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Birth Control Costs and The Affordable Care Act
In today's world, many women attend college, get successful jobs, and travel the world, all before they even consider having a baby. In my current situation, 20 years old, Dietetics major, homework all the time, I cannot even imagine having a child. Birth control helps women establish themselves and become financially stable before getting pregnant. According to a recent study by the Guttmacher Institute, 65% of women report using birth control because they cannot afford to have a child. 69% of women reported not being able to take on the financial responsibility of a new baby. Financial stability is the number one reason women use contraceptives. Not only does birth control help women become financially independent, but it also can help cut the cost of Medicaid. The Guttmacher Institute has research that states that for every dollar spent helping women avoid unwanted pregnancies, $3.74 is saved in Medicare expenses.
The Affordable Care Act, (ACA) is making the costs of getting birth control very easy on women! For women who have health insurance, the ACA eliminates out-of-pocket costs. The ACA is also eliminated all out-of-pocket costs for all preventive visits for all Americans. Preventive services for women include mammograms and annual well-visits with your healthcare provider.
I recently went to Rite Aid and got my contraception prescription refilled and was so surprised when I didn't have to pay a copay! It usually costs me $17 dollars a month! If you are wondering why your birth control hasn't been free yet this year, the official start date for this was August 1, 2012. But different insurance companies have different dates when plan changes take effect, so call your insurance provider to find out when this date will be for you!

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Baked Salmon Taquitos
I have a DELICIOUS recipe for salmon lovers + Mexican food lovers today: Baked Salmon Taquitos
My husband texted me a photo at lunchtime from his business road trip to the Bay Area yesterday. The photo pictured rolled tacos with guacamole from a favorite Mexican restaurant of ours in Sacramento. I stared at the picture and felt anger boiling up inside of me. I wanted those rolled tacos immediately!! Since moving from San Diego to Reno, we have yet to find really decent fast-food Mexican food. We grab it in other cities every chance we get! I did what any food-obsessed food writer would do. I marched myself to the store and decided right then and there that my son and I would be having rolled tacos for dinner. The fresh king salmon looked so good, so I decided to use that in my newest recipe instead of the typical chicken or beef.
My friends at CHOLULA contacted me last week to see if I'd like to partner with them to create a couple of recipes. CHOLULA, BABY! "Of course!" I said. Did you have any idea that there are 5 varieties??? >> Original, Chili Lime, Chipotle, Chili Garlic and the newest flavor, Green Pepper will hit stores in June. I love this stuff because it has ZERO calories and it adds a huge flavor punch to food (and it happens to be gluten-free, too!)
So here we go with the tacos: Baked salmon is flaked and mixed with fresh cilantro and jack cheese.
That filling mixture is sprinkled down the middle of a softened corn tortilla.
This is the lovely variety I chose to highlight in this recipe. The Chipotle-flavor is basically their Original + smoky + sweetness from real chipotle peppers. It's a tough call, but it's probably my favorite flavor of the bunch.
A generous does of the Cholula Chipotle ensures that these tacos have good flavor when you bite into them. Don't worry… the Chipotle variety is not super spicy (says my 12-year old). Some people typically use Cholula to just sprinkle on top of things (for use as a condiment). It was better to stuff as much of it as possible inside the taco!
Rolled up tightly, these guys are placed seam-side-down on a baking sheet, sprayed lightly with cooking spray, then baked until crisp.
While they are baking, you can make the guacamole (I include instructions below on whipping up a simple guac to dip these tacos in). Serve with additional Cholula, if desired… for those of you who like a little more spice in your life. It's safe to say that these totally satisfied my mass-craving for rolled tacos that my husband bestowed upon me. After speaking to him later in the day, HE was bummed that he didn't get to sample this new recipe for Salmon Taquitos- ha! As far as taste goes, these are an awesome seafood taco with great, added flavor from the Cholula Chipotle Hot Sauce. Enjoy!
Yield: 12 taquitos
Prep Time: 25 min
Cook Time: 20min
Baked Salmon Taquitos
3/4 pound baked salmon, flaked apart (see tips below)
1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
12 small corn tortillas (5 1/2-inch)
1 bottle Chipotle-flavored Cholula Hot Sauce
cooking spray
2 medium avocados
1/3 cup sour cream
juice from 1/2 lime
2 teaspoons Original Cholula Hot Sauce
salt and pepper, to taste
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with foil and spray with cooking spray.
2. In a medium bowl, combine the salmon, cheese and cilantro. Place 2 corn tortillas at a time in between two damp paper towels and microwave for 20 to 30 seconds to soften them (this helps to prevent cracking when rolling).
3. Place one tortilla on a working surface. Scoop about 1/4 cup of the salmon filling mixture down the center of the tortilla, sprinkle a generous dose of Chipotle Cholula on top, then roll tightly. Place the taquito seam-side down on the prepared baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining tortillas, filling and hot sauce. Spray the rolled tortillas lightly with cooking spray. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, or until crisp.
4. While the taquitos are baking, prepare the guacamole. Use a fork to mash the avocado in a medium bowl. Mix in sour cream, lime juice, hot sauce, salt and pepper.
5. Serve taquitos warm with a big scoop of the guacamole for dipping.
*For baked salmon... you can buy a chunk already baked at Trader Joe's. To make your own (which is what I did): Preheat the oven to 450. Salt and pepper the salmon, place skin-side-down in a glass baking dish. Bake 12 to 15 minutes, or just until cooked through but still tender. You don't want to over-bake it.
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Disclosure: I'm working with Cholula Hot Sauce to create recipes with their products. This is a product that I have used in my RecipeGirl kitchen for years- we love it! All opinions shared are my own.
17 Responses to "Baked Salmon Taquitos"
I've been so excited to see what you were (and are) going to make with Cholula. Also I had no idea about the five varieties! I worked in a restaurant and we used the original and chili lime in a ton of recipes and I am obsessed with both sauces. Now I need to go try the other ones, and these delicious looking taquitos of course! Pinning 🙂
While i am not a salmon person, you had me at Cholula. I consume far too much of the stuff already. I have never seen the chipotle one and now I must have it. Thanks!
I saw you were going to be working with them on Instagram and was also wondering what you would be making. I've personally never used their sauces, but looking at these taquitos makes me want to go buy the sauce and ingredients ASAP! 🙂
Love your recipes as always, but I will never be on the guac needs sour cream train!! Avocados, lime juice, garlic, maybe some salt. End of list.
Cholula is my fav bottled Mexican hot sauce.
These baked salmon taquitos look so delicious and easy.
They're going to be dinner tonight. Thanks!
BTW I have a giveaway at the moment to honour Mother's Day and help the effort to save the bees. TWO winners will each get a set of the cutest bee salt/pepper shakers! This one is open to everyone worldwide. Please enter soon. Good luck!
These look amazing Lori! Why don't I put salmon in tacos?
Also, I'm in Sacramento and I NEED to know what restaurant you're talking about!!
Hi Lori, love this salmon twist, it's always chicken or beef. I could eat a ton of these.
Oo yum! I am in love Mexican food and those sauces look pretty amazing. I recently got a box of similar flavors from another brand (I don't cholula are readily available here) which would work brilliantly!
I am SO in love with this recipe! It's going to be dinner tonight. Anything with salmon, lime and cilantro. SOLD!
LOVE these. Perfect for Cinco de Mayo appetizer this weekend! 🙂 thanks for sharing.
Yum! These look a lot healthier then the usual taquitos!
These look amazing! I love that you added chipotle sauce in with the salmon, cheese, and cilantro. I bet that smoky sweet flavor is a great compliment. And I love that they're baked! I think my whole family could get into these- pinning 😉
I love this recipe w/ salmon, but was thinking about trying it with chicken too. Any changes you'd recommend if I use chicken instead of salmon?


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Spreading out Controls for Motion Systems
R educed wiring is a prime reason for distributing controls in motion systems, along with dramatic cuts in associated installation costs and complexities of point-to-point connections it allows. This view was discussed in the main article . Other user benefits (as well as issues) arise when a 'distributed' versus a 'central' control system can be justified for a motion application.
Besides the wiring benefits, Baldor UK Ltd. (Bristol, U.K.)-a subsidiary of Baldor Electric Co .-(Fort Smith, Ark.), lists several other key benefits of distributed motion control. Distributed systems offer:
Higher reliability;
Less hardware cost (since the main controller needs no analog output or encoder input for each axis);
One operator interface that configures all the drives hooked to the network via software;
Software-based performance/configuration methods that ease the task of creating custom applications; and
Sophisticated interfaces for connecting to higher level information networks.
These capabilities and features are part of Baldor's Mint Drive product line. www.baldor.com.
Delta Computer Systems Inc . (Vancouver, Wa.), a manufacturer of motion controllers, likewise notes several reasons for the growing popularity of distributed industrial systems. With distributed control architectures, 'Highest system productivity can result when decisions and control inputs are made close to the work in process, and controllers are designed to execute complex operations responding to `high-level' instructions from upstream controllers.'
System interfaces become an important consideration because of the need to rapidly handle and share data. Delta Computer recommends that users select an interface standard where the interconnect 'best matches the rate and type of data being passed.' The principal tradeoff here is between determinism and communication throughput. Delta Computer mentions Ethernet and Profibus among several available system interface standards. 'Ethernet, for example, has become very popular because it offers high communications throughput that allows system modules to communicate blocks of data with a single operation,' says a company spokesperson.
Getting the system modules to 'talk' to each other is another story. Messages transmitted over a bus must be formatted in languages readable by the receiving devices. Yet, many industrial control manufacturers use their own proprietary languages, which has hindered the growth of open systems design. Progress is nevertheless being made to solve communications problems. One form of relief provided by some vendors is to make the devices 'multilingual.' For example, Delta Computer states that its RMC motion controllers can communicate over Ethernet in dialects spoken by Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley PLC/SLC/ControlLogix, Schneider Electric/Modicon Quantum, Siemens Simatic, Omron Sysmac, and Automationdirect.com DirectLogic controllers. www.deltacompsys.com.
Today and tomorrow
Distributed motion control systems of today are a far cry from what they might be in the coming decade. Some pieces are available, but not all possibilities are in place, according to Jeffrey A. Faris, product manager, General Motion Control, at Rockwell Automation (Mequon, Wis,).
'Integration of motion control systems and the information they control within the factory automation system will make this technology more useful, less complex, more powerful, and physically smaller,' states Mr. Faris. Part of that integration will be 'further refinement of the physical machinery,' allowing fewer, smaller hardware parts, as well as new form factors for actuators and transmissions. 'Machinery will seem to absorb the actuator,' he says, citing as one example, the optimal integration of a linear motor and its drive into the machine's structure.
At the same time, the forward view at Rockwell Automation is to make distributed motion control simpler. Ongoing today-with more to be seen later-is the ability to break down complex machine systems and processes into smaller segments, converting them to cost-efficient subsystems. This generally remains easier to accomplish in discrete manufacturing lines than in continuous processes. 'The idea is to deploy distributed control architectures where they make the most sense,' says Mr. Faris. 'While greater availability of capable computing power is helping, not all of the software element is in place.'
This is somewhat surprising in an era where software is thought to be capable of doing most anything. What Mr. Faris means is that the software infrastructure or the software 'services layer' is not in place, rather than the software application tools.
Sharing information
Mr. Faris sees control systems heavily weighted to the centralized approach for now. 'Centralized control is easier to deal with for many customers,' he explains. A fully distributed control system, along with its programming requirements, can become very complex. The system must be able define all shared information requirements and the means to handle them. This includes access to all the customer's needs for all aspects of manufacturing and documentation. 'Almost an infinite number of tasks are involved in implementing a large distributed control system,' he adds.
Few applications presently lend themselves to distributed motion control. Mr. Faris estimates 'real' distributed systems to be two to five years down the road. However, he notes various 'hybrid' implementations are in use. Here, smaller, manageable control subsystems can be distributed in hybrid fashion, within a larger overall centralized system.
Objects simplify
To keep things moving, Rockwell Automation is pursuing object-type architectures for distributing motion control. By creating objects, the user's multitude of tasks can be uncluttered and made less complex. Also, computing power is used more efficiently in the way a given object is optimally executed by the microprocessors. Another factor that contributes to implementing distributed control is to write efficient code, expressing tasks at a lower level.
'In general, the changes in motion control, whether physical or electronic, will allow users to more quickly fit the technology to the machine and spend a greater percentage of their time on process improvement,' concludes Mr. Faris.
Rockwell Automation's Logix family of controllers is key to implementing distributed systems. Use of a multitasking, pre-emptive operating system along with a common software package that supports sequential, motion control, and drive programming and configuration, lends itself to distributed control applications. Several techniques incorporated in the Logix architecture lessen the demands on communication networks imposed by real-time multiaxis motion tasks plus the physical separation of the microcontrollers running the process. These include:
All devices in the distributed control array conform to a uniform object, which defines their attributes, ownership, and information layer.
A producer-consumer concept helps minimize overhead and traffic.
Motion tasks function as direct in-line commands within the application program. These motion objects eliminate network delays and avoid the need for complex synchronization logic.
`Talking' to system elements
Efficient, practical communication among system elements is crucial for the success of distributed motion control. Several bus and networking methods have been applied, but very few of them have been developed with motion control in mind. SERCOS (SErial Real-time Communication System) has digital motion system origins and is one networking method often associated with motion control. It is also an international standard (IEC 61491).
Though developed for computers and consumer electronics, Firewire (IEEE 1394) is another network interface recently making waves in the motion control community. Its high-speed data transmission capability-up to 400 Mbit/sec-is a chief attraction.
Both Firewire and SERCOS have circles of advocates.
Nyquist Industrial Control (Eindhoven, Netherlands) confirms that until recently there has been a holdback for distributed motion control due to few choices for the communication method. 'Perhaps the most important block has been the unavailability of high-speed, yet cost effective communications,' says the company. Nyquist has adopted Firewire as the communication bus for its PC-based motion control products. '[Firewire] will speed the acceptance of distributed control in the machine industry.' www.nyquist.com.
Kollmorgen/Seidel (Düsseldorf, Germany), a Danaher Corp. business unit, has allied with Nyquist to integrate their respective servo drive and PC-based motion control technologies. Shown at the SPS/IPC/Drives 2000 Exhibition in Germany in late November, Nyquist has developed KS3000, a FireWire Servo Drive connection module that links the two product lines into one. KS3000 plugs into a Kollmorgen ServoStar 6000 digital servo amplifier to create a 'smart drive,' while the motion control loop and set-point generator run in a Nyquist NYCe3000 motion controller. The connection module contains the necessary intelligence for real-time, high-speed synchronization and interpolation tasks of multi-axis control. A Microsoft Windows NT host handles I/O signal processing, machine sequencing, operator interface graphics, and trajectory generation.
'This architecture optimizes use of PC technology, while significantly reducing machine cabling,' according to Nyquist. Initial target for the integrated motion control solution will be European OEM customers. www.kollmorgen-seidel.de.
Beckhoff Automation (Minneapolis, Minn.; Verl, Germany) supplies software automation systems for various industries. It also manufactures industrial PCs, and fieldbus-independent distributed I/O systems. Beckhoff's control structures-including those for motion control-are software based and rely on PC-compatible real-time platforms using Microsoft Windows NT and Embedded NT. These techniques lend themselves to implementing distributed control systems for automation.
Hardware independence
The company's mainline product, TwinCAT, adds hard real-time capability to Windows NT operating systems. Use of PC processors allows TwinCAT to remain independent from proprietary hardware. Motion capabilities of TwinCAT include control of up to 256 axes, cam profiling, programmable limit switch, flying shears, point-to-point positioning, G-code interpolation in 3D, and support for a variety of drives (servo, variable-frequency, stepper, etc.). www.beckhoff.com
The architecture of distributed motion control must include connectivity with all system peripherals, such as sensors and transducers. Delta Computer Systems cites a trend to provide direct transducer interfaces from the motion controller. Its controllers offer direct interfaces to position and pressure sensors. The new SSI (synchronous serial interface) standard is presently the 'hot' connection between controllers and sensors/transducers. SSI is said to support very high resolution of position information (up to 2 microns [0.00008 in.]) and provide greater noise immunity than digital or analog interfaces.
In the same connectivity vein, the Orion motion controller family from Ormec (Rochester, N.Y.) uses Ethernet TCP/IP (in multiple independent networks) to streamline communications with system elements. Orion's architecture allows location of two Ethernet cards within the controller to separate critical network traffic going to and from I/O modules-for example-from colliding with less time-sensitive operator interface and enterprise system tasks.
The second card can also serve the needs of a development computer. Ormec has integrated support for Opto 22 (Temecula, Calif.) Snap Ethernet I/O products into Orion motion controllers to simplify communications and to easily implement a modular I/O rack system.
Isolated commands
In a typical Orion system, a ServoWire Drive Network (IEEE 1394-based) that 'talks' to a bank of distributed servo motor drives is likewise separated from the Ethernet I/O network. This fully isolates commands controlling the servo drives from those accessing the I/O network.
Configuration and setup data for Ethernet I/O points are incorporated directly into Ormec's MotionDesk development environment and stored in the motion controller's Flash ROM. A properties 'wizard' in MotionDesk helps to streamline configuration of I/O properties and select specific Snap Ethernet I/O modules. 'The Project Navigator is used to enter, edit, and display the configuration of hardware and software components for I/O and servo motor control,' says Ormec. www.ormec.com. www.opto22.com.
The full promise of distributed motion control architectures still lies ahead. According to Rockwell Automation, companies with a 'total enterprise' approach to factory automation and machine/process information management will deliver the new motion control capabilities. The overall requirements are too critical to be otherwise. They include real-time global communications, management of complex logistical issues, and focused expert engineering services supplied locally as needed.
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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.
But the year started with global economic turmoil, as a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing triggered a worldwide stock hiccup that sent values plummeting. The continued plunge in world oil prices has resulted in a slowdown in exploration and, by extension, the manufacture of exploration equipment.
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A limited liability company (LLC) is a corporate structure whereby the members of the company cannot be held personally liable for the company's debts or liabilities. Limited liability companies are essentially hybrid entities that combine the characteristics of a corporation and a partnership or sole proprietorship. While the limited liability feature is similar to that of a corporation, the availability of flow-through taxation to the members of an LLC is a feature of partnerships.
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The primary reason an LLC is selected as an ownership structure is to limit the principals' personal liability. An LLC is often thought of as a blend of a partnership, which is a simple business formation of two or more owners under an agreement, and a corporation which is afforded certain liability protections. An LLC is a more formal partnership arrangement requiring articles of organization to be filed with the state. An LLC is much easier to set up than a corporation, and it provides more flexibility along with the protection. However, creditors may be able to pierce the corporate veil of an LLC in cases of fraud or when legal and reporting requirements haven't been met.
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The primary difference between a partnership and an LLC is that an LLC is designed to separate the business assets of the company from the personal assets of the owner, which has the effect of insulating the owners from the LLC's debts and liabilities. An LLC functions similar to a partnership in that the profits of the company pass through to owners' tax return. Losses can be used to offset other income, but only up to the amount invested. The LLC only files an informational tax return.
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About 3 years ago I reviewed a really great AM radio from a company named C.Crane. This radio, the CCRadio plus, sported the best AM reception in a radio its size. Now 3 years later C.Crane comes out with the next generation CCRadio called the CCRadio-SW. The CCRadio-SW gets rid of some features and adds others. The main addition is a Shortwave receiver.
- AM/FM/Short Wave
- Built-in Twin Coil Ferrite™ AM Antenna
- Large LED Display
- Radio/Tone Alarm
- Timer
- 50-memory preset buttons (with 10 memories per band)
The addition of a Shortwave receiver is great. Shortwave is good for long distance communication, if the conditions are correct and the signal is strong enough, you can hear stations from thousands of miles away.
The built-in Twin Coil Ferrite™ AM Antenna gives this radio excellent AM reception. Like the other CCRadios this radio can often pick up stations that other radios cannot get.
The large LED display is really great for viewing the display information. You get a lot of information also. The display shows the time, battery status frequency, band and much more.
Being that this is a radio there is not much to the design. It comes in only one color, black. It is a simple rectangle with a lot of the same features as a normal radio. On the front is where you will find most of the buttons and knobs that you need to make this radio work.
The left side of the front is dominated by a single 5″ speaker that has been specifically tuned to human voice, which is great for the AM and Shortwave stations; the FM sounds good on the speaker also. Under the speaker is a headphone jack, AM RF Gain, Treble and Bass knobs.
On the right side of the front, starting at the top, is a large by radio standards, LED screen, and three buttons to the right of the screen. The three buttons are Power/Sleep, Dual Time/W/L and Lock. The power button obviously turns on the radio and when it turns on, if you quickly press the button again, you will activate the sleep function. The sleep function will shut off the radio after a certain time that you set. The time that you set will be saved even if you turn off the radio. Dual time and W/L do the same thing, they show local time and world time. The lock turns off the keys so you cannot turn on or off the radio, change the station, or push any other buttons. I did find that volume, AM RF Gain, Treble, Bass and all switches on the sides still work.
The bottom section of the right side of the front has many more knobs and buttons for you to play with. On the left side you have two knobs for switching between bands. The top one switches between Wide and Narrow AM/SW and Mono Stereo FM. The next knob is for switching between AM, SW1, SW2 and SW3. Below those two knobs is the volume. To the right of those knobs is a big knob that is used for tuning. Above the tuning knob are 3 buttons that affect the tuning knob. Hold makes it so the knob does not change the station, however you can still change the station using the up and down arrows that I will talk about in a bit. The slow and fast buttons determine how fast the stations change as you turn the knob.
To the right of the tuner knob are 8 more buttons and each of these buttons have multiple functions; the label that is above the key is the function when the radio is off and the label on the key is for when the radio is on. Starting with the top two they are Minute/Down and Hour/Up, Minute and Hour are used to adjust the time and up and down are for adjusting the tuner. Then there is Clock Set/Mem Set and Alarm Type/Alarm, Clock Set turns on the clock adjustment and then you use the Minute and Hour to change the time. Mem Set saves the current station in one of the memory slots, you can choose which slot by using the up and down arrows, and Alarm is for turning the alarm on and off and changing the alarm sound from radio to beeping. The next two are timers which will turn the radio on at certain times, you have the ability to set two timers. To set the time the radio must be off and you hold down one of the timer buttons then use the minute and hour buttons to adjust the time, then you press the alarm button to turn it on and choose the sound. The last two are SW Band and Charge/Memory, SW Band switches between the common Shortwave frequencies for each Shortwave band. If you are in AM mode then the SW Band button will just step up by 100 kHz and in FM it will step up by 1000 kHz each time you press it. Charge starts the battery charging and Memory loads each of the saves stations. The charge button is only useful if you have rechargeable batteries. Be very careful that you do not turn this on unless you have rechargeable batteries installed because it may cause other batteries to burst and that will ruin your radio.
On the back is the battery compartment. Unlike most other radios you can use either 4 AA batteries or 4 D batteries. There is a switch on the left side that switches between the two. Inside the battery compartment is the AM tuning step switch that will tell the radio how many steps to skip when you tune. You should use 10k in the US and 9k if you are in Europe or other countries. Also, on the back is the external AM and FM antenna connectors. In case the internal AM or FM antennas are not good enough for your location, you can use an external AM or FM antenna.
There are two large black buttons on the top which are used to turn on the snooze and the display light. There is another feature for the snooze button, if you hold down the snooze button for about two seconds when there is not an alarm going you activate a beep that will sound every time you press a button, pressing the button again will disable the beep. I don't know the purpose except to provide feedback to pressing the buttons and to annoy everyone around you. Also, on the top is a telescoping antenna for FM and Shortwave radio. Above the snooze and light buttons is a small key that lists the bands that you can listen to and the frequencies that each band can receive. For example, it lists FM and under that it shows 87.5 – 108.0 MHz, AM is 520 – 1710 kHz, SW1 is 1711 – 10010 kHz, SW2 is 9990 – 20010 kHz and SW3 is 19990 – 29999 kHz. This is good for knowing what you can expect from the different bands. There is also a timezone map next to the frequency key.
On the right side are three switches, Key light which toggles the lights on and off the keys, AM Sens tells the internal antenna if the radio station is far away, if it is far away, then you set this switch to Distant, if not, you set it to local. I had to try both before I found the one that worked best for me. The last switch is FM/SW antenna, this switch tells the radio if you are using an external or the internal whip antenna to receive FM and Shortwave radio stations.
On the left is a Line Out without volume control for hooking the CCRadio-SW to a stereo or recorder. Below that is a switch that tells the radio what kind of batteries you are using. Last, there is a DC plug for plugging it into a wall with the included adapter.
If you are upgrading from the CCRadio Plus you should do a through comparison of the features of both radios before you buy this one because the CCRadio-SW is missing several features that the CCRadio Plus has. For example, it does not have the weather or TV stations.
Setting up the radio is just as easy as setting up the clock radio on your night stand. All you do is press the clock set button and press the hour and minute buttons to adjust the time, then press the clock set button again to start the clock. You do not have to set the clock to listen to the radio, but if you want to use the alarm then it is a must. Assigning radio stations is a cinch, all you have to do is press the MEM/SET button and then use the up and down arrows to choose one of the 10 available memory slots and then press MEM/SET again to lock it in. Setting up the alarm and timer is just as easy as setting up the clock. Instead of pressing the clock set button just use the timer a or b button and follow the same steps to adjust the time. Then you use the alarm button to turn on the alarm and set the sound.
I am not a big Shortwave user so playing with this radio's Shortwave feature was a new experience for me. I was initially disappointed by the lack of interesting programming, but once I found the correct times and stations to listen to I was able to find some good programs. I did notice that most of the programming I found were religious or Spanish speaking. I was really hoping to tune into some French, German or British broadcasts, but either I was listening at the wrong time or I live in the wrong area, but I could not find any. One odd behavior I noticed was that when I was holding down the scan button it would sometimes skip large ranges of numbers. For example, it skipped from 6300 to 7100 and 7500 to 9400. It would happen even if I was going backwards or forwards through the numbers. If I turned the dial on the front it did not skip numbers.
The biggest test as far as performance goes is the AM reception. C.Crane says that this radio has a built-in Twin Coil Ferrite AM Antenna. So I put it to the test. Since this radio will most likely be used indoors in an office setting that is where I tested it. I also tested a CCRadio plus to see if one is better then the other. Both radios were not able to pick up anything but static inside my office, when I put it next to a window they both got perfect reception. When hooking them up to an external Twin Coil Ferrite AM Antenna I got good reception with both radios, not as good as it was when they were near the window, but good enough to listen to. The only annoyance about the CCRadio-SW was that I could not use the Ferrite stick. No matter where I placed it on the CCRadio-SW it would not improve the reception. So I had to use the external antenna connectors on the back and it immediately improved the reception. With a little adjustment on the antenna I was able to get clear reception for the radio. The one thing that caused me the most static was noise in the power line. If you have a lot of devices using the same power you can get noise in the power lines. Every time I pluged in my Treo 650 the static was so bad that I could hardly hear the radio. I tried plugging the Treo into other outlets, but as long as the outlets were on the same circuit it still effected the reception. Power noise was a problem for both radios. It would be nice if the radios had some power conditioning built-in, but since they don't you could purchase a power strip with power conditioning to take noise out of the power line. Noise in the power line only seemed to affect the AM reception.
Battery life on the CCRadio-SW is really good, the claim for this radio is about 30 hours on AA batteries and 175 hours for D batteries. These times will vary because battery life can be affected by several factors. To make sure you get the most from your batteries, keep the button lights off and the volume down.
The sleep timer is nice if you use the radio to go to sleep with, but it got in my way on several different occasions. Because it is built into the power button you cannot turn the radio on and off rapidly. There were a couple of times when I would turn on the radio and a co-worker would come over to talk to me and I would go to turn it off and instead it would activate the sleep timer. I had to learn to just turn down the volume instead of turning it off.
Warranty and Support
The CCRadio-SW comes with a one year parts and labor warranty. It is a short warranty and I wish it were longer.
If you are in the market for a great radio with lots of great features and excellent battery life then the CCRadio-SW is an excellent choice. The CCRadio-SW is currently cheaper than the CCRadio plus, so if you don't need TV or weather bands then you will get a great radio for less. You can find the CCRadio-SW for $149 on the C.Crane website. I highly recommend that you check it out. The CCRadio-SW can be purchased directly from C.Crane or Amazon.
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|October 30, 2005, 11:42 PM
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Meanwhile in Massachusetts, the insurance companies are fighting to be allowed to charge bad drivers more. I wonder if that's why the motorists down there are so angry all the time...
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|October 31, 2005, 12:03 AM
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Hi, Ace of Spades
I'm still not sure I have this picture in my head correctly. Were you pumping gas and somebody hit your car? With their mirror? I'm trying to visualize that, and failing. We could probably be more useful if you could be more detailed and clear about exactly what happened.
That said, a couple of things come to mind:
1) If there is an auto accident of any description, the thing to do is exchange insurance information and if someone is really upset, suggest that you call the police. In this area (Texas) you are required to move any accident off the road if you can, but since your problem happened in a gas station, I'd move off to the area where people park when they are going in to buy a soda or whatever inside, and then exchange insurance info and just go from there.
2) As I noted a few days ago on another thread, the single most important self defense weapon you have is between your ears. Use your head. Try to avoid making things worse. You don't have to "bend over and take it" but you don't have to pour gasoline on the hot coals either.
3) If, God forbid, someone pulls a gun on you at a gas station, the rules of shooting come into play....remember that, to quote the commander of the Red October in the movie "most things in here don't react well to bullets". LIke gasoline. Another REALLY good reason not to let this get too hot, yes?
4) If someone is yowling about you having damaged his car, then launches into verbal abuse, go back and see #1 and explain...calmly...that you have insurance and you just both need to get each others' insurance info, blah blah blah. This is not worth going to the mattresses about.
5) This is a website about firearms and their use. I just went back and re-read your initial post again...If you want to learn self-defense strategies that do NOT involve a gun (and I hope to God you're not saying you would have used a gun in this situation?) then I'd suggest a martial arts course for you. My son has done kung fu and you don't have to be a super duper athlete to start (although if you keep it up you'll become one!)
6) Finally, the cheapest and yet most valuable words on the planet are "I'm sorry". OK, it wasn't your fault. Goodness, if you're married you've surely learned that you still sometimes apologize even when it ISN'T your fault. In this case, "Oh, man, I'm sorry! Let's exchange our insurance info. I'll call a police officer so he can do a report." Real calm. No crisis-mode.
Please accept MY apology if I have totally misunderstood what happened to you. Hope all this helps a bit.
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|October 31, 2005, 11:43 AM
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What if the guy that hit your car blames you for the accident and then starts berating you when it was either their own carelessness, stupidity, or both that caused the accident. I'm not advocating violence, just stating the fact that there are a lot of stupid people out there.
As for insurance, where do you live? How much do you pay? What is your deductable? I live in South Florida and our insurance rates are among the highest in the nation (due to our incredible driving skill of our population ). I have full umbrella coverage ($10 million) to protect people from sueing my business. My deductable is $1000. If I make a claim my insurance will go up. Now do you think that it is fair for me to pay God knows how much more a year because some jack*ss can't drive worth a crap? I wil lbe civil but he or she had better take responsibility for their actions. I will call the police and get a report. I'm sorry if I'm not as nice or calm as you but I'm not going to be all nice if they start talking crap and it is their fault!
One other thing... If you know so much about the insurance industry, you will also know that they are not into the business of losing money. When people make claims, they jack up the rates. Plain and simple. I'm just wondering how badly I'm going to get shafted for my wind storm and flood insurance.
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|October 31, 2005, 12:16 PM
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insurance rates don't automatically increase because you file a claim. many companies use what is called 'experience rating', which estimates the maximum amount of losses you might have had over the past few years based on your current premium. if you have no losses, or your losses are below the maximum, you get a credit. should they go over, they make a debit. there is some science to it, but so far we havent been able to figure it out. its not as simple as saying 'x divided by y = z, if a < z = -15%; if a = z = 1.00; if a > z = +15%.
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|October 31, 2005, 06:53 PM
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Spiff - I actually experience rate high risk commercial auto policies from time to time.
The credit/debit amount is based on the Expected Loss Ratio compared to the Actual Loss Ratio.
Your Expected Loss Ratio is a factor (i.e. .458), which is derived from the amount of premium paid during the experience period - when brought to basic limits. What this says is, a risk who has paid X in premium over the experience period, is expected to have Y amount in losses.
Your Actual Loss Ratio is the actual ratio between losses and premium for the risk. You paid X, and had Y in losses.
Other things which factor into this are things such as "credibility", which is a factor based on the amount of basic limits premium paid during the experience period, same as the Expected Loss Ratio (typical experience periods are about 3 years).
Unfortunately, I'm encountering an error when trying to upload the images, which show the experience mod formula for both debit/credit.
If your interested, I can send them to you via email.
|November 1, 2005, 10:59 AM
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SELF INSURANCE IS INSURANCE. When you self insure you step into the shoes of an insurance company on your own behalf. You do this BEFORE any accident in one of several ways defending on state law. Most of the time it consists of posting a bond of at least a statutory minimum amount. So, when you get into an accident, you now have the funds to: buy an attorney, settle a case, pay damages if you are at fault, etc. It is insurance, just provided by yourself as the "dollar one" coverage entity.
So ... like I said, just get out, thank god we have a good system, exchange info., hope no one is hurt, and continue on your way. All this acrimony is for morons.
As for the high price of insurance, that has to do with UNINSURED MOTORISTS. From the story, our guy had no idea if this guy had insurance or not so his angst was premature.
|November 1, 2005, 11:25 AM
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Another thing ... your $10 million in umbrella coverage is smart thinking and responsible. You have a lot to protect.
Now let me tell you the quickest way for you to lose that coverage.
The other driver is a moron as you say and he denies everything, curses you and gets in your face. You respond in kind. It escalates and he comes at you with a wrench or whatever. You shoot him.
Now the witnesses tell the responding officers that it was a mutual verbal free for all until that guy attacked you and you shot him. To the police, that is a mutual "fighting words" scenario where you were equally at fault for escalating the situation. Actually, you were more responsible because you knew you had a gun and that you could over power the other guy and may have baited him so you could shoot him.
So, the D.A. gets a copy of the incident report and filed a criminal complaint againt you. YOu may plea bargain it down to a misdemeanor, or a lesser felony, maybe not.
But here is the really fun part ... you have just lost ALL OF YOUR PRIMARY AND EXCESS COVERAGE. How, well, in every state in this nation, it is againt public policy to allow someone to insure against intentional misfeasance, malfeasance or nonfeasance (the latter where a duty to act is owed). The criminal case establishes that your act was intentional. So, when you tender your defense to your primary ins. co., they will deny it citing an intentional act. Now, you have no excess coverage because it only kicks in once the dollar-one coverage has been exhausted.
Now you will sue them for bad faith -- that case will be up on appeal six years later. Meanwhile, the wrongful death or damages case from the guy you shot will be waiting in the wings, along with another nine cases for intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress from the other people who witnessed you shot this guy to the ground with their kids also watching from the backseats of their minivans. You will likely lose everything you have paying hourly for the case against your ins. co. so the others will just be gravy by the time you get around to them. Business, gone. Wife, gone. Life Over!
Mind you, I am not an ins. expert. I am a litigation attorney who defense police departments and sheriff's departments against excessive force and civil rights claims. Now, those officers have more immunities and defenses than you can dream of. Still, we settle plenty of cases where nothing wrong was done except some officer cursed at a citizen or was an ahole with witnesses around. That kind of thing can get you hammered even when there is not a shooting involved.
All that being said, it is your life so do as you will. After all, "you da man."
|November 1, 2005, 11:36 AM
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I dont think I am going to exit the car if the other fellow is mad and yelling...lol. Now if he decides to break the window glass and join me we have a slight problem.
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|November 1, 2005, 01:03 PM
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|November 1, 2005, 01:20 PM
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I guess since you are an attorney (or at least claim to be) you have all the answers. That is why our legal system is so F$%&(* UP. Besides, with the pathetic juries I have served with, I find it hard to believe that anyone gets convicted of anything anymore. :barf:
If I were a judge, I'd tell you to stick with the facts and not your cockamamie theories. (Speculation) Last time I checked, that is NOT what our legal system was based on. Besides, the fact that you defend police departments means you are most probably NOT a criminal attorney (although the term is often considered redundant ).
I truley hope that you don't ever find yourself in a situation like the one posted. Many people are much less rational than you give them credit for. I would encourage you to respond with the appropriate force if the guy is an idiot and decides to attack you.
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|November 1, 2005, 05:41 PM
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Just a couple of comments in reply.
First, I agree 100% percent with how you felt in the situation. I would be angry and feel abused by that guy as well. You are entitled to that and should not feel wrong in your anger or frustration. Please, understand that I agree with you there.
BUT, and as I tell my 6-year-old daughter, we DO NOT act in conformity with your feelings all the time. Instead, we try to act in conformity with reason and logic, and with caution and in light of our better judgment. So, while your feelings might point you towards an angry response, your MIND should control your actions in the direction of calmness, reason, etc. All the more so when you strap on a gun.
Second, I am not telling you what will happen, truly, we all know I cannot foretell the future. What I was demonstrating is how a seemingly okay, response in kind could spiral out of control to your everlasting detriment. Your comments about speculation, etc. in a lawsuit are straight up wrong. You demonstrate an absolute void of understanding of the rules of evidence, which do not change much from civil to criminal court. I neglected to mention that civil rights defense is not all I do. I do ALOT of tort defense and some tort plaintiff's work as well.
Like I said before, do what you will, "you da man."
As far as your liability insurance, if it covers your business and your house, then your excess will cover all the things your primary covers, which includes tortious conduct of any kind just about. Insurance is that way not to protect you, but to protect your creditors, who don't want you to default on your house loan and your commercial loans or mortgage due to some unfortunate accident you may cause. That is why insurance of this type developed to cover the things it does cover ... jeez.
|November 1, 2005, 07:11 PM
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Don't be there in the first place
I like what BlackWater Ops said. Get the blank out of there. That is best for everyone. Just think Ace is still here to write about all this. Not in jail, not in the ground nor the hospital. Every true warrior will try to avoid a stupid confrontation first. They don't need to come down to that bar room brawl level. But if it is unavoidable, Yes good consistent training will come into play.
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In his most detailed response to seven months of corruption accusations, former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl told a parliamentary inquiry that neither he nor any member of his government had taken bribes. Kohl denounced what he called "an act of unparalleled defamation" against him. For months press reports have described how former members of Kohl's Christian Democratic Party used bank accounts in Liechtenstein to receive payments connected with the sale of the former East German oil refinery at Leuna. The cdu has also been rocked by accusations of bribery in connection with the sale of 20 armored cars to Saudi Arabia. Kohl said he also could not be blamed for the reported disappearance of Leuna-related files from the Chancellery office.
The Austrian government agreed to an E.U. decision to appoint a panel that will monitor Austria's human rights commitments. But Conservative Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel expressed disappointment that the diplomatic sanctions imposed in February by Austria's 14 E.U. partners, following the inclusion of the far-right Freedom Party in the ruling coalition, will remain in place. Vienna was also miffed that no time-frame had been set for the panel to submit its report, which would also examine the "evolution of the political nature" of the Freedom Party. Jörg Haider, no longer leader but still a dominant force in the party, said he would only cooperate with unprejudiced, friendly monitors.
Barely a week after Russia's military commander in Chechnya had proclaimed the war there all but over, bewildered Russians learned that a major battle had been raging for days near the village of Sergen-Yurt, south of Grozny. The high numbers of casualties 15 Russians killed, 29 wounded and, according to Moscow, 120 Chechen deaths made it impossible for the Kremlin to conceal the news. For their part, the Chechens insisted that they had wiped out an élite Russian unit, killing at least 97. By week's end, Russian General Gennady Troshev had declared victory, saying that Sergen-Yurt had been "annihilated."
A court in Shiraz sentenced 10 Iranian Jews to prison terms of four to 13 years on charges of spying for Israel and acquitted three others. Prosecutors alleged the defendants had spied for Israel's Mossad intelligence service for years, though the defense maintained they had transmitted no classified information and that confessions their clients gave without counsel were inadmissible. International Jewish groups and Western governments were harshly critical of the closed proceedings, in which the judge also acted as prosecutor. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke condemned the convictions as a "kangaroo proceeding," though Western diplomats in Tehran said this week that any sentence short of death would not endanger Iran's cautious rapprochement with the West. Those with lighter sentences may be released early, and the convictions can be appealed twice.
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A surprising end to the political force that created statutory apartheid in South Africa was announced when the New National Party reformed in 1998 from the original whites-only, Afrikaner-based National Party that drafted the racial segregation laws in the 1950s agreed to merge with the liberal Democratic Party to form the Democratic Alliance, a parliamentary opposition group against the majority African National Congress government. The partners will retain their individual names in Parliament until the 2004 general election, but will jointly contest local elections in November. With a total of 68 seats in the 400-seat Parliament, the two parties will present what the alliance leader, the DP's Tony Leon, called "a crucial strengthening" of the opposition.
The Jammu and Kashmir assembly passed a resolution demanding autonomy for the troubled Indian state, where Muslim insurgents have waged a decade-long independence struggle. In the unlikely event that New Delhi grants autonomy, Kashmir would return to its pre-1953 status, when it had its own flag, president and prime minister. In New Delhi, leaders of both the ruling and opposition parties condemned the resolution. The move is being widely seen as an attempt by the local chief minister, Farooq Abdullah, to regain lost political ground by backing a popular issue.
In a move that underscored the extent to which the relationship between North and South Korea has warmed since last month's historic summit, the two nations agreed to reunite family members who have not seen each other since the Korean peninsula was divided by war in 1949. An agreement signed by Red Cross officials from both sides will allow each country to send 100 individuals to the other side on Aug. 15 to meet with relatives. The deal also calls for South Korea to allow dozens of aging jailed spies who wish to return to the north to do so.
A ferry carrying hundreds of refugees fleeing the violence in North Maluku was reported to have sunk en route to the neighboring Indonesian province of North Sulawesi. The cause of the accident and the number of fatalities were still undetermined at week's end, but the 270 people-capacity vessel was believed to have been carrying up to 500 passengers. Tens of thousands of residents are fleeing sectarian violence that has left at least 169 Muslims and Christians dead after two weeks of fighting on the island of Halmahera and in the capital of Ambon. TaipeiIn an apparent concession to Beijing that took observers by surprise, newly elected Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian told a team of visiting Americans that he was prepared to accept the mainland's "one China" principle. That formulation, articulated in 1992, allows both sides their own interpretation of what "one China" means. Until last week, Chen had insisted he could not accept the principle before holding talks with the mainland. Taiwanese officials later denied that there had been any change in Chen's position, prompting Beijing to demand that Taiwan acknowledge that it is a part of China.
After rebels ignored a deadline for freeing the 27 M.P.s they have held hostage for six weeks, Fiji's military government called off negotiations and announced plans to isolate the rebels in the Parliament compound. A military spokesman said many soldiers were itching to invade the precinct and "have a go at these people." Rebel frontman George Speight and former army Colonel Ilisoni Ligairi, who says he was the real leader of the May 19 coup, warned that any military bullying even power cuts or food rationing would put hostages' lives at risk. In a gesture of support for the military, unions in Fiji and Australia lifted labor and trade bans that threatened to crush the economy.São PauloLuiz Estevao, owner of Brazil's giant Incal construction company, became the first person in the country's history to be expelled from the Senate and stripped of congressional immunity. He is accused of pocketing part of $95 million in excess fees for the construction of a judicial building in São Paulo.
Securities regulators accused one of Canada's largest pension-fund managers and 11 prominent brokerage firms of widespread stock-manipulation offenses, alleging that officials at RT Capital Management, which controls $23 billion in retirement savings, placed orders with brokers to artificially inflate their fund performance, raising the value of the companies' stock holdings by $25 million.
By a surprisingly narrow vote of five to four, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a vaguely worded Nebraska state law that banned doctors from using certain procedures when terminating a pregnancy. Activists who want the court to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that guarantees a woman's right to an abortion were encouraged by the narrowness of the ruling . The issue is expected to become volatile in the upcoming presidential election as the next President is likely to make several appointments to the court as older justices retire. Vice President Albert Gore, who supports abortion rights, used the ruling to attack the anti-abortion views of Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush as "quite extreme."


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(Updated) A Client-side Technologist's Perspective On The MR Data Privacy IssueTuesday, August 23, 2011, 14:34 pm 2 Comments
Several marketing research trade groups have been exploring online research privacy issues, in the hopes of establishing common standards and a code of conduct to govern how "responsible" researchers should treat consumer data. An earlier debate on privacy practices in the social media age can be summed up (in my opinion) in two words: losing battle. This is particularly true as it relates to games research — console, handheld, casual, or any other.


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John Dillon '82 Appointed Chief Deputy Mayor of Indianapolis; Keira Amstutz '91 Named Mayor's Chief Counsel and Policy Director
January 18, 2006
January 18, 2006, Greencastle, Ind. - John J. Dillon, a 1982 graduate of DePauw University, has been appointed chief deputy mayor of the city of Indianapolis as well as chief of staff for Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson. Keira Amstutz, a 1991 DePauw alumna, "who has led the city's successful efforts on cultural development since 2000... will take on a new role as chief counsel and policy director for the mayor," reports Inside Indiana Business.
"Whether in the public sector or private sector, John Dillon is one of the most experienced people I know," Mayor Peterson says. "He is smart, astute and very tenacious, and I look forward to his leadership of my team and the city of Indianapolis."
Dillon becomes chief deputy mayor immediately and assumes the chief of staff position in March. He previously served the state of Indiana as commissioner of the Department of Insurance, commissioner of the Indiana Department of Transportation and executive director of the Hoosier Lottery. After leaving state government, he worked as the chief administrative officer for a local GIS firm and then became chief operating officer of Standard Management Corporation. Recently, he advised Mayor Peterson on the Indiana Stadium and convention center expansion project and helped oversee the city's acquisition of the Indianapolis Water Company. He also has served as president of the Indianapolis Local Improvement Bond Bank Board since 2000.
"The essence of city government is to make sure that 'the trains run on time' every single day," Dillon states. "I'm looking forward to making sure that Indianapolis is the best run city in America and that neighborhoods, schools, businesses and residents alike are receiving the top-quality services they deserve."
Inside Indiana Business also reports, "In her new role, Amstutz will focus on policy development and strategy for the Mayor's administration. Amstutz... joined the mayor's team in January 2000, first as assistant deputy mayor for public affairs handling various policies issues for the city. She however has spent most of her time leading the mayor's effort to make Indianapolis a cultural destination as administrator for the Indianapolis Cultural Development Commission." (image at left shows Amstutz on the cover of the August 2001 issue of Indianapolis Woman magazine)
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so last week, i blogged a little about "nesting", and how this time around is has been different from what it was when i was pregnant the first time, with chloe. i contribute this to a few things: i now have a few years of experience of being mom, and i know what seems to work and what doesn't (for us).
after i had chloe i expected to be able to wear the clothes i wore pre-pregnancy, and early in my pregnancy, home from the hospital. i must have been delusional. i was not only unprepared to face the changes that my body had undergone, but also the changes that i would undergo in the following few months and years when it came to my own personal style. high shoes and uncomfortable clothes that i used to suffer in for the sake of fashion, didn't get touched, and when they did, they were quickly removed and replaced by more practical and comfortable options. eventually i wound up either selling or giving away many items, repeatedly editing and re-editing my wardrobe... and each time feeling that i was getting closer to being more comfortable with what my wardrobe had become - a collection of items that felt like a well curated home to me.
|okay, so it's not my whole wardrobe, but what you would see if you looked in my wardrobe. lots of grey, black, denim, and neutrals.
i realized i didn't need a bunch of statement items and shoes, but that all i need to get me through most days is a good pair of jeans, a few presentable shirts and some tees, and perhaps a very easy and flattering dress or two. decent underthings (that work under anything i wear), and shoes are also a must - but i don't need a whole lot of them, just enough in good quality. my jewelry is pretty much always the same - a few rings that i love, a sterling cuff, and maybe a pair of earrings, or a necklace. being able to get dressed quickly, without a lot of fuss or thought, became a priority - but along with feeling effortless, i wanted to feel like myself when i got dressed. to this day i am continually editing my wardrobe, but i find that i buy much less, and often look for items that i can move around in, wear often, dress up (or down), and that are well made. my purchases are carefully considered, and i often find myself asking myself if i can make something similar. when it comes to making a big purchase, i like to feel that i am really treating myself, making an investment (especially in a quality hand-made item, like one of these, that i am oogling), and will wear it often for many years.
the same wardrobe guidelines go for my children - a pair of sturdy sneakers, some sandals, a pair of boots, and perhaps a pair of ballet slippers are all chloe needs as far as shoes go. her entire wardrobe fits into one drawer. most of it is made up of easy play-skirts i made myself, a couple pairs of jeans, and very basic tees and tanks in neutral colors. all of her things are good quality, but she probably has just enough to make it through a little more than a week. which is perfect, because i do laundry at least once a week, maybe twice. i love that she can pull clothes out of her drawers and be pretty-well matched. also, she loves wearing her play-skirts, and they have been super-easy for potty training.
|chloe's outfit on a typical day consists of a play-skirt, a top, and some shoes of her choosing.
when it comes to dressing a new baby i am trying to keep it really simple too. i plan on needing to buy some basics. some fresh onesies, a few soft sleepers, and a hat or two. i had put away many of chloe's things from when she was a baby, only saving the best onesies and sleepers, but darnit if i didn't unpack them all to discover them worn out in ways that i just don't remember. i also do not remember owning so much pink (chloe's gender was a surprise, and i thought we had owned mostly green and yellow clothes) so i pulled out the most special items to wash and mend, and donated the rest.
|a sweater i knit for chloe when she was a newborn, and a sweater and hat for the new baby
i plan on making a few things for the baby, chloe, and myself. for the babe: some muslin swaddlers, a couple knit sweaters for the fall, and a few hats. chloe will also get some sweaters, and both of them will get some handmade slippers. it sounds like a bit of work, but it is actually pretty simple for me to manage making warm little things, and i find it satisfying to see my kids in stuff i made them.
all this to say, that simplifying our wardrobes has really helped save time and money for us in the long run. i don't have a ton of money to spend on clothes, so i make some, and try to buy things that i know will last and be worn a ton, rather than buy a bunch of stuff that doesn't wash well and wears poorly... not that i mind a good worn-in tee or jeans (they are my favorites), but stuff that is cut badly and looses shape quickly is so disappointing, and is not the kind of worn-in that i am going for.
so, yeah, it took me a while to get to this point where i own way less clothing than i ever have, and feel more comfortable with it than i ever thought i would, but it has made my life much easier, and my wardrobe much more enjoyable to wear and build.
so, yeah, it took me a while to get to this point where i own way less clothing than i ever have, and feel more comfortable with it than i ever thought i would, but it has made my life much easier, and my wardrobe much more enjoyable to wear and build.
if you are looking for more information for how to simplify your wardrobe, i recommend this blog post, this one too, and that you google "the five piece french wardrobe" (and take what you want from it)... and then taking whatever principles you see fit, and applying them to kid's wardrobes. now, it's a little trickier as kid's grow like crazy, and need stuff more often, but i found once i started paring my wardrobe down, that chloe's followed suit.
if you would have shown me how little i needed before i had chloe, i wouldn't have believed it, but having less clothes has been key to keeping me sane when it comes to getting dressed.


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Neill Blomkamp's TED talk
Neill Blomkamp, director of DISTRICT 9, gave an interesting talk at TED where he articulately provides a lucid overview on the possibility of extraterrestrial life that had my inner geek utterly swooning. Sparked by an interviewer's question about whether he believed the aliens in his film accurately represented what he believed aliens looked like, he responded absolutely not. He explains that the film was an allegory for identity and racism, and not about science fiction. However, he is fascinated by the search for extraterrestrials and the science behind it. His talk reminds me of my own late night peregrinations on Wikipedia where one page can lead me down the geek rabbit hole, such as the rare earth hypothesis versus the principle of mediocrity theory, Type 1 and Type 2 civilizations (Earthlings are a type 0), Dyson spheres, the technological singularity, and why we haven't seen evidence of other civilizations. Watch the talk and prepare for your mind to be blown.


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Reading the menu vs. eating it
Transitory Gaslamp means you have to straddle tastes
Patrick Henderson 8:03 p.m., Nov. 24
San Diegans who refer panhandlers to St. Vincent de Paul Village or the Rescue Mission may not know about San Diego's third option for free food: the local canyons.
Jon Rebman, Ph.D., the curator of botany at San Diego's Natural History Museum, says that much of the plant life that grows in San Diego's canyons and back yards is perfectly edible. "I'm not saying it would be easy to live off the plant life here. It's not just the public areas but private too. Think of all the different things that are planted, the different types of trees. You can grow just about anything here. All the citrus...then you've got things like loquats and all sorts of edible fruits that produce throughout the year."
Rebman, 37, works in the taxonomy of plant species and specializes in the deserts of Baja California, where he leads research expeditions every two years. When discussing edible plants, his fascination with cacti is apparent. "Most of them have edible fruits. The pads are edible. In Mexico, they call that the nopalitos. And the fruits, or tunas, are extremely edible. Nopalitos are the pads on a couple of species of prickly pears, and they are a major food in Mexico. You can boil them, dice them up and use them with eggs, or eat them alone as a side dish. They're supposed to be good for diabetics."
Cactus pads may be mainstream food for Mexico, but Rebman admits that their taste probably wouldn't appeal to the average American's palate, although the fruits would. "They are really important. I always go back to Illinois and tell them, 'I just had tuna ice cream and it's fantastic!' And they just cringe, thinking I mean the fish!" he laughs. "But you can make juices out of it, or you can eat it straight. It's a big, large fruit, and it tastes kind of like a watermelon. It's very sweet and tasty, and they're producing a lot. It's a major industry for Mexico."
Another cactus species Rebman recommends as edible is the agave. "There's a lot of them in Balboa Park, on the desert side. There used to be agave-roasting pits, where the indigenous people used them extensively. That's where tequila, mescal, miel, pulque, and all those other beverages come from. It's an edible stem portion. You take off all the leaves and roast this rounded stem-like thing. It looks like a pineapple without the leaves, so they call it a piña in Mexico. That starch then becomes available after it's roasted, kind of like a potato."
There's a lot more to eat growing around San Diego than just cacti. Native elderberries are found in most of the urban canyons. Live oak acorns are edible but require more effort than most people would be willing to exert. "You have to keep them in bags of water for a long period of time. You have to leach them like olives, to get the tannins out, a type of chemical that is real tart and nasty."
There is a native buckwheat, but it has little in common with the grain used for buckwheat flour. "You always hear about buckwheat in the health-food stores, but that's not the native kind from around here. That's an old-world species."
Other edible species include yucca flowers and amaranth seed. "The local indigenous people used to harvest the seeds and crush it into a meal. It's still used as a grain source, and you can find it in some health-food stores. I believe it's still popular in Mexico."
Part of Rebman's work with the museum includes leading nature walks, a place where he makes it a point not to mention the edible plant life, as some different plant species look quite similar, and a mistake can be lethal. "We have so much diversity here in San Diego County that it's easy to get confused. Things can look very much alike. One of the common things we have in our area are these white, umbelliferous plants that have these white flowers. The wild carrot looks like that, but once every few years, you'll see an article where somebody confused hemlock for the carrot and dies. It's that toxic. Think about Socrates!"
Milkweed is another local poisonous plant, but no one has ever been known to eat it. Castor beans are extremely lethal. "That's a common weed species that we have in most urban canyons. In fact, a chemical came in vogue that is derived from the seed called ricin, and it's one of these powders that is tasteless and has no smell. About ten years ago, there was a story about somebody putting it on the end of an umbrella and jabbing someone. Once it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down, you can't even tell what killed the person."
Offroaders in San Diego's backcountry often find leafy vines with a green hanging fruit covered with long, soft needles. "That's wild cucumber. I don't think the fruits are edible, but underneath the ground is a huge tuber, or stem body. It's basically one of these things where you'll see the vines coming up after a fire. They come from this huge underground starchy reserve, and it is edible. It's kind of like a potato. You'd have to roast it."
While aware of the many books used as guides to eating native plants, Rebman is reluctant to recommend any because of the danger of misidentifying plants. "There's a lot of them like Eat the Weeds [by Charles Harris], for example. We're in an age where people want to get back to nature. Some books are all right, but a lot of them... I'll give you a warning: I don't suggest them because of the diversity of our region and the confusion you can have with things that are edible and things that are not. A lot of these books are done by amateurs, and they use common names, which are misleading. Sometimes they're for regions other than Southern California -- maybe something from back East that doesn't occur in our area, and you'll find something that looks similar and think it's edible. And common names are very misleading. One species can have many different common names, or you can be using the common name for many different species that are not related at all. Those books can be real dangerous.