors this season on the Champions Tour - and the second in two weeks - is set to start Thursday. The 34th U.S. Senior Open will be played at Omaha Country Club. The historic course was established in 1927.
The U.S. Senior Open's Francis D. Ouimet Memorial
Trophy (Photo Courtesy of the USGA)
Previous major winners in 2013 on the over-50 circuit include Japan's Kohki Idoki (Senior PGA Championship), Regions Tradition (David Frost) and Kenny Perry (Senior Players).
The Venue
The design duo of Langford and Moreau crafted the original Omaha CC course. Subsequent remodels were overseen by Perry Maxwell in 1951 and by Keith Foster in 2007. The current layout will be played at 6,711 yards and a par of 70 for the championship.
The course will have the second-longest par-3 in U.S. Senior Open history. The 230-yard third hole is the first of five par-3s at Omaha CC. The site also boasts the third-longest par-4 in U.S. Senior Open history - the 494-yard 10th, one of six par-4s on the inward half.
This will be the third USGA championship held in Nebraska and first U.S. Senior Open in the state. In 1941, Marvin (Bud) Ward defeated Pat Abbott to win the U.S. Amateur at the Field Club of Omaha. In 1996 at Firethorn Golf Club in Lincoln, Kelli Kuehne won her second consecutive U.S. Women's Amateur title.
Omaha Country Club has hosted the Nebraska State Amateur 15 times, most recently in 2005. Johnny Goodman, an Omaha native and the last amateur to win the U.S. Open, in 1933, won the second of his three consecutive Nebraska State Amateurs at Omaha CC in 1930.
The Field
The 156-player field boasts nine former U.S. Senior Open winners: Roger Chapman (2012), Dave Eichelberger (1999), Fred Funk (2009), Hale Irwin (1998, 2000), Peter Jacobsen (2004), Bernhard Langer (2010), Graham Marsh (1997), Don Pooley (2002) and Eduardo Romero (2008). Also entered is two-time Champions Tour major winner Fred Couples, who finished as the runner-up to Langer at Sahalee Country Club near his hometown of Seattle in 2010.
The USGA accepted 2,746 entries for the 2013 championship. Sectional qualifying over 18 holes was held at 34 sites in the United States June 17-27. Pooley was the last player to win the U.S. Senior Open as a sectional qualifier.
Eichelberger, at age 69 (born September 3, 1943), is the oldest player in this year's field. Marsh is also 69 (born January 14, 1944). Irwin is 68. Colin Montgomerie is the youngest in the field; the Scot turned 50 June 23.
Also playing are 28 amateurs, the lowest total since 2004, when the U.S. Senior Open was held at Bellerive Country Club. Among the amateurs are Doug Hanzel, the low amateur at last year's U.S. Senior Open, and Paul Simson, the 2010 and '12 USGA Senior Amateur champion.
Several players withdrew in advance of the 2013 U.S. Senior Open. They include Russ Cochran (wrist injury), Brad Bryant (knee), two-time U.S. Senior Open winner Allen Doyle (unidentified medical condition), Nick Price (elbow), Craig Stadler (foot) and 2011 champion Olin Browne (back). They were replaced by amateur Don Reycroft, of Norfolk, Mass.; amateur Matt Hall, of Grand Junction, Colo.; Kirk Nelson, of Kihei, Hawaii; Don Thames, of Rancho Murieta, Calif.; Kym Olsen, of Australia; and Jerry Vidovic, of Blue Island, Ill., respectively. On Tuesday, Hal Sutton pulled out because of a hip injury. He was replaced by David Ladd, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Ladd will be paired in the first two rounds with Corey Pavin and Steve Elkington.
There will be at least 14 hours of live network coverage of the U.S. Senior Open, with at least six of those hours on NBC. ESPN will air at least eight hours over the first two days. If a three-hole aggregate playoff is necessary on Sunday, NBC will continue its coverage following the conclusion of Sunday's final round. Here's the broadcast schedule (all times CDT):
Thursday, July 11 - ESPN2*: 3-7 p.m.
Friday, July 12 - ESPN2*: 3-7 p.m.
Saturday July 13 (Sat.) - NBC: 1:30-5 p.m.
Sunday, July 14 - NBC: 1:30-5 p.m.
NBC television golf analyst Gary Koch will have double-duty after advancing through the Dunedin, Fla., sectional qualifier. Koch made it through a 4-for-2 playoff after shooting a 70. Koch won six PGA Tour events and played in 17 U.S. Opens, with his best finish a tie for sixth in 1982. He began his career as a sportscaster in 1990 by working for ESPN on Champions Tour events before moving to NBC Sports. Koch won the 1969 Florida Open as an amateur at age 16 and captured the U.S. Junior Amateur in 1970. As a member of the University of Florida golf team, he was runner-up to Ben Crenshaw at the 1973 NCAA Tournament. Koch, 60, who was inducted into the Florida Sports Hall of Fame last year, is making his second Senior Open appearance, having played in 2003.
Tickets & Online Updates
Tickets for the 2013 U.S. Senior Open Championship are available at www.2013ussenioropen.com. Competition-day grounds tickets are $150 (good from Thursday through Sunday with parking). Weekly packages and Trophy Club tickets are sold out.
The above report is courtesy of the USGA. For more information, visit www.usga.org. For further details about the U.S. Senior Open, including starting times, visit http://www.usga.org/ChampEventSite.aspx?id=17179869345.
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Students with disabilities often need extra support and advocacy to become college-ready. A new service has been launched at the Institute on Community Integration (ICI) to provide that support and advocacy for high school and college-age students with disabilities and their families in the Twin Cities area. It is called College Prep/ICI.
College Prep/ICI works collaboratively with individual students, families, and professionals to help set the stage for a successful transition from high school to the college of their choice. Services are available for students with learning disabilities, ADHD/ADD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, traumatic brain injury, anxiety, depression, other mental health issues, sensory impairments, physical disabilities, and chronic illness. College Prep/ICI staff, working on a fee-for-service basis, help students constructively assess and build on academic and vocational aptitudes, evaluate and strengthen independent living and social skills, improve executive functioning skills, navigate college admissions and financial aid processes, develop effective IEPs, understand accommodations and high stakes testing (e.g., AP tests, ACT/SAT), and connect with adult service programs and other resources. They provide a number of specific services tailored to the needs of each student, including:
College Prep/ICI operates within two frameworks developed at the University of Minnesota. The first, Ramp-up to Readiness,™ is a program of the University's College Readiness Consortium that is used to support college readiness for Minnesota students in five goal areas: Academic, Admissions, Career, Financial, and Personal/Social. College Prep/ICI staff work with students to develop individualized goals in each area, and use the Ramp-up to Readiness Standards to assess their college readiness. The second framework, Check & Connect, was developed at ICI to promote student engagement with school and reduce dropout for K-12 students. College Prep/ICI staff use the Check & Connect model to monitor student progress through regular personal contact, and help keep students on track.
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Where did the break-up of the Roman provinces into Germanic kingdoms occur? (Carolingian) Focus on the Pope.
Romanesque style
-Roman basilicas
-Oriented to the east (Jerusalem)
-Cruciform shape
-Apse, altar, vaulted ceiling, columned aisles
First Romanesque Style
-Fortress like walls
-Small windows
-Wooden roofs
-Rubble masonry
-Projecting vertical bands of masonry: "Lombard bands"
Triumph of life over death (resurrection)
The altar and apse framed by the triumphal arch represented what in the Christian Basilica?
What did artists put on the figures in their mosaics to represent light/composition which drew the eye to the main figure and indicated their importance?
What type of art had figures that never looked at the audience to represent that they were higher above the normal viewer?


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If you're one of the lucky ones, you have a choice of different Internet service providers in your area. Don't just trust the advertised speeds — look at the data to find the fastest ISP near you.
Windows has quite a few features for automatically arranging windows, placing them side by side or tiling them on your screen. These features are a bit hidden, so you may not have noticed them.
If the paperless office isn't here for you yet, you can print from your iPad or iPhone. Sure, you can't directly connect a printer to your iPad, but there are plenty of ways to print wirelessly.
There are two big choices when it comes to reading eBooks. You can go with either a dedicated eReader, like a Kindle Paperwhite, or a tablet with an LCD screen, like an iPad — but which is best?
When you don't have unlimited mobile data on your Android or iPhone, every megabyte counts. Mobile browsers like Google Chrome and Opera offer a built in data compression feature, allowing you to browse with less data.
There is a huge number of antivirus programs to choose from, so how do you find the best one? Do you use what came with your computer or what your friend recommended? How do you know if it's any good?
Many computer users were trained never to turn their PCs off by pressing the power button on their desktop PC's case. This used to cause problems in the previous millennium, but it's now perfectly safe to shut down with the power button.
Apple sells Apple Remote Desktop on the Mac App Store for $80, but you don't have to spend any money to remotely connect to your Mac. There are free solutions — including one built into your Mac.
Microsoft Office saves hidden metadata in your Office documents, including how long you've been working on them, the name of everyone who's worked on the document, when the document was created, and even previous versions of the document.
Once a month, a new version of the Malicious Software Removal tool appears in Windows Update. This tool removes some malware from Windows systems, particularly those systems without antivirus programs installed.
The Mission Control feature in Mac OS X allows you to arrange windows into several different screens you can quickly switch between. This feature was formerly known as Spaces, and is called virtual desktops or workspaces on Linux.
Not all Wi-Fi networks are created equal. Wi-Fi access points can function in either "ad-hoc" or "infrastructure" mode, and many WI-Fi-enabled devices can only connect to infrastructure-mode networks, not ad-hoc ones.
A keylogger is a piece of software — or, even scarier, a hardware device — that logs every key you press on your keyboard. It can capture personal messages, passwords, credit card numbers, and everything else you type.
Bill Gates famously said "two years from now, spam will be solved" back in 2004. It's now ten years later and more than 70% of emails are spam, according to Kaspersky. Why is spam still such a problem?
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Spam seems to arrive in every single email account we use, no matter how careful we are. How are spammers getting all our email addresses? And can we do anything to hide our email address from spammers?
Many laptops now include a combined headphone and microphone jack instead of two separate audio jacks. This trend started with smartphones and tablets, but has spread to MacBooks, ultrabooks, and convertibles like Microsoft's Surface Pro.
Intel x86 or x64 processors have traditionally been found in laptops and desktops, while ARM processors have been found in lower-power embedded devices, smartphones, and tablets. But you can now buy laptops with ARM chips and smartphones with Intel chips.
Are you having a problem with your Internet connection or Wi-Fi? Whatever the problem — from a flaky connection to Wi-Fi troubles or even no access to the Internet at all — some router troubleshooting could fix things.
Malware isn't the only online threat to worry about. Social engineering is a huge threat, and it can hit you on any operating system. In fact, social engineering can also occur over the phone and in face-to-face situations.
A false positive is a mistake that happens occasionally — the antivirus thinks a download is harmful when it's actually safe. But malicious people may try to trick you into downloading malware with this assurance.
Windows 8 was very different from Windows 7, but change is only speeding up — Windows 8.1 has seen quite a few changes since Windows 8. You'll have new things to learn, whichever which version of Windows you're upgrading from.
Chrome 32 now offers a new feature on Windows 8: A full-screen, Chrome OS-style desktop mode. The Chrome app launcher can bring Chrome OS to the Windows desktop, but Chrome can now replace the Windows desktop entirely.
Steam Machines, also known as Steamboxes, are Valve's attempt at bringing PC gaming to the living room. In a way, they'll compete with game consoles like the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Wii U.
Do you prefer Google Chrome to Microsoft's Windows 8 apps? Well, you're in luck, even if you have a Windows 8 PC. You can swap the entire "Modern" environment for the Chrome OS desktop, hiding the Windows 8 interface entirely.


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This is an alert for all the French Marion Cotillard fans! Can't wait to hear news of tonight's Oscar ceremony? Don't know how to pass the time till the wee hours? Here's something you can do. Watch La Guerre dans le Haut Pays tonight on Cinecinema Emotion at 10.55pm. To my knowledge the film, originally released in 1998, is only available on DVD in Switzerland as part of a very expensive and rare Ferdinand Ramuz DVD collection and is therefore really hard to catch. Marion's portrayal of the passionate and young Juliette is sure to break your heart – and I bet you'll be even more in awe of her talent after seeing this.
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As an American Cotillard fan, I don't have access to many of her films like this one. It's very unfortunate! If anyone has this movie and uploads it somehow, I would be very very appreciative 😀Feb 24, 08 at 11:44 pm


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Smriti opens up four shot lead
Smriti Mehra opened up a four shot lead over Neha Tripathi at the end of the first round in the fifth leg of the Hero Women's Pro Golf Tour 2013 at the Chandigarh Golf Club on Wednesday. Smriti, who has already won two titles this season, continued her good run to open a sizeable lead over Neha to end Day One at one under 71.
Telefunken triumph
Telefunken Club won a keenly-contested final against Rudra Sports, Ghaziabad, by nine runs to clinch the 4th All India Manoj Singh Memorial cricket tournament at the Nehru Stadium in Ghaziabad on Tuesday. The match was a high-scoring affair with close to 500 runs being scored but the Telefunken boys managed to hold on to their nerves for a memorable win.
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Noah built a giant ark to save the creatures on the earth, in the face of a natural disaster. But for four South Florida men, it has become more than just a biblical tale. Reniel Aguila, Rodolfo Almira, Osmar Oliva and Manuel Guerra have decided to follow in Noah's footsteps.
When B'town's ex-files opened again
Sunny and Anu Dewan's Christmas bash was perhaps the mother of all parties this season. When was the last time you saw Salman Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Karisma Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan under one roof?
Gihana's 'big break'
This little gem had us in splits. A leading foreign news website recently published an item about an Afghani actress fearing for her life after acting in a Bollywood film. The snippet of information had us agog: Who could this actress, Gihana Khan, be? And which scandalous B'wood film was she risking life and limb to act in?
History, through a film's set
It may have been 52 years since Mughal E Azam released, but its art direction still inspires those in the industry. The elaborately constructed sets haven't been replicated in all their detailing and splendour to this day. Of special interest is the Sheesh Mahal, or the Palace of Mirrors, that was made especially for the film.
Veena ready for a new innings
Actress Veena Malik, who has been associated with the world of cricket for quite sometime now, is geared up to host a segment on a Hindi television news channel along with former Pakistani cricketer Zaheer Abbas.
Delhi Youth League kicks off
The opening ceremony of the Delhi Youth League, a football tournament for sub-junior children, was held at Delhi Public School, RK Puram, on Thursday.
Aditi emerges champion
Bengaluru golfer Aditi Ashok clinched the final junior title of the year, with a three day total of 236 in the combined age categories of the Toyota IGU All India finals, at the par-72 Royal Calcutta Golf Club on Thursday.
Ash's kiss and tell moment
Aishwarya Rai is not one to pour her heart out to amuse the paparazzi. But the calculated actress caved in when veteran British journalist Sir David Frost prodded her about her first onscreen lip lock with Hrithik Roshan in Dhoom 2. "You're going to get me to talk about something that I haven't, in any of my interviews," Rai told Frost in an exclusive rendezvous on Al Jazeera English.


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Get Your Bird To Try New Foods When it comes to your bird's food, if your bird only likes one type of fruit or vegetable, try similar-looking items to get it to sample a new one. For example, if your bird only likes to eat apples, try introducing a pear or Asian pear for him to try. It has a similar texture and flavor to an apple, and your bird won't know the difference as it munches away on what it thinks is its favorite fruit!
Similarly, if your bird only likes a certain vegetable, try the same trick. If your bird will only eat snap peas, try edamame or snow peas. If your bird likes broccoli, mix in some cauliflower for him to try.
Toy? What Toy? While some pet bird stores allow you to bring your bird in with you, often or not, you are on your own when you look over the massive toy wall. What do you get for your bird? You might say to yourself, "My bird likes to chew on electrical cords and my picture frames," and you'll notice that none of the toys look like those items.
As with the fruits and vegetables, try similar textures to fill in for what your bird normally likes to chew up. If your bird tries to chew on electrical cords, try leather strips, which have a similar texture. If he likes picture frames, try giving him a toy with a thick cardboard base that he can have fun tearing apart.
Other Things Your Bird Might Love There are a number of things you can give your bird that it might know it loves. Surprise your bird with an edible perch, a climbing net or a boing. They're like a perch and toy, combined into one, and provide great ways for your bird to exercise (chewing can be considered exercise, right?).
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WASHINGTON-When I brought up the subject of health care legislation, Sen. Ron Wyden was quick to say: "My name won't be on it."
The Oregon Democrat has staked much of his time and reputation on a sweeping health-care reform bill that has attracted a bipartisan group of supporters. I had the chance to talk with Wyden in his office this afternoon while he bolted a much-delayed salad for lunch.
An opening for health-care reform has clearly arrived. President Barack Obama insists that he will make a major push for it this year and Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., has an ambitious timeline for getting to work. Baucus wants his committee members, including Wyden, to begin voting on the provisions of a bill by June, which is pretty darn quick for a subject of this intensity and complexity.
As Obama made clear at the health care summit he hosted at the White House last week, the pivotal figure is Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass, who is fighting brain cancer but would like this to be the culminating achievement of a storied Senate career.
So Kennedy will certain be the public face of the bill in the Senate, as well as Baucus because of his key chairmanship. And, of course, it will ultimately be seen as Obama's success or failure.
Wyden said he's fine with being a legislative mechanic. "If we can get the bulk of what we have fought for," he said, "that will be ultimately very satisfying."
As Wyden sees it, his main advantage is that he has a bill that's been vetted and found by congressional budget experts to be no more expensive than the current system. With the deficit rising like a rocket, that's no little thing.
And of course, Wyden has a half-dozen Republicans who support his approach. As the Democrats are learning, they can't do much in the Senate without some GOP votes.
The question is just how closely his colleagues and Obama will listen. There are certainly many Democrats nervous about Wyden's push to cut the link between employment and health care (although Wyden has tried to allay fears by including language allowing people to keep the same coverage they have under their employers if they so wish).
Obama, who lavished praise on Kennedy at the health care summit, mentioned several other congressional figures (10 to be exact) before giving a shout-out to Wyden. He praised the Oregon senator for raising "the issue of modifying the tax exclusion for higher income Americans."
That's not exactly the central point of Wyden's bill, but the senator, ever the pragmatist, was taking what he could. "Our philosophy is, we're working with everybody," he said, noting that not a day goes by where he doesn't talk to one of the key players on the issue.
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Imagine this. You wander into your local neighborhood coffee shop for your daily tall nonfat latte. There on the wall is a sign saying that the Portland City Council has required owners of independent java joints to charge a minimum of $4 for all espresso drinks.
"That's absurd!" you sputter.
"Oh," counters your favorite coffee clerk, "that ain't the half of it." As he explains, Starbucks can still charge $2.30.
You'd be outraged. So would the Nose. And that's why he's frothing mad at Randy Leonard. The city commissioner hasn't (yet) mandated minimum coffee prices, but he's done something that strikes the Nose as equally bizarre.
Late last month, the city office which licenses taxis determined that town cars have to charge at least $45 for trips to and from the airport--but allowed cabs to keep their same metered rate, which is roughly 30 bucks for trips from downtown.
Since when is it the business of a city to tell private enterprise that they cannot charge less for their services? The Nose isn't a lawyer and doesn't know if this action amounts to an illegal restraint of trade and discrimination. What he does know is that this makes about as much sense as adding eggnog to a cappuccino.
Now, the Nose realizes that taxis and town cars, unlike coffee shops, are highly regulated. And, he knows that taxis, unlike town cars, must offer service to all comers, cover the entire city and stay open 24/7. Protecting the taxis' airport business, the Nose is told, is simply to "level the playing field."
But taxis already get a wheel up. The taxi industry is controlled by three companies that run the majority of the 384 city-licensed taxis. Taxi medallions allow cabbies priority spots at the airport and hotels and exempt them from federal laws that prohibit price-fixing and other practices that the government frowns upon.
No, the real reason to go after town cars is that the Portland taxi industry is in the toilet. On average, drivers take home about 50 percent less than they did five years ago, says Justin Dune, Leonard's taxi troubleshooter. "Too many hunters and not enough buffalo," Dune explains.
Exactly. But rather than letting the cab companies feel the logical pain of excess capacity, the city has rushed in and penalized the competition: the 117 city-licensed town cars. This is a group of small entrepreneurs, many of whom work 14 hours a day and for whom the idea of a "level playing field" does not include being required to charge more than the cabbie down the block.
Previous studies of Portland's taxi industry have found that there are simply too many cabs. Logically, the city should eliminate some of those medallions--either by buying them back, or letting the less successful taxi companies go out of business. Not by providing the sort of price supports that would make a Virginia tobacco farmer blush.
What's next, a surcharge on street-corner hot dogs to protect the owners of white-tablecloth restaurants?
Even George W. Bush figured out that you can't protect an industry that is defined by over-capacity: He dumped steel tariffs last week because he recognized that the cost of propping up domestic steel was far more than the benefit.
It's time for Leonard to wake up and smell the bitter aroma of this silly subsidy--one that is particularly pungent in a city that claims it wants to promote small businesses.


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South Medford 70, Grants Pass 35: South Medford used a 25-2 first quarter to pummel Grants Pass 70-35 Friday night.
A combination of missed shots and turnovers plagued Grants Pass in the opening quarter. Keyari Sleezer, who finished with 18 points, hit two threes in the quarter to help propel South Medford.
South Medford's Ashley Bolston led all scorers with 19 points.
By the half, South Medford led 38-10.
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We are still a house divided. Not by what coffee machine we will use that one is a given it is now and will always be the Keurig. Why do we love it so much you ask? Well the answer is simple we can both have what we want with no cross over on taste and no sacrifice for quality. Lee is a coffee person, has been since the day we met and I don't think he will ever give it up. The taste of coffee turns my stomach inside out I simply cannot handle it although I do love the smell. Instead I drink tea, cider, hot chocolate and the like as do our kids (well not so much on the tea). I have five VERY busy children and no time in my day to wait for a kettle to boil only to wait until it is a much more manageable temperature to drink. By the time it is ready and cool enough to drink we are running out the door to scouts, sparks, swimming or one of the many other activities that we do. With the Keurig I can pop in a k-cup, stick my cup under and press the cup size button and then continue hunting for socks, shoes, pants, diaper bags and the like.
The two cup size options it offers are a 7-1/4-ounce cup and a 9-1/4-ounce mug. This machine also features an automatic 2 hour shut off timer which means that when I forget to turn it off (which I will) that it remembers for me!! My favorite feature may be the descaling indicator though letting me know when it is time to give the machine a good cleaning.
I mentioned above that I just pop in a K-cup, some of you may not know what that is. That is the special little cup that you buy and is basically the coffee/tea/cider/whatever drink your brewing. You put it in the machine, close the lid. Special needles pierce the top and bottom which allows water to move through the grounds and brew a delicious cup of coffee or tea. There is over 200 different varieties of coffee, tea, hot chocolate, iced drinks and more available for the Keurig in over 25 different brands. Lee's favorite was Donut Shop coffee. My favorite drink out of our Keurig is either the Hot Cocoa or the Hot Apple Cider, nothing better on a cold day then playing in the snow with the kids coming into the house and in mere minutes having Hot Cocoa and Hot Coffee for all of us to enjoy and warm up drinking.
The Keurig B40 is available at Staples for only $99.99 a steal of a deal for an amazing machine. The k-cups are also available from Staples and vary in price and box size from about $12.50 to $29.99 and that is for 18-45 K-cups. Have a blend of coffee you really love but don't like the wait time no worries Keurig has you covered there too. With the Keurig My K-Cup Filter, priced at $19.74, you can brew your own blend right in your Keurig.


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Valley now known not for agriculture or quality of life, but for flooding
If you're as saddened as I am that the Snoqualmie Valley is now best known not for agriculture, recreation, or quality of life, but instead for flooding, hold on to your hip waders, because you aren't going to believe this:
(1) Connor Development is in the permit process for a new "Swiftwater IV" subdivision in Carnation, consisting of 14 homes built on "critter pads" in or near the 100-year Tolt River floodway. These "critter pads," designed to raise the ground floor of each home "one (1) foot above designated flood plain elevations," will be built with materials excavated from just behind the existing Frew levee.
In a letter from King County Water and Land Resources Division Manager Dave Clark to Carnation City Planner Steve Munson, Mr. Clark warns: "Land water excavation along the levee can exacerbate seepage and reduce the structural integrity of the levee, resulting in increased risk of levee damage or failure ... The proposed area of excavation is located where the levee has the least freeboard."
(2) Most of the 14 homes will be built on land that is Carnation city "open space" and in violation of a city ordinance covering "land adjacent to public waters." The ordinance requires the city to designate as open space along the river's edge property "50 feet past the upland edge of the floodway." Not only are the proposed lots not 50 feet away from the floodway, the Connor maps show eight of the lots clearly in the floodway and several as much as 50 feet inside the floodway.
(3) The environmental checklist submitted by Connor to the city of Carnation as part of the permit application process understates the scope of the excavation behind the levee by as much as 2,000%--15,800 cubic feet vs. 13,800 cubic yards! In addition, the permit application is patently wrong in answers to questions concerning wildlife (no mention of nesting bald eagles) and clearcutting of trees and groundcover--3.7 acres claimed vs. 7-plus acres per map.
A letter to local residents from Mayor Jack Stein verifies that this same application was sent to 17 state and county agencies for review. How can these agencies provide accurate feedback to an application that is so far off base? At minimum, Connor should be required to resubmit the application and the city should redistribute it with a letter explaining the reasons why.
(4) Connor Development had all new home buyers in the Swiftwater development sign an agreement not to "protest" any future subdivisions. Despite concerns about how the new development will impact the floodway and their homes, the Swiftwater Homeowner Association and many of its member residents have been forced to abandon their plans to hire an attorney.
This is more than a neighborhood issue. More than a Carnation issue. Developers building in the floodway or floodplain is a concern for all Snoqualmie Valley residents and residents in all flood-ravaged counties in the state.
Don't get mad, get involved! Contact Mayor Jack Stein or City Planner Steve Munson to voice your concerns at 333-4192.
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Syracuse, N.Y. -- New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said Wednesday he's undecided on whether to vote yes or no on expanded gambling across the state.
Neither DiNapoli personally nor his office have taken a position on expanded gaming, a part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's agenda to improve the Upstate economy and build a new revenue stream for the state.
"My overall view would be one of caution, and not to put too high expectations if it passes," DiNapoli said Wednesday in an interview at the Syracuse Media Group offices. "If the revenues come in as strong as the proponents argue, then great. Then we can figure out how to work that into our long-term plan. But in the short run I'd be very cautious before I would consider that to be a solid source of significant revenue."
On Nov. 5, voters will decide whether to allow as many as seven Las Vegas-style casinos in New York. Currently, the state allows video lottery games at racetrack venues -- known as racinos -- and casinos operated by Native American tribes.
If the casino referendum is approved, the state would allow developers to bid on building up to four casinos in certain areas -- including the Catskills, the Capital Region and part of the Southern Tier. Other areas of the state, including Central New York, would not be eligible because gaming pacts with the tribes offer exclusivity zones for existing casinos, such as the Turning Stone Resort in Oneida County.
Still, counties across the state would share in the casinos revenues. This week, Cuomo's office said the new casinos, paired with the gaming agreements with the Indian tribes, could bring as much as $430 million annually. Central New York, for example, would see $28 million from the gaming revenues if the measure passes. That money would go toward school districts and local property tax relief -- not into state coffers.
So far, those estimates haven't sold DiNapoli, a Democrat like Cuomo. On Wednesday, he said he was still listening to the debate before deciding how he would vote.
"In the short run, it is probable that you will see some increased revenue if this gets approved," DiNapoli said Wednesday. "I think the more difficult part of the equation to evaluate is, long term, what does it mean? And I say that because we're located in a region where other states are moving in the same direction," he said, mentioning Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New Jersey as examples.
"I think it's very hard to put solid numbers, in terms of projections, and I do have a concern that you're competing for a finite amount of entertainment money that may be available," DiNapoli added. "And I do have a worry that we have to ensure that we have support there for those that we know will fall into the category of being compulsive gamblers."
Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy said this week the plan would put an extra $4.7 million toward gambling addiction treatment. He also said the state would review that funding -- and the need for treatment -- and increase the spending if needed.
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Rules for Entrepreneurs - good habits to develop
I thought they were great habits for everyone to develop and included a 17th for good measure
Habits of Mind for successful entrepreneurs
1. Persisting
2. Managing impulsivity - when you get 'emotionally flooded' it gets hard to respond appropriately. Remaining calm, thoughtful and deliberate
3. Listening with understanding and empathy - genuinely looking to understand the other viewpoint
4. Thinking flexibly - being able to change perspective as necessary
5. Thinking about your thinking - Brain needs time to process, it's in the quiet time that understanding can happen. 3 x 3 mins per day
6. Striving for accuracy - doing your best - (but not perfection, that is impossible)
7. Questioning and problem posing
8. Applying past knowledge to new situations, know that you have the capability to use your past to help your future. You cannot really fail
9. Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision - Fuzzy language = Fuzzy thinking = Fuzzy results
10. Gather data through all your senses - don't use just your mind
11. Creating, imagining and innovating - something Kiwi's are good at, our number eight wire thinking
12. Responding with wonderment and awe - every day.
13. Taking responsible risks - it's in loss or perception of failure that learning and growth can happen, learn to live on the edge of your competence and try new things often
14. Finding humour - especially of oneself
15. Thinking interdependently- able to work with others,
16. Remaining open to continuous learning
17. Paying it forward - giving something back
The ideas are from 'Habits of Mind' Art Costa
How many of these are habits of yours? 4 or 5? 10, none!
What are you going to do develop any of them further, and add more good habits to your score? And how will you ensure you keep yourself accountable to them and know that you have made the improvements?
I've been told it takes 21 consecutive days to change a habit, build a new one, or get rid of one.
The challenge - Choose one of the above...work on it for 21 days. Work our specifically what you may need to do or actions that you need to take. Tell others that you are going to work on it, ask for their help to hold you accountable.
Well done if you take the challenge.
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During the 2012 Super Bowl, CareerBuilder debuted a new commercial featuring chimpanzees, despite hearing from tens of thousands of concerned consumers who were offended by the company's ongoing exploitation of chimpanzee "actors." CareerBuilder first began airing ads that portrayed chimpanzees as misbehaving office workers in 2005, but the company announced that it was permanently retiring the campaign in 2008. Company officials went back on their promise and decided once again to exploit chimpanzees for their commercials.
What's wrong with using chimpanzees in ads? Chimpanzees used in the entertainment and advertising industries are typically very young animals who are prematurely removed from their mothers—often just days or weeks after birth.
Trainers use physical abuse to ensure that chimpanzees know "who's boss" and to force the animals to perform confusing, unnatural behaviors on cue.
By the time chimpanzees reach approximately 8 years of age, they are too strong to be safely handled and are often discarded at unaccredited roadside zoos or otherwise warehoused in appalling conditions. Using them in such advertisements also undermines conservation efforts. A 2008 study published in the journal Science revealed that using this endangered species for advertising seriously hinders conservation efforts by misleading the public into believing that the animals are not in jeopardy.
Send a quick, polite note to CareerBuilder and urge the company to follow the lead of other companies by agreeing not to feature chimpanzees in any future ads.
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One person is dead and another is injured in a shooting at a northeast Florida nursing home.
A Clay County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman says the victims shot Wednesday afternoon at the Life Care Center in Orange Park are believed to be a husband and wife in their 70s. The male victim was pronounced dead; the woman is said to have suffered life-threatening injuries.
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I still cant get into my garden. The water puddles are gone and the weeds are starting to grow. The soil surface isnt as squishy as it was a week ago, but it is evident the garden is still too wet to begin digging, tilling and planting.
Its important to know the difference between soil that is ready and soil that isnt. Handling wet soil can cause textural damage it wont recover from for an entire year.
This is why, when you read anything in a magazine or gardening book stating you should wait until your soil can be worked, you definitely should not work it no matter how long it takes.
I learned this the hard way several years ago when we did work the soil too soon. What I ended up with the rest of the summer was not a soft, loamy garden, but instead was a hard, rock-like garden plot that, although I planted anyway, was difficult the rest of the year. This spring it has taken longer than usual to get into the garden and till the remainder of last years weeds so we can plant even just the cool weather vegetables.
How do you know when the soil is ready? The best way to figure it out is the same method farmers have used since the beginning of agriculture, pick up a handful of soil and squeeze. Open your hand and see what happens. If the ball of soil stays in a ball, its still too wet. If it falls apart with the consistency of cake, it is safe to start digging furrows and loosening it up for the planting.
All we need is a couple days of warm, dry weather with adequate sunshine for the soil to get to that point. As I type this, we are promised those few days this weekend. I might get those onion starts planted after all.
Soil is a wonderful thing. You might call it dirt, but a gardener will tell you that dirt is what you sweep out of your house. Soil is where you grown your vegetables and flowers.
Soil is alive. We cant see them, but healthy soil is filled with living things including fungi, bacteria, protozoa, nematodes, arthropods and earthworms. These organisms all have a purpose. Some feed on decaying organic matter, turning it into compost, which is basically more soil. Still others feed upon each other creating the nutrients that plants need. When all of these organisms are in balance, the soil is healthy. Healthy soil creates healthy plants that are able to fend off disease and insect infestation. Healthy plants offer good health to the people and animals who eat them. Do you see the cycle?
When we use the same patch of soil over and over without replenishing what our plants use, the balance is disturbed. To regain that balance, we need to add compost and other organic matter back into the mix. Just as though we were borrowing a cup of sugar from our neighbor, the polite thing to do is replace what we use.
An important component to soil is its texture, consisting of three types: sand, silt and clay. Clay is the smallest particle. It is sticky and heavy and clings together. Water and oxygen cant get through it. Most of the soil in our area is primarily clay, although there are areas that could be described as primarily sand. Sand is the largest soil particle. It is gritty and coarse and water flows through quickly. Where water cant penetrate clay, it runs through sandy soils so fast the plants dont have time to drink it up. Silt particles are smaller than sand, but not as small as clay. Silt is slippery and fine, like baby powder.
A fourth type of soil texture is a combination of all three and is called loam. Loam is ideal garden soil. Water runs through it at just the right speed so that plants can drink what they need and the rest drains away. Oxygen also penetrates the particles and is used by those organisms mentioned earlier. Plants roots use oxygen to take in water. When the soil is saturated, oxygen is depleted. Roots will rot and the plants will die.
Compost is so easy to create and doesnt have to take up a lot of space that theres really no reason why everyone cant have their own little compost area. Even apartment dwellers can make compost on a corner of the kitchen counter using something as simple as a coffee can. Ill write more about the various forms of compost in the upcoming weeks. Everyone should do what they can to feed the soil.


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Author Affiliations: Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
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Fasting, intended or unintended, is a common phenomenon.1 It can be self-imposed in the case of extreme dieting, religious fasts, and chaotic work schedules.2,3 It can be medically imposed in the case of fasting before blood draws or surgery.4 In extreme cases, it can be caused by external circumstances, such as food shortages, natural disasters, or poverty.5
Food deprivation has been shown to alter the quantity of food people buy or consume.6,7 However, little attention has been given to how fasting affects the composition of people's food choices. Do people just buy more when food deprived, or do they specifically increase purchases of high-calorie, relative to low-calorie, foods?
There is some reason to suspect that shifts in purchase following food deprivation would indeed focus on increases in high-calorie foods. Fasting has been shown to increase brain reactivity to particular types of food over others.8 Fasting participants showed increased activation in brain areas associated with reward, including the ventral striatum, amygdala, anterior insula, and medial and lateral orbiofrontal cortex, in response to high-calorie, vs low-calorie, foods.9
If reactivity to high-calorie foods is increased following fasting, it may well be that people would also choose more of those foods relative to low-calorie foods. Indeed, recent research has demonstrated a shift toward more high-calorie options following 18-hour fasts.1Such fasts might be a rarity in daily life, but short periods of deprivation—such as skipping a meal—are fairly common. If shifts toward a higher-calorie shopping basket occur even with short-term deprivation, this would increase the importance of such findings for a wide number of groups ranging from meal-skipping dieters to overworked medical residents. We sought to determine whether short-term food deprivation leads to an increase in high-calorie relative to low-calorie choices.
A laboratory study and a field study were conducted. In the laboratory study, 68 paid participants (age range, 18-62 years; 71% were female) were asked to avoid eating for 5 hours prior to the study. The institutional review board–approved study was conducted in the afternoon hours (12-5 PM) of 2 weekdays, involving groups of 6 to 12 participants. In a random half of the sessions, participants were given a plate of Wheat Thins (Nabisco) and instructed to eat enough to no longer feel hungry (satiety condition). In the other half of the sessions, participants were not given such foods (hunger condition). Participants were then asked to shop in a simulated online grocery store that offered a mix of lower-calorie foods (fruits, vegetables, chicken breasts) and higher-calorie (candy, salty snacks, red meat) foods with each high-calorie item paralleled by a lower-calorie alternative. Products were displayed without prices.
A follow-up field study was conducted in a grocery store where we tracked people's purchases at different times of the day (N = 82 participants) when an earlier study had indicated they were most likely to be full (1:00-4:00 PM) or hungry (4:00-7:00 PM). Purchases were categorized as low-calorie and high-calorie. We then calculated number of low-calorie options relative to high-calorie options across these hungry and full time slots.
As Table 1 indicates, hungry laboratory participants chose a higher number of higher-calorie products [t66 = 2.02; P = .05], but there were no differences between conditions in the number of lower-calorie choices (P > .50) and the total number of food items they selected was similar (P = .10). This same trend was found across individual product categories (Table 2).
Field study shoppers completing the study at higher hunger hours (4:00-7:00 PM) bought less low-calorie food relative to high-calorie food options compared with those completing the study at lower-hunger, after-lunch hours (1:00-4:00 PM). The ratio of low-calorie to high-calorie foods purchased was lower after 4:00 PM (2.48) than between 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM (3.96). Differences were significant at the P = .02 level, controlling for BMI: F1,43 = 5.52. This difference emanated mostly from a decrease in healthy items for afternoon hours: from 11.2 in the early afternoon to 8.21 in the evening: F1,55 = 4.26; P = .04. In other words, people who shopped at hours when they were more likely to be hungry tended to buy less low-calorie foods proportionate to overall purchases.
Even short-term food deprivation can lead to a shift in choices such that people choose less low-calorie, and relatively more high-calorie, food options. Given the prevalence of short-term food deprivation, this has important health implications. It suggests that people should be more careful about their choices when food-deprived and possibly avoid choice situations when hungry by making choices while in less hungry states (eg, by eating an appetizer before shopping).
In conclusion, even short-term fasts can lead people to make more unhealthy food choices, picking a higher quantity of high-calorie, relative to low-calorie, foods.
Correspondence: Dr Tal, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, 15 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-7801 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Published Online: May 6, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.650
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Both authors. Acquisition of data: Both Authors. Analysis and interpretation of data: Tal. Drafting of the manuscript: Tal. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Both authors. Statistical analysis: Tal. Obtained funding: Wansink. Study supervision: Wansink.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.
Funding/Support: This research was made possible by support from Cornell University.
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Brecksville, Ohio - On Saturday, April 20, 2013 celebrate National Junior Ranger Day at Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP) with a day full of FREE programs and special events. The National Park Service (NPS) sponsors the Junior Ranger program to help children explore and discover their national parks. Through park-specific activities, children learn about the special places preserved by NPS and in turn become "Junior Rangers" to help protect these areas for the future.
Child-friendly activities and games will be on going from noon to 2:30 p.m. at Ledges Shelter in Peninsula. Enjoy cake and ice cream, visit station activities, and have fun with other Junior Rangers! Participants can earn a Junior Ranger badge by attending any of the day's programs and activities and/or completing the Junior Ranger Handbook activities or Junior Ranger, Jr. activity cards. Junior Rangers that have badges from other parks are encouraged to wear them. We will award prizes for the most badges and patches, the youngest and oldest Junior Rangers, and more! A Junior Ranger swearing in ceremony begins at 1 p.m.
Ledges Shelter is located at Truxell/ Kendall Park Road, 1 mile west of Akron Cleveland Road, Peninsula 44264.
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CVNP encompasses 33,000 acres along the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. Managed by the National Park Service, CVNP combines cultural, historical, recreational, and natural activities in one setting. For more information visit www.nps.gov/cuva or call 330-657-2752.


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America's Cup trophy visits Maui, race apparently won't
May 2, 2014 - Robert Collias
Here is the start of an interesting story filed Thursday from my colleague Rich Van Scoy, a copy editor for us who doesn't get enough chances to write, IMHO:
While Norbert Bajurin looks forward to some activity in Hawaii regarding the 2017 America's Cup, the commodore whose yacht club holds the coveted trophy does not foresee the race coming here.
"We're working on it. Honestly, we may not have it here," said Bajurin, during an interview with The Maui News before his appearance at the Better Business Bureau's Lunch and Learn event Thursday at the King Kamehameha Golf Club in Waikapu.
"Perhaps, we'll have a training thing," he said in reference to Hawaii's involvement.
Bajurin is commodore of San Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club, which is the current holder of the America's Cup won by Larry Ellison's Team Oracle USA in 2013. The cup was on display at the luncheon in Waikapu before making a trek to the Lahaina Yacht Club in West Maui.
As holder of the cup, Bajurin's club has a say in where the race will take place in 2017.
"I want to see it back in San Francisco," said Bajurin.
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In between the red carpet and the actual show, we had a Defcon One-level television disaster: NBC wasn't coming in on our TV. (I assume Defcon One is from Star Trek, but I don't know for certain. Anyways, the idea holds.) The picture, when it was there, was super grainy, like a bad YouTube video. We could hear Tina Fey wisecracking every thirty seconds or so, but there was no picture and the audio was stilted. So, my genius husband found some sort of Canadian workaround online and I was in, albeit about a minute behind the live broadcast.
The red carpet segment on E! had given me most of the information I needed, but the show itself was a strange mix of things this year. Jacqueline Bisset's boozy acceptance speech in which, among other things, she quoted her mother saying "go to hell, and don't come back."Tina Fey's weirdly racist "Blacklist" joke (which I wrote about here). Emma Thompson's moment of utter triumph. Amy Poehler's celebratory make-out session with Bono. It was one of the more entertaining awards shows we've seen in recent years, and I think we have Poehler and Fey (mostly) to thank for that.
But the real stars of the night, as usual, were the outfits. So I'll get down to it, while reminding you that we are 48 days from the Oscars. Ladies, start your engines.
The real knockout of the night had, in my mind, no competition whatsoever. Lupita Nyong'o, who has an excellent spate of red-carpet victories to recommend her, stunned in a floor-length, cherry-red Ralph Lauren column. WITH A CAPE. (Remember Gwyneth's Oscars dress last year? It was lovely, I'll admit, but this topped even that Tom Ford confection.) Nyong'o could have worn pajamas and her bone structure and elegance would have carried her up the best-dressed ranks, but this dress is one for the ages.
In a category by herself, as usual, was Zoe Saldana. She took a risk; that's for sure. But not all risks can pay off, and this one looked like a couture quilt. I do appreciate that she always gives us something to talk about, but in this case, she just looked like a drunk girl playing dress-up. You could have told me she and Helena Bonham-Carter argued over who got to wear that dress and Zoe won only by ripping off the organza hem and I would believe you in the blink of an eye. The sleeves were kind of cute and princess-y.
I imagine it's not easy to dress a baby bump. Drew Barrymore did it very Drew Barrymore-ly, which is to say she looked like a giant flower. The dress was atrocious, but whatever. It worked for her. Kerry Washington was, as usual, perfectly styled and perfectly beautiful. I wasn't a huge fan of the bib-like top, but the lines of the dress itself were lovely. Olivia Wilde, however…that is one sexy mother-to-be. She has a feline look to her, which might sound weird to say, but there's something to the way she carries herself and moves that is catlike. So the slinky, sequined, emerald green Gucci dress worked perfectly. I confess my bias here: I will always love a woman in a long-sleeved, body-hugging, sparkly silhouette. It's pretty universally flattering–Adele and Carrie Underwood both pulled it off beautifully at the 2012 Grammys. Olivia Wilde is now part of that same stratosphere. Try it someday; maybe you'll like it, too.
From the number of best-dressed lists she's appeared on, it would seem to be a controversial decision to name Cate Blanchett one of the night's worst dressed. She is a darling of high fashion, and while occasionally puzzling, she does usually make choices in favor of avant-garde designers, which makes her (sartorially, at least) very like Tilda Swinton. But the funeral number she wore to the Globes couldn't possibly pass muster on any but the most stringent, depressing runways–and she was at a Hollywood awards party! The skirt part of the dress was beautiful, and I wish she had Armani cut the top off and worn a t-shirt with it. Honestly, that would have been eight hundred times better. The back of the dress was risqué and fun, but like I wrote that night, the back was writing checks the front couldn't catch.
Speaking of women who wore t-shirts to awards parties…I don't know what Julia Roberts was thinking. All I can come up with is that she spent too much time with Meryl filming August: Osage County, a happy family movie about a warm summer in Missouri. (I haven't seen it yet.) Otherwise, what is the possible reasoning for the collared top underneath the totally passable, if plain, Dolce & Gabbana dress? Perhaps she was channeling Sharon Stone's famous '98 Oscars look, but the key there was that Stone wore the shirt AS A SHIRT, not some weird dickey. HuffPo Canada applauded Roberts for dressing appropriately for a "WOMAN OF HER AGE!" but unless that age is dead or over 100, you don't need to do this.
If I had been invited to the Globe (this is what, the twenty-eighth year they snubbed me? RUDE) I would have worn Julianna Margulies's dress in a hot second. I love the combination of gold and black done well, and the slim bodice and full skirt of the dress reminded me of the best fashion in Gone With the Wind, but in an even better way. The neckline was just low enough to keep it from being dowdy, and the coral shape of the gold pattern was elegant. I loved it. Plus, I feel like it had pockets? A dress with a skirt that big has to have pockets.
Elisabeth Moss was a surprise frontrunner, in my opinion. She's not someone I think of as super interested in fashion, and she's made some interesting red-carpet choices in the past. But this J. Mendel dress worked so well on her. The color, a deep cranberry, was a shade darker than the popular orange-reds that dotted the show (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Taylor Swift, Amy Adams), which made it instantly the goth alternative to the rest of the sweethearts. The shape of the dress was flattering, and even though it did sort of look like a tablecloth, it looked like a really great tablecloth that should have been turned into a dress in the first place.
Honorable Mentions: Reese Witherspoon in turquoise Calvin Klein (very California beach babe, one of my favorite looks and done to perfection by Jennifer Lawrence at the 2011 Oscars); Margot Robbie in Gucci with a slit up to there; Amy Adams in American Hustle-character Valentino; Naomi Watts in metallic Tom Ford.
Dishonorable Mentions: Sandra Bullock in a Prabal Gurung wetsuit; Zooey Deschanel in a beautiful skirt ruined by a weird junior-high crop top; Emma Stone's smock-like skirt paired with a sequined top; Lena Dunham in a pretty but ill-fitting Zac Posen dress she couldn't stop tugging at. Jennifer Lawrence, who I'm not even going to talk about.
If you've made it this far, I'm impressed and grateful. See you in 48 days.


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About 80 Sheetz employees poured into the company's corporate building on Sixth Avenue, many of them holding the signature coffee cups from their workplace.
But there was more than a caffeinated buzz among Sheetz employees Thursday morning. They were gathered by company President and CEO Joe Sheetz because something big was percolating.
"Sheetz has been named to Fortune Magazine's 100 best companies to work for in the United States," the CEO said.
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Joe Sheetz makes an announcement to about 80 of the company's employees that Sheetz had been named one of the top 100 companies to work for by Fortune Magazine during a press conference at the company headquarters on Sixth Avenue Thursday.
Sheetz Inc. is no stranger to awards within its industry, but the Fortune Magazine recognition spans companies of all varieties. Sheetz is No. 87 on the list of 100, which includes Google and DreamWorks.
"The culture and workplace environment of Sheetz is something to be very proud of, and we've worked at it constantly - to improve the lives of employees," Sheetz said.
Sheetz Inc. employs 15,000 people at 467 buildings in six states including Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina.
News that Sheetz was among the best places to work in the nation drew applause from employees at the corporate building on Thursday.
"I wouldn't want to work anywhere else," six-year employee Brandi Seyer, said.
Seyer is an employee in the research and development department for Sheetz food.
"The benefits and special unique things they do for their employees is unheard of," she said.
Fortune Magazine based a majority of its assessment of Sheetz on employee surveys.
Stan Sheetz, chairman of the board, credited the company's 1,000 employees in management positions for cultivating a winning work atmosphere across hundreds of buildings.
"This is a recognition of the culture they built," he said.
Joe Sheetz hopes to continue that culture.
"Our new goal is to stay on the list for years to come," he said.
Mirror Staff Writer Russ O'Reilly is at 946-7435