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Improving the Sustainability of Thru-Hiking
Though I felt immensely connected to nature on my Appalachian Trail (AT) thru-hike (an end-to-end hike of a long-distance trail within one season), I was disappointed by how environmentally degrading backpacking can be. I found countless coolers and campsites full of trash, and eating individually wrapped packets of ramen and Pop-Tarts generated an uncomfortable amount…
Tracking Tigers Is Just As Dangerous As It Sounds
Matthew Luskin is a conservation biologist, wildlife ecologist, and National Geographic grantee. He spent a year in the rain forest of Indonesia tracking tigers through the remaining three largest national parks—and it was seriously dangerous. "When there's a tiger around you can't sleep. You can barely eat. You can't do anything because all you are…
Best Job Ever: Exploring Super-Remote Caves in Greenland
Geologist Gina Moseley started caving for sport when she was 13 years old, and now she's in it for science. Moseley is constructing the first cave-based record of past climate change for Greenland.
Epic Mountain Hike Leads to Discovery of New Microbes
"Diatoms are to microscopic organisms as grizzly bears are to mammals. They are beautiful for their intricate designs and symmetry, and amazing for their incredible variety."
A Wild Ride: 50 Years of the US Wilderness Act
This article is brought to you by the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP). Read our other articles on the National Geographic Voices blog featuring the work of our iLCP Fellow Photographers all around the world. Text and photos by Amy Gulick, Fellow at the International League of Conservation Photographers. Fifty years ago, The Beatles made their debut…
April 13, 2014: Cutting Cake with Jane Goodall, Saving Sparrows with Photography and More
Every week, embark with host Boyd Matson on an exploration of the latest discoveries and interviews with some of the most fascinating people on the planet, on National Geographic Weekend. Please check listings near you to find the best way to listen to National Geographic Weekend on radio, or listen below! Hour 1 – Dr. Jane Goodall pioneered studies that sought to understand…
March 30, 2014: Skiing Everest, Mission Blue, Search for Michael Rockefeller, Violent Animal Reproduction, and More
Join radio host Boyd Matson every week for adventure, conservation and green science. This week his guests try to solve the mystery of the disappearance of Michael Rockefeller, figure out if Mother Nature is really trying to kill you, ski off the seven summits including Everest, look inside the city of Damascus during the Syrian War, dive into Mission Blue with Sylvia Earle, look at how much food we waste each year, take a walk on the surface of Mars, and find out what we should pack on a camping trip.
Awake, Inner Wild Self!
Lessons are learned while walking. When we forget previous truths we are sent (up) reminders. And if there were was anything to be learned hiking up this mountain, it was to awaken the inner wild side and "be less sheepish!"
February 15, 2014: California's Drought, Inside the Human Brain, a 1,000 Mile Desert Trek and More
Join radio host Boyd Matson every week for adventure, conservation and green science. This week they are trekking 1,000 miles through the Empty Quarter Desert, searching for the lost civilization of Shangri La, looking at the implications of California's severe drought, walking through Chinatowns, researching the human brain, getting a visit from the Love Doctor, and learning what makes Russians smile.
Sounds and Sights of a Midday Oasis on the Rim of Africa
Take a break under the oak trees on the Rim of Africa Mountain Trail with an interactive panorama and audio recording.
Geography in the News: America's Hiking Trails
By Neal Lineback and Mandy Lineback Gritzner, Geography in the NewsTM Three National Scenic Hiking Trails In the fall of each year, many long-distance hikers are finishing up their hikes for the year as winter approaches, while others are making plans to begin their odesseys the following spring. While many yearn to attempt long-distance hikes,…
September 1, 2013: Speed Hiking From Mexico to Canada, Coming Face to Face With a Grizzly and More
This week, we set a speed record walking from Mexico to Canada, pack bear spray in the event that we encounter a bear, dog or family member who gets out of line, and cycle across the United States in just 42 days.
Nairobi entrepreneur prepares to become first Kenyan climber to summit Mount Everest
Next spring, a 39-year-old climber from Nairobi hopes to become the first Kenyan man to summit Mount Everest – a feat requiring tremendous endurance, strength and determination. Steve Obbayi, a tech entrepreneur who taught himself how to write software and was a former high-school rugby star, plans to push himself to the limit when he…
August 18, 2013: Saving Children in Ethiopia, Reigning In Our Sweet Tooth, and More
This week, we stop an ancient Ethiopian curse, then we explore Iran using century-old images, and finally, we power homes using gas from human waste.


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Snake Eyes
1998 (1999) - Paramount Home Video
review by Todd Doogan, special to
The Digital Bits
Film Rating: D
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): B, A-, D
Specs and Features
98 mins, R, letterboxed widescreen (2.35:1), single-sided, single-layered, Amaray keep case packaging, theatrical trailer, film-themed menu screens, scene access (12 chapters), languages: English (DD 5.1 and 2.0), French (DD 2.0), subtitles: English, Closed Captioned
The camera work is in-frickin'-credible, the acting isn't half-bad and the storyline is a really good one. So how come
Snake Eyes
sucks? I dunno. I can't put my finger on it. My first guess is they give away too much too soon -- how can you really be enthralled when you know "who did it" at the one hour mark? After that it's anybody's guess as to why. I think Nic Cage got a raw deal from his fellow actors on his choice of roles of late, but movies like this don't help.
As for the disc, the picture is all right, but nothing to write home about. It looks fine on the surface, but if you really try, you can see some hints of artifacting. The colors are solid, as are the blacks -- but a few scenes looked a bit off -- like the conversation between Nic and the "redhead" in the stairwell at the beginning of chapter 8. It seemed a little blurred to me. The sound is really nice, and Paramount gives us two English DD choices 5.1 or 2.0 (along with French).
The extras, aside from a trailer, are zip. I would have liked a commentary from De Palma - it would have been really good to hear what he had to say, plus it would be neat to hear the set-ups for some of the incredible camera work in this flick. Check out the opening shot, and the birds-eye track in chapter 7.
Snake Eyes
is a fine movie to add to your De Palma library, but for any other reason, I think the title speaks for itself.
Todd Doogan
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Situated on a ridge in Fairfield, Vermont, Stony Pond Farm is home to three ponds, and overlooks breathtaking views of Mount Mansfield, and Smugglers Notch. This beautiful country setting provides a peaceful, low-stress environment ideal for raising cattle.
The farmhouse includes within its core the original hand-hewn home of the first settlers. Two barns, a tie stall and open-air deep-bedded pack barn are used to house and feed the cattle in winter.
A core foundation of the farming system is that of grass and grazing. No herbicides, pesticides or chemical fertilizers are used. Our mineral cycle is rapid, as nutrients move through soils, plants, animals, manures, compost, soil microbes, and the products we sell. Our water cycle is slow, as rain and snow melt percolate slowly through deep, well-structured, high organic matter soils. Solar energy flow through plants is available to livestock and wildlife, and harvested by us as solar dollars.
Our cows are at their best, freely choosing their diet from a diverse array of grasses, forbs, and browse alike. One can only be so lucky as to share in the bliss felt by that of a ruminating cow lying in the shade.
Our mission is simple. Live freely as part of a farm entity whose primary purpose is to share food that is healthy for the environment, the mind, body and the soul. It is all one, and the happy, fulfilled, prosperous farmer that shares life with blissful contented cows, passes on food to the consumer unmatched in quality.
Stony Pond Farm is certified organic by Vermont Organic Farmers, the certification arm of The Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT) and meets the standards of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Organic Program (NOP).
For us healthy cows go hand in hand with a healthy community. As members of a strong and close-knit rural agricultural community, we strive to maintain personal and meaningful relationships with our friends and neighbors. We believe strongly in helping to create a dignified, prosperous future for Vermont agriculture, for farmers, and for the families who support us.


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by Suzanne TitkemeyerWhen the news of the unwanted sexual encounters between Vision Forum's Doug Phillips and Lordes Torres came out followed by the closing of both Vision Forum Ministries and their for profit Vision Forum Inc it left quite a void in the world of Christian Dominionism, Patriarchy and Quiverfull movements. Everyone speculated who would take over from the powerhouse dominionist ministry of Vision Forum. But those that might have stepped in to fill the void left by the closing of Vision Forum had their own scandals to deal with: first Bill Gothard of IBLP/ATI, who is huge in the world of homeschooling and dominionism, was accused of groping teenagers working at ATI … [Read more...]
Family Life Today: Poised to Take Over the Vacancy Left by Vision Forum Ministries
News: Vision Forum's Doug Phillips Hides From Process Server
According to the Spiritual Sounding Board former head of Vision Forum Ministries and groper in chief Doug Phillips has been playing hide and go seek with the process server. The server is attempting to serve him with legal papers in the matter of Lordes Torres, the young lady he is accused of sexual harassment of during her years at Vision Forum. His list of attempts below. It surely speaks to the moral character of Doug Phillips that he's evading a summons from the courts of Texas. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Beall Phillips Responds to Excommunication?
by Beall Phillips (wife of Vision Forum disgraced head Doug Phillips) at Facebook on November 17th, 2014A little late posting this but here it is. Beall's response. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Submission Keeps You From Being Victimized?
by Rebekah (Doug Wilson's daughter) at Femina - On Not Being A Victim 1. Christian women should be characterized by submission. No matter how much cool-shaming is thrown at the concept of headship and submission by the hipper-than-thou crowd, we can't get around it that the Bible teaches this. Some people scream and run when they hear the word submission, and men like Doug Philips make that reaction understandable. Then over amongst the crowd that's all gung-ho about submission there is frequently a scary lack of nuance. On the two sides of this question you find people waving their flags saying either, "submission is terrible," or "submission is wonderful." But submit is a a word like love. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Victim Blaming
by Doug Wilson from Blog and Mablog - Vice, Victims and Vision ForumRe: Doug Phillips and Lourdes Torres Given that, either his sexual attentions were entirely unwelcome, or they were not. If they were not unwelcome, then the affair appears to have been one of complicated and unconsummated adultery, with two participants. She was an adult, and so if his attentions were not entirely unwelcome, she was a player in the vice, not a victim. The victim in this would have been Beall, with two people victimizing her. … [Read more...]
News: Media Starting to Link Duggar Family to Doug Phillips Finally
The Daily Beast reported this about the link between the Duggars and Doug Phillips of Vision Forum - Sex Scandal Rocks The Duggars' Christian Patriarchy MovementThe far-right Christian Patriarchy—brought to American audiences by the Duggar family—is on the verge of collapse after a series of alleged sex scandals involving the movement's leaders. … [Read more...]
News: Pastor Accused of Using Nanny as Sex Object
Written by Chelsea Schilling and reposted from World Net Daily. Lawsuit claims religious leader promised to marry young woman after wife dies(Warning: This story contains explicit descriptions of alleged sexual conduct described in a lawsuit and may be offensive to some readers.)The former leader of a popular Christian ministry – who resigned from his position after confessing to an "inappropriate" relationship – is now the subject of a lawsuit that claims he "methodically groomed" and made unwanted sexual contact with a young woman after serving as an authority figure in her life for more than a decade. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Bill Gothard's Link To The Duggars
Looks like some of the media outlets are starting to put together the fact that '19 Kids & Counting' Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar have been serious supporters of Bill Gothard and his IBLP and ATI programs and, to a lesser extent, Doug Phillips and Vision Forum. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Alleged Sexual Abuse is the Mother's Fault?
by Nathaniel Darnell, former Vision Forum Ministries employee, at Persevero News - Of Men and Megalomaniacs: Getting Beyond Alleged Sexual Abuse of Certain Homeschool Leaders(Trigger Warning: Blame shifting, sexual abuse, abuse by fathers and leaders)There's been quite a bit of buzz recently about complaints against Bill Gothard, founder and teacher of IBLP (the Institute of Basic Life Principles) and ATII (the Advanced Training Institute International), for allegedly being involved in sexual harassment of several young ladies who served at the ministry's headquarters in Chicago. To be clear, dozens if not hundreds of young ladies have circulated through the ministry doors over the de … [Read more...]
Bill Gothard Scandal Finally Picked Up By Mainstream Media
The Washington Post ran a story yesterday that spoke of not only the allegations against Gothard and his removal as head of IBLP but also giving mention to other recent scandals involving sexual abuse in the Evangelical world. They interviewed some of the ladies Gothard preyed upon who've told their stories through Recovering Grace and also pointed out that the Duggars follow his teachings and that Bill Gothard has been embraced by many in the Republican Religious Right. … [Read more...]


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I have this Laptop witch boots great but m0n0 wall only detects the
internal net card not the PCMCIA D-link DFE-650 card is there any way to
incorporate this and why was this taken out of m0n0wall?
I have tried unpacking mfsroot.gz and changing pccard.conf with the
DFE-650 settings from freebsd but when I burn the image the files are
all in CAPS and the boot/loader cannot find kernel.gz (all this is done
in windows xp including the burn) when I burn the generic image from
m0n0wall the files are all in non CAPS. Any suggestions.


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Just returned from a 10 days in Pismo and 10 days in Santa Barbara. All of you who are sharing informations and taking the time to answer questions on the forum are so precious. Tried to find you Kibblesmom in Grover, looking for your beautiful cat, AH AH!!! You are lucky to live in Grover.
Third time in California and I still in love with this beautiful place. People are so friendly, only good service from everybody in hotels, restaurants and attractions (except TY Warner Sea Center admission Spanish lady in S. Barbara).
We took Amtrak from LA Union to Grover, I paid for the business class, doesn't worth the extra charge, one service employee slept half of the time. With business class, you're supposed to get a reserved seat. We had problem to find a seat, we had to ask and wait, wait. Finally, we got a place but the lady sitting there before us was sick, but nothing else was available (it is a 5 hour trip), she was vomiting in the toilet so I didn't know if she had gastro and didn't want to be sick during my vacation. We had no other choice to take these places. Return Grover to S. Barbara with regular service, cold temperature, nothing special to add. TIP: If you live in Canada and your departure is from a station without service (Grover), Amtrak will send your ticket by mail only a few days before, as we were already in CA, I had to call them and they sent me the scan code to print my tickets in LA.
We had a rental car from Enterprise, good service, would recommend them if you need a car.
We visited wineries (SLO, Edna and Paso Robles) that I choose according to the suggestions on the forum. My favorite was Wolff Vineyards, the best wines to our taste, and I will always remember the chance I had to meet and make a visit with the owner, he's a wonderful person and so generous, involved in many projects to protect the environment, not only thinking business and money, not many persons like him.
We visited many places around (Avila, SLO very nice town, coastal villages, Moonstone area nice sidewalk, many parks, Morro Bay, Cambria, Hearst Castle highly recommend, Paso Robles nothing to do in the village, and a lot of shopping with my daughter).
In Pismo, we stayed at Kon Tiki Inn, will write a review, this is a WONDERFUL place, with WONDERFUL staff and service, this is the place you don't have to ask for something they will offer it before, very quiet (you don't hear your neighbor). Location: you have to be there to see no word can describe. TIP: if you want sunshine while sitting on your balcony, choose room between 1 and 15 (last digits). There is 2 washers-dryers. Now, all rooms are equipped with a microwave, very useful to heat leftover or take-out at Giusseppe. Good breakfast included.
We eat at many restaurants, I wrote all my reviews, they are pending, will be post in a few days. Less expensive in Pismo than S. Barbara. TIP: Good take-out for a picnic or to eat in your room at Giusseppe Take-Out. For a good italian diner, Rosa is a very good value, less expensive than Giusseppe.
For S. Barbara, I will write my reviews (forum, hotel, restaurants, attractions) in S.Barbara.
We just want to go back and visit the Northern Part of CA (SF, Napa, Yosemite and surroundings).


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GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich picked up the endorsement of Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips.
Phillips wrote a blog post today saying the former House speaker is "electable" and compared Gingrich, who lags in national polls on the GOP nomination, to conservative icon Ronald Reagan.
Phillips also said Gingrich is a "great contrast" to President Obama, given his accomplishments in Congress. Some of his reasons:
"First, he is a conservative. Perhaps not as conservative as some would like, but remember no candidate is perfect. Newt is electable. If you have seen the GOP debates, Gingrich has been the best debater. He does really well in that format and he looks presidential," Phillips wrote.
Speaking of endorsements, Herman Cain got a shout-out today from comedian Dennis Miller after appearing on his radio show. Miller tweeted:
Here's an idea for Herman Cain's next bumper sticker: "Cain Versus Not Able."
Cain, who's getting all kinds of media attention since his upset victory in the Florida straw poll, tweeted back "love it!"
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
USA TODAY's Jackie Kucinich (@jfkucinich) and Fredreka Schouten (@fschouten) also contribute to the OnPolitics blog.


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95 Specials, Movies & Marathons to Watch on TV on Super Bowl Sunday -- Instead of Super Bowl XLVII
Mike Vicic - January 31, 2013
Football, commercials and food. That sums up Super Bowl Sunday for 100 million people, but what about everybody else? As usual, cable networks are showing specials, stunts and marathons for people just like YOU. And it doesn't matter if you like Zuchons or zombies, you'll find something you like from these 95 Specials, Movies & Marathons to Watch on TV Instead of the Super Bowl:
PUPPY BOWL IX on Animal Planet (3pm - 3am): This year, 63 furry pups will battle for barking rights with a winning combination of terrier tackles, canine touchdowns, puppy penalties and fido first downs. For the first-time ever, a squadron of hedgehog cheerleaders will occupy the sidelines, rooting for their favorite players, while sideline reporter "Meep the Bird" returns to tweet live updates throughout the game. Plus, new Puppy Cam technology will bring viewers closer to the action with intimate "in-your-face" camera angles of dog snouts, waging tails and thumping paws. And the halftime show again features kitty gymnastics, furry acrobatics and overall kitten mayhem.
WIVES WITH KNIVES Marathon on ID (6pm - 5am): Super Bowl parties can get dicey when football rivalries turn friends into fanatic foes, but especially when the woman serving your game-day snacks is a knife-wielding femme fatale. So reach for your finger foods with caution, as you watch this marathon of Season 1 episodes.
BRING IT ON Movie Marathon on ABC Family (10am - 8pm): If CBS isn't showing the cheerleaders often enough for your tastes, then just change the channel and watch 10 straight hours of cheerleaders, as ABC Family presents four movies in the BRING IT ON franchise: ALL OR NOTHING, BRING IT ON AGAIN, IN IT TO WIN IT, and FIGHT TO THE FINISH.
Celebrity Beach Bowl 2013 on DirecTV (9am - 12:30pm; 1 - 4:30pm): DirecTV repeats this event twice on Super Bowl Sunday after airing it live on Saturday at 1pm from New Orleans' SuperFan Stadium (at Blaine Kern's Mardi Gras World). The following celebrities and football greats are scheduled to play: Katharine McPhee; Neil Patrick Harris; Peter Facinelli; Rob Riggle; Snoop Dogg; Chace Crawford; Josh Hutcherson; Nina Dobrev; Maria Menounos; Scott Porter; "Sports Illustrated" Swimsuit models Chrissy Teigen and Hannah Davis; Kevin Fraser; Rocsi Diaz; Ian Somerholder; Jenny McCarthy; Matt Bomer; Jesse Williams; Artie Lange; NFL Hall of Famers Deion Sanders and Warren Moon; former NY Giants Jesse Palmer, Michael Strahan and Amani Toomer; Heisman Trophy-winner and NFL great Eddie George. Immediately following the game and trophy presentation, international superstar Pitbull will take the stage for a live concert.
WALKING DEAD Marathon on AMC (3pm - 4:30am): Besides feeling like a zombie after eating too many Super Bowl snacks, you can get your WALKING DEAD fix two different ways. During the game, you can watch a commercial for Time Warner Cable, which will feature Norman Reedus from the WALKING DEAD. Plus, to get ready for the show's return on February 10th, AMC is airing a marathon of the first six episodes of this series, as well as the first two minutes of the next new installment.
90 More Specials, Series & Movie Marathons That'll Bowl You Over
3net (6am - 6pm): PUPPY BOWL VII (aka PUPPY BOWL 2011)
A&E (12:30 - 5pm): SHIPPING WARS Marathon
A&E (8pm - 4am): STORAGE WARS Marathon
AXS TV (2:30pm - 5am): AXS TV CONCERT Marathon (2:30pm: Sheryl Crow; 4:35pm: Cyndi Lauper; 5:35pm: Stevie Nicks; 6:35pm: Heart; 8:35pm: Colbie Caillat; 9:35: Mariah Carey; 11:05pm: Stevie Nicks; 12:05am: Heart: 2:05am: Mariah Carey; 3:35am: Colbie Caillat)
BBC America (Noon - 4pm; Midnight - 6am): TOP GEAR Marathon
BBC America (4pm - Midnight): STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION Marathon
BET (4pm - Midnight): REED BETWEEN THE LINES Marathon
bio (7pm - 4am): DEADLY MEN Marathon
Bravo (1:30 - 7:30pm): THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA Marathon
CBS Sports (11:30am - 10:30pm): CHEERLEADING Marathon
Centric (11am - 5pm): 227 Marathon
Chiller (2 - 7pm): RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT Marathon
Chiller (7pm - Midnight): FEAR FACTOR Marathon
Cloo (6am - 6am): IN PLAIN SIGHT Marathon
CMT (7 - 10pm): REBA Marathon
Comedy Central (7 - 11pm): TOSH.0 Marathon
Destination America (6am - 6am): A HAUNTING Marathon
Discovery (4 - 10pm): ALASKA: THE LAST FRONTIER Marathon
Discovery Fit & Health (Noon - 2am): UNTOLD STORIES OF THE ER Marathon
Disney (1 - 9pm): Teen Musical Movie Marathon (1pm: CAMP ROCK; 3pm: CAMP ROCK 2: THE FINAL JAM; 5pm: HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL; 7pm: HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2)
Disney XD (Noon - 7pm): LAB RATS Marathon
DIY (4 - 9pm): FRONTIER HOUSE Marathon
DIY (9pm - 3am): BUILDING ALASKA Marathon
ESPN (6 - 10pm): WORLD'S STRONGEST MAN COMPETITION 2012 Marathon
Food Network (6 - 11pm; Midnight - 2am): RACHAEL VS. GUY CELEBRITY COOK-OFF Marathon
fuse (2 - 5pm): EX-WIVES OF ROCK Marathon
fuse (5pm - 3am): 100 SEXIEST VIDEOS OF ALL TIME Marathon
G4 (5 - 8pm): COPS Marathon
G4 (1 - 5am): WEB SOUP Marathon
GMC (1pm - 1am): 7TH HEAVEN Marathon
GSN (5pm - 3:30am): DANCING WITH THE STARS Marathon
H2 (10am - 2pm): MONSTERQUEST Marathon
H2 (4 - 8pm): UFO HUNTERS / UFO FILES Marathon
Hallmark (9am - 3am): THE GOLDEN GIRLS Marathon
Hallmark Movie Channel (10am - 6am): MURDER, SHE WROTE Marathon
Halogen (7 - 10am): I'LL TRY ANYTHING ONCE Marathon
Halogen (10am - 1pm): GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT Marathon
HGTV (1 - 8pm): PROPERTY BROTHERS Marathon
History (6 - 10pm): AMERICAN PICKERS Marathon
Hub (Noon - 3:30pm): ANIMANIACS Marathon
Hub (8pm - 2am): LOIS & CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN Marathon
ID (6 - 9am): WHO THE (BLEEP) DID I MARRY? Marathon
ID (9am - 6pm): DATELINE ON ID Marathon
ION (2 - 9pm): MONK Marathon
ION (9pm - 1am): LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT Marathon
Lifetime (11am - 3am): Movie Marathon (11am: NOT EASILY BROKEN; 1pm: BETTY & CORETTA; 3pm: STEEL MAGNOLIAS; 5pm: THE WIFE HE MET ONLINE; 7pm: MATERNAL OBSESSION; 9pm: TAKEN BACK - FINDING HALEY; 11pm: MATERNAL OBSESSION; 1am: TAKEN BACK - FINDING HALEY)
LMN (6am - 4am): Movie Marathon (6am: WHO IS CLARK ROCKEFELLER?; 8am: BORDERLINE MURDER; 10am: ENCOUNTER WITH DANGER; Noon: VANISHED; 2pm: EIGHT DAYS TO LIVE; 4pm: TICKET OUT; 6pm: DEAD SILENT; 8pm: MOTHER, MAY I SLEEP WITH DANGER?; 10pm: A CRY FOR HELP - THE TRACEY THURMAN STORY; Midnight: MOTHER, MAY I SLEEP WITH DANGER?; 2am: A CRY FOR HELP - THE TRACEY THURMAN STORY)
Logo (10am - 10pm): DALLAS COWBOYS CHEERLEADERS: MAKING THE TEAM Marathon
MeTV (3 - 7pm): THE DONNA REED SHOW Marathon
Military (6 - 10am): SECRETS OF WORLD WAR II Marathon
Military (10am - 6am): WORLD WAR II IN COLOR Marathon
MSNBC (5 - 11pm): TO CATCH A PREDATOR / PREDATOR RAW Marathon
MTV (6 - 10am): RIDICULOUSNESS Marathon
MTV (6 - 10pm): SNOOKI & JWOWW Marathon
MTV2 (6 - 9am): MARTIN Marathon
MTV2 (1:30 - 6pm; 10pm - 1am): GUY CODE Marathon
MTV2 (6 - 10pm): SAVED BY THE BELL Marathon
Nat Geo (Noon - 7pm): DRUGGED Marathon
Nat Geo (8pm - 2am): WICKED TUNA Marathon
Nat Geo Wild (7 - 10pm): ULTIMATE PREDATORS Marathon
NBC Sports (10pm - 3am): STAR-SPANGLED SUNDAYS Marathon
nuvoTV (Noon - 4pm): PRISON BREAK Marathon
Ovation (Noon - 8pm): SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Marathon
OWN (2pm - 2am): OPRAH'S NEXT CHAPTER Marathon
Oxygen (12:30 - 11pm): SNAPPED Marathon
ReelzChannel (Noon - 8pm): RETURN TO LONESOME DOVE Marathon
Science (9am - 3am): HOW IT'S MADE Marathon
Smithsonian (6pm - 2am): MIGHTY SHIPS / MIGHTY PLANES Marathon
SOAPnet (7pm - Midnight): DAYS OF OUR LIVES Marathon
SPEED (6 - 11pm): DUMBEST STUFF ON WHEELS Marathon
Spike (11am - 3am): BAR RESCUE Marathon
style (6am - 7pm): SUPERNANNY Marathon
Syfy (11am - 3:30am): Movie Marathon (11am: THE GOLDEN COMPASS; 1:30pm: THE NUTTY PROFESSOR II - THE KLUMPS; 3:30pm: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS; 6pm: LAND OF THE LOST; 8pm: THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA - PRINCE CASPIAN; 11pm: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS; 1:30am NUTTY PROFESSOR II - THE KLUMPS)
tbs (10:30am - 5:30am): Movie Marathon (10:30am: FOOL'S GOLD; 12:30pm: GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST; 2:30pm: SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE; 5pm: SEX AND THE CITY 2; 8pm: THE BUCKET LIST; 10pm: THE HOLIDAY; 12:40am: THE BUCKET LIST; 2:40am: THE HOLIDAY)
TCM (6:30am - 2am): OSCARS BY STUDIO - WARNER BROS. (6:30am: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE; 9am: TALES FROM THE WARNER BROTHERS LOT; 10am: REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE; 12:15pm: THE NUN'S STORY; 3pm: MISTER ROBERTS; 5:30pm: AUNTIE MAME; 8pm: THE MUSIC MAN; 11pm: MY FAIR LADY)
Tennis (Noon - 6pm): DAVIS CUP TENNIS: USA vs. Brazil
TLC (Noon - 4pm): SAY YES TO THE DRESS Marathon
TLC (4pm - 4am): MY BIG FAT AMERICAN GYPSY WEDDING Marathon
TNT (6am - 6am): LAW & ORDER Marathon
Travel (1 - 10pm): FOOD PARADISE Marathon
truTV (7 - 11pm): IMPRACTICAL JOKERS Marathon
TV Guide (3 - 11pm): Movie Marathon (3pm: SWEET NOVEMBER; 5pm: UPTOWN GIRLS; 7pm: THE BANGER SISTERS; 9pm: UPTOWN GIRLS)
TV Land (6am - Noon; 5 - 9pm): ROSEANNE Marathon
TV Land (2 - 5pm): THE COSBY SHOW Marathon
TV One (5 - 8pm): UNSUNG Marathon
TV One (8 - 11pm): MARTIN Marathon
USA (10am - 11pm): NCIS Marathon
Velocity (2pm - 6am): MECUM AUTO AUCTIONS: MUSCLE CARS & MORE 2013 Kissimmee
Veria (3 - 6pm): THE INCURABLES Marathon
VH1 (10:30am - 2:40pm): MOB WIVES Marathon
VH1 (2:40 - 7pm): LOVE & HIP HOP Marathon
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The meaning of a painting
by Brian K. Yoder
Piet Spijkers wrote:
We are back to the simpler hypothesis: meaning varies - in indeed a mysterious way - according to the perception process (and not - as it would be more difficult, or impossible, to be arbitrarily discarded as non-existent).
That's a hypothesis I disagree with. The artist does things in the production of his art that puts meaning into the work. Either it's there or it's not. Either it's clear or it's not. Either it's on some particular topic or it's not. And of course there are matters of degree in regard to some of these as well (is it a little muddled or a complete mess? for example). There's nothing particularly "mysterious" about it, at least nothing any more "mysterious" than the product of any other complex and intricate product of the human mind. Serious artists can study the actual and non-mysterious methods by which to put various kinds of meaning into a painting.
Now when it comes to the audience, it's entirely possible for people to "not get it" either because they aren't paying attention, because they can't think clearly, because they can't decode certain cultural or stylistic contents, or because their perceptual faculties are faulty (they might be blind for example), but none of this has the slightest bearing on the question of whether there's meaning in the work of art to be identified in the first place.
I'm no good at reading Chinese poetry (I don't read Chinese at all) but that by no means proves that there's no meaning in Chinese poems or that Chinese poets didn't put it in there.
-- Brian


text: Disney's ABC held two new scripted shows, "Cashmere Mafia" and "Eli Stone" for midseason, but it's also launching reality experiments like "Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann" -- a "Dancing with the Stars" spinoff -- and "Oprah's Big Give," a show documenting Oprah Winfrey's efforts to help people. Analysts agree that CBS is the most vulnerable media stock if the strike persists, since it's the company most heavily levered toward network ad revenue. Also, its TV broadcast division has little in the way of scripted TV held over for midseason. That said, NBC is the most vulnerable network in terms of ratings performance, and GE is already facing intense pressure from investors to spin off the media division. A protracted strike could only ratchet up that pressure even further. All this comes against the backdrop of an advertising malaise weighing on the industry that has been exacerbated by the rise of Internet giants like Google ( GOOG) and Yahoo! ( YHOO). Most economists agree that the U.S. credit and housing mess has raised the odds of a recession in 2008, threatening to make things even worse. "The writers' strike doesn't totally devastate the outlook for these companies financially, but it makes it tougher to show growth in an already depressed environment for advertising demand," says Moran.


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It's not quite "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN", but the Miami Herald ran an ad in Monday morning's edition on Page 11D congratulating the Miami Heat for winning the NBA title. The ad, from retail giant Macy's, also has pictures of available championship hats and T-shirts.
That would be a great idea if the Mavericks didn't clinch the NBA title Sunday night with a 105-95 victory in Miami.
Tim Elfrink of The Miami New Times, already in enough pain it appears, explains that the ad ran on the same page as a story about the series with the headline "Heat just never got the point during Finals loss to more-organized Mavs" and a banner that reads "DALLAS WINS BEST-OF-7 SERIES 4-2."
Compounding the error, even if the Heat had won Game 6 on Sunday night they wouldn't have won the title. Instead, they would have forced a Game 7 that would have been played Tuesday night.
In a short statement on its website Monday, the Herald acknowledged its mistake saying, "We regret the error and apologize for any inconvenience."
Later Monday, Elfrink spoke to Elissa Vanaver, the Herald's vice president for human resources. She called the mistake a "production error." She offered more on the incident.
"We weren't going to sit and wait around for Game 7 to decide how to advertise something like this," she says. "That ad was in the system for the eventuality that the Heat ended up winning the title."
"We're apologizing to readers and advertisers about the mistake," she says. "I'm not sure what else there is to say about it."
Jeff Schultz of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution illustrated other examples where this happened, noting that the Herald made a similar mistake in January 1999. A headline advertising a Super Bowl special section read, "Denver Broncos vs. Minnesota Vikings, 6:25 P.M. Tonight." The Broncos actually beat the Atlanta Falcons in that game (Super Bowl XXXIII).
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
Michael Hiestand has covered sports media and marketing for USA TODAY, tackling the sports biz ranging from what's behind mega-events such as the Olympics and Super Bowl to the sometimes-hidden numbers behind the sports world's bottom line.


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The team also announced a variety of season ticket packages are currently on sale. The Mets have already reached 1.75 million tickets sold.


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JAY DAVIS: A win will guarantee
Getting to the football postseason is all about the power point standings. Whether a team is 5-3, 4-4 or 3-5, it is their power points that determine if they get in and where they will play.
Even though they are one game under .500 at 3-4, the Tigers are in good shape in the power polls, as long as they take care of business in Chamberlain on Friday.
It's a simple as this. Win and the Tigers are in the postseason. The team actually has a chance to play a ninth game even with a fifth loss, but I don't think anyone wants to even examine those possibilities right now.
The Tigers have 46.286 power points and sit fourth in Class 11B Region 1. Aberdeen Roncalli is 7-0 with 55.429. Webster Area is 5-1 with 51.167. Deuel is 4-2 with 48.833. Groton Area is behind the Tigers in fifth with 3-4 and 44.0.
A tough schedule with a pair of Class A teams is doing quite a bit for the Tigers this year. Of the Tigers' four losses, Aberdeen Roncalli, Webster Area and Winner are a combined 19-1. Add that to the extra points the Tigers earn for moving up a class to play Cheyenne-Eagle Butte and Chamberlain, and the Tigers have a very strong power point schedule this year.
I am not real good with figuring the math and looking into the crystal ball to see if the Tigers can move up in the standings, but I do know this: Deuel plays winless Sioux Falls Christian on Friday before hosting Groton Area next Thursday. Deuel is Groton's only remaining game. If things fall just right, the Tigers could be a number three seed come playoff time.
But none of that is important right now. The only important thing is the Tigers finishing off the season with a win down in Chamberlain. The last three weeks have been a struggle for the Tigers. There have been losses of games and losses of players. A lot of the pain of the three-game losing streak will go away if the Tigers come out firing on Friday.
Here's a synopsis of the area teams and their possible playoff futures.
The Cheyenne-Eagle Butte Braves are 4-2 and sitting third in Class A Region 3. The Braves will play in the postseason as only two Class A teams don't make it. With 2-4 Pine Ridge and 0-6 Lead-Deadwood left to play, the Braves have a good shot at passing Chamberlain, moving up to number two and hosting a first-round game.
Herreid-Selby Area and Eureka-Bowdle are close to locking up playoff guarantees in Class 9A Region 1. The Wolverines lead the region with a 6-0 record and 60.167 points. The Patriots are third at 4-2 and 54.0. A Herreid-Selby Area win over Sully Buttes and a Eureka-Bowdle win over Miller should cement their respective postseasons before the two squads meet up for their annual rivalry game next Thursday.
Beating Miller would be a huge step for Eureka-Bowdle. This is a stacked region. Along with the Wolverines and Patriots, Warner is 6-0 and ranked second in state, Wolsey-Wessington is 5-1 and Wilmot is 5-2. The Patriots will feel a lot better about hosting the Wolverines in the regular season finale with a fifth win already under their belts.
Lemmon-McIntosh is a pretty solid three seed in Class 9AA Region 4. At 5-2, the Cowboys have 49.571 power points. They are where they need to be as they close out the regular season on Friday against undefeated and ranked first in state in Class 9B Harding County. White River is 7-0 and Potter County is 5-1, taking up the top spots in the region. Newell is fourth behind the Cowboys at 3-3. Lemmon-McIntosh is headed to the postseason.
Timber Lake, Dupree and McLaughlin-Wakpala are already looking to the future. Youthful Timber Lake is 2-5 with undefeated Leola-Frederick left to play. Dupree is 1-5, but does have two winnable games remaining with Bison and Rapid City Christian. It would be a remarkable run for a team with just 12 players on the roster. The McLaughlin-Wakpala co-op hasn't had many highlights in its first year. This is the first year the kids from Wakpala have played varsity football so the learning curve is still pretty high. With a staunch Potter County left to play, the Midgets will have to wait for next fall to put an end to their losing streak.


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Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senators Charles Schumer, Edward Kennedy and Amy Klobuchar, and Scott Lilly, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund held a press conference today to discuss the difference between Democrats' and Republicans' priorities and Democrats' efforts to introduce accountability into the war in Iraq.
While Democrats are working tirelessly to invest in our domestic priorities, such as children's health care, the President has lost sight of what is important – billions of dollars have disappeared in Iraq while the President and Congressional Republicans are blocking CHIP and funding for other priorities. Democrats will hold the Bush Administration accountable for the mismanagement of this war and for neglecting priorities at home.
"President Bush's fiscal priorities are wildly out of touch with those of the American people," Reid said. "Yesterday, President Bush vetoed $35 billion over five years for children's health care, yet he is fine spending that much money to fund three-and-a-half months of an intractable civil war in Iraq. There are billions of unaccounted-for dollars in Iraq that could be used to fund children's health care, strengthen our nation's infrastructure and give our veterans the care they deserve. Because of President Bush's mismanagement of the war, American's real priorities remain neglected. Democrats will continue to listen to the American people and continue to invest in making their lives better and safer."
Said Schumer: "Yesterday's veto clearly shows that the President is out of touch with the American people and their priorities. We have spent over $750 billion in Iraq and Afghanistan – that's enough money to reform our health care system, fix our crumbling infrastructure, and help us build the best public education system in the world. Unfortunately, the President has once again chosen to ignore America's top priorities at home in favor continuing to fund a war that is, by all accounts, rife with waste and fraud."
"With yesterday's veto, the President stripped away the mask of 'compassionate conservatism' and revealed the ugly truth beneath – an Administration so beholden to a rigid ideology that it is willing to sacrifice even the health care of 10 million children to uphold it," Kennedy said. "At its core, the job of Congress is to make judgments on priorities. The president has made his judgment, and it's to pour our national treasure into the sands of Iraq and to burden our children with the costs of the war for generations to come."
Said Klobuchar: "While middle class families are budgeting every last dollar, the President loses nine billion dollars. It simply defies common sense to allow $9 billion in taxpayer money to simply disappear while vetoing a bill to provide our nation's children access to health care."
"If our foolish policies in Iraq prevent us from making needed investments here in America, then the war has become a double tragedy," Lilly said. "It diminishes us not only through wasted lives and treasure overseas, but also deteriorating schools, bridges, scientific achievement and our children's health here at home."


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Lennox, the 7-year-old American Bull Dog/Labrador mix who was seized by the Belfast City Council (BCC) in Northern Ireland in May 2012 has been, according to reports, "humanely put to sleep."The story that has captured the hearts of animal lovers around the world centers on a law in Belfast that makes owning a pit bull illegal. The BCC seized Lennox because they deemed that he was, by appearance, a pit bull, despite DNA testing to the contrary.The Barnes family, Lennox's owners, have … [Read more...]
Fight for Lennox the dog nears the end
July 9, 2012 by 1 Comment
Lennox is scheduled to die tomorrow. In fact, he may already be dead, since he's in Northern Ireland and it's already tomorrow there. Lennox has been imprisoned for almost two years. Not because he committed a crime. Not because he broke the law. He's been held because of the way he looks.Lennox is a dog. And to the officials at the Belfast, Ireland City Council, Lennox looks like a pit bull, which in their eyes makes him a dangerous dog.Never mind that Lennox is not a pit bull; he's a 7- … [Read more...]


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Docket Management
Docket: 03N-0059 - Pharmaceutical Current Good Manufacturing Practices for the 21st Century: A Risk-Based Approach
Comment Number: EC -1
Accepted - Volume 1
Comment Record
Dr. Paul G King
2003-03-01 04:00:32
F.A.M.E. Systems
Comments for FDA General
1. General Comments
1. Oddly, the FDA site reference in the FR notice of 27 February 2003 is to an unsupported and unavailable link www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2002/NEW00829.html. 2. Re: Science-based policies and standards Before attempting to incorporate up-to-date science, the agency first needs to address the fundamental science that the regulations presently embody but, for whatever reasons, the agency has seemingly overlooked. Specifically I refer to the: a) ubiquitous, but ignored requirements that all samples inspected (sampled and tested) must be representative of the batch, b) require- ment that statistical quality control be used to accept or reject each batch of drug product for release, c) re- quirement that there be statistically based in-process monitoring of all in-process steps that can effect drug product quality including uniformity assessment, and d) the use of specific identity tests when such exist to name a few of the fundamentals of good analytical science that seem to be ignored. 3. If your approaches are to be science-based, then the FDA must make certain that the science it uses is sound. Today, the science that many in the industry or paid by the industry present to the agency is, at best, based on the misapplication or incomplete application of the fundamentals of the applied science appertaining to a truly quality-based approach inspection of a batch of drug product for its key variable distributional factors (for active and active availability) that properly de- termine whether a given batch is, or is not, acceptable for release to the market. 4. In my mind it is less than efficient to conflict a group with conflicting imperatives. Yet, the agency is forming a key group of inspectors that are to: a) oversee PAI inspections and b) the inspection of those firms whose histroy indicates a need for increased oversight -- while assuring the industry that their PAI inspections will be timely and, practically, tell- ing the public, that the other inspections will not be timely given the agency's budgetary constraints. 5. Though the agency cites resource constraints as justifi- cation for its on-going failure to meet its statutory obligation to inspect each drug manufacturer not less than bi-annually, the reality is that it is the agency's allocation of resources to programs that have no such statutory mandates but benefit industry and not the public or public safety that interferes with its meeting its statuatory inspection mandate. It is, in general, not in the public interest to have more me too lifetime treatment alternatives that can be hawked to the public and fewer and fewer disease cures - after all it is far more beneficial to the drug industry to develop a better (usually, more expensive treatment product) than a product that cure the disease. 6. In spite of the agency's avowed systems approach to inspection and its other initiatives, the track record for the industry it regulates indicates a trend away from compliance and an increasing lack of concern about the safety and efficacy of each batch of each of the products marketed. In spite of the agency's rhetoric and perhaps because of its decreasing inspectional oversight, the public is not being protected -- Bayer's actions with respect to Baycol, Schering-Plough's will- ful release of defective batches of inhalers, Roche's being allowed to continue to profit from the sale of Accutane even though they obtained agency approval by deliberately concealing a key report on its CNS effects are but a few of the more egregious examples that come to mind. Though the agency and the industry are quick to point to the imputed lives saved, the reality of the increasing number of members of the public that are irreparably damaged or killed is blithely attributed to the weighing of the risk against the benefit. This approach might be acceptable if those that take the risk accrued the benefit -- however, as the dollars indicate, the industry benefits, the public takes the risk, and the industry is increasingly allowed to decide what information it will disclose and when it will disclose it -- the law and the public be damned. The public's reward is to be told that damage awards need to be capped while the those in the drug and healthcare industries deserve to to be able to profit without any cap and with decreasing oversight. The public would be better served if the FDA simply were to start enforcing the laws that are on the books but, in the main, have gone unenforced for more than a quar- ter of a century. Hopefully, if the FDA truly wants to protect the public, it will change its programs in a manner that the risk currently borne by the public for the most part will be at least adjusted to the point that it is shared equally by the public and the industry. Yet there is one irony that comforts me, the current real risk that the prescription each person gets will damage or lead to the death of the person who takes it is shared by all in our society -- from the pauper to the richest and most powerful persons in the US -- only in America. None of us can tell by looking whether, or not, the pill we take today: a) contains the labeled amount of active or b) the level of active contained will be available to us as it is supposed to be. Perhaps that is why the industry is more than happy to spend whatever it takes to make sure that each of our pills look good (using science-based statistical product appearance control) but not to spend even the minimum required by law to guarantee that each pill in each batch of those good-looking pills will meet the science-based content and content release standards mandated by 21 CFR 211.165(d) (statistical quality control). Please get back to me if you need any clarification of the comments I have made. Thank you for providing me an opportunity to comment. When you hold hearings on this approach, I hope that you will invite me to share what little I can in this matter. Respectfully submitted on 1 March 2003 as a formal comment to Docket 03N-0059 - Pharmaceutical Current Good Manufacturing Practices for the 21st Century: A Risk-Based Approach


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Here are a few smart ideas to make your printing life easier and more fun. We've also included some thrifty tips that could save you money.
1. Stretch Your Ink Budget
Most printers let you extend your ink cartridges or toner by setting a draft mode that produces gray text, which is still perfectly readable. You'll also save by turning off color printing; black ink and toner are usually cheaper than their color counterparts. Save paper by printing two pages side-by-side on a single sheet. If your printer has a duplexer, set your draft profile to print on both sides. From the 'Printers and Faxes' list, set this profile as the default printer, so you won't forget to use it. Save your original profile for times when high quality is important.
For more paper- and money-saving tips, see our Cheapskate's Guide to Printing.
2. Create Virtual Printers
Not all printouts are created equal: Sometimes you want quality, other times you want speed; sometimes you want color, other times you don't. For each type of output, you must change the settings in Windows' Print Properties dialog box. While some printers let you set up profiles for each of your common printing tasks, you usually have to hunt through Print Properties to find the settings you need to tweak.
To get the same result more easily, create separate virtual printers for each set of properties you require. Open Control Panel's 'Printers and Faxes' applet, select Add a printer, and step through the Add Printer Wizard. Next, select the printer and click Set printer properties in the right pane (or right-click its entry and choose Properties). Give the "printer" a meaningful name, such as Inkjet Draft or Laser Letterhead Paper, and click Printing Preferences-Advanced. Set the printing preferences to match (the options available vary from printer to printer, but most let you adjust the print resolution for higher or lower quality, for example). The next time you print, select the icon for your printing task from the list at the top of the Print dialog box (see the accompanying screen shot).
3. Choose the Right Paper
If your printer has multiple paper trays, load one with inexpensive, multipurpose paper, set your draft-print profile to use it, and put your high-quality paper in the other tray. When you need quality, select the latter tray in your Print Properties. For sharp text from an inkjet, use paper designed specifically for them--paper that is intended for laser printers and photocopiers soaks up ink like a sponge, making inkjet characters look fuzzy.
Bonus tip: For best color accuracy and prints that last a lifetime, go with your printer manufacturer's recommended paper--usually its own brand. Some printers, such as recent models from Canon, won't even let you select the highest quality mode if it detects that you're not using the vendor's own specialty paper.
4. Buy Ink and Paper in Volume
When we tested the ink yields of photo printers, we found that the cost of printing a 4-by-6-inch photo ranged from 23 cents to 97 cents. Many printer vendors now offer multipacks of ink and paper. For example, HP's value pack for its Photosmart 375 and Photosmart 385 combines one tricolor ink cartridge with 50 sheets of snapshot paper for $20--less than the $25 cost of the cartridge alone. Although HP also sells packs containing more ink and paper, this smaller size is actually a better bargain, based on the 49-sheet yield recorded in our original tests.
5. Go Big on Toner
Buying laser toner in bulk also saves you big bucks. Brother is typical of laser-printer manufacturers that offer toner cartridges in several capacities. Cartridges rated to yield 3500 pages for the Brother HL-5250DN (currently our Best Buy monochrome laser) cost $74 on the company's site. You can buy cartridges with double the capacity for $100, which saves you $48 over the life of the higher-yield cartridge. Going big on toner capacities can reduce your cost per page by more than half a penny. Regrettably, few laser-printer vendors offer large-capacity cartridges for their budget models.
6. Make a Direct Connection
Most of today's printers have a front port for printing photos straight from a digital camera without using your PC. The camera uses the PictBridge standard to link to the printer through what is essentially a USB port. Many printers let you connect other USB devices to the port, usually a flash-memory drive.
Printers featuring a color LCD often let you browse and print photos stored on a flash drive. For example, the Epson PictureMate Deluxe Viewer Edition lets you transfer image files from your camera's memory card to a USB drive, which can be handy for archiving files from the camera while you're away from your PC. Several HP printers, such as the portable Photosmart A610, can print photos stored on an iPod. But don't expect the transfer speeds you'd get with a USB 2.0 port on your PC: Most PictBridge ports--including those on the PictureMate and the A610--run at the slower USB 1.1 speed.
All new PCs come with USB 2.0 ports that are capable of the highest speeds, but the devices you connect to them can run at either Hi-Speed (up to 480 mbps) or Full-Speed (up to the old USB 1.1 limit of 12 mbps, or 40 times slower). If you have a 1GB memory card full of images in your digital camera (like I do), that makes a huge difference in how long you wait for your photos to download when connected to a PictBridge printer instead of directly to a PC. Of course, most digital cameras still use USB 2.0 Full-Speed.
You may be used to printing directly from your digital camera to your printer, but now you can do the same from your camera phone or handheld. Canon offers several printers with IrDA interfaces that let you beam your photos to them. Canon, HP, and Epson offer Bluetooth adapters that plug into the direct-print port on their printers for printing images wirelessly from a Bluetooth-equipped device. Prices start at $39 and run to over $80.
7. Easily Print Full Web Pages
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Servizi e gli extra abbondano per la nostra ricerca coccolati. Soggiorno al magnificamente restaurato 1874 casa vittoriana in Palestina, Tx. situato tra Dallas e Houston. Il luogo perfetto per il grande trambusto della città. La Palestina è una delle più antiche città del Texas ed è ideale per i cacciatori di antiquariato, appassionati di storia e chiunque cerchi un posto per fuggire. Godetevi camere arredate con gusto della casa. Lasciatevi coccolare con colazione abbondante Magnolia Street Inn, un servizio professionale e comfort raffinato. Tutti concorrono a rendere Magnolia Street Inn letto e colazione eccezionale.
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My wife and I have stayed in many B&B s and rate this one of the very best for charm and food. Cindy is a great host and I recommend this B& B to anyone. J & M Pasadena TX
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My husband and I stayed for 2 days in the Bluebonnet room with the Romance package. We enjoyed the wonderful room with the king size bed and the breakfasts were phenomenal. We loved getting up in the mornings and walking around the town. Cindy was fabulous! We didn't want for anything. We enjoyed fresh strawberries dipped in chocolate and champagne after a delicious dinner at Derbies the first night. Then, breakfast in bed the morning we were leaving. We swung on the front porch swing and enjoyed the manicured lawn & flowers. Truly a relaxing and enjoyable experience. I recommend it to all!
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I would recommend this B&B to anyone.My husband and I enjoyed every minute. Cindy is the best.
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My husband and I were looking for a relaxing place to getaway and enjoy a 'Babymoon' before the birth of our first child. We saw a special on Living Social for this Bed & Breakfast that included chocolate covered strawberries and sparkling cider in the evening and breakfast served in bed the next day, I just couldn't resist :) We stayed in the Library Room which we loved. The bed was super comfortable and we enjoyed the view from the large windows facing the backyard. Breakfast was delicious, you could tell a lot of thought and work went into each dish. Cindy, the innkeeper was very friendly and offered great suggestions on activities and restuarants to visit. One of our favorites was to make reservations at Sabor A Pasion, where Chef Simon cooked us an elaborate 3 course meal that I'm still drooling about. Needless to say, we had a wonderful, relaxing time!
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My mom and I recently spent two nights at the Magnolia Street Inn. The house was amazing and filled with so much history, and Cindy was a wonderful host! The rooms were immaculate and breakfast each morning was wonderful. We ended up being the only guests there that weekend, so we had plenty of time to chat with Cindy and watch movies in the downstairs parlor in our bath robes. We'd love to go back again someday, and bring our friends with us! Thanks, Cindy!
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I recently purchased a deal from Livingsocial.com in order to get away for the weekend with my husband. We were a little hesitant not knowing the area, but wanted a quiet place to stay. Magnolia Street Inn was perfect. It met our expectation and then some. The breakfast both days were amazing. The room we stayed in was beautiful and the bed was just as comfortable as our bed at home. As for the couple who commented about getting scolded for going in the wrong door, it is true there is no clear entry (the back is beautifully landscaped), but a quick phone call confirmed the use of the front door. We had a great time walking the downtown area and visiting the local winery's suggested by Cindy. Thanks for a great get away.
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This was truly a great B&B! A must if you are a B&B fan. We arrived and were treated with the utmost kindness and hospitality we have not had in a long time. The Library was perfect and a turn down service was a pluse. Cindy provided chocolate strawberries, great advise on the town and wonderful conversation. Cindy makes excellent breakfasts which made us stay at the table wanting more. The house is beautiful and took us back in time. Thank you Cindy for a great stay. Definitely a memorable weekend.
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The house is BEAUTIFUL and very well kept. The breakfast was delicious. The price was reasonable. The Innkeeper was less than personable, however. There was no clear path from the parking lot to the front door, so we used the back door and she scolded us for doing so. Also, she told us to be SURE and be down at 9:00 the next morning for breakfast as that is when it would promptly be served. We were there at 8:55 and breakfast was not served until 9:15. Only 15 minutes late, yes, but she was adamant about us being there on time. And we were. But breakfast was not. Immediately after breakfast we went to our room to gather our stuff (we had to get on the road). She had asked us earlier to leave our keys on the desk/nightstand in our room. We did so. So we came downstairs to head out and she was talking to another guest. We wanted to give her compliments on the breakfast and so we stood there for a minute while she finished up her conversation and then told her "You did such a good job on that breakfast casserole! It was delicious! We very much enjoyed it. Thank you!" To which her reply was "Oh, you're welcome! Now did yall leave your keys in your bedroom? You made sure and did that, right? You wouldn't believe how many times people take their keys with them!" It just seemed like she completely blew our compliment off and all she cared about was whether or not we had left our keys. Perhaps she was just having a bad couple of days, or maybe we just caught her at a bad moment, but I just felt like she could have been a little more friendly. Would we stay here again? Hmmm.....I don't know if our experience was bad enough to say that we never would. But I definitely wouldn't be opposed to trying somewhere else.
5 su marzo 14, 2012
The house was lovely, warm and inviting (and absolutely spotless), but it was Cindy, the Inn Keeper, that made our stay so memorable. Her hospitality, delicious breakfast and personal attention to details, may have spoiled us for other B&B's!
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Every detail taken care of. Our room had fresh tulips in the sitting area when we arrived. the king size bed was so comfy! nice private bath and hot shower! very roomy with a southern charm and updated amenities. Breakfast was wonderful and this setting provided a nice relaxing get away weekend for us. We recommend Magnolia Inn to anyone who likes a nice place that is affordable with attention to every detail met!! Great experience!
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Since the Coe faculty is considering the adoption of a new course evaluation form, it might be an opportune moment for contemplating some ways that short writing assignments can help instructors better understand what is happening in their classes. While the proposed "official" evaluation form is designed for an end-of-term autopsy, these more informal invitations to examine a course are probably most useful if offered at mid-term, hopefully before the onset of rigor mortis.
Perhaps one goal for any mid-term course appraisal is to obtain from students some honest information about what they sense "is going on" in the course. Instead of asking for their judgments, ask for their perceptions and descriptions. Such a writing opportunity enables them to be reflective and thoughtful about their classroom experiences, perhaps increasing their awareness of what they've learned, how they've learned it, and what it means.
In the following list are some questions that could be used for either an in-class or out-of-class assignment in the middle of a term. Most of the questions are taken from A Community of Writers, a new Random House textbook by Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff.
1a. Which moments come to mind when you think back over out first ____ weeks of class? good moments? bad moments? perplexing moments? sketch in two or three such moments.
1b. What do these moments tall about you as a student, about the teacher, and about the course?
2. What do you feel good about concerning your own effort or accomplishment in the course? What are you not satisfied with, or what do you want to work on improving?
3. What are the most important strengths of skills you brought to this course?
4.What aspect of this course has been the greatest challenge for you?
5. What has been the most important thing you've learned? Have any ideas in the course surprised you? Have you learned some things you had not expected to encounter?
6. What so you most need to learn next?
7. Imagine this course as a journey: where is it taking you? Or imagine it as a detour or setback in some larger journey. Explain.
8. Describe the climate and weather of the course. Has it remained the same or gone through cycles? Or imagine the course as a machine or living organism. Explain.
9. Do you have any suggestions about how the course could be made more helpful?
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Melbourne's premier gay and lesbian festival is back, writes Carolyn Webb.
The Midsumma gay and lesbian festival is turning sweet 16, and is ready to make her debut to Melbourne society.
And where better to come of age than Federation Square? For the first time, the festival's opening night party will be held in the city centre.
Midsumma festival manager Brenton Geyer, 39, is so excited about this year's festival - running for three weeks from January 23, with more than 100 events - that he is taking to the stage. He is bringing his alter ego, Stella Constellation, out of a five-year retirement to MC the opening night spectacular, Summa Diva, in which 50 drag queens and kings will sashay down a runway in Federation Square's atrium, and lip synch a song each.
Geyer performed as Stella locally and overseas for five years in the 1990s, but says he hung up his stilettos in 1998 because he was burnt out.
He feels "refreshed and renewed" now. "And it's (Summa Diva) such a faaabulous event . . . no, please don't use the word fabulous . . . it was such an incredibly inspiring event, in that it was the first time we've devised an event that brings Melbourne's drag queen and drag king performers on to the one stage, on such a scale.
"I am having sleepless nights with excitement."
Other events in Federation Square on opening night (January 23) will be a gay and lesbian speed-dating quest called Fast Love; a main stage of live bands and dance troupes; and a cabaret stage.
Disaster struck Midsumma last year when the opening night in Commercial Road was cancelled, after public liability insurance soared from $5000 to $80,000. And the police and Stonnington Council had ordered a 10pm curfew and banned serving of alcohol on the street.
Joining a community insurance scheme has slashed the insurance bill this year to $30,000, and the City of Melbourne and Federation Square traders' support means that drinking at outdoor tables can go ahead. There will be a midnight closing time on the night (1am for the Summa Diva event), which tens of thousands are expected to attend.
Geyer says having Federation Square as a focal venue, "reinforces our importance as an arts and cultural event within Victoria, and Australia". But Geyer baulks at suggestions that Midsumma has gone mainstream. "If you look at our cultural program, it's anything but mainstream. It still addresses gay and lesbian community issues, such as homophobia and discrimination."
When Geyer started at Midsumma - as a volunteer - in 1991, the festival ran about 30 events, without government or corporate sponsorship. "We relied on sponsorship and funding from within our own community," he says.
In 2003, private sponsorship brought in $92,000. (Major sponsors this year include Ford and United Airlines). A further $284,000 was generated from state and local governments, ticket sales, carnival site sales, donations and fundraising.
Despite a report commissioned in 2000 by Midsumma estimating the festival brought $28.4 million to the state, the Federal Government donates nothing to the event, and the State Government (through Tourism Victoria) grants just $13,500 - a third of Midsumma's marketing budget. "We find it surprising that we're not funded by Arts Victoria," Geyer says. "We have made several attempts to strike up a relationship with Arts Victoria, and failed. But we intend to pursue the building of that relationship."
This year's Midsumma is about human relationships, and a flagship event is Summa Vows at the Carnival in the Alexandra Gardens on February 15. The event invites gay and lesbian couples to join a Guinness Book of Records attempt at the world's biggest same-sex commitment ceremony. Geyer says Summa Vows will "reinforce the importance of recognition of our relationships and age of consent issues, and celebrate relationships within our community".
Returning to Carnival day is the popular Dulcie's Dog Show, the T-Dance dance party, and the Physique sculpted bodies competition. A new Carnival event is the arts and produce pavilion - a forum for gardeners, cooks and artists to compete for prizes.
The Pride March, on February 1, is expected to involve 10,000 marchers from across the queer community marching down Fitzroy Street, St Kilda.
Chapel Off Chapel is once more the cabaret hub, featuring artists like Combo Fiasco, the Fabulous Singlettes, and UK comedian, Tina C.
The Athenaeum Theatre will host two American performance artists - slam poet Staceyann Chin and folk-rock singer Doria Roberts - on the one bill on February 12. Geyer says they are "two black lesbian women, with big mouths", who explore issues from family relationships to gun and drug use, music and fashion.
"They've not been to Australia before, and it's part of Midsumma's agenda to present new and diverse cultural work to the queer community."
In visual arts, the City of Melbourne is staging Queer Street, a free public art program where artists' representations of queer culture will appear in venues such as windows in Manchester Lane and at 32 Flinders Street. In the Federation Square atrium, artists Sally Clarke and Brenda Factor's Figs in Space will explore the fig leaf's effect on art, society and sexuality.
The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art presents Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone's exhibition Clockwork For Oracle, which explores love, despair, alienation, anonymity and aggression. Also at ACCA, American poet John Giorno, a one-time collaborator of Andy Warhol, will perform at Rapid Fire, on January 29, where poets have six minutes to impress the audience.
Midsumma Melbourne, January 23 to February 15. For more information, go to midsumma.org.au or call 9415 9819.
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Manchester City's football administrator, Brian Marwood, has been watching Melbourne Heart's training sessions this week while the English club's officials hold talks with Melbourne Heart executives. But Heart remains, for the rest of this season at least, master of its own destiny.
Manchester City's takeover of the league's struggler holds immense promise for the future.
But the present is what concerns coach John van 't Schip and his players, many of whom are out of contract at season's end and desperate to prove to their new masters that they are worth a part in Heart's big adventure.
The Sky Blues will arrive brimming with confidence following that extraordinary 5-0 win over Melbourne Victory on Sunday.
Marwood, the ex-Sheffield Wednesday and Arsenal winger, looked on as an excited and more confident-looking group of Heart players prepared for a game that will, in a roundabout way, allow them to make quite a statement about neighbouring Victory, which has, until now, dominated the Melbourne soccer landscape.
If Heart can beat Frank Farina's side just days after Sydney thrashed Victory, it will be a none-too-subtle pointer to what many believe will eventually be a tilting of the axis of power in the city, as the English club's investment kicks in.
Still, van 't Schip wasn't thinking about that for now.
He was pleased with the way his team had responded to the changes he instilled as he promoted a more pressing game with a higher defensive line.
With Patrick Gerhardt and David Williams back from injury, the Dutchman has virtually a full squad to choose from.
Orlando Engelaar played for an hour against Adelaide in the 2-2 draw at Hindmarsh last weekend, and although he wasn't happy with his performance he will be better with more game time.
Jonatan Germano who, van 't Schip said, provides a lot of energy and aggression, is also coming good after a long time out.
The key for Heart in this game will be shutting down Italian maestro Alessandro Del Piero, who virtually ran the show for Sydney in its drubbing of Victory.
He may be 40 next birthday but the former Juventus and Azzurri star still has great vision and touch, and acts as a conductor for his team in the forward third.
''He's smart, he knows how to play the game, he knows where to find spaces and be important without making too many runs,'' van 't Schip said. ''If you can decide so many games when you are 39 and be so important for your team, we have to have respect for him.''
The coach is pleased with the way his players have reacted to his return following Aloisi's dismissal.
''The commitment was good coming back from a goal down, then leading 2-1 [against Adelaide]. We should have tried to keep playing going forward and not dropping back with the last goal.
''But I am overall very happy with the reaction of the players after three weeks … how we try to change the way of playing and making steps forward.
''It's not just the result, I am looking at the improvement of the team and I think there's been improvement in the last few weeks.
''It's come in the approach to the way we want to play, trying to get the ball back as quick as possible, to retain more possession, to create more chances and to try to defend higher up the pitches.''
Like everyone connected with Heart, van 't Schip is excited at the prospect of fresh investment from City, but is glad it is letting him run his own race, at least until the end of this season.
''I have my way of how I want to play and I don't think it's a lot different to the way they think about playing,'' he said.
''They are not interfering now in things. They are watching, having talks with people in the club, preparing all kinds of things for the coming months and hopefully coming years.
''It's a project for the long term. That's why everybody can continue the next few months in working and finishing the season. After that there will be changes.''
Likely teams
Heart: (4-2-3-1): Redmayne; Behich, Kisnorbo, Wielaert, Hoffman; Engelaar, Germano; Ramsey, Kewell, Dugandzic; Mifsud.
Sydney FC: (4-1-2-1-2): Janjetovic; Abbas, Petkovic, Jurman, Ryall; Dimitrijevic; Gligor, Carle; Del Piero; Gameiro, Despotovic.


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