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For 100 years now, folks have been coming to our Wyoming guest ranch for 100 different reasons—for some, it's the horseback riding across sage meadows, fishing for native cutthroat trout, or hiking among wildflowers and meadowlarks. For others, it's the family time, the fun, and campfire stories beneath a snowstorm of stars. Maybe it's realizing just how much all that's worth, that keeps folks coming back to our guest ranch year after year.
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Are you in search of a one of a kind vacation experience the whole family will love? You've come to the right place! Folks just like you have been making choosing the Paradise Guest Ranch as a vacation spot for more than 100 years. Surrounded by nature's majesty and filled with exciting activities, our Wyoming dude ranch is a one of a kind experience. When you want to make memories that will last a lifetime and spend quality time with your loved ones, this is the place to do it. With our fun-filled dude ranch vacations, you'll find something for everyone. Read more about the Paradise Guest Ranch vacation experience.
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- Cabin Rentals—Our rustic cabins make it easy to enjoy your stay at the Paradise Guest Ranch. We feature one, two, three, and four bedroom units, so you can find room for everyone. Each cabin comes equipped with full baths, kitchenettes, washers / dryers, and unique western décor.
- Dining—When the dinner bell rings, you'll be able to enjoy delicious food in our spacious dining hall. We serve three hearty meals a day so you'll have plenty of energy for your dude ranch vacation activities.
- French Creek Saloon—When you're ready for a night out during your stay, our French Creek Saloon is the perfect setting. Beautifully decorated and fun for everyone, you can have fun with the entertainment or enjoy a drink by the fire.
If you're ready for the vacation of a lifetime, this is the place to come!
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The Paradise Guest Ranch is unlike other dude ranches in Wyoming. Our rich history makes this a unique setting for guests. Whether you've always wanted to experience horseback riding on a lush Wyoming countryside or you're in search of quality time with the family, we've got you covered. Let us take you back in time with campfire stories, stunning nature hikes, and family activities that will build lasting memories. When you're ready for a thrilling Wyoming dude ranch vacation, Paradise Guest Ranch is the place to come.
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1/3 cup dry white wine
2 tsp. dried oregano leaves
1 lb. cleaned medium shrimp
1 pkg. (4oz.) ATHENOS Traditional Crumbled Feta Cheese
2 Tbsp. chopped fresh parsley
2 cups hot cooked rice
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COOK and stir onion in hot oil in large skillet on medium heat 3 min. Add tomatoes, wine and oregano; mix well. Reduce heat to low; cook 5 min. or until thickened, stirring occasionally.
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Hey guys long time Knicks fan. I am currently an Aussie living in Melbourne. I have purchased 2 Knicks game tickets for NY Vs Miami and NY Vs Boston both at MSG. Now this is where i need help guys, Im currently taking my GF with me who is a mad Boston fan. I am planning on proposing there on the big screen at half time. How would i go about doing it? Do i email MSG, or on the day of the game do i just speak to the organizers etc. Help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
IDK but congrats and good luck.
How about you find a Knicks fan to marry instead?
Just kidding...sort of.
Thanks guys hahah. If boston end up bending us over that game i will withdraw my proposal and look for a knicks girl. Anyone here have a sister who barracks for the Knicks and she is single?
I would ring the Management at Madison Square Garden - I am sure they would be happy to assist and it would be good for the crowd to watch ! Thats if she says yes ! hehe !
Congrats, and good luck.
I hope you know if she really wants to go thru with this, the last time I saw someone proposing at a BBall game...it didn't go well....[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
imo, public proposals are unpredictable and uncomfortable, plus they always have a level of embarrassment attached to them (good and bad). It's never really good to put someone on the spot or pressure them.
Anyway.... call/speak to someone in management...they'll be able to assist you with this.
Congrats, btw...
correct, but a bit of advise and foresight can't hurt either. These things don't always go well...but it's always entertaining for the spectators.
Just looking out for the guy, it's not like I'm telling him what to do.
Too many have gone this route and regretted it. Hopefully Masri knows what he's doing and dosen't end up being the next youtube sensation for an unfortunate reason.
C'mon dude. That is so lame.....I hope she say NO and bitchslap you.
If you love her, make it private. It's a wonderful moment but it's only for the two of you. Not for the whole world watch...GL.
This is in one of the Woody threads, contact info from Newbie. You know I have never seen this done at MSG but I have seen it done at other sports arenas. Got a feeling because New Yorkers are uptight and paranoid they aren't going to allow you, probably for some legal reason. Good luck, I think it's a terrific idea.
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^definitely one of the above numbers should be able to help, if not pubic relations...
best of luck dude. if things blow up beforehand, i'll go with you, but i won't marry you.
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- Recent observations have revealed that the time-evolution of the S0 number fraction at intermediate and high redshifts (0.2 < z < 0.8) is more dramatic in groups of galaxies than in clusters. In order to understand the origin of S0s in groups, we investigate numerically the morphological transformation of spirals into S0s through group-related physical processes. Our chemodynamical simulations show that spirals in group environments can be strongly influenced by repetitive slow encounters with group member galaxies so that those with thin discs and prominent spiral arm structures can be transformed into S0s with thick discs and without any prominent spiral arm structure. Such tidal interactions can also trigger repetitive starbursts within the bulges of spirals and consequently increase significantly the masses of their bulges. Owing to the rapid consumption of gas initially in spirals during the bulge growth, the S0s can become gas-poor. The S0s transformed from spirals in this way have young and metal-rich stellar populations in the inner regions of their bulges. The simulated S0s have lower maximum rotational velocities and flatter radial line-of-sight velocity dispersion profiles in comparison to their progenitor spirals. The formation processes of S0s due to tidal interactions depend not only on the masses and orbits of the progenitor spirals, but also on the group mass. A significant fraction (10-30 per cent) of stars and gas can be stripped during this spiral to S0 morphological transformation so that intragroup stars and gas can be formed. Based on these results, we discuss structures, kinematics, chemical properties and the Tully-Fisher relation of S0s in groups.
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Full TitleA Phase Ib/IIa Study of Romidepsin in Combination with Lenalidomide in Adults with Relapsed or Refractory Lymphomas and Myeloma
Despite currently available treatments for lymphoma and multiple myeloma, many patients experience a relapse of their disease. Doctors are therefore seeking more effective therapies. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the combination of two currently available therapies — romidepsin and lenalidomide — in patients with lymphoma or multiple myeloma that has returned or persisted despite prior therapy.
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prep Calderon for the taxidermist... he got next on Lin's Conquest Gallery
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Almost half the worlds population is Asian. Lin has a lot of love out there. It's just Mayweather who is a hater. Maybe Lin took him for 50K on a buzzzer beater. Floyd is just pissed over a lost wager. Go Knicks
Let's pound some dinosaur ass this game like it's going out of style
Also, I'd like to proudly announce I am now a NBA League Pass owner; special thx to Mr. 8's for telling me to grab my dick and just do it and don't worry about the details (also my motto for trips to Thailand).
Love Thailand...and their food.. their women to..
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Relapse Over??? Mestinon!
Sunday I was able to out for about an hour. My partner drove me to a park nearby and I was able to take in the beauty there. I was struck by how many shades of green there are. It was so beautiful.
Yesterday I had to go back to the podiatrist because of another infection starting in my big toe. He had to cut back the nail and dig underneath the nail because there is some sort of fungus. I think between my poorly functioning immune system and the poor circulation that I may set a record for the most staph infections in the past 2 years. I go back in a week to see what the fungus is and then start on anti-fungal treatments.
I think what has helped is I finally started taking the generic version of Mestinon (Pyridostigmine Bromide) which is typically used to treat Myasthenia Gravis but is also used off label to treat POTS. Mine has been getting worse and I've been having increased episodes of feeling faint so awhile ago my doctor added this along with Midodrine. After reading the side effects of Mestinon I felt leary of taking it but finally decided to after trying to go to the restroom Friday evening and almost fainting again. Luckily I get warning signs so I'm able to take action prior to actually fainting.
So I started the Mestinon at 15mg which is 1/2 the dose recommended by my doctor. I did have side effects on Sunday but then felt well enough to leave the bedroom AND the house which felt like a major feat. Yesterday was also a pretty good day.
Today I'm fatigued but I've had trouble sleeping the past couple nights.
I'm grateful that this medication is helping my POTS symptoms. I hope it continues.
I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my post last week. I felt so much support from all of you and it helped. I don't know what I'd do without my blogging friends and the blogging world. I feel lucky.
I still haven't heard a word from my doctor. I've sent many emails with some getting sent back so I contacted the practice manager to alert her to potential email problems. Boy was she rude! I was so taken aback because my initial conversation with her when I was thinking about becoming a patient there was in such sharp contrast to the one I had last week. I also heard last week from a friend that there are some troubles occurring there along with some major boundary problems so I'm keeping my distance. I've given up on trying to get the rest of the documentation needed for my SSDI ALJ court hearing from my doctor. It's too much stress for me to worry about. My lawyer has also given up. Little do they know they are creating bad impressions with various doctor's, lawyers, and patients down here. I can not and will not recommend them to anyone until some things get cleared up and other things change.
I'm astounded that my doctor still has failed to follow up on ordering the HIDA scan to see if my gallbladder is functioning as well as a couple other crucial medical issues. I'm still having problems with the upper right quadrant pain.
That's it for now....
12 comments:
- Toni said...
Hi Terri,
This is encouraging news indeed. It's really a good sign that despite the continuing foot problem you're still doing better!
The SSDI is such a nightmare for people (and I take it from our blogging friends it seems to be no different in the U.K.). I was lucky to have put in enough years at the U.C. Davis to be able to get retirement income when I got sick and had to stop working. I deserved disability, but was too sick to go through the process to get it (that's ironic, I'd say) and, as a result left the university with a much lower monthly income than I should have received. When I asked the person in human resources if other people who were sick did this, she said "all the time." But, as I said, I still feel fortunate that I had built up enough retirement income to get by on.
I'm just so glad that you may have turned a corner.
- March 16, 2010 at 5:18 PM
- Tammie said...
hey terri. glad you're feeling a bit better and i really hope the hearing goes well.
- March 16, 2010 at 6:35 PM
- dominque said...
Terri - How wonderful to have 2 days where you are feeling better! Isn't that so nice!
It always amazes me how much I notice now when I go outside and look at nature. I often wonder if I would notice the same things if I weren't sick!
I'm glad you are feeling better. Hoping all only goes up from here!
- March 16, 2010 at 10:00 PM
- linda said...
hoping the sunshine of late revives your spirits and your body a bit...i am interested to know more about this new thing you are doing...right now, i am trying to go gluten free, a nightmare but hoping it's worthwhile...
- March 16, 2010 at 11:09 PM
- Lee Lee said...
Yah!!!!! keep your fingers and everything else crossed hahaha :)
It seems like good service is hard to find these days, everywhere from waiters to Dr's, they are all disinterested and crap (wow, that was a huge generalisation LOL, just trying to share some empathy, not condem everyone on the planet)
- March 17, 2010 at 12:31 AM
- Jo said...
Brilliant news! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the improvement continues. You take care of yourself now. . .
- March 17, 2010 at 3:37 AM
- Annie said...
I'm glad things keep going so well!!
Crossing my fingers for you!
- March 17, 2010 at 9:28 AM
- Shelli said...
So glad you've found some relief! Feeling better after a relapse is like 40 degree weather after a severe cold spell. It is so heavenly! So much more delicious by comparison. Hope your SSDI problem resolves soon.
- March 18, 2010 at 9:44 AM
hi teri:
would love to learn more about the new med...mesitone? OI, NMH are my worst symptoms...can't stand more than a few mins w/out my heart thumping thru my chest.
so glad you feel back to baseline.
sorry to hear about doc troubles. hope u can find someone good soon.
lisa in berkely
- March 22, 2010 at 1:29 PM
- Lee Lee said...
Hey Terri,
I nomiated YOU for the happiness award. Check out my latest post for details. It's a bit of silly fun that we can all use! xx
- March 22, 2010 at 5:43 PM
- Pris said...
I'm so glad you're feeling better. And that doctor with the disability information really sucks!
- March 23, 2010 at 3:38 AM
Hi, I too have fibromyalgia, CFS, POTS, TMJ, irritable bowel syndrome, irritable bladder, neuropathic pain, migraines, IgG subset 3 deficiency, joint hypermobility, and probably even more three-letter syndromes (LOL!). In all seriousness, though, in what state do you live, ME/CFS Warrior, and which doctor do you see for your POTS? I'm asking because your experience with the so-called "office manager" sounds remarkably like mine! My doctor's office staff is unbelievably unprofessional, and even hung up on a phlebotomist @ the lab where I was having bloodwork done, which was ordered by that doctor. The lab called there with questions about one of the tests that was ordered, the secretary immediately became rude, and hung up on the lab staff member! Just curious! DizzyLizzy
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The following product safety recall was voluntarily conducted by the firm in cooperation with the CPSC. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: Commercial Frozen Food Merchandisers
Units: About 1,900
Manufacturer: Tyler Refrigeration, of Niles, Mich.
Hazard: Incomplete/incorrect light bulb installation can result in electrical arcing in the fixture, which can pose a fire hazard to consumers.
Incidents/Injuries: Tyler Refrigeration has received one report of a fire, resulting in damage to the case and displayed product. No injuries have been reported.
Description: The recalled Vertical Multi-deck Frozen Food Merchandisers are typically used in grocery stores and other commercial settings. The recall involves models D6F, D6FL, L6F, L6FL, N6F and N6FL manufactured between 1995 and 2008. The serial and model numbers are located on the label located on the inside, upper-right front of the unit behind the lighting assembly. A complete list of the serial numbers involved in this recall can be found at www.tylerrefrigeration.com
Sold by: Tyler Refrigeration-owned branches, independent dealers and directly to some commercial users from March 1995 to July 2008 for about $3,700 to $8,000.
Manufactured in: United States
Remedy: Owners should immediately verify that light bulbs are fully and correctly installed and contact Tyler Refrigeration to schedule the installation of a free repair.
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Delaware Highlands Conservancy highlights two projects
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BUSHVILLE, NY — Delaware Highlands Conservancy marked a milestone recently, having protected more than 14,000 acres of land since it was established. Here are the stories of two recent projects.
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One of the things Susanne Hand will remember most about her father, Nathan Hand, is the family cabin and bungalow colony he built by hand on their property in Bushville. It was one of two prime Sullivan County properties inherited from her father and donated outright to the Delaware Highlands Conservancy in 2012 by Susanne and her sons, Rafe and Alex.
"I still marvel at how handy he was," says Susanne in reflecting on her father, who died in late 2012 at the age of 103. "He loved the country and was a great outdoorsman." A respected lawyer, Nathan moved to the Catskills in the late 1940s, married Frances Rosen in 1949 and built a small cabin and nine bungalows, opening "Hands' Bungalows: For Happy Summers and Lifelong Friendships" in Bushville.
The couple ran the bungalow colony from 1950 to '57. Born in 1950, Susanne remembers summer days at the colony as pleasant, simple times with lots of children around. After careful consideration of options for the future of the family land, Susanne contacted a local land trust advisor in New Jersey to discuss donating the properties. She was directed to Delaware Highlands Conservancy and the rest is history.
"We were glad to hear about Delaware Highlands Conservancy, and pleased to know that good conservation work is happening in that part of the world," said Susanne.
After completing a conservation easement, the conservancy will resell both properties and use the funds to support the organization's conservation work. Located on the Mongaup River in the Town of Thompson, next to Catskill Regional Medical Center, the properties provide scenic views from the highway and substantial wildlife habitat.
Mitchell Pond Brook
When conservancy founder Barbara Yeaman began talking about establishing a land trust in the Upper Delaware region 18 years ago, one of the first people to come knocking was Tom Raleigh. Nearly two decades later, Tom's beloved land i n Cochecton, NY, Mitchell Pond Brook, has been protected wit h a conservation easement and purchased by Helen Beichel, who likewise has fallen for the beautiful waterway that meanders along the 23-acre property near the Delaware River.


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Getting the Work Done! Clinical Microbiology Workforce Issues
Session Summary: This symposium, sponsored by the Committee on Professional Affairs in Microbiology of the ASM Public and Scientific Affairs Board, focused on current problems associated with staffing clinical microbiology laboratories. ASM has partnered with many scientific societies, and the first speaker, representing ASCP, discussed their recent wage and vacancy survey. This set the stage for a discussion of how to reconcile federal (CLIA) minimum standards with contradictory State laws and how to go about reassigning job duties between MLT and MT staff. The session expanded to examine the results of the recent ASM survey benchmarking productivity. This survey was undertaken in an attempt to allow different clinical microbiology laboratories to compare themselves with staffing levels in institutions of the same size and with similar extents of service. Finally, we examined alternative staffing pathways by looking at the use of robotics and novel programs that utilize on-the-job training of individuals with BS or MS degrees in microbiology who can subsequently sit for one of multiple professional certification exams.
Kory Ward-Cook, Ph.D., MT (ASCP), CAE, American Society for Clinical Pathology
Who's Available to Do the Work?
Vickie Baselski, Ph.D, University of Tennessee at Memphis
What Are the Personnel Requirements?
Roberta Carey, Ph.D, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
How Much Work is Someone Expected to Do Per Shift?
Alice Weissfeld, Ph.D., CEO, Microbiology Specialists, Inc., Chair, Committee on Professional Affairs
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If you tolerate everything you shall go wrong, because your values go wrong, The mighty must not destroy the poor. You don't tolerate this. It is tolerance that you do not tolerate injustice.
The prostitute is being worshipped as a goddess. That's exactly what it is today because the civilization is nothing but a living prostitution and we are totally raping the Mother Earth left and right in the name of whatever we want.
The Universe is asking you to confirm with yourself whether you would like to serve the Earth, to save the Earth, be a sage of the Earth. Earth- the sustainer, the Mother of you, which nurtures you – can you nurture it back? That which serves you, can you serve it back?
Simple things, simple methods, and simple gestures can bring a flood of people on your side. Do whatever you can if you love this planet Earth. Trust in God and start doing something from this minute.
Summer Solstice 1982
Guru Tegh Bahadur laid down the first principle of the Khalsa: You shall give yourself to protect the weak - physically, voluntarily, aloud. You shall go and tell the king that in the political madness he cannot suppress the human being.
Life has to be decided by dharma. Righteous duty is called dharma, the call of duty to righteous action. The right of self-defense is a Dharma, it is not a war; it is not a fight.
Somewhere in life you need to be you, not what your religion wants, not what your society wants, not what your country wants, not what your neighbors want. No, you have to be you. Then, serve all with a big smile on your face.
The Cosmos works for those who have discipline, who have longing, who have some goal to reach in their lives, and who make a constant, constant, constant effort to reach it. That is dharma. Dharma is in every day, in every action, on every side of the day. Don't waste yourself into the maya of this Earth.
Value your independence and virtue, your sovereignty. May you always be sovereign in your personality, your nature, and your action. And may Guru bless you. Take the flag of nobility and walk with it. There is nothing like being noble. Remember, nobility is the basic virtue to be human.
I ask every man who would seek peace to realize that peace doesn't come by protests and rallies. Peace comes by peaceful actions, and so long as those born of the mother will not learn to respect the woman, there shall not be any peace on this planet. The day the woman will not be exploited on this planet, there shall be peace on this Earth.
A very courageous man, a very strong man, a very real man can talk about peace. Peace doesn't mean to just talk about peace, peace means we have to put all the pieces together and get to one picture. It's a song of victory, it's a song of God, it's a song of reality. And as I have said, until this Earth stops revolving, if those born of a woman don't know how to respect woman, there shall be no peace. Just imagine that Mother Earth is a woman. What have we done to it? We ourselves do not know.
Mother Earth is crying in vain. Almighty God, who out of His many bountiful blessings, gave us the planet Earth which we have raped, abused, misused—and we are not stopping. We are not at peace with Mother Earth, we are not at peace with environments, we are not at peace with ourselves, we are not at peace within ourselves. The time has come when we must all wake up to a simple reality: without peace what else are we?
Prayer is the only power we have. It is my personal individual belief that prayer can change the Universe. Politics and power cannot.
About the 1980s Nuclear Arms Race
We are committed spiritual people. As such, we are both fortunate and unfortunate: fortunate in that we are spiritually committed and that we are trying to be healthy, happy and holy; unfortunate in that we cannot tolerate the bizarre situation that is happening to our country or that will happen to our people.
Summer Solstice 1982
There is a way out. You have asked whether the Congressman and Senators are with us. Although it seems that people are only interested in their jobs and their security; that is changing. People are slowly becoming aware that there is going to be a time not far away when there will be no jobs, no lobbying, no children, no family. There is a concurrent consciousness awakening in all of us that this planet is not going to be here.
Summer Solstice 1982
We are waking up and trying to control our own house. I am not asking you to start any agitation. I am asking you to start creating public opinion. There are about 1,000 people here. At least each one of you has one relative you can write to. Urge them to write to one relative. Start a chain reaction. Calm, quiet, peaceful, nice... but start saying things, and don't stop until we stop it all.
Summer Solstice 1982
Do the prayer and be educated but that won't solve the problems, but if you form a public opinion about it, it will work. I suggest that every person who wants to live in America and feel he is American, must register himself or herself and go to a voting booth in the morning on voting day with a placard in your hand, 'I have come to vote against the atom bomb.'
I have done an experiment for the last six months. Whenever I call somebody on the phone or talk to somebody or write a letter, I just add one or two lines: "Do you want to live into the future? Do something about nuclear war.
Summer Solstice, 1982
Advocate. Educate another person. Let them have your view. If there is an atomic war, neither Democrats nor Republicans will be left. We will all evaporate at the same time.
Summer Solstice, 1982
On Voting
An American who does not exercise their vote is very treacherous in action. Because this country does not provide you any other hope than your fundamental right which comes to you every two years in the case of congress and every four years in the case of presidential elections. Please vote. That is a fundamental human right which you have been given and you must exercise. You know if you are a lunatic, vote lunatically. If you are very wise, vote wisely. If you are stupid, vote stupidly, but for God's sake you must vote.
Choose whom you want but you must vote. I think anybody who has not registered himself as a voter has done a national tragedy. What is that democracy where nobody wants to vote? Vote right and wrong but you must vote; that is democracy. And a democracy in which only half of the people vote, what is the democracy?
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I read today on a favorite blog of mine, Serenity in the Garden, all about the Number One, and the significance of the date today–1-1-2011. She talked about how numerologists, astrologers and folks like to link the Number 11 to mystics and psychics. So was this just a coincidence that this was the First photo I took on our hike today, on 1-1-11? My husband and I walk up the hill from town to our home for exercise pretty regularly (about 1,000 feet elevation). Today, of all days, I brought my camera just for fun to document some of my favorite sights. To spare you, I will post this little hike in three separate posts. This is the First post:
This is the view–of Main Beach, with Hotel Laguna on the left, the iconic (barely visible) lifeguard tower in the center and Bird Rock at low tide on the right–from an empty lot about a quarter of the way up. The neighborhood is know as Mystic Hills.
I know these succulents "walls" are everywhere you turn these days, but I still can't get enough of them. My husband, an engineer, is helping me scheme a DIY for one of our outside walls. Anyone have any suggestions? I didn't want to pay $100 for a 2×2 frame from Flora Grubb, although I love her ideas!!
This is the modern fence around a modern home about halfway up with modern professional landscaping around it. Sadly, the owners aren't the types who would be outside tending their garden and you could chat with them about all their cool plants. (In fact, I've never seen a person–ever. They just might be Unhappy Hipsters.)
Our progressive little city commissioned a local artist to draw up this important message reminding residents and visitors that everything that runs down the storm drains dumps directly into the ocean. These little glued-down signs are now on most of our city drains.
I know I should know the name of these popular succulents, but more important is that they are blasting out these gorgeous yellow bouquets all over the place right now. If you have an ID to share, please do!
Isn't there one in every neighborhood, topiary a la poodle? I totally dig them! This one is adjacent to the Unhappy Hipsters home. Do you think they appreciate it? I will continue our little walk in the next post…
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Nice landscape textures…so nice to combine exercise w/ garden watching. It is also cool to see your area can grow SW plants as well as us – duh, the only place more SW than you is Point Loma or Honolulu. And jealous of your bougainvillea, etc we can't grow.
The "Unhappy Hipster" term and site – priceless!
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Nice landscape textures…so nice to combine exercise w/ garden watching. It is also cool to see your area can grow SW plants as well as us – duh, the only place more SW than you is Point Loma or Honolulu. And jealous of your bougainvillea, etc we can't grow.
The "Unhappy Hipster" term and site – priceless!
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Avista offering buyouts to 900 employees
Avista Corp. is offering more than 900 non-union workers a buyout in an effort to help the utility cut its 2013 budget by about $14 million.
Avista spokesman Dan Kolbet said 919 of the utility's 1,550 employees will have until Dec. 14 to decide, and will learn by Dec. 21 if they've been chosen for the buyout.
Kolbet said Avista hasn't set a target number of people it would like to take the buyouts, which are not being offered to workers with skills that are not easily replaced.
Employees are being offered two weeks of severance pay per year worked for the company, a 12-week departure incentive and other benefits.
Avista provides power to 600,000 business and residential customers in Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
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Ben Shinabery thought it was funny when a parent donated a "Read with Dick and Jane" book to the toddler day care where he worked. Surely a story designed for grade schoolers was irrelevant to two-year-olds. But when he took it home and started singing the words against his own guitar strums, something clicked.
Shinabery took to singing children's literature at open mic nights, soon adding some of his own elementary school-era scribbles to the mix. And while he quickly realized he wasn't cut out to be a musician, his friend Andy Gallagher of folk-rock band Trains Across the Sea encouraged him to run with the concept.
They conceived of a way to help kids to unlock their creative powers while giving local musicians a chance to help out. Plus it allowed Shinabery, who majored in human development and family science at Ohio State, to inspire kids without becoming a teacher in an education system he believes needs to be reformed.
"It was really just like a perfect storm of everything coming together," Shinabery said.
Gallagher had been volunteering with an after-school program at the Godman Guild, and Shinaberry came along one day in 2010 to introduce an experiment. Kids wrote lyrics, then Gallagher converted them into songs and performed them on the spot. The Dick & Jane Project was born.
Since then, Shinabery has been taking Columbus musicians into area middle schools and letting the students' minds run wild. He reads them lyrics from top hits like Justin Bieber's "Baby" ("And I was like baby, baby, baby, oh/ Like baby, baby, baby, no") and wonders aloud whether the kids could do better.
"I always tell kids, 'You have the freshest perspective in the world right now. You have what everyone else is trying to get back to,'" Shinabery said. "I drive English teachers nuts. They tell me, 'These kids are writing pages after pages after pages. How do you do it?'"
Once the students churn out lyrics, musicians from bands like Blastronauts, Way Yes and This Is My Suitcase collaborate with them on music. The songs from each four-to-six-week workshop are professionally recorded and released as albums.
This summer, the Godman Guild's STEP (Summer Teen Employment Program) at the Jazz Academy provided Dick & Jane with the means for a different sort of workshop.
Shinabery solicited writing from middle schools across Central Ohio. Then a team of high school volunteers pared the submissions down to eight songs by seven authors. Ragtime rockers The DewDroppers then converted the lyrics into demos, which the lyricists were encouraged to critique via Edgecase software Shinabery described as "Facebook for songwriting."
"I was very picky about what was on the demo," lyricist Oleysa Tehan said.
High school volunteers handled tasks like graphic design, social media, publicity and assistance for recording engineer Joe Camerlengo. The final product, "Insteption," will premiere with a concert on the Statehouse lawn this Tuesday at noon, interspersed with speeches by the teens.
Now Shinabery is focusing on fundraising with the hopes of starting more widespread workshops this January.
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"China Should Import Africa's Finished Goods"
Op-Ed, Business Daily, (Nairobi)
September 27, 2007
Author: Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Science, Technology, and Globalization; Science, Technology, and Public Policy
In the largest deal with an African country, China has signed a US$5 billion loan to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to develop mines and build infrastructure.
While the loan will support key social programmes, it reinforces the perception that China's main interest in Africa is natural resource extraction. The most viable way for China to change this perception is to start importing manufactured good from Africa as well.
The loan represents a quarter of the US$20 billion that China has offered to fund trade and investment programmes in Africa. It will be used to build roads, railways, hospitals, more health centres and two universities and housing projects.
In return, China will secure rights to the country's natural resources such as cobalt, copper and timber. China's imports from Africa include manganese from South Africa, uranium from Niger and oil from Sudan and Angola.
These imports have helped to revive many collapsed mines. But Africa has higher expectations. Its leaders are looking into ways to add value to their natural resources and are reflecting in their growing emphasis on higher technical training.
In Ghana, for example, public discussions are underway to allocate some 60 per cent of the education budget to science education and the rest to the humanities.
China's own annual admission of 2,000 African students into its universities reflects the continent's growing demand for technical training. The promise to expand the intake to 4,000 a year by 2009 has been welcome.
But African countries also look to China as a role model in the field of industrial development.
Its rapid economic transformation is largely a result of strong development leadership, administrative discipline, broad technical education (mostly engineering), access to foreign technology and capital and investment in infrastructure.
China has emerged as a major exporter of manufactured goods. A few African countries have been successful in updgrading their industrial competence. Mauritius stands out as an example. The country ranks second in per capital GDP in Africa after the oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
It has sustained a growth rate of about six percent largely because of its emphasis on upgrading performance in the industrial, service and tourist sectors. But China's exports now threaten to erode local African industries and undermine the limited industrial gains that the continent has made.
The worst that China can do is to continue Africa's mineral and plantation economies. China needs to complement its raw material imports with serious efforts that help African countries become exporters of finished goods to the Chinese market.
Failure to do so will reinforce the perception that China's involvement in Africa will undercut the continent's efforts to increase its participation in the global economy.
There is a strategic starting point for China. The country has set up the US$5 billion China-Africa Development Fund that aims to eliminate tariffs on over 440 African export items and build several economic and trade cooperation zones across the continent.
This funding should be used to help Africa upgrade its capacity to export manufactured goods to the Chinese market.
But none of it will happen unless African leaders insist on it as a priority. They can learn from China on how to do this. Any deals that ignore this aspiration by Africans can only sow the seeds of resentment toward globalisation in general and China in particular.
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Wet Wading Last July
Looking out my window this morning I was seeing this.
We've had a lot of snow lately up here and though I have been catching a few white bass through the ice like these guys. I can't wait for open water.
Anyway i've noticed that there have no fishing reports in the warmwater section for a long time and rather than dwell on the this bitterly cold winter I thought it might be nice to remember summer again and how nice it was to wet wade.
Since much of northern Illinois is heavily agriculturalized most of the streams are channelized and the fishing as a result isn't very good. However, if you take the time to explore, and go through your topographical maps or gazetteer there are untouched streams to be found.
This trip took place back in July of 2013 on a hot 88 degree day on a northeastern Illinois warmwater stream. This stream is less than an hours drive from my house and after the spring trout stocking I pretty much have it all to myself.
Anyway this was a perfect day for wet wading and for using my 7'6" Cabelas LST 2 wt along with the old faithful on this stream a size 8 wooly bugger with a purple body and a pink tail.
I pulled into the parking lot by the bridge and strung up my rod and decided to head downstream where my favorite spots are. My primary quarry would be rock bass and smallmouth bass which both live in this stream in good numbers. As I went downstream the riffle below the big pool would be my first spot to hit.
The water willows were becoming abundant this year. I swung my wooly bugger through the riffle where after a few casts I had my first fish of the the day, an average size common shiner.
Followed shortly by this typical rock bass.
and this one.
A few more rock bass came to hand before the riffle was played out. I headed downstream to this run which is always good for a few fish.
The rock bass were stacked up under this tree.
Casting the wooly bugger under the tree I could see a rock bass follow it out. To to get him to strike I sped up the retrieve and watched this monster rock bass pounce on the wooly bugger.
Needless to say this guy a nice bend in my 2 wt and unlike the normal one run and done rock bass this guy kept scrapping until he was brought to hand.
As it turns out there were quite few rock bass under the tree and the technique was always the same. Cast the the wooly bugger under the tree, watch the fish follow it out, speed up the retrieve so the fish thinks it's trying to get away and watch the fish pounce on it. All the strikes were very aggressive. Here are some more rockies that came from the run.
If you think this sounds like fun well, you are certainly right. Even though the smallmouths didn't make an appearance that day I thought to myself this is what fishing is all about. Keeping it simple, wet wading, and watch the fish strike your fly. Who could ask for anything more.
Those last pictures look a lot better than your first two. Cool looking little stream!
Great reflections! reminded me of some of my own memories of the past year.
That had to be a blast on a 2 weight.
I'm soooo ready for some warm weather.
My posts are worthless without pictures
That amount of snow is insane. I guess you guys are getting a little tired of it by now.
Great pictures of the bass and your fishing adventure! I guess I am going to have to start free-stoning during the winter months in TN as the tailwaters are not cooperating.
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Shawn, that's putting it mildly. We had 5" last Wednesday also. I grew up in central New York so I'm used to a lot of snow but, this is getting old. I've been tying flies, going through my gear, patching up my waders and reading LRO forums to keep me going until we get some open water. The next ten days are calling for temperatures above freezing, all the way into the 40's for the next 10 days. That should start melting some of the snow. Having over 12" of snow on the ground in March is ridiculous.
Hopefully the generation schedules on the Clinch are more conducive to fishing.
Looks like your still getting the white stuff according to the Weather Channel. When will it end? (I guess that is THE question.) I will be up in your neck of the woods (around Naperville) in May on business. Think it will be gone by then? Any places you would recommend to wet a line?
I fish......
......because the voices in my head tell me to.
The snow better be gone by May. If you're going to be by Naperville I can recommend both the West Branch of the DuPage River and the Fox River. Both are good rivers for smallmouth bass and the DuPage has a nice population of rock bass and a few good size bluegills too.
The DuPage flows right through Naperville and oddly enough some of the best fishing is right in town. Most of the river flows through parks or forest preserves so access isn't an issue. The DuPage is a small shallow rocky stream that lends itself well to wading.
If you go farther to the west towards North Aurora you'll come across the Fox River which is much wider than the DuPage but is also shallow and rocky. There is also a chance of picking up a bonus walleye in the Fox. The Fox flows through several towns (St.Charles, Geneva, Batavia etc.). These are all older communities (former mill towns) with old dams and also with some very nice restaurants and antique shops. One area on the Fox I can recommend is fishing below the lower Batavia Dam. Dam is kind of a misnomer as the dam is a low head dam (as are all the dams, not like the TVA or Corps dams). This stretch runs through a forest preserve and you'll fell like you're in a remote area. You'll see plenty of ducks, egrets, herons, deer and and even a bald eagle sometimes. The usual smallmouth patterns work fine.
Given this cold winter the bluegill and crappie spawn will definitely be delayed. You might be able to hit the spawn. You can try Silver Lake in the Blackwell Forest Preserve.
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Thanks for the information and the link, Softhackle! And for stirring up some memories! I recognize the Fox and DuPage rivers, as well as the towns of St. Charles, Batavia, et al. I lived in Carol Stream as a kid back in the early 60s. I remember my dad taking us fishing to Pratt's Wayne Woods. I imagine it's changed a lot since then. But it's good to know there are places with access. Let's hope the snow is long gone by then. It should stay light until 8:00 or 8:30 in May, so I should be able to get a couple of hours of casting time in the evenings while I'm there. What do you recommend for tackle?
I fish......
......because the voices in my head tell me to.
I would recommend a 9' 6 wt fly rod with a bass bug taper line. A 3x leader should work fine. As far as flies it's hard to go wrong with a chartreuse and white Clouser minnow (size 4), brown. olive, and black wooly buggers (size 4 through . I'm also partial to olive and brown bunny leeches, size 4 and olive and white bucktail streamers tied Thunder Creek style.
If you have a little extra time something that might really bring back some memories is fishing along the lakefront for yellow perch. I was always partial to Montrose Harbor. The Park Bait Shop is right there and is open at about 4 am or so. I know it's not fly fishing but, one one of favorite guilty pleasures is catching a bunch of perch from Lake Michigan with the city skyline in back of you.
As far as security goes I've always considered it a safe area. I've been fishing it over 20 years and have never had an issue there. The police patrol it pretty well plus early morning will have a lot of joggers, birders etc. Even at sun up the lakefront is a busy place.
Looks like you used to live a little west from me. I live in LaGrange.
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Congregation Rodeph Shalom dates its founding to 1795 with the coalescing of the first Ashkenazic congregation in the western hemisphere. Because the congregation chose to follow the German/Dutch order of prayer, in 1812 it was chartered by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania as the "Hebrew German Society (Rodeph Shalom)." From its founding, Rodeph Shalom was determined not to exclude members based on financial circumstances. Additionally, in 1829, a rule about intermarriage was established: "Members who married non-Jews would not be expelled as long as they raised their children as Jews."
For more than 50 years, services were conducted in numerous locations throughout "Olde City Philadelphia." Not until 1847, when a former church was purchased and refurbished, did Rodeph Shalom have its own building: the Juliana Street Synagogue. Rodeph Shalom was able to construct its first dedicated sanctuary in 1871 on its current site at Broad and Mount Vernon Streets. This striking edifice was designed by Frank Furness, considered the most exciting Philadelphia architect of his time. It was a showpiece of Moorish-style architecture.
In 1873, Rodeph Shalom became a charter member of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (which is now called the Union for Reform Judaism.) The Union was founded by Dr. Isaac Mayer Wise, the father of Reform Judaism in the United States. Many of Dr. Wise's innovations, which were designed to improve worship among American Jews, were adopted by Rodeph Shalom.
William I. Kuhn became senior rabbi of Congregation Rodeph Shalom in 1998. Rabbi Kuhn was ordained in 1994 by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and immediately came to RS, serving as assistant and associate rabbi beginning in 1994. He brings broad and distinctive life experience to the congregation's historic pulpit.
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Alpha-Fetoprotein (AFP) Test
The alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) test is available to women between their 15th and 20th
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Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is the number one cause of life threatening infections,
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Free Admission: to other public Art Galleries in Ontario that charge admission. Friends of Gallery Lambton become members of the extended family of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries.
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The Bee Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) accepts scholarship applications from graduating Bee County seniors who are pursuing a degree in agriculture annually and recently awarded a $1,000 scholarship to graduating Beeville senior Emily Head. Emily is pursuing a degree in agriculture at Texas Tech University with the intention of eventually becoming a veterinarian.
The Bee SWCD hosts a poster contest annually for all Bee County 4th-, 5th- and 6th-grade students and a themed essay contest for Bee County 7th- and 8th-grade students.
This year's essay was themed "Why Soil And Water Conservation Is Important to My Future?" The essay winners were Anakin Franko, first place; Mikayla Martinez, second place; and Marlena Sandoval, third place.
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There isnt much in popular culture today thats more frivolous and lighthearted than the cell-phone self-portrait aka the selfie as viewers of this years Academy Awards will probably recall. For a group of educators at Wilfrid Laurier University, however, the selfie has become a portal into students lives, and in turn a means of engaging and inspiring their minds.
The group made up of a course instructor, a librarian, two writing instructors, and a technologist reimagined Sociology 102: Critical Analysis of Social Issues as a multimedia extravaganza integrating traditional lectures, essays and quizzes alongside workshops, one-on-one sessions and social media-style updates featuring selfies. The results, say both the instructors and students, were improvements in student outcomes far beyond what they had anticipated.
We were amazed by the response from the students, said Kimberly Ellis-Hale, sociology instructor. Not only were they unusually engaged and inspired, but the quality of their work on the assignments was stellar. My feeling is that this type of integrated and engaged approach to learning has enormous potential, and Im hoping we can do more of it here at Laurier going forward.
At the beginning of the term, each student in the course chose a research topic of personal interest ranging from volun-tourism to music genres. The students then participated in a series of workshops and one-on-one sessions with Librarian Anne Kelly, who gave them hands-on guidance on researching their topics, and writing instructors Boba Samuels and Jordana Garbati, who worked with them to craft effective written papers.
I really got to know the students and to get into the nitty gritty of library work with them, said Kelly. By the end of the course, they were referring to me as my librarian wed built a relationship that will continue to benefit them as they move through their studies at the university.
So where did the selfies come in?
At each step in the process of crafting their final papers, the students took photos of themselves at work and uploaded them to an on-line, social media-style platform developed by educational technologies administrator Stefan Todoroff within Lauriers internal MyLearningSpace platform. Alongside the photos, students shared comments recording and reflecting on their progress.
Ellis-Hale intends to continue the course in future terms with ongoing assistance/collaboration with professionals across the Laurier campus, and to conduct research on how their collaborative, digitally integrated model can improve student outcomes, in order to verify and quantify their qualitative observations of the courses impact.
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By Liliana Castillo and Alisa Boswell
Nursing staff at the Portales and Clovis schools took half the time and gave much less pain administering flu vaccines to students this year.
Flu refers to illnesses caused by a number of different influenza viruses.
Both districts received only doses of the flu mist this year, which is a live vaccine.
Portales Municipal Schools head nurse Helen Clabaugh said the New Mexico Department of Health bought the vaccine for the district so her department had no control over which type of vaccine they could give. Director of Health Services for Clovis Municipal Schools Rhonda Sparks said the same.
"It's important for students to get the vaccination because there is a lot of illness going around and it provides some immunity for the flu season," Clabaugh said. "It helps people stay healthy so we don't pass the illness to each other."
Giving a live vaccine, as opposed to the dead virus found in a shot, means that people with asthma, diabetes or any other immune suppressing disease can't receive the vaccine.
This year, the flu vaccine is a combination of two influenza A strains, H1N1 and H3N2 and influenza B. Tom Skinner with the Center for Disease Control said vaccines are made for strains that presented the most last year.
Skinner said that for the first time the CDC is recommending that everyone over the age of six months get vaccinated.
"In past years, we tended to target our vaccinations to those that are at the highest risk for the biggest complications from flu," Skinner said. "And those in contact with them."
Skinner said the CDC realized that the vaccine will benefit everyone and that manufacturers are making more of it.
Skinner said each flu season is unique and the CDC doesn't predict how the flu season will progress.
"There has been some activity on a very low level in various parts of the country," Skinner said. "What we've seen is a good match on what we expected to circulate and what's in our vaccines."
Skinner said because flu activity is low, now is a good time to get the vaccine.
Sparks said getting a flu vaccination is one piece of flu prevention. She said it's important to wash hands, cover coughs, stay home when sick and keep kids home when sick to also protect yourself and those around you.
Tersa Bonifant of Roosevelt General Hospital, said the Flu spreads by the droplet, so someone who contracts the flu and sneezes around others could give them the flu. Bonifant said the illness could be easily contracted from a table or desk surface also.
Bonifant said it is even easier to get the flu shot this year, because the vaccine for H1N1 flu and the vaccine for seasonal flu are included together in one shot this year as opposed to last year when they were two separate shots.
"You're here to protect yourself, your family, your patients and all those around you," said Bonifant. "So it is our responsibility to protect ourselves and those around us by getting the flu shot."
Bonifant said she has given more than 100 shots since the beginning of October. She said the number of people coming to the hospital for flu shots this year is not any smaller than the number of people who came last year during the H1N1 pandemic.
Bonifant said a person can spread flu germs before they become sick and after they are better, so for the sake of everyone around you, you should always get the flu shot.
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009
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Germany gives 3.2 million dollars for the safeguarding of Ivorian parcs and reserves
Germany has just offered the Côte d'Ivoire's Park and Reserves Foundation 1,5 billion CFA Francs (US$ 3.2 millions). According to Mr Stephen ...
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Director General presents UNESCO climate change initiative at Copenhagen Conference
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'Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO : les sites marocains' is published
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A plane that went missing in Antarctica slammed into a mountain and there are not believed to be any survivors, rescuers said Saturday.
Three Canadians were on board the Twin Otter aircraft when it went missing Wednesday about halfway between the South Pole and the McMurdo Station research center.
"The aircraft wreckage is on a very steep slope, close to the summit of Mt Elizabeth. It appears to have made a direct impact that was not survivable. No details are available on the cause of the crash," Maritime New Zealand, which has been coordinating the search operation, said in a statement. "The next of kin have been informed."
It said the site of the crash was at the northern end of the Queen Alexandra mountain range at an altitude of about 13,000 feet.
Two helicopters reached the site at around 7.15 p.m. New Zealand time (1.15 a.m. ET), but were not able to land.
Rescuer Tracy Brickles said in the statement that it was very sad end to the operation.
"It has been difficult operation in challenging conditions but we remained hopeful of a positive result. Our thoughts are now with the families of the crewmen," she said.
The Calgary Sun newspaper previously identified one of those aboard the plane as Bob Heath of the Northwest Territories, calling him a "star pilot" for Canadian firm Kenn Borek Air, which owns the plane.
In an emailed statement, Kenn Borek Air said one of its aircraft and a New York Air National Guard plane had also made "visual contact" with the crash site.
"No signs of activity are evident in the area surrounding the site, and it appears that the impact was not survivable," the statement said.
It added that helicopter crews and mountain rescue teams would attempt to get to the site.
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Microsoft Corp. has announced that it had managed to sell 150 million licenses of Microsoft Windows 7 operating system released last October, which essentially makes the new OS the fastest selling operating system in the world.
"First off, we are excited to announce that Windows 7 has sold 150 million licenses to-date. As I've said before, Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history with 7 copies of Windows 7 sold every second," said Brandon LeBlanc, a spokesman for Microsoft, in a blog post.
Approximately 75% of enterprises are looking at Windows 7 for their organization, according to Microsoft. Moreover, since the economic situation gets brighter, consumers are accelerating the pace of buying new personal computers, which virtually all come with Windows 7 pre-installed.
According to estimates of IDC, sales of personal computers will total 355 million units in 2010, which means that around a million of personal computers is sold daily. As a result, it is not a surprise that over six months after the introduction Microsoft may claim 150 million copies of Windows 7 sold.


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Selection of normal spiral galaxies estimated to be at a distance of 5 to 7 billion light-years away. It is thought that these galaxies existed when the universe was half its present age. In this mosaic, the spiral or disk galaxies are seen at various inclinations from edge-on to face-on.
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