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I had the opportunity–along with a number of other bloggers–to attend the Appleseed event at the Revolutionary War Veterans Association (RWVA) range in Ramsuer, NC. I'll be writing about this event in detail–probably to the point of annoyance in coming days and weeks ahead, as the experience meant that much to me. In the interim, […]Read the rest of this entry »
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Was Trayvon Martin a drug dealer?
I've been blogging since late 2004 and I've spent a considerable amount of time debunking media myths and misinformation over that time period. You would think after the faked atrocities, staged outrages, and in-kind contributions I've uncovered that I'd be immune from the mainstream media's manipulative mindset. In the case of the Trayvon Martin shooting, […]Read the rest of this entry »
Obama: "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon"
Do you think so, Mr. President? President Obama spoke out for the first time on Friday about the fatal shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old African-American boy in Florida named Trayvon Martin, calling it a "tragedy." "I can only imagine what these parents are going through," Mr. Obama said from the White House Rose Garden, "and […]Read the rest of this entry »
You racist MFers
If he didn't weigh as much as a small house, I'd love to midget toss Reverend Al and the rest of the race parade right out of Florida, banished from ever speaking again about the intersection of racism and gun violence. Trayvon Martin's killing by a Hispanic man improbably named George Zimmerman a month ago […]Read the rest of this entry »
Detective: Why you should concealed carry
Warning: A woman dies in the 9/11 call at the beginning of the video. The same thing happens ever single day to unarmed victims. (video h/t Packing Pretty) You can always decide whether to shoot your firearm when you have one. Without one, you are not a citizen. You are a subject, and a victim […]Read the rest of this entry »

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This article was published 3/4/2013 (1569 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa -- A tiny Samoan airline is offering a new reason to drop extra weight before your next trip: tickets sold not by the seat, but by the kilogram.
Samoa Air planned on Wednesday to start pricing its first international flights based on the weight of its passengers and their bags. Depending on the flight, each kilogram (2.2 pounds) costs 93 cents to $1.06.
That means the average American man weighing 195 pounds with a 15.8-kilogram bag would pay $97 to go one-way between Apia, Samoa, and Pago Pago, American Samoa. Competitors typically charge $130 to $140 round-trip for similar routes.
The weight-based pricing is not new to the airline, which launched in June. It has been using the pricing model since November, but in January the U.S. Department of Transportation approved its international route between American Samoa and Samoa.
The airline's chief executive, Chris Langton, said Tuesday "planes are run by weight and not by seat, and travellers should be educated on this important issue. The plane can only carry a certain amount of weight, and that weight needs to be paid. There is no other way."
Langton, a pilot, said when he flew for other airlines, he suggested charging by weight to his bosses, but they considered weight too sensitive an issue to address.
"It's always been the fairest way, but the industry has been trying to pack square pegs into round holes for many years," he said.
Travellers in the region already are weighed before they fly because the planes used between the islands are small, said David Vaeafe, executive director of the American Samoa Visitors Bureau. Samoa Air's fleet includes two nine-passenger planes for commercial routes and a three-passenger plane for an air-taxi service.
Langton said passengers who need more room will be given one row on the plane to ensure comfort.
The new pricing system would make Samoa Air the first to charge strictly by weight, a change Vaeafe said is "in many ways... a fair concept for passengers. For example, a 12- or 13-year-old passenger who is small in size and weight won't have to pay an adult fare, based on airline fares that anyone 12 years and older does pay the adult fare," he said.
Vaeafe said the pricing system has worked in Samoa, but it's not clear whether it will be embraced by travellers in the U.S. territory.
Langton said the airline has received mixed responses from overseas travellers since it began promoting the pricing on its website and Facebook page.
He said some passengers have been surprised, but no one has refused to be weighed yet. He said he's given away a few free flights to some regular customers who lost weight, and that health officials in American Samoa were among the first to contact the airline when the pricing structure was announced.
"They want to ride on the awareness this is raising and use it as a medium to address obesity issues," he said.
Islands in the Pacific have the highest rates of obesity in the world.
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- The SFA mailing list is the best way to keep up to date on upcoming SFA events. Subscribe at lists.carleton.edu. Or just e-mail Sophie Grossman, Ben Strauss, or Ari Bakke and we'll add you.
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Britney Spears Vs. Alexa Vega: Nude Mini Dress Showdown (POLL & PHOTOS)
Spy Kids star Alexa Vega, 23, was photographs in a form-fitted mini dress and platform pumps on the red carpet of the 11th Annual InStyle Summer Soiree in West Hollywood, Calif. on August 8.
Flaunting some cleavage, Vega stunned in her nude ensemble — it's no wonder that the mid-thigh dress was designed by Stop Staring!
But was the frock supposed to be a mini?
Britney Spears sported the same sleeveless, low-cut number on May 14 — appearing much shorter on the 30-year-old pop icon.
Glammed up for the FOX Upfronts, the platinum "Toxic" singer paired her dress with shiny sky-high stilettos and minimal jewels.
Spears — mother of Sean Federline and Jayden James Federline — has rocked several outfits while hosting X-Factor alongside Demi Lovato and Simon Cowell.
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Finding the Local Minima of a somewhat complicated function
I have a function that consists of two variables, y and a. I would
like to find the local minimum of the function in y for various
constant values of a.
For example, the list of a values is given by:
atable = Range[100, 300, 5];
For each a value in atable, I want to find the local minimum of the
function in y. My function is "fun," and I use code like the
startPoint = 10^(-20);
endPoint = 1-10^(-20);
minData = Table[FindMinimum[fun /. a -> j, {y, startPoint, endPoint}],
{j, atable}]
Above, I use startPoint=10^(-20) and endPoint=1-10^(-20) because the
function is indeterminate at y=0 and at y=1. When I run the above
code, I see that for most (but not all) values of a, Mathematica does
not find a local minimum. Why is this so?
Of course, it could be that the function does not have a local minimum
at those values of a where Mathematica does not find one. But, if I
plot fun at a=300, for example, the plot shows that there is a local
minimum at something like y=0.945:
Plot[fun /. a -> 300, {y, 0, 1}]
But if I ask Mathematica to find that local minimum...
FindMinimum[fun /. a -> 300, {y, startPoint, endPoint}]
...Mathematica will not find it.
Can you please help me understand why I am having trouble finding the
local minima?
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My grandmother was a woman who never strayed from what she thought was right and from what she wanted. For many of the people in her life, this made understanding her and loving her tremendously difficult. There were many times throughout my life when I witnessed conflict, but my relationship with her was never defined by it.
Whenever there was tension in my grandmother's house, I would go from room to room, vigorously looking at all the textures, colors, and patterns that comprised the décor of her home and the fabric of her life. The arrangement of images on each page and the sequential movement of images from page to page is meant to simulate my personal experience and convey the energy that weaves the fabric of human relationships.
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In that case, you'll need to go to a special kind of web site called a search engine. A search engine is a web site that searches for other web sites. There are hundreds of search engines, and they all search in slightly different ways. Two of the most popular search engines are Google and Yahoo!.
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In his younger years, William is alleged to have liked to jokingly use the line "wanna pull a prince."
McNamara said investigators determined Nodianos was not present when the alleged assault occurred.
With 15 arrested near the scene of the attack for alleged questioning, students are paying an immediate price.
What exactly is "interesting" about this alleged coincidence?
When she arrived, she says around 10 p.m., she alleged that she was surprised to find no one else there.
It had been alleged that there was no precedent for relieving these people.
Then the young man, to be alone, alleged he had some business engagement.
He had glided back, and was standing at Randal's elbow, pointing out the exact spot where he alleged he had seen the cat.
Merton, oblige me by saying nothing as to the alleged language about Doyle, will you?
Then this charge was dropped, and the next was made, the one about my not reporting the alleged cache at "Cape Thomas Hubbard."
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Join as a member. There's a certificate with your name on it.
The Home-Link in the primary-menu is not highlighted in the front-page. Same for the Contact-Link in the Contact-Page.
Comment #1tumbledown100 CreditAttribution: tumbledown100 commented
The active-trail class seems to appear pretty randomly. As in the demo site, there are no white tabs on the active menu items in most cases. But if you create new article pages and add them to the menu, they have whie tabs when active.
Comment #3rudydude CreditAttribution: rudydude commented
is there a quick fix for this? I have a site that is going up in a couple of days and would love to have this issue ironed out.
Comment #4stevecowie CreditAttribution: stevecowie commented
A quick fix is to change the active-trail on the li to a active - something like this:
#header-menu .content > ul > li > a.active {
background-color: #f8f8f8;
color: #000000;
The logic is that the active-trail class is not being applied consistently and may not be to do with corolla theme anyway, whereas a.active does get applied consistently.
Comment #6tumbledown100 CreditAttribution: tumbledown100 commented
Works brilliantly - thanks
Comment #7andrewsuth CreditAttribution: andrewsuth commented
Comment #8agerson CreditAttribution: agerson commented
I also needed to add this for the text color
#header-menu .content > ul > li.active-trail > a,
#header-menu .content > ul > li > a.active {
color: #1a272e;
background: none;
font-weight: 700;
Comment #9TechDust CreditAttribution: TechDust commented
Thanks agerson.
I made this change @line 7 of "colors.css" file, and it seems to work for me (I had to add the background-color);
#header-menu .content > ul > li.active-trail > a,
#header-menu .content > ul > li > a.active {
color: #1a272e;
background-color: #f8f8f8;
font-weight: 700;
Comment #10hynnot CreditAttribution: hynnot commented
Great TechDust!
Comment #11shenzhuxi CreditAttribution: shenzhuxi commented
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Not only home but also my account /user doesn't have active-trail.
Maybe because http://drupal.org/node/1292590
Comment #12Jeff Burnz CreditAttribution: Jeff Burnz commented
Hmmm, thats a real interesting bug with the user active trail, not sure how to workaround that in a theme in a clean and consistant fashion, not really liking any of those fixes, probably needs to be fixed in core, however as per #8/#9 its the overuse or misuse of child selectors that is the culprit for the most part of this issue.
Comment #13TelFiRE CreditAttribution: TelFiRE commented
What #7 linked is for D6, not 7. Here is a D7 issue and it was never resolved despite being closed: http://drupal.org/node/942782
Comment #14Clint Eagar CreditAttribution: Clint Eagar commented
I used this and it works just fine for Corolla on D7
#menu-bar ul > li > a.active {
background-color: #2e2e2e;


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The Holy Grail of online marketing is to create a rabid army of affiliates that continually tout your products to their hungry and dedicated followers. Ensuring that those affiliates, super affiliates and joint venture partners bring you the gold is your job as a product owner. Jack Born is one of the most successful affiliate managers in the business turning small campaigns into large, profitable endeavors. In this live training, Jack will cover these points and others:
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City must keep edge in the economic race and stay clean
Hong Kong's competitiveness is important for its future prosperity, as is confidence in its honesty
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During the past week or so, we have witnessed several seemingly unrelated incidents that, upon reflection, share a common thread - competitiveness.
In late April, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying made a one-day trip to Beijing. He described the visit as being fruitful on several counts.
One was Beijing giving the green light to expand the current preferential treatment - which allows Hong Kong's service industry access to Guangdong - to eight more provinces in the pan-Pearl River Delta area. Another was allowing Hong Kong to be involved in the country's preliminary drafting of the 13th national five-year plan starting from 2016.
A third was Hong Kong being permitted to negotiate a free-trade pact with Asean.
Presumably, these measures would allow Hong Kong to prosper economically.
Yet, while the city had yet to digest the impact of these new measures granted by Beijing, a day later, its top man in charge of Hong Kong affairs, Zhang Dejiang , gave a stern warning to the city, saying that Hong Kong was losing its competitive edge.
The National People's Congress chairman told a group of visiting Hong Kong businessmen-turned-politicians that the city was like a boat sailing against currents, either it must forge ahead or be swept downstream. And whatever other principles one talked about, economic development was the only absolute principle.
The fact that this was Zhang's first meeting with Hong Kong visitors - and the remarks were made during a photo session in which Hong Kong reporters were present - meant something. Zhang, or Beijing, wanted to convey its message to Hongkongers, loud and clear.
What impact Zhang's remarks will have is yet to be seen. But, interestingly enough, this time senior Hong Kong officials were the first to defend the city. Both Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah and Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Professor Chan Ka-keung argued that Hong Kong's competitiveness was in its own hands, and that other places were facing deep-rooted problems as well.
Zhang did not name what "edge" Hong Kong is losing. But it is understood he was referring to several issues: the ongoing heated debate on universal suffrage; a proposed civil disobedience movement, "Occupy Central"; various conflicts such as the month-long dockers' strike, and the recent controversy over donating HK$100 million to the provincial government in earthquake-hit Sichuan province. All of these must have touched nerves in Beijing.
In another development, an online video clip of a Hong Kong man seen quarrelling with a woman claiming to be from Shanghai inside the MTR went viral last week. It was a scene no longer strange or surprising given the rising tensions between Hong Kong and the mainland. It was unclear what the argument was about, but at the end, the Hong Kong man scolded the woman, saying, "You mainlanders are corrupt!" But she quickly rebutted: "In Hong Kong, you have this corrupt Donald Tsang!" She was apparently referring to the ICAC investigation into the former chief executive in connection with various trips he took and a bargain penthouse he planned to rent across the border.
The man left the train without saying a word. Some local media described him as "defeated", unable to defend the city against a blow to one of its proudest possessions: a clean government.
While Hong Kong needs to treasure and keep strengthening its traditional economic competitive edge, there is another clear "edge" we cannot afford to lose - a corruption-free environment. This explains the public outcry over the extravagant entertainment lavished on mainland officials by former Independent Commission Against Corruption commissioner Timothy Tong Hin-ming. A timely and thorough probe into the case is necessary to restore the public's confidence in both the ICAC and the government as a whole.
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So firstly, I got the title off Divergent by Veronica Roth. It's this dystopian fiction much like The Hunger Games but has a different storyline. Dauntless is one of the five factions in the book that prides itself for its dauntless people that do acts of fearlessness or what they prefer to call as "bravery" such as jumping off a train, bungee jumping, scaling a monument, ziplining from the top of a multi-storied building, or getting heavy tattoos and piercings. Blah, blah. This post is not about that.
I've been really borderline lately and probably a bit bored with the past few monotonous chapters of my life that I've decided to do something different again. Last year, I dyed my hair a coffee color that didn't really flatter my skin tone (make me forget about that please!). This summer, I opted for another brave attempt on changing my physical appearance. NO, I will not do bungee jumping. Not yet. I've done something liberated and quite out of character; I got my left ear pierced.
|So am I cool now or what?
So yeah, I know piercing just one time on one ear isn't at all dauntless of me. But I've already tried the usual teen-rebel all-that kind of thing that I finally went for a permanent change. Or rather I think it'll be permanent as long as I keep something in the hole to prevent it from closing up.
Why a star? Because it was the only shiny thing available and I like shiny and I don't do round, plain, rings. No it didn't really hurt. It just felt like it got hit by a book maybe ('cause that happened to me once, try it for yourself) that the pain was amazingly tolerable. The lady who pierced my ear with the piercing gun told me that it was only like a bite of an ant. Who are you kidding? A five-year old? But she was nice so it didn't really feel appropriate to be sarcastic towards her.
I'm not really allowed to pierce my ear any more than the ones that I already have. Hell, I'm sure my parents will go ballistic when they hear of this. Or rather, see this. I guess it's obvious that I didn't get their permission and am still hiding it from them huh? *laughs I'll probably try hiding it for at least a week since the sterility of the earring lasts that much long and by then I could take it off and then the reality of it all wouldn't be so hard on them and me anymore. I hope.
Credits to my bebegurls for accompanying me on this anxiety-relieving(?) deed. I love you girls. You're the best bad influences I've ever had. Much love :"*


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By Jane Ayers, Special for USA TODAY
Trees may not sprout from the ocean, but that doesn't stop one expert from talking about the need to save the ocean's "forests."
That's how Noel Brown, former head of the United Nations Environment Programme, refers to the oceans' supply of plankton, the tiny plant life that is the base of the ocean's food chain. It feeds most of the world's marine life and also removes half of the world's carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Brown says plankton populations are beginning to starve because of a decrease in naturally occurring dust storms on land that deliver micronutrients of iron that plankton need to survive. In addition, research has shown that warming surface temperatures are keeping vital nutrients from the oceans' depths from reaching plankton populations. Brown says the potential loss of these avenues for iron to reach the plankton is an "impending crisis."
In a bid to restore plankton populations, an eco-restoration firm named Planktos launched the ship Weatherbird II early in March from Washington, D.C., on a two-year project to "seed" the oceans with iron ore dust. The "Voyage of Recovery," which has a crew of 17, including eight scientists, is headed for the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, Hawaii, Bermuda, the Scotus Sea (off the tip of South America) and the South Pacific. Crewmembers will arrive at their first site in mid-May in the Galapagos Islands.
"We just have to move quickly and with energy," says Brown, who now is advisory chairman to Planktos.
Three months ago, NASA released satellite data showing that ocean plant life is rapidly shrinking as more carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere. The buildup helps feed the climate changes that warm the seas and disrupt the pumping of vital nutrients from the ocean depths, Oregon State University oceanographer Michael Behrenfeld says. He's the author of a recent NASA study, published in the journal Nature, that shows a direct link between global warming and declining phytoplankton.
NASA data from 2003 showed a 6% to 9% loss of global plankton since 1980, but the new Behrenfeld report places the global level of plankton loss at 12%. The data also reveal that some regions, such as along the equator in the South Pacific, have experienced a 50% drop. Planktos scientists will be working toward restoring at least the 6% of phytoplankton that has been lost.
Some experts view the iron-seeding plan with considerable skepticism. Kenneth Coale, director of the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California and a pioneer in early iron-restoration projects, says every experiment in iron seeding he has been involved with created "a massive bloom" but also caused a class of plankton to arise that could produce poisons. He is concerned that science needs more investigation about "the unintended consequences of iron fertilization before embarking upon programs of massive ocean manipulation."
Behrenfeld himself says it's hard to predict how complex ecosystems will respond to a change in one component.
"If one manipulates the base of the food chain, you don't know what new species might pop up," he says in an e-mail. "If you add iron to a large part of the ocean for a long period of time, predators that eat plankton will increase."
In response to such warnings, Planktos organizers have stated that they will seed and restore only "tiny fractions" of the size of natural plankton blooms.
Coale says that ultimately the answer is for the "world to change our individual lifestyles to be carbon-neutral." Attacking the problem at the source is more responsible, in his view, than "asking the oceans to solve the problems for us."
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The article started appearing on my timeline last night sometime. I use facebook's subscription options generously, which helps me to see that which I actually want to see. This allow me to bypass most of the blatant racist rhetoric on news24 comment sections.
For the past two days I've been listening to reports about the uproar in South Africa surrounding Cape Town artist Brett Murray's work, "The Spear", which portrays President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed. Interestingly, Murray's painting is not even the first of its kind to appear in recent days. Last week in Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was shown nude in a piece by artist Margaret Sutherland.
September 12 1977 is etched in memory as the day when the world was robbed of one of its greatest of minds - Steve Bantu Biko.
For the powers at that time his death became logical, given that the initial cruelty routinely meted out to black people was the foundation on which their power was built.
Tampering with that foundation Biko staked himself as a native that that power could ill afford to live with.
When the only option for such a power hinges on killing, silencing comes naturally.
A call to churches worldwide to educate people about racism was made by church leaders from across the Americas and the Caribbean at the end of a conference held last week in Managua, Nicaragua.
The conference, which was organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Latin America Council of Churches (CLAI), focused on the violence of racism against people of African descent in the region.
It was the first ever conference to bring together church leaders of Afro-descendent communities in the Americas and the Caribbean.
Dr Jorge Ramirez Reyna, president of Asociación Negra de Defensa y Promoción de Derechos Humanos (Black Association for Human Rights Defense and Promotion, ASONEDH) in Peru, reflects on the issue of racism in his country and the role of the conference on the Violence of Racism in Latin America, which was organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI) 22-24 June in Managua, Nicaragua. He was interviewed by Sean Hawkey.
How is racism playing out in Peru today?
Church leaders from across the Americas and the Caribbean are meeting in Managua, Nicaragua, to discuss the violence of racism, and the challenges it poses for churches and ecumenical organizations.
The conference is sponsored by World Council of Churches (WCC) in partnership with the Latin America Council of Churches (CLAI) and brings together people working with Afro-descendent and indigenous communities across the region.
Written By Bobby Jordan
For some homeowners, a squatter camp mushrooming next door could be a sign to start packing up.
Darren Clarke, however, saw it as an opportunity to help start a decent rugby team.
Clarke and other residents of well-heeled Noordhoek in Cape Town have teamed up with township rugby players to form the country's newest and most unusual rugby club.
Written by Des Morgan
I live in a deeply divided society. I have not lived long enough in any other part of the world to know for certain whether this is a unique problem for South Africa. What I do know is that on any one day in South Africa, newspaper reports alone make one acutely aware of the deep divisions in South African society, whether it be between one race group and another, or between one gender and another, or between one socio-economic group and another.
There is a custom in some churches to read out the Ten Commandments every Sunday in Lent as a way of calling to mind our sins. When you read these "Ten Words" as they are sometimes called in Hebrew, there is no doubt that they call a spade a spade! There is no beating around the bush with some generalized statement about sin. On the contrary the whole gamut is named, from idolatry to adultery, from blasphemy to covetousness, from stealing to murder, from respecting parents to lying.
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The BEST Pediatric Neurologist! He listens, evaluates and then he explains the options. Excellent bedside manners. We are very lucky to have him on board.
He is the only neurologist that actually cared and helped my daughter. we went through 4 others before finding him. I highly recommend him. Look no farther, he is the best!
Dr. Winesett has always been positive and never gives up hope even when circumstances seem hopeless. He genuinely cares for the health of my son. It has been a pleasure working with the doctor in caring for my son who has Lennox-Gastaut. Dr. Winesett has never made me feel rushed through a visit and has always answered my questions honestly. I think he is an angel on earth.
Dr. Winesett is such a great caring Doctor! Couldn't even think of going anywhere else!!! Has always been easy to reach, responds immediately with any questions regarding my son and has always made my husband and I feel like are child is the most important. My son loves hime and we do as well. Have the uttmost respect and faith in his knowledge as a doctor and can't think of a better doctor to recommend to anyone else with a child going through neurological problems. He is AMAZING!!!!!!!
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Dr. Winesett is the best doctor we've had by far. He started treating our daughter whe she was a month of age and has followed her for 5 of the soon to be six years of her life. He listens, he cares, and he was always easy to get a hold of, a rare but extremely precious trait I hope he never changes. He never made you feel as though you were a burden, always understood that as a parent you were nervous and unsure. You really don't know how good you have it till they're gone. We're anxiously awaiting his return and miss him immensely.
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Wednesday, 17 July, 2002, 13:56 GMT 14:56 UK
Livingston's car policy 'flawed'
Plans to charge motorists £5 to drive into central London are "deeply flawed" because of Mayor Ken Livingston's "rushed, defective" traffic policy, a court has heard.
Westminster Council is arguing at the High Court that congestion charges are a breach of residents' human rights.
The scheme, which is due to be introduced next February, faces delays if public transport is not improved sufficiently to cope with the likely increased demand, said Roger Henderson QC.
"Otherwise people will be taken off the roads to nothing," he said.
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Backed by Kennington Association residents group, Westminster argues the scheme is unlawful and likely to increase air pollution and adversely affect the quality of city life.
Its lawyers have accused Mr Livingstone of wrongly failing to carry out a full and efficient consultation before giving the go-ahead to the multi-million pound scheme, which is aimed at making more people use public transport.
Westminster wants Mr Justice Maurice Kay to rule the mayor's decision was flawed and that he should have held a public inquiry.
On Wednesday, Mr Henderson rejected suggestions that it was now too late to hold any further inquiry.
He said the mayor was already committed to a review of the public transport situation in the capital later this year "which may cause the scheme not to go ahead at all by the intended date".
Any practical difficulties in the way of an inquiry flowed from the rushed, defective process which led to the scheme.
Mr Henderson argued that an inquiry could cure the flaws caused by that rush.
Mr Livingstone and Transport for London (TfL) believe they can defeat the legal challenge and have earmarked £2.3m to cover their fees.
They say the congestion charge will reduce traffic to "summer school holiday levels".
Under the scheme motorists will be charged for driving into central London between 0700 and 1830BST from Monday to Friday.
About 230 cameras will be used to take pictures of number plates, which will then be checked with a central database to see if the fee has been paid.
There will be discounts for residents and exemptions for certain professions.
Anyone who is caught not paying will be fined up to £120.
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Unpopular credit and debit card surcharges imposed by airlines are under investigation, writes Clive Dorman.
Charging for services that used to be free is more than a fashion: it has become essential to the profitability of airlines, an industry that has spent much of the past decade racking up large losses.
But, if so-called ancillary revenue is now the financial salvation of airlines, regulators have also begun pushing back, in particular against those that impose large surcharges for financial transactions that cost a few cents to complete.
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The chief executive of Ryanair, Michael O'Leary, insists the airline's card surcharge is a legitimate 'administration fee'.
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The senior director of Britain's Office of Fair Trading's Goods and Consumer Group, Cavendish Elithorn, said last year: "You can't buy online with cash and people are frustrated about being asked to pay for paying."
Card surcharges imposed by airlines are one of the biggest sources of complaints to the ACCC and Australia's state-based consumer affairs departments. The industry knows this: AirAsia founder Tony Fernandes conceded in an interview last year that its card surcharge was the airline's most unpopular ancillary fee.
One of the British government's main targets for its card-fee ban is Europe's biggest airline, Ryanair, which charges £6 ($9.06) a sector - $72 for a return booking for a family of four - for using a credit or debit card. Ryanair uses the same loophole as Australian airlines such as Jetstar and Tiger: consumers can avoid the fee by using a card such as MasterCard or other forms of payment. This, in turn, creates a penalty for most people, who use other credit and debit cards, such as Visa and American Express. In any case, the impost is higher than that imposed by retailers, who normally charge 1 per cent to 2 per cent of the transaction value. The real cost of a debit card transaction can be as little as 30¢.
Nevertheless, the chief executive of Ryanair, Michael O'Leary, has indicated he will take on the British government in a legal test case. He insists that the airline's credit card surcharge is a legitimate "administration fee".
In the US, the Department of Transport is also cracking down on practices that, until now, have allowed airlines to avoid declaring total taxes and charges on fares. New rules for US carriers take effect on Thursday.


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Such counsel is to be found among the 61 "instruments of good works" noted in the Rule of Benedict, a sixth-century guide for living for members of the Order of Saint Benedict. There is more: "Become a stranger to the world's ways, love fasting, recognize always that evil is one's own doing and impute it to oneself, keep death daily before one's eyes."
A road less traveled. The Priory monks — Fathers Pius Horvath, Martin Mager and Maurus Nemeth, and Brother Edward Englund — have dwelt together at 302 Portola Road for decades and say they will complete their working lives there. It's the Benedictine way, Brother Edward said in a recent group interview in the monastery.
"You're joining a particular group of people and you're committing yourself to that group," he said. "The group is also committing (itself) to you. It's a mutual dedication of growth between the individual and the community."
"It's really a process of mutual support (within an ideal community)," Father Pius said. "The values given to us by Christ are not only possible but can be worked out in our lives."
Seven monks founded the Priory in 1957, according to "Being Benedictine," a book celebrating the school's 50th year. By 1979, their number had risen to 16, the high point.
The Priory monks, though counseled to be strangers to the world's ways, are not unfamiliar with them.
Before taking his orders, Father Martin said, he worked in a meatpacking warehouse; one talent he brought to the Priory was his ability to drive a bus. Father Maurus came to the monastic life after three years in Northern Canada as a lumberjack, he said.
The four monks, now in their 70s and 80s, have advanced degrees and either hold or have held administrative and teaching positions at the school:
• Father Martin teaches digital photography and the craft of making a ukulele.
• Brother Edward was an academic dean and currently directs guidance counseling.
• Father Pius taught Latin and German during his career and spent weekends assisting in Peninsula parishes for 45 years.
• Father Maurus held management positions at the school, taught biology, led the science department and drove a school bus.
The monks gather for prayer daily at 6 a.m. and after breakfast, celebrate public Mass. On weekends, they may "carry the sacrament" to the homebound and poor, Father Maurus said. In the evenings, they gather in a common room to "look at the newspaper and at each other," Father Pius said.
They abstain generally from TV and movies, though exceptions are not unheard of for San Francisco 49ers games, said Brother Edward, who also took a moment to sing the praises of actor Meryl Streep.


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2016 is shaping up to be a year for the record books: the Energy Information Administration is anticipating that this year, for the first time ever, natural gas will displace coal as America's largest source of electricity generation. The EIA reports:
For decades, coal has been the dominant energy source for generating electricity in the United States. EIA's Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) is now forecasting that 2016 will be the first year that natural gas-fired generation exceeds coal generation in the United States on an annual basis. Natural gas generation first surpassed coal generation on a monthly basis in April 2015, and the generation shares for coal and natural gas were nearly identical in 2015, each providing about one-third of all electricity generation.
…The recent decline in the generation share of coal, and the concurrent rise in the share of natural gas, was mainly a market-driven response to lower natural gas prices that have made natural gas generation more economically attractive. Between 2000 and 2008, coal was significantly less expensive than natural gas, and coal supplied about 50% of total U.S. generation. However, beginning in 2009, the gap between coal and natural gas prices narrowed, as large amounts of natural gas produced from shale formations changed the balance between supply and demand in U.S. natural gas markets.
Natural gas emits just half as much greenhouse gases as coal, and far fewer of the dangerous local pollutants that can lead to the sorts of toxic smog choking China's megacities. The fact, then, that natural gas is increasing its market share at the expense of coal is a green triumph.
It's especially noteworthy because it's being driven by market forces, not lavish government subsidies. The shale revolution has created a domestic glut of natural gas here in the U.S., and that's helped depress spot prices here well below $2 per million Btu (among the cheapest prices in the world). Fracking is dethroning Old King Coal, and that controversial drilling practice deserves more credit for the environmental good it's doing.


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"it requires matter of some kind to conduct the phonons"Edit
'phonons' are either nonsense, or a typo. photons aren't 'conducted', they propagate from different points along a wave front --220.127.116.11 03:36, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
- I changed it to say that it needs a medium for the vibrations, since photons are not directly related to sound, but to light. --OuroborosCobra talk 03:39, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
eh... not really, anything can be quantized, in this context you're just propagating some form of potential energy, not that this affects the changes you made--126.96.36.199 03:47, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
- Doesn't make it photons. Photons are a very specific form of quantized energy. --OuroborosCobra talk 05:58, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
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I removed the following from the background section:
- "There are several technical glitches here. First and fundamentally, sound does not travel in a vacuum; it requires some kind of medium through which the vibrations can propagate. Presumably, Eminiar's scientists solved this problem. "
- "There is an alternative way of explaining this phenomenon: We have been told several times during the show that the orbit of the Enterprise will decay rapidly if she loses engine power. Since the mass of the Enterprise is colossal, this means that it is ordinary for starships of the 23rd century to follow very low orbits, sometimes getting closer then 50 kilometers to the ground. Atmospheric pressure at such altitudes is low, but not low enough to prevent the propagation of sound."
- "Second, "18 to the 12th power decibels" by itself is somewhat meaningless, since the decibel is a relative unit. Perhaps the 0dB reference point is something all Starfleet officers know, and only we viewers are baffled. Finally, since the decibel scale is logarithmic, 18 to the 12th power is a staggering amount of energy, since one would have to calculate the base 10 antilogarithm of a sixteen digit number. Perhaps the method of reporting values, or the meaning of the unit, has changed by the time of the 23rd century."
Lots of original research and speculation. --Alan 18:08, 7 December 2008 (UTC)


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JEFF KENNETT, former Victorian premier and current chairman of national anti-depression organisation beyondblue, has described Storm fullback Billy Slater's alleged taunting of Knights forward Cory Paterson over his mental health issues as ''offensive'' and ''highly inappropriate''.
Slater was yesterday investigated by the NRL match review committee for telling Paterson during last Saturday's match in Newcastle to ''go to your room and have a cry'' - a reference to Paterson's well-documented battle with clinical depression that caused him to miss most of last season and, at his lowest points, sparked suicidal thoughts.
While no action was taken after Paterson stated he did not want the matter to go further, the Herald understands Slater would have faced a fine or suspension from the NRL if he had not issued a second apology in as many days.
Kennett said that was ''the least'' Slater could do.
''I find this very, very disappointing given all the educational work that has been done over the last 10 years, particularly among athletes - both male and female - about depression,'' Kennett told the Herald.
''If Cory had been suffering from a cancer or a broken limb then no comment would have been made at all because they are visual injuries.
''I know that sometimes in the heat of the battle people can say things they later regret but it is highly inappropriate and quite clearly if Slater has apologised that is the least he can do … but it should never have happened in the first place and, you never know, just because you are young and fit and healthy, you may the next person to suffer depression.''
NRL match review chief Greg McCallum said the panel had considered charging Slater with contrary conduct or referring the incident to the NRL to take action as it did against Cronulla lock Paul Gallen last year for racially abusing Dragons forward Mickey Paea.
''It was picked up in the match review and we treated it as we would with a biting or gouging situation,'' McCallum said. ''There was no report on the field but we still felt it was something we should look at so the first step was to contact the club. They told us that Cory didn't want to take the matter any further.''
Storm officials, who ruled out any sanction against Slater, said they would seek advice from mental health experts to strengthen their education programs on such issues.
Slater, picked up by on-field microphones saying ''he can give it but he can't take it'', said: "I accept that in the heat of the moment on Saturday night, I overstepped the mark with a flippant comment I directed at Cory Paterson. What was said was insensitive given what Cory has been through over the past 18 months.''
NRL chief operating officer Graham Annesley warned players that they could be held accountable for comments made on the field.
''While there is always rivalry in the heat of battle there are any number of areas of comment that can see a player facing a further sanction,'' Annesley said.


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At the end of December, News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWS) is expected to split into two separate companies. One company named News Corporation will control the firm's education, Australian, and publishing assets. The other, which will be named Fox Group, will control the media giant's cable television, television, film, and direct satellite assets. Before the company splits, News Corporation is already looking at spending its billions of dollars in cash to strengthen the Fox Group.
The biggest recent acquisition by Fox Group involved the Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network, commonly known as YES. News acquired a 49% stake in the television channel that is the live local provider of New York Yankees and Brooklyn Nets games. The acquisition is another example of the Fox Sports Media Group focusing on live local coverage of MLB, NHL and NBA games.
Rumors have News Corporation in the running to buy SportsTimeOhio TV Channel for $230 million. The channel has the live local coverage rights of the Cleveland Indians. Fox Sports owned the rights to the Indians previously, before SportsTime was launched as its own channel. Fox Sports already has a strong presence in the state with its Fox Sports Ohio, which covers the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Cavaliers. Rival media company Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) also is bidding on SportsTime.
Here is a look at the strong portfolio of live local coverage that Fox Sports provides:
|States Covered
|Teams and Conferences Covered
|FS Arizona
|Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada
|Phoenix Suns, Arizona Diamondbacks, Phoenix Coyotes, Phoenix Mercury, Pac-12
|FS Detroit
|Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin
|Detroit Tigers, Detroit Pistons, Detroit Red Wings
|FS Florida
|Florida, Alabama, Georgia
|Tampa Bay Rays, Orlando Magic, Miami Marlins, Florida Panthers
|FS Indiana
|Indiana Pacers, Indiana Fever
|FS Kansas City
|Kansas City Royals
|FS Midwest
|Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, Kansas, Kentucky, Arkansas
|St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Blues, Big 12, Conference USA
|FS New Orleans
|New Orleans Hornets
|FS North
|Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota
|Minnesota Twins, Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Wild, Minnesota Lynx
|FS Ohio
|Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York
|Cleveland Cavaliers, Cincinnati Reds, Columbus Blue Jackets, Columbus Crew
|FS Oklahoma
|Oklahoma City Thunder
|FS San Diego
|San Diego Padres
|FS South
|Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky
|Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Braves
|FS Carolinas
|North Carolina, South Carolina
|Carolina Hurricanes, Charlotte Bobcats
|FS Tennessee
|Tennessee, Alabama
|Memphis Grizzlies, Nashville Predators
|FS Southwest
|Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Arkansas
|Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars, Houston Dynamo, Texas Rangers, FC Dallas, San Antonio Spurs, San Antonio Silver Stars, Big 12, Conference USA
|FS West
|California, Nevada, Hawaii
|Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Kings, Anaheim Ducks, Chivas USA, Pac 12
|FS Wisconsin
|Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa
|Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Bucks, Wisconsin Badgers Hockey,
|Sun Sports
|Orlando Magic, Miami Heat, Miami Marlins, Tampa Bay Rays, Tampa Bay Lightning
|Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina
|Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Bobcats, Memphis Grizzlies, Nashville Predators
Along with these wholly owned assets, Fox Sports also has ownership stakes in the following assets:
· MSG Plus - Co-owned with Madison Square Garden (NASDAQ:MSG). Is available in New York, New jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Shows games featuring the New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders, and the Big East Conference.
· Root Sports - Is available in 18 states and has 8.3 million subscribers.
· PeachtreeTV - Carries Atlanta Braves
· Bay Area - Available in California, Nevada, and Oregon, Bay Area covers the San Francisco Giants, Oakland Athletics, San Jose Sharks, Golden State Warriors, Pac 10 Conference, Mountain West Conference, and WAC. The station is 25% owned by Fox Sports in a partnership with Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA).
· Big Ten Network - Fox Sports owns 51% of the network that covers Big Ten Conference games in all sports. The remaining portion is owned by the conference itself. I wrote recently about the addition of the University of Maryland to the Big Ten will increase the already high 40 million households that have the Big Ten Network. The addition of Maryland will add the channel to strong regions like Washington D.C. and Baltimore.
Sporting events continue to be valuable media assets. The events are watched by people in real time, providing key advertising opportunities. The cancellation of NHL games through the end of 2012 hurts Fox Sports assets a little bit, but next season's MLB season will pay off big for the newly spun off Fox Group.
Shares of News Corporation are trading near five year highs. I suggest waiting until the spin off and buying stock in Fox Group. The publishing unit has been a drag on revenue and profits. Fox Group will provide the Fox Sports assets to shine and compete with Comcast and Disney's sports media assets.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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News from the Hilltop
Decatur resident elected 2009-10 SGA president at Birmingham-Southern
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern College Student Government Association has elected officers and representatives to lead the campus governing body during the 2009-10 academic year.
Will Breland of Decatur is the college's SGA president beginning fall 2009. Breland is a junior history major and the son of David and Drama Breland. He is a graduate of Decatur High School.
Other students elected as executive officers are Mary Catherine McAnnally, a junior English major from Mountain Brook and the daughter of Sid and April McAnnally, 1st vice president; Lee Hopf, a junior English major from Warner Robins, Ga., and the son of Michael and Melinda Hopf, 2nd vice president; Ben Odendahl, a junior political science major from Hampton Cove and the son of Donald and Kathy Odendahl, secretary; and Amy Sessions, a sophomore biology major from Grand Bay and the daughter of Lee and Elizabeth Sessions, treasurer.
BSC students elected as SGA representatives for the 2009-10 academic year, listed by hometown and position, are:
ANNISTON: Faith Dorn, an elementary/collaborative education major, sophomore representative.
BIRMINGHAM Area:
Bessemer Cut-Off: Kate LeCroy, a biology major, sophomore representative.
Hoover/Vestavia: Kriti Mishra, a business administration major from Hoover, commuter representative; Avani Patel, an accounting major from Vestavia, commuter representative; and Ashley Rhea, a political science major from Vestavia, junior representative.
BATON ROUGE, LA.: Rebecca Broussard, a business administration major, sophomore representative.
DAPHNE: Amy Monroe, an undeclared major, senior representative.
DECATUR: Zach Guyse, a history major, men's dorm representative.
FAIRHOPE: Morgan Sanders, a business administration major, apartment representative.
GUNTERSVILLE: Hillary Beard, a biology major, women's dorm representative.
HUNTSVILLE: John Michael Chappell, a theatre arts major, fraternity row representative; and Meredith Ervin of Hampton Cove, an undeclared major, senior representative.
JACKSON, MISS.: Camille Cannada, an undeclared major, women's dorm representative.
KNOXVILLE, TENN.: Reed Kramer, an undeclared major, junior representative.
MOBILE: Brenna McGee, an undeclared major, townhouse representative.
NEWBURGH, IN: Taylor Binyon, a biology major, men's dorm representative.
ONEONTA: Jordan Jackson, a psychology major, junior representative.
SHREVEPORT, LA.: Janie Asseff, a psychology major, apartment representative.
TUPELO, MISS.: Kathleen Hillen, a business administration major, senior representative.
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The party needs to turn away from what Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal calls "dumbed-down conservatism."
"We need to stop being simplistic ... and we need to stop insulting the intelligence of the voters," Jindal told Politico this week.
He's spot on. Taking conservatism up-market intellectually will mean weaning the party off the seductive anti-Obama mythomania of Fox News; off the pugnacious partisanship that personally profits commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter; and off the cross-eyed conspiracy theories of professional buffoons such as Donald Trump.
But more importantly, it will require a return to politics and policies based on fact and evidence. And perhaps nowhere is that need more acute than on economics.
Since the election of Ronald Reagan, supply-side economics — in brief, the belief that lower tax rates, particularly on upper earners, will increase incentives to produce things, resulting in economic growth that benefits everyone — has been the doctrine of the Republican Party. The Wall Street Journal editorial page has become a reflexive cheerleading squad for supply-sidism, while powerful groups such as the Club for Growth and Americans for Tax Reform have policed party ranks for deviations from the approved theology.
The adherence to supply-side theory has come despite, rather than because of, real-world results. Much of the Reagan-era prosperity attributed thereto was really the result of Keynesianism that dared not speak its name. That category includes the big, deficit-financed defense build-up and income tax cuts that boosted consumer spending.
Meanwhile, the past three decades have proved key supply-side tenets crashingly wrong. Chief among them is the assertion that lower marginal income tax rates for upper earners are an essential catalyst to growth. Another is the related warning that tax increases on the well-to-do will inevitably cause economic calamity.
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Learning to Apply and Challenge Psychosocial Theory and Contexts in a Diverse University Classroom: The Role of Prior Knowledge
This workshop will grapple with the challenges experienced by students and lecturers in a university course integrating Psychosocial subject-matter into a Medical curriculum. It will be set against a South African background of higher education, characterized by high levels of cultural, linguistic and educational diversity and a strong ethos of institutional and curricular transformation. The workshop facilitators will introduce teaching materials and student responses from the Psychosocial and Academic Literacy components of an academic development programme for medical students who had been identified as at risk of failing their first year. Our theoretical framework will be constructivist, arguing that new theories and concepts are most accessible to learners if they can draw on prior knowledge. In this respect, the workshop will explore the extent to which even transformational curricula and pedagogies may constitute a type of 'dominant academic culture' that may pose obstacles to students, sometimes particularly when they are encouraged to draw on their own experiences and prior knowledge to demystify psychosocial concepts and theories. Participants will be invited to engage in the workshop with the aim of exploring possibilities of designing learning activities that would address the academic difficulties of at risk students and assist in reintegrating them into the mainstream curriculum, while at the same time building critical and reflective skills necessary for enabling them to draw on their own experiences and knowledge of the world, especially when these experiences and knowledge fall outside or critique the curriculum.
Keywords: Critical and Reflective Learning, Integrated Learning, Psychosocial Concepts, Academic Literacy Skills, Educational Diversity, At Risk Students, Prior Knowledge, Challenging Dominant Academic Culture
Dr. Ermien van Pletzen
Senior Lecturer, Language Development Group, University of Cape Town
Elmi Badenhorst
Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town
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A biography of sorts...
"I knit from home, in my comfortable knitting chair, dreaming up little woolly objets d'art to adorn the humble teapot. Tea Cosies. I knit them, pattern them and give them a funny name. When I am done, they are photographed like haute couture and published in a book."
BUT there have been other incarnations. Most recently Loani snuck into large organisations and spring-cleaned and restructured their electronic filing systems - like a sort of modern filing fairy. Before that she liked to administrate for artistic and charitable organisations. And in another life entirely she mucked about on the viola and taught little kids how to whip out a tune on their own instruments.
Loani is the happy mother of one grown up son, Benjamin Bunny. She has a love hate relationship with two recalcitrant Burmese kittens, Purl and Bruce (The Naughties), and blames this whole knitty nonsense on The Bloke and the Rugby World Cup 2003.
Oh and... Loani sometimes talks about herself in the third person. She can't help herself.


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This old wagon is still looking over the valley it labored in all those many years ago. Photo taken in the Snoqualmie Valley, near Duvall, Washington. Picture shot with my Canon Rebel 450D Xsi.
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Plan your weekend with picks from our entertainment reporters, critics and bloggers. For more event listings, visit www.sltrib.com/entertainment. Sports listings can be found here.
6th Annual Craft Lake City DIY Festival • More than 200 vendors and exhibitors in handcrafted arts and engineering, live entertainment food and more. Information, craftlakecity.com/
When: 5-10 p.m. Friday, noon-10 p.m. Saturday
Where: Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main St.
Admission: Free
Sandy Hot Air Balloon Festival • See balloons fill the sky on Friday and Saturday, weather permitting, and maybe even help with the balloon launches. A "glow" is schedule for Saturday evening. Information, www.sandy.utah.gov/balloonfest.