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Craig,When is the best time to make my dough with the culture, is it an hour or two after I have fed the starter whilst its still bubbling and active? Or should it be left till it calms back down then used?
PS.Whats does all this hydration talk mean Ive not figured this out? My starter has always been fed 70g flour along with 70ml warm water, how does this equate hydration wise??
Hydration could refer to either the hydration of the dough or the hydration of the starter. Your starter would be 100% hydration. The starter hydration may or may not impact the dough. Using tiny quantities like I do (1.1 - 1.7%), I don't think it matters. Using large quantities, it might impact the overall characteristics of the dough and you might need to take it into account in your formula such as is done with this dough calculator: http://www.pizzamaking.com/preferment_calculator.html. For example, if you wanted a 55% hydration dough and added 30% of the flour weight in 100% hydrated starter, you can see how the hydration of the final dough could be well over 55% unless you adjust the formula flour or water so that the final formula comes in at 55%HR.
PS. The link didnt work!
Craig,On this point would you then add only 25% of original the % of water to make the 55%.PS. The link didnt work!
Ischia at 45 hours not active enough, set at 70 for two hours pics shows ok activity but needed dinner. Baked crust very tender, but not enough oven spring - will try again soon
Do you know why you were lacking activity?


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The cutter pan version looks amazing. Was the pan lubed at all? I need to rethink my aversion to cutter pans. That upskirt shot looks like golden goodness.
Jay,Looks like Rosatis! Was this the no knead version? I'm gonna have to revisit this formulation me thinks.Nate
I read a tip from the Dough Doctor somewhere else on the forum and bought a 2-inch diameter wooden dowel that I cut to 18-inches in length and then sealed with butcher block conditioner. If you don't happen to have a table top sheeter then the dowel works just fine to get the dough rolled really thin. Good luck with your pie!
I'm trying to picture what this looks like. Are there two dowel rods together? Is there a crank?Nate
No, it's just a rolling pin with no handles. Just press and roll. Easy peasy.
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Like a French rolling pin?
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See bigger images inside. In fact so big they break the current layout, but I just don't care right now, so there.
Where these ads will run? Your guess is a good as mine. Here and on other adfan-blog elsewhere on the web, probably. No paid media has been announced.
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Could someone explain the "innit" of the tagline? I don't get why it's not "in it". Maybe I'm just being dense - which is always likely.
I'll guess for the same reason it is "Da" and not "The".
According to the Oxford dictionary, "innit" is a (British, informal) contradiction of "isn't it".
so then that would mean they are saying "are you isn't it". nope. Still befuddled.
The Oxford definition is probably why the "innit" would make even less sense in the UK. ;)
I'm guessing "innit" is just some play on the way "in it" can sound, but why the extra "n"? I really have no idea.
Ah...now I'm following your breadcrumb :)
Ad Of Da Month is the only source I could find that uses "innit" in that way. In every other source I found, "innit" has the same meaning as the Oxford definition.
It's silly, innit?
Not quite an explainable pun, but it's playing off "are you in it" and "are you, innit". Imagine it with a Caribbean or "black street" accent, if I can say that without falling foul of the PC Police.
"Innit" is pretty well restricted to two speech communities: Caribbean and Cockney/Estuary.
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This is an Op-Ed by Richard G. Kidd IV, who serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, Acting.
It is a curious and unfortunate paradox that the United States, the world's largest single financial contributor to mine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance, and the only major military power that has pledged to leave no mine behind on any battlefield, is considered by some to have rejected the humanitarian goal of protecting civilians from the effects of landmines during and after armed conflict. Why is this so? Simply because we will not join the Ottawa Convention, a landmine treaty whose absolutist formulation we cannot accept.
This paradox results in a situation in which the United States operates at the center of the humanitarian mine action community, yet it stands outside of the Ottawa process. Given this unique position, the United States has the advantage of well-earned credibility to provide commentary on the past and future of mine action, and to do so unconstrained by any demands to adhere to the political orthodoxy of the Ottawa Convention.
The Ottawa Convention's clear and simple message, to ban anti-personnel landmines, caused the convention to be quickly adopted, and has undeniably led to reductions in the humanitarian hazards generated by indiscriminately used anti-personnel landmines. Yet it is this very simplicity that is also the greatest weakness of the Ottawa Convention; it ignores other hazardous mines -- such as anti-vehicle mines -- and at-risk munitions, calls for the wasteful and unnecessary expenditure of scarce resources where they are sometimes not needed most, and perpetuates an artificial and sometimes acrimonious divide between states that share the goal of reducing the humanitarian effects of such munitions on civilians.
While there have been marked successes over the past ten years in terms of reducing the humanitarian impacts of landmines, not all of these successes can be ascribed solely to the Ottawa Convention. Indeed, further political or humanitarian returns generated by a strict, literal adherence to certain aspects of the Convention will come only at an exponentially increasing cost. In effect, the Convention has hit its "high water mark." A strict "mine free" interpretation of its requirements would require every anti-personnel mine to be removed, no matter how remote or costly, will in the end serve to divert limited financial resources from other humanitarian crises where they could do more good and save more lives.
The United States is moving deliberately and with due humanitarian consideration toward an approach to post-conflict clearance and destruction programs that address all explosive remnants of war and not just landmines. This approach is reflected in new authorities provided to the Department of State by our Congress and with expanded financial resources. While it might be easy and simple to direct clearance efforts toward one specific type of weapon or munition as suggested in the Ottawa Convention and other ad hoc processes, such as landmines or cluster munitions or AK-47s, in the end, such an approach falls short as it is driven more by political optics than by the on-the-ground requirements. The United States believes that a better approach is to seek measures that meet the totality of the needs experienced by countries suffering from the legacy of war. The United States urges others -- donors, activists, academics, and impacted nations -- to take a more holistic approach by directing clearance, and destruction efforts, and resources towards communities that suffer from surplus, abandoned, or residual conventional weapons and munitions of all types, and to do so upon the basis of objective requirements rather than political pronouncements.
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The negotiation of the Ottawa Convention came at a time in history that was most opportune for its supporters. Earlier wars of decolonization as well as proxy struggles during the Cold War changed the way mines were used, making them more often than not weapons of terror directed against civilians by insurgents rather than legitimate weapons used between armies on the field of battle. More recently, the end of the Cold War, the success of former colonies struggling for independence, and a series of relatively effective peacekeeping interventions helped to stop the most egregious cases of mine laying.
The world was still shocked by the atrocities of Cambodia, Bosnia, and Afghanistan but not yet sure if the actions of the UN and NATO peacekeepers would carry the day when the Ottawa Convention opened for signatures in 1997. Taking advantage of this unique geo-political moment, the Ottawa Convention built upon or expanded many practices that already were being tried and tested in various forms by military, technical, and humanitarian experts. Subsequently there has been an impressive list of positive outcomes, some attributable to the Ottawa process, others a natural result of ongoing trends in warfare and post-conflict response. In many cases, the United States, while not a party to the Convention, has contributed directly and substantially to these positive outcomes because of our interest in reducing the humanitarian threat posed by such munitions, and because it was the right thing to do, not because of any particular provision of the Ottawa Convention.
The trade in landmines of all types has decreased dramatically in the past ten years. The laying of new mines is down, the number of mines coming out of the ground has increased, and tens of millions of mines held in stockpiles have been destroyed, accomplishments that are all in line with U.S. policy and practice. Since 1992, the United States has banned the sale and transfer of its anti-personnel landmines. Similarly, those major military powers, which are not members of the Ottawa Convention, have abided by their obligations under the Amended Mines Protocol of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which, along with the changing nature of warfare, has limited the laying of mines principally to dictatorial regimes, extremist insurgents, and narco-traffickers. In addition, the United States has concerted efforts underway to help countries destroy their surplus conventional weapons stockpiles, including landmine stockpiles, particularly in cases where such stockpiles might be subject to diversion for illicit purposes, or pose a safety threat to adjoining communities due to spontaneous detonation. These efforts seek to destroy all stockpile contents, not just selected types of munitions such as anti-personnel landmines.
Another aspect of the Ottawa Convention that is often positively cited is its call for those nations in a position to do so to provide assistance to survivors of landmine accidents. The USAID Leahy War Victims Fund has been helping landmine survivors and their families since its creation in 1989 when it started working in Afghanistan. Today it has supported programs in more than 40 countries and has spent over $143 million to expand access to affordable, appropriate prosthetics and orthotic services, and to advance the economic, social, and political integration of civilian war victims and people living with disabilities. These services are provided to all war victims, regardless of the type of munition causing the injury.
The Ottawa Convention has provided an opportunity for expanded citizen involvement, but this movement is not based just around the Convention. The United States government works actively and closely with more than sixty non-governmental organizations and citizens groups in its public-private partnership program, helping to expand awareness of this issue. Today, private U.S. citizens are contributing millions of dollars to mine action annually.
Most estimates indicate that somewhere between $3.0 and $4.0 billion dollars have been provided to humanitarian mine action efforts across the globe. It is important to acknowledge that the United States alone has provided over $1.2 billion of this amount, or roughly 1/3 of the world's total since 1993. Right now the United States provides over 100% more funding to mine action than the next largest single contributor. Clearly, there would be much less to celebrate today with respect to the accomplishments of mine action were it not for the sustained and substantial support of the United States. Given that mine victims are down to around 5,000 per year from 26,000 per year four years ago (something that all should celebrate), and assuming that victim rates are proportional to funds provided to mine clearance, the U.S. share of this decrease, 7,000, is greater than the current number of casualties. In other words, there would be at least twice as many mine victims today then there are currently, were it not for the efforts of the U.S.
This financial investment has increased national capacity and dramatically improved mine action efficiency, effectiveness, and safety in mine affected countries. Impact surveys, management training, enhanced information systems, and better demining techniques have come together to ensure that mine clearance is safer and more productive than it was ten years ago, while better targeted to achieve higher "returns" in terms of released land and reduced casualties. Almost all mine affected countries, at least those that want U.S. funding, now produce strategic plans that prioritize clearance efforts based upon humanitarian "impacts," thus ensuring that the most valuable land and most dangerous minefields are cleared first.
Proximate Goals – The U.S. Policy Position
The essence of United States landmine policy is that we retain the right to employ landmines to defend our men and women in uniform, and starting in 2010, we will have systems in place to ensure that the U.S. goal of no mine ever being left behind anywhere in the world where it might pose a threat to civilians is achieved. No other significant military power has made such a sweeping commitment for all types of landmines. Similarly, in 2005 the United States banned the use of non-detectable mines – regardless of whether they were anti-vehicle or anti-personnel. The United States recognized the post-conflict humanitarian impact these mines could have and acted accordingly. We urge other states to follow suit.
The United States, for its own national security and for humanitarian imperatives, seeks a world that is free from the humanitarian impact of landmines - - "mine-impact free." While the "mine free" terminology associated with the Ottawa Convention is viewed by many as inspirational and visionary, it is by definition "absolutist" and not grounded in practical realities. Attempting to achieve a "mine free" status will result in the ever expanding expenditure of resources to find and clear mines that have ever decreasing humanitarian impact. This is a losing proposition that will consume the budgets of every donor and mine-affected country, to declining effect. Given the finite resources of donor governments and the governments of mine-affected countries who must cope with other humanitarian challenges such as disease, poverty, food security, and other dire needs – we, the international community, can not afford the opportunity costs of trying to find the last "million dollar" landmine. Instead, such funds would be much better utilized addressing the far higher numbers of people who are killed every year from other issues found in post-conflict environments.
Instead of focusing on mines, the United States has directed its programmatic efforts toward people, attempting to develop and support programmatic responses based upon the analysis of the most pressing humanitarian impacts generated by all explosive remnants of war, not just landmines. We will not support programs that aim to clear the last landmine. But we will support well-run programs that address the most pressing needs first and have in place plans for a long-term, limited response mechanism to meet any emerging needs.
For example, in Costa Rica, Djibouti, Macedonia, and Namibia, all of which suffered from varying degrees of landmine infestation, people are safely getting on with their lives again, because those mines and explosive remnants of war that impacted them are gone. Does this mean that every single landmine in some remote piece of jungle in Costa Rica or uninhabited stretch of desert in Djibouti has been cleared? No. But both countries are now devoting their budgets and energies to other pressing issues, and they have the national capacity to deal with any remaining explosives that may be encountered.
Besides landmines, we must also contend with the other detritus of former conflicts, which are often precursors to new ones. Prominent among these is the problem of unauthorized access to surplus military-grade small arms and light weapons used to kill and maim hundreds of thousands of people each year, but which receive only a minor fraction of the funding devoted to clearing landmines.
Similarly, another looming humanitarian threat in many parts of the world is that of inadequately maintained and poorly secured munitions depots, abandoned ordnance, and unexploded ordnance of all types. In most post-conflict countries, more people now come to harm through interaction with unexploded ordnance of all types than through landmines. Poor maintenance and handling of stored munitions contributes to spontaneous explosions of catastrophic proportions. A case in point is Mozambique, which had 645 killed and injured when a munitions depot blew up outside the capital, Maputo, in March 2007. Contrast this with the 35 known landmine casualties in Mozambique for all of 2006.
Therefore, resources should be allocated in proportion to the threat. By this measure it is clear that global funding streams available to address the hazards of conventional munitions and weapons are not aligned with global needs. If the "market" for funding is allowed to operate efficiently, we should expect that in the coming years fewer funds will be going into mine action and more into the destruction of other illicit or unnecessary conventional munitions, unexploded ordnance, and small arms.
Facing the Future Problem
The United States is taking steps now to prepare for this future. In 2003, the budget for the U.S. Department of State's Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, which is but one part of the interagency U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action Program, was $62 million. Congressional authorities at that time limited these funds only to mine action and, less so, to the destruction of small arms and light weapons. In fiscal year 2008, the budget request for this Office is $121 million with expanded authorities to address larger conventional weapons and munitions.
The United States and indeed all others who have been involved in humanitarian mine action should step back and reflect together on the future. In doing so we should focus on the needs of communities and countries impacted by war. Approaches based on a specific weapon or munition are only useful up to a point, but can be detrimental to common goals if they result in a diversion or misallocation of resources away from larger problems. During this reflection process we need to ask ourselves: when has enough been spent on mine action? What residual capacities, if any, need to reside in a country once major mine clearance operations are no longer essential? And what steps can and should be taken to address the broader constellation of challenges posed by all illicit or unnecessary conventional munitions and weapons? Communities and nations impacted by the harmful residue of war; landmines, unexploded or abandoned ordnance, and small arms and light weapons, deserve that these questions be answered objectively and in a manner that best protects civilians, not from any one single munition, but from all of them.
Robin in Canada writes:
I am among the first of those to agree that the U.S. government has shown leadership by its funding of mine clearance and related programs. U.S. capability and follow-through has been at the top of the list.
Nonetheless, it is disingenuous for Mr. Kidd to argue that the same U.S. policy has been ahead of others, more "holistic" and less "absolutist" because it aims to capture all explosive debris, and not "just" APMs as advocates of the Ottawa Treaty are caricatured to be doing. Richard Kidd knows that NGOs and governments supporting the Ottawa Treaty are generally speaking in favor of as broad or an even broader clearance and prohibition net than just for APMs.
The key element of the Ottawa Treaty, however, was its prohibition against the production and use of all APMs, and at this point in time, the US still eschews that objective,
although is close to it in practice. One wonders if not joining the treaty is an issue of dogma now for US legislators, rather than intelligent or consistent policy.
It is a long shot to criticize the Ottawa Treaty because it doesn't capture anti-tank mines. That implies that US officials rejected "Ottawa" because it was too narrow a treaty. Everyone knows the US rejected it because it covered all anti-personnel mines, NOT because it didn't include anti-tank mines.
Mr. Kidd also knows that all clearance programs prioritize key areas for mine and UXO removal, and without the APM ban and campaign towards that end, there would have been little pressure on the US or anyone else (in or outside the treaty) to commit the resources towards clearance and to stop using mines completely or at least as they were used in the past.
Certainly U.S. funding has contributed a great deal to this humanitarian objective; similarly the cessation of use by the U.S. (except in Korea) is to be applauded.
Aldendeshe in Syria writes:
I would not waste my time reading this blog post. The title lent itself to the normal business of American and Diplomatic deception. Rather than milling out another worthless junk of papers at some convention that has 200 signatories that none will in fact abide by its terms, why not stop making or at least selling those APL.
Why ship Israel illegal cluster bombs that have been banned by a convention mill produced international treaty, why not punish Israel for dropping more than one million of these illegal bombs on South Lebanon, killing over a thousand children monthly.
The World in desperate need for more fascists leaders like Adolph Hitler(s) and less Diplomats like the Burns Rices.
Rae in U.K. writes:
That Richard Kidd feels the need to write this defense of the the U.S. position on land mines says it all really. His short essay here ranks with, but does not reach the same heights of ameropia,* as his recent address to the CCW on cluster munitions in which he chided the rest of the world for not being as generous as the U.S. in clearing U.S.-dropped UXO from Lao PDR. (While forgetting to add that these U.S. informal reparations in no way matched the actual amount needed to clear the remnants of illegally deployed U.S. ordnance in that country).
(* a form of tunnel vision which allows the sufferer only to see the world from a very narrow U.S. standpoint)
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The United States is taking steps now to prepare for this future. In 2003, the budget for the U.S. Department of State's Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, which is but one part of the interagency U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action Program, was $62 million.
Pete in Oregon writes:
I agree with Secretary Kidd's assessment for the most part. I do, however, have difficulty with the United States position on refusing to take part in the Ottawa Convention. In his third paragraph in the introduction, Secretary Kidd states that the simplicity of the Convention is its weakness. It ignores anti-vehicle mines for instance. That could be addressed by a country adhering to and signing the Convention, and going beyond it. By letting the other signers know that not only did the United States oppose anti-personnel land mines, but would work on their removal and the, in addition, the removal of other hazardous mines, this country would be going the extra mile in peaceful pursuits.
I actually think the case for this starting point of the Ottawa Convention, and going on beyond it, building on it, is made, obliquely by Mr. Kidd in the section "Celebrating Common Accomplishments". That is an important section in this treatise, and, in my idealistic view, makes the case for cooperation in the Ottawa Convention marketplace, and then carrying the effort even further. It is the practice of meeting, then exceeding the minimum. An analogy would be in our Constitution, which sets certain limits on government intrusion on individual rights. Each state in the U.S. is responsible for meeting those benchmarks, but many exceed them, making state Constitutions stricter on limiting individual behavior and rights.
My last comment has to do with the obscenity of the budget figures. In 2003, the figure for the mine removal program was $62 million. In 2008, the figure requested will be $121 million and that is still not enough. It is as if we are spending dimes on turning spears into plows and pruning hooks, and dollars on making those spears in the first place.


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Residence Hall Information
Each residence hall has a professional and student staff that is responsible for the general welfare of resident students. The staff also aids students in developing individual responsibility and growth in the living-learning environment.
All rooms are assigned for double occupancy, except for those specifically designated for Resident Assistants. Room assignments are made on a first-come, first-serve basis, with preference given to in-state applicants and students in good academic standing. Students on academic suspension at the end of the spring semester will forfeit the privilege of a reserved space in the residence halls.
Residence hall registration periods will be based on the academic calendar. Specific dates and hours will be included in information forwarded to prospective students by the Director of Residence Life. Rooms are furnished by the University with beds, study desks and chairs. Rooms are inspected periodically in accordance with the health and safety standards of the University.
Students must be enrolled at least full time (12 or more undergraduate credit hours or 9 graduate credit hours) per semester in order to live in the University Housing. Dropped courses or failure to attend class (no show) which result in less than full time hours, may result in cancelation of housing contract. The Office of Business and Finance will notify all students who are classified as part time in the residence halls. Students will be required to make necessary schedule adjustments or accounts will be adjusted accordingly.
Students are held responsible for their conduct and that of their guests. Damage to a room or its furnishings through carelessness or neglect is charged to the occupants.
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Business investment in the United States by both domestic and foreign firms is a major engine of economic growth and job creation. The United States attracts more foreign direct investment (FDI) than any other single country in the world. However, we face increasing competition for the jobs and industries of the future. As President Obama said this past summer: "Taking steps to ensure that we remain the destination of choice for investors around the world will help us win that competition and bring prosperity for the United States."
In recognition of the importance of this issue, Secretary Clinton earlier today hosted the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness to discuss the critical importance of the U.S. open investment policy and ways to increase inbound direct investment in the United States.
The statistics on inward investment demonstrate its vital role to our economy. For example:
• FDI supports more than 5.6 million American jobs, including over 2 million in manufacturing;
• The average salary of these jobs is 33 percent higher than the national average;
• Affiliates of global companies in the United States account for more than 18 percent of all U.S. exports;
• These affiliates invest in innovation in the United States spending over $40 billion each year on research and development.
FDI creates jobs and supports the economy. That is why the President is committed to ensuring that the United States continues to be the most attractive place for businesses to locate, invest, grow, and create jobs. This means using every tool and pushing every lever to show we are open to business and ensuring our institutions and polices continue to support and accommodate investment.
This past summer, the President launched SelectUSA, a government-wide initiative to attract and retain business investment. The program, housed in the Department of Commerce, aims to showcase the United States as the world's premier business location. SelectUSA provides easy access to federal-level programs and services related to business investment, complementing the efforts of our states. The State Department, through our 1,000 economic officers and 400 locally employed economic staff at embassies and consulates around the world, plus the 200 members of our Economic Bureau in Washington, play a vital role in contributing to this effort. They highlight the openness of America to foreign direct investment and direct potential foreign investors to SelectUSA so that they may connect with state and local governments to find suitable American destinations for their investments.
When I and other senior Administration officials travel, we always convey the same message to the business community: America is open for business.
The following are just a few examples of investments by global companies in the United States that contribute to our economy and create jobs:
• In late September a consortium of five global technology companies announced that they will be investing $4.4 billion in semiconductor research in upstate New York, which will create 2,500 high-tech jobs and 1,900 construction jobs. That consortium includes companies from the United States, South Korea, and Taiwan.
• Spanish companies are investing in green energy technology in the U.S. One company is building the world's largest solar plant Arizona, which will create hundreds of jobs -- many of them in construction. Another Spanish company, a leader in wind energy technology, employs over 900 people in the United States between its factories and wind technology center.
• Vestas, a Denmark-based provider of high-tech wind power systems, has invested nearly $1 billion in the United States since 2007 creating more than 1,000 highly skilled manufacturing jobs in Colorado.
• Toyota has invested $18 billion to date and employs almost 30,000 in the United States.
• Germany's Thyssen Krup has invested nearly $5 billion in a steel mill in Alabama, which employs about 2,700 workers. This is Germany's largest ever investment in the United States.
These are real investments, with real jobs. We will continue to make economic competitiveness a strategic priority throughout our government, and actively seek new investors. Foreign direct investment creates job, strengthens our economy, leads to new innovations -- all things that our country needs.
Anna in Washington, D.C. writes:
Jobs, jobs, jobs! That's what the American people want to see.
Ash in in the United Kingdom writes:
Hi Im Ash from uk and i wanted to say that all my friends in USA are looking for jobs!!!
Eric in New Mexico writes:
I think the average human would allow for the fact that we generally create our own problems and solutions.
The duality comes from the same source, and given the reality one creates for themselves; if one believes they have purpose, one is never without work.
Ergo; Love what you do...
...and go out and create a job for yourselves, I know I had to.
Megan K. in Pennsylvania writes:
My partner and I have raised over a billion dollars of private money from wall street investors that we are looking to lend out. We will lend to people/businesses that have losses on tax returns and are still good borrowers. We want to refinance commercial that mortgages do not want to. We have formed many partnerships with banks as their turn down lender. We are creating jobs and teaching them the business. We need much more support and would appreciate any help to expand this business that if done properly, could stimulate the economy.
John P. in Greece writes:
How America was build?
Plenty of charismatic people believed –through their hearts- the idea that we can create. And America did it and still does it!
Great spirits, inventors, geniuses, good businessmen and businesswomen used their brain in order to CREATE. But they had the dream to succeed and help their communities, workers and people.
And of course, we always had the best workers in the world. Working people who respected and still respect what they "manufacture†in order to sell good products and services, keep their clients satisfied, have a good life and enjoy 'the American dreamâ€; actually a global idea if you analyze the "termâ€.
And still U.S.A. has the best products in the world. The spirit is still alive!
Unfortunately, I don't live there, but I watch the news. According to what I see, the Obama Administration has made very good steps towards the unemployment index. And you are not the only country suffering from this. Other countries –like mine- have to face a double digit of this global phenomenon.
I know that plenty of our readers who are unemployed will not be very satisfied with my views.
Unfortunately, however, politics is not a Saint. You cannot use miracles to change things in one day.
But you can always THINK, CREATE and PRODUCE.
The magic filter is the spirit!
Keep the spirit alive and jobs will be created, like a miracle…
Rudramani in Nepal writes:
These are real investments, with real jobs. We will continue to make economic competitiveness a strategic priority throughout our government, and actively seek new investors. Foreign direct investment creates job, strength.


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This module covers pavement design and subgrade concepts as they relate to materials and construction. It does not provide sufficient detail to actually design or evaluate a design. It covers the primary goal of pavement design, which is to provide a pavement with the following characteristics: safe, long lasting, cost effective, low maintenance, and constructible.
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Quist has business experience, will hold, reduce spending
To the editor:
In the upcoming special election for Minnesota State House District 19A, I am looking for a representative who will hold the line on spending in St. Paul and ensure our hard-earned tax dollars are put to the best use. That individual is Allen Quist.
As a small businessman and family farmer, Allen Quist understands the importance of a dollar. Quist believes that the Democrats and Mark Dayton's proposal of creating a new tax on services and clothing only serves to hurt the average middleclass Minnesotan. Rather than having to pay taxes on getting my hair cut or purchasing school clothes for my children, Quist understands the long-term solution to Minnesota's budget is to reduce and manage spending.
Minnesota is in desperate need of a legislator who not only understands the importance of a hard work ethic, but also has real-world financial experience. Allen Quist fits the bill on both accounts. On Tuesday, Feb. 12, please join me in sending Allen Quist to St. Paul to fight the Democratic monopoly and ensure our hard-earned dollars stay in our wallets.
Sean T. Fenske
North Mankato


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Topiary Garden
480 E. Town St., Downtown
Web: topiarygarden.org
Whether you're a longtime resident or a recent transplant, chances are you're already hip to Downtown's Topiary Garden. Known primarily as the world's only existing topiary interpretation of Georges Seurat's "A Sunday on the Island Of La Grande Jatte," the Topiary Garden/Deaf School Park (as it's officially known) is certainly surreal. Located in the Discovery District at the intersection of Town and Washington, the nine-acre park's main attraction isn't its only draw. Don't forget the (rather large) goldfish-filled pond, the strategically placed "Jatte" viewing sites, outdoor concerts and the occasional soccer game.
Runners-up: CCAD, Dublin's Field of Corn


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Lily Dyu's Run Across England
Following in Wainwright's footsteps through the best of England's trail- and fell-running country
Editor's Note: This is the third installment of a mini-series on trailrunnermag.com about women running multi-day adventures on the trails. See part I, a Q&A with Jo Meek, or part II, a Q&A with Christine Hägglund.
"Are you the girl running across England?" was a question I heard many times.
In cozy pubs, sipping a pint after the day's exertions, and at breakfast tables over heaped plates of "full English," walkers recognized me as the woman who had jogged past them. It wasn't difficult to organize a multi-day run of the 190-mile route crossing the country, yet runners were a rarity, generating curiosity and amusement.
Over 10 days last summer I finally ran the classic pilgrimage route that I had long wished to add to my "trail running CV." Carrying just a light pack, I used one of the many walking companies to move my bags, and to transfer me to the start and from the end, having left my car in charming Kirkby Stephen, roughly mid-way.


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SE's Harvey shines as an 8th grader
Even before beginning her high school academic career, Maggie Harvey will have a state softball experience under her belt.
Harvey and sixth-ranked (Class 2A) St. Edmond will take on Ridge View Monday night in a quarterfinal at Rogers Park.
The eighth-grader came into her own as the season rolled along, leading the Gaels (26-8 overall) with four home runs. She batted .495 with 20 RBI, 15 steals, nine doubles and four triples.
Oh, and she played one of the more difficult positions on the diamond – catcher.
Despite all the accolades that came with her pre-high school success, Harvey wasn't exactly confident she would suit up at the varsity level this summer.
"I didn't think I would be playing at all this year," Harvey admitted. "I worked really hard. Everything kind of came back to me like when I was starting (AAU with) Pride when I was nine.
"I got here and am actually really proud of myself because in the winter, I had no real hope (of playing varsity)."
Harvey, who comes from an athletic family, gave plenty of credit to SEHS head coach Paul Hunt for her rapid development.
"Coach Hunt pushed, and pushed, and pushed me," she said. "When I came in (during the winter), you would have thought I never played softball before my whole entire life.
"But around late-January, it started clicking that I could do this. I always thought if I am going to do this, I have to work harder than I did the last practice."
Harvey also had a veteran looking down the pipe at her in senior pitcher Katie Donnelly. The backstop stated that "Katie builds me."
"She is my calming influence. When I get down or upset, she is there to motivate me because I can't let her down."


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Spunky Cut, Shorter in the Back Longer Bangs Pushed Forward
This funky and chic style is very short at back with the hair longer on the top. The hair is brushed forward towards the front with a long uneven fringe styled onto the forehead.The hair is cut short.This hair colour is is brownish red.
HOB SALONS Hair: DARREN BAIN Makeup: Jo Frost/Barrie Griffith Photography: John Rawson


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Conservation Status
In the central Chaco regions intensive hunting has resulted in a local decline. In Venezuela habitat destruction and illegal hunting may pose a threat, especially around settled areas.
In the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Community Reserve of the Peruvian Amazon the gray brocket is one of the focal species in a community based wildlife management initiative. (IUCN, 2002)


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Whats your favorite album, concert, song, Etc.
Album for me: US or Secret World Live
Concert: POV tour
Song: Steam or Burn You Up, Burn You Down.
What about you???
Moderator: Mike
ANGRY wrote:omigosh ! where to begin...1st...favorite album....very tough but i would not at all be cheating to say it would be a dead heat tie between "So", "Us" and "Up", which i see as kind of a trilogy (actually hope he continues this long tale) and PG (1), followed very, very closely by PG (3) and (4): he seems to be at his songwriting best when he is working out some personal demons and these albums are littered with songs that are about as personal as any i've seen by anyone, anytime.
favorite live album has to be Plays Live..it's the only era i saw him in live, just before 'so' hit and just after. and it's when i got turned onto his solo stuff...i still play that set as much as anything.
song...again, too hard...solsbury hill, waiting for the big one, here comes the flood, family snapshot, not one of us, biko, the family and the fishing net (anyone get the impression he's got relationship problems....galore !?!), don't give up, mercy street, we do what we're told, come talk to me, washing of the water, digging in the dirt (aren't thuse two great back to back ?), secret world, shaking the tree, darkness, i grieve, signal to noise...
can't wait for a new set...has anyone bought that double, white cover set, put out last year or so, looks like another repackaged hits, but with several extra songs...it's pricey, but is it worth it if i have most of the tracks ?
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reported last week that about two dozen official Android market applications were infected with a particularly malicious identity-stealing virus. It turns out that about 58 apps in total had been downloaded, affecting approximately 260,000 phones. To combat the virus, Google has activated an Android kill switch which can remotely delete all malware. Unlike previous applications of this kill switch, this time Google is going a step further and actually installing a new app (called the "Android Market Security Tool March 2011") to the infected phones.
"That app, which will be installed automatically no later than Tuesday on all Android phones whose owners had downloaded one or more of the malicious apps, prevents attackers from accessing any additional information by undoing the root access the malware obtained by exploiting vulnerabilities," writes Gregg Keizer for Computerworld.
While the search engine giant has its cutomers' best interests at heart, it does beg some skepticism and worry as to how much power they actually have over our personal phones. (Via Engadget and Computerworld) / (Image by Miki Toshihito, licensed under Creative Commons)Read More →


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What a Great Idea! Public Relations and the Marketing of Innovation
October 3, 2012
This article from the Council of PR Firms looks at the role that public relations can play in launching new products.
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