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"Here, look at the camera, hold the microphone and tell us about what you're doing here at the Sea Otter Classic. This is for Bike magazine's video series :30 Second Warning. You've got 30 seconds. Ready. Set. Go."
In the first installment of 2013's :30 Second Warning, we got the skinny on Diamondback's Mason Full Suspension 29er, Hyper's new Cam Zink-signature slope style model, E13's novel PressFit bottom bracket solution and an odd man's rambling assertion that his fatbike would destroy all other competitors in each and every event at this year's Sea Otter.
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We got some awesome news recently. Two pets were successfully rescued from separate house fires and resuscitated by the firefighters using pet oxygen masks which had been donated by Invisible Fence Brand of Southern Manitoba!
The cat, rescued in January, has made a full recovery, while the little dog, rescued just this weekend, is also expected to recover. Here's their photos, provided to us by the District Fire Chief of the RM of Tache Fire Department. We're so happy to have been able to help these pets and their families!
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I just wanted to let you know that we successfully rescued a cat from a house fire last night using the pet oxygen masks you donated to our fire department through your Project Breathe™ program about a year ago. This is the first chance we've had to use them since receiving them. Upon searching the house while the fire was being attacked, we located an unconscious cat. He was brought out and given oxygen using the pet masks and within 20 minutes the cat regained consciousness. He's expected to make a full recovery.
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OAK BROOK, Ill. (March 29, 2011) — Radiologist Andrea S. Doria, M.D., from The Hospital for Sick Children, will bring her medical expertise to Malaysia as part of the International Visiting Professor Program offered by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). The program fosters international relations among radiology societies to assist with medical education in developing and newly developed nations.
Dr. Doria, chief of radiology research at The Hospital for Sick Children, will be joined by two fellow radiologists as she embarks April 2 on the 12-day trip. She will spend her visit giving presentations and teaching intensive seminars to members of Malaysian radiology societies and hospital radiology departments.
The program is mutually beneficial. The visiting team of radiologists informs local doctors and hospitals about the latest advances in diagnostic and therapeutic radiology. In turn, the visiting professors experience firsthand the obstacles faced by medical professionals in the host countries.
"I am very grateful to the RSNA for the opportunity to share knowledge about different aspects of pediatric radiology with colleagues in Malaysia, which will certainly be a highlight in my professional and personal life," Dr. Doria said. "This is a unique opportunity for us to become conscious of our value as members of the radiological scientific community, to foster excellence in clinical care for patients by global scientific integration and to advocate for these values."
Dr. Doria, who is also co-director of research and associate professor at University of Toronto, is accompanied by John P. McGahan, M.D., from the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento and David M. Yousem, M.D., from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md.
Dr. Doria will visit the University Malaya Medical Center and attend the College of Radiology Annual Scientific Meeting in Kuala Lumpur. In Bangi, Selangor, Dr. Doria will visit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Center. The trip will conclude in Kelantan where she will visit Universiti Sains Malaysia.
The International Visiting Professor Program was founded in 1986 and is administered by RSNA's Committee on International Relations and Education. This program is supported by Fujifilm Medical Systems.
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75 Percent off Steam Grand Theft Auto Classics Pack This Weekend
Another weekend, another Steam sale. This time it's Grand Theft Auto's turn, as the discount hammer smashes the Classics Pack for a whopping 75% off.
Included in the deal is Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto 2, Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Basically all of the good, more-than-three-colors-in-the-entire-game GTA titles can be yours for just $7.49. The sale ends 10am PT on Sunday, so be quick.
Steam is also offering gamers the opportunity to win the entire Rockstar Games catalog in a raffle draw. If you own anything from this weekend's sale, all you need to do is join Rockstar's official Steam group to be automatically entered. Three packs will be given away every day.
If you plan on purchasing the Classic Pack, which game will you play first? Going in chronological order seems like the logical course of action, but I'm dying to see 8-Ball's hilariously plastered hands and distorted face again.


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"Yoko Tawada opens a space of human-polar bear empathy & solidarity—amusing yet deeply serious."
"The novel's imaginative acrobatics and philosophical depth are buoyed and energized by Tawada's prose. The English, carried over from German by translator Susan Bernofsky [...] is idiosyncratic, sensuous, and quick, with the delightful lightness that Calvino [...] calls "weightless gravity."
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March 16th 7:00pm "Acting Out" Performative Reading with Miho Matsunaga and Michel Emmerich. Fowlermuseum, Amphitheater, UCLA (USA)
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2.March Symposium "Catastrophe and Catharsis" Interdisciplinary Perspective. University of Cincinnati, USA
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The Future of Futurity: Alexander Kluge and Yoko Tawada (The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Volume 86, Issue 3, 2011) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00168890.2011.585082
Chinese: http://global.yup.cn/culture/1724.jhtml
The Worlds 2012 literature conference in Norwich, UK: Tuesday 19th June, 2-3.30pm, UEA Drama Studio, Free Afternoon Reading: Language & Experiment A free afternoon reading on the theme of Language and Experiment. Featuring Joe Dunthorne (UK), Alvin Pang (Singapore), Manon Uphoff (Netherlands), Yoko Tawada (Japan) and Valerie Henitiuk from the British Centre for Literary Translation as host.
Editor David Karashima and writer Yoko Tawada discuss a new anthology of stories responding to the …
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Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, educated at Waseda University and has lived in Germany since 1982, where she received her Ph.D. in German literature. She received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for The Bridegroom Was a Dog. She writes in both German and Japanese, and in 1996, she won the Adalbert-von-Chamisso Prize, a German award recognizing foreign writers for their contributions to German culture. She also received the Goethe-Medal, an official decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. E-Mail-Address: firstname.lastname@example.com
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1. The Bridegroom Was a Dog: novels. published by Kodansha International, in New York 1998
2. Where Europe Begins. New Directions, New York 2002
3. Facing the Bridge: novels. New Directions, New York. 2007 http://www.ndpublishing.com/books/tawadafacingthebridge.html
4. The Naked Eye. New Directions, New York 2009 http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/04/books/the-new-global-novel-of-disorientation
The Naked Eye. New Directions, New York 2009
"Tawada's slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency."—Michael Porter, The New York Times
A precocious Vietnamese high school student — known as the pupil with "the iron blouse"—in Ho Chi Minh City is invited to an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. But, in East Berlin, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian on "Vietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism," she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town in West Germany. After a strange spell of domestic-sexual boredom with her lover-abductor—and though "the Berlin Wall was said to be more difficult to break through than the Great Wall of China" — she escapes on a train to Moscow . . . but mistakenly arrives in Paris. Alone, broke, and in a completely foreign land, Anh (her false name) loses herself in the films of Catherine Deneuve as her real adventures begin. (…) Dreamy, meditative, and filled with the gritty everyday perils of a person living somewhere without papers (at one point Anh is subjected to some vampire-like skin experiments), The Naked Eye is a novel that is as surprising as it is delightful—each of the thirteen chapters titled after and framed by one of Deneuve's films. "As far as I was concerned," the narrator says while watching Deneuve on the screen, "the only woman in the world was you, and so I did not exist." By the time 1989 comes along and the Iron Curtain falls, story and viewer have morphed into the dislocating beauty of both dancer and dance.
Writer-in-Residence in USA
1. Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades Oct.-Nov 1996
2. M.I.T. Boston Feb.-May 1999
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Absolutely awesome. Hope you're right TPM
Memory and NAND foundry owner Samsung has bought a flash caching software startup called NVELO. The South Korean giant has gobbled up NVELO's technology, its products and its staff for an undisclosed amount and without revealing whether it is paying cash or using stock to do so. NVELO is privately owned and headquartered in …
Absolutely awesome. Hope you're right TPM
For my Corsair accelerator, which works rather well I must say.
Simpler than Intel's SRT
the latest Linux Kernel has generic ARM compatibility built in. ARM servers? Let's go.
" an indication that Samsung may be developing its own server products?"
Shouldn't that say "may once again be developing"?
I'm reasonably sure that before politics caused DEC's Alpha to be abandoned, Samsung were not only building Alpha chips, but Alpha system boards too. Not commodity microATX either, multi-socket SMP-ready stuff such as the UP2000.
1998: http://alasir.com/articles/alpha_history/press/ev56_samsung_solutions.html
1999: Dual EV6(21264): ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/Hardware/Alpha/alpha2000.pdf
Developing? more like buying the technology. Since when has Samsung ever invented anything useful?


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An enforcement supervisor for the state Department of Natural Resources, who was fired for her role in a 2007 conference where state fundraising rules were broken, received a $250,000 settlement from the agency on Wednesday.
The settlement comes after Capt. Cathy Hamm filed a lawsuit against the DNR and Commissioner Mark Holsten for sex and marital discrimination, defamation of character and violations of the Minnesota Data Privacy Act.
Cathy Hamm and her husband, Mike Hamm, were both placed on leave in May 2008, after news reports about the 2007 conference for game wardens questioned the amount of state money that was spent on the event. DNR officials allowed Mike Hamm to retire, but his wife was terminated for violating agency policies.
Following her firing, Cathy Hamm accused the DNR of gender and marital discrimination, and filed a complaint with the state's Department of Human Rights.
In October 2009, an arbitrator ruled that the DNR terminated her employment without just cause and that Hamm should receive back pay and benefits.
The arbitrator, who ruled Cathy Hamm should be reinstated, said in his decision that there was little evidence to show Hamm violated the agency's policies. Instead, he said, many of the rules were broken by top level DNR management, including Hamm's husband.
Cathy Hamm returned to work after the arbitrator's ruling. She plans to retire in August, after a 35-year career with the DNR, according to a statement released Wednesday by her attorney's office. She was one of the first two female officers hired by the DNR in 1980.
Hamm's attorney, Jim Kaster, said the settlement exonerates her.
"I think it's a fair and reasonable settlement, sure," Kaster said. "The settlement is really payment for emotional distress damages. Cathy was blamed publicly for something that she wasn't responsible for."
A DNR spokesman said the department settled to save litigation costs.
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We began publishing Theaker's Quarterly Fiction in 2004, and each year we try to make it a bit better. Its frequency has ranged from quarterly to bi-monthly and back to quarterly. The format was at first an A4 magazine, and after a spell at 6x9" it's now a 5x8" paperback, although the ebook versions are much more popular.
In recent years the review section of the magazine has become increasingly important, giving rise to this blog. It's worth mentioning here that many of the items reviewed have been supplied by publishers and authors free of charge.
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There's a full index of the magazine on the ISFDB and an entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Gareth Jones interviewed Stephen on his blog back in 2009: The Science of Fiction.
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It's not every day that you hear an accomplished engineer beatbox in the middle of a presentation about creativity and engineering. That's part of why alumnus Nate Ball's presentation at an independently-hosted TED event in Brooklyn is so great. Ball '05, SM '07, CTO and co-founder of Atlas Devices, talks about how he was taking piano lessons as a kid when he started to get interested in beatboxing. He found that by applying to beatboxing the same techniques and training mechanisms that he used for piano, his beatboxing toolbox grew. He could make more sounds with greater ease; "more creative and interesting ideas could be expressed." A similar experience happened years later when Ball combined principles of thermodyanamics to another hobby he enjoys–paint-balling. Ball hopes to inspire more innovative and broad-thinking engineers by encouraging people to develop and combine their technical training and creative pursuits. View video of Ball below or watch it on YouTube.
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Look familiar? Readers may have seen Ball as the host of PBS's Design Squad and the alumnus who, at age 24, became the youngest winner of the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his work on a new type of needle-free vaccine delivery device, and for his co-invention of a powered rope ascender.
And if you're still curious about beatboxing, check out this video of Rahzel Brown. (Ball references Rahzel in his presentation on a couple occasions.)
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Approval of this act would authorize $400 million in funding for Green Acres, water supply and floodplain protection, and farmland and historic preservation projects through the sale of State general obligation bonds. The Green Acres program acquires land that protects water supplies and preserves open space, including parks, fish and wildlife habitat, and flood prone or affected areas. It also funds park improvements and facilities. Of the total sum authorized: (1) $218 million will be used for Green Acres; (2) $146 million will be used for farmland preservation purposes; (3) $24 million will be used for the "Blue Acres" program by which the State may purchase from willing sellers, for open space preservation purposes, properties that are prone to or have incurred flood or storm damage; and (4) $12 million will be used for historic preservation purposes. All spending of the authorized bond proceeds will be subject to full public disclosure.
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Shall the "Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009," which authorizes the State to issue bonds in the amount of $400 million to provide moneys for (1) the acquisition and development of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including lands that protect water supplies, (2) the preservation of farmland for agricultural or horticultural use and production, (3) the acquisition, for recreation and conservation purposes, of properties that are prone to or have incurred flood or storm damage, and (4) funding historic preservation projects; and providing the ways and means to pay the interest on the debt and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof, with full public disclosure of all spending, be approved?


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A fire at the SA& AP Depot damaged the roof. The Reporter reported: "The gallant fire laddies were johnny-on-the-spot, gathering like magic from who knows where."
Rockdale's had new subdivisions extending east (Davilla and Bell streets) and west, being developed by Dr. H. T. Coulter and G. C. Murray, both of whom had streets named for them.
The Reporter editorialized for recruiting a trained nurse for Rockdale: "It's expensive to send to a large city when someone is ill."
The new St. Joseph's Catholic Church was dedicated with a visit from Bishop Gallagher of Galveston, a first communion service and a baptism. FORTY YEARS AGO....
Two fatalities marred the holiday period in the Rockdale area, an 18-year-old Milano man in a two-car crash and a 48-year-old Markham resident who died while changing a flat tire on a trailer.
Santa was set to arrive on a Department of Public Safety float in Rockdale's annual Christmas parade.
Scout leader Jimmie Greene of Rockdale received the first District Award of Merit ever bestowed in Boy Scouting's Tejas District in a meeting at the New Salem HD Clubhouse.
Duane Vincent's Tiger cagers opened the season with a wild one, coming from behind in the fourth quarter to beat Cameron 54-52. TWENTY YEARS AGO....
One arrest was made and three warrants issued in connection with a break-in spree around the San Gabriel area that netted items worth about $37,000.
Rockdale's city library celebrated a milestone, passing the 25,000-volume mark.
A Jeep and three motorcycles were lost when a storage building burned at an area ranch.
Lexington ISD trustees okayed $550,334 in bids for a new elementary school. The district was acting as its own contractor and the facility was being constructed without a bond program. TEN YEARS AGO....
Two Nav y Sea Dragon MH-53E helicopters made unscheduled landings at Coffield Regional Airport after one developed an oil leak early in its flight from Corpus Christi to Columbus, Ohio. the second was dispatched to assist the first.
A Cameron uncle and niece died when their motorcycle was in collision with a car in heavy "football Friday" traffic on US 77 in Minerva.
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Women with advanced breast cancer could prevent the disease returning for 18 months by taking a cheap "smart pill" on top of regular treatment.
Those with advanced hormonal - or HER2 - tumours can be given the £26,000 drug Herceptin on the NHS, on top of regular chemotherapy costing about £1,000.
A study presented in America shows that adding Xeloda, a pill which costs £300 a year, increases remission in such cases by an average five months, giving an average 18 months before the disease returns.
Xeloda is recommended to treat early and advanced breast cancer in Britain, in combination with the standard Taxotere chemotherapy treatment.
But it is not normally given to those on Herceptin, which only works for people with HER2 cancers. The new trial of more than 200 patients suggests that the best results for these women with advanced cancer come through a cocktail of all three treatments.
Each year in Britain, up to 40,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer, of whom about 10,000 have HER2 tumours.
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Written on: 29/08/2012 by speedyfreak (1 review written)
The Swan Inn is a Pub that does grub, I've eaten here in the past and the unique draw was good a quality fish menu.
We were greeted at the bar and handed menus also spotting a large chalk board array of specials. Too much info but not a great choice. The waitress was inattentive throughout the meal and appeared untrained almost rude.
There were six in my party; I had the Skate wing, my wife son and father in law the cod, mother in law the place and son crab. The skate cod and plaice were best described as fish shop quality but large portions, the crab was terrible and all the accompanying portions of chips salads etc. of average quality the chips not even up to chip shop standard the table was greasy and dirty as was the cutlery and gasses.
Disappointing experience Overpriced pub grub. Wont be rushing back unless i hear of major changes.
Written on: 28/09/2012
I think you will find it has changed, I ate there last week and had two small dover soles as did my sister, my aunt had the plaice, both were excellent, the plaice the fattest I had ever seen. This was served with home made chips in a bowl in the middle of the table together with a side salad which I must say left a lot to be desired but overall the food was excellent. They served fresh french stick at the table and the waitress service was really good. I would definately recommend it again.
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BATON ROUGE -- It has been 16 years since the Legislature took up the issue of abortion in a real way, and many people still remember what a circus it was.
Religion, sex, morality and politics made for a volatile mix, as it usually does. Louisiana made national news for several weeks because it had adopted one of the strictest abortion laws in the United States.
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"Theory anchors" explain the 1920s NYSE Bubble
The NYSE boom of the 1920s ended with the infamous crash of October 1929 and subsequent collapse in common stock prices from 1929-1932. Most approaches have suggested an overvaluation of 100%, usually dating from mid-1927 to September 1929.Excessive speculation based on high real earnings growth rates from 1921-8, amid a euphoric "new age" for the US economy, has been given as the cause. However, the 1920s witnessed the emergence of new ideas emanating from new research on the long-term returns to common stocks (Smith, 1924). The research identified a large premium on common stocks held over the long term compared to corporate bonds. This, in turn led to the formation of new investment vehicles that aimed to hold diversified stock portfolios over the long run in order to earn the large equity risk premium. Whilst such an approach was capable of earning substantial excess returns over bonds, new ideas derived from the research led to a change in stock valuations. The paper reconstructs fundamental values of NYSE stocks from long run dividend growth and stock volatility data, and demonstrates why such a change in theoretical values was unjustified. Investors switched to valuing stocks according to a new theory, which ignored the compensation for stock return volatility, which made up the Equity Risk Premium (ERP), on the assumption that "retained earnings" were the source of the observed ERP.
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LOS ANGELES - AEG, in conjunction with Soccer United Marketing (SUM), announced that the international friendly between the Los Angeles Galaxy and nine-time European club champions Real Madrid is sold out for Monday, July 18, 2005 (7:30 p.m. PT / 10:30 p.m. ET) at The Home Depot Center on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills. Real Madrid will play two games in July in a tour of the United States. The Spanish club, featuring a selection of the greatest players in the world, will face Mexican power CD Guadalajara in Chicago's Soldier Field on Saturday, July 16 (5:30 p.m. CT / 6:30 p.m. ET) followed by the match against Cobi Jones and the Galaxy.
"There are no more tickets available for Monday's Galaxy - Real Madrid game," said L.A. Galaxy President and General Manager Doug Hamilton. "Once again, the soccer community in Southern California has responded in great numbers in support of our club and our sport. The match is one that everyone lucky enough to be in attendance will remember for years to come."
Real Madrid, winners of a record 29 Spanish league titles, is widely recognized as the world's most storied and star-studded soccer club. The Spanish giants make their first trip to the United States since August 2002 and only their second since 1990. Led by Brazilian head coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo, Real Madrid features several of the world's soccer superstars popularly known as the "galacticos": David Beckham (England), Ronaldo (Brazil), Zinedine Zidane (France), Luis Figo (Portugal), Michael Owen (England), Roberto Carlos (Brazil) and captain Raul (Spain). Following the games in the United States, Real Madrid will continue its preseason preparations in the Far East, with matches scheduled against local sides in China and Japan.
The Los Angeles Galaxy, currently in third place in Major League Soccer's Western Conference, are one of the most successful clubs in MLS history. Winners of the 2000 CONCACAF Champions Cup, the 2001 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup and MLS Cup 2002, the Galaxy are led by several of the top players in the U.S. and CONCACAF region. Among them are Landon Donovan (USA), Guillermo "Pando" Ramirez (Guatemala), Pablo Chinchilla (Costa Rica), Tyrone Marshall (Jamaica), Jones (USA) and Jovan Kirovski (USA). The Galaxy, the only club that has never failed to qualify for the MLS Cup Playoffs in the League's first nine seasons, are undefeated at home this year in MLS (6-0-3 record) under the direction of head coach Steve Sampson.
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When you go gluten-free, you often give up favorite convenience foods, such as pre-mixed cookie dough or pizza dough that's ready for the oven. For a while, consumers on the gluten-free diet enjoyed the convenience of three gluten-free ready-to-bake products from Pillsbury, including cookie dough, pizza crust, and pie crust.

However, Pillsbury (a brand name used by General Mills Company and the J.M. Smucker Company) no longer makes these products. Here's what you can consider using to replace them.

Replacing Pillsbury Gluten-Free Cookie Dough

Pillsbury's gluten-free cookie dough was found in a tub in the refrigerated section of the supermarket, next to Pillsbury's gluten-filled refrigerated cookie dough, pop-out cinnamon rolls, biscuits and other ready-to-bake products.

There's no direct replacement for Pillsbury's tub of cookie dough, but it is possible to find ready-to-bake cookies that are gluten-free.

Immaculate Baking Company offers bake-it-yourself gluten-free cookies in three flavors: chocolate chunk, double chocolate, and peanut butter. The unbaked cookies come 12 to a package and preformed (they make average-to-large cookies), and take less than 25 minutes to bake in the oven. They're available in some large grocery stores and upscale natural markets such as Fresh Market and Whole Foods.

When purchasing Immaculate Baking Company's products, make sure to buy the gluten-free varieties—Immaculate also makes gluten-containing ready-to-bake cookies. The company is certified gluten-free, which means its products should test below 10 parts per million of gluten (less is always better).

Replacing Pillsbury Ready-to-Bake Pizza Crust and Pastry Dough

As with cookie dough, there are no exact alternatives for Pillsbury's ready-to-bake pizza crust and pie crust. However, you do have some gluten-free choices that can preserve some or most of the convenience factor for these products.

You easily can purchase frozen gluten-free pizza crusts in many larger supermarkets. Popular brands include Udi's, Kinnikinnick, Glutino, and Chebe. Although ingredients vary for these products—you'll need to shop carefully, depending on any food sensitivities other than gluten—their instructions are similar, and mainly call for topping with your favorite pizza toppings and then baking in the oven.

Replacing Pillsbury's ready-to-use gluten-free pie crust is just as simple—although you won't necessarily wind up with a pastry dough-style gluten-free pie crust, there are many alternatives on the market.

For example, Mi-Del makes two gluten-free graham cracker-style crusts (one in regular, one in chocolate) that are available in many stores and online, and are certified gluten-free. You also can buy frozen gluten-free pie crusts from Kinnikinnick and other vendors, which may be closer in style and taste to the discontinued Pillsbury product.


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Diane Ursin
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About Diane Ursin
Ms. Ursin has shown work in national exhibitions . She has also had work with the New England Group and with the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic. She has had one-artist shows, including ones at LaSalle College in Philadelphia, Purdue University in Indiana, and the University of Wisconsin. Education: B.F.A., cum laude, University of Connecticut at Storrs, 1983 Membership: Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts The Connecticut Watercolor Society The Connecticut Women Artists Inc. Vice President 1989-90 President 1990-92 Some Exhibitions: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Gallery of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY National Academy Gallery, New York, NY Berkshire Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA Salmagundi Club Gallery, New York, NY New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
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every single one of us…the devil inside…
happy friday! happy halloween everyone!
every single one of us…the devil inside…
happy friday! happy halloween everyone!
uh oh…the office yankee fans are beating up on the phillies fans…
they're just mad because their team is going to lose… :)
can you guess what the weather is like in philly today?
hunter boots are the best.
some of you might be familiar with the awesome blog that is summer teeth…it is full of inspirational and fashionable images that always amaze me. we love it so much we decided to ask the awesome person behind the blog, dana, to do a guest post for our blog. but first, we wanted to know about her likes, dislikes, and more…read below to learn more about dana and stay tuned for her blog post later this week!
what is your first memory of free people?
age 15 or so. falling in love with, having to have, couldn't leave behind so many of the free people tank tops and sweaters that i had a pile of about 20 in my arms. i was at the neighborhood loehmann's (a discount mecca for the fashion-frenzied) and was dropping bits of clothing as i walked around the store.
what is the inspiration behind your blog?
my blog, as its been said before by many bloggers, started as a place to productively and effectively organize the thousands of images i had been accumulating in a few 'inspiration' folders on my computer. i comb the internet like a mad woman, and will save up to 20 photos to that folder a day. i had to find something that would make all the procrastinating from school work worthwhile! that, and for the last two years or so, i've been really trying to pick up photography. the best thing i've discovered for expanding your own aesthetic is by being exposed to the aesthetic of others. the blog was a way for me to compile this, and create a sort of inspiration board day by day.
what is your current state of mind?
expectant. i'm heading to a dirty projectors concert here in baltimore later tonight!
who are your heroes?
people who have the courage to go their own way, explore, be their own person, discover or at least hope to discover what makes them tick, and pursue it.
if you could choose what to come back to life as, what would you be?
this is a hard question! maybe a beautiful perennial flower. then, i could hide underground in the warm dirt during cold, wet months, regroup, and leap to life again every spring season. though the dying every winter thing might be tricky…
what or who is your greatest love?
john cusack, say anything.
name one thing necessary to your happiness.
things to look forward to (whether it's a concert, going shopping, meeting up with friends, cooking some fancy and over-my-head recipe… etc.)
what do you hate the most?
cheese on pizza. and musicians who look horridly bored when performing in front of a crowd.
what would the name of your band be and what genre? what instruments do you play in this band?
summer teeth. oops! that's the name of my blog… oops! that's the name of a wilco album! actually, i really don't know what i'd call it, but i think i'd design the sets and try and have a hand in the wardrobe of the band. i'm not so musically-endowed. But i do like to be surrounded by music.
what color are you?
iridescent. depends on which angle and in what light you look!
what is your motto?
don't feel guilty for being a dreamer in a harsh world.
what is the one article of clothing you can't live without?
this is much too hard. can i give three articles of clothing for this fall season instead? i'd say: well-fitting, worn-in jeans, my perforated oxford flats, and chunky knits (socks… sweaters… scarves).
devendra banhart – what will we be
what will we be is devendra banhart's seventh studio album, but it is his first major label release, and has drawn mixed reviews from critics and fans who were expecting more of the raw, bohemian weirdness that banhart is known for. the overall sound of what will we be has a clarity unlike his previous albums and the vocals are smooth and relaxed, but the freak-folk moments and international influences are still there. the album starts out strong – the first few songs are like a breath of fresh air and the first single, "baby", is addicting. "rats" is unexpected but interesting, starting out slow and then rocking out like a zeppelin tune…but for me, towards the end, the album sort of lost its excitement.
listen to the album here and let me know if you agree or disagree!
we hope to see you there!
"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars…"
– jack kerouac
have a magical monday…
image from flickr.
this is the cutest/most creative thing ever…someone sent this to one of our employees as a thank you.
thank YOU for the pie!
this weekend…live outside the box :)
the 23rd annual bridge school benefit concert, organized by neil young and his wife pegi, is taking place this saturday and sunday at the shoreline amphitheatre in mountain view california. neil young is the man…if you don't believe me, watch this video.
benefits from the concert go towards the bridge school, a non-profit organization that helps children with severe speech and physical impairments. for more about the bridge school and the concert click here.
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Fundamentals of Breeding and Weaning
Source: Kay Stewart, RVT, RLATG, CMAR; Valerie A. Schroeder, RVT, RLATG. University of Notre Dame, IN
Millions of mice and rats are bred for use in biomedical research each year. Worldwide, there are several large commercial breeding facilities that supply mice to research laboratories, but many facilities choose to also breed mice and rats in-house to reduce costs and increase research options. When breeding in the animal facility, researchers are able to manipulate the genetics of the animals, time the pregnancies to meet the needs of the research, and work with embryos and neonates as required. Mice and rats can be bred in a variety of schemes and methods. Technical procedures, such as the use of vaginal cytology, visualization of the vaginal area, and observation of copulatory plugs, have been developed to assist with the synchronization of breeding to correspond to research requirements. This manuscript is an overview of the basic fundamentals of mouse and rat breeding and technical procedures used. More detailed descriptions of the complex breeding schemes, and the full description of the methods for vaginal cytology, are available in the list of references.…
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I find it weird that after a certain poing devs simply stop development. No rhyme, no reason it just stops.
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Fla. woman allegedly steals car on first day out of prison, saying she was going on beer run
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - A 49-year-old woman has been jailed in Pasco County, accused of stealing a car on her first day out of prison. Theresa Jones faces charges of grand theft of a motor vehicle, cocaine possession and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. She was being held on $7,300 bond.
Jones was released from Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala on Wednesday at the end of a two-year, eight-month sentence. Authorities said she met a pen pal and they drove to a New Port Richey hotel. Jones took the man's car Wednesday night, saying she was going to buy beer. She was located Thursday morning.
Jones told authorities that she stole the car so she could get drugs.
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Well, it's official I can finally 'hangout' with you guys. I ordered my 13 LSV this past weekend. I'm looking forward for it's arrival and with all of your help and tutelage I got it optioned out as I wanted. Strangely, I'm looking forward to landing on my head on my first tow.
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ä¸å'Œå¸'興å—觀光夜市 Zhong He Night Market
October 29, 2009
After dinner, my mom and I went ahead and walked around the ä¸å'Œå¸'興å—觀光夜市 (Zhong He night market).
The luggage that I brought with me to Taipei at the time wasn't big enough to put the PS3 that I brought. So I was set to buy an additional luggage for the machine.
As what other night markets in Taiwan have, ä¸å'Œå¸'興å—觀光夜市 has shops, food stalls, even arcade! Bargains anywhere… the things are just cheap! I bought pajamas at 100NT only (that's a whole set composed of blouse & pants, mind you).
Of all the night markets in Taipei that we visited, I think this has the least number of people. I guess because it wasn't located at the city proper. This is already at the farthest part of Taipei. I just realized that shopping is far more comfortable with less people! hahahaha!
There was a shop that caught my eye. I was looking at it with awe hehehe. My mom explained that the shop where we could freely rent a squared space for a certain amount and we can sell anything in that space. I bet the one who rented the squared-shaped spaces are all young people. The things they sell were sooooo cute!
More pictures here.
Before I forget, I was able to buy a new luggage which looked like a Burberry bag & for only 480NT!! It is really elegant looking 🙂
your feet didn't hurt from all that shopping?
my feet hurt that time but right after my mom told me that we're going to eat stinky tofu! I forgot being tired! hahaha will post it next 🙂
shopping galore huh… 🙂
hehehe not really just bought one pajama and one luggage 🙂


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Thanks to a previous CH post, my chowpal and I tried this place for the first time yesterday afternoon. Before I get to the food, we were very pleased that they serve all afternoon as we often have to get together mid/late afternoon due to his schedule.
Chowpal started with the daily soup special - "dry pea soup" - good flavour but a bit too much salt for my taste (I had to sample!).
We then had our main courses - plain schnitzel with home fries for me and a nice side salad of marinated cucumber. The serving size was HUGE but the schnitzel was wonderful - not greasy at all and almost "light" tasting. The home fries were unremarkable. I was able to finish the huge portion - I was anticipating a doggy bag but none was needed. Loved the crispness of the breading.
My chowpal had their "house" schnitzel - smothered in onions with cheese (optional) - he had dumplings and the cucumber salad as well. He also raved about his meal and despite the onions and cheese his was also lovely and crisp.
No room for anything else but an adjacent table had some pretty decent looking apple strudel.
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Jason Alexander apologizes for joke on television talk show
Actor Jason Alexander apologizes for gay joke made on the show The Late Late Show
Jason Alexander, known for his role on the television show Seinfeld, has apologized for a joke he recently made on the CBS show The Late Late Show.
Last week he and the show's host, Craig Ferguson, were debating the merits of cricket. Alexander called the sport 'gay' and 'queer.'
'You know how I know it's really kind of a gay game? It's the pitch. It looks like nothing — if you slow it slow motion, it's kind of a…, 'Alexander said as reported by the site Towleroad. 'It's the weirdest… It's not like a manly baseball pitch; it's a queer British gay pitch.'
Yesterday, 2 May, the comic actor offered a lengthy explanation, and apology, on the website of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).
Alexander confessed he didn't know much about the sport, but noted he mocked it in a comedy bit, years ago, when working in Australia.
'I joked about how their rugby football made our football pale by comparison because it is a brutal, no holds barred sport played virtually without any pads, helmets or protection,' Alexander wrote. 'And then I followed that with a bit about how, by comparison, their other big sport of cricket seemed so delicate and I used the phrase, " a bit gay". Well, it was all a laugh in Australia where it was seen as a joke about how little I understood cricket, which in fact is a very, very athletic sport. The routine was received well but, seeing as their isn't much talk of cricket here in America, it hasn't come up in years.'
He pointed to a number of Twitter followers who expressed concerns about the joke. Initially, he didn't understand 'why a gay person would be particularly offended by this routine.' However, after some thought and conversation with friends, he came to realize what made the humor a problem for some.
'It is not a question of oversensitivity. The problem is that today, as I write this, young men and women whose behaviors, choices or attitudes are not deemed "man enough" or "normal" are being subjected to all kinds of abuse from verbal to physical to societal. They are being demeaned and threatened because they don't fit the group's idea of what a "real man" or a "real woman" are supposed to look like, act like and feel like.'
When he was a younger man, the actor faced some of those same taunts because of all the time listening to 'musical theater albums, studying voice and dance and spending all [his] free time on the stage.'
Despite this personal history, the cricket joke was a moment when he 'did not make the connection. [He] didn't get it.'


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Reviewer's Bias*
Loves: Mel Brooks, Spoofs
Likes: Spy stories
Dislikes: DVD exclusivity deals
Hates: Missing out on extras
The Story So Far...
"Get Smart," co-created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, two comic geniuses, had a five-year run from 1965-1970, chronicling the misadventures of Agent 86, Maxwell Smart (Don Adams), and Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon), who work for the secret agency Control. The spies are part of an international organization attempting to defend the world from the evil organization KAOS. Each episode is a new mission for Smart and 99, but it's a certainty that Agent 86 will find a way to screw things up. Time-Life had an exclusive release window for the series, and put out an extensive complete collection that was and is only available through them. DVDTalk has a review of the complete collection, available here.
The Show
It's kind of sad that generations will think that Get Smart is a film with Steve Carrell and The Rock (no offense to those actors.) It's just that, when the original source material was so entertaining, being able to supplant five seasons of quality television in one fell swoop is simply not right. Thankfully, there's DVDs like these for people to discover, and for fans to remember.
The concept was simple, and the execution wasn't much more complex: Take
the image of the dapper super spy, complete with sexy femme fatales,
ingenious gadgets and devious archvillains, and replace the suave guy at
the center with an overly-confident putz. Shake, don't stir, and you
have the recipe for an excellent comedy take on Cold War intrigue (In
fact, it's a concept the Zucker brothers would expand upon to great
critical success in the law enforcement genre, with the "Police Squad!" TV
Of course, without the right actor in the tuxedo (or holding the badge
in Leslie Nielsen's case), it wouldn't work. "Get Smart" was blessed
with a gem in Don Adams, who played the role of Agent 86 straight, with
a voice like a noir detective and looks like an accountant. It takes a
special comic to make you care about a egomaniac like Smart, especially
when there's no reason for him to have any ego, as he screws up every
mission he takes on, and is annoying to boot. But in order to laugh at a
character, they have to have self-respect, and Maxwell has it in every
hidden pocket.
Joining Adams as an agent of Control is Barbara Feldon, an adorable former
model who plays Agent 99, an intelligent spy who uses her looks to her
advantage, as she keeps Maxwell from getting killed. For some reason,
she's also very attracted to 86, and odder still, the feeling isn't
entirely reciprocated. Paired with Adams, she s half of an unusual, yet
effective comedy duo, showing the kind of give and take that looks
effortless. There
The third star of the show is the hugely underrated Edward Platt, who
brings believability to the part of the Chief, Smart's long-suffering
boss. One wonders why he would keep a screw-up like 86 around,
especially after the 15th time he demands the use of The Cone of
Silence, the ridiculous privacy device that never, ever works. Platt is
perfect as the leader of the agency, especially when he reaches his
breaking point, a hilarious moment, each and every time. As the season progresses, we get to meet more and more of Control's finest agents, including the poorly-named K-13, Max's dog Fang; the oft-complaining Agent 44, who gets some of the worst assignments going; and Chief's assistant, the abused Hopkins (played by recognizable character actor Bryan O'Byrne.)
Because there's no real continuing storyline to the show, you can plug in elements at will, and it generally works. Because of that, we can see Max and 99 go anywhere and do anything, and introduce any character imaginable, especially when you have bad guys working for KAOS. Thus you have villains like The Craw, a stereotypical Chinese crimelord (or Oriental, as they were referred to in the less-enlightened time of the show) or Harry Hoo, the Charlie Chan clone. The time frame of the series results in many of these cringe-inducing un-PC moments, such as the red-painted Native Americans of "Washington 4, Indians 3." Thankfully, the DVDs have left them intact, instead of cowardly trying to pretend they didn't exist, the way some othercompanies have with some of their offerings.
No matter how offensive the old-school sensibility can get, silly is what the series really is, which means you get characters like the extremely entertaining Hymie, a robot agent of KAOS. You can even get some cameos by a big name like Johnny Carson, or big names-to-be including Ted Knight, Leonard Nimoy and Victor French. But for all that's great about "Get Smart", there are some things that don't work as well, like the dependance on the catch phrases and repeated gags. Yes, The Cone of Silence is funny the first few times, but eventually it just feels forced (though one later moment, where the Cone goes out of control, is as hilarious as anything on the show.) The set-ups that occur throughout the series are much funnier than the very memorable "Would you believe?" or "Sorry about that Chief" bits, but as "SNL" has shown us, the people love a catchphrase. And one has to admit, for all of the fantastic word play and snappy banter Max and 99 have to work with, there are some serious clunker gags in there that hit like lead baloons. To say the show can be cheesy is an understatement.
The DVDs
The Time-Life version of "Get Smart" came in some nice packaging, which was impressively designed, but was awkward to open and took up a decent amount of shelf space. The 30 first-season episodes of "Get Smart" are spread over four DVDs, which this time are packaged in a slipcovered, single-width keepcase with two trays and an insert with an episode guide and an essay on the show's origins. It's a highly-efficient package for a four-disc set. The discs have animated full-frame menus with options to play all the episodes, select individual shows and turn on the commentaries. There are no audio options and no subtitles, but closed captioning is included.
The Quality
The full-frame transfers have been remastered, and look tremendous for their age. Aside from the black-and-white pilot, the series' color is quite vivid, the level of fine detail is very high, and the image is mostly crisp (though there are some soft areas andoccasional grain.) The picture is surprisingly free of dirt and damage, pointing to an extensive clean-up effort, though once in a while you may notice sections with specks (for example, the bomb-deactivation scene in "Stakeout on Blue Mist Mountain" is oddly dirty.) Compression artifacts aren't obvious either, though some minor edge enhancement and haloing can be seen in spots.
The audio is presented as Dolby Digital 2.0 tracks, which essentially dupe the show's mono mix to create a balanced, non-dynamic delivery. The audio is noticeably clean, with strong, clear dialogue, while the signature score comes off very nice. Like the video, this sound is better than one would guess for a series from 1965.
The Extras
The Time-Life exclusive version of "Get Smart" included a fifth disc of bonus material that's been dropped for this release, but thankfully, the episode-specific extras remain in place, starting with audio introductions for each episode by Felton, Agent 99 herself. They aren't much, mainly her reading an episode synopsis, but it's definitely a nice touch.
The other extras are a trio of audio commentaries. Series co-creators Mel Brooks and Buck Henry each provide a track for the show's pilot episode, "Mr. Big," while Feldon offers up her thoughts on "Kisses for KAOS." Brooks's track is one of his standard commentaries, which means if you love his "grandpa tells you stories about the past" delivery, complete with pauses and laughter at his own gags you'll enjoy it here. Henry does a bit of the same, but is a bit more together in terms of talking about how the pilot was made, making it strong as far as background info goes.
Feldon's commentary is more wistful than the other two, as it's full of memories of Adams, but it still has a good amount of info about the show, and especially her history with the series, which is rather interesting.
Also included with the set is a four-page insert, with an episode list and a essay/history by Rory Mach.
The Bottom Line
Yeah, the show is dated and cheesy, but it so completely embraces the concept of the goofy spy spoof that it's genuinely endearing. The silly nature of the series is aided by the performances by Adams and Felton, who are all-stars at broad comedy. The DVDs look and sound better than anyone would probably expect, while the extras, though limited, are of definite interest to the show's fans. With a price that's a decent discount from the original release, fans of classic TV and silly comedy will absolutely want to give it a look.
*The Reviewer's Bias section is an attempt to help readers use the review to its best effect. By knowing where the reviewer's biases lie on the film's subject matter, one can read the review with the right mindset.


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My mom and I often play the 'remember when' game; fortunately, I seem to have no recollection of my embarrassing childhood moments, and she doesn't remember those incidents that call her parenting skills into question.
Her infamous sardine sandwiches came up on one of our trips down memory lane…
For as long as I can remember, my mom unfailingly made these sardine sandwiches, none of us particularly cared for them, but she made them every chance she got.
We'd have them for breakfast sometimes, with milky tea – which I always thought was an odd combination.
The recipe was easy enough; mashed sardines mixed with chopped onions and Heinz Salad Cream, smeared and sandwiched between buttered bread.
It wasn't a bad sandwich per se; it was my mom's dedication to the recipe that was mystifying – she never once tried to modify the recipe, add or take out an ingredient or make it differently.
It's a very old recipe, she tells us… from an old cookbook that was passed on to her when she was a little girl.
A cookbook from a time when Ghana was the Gold Coast and cookbooks were called cookery books, schools had something called Empire Day and the children sang "God Save the King/Queen".
My mom's beloved sardine sandwich was the one thing from the cookbook she could easily whip up when she became a young woman.
We set out to recreate the sandwich, she loves her sardines, and they're good for her – high in omega-3's and calcium, they also contain B vitamins and iron.
This sardine and bell pepper sandwich is a modernized version of the old one, altered slightly; it's still good, simple and easy to whip up – updated with some colourful sweet peppers, we used Dijon mustard in place of the heavy salad cream.
The fat from the fish and the acid from the mustard give it a nice creamy balance.
To add another burst of flavour, we sometimes slather pesto on to the bread before piling on the sardines and vegetables.
The trick is to make keep our options open, there're are a multitude of veggies and spreads to try.
The verdict… mom loves it!!!
Sardine and Bell Pepper Sandwich
- 2 tins sardines packed in olive oil (about 4oz each), and drained of oil
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard, or more to taste (or honey Dijon for a sweet kick)
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped green bell peppers
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped red bell peppers
- 1 tablespoon finely diced green onions
- Pinch of cayenne pepper (optional)
- Sprinkle of tomato powder (optional, I use this)
- 6 slices thick bread, toasted and buttered
- Arugula, or your favourite leafy greens, for topping (optional)
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- Balsamic vinegar, for drizzling (optional)
- In a small bowl, marsh sardines (drained of oil) with a fork
- Add mustard, bell peppers, onions and cayenne pepper and a sprinkling of tomato powder (if using), and mix well
- Lay out 3 slices of bread and top each with the sardine mixture
- Add arugula (if using) and salt and pepper to taste
- Drizzle with balsamic vinegar and cover each with the other slice of bread
- Cut in half and Enjoy!


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Srikant B.wrote a review of Mountain Hardwear Ghost Whisperer Down Jacket - Men's on December 26, 2012
Initial thoughts on ghostwhisperer
Familiarity: I've used it several times
I purchased this jacket during backcountry's holiday sale and have used it primarily around town. The jacket seems to weigh absolutely nothing but seems to give surprisingly good warmth. I would say it will keep you warm till about 35-40F while not conducting any aerobic activities ( ie climbing, ski etc). This jacket is a relatively loose fit allowing for a few layers underneath. There are only a couple of small faults I can find. I have the non hooded version of the jacket and I wish that neck portion would rise slightly higher and also be slightly tighter. I have a 15 1/2 inch neck and on a medium size jacket the cold wind will sneak in on occasion and give a little chill. Also the elastic wrist bands could be a little tighter. It is not that they are terribly loose, just that they don't tightly hug my wrists. Overall I would give this jacket a strong 4.5, so I rounded up to 5.


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Academic Integrity for MU Parents
Parents Play a Key Role
News reports abound with incidents of scholars who have plagiarized sources, journalists who fabricate sources, and students who have been caught cheating. While it is often tempting to dismiss these scandals as isolated incidents of "bad" people getting caught, I want to encourage you instead to think of them as something that involves us all. In fact, a 1999 study of 2,100 college students from 21 different universities produced some sobering results. One-third of the "students admitted to serious test cheating and half admitted to one or more instances of serious cheating on written assignments." (McCabe, 1999)
As a faculty member at MU, I know that students do engage in activities that are dishonest. Such behaviors range from copying a friend's homework assignment to taking material from a Web site without citing the source. Here at MU and at other campuses across the nation, we consider such activities violations of academic integrity.
While some of these behaviors are the result of innocent mistakes and others may have been ignored or even considered acceptable in some high schools, here at MU we expect all members of the MU community-faculty and students alike-to conduct themselves according to our core values of respect, responsibility, discovery, and excellence. Insuring that work is performed with integrity and honesty is central to MU's mission.
MU's Academic Integrity Assessment Committee
MU's Academic Integrity Assessment Committee — consisting of students, staff, and faculty — is one of several groups on campus working on this issue, and we are particularly interested in communicating with parents. While parents are often directly involved in issues of honesty and cheating in the secondary schools, federal privacy laws prohibit universities from discussing individual cases with parents. Nonetheless, we believe that parents have a vital role in maintaining the academic integrity of the campus.
Topics for Discussion
Here I'd like to suggest some specific things you can do to help your son or daughter be a responsible member of the MU community:
- Ask your son or daughter about his or her perception of academic dishonesty, either in high school or college. Are students confused about what constitutes cheating? Is it possible to violate policies of academic integrity unintentionally? How prevalent is cheating?
- Talk with your college student about why students sometimes intentionally cheat. More often than not, students cheat when they are trying to complete a complex assignment in a short amount of time. Rather than turn in work acquired dishonestly, students should ask for extensions, turn in incomplete work, or turn in nothing at all. It is far better to get a zero on an assignment than to be suspended from the University.
- Inform students about the consequences of academic dishonesty. Disciplinary action ranges from probation to expulsion. In a case involving a student caught turning in work from a website as his or her own, a student may be suspended from the University. Such punishment can affect scholarships and job opportunities.
- Encourage your college student to be pro-active in pursuing academic integrity. Students should have strong study skills and manage their time effectively, and talk with teachers and advisors about any questions. Most importantly, if students are uncertain about whether some behavior would be considered dishonest, they should ask advisors and teachers for help.
- Finally, consider the extent to which your own desire for a son or daughter to be successful can sometimes be interpreted as pressure to get "good" grades, no matter the means. Remind students that a "B" or "C" earned honestly is far more valuable than an "A" awarded on the basis of dishonest work.
Because academic integrity involves issues of values and ethics, parents can and should play a key role in maintaining the academic integrity of MU. On behalf of the Academic Integrity Assessment Committee, I want to invite you to join us in insuring that MU remains a place where honesty, integrity, and hard work are expected and celebrated.
Sincerely yours,
Pat Okker
Associate Professor of English
For the Academic Integrity Assessment Committee
Academic Integrity Resources
- Dr. Terry Barnes
Assistant Provost
Director, Student Rights & Responsibilities
phone: 573-884-1273
fax: 573-882-0080
email: email@example.com
- Office of the Provost
- The Center for Academic Integrity
- "Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices," available from the Council of Writing Program Administrators


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Taganka Hostel
Marksistskaia street 34/2, Vorontsovskaya street 35B-2, Mosca, Russia, Distanza dal centro città: 3.3km
The Taganka Hotel&Hostel is located in central Moscow. It is the first purposely built project in Russia that combines hotel style accommodation alongside backpackers-dormitories (hostel rooms). These are located in a separate two storey building that was finished in November of 2010. The
building is located in a 24hour security area with video surveillance cameras and security guards working all around the clock.
The Taganka area, in which the Hotel&Hostel is located, is close to the Kremlin, Red Square and St. Basil's Cathedral (about 1-3 metro stops or 5 minute drive). The area also has quite a few famous historical sites of its own for example the Novospasky monastery, the first monastery founded in
Moscow in the 14th century.
'Taganka Hostel' provides you with a shared accommodation in single-sex rooms with one to five bunk beds. In 'Taganka Hotel' all the Private Rooms have Digital TV, IP-Telephone, A/C, and private bathrooms.Facilities include lockers to store your belongings, car parking, laundry room, internet access, WIFI-cafe, fully equipped self-catering kitchen, a café-common room area with Digital TVs and bar offering breakfast and a great range of hot and cold food and drinks.Our building is equipped with a central ventilation system and is designed to make our guests feel welcome and comfortable. During the warmer months of the year an open terrace is open for BBQs and picnics.
Disponibilità e tariffePer visualizzare la disponibilità e i prezzi, seleziona le date e fai clic su "Aggiorna date"
Ostello Servizi & Politiche
- Reception 24 ore su 24
- Sicurezza 24 ore su 24
- Aria condizionata
- Trasferimenti aeroporto
- Bar
- Colazione
- Prima colazione non inclusa
- TV via cavo
- Caffé
- Sala comune
- Carte di credito accettate
- Telefono e fax
- Wi-Fi gratuito
- Docce calde
- Accesso a Internet
- Accesso con chiave elettronica
- Cucina
- Biancheria inclusa
- Armadietti
- Deposito bagagli
- Nessun coprifuoco
- Parcheggio
- Piscina
- Travel Desk per i tour
- Asciugamani inclusi
- Distributori automatici
- Lavatrice
Politica di cancellazioneQuesta proprietà ha una politica di cancellazione di 1. La mancata cancellazione entro questo intervallo di tempo si tradurrà in una penale pari alla prima notte di pernottamento.
IndicazioniMostra mappaNascondi mappa
Use the Moscow Rapid Transit System. Get to Proletarskaya metro station.Get out from the last subway car (going from the central city) or Krest'yanskaya Zastava metro station (the only exit). Take Vorontsovskaya St. and go straight till you get to 'Prazhechka' and 'Muller' restaurants . Then turn right and you will see our sign. Get into the yard and HERE YOU ARE!
You can also get to 'Taganka Hostel' from Marksistskaya, Taganskaya, Rimskaya and Ploschad' Il'icha.
Undoubtedly you may take a car and use GPS navigation.


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Mark McGwire's sore right knee kept him out of the St. Louis Cardinals' lineup Friday night and the majors' home-run leader might not play at all the rest of the weekend heading into the All-Star break.
Manager Tony La Russa said he told McGwire, who left after three innings Thursday due to tendinitis in his right knee, to be ready to pinch-hit. But trainer Barry Weinberg said McGwire was unavailable.


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Investors in closed-end funds (CEFs) are constantly faced with uncertainty due to a lack of transparency within the industry. CEFs do not make it easy for the investor to make the most informed investment decision in determining the real value being delivered by the CEFs. This has led to a number of investing decisions based solely on distribution yield, premium or discount to NAV and other metrics that may not lead to the best investment decision. In general, investments in CEFs are used as a source of income for the investor. Therefore, it would seem logical for the investor to determine if the CEF can sustain the amount of income it is distributing to the investor as income.
Many CEFs use a distribution policy based on their estimate of future investment income. Any shortfall in investment income may be solved by the CEF by using return of capital to make up the difference between their estimate and actual investment income. Basically, the CEF is using return of capital disguised as investment income to the investor. This strategy is not in the income investor's best interest as the CEF is taking advantage of the investor by decreasing the actual value of their investment. Some CEFs actually use this tactic as a promotional tool by increasing their distribution yield by returning capital to hook investors seeking a high yield investment. To support the individual investor against such tactics, I have compiled a list of popular CEFs to determine if they are earning the investment income to support their current distribution strategy.
This is simply doing more homework to determine if the net investment income from the CEF financials is equal to or more than the distribution rate being paid the investors. Since CEFs only release their financial reports on a semi-annual basis, this method is not the timeliest data in terms of having up-to-date information. However, it can serve as a metric that can help to determine the true value that the CEF is delivering to its investors. For example, if the CEF is not earning enough net investment income to support its distribution amount then it will need to return capital and/or cut its distribution amount in the future. This is what the CEF investor seeks to avoid as the return of capital and any distribution cut will eventually be reflecting as a decrease in market price of their investment in the CEF.
The table below displays the market data including the net investment income per share compared with the distribution per share from the most recent semi-annual report available for each CEF. This will determine if the CEF is earning enough investment income to cover the distribution rate. This has identified some interesting trends from this list. For example, all of the CEFs with a positive variance are trading at a premium to NAV while the CEFs with a shortfall of investment income to distribution rate are trading at a discount. Only two CEFs with investment shortfalls are trading at a premium to NAV: HIX and DNP.
The results from this analysis indicate there may be a correlation between the health of the CEF and the premium being paid for the higher quality of investment income exceeding distribution income. While the size of this sampling of CEFs does not meet the population sizing to be statistically significant, as an investor it can identify those CEFs facing potential distribution problems in the future. The best CEF will be earning enough investment income to pay the amount of distributions. Looking at the Putnam Premier Income (NYSE:PPT) in the table below shows a negative variance of ($0.09) per share for the 6-month period ending in March 2011. Since then, PPT cut its distribution rate from $0.051 to $0.043 in August 2011 and from $0.043 to $0.030 in November 2011. The investment income shortage led to two distribution cuts months following the semi-annual report.
From the table below, the best investments are those CEFs with excessive net investment income such as PIMCO Income Strategy (NYSE:PFL) and PIMCO Income Strategy II (NYSE:PFN) as the excess investment income will serve as a future safety net and will eventually be returned to investors probably as an increased distribution at year end. AWF, NCZ and FFC are worth investing in as their premium to NAV is not too excessive to earn a good return for a long-term investor. PHT and PTY are trading at a significant premium so I would hold off any new investments until they pull back to single-digit premiums to NAV. Lastly, all CEFs with a negative variance should be avoided as new investments at this time.
(Click chart to enlarge)
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.


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AT&T plans to purchase Leap Wireless for $15 per share. Leap is the parent company of Cricket Wireless, a small U.S. carrier that sells the iPhone prepaid. In a press release issued today, both carriers confirmed the acquisition plans, explaining that "AT&T will acquire all of Leap's stock and wireless properties, including licenses, network assets, retail stores and approximately 5 million subscribers." Leap is currently over $2 billion in debt, so the AT&T deal will help rescue what has been a sinking ship.
"AT&T will retain the Cricket brand name, provide Cricket customers with access to AT&T's award-winning 4G LTE mobile network, utilize Cricket's distribution channels, and expand Cricket's presence to additional U.S. cities," notes the press release. The acquisition will also help bolster AT&T's coverage in select areas around the country. More importantly, Cricket customers will have access to AT&T's more robust 4G LTE network.
Through the Cricket brand, Leap Wireless was the first U.S. carrier to sell the iPhone at full price with a prepaid plan. Back in February, Leap was on track to sell only half as many iPhones as it had planned on when it partnered with Apple in 2012. If the FCC and DoJ approve the acquisition, then Leap will be protected under the larger umbrella of AT&T.
Cricket recently cut prices on its prepaid iPhone plans. For $50 per month, you can have unlimited texting, voice, and 1GB of data.
Source: Leap Wireless


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Neil Diamond 'Sweet Caroline' for Boston: Singer Donates All Proceeds to Victims (VIDEO)
The Boston Sox have a tradition of playing Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" at every home game. That tradition hasn't gone unnoticed by the singer himself, who has now promised to donate all proceeds from the song to One Fund Boston.
There isn't really any connection to the Brooklyn born artist's song and Boston, but the Red Sox have been playing it at home games for more than a decade. And now the song will have a more patriotic meaning to Boston than ever. One Fund Boston was established earlier this month to help support those victims most affected by the Boston bombings. Thus far, the organization has raised over $25 million.
Despite the extraordinary amount raised in such a short amount of time, some are still concerned that there will not be enough funding to cover the expense of procedures that many victims will require. Over 170 people were injured during the tragedy; the cost for just one amputee victim could be over $250,000, one report claims.
But support continues to pour in, including efforts made by celebrities like Diamond. A Nielsen sound scan reported that sales for "Sweet Caroline" have spiked 597 percent since the bombings; over 19,000 tracks. Diamond has pledged the proceeds from those sales to One Fund Boston.
His generosity has been met with appreciation from fans, many of whom referred to him as a "class act."
"Neil Diamond is an American music icon," one fan wrote. "He has once again shown the class that has millions of fans continuing to attend his concerts and buy his cd's. There are many artists out there who could learn from his example."
Tim Gens, executive vice president of the Massachusetts Hospital Association, has said that cost is not currently a factor that is being considered while caretakers do their best to provide the best treatment to the victims of the bombings.
"It's an extraordinary shock to so many individuals. The hospitals are working very hard to make sure that each family gets the support they need. Billing is not an issue they're addressing right now," he told the Huffington Post.


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Manufacturer: Rock Bottom Productions
Like many toy fads, it is the marketing that makes all the difference. Pet Rocks were sold in cardboard boxes, punched with air holes, and accompanied by a 32-page training manual.
The craze ended almost as abruptly as it started, but over the span of six months, more than 5 million were sold. Sales peaked during Christmas 1976, but by February the toys were in the discount bin. Still, the fad lasted long enough to make Gary Dahl, a California advertising executive, into a multimillionaire.
The Pet Rock was first shown at a San Francisco gift show, and Neiman Marcus was one of the first retailers to sell it. Shortly after, it became a media sensation, with articles in newspapers and magazines. Dahl even appeared on "The Tonight Show" twice to talk about his creation.


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A shop owner caught red- handed selling illicit tobacco to an undercover officer on the street has been fined.
Trader Imdad Rajput, 34, locked his shop and made the undercover Trading Standards officer wait outside, reappearing moments later with a pouch of counterfeit Golden Virginia tobacco kept in a nearby property.
Rajput, who runs the Quick Shop on Ribbleton Lane, Preston, pleaded guilty to possessing counterfeit tobacco and selling counterfeit tobacco.
Prosecuting at Preston Magistrates' Court, Nick McNamara said four pouches of counterfeit tobacco were seized during a visit at the shop in May last year, which Rajput claimed were for his own use.
Two months later, a test purchase was carried out in which an undercover officer asked for "cheap" hand rolling tobacco.
Mr McNamara said: "He took the purchaser out onto the pavement, locked the door, went into an adjacent property and came out with it. The sale of counterfeit tobacco is to be widespread in Lancashire.
"It not only presents unfair competition to legitimate retailers but makes smoking affordable, undermining price policies to try and persuade people to quit."
Rajput, who represented himself, was fined £260 and must pay £384 costs and a £20 surcharge.
He said: "It was my first and last mistake - I will never do it again."
The test purchase coincided with the Evening Post's Don't Let Them Make A Packet campaign, which aims to highlight the threat to communities by the illicit tobacco trade and its links to organised crime.
To report dealers call Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.