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"Gangster Squad's" Gosling plays Luke, a stunt driver (just like in "Drive") whose decision to turn to crime puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop played by Bradley Cooper. That's just the beginning, though, as "Pines" is a multigenerational crime saga which also follows the fate of the two main characters' sons.
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You Have to Love a Lucrative 'Drug Deal'
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- When it comes to investments, I love to be a sleuth and uncover deals that everyone and their mother-in-law doesn't already know about. If I find a gem in a sector that's in an uptrend, all the better!
The pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sectors have been marching steadily higher. My personal favorite bellwether for the sector is Pfizer (PFE) , which is often referred to these days as a "biopharmaceutical company." Heck, why not, and look at how PFE has been doing price-wise over the past year.
What a fine-looking chart (above), and we can't help but notice Pfizer's year-over-year diluted quarterly EPS growth, which is stellar. No wonder it can pay a great dividend with the prospects of raising that dividend year after year.
Its one-year chart speaks for itself. This company is on fire.
Focusing on what makes a drug company (whoops, I mean a biopharmaceutical company) great, is what PFE does so well: One can plainly see on its brilliant Web site its greatness defined through diversity.
Its Web site says: "To maximize new opportunities in biomedical research, and bring more innovative medicines to more patients more quickly, Pfizer has created two distinct research organizations. The PharmaTherapeutics Research & Development Group focuses on the discovery of small molecules and related modalities; and The BioTherapeutics Research & Development Group focuses on large-molecule research, including vaccines."
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Next up is Elan (ELN) , one that deserves a look after its recent brush with privately held pharmaceutical investor Royalty Pharma. Since its inception in 1996, U.S.-based Royalty Pharma has been buying pharmaceutical intellectual property.
It owns royalty interests in products such as Gilead Science's (GILD) HIV drugs and Abbott Laboratories' (ABT) arthritis drug Humira.
Acording to The Wall Street Journal's February 26 article by Jessica Hodgson, Royalty Pharma disclosed that it made a $6.55 billion takeover offer for the Irish drug company Elan (ELN) .
Royalty, the article reported, approached ELN on Feb. 18 with an offer of $11 a share. ELN hasn't formally responded yet, and it wouldn't surprise this analyst if the company and its shareholders turn the deal down cold.
ELN is devising its own investment plans after the sale of its stake in the multiple-sclerosis drug Tysabri, which was ELN's most successful contemporary drug. "ELN sold its 50% share in Tysabri to its long-term partner Biogen Idec (BIIB) for $3.25 billion in a deal announced February 7, retaining a royalty of 12% of Tysabri's global net sales for the first 12 months after the deal is completed," according to the Journal article.

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Health exchange passes, but will it be ready?
The Minnesota Senate passed legislation Monday for a state-run health insurance exchange program, sending the bill to Governor Mark Dayton, who will likely sign it.
The state has been working on the new system, which includes a web-site that will let individuals and small businesses shop for lower priced health insurance plans. The plan is supposed to be up and running by Oct. 1.
Well, that remains to be seen. The idea of the state government setting up a program, especially one that will have to tie in with a federal program, seems sure to be more complicated and more expensive than the best laid plans of legislators will allow.
Look at the slow implementation of the electronic pulltab system that is supposed to fund the state's portion of the Minnesota Vikings stadium. Over 2,000 e-pulltab machines were supposed to be in place, pulling in money by now. Only a couple hundred are in place, and the daily take of the new machines is nowhere near the rosy estimates. The state's revenue is so lackluster that now electronic bingo is being considered to bolster the stadium fund.
We suspect it will take quite a while longer than October to get the health exchange system set up, to get the technology to work properly, and to get enough people willing to shop on it.


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Three-year follow-up after introduction of Canadian best practice guidelines for asthma and foot care in diabetes suggests that monitoring of nursing-care indicators using an electronic documentation system promotes sustained implementation
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■ Use of reminders in chart-based documentation aids adherence to guidelines.
■ Use of electronic health records technologies enables guideline implementation and evaluation.
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Pacific white-sided dolphin
The Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) is a very active dolphin found in the cool to temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean.
The Pacific white-sided dolphin was named by Smithsonian mammalogist Theodore Nicholas Gill in 1865. The Pacific white-sided dolphin is morphologically similar to the dusky dolphin, which is found in the southern Pacific. Genetic analysis by Frank Cipriano suggests the two species diverged about two million years ago.
Though both are traditionally placed in the genus Lagenorhynchus, molecular analyses indicate that they are closer to dolphins of the genus Cephalorhynchus. The new genus Sagmatias has been proposed for these species.[3]
Physical description
The Pacific white-sided dolphin has three colors. The chin, throat and belly are creamy white. The beak, flippers, back, and dorsal fin are a dark gray. There are light gray patches on the sides and a further light gray stripe running from above the eye to below the dorsal fin where it thickens along the tail stock. A dark gray ring surrounds the eyes.
The species is an average-sized oceanic dolphin. Females weigh up to 150 kilograms (330 lb) and males 200 kilograms (440 lb) with males reaching 2.5 meters (8.2 ft) and females 2.3 meters (7.5 ft) in length. Pacific white-sided dolphins tend to be larger than dusky dolphins. Females reach maturity at 7 years. The gestation period is one year. Individuals live 40 years or more.
The Pacific white-sided dolphin is extremely active and mixes with many of the other north Pacific cetacean species. It readily approaches boats and bow-rides. Large groups are common; averaging 90 individuals, with supergroups of more than 300. Prey is mainly hake, anchovies, squid, herring, salmon and cod.
They have an average of 60 teeth.[4]
Range and habitat
The range of the Pacific white-sided dolphin arcs across the cool to temperate waters of the north Pacific. Sightings go no further south than the South China Sea on the western side and the Baja California peninsula on the eastern. Populations may also be found in the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk. In the northern part of the range, some individuals may be found in the Bering Sea. The dolphins appear to follow some sort of migratory pattern — on the eastern side they are most abundant in the Southern California Bight in winter, but further north (Oregon, Washington) in summer. Their preference for off-shore deep waters appears to be year-round.
The total population may be as many as 1 million. However, the tendency of Pacific White-sided Dolphins to approach boats complicates precise estimates via sampling.
These dolphins keep close company. White-sided dolphins swim in groups of ten to one hundred, and can often be seen bow-riding and doing somersaults. Members form a close-knit group and will often care for a sick or injured dolphin.
Animals that live in such big social groups develop ways to keep in touch — each dolphin identifies itself by a unique name-whistle. Staying close helps, too. Young dolphins communicate with a touch of a flipper as they swim beside adults.
Relation to humans
Until the United Nations banned certain types of fishing nets in 1993, many Pacific white-sided dolphins were killed in drift nets. One researcher estimated somewhere 50,000–89,000 individuals were killed in the twelve years to 1990. Some animals are still killed each year by Japanese hunting drives.
Although overshadowed in popularity by bottlenose dolphins, Pacific White-sided Dolphins are also a part of some marine theme park shows. Pacific white-sided dolphins adapt well to captivity. Almost 50 reside in dolphinariums in North America and Japan.
See also
- ^ Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L., Jr. (2005). "Order Cetacea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 723–743. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Hammond, P.S., Bearzi, G., Bjørge, A., Forney, K., Karczmarski, L., Kasuya, T., Perrin, W.F., Scott, M.D., Wang, J.Y., Wells, R.S. & Wilson, B. (2008). Lagenorhynchus obliquidens. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
- ^ Shirihai, H. and Jarrett, B. (2006). Whales, Dolphins and Other Marine Mammals of the World. Princeton Field Guides. pp. 202–205. ISBN 9780691127569.
- ^ Black, Nancy A. (2009). In Perrin, William F.; Würsig, Bernd; Thewissen, J. G. M. Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (2 ed.). Burlington Ma.: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9.
- van Waerebeek, Koen; Würsig, Bernd. "Pacific White-sided Dolphin and Dusky Dolphin". In Perrin, William R; Wiirsig, Bernd; Thewissen, J G M. Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. pp. 859–60. ISBN 0-12-551340-2.
- National Audubon Society: Guide to Marine Mammals of the World ISBN 0-375-41141-0


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Bed tax planners push through recent criticism
MALONE – Franklin County's Bed Tax Committee is in a bit of a Catch-22.
At hearings earlier this month, many people said they aren't in favor of instituting a bed tax in the county. The main reason was that they don't feel like the county tourism department does enough for them now.
Legislators are aware that the county's work on tourism has been lacking in recent years, but that's why they want to institute the bed tax, which would add a charge to any hotel, motel or other lodging stays less than 30 days.
At a committee meeting Monday, Legislator Tim Burpoe, D-Saranac Lake, said the county can't afford to invest property tax money in tourism.
"We pretty much created a bare-bones county tourism department right now, because we can't afford it," Burpoe said. "We have to stay within the 2 percent tax cap, or else we have to explain why. So we are cutting everywhere we can."
Burpoe said the goal of the bed tax is to bring in money that will be dedicated to promoting the area to potential tourists, which will allow the county to start doing more to help people like hotel and motel owners in Tupper Lake more than it has in the past. The tax is projected to bring in around $350,000 if it can get approved.
Burpoe noted that the tourism advertising campaigns the county does participate in run outside the area, to encourage people to come here, so local business owners might not be fully aware of what the county currently does for them.
Tupper Laker Maggie Ernenwein said during the hearing in Tupper Lake in early January that she's never had anyone click through to her website from the county's tourism websites, but Burpoe said Monday that's the kind of thing the county can focus more on once it has money to do so.
Don Dew Jr., Tupper Lake's representative on the Bed Tax Committee, said the frustration with the county has been building over a number of years.
"It's not a new issue in Tupper Lake," Dew said.
He said he's excited by the idea of wiping the slate clean and getting a fresh start, though.
"Let's start new," Dew said. "This is a way to do it."
Hearing debrief
At its meeting Monday morning, the committee talked over the three hearings it had: in Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake and Malone. About 10 lodging owners in Tupper Lake gave legislators and committee members an angry earful, and there was some criticism in Saranac Lake and Malone as well, though there were supporters in Malone, and only two people with comments showed up in Saranac Lake.
Committee members said they were surprised when they heard people say they hadn't heard about the proposed tax until shortly before or after the hearings. County board Chairman David "Billy" Jones, D-Chateaugay, said the issue has been in the local newspapers once a week for the last year-and-a-half to two years.
Jones said he doesn't think people understand what the county wants to do with the tax.
"It's not to put a tax on our local residents," Jones said; it's to get money from the people visiting from out of the area.
He also noted that the money won't go to the county's general fund but instead put in a separate fund for tourism marketing. The money would be spent based on a marketing strategy put together by a Tourism Advisory Committee, which would be made up of business people who are in industries impacted by tourism, like restaurants, attractions and lodging.
"I think people want to know that the county is not going to suck this into the black hole," said Lesley Lyon, the county's Department of Social Services commissioner and a bed and breakfast owner in Lake Clear.
Committee members voted Monday to change a few things in the tax based on what they heard at the hearings. They also voted to keep some things that people at the hearings questioned.
The majority of committee members voted to keep the tax at the proposed 5 percent, though there was one vote to change it to 3 percent, which is what Essex County has now, and one to change it to 4. Ernest Hohmeyer of Lake Clear advocated for 3 percent, saying that it would be easier to get the county's lodging owners on board if the number were smaller.
"I just think it's a little bit easier to swallow," Hohmeyer said.
They also voted to keep vacation rentals in the law but to exclude people who rent out their primary residence for a few weeks a year, since most of those people do so to help pay their property tax. Curtis Reynolds told legislators at the Saranac Lake hearing that he does that and hopes the law won't apply to him.
The committee voted to exclude campgrounds from the bed tax, since, as Gil Paddock put it at the Malone hearing, the people who camp at his Deer River Campsite in Duane are bringing their beds with them. Legislator Sue Robideau, R-Brushton, said the tax is supposed to be on people from outside the county visiting here, but many county residents go camping within the county, since they can't afford to vacation elsewhere.
If a campsite has cabins that it rents out as well, the tax would apply to those, committee members noted.
They also decided to add resorts to the list of lodgings being taxed, after Jacob Kipping, assistant general manager of The Point resort on Upper Saranac Lake, asked at the Malone hearing whether the tax would apply to his business.
Kipping also noted that The Point includes in its fees a number of services besides room rental, and he asked whether those would be taxed or if it would be just the room. The committee decided Monday that if a business can separate out those other service fees, the tax will only apply to the room charge.
Moving forward
Committee members were at odds Monday over whether now is the time for consensus building. Since Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vowed not to sign any new taxes into law this year, some committee members want to get the law to Albany so the county can start lobbying on behalf of it as soon as possible. Chris LaBarge, who runs Malone's Holiday Inn Express, noted that the committee has been working on it for six months already, and now is the time for action.
But others argued that it might make sense to put the law on hold, get the Tourism Advisory Committee started and have that group work with lodging owners and other interested parties around the county to put together a marketing strategy. That would help people understand what the plan is for the money, which might encourage people to get on board with collecting the tax, Hohmeyer and Lyon argued.
LaBarge said he'd rather get it to a vote first, and then if county legislators don't pass it, they'll know they have to go back and put together the marketing strategy first.
"You guys are going to have to vote on something at some point," LaBarge said.
Robideau noted that Legislator Paul Maroun, who is also the Tupper Lake village mayor, told his constituents at the Tupper Lake hearing that he would vote against the tax if they continue to object to it.
Bruce Monette said there are seven legislators, so the law only needs four of them to support it to pass.
"That's one no vote," Monette said.
Committee members decided to make the revisions to the law, circulate it as widely as possible using the local chambers of commerce to help, then hold informal meetings with stakeholders in Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake and Malone, hopefully by mid February. After that, they plan to meet again and decide how to move forward.
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Looking back on the recipe after four years, I notice a number of things I would do and express differently. Nevertheless, I hesitate to suggest changes, because the recipe has worked for several people.Someone wanted to cover the taste of the whole wheat with more toppings. Such an increase could cause a gum layer problem. Instead, I would look at the flours freshness and at the relatively large amount of VWG.King Arthur White Whole Wheat is all, or mostly, winter wheat. Winter wheat is not high in protein, thus VWG might be needed. However, I dont think the VWG improves the flavor. One could reduce the VWG and then strengthen the dough by using white spring wheat, increasing the very modest salt level, or adding some stretch-and-folds.
ERASMO,I have set forth below a dough formulation that I think should come pretty close to the original dough recipe. To do the conversion, I weighed the 10 fluid ounces of water on my regular scale and I weighed the rounded 1/2 teaspoon of salt on a special scale that I use for such purposes. I also used charbo's weight for the 3 cups of KAWWW flour to get the weight of the 3/8 cup of that flour used for kneading purposes. I combined both parts of the KAWWW flour on the assumption that all of the kneading flour will eventually end up in the dough. That may not always be the case, so you should exercise your best judgment as to how much of the kneading flour to use. As noted in the dough formulation below, which I prepared using the expanded dough calculating tool at http://www.pizzamaking.com/expanded_calculator.html, the main part of the KAWWW flour (3 cups by volume) represents 89% of the total weight of KAWWW flour and the kneading KAWWW flour (3/8 cup) represents 11% of the total. I mention these percents since they are the ones one would use to do the proper apportioning if the dough formulation is modified for more than one dough ball and/or for different pizza sizes. Based on a total dough ball weight of 25.58 ounces and the 16" pizza size that is made from that dough ball, I calculated a thickness factor of 0.127214. I did not use a bowl residue compensation, but you are free to use one if you would like. Finally, because the Bob's Red Mill brand of vital wheat gluten seems to be the most common brand used by our members, I used that brand for purposes of coming up with the dough formulation presented below. I can adjust the dough formulation for you if you end up with a different brand. The only brand I have been able to find in the supermarkets near me is the Hodgson Mill brand.KAWWW Flour* (100%):Water (68.9777%):ADY (0.94814%):Salt** (1.30433%):Olive Oil (3.38624%):Sugar (1%):Vital Wheat Gluten*** (6.27081%):Total (181.88722%):398.67 g | 14.06 oz | 0.88 lbs274.99 g | 9.7 oz | 0.61 lbs3.78 g | 0.13 oz | 0.01 lbs | 1 tsp | 0.33 tbsp5.2 g | 0.18 oz | 0.01 lbs | 0.93 tsp | 0.31 tbsp 13.5 g | 0.48 oz | 0.03 lbs | 3 tsp | 1 tbsp3.99 g | 0.14 oz | 0.01 lbs | 1 tsp | 0.33 tbsp25 g | 0.88 oz | 0.06 lbs | 9.04 tsp | 3.01 tbsp725.13 g | 25.58 oz | 1.6 lbs | TF = N/ANote: For a single 16" pizza; calculated thickness factor = 0.127214; no bowl residue compensation*The main part of the KAWWW flour represents 89% of the total flour weight and the kneading KAWWW flour represents 11% of the total flour weight.**The stated values are equivalent to a rounded 1/2-teaspoon of salt***Bob's Red Mill brandThe actual hydration will be somewhat lower than indicated in the above dough formulation because the VWG is treated separately. If the VWG is combined with the KAWWW flour, the "effective" hydration is 64.91%. Peter
If you know the protein percentages of the starting flour, the VWG, and target flour, you can compute the amount of VWG to add. Pete-zza has a calculator I think.


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Have you used that borrowed steel plate yet, Scott?
Yes, my niece was going away to college and had yet to try my pizza, so I brought the plate down to my brother's house and baked on it. No photos, but I was very pleased with the results. As expected, it gave me a bit more conductivity than my regular soapstone hearth, which I needed at my brother's place because his oven runs a bit cool (525ish). Between the convection feature (my home oven lacks convection), the steel plate and a newly acquired wholesale cheese (calabro), it was my best pizza to date. I've also finally worked out the right sauce formula for the Sclafani tomatoes I've been using.
JD,Did you get yours in two pieces?Mary Ann
Since he gives such good advice, I'm going to ask if I should try Lehmann's NY style recipe versus the one I've been using from Peter Reinhart's book, American Pie?
Sure did! Can't imagine tossing a full plate into the oven without pulling at least one muscle. Not to speak for Scott, but he recently linked to his own NY recipe so why not give that a shot?http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,27232.msg275901.html#msg275901
This guy seems like a well designed and constructed steel for pizzas. http://bakingsteel.com/shop/baking-steel/I bought one and will try it out in my gas oven. I am thinking of putting a stone on the rack above it just under the broiler to radiate heat downward. What do you think of this idea?
JD, I saw nothing specific about the baking steel product on the last page of this thread. Did I miss it?
Mary Ann, the man you spoke with yesterday (most likely Andris) is steering you wrong. Between gouging people on price, misrepresenting steel's abilities in ads and scaring people away from properly sized plates, I've gone to great lengths to encourage people to obtain their plate from someone other than Stoughton. If you don't mind spending about three times the price for steel, though, Stoughton isn't horrible, but, please, don't take their advice on sizing.
Scott,The man I spoke with there yesterday told me that I should consider not getting the 1/2" because it would be over 50 pounds. I roughly measured the interior and came up with 14 1/2 x 23 1/2, but plan on cutting a cardboard template later today. He suggested getting the 3/8" thick one. I explained that I usually make no more than 4 pies in one night and he thought that would be sufficient. Given those dimensions he said it would be $109. I haven't finished reading all the way through this thread yet but hope to today.Mary Ann
While I am sure I could have found a piece of steel for less, the product is beautifully finished and not so much more expensive than a custom cut piece of steel according to posts I've read here.
If the product does not perform, it will ultimately fail.
The problem with the depth is that there is a lip on the rack such that if I placed the steel plate on it, especially in two pieces, they would not be flush. I guess I could see if the rack could be used on the reverse side so the pieces would sit flush on the rack. Then I could order a deeper plate. The other option is to order it wider and completely remove the rack and have the plates slide directly on the shelve slots.
I'm going to ask if I should try Lehmann's NY style recipe versus the one I've been using from Peter Reinhart's book, American Pie? I have had good results with that but I've had tearing issues which I know what to do to prevent it next time. I have only used KASL and plan on it since I have a few bags to get through before my big purchase. Any advice on a brand (unbleached and non-bromated) that I should try? I like HG flours for both my NY and Sicilian pies...
JD,Did you get yours in two pieces?
Glad to hear, what was your bake time at 525?
Mary Ann, normally when people are happy with a recipe, I don't rain on their parade, but, since you're soliciting advice American Pie is a horrible book. Reinhart is great for bread, but not that knowledgeable when it comes to pizza. The Lehmann recipe is good, as is the recipe of mine that JD linked to (they're really not that different).If you use my recipe, you need to go with an appropriate protein content for the flour. You can either work with KABF or you can dilute your KASL with some all purpose (Walmart or Heckers 50/50). Neither approach is ideal, though. This will probably ruffle some feathers, but if I had KASL, unless I knew I would be making bagels soon, I'd probably throw it out. That's what I did with my leftover All Trumps when I bought my bag of Spring King. Toss the KASL (or make bagels with it), buy Best Bakers and don't look back.JD pioneered the two piece process
If you don't mind me asking, why do you like best bakers flour? Is it because it is a patent flour, or because of the protein content?


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I was inspired by Cloud's recent post that showed great comparison shots of a couple of cakes over ten years of aging.
I didn't think I had taken a lot of pictures where I could do comparisons like it, but I went back into my archives and I did manage to find some decent enough pictures.
In any case, I've been drinking pu'erh for a much shorter period of time, so my picture only shows 4 years of aging, but here is a comparison:
It's a 2008 tea, but I've decided not to name the tea for now, because I think it was (is?) a sort of controversial tea at the time. So rather than focus on that, I'd rather focus on the appearance.
I had to brighten the left image a bit because it was dark, but the coloring is pretty accurate (a vendor still sells this cake, and the pictures look quite green).
I'm enjoying a session with the tea right now. The first steep was quite smooth, a vague hint of wood on the edges, but also a hint of "black tea" in the aftertaste. The second and third cups have marked astringency and roughness. It's still has a lot of youth in it, which is not too surprising.
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ATI Technologies, a leading graphics chip company, has unveiled another addition to its multi graphics chip CrossFire technology for consumers. The company proposes to use the third graphics processing unit (GPU) for physics calculations and claims that even its mainstream GPUs deliver better raw performance when compared to dedicated physics processing units (PPUs) from Ageia.
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Looks like it is finally happening , just in time for next season, and the CBJs rebirth.
The New conferences are as follows:
I: Carolina, Columbus, New Jersey, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington
II: Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Florida, Montreal, Ottawa, Tampa Bay, Toronto
III: Chicago, Colorado, Dallas, Minnesota, Nashville, St. Louis, Winnipeg
IV: Anaheim, Calgary, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Jose, Vancouver
There are a few things that still need to be ironed out, such as a special wild card game for the conferences with 8 teams. But all signs point to this being accepted next week at the owners meeting in Toronto, and the Players are on board as well.
I dont want to look a gift horse in the mouth , and very happy that this is happening, but I will say as a CBJ fan they are moving into a juggernaut of a conference, its going to be the AL East of the NHL.


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I'm sure there are those of you who would recommend I go trackball or something. I just can't get into those.
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I've been a reader of Slipstick.com for a while – I met the lady who founded it, Sue Mosher, at the Microsoft MVP Summit in 2004. She was an Outlook MVP and I was a Sharepoint MVP and met through Bill English, the author of the Microsoft Sharepoint Resource Kit (see sample chapters).
Slipstick sends out a newsletter and the most recent one had some tips about using words to describe a date – for example you could say "45 days ago" in a date field and it figures it out for you, or "90d" and it'll go 90 days in the future.
To me, that's evidence of ingenuity. I can just picture some developer coding and decided – hey, it would be cool if we could just put in some short code for date calculation here – and just did it.
The newsletter also points out that this can be used for search folders, like showing all the messages from more than a week ago. You can say "received on or before 7 days ago" and it'll weed out the last week's worth of messages.
I tried putting in "lottery numbers in 1d" but it gave me an error.
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The UN Review Conference on Financing for Development closed today in Doha. We adopted an outcome statement reaffirming the Monterrey Consensus and calling for a renewed commitment to its principles. The U.S. delegation and many others worked long into the night during the conference to reach agreement on what turned out to be an 85-paragraph statement.
The outcome statement is important for a number of reasons, but perhaps most important in my view because it clearly endorses the actions taken since Monterrey as the right path to improved development results. For decades before Monterrey, the old foreign aid paradigm focused solely on donor responsibility to provide aid. This sort of top-down approach did little to advance global development, and too often it created recipient dependence, undermined private enterprise, and suppressed entrepreneurial initiative.
At Monterrey, President Bush led an effort to launch a new paradigm, where primary responsibility for growth and development rests with the developing countries, with developed countries committed to not only increasing development assistance, but also expanding trade linkages, investment, and other private resource flows.
As I noted in my previous post, the United States has led the way in making this new paradigm a reality, and this conference acknowledged the significant development progress triggered by this paradigm. As we leave Doha, there should be no doubt that the United States will remain the world leader in advancing global development consistent with the Monterrey principles, even in these times of economic difficulty.
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Skip to comments.Waiting for midnight, hungry families on food stamps give Walmart 'enormous spike'
Posted on 11/28/2011 1:37:21 PM PST by Nachum
At the stroke of midnight, a growing number of Americans are lining up at Walmart not to cash in on a holiday sale, but because theyre hungry. The increasing number of Americans relying on food stamps to survive the sluggish economic recovery has changed the way the largest retailer in the United States does business. Carol Johnston, Walmarts senior vice president of store development, said that store managers have seen an enormous spike in the number of consumers shopping at midnight on the first of the month. Thats typically when those receiving federal food assistance have their accounts refilled each
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"Thats typically when those receiving federal food assistance have their accounts refilled"
and happens to be when I get paid.
I'm sure the story is meant to raise concern for those on food stamps ... but it tells another tale as well.
Too many people are too da... too stupid to buy groceries and budget it out so that they have enough for a month (or more) and don't have to rush to friggin Wal Mart at midnight because they are too inept to plan.
I saw a nearly-identical story about a year-and-a-half ago (August, 2010).
Has anything changed, or did someone decide it was time to tug at heartstrings again?
by next week, americans will be starving in the streets, shivering on the sidewalks, and dying in emergency room parking lots because the mean, racist, millionaire loving, middle class eating republicans won't pass whatever reform nancy pelosi says is needed in order to save the planet.
This is the fourth time in the past few years the MS has run the same "Out of food, shopping at midnight story"
Don't believe me, do a search right here at FR. I know I posted on all the previous threads
Kinda like Hollywood, the news media has NO new ideas for stories
Actually, when Wal Marts offers X Boxes half off plus a fifty dollar credit on top, that deal gets a lot of people into the stores. Who wants to over pay for a gift especially when you save over $200 bucks on one single item?
While I hesitate to be judgmental about these matters, there are single, widowed, and divorced parents with children who do not have two incomes and a young adult male in the household, like the couple described at the link. These people have it good, as they say.
The other couple in the article even have a dog!
Stand behind one of these recipients in the grocery line and you will know why they can't manage to last the month out.
By the way...who watches the kids while they shop at midnight?
We don't need welfare. Corporate America already has coupons for groceries stores and for people who aren't lazy, you can get 70-80% off your food bill if you use them. Sometimes, with store offers, you can get an entire shopping cart full of food for free.
This is horrific. I don't think this is the sort of "spike" that the economy needs or wants. It's like the "dead cat bounce" when after a stock tanks, losing nearly all its value, the stock will usually open up incrementally higher the next day. It's not like there's any interest in it, the "spike" is merely technical by nature, as if when you drop a dead cat from atop a 20-story building, you're gonna get some movement out of it.
The first part of the month I bought enough food for that month. Meat was put in a freezer. Canned goods, peanut butter and other items were stored in the pantry.
My young son hated the crust of bread. When I made him peanut butter sandwiches without the crust for lunch I ate the crust for my lunch.
Somehow with no life insurance , after my first husband's death, I was able to save enough to buy my first home in 1975.
I worked part time, too.
I come from a long line of relatives who believe "where there is a will ....there is a way."
The kids are usually with them............
I bet 2/3 of these people are over-weight! They buy a lot of junk food. (and beer with their own $$$)
My daughter and her 2 kids just moved out. That made 5 in the house for 3 mnths. I bought all the groceries and was spending about $450 a month. Of course that was nothing but food, no extras, and we cook. I bet she spent $300 on sodas and snacks though, so that is where the extra costs come in.
Food stamps, or EBT cards?
Does anyone get the paper food stamps anymore? I though every state had switched to a card by now.
As do companies like Drake's, Hostess, and Frito-Lay.
As do companies like Drake's, Hostess, and Frito-Lay.
As do companies like Drake's, Hostess, and Frito-Lay.
My guess is that they're buying up the saleable commodities that they can get cash for. Then taking the cash for drugs. At least the ones that show up at midnight on the last day of the month. Most of the ones I see using EBT cards at Wally World are so damned fat, they couldn't be starving. Only the druggies come out at night.
Two people and a child should be able to eat quite nicely on $170.00 a week if they stick to staples and real food
I make what most would consider a good income, and I shop sales ALL the time. I spend about $225-$250 a month for 2 people. And I feel I eat pretty darn good.
Bacon or sausage and eggs for breakfast, maybe pancakes or homemade waffles w/ real maple syrup. A fair amount of beef and pork roasts (which I love). A handful of skillet dishes with ground beef. Minute steaks or round steaks.
I bought 1/2 a cow in the spring for $4 a lb.
$4 is expensive hamburger or chuck roast, but its real cheap porterhouse and sirloin.
I buy maple syrup by the gallon up in Wisconsin. $38 for a gallon vs $17 for a quart in the store. Tastes better too.
I've got lazy, worthless relatives who play the welfare system. They get food stamps AND rotate through the area food banks each month.
I shop by whats on sale and cook what I have on hand. (Most of the time I can eat what I want, because I already have on hand what I need. All bought on sale)
First I work to make the money. Then I work again, shopping the sales, to get the most of MY MONEY.
Of course, I guess you could say that "working" the handout system is work also.
well, now I know when to not go shopping at WalMart.
Sounds like some hellish mix of an OWS encampment, an illegal alien border crossing and the line outside the local welfare office, all rolled into on.
I read a story few weeks ago about the rationing of stamps back during depression, WW2. It was required to keep all the stamps in the book, could not be torn out before hand. Then you had to present your ID along with the stamps at the cashier. That is how they prevented fraud.
Now they have EBT cards that my gosh, even work in Casino's.
There are state programs where the kids can get breakfast and lunch at school for free.
There are 30 days in a month x 3 meals a day= 90 meals per person, per month.
5 days a week in school x 4 weeks a month= 20 days a month x 2 meals= 40 meals per person, per month, free from school
At the buffet?
Excellent question. An appalling number have the kids with them, usually inadequately dressed for the weather. Some are undoubtedly home alone.
Saw this story this a.m. The hungry couple was using a smart phone to check when their card was funded for the month. Wonder how much the cell service monthly charge cost and how much food it would buy?
I have a friend that has a full time job, but still can't always feed his family after bills, so he gets food stamps for his wife and 2 kids. They get $467 a month, paid to their EBT card on the 15th. They budget as best they can, but food is getting more and more expensive. I lend him money when I can so his kids can eat.
And they come in at midnight huh?
More likely that the folks who bought them at 25cents on the dollar are ensuring that they get everything off the card before it gets turned off, or while they can still find and beat down the seller.
Heard today the DNC are not going for the white voters who work but the elitists, artists, media, hollywood and the impoverished ethnic groups blacks and hispanics who are on public assitance, welfare, foodstamps and extended unemployment. SO EVERYTIME YOU HEAR THE LIAR AND CHIEF TALK ABOUT HELPING THE MIDDLECLASS............
Ok, so why doesn't the guy find a job flipping burgers down on the corner rather than and hour and a half away? There are closer jobs he could find. And why isn't the gal working? Obviously they have some sort of child care since they don't have the kid with them at midnight. Why does it take both of them to shop when one could be home with the baby and save having to pay a sitter? That's money down the drain. If there is a sitter, then the woman can get a job.
And feeding a dog? No, if you can't feed your kid, you don't need the dog. Sorry, but I'm not believing this. Someone is lying or is just too lazy to take responsiblity for themselves.
Besides, if you have to make the budget last the whole month, then you don't shop at midnight on the first. You search the grocery circular every week to get the sales. Then you schedule your trips to hit the soon to expire markdowns. What are they doing buying bacon? Bacon is expen$ive. Granted, tortillas aren't expensive but they can be made at home for nearly nothing and are way better than store bought. If this is the mentality that they're using for other parts of their lives it's no wonder they're in this shape.
"... I don't mean to be critical, but your son must not have been very hungry".
I think you missed her point, oh8eleven. She didn't want her son to feel like he was poor or in need. She selflessly ate the crust of the bread for her lunch so that her son could eat the sandwich they way he preferred. I had a great Aunt who was extremely poor. She would tell her family that she didn't like the taste of meat but did like the fat. What she was doing was leaving the good protein for the children while eating the fat for herself. It's what a good Mom does.
God bless you for that. Yes, there is a real food crisis. We know see it were we are too.
Yes, grocery prices are going up but there's no way he's budgeting the best he can. Don't enable them by giving him money. Teach him to budget correctly.
To this day I hate powdered milk. Can't even stand the smell of it. I couldn't wait to get to the farm for real cow milk.
This story repeats practically every month. I saw it a few times this past year.
Build all the FEMA camps around all the Chinamarts.
Pisses me off to be standing at the seafood counter to buy whatever is on sale when a pack of EBT card holders come in and get $30 worth of crab legs each. (I see them "pay" at the register).
You are obviously a very strong, independent, and intelligent Mom, Lysie. I can only imagine your now grown son is in awe of what you have accomplished.
These folks could be eating very well ALL month IF they used coupons. My food budget is miniscule because of coupons. Okay, I have a new eating system where I am losing weight by going to the buffets but I also use coupons at the buffets as well. For just a little eight bucks and a coupon, one can fill up at Golden Corral.
They bought a brand name prepackaged string cheese instead of cutting up a cheaper hunk of cheese.
They bought individual containers of yogurt instead of either a large carton or making it at home. It takes all of one brain cell to make and no special ingredients, not even special starter.
That jar of Vlasic pickles is pricey. I haven't bought Vlasic in years.
Blue Chee$e? Really?
They could have saved more money getting the Great Value noodles in the bag rather than the boxed name brand.
There's a $touffer's box of something in their nice looking kitchen. Also in their kitchen are nice salt and pepper shakers, a new something appliance and maybe a microwave. Ok, so they have an old crockpot which is the exact model I'm using tonight for chili so I know it's from about the 80s. So, maybe those s&p shakers and the white appliance were gifts but they aren't hurting by a long shot and they're clueless on budgeting.
When I was a kid we ate wood and rocks for breakfast.
(OK, that was an out-and-out lie. My father was a successful businessman, and I ditched school for lunch so I could have Filet Mignon)
I need to learn to be more coupon conscious myself.
Their house burned 2 years ago. Before her husband went to jail, he worked in a factory making 12 something an hour. Stopped by over the weekend, noticed they have satellite tv, a 47ish" flat screen tv, 2 pc's (one with touchscreen capabilities) and 2 lap tops, plus hs internet.
While hubby's in jail, he needs blood pressure medication. Before he went in, it cost them $30 a month. Now they have to buy it through the jail at $100. She was whinning about the cost and how she couldn't afford it. I was going to help out and buy it, until one of the daughters was on Facebook bragging about the matching tatoos her and her sister got.
Family doesn't have money for dads meds, but there's money for tats.
By the way, I'm the one they call "the rich cousin". I make WELL OVER $12 an hour, and usually work 50-60 hours a week. My cousin is unemployed getting $100 a week from the state and complains about having to go to job training. She has every excuse why she can't make it to work or training, but has no reasons why she has to work.
My cell phone is the most basic phone I can get. I finally got my second computer, after my first one bit the dust after 10 years (and it was a business machine that came off lease). Still haven't bought a flat screen tv, though I've been looking at 32" (it'll fit in the entertainment center).
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I have a couple Environmental variables that I need to pass to my Rails app.
The RESQUE_* variables are for accessing the Resque front-end.
The EMAIL_* variables are for sending the emails
The others are secret hashes that are for Paperclip and the apps secret_token
This is my Resque configuration with the env vars
Resque::Server.use(Rack::Auth::Basic) do |user, pass|
user == ENV['RESQUE_USER']
pass == ENV['RESQUE_PASS']
This works, if I type in the user and pass it lets me access Resque.
Now this is my email configuration
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
address: "smtp.gmail.com",
port: 587,
domain: 'gmail.com',
authentication: :login,
enable_starttls_auto: true,
user_name: ENV['EMAIL_USER'],
password: ENV['EMAIL_PASS']
Now this part isn't working, the user/pass aren't being sent in or something because the emails aren't sending..(But when I hardcode the user/pass in the emails send)
And I have no clue if the hash variables are sending in. So how would I fix this?


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