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Veronica Ivey and Sean Golden were married at 5 p.m. Aug. 16 in Greater Refuge Temple. Guests gathered for a reception at Luccarelli's, Lackawanna. Apostle Robert L. Sanders, of Greater Refuge Temple, heard the couple's vows. The bride's parents are Rozetta Kyle and Ronald Ivey of Buffalo. The bridegroom's parents are Virginia and Lawerence Golden of Buffalo. The bride is a graduate of Hutchinson Central Technical High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in health and human services, and a master's degree in social work from the University at Buffalo. The bride is a social worker. The groom is a graduate of Buffalo Public Schools. He earned a health and wellness degree from SUNY Buffalo State. The groom works at Heritage Centers. After a trip to Miami, the couple are making their home in Buffalo.

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The programme encourages communities to roll up their sleeves and donate their time by volunteering over the weekend, helping with tasks such as digging up weeds, painting the club house or making the teas for thirsty workers.
Nearly 300 clubs have registered for RBS RugbyForce in England and almost 100 registered for NatWest RugbyForce in Wales, and they need support from volunteers in completing key renovation projects which will safeguard their future for years to come.
England's most capped international and RBS RugbyForce supporter Jason Leonard is putting his DIY skills to good use and heading to Mitcham RFC with current international Joe Simpson to support their weekend plans.
Whilst Welsh legend Martyn Williams - set to his 100th cap against the Barbarians at the weekend - will head to Crymych RFC to lend a hand.
Jason Leonard said: "This will be the third time I have headed to a rugby club for the RBS RugbyForce Weekend and I can't wait to put my carpentry skills to good use and get involved.
"There's a great buzz at a club on a weekend like this as people of all ages come together and muck in. I'd strongly urge everyone to head to their local rugby club.
"The weekend can really make a difference to the future of your club."
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Her son Miles will enter kindergarten in CVUSD next year.
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Visual Sound, an event that meshes music with live painting, will take place at 7:30 p.m. Fri., April 8 at the Scherr Forum Theatre in the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.
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Weissberg heard from the artist via Facebook a day after the magnitude 9 earthquake hit Japan on March 11.
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The bronze to Bill-O [Fox News host Bill O'Reilly], denouncing The New York Times for putting the JFK pipeline pipe dream terrorism scare Sunday on Page 37 instead of Page 1. He even showed the front page -- well, the top half of the front page anyway. "No, I'm not making this up. You see it. This is not The Colbert Report. This is the Factor, and this is the fact."
We know that. The Colbert Report is entertaining and occasionally factual. You see, the Times put a paragraph-long headline about the so-called JFK plot on its front page. And in the main story about it on Page 37, where, as you heard aviation expert Mike Boyd point out here last night, is probably where it belonged.
No wonder Bill-O only showed the top half. So, when he said, "No, I'm not making this up," what he really meant was, "So, I am making this up."
The runner-up tonight, Vice President Cheney. Speaking of making it up, he's still doing it. Addressing 100 Wyoming high school students over the weekend, he again lied about an Iraq-Al Qaeda link, again citing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, ignoring last year's conclusions of the Senate Intelligence Committee and its then-chairman Pat Roberts [KS], the Republican, that Saddam Hussein wanted to and tried to capture Zarqawi.
Reduced to telling it to 100 high school kids? Before this is over, the vice president may start going door to door, asking if anybody wants to hear a story.
But our winner, Glenn Beck of CNN and ABC, questioning what caused Elizabeth Harper to marry Republican [sic] Congressman Dennis Kucinich nearly two years ago. Quoting Beck, "I'm wondering if it's some sort of -- some sort of, you know -- what's that date rape drug? ... What would be the drug that would be just powerful enough to make you not really realize that you're making out with Dennis Kucinich? ... I was thinking cyanide. That would be the only thing that would really dull the senses enough. Even then, your dead body would be like, 'Dennis Kucinich has his tongue in my mouth.' "
Now that's wit, huh? It's as if Shakespeare were living in our times. Glenn Beck, today's Worst Person in the World.
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Snow awes and annoys, brings nostalgia or abhorrence. For Jorel Torres, snow makes him curious-so much that he studies it. For the past ten weeks, Torres compared various ground measurements of snow to data from NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission as an intern at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
The snow, Torres said, is important to the Earth's hydrological cycle as it is more unpredictable, thus less understood, than rain.
"Snow plays a big role in how much water content you get in the springtime, including flooding," he said.
Accurate measurements of snowfall from new technologies are vital to the safety of areas affected by snow. Hopefully, Torres's work will improve the accuracy of satellite measurements from GPM, contributing to a greater understanding of the whole life cycle of snow.
Meteorology interested Torres at a young age, and growing up in Denver familiarized him with snow.
"It just grew into a passion. When I got into high school I said, 'Why don't I go into this field for real,'" he said.
Torres completed bachelor's degrees in math and atmospheric sciences from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Following his graduation, Torres forecasted and did fieldwork in atmospheric sciences, enhancing his skills in computer programming. He then attended the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology where he continues to study atmospheric sciences as a master's student.
At Mines, he was able to use an optical disdrometer, a precipitation-measuring instrument similar to some used by NASA, to conduct snow research. He learned how to troubleshoot the equipment and collect real-time data before one of his professors suggested a NASA internship.
"He was the best all around among dozen applicants to the summer internship.," said Dr. Ali Tokay, Torres's mentor at Goddard and a research associate professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County. Tokay said Torres's experience with equipment and in the field and a good recommendation were important factors in his decision to mentor Torres.
Torres worked with data much of his internship. He scoured data sets from six locations sites within NASA's Wallops Flight Facility for snow measurements, combined the different sets, and then analyzed the data with computer programs.
The biggest challenge for Torres even with a background in programming was learning Fortran, a computer language often used in weather computation.
Recently Torres decided to use his internship research for his master's thesis and build on this summer's research.
"From a mentor perspective you want to continue to working with your student," said Tokay. He's pleased Torres decided to continue this research for a master's thesis.
At the end of the summer Torres presented his work during monthly Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory meeting at Goddard, Goddard poster session and UMBC poster session. He's applying to a conference to present his work in the upcoming year.
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The Fall Before Paradise
Psychiatric patient Max (Devere Jehl) is haunted by disturbing dreams of two children. Worse, his nightmares of a boy who sacrifices his life to shield his 6-year-old sister from abuse start to bleed into Max's reality as he continually refuses his medication. He finally decides his only hope for saving his sanity is to find the little girl and return her to her mother -- but the mental ward staff aren't about to release him from the institution.


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Director V.M. Vinu, one of the successful filmmakers in Malayalam for the last two decades, has directed nearly 14 films so far, including Pallavur Devanarayanan (1999), Vesham (2004), Bus Conductor (2005) and Yes Your Honour (2006). Balettan (2003) was an average hit while others did not fare too well! His latest offering Makante Achan, exceeds our expectations and is truly watchable.
Makante Achan revolves around Vishvanathan (Sreenivasan), a tough, uncompromising, honest and straightforward village officer, happily living with his family consisting of his wife Rema (Suhasini) and two children. His only aim in life is to make his teenage son Manu (Vineeth Sreenivasan) an engineer. Vishvanathan spends a lot of money on his son's coaching, who has already failed in the entrance test once.
Contrary to his father's wishes, Manu aspires to become a singer and participate in TV reality shows. The father and the son often have heated arguments. Manu's strict disciplinarian father makes him join an engineering entrance exam tutorial centre, run by an ex-army officer Francis (Thilakan). But Manu whiles away his time there also. Finally, Viswanathan reconciles to the fact that his son will never be an engineer! The first half of the film is spent on establishing Sreenivasan's 'Mr. Clean' image; things get serious in the second half and lead to the predicable climax.
Unfortunately, the director has no new story to tell and is recycling his old father-son relationship plots. The script, without any twists or turns, overly depends on the Sreenivasan-Vineeth combination, which gets repetitive. All the characters are the usual stereotypes, but actor Sreenivasan and Vineeth Sreenivasan have done their best to merge with the subject. It's wonderful to see actress Suhasini back in Malayalam after a while, but her role is almost wasted as she remains a mere spectator in the fireworks between the father and son.
Jagathy as Himaval Chaithanya, Salim Kumar as Krishnankutty and all the others in the cast have done justice to their respective characters. There is little to mention about the technical aspects. Cinematography, art-direction and editing are all in sync with the theme and the mood. The two songs have come out rather well, especially 'Sukhada sangeetham, sukritha sangeetham...' If you are a fan of the Sreenivasan duo, you will enjoy this film.
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George W. Bush: The September 10th President
October 20, 2004
By Aden Nak
George W. Bush likes to say that you can't be a September 10th
President in a September 11th world. Well I submit to you all that
Bush is a September 10th President to the very core, and that a
cursory examination of his policies will reveal exactly that.
First off, let's deal with the big one. The obvious one. The War
in Iraq. This is not a September 11th war. In fact, it is a military
operation that has been in the planning stages since 1997 (with
the official signing of PNAC) and was suggested numerous times to
the Clinton administration. It is a war that was planned for from
the first months that Bush took office.
Furthermore, the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that Saddam
Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11 or al Qaeda, and had neither
the means to acquire Weapons of Mass Destruction nor the desire
to then provide those weapons to outside entities such as terrorist
organizations. There is no September 11th rationale for the War
in Iraq.
Tax Cuts
Let's talk tax cuts. This is also not a September 11th idea. In
fact, it's a policy that George Bush mentioned many times during
the 2000 Presidential Election. I won't go into the misrepresentation
of benefits here, but consider the obvious. President Bush has said
repeatedly that September 11th changed our economy and drove us
further into recession. His tax cut program was specifically designed
and explained to the American people as the right way to handle
a budget surplus, by giving that money back to those that earned
it if the government didn't need it.
That might have been the case in a September 10th economy, but
as we sank into recession, and as our fight against terrorism both
at home (Homeland Security) and abroad (Afghanistan) incurred huge
costs, wouldn't the prudent, September 11th policy be to repeal
that tax cut to ensure the safety of America by funding these vital
projects properly? How can a massive tax cut be the correct policy
for both a September 10th Budget Surplus and a September 11th Budget
Global Alliances
Without alliances, we cannot combat terrorism. It's just that
simple. Just as the sharing of information needed to be radically
redesigned within our own agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA, and local law
enforcement agencies) to combat terrorism within the United States,
that same swift sharing of information absolutely must take place
between like-minded nations, all of whom are endangered by global
terrorism. The United States has the most proficient and effective
military and information gathering agencies in the world today,
but they are not omnipotent. They cannot be everywhere and see everything.
Without strong alliances with the free nations of the world, it
is impossible for us to stop terrorist organizations before
they strike.
Fostering alliances and building trust has never been more important
than it is now. Bush's attitude towards the free nations of Europe
has wounded those alliances. Bush's own Secretary of Defense scoffed
many of our strongest allies off as "Old Europe." When the United
States does not share its terrorism intelligence with its allies,
and vice versa, the terrorists do win. Bush's administration
thought it could rely entirely on internal intelligence and internal
military force to fight terrorism. If we learned anything on September
11th, we learned that this is not the case.
Osama bin Laden
"I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about
him." - George W. Bush, 3/13/2002
I honestly can't think of a more September 10th attitude concerning
Osama bin Laden. How can the President of the United States, the
man that claims to be so very "tough on terror," say that he is
not concerned about the most active and dangerous terrorist alive
today? How can he not be concerned about the man who perpetrated
the most devastating attack on American soil in living memory? In
short, how can this man hope to protect us in a September 11th world
if he cannot recognize those that pose the greatest threat to America?
All of these opinions and decisions come from a September 10th
outlook. They are the "old" mode of thinking. In fact, they were
Bush's exact thinking before September 11th took place. Richard
Clarke, the Counter-Terrorism expert trusted by every President
since Ronald Reagan, said of the Bush Administration's foreign policies,
"It was as though they were preserved in amber." No change. No evolution.
Nothing more than rationalizations and excuses for executing grossly
inadequate foreign and domestic policy that had been designed and
arranged before George W. Bush ever set foot on the campaign trail.
President Bush's policies do not enrich America. They do not protect
America. And they do not strengthen America. His only method for
combating terrorism is to wage war against entire countries, which
is itself a disappointingly September 10th mentality. Terrorism
is not a country. It isn't a location we can bomb. It's not a single,
neatly-structured regime we can topple. In this September 11th world,
we need to fight a war of information. We need to fight a war of
intelligence and yes, of policy. Our world has changed, but George
W. Bush has not. Come November 2nd, the nation will be faced with
two choices:
Evolution (D) or Extinction (R).
Aden Nak is an easily-agitated computer technician and a woefully
underemployed freelance writer. More of his personal vitriol can
be found at adennak.com.


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Amazon Finally Bans "The Pedophile's Guide To Love And Pleasure"
What kind of crack was Amazon smoking when the retailer decided it was OK to sell the book The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child Lover's Code of Conduct? Amazon was initially standing behind Philip R. Greaves II's self-published Kindle e-reader title saying, "Amazon believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable. Amazon does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts, however, we do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions." After internet-wide protest and the popular Twitter trending topic #BoycottAmazon, Amazon has removed the title from its website. I am completely against censorship, but good lord! Teaching someone how to be a pedophile is beyond an "objectionable criminal act" — it is abominable! Finally, how long before this Philip R. Greaves II is investigated for his crimes? [MSNBC]


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Volvo Car Corp. provides a sneak preview of its XC60 Concept, set to debut at the 2007 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
The XC60 cross/utility vehicle resembles a sleeker, scaled-down version of the popular XC90 CUV. Volvo says the XC60 is a hint at the next-generation XC model.
Volvo Design Director Steve Mattin says the XC60 elevates Volvo's Scandinavian heritage, which serves as the brand's design DNA.
The XC60 boasts new angled position lights on both sides of the grille, which the auto maker says will be featured across its future vehicles.
The concept rides on 20-in. wheels with accentuated wheel housings and aluminum scuff-plates, emphasizing its overall muscular appearance.
The interior of the XC60 is decidedly futuristic, with a floating center stack and slim, floating front and rear seats.
Keeping with Volvo's reputation as a leader in automotive safety, the XC60 carries over the innovative pony-tail slots first introduced on the Volvo YCC (Your Concept Car) introduced in 2004.
The slots extend from the head restraints all the way down the back of the seats to provide enhanced rearward vision. By turning the head, the driver can see all the way through his or her own seat, through the rear seat's backrest and through the transparent panel at the lower corner of the tailgate.
The slots promote added safety in a vehicle type whose height may otherwise limit rearward vision, Mattin says.
Volvo declines to say when and where a production version of the XC60 would be built, but Ward's reported in September the auto maker was planning to produce a small CUV at its Gent, Belgium, plant sometime before 2009.


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The iTunes Guy – That's Me
Over at Macworld, we've just introduced Ask the iTunes Guy. This occasional column will take readers' questions and explain how to do what you want with iTunes. I'm the iTunes Guy, and I'll be answering questions over the coming months. So far, response has been well above what we expected, and we have dozens of great questions, so look for a first column with your questions and my answers soon.


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Jun 21 2011
SQLBits 9 Announced
Those awesome organisers at SQLBits have gone and done it again! The next SQL Server extravaganza has been announced and is going to be held in Liverpool 29th September – 1st October 2011.
For those of you not familiar with SQLBits it's run by a group of SQL MVP's for the community and has recently become the biggest SQL Server event in Europe. If the format stays the same as previous events then it will be go along the lines of the following:
- Day 1 is a paid for pre-conference training day.
- Day 2 is a paid for training day, but split into hour long sessions with around 4 different tracks to choose from.
- Day 3 is community day and free to attend, like day 2 this is split into hour long sessions with around 4 different tracks to choose from.
I myself have been to 5 of the 8 SQLBits and have enjoyed every single one! If you want to read more about my take on these events then check out some of my previous blogs on SQLBits here.
All the SQLBits sessions from the community days are now recorded which you can download or view online so you can even view those that you did not manage to attend on the day. They really do make a great training resource.
The line up has not yet been announced so you too could find yourself on stage presenting, simply go to http://www.sqlbits.com/information/SessionSubmission.aspx and register your interest. One of the good things about SQLBits is that it's the members that get to vote on which sessions they wish to see rather than those somebody thinks you should.
Further details will be announced on the SQLBits site in the near future so make sure you keep checking back. To keep up to date with the latest news on SQLBits make sure that you follow the following twitter tags #SQLBits and #SQLBits9.


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Devine Stories
About Angels in Our Lives
Expressway Angel Story
This story goes back many years to when I was only 17. I had been visiting a friend who lived a good distance from me, and although I had been there several times, I had only ever gone on the same route and I did not know the area well. I had only had my driver's license for a few months, and my mother was constantly warning me not to be driving around by myself at night. Of course, being a 17-year-old know it all, I always told her to stop worrying! But let me just say that after this night, I could see her point....
I left my friend's house that night at about 1a.m., and a few minutes into the journey, I was stopped at a traffic light when a car with two men in it pulled up beside me. They started shouting to me, making rude comments, honking the horn, etc. I was scared but I just tried to look ahead and drive on. At the next set of lights, they pulled up so close beside me that the passenger actually reached out and started banging on my window with his fist! At this point I was really frightened, as I started to realize just how much danger I was in; we were the only ones on the road, there were no businesses open at this hour, and this was in the days before cell phones were invented, so I was really alone!
This harassment went on for several blocks, and I was starting to panic, the possibility of being attacked became very real. Not knowing what else to do, as it was such a long way home, I pulled off the main road. I was hoping that they would not follow, and hoping that I would find an open 24 hour convenience store where I could find safety and call the police. Well as everyone knows, convenience stores are on every corner, in every town, EXCEPT when you need one! So although I had no luck there, it seemed as though I had lost the other car, as they were nowhere to be seen.
Cautiously I tried to make my way back to the road I knew. But I had been so afraid and distracted, I had forgotten which way I had come, and now I couldn't find my way back. And to make matters so much worse, I had put off buying gas that day, as I thought I'd have just enough to get me to my friend's and back...now I was dangerously low.
I tried my best to remain calm, but as the minutes and the unfamiliar streets went by, I could feel myself getting panicky. The more I tried to find my way back the more lost I became... I was hopelessly lost.
I was terrified of being spotted by the men in the other car, and I was surely going to run out of gas. I was even too scared to stop at a deserted payphone to call home for help; although I hadn't seen the men for some time now, I was too frightened to get out of the car.
It was well past 2 a.m. now, and I had been driving, lost, for over and hour... and let me tell you, when you're a lost, terrified, 17 year old running out of gas, an hour is a very, very long time. Looking down at the gas gauge, it was a miracle in itself that I hadn't run out by this point, for I had been on well below empty for ages. I envisioned being stuck out here all alone, in my broken down car in the middle of the night, with nothing to defend myself. I was petrified.
At this point, I finally broke down in tears. I was scared and shaking. I begged the Lord to get me home safely! I implored my Angel Guardian to protect me! I sobbed and sobbed. I was still crying when I saw a sign that said "Lawrence Expressway" with an arrow pointing to the left. I nearly screamed! I had been up and down that expressway for years growing up, and knew that it was a direct link to my hometown. I made the turn on to the expressway and started to cry with relief when I started to see some familiar landmarks. I prayed out loud that I would now make it home without running out of gas...and not long after that, I did.
The next day, I took out a map to see if I could make out exactly where I had been. I stared in utter disbelief as the lines on the map told the story. Although I was not familiar with the area I was in, I looked at EVERY street name I came upon, as you do when you're lost, and I could see on the map exactly where I had been. I looked and looked--but there was just no logical explanation. There was NO connection between where I had been and Lawrence Expressway. NONE! As a matter of fact, the avenue I was on last is approximately 15 miles east of Lawrence Expressway and has NO immediate connections to it. I sat in total amazement, with my mouth hanging open...it took a minute to sink in. I had truly experienced a miracle. I had experienced the expressway angel.
I enthusiastically thanked the Lord that day, and sincerely thanked my Guardian Angel, and I always will. Not only was I helped that night but looking back on my life I can see other things, like I truly believe that it could only have been my Guardian Angel who saved me from being abducted when I was five...but that's another story. I chose to write about this day because this was the day that a 17 year old know-it-all who never really believed in much, believed.
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Systematics and phylogenetic species delimitation within Polinices s.l. (Caenogastropoda: Naticidae) based on molecular data and shell morphology
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Here, we present the first phylogenetic analysis of a group of species taxonomically assigned to Polinices sensu latu (Naticidae, Gastropoda) based on molecular data sets. Polinices s.l. represents a speciose group of the infaunal gastropod family Naticidae, including species that have often been assigned to subgenera of Polinices [e.g. P. (Neverita), P. (Euspira), P. (Conuber) and P. (Mammilla)] based on conchological data. The results of our molecular phylogenetic analysis confirm the validity of five genera, Conuber, Polinices, Mammilla, Euspira and Neverita, including four that have been used previously mainly as subgenera of Polinices s.l. Our results furthermore indicate a close relationship of members of the Polinicinae to Sinum—a genus traditionally placed in the naticid subfamily Sininae. We furthermore present conchological analyses to determine the validity of shell characters used traditionally in species designation in the genus Polinices. Our data reveal several characters (e.g. protoconch, operculum colour, parietal callus) to be informative, while many characters show a high degree of homoplasy (e.g. umbilicus, shell form). Among the species arranged in the genus Polinices s.s., four conchologically very similar taxa often subsumed under the common Indo-Pacific species P. mammilla are separated distinctly in phylogenetic analyses. Despite their striking conchological similarities, none of these four taxa are related directly to each other. Additional conchological analyses of available name-bearing type specimens and type figures reveal the four "mammilla"-like white Polinices species to include true P. mammilla and three additional species, which could be assigned to P. constanti (replacement name for P. dubius), P. jukesii and possibly P. tawhitirahia, based on protoconch and operculum characteristics.


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4. Select Gets Shellacked
Sorry Shelly, but your shareholders will rest much easier putting their savings under one of your mattresses than in your stock.
Shares of Select Comfort (SCSS) fell out of bed Monday, tumbling over 19% after CEO Shelly Ibach told the Street that the mattress-maker's fourth-quarter earnings will come in below the low end of its prior forecast due to slow Christmas sales. Select Comfort previously told analysts it would earn between 18 cents and 26 cents per share. Wall Street's consensus estimate fell right in the middle of that very, very wide range at 22 cents.
"The sales slowdown following the Thanksgiving holiday reflected a tepid retail holiday shopping season. We expect this challenging environment to continue in 2014 and are planning accordingly," said Ibach. Select Comfort will officially report quarterly results on Feb. 5.
"Planning"? Don't sell us short Shelly. We learned long ago to stop listening to your plans.
Back in October, for example, you blamed your company's Q3 earnings shortfall and 25% drop in stock price on sluggish demand due to a challenging "macro-economic environment." Oh sure, like the government shutdown was keeping people from buying mattresses. Give us a break. Everybody knew the real reason for your failure was Select's massively expensive and messy marketing campaign.
In fact, if memory serves, that October blowup was the reason you widened your Q4 earnings guidance range in the first place. Now it is barely three months later and you can't even hit the low end!
October's cliff-dive was actually one of many in 2013. Select Comfort's shares got massacred last March following its announcement that it was experiencing "below-plan" sales. (Once again, so much for planning Shel!) And Select's stock got shellacked by 20% last January after the company issued downbeat 2013 guidance due to higher marketing expenses and lagging sales.
Here's our 2014 plan for Ibach's shareholders: If you are seeking comfort then select another stock.


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Date: Tuesday, 11 July 2000, at 8:47 p.m.
Are there weekend feeders for loaches? Any ideas on how I can get them fed while I am gone without hiring someone to come in the house to do it.
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Desegregation Commemoration Garden
--The desegregation commemoration garden will serve as a tribute observing the admission of the first black students, Robert G. Anderson, James L. Solomon and Henrie Monteith, to the university in 1963. The garden redesign is inspired by the ideals of diversity, equality and communication.
--The memorial garden's focal point is a three-stepped monument, serving as a symbol of the steps of the Osborne Administration Building that formed the podium of the iconic photograph taken of Anderson, Monteith and Solomon in 1963. The words that will be inscripted on the face of the steps will be penned by USC poet Nikky Finney, the John H. Bennett Chair of Creative Writing in the College of Arts and Sciences.
--A circular seating area will have brick pavers interspersed with accent bricks, stone and glass pavers to create a random mosaic of colors and textures.
--South Carolina topiary artist Pearl Fryar will design the three topiaries that will flank the memorial. Fryar, from Bishopville, S.C., is renowned for his topiary creations.
--The Osborne office building and garden were built in 1952.
--The garden is approximately 6,000 square feet.
--The brick wall bordering the garden is the original campus wall constructed in 1835-1836.
--Records indicate that the fountain was built around the same time as the Osborne Administration building, but it will be removed in the new design.
--The architect of the new Osborne garden design is Derek Gruner, the university's director of facilities planning and programming.


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Here is a very good video by Jamie Ellis, University of Florida, on just about everything you need to know about managing infestations of the Small Hive Beetle. These hive pests are in Michigan and you should be on the look out for them.
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posteb by Steve Tilmann, MBA Treasurer


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I have a user that has come to me today and said he needs to sync his
brand new iPhone with Exchange. I know that I could enable IMAP and get
him synching mail that way, but he would also like Contacts and
Calendar, hence the built in Exchange route.
I've read a lot about this on the web and it seems that the sticking
point is usually the self-signed cert that the iPhone doesn't like.
I have OMA enabled via CEICW and that works fine in a browser. The user
fills in the necessary details on the iPhone and the message he gets is
this when he attempts to complete the Exchange account setup:
Unable to verify certificate
The certificate from BLAH for account BLAH could not be verified.
I've read that some people have had success by manually installing the
cert on the iPhone, but I wondered if it wouldn't be a whole lot easier
just to get myself a third party trusted certificate and install that in
SBS and avoid the whole "certificate" issue on the iPhone? What do you
I have found this, which is good:
But can anyone tell me what is the preferred way to remove the existing
self-signed cert before I install the third party? Should i run the
CEICW and opt NOT to generate a cert?
And lastly, who should I get my cert from?


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March 21-24, 2013
Freeman Coliseum
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Tournament Schedule
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Freeman Coliseum
3201 East Houston Street
San Antonio, TX 78219
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For additional information about accommodations or activities
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Through the NCAA tournament, San Antonio Sports is pleased to shine a light on the local fencing clubs in order to promote and gain recognition for fencing in San Antonio.
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PO Box 29466
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text: Is it a violation of any protocol to post my notes from the AgencySalon at Langton Labs yesterday? I was fairly thorough & got good stuff people might want to read. Going to condense into an article for ZiP2 but I don't mind sharing the raw material The talk about the Wikipedia blackout almost got me teary-eyed at one point... Gl at m aka Tony


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Sade Isn't Interested in Collaborating With Drake
The marriage between hip-hop and R&B has done wonders for artists over the years. Unfortunately, British soul singer Sade says the concept isn't something she's ready to commit to. Rapper Drake, who was very optimistic about the possibility of working with Sade on his upcoming album, 'Thank Me Later,' will now have to face the reality that the collaboration won't happen anytime soon.
Drake told MTV last month, "The melody she [Sade] chooses to use and her voice, it has that dark, sexy feel that a lot of my music has. Hopefully there will be a great Drake and Sade record for the people to listen to, and hopefully it'll be one of the best decisions I've ever made." So much for wishful thinking.
In a recent interview Sade was asked about rumors of her working with the Canadian born rapper. "I don't think they have contacted me," she told Canada's National Post. "I've never collaborated because I've always avoided working outside my safety zone. I can be exactly who I am and can fail or succeed within the moment. I feel safe working like I do. I wouldn't want to work in a situation where I am expected to deliver, because I think I wouldn't deliver."
In related news, after a ten year hiatus Sade released her sixth album 'Solider of Love' on Feb. 8. She is set to perform on the Wanda Sykes Show this Saturday.


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Project DescriptionFROM THE ARCHITECTS:
The Friedman Study Center is located inside Brown's Sciences Library. Though this 14-story tower, built in a late 1960's béton brute style, is a campus landmark, the existing interiors no longer appealed to students. Our design concentrated on Level A, the wide open, underground floor below the lobby, while also addressing the building lobby and mezzanine to offer the Sciences Library a contemporary public profile. Level A offers some distinctive strengths—board formed concrete walls and four sunlit courtyards—around which we designed an environment that appeals to both students who work alone and those who work collaborative in groups.
The Friedman Study Center is organized around study activities and their corresponding noise volumes. Several micro-environments, each furnished with a distinct identity, accommodate a graduation through the space, from quieter individual activity to louder, collaborative work. Brightly colored furniture and vivid patterns refer to the existing building's 1960's debut. Diverse chairs and "flirtstones" can be arranged as desired, whether it's for lounging in sunshine from the courtyards or for a group discussion. Collaboration rooms feature glass walls students can write on, and hidden on concrete walls throughout are silk-screened illustrations from the University library's collections, complete with call numbers.


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Denniston's summary of the case, which he calls a "titanic struggle in the sidewalk wars over abortion," is very helpful in some respects, but disappointing in others. On the positive side, he states that while most public and judicial attention has focused on the use of RICO against abortion protesters, "there now lurks in the case a major issue of criminal law," which concerns the scope of the federal Hobbs Act. He points out that if this "broadening" of that Act were to prevail, then "it could make the Hobbs Act -- a law enacted in 1946 to curb labor-management racketeering -- into a sweeping federal anti-violence law." The problem with this issue, he notes, is that "at this stage...the 7th Circuit's latest ruling...stressed that it was not deciding that issue, and noted that that question could disappear after the new round in District Court."
Still, Denniston says that the high Court could "hear part of the case without getting to that issue itself, if it confined its review to clarifying the scope of its 2003 ruling [which] may well be the decisive issue as the Justices on Thursday ponder a grant or denial of review." What's disappointing about this blog post, however, is that Denniston goes on to quote the 7th Circuit's ruling [PDF] while ignoring the critical wording of the Supreme Court when it ruled over two years ago in Scheidler's favor, in an opinion by Chief Justice Rhenquist, by such a decisive (8-1) margin. Then the high Court held that "all" of the predicate acts supporting the jury verdict against the defendants under RICO "must be reversed." Further, it held that without any underlying predicate acts the judgment that the Scheidler defendants violated RICO also "must be reversed." And finally, the Chief Justice wrote for himself and seven other Justices (all but Stevens, J. who dissented) that without an underlying RICO judgment, the nationwide injunction granted against the named defendants and all other protesters in concert with them "must necessarily be vacated." Despite these unambiguous commands -- three "musts" reinforced by the powerful adverb, "necessarily" -- the 7th Circuit panel held that four of the hundred-plus predicate acts found by the jurors after the 1998 trial were unaffected by the high Court's ruling. The panel also directed the trial court to consider whether to enter another, more narrowly tailored RICO injunction against Scheidler, et al.
Thus when the Supreme Court said "all," the 7th Circuit panel held that the Justices only meant that "some" predicate acts must be reversed. When the Chief Justice wrote "must," the lower court panel held that this only meant that "maybe" the RICO judgment against Scheidler had to be reversed. And when the Justices ruled that the RICO injunction "necessarily" had to be vacated, the 3-Judge appellate panel took that to mean that vacating the decree was only "possibly" required. Indeed, NOW's contention before the 7th Circuit panel and in opposing Supreme Court review [PDF] that violent predicate acts were not before the high Court on the prior appeal is plainly spurious. References to allegedly "violent" protest activities were all too frequent in both the briefing and oral argument [PDF] of the earlier appeal (which this blogger had the privilege of attending). As Scheidler's reply brief [PDF] points out, belated claims by NOW and the abortion clinic respondents that the "four acts or threats of physical violence against persons or property" found by the jury were not before the high Court are belied by the respondents' own excessive rhetoric in briefing and arguing that appeal. NOW did its very best to depict all of the petitioners' protest activities in the worst possible light, describing peaceable non-violent sit-in's as violent mass assaults against physicians and abortion clinic patrons. Granted, the focus of NOW's theory of liability was that simply blocking access by sit-in's constituted "extortion," but their witnesses and lawyers went to great lengths to inject many references to "physical force" and "violence" into the record throughout the trial and on appeal as well. Thus there's every reason for guarded optimism that, despite the terrible odds against the Supreme Court granting review three times in the same case, some favorable action may be forthcoming next week.
Despite the 7th Circuit's rather transparent hedge that it was "not deciding" the Hobbs Act issue which the respondents were urging as an independent ground for upholding the four predicate acts that were allegedly unaffected by the prior ruling, the flimsiness of its reasoning in just deeming plausible such an expansive transformation of the Hobbs Act into "a sweeping federal anti-violence law" (while criticizing or ignoring the many powerful, really irrefutable arguments against such an interpretation of the Hobbs Act), by itself argues strongly in favor of some immediate, decisive intervention here. Coupled with that, of course, is the appellate panel's ignoring the plain and simple directions authored by the Chief Justice for such a decisive Supreme Court majority over two years ago. At any rate, failing Supreme Court intervention now, this marathon litigation will go on for still more years, perhaps into its third decade.
Also overlooked by Denniston is the third issue that the case presents for Supreme Court review, namely, whether the federal RICO statute authorizes issuance of any injunctive relief at the behest of private litigants such as NOW and the abortion clinic plaintiffs. On the earlier appeal, the high Court granted review of that issue but then stopped short of deciding it, as the Court held that the merits of the case didn't warrant the entry of any RICO injunction. That the 7th Circuit directed the trial court to consider entering another RICO injunction against Scheidler also flies in the face of this portion of the Supreme Court's 2003 decision. If, as NOW would have us believe, there remained predicated acts not addressed by the clear language of the Chief Justice (to the contrary), one really must wonder why the high Court would decline to address the injunction question in Scheidler II despite granting review of that issue?
If for no other reason than its treatment by SCOTUSBlog, How Appealing, and other great blogs, Scheidler III has likely achieved a high degree of visibility in upper regions of the federal legal system. It seems doubtful, then, that the case will now go away as quietly as NOW hoped it would. Indeed, NOW's brief in opposition argued that the 7th Circuit hadn't really decided anything and, therefore, that Supreme Court review would be premature. Premature?!? After 19 years of litigating and the specific directions for reversing the judgment and vacating the injunction that the Chief Justice wrote over two years ago in words as plain as the English language affords? Even back then, the end of this case was painfully overdue! As Valparaiso and Pepperdine Law School Prof. Ed Gaffney wrote in one amicus brief [PDF] filed in support of Scheidler's appeal:
This lawsuit has gone on for nearly two decades and makes the lawyers in Chancery described in Charles Dickens' Bleak House...look like models of efficiency as they wore down the estates of decedents through filing document after document.... [E]ndless litigation eats up the meager resources of people who espouse unpopular views. We now say respectfully to the Court, "Enough is enough." Grant the petitions...and summarily reverse the court of appeals.Prof. Gaffney also observed that the court of appeals had "held the case for a full year -- a long time to ponder a clear mandate -- and then took another year to rule on the petition for rehearing." And yet, after all that judicial deliberation, what finally emerged was "only a meek iffy supposition" that on remand the district court might find "it is not beyond the realm of possibility" that the revisers of the federal criminal code in 1948 "may have made certain substantive changes, either advertently or inadvertently" in the scope of the federal Hobbs Act. To this, Gaffney quoted Horace in Ars Poetica, to the effect that Parturient montes, et nascitur ridiculus mus. ("The mountains are in labor, and a ridiculous mouse is born.")
One very telling footnote in Prof. Gaffney's amicus brief voiced his observations about the author of the court of appeals panel's opinions, Judge Diane Wood:
The perception of dispassionate fairness in the disposition of this case by Judge Wood is blurred when one discovers that the same Circuit Judge who (1) authored the opinion that this court reversed 8-1 in 2003, (2) the unpublished order a year later in 2004 resuscitating the case, and (3) the published opinion this year denying the petition for rehearing has been throughout her judicial career a member of the Respondent National Organization for Women, or from the year 2000 to the present a member of the Chicago chapter of NOW....Gaffney cites Sullivan's Judicial Profiles: The Illinois Judicial Directory, but fails to note what a very reliable source tells this blogger: that Judge Woods is also affiliated with Planned Parenthood's Chicago chapter. Contrast these facts with the actions of Judge Ripple, who recused himself from the 7th Circuit's en banc panel simply because he is pro-life (and despite the fact that this case has implications far surpassing the pro-life movement).
In America's contemporary legal universe, only a case such as Scheidler v. NOW could have produced this bizarre series of zigs and zags, tracing such an erratic, aberrant trajectory over the space of two decades. Now it is time that this ill-conceived effort to enforce the federal antitrust, extortion, and racketeering laws against selfless, disinterested, and morally-inspired protesters be rebuffed and ended, once and for all. Perhaps we'll see the end of this marathon when the outcome of the June 16 conference is announced. Or perhaps we will be forced to recall the famous remark of Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist, also quoted in a concurrence by Justice Blackmun in Estate of Wilson v. Aiken Indus., 439 U.S. 877, 880 n.3 (1978).
UPDATE: NOW's president, Kim Gandy, has issued a response to this blog post. Read about it here.


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The laws in Michigan and Utah create e-mail registries to prevent children from viewing adult-oriented messages. But the laws, both barely a month old, threaten to disrupt businesses nationwide, marketers and legal experts say.
Legitimate e-mail marketers are weighing the legal and financial risks of doing business in the two states. Small and midsize companies are anticipating crushing fines. And legal experts are alarmed by the potential impact on free speech and e-mail taxation.
Spammers, ironically, may be tempted to send more e-mail to those states to gain valid e-mail addresses.
"Everyone is being impacted but the spammers," says Kurt Opsahl, a staff attorney at Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil-liberties group.
The laws' quandary illustrates the difficulty in reducing unwanted commercial e-mail, which has flourished despite a federal anti-spam law and high-profile lawsuits against spammers. About 72% of e-mail is spam, up from 68% a year ago, says e-mail security company IronPort Systems.
Many of the largest bulk e-mailers use sophisticated software to cover their tracks, often from operations overseas. "Most spammers will ignore the state laws, as they have all others," says Parry Aftab, an attorney who specializes in Internet privacy and security.
Still, other states are considering similar laws, says Michigan Sen. Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, who has fielded calls from state lawmakers.
"Legislators are trying to tell marketers they can't advertise sex, alcohol and tobacco to youngsters online just as they can't on TV or in print," says Anne Mitchell, CEO of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, a group that works with public and private sectors.
Under the new laws, parents would register their kids' e-mail addresses and birth dates with the state. The registries also include instant-messaging addresses, cell phone and pager numbers.
Businesses face steep fines if they fail to remove from their lists any e-mail addresses that parents submit. The Michigan law carries fines of up to $5,000 per message and $250,000 per day.
That's bad news to legitimate e-mail marketers, who dread the costs and onerous task of scrubbing their lists.
"The costs are so prohibitive, we've recommended clients consider dropping" e-mail marketing campaigns in Utah and Michigan, says Derek Harding, CEO of Innovyx, which runs e-mail marketing campaigns for Sony and Toyota.
Children could inadvertently be endangered by the laws. Opsahl and others say many spammers will bombard both states with e-mail and, based on automated e-mail warnings, discover valid addresses. Aftab wonders if spammers and pedophiles will hack into large databases of children.
Bishop concedes the law won't stop spam, but it will put a damper on unwanted e-mail aimed at kids and give the state the authority to punish violators. "We need to work out nuances in the law to make sure we don't step on toes of legitimate marketers," he says.


text: PROGRAMS AND PLANS--Guidelines for sampling and analysis of water-quality constituents associated with solids June 22, 1971 QUALITY OF WATER BRANCH TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 71.09 Subject: PROGRAMS AND PLANS--Guidelines for sampling and analysis of water-quality constituents associated with solids Quality of Water Branch Technical Memorandum 71.05 described the largely self-evident basis for sampling and analyzing the suspended solids phase when investigating water-quality constituents that are known to be associated with suspended solids. Reference was made also to guidelines that would be provided to field offices for use in planning investigations that include these constituents. At a recent meeting of the Branch staff with other Division water quality specialists, constituents of interest were classified geochemically, and recommended interim procedures and methods for the investigation of those constituents were outlined. Decisions made at this meeting reflect the collective knowleoge and opinion of a large cross section of Division research and operations personnel. They also reflect what is believed to be a reasonable balance between the desire for technical exactness and the necessity of practicality in field operations. At the meeting, it was concluded that adequate data for making certain important decisions are not presently available, but possibly can be obtained within the next few months, in time for dissemination of final instructions to be effective at the beginning of the 1972 water year. Pending release of final instructions, the following interim instructions are provided as a basis for conducting investigations of the elements of interest. I. Classification of minor elements or compounds associated with solids: A. Organics, pesticides B. Organics, all others C. Nitrogen and phosphorus D. Inorganic anions 1. Weakly sorbed--selenium (Se), tellurium (Te), boron (B), halogens (Br, I, F). 2. Moderately sorbed--molybdenum (Mo), vanaclium (V), chromium (Cr), arsenic (As), uranium (U). E. Inorganic cations 1. Moderately sorbed--lithium (Li), radium (Ra), strontium (Sr). 2. Strongly sorbed--cesium (Cs), rubidium (Rb), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), lead (Pb), zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd) cobalt (Co), mercury (Hg), silver (Ag), gold (Au), aluminum (Al), nickel (Ni), beryllium (Be). II. Types of investigations: A. Reconnaissance--short one-time evaluation; can provide definition of problems. B. Monitoring--repetitive, continuing measurements; can define variations and trends. C. General resource appraisal--a moderately long-term monitoring program, but with a defined duration; typical of many WRD basin studies . D. Detailed study, topical or areal--an intensive investigation of limited duration. III. Phases which should be studied in WRD investigations: Minor elements or compounds in water can occur in two phases--dissolved, and associated with solids. The solids can, of course, be suspended or on the bed. The phases to be investigated for each of the classes of minor elements or compounds and for each type of investigation are listed below: A. Dissolved or sorbed on suspended solids: 1. Reconnaissance a. Inorganic cations and anions--study both the material in solution and the material sorbed on suspended solids b. Nitrogen and phosphorus--study both phases c. Organics-- Dissolved organic carbon (DOC)--study only the dissolved phase Suspended organic carbon and all other organics--study both phases. 2. Monitoring--same as reconnaissance. 3. General resource appraisal--same as reconnaissance. 4. Detailed study--same as reconnaissance. B. Sorbed on bottom material: Bottom material, especially the fine fraction, serves as an integrator of chemical and biological processes that occur in the stream, and commonly is a useful indicator of the nature of the solids that will be carried by the stream during the early stages of the next significant runoff event. Thus, it should be sampled at lease once at any study site, especially if samples of suspended material cannot be obtained during the early stages of runoff events, Because a new supply of fine material is deposited after each runoff event, a reasonable period of time is required to allow the integration process to take place before sampling. Prediction of the quantity of an element transported with the bedload on the basis of the size distribution of bed-material samples is questionable at present. 1. Reconnaissance--at least one sample of bed material should be collected in the reach studied if suspended-solids samples are not obtained during the early part of a stream rise. 2. Monitoring--bed-material samples not required if suspended solids are adequately sampled; otherwise take at least one sample. 3. General resource appraisal--sample bed material. 4. Detailed study--sample bed material. IV. Analytical techniques: A. Size of filter pore opening--for the present, continue to use 0. 45 um pore size for separating dissolved (liquid) phase from solids phase. B. When to filter a sample--filtering immediately after collection is recommended. Samples must be filtered within 24 hours after collection. C. Recoverable (partial extraction) vs. total destruction-- measurement of the recoverable portion of inorganic constituents is highly recommended. See attached procedure for a description of the analytical technique currently favored to extract and measure the recoverable fraction. Extraction techniques for bed material samples will be provided at a later date. D. Type of filter to be used for separation of dissolved phase from solids phases, and type of sample used for analysis of solids phase: Constituents to Filter To leach from solids, be determined type extract from ___________________________________________________________ Organics-carbon Silver 1/ whole-water sample 1/ Organics-all others Silver whole-water sample Nitrogen & Phosphorus Membrane whole-water sample Inorganic anions Membrane 1/ whole-water sample 1/ Inorganic cations Membrane 1/ whole-water sample 1/ ___________________________________________________________ 1/ Whole-water sample to be used at least through 1971 water year. Extraction techniques for analyzing material retained on the filter pad will be developed and tested. After comparison with whole-water extraction, decision may be revised. A whole-water sample is defined as a representative sample of the water-suspended solids mixture in the cross section of a flowing stream, or in a vertical (or portion of a vertical) of a lake or reservoir. Content of constituent in solids phase must be calculated by difference (content in whole-water sample minus content in dissolved phase). E. A separate sample will be required for determination of the concentration of suspended solids in the whole-water sample. F. The extraction procedures for recoverable inorganic constituents (attached) is applicable to all minor-element inorganic anions and cations that are listed under I., D and E, above. Extraction procedures for pesticides and nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) are already in use. V. Sampling A. Generally, sorption capacity per unit weight of solids decreases with increasing particle size. However, due to coatings on coarse grains (coarser than about 0. 5 mm) and aggregation of fine material, the content of the constituents of interest in the coarser size fractions cannot be ignored; the only exception might be in the analysis of bed-material samples for reconnaissance studies (see V., B). B. For reconnaissance bed-material sample, analyze only material finer than 20 ,um (except for organic analysis, separate in field by timed multiple decantations-- instructions will be provided upon request). Samples for organic analysis should not be separated in the field. C. For special purposes, sample benthic organisms and analyze for minor-element content. D. If only the dissolved phase is to be determined and reported, sediment-sampling equipment may not be required. Nevertheless, the sample should be representative of the entire stream cross section or lake vertical. Established chemical-quality sampling procedures should be used. E. When sampling for the suspended-solids phase (whole-water sample), sediment sampling techniques must be used. Procedures outlined in Interagency Committee on Water Resources, Subcommittee on Sedimentation Report 14, and TWRI Book 3, Chapter C2, Field Methods for Measurement of Fluvial Sediment, must be followed. F. Teflon nozzles for sediment samplers are mandatory when collecting samples for the determination of inorganic minor elements, and are acceptable when sampling for the determination of organic constituents. Nozzles will be supplied by this office upon request. We have nozzles for the D-48, DH-59, D-49, and P-61 samplers. G. The black rubber gasket in sediment samplers must be replaced with a silicone-rubber gasket when collecting samples for the determination of minor elements and organics. Silicone-rubber gaskets for the samplers listed above will be supplied by this office upon request. H. One liter is the minimum sample volume required for the determination of minor elements associated with suspended solids. I. Presently used pint milk bottles are satisfactory for the interim for collecting whole-water samples, but the samples should be quantitatively transferred in the field (except when sampling for organics) to an approved screw-top bottle. Samples collected for organic determinations should receive a minimum amount of handling in the field. J. A handscoop made from a cut-out plastic bottle or other straightsided plastic container may be used for reconnaissance sampling of bottom sediments when the stream can be waded. Samples collected should be iced in the field. When sampling bottom sediments with the BM-54 and BMH-60 bed- material samplers, the buckets on the samplers must be thoroughly cleaned before each use, and the rubber gaskets must be replaced by silicone rubber gaskets. Requests for these gaskets should be made through this office. K. The valve mechanism in the P-61 and 63 point samplers may pose a serious contamination problem. Use of point samplers for sampling minor elements should be avoided unless notifed otherwise . The above instructions indicate, in effect, that if a quantitative analysis of constituents associated with suspended solids is to be made, it must be made using a sample that is representative of both the suspended solids and the liquid phase in the cross section sampled. If the required sampling effort cannot be justified, it is better to filter the sample and analyze for the dissolved constituents only. The Quality of Water Branch will be interested in receiving written comments from the field pertaining to the interim guidelines given above. Further guidelines will be forthcoming. W. H. Durum Attachment WRD Distribution A, B, S, FO, PO.