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Where is Andy Roddick heading?
He'll pick up the U.S. mantle of Sampras and Agassi
He's the next Jim Courier
He's still got a lot of growing up to do
He'll never win a Grand Slam title
A week ago, Kournikova led Hantuchova 19,153-10,715 in hits on the women's profiles on the site. On Wednesday, new figures showed Hantuchova ahead 86,288-79,976.
Hantuchova shrugged off comparisons with Kournikova earlier in the tournament.
"For me, the tennis is the most important thing," she said.
One advantage Hantuchova had was that she lasted longer in the tournament. Hantuchova lost to Venus Williams in the quarterfinals, while Kournikova lost in the second round.
The Williams sisters, No. 1 and No. 2 in the tennis rankings, are fifth and sixth on the site's hits list. Their Belgian semifinal opponents Justine Henin-Hardenne and Kim Clijsters (Serena) are ranked No. 3 and No. 4, respectively.
Lleyton Hewitt is the most popular men's player with 54,061 hits to Andre Agassi's 52,774.
Approximately 1.2 million fans have accessed the site, already topping the total from last year of 1.1 million — with five days play remaining.
According to the site, the majority of users are from the United States (24.4%), with Australia second (18.4%) and Belgium third (7.4%).
Serve notice: Sure, Serena Williams wants sister Venus to make the final of the Australian Open. But that doesn't mean the sisters lack a healthy competitive spirit.
While most fans reacted with awe to Venus' 125-mph serve against Daniela Hantuchova, Serena went out to try to beat it.
"I tried to get one (faster) today," Serena said after her quarterfinal win against Meghann Shaughnessy. "Mine went past the baseline."
Serena had led the speed serving stats before Venus topped her.
"I was in the lead with 122 mph and I was like, 'Yeah!' But she hit a 201 (kilometers per hour) and I was like 'Oh, shoot!' "
Serena had the edge in aces served through five matches. She sent down 29, while Venus was third with 22. Meghann Shaughnessy, beaten by Serena in their quarterfinal Wednesday, was second with 26 aces.
Venus' serve was faster than more than 100 of the 128 players achieved in the men's draw.
The men's speed and aces leader was Andy Roddick. Before his quarterfinal Wednesday night he had a fastest serve of 138 mph and 63 aces from four matches.
Waffling on: The Williams sisters both face Belgian opponents in Thursday's semis with Venus against Justine Henin-Hardenne and Serena facing Kim Clijsters.
Serena was asked if Belgium reminded her of anything else.
"Yeah. I hear they have wonderful chocolates ... and waffles."
The A tram: Andy Roddick got to fulfill a dream before his quarterfinal match against Younes El Aynaoui on Wednesday night: He got to drive one of Melbourne's famous trams, or street cars.
Roddick was going OK until he brought the tram to a sudden halt, shouting out "Oh, geez!"
"Better safe than sorry," Roddick said with a laugh. "I got really heavy on the brakes."


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Tonight's Return An Emotional One For Tortorella
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Since leaving Tampa Bay as head coach following the 2008-09 season, John Tortorella has returned several times to the building where he hoisted his only Stanley Cup.
Tonight, as skipper of the Vancouver Canucks, the return will be different.
The Lightning will honor the 2004 Championship team Monday night and as coach of the Tampa Bay team that defeated all odds, Tortorella will also be honored.
Speaking to the media after today's practice, the winningest American-born coach in NHL history talked about how special the process of winning the Cup was.
"I guess what I'll share with you, for me anyway, it wasn't the last game and winning it," Tortorella said, "To me, it was I had the honor of watching athletes go through 60-plus days of every other day and all of the swings in momentum, the injuries and what they had to do. And I was able to watch that.
"It was the hardest trophy to win out of the sports and the front-row seat I had was to watch the athletes handle themselves grind through that. That's the most rewarding. And that's what I'm talking about: the process.
"When you go through a process as an organization, for a number of years that we got there to have a chance to win the Stanley Cup - none of us knew we were going to win a Stanley Cup that year - and I think some of the innocence - that's what helped us, there wasn't that pressure, because we didn't have a clue what we were doing; we were just playing.
"I just have such a true respect for the athletes and what they have to do. And I'm watching. That was rewarding."
One aspect of having his name on the Stanley Cup that remains special to Tortorella is what the win meant for the Tampa Bay community.
"I know going through that parade and all of that stuff we did after, you could tell is was a community thing," Tortorella said. "I think it made it very special."
Not a traditionally sentimental figure, Tortorella acknowledged that there is a bond that will always hold them together.
"It's hard to explain, if you didn't go through it, it's hard to explain" Tortorella said. "I'm not a big reminicent guy, but I think I owe that team to speak out. It is the tenth-year anniversary and you're locked in, you're locked in. That's never going to change."
The Lightning will hold a full alumni signing from 5:30-6:30pm on Ford Thunder Alley prior to the 7:30pm game. The organization will also be giving each fan in attendance a replica of the Championship ring.
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Squeaky Brakes
Anybody's brakes seem to squeak at light pressure? Mine just started doing it at 1800 miles...haven't driven it hard yet either...
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try a "bed in" procedure. 2-3 60mph-5mph runs.....brake hard...but dont come to a complete stop....then a nice long drive to cool off the brakes
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I eventually had to fight with the dealership to have them replace several components of the braking system (Front Pads & Rotors) to fix this. Once they did, the squeal went away.
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yep....he may eventually have to do that
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WOW, that is one brave/crazy person to be able to successfully do that without being caught/shot.
Wow when do you think is the last time something like that happen? If that isn't a message I don't know what is. It was probably a WH or SS employee that did it because that definitely would take balls the size of Alaska to sneak in and do.
at least we got one stand up guy up there in DC!
hell yel! there are still some out there.
Unfortunately it is a photoshopped pictured from what I found online. Would have been cool if it were real.


text: I knew that it would just be a matter of time before the \"No Firearms Allowed\" signs would start to come down in Ohio. Ohio people are decently \"Salt Of The Earth\" type folks and they are not stupid people. Ohio residents can blame their liberal left anti-gun Ohio news media for all of the \"NO GUNS\" signs going UP in the first place. Business owners were lied to (big time) in the press & on Ohio radio & TV. The media hopped up & hyped up the \"concealed carry\" issue to the point of \"blood running in the streets\" & every minor argument ending up in an OK Corral gunfight on every street corner. The liberal left news media had Ohio business owners scared to death over legal and liability concerns & feared that store employees would get shot because some \"crazed gun packer\" might get upset while trying to return a quart of sour milk. I live in PA but really followed \"events\" in Ohio. Of Course - the libleft turned out to be (as usual) Totally Wrong & hopefully Basic Common Sense will start to rule the day.:)


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On 26 February 2002, in a lab at the Royal Free Hospital, a robot took 5ml of my blood and spun it to separate the cells from the serum. 'Then it took the cap off the tube and took a sample,' explained Mike Thomas, the Royal Free's head of clinical biochemistry. 'It put the serum in a cup and delivered it to the analyser.'
The robot is part of a £750,000 Roche Modular system. The first in the country and then just a few months old, it enables the lab to do 15,000 tests a day. Mine was a lipid fractionation - a measurement of the fat levels in my blood. If I'd been paying, it would have cost £15. The analyser added enzymes and chemicals to the serum, turning it red. That gave my total cholesterol level. Then it added different enzymes and chemicals. This also turned red, giving the amount of HDL - the 'good' cholesterol. It did another little test, then some maths which worked out the level of my LDL - the 'bad' cholesterol. Or rather, it tried. My levels fell outside the range for calculation.
That robot had changed my life forever and quite possibly lengthened it. I'd had no symptoms but I'd asked my doctor for some blood tests. I was approaching 50. A cousin had recently had an emergency septuple bypass. And I'm adopted, with none of the family history doctors use to spot possible dangers. A few days later, I got my results. My HDL was pretty good at 1.5. But my total cholesterol was worryingly high, over 9 - the UK average is 6. My doctor asked some questions, then wrote out a prescription: 20mg of simvastatin daily, for the rest of my life, probably. Dazed, I didn't get the script filled until I'd read up on the drug and my condition.
I discovered that, in my case anyway, it was a familial thing that could only have been picked up by testing, that it couldn't be fixed by diet, exercise or margarine supplements, that simvastatin seemed to be remarkably safe and really, really reduced my risk of heart attack - the number-one cause of premature death in the UK.
Satisfied, I started taking the drugs.
So are other people throughout the developed world. The recently trumpeted polypill - multidrug heart protection for everyone over 55 - is years away, still no more than a notion. Statins, meanwhile, offer a major revolution in health care - now. In the past few months two studies were stopped early because it was deemed unethical for the placebo group to be denied the benefit of statins. A month ago, simvastatin came off patent. Prices will fall. And with that drop come two new questions. Should everyone take statins? And could this save the NHS money?
Simvastatin quickly brought my total cholesterol right down, close to 6. Then I came over all teenage, almost deliberately forgetting my medication, a pitiful rebellion against the thought of being someone who had to take a pill every night. 'I don't blame you,' empathised my doctor. But my level went back up to 7. I started taking the drug again. My number came back down and has stayed there.
It's not like I'm alone, though. My (adoptive) uncle takes it. My wife does, too. Simvastatin is the biggest-selling prescription drug in the UK. A million people go to bed on various statins every night.
The British Heart Foundation sees that figure trebling over the next few years. 'Statins are the new aspirin,' said Professor Rory Collins of the British Heart Foundation's Heart Protection Study, the world's largest trial. Only they're safer than aspirin, which would be prescription-only if launched today.
The Heart Protection Study, which followed 20,000 British men over seven years, is one of at least six authoritative randomised trials which have demonstrated statins' effectiveness. A study of 6,000 Scottish men who didn't have heart disease and whose cholesterol was only a little high found statins brought a 37 per cent reduction in heart attacks over five years.
Can we now unequivocally state that statins reduce coronary heart disease? 'Yes,' says Jonathan Emberson, who is analysing the British Regional Heart Study data at the Royal Free.
Statins also prevent strokes, as demonstrated in the Ascot study run by Peter Sever, professor of clinical pharmacology at Imperial College. 'Now we're doing analysis of diabetic patients and it's clear that the benefit extends to them. A picture is emerging that everyone at higher risk of heart disease benefits.'
Statins also seem to deal with osteoporosis by stimulating new bone growth and preventing Alzheimer's. There's increasing evidence that the underlying cause of Alzheimer's is blood vessel damage, affecting flow to critical parts of the brain. Correct the damage with statins and you help prevent Alzheimer's.
'They block the enzyme involved in the synthesis of cholesterol in liver,' explained Rory Collins. 'And they increase receptors on the surface of liver cells, which drag the LDL out of your blood into the liver and then excrete it. That's why statins work.'
Statins also raise the good HDL cholesterol - which is what hauls the bad LDL out of the blood and back to the liver.
Though they were developed in the 70s, worries about side-effects meant they weren't cleared for use in the US till 1987, and 1989 here. Even then, uptake has been surprisingly slow. Current British guidelines say statins should be prescribed to anybody who has a significant five-year risk of a coronary 'event' or cardiovascular disease. Later this year, that guideline will be extended to a 10-year risk, bringing it in line with the one for blood-pressure drugs.
Rory Collins suggests that doctors shouldn't even bother wasting money on cholesterol tests for high-risk groups. They should just prescribe statins to anyone who's had a heart attack or a stroke.
'My personal view,' adds Peter Sever, 'is that the clear benefits will persuade the drug regulatory authorities to allow these drugs to be made available over the counter. This is an inevitability within two or three years. Given the safety of these drugs and given their potential to reduce the number one cause of premature death in the country, why not make them available over the counter?'
We're about to enter a new era of statin treatment. Simvastatin came off patent in the UK in May. Currently, one tablet costs about £1, which compares extremely favourably with the US price of $4. But that's still nearly £400 a year.
In two years' time, they could be a 10th of what they are now. And, at £40 a year, what is already a cost-effective preventer of heart attacks becomes a bargain. 'Our conclusion was that if prices fall to below one-third of what they are now, treatment will actually save the NHS money,' says Collins.
So what about you? Should you be taking statins? The bottom line is this: talk to your doctor about them if you're diabetic, if you've had a heart attack or stroke, if you already have heart disease or high blood pressure, if you have family who've had heart attacks or strokes before they were 65. Otherwise, exercise and diet should do it.
Should anyone who has a heart be screened? Pretty much, says the US. No, says the UK. 'Focusing on one's cholesterol level in isolation is not very effective,' says Peter Whincup of the Regional Heart Study. 'Though it is a powerful risk factor for heart disease, you need to look at overall risk, which also involves age, smoking and blood pressure. Cholesterol level alone is not very good at predicting future heart disease.'
Not one of the researchers I spoke to was in favour of widespread asymptomatic screening. They were even distinctly queasy about my having had a test - despite the fact that it uncovered a serious problem that would otherwise have remained hidden. Till plaque started flying off my artery walls, anyway.


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- Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 9:46 AMTo: ffhs-members@...Subject: FFHS-MEMBERS Two petitions for early release of census information.
1921 Census, England and Wales
Guy Etchells, who campaigned for the early release of the 1911 census, is now calling for the early release of the 1921 census.
You can read more about this at http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/restoring-civil-liberties/allow-access-to-the-1921-census-now
1926 Census, Ireland
Those with Irish ancestors may be interested to know of a petition for the early release of the 1926 Census in Ireland.
The Council of Irish Genealogical Organisations (CIGO) states in its petition Catastrophic destruction befell Irish sources for genealogy and history when the Public Record Office of Ireland was consumed by fire in June 1922. The 1926 census was the first compiled since the foundation of the State and includes a few basic facts about the lives of the many Irish people then living who were born before civil registration began in Ireland in 1864. Over 82 years have passed since the 1926 census was first compiled and given this almost every adult alive at that time is now deceased.
Further details can be seen at www.cigo.ie/
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The original data indicated two substantial findings: (1) Religious programming, activities and events are popular among inmates, and (2) the more an inmate attended religious programming in prisons, the fewer disciplinary reports the inmate received for improper behavior.
The follow-up study supports the findings of the original study and indicates that this improved behavior is not simply a short-term phenomenon but may be sustained for inmates for as much as three years. This report did not monitor whether or not the inmates continued to attend chapel programming while in prison or religious services upon release. Some of the inmates in the original study who attended chapel functions may no longer participate. The same reverse behavior may be true for the non-attendees of the original study. Current attendance or non-attendance was not measured. Consequently, the follow-up results are based on a snapshot of the inmates' attendance pattern in 2001. The results are therefore noteworthy in that improved behavior for inmates remaining in prison and lower recommitment rate for released offenders can be affected by any involvement in chapel programming for at least three years following attendance. Improved behavior and lower recommitment rates are a cost reduction as well as a public safety benefit.
Additionally, the follow-up was able to include recommitment data for inmates that were measured in the original study and released during the following year. This data, though preliminary in nature, strongly implies that inmates who participate in religious programming do not come back to prison as frequently as inmates who do not participate. It further suggests that the more participation an inmate has in religious programming and activities while in prison, the lower the recommitment rate. Inmates who return to free society and do not commit new crimes benefit public safety.
Safer communities are a by-product of effective prison programming. When offenders are released to return to their neighborhoods, the amount of participation in religious programming and activities can be used as a predictor of successful reintegration to free society.There are certainly multiple factors that go into the motivation and behavior of inmates in prison One program or in-prison activity may impact the inmate with positive outcomes, but successful reintegration into society upon release is the result of numerous factors. Participation in Chaplaincy Services is a measurable factor that may predict the released inmate's recommitment rate. This follow-up report indicates that a strong Chaplaincy Services program of religious services and activities may effectively contribute to public safety by lowering the disciplinary report rate, the disciplinary report average and the recommitment rate for participants. Prison operations and the communities that inmates are returned to are well served by an active chapel program. When inmates participate in chapel programming, the result is safer communities in and out of prison. This is an important public benefit.


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Painting plywood?
In my 200+ yr old house, some yahoo replaced the wide pine floor boards with plywood in the entrance hall.
Since, we're retired, our means doesn't stretch to replacing. I would like to paint the floor decorating the floor with a stenciled pattern (very in keeping with the age of the house).
My DH says it's impossible to paint plywood so it looks good.
My question: Is there anyway to paint a plywood floor?
In low traffic conditions a painted floor hoods up relatively well. Plywood will except a paint well. Although most floor grade plywood surfaces are relatively rough and it most likely will look like a painted plywood floor. It is possible to smooth with filler and sanding (cost and time). I think a enamel paint wood give of fair wear life but better yet wood be one of the epoxy floor paints. If you do plan of making art work on it the I would stick to your basic latex paints and after the project is completed cover the area with a floor grade polyurethane. You may find after pricing it, It may be possible to lay a peel and stick tile squares at less cost. With the right style shouldn't hurt keeping with the house any more then the plywood?
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Thanks for the advice. I'll take a look at peel & stick floor tile. Now that I think of it, many houses of this age had entrance halls with painted floors simulating marble, squares of black or dark gray with black. So maybe that would work. (I think Martha Stewart's CT farmhouse has gray & white painted squares in the hallway.)
I should be able to come close to this look with peel & stick tiles. This is probably the most cost effective solution. (I know I won't be completely happy until I replace this floor. I have beautiful pine boards in my carrage house that I can use. I wonder what it would cost to have someone lay them. It's a nuisance not to be able to undertake this work ourselves but it's too heavy.)
Once again thank you. You've got me thinking!
Only personal experience here, but peel and stick tiles are terrible. The glue never "sets up" and ugly gaps open up...
This is not totally true. Peel and stick by no means are a "good quality" But I have seen many cases were they do hold up well (3-8 years) when properly installed. Paint on plywood .(very short term solution) was what I was trying to find a cost effective alterative for. You have a lot of insight and experience can you offer any cost effective advise for yarnexpress, or at least give some advise on the painting of their plywood floors for the best/cost quality they are looking for?
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Winter's White Wings
Are you wishing for a bit more brightness these days? Then you should make plans to see our white birds this winter! Our coldest months are a great time to go out and see birds that don't pass through most of our backyards. Snowy owls, swans, snow geese and ptarmigan boast beautiful, bright plumage during Washington's winters – a pleasing contrast to our often dark and gray skies.
Read on and check out our slideshow to learn more about these fair feathered friends.
Snowy Owls
Bird lovers are once again aflutter over the arrival of snowy owls. These birds are rare in Washington, but occasionally travel this far from their arctic breeding grounds in surprising numbers – an event known as an "irruption." For whatever reason, many traveled all the way down to Washington and even farther south last winter. We're fortunate that some are starting to make their way down again this season. You can read more about the early sightings in a Seattle Times article by Lynda Mapes.
I vividly recall seeing my first snowy owl in Seattle's Discovery Park several years ago during another irruption. It wasn't hard to find: I just looked for the small pack of excited bird enthusiasts huddled around spotting scopes. And there it was! A big, beautiful bird perched in the open, as large as a great horned owl but nearly pure white. That particular owl was having a hard time resting while being aggressively harassed by local crows.
I didn't miss the chance to see many more snowies last winter. It was easy to get excited. And there were some great reports. Crosscut featured this interview with Paul Bannick about the owls, which includes how a changing world is affecting them and why we should appreciate our connection to their arctic breeding grounds. A companion piece describes theories about why these irruptions occur.
You can also learn more about snowy owls on Seattle Audubon's BirdWeb.
Swans migrate from Alaska down to Washington every year. Two kinds of swans make this annual journey: trumpeter swans and tundra swans. Both can be seen at places like western Washington's Skagit Delta, where they may mingle together. They don't travel in massive flocks like snow geese (see below), but their big, white bodies are easy to spot in area farm fields.
Our over-wintering swans forage for food in farm fields, but also feed on other local fare. Several years ago I watched a group of swans land gracefully on mud flats at the Conservancy's Port Susan Bay Preserve. The tide was out and there were many acres of mud. The surface looked rather dull, but underneath were many roots and rhizomes of the plants that burst forth in the spring and create a thriving home for young salmon and lots of other marine life. The swans had come for these roots and, after posing majestically for a few moments, they shoved their entire heads and necks into the mud in search of yummy eats – temporarily dirtying their usually snow-white plumage.
The website of Washington Swan Stewards, a local chapter of the Trumpeter Swan Society, offers information about swan identification, where and how to enjoy swans in the Skagit Delta area, the serious problem of swans dying from lead poisoning, and more.
You can also learn more about both trumpeter swans and tundra swans on Seattle Audubon's BirdWeb
Snow Geese
For many, Washington's flocks of winter snow geese are a favorite spectacle. While these birds come here every year, they never fail to amaze. Why? Because they come to western Washington's greater Skagit Delta by the tens of thousands! When these flocks take off en masse – say, because a bald eagle flies overhead – they are so noisy and dizzying to behold that it's easy to lose one's balance.
Our snow geese spend their summers on Wrangel Island in Russia. From there they travel approximately 3,000 miles to the Stillaguamish and Skagit river deltas, where they begin to arrive in late September.
Worldwide, snow geese were reduced to only a few thousand around 1900. But they've made a remarkable comeback, and now are one of the most abundant waterfowl in the world. They've been so successful, in fact, that in some areas they are starting to destroy their own habitat as they tear vegetation out of the ground to eat.
You can check out these amazing birds and more at the annual Port Susan Snow Goose & Birding Festival in February. The website has lots of information about the festival, special events, exploring the area – and of course, snow geese.
You can also learn more about snow geese on Seattle Audubon's BirdWeb.
OK, admittedly ptarmigan aren't usually easy to see. People who spend time in mountain country are probably more familiar with ridges and other land features named "Ptarmigan" than with these illusive birds. Our native white-tailed ptarmigan live in our mountains year-round, but are difficult to spot thanks to well-camouflaged seasonal plumage. Still, determined, observant and lucky travelers can find them. A friend of mine spied one in January while skiing at the Mount Baker ski resort!
The white-tailed ptarmigan is North America's smallest grouse. They tend to stay above the tree line and walk most of the time rather than flying. In Washington they are found only in the Cascade Mountains, where they feed mostly on leaves, buds and seeds. (If you watch our slideshow all the way to the end, you can see just how small ptarmigan can be. And cute!)
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An agreement aimed at protecting ancient rock art, housing ruins, granaries, graves and artifacts in Nine Mile Canyon is visionary or toothless or everything in between, participants say, and could have happened at least three years ago if the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Utah hadn't resisted.
But now that the accord, set for a Tuesday signing at the Utah Capitol, is ready to go, a natural-gas development company, historic preservationists, tribal nations, the state, counties and conservation groups agree on what the BLM, Carbon County and Denver-based Bill Barrett Corp. must do to safeguard the canyon's stunning record left by people who lived there thousands of years before Utah existed.
For Nine Mile Canyon Coalition President Pam Miller, her group's 19-year battle to protect the canyon's wonders is at last getting proper recognition.
"We are pleased we were asked to sit at the table and have the conversation," she said. "But we don't see this as the end. We see this as the beginning."
The deal provides a historic-preservation framework for Bill Barrett's proposal to drill 800 new natural gas wells atop the West Tavaputs Plateau east of Price. That could mean more than a thousand big-rig trips per day up and down a narrow dirt road that never has been and never could be properly engineered and built for that level of industrial traffic.
Lining the road, which winds 40 miles through Carbon and Duchesne counties, are walls of pictographs and petroglyphs, side canyons and at least 10,000 archaeological sites.
Although the company has taken steps to protect rock art that is considered both priceless and holy, conservationists and the National Trust for Historic Preservation long have protested the trucks stir up dust that corrodes the art etched into the red sandstone.
But, in 2004, the BLM began to deny claims that it had to obey the National Historic Preservation Act as well as the National Environmental Policy Act when crafting an environmental impact study (EIS) of the West Tavaputs project proposal.
The BLM refused to grant requests for "consulting party" status from the Nine Mile Canyon Coalition, the Hopi nation, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and others. That designation would have given those groups greater say over the final EIS.
Lawsuits and protests ensued. Then came the turning point.
In 2008, the BLM issued a draft EIS and acknowledged the project posed potential "adverse effects" on historic resources. Though the bureaucratic term might not sound like much, it triggered legally required deference to the National Historic Preservation Act and a profound change in attitude.
Cementing the change was a letter from the Hopi nation -- which considers the entire canyon a traditional and holy cultural land -- asking the national Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to intervene, as required by law. The council persuaded the BLM to invite several groups to new negotiations as consulting parties.
The resulting "programmatic agreement" came after a year's negotiations. But some say it could have happened sooner and averted a lot of anguish.
Wilson Martin, Utah's historic preservation officer, suggested the parties get together to craft the agreement three years ago.
"I don't know the reasons [the BLM] wanted to wait," he said. "Our experience, from the state's perspective, is [to] enter one early."
While Martin considers such pacts routine, Duane Zavadil, Bill Barrett senior vice president, said this one is extraordinary. "A programmatic agreement isn't typically prepared for oil and gas projects," he said. "The mere presence of dust falling on artifacts eligible for listing spurred this" -- and that's unprecedented.
"All things considered, I wish we'd done this three years ago," Zavadil said, adding he expects ongoing discussions. "I honestly look forward to it. It's been a revelation to us. We recognize [the conservation and historic preservation] community to an extent that we didn't in the past."
Megan Crandall, spokeswoman for the BLM's Utah office, said adding 20,000 acres to the original West Tavaputs project map ensures rim-to-rim canyon protections, one of the expanded talks' major achievements.
"It was a huge collaborative process," she said. "This agreement is really kind of a bellwether."
However, many involved are irritated with the BLM's willingness to take credit for something the agency, particularly during state director Selma Sierra's three years at the helm, resisted for so long.
"The BLM was pushing the limits in denying public participation. They were dragged to the table kicking and screaming," said Jerry Spangler, executive director of the Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance, who will sign the agreement Tuesday as a so-called concurring party.
The BLM also is taking kudos for having individual sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Spangler said, although the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Nine Mile Canyon Coalition had a pending nomination to list the entire canyon.
Barbara Pahl, director of the National Trust's Denver office, said getting the BLM finally to acknowledge the Bill Barrett project's potential harm to the relics took the sting out of the federal agency's preemption of the larger listing.
"At least the nomination process is going forward," she said, adding natural gas development itself wasn't an issue.
"We were never opposed to this [West Tavaputs] project, never," she said. "We just wanted to make sure that by accessing the plateau through the canyon, we didn't lose 2,000 years of human history."
But a lingering question, say many, is what happens next?
How is the agreement to be enforced? Who, for example, will watch the drivers in the canyon to ensure they don't kick up dust plumes taller than their truck cabs, as the agreement requires? Who could set in motion the agreement's major penalty: denial of further lease acquisitions or permits to drill?
We are, said Miller, of the Nine Mile Canyon Coalition. "We are the watchers. We are the local people."
An agreement on how to protect cultural treasures in Nine Mile Canyon during natural gas development is set to be signed at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Utah Capitol's Gold Room.
The provisions include:
» Bill Barrett Corp. funding three types of studies on all 149,579 acres of the West Tavaputs drilling project area to inventory cultural resources that could be in harm's way.
» The BLM continuing to consult tribal nations regarding artifacts with cultural and religious significance. It also will complete an ethnographic study for the Hopi nation, which considers the entire canyon sacred.
» Parties ensuring that dust is suppressed to prevent harm to rock panels. Dust will be considered controlled when big-rig drivers don't kick up plumes above their truck cabs or leave hanging dust plumes. Failure to properly manage dust could lead to the BLM withholding drilling permits from Bill Barrett.
» The BLM's Price office developing a site-stewardship plan -- along with the state, archaeology groups, the College of Eastern Utah's Prehistoric Museum and the Nine Mile Canyon Coalition -- to preserve and protect historic properties in the West Tavaputs region.
Note: The agreement can be amended or extended during its 10-year time period.


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NME reports that PETA have responded to reports that animal rights activists plan to throw feces and paint at the singer for wearing fur in public. A source said they heard PETA members were "going to try and personally attack Gaga — spraying her with paint or even throwing feces at her."
A spokesman however denied this. They said: "The only threat for Lady Gaga is looking ridiculous, and all she's being bombarded with is appeals from her fans to get a heart. This sounds like desperate Gaga PR make-believe."
Gaga recently finished the British portion of her tour with shows at Twickenham Stadium on September 8 and 9 and a third show at Manchester Arena on September 11. She will return to the country for an appearance at London department store Harrods on October 7.


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Recap: Good Ideas in 2009 in Digital: Shaping Our Online Identities
At our Good Ideas in 2009: Digital salon yesterday, much of the conversation surrounded how our online identities are created, both actively – through our own decisions of what we share about ourselves – and passively – through the actions and perceptions of others. Given that we only have control over half of that equation, how do we ensure that the best and brightest portrait of ourselves is seen by the wider community?
Piers posited his "Red Coat, Black Coat" theory back in 2006, which proved to be a harbinger of conversations to come about approaches to online privacy as the internet extends its reach further into our daily activities. At yesterday's session, two methods became most evident: one centers around greater transparency. By choosing to let every detail out into the public sphere by our own hand, we're able to send a clear message that says "this is who I am and I'm okay with that." Of course, this is a bit of a risky proposition, but a more complex picture with all of its strengths and flaws, is certainly a truer one as well.
The other view that operates alongside the above idea of being "free and open," is to take a more dynamic role participating in the feedback loop. Developing relationships with not only your friends, but your critics as well, promotes conversation and can lead to understanding.
These lessons don't only apply to our individual profiles anymore either, but speak to the larger identities being developed at the level of corporations and brands too. Building on this platform, we're witnessing a trend of businesses starting to raise the bar in terms of the amount and type information being provided to the public, while at the same engaging consumers on a more personal basis.
Online retailer Zappos was mentioned during yesterday's session as one company that has been able to implement this model in a positive way through the context of their social media-styled employee blogs. Other examples that illustrate this new movement include user generated review sites like TripAdvisor and Yelp that enable businesses to directly respond to their costumers and GM Facts and Fiction, an attempt by General Motors to dispel rumors about the current state of their company.
As we begin to see successes from the early adopters of this paradigm shift, we expect more companies will jump aboard and participate. This trend can only lead to a richer consumer experience for all involved.
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Tattoo Expo attracts inked expressionists from Ballard
Ink-addicts are sure to swoon at an opportunity to show off and celebrate their permanent peregrinations of expression at the Seattle Tattoo Expo.
The expo is set to celebrate its 13th annual event August 15 to 17 at the Fisher Pavilion at the Seattle Center.
"This signature Seattle event is a colorful, loud, fun way to spend one of our beautiful Northwest weekends," says Gloria Connors, Founder and Producer of the Seattle Tattoo Expo. "We love seeing both the familiar and new faces each year, and can't wait for another one."
Ballard's Slave to the Needle and Rabid Hands will have a few of their artists showing off their skills while tattooing clients.
The event will feature art contests, music and burlesque entertainment. The main attraction is artists showing off their skills. The expo attracts artists from all over the world. Some of this year's artists include Damon Conklin of Super Genius Tattoo (Seattle, WA); Shawn Barber of Memoir Tattoo (Los Angeles, CA); Big Gus of Big Gus Ink (Hesperia, CA); and Jeff Gogue of Off the Map Tattoo – Northwest (Grants Pass, OR).
Each day of the expo hosts a contest where participants on the main stage showoff their ink work for judges. Categories being judged are portrait; large color and large black and grey, best cover up, best religious depiction and best pin up. In addition, judges will declare the tattoo of the day. There is an entry fee of $10 and anyone one can show off their stuff as long as they are "inked."
In addition, burlesque performers will be entertaining all through the event. Performers include Randi Rascal, Iva Handfull, Toya De Luna (of the Atomic Bombshells), Inga Ingenue (2011 Miss Viva Las Vegas), Lady Drew Blood and J. Von Stratton.
The expo celebrates artistic and self-expression through ink. Ballard artists and tattoo enthusiasts are among the many Seattleites sure to find a little more ink at the expo. Ballardite, Erin K., shared what her tattoos mean to her.
"For me, each of my tattoos represents something about who I am or something I was experiencing at the time. I'd be lying if I said I still love them all, but I do have a sentimental attachment to them," said Erin.
Erin has three tattoos and plans for more as the inspiration finds her, perhaps it will at the expo.
" I have one that represents my first love, one that represents my family and my heritage, and one that reminds me of my tendency to be impulsive and stupid. I plan on slowly accumulating more throughout my life whenever the inspiration hits me."
Erin said that tattoos have become less taboo and well established in professional and fringe populations, especially in Seattle.
"Growing up in Seattle, getting tattooed is a cultural norm, it's all about finding something that makes you feel good and doing it for your own reasons."
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Is it safe to go back in the water? Have all the mega-divas gone back into the deep ocean in their billionaire boyfriends big yachts? Are they docked at Cannes yet? TI has to say Monday morning's power play by those big bad girls is one for the record. Wait till the last minute, give the quotes to the untouchable Cathy Horyn via The Moment and effect a blue-chip boycott of an event they felt they should have been co-hosting en masse in the first place. Not that La Kate cared a toss. TI got the good hiss that Kate's hosting post was not just pure sentimentality...let's say Sir Phillip Green threw down handily to make all that happen. But what's Vogue to do next ? Seek reconciliation or brew a viscous revenge? TI suspects we'll be seeing a loooooooot more actresses on those Vogue cover from this point on ....And amongst today's flurry of unfounded rumors ...The Hiss Squad has spotted a few of those big bad supermodel babes re-enacting Peter Lindbergh's legendary 1991 motorcycle Chanel shoot. But it's not for Vogue but rather, Harper's Bazaar. TI is hiding under his blanket until the dust clears.
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Hi, MathGroup,
In Mathematica 188.8.131.52 for WinNT, using InputString, one can program
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Kernel Input". The windows-properties of this box are nasty:
It does not have an entry on the task bar and it can easily get
lost behind other windows, e.g. open Mathematica-Notebooks.
I would prefer it, if this box would be always in the forground
of any open Mathematica notebook, but it might go behind any
other non-Mathematica window, if that has the windows focus.
If this would be the case, one would only give the focus
to the Mathematica session, and immediately the Local Kernel
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Tapit Colts Lead F-T Saratoga Pinhooks
Three sons of leading sire Tapit top the list of previously purchased horses that are pinhooks consigned to the Saratoga selected yearling sale.
Three sons of leading sire Tapit top the list of previously purchased horses that are pinhooks consigned to the Saratoga selected yearling sale.
The Diana, Coaching Club American Oaks, Lake George, San Clemente Handicap, San Diego Handicap, Nijinsky, Schuylerville, Sanford, Cougar II Handicap, and more.
Fox Hill Farm's Songbird had no issues the morning after her strong victory in the Coaching Club American Oaks (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course, where she will remain to prepare for the Aug. 20 Alabama Stakes (gr. I).
Songbird, as if she wanted to toy with onlookers and viewers across the nation to build the drama, took Carina Mia's best shot during the final turn in the Coaching Club American Oaks (gr. I), but was still able to win in her signature fashion.
Champion Songbird logged her first gallop over Saratoga Race Course's main track July 22.
Champion Songbird will put her perfect record on the line July 23 in the Coaching Club American Oaks (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course, which features a purse pumped up from $300,000 to $500,000 to attract the daughter of Medaglia d'Oro.
Fox Hill Farm's undefeated champion Songbird arrived at Saratoga Race Course just before 8 p.m. EDT July 20 in advance of her upcoming engagement in the $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks (gr. I) July 24.
Two challengers are confirmed, but a few more 3-year-old fillies are expected to line up against champion Songbird in the $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks (gr. I) July 24 at Saratoga Race Course.
Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Nyquist and undefeated 3-year-old filly Songbird both were put through workouts July 17 at Del Mar in preparation for top-level East Coast starts this summer.
Champions Beholder and Songbird both worked July 9 at Santa Anita Park toward top-level summer affairs on opposite coasts.
Fox Hill Farms' undefeated champion filly Songbird will be pointed to the Coaching Club American Oaks (gr. I) July 24 at Saratoga Race Course for her next start.
A day after she had her way with an overmatched field in her fourth consecutive start at Santa Anita Park, owner Rick Porter decided Songbird needs to take it to the other top fillies in her division.
The June 18 Summertime Oaks (gr. II) at Santa Anita Park is the hopeful target for Songbird's return, if all goes well as she gears up in training. After that, owner Rick Porter said, "there's a lot of good races on the East Coast."
Ed Stanco, whose Princess of Sylmar took him on a magical journey three years ago including a victory in the Kentucky Oaks (gr. I), is back in the race this year with Mo d'Amour.
In a career that would land her a spot in the Racing Hall of Fame, Davona Dale enjoyed the kind of 3-year-old season that even Affirmed had to admire.
A recommendation by an attorney for Delaware racing stewards to drop a therapeutic medication overage case against trainer Todd Pletcher could impact the sport's move toward uniform medication rules, Pletcher's attorney said.
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners' Curalina secured her second straight grade I victory July 26, but this one came via disqualification in the $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga Race Course.
The well-traveled Curalina carries a three-race winning streak into the $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks (gr. I) July 25, and seeks her second grade I victory in a row against the likes of Include Betty and Keen Pauline.
The Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association has named its champions and leaders for 2014, with Real Solution and Divine Fortune topping the list.
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Ian Tapp takes us through the Fasig-Tipton November Breeding Stock Sale numbers. Listen to comments from Mark Taylor of Taylor Made Sales, Jane Lyon of Summer Wind Farm, Brereton Jones of Airdrie Stud, and Ken Ramsey of Ramsey Farm. Sponsored by Taylor Made Sales
Twenty-three horses sold for $1 million or more at November mixed sale in Lexington, but median was down 20% from last year.
King of Prussia Stable's Princess of Sylmar, a four-time grade I winner, sold for $3.1 million Nov. 3 at the Fasig-Tipton November sale. Her dam, Storm Dixie, brought $1.9 million not long after.
Ian Tapp previews the Fasig-Tipton November Breeding Stock Sale, including comments from Mark Taylor, and Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. Watch Video
The Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland mixed sales, which run Nov. 3-14 in Kentucky and feature some standout horses and Breeders' Cup-related catalog updates, should maintain market stability, officials say.
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Thomas & Betts Reznor Research + Development Facility
Thomas & Betts' Reznor Brand, located in Mercer, Pennsylvania, is a leading producer of natural gas heating units for heating commercial and industrial spaces. As a fixture in the community for well over a century, Reznor is the oldest continually-operating manufacturing facility in Mercer County, having begun production in 1888.
Faced with financial challenges resulting from the economic downturn, the Mercer facility appeared targeted for closure – with all jobs likely relocated to other existing T&B plants, most outside of the country. In fact, after working with the area's economic development agencies and exploring options for expansion on site or locating to alternative sites, the company was weeks away from making the decision to close the Mercer plant.
Fortunately, the company reached out to the Wesex Corporation. And after assessing the company's needs, including the exciting prospect of a new research and development facility, Wesex was an instrumental leader in securing $2.5 million under the Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program to support the endeavor. The project also included demolishing a 112,000 square foot, 4-story manufacturing building, adding 29,000 square feet of new manufacturing space (3 buildings), and an 8,000 square foot psychometric test lab facility.
Thomas and Betts Reznor not only remains in operation in Mercer, the future of the plant has never been brighter. The Mercer plant now boasts Thomas and Betts' only world-class Global Engineering Center, allowing the company to not only retain its existing jobs, but to add new higher paying jobs as well.
Owner: Thomas & Betts Corporation
Architect: Desmone & Associates Architects
Contract: Grant Procurement, Program Management, Construction Management
Completion: October 2012
This project was awarded the 2013 Industrial Development Award / PA Commonwealth Award by 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth awards recognize the impact of "smart growth" projects across the state and the people who make them happen. "Projects are selected based on their economic and environmental impact, and the Wesex Corporation team achieved both with the Reznor project—demonstrating aggressiveness and creativity in keeping this important company in PA," said Jack Machek, President and CEO of 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania.


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This question needs to be rephrased as "Which type is most likely to come across as sociopathic?" because sociopathy is essentially feeling no empathy, and there is no such MBTI type.
ISTPs and ESTPs are most likely to seem sociopathic. They seem to be the ones that have the easiest time walking away from people and feelings. ENTJs and INTJs have the NJ which makes their bonds deeper. That being said, I can see more people getting hurt by the lack of emotion from these types and thus considering they lack empathy and are sociopaths.
ISTPs probably can seem psychopathic most frequently because of the above stated sociopathic qualities combined with the fact they rarely, if ever, need people and often have machines as a hobby and in my observation get really, really obsessed with their hobbies.
ENTJs may seem this way if you are never exposed to their sentimental side.
INTJs are the same. These would probably make the best sociopaths because they can strategize about how to come across as normal.


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New Year's Eve Celebrations around the World
New Year's Eve is a wonderful celebration which marks the crossing from the current year to an exciting New Year full of possibilities. New Year's Eve offers different meanings for individuals all over the world. Many people believe they can change important aspects of their lives with the coming of the New Year. Another belief holds that the first hours or even days of the New Year predict how the entire year will be for you. Because of this, people consider it extremely important to have celebratory plans with their loved ones during New Year's Eve in order to spend all the Year doing the same.
Everywhere around the globe, New Year's Eve is celebrated in a different manner. This is an important celebration for all people as they leave behind the past year and go forward into a New Year with hopes for health, wealth, love and success for all the aspects of their lives.
In some countries like Canada, New Year's Eve is celebrated at evening gatherings with friends or family in a previously planned destination such as a home or restaurant to hold a party celebrating the current year's many events and the coming of the New Year and its many opportunities. As with any other regular social party, the guests will eat, dance, drink alcoholic beverages and have lots of fun together, while they wait for midnight. At midnight, they exchange a midnight kiss or light fireworks, both symbolic for the New Year's Eve celebration. After midnight, the party can continue until morning.
In Mexico, there is a special custom which people do for New Year's Eve that is a little different. They will eat a grape with each of the twelve chimes of a clock's bell while counting down the seconds until midnight and with each grape eaten, they make a wish. The Mexican people celebrate New Year's Eve with a late-night dinner with members of their families and at dinner, they serve the traditional meal which is constituted by turkey and mole. After dinner, some of the attendees will attend parties outside their home such as those held in night clubs.
In Puerto Rico, the New Year's Eve is also celebrated with family and friends but there is also a convention in San Juan, where people are entertained by Latin music and fireworks at midnight which is complemented by the "Auld Lang Syne" in Spanish.
In New York, New Year's Eve is celebrated by an old tradition called the "ball drop", in which a crystal ball located on Times Square roof's is lowered down during the last minute of the current year to reach the roof of the building exactly at the start of the New Year. Millions will attend this event while families across America will watch from their home television sets.
In European countries, New Year's Eve is usually celebrated with friends and family at a house party or in a restaurant, but there are also a multitude of street parties which can usually be attended by anyone. The home or restaurant parties are accompanied by feasts where people usually serve traditional dishes. Champagne is enjoyed at midnight when people hold a glass of champagne in their hands and toast to the New Year with every other participant at the party.
The celebrations are different from country to country but they have some things in common regardless the country or the continent. The first and most important thing which is of high relevance for the New Year's Eve celebration is being surrounded by friends and family, the ones you hold most dear. Another of course is good food and fireworks which are a part of almost every New Year's Eve celebration across the world.
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by William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi
One of Japan's most beloved foods for over a thousand years, miso is a cultured, high-protein seasoning perfectly at home in recipes within and beyond the boundaries of Asian cuisine. Available in a range of flavors, colors, textures, and aromas as varied as that of the world's finest cheeses and wines, miso makes a delicious addition to stocks, stews, dressings, casseroles, and desserts. But miso is much more than a seasoning. Low in sodium and high in protein, vitamin B12, and other essential nutrients, miso is also highly nutritious. Alongside valuable nutritional, cultural, and historical information on this savory soyfood, The Book of Miso includes a bounty of delicious traditional recipes as well as those more familiar to the Western palate.
"Crammed full of historical information, traditional and Western recipes, explicit instructions for homemade miso in Japanese life...." —Library Journal
Most people's first introduction to miso is the warm, comforting soup found in Japanese restaurants. But now, products like miso dressings and miso-seasoned corn chips line supermarket shelves. Between 1975 and 1982, production of miso in the US jumped a remarkable 525%. Available in a range of flavors, colors, and aromas as varied as that of the world's fine cheeses and wines, miso is perfectly at home outside of Asian cuisine. The Book of Miso includes innovative recipes for Quiche Nicoise with Miso, Boston Baked Soybeans with Brown Rice and Miso, and Quick Potato Salad with Miso Dressing as well as traditional Japanese recipes like miso soups and stir-fries.
The Book of Miso contains:
* Over 400 tempting recipes.
* Easy-to-follow instructions for making miso at home and on a community scale.
* An up-to-date directory of miso manufacturers in North America, Latin America, and Europe.
* Over 300 illustrations.
William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi worked together for six years in East Asia, studying with top soyfoods researchers, manufacturers, nutritionists, historians, and cooks. Together they have published 53 books on soyfoods. William lives in Lafayette, California and is currently the director of the Soyfoods Center, which he and Akiko founded in 1976. Akiko is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer in Walnut Creek, California.
The Book of Miso
by William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi
Ten Speed Press, 2001
280 pages, $19.95 paper
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The following is a statement released by the BBC on Sunday, 6 April, 2003.
On Sunday 6th April, in the latest incident of friendly fire, an American aircraft hit a convoy of American forces and Kurdish fighters in the north of Iraq killing and injuring many.
Travelling with the convoy was a BBC team including John Simpson and Panorama producer Tom Giles.
A Kurdish translator working with the BBC team was badly injured in the attack, and died shortly afterwards.
Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed had been with the BBC since mid March. He was 25 years old and unmarried.
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Problems cannot be resolved all at once. Slowly untie knots. Discern whether this is a puzzle, obstacle, or entanglement. Patiently analyze puzzles to solve them. Persist to overcome obstacles. Extricate yourself from entanglements. Even the greatest difficulties can be resolved when they are reduced to smaller, more manageable components. AURORA WINTER [Read more…]
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a place for zinesters - writers and readers
First, I apologize if this isn't the appropriate place to post, but I had seriouos doubts if it'd get seen or read on "Blogs".
I have a prison-pal by the name of Juan Maldonado with whom I exchange zines for art & poetry. Juan is a "dark Christian" and his poems reflect that. He's not a preacher or a Bible-thumper. He's very talented and his full-color art is excellent, sometimes dark and goth-tinged, sometimes cute, sometimes "naughty-cute".
I have reproduced Juan's art and printed a few of his short stories and poems, but I don't have the equipment or funds to do justice to his art which is best seen in color, and I am SO way behind in the zines that I include his poetry in, I'm feeling very guilty. I've got stacks of art and several pages of poetry & other submissions by Juan. I would really like them to be published and the copies of the zine they're in sent to Juan, rather than just sitting on them all as I procrastinate.
I was in contact with a horror e-zinester a while back on this forum and told him I'd transcribe some of Juan's poetry and send it to him, but as ever, I'm too lazy to follow through with that, and would like to do this the old-fashioned way, via "snail mail". (Xeroxing a page is so much easier than transcribing one.) I'm not trying to be an "ideological luddite" or making a statement or anything. I just don't know how to scan, so I can't send his art electronically. (I hope to learn some day, but not now. It's too much time and work.)
So, if there are any horror zinesters out there, or any poetry zinesters, who:
1. Are open to or supportive of prisoners,
2. Would be willing to print Juan's submissions and/or art, especially those who can, or often do, print in color,
3. Who will definitely be publishing in a matter of weeks, at most a month or two,
4. And who will commit to sending Juan a copy,
Please let me know, and give me YOUR PHYSICAL ADDRESS, so I can send you some.
Thanks very much, from me, and Juan.
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Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson is a Texas born singer and actress who is building upon her success as a country singer. Jessica's little sister Ashlee married Pete Wentz and has a child. Jessica Simpson was dating Dallas QB Tony Romo but that ended recently.
They've never been afraid of publicly displaying their affection for one another and on Easter Sunday (April 5) Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson were at it again.
The "With You" songstress posted a photo to her Instagram account that depicted her wrapping herself around her hubby and moving in for a flirty smooch.
Over the years she's been unfairly branded as a ditzy blonde bombshell, but it turns out Jessica Simpson is more of a billion-dollar businesswoman.
On Thursday (April 2) the "Come On Over" songstress announced that she sold a majority stake of her JSC Products corporation to Sequential Brands Group, with plans to triple sales by flooding international markets.
She looks hotter than ever these days, and Jessica Simpson is all about showing off her killer body in the new Spring 2015 campaign for her namesake brand.
The 34-year-old entertainer channels her Daisy Duke character for the sexy snapshots, modeling a pair of short denim cutoffs against the Sedona, Arizona backdrop.
She may be married with kiddos, but that's not stopping Jessica Simpson from fully embracing her sexuality- and plastering it all over social media!
The gorgeous "With You" singer posed for some racy photos with her husband Eric Johnson in honor of Valentine's Day, and it looks like they've been reading/watching "Fifty Shades of Grey."
She's in killer shape these days, and Jessica Simpson couldn't be happier to have lost 70 pounds after giving birth to her two kids.
The "With You" singer told InStyle, "I wanted to appreciate being in a wedding gown again. I wanted to enjoy it like I did the first time. But I didn't have a weight goal; I just wanted to look healthy."
It's been a whirlwind year for Jessica Simpson, and from the look of her latest Instagram post, she's in a very positive mindset. The "Dukes of Hazzard" hottie, who has famously struggled with her weight for years, happily shows off her fit physique in the series of snapshots while wishing her loyal followers a happy holiday.
Previously, Simpson commented on her battle with the bulge in an interview with Glamour magazine- "Today, I feel truly comfortable in my own skin. Better exercise habits, food choices, and lifestyle changes have contributed to this, but ultimately, my confidence comes from my state of mind."
Taking her hairdo to the next level, Jessica Simpson decided to go totally platinum during her recent visit to the hair salon.
The "With You" singer headed over to Rita Hazan's beauty shop to undergo a dazzling dye job and she posted the results on Instagram.
Stepping out for a family affair, Jessica Simpson and her sister Ashlee Simpson teamed up for the Los Angeles premiere of "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1" last night (November 17).
Joined by her handsome hubby Eric Johnson, the "Come on Over" songstress showed some serious leg as she flirted with the shutterbugs outside the Nokia Theatre LA Live.
She's the ultimate girly-girl and it seems Jessica Simpson has created a mini-me in her 2-year-old daughter Maxwell Drew Johnson.
The "With You" songstress posted a photo via Instagram of her little one wearing some of her mom's makeup.
They've always worked well together and on Saturday (October 11) Jessica Simpson got a serious boost of support from her sister Ashlee Simpson.
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Area of Expertise - Disaster Risk Management, Humanitarian Assistance, Human Security, Civil Societies
Ms. Jessica Ear joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in November 2008. Her areas of focus at APCSS are Human Security, Disaster Risk Management and Humanitarian Assistance, Food Security, Civil Societies and Development. Prior to her arrival at DKI APCSS, she was a Humanitarian Operations Advisor at the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Affairs in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Ms. Ear has had overseas field experiences that included serving as the Regional Deputy Refugee Coordinator at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, where she helped shaped U.S. policy on refugees, advocated for better refugee treatment with host countries, and oversaw humanitarian assistance to refugees in Asia. Ms. Ear was also a member of the State Department Joint Cambodian Adoption Task Force at the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She investigated and adjudicated international adoption cases, negotiated with Cambodian authorities for procedural reform, and documented incidents of child trafficking for department reports. Her other government work focused on consular services at the U.S Consulate General in Sydney, Australia and the U.S. Consulate General in Chengdu, China.
In the private sector, Ms. Ear advised on alternative dispute and conflict resolution as the Assistant CEO and Business Development Manager of the Australian Commercial Disputes Centre in Sydney, Australia. She was also a legal consultant involved with the Sichuan American Chamber of Commerce to promote U.S. business interests in China.
During that time she co-founded "Go West," the first English language magazine for the Sichuan capital city, Chengdu. Other non-governmental experiences included a consultancy with the International Organization for Migration in Bangkok, Thailand to address multi-national human trafficking and repatriation concerns; as well as working with Global Rights, formerly known as The International Human Rights Law Group, in Washington, D.C. to assist their global rule of law initiatives.
Ms. Ear holds a Juris Doctorate with concentration in Pacific Asian legal studies from the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Ms. Ear was awarded the U.S. Department of State Superior Honor Award and two Meritorious Awards for her work. She is a member of the California State Bar, a certified mediator in Australia and has completed the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Civil Military Coordination course. As a former refugee from Cambodia she is proficient in Khmer and Thai.