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Our paths first crossed in 1974 when home was Chris Crozier's house in Pukalani. It was big enough to welcome farmer/writer Stu Nicholls, his wife and small son while he was looking for a house to rent. He and I had a lot in common - both from rural Illinois, a taste for the same music, both products of the same generation and both loving to tell stories about our days on Oahu.
Two big differences: He was a veteran and graduate of the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture with every intention of returning to Vietnam. In subsequent years, our paths crossed any number of times, but I learned nothing about his demons despite interviewing him at length for a story that never got written. I forget why.
Stu returned to Vietnam as a tourist as soon as it was possible. He had to go through Mexico to get a visa since the U.S. didn't recognize The Socialist Republic of Vietnam. He wrote an emotion-based account of that visit. It was published in Honolulu magazine.
One evening, the telephone rang. It was Stu. He was in the end stages of writing a book and wanted me to take a look. Maui tradition: You can't ever say "no" to a friend. Going through the manuscript, I discovered a different Stu Nicholls.
During a 10-year period, Stu had written "Thunder Road: The Journey Home," an autobiographical novel about a man finding a kind of peace with vivid memories of his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam and how he was treated when he returned to the United States.
"Thunder Road" is the name actor Robert Mitchum gave to Route 13, a north-south highway notorious for being a popular target of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong combat forces. American convoys frequently had to fight through ambushes. "Journey Home" refers to the narrator's psychic travels.
The protagonist, Nick, was a gung-ho warrior. He volunteered for service when the Vietnam War was just gaining steam. An exemplary record in basic training led to a cushy assignment in Washington, D.C. He has a run-in with anti-war demonstrators. Impressed by his patriotic fervor, a general finally processes Nick's escape from chrome helmets and spit-shined shoes. He was on his way to Vietnam.
He landed at a time when Gen. William Westmoreland personally greeted "newbies" when they landed at Ton Son Nhat airport. Nick was impressed. The attention fueled his desire to "get some." During the first six months of his tour, Nick falls in love with a Cambodian refugee but has to leave her behind. In the second part of his tour, Nick is a grunt who usually ends up walking point when his squad goes looking for "Charlie."
Told in flashbacks, Nick's story covers his war experiences in the context of several postwar visits. Nicholls writes combat scenes in stark and unflinching detail. There are an equal number of anecdotes about camaraderie and Army idiocies, including being brought up on charges of dereliction of duty. He'd fallen to sleep on guard because he ran out of the dexedrine needed to work all day and most of the night. He's also adopted by a Vietnamese family.
Most of the novel is about Nick's postwar experiences. He was reviled and misunderstood in America. He was respected and understood by his former enemy. A pivotal scene has him sitting across a table from an NVA officer and finding out they had fought in the same bloody battle.
While farming on Maui, Nick is haunted. He begins a one-man effort to help street kids abandoned by their American fathers and Vietnamese mothers. He brings home one of those kids with disastrous results. A series of visits to the country he has come to love involve clandestine efforts to find Americans who were left behind. The search for MIAs leads to Nick sweating out encounters with hostile Vietnamese authorities.
But where is home? It turns out, home is a Vietnamese woman. He fell in love with her in Vietnam and married her on Maui. She not only worked alongside him on his farm for decades but, more importantly, was his emotional anchor.
"Thunder Road: The Journey Home" is a 468-page odyssey that Stu hopes will help explain post-traumatic stress syndrome. But, that's a sidelight. The book tells a story that's fascinating, enjoyable, and, yes, disturbing. You can meet Stuart Nicholls Saturday between 3 and 5 p.m. at the Saigon Cafe in Wailuku. He'll sign a copy.
"Thunder Road: The Journey Home" is available from Amazon.com.; $18 for the print version, $9.99 for a download.
* Ron Youngblood is a former staff writer for The Maui News. His email address is email@example.com.


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Despite being odorless and tasteless, body is an important character in wine. It adds to, or detracts from, our pleasure in drinking. In blind tastings body provides a clue as to varietal and regional origin. It is a key factor in wine and food pairing too, ideal matches being similar in weight.
What is body in wine?
Body is the perceived thickness of a wine in one's mouth. Think about how water feels in your mouth. Now think about vodka. Vodka feels more viscous than water because of the alcoholic content. Maple syrup is much thicker than water because of the dissolved sugar.
The amount of body in a wine is determined by the levels of alcohol, sugar, other soluble fruit extract (pectin, phenols, proteins, etc) and acidity. Perceived viscosity increases with the content of the first three elements. The acidity in wine is less viscous than the other elements and the higher the acidity the lower alcohol tends to be. Therefore, wines with a lot of acidity tend to be lower in viscosity than their lower acid wines. However, some high acid wines are also very high in sugars and they can be full-bodied.
Why does alcohol feel more viscous than water? The longer a molecule and the more easily it creates hydrogen bonds, the more viscous it will be. Water bonds readily but is the smallest of molecules. Therefore, water molecules aren't easlly "tangled" with others. Ethyl alcohol feels thicker because its molecules are larger and it also bonds easily.
Molecules of water (left) and ethyl alcohol (right). The structure of the latter causes it to snag on other molecules. That resistance in movement is viscosity.
Wine Body Descriptors
Body gets the usual assortment of semi-confusing (or entirely confusing) wine-speak descriptors. Without formal training or a secret decoder ring, quantitative descriptions such as "medium-plus" seem abstract. Qualitative comments—lithe, supple, luxurious, opulent—are poetic but only a little more helpful.
Here's a table showing the five standard "quantitative" descriptors, their association with different types of milk—a convenient reference—as well as some common, creative descriptors. Some adjectives fall into more than one range. That's because their use varies by varietal. Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon may be elegant at medium+ body whereas Beaujolais Nouveau may not. Some descriptors also have multiple applications. Feminine may refer to body, but also to aromatics, structure and balance. There are also a lot more flowery celebrations of full-bodied wines than those of medium body or less. That's indicative of both the relative scarcity of high-quality, light-bodied wines and of what critics tend to prefer.
|skim milk
angular, lean, delicate, feminine
|angular, lean, delicate, feminine, elegant, lithe
|whole milk
|lean, elegant, feminine, supple, lithe, oily
|elegant, supple, lithe, oily, rich, weighty, masculine
|rich, weighty, masculine, creamy, opulent, fat, unctuous, chewy, plump, decadent, fleshy, lush, massive, viscous, high glycerin, voluptuous, Rubenesque
The 5-point scale of wine body, from light to full, is useful but we have to remember that wine is analog not digital. In the real world there's a smooth continuum of increasing weight from light through full. Terms such as medium+ express a range of possible viscosities, not a single specific consistency.
Not all the ranges are the same "size" either. "Medium" is narrow, in part to combat our natural tendency to play it safe by calling everything medium. "Light" is a smaller range than "Full." That's because there is a finite limit to how little body a wine can have but the ceiling for body is quite high.
The ranges blend from one to the next. There are no absolute dividing lines between them. Body also varies with serving temperature—the warmer the wine the less viscous it is—and the type of food, if any, with which a wine is paired. Candidates for advanced wine certification (such as Diploma, Wine & Spirits) are required to pinpoint just one body designation for any given wine. Wine reviewers often use a two-step range though, because they don't know the conditions under which a consumer will be tasting. I often use the slightly more precise "nearly full-bodied" to indicate that a wine is on the border between medium+ and full.
One of my pet peeves is wine reviews expressing a three-step range for a wine. I see this frequently, even from celebrated wine advocates. They'll tell you a particular red wine is "medium to full-bodied." Virtually all high-quality red wines from the New World, and most from the Old World, fall into that range. It's like saying a particular breed of cat has fur. Not terribly illuminating.
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I beleive my BF has increased this past month and I'm fasting! Eating may not enough calories, probably. Cals. are around 1500 to 1900 a day. I am curious how come the increase of BF? Love handles and stomach BF are the areas. Any ideas?
too much stress can increase BF
too many "cheats" with grains can increase BF
too many calories can increase BF
too few calories can cause stress and thus increase BF
overtraining can cause stress and increase BF
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so many ways that this can happen! And, IF tends to exscacerbate and magnify any of these problems as well. I suggest posting a thread with as much information about yourself and your diet and lifestyle as you can to get the best possible answers, then you will be all set and can continue with IF and see progress.
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When you guys first IF'd was it difficult to get to 8 hours or more? Also, has anyone seen great results with IF and weight loss?
I'm only occasionally IFing, since I loves me some cream and coffee in the AM, and I try to eat dinner by 6 at the latest, but that puts my feeding window at about 11 hours. My goal for now is to switch to green tea a few days a week, then just grab lunch at the regular time, noon-ish. I wanna scare my fat cells.
Because if you didn't know, of that is life made: only of moments; Don't lose the now.
added question......what if you lift weights 5 days and sprint 3-4 days per week? I am an assistant strength coach at a college and need to be working out this much. My lifts are fairly short and to the point but I would love to try IF to lose the extra fat. I basically lift for one hour 5 days per week and then sprint either 12 hrs later or 12 hrs b4 a lift. What would be a good schedule for IF? trying to lose BF.


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Checking out the blog buzz, it seems oDesk is doing well in taste tests. First, buyer Simon Bunker compares our marketplace to a competitor and declares we're "now the site of choice for all my outsourcing activity." Then for the provider perspective, the remote-work gurus at CertifiedFreelance.com provide "Five Reasons Why oDesk Tops Other Freelance Sites."
Network Solutions blogger Steve Fisher talks about using oDesk with your iPhone, and a provider writing as "Sufidreamer" offers his fourth in-depth post about getting started on oDesk, this time focusing on cover letters and interviews.
If you're tired of reading websites, here are a couple of YouTube videos you can watch: Camitta Davis offers a video intro to becoming an oDesk provider, and "MrWebMarketing" asks, "Is Outsourcing Just a Fad?" Watch and learn, folks — and remember to send us your links when you talk about oDesk online. For a few lucky winners each month, there's a free T-shirt in it.
Over at the developing oDeskGuide.com, Rikki John De Castro continues to create an independent resource for oDesk providers. Recently he offered a friend advice on dealing with a difficult buyer who kept demanding broad revisions on a fixed-priced project (check it out just for the cartoon about a web design project gone awry), and he finished January by celebrating his first $1,000 in earnings through oDesk. Congratulations, Rikki!


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A handbook for the open source way, written the open source way | Opensource.com
A handbook for the open source way, written the open source way
Remember the Seinfeld episode where Kramer had the idea to make a coffee table book about coffee tables? I always thought that was a pretty elegant idea. Well, a few months ago, some of the smart folks on Red Hat's community architecture team had a similarly elegant idea:
Write a book about building community the open source way... and write it with a community, the open source way. Meaning, open the text up, allow interested users to contribute, and see what happens.
The book is entitled The Open Source Way: Creating and nurturing communities of contributors and you can access the current text here and the wiki for contributors here.
I caught up with Karsten Wade, who is leading the project, to learn more.
There have been other books written about community-building over the last few years, but I am not aware of any others that have been written by a community. Where did the idea to start this project come from?
Our team, Community Architecture, has a strategic community role in Red Hat, and part of that is learning, distilling, and sharing knowledge. We bring the knowledge of how to produce software the open source way to different parts of the company. We're all in a community of practice here, and have much to learn from each other.
Once we had the idea of a cookbook or handbook for internal needs, it was immediately clear that following the open source way with the content would be better, have more impact, and protect important knowledge in case our team gets eaten by raptors.
Raptors, huh? Did you design this project to be a handbook for just open source technology projects? Or could anyone make use of it to create and nurture community?
It is definitely aimed for people beyond technology. In fact, I consider that a top target audience. We intentionally left blanks in the book under the examples. Each example illustrates a principle, and if I wrote them, they'd be about Fedora and Linux and yadda yadda yadda.
Two Seinfeld references in one article. Nice.
Thanks. We are inviting participation in picking good examples from outside of technology. And let the stories compete for a spot on the Great Stories to Tell page.
What types of people do you think would make the best contributors for the book?
It would be natural to say anyone, and that is in fact true. But still, there is a reason that most people read Wikipedia, and only a portion participate or contribute fully.
Anyone who likes the material enough to tell other people about it is already participating. Those are the people I'm looking for first,they are the ones on the very periphery of participation, but in making it legitimate, we help grow their expertise.
Which sections do you think offer the best advice as they stand right now? Where do you need more contributor help?
The strongest sections are Communities of practice, How to loosely organize a community, and Stuff everyone knows and forgets anyway.
Yet, within those, there are blank spots that invite participation, and we really need it. Someone new could strengthen even those areas with relative ease.
For someone looking for a bigger challenge, there are three sections that stand out. What your organization does correctly when practicing the open source way and What your organization does wrong when practicing the open source way share a lot of very frank experience from the Red Hat perspective.
I would like to see people from other organizations—of any size—take the chance to anonymize and record their lessons-learned, which may be underpresented or not present in those chapters. This is one way to help make sure they do or don't happen again.
Thanks, Karsten, the book is off to a fantastic start.
People, go check it out. This is a book that needs to be written. By all of you.
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I'm curious to read, but I prefer being able to download and read it or print it?
I think there is probably not a better way to actually write about the Open Source way since out of 100 people there are probably 101 ideas of what it all really means (though most will be pretty similar).
I've done a few versions myself for the text/download (PDF and HTML), but haven't established a release schedule yet. I think the groundwork is nicely laid for a print-on-demand version, and I'm sure we'll do that in the near future.
Personally, I want to see the parts of the book filled that need more examples and content before I'll recommend chopping down trees and preparing vats of ink. :)
Yes, thanks for the question.
There is a PDF version, and two HTML versions - a multi-page and an all-in-one-page.
You can find this in a neat list on the front page of the wiki:
The content in the wiki is often more current than the PDF and HTML format. We do the content development in the wiki, then do regular version updates of the book.
This sounds like an interesting project. I was about to take a closer look at the web site today, but somehow all the content seems to have disappeared. What's going on?
Thanks for the note. The server fell over, but it's back up again.


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First, please bear with me and my Turban. I've been wearing it for 3 days in a row but i will be wearing something else today so you wont be seeing it again after tomorrow's outfit/entry, well, not for a week maybe!=) This was me the other day when i and the husband went out for an afternoon walk, had tea and enjoyed the perfect weather, a bit windy still but the sun was warm enough. I decided to wear these pink trousers i got a few years ago from Ebay, lucky to have escaped the Vintage box and this is it's 2nd summer.=) But like i said in my previous post, i will be doing a Vintage week soon so i hope you'll still be here to check them out.=) You can't see them but i was wearing my Flip-Flop wedges here, burried in the grass. Also my old but treasured shoulder bag from Morgan, it was my first shoulder bag. I was a hobo bag girl for many years.=) Top from H&M and belt is also vintage. And the star of the day's outfit- my Audrey Hepburn sunnies. Before i got obsessed with Clubmasters, i was really into Wayfarers because of Audrey hepburn and then later Robert Pattinson. So when i saw these in Dubai (while looking for one very special pair, which i still dont have! Nobody did, i've been to all the stores!) i didnt need to think, i bought them right away. I hope you like my little pink number.=)
That's it really.=) I dont know what we're doing today, everybody's busy as always and im just waiting to be needed! The plan is to stay home most of the day bathe the dogs, and sort our our DVDs, paint my nails and wait for the man to call me and buy me tea. That will be my monday. And thank you thank you so much for the comments and votes on my last posts, especially to you who have been here since my first 10 outfits! You know who you are and thank you very much…thank you…
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text: lmao i do that lots but sometimes it is freezing cold and wet and windy as it has been the last week here. they have a horse to ride and a boat to go play out on the inlet in. bush to run around too. bikes, scooters, bows and arrows, fishing rods etc that is all there every day after and before school and every weekend so it is nice to do something different in the holidays. it amazes me how they take what they have for granted. if i had a horse and a beach down the road, my mother would not have seen me for dust when i was their age. even just an acre of wilderness to play in, i would have been gone.


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I just made this with a couple of changes--I added some fresh grated ginger, used dried red pepper flakes in place of the cayenne. Next time I'll use a little less oil and a little more salty something (but I didn't measure anything so I can't say for sure that the ratios in the recipe itself are off). The mushrooms totally make the dish, by the way. I also had this on a plate with some fresh corn...I wasn't planning on mixing them together, but the few kernels that strayed into my greens gave it an awesome sweet highlight.
Rating5/5 (from 1 ratings)5
Yield4 cups
4 cups Chinese greens (baby bok choy and mustard greens work great)
2 green onions
1 green garlic sprig (or 2 cloves garlic)
1/3 cup fresh wood ear mushrooms (optional)
3 tablespoons sesame oil
1½ tablespoons water
1½ tablespoons nama shoyu
Dash of agave nectar or honey
1 teaspoon kombucha or vinegar
Sprinkle of Chinese 5-spice powder
Cayenne pepper (optional)
White pepper (optional)
Recipe Directions
1. Chop any hard, tough bits off the greens and discard.
2. Pack the greens tightly together. If they are of the long and leafy sort (like mustard greens), roll them neatly lengthwise, or twist tightly.
3. With a nice sharp knife, chop 1-inch segments, starting at the leafy tips and moving towards the base.
4 .Mince the green onions and green garlic (or garlic cloves) finely.
5. Whisk the liquid ingredients together until well blended. Careful with the sweetener—a tiny bit brings out the spices, but too much can easily become cloying.
6. Sprinkle in 5-spice powder, whisking as you go. Add cayenne and/or white pepper to taste.\
7. Roughly chop the wood ear mushrooms, if you have them.
8. Now just toss all the ingredients into a 1-litre jar and stir to mix. Try to get the liquid to cover all the greens. It won't look as juicy when you first make it as it will when it's ready—a lot of the liquid will be expressed from the greens themselves.
9. Refrigerate this overnight. And in the morning, whaddyaknow—leftover Chinese greens.
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Mmmm, Chinese take-out.
I came up with this recipe on the fly as a way to hold on to some delicious mustard greens that were wilting more quickly than I could consume them. T
he result is a salad of wilted but still crisp greens, as if they had been just lightly steamed, in a sauce eerily reminiscent of Chinese take-out.
Perfect thing to pack for work, especially when you know your corporate lunch is going to be from PF Chang's.
If you can get them (and if you're okay with it digestively!), adding fresh wood ear mushrooms really adds heartiness and authenticity to this dish. You could also use shiitake!
By the way, while I'm pretty sure these amounts will produce tasty food, please take all measurements as guidelines; I rarely measure things when I make food for myself. Taste and test as you go.
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This is so delicious! Bok Choy is so tender, if you let it marinate for a while it tastes cooked. I made it for dinner and took the leftovers for lunch and it was sooooo good, even all of my extra carbohydrate, meat eating co workers loved it!
Yep, gross. Good thing I only eat quail or duck eggs from a local farm.
nthmost, please read this article and watch the video regarding the truth behind eggs.
I've eaten this recipe like three times within the past week. It's delicious, I love it! Sometimes I substitute one of the tablespoons of sesame oil with flax or olive oil, and once I used up all of my dried wood ear mushrooms I used other Asian varieties. Thanks so much for posting!
I've been buying wood ear mushrooms for the past 2 weeks from Far West Fungi at the SF Ferry Building. They're always $2 a basket, pretty good deal. Not much to look at, but great chewy texture, and they soak up flavors well.
Here's some info on them: http://www.mykoweb.com/cookbook/ear.html
hmmm wood ear mushroom? Not too familiar with that one.
Addendum: At the risk of political incorrectness, I should mention that gently stirring in a raw egg (or 2 or 3 raw quail eggs) right before eating this makes this food taste like stir fry, and of course increases the total heartiness of the meal.
To achieve the same effect, you could also try adding some kind of nut or seed and vegetable pate. I believe Alissa Cohen has a number of egg-simulating recipes involving cashews, cauliflower, zucchini, things like that. I'd be partial to something involving pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds, since those are cheaper and much easier on my digestive system. Let me know what you come up with!
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- I suddenly realised what my etsy shop was missing, so I put together some low volume charm packs. They have been a huge hit. Yay!
- I've bought a bike! I am so excited - I've been using Adam's for a while now, and it's ugly (sorry Adam) and too big, so I am super excited about bringing home my vintage Raleigh Cameo. It's having a service and a bit of primping, but expect a very long and boring blog post about it in a couple of weeks. We only have one car, which Adam uses daily for work, so having a bike will finally free me from the constraints of the Exeter bus timetable!
- I kept seeing this QuiltCon quilt pop up on Instagram. It's by the insanely talented Victoria Findlay Wolfe, and you can see it (and more of her excitement at winning best in show) here. I just found it incredibly inspirational, and playing around with some ideas that popped into my head as I was admiring it has sent me off down a whole new modern/traditional quilts thought train which I am seriously excited to explore.
- My smallest child is obsessed with our syrup-tin-money boxes (I love syrup, hate throwing out the tins. We have a lot of money boxes). Even when getting involved in some 'cooking' (he has his own mixed spice tub, and flour and water was involved) he can usually be found wth a trail of coins
- Love the fabric selection Hadley put together for her month in the Brit Bee. Gorgeous, and a real simple-but-effective block. I am beginning to feel the pressure to get my quilt from last year sewn together before it's my month again (in May)
- That Hadley gets everywhere - I've been finishing off the latest block for the Eeep EPP bee, accompanied by a little needlebook she made
- I've been at my parents' house for the past few days in an effort to get a solid chunk of work done without interruption. My mother has an amazing eye for interiors, so her house basically looks like a magazine interior. I will attempt to rush round and take some more snaps before I leave. She has a few gorgeous vintage quilts as well. Missing my boys and looking forward to getting back home to Exeter again tomorrow though.


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Samsonite Launch 29" Spinner Upright (Black)
Serious Packing Capacity with the Samsonite 29 Inch Spinner Upright If your next trip requires lots of clothing, supplies or equipment to be brought along, then the Samsonite Launch 29inch spinner upright black could be the perfect piece of luggage to meet your needs. Unlike some of the smaller weekend getaway bags that are designed to fit in the overhead compartment as a carry-on bag, this suitcase is a durable and heavy-duty item that boasts an impressive packing capacity. In fact, it holds up to 5,605 cubic inches, which makes it one of the largest and most spacious suitcases available for travelers. Along with being spacious, the Samsonite 29 inch spinner upright is also surprisingly lightweight. It weighs less than 13 pounds when empty, and the innovative inline wheels let you push or pull with barely any effort at all. This suitcase offers a large lined interior pocket, compression straps to keep all your possessions in place as you travel and several pockets for personal items or toiletries. For a large and durable suitcase that is built to last, this is a fabulous option.
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Litter box issues seem to be one of the top reasons cats are give up to shelters. There are some things we can do to help our cat do better in this area. First remind yourself that your cat is not doing this on purpose to get back at you for something you may or may not have done.
Number of boxes:
I remember the first time I heard the formula for good litter box behavior: have one box per cat and then an extra. Wow, for some that could be a lot of litter boxes and litter! The idea is that the cats don't fight or argue about using the boxes. If one is in use, then there is another. Also, I've noticed that one box generally is the liquid waste box and the other is the solid waste box. Not sure if that is just my cats' way of organizing their litter box usage or if that is something all cats do.
I've heard folks say they modify this mathematical formula a bit. One co-worker here at CAT uses a large storage tub, with the front cut down a bit. The cats get lots of space and he solved a problem of one cat who liked to pee on the wall behind the box. This way, it is on the tub wall.
Placement of boxes:
Appropriate placement of the box is extremely important. This was the lesson I learned when we lived in that huge three story townhouse in Maryland. I put the littler boxes in the most convenient place for me, out of the public eye, and a place where tracked litter would not be underfoot all the time. I put them in an unused room on the first floor (basically the basement).
Well, being that the cats lived mostly on the main and third floor, Clio decided she did not want to run down so many flights of stairs when she had to go. Understandable (think about when you really have to go - would you want to go down 3 flights of stairs?) She left me some 'messages' to that affect. It took me a little while to decode them (I did take her to the veterinarian just in case) but eventually I understood that she wanted a box upstairs. As soon as one was installed in a closet upstairs, all her 'messages' ceased.
I learned that the way to encourage appropriate box usage is to put the boxes where the cats will use them, not where you want them to use them. Some of you may be thinking about how unattractive a litter box in your den will look. There are some wonderful pieces of furniture that disguise litter boxes. And we all know that may be worth the investment since the alternative is a pee smelling room (blick).
Choice of litter:
Many of us subject our cats to whatever litter may be on sale at the store. I admit, I am one of those. I tend to get the multi-cat scoopable store brand. My cats seem to be flexible with this. I did try an alternative litter on them once.
A co-worker at HSUS received some samples of the wheat-based litter. They wanted HSUS to partner with them some how and were hoping that all our cats would love their litter. Well, when I offered it to Mack and Clio, they opted for the cheap store brand scoopable.
A friend told me when she adopted her cat years ago, she gave the kitty several choices of litter. The one she chose way back then is the one still in use today. Why mess with perfection.
Some cats can't tolerate clay, some don't care for the texture of certain scoopables, and others prefer not to use any of the new fangled bio-degradable types.
If your cat is sending you 'messages', besides checking with your veterinarian to make sure there are no medical reasons, you may want to change your litter and/or add another box somewhere closer to where your cats live in your home.


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A Foley man pleaded guilty to felony murder today and received a 20-year sentence in the April 2007 drowning of a Mexican woman in her south Baldwin County apartment's bathtub.
Clifton Barnard Cargill, 28, was charged with capital murder-rape in the death of Belinda Ortiz-Gonzalez, 45, and faced life in prison without parole or the death penalty if convicted in the trial that was set for next month.
Cargill's attorney, Thomas Dasinger, said in a statement read to Baldwin Circuit Judge J. Langford Floyd that they expected the state to be able to prove Cargill entered the apartment with the intent to commit rape and a "struggle" began that led to Ortiz-Gonzalez drowning.
Investigators said Ortiz-Gonzalez was a native of Mexico who entered the United States on a work visa.
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Wildcat Art
Wildcat Art is a non-profit program that serves the Tucson community while providing hands-on teaching experience for advanced undergraduate and graduate art education students. It is a 8 week long Saturday art program for students in k-12 offered every spring, by the University of Arizona School of Art.
Running for over two decades, Wildcat Art classes are structured to encourage students to explore ideas and issues through contemporary (digital media, installation, performance) and traditional art media practices (drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, design). Experiences are designed specifically for students at each age/grade level from kindergarten through adolescence (K-12). Classes are taught by advanced and graduate art & visual culture education students, in collaboration with art & visual culture education faculty.
Download the 2016 Wildcat Art registration form (PDF). Register early as spaces for 2016 are limited! Registration deadline – February 20, 2016.
**Please note, our elementary classes (k-5) are now full. We still have open spaces for 6th – 12th grade classrooms**
Previously our curriculum has included experiences in movement and contemporary dance; narrative and storytelling; collographic printing; cyanotype photography; post-modern architecture; clay; stop-frame animation, and other art-making processes. Students explore big ideas and themes through extended lessons that are aimed to relate significantly to the students' lives and personal experiences. Wildcat Art also works closely with the University of Arizona Museum of Art, giving the students opportunities to learn through direct observation of works of art on display. Please visit the UAMA's website for current exhibitions.
Classes run every Saturday from 10:00am – 12:00pm and are held in the School of Art Building on the University of Arizona campus.
Our 2016 schedule is as follows: Classes will meet each Saturday, from February 27 through April 23, with the exception of March 19 (our Spring Break). Our exhibition will open on April 26. A closing reception will be held on April 30 for students and families will be held at the University of Arizona Kachina Lounge (in the Student Union) from April 26-30. The closing reception will be April 30, 10:30am-12pm.


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Coll. of Charleston 14, Coastal Carolina 2
MT. PLEASANT — College of Charleston had 19 hits in a 14-2 rout of Coastal Carolina in baseball Tuesday night at Patriots Point.
Blake Butler had four hits and four RBIs for the Cougars (22-18), while Cody Martin and Gunnar Heidt each had four hits and three RBIs.
The win snapped Charleston's four-game skid on mid-week games and evened the season series with Coastal Carolina (25-16). It was just the third game in the last seven series matchups that was not decided by one run.
College of Charleston tied a season high with 19 hits and hit double digits in runs for the ninth time this season. The 14 runs were the most given up by Coastal Carolina's pitching staff all season, which entered the game with a 2.76 team ERA.
Carl Wise extended his team-best hitting streak to 11 games with a single and two runs scored for the Cougars.
Charleston senior Drew Freie (4-4) picked up the win in his first career start. He last 31/3 IP on a predetermined split, tallying three hits and three strikeouts while not allowing a run. Coastal Carolina starter Brady Arenson (0-1) allowed five runs in two innings to pick up the loss.
Will Remillard had two hits for the Chanticleers, scoring a run and driving in another.
Charleston opened the game with five runs in the second inning, taking advantage of doubles from Martin, Morgan Phillips and Butler.
Heidt hit an RBI double in the fourth frame and Butler scored two with a two-out single in the fifth inning to push the Cougars' lead to 8-0.
Coastal Carolina threatened with a two-out rally in the top of the sixth, scoring two runs on RBIs from Remillard and Justin Creel to cut the score to 8-2.
However, the Cougars responded in the bottom half of the inning with a two-out RBI from Martin to score Heidt. Charleston put the game away in the seventh inning with five runs on three hits, including another double from Martin, to put the margin at 14-2.
Dre Watts finished the game with two perfect innings, striking out two in the eighth and ninth frames.
Charleston will remain at home this weekend with a non-conference series against Radford. CofC will play a doubleheader on Saturday which will now begin at 2 p.m. Sunday's finale is scheduled for noon.


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Spain took a bumpy road to the Olympic men's basketball final but will play for the gold against a heavily favored U.S. team after notching a 67-59 victory here Friday over Russia.
The Spaniards pulled out a game that started out in nightmarish fashion with Pau and Marc Gasol, Juan Carlos Navarro and the rest of the team struggling to get any type of shot to fall during the first 20 minutes at North Greenwich Arena.
The statistics at the half told the story, as Spain made just four of 18 two-point shots and two of 11 three pointers for a dismal overall shooting percentage of 21 percent
Luckily for Sergio Scarioli's side, however, Russia was not much more efficient offensively, only making 36 percent of its shots and taking just an 11-point lead at halftime.
That advantage then dwindled to nothing in the third quarter thanks to three pointers by Rudy Fernandez, Navarro and Jose Calderon, who evened the score at 46-46 with a shot from behind the arc shortly before the end of the third quarter.
The NBA Toronto Raptors point guard then hit another three pointer near the start of the fourth quarter to give his team the lead 51-49 and then baskets by Sergio Llull and Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol stretched that advantage to 55-49 to keep Spain's momentum going.
Calderon's hot hand continued throughout the fourth quarter while Spanish center Felipe Reyes contributed in a variety of ways - scoring, rebounding, blocking shots and getting steals - to help push the lead out of reach at 60-50 with just a few minutes remaining.
"We're a unit. We live and die together. That's what we pride ourselves on. In tense moments, when things are going their worst, we unite and whatever happens we do it together. That's why we've been successful for so many years," Los Angeles Lakers star Pau Gasol, who led Spain with 16 points, said afterward.
"I'm very pleased with the work, spirit of sacrifice and winning spirit we showed and which allows us to be in this type of moment again," he said, referring to Sunday's gold-medal match.
Russia was paced by Alexander Kaun, who scored 14.
With the win, the Spaniards got revenge for a 77-74 loss to Russia in the round-robin phase of the tournament - one of two losses they suffered in Group B - and most importantly booked a spot in the Olympic final four years after coming in second to the United States in Beijing.
Just like in those previous Games, the now two-time FIBA EuroBasket champions will have the daunting task of facing a U.S. team loaded with NBA All-Stars, including future Hall of Famers LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.
The United States blew out Argentina in Friday's second semifinal, turning a close game at the half into a 109-83 rout thanks in part to a flurry of three pointers by New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony. EFE


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R. Buick (Earth and Space Sciences/Astrobiology Program, U. Washington)
Earth's earliest fossil record is the only one we have of primitive life anywhere in the universe. As Earth may have had a similar early environmental, and perhaps biological, history to other rocky planets, this record provides our only model for astrobiological exploration elsewhere. There is, however, a paucity of data from the oldest and most interesting part of this record because of the rarity of ancient rocks due to constant recycling on our tectonically active planet, metamorphic and deformational destruction of rocks, and poor rock exposure on deeply weathered old continents.
The best evidence of primitive life potentially comes from microfossils, the preserved bodily relics of microbes. However, the oldest known examples are all highly controversial because of doubts about their biological origin and ancient age. Stromatolites, sedimentary structures constructed by microbes, provide tangible evidence of early life but yield less information than actual microfossils. Carbon isotopes constitute perhaps the most robust evidence of primordial biological processes, because they are relatively immune to later geological perturbation. Perhaps the most informative evidence on early life comes from sulfur isotopes and hydrocarbon molecules that allow determination of particular types of early metabolism, as well as inferences regarding evolutionary relationships.
From this range of data, we can conclude that life was probably present on Earth by 3.8 billion years ago, that microbes with modern types of metabolism existed as early as 3.45 Byr ago, and that our lineage of life, the eukaryotes, has a history as ancient as 2.7 Byr.
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Today is National Honesty Day. In hnor of the day, I'm going to be honest about some of the things that happen in the library:
1. When we ask you to go out the glass doors and enter the textbook room from the outer door, we aren't being mean or picky. We don't want students going through our interior door because then they bypass the security gate at the front door. YOU might not be trying to steal a library book, but we don't know that. So … everyone goes out and around.
2. When you walk through the security gate and go "beep, beep, beep, beep, beep" it is NOT FUNNY. Really, trust me. Not funny at all, especially when I hear it for the 10 millionth time …
3. We would love to buy all the books you request but our budget is not big enough. If you put a book on the wish list and we don't buy it, it's not personal. We just don't have the money to buy everything.
4. All those markers, colored pencils, glue sticks, rubber bands, scissors, etc. that you borrow from us come out of our budget. If they don't get returned, we have to buy more … which means less money for books.
5. We are not being mean when we ask you to finish your food and drinks OUTSIDE the library. Water and other liquids can get spilled, even if you have the lid on. Wet books can grow mold, which is a health hazard. We have to destroy books that are moldy. Food can attract ants, cockroaches and other critters. Once we found a petrified chicken sandwich on a shelf. Gross. On Friday, someone brought a book up to me that had a slice of cheese inside it. The pages are all greasy now and the book has to be cleaned (if possible). Double gross!
Here are some novels about the consequences of NOT being honest:
Liar by Justine Larbalestier (FIC Larbalestier) — Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered.
Harmless by Dana Reinhardt (FIC Reinhardt) — Instead of telling the truth about why they are home late, fourteen-year-old private school students Emma, Anna, and Mariah lie and say a strange man attacked one of them, and the untruth results in a slew of problems for themselves, their families, their community, and the wrongly accused man.
Nobody else has to know by Ingrid Tomey (FIC Tomey) — Fifteen-year-old Webber must either live with guilt or tell the truth about who was driving his grandfather's car when it struck and seriously injured a little girl.
Rundown by Michael Cadnum (FIC Cadnum) — As a game, sixteen-year-old Jennifer pretends that she has been attacked by a serial rapist, but then she finds herself getting more attention than she wanted, from the police and her parents.
The space between trees by Katie Williams (FIC Williams) — When the body of a classmate is discovered in the woods, sixteen-year-old Evie's lies wind up involving her with the girl's best friend, trying to track down the killer.
What I saw and how I lied by Judy Blundell (FIC Blundell) –In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.


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Mega PC promises home entertainment convergence
Tuesday July 8, 2003
The term personal computer may become obsolete over the next few years as devices like the MEGA PC enter our homes and break down the barriers between "computing" and "entertainment". This multimedia PC unveiled earlier this year at CeBIT 2003 in Germany functions as a hi-fi stereo, DVD and video, MP3 and personal computing centre.
Though still geared towards gaming and entertainment, the MEGA PC is a clear indication of where convergence can take us. As well as its extensive entertainment features which include the ability to act as a TV tuner and AM/FM stereo, the device supports wireless linking (802.11b), has 2GB memory capacity, can read data from media cards as well as discs and the array of connectivity options include 4 USB ports.
MEGA PC also supports a range of add-ons including wireless remote control, wireless keyboard and mouse, and 5.2 channel hi-fi speakers.
MSI will launch the MEGA PC in "barebones", so that users can choose CPUs, RAM and hard drives according to their needs.


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Given recent legislation affecting immigrant populations, how do we as anthropologists/social scientists address the implicated and potential HRSJ and civil rights issues? How do we promote awareness of these issues to both political leaders and the general public? What is our role in the field when we witness human rights violations and social injustices? When and how do we balance relativism and activism?
We are looking for speakers to lead the discussion and address questions. Each speaker will be given approximately 5 minutes to discuss their background and experience with HRSJ work, then we will open the panel for questions. Please submit a brief statement regarding your HRSJ work to firstname.lastname@example.com by October 5, 2010. We hope to include 5 speakers from differing backgrounds and experience to generate a lively discussion.


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Kerry says no deal yet for 7-day truce in Gaza
JERUSALEM -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that more work was needed to reach a deal between Israel and Hamas for a seven-day truce in the Gaza war. Israel's defense minister warned that the military could soon broaden its ground operation "significantly."
The tough statement by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, coupled with Kerry's inability to broker even a temporary cease-fire after a week of shuttling around the region, signaled the fighting is likely to drag on, with more than 820 Palestinians and 38 people in Israel killed so far.
In a statement issued shortly after Kerry spoke at a press conference in Cairo, Yaalon's office quoted him telling troops in the field that "you need to be ready for the possibility that very soon we will instruct the military to significantly broaden the ground operation in Gaza."
"Hamas is paying a very heavy price and will pay an even heavier price," Yaalon said. "At the end of the operation, Hamas will have to think very hard if it is worth it to taunt us in the future."
Israel has said a key objective of its ground operation is to destroy Hamas military tunnels under the Gaza-Israel border -- and Israeli media have said the military wants more time to complete the mission.
Of 31 discovered so far, about half have been destroyed. The tunnels, used by Hamas in the past to sneak into Israel, are seen as a strategic threat against Israel.
For days, Kerry has been moving between the Egyptian capital, the West Bank and Jerusalem and talking to officials from Qatar, which is in contact with Hamas. But the most Kerry seemed to have won so far was a willingness from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to consider a far less ambitious 12-hour halt in fighting, proposed by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon.
Netanyahu, Kerry said, "has indicated his willingness to do that as a good faith down payment to move forward."
Still, Kerry said that the parties are closer than ever to an agreement for a seven-day "humanitarian" truce to start with the Muslim Eid holiday on Monday, ending the holy month of Ramadan.
Speaking alongside the U.N. secretary-general and the Egyptian foreign minister, Kerry insisted that there was a general agreement on the "concept" of a truce but that both sides had concerns over details of carrying it out.


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Automobile and Driving Glossary
Traffic Signs: Annotated English-German Glossary
German Vocabulary Related to Cars and Driving in German Europe
Do you know what this sign means?
If not, find out in this glossary!
If you are a non-European planning to drive in Europe, you should make sure that you know what the traffic signs mean. Most European traffic signs are uniform throughout the continent and they usually communicate via symbols and graphics. But there are also situations where knowing German is important. If you saw a sign that said Anlieger frei or Einfahrt freihalten!, would you know what they mean? This special English-German glossary is designed to help you learn what you need to know when driving in German Europe.
Germany's traffic code, known as the StVO (Straßenverkehrsordnung), has very specific sign requirements. German (and European) traffic signs fall into several categories: Gefahrenzeichen (hazard warnings), Richtzeichen (directional/right-of-way), Vorschriftzeichen (legal dos/don'ts, Gebote/Verbote), and Zusatzzeichen (additional information: distances, times, etc.). See our Zusatzzeichen Glossary for details on supplementary signs.
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Traffic Signs in German
All traffic signs are important, but we start with these ten most important traffic signs because not knowing what they mean could result in a serious accident. Some, such as the universal stop sign, may look familiar, but others are less obvious. Next to each sign are its English and German meanings. Items marked with an asterisk (*) offer an additional explanation below.
Yield right of way
Vorfahrt gewähren
Halt! Vorfahrt gewähren
End of priority road*
Ende der Vorfahrtstraße
See explanation below.
No passing
All vehicles prohibited
Verbot für Fahrzeuge aller Art
Railroad crossing (no crossing gate)
Andreaskreuz - Schienenverkehr hat Vorfahrt
Besides the "St. Andrew's Cross," there are two other railroad
crossing markers. See the following pages.
Pedestrian crossing
Also known as Zebrastreifen (zebra stripes).
Intersection with right of way from the right**
Kreuzung mit Vorfahrt von rechts
Ice danger
* Priority road: A Vorfahrtstraße is a road with priority right of way. Cars entering from crossroads must yield before entering a priority road. Since this sign indicates the END of the priority road, you no longer have an automatic right of way.
** Right of way: For American drivers, the European concept of Vorfahrt von rechts is an important difference to know. Unless a sign or traffic signal tells you otherwise, vehicles coming from the right have the right of way. This applies to traffic circles and intersections unless you are on a priority road (above).
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Genealogy: (Accidentally) Digging up the Dirt
Researching your family history most certainly has its ups and downs.
Most of us, however, receive a net benefit from the research, such as the feeling of familial inheritance, the joy of family stories or just the thrill of the chase.
Look hard enough, though, and you're likely to find something lurking in the closet. Perhaps a skeleton, if you will. Of course, there are many ways to deal with these issues and, for many, the revelations will be so old that you can detach yourself completely from the embarrassment.
Others, however, are left in a situation where their new hobby has suddenly unearthed life-changing facts about their heritage. Covering up these discoveries involves heartache and obvious holes in family research. Adopting an honest policy is desirable, but those life-changing facts can be too hard to bear even in modern society.
A thorny issue that frequently rears its head in genealogy forums is illegitimacy. A forum post by a relatively (no pun intended!) new genealogist recently caused a stir.
The researcher asked "Which surname should I use for a child (in the 1880 census) who lived with his mother and a man who wasn't his father." The census record listed the man under his surname and listed the children under the mother's surname. A plethora of different views followed from genealogists around the world.
During colonial times, an illegitimate child (technically a bastard) often appeared on a birth record as a means of protecting the state from having to provide welfare for the child. Bastardy laws in some states often saw pregnant women being hauled in front of the courts to name the child's father under oath. The reason was so the father could then be served a bastardy bond. Even more shocking: If the woman refused to name the father (not unusual), then her father would be required to post the bond. Shocking stuff.
The forum poster eventually took the advice of using the surname adopted later in life by the illegitimate child. Strangely enough, this name remained a mystery as no other records existed.
This presented a more modern problem of how to record the illegitimacy. You'll be pleased to learn that the phrase, "Documentation was not found to identify father," was used rather than "bastard" in this case.
It's certainly something to think about. Our job is to compile accurate records while striving to reflect our true lines of heritage. A little compassion though never hurt!
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- On the 1910 US Census for Leesburg VA my grandmother Maud L. Wise is listed as age 8, along with her brother's Richard and Clifton. Her mother, Maggie Wise, has answered the question "how many children" and the answer is 0. Now this was not an "oh my" response but a "I told you" response. The unfortunate part about all this is who truly is the mother of the Wise children? It then makes you question their father, Louis Wise, born in 1881, is he really their father or could he have been an older brother? It then alters thinking, who was Maggie Wise and where was Louis Wise at the time of census, he was not in the household with Maggie and her children are listed as servants in the home of Charles McKimmey. As you note our job is to compile accurate records, and thus far this is as far as I've gotten with Maud. A birth record would be a blessing but there is none as yet to be found; I was told it was no required to have births recorded. Although it is not believed that she or her siblings were born in Leesburg. The family thought....Maud and her brothers were conceived with a black woman and a white man, but the woman was not Maggie Wise. Maggie would years later have two children who were indeed dark in color as she, not the three where I have found them listed as mulatto and even white. So my own experience leads to this factor, Maud was the best grandmother ever and the best mother to her thirteen children.
- Today is July 22, 2016 and guess what, my DNA came back with contact from a McKimmey connection and we matched. There is nothing more to say.
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Humboldt State University uses network access control (NAC) software to provide more secure and reliable network access for everyone on campus. This means that, when you first request to connect to the wireless network, you will be asked to download and install a small software program called the SafeConnect PolicyKey [1]. The program checks to to make sure your system is in compliance with the CSU Responsible Use Policy [2] before you connect to the network, and will remain on your system until such time as you don't connect to the network for a 60-day period (eg over the summer). After 60 days' absence from the network, you are required to reauthorize your system.
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Best and Worst of the 2013 MTV Movie Awards
What would the first post-'Twilight' MMA bring?
Worst: Commercial as awards show
Yet again, MTV let Hollywood's studios buy their way into the MTV Movie Awards. Yes, it was cool to see an awards set inspired by the "Star Trek Into Darkness" poster or a flaming Mockingjay for "Catching Fire," but it only makes the show feel like one big commercial. And when this year's "special sneak peeks" aren't that exciting (even the "Catching Fire" teaser was a tad bland), what's the point? It just makes the whole endeavor that much harder to watch.
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Persuading consumers and merchants to shun the traditional way to pay and accept payment for goods and services using plastic remains Dwolla Corp.'s chief goal. But the company also is working to plug some holes in its service.
The Des Moines, Iowa-based startup on Dec.15 introduced an optional line-of-credit feature named Instant that gives users faster access to funds in their Dwolla account instead of having to wait two or three days for funds to arrive from an outside bank account. Such wait times have caused problems for users lacking the necessary funds in a Dwolla account to complete a purchase or person-to-person funds transfer.
Dwolla integrates with social networks Twitter and Facebook to enable users to send and receive funds from their social media pages. Users who buy products from merchants accepting Dwolla can share purchase and location information with their social networks.
Before Instant, Dwolla users could only transfer funds immediately to another user if they had a balance in their account. If users want to access additional funds, they would need to transfer them from a bank account linked to Dwolla. A transfer could take up to three days.
"The Instant product solves that availability-of-money issue," Jeff Russell, president and CEO of The Members Group Financial Services, tells PaymentsSource. "It extends the functionality of the Dwolla platform by allowing for this instant availability to money. And from our perspective, it makes the platform much more valuable."
The Members Group, a subsidiary of the Affiliates Management Co., distributes Dwolla's product to credit unions. It also will underwrite the loans for Instant.
Instant is an opt-in feature available to all Dwolla users for $3 per month. Credit lines are available up to $500. The Members Group bases the amount on a user's credit and Dwolla purchase history, Russell says.
Users will have 30 days to repay the loan without incurring an additional fee. Dwolla will charge users $5 every month they carry an Instant balance.
Russell credited user feedback for Instant's creation.
"Dwolla has gone out from time to time to ask what can they do to make this better," Russell says. "Overwhelming, the top thing was access to money faster because users don't always keep large balances."
New Dwolla users likely will experience a two-day delay for loan approval if The Members Group needs to approve the application manually, Russell says.
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Thomas LeGault first discovered his passion for painting at the age of thirteen. A native of Michigan, he received his formal training at the well known Center for Creative Studies in Detroit. Master Artist LeGault has continued to develop his style and techniques for the past thirty-eight years, supporting his family solely on showing and selling his works. Thomas has received many best of show awards while exhibiting in galleries, museum shows and art tours. Over the years, LeGault has published many of his works and been asked to jury several of the nation's top ten art shows. He is best known for his distinct style, strong use of color, and mirror reflective imaging. Today, Thomas LeGault is considered to be one of the top selling artists in the U.S., with paintings hanging in thousands of private collections.
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Dorothea Benton Frank is the Bard of the Beach, attuned to wave and sky and the innermost thoughts of all the lively, shy and wistful souls who tread its sands.
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What: Blue Bicycle Books hosts Dorothea Benton Frank for its second author luncheon of 2012. Tickets include lunch, a talk and signed copy of Porch Lights. Some proceeds benefit Charleston Volunteers for Literacy.When: 11:30 a.m. FridayWhere: Halls Chophouse, 434 King St.Price: $60More Info: 722-2666 or www.bluebicyclebooks.com
Set on her native Sullivans Island, Franks latest novel, Porch Lights, combs the coast for another tale of love and loss, parents and children, mysteries and mirth. But the added heft that came with her previous work, Folly Beach, is a trend, not an aberration.
I think the last book was kind of a turning point for me, says Frank, who divides her time between the Lowcountry and Montclair, N.J. I can sit down and write stories about men and women in great detail, all day long, and its fun.
But I began to have a sense, as a reader, that when I read a novel, I want more. I want to learn something from a book. I like to be entertained, of course, and Im not trying to write historical fiction, but I want to give readers more to talk about after theyve read my book.
Frank says that some readers felt Folly Beachs narrative style was too complicated, but the author insists she tries to keep a very tight ensemble of characters.
Everybody had a reason to be there.
Where Folly Beach was lent resonance by the legacies of Charleston Renaissance figures Dorothy and DuBose Heyward, the evocatively titled Porch Lights suggestive of soft breezes and indigo nights serves up that gloomy old Sullivans Island literary godling, Edgar Allan Poe.
But the Heywards are a hard act to follow.
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I didnt really know how well Folly Beach would be received and how well the Heywards were known outside of the region, says Frank, already at work on her 14th novel, cheekily titled The Summer of Their Discontent. But when I discovered that Dorothy actually adapted Porgy for the stage and not her husband, I figured if I hadnt known this, then a lot of other people didnt either.
In the same way, Poe has always been thought of as a deeply weird little man and he was but his whole life was riddled with death and poverty and loss. He never earned more than $6,000 his entire career.
Frank says she always has thought of Poe as an interesting character, and wanted to learn more. She credits Citadel professor Jim Hutchissons book Poe riveting, Frank says for opening a number of windows into the writers life.
But the master of the macabre is a background player in the contemporary story illuminated in Porch Lights.
The Southern predilection for storytelling is second only to our focus on family, says Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina Poet Laureate. Dottie Franks success is likely found in her combination of these two things. But her secret is the humor that infuses her fiction in unforgettable ways.
Each book is a kind of love letter to the South Carolina Lowcountry.
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The story revolves around the McMullen family in the wake of tragedy.
When New York firefighter Jimmy McMullen loses his life in the line of duty, the lives of his wife, Jackie, and their 10-year-old son, Charlie, are shattered. An outgoing boy with a curious mind, Charlie retreats within himself.
All Jackie can think to do is return to the embrace of family and her childhood home on Sullivans Island. There to welcome them is Annie Britt, the family matriarch, excited by the prospect even though relations between her and her daughter have grown less than cordial.
Enter Britts estranged husband Buster, the formers best chum Deb, and Steven Plofker (the widower next door), not to mention the legends of Poe and Blackbeard the pirate, and you have the makings of one memorable summer.
I have a wonderful relationship with my children, says Frank, but I wondered what would it be like for mothers who dont have a great relationship with their kids. How awful would that be? This is what has happened with Annie and Jackie.
One of the ways that women love is by cleaning the house or cooking for you. They do all these things to show that they love you. Annie is always nesting, but her daughter finds the whole thing intrusive and insulting. It takes time.
The story is told in the alternating voices of mother and daughter, still in Franks preferred first person, which she likes for its immediacy.
Its a more interesting way to show how people dont really understand each other, though they eventually do. This tragic loss of Jackies husband is what draws them all together, but its a struggle; I dont always like these tidy endings.
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|Home care is key for seniors with dementia
The first ray of morning sunshine peeks through the curtain and grazes the edge of the bed to gently say, "time to wake up."
Birds sing from the tree branches right outside the large window looking out on the yard where the kids loved to run and play. A photo collage hangs on the wall beside the nightstand, testifying to a lifetime of memories.
Home can be a place of comfort and familiarity in so many ways. Naturally, aging adults want to continue living in their own homes, even as their care needs change. According to a Home Instead Senior Care network-commissioned research project titled the "Value of Caregiving at Home" study, 90 percent of seniors say they want to age in their homes for as long as possible.
For those experiencing memory loss as a result of Alzheimer's disease or other dementias, remaining in familiar surroundings is especially helpful in managing the disease.
The "Value of Caregiving at Home" study shows that not only are in-home care services beneficial to individuals with dementia, but they may be an integral part of the entire senior care continuum.
More specifically, the research demonstrates that for these older adults, paid in-home, non-medical care offers several important benefits:
• It can fit seamlessly into a regimen that would otherwise consist of more formal clinical care, especially for those who are older or who need more-intensive levels of care.
• It is associated with a lower incidence of doctor visits (between 28 and 47 percent fewer, depending on dementia severity) and hospitalization (half or more less likely), potentially saving healthcare dollars and improving the quality of seniors' lives.
• It results in more hours of care – and in most instances, better care.
In addition, the use of in-home care for older adults helps relieve the pressure on the country's resource-strapped hospitals and nursing homes. As the Baby Boomer population ages, the number of individuals age 65 and older with Alzheimer's will sharply increase, reaching a staggering 13.5 million Americans by 2050, according to the Alzheimer's Association, and 1.1 million Canadians by 2038, according to the Alzheimer Society of Canada.
Many seniors who are aging at home only need the help of paid non-medical workers. These workers assist with daily and weekly routines, which can include trips to the doctor, reminders to take the right medication at the right time, meal preparation, light housekeeping, errands, shopping and even Alzheimer's and dementia care.
The result is companionship that allows seniors to feel safe and independent while they age in place in the home they've lived in for years.
Julie Ann Anderson is the owner of Home Instead Senior care office in Rohnert Park; mother of two and passionate about healthy living at all ages. Having cared for her parents, she understands your struggles and aims, through her website, www.homeinstead.com/sonoma to educate and encourage seniors and caregivers. Have a caregiving or aging concern? She'd love to hear from you at 586-1516 anytime.


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KOREAN ELECTRONICS GIANT Samsung has been caught off-guard by a court ruling preventing sales of its 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab across Europe, initially berating the court for its decision and then backtracking on this response.
The German court's preliminary injunction prevents Samsung from selling the larger tablet model across the European Union, aside from the Netherlands. This is in response to an Apple complaint that Samsung was infringing several of its patents and copying the design of its successful Ipad tablet with its Galaxy Tab.
The injunction clearly came out of the blue for Samsung, which issued an initial statement berating the court action before deciding to backtrack on this response.
"The request for injunction was filed with no notice to Samsung, and the order was issued without any hearing or presentation of evidence from Samsung," Samsung said early on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
"We will take all necessary measures to ensure Samsung's innovative mobile communications devices are available to customers in Europe and around the world."
However, Samsung has since told us that it cannot verify the Reuters statement as official, and instead has issued a watered-down version.
"Samsung is disappointed with the court's decision and we intend to act immediately to defend our intellectual property rights through the ongoing legal proceedings in Germany and will continue to actively defend these rights throughout the world," Samsung said.
"We will take all necessary measures to ensure Samsung's innovative mobile communications devices are available to customers in Europe and around the world."
Apple, looking down at its Korean rival from its lofty position of growing sales and increasing fanboi fervour, has not taken the opportunity to kick a dog while it's down. Although the outcome is positive for the cappuccino company, it did not give a direct response, instead reiterating its initial complaints about the Tab.
"It's no coincidence that Samsung's latest products look a lot like the Iphone and Ipad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging," the firm said. "This kind of blatant copying is wrong, and we need to protect Apple's intellectual property when companies steal our ideas." µ
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"We're going to see how things play out today," Randolph said. "Everyone is just about available, except maybe (Game 5 starter) Tom Glavine. We'll see what happens."
Randolph said that, should rookie John Maine falter early in his start against St. Louis, he would tend to lean toward using Darren Oliver in long relief.
A quick hook for Maine, who has pitched 8 1/3 innings in two postseason starts, would obviously preclude from Oliver making a Game 7 start – or even potentially appearing in the game.
But Oliver has been by far the Mets' most reliable long man, particularly evidenced by his six shutout innings of relief in Game 3 against the Cardinals after Steve Trachsel left due to injury.
In that event, Oliver Perez would be the odds-on favorite to make a start, with Trachsel's right hip and -- some say -- personal standing with Randolph a huge question mark.
Beyond that, all players figure to be available for duty in Game 6, a do-or-die game for New York. Randolph said he would go with the same lineup from Game 5, with Cliff Floyd's Achilles still leaving him ready for only pinch-hitting duties.
"We have to win the game," Randolph said. "If we don't win the game, we won't be thinking about tomorrow."
Meanwhile, though, Randolph tried to put a positive spin on what certainly appears to be a glass-half-empty equation.
He joked that he would not deliver any sort of special message to his players before Wednesday's game, except saying that they might discuss their travel plans for Friday – flights that would take them to Detroit, Randolph certainly intended to imply.
"It's not over yet," Randolph said. "We're still playing. We're playing tonight. We have to win tonight and we win tomorrow, we're going away."
REDEMPTION?: Shawn Green has had a couple of close calls in this NLCS, and some could speculate it was Scott Spiezio's two-run triple in Game 2 -- which bounced off the top of Green's glove -- that changed the Mets' momentum from early favorites to potential losers.
Green had another "coulda, woulda" moment in Game 5 Tuesday in St. Louis, flying out to center field with runners at second and third and one out in the eighth inning. A few feet shorter and Jim Edmonds might not have been able to snag the pop fly, pinning what could have been New York's third run at third base.
"Obviously, you want things to go the right way," Green said. "For me, I'll think about those plays and I'm hoping that when those things happen, I'll get another opportunity to make a series-changing play incident in the positive way. Hopefully I'll get the opportunity and I'll do my best."