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I submitted my first theme yesterday. And today I opened my mail to see a message saying it needs improvement. This is the theme.
And this is the message I got:
Elements such as navigations and series of items should be placed in lists instead of a series of links or divs.
Now, I've already used lists for all major things in my theme, what else? Any advice…..
Columns, for example, your three features columns should be nested in list tags. Any series of 2 or more similar items should be coded like this. It's one thing feedback from themeforest has taught me, and I must admit, it does improve coding, and code readability.
Thanks for your reply QwibbleDesigns
So you mean, I need to code the columns of ALL the sections featured, content, and footer? Thats a lot of work to do…better get started right now..
Yeah. All you really need to do is replace the column div's with li's, and the wrapping div with a ul. Then in your css reset any margins, list styles etc that appear.


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When I run graphics-intensive programs (games) on the windows side of my bootcamp partition, I get enormous lag spikes every 5 seconds. It does not matter what my graphics settings are. According to the resource monitor, these show up as spikes on CPU 1 from being parked to being at 100% and then back to parked again. I've not had this problem on the Mac side of the partition. And when I shut down the offending applications the spikes go away and CPU stays parked. What is happening, and is there anything I can do about it?
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I tracked the processes for a long time. Here's what I did: I opened the task manager to the processes tab and sorted by CPU usage with the highest on top. I would leave it like this with the resource manager window open and watched which processes jumped to the top during a lag spike. Unfortunately there was no good correlation. The one that had the most movement was dwm.exe, which might make sense to you but none to me.
I have an ATI Radeon 4850. But as I mentioned in my post, it does not matter what the graphics settings are, from very easily rendered to very burdoned with low fps, the lag still occurs. I downloaded the latest driver from AMD directly again, just to make sure, and it still occurs.
The dwm.exe process is the Desktop Window Manager for Windows.
If it is spiking, too many windows may be open at once. This would put a burden on the CPU rather than the GPU, as you are experiencing.
The dwm.exe process is not essential - it is used by Windows to provide the transparent or 'glass effect' look to Windows.
You can turn it off by clicking on the Windows Start button, then type services.msc and press Enter to open up Windows Services. Find the "Desktop Window Manager Session Manager" service in the list, and click the stop button to temporarily stop it until Windows is restarted or you start it manually within Services again.
If you want to permanently disable it, double click it and select 'Disabled' as the Startup type.

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Polis and DeLauro Re-introduce Legislation to Expand Women's Access to High-Paying Jobs
Rep. Jared Polis (CO-2) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), along with 20 of their colleagues, today introduced the Women and Workforce Investment for Nontraditional Jobs (Women WIN Jobs) Act in an effort to fight gender inequity in the workplace and give low-income women a pathway out of poverty.
Rep. Jared Polis (CO-2) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), along with 20 of their colleagues, today introduced the Women and Workforce Investment for Nontraditional Jobs (Women WIN Jobs) Act in an effort to fight gender inequity in the workplace and give low-income women a pathway out of poverty. This legislation will be offered as an amendment tomorrow, Wednesday, March 6th at the Education and the Workforce Full Committee mark up of H.R. 803, the Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act, which will reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to create a more effective and accountable workforce development system.
"This bill marks an important step forward in expanding career opportunities for women in Colorado and across the country," said Rep. Jared Polis (CO-2). "From green energy to construction to manufacturing, women are underrepresented in many of today's most important occupations for no other reason than a lack of opportunities for job training. I'm pleased to join with my colleagues to support funding to help recruit, train and place women in traditionally male-dominated occupations that they are more than qualified for. By partnering with community-based organizations, educational institutions and local businesses, Women WIN Jobs Act will expand job opportunities for all Americans and enable our nation to develop a diverse workforce capable of competing at the highest levels of the 21st-century global economy."
"This legislation will strengthen our economic recovery by investing in women who have long been relegated to lower-paying jobs," said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT-3). "Through public-private partnerships, we will give women the tools they need to better provide for their families and contribute to our economy. The Women WIN Jobs Act will help America's women better their lives, families, and communities."
"The Women WIN Jobs Act will greatly boost the ability of low-income women and girls to reach a higher level of economic security than they otherwise would," said Shawn McMahon, Acting CEO and President of Wider Opportunities for Women. "It also will help employers in these fields replace the 10,000 skilled workers they are losing each day to the retirement of the baby-boomers."The Women WIN Jobs Act would help recruit, prepare, place and retain women in high-demand, high-wage nontraditional jobs. Through a new federal grant program that will support innovative partnerships in each and every state, this bill will enable women to become self-sufficient and earn more while simultaneously boosting our nation's economy. Despite the recession, employers in several industries are facing severe shortages of skilled workers to fill the fastest-growing and highest-paying jobs of the future – from information technology and the building trades, to renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Today women represent half of our nation's workforce, but two-thirds of working women are concentrated in only 5% of occupational categories, most of which are among the lowest paid occupations, except for teaching and nursing. Nontraditional jobs—those in which women comprise 25% or less of employees—pay 20-30% more than traditionally female jobs, but only 6.2% of women are employed in these occupations.
Other original co-sponsors of this legislation include: Reps. John Conyers, Diana DeGette, Raúl Grijalva, Gwen Moore, Eleanor Holmes-Norton, James Langevin, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Corrine Brown, Albio Sires, Earl Blumenauer, Lucille Roybal-Allard, John Lewis, Frederica Wilson, Alcee Hastings, Louise Slaughter, Keith Ellison, John Garamendi, David Cicilline, Jim Moran and Maxine Waters.
H.R. 803, the Women and Workforce Investment for Nontraditional Jobs (Women WIN Jobs) Act has been endorsed by the following organizations: Wider Opportunities for Women; Association for Career and Technical Education; Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs; Center for Women Policy Studies; Chicago Women in Trades; Coalition of Labor Union Women; Community Action Partnership; Legal Momentum; Moore Community House Women in Construction Program; National Alliance of Partnerships in Equity; National Transitional Jobs Network; National Women's Law Center; Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc.; Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law; Vermont Works for Women; West Virginia Women Work; Women's City Club of New York; American Association of University Women; Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law; National Council of Women's Organizations; Community Action Partnership; The National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium; The National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium.
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Stepping out for another evening on the town, Kim Kardashian was busy mingling with her fellow "The Apprentice" stars in New York City on Thursday evening (November 10).
The "Disaster Movie" babe looked lovely in black as she took part in the Perfumania held event to celebrate her appearance on Donald Trump's television competition show.
Of the outing, Kim tweeted, "My new Kim Kardashian fragrance is featured on this week's Apprentice! Thx Donald!"
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Hikers, bikers, and nature lovers will all have amazing experiences in this mountainous region. This summit is the highest peak of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Located in the Pike National Forest, it is a highly visible peak. Pike's Peak is a hiker's dream come true. With many trails of varying difficulties and elevations in the region, the most experienced hikers will attempt to hike to the summit. Those who are not in top physical condition can drive or take the Cog Railway to the top. Once there, the panoramic scenery is phenomenal and well worth the trip.
The Garden of the Gods is located in a park northwest of Colorado Springs. The highlights are the sandstone structures that are found throughout the park. While pondering their formation process, the naturally formed structures are amazing to look at. Additionally, a Visitors Center and Nature Center can give more information about how these pillars originated. Also nearby is Mueller State Park. There, you will find hiking, biking, and cross country ski trails. Moreover, wildlife abounds throughout the park with sightings of elk, eagles, and bears.
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When it comes to Oscar season, the old "it's just a movie" dodge doesn't apply. Part of the Academy Awards ritual is that best-picture contenders, enjoying their six weeks in the media limelight, are scrutinized not only for what they include but what they leave out on issues of racism, historical accuracy and political ideology.
When the boutique studios like Miramax and DreamWorks were flexing their muscles in the late nineties, there was a rash of Oscar smear campaigns, designed to plant doubts about such Oscar favourites as A Beautiful Mind (When casting your vote, consider – was A Beautiful Mind's John Nash an anti-Semite?), Saving Private Ryan and The Pianist.
Eventually, the negativity began to reflect badly on the Oscars and in 2004, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences outlawed negative campaigns. In practice, the new rule has just made the campaigns more stealthy. In 2009, timely stories appeared about Slumdog Millionaire's impoverished child stars; in 2011, headlines appeared about The King's Speech hero, George VI, and his alleged Nazi-sympathizing past.
This year, only the ecumenical fable Life of Pi, based on Yann Martel's novel, has completely escaped political censure, although most of the others have got off lightly. Les Misérables, a story now well-distanced from its rousing 19th-century radicalism, has failed to spark the ready rage of Tea Partiers or Fox News pundits. Even Austrian director Michael Haneke's Amour, dealing with disability and death, has been largely exempt from controversy, in contrast to the outrage around Million Dollar Baby in 2005. And although a few critics have accused this year's Silver Linings Playbook of treating mental illness as a cute quirk, many more have praised it for highlighting the issue.
Quentin Tarantino's slave revenge fantasy, Django Unchained, is supposed to be controversial for its cartoon violence and use of the N-word but, in reality, the film has drawn little enemy fire, beyond Spike Lee's tweet that he wouldn't see a film that disrespected black history. By now, Tarantino's knowing political incorrectness seems to have earned him a free pass, especially since his movie is not a serious best-picture contender.
Beasts of the Southern Wild , a fable of resistance from the perspective of a child, hasn't been quite as lucky, despite rave reviews and endorsements from Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey. African-American poet-activist bell hooks has denounced it as racist fantasy which celebrates the "pornography of violence." But this low-budget, no-star, first-time feature is already such an outlier success that no criticism can really hurt it.
Perhaps most of this year's critical oxygen has been burned off in the firestorm around Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. But accounts of an anti-Bigelow "smear campaign" are absurd. In the midst of the fierce ongoing debate about the morality and legality of the United States's anti-terrorism tactics, no studio publicist needed to push the film's detractors, including New Yorker writer Jane Mayer or documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney, to challenge Bigelow's portrayal of the CIA's practices. Doubters were unlikely to be mollified by Bigelow's flag-waving response in the Los Angeles Times – that the film was a portrait of "ordinary Americans who fought bravely even as they sometimes [her italics] crossed moral lines, who laboured greatly and intently, who gave all of themselves in both victory and defeat, in life and in death, for the defence of this nation."
Oscar-season criticisms may have derailed Zero Dark Thirty's Oscar chances but they've only slightly tarnished Lincoln's halo, along with screenwriter Tony Kushner's claim that the film was "inordinately accurate." The complaints have ranged from trivial (Daniel Day-Lewis's pierced ears) to sins of omission and distortion, played out in The New York Times. African-American studies historian Kate Masur struck a chord in an opinion piece when she said the movie "perpetuates the notion that African-Americans have offered little of substance to their own liberation." Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Eric Foner, in a letter to the Times, said the film "grossly exaggerates the possibility that by January, 1865, the war might have ended with slavery still intact." In an interview on CNN, Foner added this useful advice: "I recommend that people see it – and then read a book about Lincoln."
Argo, currently considered the best-picture favourite, has its issues. Most people know the film contrived the depiction of the suspenseful escape from the Tehran airport in 1980. Some critics, including the CBC's Jian Ghomeshi in a Globe and Mail article, have called the film racist for its portrayal of Iranians, while others have faulted it for failing to cast a Latino actor, instead of Affleck, as CIA agent Tony Mendez.
Yet over all, Argo is enjoying an unusual amount of dramatic licence. Iran is still regarded as the No. 1 choice for the next U.S. invasion, and Mendez, who has a movie-tie-in book, hasn't complained about the casting. As for Argo's original postscript, which mocked the honours heaped on Canadian diplomat Ken Taylor, Affleck fixed that, while turning an espionage coup that used to be called "the Canadian Caper" into an excuse for American patriotism. As Canadians, we're used to this and diplomatically adroit enough to let some things slide.Report Typo/Error
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An initiative from the City of Sydney Council will help apartment owners save thousands of dollars each year on water and energy bills.
The Smart Green Apartments program provides sustainability assessments for individual buildings. The assessments will identify opportunities to improve energy and water efficiency, providing recycling infrastructure within apartment buildings and assist households in reducing waste.
The pilot program is working with five buildings, including Parkridge Apartments in Darlinghurst, Glebe Gardens and Hyde Park Towers, with plans to expand it to as many as 30 buildings. The program will involve the City of Sydney working with state government, utilities, owners' corporations and executive committees, as well as strata agencies.
Energy audits for the pilot program are to be subsidised by the Office of Environment and Heritage's Energy Saver program.
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"Three quarters of the population in the inner city already live in apartments, and within 20 years half the state's population will too," she said. "So it makes sense that we work with them to help them reduce energy and water consumption."
The chairwoman of the owners' corporation of the Parkridge apartments and founder of the non-profit group Green Strata, Christine Byrne, welcomed the initiative.
"In the apartment building where I live, we have already reduced water consumption by 20 per cent by installing low-flow shower heads, flow restrictors on taps and fixing leaks," Ms Byrne said.
"Now we're saving $11,500 per year on our water bills with a pay-back period of less than two months."
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Turn commitments into action in Doha, says IUCN
Turn commitments into action in Doha, says IUCN
Doha, Qatar, 26 November 2012 – The great potential of nature as a cost-effective and no-regret solution to the climate challenge should be one of the central issues of the Doha debate according to IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).
The annual UN climate change summit taking place in Doha, Qatar from 26 November to 7 December aims to build up on the restored mutual trust in the multilateral process over the last two years. Honouring existing commitments and turning agreed decisions into action will be at the heart of this year's major climate event.
"We have to realise that implementing the solutions that nature provides doesn't come at the cost of jobs or economic growth," says Stewart Maginnis, Director of IUCN's Environment and Development Group. "With many countries and communities already using solutions offered by nature to adapt to the devastating impacts of climate change and to reduce their dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, more needs to be done to promote these solutions globally."
Halting the loss and degradation of ecosystems and promoting their restoration can deliver over one third of the total mitigation of climate change required by 2030, according to IUCN. The "Bonn Challenge" to restore 150 million hectares of deforested and degraded land by 2020 is one concrete way in which countries and landowners can contribute to this in the form of a large-scale nature-based solution.
Appropriate management of nature reduces the vulnerability of people to the threats posed by climate change. Protecting forests, coral reefs, mangroves and river systems helps people adapt to climate change and reduces its impacts.
"Decisions made in Doha must promote the development and implementation of an environmentally sound and equitable mechanism for forest-climate action at the national level known as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation)," says Maginnis. "For REDD+ to be effective, we need to make sure that nature's benefits are distributed in a fair way and that all concerned, including women and indigenous peoples, can participate."
Marine ecosystems such as coral reefs and mangrove swamps are among the most vulnerable to climate change, with millions of people relying on them for food, protection, tourism and development. Intact coastal ecosystems offer a double benefit in the face of climate change - they protect communities from inevitable sea level rise and storm surges while also capturing and storing large amounts of carbon.
IUCN also urges decision-makers to recognise ocean acidification as a global challenge and to take the much-needed targeted steps to address it. Manmade ocean acidification will have profound impacts on marine life, even without a further increase of CO2 emissions.
"We need to come out of Doha with a sound political agreement that takes into account the variety of cost-effective solutions that nature has to offer and that brings about a real change and action, " adds Maginnis.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Feb. 21, 2013 – Larissa R. Brunner Huber, an Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences, is the 2013 recipient of the Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award. She was presented with the award at a reception on the evening of Feb. 20.
During the ceremony, Provost Joan Lorden said Huber has mastered the art of mentoring students.
"She is recognized by her colleagues for her approach to the student-mentor relationship, and she is lauded by her students—both present and former—for offering an unparalleled level of support and guidance," she said.
Lorden also shared some stories from Huber's past and present students.
"One former student recounts the ways in which Dr. Huber mentored and accommodated her as she worked through her thesis," she said. "The level of support Dr. Huber provided was extraordinary for a number of reasons, including that she maintained and fulfilled her role as thesis chair to eight students while dealing with a very serious medical issue."
The student wrote in her nomination letter: "Throughout this entire process Dr. Huber exhibited unparalleled generosity, patience and understanding. Since Dr. Huber was not maintaining office hours or teaching for the spring semester, students were welcomed into her home. Selflessly, she spent Thanksgiving Day helping me make final edits in preparation for my upcoming proposal and responded to panicked messages I'd send regarding statistical analysis syntax errors while at the doctor's office."
In his nomination letter, Gary Silverman, chair of the department of public health sciences, said "Amongst her peers—those especially known for mentoring graduate students to succeed as scholars—Dr. Huber clearly is known as the best of the best."
In the words of one graduate, "Dr. Huber honestly cares about each and every one of her current and former students and goes above and beyond just teaching course material or serving as an advisor."
During her academic and professional career, Huber has chaired or served on 44 thesis and dissertation committees. She has published extensively, including jointly authoring 13 publications with students, and she has worked with more than 60 students on a variety of research projects. Huber also has secured or provided expertise on grants totaling more than $400,000, including funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Huber earned her bachelor's degree from Syracuse University, master's degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and doctoral degree in epidemiology from Emory University. Huber joined UNC Charlotte in 2005. She serves as a reviewer of numerous publications, including Maternal and Child Health Journal and Annals of Epidemiology, and provides expertise to professional organizations, such as the American College of Epidemiology, the Society for Epidemiologic Research, and the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research.
Photo Caption: Huber poses with the award with UNC Charlotte Chancellor Philip L. Dubois (L) and Tom Reynolds, dean of the Graduate School.
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How to Roll a Joint
To become good at any skill, hobby, or trade first requires you to practice and devote your time and energy in to some thing that you believe truly matters in your life.
In this particular case it's very easy to become motivated to practice. How to Roll a Joint is stoner 101 and should be a part of a stoners first base. Being that there are so many different varieties and ways to roll a doobie, and it's up to you to find what style tickles your fancy.
First off, a joint is defined as a marijuana cigarette, which means it's sticky MJ wrapped inside of a rolling paper.
Now that you've got your zig zags or maybe the raws it's time to get twisting and learning How to Roll a Joint.
Hand rolled joints can be very tricky when you're first trying to figure them out.
A few basic things to think about is first how you break down your bud.
You want to make sure that it's nice and grindy otherwise you could run into a world of problems like holes in your rolling paper. Also this makes for a pretty ugly joint if it's all bumpy and awkward. Now you've got the green ready to sprinkle it into your zag and evenly distribute it across, this ensures you a smooth smoke all the way through where your doob won't go out or burn unnaturally. Take your time and never rush a roll, your patience will be greatly rewarded.
Begin rolling from the end you plan to put your mouth on and work your way to the end, licking it closed as you move along or save it for the last step, you decide. There are plenty of videos and even a few books that show ans explain how rolling a joint should be done.
Still work in the field is the best way to get your feet wet. So grab those papers, your grinder, and prepare to get busy.
If the hand rolling proves to be too much of a pickle for you, there are these nifty little tools called "rollers" that come in different sizes and can be used to roll the perfect joint every time.
Joints have been being rolled for eons and eons of time and it's not for no reason. Joints are a great means of getting a good stone, so don't be a stranger to every stoners timeless little friend.
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In an interview with Elle magazine six weeks before her divorce filing came to public, Holmes said that she is entering a new phase in life.
Less than two months before she announced that she's filing for divorce from husband Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes has subtly hinted in an interview with Elle magazine that she was entering a new phase. The magazine is coming to newsstands on July 17 with the headline "on Tom, Suri and what she desperately wants".
"I definitely feel much more comfortable in my own skin. I feel sexier. I think in my 20s, it's like you're trying too hard to figure everything out," the 33-year-old actress told Elle in an interview conducted mid-May. "I'm starting to come into my own. It's like a new phase." Holmes was 26 when she began dating Cruise and 27 when she married him.
She also suggested that something is not right in their marriage when talking about her husband. "He has been Tom Cruise for 30 years," she said. "I know who I am and where I am and where I want to go, so I want to focus on that."
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A new local TV station that will launch a morning show from Aspen Mountain this month inadvertently picked a channel and a branding strategy similar to the valley's community access station.
Comcast cable subscribers will see Aspen 82 on Channel 82 from Aspen to El Jebel when the station launches programming on Dec. 21. But from Carbondale to Rifle, GrassRoots TV has been seen on Channel 82 since 2010, and will continue to be.
Aspen 82 co-founder David Cook said he was not aware that GrassRoots had assumed the Channel 82 identity downvalley, and that it had launched a marketing effort around the concept of bringing the valley together, much like state Highway 82 that runs from Aspen to Glenwood.
Both stations use logos that incorporate the Highway 82 sign.
"I think it's unfortunate in that it will create confusion in the marketplace," said GrassRoots TV executive director John Masters, although he said the upvalley/downvalley overlap is "not really a problem."
GrassRoots TV, which started in Aspen 40 years ago and was the nation's first public access station, is seen upvalley on Channel 12, and has been since its founding.
The valley's cable system is split into two parts, or "headends" — one centered in Glenwood Springs that serves the downvalley and Colorado River Valley areas, and one centered in Aspen that reaches to the midvalley.
Channel 82 was unsubscribed for the Aspen headend, and Aspen 82 secured the rights to broadcast on that channel for upvalley cable customers in late November. The channel also engineered a coup by acquiring the rights to broadcast a live morning show from Aspen Mountain that the Aspen Skiing Co. had previously assigned to Plum TV. The morning show will kick off on Dec. 22.
For GrassRoots, while becoming a valleywide network was part of the plan when it launched in 1972, that vision didn't become a reality until 2010. The change occurred thanks to technological innovations such as a valleywide fiber optic network installed around 2003 and the transition to digital television channels, Masters said. So two years ago, the community access network opened a studio in Carbondale, and with the encouragement of Carbondale and Glenwood Springs city governments, began broadcasting in those areas on Channel 82. Previously, GrassRoots TV could not be seen downvalley. The effort coincided with a branding and fundraising campaign complete with a logo based on the Highway 82 road sign.
GrassRoots considered switching its upvalley station to Channel 82 when it launched on that channel downvalley, but decided against it because people in Aspen were used to seeing GrassRoots on Channel 12, he said.
Cook met on Friday with Masters and GrassRoots TV board president Alan Feldman, after the potential branding overlap was brought to his attention.
"We definitely want to reduce consumer confusion as much as possible, and to make it as clear as we can for the viewer," Cook said.
Cook added that he wants to be a good partner with the community access station.
"We are big fans of what they do," he said.
Masters noted that GrassRoots has a different mission than a commercial TV station such as Aspen 82.
"The important thing to us is that members of the community can access their community channel," Masters said. "We just want people to connect with each other."
At GrassRoots, the programming is driven by the community, and is "bottom up" as opposed to "top down," Masters said.
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Among the cross-cutting projects of the International Hydrological Programme is that on Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (FRIEND).
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By burlap submariner
Sep 10, 2009
|John do you have any pics of these routes on the FA? I would love to see that.
By john strand
From: southern colo
Nov 17, 2009
|Somewhere. It was a long way in and we already had enough shit with us. it would be an awesome site for photos though, no signs of humanity at all. You can kinda see Greens from up high, people think that's hike ? Ha! The best thing is cool belay ledges too. Like the top of P1 Children's Crusade.
By chinos
Nov 22, 2009
|If your looking for an alpine feel in NH this is your cliff. The bushwhacking is completely worth it.
By john strand
From: southern colo
Dec 1, 2009
|COOL ! In the photos, you can see the Prow up top. It looks awesome and will give very exciting climbing I'm sure ! Maybe a climb up to 5-6 pitches.
By Aaron Martinuzzi
Jun 14, 2010
|is there beta for The Captain in any guidebooks currently in print?
By john strand
From: southern colo
Jun 16, 2010
|Nope, and i doubt there will be any time soon. It's just to far for most people.
By burlap submariner
Jul 10, 2010
|Its not really even that far if you take a bike, I even had a huge haul bag for my gear and it was'nt that much of a pain in the ass. Strand is correct though, the majority of folks wont dig on the 'shwack to the base of the cliff. The best is getting out on a bike, the four miles goes by in about 30 min, wicked fun.
By Patrick Feeney
From: hartland vt
Feb 15, 2011
|where is the Captain?im interested in going there
By Kai Troester
From: Pepperell, MA
Aug 30, 2011
I found it on Google. Here are the GPS coordinates: 44.083362,-71.46203
By cwoodman
From: Lincoln, NH
Sep 28, 2011
Did a recon trip in with Jack Dorsey recently. Because the Sawyer River Rd. is closed indefinitely, we biked in via the Sawyer River Trail from the Kanc (unfortunately a much longer alternative). From the last big clearing, we hiked straight in, following a trail and white ribbons. At some point, this trail just ended, so we bushwacked down to the stream and eventually made it to the gravel campsite. We then hiked up the slide/streambed which headed up right, then bushwacked left for a bit til we hit the ribboned trail coming up along the stream to the slabs. Very impressive expanse of rock. I'm gonna get to know the approach a lot better before I haul in a lot of gear. Awesome place. Tons of respect for anyone doing FA's in there!
By jimmi jazz
From: Denver co
Sep 28, 2011
|thanks chuck. its such a great place to go. it's a remote cliff. did you climb any of the routes out there. Is that your first time out there? if you want we should meet and do some fa's........ how was the ride from the kank?
By john strand
From: southern colo
Sep 28, 2011
When we first went in , around '95 or so, the road was washed out as well, near the house. It's still better than the kanc approach 'cause the road is easy on a bike and so good coming out.
IMO the gully approach the bush left is pretty good -45 from the camp
Great place
By cwoodman
From: Lincoln, NH
Sep 29, 2011
|Yeah, I prefer Sawyer River Rd. if it's open (which it's not), and biking uphill on the road from 302 may or may not be easier than coming from the Kanc. Our ride was nice and flat and not too far. Anyway, the Forest Service person I talked to about the road said "It's closed- no biking, no hiking up it". Seemed like the Kanc was our only alternative.
By jimmi jazz
From: Denver co
Oct 23, 2011
|went out a couple of weeks ago, road still closed but that didn't stop the chinos. the aproch took about 4 to 5 hrs in. the ride out was super fast....
By john strand
From: southern colo
Oct 23, 2011
|having the road closed sure makes the way in a lot longer, but blazing down a leaf covered trail with a big pack is a blast
By M Sprague
From: New England
Oct 9, 2013
|If you go in right now, be aware that it is bear hunting season. I spoke to one bow hunter in a full Ghillie suite in the parking lot recently and he said they generally go in on the west side of Sawyer river rd (meaning towards the Captain) and set up tree stands and leave bait. So maybe don't wear your favorite bear costume (dark pack and pile jacket) and pick up apples laying on the ground. wildlife.state.nh.us/Hunting/H... They can also chase you with hounds apparently.
By Zac St. Jules
From: New Hampshire
Aug 8, 2015
|Am interested in any info regarding the ice on the captain... Would love a PM regarding this.
By Colonel Sandbag
From: Boston, MA
7 hours ago
Went out this weekend. The path from the back left of the clearing was not at all obvious, so we followed the river up and up and up and up. Very arduous. Came within a few hundred yards of the big slab but the woods seemed too thick. We worried about getting back to the river which, at that point, is just a trickle in the woods. We turned around without climbing.
Can anyone who has been to this cliff plot their route on a map and post it?


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Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa has been settling in at Newcastle, and there's a good nufcTV video of his first 24 hours at the club – if you subscribe to nufcTV – and certainly Newcastle have looked a classy outfit in the way they have welcomed the French International to Tyneside – and the lad has certainly been impressed.
Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa – settling in nicely
And Mapou has given lots of interviews – although he will have to now learn some English rather quickly – but obviously Alan Pardew has talked to him at length – and he knows exactly what Newcastle have to do in the last 15 games of the season.
This is the latest Mapou interview he has given in the local press:
"What we have to do is build a very strong team, and make sure that we have a team that doesn't give up." "We need to be warriors on the pitch. We will be looking to win as many of the last 15 games in the league as we can."
"If I had to describe my style I would class myself as a typical defender." "My defensive role is to win as many challenges and defensive battles as possible, and to win every possible ball." "As a defender, I am the first one to collect the ball and distribute it to other members of the team, which is what I will be working hard to do."
"I will do what I do best, which is to defend, and to defend well." "I will be trying to win as many challenges as I can in defense." "I'll be trying to get some goals as well." "I will be looking to give opposition forwards the most difficult time they can possibly imagine."
"I have spoken with Marveaux and Cabaye about coming here." "The club has been very welcoming to me – not just the club, but the players themselves. They have made everything available to help me settle in the best as possible." "The French players that have arrived before were made to feel very comfortable."
"They transmitted that to me, and it made me feel very comfortable about it all as soon as I started here."
One thing we like a lot about Mapou is that he seems a born leader – and if it's one thing we don't have in abundance in the squad at the moment – it's leadership both on and off the pitch.
We saw some of that from Yohan Cabaye on Saturday, in the way he controlled the game while he was son the pitch – but it was scary the way we were not half as good a team after he was substituted – which is one reason we need Moussa Sissoko signed in January.
Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa is simply a stellar signing for Newcastle – there seems little doubt about that, and it seems there are still more signings to come.
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Much like the debate over whether raising the US federal debt ceiling is the right choice for the country, the networking industry all too regularly engages in a debate about whether the need for faster data connections is real. The significant role of broadband as an economic driver deserves to be elevated to a similar level of attention as progress and innovation are stifled when network capacity is constrained, which doesn't bode well for consumers, businesses, research communities and the economy on the whole.
High-speed, high-capacity networks are critical to our future because they power the world's Internet and digital economy. For the most part, networks based on 100G technology have become mainstream to address current demands – and this represents a giant leap forward from traditional network architectures and scale. However, it won't be long before we need to go beyond 100G and even 400G and start to build…
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The holiday season seems to be going on and on and on here in Tea Gardens, New South Wales, Australia and the Internet is behaving like it's Tony Abbott's slow version of the national broadband network already. It will be OK for a short period and then it is impossible to use at all. I'm not sure that it is as busy in town as it has been, but today there were a lot of people about again – change of shift perhaps? Anyway, I am trying to post some articles and what not – will see how things go over the rest of this week. The end of January still seems like a long way away sadly.
I thought I'd post a quick update on what is currently happening with me and posts to my Blog. It is a short story really. I live in a town which is a massive tourist destination during the holiday season – especially at this time of year. What this means for me – being reliant on wireless access to the Internet – is real difficulty gaining Internet access. There are so many people in the area, using so many gadgets and the like, that the Internet is locked into a constant traffic jam. It is practically impossible to get Internet access most of the time. You do get the odd time where you can get access, but it is so slow that it is pointless to try and use it. For example – it takes minutes and minutes just for one page of the Blog to load.
I'll keep trying to access the Net every so often, but it is likely I'll be unable to post much for the next couple of weeks. There is good news – the number of tourists in the shopping centre here have diminished, which probably means we are heading back to some form of normality.


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More than twenty-five years ago, when Diana Kennedy published The Cuisines of Mexico, knowledge and appreciation of authentic Mexican cooking were in their infancy. But change was in the air. Home cooks were turning to Julia Child for an introduction to French cuisine and to Marcella Hazan for the tastes of Italy. Through Diana Kennedy they discovered a delicious and highly developed culinary tradition they barely knew existed. The Cuisines of Mexico, Mexican Regional Cooking, and The Tortilla Book became best-sellers, and Diana Kennedy was recognized as the authority on Mexican food.
Now a new generation has discovered that Mexican food is more than chimichangas, that they can find fresh hierbas de olor (pot herbs, including marjoram and Mexican bayleaf) and chilacas in their markets. The book that will become indispensable in their kitchens is The Essential Cuisines of Mexico.
Diana has combined her three classic books in one volume, refining recipes when possible, bringing them up to date without losing the spirit of their generation. Old friends will be delighted to revisit these refreshed classics and to find more than thirty new recipes from different regions of Mexico. Among these discoveries are the very popular arroz a la tumbada (rice with seafood) from Veracruz, a pico de gallo with peaches from the state of Mexico, and tasty snacks from the cantinas of Merida.
Newcomers will delight in Diana's -word pictures- -- descriptions of her travels and discoveries -- and in her off-the-cuff comments. Whether they turn to this book for the final word on tamales, recipes for tasty antojitos to serve with drinks, or superb tacos, they will find there is no better teacher of Mexican food. How enviable to attempt for the first time Calzones del Diablo (yes, the Devil's Pants), and what a pleasure to succumb to Diana's passion for Mexican food.
About the Author
Diana Southwood Kennedy went to Mexico in 1957 to marry Paul P. Kennedy, the foreign correspondent for the New York Times. In 1969, at the suggestion of Craig Claiborne, she began teaching Mexican cooking classes and in 1972 published her first cookbook. She has been decorated with the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor bestowed on foreigners by the Mexican government. She lives much of the year in her ecological adobe house in Michoacan, Mexico, which also serves as a research center for Mexican cuisine.
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Where are those puddles?
The skies were clear, but Sarah Jessica Parker's twins Tabitha and Loretta looked ready for some wet weather on Friday. Decked out in matching raincoats and rubber boots, the 4-year-old sisters huddled together under their umbrellas as they headed to school in New York City.
Could they be any cuter? Their mom may be one of Hollywood's modern-day style icons, but the girls aren't looking to SJP for fashion advice just yet. The Sex and the City star has said that they make all of their own wardrobe choices.
"They pick out their own clothes every single day. They won't listen," Sarah Jessica, who also has son James with her husband Matthew Broderick, told PEOPLE. "We tell them nothing. We just give them the temperature outside and if they don't pick enough clothing, then we say, 'You need leggings or pants. You need to add something so you'll be warm enough.' They pick their own headbands, pick their own hats. It's very amusing and entertaining for me."
Well, if that's the case, they're doing a fabulous job. Here's a look back at some of the twins' cutest looks…
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Xany bars are 2mg Xanax pills, the strongest dosage, often used with Suboxone to give users a heroin-like half-consciousness.
To sit there drinking scotch and popping Xanax and praying that everything would be OK?
A new report says patients who take drugs like Xanax, Valium, and Ambien have a higher risk of dying.
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This is Cheever on Xanax, or maybe lithium, but the voice is still there; sardonic, hilarious, and very much of our time.
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America had seen economic difficulty before the 1930's. Various financial "panics" had taken place during the nineteenth century. But the Great Depression would prove to be unequaled in its amplitude and consequences. It struck at the fiber of every social, ethnic, and economic class or group in the nation and in the world.
A threat of an economic depression had loomed on the horizon even during the prosperous twenties. President Calvin Coolidge said, "The business of America is business." But during the Depression, many of America's key businesses were weakened, especially the agricultural business. Coal mining, railroads, and textiles also languished.
Banks began failing, and on October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed. Eventually, the market had to fall. A common misconception is that the crash was the cause of the Depression. However, it was simply an inevitable climax to the events of the "roaring twenties." Most everyone was positive that the crisis would be over in a year or two. Based on the fact that America had experienced previous economic scares, this was not a completely foolish assumption. In the 1930's, this obviously did not happen. Banks, which had failed at an average of six hundred a year throughout the twenties, continued to fail. Technology did away with many jobs and supply continued to exceed demand, so unemployment and business failure were on the rise. People were constantly in debt. Europe suffered immensely because they were still recovering from World War I.
President Herbert Hoover was often blamed for the economic crisis. He was a man "well entrenched" in business. He focused much of his attention on investment, loans, the stock market, etc. The Wall Street crash took place during his first year in office. Industrial stocks lost 80 percent of their value. Eleven thousand U.S. banks failed between 1929-32, and two billion in deposits were lost. The Gross National Product declined at a yearly rate of 10 percent, and farm prices fell by 53 percent at that time [1]. President Hoover was convinced that government intervention was not the answer to America's difficulties. He made little or no effort toward reconstruction, and lost the 1932 election to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
President Roosevelt (known as "FDR") was an "aristocratic farmer, businessman and lawyer" with many years of experience in business and political processes. He promised Americans a "New Deal." He boldly declared, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." He was positive that America's "happy days" were just around the corner. One of Roosevelt's attempts to save the nation was known as the National Recovery Administration. Sevier County's support of the NRA was evident editions of The Richfield Reaper printed during this time. The "Blue Eagle" symbol appeared in upper right-hand corner of every front page during the Depression era. Wage, labor, and price controls were placed on businesses, and the blue eagle told readers that the Reaper was complying with the legislation.
FDR's New Deal certainly did not end the Depression. The Depression was literally a depressing time and it was easy for Americans to give up hope. But the New Deal did help things seem a little easier. It gave people something to do while the economy recovered. The New Deal featured various programs to end unemployment and boost morale. The Civilian Conservation Corps was placed in charge of planting forests and draining swamps. The Farm Credit Administration and Homeowner's Loan Corporation dealt with the mortgaging of farms and homes, and the Works Progress Administration employed laborers such as musicians and writers. The Public Works Administration built many highways and public buildings.
"Utah was among the hardest hit by the Great Depression of the 1930's. In 1933 Utah's unemployment rate was 35.8 percent, the fourth highest in the nation, and for the whole decade it averaged 26 percent". [2] Thirty-two out of 105 Utah banks had failed as of 1933, and 32 percent of Utahns acquired a portion of their essentials from the government.
One reason that the magnitude of the Depression in Utah was so great was due to the fact that a majority of Utahns were farmers. "Tax sales, brought about when a property owner was unable to meet his or her taxes, was the dread of the farmer during the Great Depression... fourteen Sevier County farms were sold due to unpaid taxes in 1929." With this unfortunate circumstance came the tragedy: the farmer's house sat on the land that was taken away from him, and so he lost his home as well as his farm. The house was usually warm and comfortable with water rights, electricity, city water, and a good location. [3]
Conditions became worse for the farmer when a severe drought plagued Utah in 1934. Never before had so little rain fallen during an entire growing season as in that year. The preceding years had been dry as well. Utah Lake contained only one-third of its normal volume of water, and Bear Lake was fourteen feet below normal. Unusually high temperatures made the drought even more serious. "The drought came at the worst possible time a natural disaster on top of a human-caused disaster. Utahns might well have complained, 'It never rains but it pours.' But somehow the metaphor seemed inappropriate." [4]
Most Utahns, like their fellow Americans, believed that it would be over shortly. It soon became apparent that this was not the case. The streets of Salt Lake City and other cities were often lined with people waiting for a bowl of broth or a piece of bread at charity soup kitchens that had been christened "Hoover Cafes" named for the person that many of them held responsible for their troubles. Young boys, fathers, and old men all roamed about searching for jobs, peddling goods, or begging for a pair of shoes to shine.
Just as the rest of the country, Utah's marriage rate dropped, along with the birth rate, while the divorce rate rose. More women began working. School districts, however, were extremely selective about which teachers taught in their schools. A married teacher would not be hired. If a woman became married during the school term, she was asked to resign. This was because there was a feeling that "women ought not to compete with men" for jobs at a time when jobs were so few.
New Deal programs in the state of Utah were comprehensive. In Utah, the free school lunch program was established, free nutrition classes were taught, and adult education and child recreation programs were offered. The construction of public buildings, highways, and roads began. Evidence of the New Deal in our own community still stands on RHS property. It is the old Richfield Junior High School building, constructed by the WPA in 1939-40. Most citizens of Richfield are familiar with the "CC Road" west of Richfield as well, constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Another important contribution to Depression-era Utah was the LDS Church's Welfare Plan, designed in 1936. Although it did not bring the relief that the government programs did, it significantly helped by providing some jobs and necessities such as food. The LDS Welfare system is probably one of the few Depression-era programs still in existence today.
The Depression was a "hard time." Those who experienced it reflect upon it and come to this simple conclusion. However, they were able to grow and learn from it. This is true with any trial that may enter a person's life. It is important to take life experiences and learn from them all that they would teach us.
"Great Depression, The." The Utah History Encyclopedia. Salt Lake City: U of U Press, 1994.
"Troubled Times: Sevier County, 1930-49." A History of Sevier County, by M. Guy Bishop. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society and Sevier County Commission, 1997.
"Utah's Great Drought of 1934," by Leonard J. Arrington. Utah Historical Quarterly, Summer 1986, vol. 54, no. 3, p. 248-49.
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Anna's Linens to debut exclusive line with Latin TV star Domenica Brazzi
September 16, 2011,
Costa Mesa, Calif. - Hispanic TV celebrity Domenica Brazzi will be the star of a new exclusive line of home textiles products at Anna's Linens, the 285-store value specialty chain.
The new program will start with bedding in four styles to hit stores and online at the end of September, to be followed by bath, home décor, window and tabletop collections.
For Anna's, the program is a major step in offering exclusive branded merchandise to its customer demographic, which includes a larger number of Hispanic women. "We are offering a broad variety of styles in the line," said Carie Doll, chief merchandising officer for Anna's, based here, "which will appeal to our customers' tastes and be offered at an affordable price point." The four bedding collections, inspired by nature and called Orlando, Casanova, Moonlight and Nightingale, will features items that all retail for under $120.
"I've always dreamed of creating a line that would bring great style and value together," said Brazzi, whose shows appear on the Galavision and Univision networks. "I knew right away that Anna's Linens was the right place for my line."
Anna's will hold decorating workshops with Brazzi, the first of which is scheduled for Houston later this year.
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Utopians Arise! The War For Our Happiness & Self Respect. - Poem by Glen Fulton
United til we win conquering demons without that give us demons within
Ignorance & lies they gave & made our race their slave
Still giving hell on Earth getting us cowering
but now its them we are dis empowering
The 'Killuminati' so high so haughty
can't much longer last they know their easy days have past
They are worst of all who's disturbingly ill
even babies they joyfully kill
We deserve a heavenly world free & sublime not agony from eons past into eons of time
United in our fights for our cherished human rights
Awakening people so passive with a cause that's just so massive
Invictus the indomitable human spirit in us all
will not let us forever fall
Combining creativity so defiant we awaken our inner giant
With entertainment we command attention land to land
Firing them up to refuse to submit and instead choose
a future by their own hand
We motivate through art word rhythm and rhyme
yes we the people poets know its now our time
The joy spirit joins the war to even the score
For it knows that deep within we stand
for a world we should demand
and how it should be great not misdirected hate
The poetry spirit inspires & unbinds new and gifted minds
The spirit of various art connects the eyes and heart
The spirit of music brings tears connecting heart and ears
Combined into movies they help us not miss
utopia's soul stirring bliss.
Poet's Notes about The Poem
-Homes created by a mix of science and nature, nature builds bridges, dna altered trees that connect over ravines?
-flowers that bloom and combine and shape….?
-giant nature bubbles that go through things but are like ethereal visions in the middle that…?
-birds unite to make symphony
-clouds shape to fractals based on astrology vibs.heck I don't know,
-animals live on grass etc, no more hunting and killing. No bugs to bug anyone
Would also like to join writing teams, because there is more money in a team that succeeds with great brilliance, than just a brilliant writer competing with all others like him/her. But my story in a My dream has always been to create more 'bandwagons' for people to jump on and join against the incredible evil of Government. People want a good life but never unite against it. PATHETIC! All talk no action. Well this poem is my action. Goals should be to perfect creative works into greatly entertaining masterpieces that include messages for people to help fight against the enemies of freedom. Not to get rich and get rich only. NOW WHOS WITH ME! ? ! ? ! ? ! ?
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EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC) — One of the world's largest suppliers of enterprise storage systems also owns 80% of VMware (NYSE:VMW), the largest provider of server virtualization software. Standard & Poor's estimates that EMC will earn $1.72 in 2012 vs. $1.51 in 2011. Demand for storage data continues at a torrid pace, and EMC is the company that can satisfy it. EMC also focuses on cloud computing and virtualization software and is gaining market share in that important area of growth. It's a "Five-Star, Strong Buy" by S&P.
Technically, the bull channel has a top at close to $30, and the stochastic issued a buy signal last week that should result in a challenge to that top. The trading objective for EMC is $35.


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A FEDERAL cabinet committee which counts the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, as a member will oversee the implementation and operation of Enterprise Migration Agreements, which allow mining barons such as Gina Rinehart to import foreign workers to help construct giant projects.
The decision was made last night after Ms Gillard earlier placated her caucus, which was angry at the agreement sealed last week with Mrs Rinehart allowing her to import 1715 workers to create the 8000-strong workforce needed to build the $9.5 billion Roy Hill iron ore project in the Pilbara.
Labor backbenchers feared there were inadequate safeguards to prevent foreigners being given jobs ahead of Australians, and being employed on inferior pay and conditions.
The concerns also spilled over in the Coalition with some MPs raising similar concerns during yesterday's party room meeting.
The Queensland Coalition MPs George Christensen and Paul Neville were among those who reported anecdotal evidence that locals with skills were being knocked back by mining companies. They also sought greater guarantees and wanted job networks to liaise more efficiently with mining companies.
''If we are going to start giving them carte blanche, then we need greater linkages between job networks,'' said Mr Christensen, who holds the coal mining seat of Dawson.
After a lengthy debate in which 17 MPs spoke, Caucus decided a backbench committee known as the ''Spreading the Benefits of the Resources Boom Committee'' would keep the caucus abreast of the Enterprise Migration Agreements and monitor them against 12 checks and balances.
While this committee was designed to keep the caucus in the loop, the cabinet subcommittee will have a direct oversight role.
Government sources stressed the Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, would still be the final decision maker but the Opposition says the sub-committee is a vote of no-confidence in Mr Bowen and he should resign.
The unions, which sparked the brawl by remonstrating with Ms Gillard on Friday over the deal with Mrs Rinehart, were lukewarm yesterday.
The construction union boss, Dave Noonan, called for the agreement with Mrs Rinehart to be made public so its terms and conditions could be seen by all. The secretary of the ACTU, Dave Oliver, said using a jobs board, a website in which miners could advertise jobs before looking overseas, must be compulsory.
"We will be seeking a meeting with the relevant ministers to give us more detail on how the board will be established, applied and enforced," he said.
The mishandling of the issue damaged Ms Gillard's leadership after she told the unions she was not consulted. This further strained relations with Mr Bowen and the Resources Minister, Martin Ferguson, both Kevin Rudd supporters.
The Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, told his party room yesterday not to take the next election for granted.
''Gillard won't lie down and die, and where there's life there's fight,'' he said.
His choice of words raised eyebrows among colleagues given yesterday's Newspoll showed his personal ratings had gone backwards, presumably because of his overly aggressive style.
Ms Gillard tried to rouse her caucus and said she planned to be leading Labor to next year's election. ''Over the next 500 days we need to show courage and conviction,'' she said.
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Britney Spears hates her dad, loves legal battles
Britney Spears' hospital stay has been extended to 14 days due to the severity of her condition. In the meantime, Britney's lawyers at Trope and Trope are going to court today to contest the conservatorship that was granted to Britney's father Jamie and lawyer Andrew Wallet. They're basing their argument on the fact that Britney doesn't trust her father and has animosity towards him. Us Magazine reports:
But an insider tells Usmagazine.com that it may be an uphill battle for Trope "because what child does get along with their parents when they are locked in the psych ward?"
Adds the source, "It's going to be hard to convince the court that Britney can be taken seriously given the state that she's in."
Interestingly enough, Britney's dad has the power to fire Britney's lawyers which is kind of a kickass way to win a court battle. Or he could just swing across the courtroom with a knife in his teeth and kick the judge in the face. That's actually a valid legal defense. I think I saw Matlock do it once.


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Saturday, November 03, 2007
A 66-year-old Sydney man was allegedly murdered three days ago by an ecology-minded fellow who objected to his water use in a time of drought. Let's check the forecast for the coming week:
Saturday: Rain periods. Chance of thunderstorms.
Sunday: Rain clearing in the morning. Chance of an early thunderstorm.
Monday: A few showers.
Tuesday: A few showers.
Wednesday: A few showers.
Thursday: A few showers.
Friday: A few showers.
Wherever the accused killer is being held, I hope he's able to hear that rainfall, day after day. Chances are he won't be able to feel it for a while.
(Via Alan R.M. Jones)
Friday, November 02, 2007
The Age's Michelle Grattan advises:
Peter Garrett maybe should spend the rest of the campaign in a forest somewhere. Labor HQ will arrange accommodation and pay all expenses.
They were forced to do this back in 2004, too.
UPDATE. A Labor supporter calls for silencing:
Labor need a new policy with their candidates, it should be called "Sit down and S T F U."
UPDATE II. "Trouble with Peter is," writes Rob Bresca, "that he thinks he is way smarter than he actually is." Absolutely; as made particularly evident by Garrett's 2002 debate with Bjorn Lomborg.
Latest column, presented in cutting-edge Portable Document Format, might be slightly tricky to locate; try here if the above link isn't helpful.
Time magazine, April 1965:
Men such as IBM economist Joseph Froomkin feel that automation will eventually bring about a 20-hour work week . . . thus creating a mass leisure class.
Many scientists hope that in time the computer will allow man to return to the Hellenic concept of leisure, in which the Greeks had time to cultivate their minds and improve their environment while slaves did all the labor. The slaves, in modern Hellenism, would be the computers.
Hasn't really worked out like that, has it?
Achewood's Ray Smuckles is in Sydney! Staying just down the road from me, as it happens.
Peter Garrett 'fesses up:
Labor frontbencher Peter Garrett has told a radio host his party's "me too" approach to policy would only last until the election, then they would "change it all".
Steve Price, a presenter on Sydney radio station 2UE, has claimed Mr Garrett told him during an on-the-record discussion in an airport this morning that Labor would "change it all" once in power.
"(He said) the 'me too' tag will not matter after the election because, quote, 'once we get in we will just change it all'," Price said on radio today.
He's always been seven feet of pure liability, this boy. Rudd can't say he wasn't warned.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets Jr, pilot of the Enola Gay, has died at 92. Some background on his training here.
The Age's Kenneth Davidson plays with numbers:
Australia spews out about six times the pollution of China and 12 times that of India ...
We do? Really? Please continue, great Kenneth:
... on a per capita basis.
Easily solved; instead of cutting pollution, all we need do is increase our population!
The developed countries, including Australia, are responsible for 76 per cent of the greenhouse pollution now in the atmosphere.
Australia's share of that total: just 1.4 per cent.
Australia even manages to contribute more than twice the level of emissions of countries such as Germany, Britain, Japan, Italy and France, which are all far more advanced industrially than Australia ...
Still with the per capita. But Kenneth may have helped us on the path to climate goodness here without realising it; what do all those countries (besides Italy) have in common?
The claim: global warming caused the California wildfires.
The reality: California wildfires cause global warming:
In one week, Southern California's wildfires spewed the same amount of carbon dioxide — the primary global warming gas — as the state's power plants and vehicles did, scientists figure.
Solution: replace those fire-prone polluting forests with clean-burning hybrid trees! C'mon, tree manufacturers; modernise, and stop living in the carbon-generating past.


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There are a lot of horrible people in this world. I am aware of someone who pretended to be a teenager just to have very inappropriate "relationships" via tech gadgets with very young girls such as yours. Is getting them what they want worth the possible risk?
Only you can decide.