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The Land Run 100 was created in 2013 for the love of sharing amazing roads in places where cyclists haven't been before. In late 2011, as the District Bicycles family was beginning to form, came the discovery that the rural roads surrounding Stillwater, OK offered virtually limitless potential for gravel cycling. Mile after mile of what most would call "B" roads revealed themselves as a growing community of cyclists ventured out to explore the beautiful country surrounding Stillwater. The first Land Run linked 107 miles of red, rutted roads and featured over 6000 ft. of climbing and Carney, OK, as its halfway point. 121 riders braved the course that first year; today entries number over 1000. Every year, the weather has been a defining characteristic of the Land Run 100. When rain falls on Oklahoma red dirt, roads become unforgiving and in some cases unrideable. Stories of ruined derailleurs and miles-long sections of hike-a-bike through "peanut butter mud" that can swallow a shoe have become staples of the Land Run experience. But even when Oklahoma gravel is hard-packed, dusty, and fast - as it is most of the year - losing yourself on these country roads can evoke strength, grit, and resolve that you never knew you possessed. The spirit of the Land Run 100 is found in the will to redefine what is possible. In 2017, the event embraces more riders than ever but also over 100 runners, who have registered for the Land Run 50K. Between the bike race and the foot race, entrants will be coming from 30 states, Canada, and England.
In 2013, when we invited our friends to come ride 100 miles of dirt, we never imagined the event would grow to be what it is today. We are beyond excited to offer you - whatever the weather - an amazing experience at the Land Run 100. See you in March.
Schedule of Events
Friday March 10th, 2017
Check-in and Packet Pick-up - Riders Meetings will be scheduled for the afternoon and early evening. Our traditional 20-mile shakedown ride will depart from District at 3pm.
Saturday March 11th, 2017
Land Run 100 Race Day - Over 1100 total participants will assemble on 7th ave in downtown Stillwater ready for an amazing adventure.
Check back here as race day nears for updates to the Schedule of Events. There will be casual meet-ups, expos, and other special events taking place throughout the week.


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SF Giants Rumors – Dye, Damon, Tejada, Hudson
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- 3 December, 2009
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Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News lists some notable Type "A" free agents who were offered arbitration, and would cost the Giants their first-rounder: Jason Bay, Matt Holliday, Chone Figgins, John Lackey, Marco Scutaro, Rafael Betancourt.
Here's a list of notable Type "A" free agents that weren't offered arbitration and making them instantly more attractive to the Giants: Orlando Hudson, Miguel Tejada, Johnny Damon, Jermaine Dye, Octavio Dotel, Darren Oliver, Randy Wolf.
Baggarly says a few guys in the secondary list have been linked to the Giants already, most notably Dye, Damon and Tejada.
King of Cali thoughts:
Jermaine Dye is on the decline of his career. We can't just pencil him in to be a big bat. He hit under .200 after the All Star Break. He is willing to move to first base which can spark more interest for the Giants. He's also from the Bay Area, so I'm sure he wouldn't mind coming back home to play for the Giants.
Johnny Damon to me doesn't fit with the Giants. It's already been said that Damon doesn't want a pay cut. I'm sure his numbers will decline once he puts on a Giants uniform. His homers were up last year, because he was playing and the new launching pad in New York. Knowing that this is the one signing I don't want. I'm sure this will be the one player we do get. That's just how my luck goes…
Miguel Tejada is the one guy I really would love to see the Giants sign. He can still hit and he can play shortstop or even move to third. Which allows us to move Sandoval to first. Now we have first and third locked down with good hitters. If Renteria isn't pulling his weight at short. He can grab a seat next to Fred Lewis on the bench and watch Tejada take over.
Orlando Hudson is another guy that was not offered arbitration and would be a nice fit for the Giants. I wanted the Giants to sign him last year. If we can sign O-Dog. He can play second base and Freddy Sanchez can move to third.
~King of Cali

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TITLE: Forlorn Hope, 3rd Edition (2001)
AUTHORS: Peter Berry & Ben Wilkins
PUBLISHER: Partizan Press
There is a Yahoo Group for the rules which is unfortunately not very active. The files section in the group does include some useful downloads like quick reference sheets
PRICE (with date): $33.00 (in 2009)
REVIEWED BY: Ken Portner
PERIOD COVERED: The English Civil Wars (approximately 1642 to 1656).
The book is a full size, soft cover volume printed on glossy paper and running 110 pages. It is illustrated by numerous very well done line drawings. In addition to the rules themselves it includes army lists for various armies of the period (e.g. King's Oxford Army, New Model Army, Waller's Western Association army, etc.) scenarios, a selection of full color flags for 6mm, 15mm, and 25mm miniatures, and very good, if general, description of uniforms.
The rules are intended for tactical games. Each figure represents 33 actual men. The basic unit is the regiment.
Army size depends of course on the battle being recreated. The scenarios included in the rule book call for from anywhere between 100 or fewer miniatures per side to 200-300 per side. Units are also variable in size based on the battle, but generally run about 10-30 infantry figures and 5-20 cavalry figures.
The smallest unit is a regiment. As in the wars themselves, the strength of each "regiment" can vary widely. Figures are nominally based individually, as casualties are taken by individual figure and combat strength, etc. is calculated by individual figure, but multiple basing isn't a problem.
List the game scales, especially:
Ground scale (1" = 100 yards or 1cm = 1 lightyear)
Turns are "simultaneous" – i.e. both sides move, shoot, fight, etc. at the same time.
Declaration and Reaction Phase:
Movement Phase:
Fire Combat and Reaction Phase:
Close Combat Phase:
Reaction and Rally Phase:
Foot units are characterized by a ratio of musket:pike. It doesn't matter where in the unit the actual musket armed/pike-armed units are located. Units with a higher ratio of muskets shoot better, those with a higher ratio of pikes fight in close combat better. Cavalry is characterized as Gallopers or Trotters. Gallopers charge slightly further and are better/more aggressive in close combat. Trotters can fire and are slightly weaker in close combat.
Units are supposed to be operating under an "order" at all times. These orders restrict what they can do, e.g. units with a "Hold" order cannot initiate a charge. These are loosely defined. They can be changed by an officer figure via a die roll test. Otherwise, command and control rules are pretty basic.
There are lots of morale checks/tests to be taken; To charge; on being charged; to charge home; to have a leader join/leave a unit; on seeing an enemy unit rout; to rally lost figures; each time hit by artillery fire; when seeing a friendly unit rout; upon taking 20% casualties in any one turn. The tests use a D6 and compare the number rolled to a number determined based on a chart listing factors. Typically rolling equal to or greater than the total number derived from the chart equals success. There are different charts for most of these morale checks/tests.
Combat is straight forward. For either Fire Combat or Close Combat you calculate a Combat Factor. This is based on the type of unit attacking (Cavalry, Foot at different ratios of musket to pike) and the target unit. Infantry with a higher ratio of muskets do better in Fire Combat, those with more pikes do better in Close Combat. There are situational modifiers to these factors. You take the factor derived and cross reference it with the number of figures firing/fighting to get the number of casualties resulting. This is expressed in number of figures lost.
For Close Combat the winner is determined by a random die roll (a combination of D6 and Average dice; better troops roll more Average Dice, poorer troops roll D6) combined with various factors (e.g. number of casualties caused). The difference in the totals is used on the "Reaction Tablet" to determine the result. This can be either a push back or outright rout with additional casualties. A unit that is pushed back a certain distance (depending on its quality) will rout. I believe this is supposed to represent the scrum of the push of pike.
Army Lists:
The army lists go far beyond the typical "Early Royalist," "Late Royalist," "New Model Army," etc. found in most ECW rules. They instead address the specific quirks of the different regional forces. The lists are very well done and provide guidance on rating the troops and assigning musket to pike ratios. The lists include
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The rule book also includes several pages of color flags for 6mm, 15mm, and 25mm figures. There is also a very good discussion of arms and uniforms worn by the troops.
These rules are obviously a labor of love and reflect a great deal of research. They are worth their price for the uniform, equipment and historical information alone.
That being said, there are a number of annoying rules inconsistencies and omissions. The turn sequence in the rules book itself does not actually state when non-charging units move — this was added in an errata, but the absence of something so fundamental is troubling; The rules say that a unit can evade a charge as a reaction if eligible, but doesn't say which units are eligible; At one point the rules say that routing units must break through friendly units to escape (which causes the friendly unit broken through to check morale); at another point it says they can flow around — but the rules don't say when they must go through as opposed to around. Foot contacted by horse while the foot is moving are disorganized — since charge moves go first this can't happen, unless the foot's movement status is based on the previous turn. There are others, but this provides a sense.
Also, the rules will certainly not be everyone's cup of tea. I would characterize them as "old school." Movement is simultaneous, command control is fairly basic, and there are many morale checks to take and many charts to consult. They are not a quick play set and I don't think they're really appropriate for large games. This is contrary to the current fashion of "simple", quick play rules which abstract many things.
I have not played these rules.
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Review Published Dec. 7, 2009
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Genomes and Genes
Celine Robichon
Country: France
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- [Can the hyperactivity of lipogenesis cause hepatic steatosis? A role for ChREBP]Celine Robichon
Institut Cochin, Departement d Endocrinologie, Métabolisme et Cancer, Universite Paris Descartes, CNRS UMR 8104, Paris, France
Med Sci (Paris) 24:841-6. 2008..Although its implication in human disease has not yet been demonstrated, ChRepsilonBP could be an interesting therapeutic target against metabolic syndrome components...
- The lipogenic transcription factor ChREBP dissociates hepatic steatosis from insulin resistance in mice and humansFadila Benhamed
INSERM, U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France
J Clin Invest 122:2176-94. 2012..Together, these results demonstrate that increased ChREBP can dissociate hepatic steatosis from insulin resistance, with beneficial effects on both glucose and lipid metabolism...
- Distinct regulation of adiponutrin/PNPLA3 gene expression by the transcription factors ChREBP and SREBP1c in mouse and human hepatocytesCéline Dubuquoy
INSERM, U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France
J Hepatol 55:145-53. 2011..In order to understand the role of the adiponutrin/PNPLA3 protein, we investigated the regulation of its expression in both human and mouse hepatocytes...


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Charlie Crist in the Queen City
Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist arrived in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday afternoon with his wife Carole in preparation for his appearance on the stage of the Democratic National Convention Thursday night. Crist told the Tampa Bay Times he didn't yet know the time of his speech, but that it would be in the evening. What will he say? "I will give a fuller persepctive of (Obama's) wonderful leadership and other than that you'll have to wait to hear."
The former Republican said he wasn't sure of his schedule for the next two days. But his first event? An afternoon, private event where the entertainment was James Taylor, famed singer-songwriter who grew up in the Tarheel State. Crist attended college briefly in North Carolina, playing football for Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem.


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PCC's 2013 In-Service: Year of the big, hairy, audacious goal
Photos and Story by James Hill
Chris Chairsell, Vice President of Academic & Student Affairs, unleashed the beast during PCC's College-wide In-Service at the Sylvania Campus on Monday, Sept. 16. The beast being the BHAG, or better known as the Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal monster (see pictures). The BHAG is a challenge set forth by new College President Jeremy Brown to encourage staff and faculty to dream big the goals they want the college to achieve in 2013-14. It's all part of the college's push for new strategic planning initiative. Thousands of PCC staff and faculty enjoyed the In-Service during the annual day event, which also included a "PCC" shirt giveaway, voting for words that best describe PCC's culture, honoring of the college's 30-year or more tenured employees and a special speech by a PCC Foundation Rose Scholar.
PCC should offer a Workforce Development four level curriculum emphasizing communication skills for frontline, lead worker, supervisory and upper management employees. Could be no credit certificate programs customized for organizations or open enrollment.


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The 2005 Suzuki Forenza Wagon Is A Suzuki Forenza In Wagon Form
John Davis reports that the Suzuki Forenza has "brisk sales," which means that the Forenza Wagon should also have brisk sales. I don't know about you folks, but I didn't know the Forenza Wagon existed until today. Eight years later.


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The No. 13 Michigan basketball team is 2-0 in conference play and undefeated at home, but Thursday night against No. 12 Indiana, the Wolverines will experience their first road test of the Big Ten season.
Michigan has really only had one true road game this season (a 70-58 loss to Virginia). In that game the Wolverines shot well (44 percent) but just couldn't close out the game on the road. Assembly Hall, home of the Hoosiers, is known for being a tough venue. If Michigan wants to come away victorious these are three keys the Wolverines need to focus on.
1. Contain freshman forward Cody Zeller. He's the Hoosiers leading scorer and rebounder. Michigan State was able to keep their game close for so long because they got Zeller into foul trouble -- his limited playing time allowed Zeller only enough floor time to score four points and grab three rebounds. (But junior forward Christian Watford exploded for 26 points for Indiana.) If Zeller comes out and scores big against a depleted Michigan post contingent, the Wolverines will struggle mightily.
And don't let the fact the 6-foot-11 Zeller weighs only 220 pounds fool you because he's a force in the paint. Redshirt sophomore forward Jordan Morgan may have 30 pounds on Zeller, but loose rebounds are going to be quite difficult for Morgan to get his hands on. So if the Wolverines can contain Zeller, their chances to win are much higher.
2. Drive the lane early. Indiana doesn't have a huge rotation so if the Wolverines can even get even two of the Hoosiers' starters in foul trouble early, Michigan's offense could experience much more success against a less- experienced group of Indiana players. Freshman point guard Trey Burke and sophomores Evan Smotrycz and Tim Hardaway Jr. have attacked the paint well this season, and if they could draw a few fouls on the Hoosiers it could give the Wolverines some favorable matchups.
3. Don't turn the ball over. Indiana forces about 17 turnovers every game. If Michigan wants to win at Assembly Hall it needs to try and keep that number closer to 10. Mental mistakes and silly turnovers are what gets the crowd into the game and helps Indiana go on runs that put away opponents. The Wolverines average 12 turnovers per game. Burke will be tested this game in how well he can handle the ball in tough situations. Michigan coach John Beilein has said how impressed he is with the freshman's poise. Assembly Hall will produce a situation where he really needs that poise if the Wolverines want a shot to win.


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The government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has today published a new document that outlines the three wireless connectivity options available for cities taking part in the troubled, state-aid supported £150m Super Connected Cities Programme (SCCP).
One aspect of the SCCP project that has remained intact, unlike the budget for fixed line broadband infrastructure that was scrapped following EU competition concerns (here), was a requirement that each of the selected cities (here and here) work to roll-out "wide-spread, fast and high-quality" wireless / wifi internet services.
The new document provides a final description of the wireless options within the SCCP (mostly focused on city centres) and the activity suppliers can expect to see from SCCP cities "over the coming months".
The Three SCCP Wireless Connectivity Options
Wireless Concession Contract
Under this option, the City authority grants an operator the right to use City authority assets to provide a wireless communications network and receives payments (fees and revenues) in return. The assets are usually street furniture (i.e. lampposts, CCTV, traffic lights etc.) and buildings.
City authorities have been provided with guidance on structuring wireless concession contracts so as not to impede any existing wireless deployment initiatives which may already be underway in their cities.
Hot Spots in Public Buildings
This option is focused on the establishment of wireless technologies within public buildings, to provide wireless connectivity for members of the public within the buildings, as opposed to outside. Examples include Council buildings, museums, libraries and health centres. A hot spot is a site that offers internet access over a wireless local area network (WLAN) through the use of a router connected to a link to an internet service provider.
Hot spots typically use Wi-Fi technology, but DCMS has recommended that City authorities adopt a technology neutral approach. By focusing on the desired outcomes it allows suppliers to introduce innovation or alternative technologies if appropriate.
Transport Services
This option provides for the implementation of improved wireless connectivity on public transport services focused within city centres such as buses and trams, where the service cost is less than the De minimis threshold for State aid and/or the transport service is publically owned and operated.
Offering improved wireless connectivity on transport services increases the attractiveness of city centres to visitors, businesses and residents and promotes economic growth, as well as supporting environmental initiatives and assisting in the reduction of traffic congestion.
The document reveals that nearly all (21) of the selected cities are "considering" a wireless concession contract of some form, while 16 plan to install wifi hotspots in public buildings and 8 are looking at wireless transport services projects.
Should we for promotes economic growth read "targeted advertising"? Baldrick's cunning plan to save the High Street.


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Newbie teen drivers even more useless than most teen drivers
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has used hidden cameras to prove what everyone already knew: most newbie teen drivers are pretty bad drivers. As their videos show, they are also impossibly obnoxious. No surprise there either. They also like Twilight.


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text: Bosnian Muslims shot and killed 16 Serb soldiers and four nurses near Sarajevo. U.N. officials said some of the victims were mutilated, others were burned, and some had their throat slit. The Muslim-led government admitted its troops killed them, but a government official told the Associated Press, "We are not in the mutilating business, like the Serb side is." The latest developments could reverse recent positive measures like the opening of Sarajevo airport and the return of Muslim prisoners by the Serbs.


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Queen Anne now home to 19 Little Free Libraries – who will help us hit 20?
Posted on April 6th, 2014 by Laura Fonda
We are so close to hitting 20 Little Free Libraries on Queen Anne! A little over a week ago, we got a tip via Twitter about a Little Free Library (LFL) on Queen Anne. It wasn't one that we'd cataloged already in our online gallery or map – so I headed out with the pup to check it out in person.
The newest LFL is nestled just a few houses away from Mount Pleasant Cemetery on W Armour St, filling in a gap on the map between the LFL south of Rodgers Park and the LFL on northwest Queen Anne on Etruria St.
Speaking of gaps, what's up with southwest Queen Anne – are there really no LFLs west of Queen Anne Ave N and south of Galer St? I have yet to see one, but since I travel by foot, it's easy to miss a new one popping up. As always, if you have a LFL, spot one that's not on our map, or add one of your own, let us know!
The map is below, and photos of all 19 LFLs are in our LFL gallery.


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Democratizing capital in Israel: Head stands in Israel
In Shai Agnon's short story, "Peace Everlasting," the following process unfolds in the Land:
"… they appointed measurers for the entire country, to measure the length and width of the land, and they selected a committee to … weave a carpet the size of the country. They selected another committee to gather all of the country's carpenters to make poles to hang the carpet. Another was a committee of forcers who know how to give advice on how to force poles into the ground. They selected another committee to supervise the workers. And then they made just an ordinary committee, which was divided into two sections, ordinary committee A and ordinary committee B. After all the committees had been appointed, they appointed a committee committee."
There is great goodwill in this good land with its strong tradition of committees, including goodwill among both the members of Rothschild Committee appointed by the country's Prime Minister and from the anti-Rothschild Committee appointed by the country's protestors. Somewhere within, between and beyond them both, perhaps the hard simplicities of democratizing capital can relieve the overwhelmingly crushing costs of middle-class living. The protests could yet liberate the Israeli economy to accelerate growth and equity—financial and policy innovations that would bridge the social, economic, educational, housing and regional gaps that could tear the country apart from within if left unattended. As the most recent slogans from the protestors read as the rockets once again began to fall after this week's terrorist attacks, "Personal security is impossible without social-economic security."
These recent protests have stood the nation's policy priorities on its head. No longer are military security measures at the top of the list nor what the Palestinians will or won't do this month or the next (or the one thereafter). Social and economic concerns trump all other priorities, even as rockets fall from Gaza. This is a country defended by its children. When they come home, they want to build, not surprisingly, a home. The tent encampments and mass demonstrations over the past month represent not the margins of Israeli society but its mainstream: the slight majority of the population that works, defends the country, and pays taxes. And yes, they are all on Facebook. They suffer (or enjoy) claustrophilia, love to be together and talk a lot. The tent encampments and demonstrations have provided a wonderful setting for inter-generational and regional bonding. That is their social capital that could yet yield lasting financial and economic gains for the majority of Israelis.
Middle-class Israelis demonstrated over the past month that they are tired of being the beast of burden for an economy that, while successful and sometimes driven to excessive self-congratulation, has not been successful enough to outgrow increasing poverty rates and regional and social gaps that challenge the cohesion required to keep the country safe, retain jobs and keep its next generation at home.
People do vote with their feet. Without access to capital, jobs, and relief from high tax rates, foreign markets will continue drain Israeli talent and capital. Everyone knows the drill here: negative outmigration from the North, South and Jerusalem to Tel-Aviv and then from Tel-Aviv to overseas. The pattern of brain drains and capital flight (both financial and human) are well known. Human capital is enormously footloose in this global economy. Members of this productive core of the Israeli population and workforce became sick and tired of the rising cost of living and decided they wouldn't take it anymore. Education, housing, affordable social services, transportation and infrastructure all rose to the top of the national agenda. The start-up nation wants to build from within and outwards to become integrated in the global economy and known as a laboratory of future solutions, not constant problems.
The lessons of the high-tech sector need to be duplicated beyond the 8-10% of that highly compensated workforce (which itself represents only 57% of the working age population, compared with the 70% workforce participation averaged in most of the developed world) that produces the lion's share of GDP growth, income, foreign exchange reserves. These lessons must be applied to the emerging sectors (cleantech, life sciences, alternative energy) and to the traditional sectors (water, agriculture, food processing, and manufacturing), where more competitiveness is needed.
Simply put, Israel's uneven growth rate is inadequate and shared unequally. This has enormous implications for sustaining aggregate demand-driven growth to make the country sustainable and affordable for the majority of its inhabitants. Most macroeconomists here have agreed that the historical aggregate growth rate of 3-4% is insufficient to bridge productivity and investment gaps to create economic security. An annualized aggregate growth rate potential of 6-7% can be achieved that would narrow income and wealth disparities through activist public and private investment policies that the government started and should be enlarged.
Israel must double its growth rate to build out the country and reduce its current peak rates of income and wealth inequality, the highest in the developed world. This can only be done by increasing job creation and capital access for emerging and renewing industries. Clean technology, health, education, and other cutting edge solutions to global problems are the core of Israel's new industrial policy.
The longing for social solidarity by the tent encampments did not begin with this generation but was a core belief of Israel's founders. These are Ben-Gurion's children. It was his recorded voice that was broadcast at many demonstrations, reading the Declaration of Independence in 1948 or remembered and recited in his words on the 10th anniversary of the State's founding: " … there is a mutual influence between our economic position and our political status, on one hand," he said, " … and our capacity for spiritual and social advancement on the other … matter and spirit are not two separate realms."
More recently, the beloved Israeli novelist David Grossman also captured that notion: "This is a year," he wrote, "for renewal and recreation of the ideals that brought the country into being: vision and daring, confidence of purpose and values … (Israel) must struggle endlessly, and not only to keep up its military strength. It must make itself always a place of meaning and not just a refuge or fortress … its inhabitants must feel they belong here not because they have no other choice, but rather because this place speaks to them, quickens them, grants them meaning they can find nowhere else."
But getting from here to there requires new economically driven policies and programs that drive competitiveness and growth, and not the political bargaining that characterizes debates historically—in short, a headstand. Economics to overcome scarcity must trump traditional geo- and domestic-politics squabbles and focus on how to grow a fair and more equitable economic pie. Access to capital access is the key. As Martin Luther King simply put it: "Capitalism without capital is just an 'ism'." Market capitalization has skyrocketed among Israeli firms, but they have sold out too early to foreign competitors, not built diversified economic sectors and global corporations, and limited capital access for new entrants.
Capital access has remained relatively constrained, except for the country's largest firms. Households comprise over 75% of the profits for the country's concentrated and uncompetitive banking system. But consumers and small businesses face interest rates that are 2.8 times higher than the average for larger clients. Start-up nation's small businesses represent 96% of all businesses, more than 50% of GDP and more than 60% of all employees, but they receive only 23% of overpriced bank credit.
It's not only privately concentrated corporate and banking power that constrain competition, but government monopolies as well. With more than 90% of Israel's land controlled by the Israel Land Administration, its incentives are to maximize current income aggressively to cover budget gaps and sell off land in auctions (where the government has no retained interest and therefore fails to maximize overall returns to the Treasury) that tend toward luxury housing for foreign buyers (or domestic buyers with foreign incomes, a small percentage of the population). The centrally controlled property tax system is highly regressive, inconsistent and doesn't reflect values. Many communities with higher market values tax their properties at lower rates. The most socio-economically distressed communities charge the highest real estate taxes. Development fees—mandatory charges by the Israel Land Administration—pass along infrastructure and site development charges, doubling the acquisition cost of land. There is no transfer of development rights to owners (they are retained by the Land Administration), no tax increment financing, and no public finance bond market for commercial and residential affordable housing, community development and urban revitalization. Without new financial tools, it's hard to build a home in Israel affordably. The numbers necessary to finance the future and fix the housing market don't add up.
What do you see when you stand on your head and what do you do as a consequence? Where things go from here will be determined by decisions that Israelis will and should make, but the means and methods to steer toward greater economic independence can be crafted from experiences both at home and abroad. Financial toolkits exist that elicit capital from private and public, government and non-profit sources, along with investment from all these sectors to create double bottom lines. These are investments with social and economic returns that can create the next wave of Israeli economic growth.
A few carrots and sticks of financial policy innovation will help. Let's look at making housing affordable and sustainable:
Housing costs have skyrocketed more that 40% in 3 years. The financial and policy tools to fix this and build an affordable housing industry are easily available—it's a combination of sticks (regulation) and carrots (tax credits, government and philanthropic credit enhancements, and loan-loss reserves) to carve new channels of capital into a renewed Israeli affordable and sustainable housing market based on public-private partnerships:
1) The Israel Land Administration controls 90% of the land and all of the building rights. By decentralizing and transferring development rights to local/regional authorities and neighborhood residents, asset poverty by low and middle-income Israelis could be overcome. It would be an Israeli "Homestead Act" as described by attorney and developer Shraga Biran.
2) By granting tax credits (like the U. S.'s Low Income Housing Tax Credits and the U.K.'s Community Investment Tax Credit), private investors could lower market entry costs substantially (up to 55%) for both owners and renters and convert tax credits into equity for new owners.
3) With land costs lowered through new, innovative Land Administration policies, and private capital incentivized via tax credits to create equity, financial technologies would make senior and subsidized lending more affordable. Both for-profit and non-profit developers could help create underwriting for home mortgages where folks could rent or purchase housing within their means. U. S. investors and the affordable housing industry could help. Israel's institutional investors—pension funds and insurance companies—could provide long term returns from this sector to meet pension liabilities.
4) The Central Bank Regulator could adopt Community Reinvestment Act standards and ratings to insure that banks charging fees and collecting deposits are required to reinvest in affordable distribution of housing credit in the communities they serve. In short, force an end to redlining whole regions of the country. It was the Community Reinvestment Act in the U. S. in 1977 (which was inspired by similar struggles for affordable housing) that required banks to reinvest in the communities that provided the deposit base for banking capital.
For rental housing, direct subsidies like below-market second mortgages could attract private bank financing and keep rents affordable. Tools for lowering the cost of home ownership include mortgage guarantees, concessionary construction and mortgage financing, shared equity, tax increment financing, rent-to-purchase conversion, and subordinated lending through properly structured products. Reinventing housing finance in Israel could fix the housing market and generate community stability and national economic security. A popular slogan appropriated from recent wars can be seen in all the encampments and reads, "We're fighting for our home." This time, as always, the front is at home.


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The Tradition of Sleeping in Separate Beds in Jewish Marriages
Religion is a complex thing and there are many rules to observe. In many religions, sex is only permissible within the constraints of marriage. It is no different in Orthodox Judaism and although sex between a man and his wife is considered to be perfectly normal and not just for the purposes of procreation, there are some rules that must be observed. Most notably, this includes the rule of 'separation'.
The Law of Niddah – Separation in the Bedroom
Niddah is virtually unheard of outside the Orthodox community. The Law of Niddah relates to the separation of husband and wife at certain times of the month and is generally practiced only by those living within the Orthodox community. Laws of ritual purity are described extensively in the Torah, but because non-Orthodox Jews rarely continue their religious education after bar mitzvah, the subject matter is not often discussed outside of the Orthodox community. The Niddah law is one of many laws relating to ritual impurity, but it is the only one still observed in the modern world.
What is a Niddah?
A 'Niddah' is a menstruating woman and observing the Niddah law means that a husband and wife must sleep in separate beds when the woman is menstruating. This period of separation must continue until seven days after the woman has stopped menstruating.
According to the Torah, separation begins at the very first sign of blood and must not end until the evening of the seventh 'clean day'. In practice this means that a married couple must sleep in separate beds for a minimum of twelve days every month until the wife is either pregnant or has reached menopause and is no longer menstruating. In the Torah, it is stated that a married couple must only abstain from sexual intercourse during Niddah. However, rabbis have extended this observance to include all forms of close physical contact and therefore married couples must sleep in separate beds for part of the month.
On the evening of the seventh day after she has finished menstruating, as soon as possible after nightfall, it is traditional for the wife to undertake a ritual purification in a kosher mikvah pool. The mikvah pool is intended to cleanse a person of ritual impurities rather than being a way of ensuring physical cleanliness. In fact a woman needs to have thoroughly bathed before entering the mikvah pool to ensure she is physically clean.
The Ancient Institution of Mikvah
Mikvah is an ancient tradition dating back to the times of the two Temples. Jews who were 'impure' in any way were required to purify themselves through immersion in the mikvah. Today only the law of Niddah remains in common use.
Sleeping Arrangements
In many modern homes, sleeping in a double bed is standard practice for married couples, or indeed any couple who are living together as man and wife. But in observant Jewish homes, the situation is very different. Rather than having one double bed, a married couple will have two beds instead. This allows them to sleep separately and practice the concept of family purity.
The Benefits of Sleeping in Separate Beds
Surprising as it may sound, there are many benefits for couples sleeping in separate beds.
- Fertility – Abstaining from sexual intercourse for a few days prior to ovulation can increase a woman's chances of conceiving a child. This period of abstinence helps increase the husband's sperm count.
- Strengthening the marriage bond – Having unrestricted access to your spouse can soon lead to boredom and apathy. By contrast, being forced to sleep in separate beds for a minimum of twelve days every month, with nothing other than affectionate physical contract allowed, can help to keep the bonds of love alive by vanquishing over-familiarity in the bedroom. Couples can learn to communicate their feelings of love and tenderness in other ways, so when they are finally allowed to share the marital bed once again, it will feel like the wedding night all over again.
- Spiritual fulfilment – Observing the law of Niddah is often an elevating and ennobling experience because of its religious significance.
- Better quality of sleep – Most people sleep a lot better when they are not sharing a bed with another person, even if they happen to love that person very much. Sleeping with a heavy snorer, a restless sleeper, or an insomniac can prevent the other partner from enjoying a good night's sleep, so maintaining two separate beds in the family home is not always such a bad thing!
Before the Wedding
The bride to be must begin observing family purity before she enters marriage with her groom. She is required to start practicing family purity four days before the wedding and special attention must be paid to her personal preparations.
The Wedding Night
It is sensible to plan a wedding so that the wife-to-be is not menstruating on her wedding night, but where this is impossible there are strict rules to be observed that take into account the law of Niddah.
If a bride to be is in a state of Niddah on her wedding night, the wedding ceremony will need to be modified so that Niddah law continues to be observed. Whereas a bride and groom would normally be placed in seclusion after the wedding ceremony, this part of the ceremony is omitted, or if it is allowed to take place, the couple must be chaperoned at all times.
In some Jewish traditions, the groom also has to undergo his own mikvah. To some, this is considered to be a good thing as it allows him to confess his wrong-doings while he is immersed in the cleansing water of the mikvah pool. If for some reason he cannot reach a mikvah pool, the next best thing is to undertake some intense study of the Torah to purify his soul.
Irrespective of whether a Jewish man and wife observe the tradition of sleeping in separate beds, they are expected to act with kindness and affection towards each other at all times.


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Need advice on the 08 Substance 138.... should I purchase it? I heard it is allot like the old Balance they stopped making in 06... I loved that board.
substance is sick youll like it if you get it ive been riding it for 4 years
Nice! I am excited. Ya since they stopped making the balance I have been riding the shane and its a very good board.. but I wanted something new..
Look into the Lyman and the Watson. I have a substance, which i like, but I am def. digging those other two boards more.
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text: Hi All I attended Photo Plus yesterday and stopped by the Light Impressions (LI) booth, met John Sexton and also spent some time talking to Larry Proctor (last of the and my former account managers) at LI. Larry has given me the go ahead to post this information. I spoke with Larry regarding concerns and the fact that many of us (including many here at APUG) were Professional Photographers who had had accounts with LI. Last year they changed their practice much to the dismay to many of us. Larry told me that he was not in favor of what had happened, but he said had the changes not taken place, we would not have been talking yesterday (meaning they would be out of business). Now, there has been another change to LI with a new President and they are having a new direction. Larry is in our court about what we want and what he would like to happen. He is in the process of changing things so that there will be a 2 tier system for Professional accounts the present one for bricks and mortar business with their $10,000 minimum order and a new second tier for those of us that are Pros that have our accounts reimplemented. Along with this change, I believe that he will push for our account agreement reimplemented for our time for payment. I spoke with Larry about the possibility of offering a discount to APUG members as a collective group since there is a membership of about 17,000 and probably the lions share of the membership here in the US and Canada. Larry indicated that he would have no problem trying to implement a discount for all of the APUG membership. I will try to keep the members updated on this as things develop. I am wondering however, how many of us here at APUG do or have used LI for a source of some or much of your framing needs. Please make any comments about this below. I have included a poll for the discussion as well. Rich


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Special thanks to LiberTEAS for this one!!!
Before infusion I can smell the typical fruit cocktail type flavors after infusion I can smell the green tea much more than the flavors…yet the flavors that are somewhat hidden…are still an enjoyable aroma.
All of the flavors mesh together nicely for a tasty flavored green. There really isn't a flavor that pops out in front of the others – at least during this cup – but it sure is a YUMMY Cuppa regardless!


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Arousing Suspicion | Act II - side quests Dragon's Dogma Guide
In short: A secret meeting with Aelinore can end in two ways. To receive this quest, you first need to talk to princess in the garden after the meeting with the Duke. The quest is given to you by the maid Mirabelle, who is usually standing in front of the throne room.
Difficulty level: Easy. Before taking it, make sure you have the Skeleton Key (you can make it by combining Shackle with Iron Ore).
After taking the quest, wait until the evening (i.e. at the inn) and enter the castle area. After dark there'll be guards here, so you'll have to avoid them. First, go right into the garden and talk to Mirabelle.
To get to the tower, go up to the first floor of the castle. Use the side entrance (near the garden). Before you go in, make sure that the guard has moved away from the door.
Be cautious in the throne room as well (it's patrolled by one person). When the coast is clear, run up the stairs and make a turn for the tower.
The quest will proceed further only if it's the night - otherwise the tower will be empty.
If the time is right, there will be a cutscene. Unfortunately, the ruler will quickly appear on the scene and start... chocking Aelinore. You have a choice: hide behind the curtain and let the woman die or reveal yourself. It's worth doing, because this way you won't lose Aelinore and will be able to complete the next quest (a rescue mission).
No matter what you choose, you'll end up in prison. To get out, you can bribe the guard or use the Skeleton Key. After leaving the cell, use the secret passage hidden in the cell at the end of the room. The corridor leading to freedom is full with Snakes and Spiders.


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Hey yinz. Adaena Tray here from Green Tree Public Library. Our library recently offered a Star Wars Crafts program for school-age children that was such a hit, I wanted to to share it here. Also, keep reading for your chance to win supplies to host your own Star Wars Crafts.
My inspiration for this craft program was The Star Wars Craft Book by Bonnie Burton. I found the book to have several kid-friendly crafts that could be done with larger groups and using supplies most libraries already own. There are currently 13 copies of this book in the catalog, so finding one shouldn't be a problem!
The crafts that we ended up doing were the Chewbacca tissue paper holder and the Yoda stick puppet.
For the Chewbacca tissue paper holder, I asked each kid to bring in his/her own square, upright tissue box (either full or empty). First, the participants used a thick paint brush to brush a layer of tacky glue onto their box. Next, the kids adhered pre-cut rectangles of brown fur fabric to the box, wrapping it like a present and leaving an opening at the top for the tissue to pop out. Then, they glued the pre-cut bandolier across his body and cut about ten gray squares to go on this belt. They formed their own eyes, mouth, and teeth from felt squares we provided. Lastly, they glued on a pom-pom nose. Since our library only owned a handful of scissors suitable for cutting felt, I asked that each participant bring in their own set of scissors. Parents were required to stick around for this program to help with the cutting; grown-ups had just as much fun as the kids!
Our first Star Wars Crafts program filled up so fast, we offered a repeat performance a few days later. However, as I'm sure you all can relate to, we had a bunch of no-shows and now are left with a slue of unused supplies.
To participate in this giveaway, please leave a comment on this blog post that includes your name, the library where you work and a short description of the best craft and/or craft program you've ever offered! The winner will be selected via a random number generator and will be notified via email.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
The Gig Harbor firefighters who volunteered to bring back a steel girder from the fallen World Trade Center are, from left, Ryan Watson, Josh Bissenas, Lt. Kent Cooper and Rob McCoy. "I needed to be a part of it. It's a lot about honor," Cooper said.
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Like many, I've been watching the Olympics since I was a child. In any era, the Games are entertaining, inspirational, unifying and educational. They can also be divisive, political and corrupt. However, one hopes that at the end of the day, an athlete's ability to compete at the highest level – safely and fairly – is given the top spot on any list of priorities.
The Sochi Olympics don't give me that "it's all about the athletes" vibe. In fact, they've been nicknamed "Putin's Olympics" ostensibly for Vladimir Putin's instrumental role in securing the 2014 Winter Games for Russia.
But there's more to it than that. Sochi, a subtropical city and seaside resort, isn't the natural choice for a winter sports venue, but the area does host two of Putin's private dachas. One of them is built within Sochi National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, under the guise of being a facility conducting meteorological research. Putin also has longstanding ties to individuals who have benefited from new construction in and around Sochi – among them Boris and Arkady Rotenberg, who won contracts totaling $7.4 billion. Finally, it is well known that Putin's intention is to use the Sochi Games to bolster Russia's image as a global power player, especially among its own citizenry.
No harm in a little self-promotion, but not at the expense of participating athletes who need well-built facilities, optimum weather conditions and minimized threat from terrorist organizations hell-bent on violent disruption. In these matters, I think that the Sochi athletes are being utterly disrespected. Our own State Department has real fears about an active network of Islamic insurgents in the North Caucasus. There are daily reports about undesirable snow conditions in 60 F weather. Construction in the case of snowboarding's half-pipe has been described as both "dangerous" and "crappy." And we've all seen pictures of disconcerting yellow tap water.
Russia has spent a record $51 billion on the Sochi Games. Estimates of how much has gone to cover graft and corruption expenses – kickbacks, bribes, theft – range from 20 to 60 percent, but there's no way to ascertain an accurate figure. For example, Olympstroy, the state Olympic construction authority, has been investigated by the Sochi Internal Affairs department for criminal conduct surrounding an estimated $800 million, but few believe the case will ever see daylight in an actual court of law. Of course, none of this directly impacts athletic performance. But there's something unseemly about illicit activity of this magnitude occurring under the auspices of the Olympic Games. Organized crime should be organized under some other flag.
Regarding the negative publicity generated by stories of Russia's brutal and rampant homophobia, reports are that Putin doesn't give a hoot. In Russia, a person who is beaten for being gay, who then goes to the police for help, can expect to be shrugged off or even blamed. Putin's OK with us knowing about that. Fair enough, but I don't think the Olympic Games should be in locales where violence and corruption are routinely ignored. It may not matter as far as competing goes, but it matters. And I believe that the International Olympics Committee should start giving a hoot.


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Fact or fiction behind financial aid
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:11:41 GMT —
Itâ??s that time of the year againâ?¦high school seniors applying to colleges all across the nation and trying to find ways on how to pay for it. With the rising costs of college tuition, many are turning to financial aid, meaning one wordâ?¦FAFSA.
"After January 1st of your senior year of high school, you can apply and file for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA. It's based one the most recent tax return information. You can list more than one school to receive the results. So go ahead, get it filled out and sent." Said Kathy Elsea Director of Financial Aid at Truman State University.
But what is fact and fiction when going through the college financial process. Here are some of the most common myths.
One myth is Students wonâ??t get any financial aid because their parents make too much money. That is the wrong approach.
"It's on a student individual to individual basis. A big part is the household income, but other factors like number of people in the household or number of kids in the household go to college can play a role in determining the amount of aid you are eligible for. " Elsea said. "You may not qualify for the federal grant money but your school can have other need base aid you can receive."
Another myth is when the right school offered a financial aid package, but it wasnâ??t enough. Students have to attend a different school. Not necessary.
"It's important to file the FAFSA early to the schools you are interested in. Make sure you do the whole process on time, so the admissions office can consider you for their scholarships while at the same time you can apply for any other private scholarships to help fill the need." Elsea said.
And hereâ??s the most popular myth, scholarships are just for the students with the best academic records, and not for the average student. Not so.
"Scholarships are awarded for lots of different things besides academics and athletics. Clubs and organizations of many affiliations such as religion or nationality can also give scholarships as well." Elsea said. "So there are a lot of different areas to cover to help find that money you need to pay for college."
The bottom line is when it comes to college and financial aid, when thereâ??s a will thereâ??s a way. You just have to do your homework.
For more information and to apply the FAFSA, click here: http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/


text: I fiddled with Pod::Simple today to implement a feature where if you have an =over and some stuff and then a =head1 (or 2,3,4), it'll automatically issue a =back before the =head1, and will warn you. Nothing fancy. Along the way, I got a refresher in the delightfully Lovecraftian internals of Pod::Simple.


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The people inside an organization represent its greatest security risk.
That's according to a report (pdf) released on Monday by RSA, the security division of enterprise storage company EMC.
RSA said that the survey was fielded in November and consisted of 126 person-on-the-street interviews (using questionnaires) of government and corporate office workers in Boston and Washington, D.C.
"The findings of the survey underscore that the threat posed to data by well-meaning insiders -- employees, contractors, suppliers, partners, visitors, and consultants who have physical and/or logical access to organizational assets -- greatly broadens that posed by malicious insiders who deliberately leak sensitive data for personal financial gain or other criminal purposes," the report states.
The recent 2007 SANS Top 20, a list of the year's most significant security risks, also noted that computer users tended to be the weakest link in the computer security chain.
What sort of risky behavior are office workers engaging in? Some 52% said they sometimes or frequently accessed work-related e-mail via a public computer, such as a might be found at a Internet cafe, hotel, or airport. And 56% sometimes or frequently accessed work-related e-mail through a wireless hotspot.
Asked, "Have you ever lost a laptop, smartphone, and/or USB flash drive with corporate information on it?", 8% said they had.
And 63% of respondents indicated that they sometimes or frequently send corporate documents to a personal e-mail address in order to work on them at home.
While the RSA report suggests that additional security technology can mitigate these risks -- RSA is in the business of selling such things, after all -- it also acknowledges that the blame for users' disregarding security policies belongs in part with the creators of those policies.
"Organizations can mitigate this risk by developing information-centric policies that acknowledge and align with the needs and realities of the business," the report says. "Once such policies are in place, companies should constantly measure actual user behavior against established policy and use what they learn to inform smart policy changes that minimize risk and maximize business productivity. When security is as convenient as possible for end users, they are less likely to work around security policy."
And the fact is that for many workers, corporate security policies are either not convenient or are poorly understood. About 35% of respondents said that they felt they needed to work around corporate security policies to get their jobs done.
Sam Curry, VP of product management at RSA, said that the survey respondents were "innocent people working hard to do their jobs" and risks arising from their willful or accidental contravention of corporate policy weren't the product of malice. "Security procedures need to be in touch with the realities of human behavior," he said.
Curry stressed the need for user education, to make workers aware of the consequences of their actions. And he also said that organizations needed tools to monitor employee behavior to understand the gaps between policy and worker behavior. Said Curry, "Organizations need visibility into how people actually behave."


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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks Monday outside Moscow. The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin has urged President Barack Obama to discourage the Ukrainian government from using force against protesters in the country's east.
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text: This is Kizzy she is 12 years old (which is a grand old age for a boxer!) she still has more energy than Mitzi - my 8 year old boxer! She came over from ireland on Saturday (bit of a long story, but she was handed in to the vets to be PTS) so she came here as a foster. 2 days later she is no longer a foster, she is staying here for good


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The Corpus Christi Ice Rays threw down with the fearsomely named Bossier-Shreveport Mud Bugs in late December, and the YouTube has just now made the Internet. It's got everything: a brutal check for an opening salvo, a goalie fight, a body slam, players coming off the bench to fight, and an announcer with infectious enthusiasm.
One little quibble with the announcer from the word-nerd, though: when you call something a "melee," it's best to pronounce it meh-lay, not mee-lay, as there's a difference between a disorderly brawl and the murder of hundreds of civilians in a Vietnamese hamlet. Although I suppose that could make a hockey game appealing in its own right. Anyway, next time just call it a "donnybrook." That word's got some real flair. And you know how I love flair.
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Cindermedusae [Cinder] – "generative encyclopedia of imaginary sea creatures"
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of Hwy 31s South-Tarpley) GILES COUNTY, TENNESSEE
This map shows the GPS coordinates of the Adams Cemetery.
Go south on Hwy 31 from Pulaski and turn west (right) on Crescent View aka Thompson Road. Go nearly a mile and the road turns back north or right. From there bear or turn left into a gravel road. After about 400 yards the gravel road turns back left (southeast). Continue on and go past a small creek getting your tires wet. After that look left and as you climb a slope the cemetery tree line can be seen way out in a wheat field about 300 yards under a small clump of trees as seen on the next two maps.
This aerial map shows the cemetery under the small clump of trees out in a wheat field (today) but the farmer here is subject to growing any crop.
Same map just not cluttered up with the yellow highlighter. If you visit please respect the crop being grown here and not cross into the cemetery when the crops are green and subject to being trampled upon.
Mapping from Topozone MS Streets & Trips & MS Bing mapping. Modified and added here 26 Mar 2012 by C. Wayne Austin.
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3. Create a Fibrous Foundation
Fiber is crucial for good health and a strong body, especially critical when you are eating a ton of protein in an attempt to pile on lean muscle. In truth, most bodybuilding diets are too low in fiber because of the age-old bodybuilding propensity to avoid vegetables because they tend to believe that this "sissy" food isn't providing them with anything worth the time it takes to eat it. Of course this is not correct.
Fiber provides the bodybuilder with several key benefits, the most important of which is the prevention of constipation by providing bulk to the stool. This is an important point because so many bodybuilders that have a high-protein and low-residue diet are plagued with problems like constipation and hemorrhoids. The fact is that high-protein diets are, by themselves, constipating. It might seem strange to write about it with such candor, but it is the truth and a very important warning for bodybuilders. That's because a constipated bodybuilder has a slowed metabolism, which is bad for absorption and utilization of nutrients, and is the exact opposite state that a bodybuilder strives for.
Constipation leaves a bodybuilder feeling slow, gaseous, and sluggish. Trying to train like that is almost counterproductive. Luckily, fiber can save the day. I prefer eating my vegetables. I love them. I eat them raw in the form of salads, or broiled or steamed depending on the type. These types of vegetable fibers are known as insoluble fibers. They include leafy greens and other salad-like veggies. The insoluble fibers have the advantage of being relatively low in carbohydrates while having the added advantage of providing the body with many essential minerals and nutritive phytochemicals. Diets rich in these bulk fibers help to speed fecal matter through the colon. As a result, they help prevent colitis and hemorrhoids.
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11th Annual Labadie Pig Gig Announcement
Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:17:55 GMT —
The 11th annual Labadie Pig Gig presented by State Farm will be held from August 4th to the 7th at Veterans Memorial Park in Bay City.
The event raises money for 20 area charities including the Boys and Girls Club of Bay City, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and the Autism Society.
This year's Pig Gig will be host to great food and entertainment for all.
Thursday night, the Rumours, a Fleetwood Mac tribute band will be playing. Some country music featured on Friday night with Phil Vassar. Saturday night there will be Saving Abel, and on Sunday, some southern rock with The Georgia Satellites.
Ten rib competitors from all over the world will be there as well. Coming from Memphis Tennessee, Kansas City Missouri, and even Sydney Australia!
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Grand Theft Auto Online is liable to suffer from various tech issues in its formative days, creator Rockstar has warned.
The GTA Online component of GTA V will be activated via a free download next Tuesday (October 1st).
"The first couple of weeks we expect to be heavily focused on tuning the experience as it goes from internal testing to the reality of being played by tons of people in the real world so that all the usual teething problems for an online game are overcome," a statement said.
"We hope it will all run incredibly smoothly, but please bear with us if it doesn't, and help us fix any and all problems. Community feedback… is vital for the ongoing success of the game.
"The first few months of Grand Theft Auto Online will be critical as everyone enters this dynamic new world for the first time. Plenty of issues are bound to occur.
"One thing we are already aware of, and are trying to alleviate as fast as we can, is the unanticipated additional pressure on the servers due to a significantly higher number of players than we were anticipating at this point – we are working around the clock to buy and add more servers, but this increased scale is only going to make the first few days even more temperamental than such things usually are.
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Daily Bee, Sacramento
Monday Evening, February 13, 1860
CEMETERY REPORT - P.L. EDWARDS, referee in the case of the People of the State of California upon the relation of R.P. JACOBS vs. D. MURRAY, reported to-day to the District Court in favor of plaintiff and directs "that judgement herein be entered up in said Court according to the prayer of said complaint, to wit: That the said defendant be excluded from the office of Superintendent of the City Cemetery of the city of Sacramento, in the State of California, and from the exercise of the powers and duties thereof, and from the receiving of the fees, emoluments and profits thereof, and that the relator be placed in and invested with the said office, powers and duties and the receipt of the said fees, emoluments and profits; and further, that the plaintiffs recover their costs herein laid out, expended and taxed and that the executing issue therefor." It is understood that the District Judge will not interfere with the report of the referee.
A SEQUEL - When the officers discovered the fire yesterday morning, and were satisfied that an incendiary had been at work, two or three went through the alley to ______ street, when they saw the gas-light put out in a certain building, and two young men shortly afterward came out. The officers secreted themselves in an old outhouse to watch further proceedings, but were observed by one of the two men referred to, who commenced uttering a string of most abusive language. He dared one of the officers to fight, which the policeman, of course declined doing ,till the scapegrace went so far to put his fist in McINTOSH's face. The officer then took off his coat, and gave the rowdy a dressing which he will no doubt long remember. We forbear giving the names of these fellows, hoping the company to which they belong will see that it is their interest to get rid of such nuisances.
DEADLY WEAPONS - In the Police Court, this morning, the difficulty which took place last Saturday evening, between Domingo NAREZ and Jose VEGA, was investigated. The examination of Domingo NAREZ was first taken up, when VEGA swore that, meeting Narez on the street, the latter used very bad language toward him and made a pass at him with a knife about a foot long. A witness testified that he, soon after the shooting, assisted Vega to find a knife, which he (Vega) said he had lost. A woman who lives with Domingo, stated that she and defendant came out of the house together and that, without a word passing between the parties, Vega fired three shots at Domingo, who had no weapon about him. Judgement was reserved till examination be heard in the other case, which was postponed till to-morrow.
ANNUAL - To- morrow will be St. Valentines' Day, and that, too, coming in Leap Year, a grand fluttering among young hearts follows as a matter of course. What deep consideration will it require to decide what colors will suit best the taste of the recipients, or what words of poetry will be most effectual in thawing the icy heart of a loved but coquettish fair one! We are unable to say to what extent the young ladies of Sacramento will exercise their Leap Year prerogative - but perhaps may be able to speak more advisedly on the subject, which deeply affects us ,by Wednesday morning. "Dimmed spire spar."
THE TEST IN SACRAMENTO - The Lecompton Democratic County Committee met on Saturday, and called a primary election for the 18th inst., and a convention for the 23d, and also adopted the following text; "Resolved, That the judges of the primary election are hereby instructed not to allow any one to vote who voted against Scott or Burch on the State Ticket, or Taylor, our candidate for Sheriff, or Brown, our candidate for County Clerk, at the last election." That will exclude the Anti-Lecomptonites, pretty well, and keep the organization in this county in the hands of the Administration men. Well, that is only fair - "to the victors belong the spoils."
ST. PATRICK - A ball, the proceeds to aid in the erection of an Orphanage and School-house in the city, will be given at Agricultural Hall on Friday evening, Match 16th (St. Patrick's Eve). The price of tickets, including carriages, is put at five dollars.
FRUSTRATED - An attempt to fire a Chinese wash-house on the south side of K street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, was fortunately frustrated at an early hour yesterday morning, by officers Burke, Cody and McIntosh.
FELTER, NO. 94 K street, corner of Fourth, in the building, has just opened a fine dairy of new Eastern butter, (vic Isthmus,) and also a fine lot of California hams, selected expressly for family use. Try them, as his motto is small profits and quick sales.
Col. A.J. BUTLER; one of the executors of BRODERICK's Will, returned from Washington in the last steamer, and brought a copy of that document with him. Here it is, as published in the Telegram:
"In the Name of God, Amen: I, David C. BRODERICK, of the city of San Francisco, in the State of California, of sound mind and memory, do make and publish this as my last Will and Testament.
"First - After all my just debts and liabilities are paid, I give and bequeath to my friend John A. McGLYNN, of San Francisco, the sum of ten thousand dollars.
"Second - All the rest and residue of my estate, both real and personal, I give and bequeath to my friend George WILKES, of the city of New York.
"Third - I hereby make, constitute and appoint my friends, George WILKES, John A. McGLYNN and Andrew J. BUTLER, Executors of this my last Will and Testament; and also declare that no sureties shall be required from them or either of them.
"Last - I hereby revoke all Wills and Codicils by me heretofore made, and declare this to be my only last Will and Testament.
"In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand and seal, at the city of New York, this second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine."
(Signed) "D.C. BRODERICK
ARRIVALS AT ST. GEORGE HOTEL February 12
S.B. SEGUR, Cosumnes
Jas. MOORE, do
Hon B.F. MYERS, Auburn
Dr. J.S. POYNTER, Sutter Co.
Chas. E. GREENE, Yolo county
Gen. W. PIERCE, do
I.C. STEEL, do
R. BENNETT, do
R.G. ALLEN, San Bernardino
J.H. FRANK, Napa
Rich'd LAMBERT, Petaluma
Chas. BROOKE, Philadelphia
Lewis BRADY, Folsom
E.C. PALMER, San Francisco
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Daily Bee, Sacramento
Wednesday Evening, February 15, 1860
PROBATE - In the Probate Court to-day, relative to the estate of N. MOSER, deceased; sale of personal property was approved. Estate of J.P. RITIZ, deceased; order was granted for sale of personal property. Matilda La ROSA filed her petition to be appointed guardian of Cayitana and Theodore ROBLES, minors, which was set for hearing on Monday, 27th, instant. Estate of C. TERHUNE, deceased; Mark ROBINSON, administrator, filed his final account, which was also set for hearing on 27th.
ELECTION - The annual meeting of the Sacramento Bible Society was held last Monday evening ,when the following officers were elected: A. REDINGTON, President; D. MECKER, P.H. RUSSELL, W.R. STRONG, Dr. F.M. SHIELDS, Rev. W.H. HILL, A. HENLEY, and M.S. HURD, Vice Presidents; A.C. SWEETSER, Secretary; L.P. COLLINS, Treasurer; and R.P. NORMAN, G.I.N. MONELL, J.E. PERKINS, M.S. HURD, and J.W. AVERY, Executive Committee.
MURDER TRIAL - The trial of Peter LUNDBERG for the murder of John Peter RITIZ, commenced this morning in the District Court, G.L. WATERS assisting the District Attorney, and Messrs. ESTER and HOLL appearing for the prisoner. After selecting ten jurors, the Court took recess of three quarters of an hour, and ordered a venue to issue for five more jurymen.
THE JURY - The following gentlemen have been selected to compose the jury to try Peter LUNDBERG for the murder of John Peter RITZ: F.S. LARDNER, D.S. RODGERS, Joseph McGEE, W. EVANS, Thomas K. STEWART, S. WORMSER, Gordon BACKUS, Wm. H. BARSTON, W. ORR, Jacob DOUGHERTY, E.H. BISHOP and George BRUBAKER.
MELODEON - Lew RATTLER, Master Shepherd and Miss Louisa PAULIN are now engaged at the Melodeon, and are certainly no ordinary attractions. No wonder the Melodeon is crowded nightly.
COMMITTED - Mike O'MEARA came down from Folsom this morning, having in charge Wm. GALLAGHER, committed to jail by Justice YOUNG of Folsom, in default of giving bail in the sum of one thousand dollars to keep the peace towards the people of the State, and especially towards Mary A. GAFF.
The stamp tax - In the suit of Mark BRUMMAGIM et al vs. The City and County Treasurer, to recover back moneys paid under protest for stamps under what is known as the stamp tax, Judge NORTON decided in favor of the defendant, and sustained the constitutionality of that law.
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British & Irish Lions centre Jamie Roberts accepted an offer to join Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers on stage in Melbourne on Friday night.
Roberts, a keen guitarist who will miss the Lions' second Test against the Wallabies on Saturday with a hamstring injury, was invited to play alongside the rugby-loving band by Manics lead singer James Dean Bradfield who scheduled their shows in Australia around the Lions' fixtures.
"I have had a chat with James Dean Bradfield about that and he suggested I get up on stage to play a bit of rhythm guitar," Roberts told PA Sport last month. "He would have to let me know which song so I can get a bit of practice in! That would be pretty cool.
"This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours was one of the albums I grew up with and one of those albums I know the word to every song. Their song 'Australia' sticks in the memory for me. It is a wonderful song and I am sure they will finish the gigs with it!
"James is a wonderful bloke, a true Welshman, a big Cardiff Blues fan and it is great to see them playing gigs in Australia alongside the Lions."
Roberts, who was reportedly 'more nervous than he's ever been', was announced as special guest at the Melbourne Festival Hall gig with the band also set to perform on the eve of the third Test in Sydney. "It's a rare treat when two things collide that you truly love,'' Manics bassist Nicky Wire told The Age earlier this week.


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The Thinking Blogger Award Is Upon Us
Well, now this blog too has been nominated! Dr. Zaius states, in his nomination:
This is a blog about the author's stay in the fictional country of Pottsylvania. Aside from that, I can't figure out what the blog is about, except that there are lot's of great articles and stuff - and occasionally there are pictures of rabbits. More rabbit pictures, please!
I'm not sure why Dr. Zaius is unsure what the blog is about (more than one thing, I hope), but I am looking forward to posting more rabbit pictures this summer and will let him continue in his labor-of-love, which is to say showing many images of Nancy Pelosi in the role of Wonder Woman. (For those not familiar with Nancy Pelosi, she would immediately become the President of the United States if the current President and Vice President were deposed or assassinated. I can see why Dr. Zaius has a special fondness for her.)
It's now my turn to nominate Thinking Bloggers. All of the blogs on my sidebar deserve mention, but it must be admitted that some provoke thought more consistently than others, and some bloggers spread the thought-provokingness across more than one blog, so I apologize for not nominating the whole lot. (Also, I'm more familiar with some than others.)
And now for my nominees, to be presented alphabetically:
BibliOdyssey: Surely one of PK's many other readers has nominated BibliOdyssey already and he has merely been too busy to admit it, but just in case no one has, here goes. Amazing examples of old and new book art, posters, and suchlike with much information about them and links to further resources. The curator is modest but writes very good copy.
BikerBar: Lawrence always puts up an intriguing mix relating to art, music, hermetic philosophies, and life as an American in Prague. Not your average expat, he's now also chronicling life as a new father.
Japonisme: Lotusgreen presents a beautiful and carefully researched exploration of the theme of Japonisme (roughly speaking, the West's fascination with things Japanese, but slightly more broadly interpreted here). As when I first encountered BibliOdyssey, the riches here have me a little daunted and I'm only gradually beginning to explore this trove.
Kolo Kolo Mlynsky: Julia has been, perhaps, a bit preoccupied of late and not blogging much (I suspect that life with Caroline, who is no longer exactly a toddler, is a new challenge every day), but she writes with such grace and charm when she does get around to it. Julia gets to the poetry of parenting a small child in Prague, and all the lovely things about life here.
NvB (formerly Nuda v Brně): NvB has been a thought provoking blog right from the start. Jesse has covered a wide variety of issues relating to the Czech Republic, music, human rights, and of course just plain interesting and humorous stuff. Posting has been a little slow since Jesse moved back to Ann Arbor and went back to reading Clifford Geertz, but let this be a prompt from all of his friends and fans to keep up the blogging.
Susie Bright's Journal: As with BibliOdyssey, it seems a bit unlikely that no one has nominated Susie Bright as a Thinking Blogger, but hey, just because she's famous is no reason to leave her out. I'm sure Molly Ivins (were she still with us) would approve of this nomination, which provides lots of sex and politics and is often, as they say, wickedly funny.
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.
3. Optional: Proudly display the Thinking Blogger Award
Following Princess Haiku's good example (not everyone who gets awards chooses to participate), I have nominated more than five blogs. If your name is above, go for it.
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World Wide Web Owner wrote: > PostgreSQL will have a booth at Linux World Expo, San Francisco, > 2004. We will also have a B.O.F. Come visit us! (click for more) Some people always write "click for more" into their announcements. I admit it's very easy to miss the fact that you can click on the title to get details, but in any case it should be written somewhere automatically and not into every text. Maybe don't make the title a like but instead have a "(more...)" link. ("Click here" is a well-known violation of web usability principles, so some solution that does not involve it would be better.)
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There have been many truly brilliant films that took home the Palme d'Or at the annual Cannes Film Festival. In the last 20 years the event has awarded great titles like Pulp Fiction, The Piano, Elephant and last year's The of Life. This year's winner was Amour, the new film from Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, and now its been announced when the movie will start rolling out in US theaters.
Sony Pictures Classics, which has picked up the movie for distribution in the United States, has announced that it will be releasing Amour in Los Angeles and New York theaters on December 19th. The press release doesn't mention when it will be expanding to other areas, but the film does join a very crowded late December feel.In the last two weeks of the year we will see the release of Django Unchained, The Great Gatsby, This is 40, Zero Dark Thirty and The Guilt Trip (not to mention that both The Hobbit and Les Miserables are opening on December 14th).
The film stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as Georges and Riva, a couple of 80-year-old retired music teachers. One day they learn that their daughter, who lives abroad, has had a stroke and is partially paralyzed, and the couple must deal with the emotional pain that comes with the ordeal. This is the second time that a Haneke film has won the Palme d'Or, as his 2009 title, The White Ribbon, also took home the prize.
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This is a cute story:
Earlier this year, Lisa Rao, an editor at Simon & Schuster, saw a segment on Good Morning America moments before she walked into an editorial meeting.
"I had my iPad and pulled up the clip and told them, 'You have to watch this,' " Rao recalled about a story that involved a Walmart employee in suburban Sacramento, Calif., who found a spiral-bound notebook that contained 157 rules handwritten in a childlike scrawl. The book had nothing in it to identify the owner; Raymond Flores, a Walmart associate charged with corralling shopping carts, had found it in the parking lot. But he flipped through it and decided it could not have been discarded intentionally after reading rule no. 154: "Protect this rule book."
So Flores, 20, posted a photo of the book on his Facebook page, hoping to reunite book and author. No luck. Then he contacted the local Fox TV affiliate. That story got picked up nationally.
By the time Rao and the rest of the S&S editorial team watched the GMA report, one thing was abundantly clear. "Our publisher, Valerie [Garfield], said immediately: 'We must find the owner!' " And when Rao did, she offered the – co-authors, it turns out – a contract. And this October Simon & Schuster will publish Isabelle and Isabella's Book of Rules, a jacketed hardcover in a "gifty" trim size, written by Isabelle Busath, age 10, and Isabella Thordsen, age 8, with illustrations by Priscilla Burris.
Read more at Lost and Bound: A Misplaced Notebook Finds a Publisher.
Below is a sample spread from the book, which comes out in October 2013.
Available for preorder on Amazon: Isabelle and Isabella's Little Book of Rules


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My first attempt at Foley. Made using spatulas and edited in Audacity.
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