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i guess i too am a pinko, commie bastard. from silvergoldsilver.com...
"There were a few gentlemen on the panel, Banksters or Vampires I call them. Men who spend their days hoarding wealth for which they are lauded, even though they have so much money (and bad karma) that barring a huge meltdown they will undoubtedly die with enough money to save a municipal school board. This money will be handed down to family members, and to mistresses no doubt, and nothing reminiscent of public good will come out of it.
But wait... Am I suggesting that wealth hoarders give up some money??? Holy crap, I must be a communist, at least a socialist, also I probably hate freedom. I am a communist because I believe in community. I am a socialist because I believe in society. I do hate freedom, that is to say, I hate monetary acquisition masquerading as freedom while at the same time someone false into debt slavery.
I am also a capitalist, as I do believe that there will be "haves" and "have-nots" in life, and people who work harder than others, therefore I believe in merit and the rewards that follow. However, I also believe that we are all here due to essentially a biological coincidence. Some of us were lucky to come out of the womb on a piece of dirt that isn't a horrible place to live, while others were not."
read the whole article here... http://www.silvergoldsilver.com/entry/guest-post-pessimist-or-optimist
where are you Randian teabaggers!
Nearly 60 prominent theologians, priests, nuns and national Catholic social justice leaders released a statement today refuting Rep. Paul Ryan's claim that his GOP budget proposal reflects Catholic teaching on care for the poor, which he made in an interview earlier this week with the Christian Broadcasting Network. The group of Catholic leaders — including a former high-ranking U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops official, a priest in Rep. Ryan's district and the leadership team of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas — called on Ryan to "reconsider his radical budget proposal and refrain from distorting Church teaching."
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Hi Everyone, The http:ooo-site.apache.org version of www.openoffice.org is ready for review before migration. There are several last issues for people to review. (1) What news stories should we have on ooo-site.apache.org ready for migration on /index.html? (2) /mail_lists.html needs review and/or redirection to the podling site. Please help. The email subscribes, unsubscribes and links have been updated for: ooo-users for email@example.com ooo-dev for dev@*oo.o and firstname.lastname@example.com ooo-announce for email@example.com ooo-marketing for email@example.com ooo-utenti for email@example.com (is this correct? it should be ooo-utenti-il...) Other @openoffice.org addresses will continue to function. That is a different migration for another discussion. (3) /about/index.html and related need review and editing to fit the realities of being at the ASF. Please help. (4) http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/get-involved.html needs review - it is where users will go. Please help tell the AOO projects story! (5) What do we do about email archives of openoffice.org? The archives are accessed through servlets on Kenai. These will become 404s when we change the DNS. Are the archives available elsewhere? GMane. These links are all over. (6) We will be changing references to Projects and Project Leaders to Teams and Team Leaders (thanks Kay for the idea! it's not perfect..). It is a question for the project about what to do with the "Team Leader" category and the name. There is probably consensus to eliminate "Leaders". I do think it is worth retaining this information until it is determined if the individuals mentioned contribute to the AOO(i) project. We can play with this after migration, but it would be good to be consistent for the start. (7) What else? I am expecting that @openoffice.org email aliases will not be disabled by migrating the OpenOffice.org site to the ASF. All other issues are minor and can wait, at least that is my opinion. Yours may differ! Native Language versions of the top navigation and adjustments to those rules can wait. There are choices, but migrating is more important! Best Regards, Dave
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This longtime favorite has an oversized wand and superdark formula to give you ultra dramatic lashes. The famously big, bodacious brush coats lashes with the ultra-black formula, creating volume and thickness.
I am new to the Benefit brand and the only thing I wish I'd done differently was buy it sooner. The mascara makes my lashes look as if they're actually extensions. The staying power is unmatched by anything I've ever used. I literally have to soak a cotton ball in oil and let it sit on my lashes for a few moments before scrubbing it off. Will definitely purchase again and again!5


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how long does it usually take for a puppy's eyes to change color?
My Catahoula / Bordeaux puppy has the most stunning baby blue eyes. I am thinking her eyes may change to a light almond yellow color. But her eyes seem to be getting lighter and lighter blue. At what age do puppies eyes change to their permanent color?
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You should be able to tell from a very young age whether a pup's eyes will stay blue into adulthood- they are much brighter and bluer than normal puppy blue eyes, (which are destined to turn brown or amber, and have kind of a "hazy" grey-blue color.) By 6 weeks they should be less blue, more green, or flecked with yellow or brown, and will continue to darken for a few more weeks. I think by about 4 months the color is as dark as it will get.
All very young puppies have blue eyes, which is why I'm amused (and a little ticked-off) when I see puppy ads saying "gorgeous baby blue eyes!" or some such, in breeds that seldom have blue-eyed adults. It's obvious (to me) that those blue eyes won't last long.
My guess is your girl will have yellow/amber eyes, that's typical for red/liver dogs (which she is.)
Bruno CGC answered on 2/1/12. Helpful? / 0
My Molly's eyes were blue at the start, then changed to nice green and finally ended up as light brown (I guess it's called hazel?)I'd say when she was about 2-2,5 months.
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My friend and I got catahoula/Pitt mix littermates. The mother was unhealthy and didn't make it after the pregnancy so I ended up bringing my boy home at 4 weeks and she brought hers hem at 5 weeks. My boy had the puppy blue eyes that all dogs have so I new they would change his brother had the ice blue eyes that are so common with catahoulas. Now at just over 3 months old my boy has one brown eye and one hazel eye. His brother has one solid blue eye and one eye that is half brown and half blue. I talked to the owner of the parents (a friend of mine) she has owned catahoulas her whole life and she told me that she has seen dogs that have eyes that continued to change well into adulthood.
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You are standing in the water watching a large wave approach. You get ready to dive. The wave rises up and just as it begins to roll over on itself you plunge into the wall of water. The churning water tumbles your body and you soon stand up saying, "That was awesome. Gee, I wonder how waves form."
OK. So the 'gee' part you'd never say, but it's a good lead-in to today's topic.
A wave has a crest or top, trough or bottom, length or the distance between two crests or troughs, and height or the distance from trough to crest. (Drawing 1). The time it takes for a two successive crests to pass a given point is known as the wave's period . There are different types of waves including wind-generated waves, catastrophic waves, and standing waves. Just about anyone who has seen the ocean (or a lake) is familiar with wind-generated waves. These waves are the result of wind energy being transferred to the water's surface. When wind moves across the surface of the ocean the wind sort of pushes and lifts the water. This action causes the formation of a sea wave . Sea waves, which are most directly affected by the wind, are the first stage in wind-generated waves. Such waves have no uniform pattern. The waves have different heights and periods. They move in different directions, but travel, more or less, away from the area in which they were first formed. This area is called the storm region and as these waves travel away from this area they become more and more uniform in height, period, and velocity. The period depends on three things: wind velocity, how long the wind is blowing, and the wind's fetch or distance over which the wind travels. Wave height and length generally increase due to wind velocity and duration. Fetch also affects a wave's wavelength. When the fetch is large, the wavelength is longer. As the sea waves travel they form a regular pattern of waves, which is the second stage of wind-generated waves known as swell . As the waves in the swell advance, the length of the waves remains the same, but their height increases.
Once a wave reaches the continental shelf and approaches the shoreline, a number of changes occur.
The most obvious change is when the wave shoals or breaks— where the wave falls over on itself. Shoaling occurs when the wave enters shallow water and its velocity and length decreases. This decrease in speed and length is due to friction between the wave's trough and the bottom sand where the circular motion of the wave's bottom is distorted.
As a wave slows down each successive wave behind does the same and tends to pile up on the one in front. As the wave travels up onto the beach it will reach a point where the depth of the water is about one-half the height of the wave. This is the site at which it will break.
As each wave enters the same position, they will break too. The shoaling of waves on the beach is called the surf, the third and most familiar stage of all wind-generated waves.
For surfers the slope of the shore is everything. When the slope is just right, waves will tend to break slowly and travel up the shore for a good distance. Also the height of the wave will contribute to a good ride. The higher the wave, the bigger is the 'tunnel' in which surfers do their thing.
So, what exactly is a wave? We see what appears to be rough or gently moving water depending on the wind's energy in creating the waves.
But what happens when a wave forms? In deep water the waveform (you know, crests, troughs, etc.) is advancing, but the water itself moves very little. Why? Well, the individual particles of water in a wave move in a circular pattern (Drawing 2).
The circles that the particles form at the surface have large diameters and the particles move very fast. As we get deeper in the water, the diameters get smaller, and the particles' speed decreases. So because water particles in a wave move in circular patterns it is actually the waveform itself that is moving forward, not the water. That's why you may see a floating object bobbing up and down in a rough sea, but it doesn't move forward.
Try this: the next time you take a bath place your rubber ducky, toy boat, or whatever in the water. Sit very still and with your open hand gently push water toward the object. Watch it bob up and down, but not really move away from you as fast as you might expect.
Waves entering shallow water at an angle to the beach or meeting irregular changes on the shore's bottom will change direction. This change in direction is known as refraction . Refraction occurs because one part of the wave reaches the shallow water before the rest of the wave. This first contact causes the wave to slow down and the entire wave turns, changing direction toward the beach.
After the wave breaks some water, called backwash , returns to the ocean along the bottom of the surf zone. Water also moves along the beach because of the angular approach of incoming waves. When this current of water or longshore current increases and overcomes the water flowing seaward a rip current is the result (Drawing 3).
During severe storms such as hurricanes, high winds push large amounts of water toward the shore creating catastrophic waves. The water gradually piles up and moves up the beach. This is a storm surge and, if the waves are high enough, may result in loss of life and property.
Storm surges that occur during high tides are the most dangerous. Another catastrophic wave is the tsunami (tsu-NAH-me) or seismic sea wave , which is incorrectly called a tidal wave. Such waves may be the result of a disturbance on the ocean bottom such as an earthquake, massive landslide, or some volcanic island that blew itself up when it burped.
Because of the ocean's depth, tsunamis are not very noticeable on the open ocean; being no different from any other wave except for the fact that the wave's length may reach 300 miles. A tsunami has been known to travel over 7,000 miles! And to make matters worse, the speed of such waves can reach 500 miles per hour.
So the next time you are basking in the sun on our beautiful Rockaway beaches and you see the surf begin to move away from the shore exposing the bottom mud, don't stop to admire the clams, flopping fish, seastars, etc., which have now been exposed. It would be to your advantage to make a dash for the Queens landmass—if you can run, swim, or drive fast enough.
If you use the bridges, perhaps you should not stop for the tolls! Not to worry, however, since there is an international warning system in place to warn coastlines of any tsunami danger.
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Jenny Lee and Patrick Magee showcased their talents on the final day of the Return to Keystone Classic earlier this week, helping the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club sweep the slopestyle events.
"It was a really good day for our team," coach Tony Lodico said. "Both Pat and Jenny had been skiing really well, so we had some high hopes. But it's always kind of surprising when your skiers win both events."
Lee won both of the women's events, Dec. 19 in Keystone. She netted 67.6 points on her first run to beat Whitney Wicks and Hannah Smith. Lee also dominated the second event. She collected 55.6 points on her run to move past Smith, who finished in second with 42.4, and Wickes, who finished third with 24.2.
On the men's side, Magee skied past Patrick Baskins in the first event with a 720 mute grab, 180 double grab and a switch 9 mute grab that earned him 83.8 points.
Baskins was second, at 81.4 points, and Walter Wood finished third with a score of 80.2. Things were much closer on the second run, however. Magee won a tiebreaker with Wood after both skiers finished with scores of 83.8, Dustin Diller finished third, at 82.8.
Steamboat's Jonas Seiler also had a good showing in his first USSA event. He placed 15th in the first event and 20th in the second event.
The top slopestyle results came on the heel of an impressive showing by the Winter Sports Club on the mogul course.
On Saturday, Karinya Turnbull finished fifth in the women's open moguls. Heidi Kloser won the event with Lauren Rainen in second. Other top Steamboat finishes included Jessica Mader in 10th, Camille Bucci in 14th and Sierra Weir in 16th.
Kloser won a second mogul event Sunday. Top Steamboat finishers included Sierra Weir in eighth and Jessica Mader in ninth.
The men also competed in the bumps at Keystone.
John Eaton topped the first event followed closely by Kevin Hanian. Steamboat's Ryan Dyer was the top Winter Sports Club skier in the event in seventh place. He was the top J3 skier (13-14) in the event. Other Winter Sports Club skiers included Morgan Allen in 20th, Luke Kamieniecki in 25th, Dalton Lee in 32nd, Colton Harding in 33rd and Jesse Kamieniecki in 43rd.
Hanian won the second men's mogul event of the week followed by first-round winner John Eaton.
Steamboat's Luke Kam--ien--iecki just missed the podium, placing fourth. Dyer was 10th, Lee was 12th, Allen was 19th, Harding was 28th, and Jesse Kamieniecki was 35th.
"A lot of the skiers we took to these events were younger," said freestyle program director Eric Skinner. "We were very happy with the way these young athletes skied."
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The following organizations are good resources for information on scoliosis:
- American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons -- orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00626
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases -- www.niams.nih.gov/Health_Info/Scoliosis/default.asp
- Scoliosis Research Society -- www.srs.org
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Review Date 11/9/2014
Updated by: Jennifer K. Mannheim, ARNP, Medical Staff, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Isla Ogilvie, PhD, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.


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FDA to hold public meetings on DTC
Notice of the meeting was posted in the Federal Register on Sept. 13.
"FDA is interested in hearing whether the indication of a drug or device can be effectively communicated to a lay audience under the confines of DTC promotion," the public notice read. "FDA is also specifically interested in whether paying greater attention to the educational component of an advertisement would help consumers better understand the role drug and device therapy may play in treating the disease."
The agency is also expected to seek comment on whether free samples, coupons and money-back guarantees are promoting undue influence over consumers.


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Changing the look of your Search Result Pages
I love Google, I seriously do. What I don't like too much is them adding more and more fluff to my search result pages (or SERPs) that I really don't want or need. Most of us know about their new Terms of Service now, right? No reason to show me that box all the bloody time.
I also hate the suggested person box. I understand I could (and probably do) drive traffic through that, but I don't need it. And I hate their new ad sitelinks even more. The first organic result is almost below the fold now…
Luckily, this is all easily fixed. Most browsers support a feature that's called a user stylesheets. This is a CSS file on your computer that is applied to each page you're looking at, on top of that page's stylesheets. The location is different for each browser / operating system combination, so you might need to Google a bit if you're not using Chrome, for which I've listed them below:
- Chrome on Mac:
~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/User\ StyleSheets/Custom.css
- Chrome on PC:
C://Users/Username/AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User StyleSheets/custom.css
This article (while a bit old) seems to have good ways of making a user stylesheet for other browsers.
User styles to hide ads, TOS warnings and suggested persons
So with this small addition to that stylesheet, you can hide the specific sections you don't like:
/* Hide the Ads */ #tads, #mbEnd, #bottomads { display: none; } /* Hide the suggested person box */ #rhs_block { display: none; } /* Hide the TOS warning nonsense */ #bb_pp_tos_ack { display: none; }
Now my search result pages are nice and clean again, gotta love it.


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Prepaid solutions from Prepaid Financial Services (PFS) are helping Local Authorities and councils meet the challenges posed by the abolition of the discretionary social fund and its impact on Crisis Loans and Community Care Grant payments, as outlined in the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
From April 2013, the Department of Work and Pensions will be handing over the responsibility of making Crisis Payment and Community Grants to Local Authorities. This follows the changes implemented via the Welfare Reform Act 2012 which abolished the discretionary Social Fund and introduced payments on account to replace Crisis Loan alignment payments and eventually Budgeting Loans as well, and paves the way for delivery of new local services to replace Community Care Grants and Crisis Loans for general living expenses.
The funding is not "ring-fenced" for any purpose, but the Government has advised Local Authorities what it expects the funding to be used for, the underlying principles, and the new initiatives are expected to deliver a range of positive impacts; providing a more responsive and integrated service for local residents.
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Summary of reforms as per Welfare Reforms Act 2012
|Current Provision
|Provision from April 2013
|Administration in GB from 2013
|Cold Weather Payments
|As now. Universal Credit will become a qualifying benefit.
|Funeral Payments
|As now. Universal Credit will become a qualifying benefit.
|Sure Start Maternity Grants
|As now. Universal Credit will become a qualifying benefit.
|Winter Fuel Payments
|As now.
|Budgeting Loans
|As now for existing income-related benefits. Budgeting Advances available to eligible Universal Credit recipients.
|Community Care Grants
|Abolished. Replaced with locally-based provision.
|English local authorities. Devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales.
|Crisis Loan Alignment Payments
|Replaced with Short Term Advances. The new system will also replace interim.
|Crisis Loans for general living expenses
|Abolished. Replaced with locally-based provision.
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Hog futures rallied to the highest price since July on speculation that cold weather is disrupting the movement of animals. Cattle were little changed.
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"Moving livestock is challenging" in frigid weather, Lawrence Kane, a market adviser at Stewart-Peterson Group, said in a telephone interview from Yates City, Illinois. "The logistics just get that much tougher when it's cold."
Hog futures for April settlement rose 1.3 percent to 89.125 cents a pound at 9:53 a.m. on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, heading for the biggest gain since Dec. 19. Earlier, the price reached 89.5 cents, the highest for a most-active contract since July 9.
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Almost as soon as you become engaged, people come out of the woodwork offering to host parties on your behalf. Here's a brief primer on the three most popular pre-wedding events: the engagement party, the wedding shower, and the bridal luncheon.
Engagement Party:
Traditionally, the bride's family or a close friend will host a party to officially announce the coupleâs engagement. The engagement party is the perfect time for the families of the bride and groom to meet and launch the wedding season for the couple. It's typically held in the bride's hometown. If the bride's family does not intend to host an engagement party, it is perfectly acceptable for the groom's family to throw one.
Wedding Showers:
Wedding engagements are such happy events, everyone wants to take part. In fact, you may be so fortunate as to receive several offers to host your wedding shower. The good news is that a couple may attend as many showers as they like. For example, if you are from different hometowns, you may want to celebrate with a shower in each location. Co-workers may organize another at work, and the list goes on.
Though someone other than you will act as the host, you still need to be involved in the planning, especially if you are attending multiple showers. That requires a little guest-list management on your part. Outside of immediate family and the wedding party, try to ensure that each guest is invited to no more than one shower. Guests often will bring gifts to both the shower and the wedding. Inviting them to more than one shower can become financially overwhelming.
Showers are held anywhere from three to six months prior to the wedding date. In the past, showers were ladies-only events serving tea and petit fours to women and girls adorned in their Sunday best. Times have changed, and so have showers. Some showers remain ladies-only, but the emerging trend of the couple's shower has brought a new level of fun and creativity to the event.
Many times a wedding shower will have a theme, identified to meet specific gifting needs of the couple. A theme makes the shower fun for both the couple and their guests.
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- Time of day: Guests are assigned a specific hour of the day. Their gifts are appropriate symbols of things the couple might do during that time of day.
- Stock the Bar: Need I say more?
- Night on the Town: Guests bring gift certificates or tickets to specific places around the couple's hometown. Gifts can range from restaurant gift certificates to theater tickets.
- Lawn and Garden: Guests bring gifts to support activities done in the yard. Gifts range from shovels and hoses to grills and lawn mowers.
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A bridal luncheon is a small gathering of the bridal party and close family members the day before or the day of the wedding. Hosted by the maid of honor or the bride's family, the event serves as a thank-you to the bridal party for participating in the wedding. It's also an intimate send-off for the bride as she approaches her wedding hour. The luncheon can range from a formal lunch in a fine restaurant to a drop-in brunch served in the bridal suite or the bride's parent's home
If you choose to have a bridal luncheon, you'll find it the perfect opportunity to say a few warm words to your closest friends and family about what their participation in your wedding has meant to you.
No matter how many or few, how formal or informal, these parties are designed for family and friends to celebrate the soon-to-be union between the couple and the two families. Staying organized can ease the planning process for those generous hosts. Staying flexible helps too, as hosts may have different levels of experience and ideas about how to put on this kind of party. Your part is to relax and enjoy your engagement and the warm wishes of all those who want to help you celebrate it.


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Dutilleux has said that he wants to add a fourth song to this relatively short piece, a drinking song. He may be right, though I'm not sure I want to hear anything after the poignant fade-out. Rather than appearing on stage, the 91-year-old composer approached the performers from the center aisle and accepted the warm reception from there.
The other day, I received from Deutsche Grammophon a CD of Osvaldo Golijov's soundtrack music for the new Francis Ford Coppola film, Youth Without Youth. It's a soupy, saccharine, derivative score, an imitation of the kind of hyper-Romantic, post- (and pseudo-) Mahlerian movie music that doesn't make me want to see the movie. What sounds like a scratchy record of an old pre–World War II song by the Italian songwriting team Vittorio Mascheroni and Giuseppe Mendes seems the one genuine moment. That evening, at the BSO concert, I heard, though on a more sophisticated level, more of the same: two Golijov pieces for cello — well, not just cello, but Yo-Yo Ma — and orchestra.
I've liked some of Golijov's earlier music, and I was quite taken by the first movement of Ausencia ("Absence"), for Ma and strings. This is a substantial cello solo, originally composed in 1991 as Omaramor (named after a Tanglewood Fellowship given in memory of the exiled Argentine playwright Omar del Carlo) and using, in Golijov's words, "the transfigured harmonies of [Carlos] Gardel's 'Mi Buenos Aires querido,' lying like stones over which the water of the cello's stream is running." It begins with a mortal groan and becomes increasingly animated, turning into Golijov's version of a Bach solo cello suite with Baroque dance rhythms, occasional strumming, and a dramatic dying glissando. Gardel's popular '30s tune remains intricately woven into the texture. Ma was mesmerizing.
Then, without a break, the strings come in for the second movement, Death of the Angels, part of another previous work, Golijov's response to learning that tango master Astor Piazzolla had suffered a stroke. The Gardel song returns, but more overtly and, as the title suggests, more soulfully, more conventionally dripping with sobbing, throbbing nostalgia.
Ausencia was followed by Azul ("Blue"), a concerto-like piece for amplified cello, "hyperaccordion" (invented and played superlatively by Michael Ward-Bergeman), and percussion, with full orchestra, in four movements plus two codas. Also reworked from a piece conceived for Tanglewood, it's flamboyant even indoors (miles away from Dutilleux's sonic refinement), with striking passages, like the second-movement ("Silencio") slow duet for cello and accordion, but also with gimmicky birdcalls, splashing waves, vocal outcries, a Middle Eastern dance in (I think) the fourth movement, "Yrushalem" (the movements run together and I wasn't sure where some of them began), and what sounds like a spaceship disappearing into the blue. There's a big sloshy trombone solo, a corny cello anthem, and a climactic explosion for cello and brass that could be a soundtrack behind the film cliché of lovers rushing at each other in slow motion. I found all this sentimental and manipulative, with little genuine musical inventiveness. But the audience went wild. I guess Golijov is giving people what they want.
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Pharmacy Automation Devices Market Size, Share, Growth & Worldwide To 2020: Grand View Research
The Global Pharmacy Automation Devices Market is expected to reach USD 8,996.8 million by 2020, growing at an estimated CAGR of 7.3% from 2014 to 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Pharmacy automation devices such as medication dispensing system, packaging and labeling systems, storage and retrieval systems, compounding systems and table-top counters are used to increase efficiency of work within pharmacies. These devices are used to enhance productivity, system integration, lowering of medication errors, and provide additional time to pharmacists and clinicians for patient care. Rise in demand for pharmaceutical products, technological advancement, and precise robotic tools to carry out pharmacy operations are some of the key drivers contributing towards the growth of this market. In addition, presence of untapped growth opportunities in emerging markets such as India, Brazil and China and increasing need for automation in pharmacy and healthcare operations are expected to serve this market as future growth opportunities.
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- Automated medication dispensing systems dominated the pharmacy automation devices market in terms of share at 47.8% in 2013, due to increasing demand for accurate medication dispensing systems. The ability of these devices to significantly reduce error rates is expected to boost product demand.
- Automated compounding systems are expected to grow at the fastest CAGR of 8.4% during the forecast period owing to increasing demand for accurate mixing of medication and significant reduction in overall time taken to complete a dose.
- North America was the largest regional market in 2013, accounting for 54.8% of the revenue. Presence of high market penetration rates of healthcare IT systems in pharmacies and healthcare establishments, high healthcare expenditure and R&D pertaining to pharmacy automation devices are some of the factors accounting for its large market share.
- Asia Pacific is expected to be the most attractive regional market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of over 9.0% during the forecast period, majorly owing to rapidly improving healthcare infrastructure in emerging markets of India and China. Introduction of healthcare reforms in these countries and the consequent entry of multinational pharmaceutical companies and distributors in this region are expected to drive market growth.
- Key industry participants of this market include AmerisourceBergen Corporation, Accu Chart Healthcare, CareFusion Corporation, ForHealth Technologies, Fulcrum Inc, GSE Scale Systems, McKesson Corporation, Pearson Medical Technologies, Innovation PharmaAssist Robotics, Health Robotics SRL, Medacist, Kirby Lester, Pyxis Pharmacy Automation Systems, MedDispence, MTS Medication Technologies, Rice Lake Weighing Systems, Cerner Corporation, Omnicell Inc, Aesynt Inc., Parat Systems Pharmacy Automation, ScriptPro LLC, Baxter International Inc., Swisslog Holding Ltd, ScriptPro LLC, Yuyama Co., Ltd, and Talyst Inc.
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Paper-thin cellphones, ultra endurance batteries and tablet computers you can roll up and put in your pocket - the secret to such developments can be found in the common classroom pencil.
With commercial applications of "graphene" expected to be realised this year, the stretch and flexibility of the super substance seems to be exceeded only by the imaginations of scientists exploring its potential.
What it could mean for technology - be it engineering, electronics or biomedicine - was duly recognised with Nobel Prizes in physics for the two University of Manchester researchers who unlocked its properties.
Scientists have used graphene to make the world's smallest transistor, a small device for ultra-dense data storage, graphene-powered clothes than can charge electrical devices and flexible touchscreen electronics.
Victoria University Professor Uli Zuelicke, who has been contributing to the research, imagined technology so smart that it could send a help signal when it began to wear or corrode.
Graphene was discovered when it was found layers of graphite could be stripped away to a single, atom-thick layer, that also turned out to be the thinnest and sturdiest material ever measured.
Three million sheets of graphene would be 1mm thick, but that can support 50,000 times its own weight and spring back into shape like elastic after being compressed.
Graphene's true beauty is its potential for conducting electronics, which could be used for computer microelectronics, ultimately replacing idium tin oxide, the expensive and brittle substance currently used to make transparent electronics.
Some have suggested graphene could replace silicon, but Professor Zuelicke says this is unlikely.
He has been investigating ways to mathematically model the properties of electrons in graphene with the ultimate goal of finding out how to predict and influence their motion - something that would prove vital if it is used for cellphones and laptops.
"What you find is that the particles that carry the current are strange and have all sorts of properties," he told the Herald.
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There were sceptics who doubted the uses of graphene, but most people agree that having a transparent conductor as cheap as graphene should be a breakthrough, Professor Zuelicke said.
He expected to see the first products as early as this year.
"You wouldn't have a rigid iPad - you could, in principle, fold your display," he said. "That versatility is also something new. I could imagine this interplay between stretching and electronic properties, which you don't have with rigid displays."


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Jenkins, Stephen P. (2011) Has the instability of personal incomes been increasing? National Institute Economic Review, 218 (1). R33-R43. ISSN 0027-9501
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This paper examines trends in the instability of personal incomes in Britain in terms of changes in the transitory variance and in volatility, measures that have received much recent attention in research about the USA. It is shown that, although US measures have trended upwards over the past two decades, there is no such trend in Britain between the early-1990s and the mid-2000s. Explanations for these differences are discussed.
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Rand Paul's Message to Obama: Don't Drone Me Bro
7th March, 2013 - Posted by Medea Benjamin - 2 Comments
The most positive outcome of Rand Paul's 13-hour filibuster—which ended when Paul was forced to take a bathroom break—was giving the American public a sense of the treacherous path that President Obama's drone program could take, i.e. the targeted killing of Americans here at home. It was a marathon civics lesson and a scathing critique of President Obama's civil liberties record.
The biggest flaw, however, was Rand's refusal to strongly condemn the way drones are already being used overseas and to blame CIA nominee John Brennan for being the mastermind of a nefarious program that has led to the deaths of so many non-American civilians and spread anti-American sentiment globally.
While mentioning many of the problems related to drone strikes in places like Pakistan and Yemen, Rand Paul stuck to the issue of killing Americans with drones, and even more narrowly, killing Americans with drones here on US soil.
Rand Paul decided to filibuster President Obama's nominee after receiving a letter this month from Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. that refused to rule out the use of drone strikes within the United States in "extraordinary circumstances" like the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The Obama administration has also affirmed that Americans don't have the right to a judicial process, just some vaguely defined "due process" that could land you on a "kill list" if high-level US officials deemed you were an imminent threat.
"I rise today to begin to filibuster John Brennan's nomination for the CIA," Senator Paul began. "I will speak until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court."
Paul said that the U.S. Attorney General's refusal to rule out the possibility of drone strikes on American citizens and on American soil was an affront the Constitutional due process rights of all Americans.
"Is objecting to your government or objecting to the policies of your government sympathizing with the enemy?" Paul asked, invoking the case of Jane Fonda. "No one will ever forget Jane Fonda swiveling around in North Vietnamese armored guns, and it was despicable," he said. "And it's one thing if you're going to try her for treason, but are you just going to drop a drone hellfire missile on Jane Fonda?"
Paul also suggested that many college campuses in the 1960s were full of Americans who could have been considered enemy sympathizers. "Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State?," he asked.
While a series of Republicans appeared on the Senate floor to stand by Paul, the only Democrat to show support was Ron Wyden from Oregon. Wyden is the member of the Senate Intelligence Committee who had used John Brennan's nomination as an opportunity to pressure the Obama administration to give Congress the legal documentation for targeted killings. The pressure worked, at least partially. After two years of seeking the documents, with no response, the administration finally gave the members of the Senate Intelligence Committee a chance to see the documents. Wyden says it's not enough. A true champion of transparency, he wants the papers to be made public. And he wants more documents, including the ones that lay out the criteria for the killing of non-Americans.
Wyden said he would not oppose Brennan's confirmation, but he felt that "the executive branch should not be allowed to conduct such a serious and far-reaching program by themselves without any scrutiny, because that's not how American democracy works."
It was frustrating to hear the Senator waffle between supporting and not supporting lethal drones overseas. While he questioned the use of signature strikes overseas, strikes where people are killed simply on the basis of suspicious activities, he did not call on the government to stop them. He did not ask the government to stop the practice of hitting the same area twice, often times killing rescuers who are trying to help the victims of the first strike. He was not asking the government to take drones out of the hands of the CIA, a civilian agency that is supposed to focus on intelligence gathering. He did not ask for an accounting of civilian casualties overseas, and that the US publicly acknowledge when it kills civilians. Although he mentioned the case of 16-year-old US citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, killed in a drone strike in Yemen two weeks after his father was killed, he did not demand a response from the government.
Paul's concern was whether tactics used overseas could be transferred to American citizens within the U.S. His request from the government was simple. Paul repeatedly stated that he would be willing to move to a vote on Brennan's nomination if the Obama administration gave a written response stating that it did not believe that the executive branch could target and kill American non-combatants on American soil.
But Paul did use the filibuster to speak out against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He said that he would have supported the Afghanistan war at the outset, but said it had since become far wider than its initial response to the Sept. 11 attacks. "The problem is as this war has dragged on, they take that authorization of use of force to mean pretty much anything, and so they have now said that the war has no geographic limitations," he said. "So it's really not a war in Afghanistan, it's a war in Yemen, Somalia, Mali. It's a war in unlimited places." Paul said that when Congress voted for the Authorization for the Use of Military Force post 9/11, they voted to go into Afghanistan to get the people who attacked us, not to authorize a worldwide war with no end, one that included America as part of the battlefield.
And he chided Congress for abrogating its authority to declare war. "Were we a body that cared about our prerogative to declare war, we would take that power back," he said.
Paul questioned whether the drones might be doing more harm than good, and if the United States could afford perpetual war. "We have to find a way to end war," he said.
While progressives have all sorts of reasons to dislike Rand Paul's Tea Party, small government libertarian views, killer drones is one issue on which progressives should make common cause with Paul and his growing legions of supporters. After all, it's not about the messenger but the message. And compared to the Democratic Senators who have, with few exceptions, remained either silent or support of President Obama's killer drones, Rand made a heroic stand. In gratitude, progressives should "Stand with Rand."
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2 Responses to "Rand Paul's Message to Obama: Don't Drone Me Bro"
This is brilliant, and comprehensive. I've already tweeted and emailed out the link. Whether Rand Paul's historic filibuster leads to more sane and transparent policies by the Obama administration, or remains a dramatic but essentially empty gesture, depends on what we citizens do now.
When we kill innocent people in America or overseas we become the terrorists. How can anyone who won the Nobel Peace Prize even remotely justify this?


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Kirk – "Is he dead?"
McCoy -"it's worse than that Jim, his brain's gone."
The above dialog comes from the first episode of the third season of the original Star Trek. The episode was first shown in 1968, was the first episode in the "we'll put this show here to die" time slot of 10:00 p.m. on Fridays, and demonstrated the "quality" of their new, lower budget. It's generally considered one of the worst of all the original episodes. Two of the stars, Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner, have stated that they didn't like it. Dialog like the above is on par with the infamous "But one thing's sure. Inspector Clay is dead, murdered, and somebody's responsible" from 1959's Plan 9 from Outer Space, often regarded as the worst film ever made.
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I live on an organic farm in North Carolina, so I don't spend much time roaming my local Walmart looking for produce. But on a recent trip to Austin, Texas, I decided to stop by a busy supercenter to see how the company was going about its well-publicized push to sell more local and organic food.
The produce section sat between the in-store McDonald's and some giant coolers packed with Hormel bologna. There were crates piled high with perfect orbs of cabbage and tomatoes, onions and melons. Elephant-ear-size collard greens sat in tight bunches; stacks of fist-size lemons beamed yellow. Plenty of fresh food, to be sure, though a few "Grown in USA" signs were the nearest thing I could find to an indication of local. Organic? A few bags of house-brand lettuce claimed that standard.
But you can't judge Walmart on a single store. The company sells 18 percent of all the groceries bought in the United States—more than anyone else by a wide margin. And it's not just Froot Loops and rock-hard tomatoes. Over the last decade, Walmart has emerged as a massive player in the organic-food market. By 2006, the year it made a splashy announcement about doubling its sales of organic food, it was already the nation's No. 1 seller of organic milk. By 2007, according to the market data firm Scarborough Research, shoppers in search of organic food chose Walmart more often than any other grocery store.
In 2008, a company press release proclaimed that "Walmart Commits to America's Farmers as Produce Aisles Go Local," and here, too, it seemed to have plenty to brag about. Walmart said it was on track to buy $400 million annually in "locally grown produce." The company refused to divulge how much it spent on produce overall, but it promised that 9 percent of its US fruits and veggies would be local by the end of 2015.
Naturally, the press releases didn't mention that the retailer's motivation had as much to do with doing good as with spending less. "In produce, a disproportionate cost is in the cost to ship it 1,500 miles across the country," Walmart spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan noted in an email to me. There's also the food that goes to waste in up to seven days of transit. As diesel prices began to rise in the early 2000s, the company began seeking out growers closer to its stores. If that could be spun into a community initiative—especially in rural locations still hurting from Walmart's devastation of Main Street—all the better.
In 2010, Walmart pledged to support "farmers and their communities" by selling $1 billion worth of produce from small and medium farms worldwide by the end of 2015. But longtime produce industry analyst Jim Prevor, who edits the blog Perishable Pundit, told me that a substantial portion of this amounts to Walmart trying to "get credit for doing what it's already doing." Case in point: Walmart defines as local any produce that's sold in the same state as it's produced. "There's a joke in the industry that if Walmart wants to increase local sales, all it has to do is open more stores in California," Prevor said.
True, he said, the company is buying from a broader spectrum of growers nationwide. But they tend to be large-scale farmers who can match the prices of the California giants.
I asked Walmart's Buchanan for examples of farmers from whom it buys local produce. The three she gave me—in North Carolina, Washington, and Arkansas—all run substantial operations, and none is organic. In fact, according to Prevor, Walmart's organic push has mostly focused on nonproduce items like milk and baby food. Prevor told me that its buyers had tried aggressively to bring in much more organic produce, but "they just couldn't find operations with sufficient quantity to supply them." A company of Walmart's size simply can't devote resources to "chasing down small organic apple wholesalers and buying 60 cases of apples because that's all they have." Walmart doesn't say how much of the produce it sells is organic, but "I'd be surprised if it's more than 2 percent of the total produce," Prevor said.
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SHERIDAN — Before Sen. Carl Levin leaves the United States Senate in his final term after more than 30 years of service as the longest-serving senator in Michigan's history, he'll be making at least one final local appearance.
The Montcalm County Democrats will welcome Levin to the 8th annual Eleanor Roosevelt Dinner on Saturday, along with State House Rep. Brandon Dillon, D-Grand Rapids, to be a featured guest speaker at the fundraising event.
"I had been working to get Carl to come since November of last year and we are thrilled he has accepted and will be joining us on Saturday," event organizer Nancy Jeffrey said.
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Juanita García Peraza was born in Hatillo on June 24, 1897, in a Catholic family. Later, she moved to Arecibo where she lived for many years. She had four children from her two marriages. At 42 years of age, while living in Arecibo, doctors diagnosed her with a chronic gastric ulcer, for which she received medical treatment for several years. After a visit from a Pentecostal believer who prayed for her recovery, García Pedraza joined that church. She believed she was healed by divine intervention.
It was believed that she had the gift of receiving prophetic revelations and that the Holy Spirit worked through her. She spoke in tongues. That is how she acquired her new name, Mita, which according to legend means "spirit of life" or "spiritual mother." In 1940, she was expelled from the Pentecostal Church of God and she founded the Congregation Mita in Arecibo, which consisted of eleven followers and her.
In 1943, she founded the Free Church and offered services in the homes of the faithful and, later, in small wooden temples that were rented. In 1947, as the result of personal revelations, Mita made the decision to move to Hato Rey and along with her followers she acquired a house on Duarte Street, where they conducted their religious services. Ten years later, they bought land in Arecibo and a lot on the same street in Hato Rey, on which they built a temple.
Mita not only tried to direct the spiritual life of her followers, but also created an economic and social structure that supported the community. As the congregation grew and stabilized, it acquired more properties in the area that served as the headquarters for the church's offices. With her guidance and approval, cooperatives and corporations were developed in Hato Rey and Arecibo to provide jobs and services to the community. She also created a Corps of Guards that was in charge of keeping an eye on the Mita community.
Meanwhile, she continued her missionary work, which went beyond the island. In the 1950s, she traveled to the United States, where she founded congregations. Today, there are Mita congregations in Boston, Chicago, Connecticut, Miami, New Jersey, New York and Orlando. In the 1960s, she created others in the Dominican Republic and there are congregations still today in Santiago de Los Caballeros, Santo Domingo, Bonao, Azua, Valverde Mao and Maizal.
Mita's health began to deteriorate in 1968 and she died on February 21, 1970, due to cerebral thrombosis. After her death, the Congregation Mita was left in the hands of her disciple, Teófilo Vargas Seín, who was known as Aaron. Under Aaron's direction, the Congregation Mita has expanded to other countries such as Canada, Curacao, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador and Mexico.
These communities have continued their social and economic organizing. Among their organizations providing services to members are the Congregation Mita School, the Paradise Institute and the Office of Social Assistance and Counseling. Mita is a Christian sect whose source of authority comes from the experiences and revelations of Juanita García Peraza.
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Having started coaching rugby league in 1976, it takes a fair bit to surprise Newcastle mentor Wayne Bennett.
But even the iconic master coach was taken aback by the relentless pressure and free-wheeling attack of his NRL side, who scored six first-half tries in the wet on Sunday en route to a 46-16 rout of Gold Coast.
"We didn't know what to expect with the conditions the way they were. It kind of blew me away a little bit to think they could score that many points," Bennett said of the clinic his charges put on at a sodden Hunter Stadium.
The Knights, piloted by the superb kicking game of Jarrod Mullen, returned to the productive play that netted their most recent win - a 44-8 shellacking of Canterbury some six weeks ago.
Winger James McManus will grab all the headlines thanks to his four tries, which equalled a club record, but it was the Knights' aggression and tackling that pleased Bennett.
"In the end, they just couldn't breathe, the Titans. The pressure just kept building on them," he said.
The visitors struggled to complete sets and knocked-on at will in slippery conditions and their misery was compounded by the Knights' ability to swing the ball left to McManus with devastating effect.
McManus scored a first-half hat-trick, giving Newcastle a 36-0 halftime lead as Titans coach John Cartwright reshuffled his players after Jamal Idris' early exit with a suspected broken fibula.
"It was a big blow (losing Idris), but I don't want to use that as an excuse. I thought we looked a little bit loose right from the start and losing Jamal probably just added to it," Cartwright said of his side's worst loss for the year.
McManus, the competition's leading try-scorer with 15 this season, will be talked about as a potential NSW candidate for the State of Origin series decider after Nathan Merritt's poor debut in game two - just not by Bennett.
"I keep reading about what makes an Origin player. It (that discussion) started in NSW and it's still here. They can't work it out," he said of McManus, who has played one game for NSW.
"I've said all I'm going to say on it. Work it out for yourself," Bennett added when asked if he'd pick McManus for game three.
The only sour note for the crowd of 9208 was Newcastle veteran Willie Mason being put on report for a high shot on Titans youngster Sam Irwin.
Titans enforcer Ashley Harrison limped off in the second half with a shin injury, but Cartwright said he should be right to take on Penrith in Darwin.


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Lee moved one step closer to his third All England Open badminton title after beating seventh seed Tien Minh Nguyen 21-17, 21-19.
Birmingham: Malaysia's ace shuttler Lee Chong Wei secured his position in last four and moved one step closer to his third All England Open badminton title. His 21-17, 21-19 victory on Friday over seventh seed Tien Minh Nguyen only took him 34 minutes, reports Xinhua.
Lee was in the lead from the first, manoeuvring the shuttle to different corners and earning points with forceful smashes.
Although he made a few mistakes which allowed his rival to save four match points, he managed to finish the match with a jump smash.
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Currently his biggest opponent could be Chinese shuttler Chen Long, who edged out Indian Kashyap Parupalli 21-16 and 21-10.