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phil wrote:Hi all
Interesting question! I'd say the most fundamental principles are simpler. Avoiding evil, do good, purify the mind. And I'd reduce that to avoiding harming others, to begin with, i.e harmlessness. It seems from evidence in the suttas that the Buddha didn't teach the deep topics such as causality or even the four noble truths until he knew that the listener's mind was ready to receive them.
I think there is an MN sutta that lists 60(?) pairs of attributes that one should develop or abandon, and it starts with harmlessness. "Others will be harmful, we here will be harmless" or something like that. In his talk on that sutta, Bhikkhu Bodhi said that harmlessness is considered to be the fundamental starting point, if I recall correctly.
chownah wrote:I think that the Buddha taught that any system of beliefs which contains the elements of the Noble Eightfold Path could lead to awakening.....so I guess that if my memory is correct and this is what the Buddha taught then the Noble Eightfold Path contains the most fundamental Buddhist principles.
P.S....can someone provide a reference to verify if this is what the Buddha taught?
61. And the Blessed One spoke, saying: "In whatsoever Dhamma and Discipline, Subhadda, there is not found the Noble Eightfold Path, neither is there found a true ascetic of the first, second, third, or fourth degree of saintliness. But in whatsoever Dhamma and Discipline there is found the Noble Eightfold Path, there is found a true ascetic of the first, second, third, and fourth degrees of saintliness.54 Now in this Dhamma and Discipline, Subhadda, is found the Noble Eightfold Path; and in it alone are also found true ascetics of the first, second, third, and fourth degrees of saintliness. Devoid of true ascetics are the systems of other teachers. But if, Subhadda, the bhikkhus live righteously, the world will not be destitute of arahats.
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On Wednesday, the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy announced the winners of the inaugural U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards, a program to recognize dairy farms, dairy companies and collaborative partnerships for efforts that advance the sustainability of the dairy industry.
"Across the supply chain, the dairy industry continues to demonstrate leadership in meeting consumer demand for great-tasting, wholesome and nutritious dairy products, while finding new ways to preserve our planet's precious resources," said Barbara O'Brien, president of the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, which was founded by dairy producers.
An independent panel of judges representing the full spectrum of the dairy supply chain — as well as academia, government, media, business and nongovernmental organizations — selected this year's winners based on the program's or project's results as measured by economic, environmental and social responsibility aspects.
Winners of the Elanco Award for Outstanding Dairy Farm Sustainability are:
Blue Spruce Farm, Bridport, Vt.
When the three Audet brothers decided to partner with their father in the dairy business, they envisioned a future focused on natural resources and the environment. They pictured a farm that would increase their labor and energy efficiency, provide the best in cow health and comfort and produce the highest-quality milk. Blue Spruce Farm was one of the first farms in the country to install a variable-speed vacuum pump control, reducing energy used during milking by nearly 60 percent. Inspired, they pursued new technologies in lighting, milking, milk cooling, barn construction, ventilation and water heating that reduced energy use from an average of 1,000 kWh per cow per year, to an average of 500 kWh per cow per year. These savings, in turn, reduced greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 500 pounds of CO2e per cow per year. Blue Spruce Farm is probably best known for being the first dairy to participate in Central Vermont Public Service's ground-breaking Cow Power program, which allows consumers to purchase renewable energy generated on dairy farms.
Holsum Dairies, Hilbert, Wis.
Sustainability is a cornerstone for Holsum Dairies. Long-term sustainability, according to Holsum, must benefit the dairy, its employees, and the community financially and socially; have a positive impact on the environment; maintain the welfare of animals; and produce safe, high-quality milk. These were significant considerations when Holsum selected a location for its two dairies in 2001 and 2006. Over the past 25 years, Calumet County lost animal operations but significantly increased crop production. Spotting this imbalance, Holsum worked with 40 local crop farmers and five custom harvesters to provide all of the dairy's forage needs, fostering trust and delivering benefits for all parties. During their annual meetings, the farmers share information and best practices, resulting in a stronger knowledge base and higher efficiency as well as higher profit and higher quality feed for the animals.
Werkhoven Dairy, Monroe, Wash.
Ten years ago, Werkhoven Dairy assumed a leadership role in developing a collaborative partnership between their farm and the neighboring dairy and beef producers of the Sno/Sky Ag Alliance; the Northwest Chinook Recovery (an organization working to restore salmon habitat); and the 3,500-member Native American Tulalip Tribes. Together, they focused on opportunities for resource conservation and formed Qualco Energy. Qualco, which means "where two rivers come together" in the language of the native peoples, is a nonprofit entity that collects manure from the cows and pre-consumer food waste from nearby companies and uses those materials to generate energy through a digester system. The system produces enough energy each day to power 300 homes while keeping the air and water clean and protecting salmon streams. It also creates, enough Grade A compost for Werkhoven Dairy to naturally fertilize their fields and share with their neighbors.
Other winners include:
- Darigold, Inc., of Seattle, Wash., winner of the U.S. Dairy Export Council Award for Outstanding Dairy Processing & Manufacturing Sustainability.
- Oakhurst Dairy, of Portland, Maine, honorable mention in the U.S. Dairy Export Council Award for Outstanding Dairy Processing & Manufacturing Sustainability.
- Brubaker Farms of Mount Joy, Pa., winner of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies/Idaho National Laboratory Award for Outstanding Achievement in Energy.
- Dean Foods Company's and Ag Power Partners' collaborative effort, which also made them winners in Outstanding Achievement in Energy.

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MIAMI, Fla - One person is dead after a police involved shooting in Overtown early Saturday.
Family members identified him as Lynn Weatherspoon. Family members said Weatherspoon was throwing a party at an apartment complex at Northwest 1st Avenue and 15th Street.
Family members said Weatherspoon was walking to a corner store when he ran into a group of Miami police officers, traveling in a dark tinted SUV. Witnesses said the officers came out with their guns drawn.
Miami police said the officers were responding to calls about shots fired in the area. When they arrived, officers saw Weatherspoon with a gun. After a confrontation, an officer shot and killed him, police said.
"We don?t know why he was out there with a hand gun in his hand. The officers supposedly identified themselves," said Miguel Exposito, City of Miami Police Chief.
Police are still investigating the shooting.
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Roughly 20 million students will head off to college this fall, their backpacks stuffed with new books, notepads and the latest gadgetry suited for higher education. Many college students will also opt for a new financial tool, a prepaid debit card, to keep their money on track while away from home.
"For many young people, college is the first time that they will independently manage their money without their parents," says Gail Cunnighman, spokesperson for the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, (NFCC). "It is particularly important that college students understand the new financial tools available."
The NFCC promotes prepaid cards as a way to control spending and as a good introduction to managing money for those with little experience. Additionally, the cards are popular with Generation Y: one in five already use prepaid. The cards fit with student lifestyles in a number of ways. Most prepaid programs provide several ways for cardholders to access cash without incurring fees including use of in-network ATMs, surcharge-free ATMs, free online balance inquiry, free cash back with purchase and free electronic bill pay.
There are also often options for savings accounts where students (and parents) can track their spending online or through immediate text alerts instead of trying to keep track of cash and receipts. Also, unlike cash, the value on a prepaid card can be replaced if the card is lost or stolen. Finally, because all funds on the cards are prepaid, the cards help students avoid accumulating credit card debt and costly interest charges.(This is especially critical since in 2009 84 percent of undergraduates had at least one credit card and 50 percent had 4 or more credit cards.)
There are currently two types of prepaid cards being marketed to students. The Network Branded Prepaid Card Association (NBPCA) offers the following tips about each for students and parents considering the cards:
Student cards
* A student card is a general purpose prepaid debit card that can be purchased for the student online, at a financial institution or at a retail location like 7-Eleven or Walmart. Students can load funds through a recurring direct deposit or through deposits at retail locations.
* If students plan to regularly directly deposit funds to the card from parents and/or an employer, a student card can be a good option because the funds are available to be used immediately without the need to head to a brick-and-mortar bank.
* Make sure to plan out how to use the card. Students should compare fees among cards for services such as monthly maintenance, ATM, transaction and customer service. Many cards offer free online balance and text alerts and will waive monthly fees for cardholders who opt for direct deposit.
* Any card a student picks should come with FDIC insurance and the card brand's zero-liability policies for lost or stolen cards. This will protect students against fraudulent purchases. Make sure to register the card to receive all of the fraud and loss prevention benefits.
Campus cards
* Campus cards are offered by educational institutions and provide multiple services on one device, which provides students with convenience and flexibility. In addition to acting as a prepaid card, the campus card is also the ID card that students use to access dorm rooms or campus buildings, utilize campus transportation, buy books and other school supplies and eat in campus cafeterias. Additionally, any work study disbursements or wages that a student earns at an on-campus job could be directly deposited into the card account.
* If the student plans to use the card on campus to buy meals, books, student services and receive financial aid, the campus card can be highly convenient to keep finances organized in one place.
* Make sure that the card offers convenient access to fee-free ATMs. Campus card programs should have ATMs located on the school's campus, in institutionally-owned or operated facilities or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus.
* Before the account is opened, read the terms and conditions that outline the fees and other costs associated with the account. There should be no cost to open the account or initially receive a campus card.
"As they become more widely adopted and offer increasing benefits specifically for young people, prepaid cards are fast becoming favorites of college students", says Kirsten Trusko, president and executive director of the NBPCA. "The cards offer easy access to money needed for life on their own, encourage budgeting and allow students to avoid debt and interest. Like all financial services, it's important to examine all the options available and make the right choice depending on a student's needs."


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Sunday, June 24, 2007
The Sound of One Nose Smelling
It's a fantastic opportunity to tune up one's senses, hearing, sight, smell. Lately, there has been a bit written on the wine Supertasters, reviewers and critics. There is also a strain of Super Smellers, those whose olfactory sensitivity is in uber-drive to the rest of the folks on the planet. It is something I am fascinated with. As a child, my father proclaimed I was a nose that a little boy grew around. It got better as I grew up.
Some of my high school classmates called me eagle beak, banana nose, the Schnozz; those are a few I haven't forgotten. But I am not bitter. I have had the last laugh, My heightened sense of smell has helped me in my career and passion, on the wine trail.
Almost 20 years ago I read a book, Perfume, by Patrick Suskind. In the book a young man was born who had an enormous capacity for scent. The author described, in almost excruciating detail, the level at which this character could perceive aromas in his world. He was being trained as a perfume maker, and would be considered the greatest in the world (it's a fictional account). But one passage, in which this boy could smell certain smells from blocks away, blew my mind. For the next few months I would sit in a sales room, a restaurant, an airport, and open my sense up to "see" what I could pick up. It was incredible. Perfumes, body scents, fabric, food, combustion, rotting, vegetal, they were all there. I could pick up a perfume from 20 feet away. My game would be to try and guess the maker. I got pretty good.
At another Zen monastery many years before, on an assignment, a monk warned me of getting attached to any sense, part of their training. At the monastery in Big Sur, while it is a bit freer in allowing one to open up to that kind of experience, one is still reminded to not become too attached to any worldly thing. I copy.
The walk to the coast, through the pine forest, with the resin of the tree and the balmy breeze off the ocean, reminded me of an afternoon in Iraklion, on the island of Crete. A run this week, in my neighborhood, picked up a scent of some kind of vegetation that transported me back 40+ years, to my model car days. Some resin, a dusty aroma and bam, I was 12 again. Too bad I didn't have those 12 year old legs to get me up the hill I was facing.
There are exercises to heighten you sense of smell. And you can prepare your nose to become more aware and sensitive to the aromas around you.
Take a look at this picture, what kind of smell does it bring to you? A hot, fresh, steaming fried apple pie, with cinnamon. You're sitting in your aunt's parlor, and she brings a plate of these fresh from the kitchen miracles. What do you smell? How old are you when you recall this smell? Where in the world are you?
Or how about this one, the fish market in Venice? It could be one of many sites around the world, summer is starting, it's 11 O'clock in the morning, starting to get hot. There are sardines and anchovies nearby, the swordfish and the tuna are also close. They were swimming in the ocean in them morning and now they sit and wait for their transformation. What do you smell? Is it pleasant, or do you have a problem envisioning the aromas in you mind? At this point, you know, its all in your mind.
And that is really an important part of the olfactory sense. We humans like to enlarge our experiences. We aren't as lucky as the beagle, whose nose has about 200 million scent-receptor cells. A human's nose has about 5 million. The beagle is the super-smeller. We can, however, elaborate with words.
Want to learn more about wine? Grow roses, or visit rose gardens. I have a few that I have gone back to over the years, this one from my alma mater in Santa Clara. I have learned as much from the roses as I did from some of my professors. Honestly.
This is not a big mystery; the wine trail is filed with teachers all along the way. One only needs, from time to time, to turn off the electronic devices and step out into the world. It is one of the ways to learn how to become a super-sleuth in the scent sector. Or you could check into the Zen monastery for a stay.
Further reading
The Nobel Prize for mapping the sense of smell
That Makes Scents - An olfactory lab activity
3 comments:
- bart said...
It is indeed incredible how a certain smell can be a blast from the past. I just loved to read this post.
And indeed, as you can practice your handwriting, your running, you can also practice your nose. On a walk I tend to smell on plants. Just take a small piece and rub it in your the palm of your hand and smell. And, for that matter, go even a step further and taste it (but be aware of the poisonous plants ;-)).
- June 25, 2007 at 8:53 AM
- Ann said...
It occurs to me that some of my most pleasant and incisive memories are of my grandparents' West Texas house. My family used to visit in the summer. There was the smell of the garden: earth, dill, tomatoes, snap dragons. The basement: dank and musty, with fabric, wood and paper that had collected, held and processed decades of dampness. The kitchen. Ah, the kitchen, with its aromas of flour, baking bread, a certain saltiness from pickles in brine, scents of baking powder and spices, cookies and pies baking. The garage was a combination of dirt, old, old wood, metal and axle grease. Besides the kitchen and garden, my other favorites was the damp, grassy, acrid smell of a summer storm building in the distance.
- June 26, 2007 at 10:37 AM
The smelling sense is heavily overlooked I think, it's the first sense that we develop in mother's womb, the first things that we perceive with senses are the soup and guts of our mother, with little experience and no memories of senses we are forced to Imagine what all the chemicals are good for.
That is another skill of the nose which I see neglected, it's the primary sense of all life on land and there is a reason for that, our instincts can guess, quite accurately actually, how healthy or risky foods or chemicals are, it can indeed be trained but nowadays is mostly connected to past experiences and usually sticks to the library coming with those experiences, it can go far beyond however, smell on pepsi for instance and notice how the instinct tells you to be cautious it can be dangerous deadly even, smell on a cookie and get a vision of how the crops that make it did grow well, smell on opium perfume and notice it's lively pattern, how it goes in deep and straight, coming from the sea, notice how the consume of it would create a nice bubble of alpha waves in the brain which last for a while, or notice the smell of burnt petrol everywhere in the air and feel the effort needed to create that sensation of warmth mobility and safety, the analyzing happens so instantly I'm not even sure how much experience and training it needs to function accurately with unknown substances, if we didn't know our food was safe we'd better be smelling on it before trying ingestion so much I can say, and even when knowing the risks and that it's safe it can make for quite a sensation which shapes our inner picture of the world in its current state.
A lot of things are going on there which aren't fully comprehended yet by science but why not do some testing and experimenting with it and open up to letting smell give us an idea of future and chemical reactions which we can hardly express in words or numbers.
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I'm not generally a supporter of culinary identity-theft. You can have your banana cream pie flavored yogurts and your oatmeal cookie energy bars. But I can't deny a certain pleasure when you try a dish without any particular expectations and you get to cry out, "Oh my god! It's pecan pie!"
That's what happened when I dove into a bowl of Pecan Praline Rice Pudding ($2.75) from Loving Cup. This Polk Street shop takes the specialist approach to cooking, offering riffs on just two items: frozen yogurt and rice pudding. Their rice puddings are always exceptional. They have the right consistency—just softer than al dente rice is suspended in a thick and creamy pudding. Every pudding starts with a base made from non fat milk, arborio rice, eggs, sugar, salt, and vanilla bean. (You could have fooled me that they don't use cream.)
I tried the pecan praline on a whim (I always take advantage of the fact that you can try flavors before buying them) as I've been going through a heavy pecan praline phase that doesn't seem to be losing any steam. I was expecting pieces of praline studded throughout a typical vanilla pudding base, but what I got was so much better. The pudding itself has taken on the flavor of pecan pie. Somehow that white pudding tastes of brown sugar and caramelized, toasty pecans. There are some pieces of pecans, but not enough to disturb the classic creamy texture. It's pecan praline-flavored pudding, not pudding with pecans and praline. It's the perfect treat for these pre-summer days in San Francisco: cool for those moments of sunshine, and comforting for when the wind blows.
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About the author: Carrie Vasios is the editor of Serious Eats: Sweets. She likes to peruse her large collection of cookbooks while eating jam from the jar. You can follow her on Twitter @carrievasios


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It was all teed up for Urban Meyer, the sort of rivalry meatball any coach would love to take a giant swing at.
But not Urb. He just left well enough alone.
Asked Wednesday afternoon about Michigan continuing to get fat on Ohio players in recruiting—the Wolverines signed nine from the state this year—Meyer basically blew off the question.
"It's not just them," he said. "You're going to come to Ohio to get great players."
Geez, at the least he could've gone with: If we wanted those nine guys, we'd have them.
Or, even better: We'll see in four years how many Big Ten titles they've won.
But no. And you know why Meyer let the question slide?
Because he's bypassing Michigan and the rest of the conference and aiming straight at Alabama.
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Since taking the reins of the Buckeyes program, Meyer has sounded almost as though he's not totally gung-ho when it comes to one of the greatest rivalries in all of sports. That's probably because he isn't. Unless Michigan stands in OSU's way in one of those fancy playoff games that come our way beginning in 2014, The Game will never be the biggest game in Meyer's imagination.
If I could ask Meyer one more question on National Signing Day, it wouldn't be about how this or that high school stud runs and catches. I'd go with this:
Would you rather go unbeaten vs. Brady Hoke or Nick Saban for the next 10 years?
Not sure how he'd answer. Pretty sure what the truth would be, though.
Meyer knows the Nicktator isn't finished ruling the college football world. Saban has taken what Meyer did at Florida and pretty much doubled it. You don't think Meyer wants that ultimate glory of being the best in the game again? Of course he does.
He wants to be the guy who takes Saban down a notch and ends the SEC's streak of national championships.
And, with apologies to Michigan, that's just plain a bigger matter than The Game. It's bigger than the Big Ten. The dragon at the top of the mountain Meyer's scaling incredibly fast? It's the monstrosity of excellence that is Alabama. More to the point: It's Saban.
Predictably, Meyer, on the heels of a 12-0 debut season, just roped in a stellar recruiting class; by all accounts, it's top-five material, right up there (or close) with what Alabama corralled.
What really stands out about it? The Buckeyes are going to have a number of freshmen making big contributions in the fall, and most of them won't be from Ohio. That gets at another reason Meyer doesn't pay lip service to building the proverbial fence around his state: He knows he must take on the likes of Alabama in recruiting like never before to have any shot whatsoever at winning a national title.
He was at his best this time around as Ohio State flipped the dynamic Texan Dontre Wilson—who Meyer believes has Percy Harvin-type potential—from Oregon.
Even better, he was at his best as Ohio State took on Alabama for five-star safety Vonn Bell (Georgia) and won.
Meyer was on top of his game on Wednesday when describing the effects of scholarship reductions, stemming from misdeeds during the Jim Tressel era, that dropped the Buckeyes' allotment from 85 to 82: "It's like a toothache," he said, a constant pain throughout the recruiting process.
Well, boo-hoo. Meyer has a lot more good than bad happening on that front.
"I'm very pleased with where we're at," he acknowledged.
And very determined about where they're headed: straight for the dragon. It's up a ways yet, but close enough that Meyer can't take his eyes off it.
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Contra dancers will line up at Rockport Church on Saturday
October 2, 2012
More than 120 years ago, the Rockport Church and Social Hall was not only used for worship.
The church, which is now part of the Rockport State Park in Wanship, was used for weekend contra social dancing and people would line up and dance to live music and have a grand old time.
Four years ago, the music and dancing returned after the church was fully restored and renovated, said Danielle Montague-Judd, who co-organizes the contra dances at Rockport.
A contra dance will be held in the Rockport Church on Saturday, Oct. 6. The official dancing will begin at 8 p.m.
"The building had been in a state of neglect for several decades and the park manager at the time got the ball rolling for the restoration," Montague-Judd explained. "We started planning the dances in the fall of 2007 and started officially in April, 2008."
Contra dance is a form of social dance, but the name is confusing to people who usually identify social dancing as ballroom and waltzing.
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"It is a funny name and nobody exactly knows how the name originated," Montague-Judd said. "One of the ideas was that it was an English dance and the French picked it up and gave it a French name."
One interpretation of the word 'contra' means "facing each other."
"That's what the groups do," she said. "They are in lines facing each other at the beginning of the dance."
The nice thing about contra dance is that people don't need a partner.
"It's not like ballroom or other social dancing where one person has the same partner throughout the whole evening, because we form lines and constantly switch partners as we dance down the lines with everybody," Montague-Judd said.
If that sounds confusing, there's no need to worry, because the event on Saturday will begin with a workshop at 7:30 p.m., she said.
"The caller, Rob Snow, will go through the common terminology and the common moves and we do a walkthrough of the dances before we do them at full speed," Montague-Judd explained. "The workshop is a good way for people new to the dance form to get their feet wet and learn the dances."
The music that evening will be provided by acoustic band Loose Shoes and a community band that is open to any acoustic musician.
"If there are any musicians who want to play, they just have to contact me and I can give them an overview of how the dance music and evening works," said Montague-Judd, who also plays the fiddle in the community band. "We encourage everyone to come over and try it out. Contra dance is great exercise and an interesting way to connect with the past."
The dances at Rockport, which usually are held the first Wednesdays in October and April, often attract between 20 and 40 people.
"If we have a lot of dancers, we make two groups," Montague-Judd said. "I think it is wonderful to connect the music with the dance. It's a great way to spend an evening and participate in a lo-tech form of entertainment."
Admission is $5 per person.
"The money is used to pay for the musicians and caller and to help with the church upkeep, cleaning and maintenance," Montague-Judd said.
An Autumn contra dance will be held at Rockport Old Church at Rockport State Park in Wanship on Saturday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m. Teaching workshop will begin at 7:30 p.m. Dancing will run from 8 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. Single dancers are welcome. Admission is $5 per person. For more information, contact Danielle at email@example.com , Sharon, firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://www.utahcontra.org/


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"We moms get good at reading our kids — I can tell just from the look in my son's eyes if he has a fever, and I can see a toddler tantrum brewing in my sweet daughter like a storm on the horizon." — Charlotte Hilton Andersen
"I work hard to teach my children to be responsible for their actions, to think before they make rash decisions, and to always remember that there are real people on the other end of those feelings. These are lessons that I wish I hadn't learned with life experience but had absorbed the first 10 times they were told to me." — Carmen Staicer
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Film Streams in Omaha is running an retrospective on filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
Bob Fischbach interviewed me for a piece on the Ingmar Bergman festival at Film Streams in Omaha that begins today. Bob's piece in the Omaha World Herald notes that: "'You can't say you've got an understanding of film unless you see the films of Bergman,' Dixon contends. 'His films are riveting, they have great entertainment value and they're absorbing experiences. From the beginning, he addressed the timeless questions of human existence: life, death, love, faith, hope. Meditations on what it is to be alive, to have friends and lovers, to face mortality.'
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden, in July 1918. His father was a Lutheran minister, later chaplain to the king of Sweden. He directed more than 60 films and documentaries, most of which he also wrote. Bergman also directed 170 stage plays, through which he developed a core company of actors for his films: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullman, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Anders Ek and Gunnar Björnstrand among them.
He was one of the first European filmmakers to break through in the United States. Three of his films won the foreign-language Oscar: The Virgin Spring (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), and Fanny and Alexander (1983). Another, Cries and Whispers (1974), was nominated for best film.
Dixon said Bergman's career began with a stroke of luck: being born in Sweden. Through its Svensk Filmindustri, the nation underwrites the first film of its best students from the national film school. 'He never had to cater to anyone other than himself,' Dixon said. 'He created cinema as an art form because he didn't worry about audience feedback or test screenings or producers.' When Dick Cavett once asked Bergman what he'd do if a producer told him to change a script, Bergman replied that he'd tell the producer to go to hell. 'That was a deeply inspirational model to filmmakers around the world, an art form undiluted,' Dixon said."
You can read the entire piece here; a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the work of an undisputed master on the big screen. Don't miss it.


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The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a kayaker who sent a distress call Thursday afternoon after failing to make it back to shore in rough seas near Pacific Grove.
Executive Officer Noah Hudson said the call for help came at about 1:45 p.m.
"The information we received was that the kayaker was approximately three-quarters of a mile off the coast at Lovers Point, and he felt like the waters had become too rough for him to make it back to shore," Hudson said. "We launched a crew that located him, determined that he was not hypothermic, and brought him back to Monterey Harbor in our 47-foot motor lifeboat."
Hudson said the kayaker did not require medical assistance.


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It's impossible to touch your toes or scratch between your shoulder blades.
Being limber not only feels good, it also prevents injury, helps muscles rebound from stress, and even plays a role in heart health. The good news is that all it takes is a little stretching—a few minutes a day—to start reaping the benefits.
Stretching for a minute or two when you wake up, and again in the afternoon.
In the morning, try this: Start on all fours; inhale as you round your back and drop your head. Exhale as you arch the upper back and gaze up. Alternate for a few rounds. Later in the day: Stand up; swing both arms overhead, then forward, and down by your sides. Do this 5 to 10 times.
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Jim Harbaugh's players know him best, because he is still essentially and eternally part of them, and not exactly one of the calmer examples of them.
He screams along with them, tosses practice passes to them, pushes them, and is immersed in it with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind, as Harbaugh himself might put it.
He's a manic 50-year-old kid having a blast ... who just happens to be in charge of the whole deal.
"Always the same guy with us -- good," said 49ers tailback Frank Gore of his coach. "I'm a football player. He loves football guys."
Or as backup quarterback Colt McCoy said of his coach: "I think if he could still play, he would."
But Harbaugh's players also probably know him least, in some ways, because they don't deal with him when he's away from the locker room and playing field, when anything can happen and any mood can strike.
Put him in any other situation -- with the media, with team employees, with anybody not connected to winning this game right this instant -- and Harbaugh sticks out like a wild rhino among a horde of house pets.
He can't help but bounce around, make noise and maybe rumble over a few people, it's just who he is.
He can't help but seem strange at times, because he doesn't care about hiding whatever he's feeling, and what he feels can range from incredibly exuberant to flat-line somber.
"I'm moody and complicated," Harbaugh has repeatedly said to describe himself, without irony.
No, he was simply born to be a football Mozart, with the temperament.
That's the Harbaugh the rest of the world sees every time he steps to a podium and either banters with reporters, battles with us, quotes Judge Judy at high decibel or performs some memorable combination of all of the above.
When he gave CSN Bay Area's Matt Maiocco a bear hug and then kissed the Sacramento Bee's Matt Barrows on the head after Sunday's victory in Green Bay, well, that was just another gloriously Harbaugh pure public moment.
This is the guy who chattered on about "gobble, gobble, gobble turkey from jive turkey gobblers" last year; the guy who treated the questions about coaching in the Super Bowl against his brother John as if they were brutal inquisitions.
"I've never really seen him with you guys," guard Alex Boone said with a smile. "I can imagine it, though."
It's the impulsive kid, blessed with football genius, barreling through an essential football life.
It's also the guy who turned around the 49ers and now has coached them to three playoff trips in three seasons.
If the 49ers beat Carolina on Sunday, they will have reached the NFC Championship Game in all three of Harbaugh's seasons.
You can't separate Harbaugh's behavior from the success, because it's all the same package.
It's the ruthless competitiveness; it's the manic, overflowing drive to defeat anybody who isn't on his side, which means everybody who isn't in that locker room with him.
He can wear on everybody around him ... but imagine how his opponents feel having to go up against him.
He's secretive, but randomly expansive; argumentative but occasionally happy to talk it out; ferociously driven and ambitious but with no hidden agendas.
He's not Nick Saban or Bill Belichick; the unpredictable Harbaugh can be 100 times goofier and giddier than either of those two dour high-achievers.
He's not as engaging as Bill Walsh; he's not Buddy Ryan or Bill Parcells, who often were bullies with a wink.
There are no proper comparisons to Harbaugh, who has zero interest in being similar to anybody else.
"The thing I appreciate about him and a lot of the teammates (do) is, he's a real person," quarterback Alex Smith once said of Harbaugh.
"He doesn't fake anything. He doesn't try to be anything he's not. He is himself all the time, 24/7."
And that has always shaped my relationship with Harbaugh, too, by the way.
Harbaugh has been less than thrilled with me occasionally, but has gone out of his way to chat with me more than a few times, and I don't think he ever has to guess why I'm asking what I'm asking.
Dave Flemming, a Stanford broadcaster when Harbaugh coached there, and I have a standard rule: You get the best responses from him when you ask him direct questions; gratuitous lead-ins only get him to wonder what the questioner is hiding.
It's all about angles and Harbaugh only wants to deal with things that help him win games. To him, almost all else is barely worth tolerating.
But when he wins, it's euphoria.
"Man, I've seen a lot of happy times with him," linebacker Ahmad Brooks said. "We've won so many games under him and last year we made it to the Super Bowl, when we won the NFC Championship ... when we won this game (in Green Bay).
"I've got a lot of memories with him, just winning."
That's all Harbaugh wants to do -- win, coach, bellow and compete. Everything else? Just part of Mozart's unruly performance.


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Feb. 13-15 NBA All-Star 2004 (STAPLES Center; Los Angeles)
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June 22 or 23 NBA Expansion Draft
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So ive been playing about 4 months now and this is what i have come up with for my bag after recently finding/buying a few discs
and insight would be great, i currently can get my teebirds consistantly about 270-300 golf D, and if i have some room can get it to about 330 on a good throw.
1. Stable Control Drivers
172 DX Teebird, just about beat into straight
169 DX Gazelle, just bought trying it out, hopefully will work for some line shaping
2. Distance Drivers
Same DX Teebird as above(i have a 168 champ orc but the extra 10 or so feet isnt enough to compensate for the lack in accuracy)
3. Understable Driver
170 DX Teebird, very beat (this was my first driver bought off of a local pond diver so who knows how much this disc has seen)
??? Pro Leopard, semi beat but weight unknown, found recently so giving it a test run
4. Moderately Overstable Driver
170 Champ 11X Teebird, headwinds and hyzers
Mids: (used up to about 250'
172 DX Roc, dead straight and can form a decent anny
175 DX Roc, brand new just bought
172 KC Aviar, putting and upshots up to 150'


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100% Tour de France!
The Tour of the beauties of France
The 100th Tour de France will be the Tour of the whole of France, of every kind of France, of every French people too. And while the race will not spread over the French borders, for the first time since its centenary in 2003, the event will largely extend beyond the race itself. Almost every day, an initiative, a sign of support has reached us, offering to celebrate with fondness and respect the youngest 100-year-old in the country. The course between Corsica and the Champs-Elysees will be far more than a showcase for the number one tourist destination in the world. Thanks to the images of France Televisions, it will bear witness to the love for a race which, while not a World Heritage site like the Mont St Michel or the Calanques of Piana, is still a national treasure. This Tour will be the Tour of all the beauties of France, but also the Tour of everyone involved in it. The riders of course, who will write with their sweat the 100th chapter of a long saga and will be greeted in Paris by all the Giants who showed them the way.
Local authorities as well, who host the greatest free show on the planet and will display the beauty of the Tour in an exhibition on the gates of the French Senate at the Jardin du Luxembourg. And finally spectators, who will cheer by the millions on the roadside but will also be called to ride on the course on June 15, for a Fete du Tour turning everyone into a Tour rider.
Books, stamps, coins, clothes – a whole range of souvenirs will keep memories alive and lead the Tour towards its future. The race survived all the hardships of the world and the sport. But its longevity has a simple secret: passion. And it will again be the key word between the Isle of Beauty and the most beautiful avenue in the world.
Christian Prudhomme
Director of the Tour de France
Corsica: a first for the 100th
With the Grand Depart in Corsica, the Tour de France steps straightaway into the exceptional and the historical. The wish for a Tour visit had been around for decades, the project took shape in recent years and the dream will come true this summer. All along the way, the actors of the project grew more and more enthusiastic. The hosting of the Criterium International in the past three years was a kind of dress rehearsal and the excitement shared by Corsicans, riders, organisers and television viewers led to an obvious decision – there was no alternative to Corsica as the place to kick off the 100th edition of the Tour.
The Corsicans proudly took over the preparation of the event, especially during a Night of the Tour held in the whole of the towns and villages on the island. The next step will symbolically coincide with the change to the summer time in France with the 2013 edition of the Criterium International bearing a special importance this year. Of course, Porto-Vecchio, Bastia, Ajaccio and Calvi will be later involved in the Tour Festival on June 15 (pages 8 and 9). Then, when the peloton is ready, a moving and spectacular show will take place in the blue sky of Corsica – the Patrouille de France will execute manoeuvres above the peloton mixing the colours of France and the colours of the Tour.
The highlights
Saturday March 23 and Sunday March 24: three months before the start of the Tour, Corsica welcomes the best riders in the world for the Criterium International
Saturday, June 15: Tour Festival with gran fondos for all in the towns hosting stages
Wednesday, June 26: Opening of the permanence and press centre. They will be installed for nearly a week in a Corsica Ferries ship, the Mega Smeralda. A first for the Tour
Thursday, June 27: offi cial presentation of the teams taking part in the 2013 Tour de France in Porto-Vecchio
Saturday, June 29: Tour Grand Depart and first stage between Porto-Vecchio and Bastia (213km)
A Tour de France exhibition in the Senate
To travel through time and the diverse territories of the country – it is the ambition of the exhibition devoted to the Tour de France held between Wednesday, March 27 and Saturday, July 27 at the Senate, on the gates of the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris.
The exhibition vows to be a tribute of the Tour to the regions, departments and towns that hosted the race for so many years. While the Tour has been magnifi ed by the feats of exceptional riders for more than a century, the beauty of the setting in which it takes places, the variety of the geography allowing it to design courses beyond compare are also part of the Tour's global appeal.
The 80 pictures that visitors, fans, passersby and tourists will discover were carefully picked from the archives of Presse Sports, the picture agency of L'Équipe, the newspaper which created the Tour.
The exhibition will be inaugurated on March 27 at 6 pm by Jean-Pierre Bel, President of the Senate, and Christian Prudhomme, Director of the Tour de France, in the presence of several personalities and sport celebrities.
Fête du Tour: everyone on his bike!
On Saturday, June 15, 2013, the Tour de France course will be ridden by all the cyclists who wish to join the Fête du Tour. Two weeks before the Grand Depart, an original program is scheduled on the whole course of the race. For once, the champions will leave the centre stage on the French roads to simple everyday cyclists, enjoying a leisurely ride on their own bicycles or hire-bikes like Paris Vélibs.
To suit every style of cyclist, gatherings and grand fondos will be held in all the towns holding stages in the 100th Tour. It will be possible for the bravest to ride on the whole of a stage course but shorter rides, from 10 to 50 km will be organised as well. There will be no competition or classifi cation. It will be a time for pleasure and conviviality.
Key points
On the 21 stages of the 2013 Tour de France, rides will be organised for riders of all levels.
Tour ambassadors will be sent on all sites for a chance to meet Bernard Hinault, Bernard Thévenet, Gilbert Duclos Lassalle…
The Tour gran fondo
It has been a tradition since 1975. On a late July Sunday, the Champs-Elysées become the largest stadium in the world and a stage for the Tour de France champions for a spectacular and thrilling finale. Before sealing off this exceptional edition, the public will be invited to join in the show by taking part in a gran fondo on the final circuit used by the riders several hours later.
Thousands of fans, clad in yellow jerseys, are expected to celebrate the Tour and act as forerunners while enjoying a great ride in the streets of Paris.
A unique gathering
Sunday, July 21 at 14:30: 10,000 persons are expected to take part in a friendly gathering
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5 € entry fee will be requested. The sums will be collected and given away to charities Mecenat Chirurgie Cardiaque and HandicapZero
The race: start and finish on avenue Foch, ride on the final circuit in the very historical heart of the French capital
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The French Air Force in tandem with the Tour
Every year, it flies over the Champs-Élysees for the annual parade on Bastille Day. The Patrouille de France, which celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2013, is closely linked to the Tour's 100th edition. Already present at the start from Porto-Vecchio in Corsica on June 29, it will again lead the way to the riders between Versailles and Paris on Sunday, July 21.
Composed with nine pilots on board Alpha Jets sporting the Tricolore colours and led by Commandant Raphaël Nal, the Patrouille de France, Ambassador of the unit air force, is considered one of the best aerobatic.
From Versailles to the Champs-Élysées
Since 1975, the greatest cycling race on earth has finished on the Champs-Elysées. This year, for the first time, the riders will cover the last stretch of the 100th edition in the evening. Before them, the Tour Grand Fondo will allow thousands of cyclists on their bikes, mountain bikes or Velibs to ride the streets of the French capital and be both the actors and the direct witnesses of a historical sporting moment.
The finish will take place around 9.45 pm after ten laps of the Champs-Elysees which will for the first time include a lap around the Arc de Triomphe.
Between Versailles, inside the gardens of the castle from which the start will be given at 6:30 pm, and the Champs-Elysées, the race will be followed from the air by the Patrouille de France. After the podium ceremonies, the riders will ride a lap of honour on the most beautiful avenue in the world as a prelude to a superb lightshow to be broadcast in 190 countries.
Meet the Giants
This is a world where the Belgian Herman Vrancken, the French Jean-Claude Frédéric Brun and Genty or Italian Bruno Monti, are equal to Merckx, Anquetil or Coppi. They have never won the Tour de France, or even worn the yellow jersey or won any stage. But these champions of the ordinary buckled, with their means, their ambitions and their missions, the entire route of the Tour at least once in their lives.
As such, they fall into the category of Giants Tour, conceived and designed by the journalist Serge Laget Claude Maignan and his accomplice. Each participated in its extent, writing ledger of the Tour de France.
Tribute to the contribution they have made to his adventure, a forum will be reserved on the Champs-Élysées, Sunday, July 21, to watch the arrival of the 100th Tour. With the help of the Association of Cycling chaired by Jean-Marie Leblanc, the race organizers wish to meet more than 500 Giants from France, the rest of Europe, but also North America and South or Australia.
Jean-Marie Leblanc, former director of the Tour de France: «In the very definition of the Giant of the Tour, there is something very noble, almost brotherly simply because those 3,000 riders are symbolically equals. If the Tour de France celebrates its 100th edition in 2013, it is also thanks to them. They amply deserved to be part of this great celebration.»
Giants fact file
15 000 The number of riders having started the Tour de France at least once since the fi rst edition in 1903
3 900 The number of riders having completed at least one Tour de France in their career
1 400 The number of Giants still alive, including nearly 500 French riders or former riders
France Télévisions and the 100th
Since 1903, the link between the Tour de France and the media is an unfailing one. France Televisions is the historical broadcaster of an event which could be dubbed, after a Victor Hugo masterpiece, the Legend of a century.
A hundred Tours and not a sign of disaffection from the million of spectators and television viewers who, every year in July, come to watch the riders and have a great time of simple happiness shared on the side of the road or in front of their TV sets.
France Televisions' passion for the Tour has never ceased. Happiness, emotion, admiration, passion for all these reasons, the French public television network, in a partnership with A.S.O., has been trying to improve the technical and editorial coverage of a fabulous show which is also a chance to discover or rediscover the beauty of the landscapes and historical sites in France, and to in turn share it with millions of TV viewers in the world.
All through the years, France Televisions has kept increasing the time devoted to the Tour in its programmes on France 2 and France 3, taking it from 55 hours 20 years ago to more than 120 hours at present! The pairing formed by tour de France and France Televisions has become stronger every year at the service of a great human and sporting adventure belonging to France's collective heritage.
Digital caravan on time for the 100th
Besides the official Tour de France digital services (www.letour.fr, phone applications, social networks) offering a look back on its mythical history and a live coverage of the 100th edition, the digital publicity caravan will be the pillar of the digital activation both for the public and the Tour de France partners.
Launched two years ago, the digital caravan provides numerous pictures, videos, games and quiz dedicated to the brands on the caravan, but also a live coverage, the history of the Tour… For the 100th edition, via the digital caravan and the social networks, it will be possible for fans to share their pictures using #TDF, #TDF100 and #TDF2013 and to find them on a giant interactive map. Everyday, the public will be asked to vote for the #fanoftheday with lots of surprise gifts to be earned… a great way be fully part of the Tour atmosphere.
The Tour on the big screen
"Tour de Force" June 12th in the French theaters.
"François is a Tour de France fanatic. Fired from his job, dumped by his wife, he sets out to do the Tour one day ahead of the pros. Alone at first, he is quickly joined by others inspired by his daring. He faces numerous obstacles, but word of his amazing tour de force quickly spreads. The media goes crazy, the public loves him… and the leader of the Tour is furious - François must be stopped!"
A film by Laurent Tuel with Clovis Cornillac, Bouli Lanners, Ary Abittan, Bruno Lochet, Élodie Bouchez, André Marcon, and the special guest appearance of Bernard Hinault, Laurent Jalabert and Nelson Monfort.
"For years, we have dreamed of making a film with the Tour de France as a backdrop. As sports fans, we are particularly fond of stories of "self-surpassing", stories in which an ordinary individual manages to achieve something truly exceptional. Tour de Force is one of those stories."
The producers.
A 100th edition to preserve
Like every anniversary, the 100th edition of the Tour de France is a great opportunity to offer souvenirs and remember a unique event thanks to memorabilia destined to become collector's items. For instance, the Monnaie de Paris chose to mint eight exceptional coins to celebrate the Tour, four holding the colours of distinctive jerseys. Only 99 of the most prestigious coin issued for the occasion will be minted. The French Mail will also issue a special series of stamps to mark a milestone event in the history of sport.
100 editions are as many stories to tell and several books are reviewing the history of the race, starting with 100 days, 100 Tours published by sports daily L'Equipe's publishing house and written by some of the best Tour experts. In English, The Official Tour de France records, published by Carlton, is a reference for all facts and figures on the Tour.
The 100th edition will also be a label worth wearing all year round. While official tee shirts will be on offer, Le Coq Sportif will unveil a special line dedicated to this edition.
The 100th Tour links up with the Foundation for Historical Monuments
2013 : France celebrates the 100th edition of the Tour… and the 100 years of the law on Historical Monuments. A fine opportunity to make the public aware of the monuments spread all around France and along the roads of the Tour.
The Foundation for Historical Monuments, under the helm of the Fondation de France, works to preserve, share, transmit and build the future of the monuments registered on the national heritage list, whether private or public, all bearing witness to the French identity.
Jersey wearers after the stage 21
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Debuting with an unexpected appearance at the culmination of the Survivor Series 2012 main event; handing out a match ending triple PowerBomb to Ryback thus aiding CM Punk in achieving a whole year as WWE Champion.
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I admittedly have only just discovered Ring Rust Radio recently. As a big WWE fan, Bleacher Report was normally my haven to outlet frustration or my own personal thoughts on the WWE's direction and Mike Chairi's RRR article would be one i would read a lot, but i normally would just bypass the option to download the podcast. But as of late i have begun listening and it is a very good show to hear the
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Divas Title - AJ (C)vs Tamina Snuka
Divas division has been neglected from Wrestlemania for years now and i see this as the first step for them; the pre show. There is nothing worth noting when it comes to the divas division apart from AJ and the promo she did a while back. Maybe Lita makes a return and faces AJ. That would make it
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How does this happen? No way!!!, Lesnar vs Bryan wouldn't work. Well i think there is a way.
With Network making it's much anticipated and very belated debut on RAW after the Elimination Chamber PPV then there has to be something to have viewers tune in. And i think it would be safe to say that the WWE would want to pull as many viewers in as they possibly could. There is only one way
What if? Probably two of the most used words in the arsenal of a Pro Wrestling fan. And of course, opinion is infinite, everyone has their likes and dislikes and everyone has their own idea of what a perfect program would be; the perfect rivalry and the ultimate payoff. It's part of what makes Wrestling so great. That once the show ends you are still able to talk about it, to discuss what COULD have
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You've decided to hire Juan for the position of herdsman. In addition to the fair wage you're paying him, you are providing him with a house to live in. Juan and his family move in and he begins employment. Besides move-in day, you may never give Juan's house or any of your other employee houses another thought.
You may see your housing as a benefit to your employees. But unfortunately, employee housing, if not handled properly, can be a real liability for dairy operations.
One way to protect your operation from liability is to have a written housing agreement. "There is no law that says you must have a written housing agreement for employee housing," says Anthony Raimondo, agriculture labor law attorney with McCormick Barstow in Fresno, Calif. "But, one of the biggest issues I see with employee housing is the lack of written agreements."
Here's a look at why a written housing agreement is a good idea and how it can protect you and your dairy operation.
License vs. tenancy
A basic decision that needs to be made when it comes to employee housing is whether you want your employees to occupy your housing under a license or tenancy.
A license says the employee is here under the owner's permission, and housing is connected directly to his or her employment. "It's easier to evict an employee if an employee occupies the housing under a license," notes Raimondo. Yet, there is a greater risk for the housing to be treated as an employee's wage, which will drive up overtime pay.
With tenancy, it is easier to separate housing from an employee's wages. The downside to tenancy is that it is not as easy to evict the occupant after employment has been terminated. The law sets the legal minimum amount of notice that must be given prior to eviction. The minimum is usually 30 or 60 days, depending upon the type of lease.
Whether you decide to handle your employees through a license or tenancy is your choice, but it needs to be established through a written agreement, notes Raimondo.
Establish who occupies the property
A written housing agreement states who can and cannot live in the house.
It is recommended that only the employee, spouse and minor children be allowed to live in the property. Any additional person or persons who wish to occupy the house should be approved by the dairy in writing. As the owner of the property, you have the right to say "no," says Raimondo.
But, if there is no housing agreement, you have little or no control over who lives in the house.
Miguel and Jose were hired by your dairy, and with that employment came a house. What you didn't know when you hired Miguel and Jose is that they have eight cousins who are now coming to town looking for jobs. Before you know it, you have eight more guys sleeping on the floor. Or, you hired Joe, and then his girlfriend moves in, and then her adult children move in unannounced.
These are both very real situations that can be avoided if you have a written housing agreement, says Tom Maloney, senior extension associate in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. A written agreement allows you to clearly communicate your expectations related to occupancy of the housing. And, it lets you maintain control of your housing property.
Sets housing rules
Control liability by writing housing rules into a housing agreement.
Any kind of animal is a potential for liability. Require health records for pets, and require that an employee obtain written permission from you before an animal is brought into the housing, notes Raimondo. Make sure that all animals on the premises have current vaccinations.
You can also require all dogs to be properly restrained in pens or on a leash. "If someone is bit by an employee's dog, the dairy will get sued, not the employee," explains Raimondo. Female dogs in heat wandering the property can also create problems.
Prohibit employees from having animals that are banned by law. This is a huge area of risk for dairy owners and needs to be enforced. Keep your eyes open; if you see roosters in your employees' backyards, or cock-fighting gear hanging up outside the house, you can't deny that you don't know about it, notes Raimondo. Without a written agreement, it becomes a he said/she said argument.
Rules that prohibit children from playing in non-safe areas, such as traffic thoroughfares and animal pens, can be written into a housing agreement. It should also be stated that employees cannot bring children to work with them.
Having these rules in a housing agreement can prevent a tragedy from occurring or protect you from the liability of a tragedy. "If a child is stepped on, injured in the workplace or killed, you will be dealing with a very tragic, ugly and expensive lawsuit," notes Raimondo.
A written housing agreement can also prevent derelict cars on premises, establish quiet hours, alcohol use, and make employees responsible for visitors.
Decide who pays for utilities
State in the written agreement who is responsible to pay for utilities.
Set utilities up in the employee's name and not the dairy's. If they are in the dairy's name, you will be on "the hook" for the full dollar amount. The amount you pay for utilities can also be capped, says Raimondo. "This is why a written housing agreement is so important — all of these details about who pays for what and how much can be stated," he explains. Whenever possible, the best approach is for employees to maintain utility accounts in their own names.
Other things to keep in mind when it comes to employee housing is to decide whether or not to require renter's insurance and to make sure that the dairy's liability insurance will cover the worst-case scenario.
Housing is a simple issue that dairy owners are not paying attention to. Yet, it is one area that could leave the dairy open to a whole host of liabilities if the proper protections are not in place. There is no right or wrong way to deal with employee housing; the mistake is not dealing with it at all.
Your local attorney should be able to help you develop a written agreement that is tailored to your individual dairy and needs.
The rent debate
Some dairy owners may choose to charge their employees rent.
The upside to charging an employee rent is that if a person goes out on workers' comp, it simplifies the person staying in the house. If the employee stops paying rent, he or she is evicted.
If, on the other hand, rent is not charged, workers comp becomes a gray area. If an employee goes out on extended workers' comp, when is he or she is no longer employed? It could become a discrimination complaint, says Anthony Raimondo, agriculture labor law attorney with McCormick Barstow in Fresno, Calif. The employee might claim that he or she was evicted due to the workplace injury, and was discriminated against for filing a worker's comp claim.
Be careful of arrangements where the dairy is paying rent for an employee. A cash payment like that will likely be construed as a wage, which can drive up payroll taxes and overtime wages.
Inspect employee housing
Establish the right to do periodic inspections with a written housing agreement.
Inspections should be performed at a minimum once per year. After inspecting the property, perform any necessary repairs. Don't close your eyes to the repairs.
It is a good idea to have your housing inspected by a third-party housing inspector. "Usually, you can negotiate a flat rate with an inspector for all housing to be inspected at least once per year," says Anthony Raimondo, agriculture labor law attorney with McCormick Barstow in Fresno, Calif. A housing inspection will ensure that your housing meets both state and federal standards. Housing standards vary by state.
Make sure that you have all necessary permits for employee housing. California's employee housing act requires employers with five or more employees to obtain a permit from their local housing authorities. "Dairies are exempt from the permit; however, they must file for the exemption," says Raimondo. "If you haven't applied for the exemption, you are breaking the law."
It's important to make sure your housing is up to code. "I've seen very good housing and embarrassingly bad housing," notes Raimondo. "Those with an agenda against the dairy industry could use images of substandard housing like animal-rights activists have used footage of practices like tail docking to smear the industry."
Employee housing has not been the centerpiece of a lawsuit yet, but it is only a matter of time before employee housing becomes the focal point of lawsuits, notes Raimondo. Housing could also be used as a tool by the unions to drive a wedge between employees and employers.


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What is this medicine?IOVERSOL is a contrast agent. It is used during a CT scan or x-ray to diagnose many different medical conditions. This medicine can be used to see the blood vessels around your heart, brain, kidney, or other structures in your body. It can also be used to help diagnose blood clots.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
How should I use this medicine?This medicine is for injection or infusion into a vein. It is given by a health care professional in a hospital or clinic setting.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
What if I miss a dose?This does not apply.
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Green Scene column - Julien Crowther of the Help a Hedgehog Hospital talks about a visit by BBC's Countryfile team
2:00pm Monday 6th January 2014
2:00pm Monday 6th January 2014
Now it is January and still wet and windy. Still the little hogs have been coming in... cold, wet and hungry, writes Julien Crowther of the Brimscombe-based Help a Hedgehog Hospital.
The mild weather so far has meant that autumn juveniles are still being found, many of them seriously ill with internal parasites, and very underweight.
If you find one – please call our emergency number 07870 378 207 (after 9am) or 01453 823871 as time is of the essence and these little ones need specialist care.
Please do not think you can keep them in a box and all will be well – it won't.
Currently the Hospital carers have more than 150 little mouths to feed – gradually those which have put on enough weight can safely go into hibernation, but those under 600g will continue to need food and care.
As 2013 drew to a close, our pre-Christmas fundraising efforts stepped up.
Many thanks to all who gave generously at our Tesco collection, bought our calendars or visited our stall at Westonbirt Arboretum's Enchanted Forest.
Our four evenings there were very successful in spite of the downpours.
Countryfile gave us some very good publicity – and a classic moment at the end of December.
Hedgehogs don't normally bite – but that little one showed John Craven he'd had enough.
Fortunately Carole was on hand to briskly remove the hog and put him away safely.
Our website enquiry form was red hot for a few days after the programme.
We take a break from fundraising for a few weeks until the Festival of Birds at Slimbridge WWT on February 1 and 2, but talks continue throughout the year, and our carers continue to clean, feed and look after our spikey friends every day.
For more information, contact details and what to do in an emergency, please see our website: www.helpahedgehog.org
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Twins adjust to no DH for first time this season
ATLANTA -- With the Twins playing in a National League park for the first time this season, manager Ron Gardenhire had to write out his lineup without a designated hitter for the first time all year.
It meant Ryan Doumit and rookie Oswaldo Arcia started out the game on the bench with Joe Mauer getting the start behind the plate and Chris Parmelee starting in right field. Josh Willingham, who was held out of the starting lineup on Sunday because of his recent slump, returned to his usual spot in left field.
Gardenhire also said Mauer is feeling fine after missing Friday's game with back stiffness and starting behind the plate on Sunday. Mauer caught all nine innings on Sunday in a game that featured a three-hour rain delay at Target Field and came out of it feeling OK.
"He's fine," Gardenhire said. "I was concerned yesterday with the long layoff yesterday and him going back out there. But he did a good job of staying loose and moved around. So he was OK after it, and I talked to him today and he said he felt good."
Doumit, meanwhile, is still dealing with a little soreness after starting at catcher on Saturday. He was involved in a home-plate collision with Red Sox catcher Ryan Lavarnway and caught every inning of the game that lasted nearly four hours.
"He was a little sore yesterday," Gardenhire said. "It was a four-hour baseball game with about 8,000 pitches. He had the collision at home and had balls fouled off his neck and his shoulder. So he was sore yesterday, and he doesn't admit that too many times, so yesterday was probably good for him."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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We all like Stats here right? I think it would be neat if there was a top 10 list or some other posting that was updated every month or so showing which members have the best thanks to post count ratio--as could be easily calculated from posts in our stats. I personally think this is the best measure of how good a poster is for the community, within the rules. It would be fun and encourage good behavior and rule following.
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If you give presentations, you need to know about the tool in PowerPoint that offers you a second screen to give you more control over your talk. In this week's webinar you'll learn how to use Presenter View in PowerPoint, and we'll dish out expert advice on presenting.
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- Using Presenter's View in PowerPoint
- Using the Notes section In PowerPoint
- Tips for presenting in a conference room
- How PowerPoint is like your resume
References for this webinar
- How to view your notes privately (how-to for 2007, 2010, 2013)
- Create and print PowerPoint handouts (how-to for 2007, 2010, 2013)
- Turn your mouse into a laser pointer (how-to)
- Seth Godin's blog post on Really Bad PowerPoint
- Previous webinars talked about images, not words in PowerPoint
- Guy Kawasaki's original blog post on the 10-20-30 rule
- Better PowerPoint presentations: The Office Casual Way (video)
- Using Presenter View (Video training course for PowerPoint 2013)
- Create your first presentation (Office.com training course for PowerPoint 2007, 2010. 2013)
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1 = 2Math brain teasers require computations to solve.
Bob and Sue were having a discussion one day about 1 and 2. Sue reckoned she had seen a way that you could make 1 = 2 but Bob who wasn't called 'logical Bob' for nothing was obviously adamant that this just wasn't possible. Sue said "Ok smarty pants here's the equation to prove you wrong"...
Assumptions: There are two numbers, a and b, and they are equal.
a = b
Multiply the equation by b
ab = b^2
Subtract a^2 from the equation
ab - a^2 = b^2 - a^2
Factor difference of squares
ab - a^2 = (b - a)(b + a)
Factor a on the left-hand side
a(b - a) = (b - a)(b + a)
Divide by common factor
a = (b + a)
Substitute a for b
a = (a + a)
a = 2a
Divide by common factor
1 = 2
Bob didn't take long and found the line where there is a crucial mistake in the working though was understanding of Sue's issue as it is well hidden... can you see it?
HintGive a and b a value and look at the numbers at each step.
AnswerGoing from a(b - a) = (b - a)(b + a) to a = (b + a) is not allowed, because the equation is divided by (b - a), which is equal to 0, given that a = b.
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Fairfax County Celebrates Designation as First StormReady County in the Commonwealth
Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Nov. 17, 2003
Fairfax County Celebrates Designation as
First StormReady County in the Commonwealth of Virginia
At the Board of Supervisors meeting held today, Nov. 17, the board celebrated the county's designation as the first StormReady county in the commonwealth of Virginia.
The StormReady program, created by the National Weather Service, is a nationwide program that helps communities better protect their citizens during severe weather by being more proactive in improving their hazardous weather operations. Although many laws and regulations are in place to guide emergency managers with handling a variety of crises, there are few guidelines to help with weather related emergencies. The National Weather Service recognized this as a significant void when considering nearly 90 percent of all presidentially declared disasters are weather related. These events lead to roughly 500 deaths each year and approximately $14 billion in damage.
The StormReady program focuses on improving communication and preparedness in communities through outreach and public awareness education. Communities who are a part of this program are even more prepared for all types of severe weather, because they have detailed and clear guidance to improve procedures and formalize plans for hazardous weather situations.
To be certified as StormReady, communities must:
• Establish a 24-hour warning point and have an emergency operations
• Have more than one way to receive severe weather forecasts and warnings and to alert the public
• Create a system that monitors local weather conditions
• Promote the importance of public readiness through community seminars
• Develop a formal hazardous weather plan, which includes training severe weather spotters and holding emergency exercises
The county has reached all these goals through a variety of initiatives. There already is an established Public Safety Communications Center (also called the 911 call center), and the presence of 24-hour, on-duty emergency management personnel trained to respond to an event and make notifications as required. The county's staff monitors the weather through the multiple weather forecasts received from National Weather Service direct telephone link, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather radio, Live Doppler Radar through METEORLOGIX, live warnings and alerts from the National Weather Service Satellite link through EMWIN (Emergency Management Weather Information Network) and the Emergency Alert Network. The public is notified through NOAA weather radios as well as the emergency alert system which is broadcast on both radio and television. Fairfax County residents will also receive notifications via the county cable channel 16. Also, the Emergency Alert Network paging system is currently set up to notify county employees and eventually will begin allowing specific groups in the county to receive the same weather and event notifications.
Education and outreach is a key component of the county's efforts. Through extensive community outreach programs the county's emergency management office gets the word out to the public about awareness not only for weather related emergencies but also for emergency preparedness concerns. They attend on average one community meeting a week. In addition, Fairfax County has held several emergency exercises involving county staff and our partners. In June, a table top exercise was held involving a detonation of a "dirty bomb" at the Tysons Corner Mall. Emergency Management also worked closely with the Health Department during a full scale exercise in October at Marshal High School regarding an outbreak of small pox. A table top exercise is slated in December for an off-airport crash involving numerous county as well as federal agencies. These exercises incorporate the weather as a key factor in how to handle an event. In addition, all Public Safety Communications Center supervisors and emergency management staff have received formalized national weather training in what to look for in storms and other severe weather.
StormReady can help community leaders and emergency managers strengthen their local hazardous weather operations, making communities safer in times of hazardous weather.
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Sunny balcony room
Size20 m²
Floor No.
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Parking available
- Balcony/terrace
- Internet/WiFi
Accommodation summary
|Greifenhagener Str, 10437 Berlin, Germany
|Property type
|Private room
|Property ID
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
|A week ago
You are looking for a friendly, quiet room in the heart of the Berlin in-district "Prenzlauer Berg"? Then this is the right place for you! You will find small shops (design, fashion – many with their own lables) for shopping or rummage around just in front of the door. Good, cheap restaurants and unconverntional sidewalk cafés invite you to take a rest or observe the streetlife. On warm summer evenings you can join spontaneously parties with live music at "Mauerpark", on autunm days you can discover the backyards at the cool "Kastanienallee". There are bikes to rent just opposite the house. Well known cultural venues, like "Kulturbrauerei" or "Pfefferberg" as well as two big cinema centers lay in walking distance.
Public transport:
Subway is 5 minutes to walk, from there it will take 10 minutes to the center (Alexanderplatz, Museumsinsel). With the circle line you can reach every place in Berlin quickly and comfortable – at the weekend even the whole night. Airport Tegel is 25 minutes away.
Please note there is an extra tax for Tourists (5%) which has to be paid to the host by the guest additional to the total amount for their stay. For a single person it will be 1,60 €/ night, for two it´s 2,80 €/ night.
House rulesThe guest can use the kitchen for preparing breakfast etc. (no big meals), bath and balcony. Kitchen and bath are to be left after use tidily. The use of other property of the renter is excluded, or only after arrangement possible. The guest-room will hand over cleaned with fresh bedclothes to the guest. For the rent period the guest is responsible for the living space only used by him. The renter enters the room in this time only if necessary. Damages to possession and property of the renter, caused by the guest are to be substituted by the guest. The renter is to be informed about damages immediately. It is not permitted, to grant admission to the flat for foreign people who are not mentioned in the contract. For the rest, the living together (also on time) is regulated by arrangements between renter and guest. Smoking only on the balcony.
|Weekly rate for 1 guest
|Price for > 1 guests
|$ 30 US per guest/night extra
|Maximum nights
|8 nights
|Check-in after
|On arrangement
|Check-in before
|On arrangement
|Check-out before
|On arrangement
|Cancellation Policy
Reviews of this property
The best city in the better apartment. Wolf is a very personable host. He has helped us in all we needed. Thank you for your Freundlischkeit Wolf.
Am besten Stadt in am besserer Wohnung. Wolf ist ein sehr sympatisch Gastgeber. Er hat uns geholfen, in alle wir gebraucht haben. Dankeschön für deine Freundlischkeit Wolf.
Wolf is a very prudent hosts and the balcony rooms with gorgeous breakfast balcony in front of it just beautiful! Five stars for both!
Wolf ist ein sehr umsichtiger Gastgeber und das Balkonzimmer mit dem herrlichen Frühstücksbalkon davor einfach nur schön! Fünf Sterne für beides!
Very good stay. Flexible check-in and check-out times were very helpful. Use of washing machine and wifi were definite positive points. Nice and quiet neighbourhood. Easy to reach from the S-bahn and U-bahn stations.
For me it was just the right property in a good location, friendly owner ... it ferhlte nothing!
Es war für mich genau die richtige Unterkunft: in guter Lage, freundlicher Vermieter...es ferhlte an NICHTS!
Very nice room with fantastic balcony i the best neighbourhood.
The host - Wolf - is very friendly and helpfull.
We would certainly remember this and come back an other time.
Top location in listed building, right next to the Gethsemane Church. No 5 minutes to the underground and S-Bahn and the tram. Nice big room with a balcony where you will be awakened by the morning sun. An artists' u. Studio apartment with decent bed, immaculate shower and a functioning TV u. WLAN. Quite interesting and inspiring ... with a good price / performance ratio * A quiet and likeable host who has endured his toothache during my stay bravely, gladly again!
Top-Lage in denkmalgeschütztem Altbau, direkt an der Gethsemanekirche. Keine 5 Minuten zur U- und S-Bahn sowie zur Tram. Schönes großes Zimmer mit Balkon, wo man von der Morgensonne geweckt wird. Eine Künstler- u. Atelierwohnung mit ordentlichem Bett, einwandfreier Dusche sowie funktionierendem TV u. WLAN. Durchaus interessant und inspirierend... mit einem guten Preis/Leistungsverhältnis * Ein ruhiger und sympathischer Gastgeber, der seine Zahnschmerzen während meines Aufenthalts tapfer ertragen hat, gerne wieder!
I am very pleased with the accommodations!
Bright, friendly, clean, everything you need there!
The host was very friendly and accommodating!
I was able to enjoy Berlin and my rest!
Ich bin sehr zufrieden mit der Unterkunft!
Hell, freundlich, sauber, alles Nötige da!
Der Gastgeber war sehr freundlich und zuvorkommend!
Ich konnte Berlin und meine Ruhe genießen!
Wolf is a wonderfully uncomplicated and welcoming host, he has wonderful tips for programming. The room is large and quiet, located in an attractive area - a short walk to the train, all the necessary shops, cafes and small restaurants are nearby and in the arcades park the car can be convenient and cost effective (8 € / day) abstellen.Am best to get the same without car
Wolf ist ein wunderbar unkomplizierter und herzlicher Gastgeber, er hat wunderbare Tipps für die Programmgestaltung. Das Zimmer ist groß und ruhig, in einer attraktiven Gegend gelegen - wenige Schritte zur Bahn, alle nötigen Einkaufsmöglichkeiten, Cafes und kleine Restaurants sind in der Nähe und im Arkadenparkhaus lässt sich der Wagen bequem und kostengünstig (8€/Tag) abstellen.Am allerbesten man kommt gleich ohne Wagen
Mr Wolf is a very kind and generous person. He is very quick to respond to booking requests and messages. His apartment has a large room with a balcony over looking a quiet tree lined street. Even though the street is so quiet, it has two cafes directly across the street and within 5 minutes walking distance there are two trams, a U-bahn and an S-bahn with a full shopping center attached. Strolling around the area in every direction there are hundreds of restaurants, cafes, pizza bars, drinking bars, ice-cream shops, convenience stores, fruit and veggie shops and even boutique clothing shops. The building and surrounding area is an example of just how peaceful and beautiful Berlin can be. I really liked it and I hope you do too.
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Call it a coup for the electoral future. By the end of Election Day, some 250 members of the armed services, mobilized as part of a pilot project run by the Defense Department's Federal Voting Assistance Program, will have changed the direction of history, casting the first electronic ballots counted in a US federal election. The joint action, aimed at making absentee voting easier for men and women in uniform, comes in response to a 1996 survey in which a quarter of all military voters said they didn't participate in the election because their absentee ballots arrived too late.
Armed services personnel from four states will evote via the Pentagon's Public Key Infrastructure, an electronic system used by the military to send confidential messages worldwide. Ballots will travel through the secure pipeline to election officials in the voters' home states, kept separate from voter identification and thus ensuring the same secrecy provided by paper.
The test should serve as a call to arms, helping sway election officials to adopt evoting on a broader scale. Though these 250 ballots may not tip the balance in this year's races, they could have a big impact on elections to come.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.