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Pretoria - The victory against the Sharks is done and dusted and stored in the memory bank for the Blue Bulls. Now an even tougher battle awaits the men from Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.
A wounded Western Province side, who have not had the best start to the new Currie Cup season, will welcome the Blue Bulls, who are in fourth spot on the log, to the cauldron that is Newlands.
The Bulls, of course, will not be expecting a pleasant welcome from a Province side that have found wins hard to come by, having lost to the Lions in last Saturday and also lost to the Sharks at home in the opening round of the competition.
Going into the fourth round of matches Bulls coach Pine Pienaar will be making sure he crosses his Ts and dots his Is when he prepares his team for a Province backlash this Saturday. While he was happy that his team had got the much needed victory over the Sharks this past at the weekend, Pienaar will be making sure this week that his Blue Bulls team also stay grounded in the build-up towards the north-south derby.
"Obviously I am happy with the win (against the Sharks), but we know it's going to be a tough one against Province. I think what's important this week is that we know it's going to be a tough battle and that they (Province) are coming from a loss (against the Lions).
"The last home game they played they lost against the Sharks they also lost there (Newlands). So they (Province) will definitely be up for a win," said the Bulls coach yesterday at the team's practice at the Loftus B-field.
"It's important that we have a good week of training and that we are effective with what we want to do. Otherwise they will definitely punish us on the day.
"With the competition format that we have, if you lose one game you are in big trouble. If you lose twice in a row, it gets even tougher, so we know that Province will be coming out firing at all cylinders."
While the Bulls will have drawn some confidence from the win against the Sharks, after enduring tough week leading up to that game, Pienaar believes there is still more work to be done if they are to get the better of the Capetonians at Newlands. While they got the desired good start against the Sharks to eventually win the game, it was not all plain sailing as they let four tries which gifted the team from Durban a bonus point in the dying seconds of the game. Something that didn't impress Pienaar at all.
"We were a bit under pressure at the wide rucks, where we got turned over three times and we conceded four tries. I am definitely not happy with the defence," said Pienaar.
In team news Arno Botha aggravated his hamstring again and he will miss the game against Province, while team captain Dewald Potgieter and winger Akona Ndungane did not train on Monday due to stiffness in their legs.
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Upgrading MEPIS to a newer release
From MEPIS Documentation Wiki
Upgrading MEPIS Linux 7.x to MEPIS 8
See for now MEPIS 8 Upgrade FAQ
Upgrading SimplyMEPIS 6.x to MEPIS Linux 7.x
MEPIS 7.x has switched back to a Debian base (from the Ubuntu base of the 6.x releases) - so the info in the section below is still relevant. Choosing to preserve home may work for some - but it is probably better to backup your configurations (hidden .files and folders in your /home/user/ directory) and re-instate any you need that way.
- See MEPIS 7 Upgrade FAQ for more info.
Upgrading SimplyMEPIS 3.x to SimplyMEPIS 6.x
Because of big changes that intervened (change from Debian to Ubuntu sources) it is not possible to upgrade SimplyMEPIS 3.4 to SimplyMEPIS 6.x by using Synaptic. However, it is possible to install over preserving /home where all the personal files and program configurations are located.
Upgrading from CD
You can install Mepis CD and choose to preserve /home partition or folder when you choose where to install. Use the same user-name and then choose "reuse older /home" partition when asked.
- Of course it's a good idea to back up your data before you do anything that affects your system in such a radical way.
- Another suggestion: keep a list of packages that you usually install after you install MEPIS so you'll be able to paste that list to an "apt-get install" command in order to get your system back how it was as fast and convenient as possible). If you do not have such a list, look here: Which packages did I add?
If you choose to preserve home, ~/.kde folder will still get overwritten, make sure you backup everything valuable from that folder.

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Those interested in contacting the group for performances, workshops, or auditions should email the director at email@example.com.


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Geraint Griffith was a horticultural expert for the S4C gardening programme, Y Clwb Garddio.
He died after his motorbike collided with the lorry on the A5 Holyhead road at Gaerwen, Anglesey, on Thursday.
Mr Griffith, 30, lived in Rhosgadfan near Caernarfon with his wife, Rachel, and two young children, Iestyn, four, and Morgan, six months.
Nici Beech, S4C's commissioning editor for factual entertainment programmes, who is responsible for Y Clwb Garddio, said: "The news of Geraint Griffith's tragic death is a major blow and we offer our deepest sympathy to Geraint's family and friends.
"He was a popular member of Ffilmiau Cenad's production team who always presented his planting designs to viewers with great enthusiasm. He will be sorely missed."
Mr Griffith also contributed to BBC Radio Cymru.
Marian Wyn Jones, head of centre north for BBC Wales said:
"We are all shocked and deeply saddened by Geraint's sudden death.
"His weekly slot on Jonsi's programme on Radio Cymru attracted a terrific following. Staff at the BBC are still reeling at the loss. He will be deeply missed and our hearts and sympathy are with the family at this difficult time."
Mr Griffith was trapped under the lorry after the accident, which happened at about 1525 GMT, and was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
The Holyhead road was closed to traffic for several hours and diversions were set up along the A55.
North Wales Police have appealed for any witnesses to contact them on 0845 607 1001.


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Today, Joe Scarborough continued his feud with Rush Limbaugh, insinuating that the talk radio legend is not a true conservative.
For the second time today, I'm looking 'round the office, wondering whether I'm being punked.
Hot on the heels of Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize – won for the stellar achievements (?) of the first ten days of his presidency – we find out that Joe Scarborough believes himself to be the only true heir to the mantle of Reagan and Buckley – at least, among the radio talker set.
On this morning's edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough and the Brew Crew had the following exchange:
JOE SCARBOROUGH, "Morning Joe" host: Kathleen, let's – let's also talk about the Republican party.
KATHLEEN PARKER, syndicated columnist: Let's do. Joe, you are running for President, right?
SCARBOROUGH: Well, apparently if I do I don't have Rush Limbaugh's vote, he questioned my manhood.
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL, MSNBC political analyst: He is a little late in the game on questioning your manhood, by the way.
SCARBOROUGH: Well, I think it's ironic. I was just saying, I think it's fascinating, you've got all these people that sat there and said nothing while Republicans darted recklessly left with their spending, and suddenly they are the arbiters of who's conservative. And you can only be conservative by being intolerant, by waving your arms around, by screaming, by calling the President a racist or a Nazi or a communist. Come on!
For those of you who are not veterans of the "Morning Joe" shtick, this is Joe's normal way of attacking conservative pundits who disagree with him. Rather than attack the substance of their arguments, he denigrates their style.
Irony, thy name is Scarborough.
One wonders if Scarborough realizes that the natural, logical end of his sarcasm is the implication that one can only be conservative by being as unnaturally calm as he is. This is the problem with making broad generalizations about one's opponents, and an irony that Scarborough misses. Consider the substance of what Scarborough said:
"all these people…sat there and said nothing."
Scarborough would have us believe that Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, et al, sat behind their microphones and said absolutely nothing against the expansion in government spending under George W. Bush. Not one word against the expansion of Medicare. Not a single breath against No Child Left Behind. Nary an opposing word to anything that George W. Bush proposed. This is patently false.
And now the mask is cracked. Joe Scarborough, who (in case you were unaware) has a radio show from 10AM-12PM on WABC New York, and is attempting to achieve national syndication. He is competing with the kings of talk radio for air time.
Is it any wonder that he's running (what amounts to) a negative political campaign against his main competitors?


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The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
November 20th 2013
Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity.
It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is a novel of shocking narrative energy and power. It combines unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and breathtaking suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher's calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It is a beautiful, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.
MaddAddam, by Margaret Atwood
November 20th 2013
Bringing together Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy points toward the ultimate endurance of community, and love.
Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, newly fortified against man and giant pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasi-human species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. Their reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is recovering from a debilitating fever, so it's left to Toby to preach the Craker theology, with Crake as Creator. She must also deal with cultural misunderstandings, terrible coffee, and her jealousy over her lover, Zeb.
Zeb has been searching for Adam One, founder of the God's Gardeners, the pacifist green religion from which Zeb broke years ago to lead the MaddAddamites in active resistance against the destructive CorpSeCorps. But now, under threat of a Painballer attack, the MaddAddamites must fight back with the aid of their newfound allies, some of whom have four trotters. At the center of MaddAddam is the story of Zeb's dark and twisted past, which contains a lost brother, a hidden murder, a bear, and a bizarre act of revenge.
Combining adventure, humor, romance, superb storytelling, and an imagination at once dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world, MaddAddam is vintage Margaret Atwood—a moving and dramatic conclusion to her internationally celebrated dystopian trilogy.
The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton
November 20th 2013
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Canada's Governor General's Literary Award, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems….
It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have men in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky.
Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bus, The Luminaries is a brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner. It is a thrilling achievement for someone still in her midtwenties, and will confirm for critics and readers that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament.
The Circle, by Dave Eggers
November 20th 2013
The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award.
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
The Night Guest, by Fiona McFarlane
November 20th 2013
A mesmerizing first novel about trust, dependence, and fear, from a major new writer.
Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside of town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. This woman—Frida—claims to be a care worker sent by the government. Ruth lets her in.
Now that Frida is in her house, is Ruth right to fear the tiger she hears on the prowl at night, far from its jungle habitat? Why do memories of childhood in Fiji press upon her with increasing urgency? How far can she trust this mysterious woman, Frida, who seems to carry with her own troubled past? And how far can Ruth trust herself?
The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane's hypnotic first novel, is no simple tale of a crime committed and a mystery solved. This is a tale that soars above its own suspense to tell us, with exceptional grace and beauty, about ageing, love, trust, dependence, and fear; about processes of colonization; and about things (and people) in places they shouldn't be. Here is a new writer who comes to us fully formed, working wonders with language, renewing our faith in the power of fiction to describe the mysterious workings of our minds.
Aimless Love: New & Selected Poems, by Billy Collins
November 20th 2013
From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first compilation of new and selected poems in twelve years. Aimless Love combines more than fifty new poems with selections from four previous books—Nine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Dead. Collins's unmistakable voice, which brings together plain speech with imaginative surprise, is clearly heard on every page, reminding us how he has managed to enrich the tapestry of contemporary poetry and greatly expand its audience. His work is featured in top literary magazines such as The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Atlantic, and he sells out reading venues all across the country. Appearing regularly in The Best American Poetry series, his poems appeal to readers and live audiences far and wide and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. By turns playful, ironic, and serious, Collins's poetry captures the nuances of everyday life while leading the reader into zones of inspired wonder. In the poet's own words, he hopes that his poems "begin in Kansas and end in Oz." Touching on the themes of love, loss, joy, and poetry itself, these poems showcase the best work of this "poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace" (The New Yorker).


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Mouth Diseases
White Spots in corners of lips
I have read the other questions\answers on this website but they do not refer directly to what my question is. I have noticed within the last year very small white spots in the corners of my lips. The other articles refer to the top and bottom lip. They do not hurt or chap or anything like that. I smoke cigarettes and I am curious if this is just something I never noticed before or something worse. Please Explain.
Again, as I preface most of these responses, "without actually seeing what you are describing it is impossible to make a definitive diagnosis". If this is a concern you really need to have it evaluated by your dentist or primary care physician.
White spots on the corners of the lips could be "Fordyce granules" or small sebaceous glands, generally they are on the buccal (cheek) mucosa and or on the lips but they can be found on the corners of the lips.
Another possibility is an anatomical variation that generally appears in adults referred to as "commissural pits', the small depression or invaginations occur at the corner of the lips and may become fluid filled (saliva) Squeezing the pit may resemble a pimple draining fluid. Finally, you may have "Angular Chelitis" not necessarily a white spot, but can be a white lesion with associated cracking at the corners of the mouth. This condition is due to a fungal overgrowth (Candida albicans) and in some cases may be painful and or feel like a burn. Another situation that I did not include is the fact that you may have a small fibrotic change as a result of trauma or frequent irritation or chemical exposure.
If you are concerned please have it evaluated
Richard J Jurevic, DDS, PhD
Formerly, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
School of Dental Medicine
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This letter is concerning the recent debate regarding changing the Lake Oswego School District's start time. This letter will not address the specifics as to reasons why the Lake Oswego School District should change their start times. Instead the letter will address my perception as to how the administration at Lake Oswego High School and several key stakeholders alike are treating the advocating students as 'second-class' citizens.
Recently students in Political Action Seminar and who are members of the school hours planning team were going to hold a public forum to address the community's opinion concerning changing the starting time of the high school. However, the Lake Oswego High School administration postponed the meeting due to what they felt was 'premature action' on the part of the students.
Now the students had contacted numerous school board members, invited various people in the community, and scheduled to reserve the Lake Oswego High School library to host the community meeting. The scheduled meeting even appeared on the district calendar for a brief amount of time, before the Lake Oswego High School administration instructed the teacher of the advocating students to delay the meeting. To be fair to the administration, they had legitimate concerns about the fact that they were not informed directly about the nature of the meeting, and were caught off guard by such a broad based public discussion without any input or consent.
The teacher then asked the students to write letters of apology to all whom were willing to attend that the meeting, that it had been canceled.
The administration was upset that the students had not consulted them first and felt that this forum was an attack on concerns that the administration had to changing the high school's starting time, therefore forcing the administration to be on the defense. This however, is not true. These students are not looking to make an argument, or looking to make an attack on the administration (and neither is this letter), these students are genuinely concerned about an issue at our school. They were merely trying to give everyone an equal opportunity to express their various ideas and opinions on the topic. One wonders whether the administration perceived this formulated discussion as an attack, and therefore advocated no meeting. There should be no fear in expressing different opinions and ideas on a topic that could greatly change academics at Lake Oswego High School. The administration should be greatly interested in discussing this topic.
This is not the only time in which teenagers have been treated like 'second-class citizens.' Too often adults are taken more seriously - even if we are well informed and just as intelligent on a topic. Too many times members of the community have observed the Political Action Seminar curriculum as an outlet for 'whiney' students whom merely want to sue the city to get a later curfew, offer contraceptives to students, and attempt to change the starting time of high school. These views however are skewed. We have planning teams devoted to converting to b20 biodiesel, create rain barrels and help foster care in Oregon. These are all topics that students are passionate about and issues that pertain to students' everyday lives. Students should not be condemned for advocating for something they believe in. They should applaud these students for being politically active, and they should not be afraid to hold an open dialogue in which students and members of the community alike may propose ideas and opinions pertaining to said issues. If people attempted to take these students more seriously not only as teenagers, but as members of society it is very possible that people could be surprised at how many well thought out and organized ideas that Political Action Seminar students have proposed to benefit the society we live in.
Ryan Reece is a resident of Lake Oswego and a student at Lake Oswego High School.
Editor's note: Bruce Plato, principal at Lake Oswego High School, responds: 'I am disappointed that Ryan has the perception that the students on the PAS High School Start Time Planning Team have been treated as 'second class citizens.' I have had the opportunity to work closely with the members of this team and have appreciated their continued efforts to gather pertinent information from school officials, our transportation director, and other schools.
'Our Political Action Seminar program is an excellent avenue for our students to participate in government processes. Part of that education involves understanding and executing the appropriate steps in the process for seeking change. For this reason I suggested that their planned community forum be postponed until they had the opportunity to accomplish all that needed to take place before convening an event of this magnitude. Team members are continuing their work toward this event, and were invited to attend a work session with the school board this week and hear a presentation by Superintendent Korach that provided historical perspective on our current high school schedules.
'Our students are thoughtful and insightful, and are able to bring a fresh perspective to many issues surrounding our school, our community, and our nation. We take their efforts and activism seriously.'


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|April 12, 2012
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April 12 – 15
Stanislav's Reflect is a site-specific interactive performance walk/sculpture. Two performers—a man and a woman—will walk from the Reflect site at the Museum, through downtown Fargo and surrounding locations, each wearing a garment entirely covered with thousands of mirrored circular buttons. As the performers walk, they will give away individual buttons to people they meet in exchange for their memories and observations about flooding in Fargo-Moorhead. The day after the walk, Stanislav will replace the mirrored buttons with photos of the participants, staging the walk again as a "remix" of the memories that were recorded.


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Just for fun, I made up a red budgie... using Lucky as a model. I've always been curious to know what a red budgie may look like!
Please note: These images have been manipulated. Red and pink budgies do not exist (yet)!
I also love the idea of a soft pink budgie... Like this maybe:
I wonder if they'll ever be able to produce these colours??


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On May 3 an Oklahoma judge delayed enactment of a new law mandating that mothers get ultrasounds before abortions for 45 days.
Oklahoma's ultrasound law goes farther than others. According to the Associated Press:
The law requires doctors to use a vaginal probe, which provides a clearer picture of the fetus than a regular ultrasound, and to describe the fetus in detail, including its dimensions, whether arms, legs and internal organs are visible and whether there is cardiac activity.
That is just not true, obviously skewed to bias readers away from supporting the law.
The law actually states that the abortion or technician "us[e] either a vaginal transducer or an abdominal transducer, whichever would display the embryo or fetus more clearly."
That said, this is indeed the first pre-abortion ultrasound legislation to specify the option of using a vaginal transducer. These are different in probe placement than typical abdominal ultrasounds.
Pro-choice Democratic House candidate Brittany Novotny referred to vaginal ultrasound transducers as state-mandated "rape by instrumentation." At least Tenured Radical argues the new ultrasound law is literally "legaliz[ing] rape" by countermanding Oklahoma's rape statute that indeed includes "rape by instrumentation."
News organizations are promoting the negative depiction of vaginal transducers. An Associated Press piece in The New York Times called them "intrusive." The Maine Civil Liberties Union called this a "highly invasive... most hostile ultrasound law." Another Associated Press story reposted by several news outlets repeated the incomplete portrayal of the legislation by stating it would "require women seeking the procedures early in their pregnancies to undergo an invasive form of ultrasound."
Yet no news organizations contrasted benign vaginal ultrasounds to that which is actually comparable to rape: violent abortion procedures. Dr. David Reardon of After Abortion explained:
[M]any women report that their abortions felt like a degrading and brutal form of medical rape. This association between abortion and rape is not hard to understand.
Abortion involves a painful examination of a woman's sexual organs by a masked stranger who is invading her body. Once she is on the operating table, she loses control over her body.... This experiential association between abortion and sexual assault is very strong for many women. It is especially strong for women who have a prior history of sexual assault, whether or not she is presently pregnant as the result of an assault. This is just one reason why women with a history of sexual assault are likely to experience greater distress during and after an abortion than other women.
The difference, according to the pro-choice blog, Oklahoma Voice of Reason, is that a mother doesn't give consent to the former but does the latter. But simply giving one's consent to abortion does not erase its trauma.
Abortion proponents trivialize rape by calling vaginal ultrasounds "rape by instrumentation." They also draw the obvious comparison to abortion, to all except the political correct MSM.


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U.S. Army Takes Delivery of More Hybrid Electric HMMWVs
GOLDEN, Colo., Aug. 29 UQM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. announced today that two additional technology demonstration hybrid electric High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV pronounced HUMVEE®), developed and produced by PEI Electronics, a unit of Integrated Defense Technologies, Inc. and powered by UQM® electric propulsion motors, generators and power electronic inverters are being delivered to the U. S. Army for performance testing and evaluation at the Yuma Proving Grounds. Two previously delivered hybrid electric HMMWVs have been undergoing rigorous testing at Aberdeen Proving Grounds since June. The hybrid electric HMMWVs incorporate one 75 kW UQM® generator and two 75 kW UQM® propulsion motors, one per axle. Each UQM® motor or generator is controlled by a UQM® electronic inverter which manages the operating characteristics of the motor or generator. Funding for the design upgrade of PEI's prototype system and fabrication of the first four vehicles was provided by the Department of Defense's Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) based in Warren, Michigan. AM General, the manufacturer of the HMMWV, is the Prime Contractor. PEI Electronics is responsible for the complete hybrid drive systems design and integration, electronics component design and the energy management system for the vehicles. UQM Technologies provides the propulsion motors, generators and power electronic inverters under subcontract to PEI Electronics.
The delivery of these vehicles marks the culmination of a one year effort to enhance the design and performance characteristics of earlier hybrid electric HMMWVs. The contract effort, led by AM General, the manufacturer of the HUMVEE® since 1995, is focused on meeting customer performance specifications in a more production ready design. The hybrid electric HMMWV features on-board power generation capability sufficient to operate field hospitals, telecommunications centers, auxiliary radar equipment and the like, and has demonstrated fuel efficiency improvements in excess of 30 percent depending on the vehicle driving cycle.
William G. Rankin, UQM Technologies' President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "The benefits of hybrid electric propulsion including improved vehicle performance, stealth operation, reduced fuel consumption and the availability of significant on-board electric power are gaining broader recognition throughout the military and this order for an additional hybrid electric HMMWV is just the beginning of what we expect will be a growing number of orders from various military organizations. The hybrid electric HMMWV is one of a number of applications of our technology in military vehicles, such as our recently announced role as propulsion systems supplier for two unmanned ground combat vehicle programs, which we see as a significant and growing opportunity for the Company."
UQM Technologies, Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of power dense, high efficiency electric motors, generators and power electronic inverters for the automotive, aerospace, telecommunications, medical, military and industrial markets. A major emphasis of the Company is developing products for the alternative energy technologies sector including power systems for electric, hybrid electric and fuel cell electric vehicles, 42 volt under-the-hood power accessories and other vehicle auxiliaries and distributed power generation applications. The Company's headquarters and engineering and product development center are located in Golden, Colorado. Manufacturing facilities are located in Frederick, Colorado (electric motors) and St. Charles, Missouri (electronic assemblies and wire harnesses). For more information on the Company, please visit its worldwide website at www.uqm.com .
Integrated Defense Technologies, Inc., is a developer and provider of advanced electronics and technology products to the defense and intelligence industries. IDT products are installed on or used in support of a wide array of military platforms, to enhance their operational performance or extend their useful life. IDT products are incorporated into approximately 250 programs, which, in turn, are installed on or support 275 platforms. IDT employs more than 1,700 people throughout the United States and Canada. For more information on the Company, please visit its worldwide website at www.idt-idt.com
AM General Corporation, headquartered in South Bend, Indiana, is a world-leader in the design, engineering, production and technical and parts support of military and special purpose vehicles and producer of the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV pronounced HUMVEE®) and the HUMMER®, a civilian version of the HUMVEE, which is currently marketed globally to retail and commercial customers by General Motors Corporation under an exclusive marketing and distribution agreement. In addition, General Engine Products Inc. (GEP), a wholly owned subsidiary of AM General Corporation, produces OEM 6.5 litre diesel engines, both naturally aspirated and turbo-charged, used in military, automotive, marine and various other industrial and commercial applications. For more information on the Company, please visit its worldwide website at www.amgeneralcorp.com


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Sovereignty Resolutions: A Message to the UNITED STATES
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A local importer of foreign books and periodicals said today that the Warsaw Yiddish monthly "Yiddishe Shriften" has ceased publication. He gave this information to customers who wanted to renew their subscriptions. He said he was advised of the suspension by the Polish State Periodicals Export Co. which gave no reason for the closure of the magazine.


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If you want to know what I did over the weekend, read Mrs. Darwin's lovely account of our visit.
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GULFPORT — John Hairston, CEO of Hancock Holding Co., has been elected to the board of directors of the American Banking Association.
Hancock Holding is the parent of Hancock Bank and Whitney Bank.
The Sun Herald reports Hairston's election took place at the organization's recent meeting in San Diego. He is one of nine members elected to the board and one of six who will serve a three-year term.
Hairston, a Gulfport native, joined Hancock Bank in 1994 as COO. He also is chairman of the Mississippi Gaming Commission.


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A bushfire inquiry has found that the Tasmania Fire Service failed to act on computer modelling that showed on the night before the town of Dunalley was hit last January that it was likely to be engulfed.
The fire service's modelling predicted within 35 minutes when the firestorm that grew from an unextinguished campfire would reach Dunalley, special investigator Mal Hyde found.
But Mr Hyde said: "No pro-active action was taken to redeploy fire resources . . . or initiate different measures to warn people of the risk."
The fire trapped about 4000 people on the Tasman Peninsula and burnt through 193 homes, infrastructure including a school and 186 other buildings.
It took the lives of thousands of head of livestock and native fauna, but took no human life. A Victorian firefighter died of a heart attack several days later.
Mr Hyde found responsibility for handling the fire was not given to the bushfire incident management team until the morning of January 4, or about 14 hours after it began, despite a forecast of extreme weather conditions.
He also had concerns about how the firefighting was handled.
"While it is acknowledged that these were extreme fire conditions and fire crews had worked for extended periods, crews left Dunalley, and there was a lack of effective control when there were active fires, and properties were on fire and under threat," he said.
"Apart from leaving the Dunalley crew, which had worked just as long as the other crews, no other action to protect Dunalley appears to have been taken at this time."
Mr Hyde's finding on predictive modelling, one of the fastest developing weapons in bushfire fighting, sparked a dispute as the 2013-14 bushfire season begins.
TFS chief fire officer Mike Brown said he was denied natural justice in replying to the report's comments, and rejected what he said was unwarranted criticism over the TFS assessment of the night-before prediction on Dunalley.
Mr Brown said the same model had the fire bearing down on two other communities that were not threatened until much later, and there was a danger in using such data to "overwarn" people.
"Predictive modelling can be wildly inaccurate," Mr Brown said. "It's just one of the tools in our armoury to plan the battle."
Mr Hyde, a former South Australian police commissioner, who held no public hearings for the inquiry, said concerns about the variability of predictive models were reducing, and they were becoming more accepted.
He recommended the fire agencies continue to develop modelling, and Premier Lara Giddings said the TFS was aiming to make full use of computer modelling for the next bushfire season.
Ms Giddings expressed confidence in all service leaders involved in the fire, despite the report's account of confusion over who was in overall command as the emergency escalated. "From my perspective there wasn't a leadership vacuum at all," she said.
But in one of 103 recommendations, Mr Hyde called for legislative change to clearly define the role of a state controller in a similar emergency.
With the next fire season approaching, Mr Brown said the "hard issue" of fuel reduction needed to be addressed.
The Tasmanian inquiry rejected an arbitrary 5 per cent burning recommended in the Victorian bushfire report. "Targets need to be about a qualitative approach, not a quantitative approach," Mr Brown said.


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Melbourne, Australia – Australia's captain Michael Clarke and Test regulars David Warner and Matthew Wade will return to the team for the third and fourth matches in their ODI series against Sri Lanka.
The trio missed the first two matches of the five-match series which is tied after Australia won the opening match by 107 runs and Sri Lanka the second match by five wickets. The third match is in Brisbane on Friday.
Top-order batsmen Aaron Finch and Usman Khawaja, allrounder Steve Smith and seam bowler Ben Cutting have been dropped while wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has a hamstring injury.
New South Wales allrounder Moises Henriques, who has played two one-day internationals, has also been recalled.
"Moises Henriques also comes into the squad as a genuine all-rounder whose bowling will be suited to conditions often found at the Gabba (in Brisbane)," selection chairman John Inverarity said.
"Moises is a young man who has shown promise for some years with both the bat and the ball. This will be an opportunity for him to impress as we look for a good seam bowling all-rounder."
Steve Rixon will take over as head coach for the third match in Brisbane while Mickey Arthur returns to South Africa to spend some time with his family. Arthur will re-join the squad in Sydney on Saturday.
Meanwhile, veteran batsman Tillakartne Dilshan said Sri Lanka was unconcerned about continual changes to Australia's team and did not believe it was facing a second-string side.
"They are looking forward to play the Ashes in a couple of months, they want to try some players. That is why they are rotating their players," Dilshan said.
"The thing is, we know anyone who comes into their side is very tough. A few of the youngsters we see in the Big Bash (Twenty20
league) are bowling really well and they are in good form. That is why the selectors bring them to the national side."
Dilshan said the return of Clarke, Wade and Warner made the Australian team stronger.
"They are great players in the Australian side. They are match-winning players," he said. "It is not easy for us with these three players coming back in the side but still we are looking forward to playing good cricket."
Australia squad: Michael Clarke (captain), George Bailey, Xavier Doherty, Moises Henriques, Phil Hughes, David Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Glenn Maxwell, Clint McKay, Mitchell Starc, Matthew Wade, David Warner. – Sapa-AP


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Updated 10:08 pm, Friday, May 3, 2013
A person riding inside a flatbed construction truck was seriously hurt early Friday when the truck rear-ended a tour bus headed for an Eagle Pass casino, officials said.
Sheriff's Sgt. E.M. Conger said the tour bus hit a Chevrolet Tahoe from behind when traffic suddenly slowed about 8 a.m. as they headed south on Interstate 35 near the Luckey Road exit.
The wreck set off a chain reaction, and the construction truck crashed into the tour bus.
None of the 30 passengers inside the tour bus was seriously hurt, and another bus came shortly after the crash so they could continue their trip.
A father and son riding in the pickup were rushed to a hospital as a precaution, and the driver and a front passenger riding in the construction truck weren't seriously injured.
The badly injured man was riding in the back, Conger said.
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Deep-Water Wrecks Mapped in Gulf of Mexico
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GALVESTON, TEXAS—Three ships thought to have been sunk during the same storm are being mapped in the Gulf of Mexico. Discovered by an oil company surveying potential drilling sites, the first nineteenth-century ship rests under 4,300 feet of water, making it the deepest wreck under investigation in the U.S. at this time. A team of researchers from three federal agencies, two state agencies, three universities, and three non-profit organizations have been working at the site, dubbed the "Monterey Shipwreck." They have spotted the navigator's working slate, leather-bound books, and a ledger that may help them learn more about the crew and the purpose of their journey. Less than five miles away, the other two targets identified by the oil company turned out to be a copper-clad ship with two anchors, a steering wheel, and a bell, and a wooden ship that may have been carrying supplies for the Monterey Shipwreck. "The photo mosaic maps of all three wrecks are to a new standard never before seen in U.S. maritime deep-water archaeology," said James Delgado, director of maritime heritage with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and a member of the expedition.
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Laurent, I am a bit puzzled here. What pattern of code are you trying to abstract over here? Code that calls several functions, culminating with baz, with arguments x and (foo x)? If so, I'd write it like this: (define-syntax foo==>baz (syntax-rules () ((_ (a b) e ...) (let ((b (foo a))) e ... (baz a b))))) (define (f1 x) (foo==>baz (x y) (bar x y y) (plop y x y))) (define (f2 x) (foo==>baz (x y))) As long as you put the variable names in the call to foo==>baz, hygiene will be your friend. There will be absolutely no difference in code speed after compilation; the compiler will see exactly the same function definitions you wrote before. Carl Eastlund On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Still having difficulties with (hygienic) macros... > > I have the following (simplified) code : > > (define (f1 x) > (let ([y (foo x)]) > (bar x y y) > (plop y x y) > (baz x y))) > > (define (f2 x) > (let ([y (foo x)]) > (baz x y))) > > As I dislike code repetitions, I want to make a macro that could generate > either f1 or f2 or any function that has a body between the `let' and the > `(baz'. > I want the generated code to be as fast as without using macro. This (as I > understand it) is the case for `define-syntax' et al. > > Since `bar' has some arguments that are defined inside the function, my > first (probably bad) guess was to use an unhygienic macro with > `define-macro'. That was simple and worked. However my code was quite slower > so I suspect the transformation is not syntactic but is rather done on the > fly with an eval. And I don't want to be beaten to death by hygienic macro > programmers either. > > So what is the correct way to (generically) compress this code without > losing run-time, i.e. to have a syntactical transformation? > Is it possible to define an hygienic macro without loss of genericity? > Is there a hygienic macro programming style that I could automatically use? > > Thanks, > Laurent
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Brooklyn, N.Y. - West Elm, a division of Williams-Sonoma, will open a store in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, Oct. 10. The 8,000-sq.-ft. store is located in The Summit Birmingham shopping center.
"We are excited to open our first store in Alabama and support the local handcrafted community by featuring the work of Birmingham artisans in our store," said Jim Brett, president of West Elm. "We recently made a two-year commitment to significantly increase the amount of handcrafted products we offer, and to roll out locally crafted assortments in all of our stores worldwide. Birmingham is in the first group of our stores to offer this assortment. "


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PLANS to set up a light industrial park alongside a medieval barn in Winterbourne have been thrown out by council planning chiefs.
The Winterbourne Medieval Barn Trust looked to build seven units for businesses at Court Barn Farm to bring in much needed cash for the transformation of the a 14th century barn, on site, into a community heritage centre.
But hopes were dashed last Thursday when the plans were rejected at a Development Control Committee.
The disapproval came following concerns raised by Winterbourne Parish Council over the building of new units on the green belt and the effect it could have on the medieval walls.
The tithe barn, built in 1342, is one of only a few examples in the country where it was built and owned by the local landowner, and not the church.
Before falling into disrepair South Gloucestershire Council brought it and spent thousands of pounds restoring the ancient stone walls.
Now, in the trust's hands, it was hoped the letting of built light industrial units would fund a second phase to turn the barn into a local education centre to highlight the area's heritage.
But despite a planning officer's recommendation to accept the plans, South Gloucestershire's planning committee turned it down.
Trust Secretary Richard Spalding told the Gazette he was naturally disappointed with the decision.
"Following a meeting on Monday with trust members we have decided to not appeal but to look at putting forward a altered planning application," he added.
"What we are now doing is asking planning officers to take a look at our plan B and tell us if that is workable.
"It is vitally important we continue our work towards looking for ways of funding the restoration of the barn and its upkeep.
"Although disappointed with Thursday's decision we will now work towards putting forward a second application which we hope to be successful."


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These Baby Boots are knitted in sockweight 4 ply yarn and the foot is about 8 cm long. Larger sizes can be made by adjusting the needle size and the foot is worked in a stocking stitch welt to allow for growth. The boots are worked in one piece and then joined along the back of the cuff and the middle of the sole.
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Sterling Smith, a Chapel Hill product, scored the first goal of her career Tuesday night to lift No. 9 North Carolina to a 1-0 victory over UNC Greensboro before 2,387 fans at Fetzer Field.
Playing their third game in five days, the Heels were "strung out physically," according to Coach Anson Dorrance. They didn't score until the 59th minute against UNCG.
"I'm excited we gutted out the win," said Dorrance. "Our freshmen are outstanding and they are getting better. We have our positions in the lineup figured out, but we need to get everybody back from their national team commitments and the injuries we are working through."
Playing in her home debut, Smith is one of the most unheralded players in Carolina's freshman class, arguably the best in the country. Two of the best freshmen -- Tobin Heath and Casey Nogueira -- are playing for the USA at the Under-20 World Championship.
- Tar Heel Robyn Gayle also missed the UNCG game. She was with the Canada national team that tied France, 2-2, on Tuesday in Dieppe, France. Gayle was one of three Canadians who missed the start of the 2006 college season to travel to France for the two-game tour. Also absent were Nebraska's Brittany Timko and Princeton's Diana Matheson, both Soccer America Preseason All-American selections. Florida's Melanie Booth and Portland recruit Sophie Schmidt, who joined the Canadian seniors after playing at the U-20 World Championship, are red-shirting in 2006. Canada, which will attempt to qualify for the 2007 Women's World Cup at this fall's Gold Cup, is loaded with former U.S. collegians, notably 2005 Player of the Year Christine Sinclair. The Dieppe game was Canada's fourth in 10 days. It also tied China, 0-0 and 1-1, and beat France, 1-0.


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In line with the launch of the Philippine Digital Literacy for Women Campaign, we are inviting everyone in the telecentre.org community to be online on March 2, 2011, from 11:30 am - 12:00 noon (GMT +08:00) and join us in supporting the launch ceremonies of the campaign.
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While bidding for the Games the projected cost was £280m but since then the figure has risen by more than 77%, the new ODA chairman John Armitt said.
He said "inflation, VAT, legacy conversions and earthworks" had resulted in the escalation in expenses.
The budget for the Games was increased to £9.3bn by the government in March.
Costs 'in line'
Addressing London Assembly members on Wednesday, Mr Armitt said: "To suggest that the costs have doubled from the bid book represents a grossly misleading figure for the public.
"This figure represents a 2012 outturn cost which includes inflation, VAT, legacy conversion and earthworks.
"The bid figure was a 2004 figure which all the bidding cities were asked to give. Insofar as a comparison can be made with the bid book the figures are broadly in line," he said.
The designs for the 80,000-seat stadium will be unveiled later this month, he said.
After the Games the stadium will be scaled down to accommodate 25,000 people.
He went on to add that the final cost of building the 20,000-seat aquatic centre, which will include a wave-shaped roof, is still not clear.
"I'm not sure where we are going to finish up... the important thing is that it does the job that is required."
The bidding document said the aquatic centre would cost £75m to construct.
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A June 8 letter writer (Budgeting 2011) claimed that, "Democrat Governor Mark Dayton did not propose a budget." He was incorrect. First of all, Minnesota Statute 16A.11 requires the governor to submit a budget to the legislature. Secondly, Governor Dayton presented his budget Feb. 15. The press release can be found at www.mn.gov/governor/newsroom/archives. Lastly, a complete copy of the budget itself can be found at www.mmb.state.mn.us/gov-bill-11.
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A century stand by Johann Myburgh and Shanan Stewart played State Championship leaders Canterbury Wizards back in to contention after Tim McIntosh's double hundred for Auckland Aces.
McIntosh's second career double hundred steered Auckland Aces into a strong position against State Championship leaders Canterbury Wizards at Eden Park.
The former Wizards left-hander made 268 in Auckland's 469 batting first.
Auckland's new ball bowlers then backed up McIntosh's efforts with three quick wickets, but Johann Myburgh's half-century brought his side back into contention.
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This week we've seen a string of record-high temperatures in the Portland metro area, and the upcoming weekend is forecast to be even hotter. For most of the city, heat waves are a temporary discomfort, but for frail, home-bound seniors without air conditioning, persistent high temperatures pose a life-threatening risk.
Portland's Meals on Wheels People serves this vulnerable community through nutritional assistance and socialization and they're asking community members to donate cooling fans to help help keep these seniors cool in the oppressive heat. Fans can dropped off at their headquarters at 7710 SW 31st Ave in Portland or at any of their 32 meal sites in Multnomah, Washington and Clark counties.
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Several years ago, my parents went to Scotland, where Mom was born. Mom asked Dad to re-create the scones they had on the trip. Mom agrees eating these is like being back in Scotland!—Art Winter, Trumbull, Connecticut
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 cup cold butter, cubed
- 1 cup raisins
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 1 egg white
- Additional sugar
- 1. In a bowl, combine dry ingredients. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in raisins and buttermilk just until moistened. Turn onto a floured surface; knead gently 6-8 times. Pat into an 8-in. circle and cut into 12 wedges. Place 1 in. apart on a greased baking sheet. Beat egg white until foamy; brush over scones. Sprinkle with sugar. Bake at 425° for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Yield: 1 dozen.
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The last time we went for a nature walk, we came back with tons of 'finds' or 'harvest' as Pari and I like to call! We were going wild with ideas for what to do or create with our nature collection.
One of the ideas that really struck a chord was to make a 5 senses nature sensory box! This idea sprung from the 'Garden of Five Senses' here in Delhi that we've visited often.
Actually, I'd been wanting to convert our big square balcony into a five senses playscape for Pari. And, I'm getting there, too, step by step. (more on that later)
But in the meantime, this 5 senses box is meant to be a bonus – to bring nature indoors and play with.
Besides, the whole process of putting it together has been very joyful and soothing for Pari and me.
(You might wonder about that mehendi/henna on her arm! Well – she's very fond of it and wants me to apply not just on her palms but on full arms. Quite a task it is! Even so – good for me – 'cuz I LOVE applying mehendi to others; on my own hands, too, but then I don't have the patience to let it dry for couple of hours!)
So, we first laid all our finds on a big tray and sifted through the piles and piles of dried fruits and flowers of the Casuarina trees (Whistling Pine or River She Oak), dry leaves, twigs, feathers and other nature's elements.
Then, we sorted them into trays and bowls.
Next, we got a large box and laid it on the floor.
This process was where we let the creative juices flow. I told Pari that we're going to create a garden in the box, which would enable her to play using all five senses.
We talked a little about the five senses and how each plays a role in helping us experience things.
These are some of the things we used to explore each of the sensory pleasure.
Sight – we tried making the whole thing as beautiful and colourful as possible. Pari brought out her princess cut-outs and decided to make the garden a home for her princesses!
I told you, she's riding the princess wave of her childhood at this time!
We found a gorgeous peacock in our scrap box, which we'd made long time back (from card stock).
Pari also placed a toy princess, queen and king to complete her princess family.
Smell – Rose petals, lavendar sachet – we wanted to make it aromatic and invigorating in a gentle way. Not overpowering.
- We used some flax seeds to play with for their silky smooth texture, bulk and sand-like flow
- These flax seeds were not edible any more because they had turned rancid just a few days after I bought from the store. (obviously, they were not stored well in the grocery store).
- I would like to mention here that I'm very conscious about using food items for play purpose. I use them sparingly.
- We've used this batch of flax seeds over and over again
- Before Pari wants to play, I keep them in the refrigerator for a while so they turn cold and feels really rejuvenating to touch
- So, the flax seeds you see in this box are super cold – another sensory experience besides the ticklish flowy texture of the seeds themselves
- The pleasure a child feels when the seeds run between the fingers make them do this back and forth
- We also added other elements to enhance the sense of touch – lace, dry pods, leaves and feathers – to tickle and giggle!
Hear – I added couple of tin lids (of used glass jars) – to strike against each other and peculiar sounds, a small box filled with beads – to shake; some shells – for some clunky sounds. Even the flax seeds make a gentle rhythmic music as if sand flowing under waves!
Taste – Okay, yes – we included this part, too! Pari wanted to add tid bits from some cake decoration stuff that we got a while back.
I don't ever use any icing or flavoured and coloured decorations for my cake but when Pari bakes with me, she likes to make it fancy, So we got a small bottle of those colourful stars some time back. Goes without saying – she couldn't resist popping in her mouth when playing in the sensory box!
Not just Pari, even I couldn't resist myself from playing with this five senses nature box that afternoon.
Pari played with it the whole day and late into evening.
Couple of days back, my niece – Sarah, was here, and she was pretty curious about this sensory box. She seemed hesitant initially but soon I could see that she was eager to explore it bit by bit.
Toward the end, she grabbed a fistful of the flax seeds and regaled in 'pouring' it into the box standing upright! My sis-in-law (bhabhi) sighed that my floor was getting messy but I told her not to worry.
This mess is nothing when I compare the delight on the face of these little ones! Nothing gives me as much joy as watching them play unrestrained and fancy-free! And, sensory play is one such that invites them to engage whole heartedly.
This is the 3rd part of my series on nature and kids and how to connect the two. Read the previous articles in this series.
This '50+ ideas to enjoy nature' article has become the most popular article on my blog – ever – inviting thousands of readers since last week! Thank you to all of you who read, commented and shared. :-)
And, the first one in the series –
- Water Bead Sea-side Sensory Tub at The Imagination Tree
- Montessori-inspired sensory boxes at Living Montessori Now
- Snow Dough Sensory Box at Chasing Cheerios
- Pebbles Sensory Play at The Imagination Tree
- Fall sensory Bin at Living Life Intentionally
- Our Spiritual Nature Table


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California wraps up 5 AA crown
On senior night at California Tuesday, the Trojans earned the outright Section 5 AA title by drubbing Beth-Center, 83-44.
It is California's first section championship since the 2007-2008 season.
The game started out tight, with the teams tied at 6-6 with 3:45 remaining in the first period. The Trojans (18-2, 13-0) went on a 15-0 run to finish the quarter up 21-6. Senior Jared Marinos led the Trojans with nine points in the quarter, all on 3-pointers. Marinos would finish the game with 12 points.
California coach Phil Pergola went with his seniors exclusively in the first quarter.
"I think they are a special group of kids, those seniors," Pergola said. "Three of them have been with me since I moved up here (1,000-point scorers Brian Fisher and Tanner Huffman, along with Evan Patterson) when they were going into the fourth grade."
All six seniors scored in the game. The other two are Mike McKula and Kyle Newman.
The Trojans opened the second quarter with an 8-2 run to push the lead to 29-8. Beth-Center (9-10, 5-7) kept pace for the rest of the quarter, going into halftime down 40-18.
California's Fisher and Huffman paced a third-quarter run, pushing the lead to 57-30 going into the fourth. Fisher ended the game with 24 points and Huffman added 16.
With 3:18 left in the game and the Trojans up 69-39, Fisher and Huffman saw their last action on the California hardwood.
Pergola knew the section championship was assured.
"I think the kids worked hard all year to get to where they are," he said. "Now, you'd like to finish up with a victory on Friday (against Charleroi)."
Beth-Center had two players in double figures, Dean Holt with 15 and Cody Durant with 14.
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Is it even advisable to change all your passwords at one time? Are there any risks involved in changing all your passwords at one time? If you do this regularly, does this mean you need to get a life?
Based on a brief review of the literature (in other words, a short Google search), there does not appear to be a lot written about changing all your passwords at one time. In one of its knowledge base articles, Microsoft points out that you should "Change your passwords regularly. This can help keep criminals and other malicious users unaware. The strength of your password will help keep it good for a longer time. A password that is shorter than 8 characters should be considered good only for a week or so, while a password that is 14 characters or longer (and follows the other rules outlined above) can be good for several years." Now there is an interesting thought, not changing passwords for several years. Quite a bit different from the concept of changing all your passwords at once and, on top of that, doing it regularly throughout the year.
One thing appears to be clear: The better the quality of the password, the longer its useful life. For example, if you intend to log on to a site only one time and are absolutely not willing to provide any confidential information, then a short password to get you through the door will do. Even a six-character password will take hackers hours or more to break with most technologies. Long before that happens, you will be off the site, never to return.
On the other hand, passwords for confidential corporate, client, customer, and personal financial information should clearly be the best possible. My primary personal bank allows me 20 characters, using all but the special characters. I use all 20. After all, if you are using password management software to create and manage your secure log-ins, then long, randomly generated passwords will be no more difficult to create and use than short ones. And oh, by the way, if you intend to change your passwords regularly, remember that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Exactly how long has it been since you changed your most secure passwords?
If you are not using password management software, you are not using secure passwords nor are you administering them securely. There is really nothing else to say on this topic.
My guess (based on teaching contacts with thousands of accountants each year) is that you probably need to change all your passwords at one time, and that that time is now. A fresh start is always available in this game. Starting fresh forgives all the sins of lack of due diligence with respect to managing passwords in the past. Now all those poorly managed passwords (ones written in a little black book and placed in file drawer 2, weak ones, reused ones, and the list goes on) no longer work.
I do have an opinion on whether or not you should make a regular wholesale change of all your passwords, but I don't intend to publish it until someone responds. If you want to hear my voice, you must speak up.
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David Coe was in Monte Carlo several years ago when he had a chance encounter with a movie star who questioned his financial acumen.
The former Allco boss was approached by
Zeta Jones, who had snared the same photo plus 11 others for a mere $45,000, cheekily asked: "Coey, [South African billionaire] Johann Rupert tells me you're meant to be good with numbers. What happened there?"
Coe did not get a chance to respond. Instead, another powerful friend, DaimlerChrysler boss Juergen Schrempp, piped up and said: "Catherine, I can assure you he is – probably the best, but he is certainly the most generous man I have ever met."
Coe is then said to have chuckled and shouted the bar as he always did.
Coe, 58, had his final adventure in the week while skiing in Aspen, Colorado. A heart attack while on the slopes took his life and has left the business community in shock.
While he was the figurehead in the 2008 collapse of Allco Finance Group, tarnishing a spectacular career, no one can argue Coe was good with numbers. Until the crash.
His debt-fuelled rise delivered fabulous returns but when the markets collapsed in 2008 he had no parachute.
But what a ride it was. Sydney-born Coe was part of an elite group of Australians that changed the way companies around the world finance the acquisition of planes, ships and other assets.
He helped pioneer a complex but incredibly profitable form of structured financing that put Allco, Macquarie and Babcock & Brown on the world business stage, while earning them vast amounts of money along the way.
Like Babcock's Phil Green and Macquarie's Allan Moss, Coe was a financial wizard who knew how to navigate cross-border tax structures and juggle debt and equity to create attractive capital structures.
This was all done in the 1980s and '90s when debt was cheap and years before the global credit crisis, which destroyed Allco and Babcock, although the aircraft-leasing model remains successful.
Former colleagues say part of Coe's magic was an ability to master all aspects of a deal, from identifying an opportunity to creating the right capital structure and then finding the right investors.
"He had an incredible intellectual capacity and an incredible commercial capacity. He could identify an opportunity in a market and structure it in such a way that it was commercially feasible. But to get a deal done you need a bunch of other characteristics. He had integrity and charm in bucket loads and people just wanted to do business with him. Simple as that," says close friend and business partner Greg Woolley.
Woolley, the friend who told the Zeta-Jones story, spent 15 years working with Coe on aircraft leasing deals and headed the investment committee behind a controversial bid for
Coe was a good investor and a brilliant financier, two very different skills crucial when dealing with the size and complexity of aviation and shipping transactions, Woolley says.
Infrastructure Australia chairman Rod Eddington, who was on the Allco board, says Coe wowed the aviation industry with an approach to aircraft leasing that became the industry model the world over.
"Coey was innovative. He was talking to airlines around the world and he truly understood the industry. He was known and respected by airline people in many parts of the world," says Eddington, who first met Coe in the early 1990s when he was running Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific.
"He was not only terrific at putting the structures in place but his judgement on aircraft types and airlines was very sound as well."
The aircraft leasing model was at the core of Allco's success up until its collapse, and was fundamental to the growth of many airlines in the 1980s and '90s.
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Under the model, Coe would offer to take aircraft off an airline's balance sheet and gear the assets at 50-70 per cent. That meant the cost of capital fell materially without forcing a listed airline to take on huge amounts of debt, something shareholders did not like.
Allco picked up a healthy transaction fee along the way.
Coe's relationships were also key to these deals. He was close to former Qantas chief
Australia was the unlikely world leader when it came to structured financing. The experts in the field, which included Coe mentor and Rams founder
"Australia ended up being a hub for creativity in structured finance as strong competition raised the bar," Coe said in a 2005 interview.
Woolley attributes Australia's success to the personalities involved.
"They were larrikin Aussies going out into the world. The straight-laced European financing community found David incredibly charming and fun to be around," he says.
"Some of the relationships David established, particularly in the European shipping markets throughout the '90s, with pretty dour Swedish and German financiers, were longstanding and quite remarkable".
Kinghorn, who had already set the wheels in motion that helped Allco tackle a string of deals in the '80s and '90s, plucked Coe from his legal career at Mallesons Stephen Jacques in Sydney in 1986 and eventually handed over the reins at Allco.
While Kinghorn was the early pioneer, Coe took financial engineering to a global level. Allco established offices in New York and London, and joined Macquarie and Babcock in reaping huge rewards from a boom in structured financing from the mid-1990s.
In the same manner that Kinghorn mentored Coe, the Allco boss identified the late Phil Griffin at a young age for running the British business, and he became a world leader in shipping finance.
The secret behind the financing structures was the use of debt and equity and taking advantage of complex cross-border taxation structures. This ability, partly driven by Coe's legal background, reduced borrowing costs by using legislative frameworks in other countries.
The results were spectacular.
Allco, Babcock and Macquarie were expanding globally throughout the 1990s. Coe made a lot of personal investments and channelled a large portion of his earnings into philanthropy and art.
It all came crashing down after the Lehman collapse in 2008. Like Babcock, Allco collapsed, owing more than $1 billion. As chairman, Coe bore the brunt of criticism over one of Australia's most high-profile corporate collapses.
Some investors say the use of vast amounts of debt and the complexities of the finance structures caught up with him in the end. Those close to him say he never shirked responsibility for Allco's problems, and he personally lost a fortune.
In recent years, Coe was well and truly back in the game. He teamed up with Dixon and others in 2010 to buy an aircraft leasing business run by Woolley, which was later sold for a healthy return.
More recently, he teamed up with
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Jean Bucher brewery
Jean Bucher brewery, located in Germany's rheinhessen region.
Michael Boucher's head is deeply profound art, in the brewery exhibited paintings and sculptures everywhere, exudes a museum-like atmosphere in the whole.
Also said every famous artist party labels, wine itself has become his artistic work.
Attracts people who drink wine produced under such emotional, classy and refined his.
Who loves art, Jean Bucher Brewery's head Michael, Boucher said.
German wine Guide "Gault Millau" magazine The winged Jean Boucher page
"Every famous artist has commissioned the design label. Besides design embossed on the metal engraving, along with many paintings and sculptures presented in the cellar of the old wooden barrels.
Wine quality is matched by its shining gift. Energized by the participation of Mr. ケラーマイ star, ヨーヘン, ドゥリュック, where the wine is and betray the expectations of consumers for several years. 」
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In the aromatic charming! Sweet liqueur wine red top! No bitterness at all different now made from two types of grapes, is a red wine with enough sweetness.
Sign Wine of Jean Boucher said, Liqueur version of sleeping beauty.
It is a blend of sweet varieties red compound species are said to spread dark and bright berry aromas, mild bitterness in Germany featuring the most successful ドルンフェルダー and native to Italy, not only as little as 700 stock planted in Germany ローゼンムスカテラー.
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The 2012 World Pork Expo (WPX) is less than a month away, and even though the days are jam packed, there is a set of business seminars worth noting.
The dates for this year's event are June 6 through June 8. Presented by the National Pork Producers Council, WPX takes place at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines Iowa.
Along with Pork Academy seminars, brought to you by the National Pork Board, there are educational opportunities in the form of company-sponsored Business Seminars. All take place within the Varied Industries Building.
Here's a look at this year's Business Seminar Lineup:
Wednesday, June 6
9:30-10:15 a.m. Medicating groups of pigs: What weight of pig do we treat?
Sponsored by: Merck Animal Health; Tim Kniffen, D.V.M., M.S., technical services manager, Merck Animal Health. This presentation will incorporate aspects of the always eagerly anticipated elements of statistics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, & pig weights to evaluate the dose of antimicrobial pigs in a group receive when they are all medicated with the same dose of an antimicrobial.
10:15-11:00 a.m. Factors affecting safe and effective vaccination
Sponsored by: Merck Animal Health; Jack Creel, D.V.M., technical services manager, Merck Animal Health
This presentation will review vaccine handling, environment, immune status and other factors affecting proper vaccination of growing pigs.
11:00-11:45 a.m. Deworming options for optimal herd performance
Sponsored by: Merck Animal Health; Jamie Lehman, D.V.M., technical services manager, Merck Animal Health. This presentation will review an ongoing problem of internal parasites, how they affect immune function, health and performance, and how to diagnose and treat.
Noon-2:30 p.m. Business seminar luncheon
Sponsored by: National Pork Checkoff; Free lunch provided at Noon; speakers begin at 12:30 p.m.
Elwynn Taylor, Ph.D., Iowa State University: Weather outlook. Steve Meyer, M.S., Paragon Economics: Economic outlook.
3:00-4:00 p.m. Feeding for 30 — sow nutrition forum
Sponsored by: Land O'Lakes Purina Feed LLC and Zinpro Corporation; Where does nutrition fit in achieving 30 pigs per sow per year? Dr. Gawain Willis, director of nutritional services, Land O'Lakes Purina Feed LLC
Can you achieve 30 pigs weaned per sow per year? Is it real or just another buzzword concept? The challenge is far greater than genetic selection alone. Maternal nutrition is important in creating and supporting large litters profitably. If a sow is "producing for 30," shouldn't we be "feeding for 30"?
Join the Feeding for 30 discussion to learn from a panel of fellow sow producers and expert nutritionists on:
* Sow nutrition: catching-up with genetic progress
* Birth weight: where is it today and what it tells us about lifetime performance
* Economics and 30 pigs per sow, per year
* Key benchmarks to hit the target
Thursday, June 7
9:30-11:00 a.m. Improve your manure from the pit up
Sponsored by: SFP; Dave Schwartz, SFP, vice president of sales and business development
Learn how you can Improve Your Manure from the Pit Up by adding a revolutionary product called More Than Manure (MTM). On-farm research has shown MTM increases the phosphorus and nitrogen availability of the manures you apply as fertilizer and on average farmers have seen a 13.9 bushel increase using MTM with liquid hog manure on corn. In addition to agronomic benefits, MTM has also shown a decrease in crusting and solids within the pit or lagoon and can also decrease the ammonia levels with the your confinement operation. Join us to learn how MTM can improve your manure from the pit up.
Noon-2:30 p.m. Business seminar luncheon
Sponsored by: National Pork Checkoff; Free lunch provided at Noon; speakers begin at 12:30 p.m.
Elwynn Taylor, Ph.D., Iowa State University: Weather outlook. Steve Meyer, M.S., Paragon Economics: Economic outlook
1:00-2:00 p..m. Managing your nutrition strategy to stay competitive?
Sponsored by: Cargill; Dr. Kevin Touchette, Ph.D. nutritionist
* Are you feeding the right ingredients at the right price?
* Are you managing the variation of the ingredients you are using?
* Are you using the best nutrition strategy for your business?
Please join us in discussions around our proven processes that translate available ingredients into nutrient supplies. Gain knowledge and confidence to see the difference in your animal performance and bottom line.
2:00-3:00 p.m. The role of Defusion in nursery pig diets with grains of different quality
Sponsored by: Akey; Douglas R. Cook, Ph.D. nutritionist. Please join us to review research with an exciting new technology to help manage pig performance in the face of quality-challenged and good quality grain. Gain knowledge and confidence to see the difference in your animal performance and bottom line.
3:00-4:00 p.m. Managing price risk in your pork system – New marketing tools for new times
Sponsored by: Cargill Pork Procurement and Cargill Risk Management; Terry Mahoney, marketing representative
* How to proactively manage market exposure in these ever-changing global markets.
* What plan is right for you?
* Alternative execution strategies that will help reduce capital when executing on your marketing plan.
Cargill Pork Procurement - We offer a variety of marketing opportunities for your pork system. Our Supply Managers will work with you to help you capture the best value for your system. Through our partnership with Cargill Risk Management, we can offer forward pricing options that no other packer has available today.
Cargill Risk Management - We offer proprietary price risk tools to food production systems by offering the tools to help them manage their margins, reduce market volatility, reduce investment, and reduce short-term capital needed to execute their plan.


text: SHANGHAI ( TheStreet) -- Chinese digital media group Focus Media Holding ( FMCN) swung to a profit during the third quarter, driven by a significant drop in expenses and higher revenue. For the quarter ended September 30, the company saw earnings of $112.7 million, or 76 cents per diluted share, compared with a loss of $127.6 million, or 99 cents per diluted share, in the same period a year ago. Earnings were well ahead of analyst estimates of 33 cents a share. Total operating expenses were down 32.6% to $46.7 million from $69.3 million. Revenue rose 39.8% to $137.4 million from $98.3 million during the quarter as the company saw strong gains in its LCD display network revenue. "In the third quarter of 2010, we managed to achieve record high combined LCD display network and in-store network revenue," chairman and CEO Jason Jiang said, "exceeding the last best performing quarter in the history of the company, the third quarter of 2008." LCD display network revenue, including the movie theater network, was up 48% to $82.9 million from $56 million as the total number of installed base of LCD displays in the company's network nationwide was 149,913, compared with 142,305 as of June 30, 2010. "In the third quarter of 2010, the Company achieved aggregate net revenue year on year growth in our LCD display, in-store and poster frame business of 45%, and quarter on quarter growth of 14%," CFO Kit Low said.


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The film will be set in 1915 Hollywood and directed by Quentin Tarantino's frequent collaborator Joe D'Augustine.
Details of a new "Django" movie are unraveled. Set in 1915, it stars original star Franco Nero as former gunslinger Django who is hired as a movie consultant in Hollywood. There he runs afoul of racketeers, forcing him to flee to a town policed by violent radicals who take influence from D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation".
Made on an estimated shoestring budget of $5 million, the film titled "Django Lives" will be directed by Joe D'Augustine, who previously worked with Quentin Tarantino in "Inglourious Basterds" and "Kill Bill". Mark Boone Junior, Noah Segan, and Tomas Milian are expected to join the cast ensemble.
The project was first announced last summer. Nero told The Hollywood Reporter that it would be "the final chapter in Django's story."
Italian actor Nero, now 72 years old, first starred as the titular cowboy in Sergio Corbucci's classic "Django" film released in 1966. Many other "Django" films led by someone other than Nero were released throughout the years. He then reprised his role in 1987's sequel "Django 2" directed by Nello Rossati.
A new generation of "Django" was later introduced by Tarantino in "Django Unchained" with Jamie Foxx starring as the male lead. In the 2012 spaghetti western film supported by Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio, Nero made a cameo appearance as an Italian Mandingo Fighter manager.
Tarantino himself is currently preparing for another western pic. Waltz and Bruce Dern are eyed to star in the film called "The Hateful Eight".


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