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Montreal Canadiens (17-21-8) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (25-17-4)
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Consol Energy Center – Pittsburgh, PA
The Pittsburgh Penguins have won four games in-a-row, but now they're playing back-to-back games in different cities and Montreal is in town. The Habs are pretty bad this year, but they're as annoying as always. The last time we saw them, they were trying to destroy Kris Letang. Letang returned to score the winning goal but then missed a great deal of time with a concussion.
Michael Cammalleri is gone from Montreal which makes us very happy. For the Pens, Jason Williams has been called up from WBS.
It's National Penguin Awareness Day.
Season Series: 2-0-0 Penguins.
Last meeting that counted: November 26, 2011. Penguins won 4-3 [OT].
What we said in our recap:
But so much shit happened in this game, as is the norm when hockey is played in Montreal. The funny part is the Montreal media giving Letang the first star of the game. Probably the most unstable city in North America. The Pens are usually on the short end of calls in Montreal. And that still held true last night: a couple of no-goals, two missed headshots on Kris Letang, Subban allowed to kick players on the ice.
But what a win. Habs fans are probably gonna force Canadian Parliament to talk about the OT goal at their next big meeting. Calls like that are what fans deserve when they boo obvious penalty calls against the home team. These fans are supposed to be knowledgeable, but they really don't seem to know the game that well. Pens not going back to Montreal until February 7th.
Know Your Enemy: Habs Blog.
What they're saying:
If there is a team in the league that simply doesn't care for the whining that goes on about the Montreal Canadiens injury problems this season – it's the Pittsburgh Penguins. Obviously missing Sidney Crosby (who remains 12th on team scoring despite only playing 8 games this season) hurts. But the Penguins have also missed considerable time from Kris Letang, Jordan Stall and Tyler Kennedy. Through thick and thin, the Penguins remain in 6th place in the Eastern Conference – and look ever like the team that seems to now perennially sit in good standing – ready to pounce once the playoffs show up.
That's actually a really good post.
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Pittsburgh Penguins lines from Empty Netters:
Chris Kunitz – Evgeni Malkin – James Neal
Pascal Dupuis – Dustin Jeffrey – Tyler Kennedy
Matt Cooke – Richard Park – Steve Sullivan
Eric Tangradi – Joe Vitale – Craig Adams
Kris Letang – Brooks Orpik
Zbynek Michalek – Paul Martin
Deryk Engelland – Matt Niskanen
Brent JohnsonMarc-Andre Fleury
Johnson hasn't started very often, but he'll be in the cage tonight. EDIT: No he won't be. Fleury is starting.
Montreal Canadiens lines from Empty Netters:
Rene Bourque – Tomas Plekanec – Mike Blunden
Travis Moen – Lars Eller – Andrei Kostitsyn
Erik Cole – David Desharnais – Max Pacioretty
Mathieu Darche – Scott Gomez
Josh Gorges – PK Subban
Hall Gill – Yannick Weber
Alexei Emelin – Raphael Diaz
Tomas Kaberle
Peter Budaj
Peter Budaj is on Montreal? We forgot Tomas Kaberle existed.
Do It.
Go Pens.


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FC Bayern München right-back Rafinha is set to miss the start of his team's UEFA Champions League campaign after rupturing a ligament in his left ankle.
The Brazilian defender emerged as a first-team regular under Josep Guardiola last season but now looks destined for a lengthy spell on the sidelines after picking up the injury during training. "Of course I am very disappointed," said the 28-year-old. "I was having a really good preparation until now. I am very, very sad."
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Recently, the Washington Post highlighted how the United States Navy ordered cessation of new server and data center procurement. The Navy cited a recent announcement by Federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, detailing a general movement to cloud-based computing (including a requirement for departments and... Read more
If you were compiling a list of the world's most innovative companies, which businesses would top your list? No one would be surprised if you picked Google, Apple, or Amazon, but what about Wal-Mart? (Huh?) Or PG&E (a utility, for crying out loud)? Surely there must be some mistake! Or... Read more
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I think the most common understanding of Business Analysis is the activities around analysis and design. This incorporates analysis of the current state, documenting detailed requirements and evaluating potential options. During these activities the key trait of good Business Analysts is to ask the right people the right questions. This sounds simple in theory but in practice this is more of an art than a science.
Whilst analysis and design is a key area for Business Analysis, a skilled Business Analyst can provide support throughout the project life-cycle; starting by gathering high level requirements during project initiation. This can continue through analysis/design, build and test all the way through to reviewing the process a few months after go-live to make sure that things are running as expected. A good BA will adapt to provide support to the project as it progresses. Once again, the correct approach isn't always black and white. The Business Analyst needs to navigate through the project and apply judgement to arrive at the best response.
I like to think of Business Analysis as toolkit of techniques than can be used to solve common business challenges. As a Business Analyst gains experience they can use a wider range of techniques and learn more complex approaches. The real skill of an experienced Business Analyst is to know when to use each tool.
In addition to traditional skills such as process mapping and requirements gathering there are other approaches that can be helpful to the Business Analyst. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) can be used to highlight weaknesses in processes so that they can be evaluated and remedied. Use case analysis can be helpful to identify all of the actors, triggers and end points. Process Optimisation can be used to identify opportunities to adjust a process within its constraints to maximise efficiency, throughput or to minimise cost.
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Ebonics Cultural Assumption
People in different parts of the English-speaking world speak with different accents and use dialect words. The
is that whereas the study of most dialects should be a small, optional part of the study of English, Ebonics should be a course in its own right.
Similarly, whereas people with most dialects realize that in technical documentation, public speaking etc. they should avoid dialect words, to suggest the same to an Ebonics speaker would be discrimination.
A lot of the ebonics flap years ago was taken *way* out of context. The proposal was to use Ebonics to help kids who already spoke Ebonics to learn to read. The research indicated that trying to learn to read *and* trying to learn a new English dialect at the same time made learning to read more difficult than it had to be. Nobody suggested that there should be any kind of course in Ebonics. Basically, it was an ESL (English as a Second Language) course for Ebonics speakers.
... [IIRC, since the kids' dialect had grammatical rules of its own, you could glom onto these and say something like, "Now, at home you say X, now here's how you would say it in 'Standard' English."]
And before folks jump on this page as an example of discrimination, note that this is equally true, and equally regrettable, for French.
I don't understand the last sentence. How is French like Ebonics? How are French speakers like Ebonics speakers?
Perhaps a reference to the Acadian / Cajun French Dialect / Quebecois?
Did they teach Cajun French in school? Or was the French immersion in "european" French?
Well, I don't
they teach "european" French in Quebec schools. But that is what is taught in French courses in schools in the rest of Canada.
Just so that it's clear: there is such a thing as "proper" french: it's dictated by l'AcademieFrancaise
, if I understand. It is rather eurocentric though. 'it is -l'AcademieFrancaise
is the organization that fines restaurateurs for using the word "hamburger" on the menu as opposed to the more complicated French phrase.
That would be
steak haché
- literally "chopped steak" - doesn't seem more complicated to me.
Let me get this straight...in France there's a organization that dictates what restaurateurs put on their own menus?
has been with us for a long time.
Some more accepted forms are Cockney and West Cornwall (source of the famous "Aaarrr" of PirateSpeak
Within England alone there are more than a dozen easily recognized dialect forms, none of which have ever been "legitimized" by making it central to a curriculum.
The idea that, because a segment of the society has
to partition itself by adopting a slurred/chopped/slangified/whatever version of English, it should therefore be accorded some special recognition in curricula is transparently absurd.
I have lived in the NorthEasternUsa
), SouthEasternUsa
), WesternUsa
), England (Midlands, London, Brighton), and other, not-primarily-English-speaking countries. I have learned the local idiom/dialect as needed. With few exceptions, I have found that in most of these places it is well understood that EnglishAsSheIsSpoken
is not necessarily EnglishAsSheIsWritten
, and there was no whining (wingeing) about "our textbooks should be written in our idiom/dialect."
There was pride in being able to speak and conduct commerce in both LocalEnglish
The idea that someone's
should enable some special treatment in curriculum is InstitutionalizedRacism
, and should never have gotten past the first gales of laughter. Ebonics, literally, is "BlackSpeak
" (or possibly "Blackish").
Somebody, find the SOB who started this crap and let the air out of his tires. Hang him from the nearest giblet (as my good friend Rastus Malaprop would say). Bury him with a steak [sic] of holy [sic] threw [sic] his hart [sic] (sayeth R. Malaprop).
It was a bad idea. It's still a bad idea. A much better idea is to adopt special curricula for Chinglish or Japanglish. We could call it YellowSpeak
(or Yellowish). Of course the IndianSubcontinent
population will get upset and want Indinglish (Indianish? also called Brownish).
Could we, for crying out loud, just skip the whole racist agenda? Please?
Much of this, of course, trivializes many matters.
Ebonics, like Scottish English, New Zealand English, etc... are all legitimate, recognizeable, and consistent dialects of the
. For what that's worth. When word of "Ebonics" escaped linguistic and educational circles and hit the mainstream press, the sh*t hit the fan and flew in several directions.
One reaction, of course, was the one complained about above--some thought that Ebonics (for various reasons, often related to discrimination against African-Americans and such) ought to be elevated to
first class
status alongside the standard written form (in this case, AmericanStandardEnglish
since Ebonics is a USA phenomenon).
The opposite reaction, of course, was that Ebonics
a legitimate, recognizeable, and consistent dialect of the English language--it's just plain
that someone (the "liberals", often) was trying to legitimize for
It doesn't take a scholar to detect a whiff of racism in both points of view.
In both cases, linguistics is being polluted somewhat with politics (though to say that probably betrays a naive point of view about the nature of linguistics and linguists... as language is a fundamental part of many cultures, many linguistic determinations--such as "language" vs "dialect"--are inherently political and will always be so).
Nowadays, the whole ebonics debate seems to have died down a bit, the Republic still stands.
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Google Ventures Doubles Down on Kabam's Mobile Gaming Strategy
For Joe Kraus, it's all about mobile.
The general partner of Google Ventures upped his firm's bet on private gaming company Kabam Inc., joining at least three other investors in buying secondary shares from roughly half of the company's 700 employees last month, VentureWire has learned.
"Kabam has successfully made the transition to mobile at a time when many previously Facebook-oriented gaming companies haven't," he said, taking a not-so-subtle jab at one-time gaming king Zynga Inc.
Unlike Zynga, which only recently began making select titles available on mobile, Kabam began its shift about two years ago. It now offers all seven of its own titles along with some from third-party developers on Android and iOS. With its free-to-play games including "Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North" and "Fast & Furious 6: The Game," Kabam makes money through the sales of enhanced weapons, superpowers and other virtual items.
And the market for those goods is on the rise.
Kabam Chief Executive Kevin Chou said he expects revenue to hit $300 million in 2013–up from $180 million last year–with more than 70% of this year's revenue to come from mobile players.
And Zynga? Its revenue dropped 31% year-over-year to $231 million for the most recent quarter ending July, 2013. Its total daily users were down 45% to 39 million compared with the same period last year. And at 23 million, the number of daily users playing on the Web still represents about two-thirds of its total.
While Kabam's private offering certainly delayed the 2014 IPO Mr. Chou has hinted at, that wasn't the only reason for completing the transaction.
"We've acquired six companies in our history and we'd like to do more. But unless you do all cash, which decreases the motivation of those being acquired, you have to issue preferred shares," Mr. Chou said. "That's not good. This established an M&A benchmark."
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Rauner: 'I'll compromise on anything' to get spending plan passed
Jun 2, 2016 9:14 PM - Not willing to give up on passing a set of pro-business, anti-union measures, Gov. Bruce Rauner has held the line for more than a year as Illinois has gone without a budget since last July. But Thursday the Winnetka Republican said he was open to compromise on those measures -- if it means passing a spending plan sooner.


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Something I tweeted that I felt was worthy of re-mentioning: I guess we can pretty much lock up KD winning the next 10 consecutive scoring titles or so, right? With Wade and LeBron now sharing points, I guess his only real competition is 'Melo.
Bill Simmons in his column yesterday on LeBron: "When Kevin Durant announced his own five-year, $86 million extension with an endearingly simple tweet yesterday, we all had the same thought: "Now that's how it's done." Pretty sad that an NBA star stood out for being humble and only caring about basketball."
As the good people at Tree and Leaf put it, it looks like we've officially made it now. Folks in Hong Kong are ripping off our DT shirts. Friend Patrick emailed and put it this way: "They have a saying there. Try to imagine it said with a chinese accent. Japanese people make everything. Chinese people copy everything. Americans buy everything."
KD's take on Dan Gilbert's letter: "I really don't think it's professional that Dan Gilbert is talkin about Lebron like that..just my opinion."
John Hollinger crunches and determines the Heat should be good for 61 wins: "OK, that's my methodology; now for the result. This team, believe it or not, is projected to win 61 games. And, of course, that is in a worst-case scenario — it might not be filled entirely by replacement-level players. At least one decent veteran might decide it's worth taking the plunge, especially if the exposure can get him a contract next year after he's on national TV twice a week playing with Team Trinity."
Berry Tramel says Kevin Durant is bigger than Sam Bradford: "But Durant is not going. He's coming. This is a guy who is going global while calling the Ford Center home. Durant is an NBA superstar here in the 405. He's an import, not an export, and on the athletic side, imports trump exports. Bradford was one of the most popular Sooners of all time. I wouldn't argue with anyone who says Sammy B. is No. 1 on the list. A local kid. A great story. A Heisman Trophy. Good raisin'. Everything you want. But now Bradford is headed to St. Louis, where he will be another region's hero. Hard to care about the Rams. Easy to care about the Thunder. Durant has come to symbolize Oklahoma City. He is rapidly becoming the face of OKC. Perhaps not Oklahoma, where football still reigns supreme, but most definitely in Oklahoma City. And that status will only grow Durant gets bigger and the Thunder gets better."
Henry Abbott with a good piece asking what LeBron did wrong: "But realize, if you're bitter, you're bitter about the format of his expression. Not the contents of his soul. And absent evidence he has done something actually wretched, it's a little extreme to call him nasty names on the Internet, isn't it? In this world of ours, you will find some truly terrible people. There are murderers. There are rapists. There are abusers, bullies, polluters, dictators and everything else. And this is the guy you need to single out? Even in the NBA's own pantheon, you will find Magic Johnson who once got a coach fired, Kobe Bryant who stood in a parking lot on hidden camera cursing his own team and coaches, Michael Jordan who fought with and bullied teammates. The list goes on and on. The point is, if you're in the mood to be charitable, you can love just about anybody. If you're in the mood to hate, you can hate just about anybody."
I think I like Will Leitch's take best: "That trust felt broken tonight. Not because LeBron James went to the Heat, even though he referred to his destination as "South Beach," not "the Miami Heat and their fans." Not because LeBron James didn't go to the Knicks, even though of all the cities he mentioned enjoying during this free agent "courtship," New York was the one he omitted. Not even because LeBron was so, so cruel to Cleveland, not once thanking the fans who made him into what he was, the fans who have to wonder if their absurd investment in their sports franchises will ever be rewarded. No, tonight, it felt like everyone involved — LeBron, ESPN, Bing, the University of Phoenix, Stuart Scott, the man who once chastised fans for having the audacity to boo, Jim freaking Gray — treated the millions of people watching like stupid, mindless consumers, empty lemmings ready to follow Sport into the abyss. Here, here are the Boys & Girls Club props. Here, here is your search engine. Here, here is your online college, Here, here is your Athletic Hero. Eat. Eat. Consume. You like it. You love it. You'll always come back for more."
Now go read some more stuff about LeBron.


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Share a little about the materials, processes and techniques used to create this cake: I used the wax paper transfer method. I had to create my own templates which was not easy. I had done the individual panel application on a cake the night before this one and it was much harder. This one I used one long (43") sheet of wax paper .
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Ba-dum-chhh. (Incidentally, maybe one day we'll use the Urban Dictionary for our third definition. Now THAT would be entertaining.)
This weekend was judged by the community, and you guys voted Trudging Through Fog's Ephemera as number one. She chose the photo of the highly-decorated pub and gave us this:
My memory of my father was full of ephemera: mental snapshots of his face, pages of promises kept and broken, all posted against the pillar of my mother's refusal to speak of him.Beautiful.
Second place goes to Lumdog who wrote on the same photo in The Cluttered Room. Coming in third place this weekend, Linda Vernon also chose the same photo for her short, Piedmont Poink Loses His Job. You can tell it's Linda by the super-creative name, right?
Great job to all Trifectans this weekend, and congratulations to our winners. A special thanks to those of you who remembered to get your votes in. It was, as usual, a super close race, with the final deciding votes coming in just before the bell.
Thank you also to those who stepped up to leave a comment on last week's critique. We are really enjoying the critiquing process at Trifecta, and we have heard that our writing community appreciates it, too. Please swing by and leave a bit of feedback on this week's critique. If you have something of your own you'd like reviewed, please send it to us at firstname.lastname@example.com. We accept anonymous submissions, too.
On to this week's challenge. We usually try to choose prompts that don't lead the writer down an obvious path. Indeed, some of our favorite posts require a third or fourth reading to even find our one-word prompt. This will almost definitely not be the case with this week's challenge. I can't help it. I'm a huge fan of Halloween, and the third definition of this word is just too clever to pass up.
This week's word is:
1a : a permanent cessation of all vital functions : the end of life
b : an instance of dying <a disease causing many deaths>
2a : the cause or occasion of loss of life <drinking was the death of him>
b : a cause of ruin <the slander that was death to my character — Wilkie Collins>
3 capitalized : the destroyer of life represented usually as a skeleton with a scythe
Mwahahaha. Have fun.
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- Your response must be between 33 and 333 words.
- You must use the 3rd definition of the given word in your post.
- The word itself needs to be included in your response.
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Dividend investing works
Planning for retirement can be daunting
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in the past few weeks I've told you a lot about the benefits of
owning international high-yield stocks... even during a rough time
in the
Don't get me wrong. I'm not suggesting you should drop everything
and put every dollar you have into international high-yielders like
the 9.4% dividend-payer I'm going to tell you about in a moment.
Truth is, the size and scope of the U.S. market makes it a great
place to search for income investments.
But at this point, the size and number of the yields abroad is
frankly too large to ignore.
As I've shown you in recent issues, 96% of the world's highest
yields aren't being paid by U.S. companies. More than 400
profitable companies based outside the United States pay
yields of 12% or more -- versus only about 18 companies here at
The difference is striking. As of the start of August, the average
for all stocks in the S&P 500 was just 2.0%, Germany's average
yield was 3.6%... Brazil's average yield was 4.1%... the United
Kingdom yielded 3.4%... Australia yielded 4.5%... New Zealand paid
Let me give you an example...
In the past few years, dozens of high-yielding funds that focus on
international dividend payers have come to market.
These funds scour the globe in search of the highest yields. Then
they combine them all into a nice neat package for U.S. investors.
That makes it incredibly easy to access high-yielding international
securities. You can buy
of these funds directly on the New York Stock Exchange, just like
shares of any other stock.
Take the
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (NYSE:
, for instance. I own shares of this in my portfolio for my
High-Yield International
advisory. It invests in hundreds of
around the world.
Many of these securities are difficult -- if not impossible -- for
average investors to buy. But AWF gives you an opportunity to buy a
basket of them without leaving the United States.
The fund owns government bonds from Brazil that pay 12.5% annually.
It owns bonds from Russia's Gazprom -- the world's largest
natural-gas explorer -- that pay 9.25%.
But not all of its holdings are from abroad. It also balances out
that exposure with bonds from U.S. companies -- like Caesars
Entertainment notes paying 11.25%.
But focusing heavily on overseas bonds -- where yields are higher
-- allows AWF to throw off a spectacular stream of income.
This diversified fund pays $0.10 per share every month, giving it a
yield of 9.4% at recent prices. And in the past five years, the
fund has returned an annualized gain of 11.4%.
Like many securities around the world, AWF has sold off with the
broader market. I think this makes a pretty compelling entry point
for more aggressive investors. Many of its holdings are low-grade
bonds, which yield higher, but see more volatility than traditional
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This architecturally designed European villa and guest house offers Mediterranean exteriors and classic, contemporary interiors. The estate rests upon magical Sonoma Mountain with exceptional panoramic views of Sonoma Valley and the Mayacamas Mountain range. Nestled on approx. 14.7 acres, this handcrafted Glen Ellen home is surrounded by a producing vineyard and masterfully designed landscaping including an olive grove and fruit trees. The entry is through old world style hand-wrought iron electric gate flanked by stone columns, natural vines and majestic oaks.
Entry to the approximately 5,000 sq. ft. main home is through a gated citrus and garden courtyard with fountain and into a formal entry hall with a glimpse of the views. The main level features a grand formal living room, large media room with built-ins, large den with door and a fabulous family room comprised of kitchen with island and walk-in pantry and dining room with fireplace. An elegant staircase featuring antique wood steps and handmade wrought iron railing leads to the second floor with sumptuous master suite, adjoining terracotta view patio and a large library with a half bath. The staircase leads to the third level which is the view tower - although views and vistas can be had from nearly any place in the home. All interior and exterior walls consist of custom color integrated stucco. The flooring is imported French limestone with radiant heat; there is air conditioning and an array of custom, oversized doors and windows providing an abundance of natural light. Limestone flooring continues to the exterior covered verandas seamlessly bringing the outdoors in. Other interior features include: Hand crafted solid oak doors, 3 fireplaces with custom mantles, and cathedral ceilings with natural wood beams, recessed lighting, surround sound, hand-made wrought iron light fixtures, custom bathroom fixtures and exquisite marbles and tile, cast and copper sinks, custom cabinetry and more.
Step outside for the finest Wine Country outdoor living available. The sundrenched pool with natural coral stone surround and automatic cover is surrounded by natural stone and overlooks the vineyard with breath taking views of the valley. There is a tile outdoor shower and a changing room with terracotta floor. Entertaining is a delight with the outdoor concrete kitchen with wood burning pizza oven just aside the covered dining veranda. The large, raised bed garden and orchard provide bountiful harvests to serve guests.
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Posted by Chelsea on September 18, 2009
Woo Hoo!
The Momtourage was just named one of FITNESS Magazine's favorite beauty and fashion blogs! Check it out:
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A great blog for busy moms! It's hip, hilarious, and helpful—and this ex-beauty editor packs it with useful look-good tips and tricks that make getting out the door easier and faster (and humorous)!
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Hasbro invites parents and kids to put on their chef hats and thinking caps to work together to create a fun, imaginative PLAY-DOH "recipe" that could win a makeover for both their playroom at home and at school. To win, visit www.ReadyGoPlayDoh.com to upload a photo of your child's finest food-inspired PLAY-DOH brand creation along with the "recipe" to make it. The grand prize winner of the contest will receive a $5,000 playroom makeover as well as a $5,000 "Doh-nation" to their child's school.
Contest entries will be accepted through September 30, 2009, at which point 10 finalists will be chosen. On October 15, 2009 the finalists will be posted on ReadyGoPlayDoh.com and the public will vote on who receives the $10,000 prize! For extra fun, the Ready Go Play-Doh website will also host daily giveaways with PLAY-DOH prizes, a gallery of creative contest entries and offer downloadable "recipes" for fun, original PLAY-DOH "snacks."
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Fall is right around the corner, so today at 12:30 PM EST, I'll be joining Broads Molly and Christine of Sirius/XM Radio's "Broadminded" (tune in on XM Channel 155 and Sirius Channel 102!) to share my favorite beauty products and tools. Here's a preview of some of what we'll be road-testing:
Solano Power to Prevent Dryer, $159 at beauty supply stores nationwide or $119 online at discount beautycenter.com.
Sleek hair is a huge trend for fall. Luckily, as summer's humidity has left the air, achieving a smooth, frizz-free style is easiest in the fall. The world's best, most powerful dryers are made by Solano (check the one your hair stylist is using the next time you go to salon, and odds are, it's a Solano). My favorite for fall is the new pink, limited edition Power to Prevent Dryer, which is available September through October.The dryer was developed in partnership with Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC), and a portion of the dryer's sale will go to the organization. A bonus: the dryer comes with a 2-year warranty to protect your investment!
Estee Lauder's newly formulated Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Recovery Complex, $47.50 at major department stores or online at esteelauder.com.
Repair summer sun damage while you sleep with this upgraded version of Estee Lauder's skin recovery cult classic. Its new patented technology helps repair visible damage from smoke and pollution - in particular, toxins and chemicals, putting this new serum at the forefront of visible damage repair from all known major environmental assaults. Essentially, this helps support skin's natural repair enzyme to help effectively "clean up" damaging environmental effects before they become permanent. Use it day and night under moisturizer.
Lancome Oscillation Powerbooster, $39 at major department stores or online at lancome.com
Another hot fall makeup trend: thick, lush lashes. Before you swipe on your mascara, fortify your lashes with this primer, which vibrates to ensure your lashes are fully, expertly coated. It allow for intensified color and defines for a perfect smooth lash surface, allowing allow for mascara to glide on for longer-lasting mascara.
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- Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day® All Purpose Cleaner
I don't understand gals who claim to loooove cleaning. That said, I do get a certain joy from using Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day® All Purpose Cleaner to care for my home. You can't lose with this stuff...it is hard-working & earth-friendly, and will leave your abode smelling like a day spa instead of a chemical spill. Try Lemon Verbena in the kitchen and Basil in the bathroom. At only $7.99 a bottle, you can afford to pick up both!
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The Swash Bidet Seat and LumaWarm Heated Nightlight Toilet Seat must be plugged into a standard GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interupt) outlet. The GFCI outlet is generally required in bathrooms, kitchens, and near sources of water. Swash and LumaWarm users typically need an outlet within three and a half feet of the toilet fixture; though running an extension cord is perfectly acceptable as well. We recommend a minimum of 15 amps for the circuit for the Swash Bidet Seat.
The Swash Ecoseat, FreshSpa easy bidet attachment, and FreshSpa dual temperature bidet attachement do not require an electrical outlet in the bathroom.
If you don't have a GFCI outlet in the bathroom, you can easily purchase an inexpensive GFCI adapter on Amazon.com by clicking here.
While we recommend installing a dedicated outlet near your toilet fixture, If you need to use an extension cord with an existing outlet, we suggest you use the shortest cord length available. The extension cord should only be a 3 prong heavy duty cord that can handle a 15-20 amp load with a gauge of 10-12. To complete the Swash Bidet Seat installation, use with a cord concealing kit such as the one shown here:
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A resident spotted a cougar on the deck of their home on the eastern outskirts of Sisters Wednesday evening, prompting a warning to neighbors and reminders to all about what to do if the animals are seen in your area.
Deschutes County sheriff?s deputies were dispatched about 7:25 .m. to an address at the east end of Perit Huntington Road, just outside the Sisters city limits, on the sighting of a cougar in the reporting party?s yard, said Sgt. Deke DeMars.
The reporting citizen said the cougar had been on their deck and walked away somewhere on the property, DeMars said.
Deputies located the cougar on the side of the home?s driveway, the sergeant said, and was seen by one deputy walking away, eastbound toward the Sisters Airport.
Several cougar tracks were found around the home, DeMars said, but it?s believed there was only one cougar in the area, based on those tracks.
An Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife employee was contacted and apprised of the cougar activity, he said, while several neighbors were notified as well.
Meanwhile, DeMars said the sheriff?s office wants to remind the community about what to do ? and not to do.
--Do not disturb dead animal carcasses, especially if you believe the animal may be a cougar kill.
--If there are confirmed cougar sightings in your area such as this, do not walk your dogs at night in the area.
--It is recommended that residents keep outside lighting in the areas where livestock is present, to help deter cougar attacks.
--Supervise children and pets that are outside.
There are many residential areas in Deschutes County, near rural settings, in which wildlife is prevalent, DeMars said.
If and when a member of the community comes into contact with wildlife such as a cougar, don't run, but move slowly, keeping the animal in view as you move away from the area.
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compiled in kernel (i.e. not as a module)... was just wondering if there
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The Canyon Chamber of Commerce recognized outstanding members of the business community at its dinner party.
J. Pat Hickman of Happy State Bank was named Citizen of the Year.
Ruby Abbott of Wells Fargo was named Ambassador of the Year.
Monica Arago of First United Bank was named Volunteer of the Year. The Small Business of the Year was Best Friends Boutique/Rock 'n Roll Soda Shoppe.
Mike Bain, chief executive officer of First United, accepted the award for New Business of the Year on behalf of the bank.
Jim Christopher of Christopher Real Estate was given a lifetime achievement award.
United Supermarket of Canyon was named Business of the Year. Its manager is John Anderson.
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The U-M Radiation Policy Committee (RPC) will accept applications to use radioactive materials from members of the academic or research faculties at the University of Michigan. Persons with the job titles of Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Instructor, Research Scientist, Associate Research Scientist, Assistant Research Scientist or Research Investigator are welcome to submit applications for approval to use radioactive materials in conjunction with their responsibilities at the University. Requests for exceptions to this policy must be fully justified in writing and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
- Faculty members intending to become Authorized Users of radioactive material must first be approved by the University of Michigan Radiation Policy Committee (RPC). Faculty intending to apply for approval for non-human use of radioactive materials must complete and submit to Radiation Safety Service (RSS) an Application for Authorization to Use Radioactive Material (RSS-101 form). In addition, the RPC must approve significant amendments to existing authorizations before Authorized Users can implement the changes to protocols. The Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) may grant temporary approval to new and amendment applications pending final approval by the RPC.
- In general, applicants to become Authorized Users (non-human use) must have, at a minimum, 40 hours of previous training and experience in the safe use and handling of radioactive materials of the type and quantity that will be requested in the application.
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Research investigators seeking approval to use radioactive materials in human research subjects must now enter the eResearch application system and submit an electronic application. The eResearch system will route the application to the RDRC/SHUR "Ancillary Committee" for review. Contact Radiation Safety Service (764-6200) for assistance in completing Section 21 of the eResearch application (RDRC/SHUR – Ionizing Radiation Information).
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What Lies Beneath: Foreign Exchange Rate Exposure, Hedging and Cash Flows
Söhnke M. Bartram
Warwick Business School - Department of Finance
June 1, 2007
Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 32, No. 8, pp. 1508-1521, August 2008
EFA 2006 Zurich Meetings Paper
This paper presents results from an in-depth analysis of the foreign exchange rate exposure of a large nonfinancial firm based on proprietary internal data including cash flows, derivatives and foreign currency debt, as well as external capital market data. While the operations of the multinational firm have significant exposure to foreign exchange rate risk due to foreign currency-based activities and international competition, corporate hedging mitigates this gross exposure. The analysis illustrates that the insignificance of foreign exchange rate exposures of comprehensive performance measures such as total cash flow can be explained by hedging at the firm level. Thus, the residual net exposure is economically and statistically small, even if the operating cash flows of the firm are significantly exposed to exchange rate risk. The results of the paper suggest that managers of nonfinancial firms with operations exposed to foreign exchange rate risk take savvy actions to reduce exposure to a level too low to allow its detection empirically.
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Enda Kenny's cure for the summertime blues
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So what are our politicians reading in the summer rain? In a previous blog I wrote about Brian Cowen's current taste in books, but what of his opposition counterpart? I met Enda Kenny at the Humbert Summer School in Ballina where, taking a breather after a lengthy speech lambasting the Taoiseach, he told me his favourite titles of the moment were as follows:
1) The State of Africa: Fifty Years of Independence by Martin Meredith, which is (my description) a stark account of the corruption and despotism that has in many cases blighted the hopes that arose with the end of colonialism. I seem to recall John O'Shea of Goal recommending this book to people – O'Shea is a sharp critic of Irish government-to-government aid in Africa.
2) The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes. Based on interviews with survivors of the Stalinist terror and hundreds of family archives, this has been described as the most important book about Soviet totalitarianism since Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago.
3) Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds. This is an account of crucial diplomatic conclaves which set the course of history over the past 80 years, including Chamberlain and Hitler at Munich in 1938; Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta in 1945; Carter, Begin and Sadat at Camp David in 1978.


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A Two-Day Training Program in the Fundamental Principles of Electroplating
A portion of the famous, industry recognized Kushner Electroplating School training
materials is now available for you in a two-day training program. This practical,
two-day training program is designed to give you a better understanding of the basic
principles and practices of electroplating.
Who Should Attend:
Some of the Topics Covered:
Training Materials:
All materials are taken from Electroplating Know-How II training programs
as well as Mr. Sepp's many years
of consulting and training experience. Each participant receives a complete training
manual and black and white copies of transparencies used in the program. The training
manual is yours to use as reference material after completion of the training program.
About the Instructor:
William Sepp is the Instructor and Program Director of
the Kushner Electroplating School. The Kushner School
has been training individuals in the science of electroplating
for more than 60 years. The training materials and methods
used by Kushner Electroplating School including
Electroplating Know-How Basics are recognized as
the best available in the electroplating
industry. Mr. Sepp has more than 35 years of work
experience in the plating industry, beginning the first
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What: Shares of First Cash Financial Services (NYSE: FCFS ) plunged as low as 14% today after the consumer finance company cut its short-term guidance outlook.
So what: The stock has soared over the past year on strong top- and bottom-line growth, but downside guidance for the rest of the year is forcing Mr. Market to sober up. Management cited falling gold prices, Mexican peso volatility, and sluggish U.S. consumer loan growth for the weak outlook, triggering plenty of concern among investors over the headwinds working against it.
Now what: Management now sees full-year EPS of $2.75-$2.90, down from a prior view of $3.10-$3.24 and also below Wall Street's forecast of $3.12. "The pawn industry has thrived over the course of numerous and various economic cycles and we expect that long-term growth opportunities will continue to remain attractive," said CEO Rick Wessel. "We believe that short-term volatility in gold prices has a limited impact on our core growth strategy." With the stock now off about 20% from its 52-week highs and trading at a PEG ratio below 1, today's pullback might be providing a good chance to buy into that long-term bullishness.
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Personal Digital Assistant
Abbreviated "PDA". Synonym for
. See also
PDA security
PDAs can be a nasty backdoor to all sorts of Malware that can cause various degrees of harm to network and people. One reference to risks and countermeasures can be found at
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to the PDA revolution? Preditions of explosive growth checked by lackluster economy and lack of killer applications?
They gained telephones and became SmartPhones
I am seeing people buy more laptops, but PDAs appear to be still to be decorative than really useful for people on the move?
I know a couple of people for whom their PDAs are indispensable, myself included. There's not necessarily a lot of overlap between the functions of a laptop and a PDA; PDAs excel for small snippets of information that need to be with you constantly, such as appointments, deadlines, and phone numbers ... If anything, I think PDA manufacturers are finding their markets cannibalized by makers of other portable electronics, such as digital cameras, cell phones, and MP3 players. -- francis
When I had a
PDA, I found it indispensable. Then I switched to a
handheld, and now I don't find it to be as necessary. I can't figure out whether the change is due to the different platform, or a change in my needs. --
''I can hardly live without my Palm. It's killing me to be stuck with a
while I wait for the insurance company to replace my Palm. It seems to me that a little
device is really a useful tool, it's a great, small way to carry around a lot of information, but if you're going to spend all of the money on a
, you might as well spend a few more bucks and buy a laptop.
At the computer store I used to work at we set up a Sony Clié with a bunch of references libraries for a nurse. After her associates saw how convenient it was, we made additional sales based on her purchase.
Can't really do without mine. I have found, though, that to the degree that other people run your life, you don't need one, and to the degree that you are responsible for what you do next and with whom you do it, you do need one.
I remember using a FranklinPlanner
, and trying to explain to a coworker why I needed it. He didn't have any aspirations outside the workplace and allowed himself to be externally driven. I, on the other hand, had after-hours engagements of various kinds (personal clients, seminars, classes to teach, and so on), and I had to manage my own time and tasks.
I go through periods where I use the gadget less than other times, but I'm pretty thoroughly hooked. --
I just bought a Sony Clié and love it... I use it for everything. It has WIFI and bluetooth and I bought a digital video recorder. Also use it for MP3s. Just need longer battery life!! -- djb
I use my index card based PersonalAnalogueDevice
, which I call my "Pattern Repository", for informational stuff relating to specific matters and for general notes. For appointments, and other similar atomic data which is best kept in a sorted list, I use my 1987-vintage Psion Organiser II (which, ironically, is actually older than I am!) - I use this somewhat archaic machine because it is, well, simply brilliant. Although it only has two lines of sixteen character display (!) it has a marvellously simple user interface, consisting of nothing more than lists of text items, has a brilliant flat-file database functionality which you can use to enter anything and an unintrusive diary with a clever list-based design. You can even write your own programs for it, via its built-in scripting language called OrganiserProgrammingLanguage
(OPL). That, and it has never failed me to date; it has a disposable 9V PP3 battery to keep it going, which lasts over seven months of regular usage (and probably years if never switched on). It even has a serial port which you can hook up to a computer or printer, and software for saving files on PC - as a
user I use a DosEmulator
to run the connection software, which works perfectly. One can, if you look around, get these machines very cheaply indeed second-hand or as old stock. --
Ah, the Grey Brick. A beautiful device. I used one for a while in the nineties and was very happy with it - the LZ64 with a 20x4 display and a whopping 64k of RAM. Best features had to include the chunky cuboid design with sliding case (the memory packs were lovely lumpy little things too) and OrganiserProgrammingLanguage
, even if I managed to bugger the thing up (to the point of having to remove the battery) more than once by POKEing the wrong bit of memory somewhere. The alphabetic (i.e., A-Z) keyboard in a narrow-and-tall grid took a little getting used to, though. I do recommend upgrading to an LZ for the four lines of screen space if you can. --
The A-Z keyboard, I agree, is rather strange, and is rather inconvenient at first; however, the actual key action is nice and tactile to compensate, and after a bit of practice you do start to get used to the strange layout. Equally odd is a lack of a question mark key, a pound symbol (£) and an at-symbol (@); I suppose it was representative of its time. You're right, I suppose, about the screen, because for one writing OrganiserProgrammingLanguage
applications with a usable interface is extremely hard with only two lines. There is, in some way, something marvellously antediluvian about using a two-line display though. :) --
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With tempers still flaring over Mayor Nutter's decision to stop using city dollars to cover the cost of parades and street festivals, one event has been quietly allowed to get a free ride: Welcome America, the nonprofit group that is host to Philadelphia's Fourth of July party.
In the days after last year's celebration of the nation's birth, Welcome America's executive director vowed to repay City Hall $300,000 for crowd control, cleanup, and police and emergency-medical services.
That commitment was in keeping with a new and controversial administration policy that requires organizers of the Mummers Parade, the St. Patrick's Day Parade, and other traditional events to absorb the costs for city services. It was adopted as city revenue plunged amid the global financial crisis.


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Leadership Excel studies local government
Leadership EXCEL participants from Acadia and Jeff Davis Parishes began their session recently at the Jeff Davis Parish Courthouse with a presentation by District Attorney Michael Cassidy who spoke on the working relationship of his office with other parish entities.
Also included in the courthouse tour were presentations by Assessor Donald Kratzer, Clerk of Court's office, Missy Gary, Sheriff's office Suzette Coker, and the Registrar of Voter Registration, Lorainne Dees.
The goal of the session was to understand the role of local governmental jurisdictions in our society, the services they provide, and how they interact.
Returning to Crowley, the next stop was the Detention Center where an impressive tour was conducted.
During lunch at Crowley City Hall, Architect Steve Oubre of New Iberia spoke to the group about his concept of developing neighborhoods, as contrasted with separate subdivisions and industrial and retail centers.
A tour of the 911 office, conducted by Mary Richard, Board Member of EXCEL followed.
The last event of the day was a Mock Trial in which Judge John Trahan presided. Participants served as jurors.
Facilitators for the session were Board members Allison Clarke, Donna Collins, Mary Richard, and Peggy Sandidge, coordinator..
The next session is scheduled for February 17 when the group will study Criminal Justice with a tour of Angola.
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Monkeez Makes a Difference is a collection of sock monkey characters who introduce children to philanthropy. The program includes the stuffed characters, online games, and real-life do-good challenges. There are more than 90 sock monkey-style stuffed characters, including owls, bears, kangaroos, and more.
Once you purchase your character, go online to monkeezandfriends.com and enter in your character's special code. Then you can pick a charity to which you'd like to contribute, and Monkeez Makes a Difference will donate 10 percent of the wholesale cost of the toy you purchased to that charity on your behalf. There are three charity partners: Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, Samaritan's Purse, and Best Friends Animal Society. The website also includes educational games and ideas on how kids can make a difference in the world.
Each stuffed toy comes with Do Good Trading Cards that consist of really simple tasks kids can do in their everyday world, such as "Today at lunch, look around and invite a child who is sitting alone to sit with you." When the child reports back to the parent that the task has been completed, the child is given a Do Good code that can be redeemed on the website for incentives in the educational games.
The stuffed characters are available in a variety of sizes. Depending on the size of the animal you purchase, the retail cost can be anywhere from $2.99 to $100.
The Monkeez Makes a Difference stuffed characters are really cute, and kids will like collecting and snuggling up with their favorites. The online component with the Do Good Trading Cards is great for extending the play.
Monkeez Makes a Difference is for ages 3 and up.
It will be most useful in families where creating a sense of service and reinforcing charitable activities.
Monkeez Makes a Difference items are available in specialty toy stores and at monkeezandfriends.com.
The online games are very rudimentary, but may be difficult and frustrating for younger kids.
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Lithocarpus is a genus in the beech family Fagaceae, differing from Quercus in the erect male spikes. The World Checklist (see link below) accepts 334 species, though some other texts suggest as few as 100 species. About 100 Asian species of the genus were formerly treated in the genus Pasania. All but one are native to east and southeast Asia; the single exception, L. densiflorus, tanoak or tanbark oak, being native to western North America in southwest Oregon and California. The Asian species do not have a well-known English vernacular name, though the generic term stone oak has been proposed.
Although normally included in Lithocarpus, recent genetic evidence suggests that the North American species is only distantly related to Asian species; it may be better transferred to a genus of its own.[1]
They are evergreen trees with leathery, alternate leaves, which may be either entire or toothed. The seed is a nut very similar to an oak acorn, but with a very hard, woody nut shell (hence the genus name, from Greek lithos, stone, + carpos, seed). The nut kernel is edible in some species (e.g. Lithocarpus edulis), but inedible, and very bitter, in others (e.g. L. densiflorus).
Several of the species are very attractive ornamental trees, used in parks and large gardens in warm temperate and subtropical areas.
Selected species
- Lithocarpus burkillii
- Lithocarpus cleistocarpus
- Lithocarpus crassinervius
- Lithocarpus curtisii
- Lithocarpus densiflorus - Tanoak
- Lithocarpus dodonaeifolius
- Lithocarpus edulis - Japanese Stone Oak
- Lithocarpus erythrocarpus
- Lithocarpus formosanus
- Lithocarpus glaber
- Lithocarpus hancei - Hance's Tanbark
- Lithocarpus hendersonianus
- Lithocarpus henryi - Henry's Stone Oak
- Lithocarpus indutus
- Lithocarpus kingianus
- Lithocarpus kingii
- Lithocarpus kostermansii
- Lithocarpus kunstleri
- Lithocarpus maingayi
- Lithocarpus neorobinsonii
- Lithocarpus ovalis
- Lithocarpus pachyphyllus
- Lithocarpus platycarpus
- ^ Manos, Paul S.; Zhou, Zhe-Kun; Cannon, Charles H. (2001). "Systematics of Fagaceae: Phylogenetic Tests of Reproductive Trait Evolution" (PDF). International Journal of Plant Sciences 162 (6): 1361–1379. doi:10.1086/322949. http://www.phylodiversity.net/ccannon/pdfs/manos01.pdf.


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Spotlight on Somerset County: Pictures from readers of the Messenger-Gazette Aug. 13-17, 2012
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Mark the fall calendar for Somerset County's seventh annual Weekend Journey through the Past, a collaborative heritage tourism program showcasing 27 significant historic sites countywide that will be open to the public free of charge on Saturday, Oct. 13, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 14, from noon to 4 p.m.
"There will be an impressive range of tours and activities to engage your interests, satisfy your curiosity and provide an enjoyable free weekend outing with your entire family," said Freeholder Deputy Director Peter S. Palmer, liaison to the county Cultural & Heritage Commission, which hosts the annual event.
Through the enthusiastic involvement, collaborative partnerships and support of Somerset County's many historic societies and commissions, this annual event features many special activities, including a contest for prizes; interpreted tours led by costumed docents; special collections and exhibitions; period military drills and encampment with living-history re-enactors; open-hearth cooking; colonial tavern life; traditional blacksmithing; 19th-century firefighting wagons and apparatus and much more.
There also will be antiques sales; arts and crafts; a special U.S. Golf Association exhibition, "American Champions and Barrier Breakers: Contributions African-Americans Have Made to Golf for over a Century:" live period music performances and participatory colonial dance instruction; a scheduled theatrical performance; guidance on genealogical resources; daily chores of 18th century life; military history; demonstrations; local history videos; antique cameras, music boxes and unique musical instrument collections; participatory activities; interesting architecture; access to some sites not generally open to the public.
New for 2012 is "What in the World is That?," a detective investigation activity designed to be a shared educational and fun activity for kids and the entire family.
For comprehensive details, participating historic sites featured this year (including four new, first-time participating sites), information about how to qualify to win one of many pre-paid gasoline gift cards and advance information about the new "What in the World is That" kids/family detective investigation activity, visit SCHistoryWeekend.com.
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Chefs Using Marijuana Create a New Kitchen Culture - NYTimes.com
Nicholas Cage only eats polite animals
I read the marijuana-article in the NyT, don't know what to say about it other than that well. Just because you can eat something doesn't always mean that you should. But then I've eaten dog meat, I am unlikely to have something with marijuana in it.
I preferred a beer after a shift. Dope was for Floyd or ELP concerts.
Back-in-the-day it was mostly just a few drinks after work...although THAT crowd was right there with us...but in the part of town I grew up in, it was the norm and not just for the restaurant 'clique'.
I think maybe Tony should have dated his opinion to go with his 'time period'...when I moved on to work restaurant jobs that were a little more 'dignified' or 'cultured' that was not the norm at all...and I don't find or hear of it much today. Although it still goes on, I don't think it would be found as the majority.
As for the other article...what do you have your google alerts set for that you find these stories?!?!?! LOL
Wham bam thank you ma'am...shame on nick cage that weirdo...
and I don't cook for a living but that doesn't stop me anyway - much better than beer...uhh.. 'didn't' i meant to say
If they legalized dope I think I wouldn't smoke it but I'd season my food with it, probably bake with it, too.
As for Sir Nicholas, he has a point - acting wild when you're already doing the wild thing is just gilding the lily.
There's a synthesised version of the active substance in cannabis available for medicinal use (well, in some parts of the world). It helps intense pain, nausea etc. Some say that the real deal (plant) is better though. Anyway, baking is supposedly the best.


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Just Go With It (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) Comedy
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A plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.
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Released - Tuesday, June 7 , 2011
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With 27 games in the book for the 2013-14 season for Kentucky basketball, it could be argued there are as many questions to this team as when the season started. Kentucky currently sits at 21-6 and 11-3 in SEC play with a No. 17 national ranking and a shoe-in for the NCAA tournament.
However, what kind of team is Kentucky? The Wildcats entered the season with national title expectations and a chance to make a run at a 40-0 season. However, with a roster full of freshmen and sophomores, the Wildcats experienced growing pains throughout the season.
Is a national title run still in the cards for Kentucky? It wouldn't be a shock to see the Wildcats raise a ninth banner. With just a couple regular-season games left, we'll take a look at the five burning questions that will be asked over the last four games for Kentucky.


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Three years in a row we were a flop and now we're a classic," whooped an oddly tweedy Henry Winkler. "I like that." When the Fonz is happy, so are Richie, Joanie, Potsie and everyone else on Happy Days—especially the owners of the show. So producer Garry Marshall gratefully invited the cast, crew and alumni from nine seasons of the hit series to the Beverly Hills Hotel to help Paramount Television celebrate the filming of its 200th episode. Marshall posed the question of the hour: "How did one little show make so much money for so many people?"
Blow-ups of the original cast adorned the walls, proving that bank balances aren't the only things that have changed. Now-graying Tom Bosley (Howard Cunningham) had black hair. The Fonz wore a windbreaker then; network brass thought a leather jacket would grease the show's clean-cut image. They relented after a few shows, and the Fonz's first leather jacket now hangs in the Smithsonian. At his audition, Winkler remembers warning producer Marshall: "You don't want me. You want someone six feet tall and macho." Now, all 5'6½" of the Fonz is a high school dropout American folk hero—who will soon settle down on the show. "He may get married," Marshall revealed, "to someone completely the opposite of him—a very classy girl."
As a Wurlitzer jukebox blared oldies, veteran cast members—like Marion Ross (Mrs. Cunningham), Scott Baio (Chachi) and Anson Williams (Potsie)—chatted with some new members of the family: Lynda Goodfriend (Lori Beth Cunningham), Cathy Silvers (boy-crazy Jenny Piccalo) and Ted McGinley (coach Roger Phillips). Alumnus-turned-producer-director Ron Howard (Richie Cunningham) arrived in shirt sleeves. "What's the matter, Ronnie?" joked Jerry Paris, who directs most of the episodes. "Can't afford a coat?" Grad Donny Most (Ralph Malph) stopped by to see his old friends. And Morgan Fairchild thanked the show for helping her career. "I played a rich bitch on Happy Days back in 1977 as one of Fonzie's girls," she recalled. "That led to a running rich-bitch part on Mork & Mindy. And eventually another rich-bitch role on Flamingo Road." The nicest thought as the 200th show went into the can was that all these Happy Days will live happily ever after in reruns.
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Wow. Who would have thought that one day could change everything.
Today, one child in my class discovered her voice. She discovered that she is a valued and special contributor to our class. She realised that she can overcome challenges.
Oh yes, one day can make all of the difference in the world. One student came into her own through our 'Challenging Choose-Day' event. She came. She participated. She came 2nd place in the gutterboard competition. She barely smiled and she seemed disaffected by the cheering of the team and the roars of excitement from our class.
But today, one day on, she is a whole new child. She wrote a recount of her day at 'Challenging Choose-Day'. She added details and included all of the events that we participated in, including all of the children in our class and which event they were in as well as where they placed in their event.
What makes this amazing, is the fact that this gorgeous child is non-English speaking. She has never uttered a word in my class and really lacks confidence. She is reluctant about any sort of participation, embarrassed when anyone tries to talk to her - even in Mandarin - and she has not yet written more than a few words at a time, with total support and a lot of prompting.
Today, she wrote half a page, unaided.
Today, she read aloud with our class as we shared our big book.
Today, she located a photo of herself with her gold medal from the Challenging Choose-Day event and put it on her wiki page with a comment.
Today, she finally became a part of our class, and she is truly happy about it.
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Breakfast Casserole
Debbie Quimby
My sister recently put together a book of her favorite breakfast recipes. There are many variations of casseroles, buns, rolls, and other great breakfast treats.
This recipe is one of many.
This recipe is one of many.
- 1 can(s)
- crescent rolls (8 count)
- 1 lb
- sausage, cooked and drained
- 1 1/2 c
- cheddar cheese, shredded
- 8 large
- eggs
- 1 c
- milk
- salt and pepper to taste
Directions Step-By-Step
1Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Unroll crescent rolls and flatten into a greased 13x9 inch baking dish.
2Cook sausage and drain well. Sprinkle sausage over crescent rolls and sprinkle cheese over sausage.
3Beat eggs with milk; add salt and pepper to taste. Pour egg mixture over sausage and cheese.
4Bake 40-45 minutes or until eggs are set.
About this Recipe
Course/Dish: Breakfast Casseroles, Eggs, Meat Breakfast
Other Tag: Quick & Easy
Hashtags: #eggs, #sausage, #cheddar, #crescents


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Syracuse -- This, folks, is why those who hate the New York Yankees hate the New York Yankees.
One hundred and sixty-one million dollars, every last one of which is guaranteed. For seven years. For CC Sabathia.
And there are threats -- no, prophecies -- coming out of the Bronx of more financial gluttony.
A.J. Burnett. Ben Sheets. Derek Lowe. Andy Pettitte. Each is a free agent and as many as three of them, who combined might make a run at $161 million, themselves, could end up with the Bombers, who'd have all that pitching to go with their $28-million-a-year third baseman and $21-million-a-year shortstop and $15-million-a-year catcher and $15-million-a-year closer and two $13-million-a-year outfielders.
Oh, and until that day that they choose to be out of it with Mark Teixeira -- who has a $160-million offer on the table from the Washington Nationals -- they're still in it with Mark Teixeira. Which means the Yanks may soon add a $20-million-a-year first baseman to the lineup.
Now, I understand that there is a prevailing opinion that money does not buy titles. And as the frugal Tampa Bay Rays are the sitting American League champions, there is some juice in that thinking. But there is little evidence that the New York club believes any of it. And that, in turn, explains why so many people out there curl their lips at the Yankees, who are the undisputed dollars-and-cents bullies of professional sports.
They can because of those vast revenue streams the geographical gods have allowed them, and virtually nobody else, to develop . . . and so, they do.
They can because MLB continues to do business without a salary cap (and a corresponding salary floor) . . . and so, they do.
They can because there are little statuettes of Gordon Gekko on the dashboards of the Steinbrenners . . . and, so they do.
And the result is this monstrosity of ever-diminishing credibility. For instance, when the Yankees play the Royals next year, some people will have the chutzpah to label it a "big-league baseball game," but it will be no such thing. And not because of good or bad baseball decisions . . . or good or bad luck . . . or good or bad performances by comparable collections of talent. It'll be a farce because one side will have, oh, its top dozen players averaging, say, $18 million a year . . . and the other will be called the Royals.
That's just one example, of course. But you get the idea. The Yankees aren't the 800-pound gorilla that sleeps wherever it wants. They're the creature that scares the 800-pound gorilla right off the couch.
And that explains an awful lot.
-- Bud Poliquin
(In addition to reading his columns and "To The Point" commentaries regularly in The Post-Standard newspaper, you can hear Bud Poliquin on the "Bud & The Manchild Show," which is broadcast on Sports Radio 620 WHEN (AM 620) Mondays through Fridays between 3-6 p.m. You can also listen on-line at www.sportsradio620.com.)


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In response to a dramatic or out-of-the-ordinary situation or story: "That's a whole other bag of shrimp!"
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83-year-old missing from New Smyrna Beach found
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Officials in Volusia County were searching for a missing 83-year-old woman who left her home early Wednesday.
Carla Doerr left her home at 6:15 a.m. in a white Toyota Highlander. She eventually made it to Winter Park Wednesday afternoon.
Family members said Doerr has Alzheimer's disease and thought it was Thanksgiving.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The countdown has begun.
Birmingham's Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival is just seven days away.
Now in its 13th year, the indie film festival will feature more than 200 films and shorts in nine venues all around the downtown Theater District.
The three-day festival begins Friday, Aug. 26, and continues through Sunday, Aug. 28.
This year's opening-night film is writer-director Ti West's "The Innkeepers," a ghost story about two hotel employees out to prove their old inn is haunted.
"The Innkeepers" screens at 8 p.m. Friday at the Alabama Theatre, and tickets to the film and post-party are $20 in advance online and $25 at the door.
The closing film is director Andrew Rossi's "Page One: Inside The New York Times," a timely documentary that examines the state of journalism in wake of newspaper closings and staff layoffs.
"Page One" screens at 6:15 p.m. Sunday at the Alabama, and those tickets are $10 at the door.
Other documentaries to look for over the weekend include "Leaving Selma," "Man in the Glass: The Dale Brown Story," "The Reconstruction of Asa Carter," "Where Soldiers Come From" and "You've Been Trumped."
Tickets will be available on site throughout the festival.
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GEF Posts Documents for June's Council Meeting, UNDP Updates GEF Project Pipeline Database
June 2009: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has posted the documents for the 35th Meeting of the GEF Council, which will convene from 22-24 June 2009, in Washington DC, US.
Among the issues to be addressed at the meeting are: proposals on how to improve the transparency of the resource allocation framework for the fifth GEF replenishment (GEF-5); the Memorandum of Understanding on the provision of secretariat services by the GEF to the Adaptation Fund Board; the reallocation of remaining GEF-4 resources; new projects for approval; and a suggested date for the next GEF Assembly to be held in Uruguay in May 2010.
In other GEF news, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has updated its database of GEF pipeline projects, which may be consulted online. [GEF Council Documents] [UNDP GEF Pipeline Database]


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UNITAR Highlights Conditions for "Safe" Climate-Related Migration
January 2010: On the occasion of International Migrants Day, the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has identified some of the necessary conditions for making migration a safe choice, particularly in light of climate-induced migration. In an opinion piece titled "When the Curtains Close in Copenhagen: Making Migration a Safe Choice," UNITAR highlights that the commitments of the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference may have a decisive impact on where people will be able to live in the future and the homes they will have to leave behind.
Noting that the estimates of the number of people that will be forced to move because of climate change vary from several million to more than a billion, UNITAR stresses that in the face of climate change, such movement must be a possibility but must also remain a choice, and points out some of the potential benefits of migration. It highlights that particular attention should be paid to the needs of vulnerable groups such as children, adolescents, women and the elderly, and then identifies some of the necessary conditions for safe migration, such as: the provision of legal migration opportunities, including for those with little or no formal skills or education; the ability for migrants to move in safety and dignity such as by governments endorsing the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; and the option for migrants to stay home safely, for example by ensuring that they are less vulnerable to disaster in the first place, and that they are not stuck when disaster strikes.[UNITAR Op-Ed]


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May 03, 2010, 07:31 PM
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