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The Xbox One requires an Internet connection. If that is a concern for you, Microsoft has some advice for you: stick with an Xbox 360! In an interview with Spike TV at the E3 show Tuesday, Xbox executive Don Mattrick responded to the complaints about the Xbox One's demand for an Internet connection. "Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity," Mattrick said. "It's called Xbox 360."
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What will the HP TouchPad's WebOS 3.0 operating system look like and be able to do? A leaked version of the WebOS 3.0 SDK offers a sneak peek of Hewlett-Packard's long-awaited media tablet.
PreCentral got its hands on a WebOS 3.0 Beta 1 emulator courtesy of "an awesome (and anonymous) tipster" and the site's Derek Kessler on Wednesday posted a video walkthrough of the UI and several applications running on the emulator (video below).
Kessler noted that the emulator runs on more powerful hardware than it will in the TouchPad, a Wi-Fi version of which is due out this summer, to be followed by 3G and 4G products later in the year. He also had to use a mouse to operate what will be a touch interface to run the demo.
So what's new? The "basic WebOS experience has not changed much as far as the app launching experience is concerned," Kessler noted, but there are some improvements like added flexibility in arranging icons on a page.
The virtual keyboard, accessed through a bar called "Just Type," has five character rows, adding a number row to the three QWERTY keyboard rows and spacebar row found on other tablets like the Apple iPad. Kessler's written report on Just Type and the WebOS 3.0 virtual keyboard has detailed accounts of various keyboard capabilities like working with multiple text boxes and switching between English, French and German character layouts.
Meanwhile, lovers of funny AutoCorrect-generated texting gaffes will be pleased to learn that WebOS 3.0 has added a text predictor to the Text Assist correction software introduced in WebOS 2.0.
Kessler also walks through the WebOS 3.0 Web browser, calendar, contacts, maps, messaging, e-mail, memos, QuickOffice, Exhibition, music, photo and video apps.
The final verdict?
"We see a lot of cool stuff in this emulator, and even if it's a work in progress right now, it still makes us feel all warm and fuzzy about the approaching launch of the TouchPad," Kessler wrote.
This article, written by Damon Poeter, originally appeared on PCMag.com and is republished on Gear Live with the permission of Ziff Davis, Inc.
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A noted historian and Kennedy Administration insider refutes the revisionist version of JFK's legacy.
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Yet Kennedy lives vigorously in memory. Television is a help. JFK's face and wit and eloquence are familiar even to schoolchildren. The dynastic effect is a help, too. The impact on American politics of his brother Robert in the 1960s and of his brother Edward in more recent times prolongs the Kennedy mystique. And, of course--and alas--the assassination also helps. Even JFK's detractors cannot deny the awful drama of a slain hero, a gallant career cut off in midstream, a life unfulfilled.
Memory soon becomes entwined with myth. Kennedy devotees cherish the idea of Camelot and its brief shining moments. Myth-making aside, many Americans remember Kennedy as the strong and purposeful president who saved the peace in the most dangerous moment of the Cold War, assumed leadership in the battle for racial justice, initiated the exploration of space, tapped the republic's latent idealism and inspired a generation with a passion for public service.
Still, as Emerson said, "Every hero becomes a bore at last." Myth breeds countermyth. Revisionist critics see Kennedy as charming but superficial, a triumph of style over substance, a politician more concerned with image than results, who talked big but accomplished little. In the darker side of the countermyth, Kennedy becomes a faithless husband and incorrigible philanderer, a reckless risk-taker in both private and public life, a bellicose president who ordered the assassination of foreign leaders, plunged the nation into the Vietnam morass, almost provoked a nuclear war with the Soviet Union and, between needless international crises, turned the White House into a bordello.
Myth versus countermyth? Public opinion polls show continuing popular admiration for Kennedy. In June 1997, John Zogby, the pollster who came the closest to forecasting the outcome of the 1996 election, asked a broad sample of Americans to rate twentieth-century presidents. JFK came in second, behind Franklin D. Roosevelt, but ahead of Truman, Reagan and Eisenhower.
Among historians, however, Kennedy's reputation has fluctuated madly since his death. When American Heritage magazine invited scholars in 1988 to name the single most overrated figure in American history, JFK got more votes than anyone else (Ronald Reagan came in second). One respondent summed up the revisionist case against Kennedy: "His public relations approach to the presidency was an almost total disaster for the nation....The revelations of his private life have added more tarnish to the once golden image."
More recently, there seems to have been a mild Kennedy revival. In 1996, continuing a practice begun by my father in 1948, I asked a select group of historians and political scientists to rate the American presidents. Kennedy came in 12th out of 41, following Eisenhower and John Adams and followed by Cleveland and Lyndon Johnson. He received nine votes in the "near great" category, 21 as "high average" and only one as "below average."
A much larger 1997 poll, conducted by William J. Ridings Jr. and Stuart B. McIver, surveyed 719 scholars. In that poll Kennedy came in 15th, following Monroe and John Adams, and followed by Cleveland and McKinley (Eisenhower was ninth, Lyndon Johnson, 12th). Ridings and McIver asked their group to make ratings in designated categories. Kennedy placed seventh in appointments, eighth in leadership qualities, 10th in political skill, 16th in accomplishments and crisis management, and 34th in character and integrity (recent presidents did not do well in this category--LBJ was 37th, Reagan 39th; perhaps earlier presidents benefit as character flaws fade in memory).
So the Kennedy argument goes on. The mystery remains. What kind of a president was Kennedy? Was he an idealist or a cynic? Was he an achiever or only a talker? Did he really like people or did he exploit and discard them? Was he reckless or was he circumspect? Was Camelot a reality or an illusion?
In considering such questions, I make no great claim to impartiality. I served in JFK's White House, and it was the most exhilarating experience of my life. Yet close observation of a president need not be a disqualification in writing about him. I did, after all, know Kennedy, and I knew him for many years. When he was president, I saw him in the daytime as a special assistant and in evenings as a friend. I saw him in good times and in bad. I may not be totally useless as a witness.
Let us first dispose of Camelot. JFK had gone to prep school and college with Alan Jay Lerner, and he liked the songs Lerner and Fredrick Loewe wrote for the popular 1960 musical. But no one when JFK was alive ever spoke of Washington as Camelot--and if anyone had done so, no one would have been more derisive than JFK. Nor did those of us around him see ourselves for a moment, heaven help us, as knights of the Round Table. Camelot was Jacqueline Kennedy's grieving thought a week after her husband was killed. Later she told John Kenneth Galbraith that she feared the idea had been overdone. For that matter, King Arthur's Camelot was hardly noted for marital constancy, and the Arthurian saga concluded in betrayal and death.
Then a word about the 1960 election. A current myth is that the Kennedys stole the election in Illinois and that Richard Nixon's finest hour was his patriotic refusal to shake the republic to its foundations by contesting the result. In fact, Illinois was not crucial to Kennedy's victory. Had he lost Illinois, Kennedy still would have won by 276 to 246 in the electoral college. And, if Mayor Richard Daley's men stole votes in Cook County, Republicans stole votes down- state. The state electoral board, 4-1 Republican, voted unanimously to certify the Kennedy electors.
An associated myth is that Joseph P. Kennedy made a deal in the winter of 1959-1960 with a Chicago gangster named Sam Giancana to use the Mafia and trade unions under Mafia control to turn out the Chicago vote for his son. The elder Kennedy, the story goes, was well acquainted with Mafiosi because he had been a bootlegger himself in Prohibition days 30 years before.
It is true that Kennedy was a whiskey importer in the 1930s, but that was after repeal and entirely legal. During Prohibition, he had worked first as a broker for Hayden Stone and thereafter as a Wall Street speculator on his own. In the mid-1920s, he bought into a chain of movie theaters and soon went into film production. When would he have had time to be a bootlegger? Why would he have run the risk when he could make money easily and legally in Wall Street and Hollywood?
The Founding Father, Richard Whalen's careful and critical 1964 biography, makes no such allegations, beyond noting that Joseph Kennedy produced Scotch for his classmates at their 10th Harvard reunion in 1922--hardly a damning incident. Professor Mark Haller of Temple University recently took the trouble of searching the comprehensive list of bootleggers in the intelligence files of the U.S. Coast Guard and found no mention of Joseph Kennedy. When Kennedy was up for Senate confirmation, first as a chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, then as chairman of the Maritime Commission, then as ambassador to the Court of St. James, no one suggested that he was an ex-bootlegger. Had he been one, he would not have been appointed or confirmed. Yet the bootlegger myth has become a staple of contemporary television shows and supermarket tabloids.
There are other curiosities about the tale. It is curious that the elder Kennedy should have asked the mob to work for his son months before John Kennedy had even won the nomination. It is still more curious that the father should have done so when the only big union influenced by the mob was the Teamsters Union--and the Teamsters, led by Robert Kennedy's mortal enemy, Jimmy Hoffa, were for Nixon. And it is most curious of all that a shrewd and experienced man like Joseph P. Kennedy should have regarded Sam Giancana and not Mayor Daley, the last of the great political bosses, as the key to politics in Chicago.
Giancana was hardly unknown to the Kennedy family. As counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee in 1958, Robert Kennedy had succinctly described Giancana as "chief gunman for the group that succeeded the Capone mob." Called before the committee, Giancana declined to answer questions on the grounds that his answers might tend to incriminate him--and giggled as he declined. Robert Kennedy said bitingly, "I thought only little girls giggled, Mr. Giancana." At the very time the elder Kennedy was supposedly recruiting Giancana for John Kennedy's campaign, Robert Kennedy, in his book The Enemy Within, published in February 1960, was portraying his father's supposed ally in the most scorching and contemptuous way.
Fifteen months after Giancana giggled before the Rackets Committee, the Central Intelligence Agency in its wisdom signed him up in a plot to murder Fidel Castro. The Mafia had flourished in Havana under the indulgent dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, but Castro, when he came to power in 1959, closed its gambling casinos and whorehouses and drove the mobsters from Cuba. This gave the Mafia, as the CIA necromancers saw it, the motives and the contacts to do the dirty deed without implicating the United States government.
Recruiting the Mafia was a decision made by the Eisenhower administration, not, as it is often said, by the Kennedy administration. In September 1960, a CIA operative met with mobsters to work out the details. In October, the CIA installed Giancana and another mobster, John Rosselli, in the Kennilworth Hotel in Miami, offering $150,000 for Castro's assassination. All this took place months before Kennedy was inaugurated.
There is no evidence that the gangsters did much to earn their pay. Giancana bragged to a friend that they were "conning the hell out of the CIA." But working for the CIA, he no doubt believed, would insure him against federal prosecution. Up to a point he was right. While he was plotting away in Miami, he feared that his girl, singer Phyllis McGuire, might be carrying on with comedian Dan Rowan in faraway Las Vegas. He asked the CIA to put an illegal wiretap in Rowan's room. The CIA obliged; the wiretap was discovered; the CIA, claiming that the case involved national security, brought intense pressure on the Department of Justice to stop prosecution.
There is more to the Giancana story. In the course of the 1960 campaign, Frank Sinatra, a pal of Giancana's, introduced John Kennedy to an attractive young woman named Judith Campbell. Though her later claims were contradictory and her story escalates with each telling, it seems that their affair extended into his presidency. She also had an affair with Giancana. How much did she tell Giancana about Kennedy? Did the Mafia have the power to blackmail the president?
If Giancana ever had anything on the president, it did not save him from Robert Kennedy's crusade against organized crime. Had Giancana really made that mythical secret deal with Joseph P. Kennedy, he would certainly have used it on his own behalf when the feds were hot on his trail. Instead, his future was round-the-clock FBI surveillance, federal indictments and a year in prison.
A question remains about JFK and women. His sexual waywardness does not constitute John Kennedy's finest hour. But exaggeration is possible. Some today believe that there was an unending procession of bimbos through Kennedy's White House and that the Washington press corps covered up for Kennedy because newspapermen liked him and because, under the civilized rules of the day, a politician's private life was considered his own business.
Vague rumors about JFK did waft about Washington from time to time, but, as one who worked in the White House, I never saw anything untoward. Kennedy was ahard-working fellow, concentrating intently on the problems at hand. At no point in my experience did his preoccupation with women (apart from Caroline crawling around the Oval Office) interfere with his conduct of the public business.
Lest this ignorance be attributed to the invincible innocence of a college professor, let me call another witness, that hard-bitten reporter, Ben Bradlee, then head of the Newsweek bureau in Washington, in later years the brilliant editor of The Washington Post. Bradlee was not only at the center of Washington news gathering; he was also Kennedy's closest friend in the press. "It is now accepted history," Bradlee writes in his 1995 memoir, A Good Life, "that Kennedy jumped casually from bed to bed with a wide variety of women. It was not accepted history then...[I was] unaware of this proclivity during his lifetime."
Who can really know about anyone else's sex life? Unless one of the partners talks, or compromising letters turn up, or a third person is in the bedroom (an unlikely circumstance), no one can be certain what may have gone on between consenting adults--which does not prevent sensation-mongers writing with sublime certitude about the private lives of famous people.
Nor can outsiders ever pronounce on the inwardness of a marriage. My own impression, shared by others from the Kennedy White House, is that JFK, for all his adventures, always regarded Jacqueline with genuine affection and pride. Their marriage never seemed more solid than in the later months of 1963.
The argument is made that recklessness in private life leads to recklessness in public affairs. But history shows no connection between private morality and public conduct. Martin Luther King Jr., for example, had wayward sexual habits but was all the same a tremendous moral force for his people and his nation. On the other hand, Pol Pot of Cambodia was apparently a faithful family man. All he did was murder hundreds of thousands of his countrymen.
There is much merit in a suggestion made during the 1884 presidential election. Grover Cleveland, a reform mayor of Buffalo and reform governor of New York, was exposed as the father of an illegitimate child, while his opponent, James G. Blaine, though complicit in a railroad scandal--the once-notorious Mulligan letters--was a devoted family man and devout churchgoer. "We are told," said one commentator, "that Mr. Blaine has been delinquent in office but blameless in private life, while Mr. Cleveland has been a model of official integrity, but culpable in his personal relations. We should therefore elect Mr. Cleveland to the public office which he is so well qualified to fill, and remand Mr. Blaine to the private station which he is admirably fitted to adorn."
In Kennedy's case, the argument that private recklessness leads to public recklessness is invoked to explain the Bay of Pigs and the CIA assassination plots against Fidel Castro. But these were initiatives of the Eisenhower administration, not of the Kennedy administration, and no one has accused Ike of a reckless private life, at least since the Second World War.
The Bay of Pigs is one of the celebrated disasters of American history. One scholar called it "the perfect failure." In their last meeting, the day before Kennedy's inauguration, Eisenhower urged the president-elect to go full speed ahead against Cuba. Allen Dulles, then head of the CIA, told Kennedy that he was much more confident about success than he had been about the CIA overthrow of the Arbenz regime in Guatemala seven years earlier.
When Dulles detected inadequate enthusiasm on Kennedy's part, he emphasized what he called "the disposal problem." What would happen to the 1,200 Cubans whom the CIA had been training for months in Central America? They would wander about the hemisphere, saying that the great United States, after preparing an expedition against Castro, had lost its nerve under a new president. Kennedy well understood that Dulles was warning him against the political fallout in the United States as well should a former naval lieutenant j.g. dare to veto an operation organized and recommended by the supreme commander of the greatest amphibious landing in history.
Kennedy was trapped. He also may have felt, after his recent victory, that he was on a roll. If brave Cuban exiles wanted to free their land from a dictator, why not give them the means to try their luck? Allen Dulles had assured him that the invasion would set off uprisings behind the line and defections from Castro's militia and that, if things went badly, the invaders could easily escape into the Escambray Mountains. Kennedy made it clear, however, that the Cuban brigade could not expect the Marines to intervene if the invasion faltered.
Much has been made of Kennedy's cancellation of a second air strike--too much; for a second strike would still have left 1,200 anti-Castro Cubans facing 200,000 of Castro's men. Richard Bissell, the CIA planner, later wrote that "even in the best scenario"--even if the second strike had not been canceled and Castro's planes had not been free to sink the supply ships--"the brigade might not necessarily have established and held the beachhead." There were none of Dulles's uprisings or defections, and impassable swamps and jungles, it turned out, cut off the Escambray Mountains from the beachhead.
The Bay of Pigs was indeed a perfect failure. It was also an effective, if expensive, education. Having supposed that the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff knew their business, the president now understood that they didn't. Thereafter he had no hesitation in rejecting their advice. "If it hadn't been for Cuba," Kennedy told me a month after the Bay of Pigs, "we might be about to intervene in Laos." Flourishing a sheaf of cables that the JCS chairman had sent from Laos, he added, "I might have taken this advice seriously."
"The first advice I'm going to give my successor," he told Ben Bradlee, "is to watch the generals and to avoid feeling that just because they were military men their opinions on military matters were worth a damn."
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HOUSTON - The latest "singles scene" dating craze has hit Houston. Pheromone parties are already somewhat regular fare in places like New York and Los Angeles, but it wasn't until recently, Houston Social Source hosted what they claim to be the first such rendezvous in Houston.
The idea is that some living creatures emit perceptible but not fully understood signals to potential mates. These invisible biological calling cards are called pheromones.
So recently, at Noveau Antique Bar near Midtown, men and women of all ages were invited to bring a well-worn and unwashed T-shirt with them. Those providing a T shirt also had a chance to smell other participants' T-shirts. Supposedly, the pheromones would take over at that point and love connections would ensue.
"We didn't like our matches, so we called it a night," Valerie Novy, a participant said.
In fact, we witnessed only one mutual connection by the end of the night of the more than 100 who attended. Perhaps, the true goal was just to do something different, something weird, and have some fun.
"It's just bizarre and strange and I don't really care if there is any science behind it or not," said Joanna Klein, another participant.
"There is science behind it," said Amber Neal, a professional matchmaker and event promoter.
Neal said the science behind human pheromones is in textbooks and known around the world, but the real idea behind pheromone parties is to meet new people and have fun.
Good thing she has not met Dr. Samuel Kaplan, a microbiologist, at the University Texas, Houston Medical School.
"There could be real reasons, chemical reasons why someone might find someone's T-shirt pleasurable, but nobody has provided definitive proof that human pheromones exist," Kaplan said.
Kaplan said a variety of creatures, including dogs, use pheromones to send mating signals, but he has yet to be convinced humans use the same system.
If you find someone you like during one of these parties, does it really matter?
"No, bottom line is it sure doesn't," Kaplan acknowledged.
http://www.thehoustonsocialsource.com/ hosted the pheromone party and provides Houston area singles with various opportunities to try something new.
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By PETER VECSEY
November 16, 2007 -- FOR over a month now, in fact, within days after James Dolan and Isiah Thomas got posterized in a court of law by Anucha Browne-Sanders, Charles Dolan, the brains that created Cablevision, began showing up at Madison Square Garden twice a week for meetings that lasted four or five hours at a time.
Before then I'd never seen the old man, not once," said a veteran Garden employee.
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No, not the security guard James Dolan recently threatened to fire for failing to open the car gate quickly enough.
And, no, not the security guard James Dolan verbally bullied because a delivery truck had parked too close to his parking spot.
In any event, the father's commanding presence was an incontrovertible sign the son, at long last, was being held accountable in some manner for years of wretched management and unseemly executive-on-down behavior that's polluted the organization's atmosphere and compelled even many hardcore fans to turn away in disgust.
In conversations with the father and the son, one can only hope and pray David Stern warned, unless sanity and decorum is restored overnight, some form of eminent domain would be declared; how much longer can he tolerate this fungus among us?
If only the NBA commissioner wielded the power to take over temporary control of the Knicks; first move, reinstate former Garden president Bob Gutowski as their caretaker; then fire Isiah Thomas as president and coach.
Even with James Dolan still in charge, I was fairly convinced Thomas' termination was going to happen Wednesday night following the Knicks' loss to the Clippers in LA - their fifth in seven games -or yesterday.
I continue to believe it could occur before tonight's game with the Kings in Sacramento (a halfway suitable replacement must be unearthed), and I'm not the only one.
The same source who tipped me off the Knicks had decided to buy out Larry Brown called to say Thomas had informed him Dolan was coming out west (a team official branded it inaccurate) to see him and sensed he was in severe job jeopardy.
Then again, that just might be wishful thinking. A couple Knick players and at least one staff member get the distinct impression Thomas wants to be fired and is going to extremes (I offer for evidence the bizarrely stained, even for Isiah, Stephon Marbury misadventure) to give Dolan no other choice.
Since Thomas' reputation is unredeemable and the players appear unreachable the gameplan - regardless whether it's conscious or subconscious - may very well be to get emotional relief, distance himself and his family from pervasive ridicule, take the severance and burrow deep.
If true, as usual Thomas is so inept he can't even get himself fired. Nothing he does - coaching appointments, trades, free agent signings, buyouts in the hundreds of millions of dollars - works. Even drafting Renaldo Balkman so high backfired when it turned out he had game.
Nothing, not even the Browne-Sanders verdict, provoked James Dolan to do what was right and get rid of the persons (guaranteed Steve Mills is a lost Anucha appeal away from being evicted as Garden COO) responsible for making such a stink and not cleaning it up.
Optimist that I am, I believe Dolan is on the verge of fumigating the premises. What everyone wants to know is why he supports losers so long? Obviously, it's his compulsive repulsiveness; he gets attached to someone or something or an affliction and he holds on tight no matter how much it messes up his life, his business or his pleasure.
If Dolan can endure so much suffering, his attitude is probably, why should family, employees and patrons have a problem with it.
The other question we want answered is, if Thomas doesn't get bounced for making a fool out of the Knicks and himself for allegedly authorizing Steph Infection to miss the Suns game (Garden interns' skirts were at half-mast) and then playing him his normal 34 minutes against the Clippers, what must he do to get fired?
1. Refer to Mrs. Dolan as a nappy-headed ho."; 2. Grope any number of Rockettes ... twice; 3. Refinance the Garden with an adjustable rate mortgage; 4. Retire Latrell Sprewell's number; 5. Add OJ Simpson, gun drawn, as an assistant coach; 6. Take in Osama bin Laden as a border; 7. Run any future lineup changes through Tim Donaghy first; 8. Become a pitchman for DirecTV; 9. Use company letterhead to write Next Town Brown a letter of reference; 10. Testify alongside Marbury for Anucha at the appeal.


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Learn about the results of the LUMINA study and its implications for reducing racial disparities in lupus at a seminar conducted by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) in collaboration with the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) on May 17 at 2:00 – 3:30 PM. You can attend in-person at the National Institutes of Health or watch it live on your computer. LUMINA stands for LUpus in MInority populations NAture vs. nurture and is a multi-ethnic cohort study, initially funded by NIAMS.
The presentation, Impact of Ethnicity on the Course and Outcome of Lupus: Lessons from LUMINA, is being given by lead researcher Dr. Graciela S. Alarcón. The study is following 600 Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic patients to determine how different factors including genetics influence diagnosis, treatment and outcomes among patients with lupus from ethnic minority groups. In her presentation, Dr. Alarcón will discuss the impact of ethnic background on lupus, as shown by data from the LUMINA study. (Click here for abstract)
Lupus is two to three times more common in African American women than in Caucasian women and is also more common in women of Hispanic descent. African American and Hispanic women are also more likely to experience more severe disease symptoms.
The Lupus Research Institute has been working to alleviate racial disparities in lupus for over a decade. With our National Coalition of advocates from the state and local lupus organizations, identified the need for medical education on lupus and led the national effort on Capitol Hill. As a result of the LRI's aggressive advocacy efforts, a major report from the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the U.S. Congress documented the need for a comprehensive national provider health education program to help eliminate the barriers of racial disparities in the early medical diagnosis and treatment of lupus. Largely as a result of the LRI efforts, nearly $5 million has been allocated by the federal government to provide healthcare professionals with comprehensive training to be able to diagnose lupus promptly and treat appropriately. Called the Lupus Initiative, the education program is led by the Office of Minority Health in the federal Department of Health and Human Services in partnership with the U.S. Surgeon General and the Office of Women's Health.


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Today, new pre-order listings at BigBadToyStore.com give fans their first taste of new Thor toys, the following all scheduled for release this October and produced by Diamond Select. No pictures yet, but here's what's on tap (click each link to place a pre-order):Set one year after The Avengers,, Thor as he battles to save all the Nine Realms from a mysterious enemy older than the universe itself. However, a primeval race led by Malekith, who is out for revenge, intends to descend the universe into darkness. Confronted by an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot overcome, Thor must reunite with Jane Foster and set out on a dangerous journey that will force him to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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A Diamond Select Release! Sculpted by Gentle Giant! Actress Natalie Portman reprises her role as Dr. Jane Foster in Thor: The Dark World this fall, and Diamond Select Toys has teamed up with Gentle Giant to capture her on-screen look! Sculpted in a 7-inch scale with 16 points of articulation, the figure depicts Foster as she appears in the new film, with detailed sculpting and paint as well as an exacting likeness of Portman. The figure will come packaged with a detailed base that combines with Thor's to re-create a scene from the film. Comes in display-ready Select packaging, complete with side panel art.
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A Diamond Select Release! Designed and Sculpted by Art Asylum! The Mighty Avenger is back in a new movie from Marvel Studios, and DST has an all-new series of Marvel Minimates to go with it! The assortment includes four different two-packs, including Thor with Malekith, Loki with Heimdall, and two short-packed, specialty-exclusive sets: Selvig with a Dark Elf and Darcy with a Dark Elf. Each Minimate stands 2 inches tall and includes a variety of interchangeable parts and accessories.


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4.0 on March 05, 2012
The scones are out of this world! The owners and everything they do exceed our expectations every time! Tracy & Jeff VT
5 on August 06, 2011
I stayed four nights with my son in the Weaving Room. What a beautiful room! You will not find a room this nice for under $250 if you drove up the road to Meredith. Sandra, the Innkeeper, makes the best breakfast in town. You get your pick of two breakfast choices, one savory such as asparagus frittata, one sweet like banana-walnut pancakes. The scones are different every day -- blueberry, ginger pecan, maple walnut -- yummy! Add in the free wifi, air conditioning and lovely toiletries and you have a fantastic place. The location is great for the Lakes, mountains and theme parks. You will be happy you stayed here!
5 on February 26, 2010
I took my daughter skiing for the first time last winter, and this was the only place in the area that would allow a one night stay, apparently the other spots in the area don't like $$, and I am so glad they didn't, because it led us here. The room was spacious and clean, our host was fantastic, and the breakfast was delicious and got us ready for the slopes. Planning another trip in the next weeks for some spring skiing with NH finally getting some real snow.
5 on February 06, 2010
Our hosts made us feel right at home. Sandra's gourmet breakfasts are out of this world. The house is comfortable and beautifully appointed. We enjoyed our stay and will continue to return.
5 on December 24, 2009
My boyfriend and I were taking a mini vacation for a few days before the holidays and picked this Inn as one of our stops! We stayed in Lilla's room. We were greeted by the owners and their 2 adorable cats! (very friendly) Our room was gorgeous and very clean. The owners were laid back and friendly and made the most delicious breakfast. We had homemade rasberry scones and then we had eggs with smoked cheese over irish potatoes and virginia ham! It was perfect. We will be going back again! I highly recomend this place to couples who want a nice quiet place to stay. It is 15 minutes from Meredith, Nh where there is a ton of fun stuff to do!!!
4.0 on December 09, 2009
it was more than comfortable, the cook, the menu and the food are out of this world ... thank you and I will be back and I will recommd it ...
5 on November 18, 2009
We came from Germany, to see New York and Boston and to have a short stop for two days in Bristol, to enjoy the Indian Summer. Everything was great in the Henry Whipple House,especially the excellent breakfirst. Thank you so much, dear Sandra.
5 on October 26, 2009
We stayed in the "Guest" room and it had a lovely fireplace which was easy to use. Everything was gorgeous throughout the house with exquisite attention to detail and antiques. As for breakfast, I was blown away! The staff was extremely friendly and helpful also. (I managed to get the recipe for her homemade scones too!) Couldn't have asked for a better experience. And the final touch...the linens smelled like fresh almond paste. I don't know how they do it...
5 on October 24, 2009
This may be the best B&B we have experienced. Sandra is an excellent host and a great cook. Breakfast is something to look forward to! The home is very nice with well decorated rooms and many little extras like water/soda in the hall and almond hand soap. This is a good value with a great location.
5 on September 29, 2009
This inn has many antiques and two cats to great you. Everything was just perfect for our weekend get away.
5 on September 27, 2009
The Wipple House keeps getting better. Sandra is a wonderful host. The breakfasts are incredibly inventive.
5 on September 21, 2009
The Henry Whipple House was such a lovely place. Sandra, the proprietor, takes great care in making the Inn elegant, cozy and comfortable. She is a wonderful cook and a lot of fun to talk to as well. She also knows all the great trails in the area and recommended wonderful restaurants in the area. I highly recommend this B and B. I will be back again. Tell her hello for me.
5 on September 17, 2009
Had a great time at the Whipple House! Breakfast was extraordinary! Rooms were huge and comfortable! Really felt at home! Such a nice place to stay and everything was truly wonderful!
5 on August 18, 2009
We stayed 3 nights in this delightful bed and breakfast. The accommodatins were excellant. Breakfasts were gourmet and delicious, and we met such nice fellow travelers. Owners were very friendly and helpful. We highly recommend the Whipple House. Mickie and Jack
5 on February 17, 2009
We recently stayed two nights to go boarding at Ragged and XC skiing at Pinehill. The room was fantastic with the working fireplace. Breakfast was absolutely amazing. I had the best scrambled eggs of my life that Saturday morning. I highly recommend the Whipple House to anyone looking to stay in the area.
5 on February 16, 2009
My husband and I stayed for a weekend and enjoyed the inn ....the breakfasts were outstanding! Attractive decor, attentive hostess. We even enjoyed the two inn cats. Robin and Dave
5 on October 15, 2008
My girlfriend and I stayed here over Columbus Day weekend and it was an extremely nice place to stay. The room was very clean and beautiful. The breakfast was excellent, pumpkin pancakes one day, lemon ricotta blintzes the next both very yummy and the scones were delicious as well. We will be coming back next year and maybe even sooner for a nice weekend getaway.
4.8 on October 06, 2008
Sandra was a delight. She is a first rate hostess. We were so impressed with the gourmet breakfast for it was absolutely delicious. She gave us two menu choices for breakfast which we thought was outstanding. Other B&B's only serve one dish from our experience. We also very much enjoyed our conversation with Sandra throughout breakfast. The B&B is decorated beautifully and the room was very comfortable. Thanks again Sandra!
5 on September 28, 2008
What a wonderful vacation it was to go to Bristol,NH and stay at the Henry Whipple House. The hostess, Sandra, from England, was respectful and a good conversationalist. I must admit that I have never stayed at a B&B that served a gourmet breakfast equal to what we received. The room was excellent: the bed comfortable with an ambiance of serenity and calm. There are nearby sites to see such as the Wellington State Park and Autobon Society. If you are looking for a relaxing, get away vacation at a B&B that serves a top rate breakfast, I would recommend the The Henry Whipple House.
5 on August 18, 2008
I was so pleased to stay at the Henry Whipple House. The Inn is beautiful and friendly, with sweet details and great amenities!
4.6 on July 02, 2008
We stayed at the Henry Whipple House in mid June and it was a delightful stay. We were in one of the bigger rooms, and although the bathroom was a converted closet with a shower installed, the sink was in the spacious bedroom, as is common in Europe. It was actually pretty convenient. The hostess/owner, Sandra, was very accommodating. She is an intelligent and humorous conversationist, as well as a very good listener. We appreciated the interior decor, as well as the fine work the owners have done to the exterior of this beautiful house. The house is on a key route into the town of Bristol, and because it was "motorcycle week" in New Hampshire, one could hear the cycles as they passed the house. Otherwise, it was reasonably quiet. We intend to visit here again because the innkeeper was very accommodating to my husband's diabetic diet and the value was well worth the stay. The breakfasts were some of the best that we experienced B&B travelers have had the pleasure of consuming, and our innkeeper was engaging.
4.8 on January 01, 2008
Henry Whipple House has been restored immaculately by the current owners, who are both delightful. The rooms (along with the house) abound in Victorian charm, but the highlight without a doubt is the extraordinary breakfast. We stayed two nights with our family of five (three children in a room with a King and a Double bed, two adults in the room next door) and experienced four different breakfasts. Eggs with sage and smoked cheese, gingerbread pancakes, freshly baked scones.... Beds and linens are luxurious, the rooms are quiet and immaculate, the dining room is beautiful, and the innkeepers are terrific. Only negative is small (but perfectly serviceable) bathrooms--but remember, this is a Victorian house, and everything has been done to stay true to its heritage while providing modern amenities. If you are in the vicinity of Bristol, NH, this is a wonderful place to stay.
5 on December 27, 2007
We needed a place to stay during the Holidays and looked for an Inn rather than a Hotel. We hoped the Henry Whipple House was available one Christmas (2005). Sandra and Clay opened the house for us then and again this year. The home is not only remarkable in architecture but it's quite evident the love and care they take to make it beautiful. Because we've stayed over Christmas each time, every room is decorated like a Christmas wonderland. Sandra and Clay pay great attention to the little things like a log in the fire place each night, mixed spicy nuts and let's not forget the overabundance of decadent magazines. We even received lovely Christmas ornaments as parting gifts. As for the food Sandra, is a true Chef where she takes great pride in her craft and it shows. From the time we made our reservations in November we were dreaming of her fresh scones. When we stay there, we go back in time to an era where being a house guest is a pampering experience. I highly recommend the Henry Whipple House B&B.
4.0 on November 12, 2007
November 2007 was a bit stressful in our real lives so we decided to run away. Going to the mountains is always our first choice. Knowing a trusted familiar B&B makes it easy. We have been to Bristol,NH a number of times in all seasons. Staying at The Henry Whipple House is now our choice for a quiet retreat offering superb food, friendly conversation and relaxed atmosphere. We highly recommend this destination.
5 on October 17, 2007
We were in town for the 2007 NH marathon, and felt so fortunate to find such outstanding accommodations. Sandra is an excellent cook, and has an eye for excellence- it's the little details, and her local expertise that really make this B & B such a delight.
5 on October 12, 2007
We stayed at the Henry Whipple for the weekend of the NH Marathon on Sept 29, 2007, along with many other marathoners. The house is beautiful, our hosts were wonderful, and the breakfasts were fabulous. We couldn't have asked for anything more. I recommend it highly.
5 on October 10, 2007
I used to live in Bristol and always wanted to tour the Whipple House and never got the chance. After I moved to Massachusetts we came to Bristol for a visit and stayed at the Whipple House. We LOVED IT. We have been there at least 5 times since. Sandra and Clay are genuine down to earth people and made us feel as though we were family. BREAKFAST: One word - YUM- Sandra makes these wonderful from scratch scones which you wake up to the aroma of them cooking in the morning. The breakfast menu gives you a couple of choices which are cooked to order and served with coffee, juice and a fresh fruit garnish. My favorite is the brie and apple omelette. I look forward to our next visit - Thanks Sandra and Clay - Dennis and Richard
4.0 on October 03, 2007
The room was spacious, cozy, artfully decorated and spotless. The innkeepers were wonderful. The food was awesome! A lovely town, Bristol and close to many great spots for recreation, antique shopping, or sight seeing. I will definitely return if at all possible.
4.6 on May 08, 2007
My wife and I had a great experience at the Henry Whipple House. The house itself is beautiful. The rooms are very spacious and extremely clean. The highlight of our weekend was definately the food. A couple of different menu choices were available each morning and the food was absolutely incredible - avocado & green onion omletes, banana walnut pancakes, cranberry-pecan scones, etc. Sandra, the owner, was a delight to be around. She was very personable, professional, and accommodating. Bristol is a beautiful area if you enjoy outdoor activities. There are also some nice little towns/shopping areas within a short distance. I would give my full recommendation to anyone, if even just for the food alone.


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More "green slime of cyanobacterial," which most people call blue-green algae, was in Lake Erie, and some lakes and water reservoirs, during 2011, and it has environmental activists foaming slime at their mouths.
At least one environmental scientist is extremely upset that a lake such as the shallow Lake Erie and others were infected with more blue-green algae than in the past, and he is blaming it on no-till cropping systems combined with global warming.
"The Lake Erie algal bloom of 2011 set records, eventually reaching about 5,000 square kilometers, or about three times larger than the next-biggest bloom. But records show that algal blooms have been increasing since the mid-1990s, after several decades of progress," wrote Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist, food and environment, with the Union of Concerned Scientists, on The Equation blog site.
The decades of progress that Gurian-Sherman refers to is reduced phosphorus from sewage treatment plant water put into the lake and reduced laundry detergent phosphorus going into water. Today, he claims high amounts of phosphorus coming off crop ground that is being no tilled is the problem.
He sees increased eutrophication, the process by which a body of water acquires a high concentration of nutrients, especially phosphates and nitrates, as a problem to totally blame on farmers. To scare people as much as possible, he also says the algae problem is more than foul odor and fish kills because cyanobacteria can produce liver or neurotoxins, which were found in the Lake Erie "at alarming levels."
"The increase in harmful algal blooms coincides with increasing use of no-till in the Corn Belt. It turns out that without tillage, applied phosphorus fertilizer or phosphorous in manure becomes concentrated in the surface layer of the soil. Even though no-till reduces soil runoff and erosion—which carries phosphorus bound to soil particles into waterways—the resulting high phosphorus concentration at the soil surface leads to runoff of dissolved reactive phosphorus. The algal blooms that result from this are exacerbated by heavy rainfalls, which wash more phosphorus into the lake, and which are predicted to become more frequent in the region as global warming proceeds," Gurian-Sherman wrote.
He suggests the use of phosphorus fertilizer, which makes runoff possible, is a waste of a natural resource, and he thinks "occasional tillage will help alleviate this problem by burying the phosphorus." He admits he is "unclear" whether cultivators or chisel plows that do not invert the soil would do any good. He has no real opinions about "rotational tillage or ridge till."
He did write that "most corn acres are still not using no-till or conservation tillage, so it is possible that further adoption could make matters even worse."
The self-claimed scientist condemns "industrial agriculture" as destroying the earth and environment and being unsustainable agricultural production.
"A lesson in all of this is that reductionist approaches to ecological issues that narrowly focus on solving one problem, such as soil erosion, without understanding the entire agricultural ecosystem are vulnerable to missing harmful unintended consequences. No-till is a valuable practice in some respects, but as used in industrial agriculture, it depends on heavy use of herbicides, which cause their own harm to agroecosystems, such as loss of habitat for monarch butterflies, bees, and other helpful organisms," he wrote.
He also wrote that "industrial no-till" is one of the "few practices that big ag can promote that has some environmental benefits. And unlike agroecology, it depends on expensive purchased products. That's good for the industry's bottom line, but not so good for the rest of us."
Here is another "scientist" who finds blame with conventional farming practices and ag professionals for helping farmers raising food and feed. His agroecology— or basically forms of organic—farming cannot feed the world, but that doesn't matter.


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The challenges keep mounting for the bears. At this point, it all amounts to frustration and sentiment. The data do not matter. Outlooks don't matters. Earnings don't even matter that much at this point. Don't let it grind on you. At some point, the market will correct, but I doubt it will happen in a single day.
There is nothing wrong with taking some shots on the short side, but keep stops tight and positions around half size right now. If they start to work, then let them work. The biggest issues for the bears right now might be the failure to let the short positions to work. At the first sign of a profit, a quick cover for fear of losing a small profit is certainly something that is pushing the market higher....281 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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Corn futures were mixed early Thursday morning. There was little fresh news, with the highlights being the exclusion of U.S. corn from a major South Korean purchase and a modest switch toward increased short-term Argentine precipitation by the U.S. weather model. However, traders may have been covering short positions ahead of the 7:30 AM (CST) release of weekly USDA Export Sales report, since a large total spark a bullish reaction. March corn edged 0.75 cent higher, to $6.9625/bushel in early morning action, while December inched upward by 0.75 cent to $5.65.
The modest improvement in the precipitation forecast for the driest areas of Argentina seemingly depressed soybean futures Wednesday night. Otherwise there was not a lot of news concerning the soybean complex either. News that palm oil prices slipped in Asia overnight may have weighed upon soybean oil futures as well. That might also help explain the relative firmness exhibited by soymeal. Of course, the USDA Export Sales reports later this morning could spark a significant move in the soy complex. March beans dipped 1.75 cents to $14.2125 cents/pound in pre-dawn trading, while March soyoil fell 0.15 cents to 51.50 cents/pound, and March meal rose $0.2 to $408.1/ton.
Despite the negative influence spilling over from the corn and soy markets, wheat futures rose modestly Wednesday night. There were apparently few changes to weather forecasts for the wheat fields of the U.S. Southern Plains, but European news may have supported American prices somewhat. A French firm reportedly cut its 2013 wheat production forecast by 1.1 million tonnes. Talk of poor crop conditions in Southern Russia may have encouraged bulls as well. March CBOT wheat futures rose 3.0 cents to 7.3825/bushel early Thursday morning, while March KCBT wheat gained 4.75 cents to $7.85, and March MGE futures climbed 4.25 cents to $8.2725.
CME live cattle continued their recent decline Wednesday night despite a slight rise in beef cutout values and news that the delivery notices posted Tuesday afternoon were quickly demanded. Ongoing cash market losses are almost surely weighing upon the Chicago market, especially with packer margins remaining deep in the red. Futures are somewhat oversold from a technical standpoint, but that is no assurance that prices will not move even lower. April cattle tumbled 0.55 cents to 128.85 cents/pound in early Thursday trading, while August sank 0.27 cents to 125.00. Meanwhile, March feeder cattle lost 0.45 cents to 140.90 cents/pound, and August dropped 0.65 cents to 153.95.
Hog futures also fell moderately in overnight trading. Although the direct cash markets posted modest gains Wednesday afternoon, the late wholesale report almost guaranteed a significantly lower opening this morning. That is, in addition to a dramatic breakdown in primal ham values, pork loins dropped rather substantially as well. Traders are probably worried about a repeat of the weak environment experienced through late winter and early spring last year. April hogs moved 0.45 cents lower, to 85.35 cents/pound overnight, while June skidded 0.40 cents to 93.75.
Cotton futures moved moderately lower Thursday morning after dropping substantially on Tuesday and Wednesday. Talk of burgeoning stockpiles deliverable against the ICE contracts reportedly caused the breakdown. Prices actually fell to 80.05 cents/pound (basis March) at the Wednesday low, the rebounded rather sharply. Bulls are almost surely hoping that marks an end to the decline suffered over the past three weeks, whereas others are probably expecting a test of the 78.00-cent area. The USDA Export Sales report due for release at 7:30 AM CST could determine short-term market direction. March cotton slipped 0.02 cents, to 80.80 cents/pound in early morning trading, while December dipped 0.27 cents to 82.50.


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Curling: 4 players, 8 ends, 16 rocks. That's your typical game.
Those of you who watched the Continental Cup would have seen that there were many portions of the competition which were somewhat unconventional. In this blog post, we want to throw out some ideas on events / leagues that don't follow the standard format of the game.
The concept of a skins game has long existed in the sport of golf and has made its mark in the curling world as well. In this format of play, each end is worth a certain number of skins. To win the available skins, the team with hammer (ie. throwing last rock in the end) must score two or more points; or the team without hammer must steal one or more points. If there are no points scored in an end, or if the team with last rock only scores a single point, the skins in that end are carried over to the next end. Typically, if there is a carry over in the last end of play, a draw to the button by each team will be used to determine who wins the remaining available skins.
Skins games are pretty entertaining. You tend to see a lot more rocks in play, as there are typically lots of guards thrown up at the start of the game in an effort to generate offensive play.
Hot Shots / Singles / Skills Competition
In this format of play, a player is called upon to execute certain curling shots, usually with the benefit of having sweepers accompany the stone down the sheet of ice. Points are awarded for each shot based on how close the curler came to executing the shot. Typical types of shots included in this type of competition: draw to the button; draw through a port; double take out; raise; etc. If you've ever been to the Brier or the Scotties, a Hot Shots competition is conducted on the opening day of these national championships.
One of the key things to consider if you want to hold such a competition at your club: you should ask the ice crew at your club to include the "hot shot markings" in the ice when the ice is installed at the start of the season. The markers ensure that the stones are placed in the identical position for every person competing.
Scotch Doubles
Scotch doubles is a type of curling played with two players per team and six stones per end per team. Three stones are delivered by each player and there are six ends in a game. Sweeping is permitted only after the far hog-line. Until two stones have been played (one from each side), stones in the free guard zone (those stones left in the area between the hog and tee lines, excluding the house) may not be removed by an opponent's stone.
Wacky Scoring
Play a conventional game but make it more entertaining by using "wacky scoring" whereby the rules for scoring are different for every end of play but you don't know what scoring rules will apply until after the last rock is thrown and you rip open the envelope! Some examples: score as in a typical game but award the points to the other team; award each team a point for every rock of theirs which is in the free guard zone / out of play / in front of the tee line / behind the tee line.
Curling: try and spice it up sometime!


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How terrible. Anyone who needs help when they start having these feelings, I hope they get it.
An unnamed Kansas City Chiefs player has committed suicide at the team facility and police are on the scene, the team confirmed to ESPN on Saturday morning.
Local reports say police are operating with the belief the player fatally shot his girlfriend at a house before driving to Arrowhead Stadium and killing himself.
"We can confirm that there was an incident at Arrowhead earlier this morning," the Chiefs said in a statement. "We are cooperating with authorities in their investigation."
There were no other injuries at the team facility, police said.
As an admitted wrestling nerd, feelings from the Chris Benoit saga always come back when this kind of thing happens. Just awful.


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SANTA CLARA -- The No. 1 mission of this 49ers training camp: boosting the Colin Kaepernick-led passing attack. It even has the defense raring to go for Thursday's first practice action. If the secondary can get its mitts on Kaepernick passes, both sides stand to grow.
"A huge goal for the secondary is to pick him off as many times as possible in training camp. He's trying to make us better, and we're trying to make him better," reasons safety Eric Reid, echoing the "iron sharpens iron" mantra of coach Jim Harbaugh.
Kaepernick, of course, has a few interceptions he'd like to erase. He had two passes picked -- and he lost a fumble on a sack -- in a forgettable fourth quarter that doomed the 49ers in last season's NFC Championship game loss at Seattle.
That crash landing underscored the 49ers' need to upgrade a passing attack that ranked 30th in yards per game. The additions of Stevie Johnson, Brandon Lloyd and Bruce Ellington appear to have done the trick -- even if Vernon Davis' contract discontent leaves some uncertainty at tight end.
Last season's finale also brought back memories of the 2012 season's ending, when Kaepernick threw three consecutive incompletions toward Michael Crabtree in a Super Bowl defeat to the Baltimore Ravens.
The wounds are still fresh.
"That's something I constantly think about," Kaepernick said recently. "Not just red zone, but my play in general. How can I improve and how can I be better throughout the game?
"Whether it's taking a check down or whether it's making a big throw at the end of the championship game, what can I do different to make sure I'm making those plays?"
Training camp marks the 49ers' last chance to fine-tune their upgraded passing attack before they set out in search of their first Super Bowl victory in 20 years.
Much of that onus falls on Kaepernick, their dual-threat quarterback who recently signed a six-year contract extension worth up to $126 million. But he won't go it alone.
The 49ers tout the deepest receiving corps of Harbaugh's four-year tenure, and they have arguably the league's best offensive line. That's presuming the potential contract holdouts of Davis and right guard Alex Boone get settled, and that left guard Mike Iupati fully recovers from the broken left ankle he suffered in the NFC title game.
Kaepernick needs to go through his pass-route progressions better and read defenses faster, his critics say. Of course, getting the ball over Seattle Seahawks nemesis Richard Sherman in crucial, game-altering moments also will help come Thanksgiving Night at Levi's Stadium.
The 49ers are certain Kaepernick can do it. His passer rating ranks third among the franchise's quarterback heritage, behind only two guys named Steve Young and Joe Montana. And Kaepernick's interception percentage (1.7) is a franchise-best.
But the 49ers clearly realized he couldn't improve the passing attack without better targets.
"We're a lot deeper at receiver," starter Anquan Boldin said.
First, the 49ers acquired San Francisco native Stevie Johnson in a draft-day trade with Buffalo. They lured Brandon Lloyd out of a one-year hiatus (as they did with Randy Moss in 2012). And they drafted speedster Bruce Ellington in the fourth round out of South Carolina.
"It gives us an opportunity as an offense to do a lot more," Kaepernick said. "You have a lot of weapons that you can put in a lot of different places. ... They all have the capability of getting open and making plays."
Perhaps most important, the 49ers re-signed Boldin and kept Crabtree healthy through the offseason (see: 2013 Achilles tear).
Crabtree is entering the final season of his rookie contract. Running back Frank Gore and Iupati also are unsigned beyond 2014. That trio's plight has been overshadowed by the offseason contract holdouts of Davis and Boone.
No matter who lines up on the 49ers' offense this fall, more is expected from them. None more than the guy behind center.
Said Reid, "Our ultimate goal is to win a Super Bowl, and we can't do that without our starting quarterback."
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Wednesday, March 20, 1913. "We are only upon the threshold of the marvelous rich treasure house of our country," Troy attorney William J. Roche tells the Current Topics club tonight. Roche envisions the "final means of solving the cost of commodities and bettering the living conditions of the nation" through more transportation of goods by water.
Mayor Cornelius F. Burns introduces Roche as "the champion of waterway transportation" at the club's annual banquet, The Record reports. In our own reporter's words, "It is doubtful if other disciples of DeWitt Clinton have ventured so far in their theories or prophecies" on the benefits of water transportation as Roche does tonight.
Roche believes that "the methods of scientific farming and intensive cultivation" can reduce the cost of production only so far while railroad monopolies dominate the transportation business. He predicts that legislators will "find salvation" by developing "an efficient and regulated network of waterways across the country." Strict government regulation will be necessary "lest the increased use of this means of transportation give rise to monopoly and discrimination" on the railroad model.
Railroads were once expected to make waterways like the Erie Canal obsolete. "Since the advent of the railroads the waterways have been overshadowed to an extent," Roche notes, "but they have always been an important factor in the transportation of the country and their growth will continue.
"Everything that serves us as food, clothing or occupation contains an element of cost transportation. No state or province wholly supplies the wants of its own people. As man's wants increased, the whole world was called upon to furnish his needs and hence the necessity of improving transportation. The cost of living to-day, high as it is, would be still higher if it were not for the development of the facilities of transportation, and it will be less when the facilities are perfected."
The key to perfecting transportation is to prevent monopolies. Increased water transportation will break rail's seeming monopoly on national commerce, Roche expects. Anticipating skeptics, he asks, "How many think of the money of the people that has gone into the stocks and bonds of the great railroad corporations that have been permitted by dishonest means to choke the life out of the waterways?"
Once waterways become a viable alternative to rail, "there will be open a traffic that will leave no room on our markets for the withholding of products that create a demand and raise the values." Roche considers it imperative to "make the fullest use and to take the fullest advantage of the waterways of our nation which Providence has so bountifully given to this people."


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POLICE are appealing for anyone with information that may help them investigate the circumstances which led up to a serious crash in Hereford yesterday afternoon to contact them.
At about 12.45pm on Wednesday, April 26 on the A4110 Canon Pyon Road a blue Vauxhall Corse travelling towards the city collided with a Ford Kuga driving in the opposite direction.
One of the drivers was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham with serious injuries while the other was treated at Hereford Hospital.
Police are appealing for anyone who saw the blue Corsa, registrationX32 GAB and its driver Byron Hunaban in the hours before the crash.
Pc Kerry Welding said: "We want to build up a picture of what led to this incident and we are appealing to anyone who saw the car or spoke to Mr Hunaban in the 24 hours before it took place.
"They could have vital information that could help us with our investigations."
Any information can be reported to police by calling 101, quoting incident number 263-s-260314.


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If you ask a baker what protein does in dough, they'll tell you protein forms gluten, the stretchy web that's necessary for making bread (but a less desirable quality in things like cakes). Protein affects the amount of water that flour can absorb. It's thirsty. Dough made with high gluten flour will seem less wet than dough made from flour with a lower gluten content. This can be true even if the same brand of flour is used to make the same dough. While measuring errors are one common problem, even if the measuring is precise, doughs made from the same recipe can feel different. The reason being, protein levels can vary within the same brand of flour. Although usually the amount of protein is stated on the bag, the actual amount will fall within a range depending on the manufacturer's tolerances. Even a small variation in the amount of protein can produce very different outcomes. But how much difference could it make?
This test was easy. I started with four different types of flour in four bowls—100 grams each of bread flour, all-purpose flour, unbleached cake flour, and cake flour—and I added 90 grams of water to each bowl. The bleached cake flour (bottom left in photo above) looks thicker, but looks are deceiving. It wasn't thicker, it's just that the others were smoother. Bread flour, with the highest protein content, was the thickest dough. It was stirrable, but it started developing gluten right away. After a short rest, I could lift the whole clump of dough with the spoon.
All purpose flour was a little wetter, or less thick, if you prefer to think of it that way. It was much easier to stir, but started to develop gluten fairly quickly. After a short rest, I could pick up most of the dough ball on the spoon, but since it was looser and smoother, it flowed off the spoon.
Unbleached cake flour is new on the market; until recently, all cake flour was bleached. The unbleached cake flour is formulated to have the same protein content as the bleached cake flour, but without undergoing the chemical bleaching process. It was even looser than the all-purpose flour. There was less gluten development, so it fell off the spoon in ragged clumps. It's not as bright white, and there was some gluten development. Not nearly as much as the bread or all-purpose flours, but more than the bleached cake flour.
The bright white bleached cake flour, besides being the loosest, also resisted forming gluten, even after quite a long rest. I could pick up a spoon full of it, but it didn't hold together at all.
Using bleached cake flour in lieu of bread flour would be an extreme substitute, but even the difference between bread flour and all-purpose flour was significant. There's no one flour that's right for every purpose, and of course I didn't test every option. The point is that different flours will behave differently, so even if you weigh every ingredient, your results may not be consistent unless you're using the same flour—and if the flour itself is consistent from the manufacturers.
About the author: Donna Currie has been cooking for fun and writing for pay since the days when typewritten articles traveled by snail mail. When she combined those talents in a food column for a newspaper in her area, she realized that writing about food is almost as much fun as eating. You can find her on her blog, Cookistry or follow her on Twitter at @dbcurrie or @cookistry.


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Adam Lanza who killed 27 children and adults in Connecticut has been described by former classmates as troubled, withdrawn, and completely isolated.
In light of the shooting, the issue of access to mental health care has gotten a lot of attention.
Advocates say school districts are tasked with providing diagnosis and care, but often lack the resources to do the job.
Federal law requires school districts to identify and help children with special needs -- and that includes behavioral and mental-health needs. For many kids, school is the only place where they get mental-health services, says Amy Smith, president of the National Association of School Psychologists.
"Statistically, about 70 to 80 percent of children who need mental-health services receive those services in schools, because they don't have access to them in other ways," she says.
Often, though, the resources to do this daunting job are lacking, Smith said. School psychologists and guidance counselors are often the first to be cut during tough budget years.
A heavy burden on financially strapped schools
That places a huge burden on schools, says Josh Kershenbaum, a special education lawyer in Conshohocken.
"We have placed them in the position of being responsible for identifying and evaluating and properly educating all children," he explained. "So long as we're going to continue doing that, we need to make sure that the funding, training and resources are available to all school districts because we're going to pay for it one way or another."
Kids who don't receive appropriate services don't go on to become mass murderers, but they often end up troubled and unsuccessful in life, he said. And, Kershenbaum said, it's time for school districts to review their responsibilities when it comes to serving children with mental-health needs.
"Do they have the procedures and resources in place?" he said. "Do they have training on the level of the guidance counselors and the school psychologists and the teachers to identify the signs that a child might be in crisis?"
He says he hopes the tragedy will inspire a national conversation on the huge responsibility lawmakers have given schools, and what will allow them to succeed in getting kids the help they need.


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A new crop year is coming. Do you want to... improve forage quality, ensure high-quality forage? How about feed higher-forage rations, buy less concentrates? If so, what are the things you need to change in order to do that, and are you willing to change them?
"Change is not easy, but if you want to improve it's necessary," says Kurt Cotanch with the William H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute in Chazy, N.Y.
In the April 2013 Miner Farm Report, Cotanch looks at how sometimes it is a change of mindset that is most needed. "... recognizing weaknesses and vulnerabilities as well as strengths is critical when assessing the need for change and whether we are really willing to make the changes needed to thrive," he says.


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FOR the past 30 years, Barry and Heather Jones have been transforming their White Avenue abode into Queanbeyan's very own Christmas Cave.
There's a magnificent lights display and nativity scene nestled in the front yard and even more Christmas decorations to enjoy inside the house including a Christmas tree covered in falling snow, dancing Santas and interactive ornaments adding to the festive cheer.
Mr Jones said their house had become quite the attraction for local families and they had regular visitors each year.
"It started off very small, just for my children to enjoy, then my grandchildren and now everyone likes to come and have a look," Mr Jones said.
"The first thing people ask me is how much it all costs. But I just say 'You don't have to pay for them, so just enjoy it'. I'll worry about the bills next year."
Mr Jones starts decorating on November 1 and pulls it all down two months later.
He said handing out lollies and watching the children's reactions make it all worth it.
"I like seeing the expressions on the kids' faces and I hear them say 'Ah, this is new or that is new'," he said.
"I don't mind, this is for everyone."
2012 Christmas Lights Gallery: http://www.queanbeyanage.com.au/story/1200135/gallery-2012-queanbeyan-christmas-lights/?cs=1781


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For many in the markets, this has been the year of the yuan. When China suddenly devalued its' currency, earlier this year, it sent the global markets into a tailspin. Currently, the yuan is depreciating even further since traders believe that the Chinese government will step down from its' intervention in the currency. Being included in the exclusive club is a sign that the currency has 'grown up', in a manner of speaking.
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The Doc sat down with Harvey Organ again for the 2nd of several interviews regarding the recent massive cartel intervention in the gold and silver markets post the QE4 announcement, the fiscal cliff, the CFTC's silver probe, and the unprecedented 20 million oz of silver still standing for December delivery.
Harvey stated that recent evidence seems to validate his long held suspicions that China is behind the big gold & silver shorts, and stated that the nation is draining massive amounts of physical metal East.
Harvey also made the shocking allegation that COMEX is settling allocated delivery & storage requests with paper metal, and stated that he no longer has any faith whatsoever in the numbers reported in the COMEX gold and silver inventories.
Harvey Organ's EXPLOSIVE 2nd interview with The Doc is below:


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I put the words the best in quotes, because if he isn't the best he is in the top 2 or 3.
Question: Seven of the Pacers players, to the best of my knowledge, have never played for any other NBA team. Jonathan Bender, Austin Croshere, Jeff Foster, Al Harrington, Fred Jones, Reggie Miller and Jamaal Tinsley. That's over half of the Pacers' roster.
I checked out a couple of other teams' rosters and none of them came close to matching the Pacers on this statistic. It seems the Pacers organization has a strong desire to develop their pool of talent and avoids trading off their players as much as possible.
One would think that this probably helps create a better atmosphere amongst the players and management. Is this unusual in the NBA? (Bob from Indianapolis)
Answer: These days it is. There's a constant drum beat for change, originating with fans as well as talk show and internet media types. Trade rumors have become a year-round thing. But stability usually wins.
Chemistry obviously is important in basketball, and Donnie Walsh has shown the ability to ignore the cries for change and let it develop. People wanted him to trade Rik Smits early in his career. They wanted him to break up the Pacers after they lost to the Knicks in the 1999 playoffs. They wanted a lot of changes during Isiah Thomas' first two seasons as coach, but he held firm except for the trade with Chicago that brought the center they lacked. They wanted him to get rid of Ron Artest. I could go on.
I look around the league and see teams with losing records that have as much or almost as much talent as the Pacers. But they lack a winning culture and chemistry. Most teams simply don't have the patience or strength to stand up to the pleas for change. Chicago, for example. It once had Brad Miller, Elton Brand and Ron Artest on its roster. What it didn't have was the foresight or patience to let them develop.


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Except for the High IP3 +25 dBm the PLL has an excellent Phase Noise Low Noise Figure and available either with F- N- or SMA- output connector.
Available with an external 10 MHz reference or with internal LO stability ±10 or ±25 kHz.
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-85 dBc @ 10 kHz
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Rising feed prices have made balancing today's dairy rations a juggling act. Finding the right balance between milk production and economical feedstuffs can be a challenge. To ease this challenge, Kevin Leahy, nutritionist and technical services manager with Calibrate® Technologies, suggests nutritionists and dairy producers look to the starch content of their diets.
Starch affects rumen pH, microbial growth and overall health of the rumen. Too much starch digested in the rumen can cause sub-acute ruminal acidosis, milk fat depression, reduced intake and lower milk production. Therefore, understanding the starch content and digestibility of a ration is extremely important in today's market.
Starch content in a ration can be evaluated in three different ways: crude starch, fecal starch or rumen degradable starch.
· Crude starch: Calculating the total crude starch in the diet is fairly easy to do by simply adding the starch content from all ration ingredients. "The problem is that this figure doesn't tell you much outside of how much crude starch you have in a ration," says Leahy.
· Fecal Starch: Fecal starch content is calculated by measuring the starch content of a composite of fecal samples from a number of cows, and expressing it on a fecal dry weight basis. "The upside to this figure is if there is a fair amount of starch left in the manure you know you have poorer total tract starch digestion," Leahy explains. "Typically, we like to see a fecal starch content of 4 percent or less." The downside to the fecal starch content calculation is that it gives no indication as to where the starch breaks down in the animal. "You don't know if the starch is breaking down in the rumen or in the hindgut," he explains.
· Rumen Degradable Starch: A fairly simple calculation, rumen degradable starch provides the most information about the starch value of a ration. "Determining the rumen degradable starch content lets you see how much starch is actually digested in the rumen," Leahy says. "With this calculation you know what's happening and where, allowing you to avoid issues that come with too much starch digestion in the rumen."
Feedstuffs can be tested for rumen degradable starch on a routine basis and rations adjusted accordingly.
"Knowing the starch content and ruminal starch digestibility of your diet can improve components and overall feed efficiency of the diet," Leahy says.
Source: Calibrate® Technologies