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Treasuries snapped a two-day advance as the U.S. prepared to auction $64 billion of notes and bonds next week and the partial shutdown of the government persisted for a fourth day without signs of ending.
Benchmark 10-year note yields rose from almost a seven-week low, trading in the tightest weekly range in almost six months. One-month bill rates matched the highest level since 2009. House Speaker John Boehner tried to unite Republicans on a plan to reopen the government, raise the debt limit and achieve as many party priorities as possible. The Treasury has said it will exhaust measures to avoid exceeding the borrowing limit Oct. 17.
"Supply is a factor and will be a factor," said Ray Remy, head of fixed income in New York at Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc., one of 21 primary dealers that trade with the Federal Reserve. "We're just careening forward, waiting for news out of Washington."
Ten-year U.S. yields climbed five basis points, or 0.05 percentage point, to 2.66% at 1:20 p.m. New York time, Bloomberg Bond Trader data show. The price of the 2.5% debt due August 2023 fell 14/32, or $4.38 per $1,000 face amount, to 98 21/32. The yields have traded this week between 2.66% and 2.58%, the narrowest range since April. The bottom of the range was the lowest level since Aug. 12.
Rates on Treasury bills that mature Oct. 24 traded at 0.14% today, from negative 0.01% on Sept. 27, as investors demanded extra compensation for the risk of holding the securities.
Curve Inversion
Money managers are getting out of Treasuries maturing closest to the debt-ceiling deadline and buying longer-maturity bills, yields indicate. One-month rates touched 0.19% today, matching a 45-month high reached in November 2012, while the rate on three-month bills was 0.02%, the biggest inversion of the spread since September 2008.
The U.S. will auction $30 billion of three-year notes on Oct. 8, $21 billion of 10-year debt on Oct. 9 and $13 billion of 30-year bonds on Oct. 10.
Concern about the looming debt-ceiling deadline may grow next week as the Treasury sells the debt, said Jim Vogel, head of agency-debt research at FTN Financial in Memphis, Tennessee.
"You're always going to get more tense the closer you get" to a deadline, Vogel said. "I don't think we'll have a great read on that until we're through the 10-year auction."
House Republicans are divided between those who are insisting on confrontation over the nation's 2010 health-care law, Obama's signature legislative achievement, and those who say they would support Senate Democrats' spending bill. That measure would end the shutdown without conditions attached. Boehner told reporters today the way to reopen the government is for Democrats to negotiate and accept changes to the health law.
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Bobby Hernandez was a competitor at Tokay High.
Bobby Hernandez was a competitor at Tokay High.
He still is.
Hernandez, 33, was a multi-sport standout for the Tigers in the mid-1990s. Now, he's bringing his style of tenacity to the Tigers' boys basketball team as its head coach.
"We have to work on all the little things - box out and get the ball to the open guy and let that dictate our offense," Hernandez said. "I just want to get us back to playing hard."
Hernandez played guard at Tokay for then-head coach Tom Gonsalves, now the longtime coach of the St. Mary's girls basketball team. The Tigers enjoyed one of their most prosperous periods with Gonsalves orchestrating from the bench and Hernandez serving as an extension of the coach on the court.
"He's just going to do an outstanding job over there," Gonsalves said. "He puts in the time, and he has good rapport with the kids. He's going to be a good one."
Tokay is led by 6-foot sophomore forward Nico Brusa, senior point guard Yonic Flores and senior guard Josh McAfee. Senior Nick Johnson, a 6-4 center, is the interior threat.
The Tigers finished as the runner-up at the Joe Nava Delta King Classic last week at Stagg High.
St. Mary's coach Ken Green, who is in his ninth season at his high school alma mater, has a young team that will play a little faster this season.
"We're really guard oriented," Green said. "We've got a lot more quickness than we've had in the past."
The Rams, who finished third in the TCAL last season behind McNair and West, were champions of the Aptos-Seascape Tournament last week behind junior guard Gabriel Vincent, who averaged 18 points in their three wins. Senior Zach Zeyen, a 6-4 forward, is the inside presence. Bryan Pascual, a 5-9 junior guard and third-year varsity player, sustained a sprained ankle late in football season but should be ready in time for the start of league play in early January.
"The league will be very competitive," Green said. "Any team that really steps up and gets on a roll can take it. Our focus is on hitting our stride when league play begins in January."
Edison has a talented, deep team without much senior leadership. Coach Richie Lynch, who is in his seventh season, said the Vikings could make a run in the playoffs, if they play hard and outhustle their opponents. Senior guard Carlnelious McGee is one of the TCAL's top players. Senior guard Josh Johnson and junior Richard Newell are top contributors, as well.
"We really have to work on our toughness," said Lynch, who also is Edison's athletic director. "Both of our losses (as of last week) were because we were outrebounded. We have depth. We have good guards and our posts are much improved."
McNair lost standouts T.J. Wallace, a Pacific recruit who transferred to Modesto Christian, and Eric Duncan, who transferred to Weston Ranch, but fourth-year coach Matt Morelli has an experienced team preparing to defend its league title.
"We have eight players that came to this school together and played on the same freshman team," Morelli said. "These guys have played together for a while.
"We're senior-heavy. We're going to be a tough game."
Senior co-captains Carl Coleman and Enrique Flores, and senior Marcus Cotton are among the Eagles to watch. Coleman, a 5-11 guard, is a smart player who defends and handles the ball well; Flores has all the traits of a good leader, Morelli said; and Cotton likes to go hard to the basket and play in the post.
"We're not very big, we we're going to be scrappy," Morelli said.
"Our big thing is to go out there and play harder than everybody else."
West's roster is comprised of juniors and seniors, making it perhaps the league's most experienced team. Jordan McIntosh, who averaged 14.1 points, and Robert Mason and Jaylen Sanders, who both averaged 10 points, are gone to graduation, but guards Justin Saar and Kenneth Daye played a lot last season and are back, along with forwards DeAndre Thompson and Michael Young.
"Seven of our top eight guys are seniors," said the Wolf Pack's fourth-year coach Derek Sprecksel.
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It's Wednesday here at Tummy Treasure, so that means a few things this morning. First, it means that it's time for my weekly article up at Kids Cuisine, so be sure and check that out. My kids seem to get more involved in the kitchen every day, and recently we found a new way for them to help out. Wednesday also means that there is a new post up at Menu Planning 101- it's time for the weekly menu plan to be up, so that's going on over there.
As for here at Tummy Treasure, I do have a recipe for you today. I was hesitant about sharing it, to be honest. It's actually another one of my "Default Dinners", and incredibly simple. So simple, that I wondered if I should even share it because it does use a much-maligned convenience product. But share it, I will, because one of the very things that I used to butcher was an old-fashioned Pot Roast. Oh my, I would dry them out every time I tried to make one, or it wouldn't be cooked long enough and it would be tough and stringy and chewy. Every time Andy would come home and see pot roast he would get so excited...and then be subsequently disappointed by my offering. Cooking large cuts of meat just didn't come naturally to me.
I finally found a recipe that worked wonderfully for cooking from one of my favorite cookbooks Fresh Every Day by Sara Foster. I love that book, and her recipe for Mom's Pot Roast did not disappoint. It produced a succulent cut of meat and it was simply wonderful. I had two problems with it though. One was that it was fairly involved at first, it wasn't the easiest recipe to get together. And secondly, I just don't care for pot roast vegetables. What can I say, I never have. I just don't care for that beefy flavor being cooked into the potatoes and carrots. Blech. But the Mom's Pot Roast was a revelation, and do check out the recipe for that if you're looking for something company worthy and wonderful.
But then one day I had a chuck roast in the fridge that needed to be cooked, and I was short a few of the ingredients for Mom's Pot Roast, and what was I going to do? I was also short of hands on time, so I needed a quick fix. I did what any harried and huried person would do, I reached deep (deep I tell you!) into the pantry and pulled out...a can of condensed French Onion soup. I looked at the roast, looked at the soup, and decided it would do. The roast went into a roasting pan with a lid, followed by a sprinkling of salt and pepper. I popped the top on the soup, poured it over the roast, added the lid to the pot, and shoved it into the oven to be forgotten about for 2 or more hours. And I'll tell you, a short while later the house smelled heavenly, and I had hope for this meal-in-a-hurry.
Not only did it turn out, but we thought the roast was fantastic. It needed nothing else except some roasted vegetables to accompany. Maybe some bread or mashed potatoes to swipe up the gravy with, but really, that lone can of soup made magic in that pot. I did take the extra step to thicken the juices and drippings with some flour when it came out of the oven, but even that needed nothing more than a little more fresh pepper to season it. If you wanted to dress it up, you could maybe add a few pinches of dried thyme when you add the can of soup, but otherwise, it's perfect just as it is. I have also used this recipe in the crock-pot on low for 6-8 hours (which depends on which crock I am using that day), and that worked out great as well. Sometimes, you just can't beat convenience, and with the ease with which this came together, it's something we repeat quite often.
*Don't forget! Tomorrow is Thursday! I promise, you won't want to miss tomorrow here at Tummy Treasure- so be sure and drop in. It will be well worth your time to see what's new and exciting here! (And no Mom, I'm not pregnant!)
Foolproof Pot Roast
1 (3 lb) chuck roast
salt and pepper to taste
1 can condensed French Onion soup
2 tablespoons flour
1/4 cup water
additional pepper as needed
Preheat oven to 325ºF.
Season the roast lightly with salt and pepper, and place in a dutch oven or other roasting pan with a lid.
Pour the condensed soup over the roast (do not add water). Put the lid on the pot and slide in the oven.
Do not disturb for 2 hours. Smaller size roasts will be done around 2 hours- larger roasts may take longer. Check to see that the meat is falling apart- when it does that, it's ready. If it doesn't fall apart, it needs more time- give it 20 minutes increments until done.
Remove from the oven and set aside for 15 minutes- leave the lid on!
Transfer the roast to a serving platter. Pour the juices left behind into a saucepan over medium-high heat.
Combine the flour and water, whisking until combined. Add to the pan juices, stirring constantly. Bring to a boil and check for seasonings- I usually find it needs added pepper, but not salt.
Once the mixture has come to a boil, it's done. Pour over the roast and serve immediately.
Serves 4
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5 comments:
- JEP said...
I plan to share this recipe with my daughter. She has always loved the pot-roast I made (which is somewhat similar) & prepares it frequently for my grandchildren. Your recipe just may edge mine out:)
- Josie said...
Your teases about Thursday are killing me. Ya know, I used to find Santa's stash and unwrap (and re-wrap) my gifts before Christmas! :)
I think cans of cream of ________ condensed soups can be a god-send. Your recipe looks tasty to me :)
- Erika W. said...
Jep, it's so easy! I love that especially.
Josie, it's nice to know that I'm not just driving myself batty... that makes it even more fun!
I thought it was a baby, too!
- Erika W. said...
LOL Kelly!
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Boyish and buoyant, "Star Trek Into Darkness" filmmaker J.J. Abrams bounded into a Century City screening room Sunday night to greet an audience gathered to watch the first nine minutes of the highly anticipated May release from Paramount.
He promised the footage would contain "a lot of intensity, a little bit of gloom." What he didn't mention were the revealing space-age wetsuits, the scarlet trees of alien worlds or the fact that Spock (Zachary Quinto) finds himself inside an active volcano that threatens to blow the highly logical Vulcan into another dimension.
The screening was the first piece of a two-day effort to woo journalists with early access to scenes from the film, the sequel to Abrams' 2009 big-screen reboot of the landmark science-fiction franchise.
On Monday, at the Santa Monica offices of Abrams' company, Bad Robot, the director and select cast members were due to assemble to chat up reporters and to show off select costumes and props from the upcoming film.
It's an interesting move for Abrams, whose feature-film directing credits include "Mission: Impossible III" and "Super 8″ and who closely guards the secrets of his film and television projects.
Paramount has been carefully stoking fan interest in the "Star Trek" follow-up — first releasing a plot synopsis at the end of November, then the film's poster, then a teaser trailer prior to releasing a full trailer and screening the same nine minutes of footage before Imax 3-D showings of Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," which opens in theaters Friday. (Non-Imax screenings of "The Hobbit" will get the official "Into Darkness" trailer.)
The plot synopsis alone inspired wild speculation across the Internet, particularly when it came to the still mysterious identity of the villain portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch.
The synopsis said that the crew of the Enterprise is called back home only to discover "an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis."
It went on to state, "With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction."
Some fans seem convinced that Cumberbatch would appear as Khan Noonien Singh, the character initially made famous by Ricardo Montalban on the original TV series and in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." Others appeared certain that Cumberbatch would play Gary Mitchell, a dangerous villain with psionic powers first played by actor Gary Lockwood in the original series episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before," the second "Star Trek" pilot filmed and the first to feature William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk.
Nothing in the nine minutes of footage that Abrams screened Sunday definitively settled the matter, though Cumberbatch is seen at one point in a uniform that closely resembles those worn on the Enterprise.
The clip opens with a sequence set in futuristic London, with a couple visiting a comatose girl at a children's hospital, and Cumberbatch's character informing the distraught father that he possesses the ability to cure the child.
Cut to Class M Planet Nibiru, where Kirk (Chris Pine) and Dr. Leonard McCoy (Karl Urban) are running through a field of red trees and diving into vibrant blue waters, attempting to flee from a tribe of aliens who, it seems, are on the verge of extinction unless the crew of the Enterprise can prevent that volcano from exploding.
It's Spock who's in a position to deploy a device designed to render the eruption inert, but he finds himself perilously close to death standing on a rock inside the volcano amid rivers of lava.
Also seen in the sequence are John Cho as Mr. Sulu, Zoe Saldana as Uhura, Simon Pegg as Scotty and Anton Yelchin as Chekov.
There was certainly no shortage of spectacle, which bodes well for fans of the franchise.
"Star Trek Into Darkness," written by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Damon Lindelof, is set to open in theaters May 17.
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After Thursday's game against Marquette, Florida will play at Florida State (Dec. 5) and at No. 9 Arizona (Dec. 15).
When Florida put together its 2012-13 non-conference schedule, it didn't leave much room for error.
The No. 7 Gators (5-0) will begin the toughest three-game stretch of their non-conference games on Thursday night at the O'Connell Center against Marquette. After the SEC-Big East Challenge game against Marquette, Florida will play back-to-back road games at Florida State (Dec. 5) and at No. 9 Arizona (Dec. 15).
"It's a time for us to find out what we're really made out of against some really talented teams, tough competition," Florida junior center Patric Young said. "It gives us an opportunity to see how we are doing so far in the season, and hopefully come out on top."
Florida has strengthened its non-conference schedule since narrowly missing the NCAA Tournament in 2008 and 2009. In both seasons, Florida had 20 or more wins during the regular seasons, but missed the tournament due to its schedule strength.
With SEC expansion and the increase to 18 conference games this season, Florida coach Billy Donovan had just 13 games left to fill out the 2012-13 schedule.
"You really get caught trying to jam-pack a non-conference schedule and then you get caught with teams trying to work dates out," Donovan said. "So we get caught playing games maybe like right now, where you have Marquette, Florida State and Arizona right in a row. That's what is going to happen when you play the kind of non-conference schedule we're playing."
Donovan said he's noticed the benefits of playing a tougher non-conference schedule the past three seasons. Florida has made three straight NCAA Tournaments and back-to-back Elite Eight runs.
"It's really challenging," Donovan said. "I think in November we're getting an opportunity, one, to get better and, two, to find out a lot more about ourselves. We're being in challenged in a lot of different ways.
"I think we're getting prepared to go into the SEC. I think after November and December are done with, we'll look at our non-conference schedule and we'll probably say there isn't a style or system or situation that we haven't really had a chance to get exposed to. But, clearly, I think as it relates to most schools across the country, it will be one of the more challenging non-conference schedules in the country."
Florida has breezed through its first five games, winning by an average margin of 23.8 points.
"Either we're just playing at a high level right now, or other teams just haven't matched our intensity or energy," Young said. "We'll see. We haven't really been down or had to face adversity in games that we've played, not saying the teams that we faced haven't been talented. We've just done a really good job playing our game.
Regardless, Donovan said that there is room for the Gators to improve, even after posting convincing wins against Wisconsin, Middle Tennessee State and UCF. Donovan was concerned with Florida's dropoff in defensive intensity after UCF started the second half of its game with an 11-0 run against the Gators. Also, Donovan would like to see the Gators improve their assist-to-turnover ratio, which is nearly 1-to-1. Florida has averaged 13 assists per game to 12.8 turnovers per game.
"I'd like to see us have more assists than we have right now as a team," Donovan said. "I think we're averaging right now about 13 a game, traditionally here we have been at least the SEC leaders in assists for most years. We want to be in that top echelon."
Turnovers have been an issue on and off this season, with starters Young, Will Yeguete and Mike Rosario averaging more than two turnovers per game.
"Anytime you give up the ball, it's affecting our defensive efficiency as well as our offensive efficiency," Young said. "A turnover is not even getting a shot up. Coach Donovan hates that. It drives coaches crazy. We've just got to do a better job taking care of the ball."
FREE THROWS: Donovan said he has no plans to make changes in the starting lineup, even after junior guard Scottie Wilbekin's 17 point, 8 assist game off the bench against UCF. Donovan praised the steady play of Will Yeguete at small forward and is comfortable with playing a bigger frontline. As for Wilbekin replacing Rosario as a starter, Donovan said: "No not right now. Mike's attitude has been really good. He's worked really, really hard. I think he's doing the things I'm asking him to do. Clearly, I think he's capable of shooting the ball better and I think he's capable of taking care of the ball better but the one thing that's kept him on the floor is he's really made a personal investment to try to be better defensively." … Donovan said junior forward Casey Prather, recovering from post-concussion symptoms, is wearing boxing headgear in practice. "It's affected his vision in practice," Donovan said. "I think he's having a hard time seeing, but I think he understands to get hit again, take a fall or to have another setback we have to do some things to be somewhat precautionary to help him." Prather had 8 points, 4 rebounds and a blocked shot in his season debut against UCF. "It's going to help him when it comes to games because it makes him kind of (have) tunnel vision and he'll really have to work on keeping his head on a swivel," Young said. "So when he has to take it off on the games, hopefully that will help him fly around on defense."


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1. Re: Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!DMEmonger Aug 23, 2010 3:45 PM (in response to dlm953)
Run the Intel WiFi event viewer. The next time the adapter shuts down check the viewer for events. I had a similar problem and the adapter repored that I reached a critical thermal event. The adapter needed to be replaced in my case. Hope this helps
2. Re: Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!urstanno Sep 11, 2010 6:37 PM (in response to dlm953)
Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!
Last week I got a new Sony Vaio VPCEA-24FM laptop running windows 7, 64bit. home edition.
I am facing the same problem mention by David.
I connect fine to the wireless here and can perform all functions but in the middle of browsing the adapter becomes disabled and I lose a connection. I need to open up network and sharing center...go to change adapter settings...then right click on the 6200 AGN, Disable it...then Enable it...and it works fine again. This appears to be happening randomly a few times an hour..which is getting frustrating.
My driver is the 184.108.40.206.
The Device Manager says thats the latest/reccommended one.
I've reinstalled the drivers...the update to the drive and the adapter itself..and adjusted power mgmt settings in the adapter all to no avail.
Someone PLEASE offer up help here. Its getting very annoying! Thanks so much.
3. Re: Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!li7liquid Sep 18, 2010 10:50 AM (in response to dlm953)
I'm also having the same problem as OP.
I'm on a Sony Vaio build VPCEB25FX.
Same issues are present with the network adapter randomly turning off. Driver issue maybe? I wish there were some alternative drivers I could use.
Anyone have any possible solutions?
4. Re: Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!mmstahlman Oct 1, 2010 8:04 AM (in response to dlm953)
I have an E6410 with Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 AGN wireless card and it is doing the same thing. I can right click and disable, and right clik enable but it says the adapter is still disabled and to check the hardware switch.. When I checked the switch it was on, and moving it had no affect. This happend twice before I went into BIOS and told the hardware switch to stop controling wireless, and even happened once after I told the wireless switch to only control BT.
The only way to turn the wireless back on is to reboot. No solutions so far..
5. Re: Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!mmstahlman Oct 1, 2010 1:57 PM (in response to mmstahlman)
Just happened to me again.
I brought the computer out of standby, gave it a second, and docked the computer.
Unfortunatly I did not check to see if the wireless was disabled before I docked.
When I right-click and disable, and then right-click enable the wireless...
Message = "The Intel PRO/Wireless Network Connection is still disabled. Use your hardware switch to enable it."
6. Re: Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!li7liquid Oct 1, 2010 2:04 PM (in response to mmstahlman)
Intel needs to fix this crap.. I have to disable + enable the card everytime I open my laptop from standby. It's very frustrating.
7. Re: Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!
I bought a Pavilion dv7t last year and i am having the same problem. Sometimes the connections works all day long, sometimes the internet connection turn off in 10 sec, 5 min, varies a lot, normally turn off before 10min of being turned on. when that happens i run the thorubleshoot, most of the time the wifi adapter comes backs on, then after few sec turn off again. It started happening after a critical microsoft update (i dont know if it has anytihng to do with it) April/12/2011. Today I updated the drivers manually, but i dunno how long it will last.
8. Re: Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!
The Centrino Advanced 6200 now has an updated driver that fixes this problem. I did mine through sony VAIOs care program so I cannot provide a link but you should be able to get it from google.
9. Re: Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!
i still have the same problem...how did you get the help from sony care???
i hve sony vaio VPC EA 24
10. Re: Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!PudgyOne Apr 21, 2011 3:18 AM (in response to tanno )
I am currently using the 6200AGN with no problems. I am using the drivers from Intel® Driver Update Utility
My current drivers are version 220.127.116.11 and I have no problems connecting. I am using these Recommended Wireless Router Settings, I use channel 11.
Did you try updating the firmware in your wireless router?
11. Re: Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!
I have the same problem, i connect to the internet and then all of sudden it gets disconnected and says the radio switch is disable and i try to enable it again and it doesn't let, WTF is up with that? and I also have the centrino 6200. The only way to fix it is to restart my laptop, I have a sony vaio VPCEB23FM.
need help with this
12. Re: Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!
I'm having a lot of problems with my laptop Dell Latitude E5410 using the same wifi adapter. It cut me off from the internet randomly and regularly. The weird thing is I have to manually reset the router before I'm able to connect again. This is extremely annoying. I installed all windows update, I rebooted, reinstalled the card, disable enable the card, I checked for the last driver for the Intel Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN card but I keep having the same issue.
I observed that when it happens, my wireless adapter failed to retrieve a DHCP address from the router leaving it with an 169.xxx.xxx.xxx address, until I reboot the router.
I use Windows 7, 64 bits.
Any help appreciated,
Thank you,
13. Re: Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!ibendiben Dec 1, 2011 2:20 AM (in response to dlm953)
Seems like I have the exact same issue, with the same driver: 188.8.131.52
Only thing I know of that changed is the channel settings in the router, I belief it's 11 now.
I'm also trying to find new drivers with the intel driver update suggested above.
Will see if changing back to other channels solves the problem. But this is anyway a very frustrating thing, I have to say!
14. Re: Centrino Advanced 6200 AGN keeps shutting off on me!Dunbar Feb 21, 2012 11:35 AM (in response to dlm953)
I spent hours reading about this problem from others online and trying every solution I came across. I had resolved to give up and just install a new wireless adapter, but I wanted to figure out how to install it myself to save the $50 the technician would have charged me. After opening up the laptop and removing the SATA drive so I could get to the wireless adapter, I unconnected one of the connecting wires and reconnected it to be sure I could do the same with a new adapter. When I put everything back together and restarted my computer, everything - including my wireless connection - worked perfectly. No need for a new adapter or software or driver updates or reformatting the computer or anything - just jiggle the physical connection and make sure it's connected securely.
Hope that helps!


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Current Exhibitions:
ROTATING ARTIST EXHIBITION Streits Matzo Factory Store presents a collection of art from The Matzo Files, an artist-run, non-profit project consisting of the works of 250 local, national and international artists. The current exhibition includes the works of Tom Krueger, Charley Friedman and more. Continues thru Feb. 27 with exhibits rotating every six weeks. Located at the Northeast corner of Suffolk & Rivington Sts. Tues. Thurs. from 3-7pm & Sun. from 12-5pm. 212-677-0876.
88 orchard, 88 Orchard St., call for hours, 917-747-5824: Home, paintings and collages by MARCY WASSERMAN, through Feb. 28.
Aca galleries, 529 W. 20th St., 5th fl., 212-206-8080: Indiginous Mystique, paintings & watercolors by RICHARD MEYHEW, through Mar. 19.
Andrei kushnir/michele taylor, llc, american painting, 208 E. 6th St., Wed.-Sun., noon-7 p.m., 212-254-2628: Artists by Artists, paintings of/by gallery artists, Mar. 2-31.
Apexart, 291 Church St., Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-431-5270: Maurizio Couldnt Be Here, 5 Saturdays through March the results of which can be seen throughout the week, call for details and events or go to apexart.org, through Mar. 12.
Atm gallery, 170 Ave. B., Tue.-Sun., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-375-0349: ALISON FOX, paintings, through Mar. 20.
Baruch college, Mishkin Gallery, 135 E. 22nd St., Mon.-Fri., noon-5 p.m., Thu., noon-7 p.m., 212-802-2881: The Exquisite Eye, nine Mexican women photographers, through Mar. 10.
Brooke alexander, 59 Wooster St., 212-925-4338: Structure & Color, sculpture by JOSEF ALBERS & DONALD JUDD, through May 21.
Cheryl pelavin fine arts LLC., 13 Jay St., Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-925-9424: Cythera, paintings by HARRIET SHORR, Feb. 24-April 2.
The clayton gallery and outlaw museum, 161 Essex St., call for hours, 212-477-1363: The 80s: 326 Years of Hip, a group show of four octogenarians from the Lower East Side, through Feb. 27.
The cooper union, Humanities Gallery, 51 Astor Place, 1st fl., Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m., 212-353-4158: A Revolution in Orange, documentary photography of the demonstrations in Kiev that led to a new election, Feb. 28-Mar. 10.
Deitch projects, 18 Wooster St. & 76 Grand St., Tue.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-343-7300: KEITH HARING, sculpture, through Mar. 5; Super Mario Movie, work by CORY ARCANGEL, through Feb. 26.
Denise bibro fine art, 529 W. 20th St., 4th fl., call for hours, 212-647-7030: Death and the Maiden, paintings by NORA SPEYER, through Mar. 19; MARY KING, recent work, through Mar. 19.
Dfn gallery, 176 Franklin St., Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-7 p.m., 212-334-3400: We, mixed media works by CEDRIC SMITH, through Mar. 5; Riverine, acrylic paintings by TIM DALY, through Mar. 5
The drawing center, 35 Wooster St., Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-219-2166: Its a Room for 3 People, drawings by RICHARD TUTTLE, through Feb. 26.
The educational alliance gallery, 197 E. Broadway, Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri.-Sun., 9 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-780-2300: The Red Thread, glimpses of the international art scene in Vienna, Austria, Mar. 11-31.
Feigen contemporary, 535 W. 20th St., Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-929-0500: DOUG HALL, large scale color photographs, Feb. 24-April 9.
55 Mercer gallery, 55 Mercer St., Tue.-Sat., noon-6 p.m., 212-226-8513: Eye Witness, new paintings and videos by CHRISTINE BAEUMLER & SHANA KAPLOW, through Feb. 26.
Franklin 54 gallery, 54-56 Franklin St., Wed.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-732-0009: JAMES GRAHAM, paintings, through Feb. 26.
Fusionarts museum, 57 Stanton St., call for hours, 212-995-5290: Then & Now, Lower East Side art in this group exhibition of NYC artists, through Mar. 20.
Gallery 138, 138 W. 17th St., call for hours, 212-633-0324: Desire Submerged into the Earth, group exhibition, through Mar. 4.
Henry street settlement, Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-598-0400: At Home: Visions of Our Place in the World, group exhibition by guest curator Lois Stavsky, through Mar. 1.
Here arts center, 145 Sixth Ave., Sun.-Sat., 11 a.m.-10 p.m., 212-647-0202: Weird NJ: the Exhibition, sixteen artists working in photography, video, installation, painting & sculpture, through Mar. 5.
Hospital audiences, inc., 548 Broadway, 3rd fl., Mon.-Sat., noon-6 p.m., 212-575-7696: Contemporary Outsider Art in America, group exhibition of self-taught artists, through Mar. 15.
Jack shainman gallery, 513 W. 20th St., Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-645-1701: The Whole World is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of PAA JOE, group exhibition, through Mar. 12.
Jane hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones St., Tue.-Sat., noon-6 p.m., 212-242-4106: Points of Entry, earthenware works by JOSEPHINE BURR, Mar. 3-April 16.
Jasper, 504 Laguardia Place, call for hours, 212-475-9601: Underground Underglass, paintings by BRYCE HAMMOND, through Mar. 10.
June kelly gallery, 591 Broadway, Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-226-1660: Shhh...Secrets, Status, Society, ceramic sculpture by SANA MUSASAMA, Feb. 24-Mar. 22.
The kitchen, 512 W. 19th St., Tue.-Sat., noon-6 p.m., 212-255-5793: Something New, two animation based video works by SOWON KWON, Mar. 4-April 16.
Leica gallery, 670 Broadway, Tue.-Sat., noon-6 p.m., 212-777-3051: Tango, Never Before Midnight, photographs by ADRIANA GROISMAN, through April 2.
Maiden lane exhibition space, 125 Maiden Lane, daily, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-206-6061: Garden of Wishing Trees, installation by BARBARA EDELSTEIN & JIAN-JUN ZHANG, Feb. 24-May 12.
Manhattan graphics center, 57 Bethune St., Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Sat.-Sun., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-219-8783: Face/Scapes, group exhibition, through Feb. 28.
Michael ingbar gallery of architectural art, 568 Broadway, Tue.-Sat., noon-6 p.m., 212-334-1100: NYC Day Into Night, paintings by DEREK REIST, through Mar. 5.
Museum of chinese in the americas, 70 Mulberry St., 2nd fl., Tue.-Sun., noon-6 p.m., Fri., noon-7 p.m., 212-619-4785: Living Through History: Chinatown Stories, large collection, open ended; Have You Eaten Yet? - The Chinese Restaurant in America, historical exhibition, through June 2005.
Nancy hoffman gallery, 429 W. Broadway, call for hours, 212-966-6676: RICHARD PURDY, wax/encaustic paintings, through Mar. 2; CAROLYN BRADY, watercolors, through Mar. 2.
National association of women artists gallery, 80 Fifth Ave., Suite 1405, call for hours, 212-675-1616: Catchi, a Celebration of 50+ Years with NAWA, selection of work by CATCHI CHILDS, Mar. 3-April 16.
NYU Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East, Tue., Thu.-Fri., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Wed., 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m., 212-998-6780: Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography, 20th century portrait photography from Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq, through April 2.
Nyu 80 washington square east galleries, 80 Washington Sq. E., Tue., 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Wed.-Thu., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 212-998-5747: 28th Small Works, group exhibition, through Mar. 11.
Nyu tisch school of the arts, Gulf & Western Gallery, 721 Broadway, Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Sat., noon-5 p.m., 212-998-1930: Thesis Exhibition One, 10 graduating seniors from the school exhibit almost one hundred prints of their photographs, through Feb.
The nomadic museum, Hudson River Park Pier 54 at West 13th St., 212-715-1644: Ashes and Snow, exhibition of more than 200 large scale photographic works, through Mar.
The painting center, 52 Greene St., Tue-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-343-1060: DOUGLAS WIRLS & COLLEEN RANDALL, two person exhibition, Mar. 1-26; Reconnaissances, paintings, Mar. 1-26.
Paul kasmin gallery, 293 Tenth Ave., Tue.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-563-4474: Color, group exhibition, Feb. 24-Mar. 26.
Pratt Manhattan gallery, 144 W. 14th St., Tue.-Fri., 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sat., noon-5 p.m., 212-647-7778: Cut & Construction: The Foundations of Fashion, group exhibition on the craft of dress making, through Mar. 28.
Ricco maresca gallery, 529 W. 20th St., 3rd fl., Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-627-5117: Saint and Exiles from Stories Never Written, sculpture by TRICIA CLINE, through Mar. 19; What We Dont Know - Vintage New York, photographs by LISETTE MODEL, through Mar. 19.
Ronald feldman fine arts, 31 Mercer St., Tue.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-226-3232: Roman Allegories, staged photographs by ELEANOR ANTIN, through Mar. 12.
Salmagundi club, 47 Fifth Ave., daily, 1-5 p.m., 212-255-7740: Annual Members Exhibition, through Feb.
The skyscraper museum, 39 Battery Place, Wed.-Sun., noon-6 p.m., skyscraper.org: City of Change, historical exhibition on skyscrapers, through May 29.
Soho photo, 15 White St., Thu., 6-8 p.m., Fri.-Sun., 1-6 p.m., or by appointment, 212-226-8571: Close Encounters, photography by CHRIS WELLES, through Feb. 26.
Staley wise gallery, 560 Broadway, Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-966-6223: HERB RITTS, Body: 1984-1999, through Mar. 19.
Steven Amadee, 41 North Moore St., Tue.-Fri., 11-7 p.m., Sat., 11-6 p.m., Sun., noon-4 p.m., 212-343-1696: Signs of Life,photography exhibition by DAVID ROBIN, Mar. 10-April 30.
Streits Matzos, 148-154 Rivington St., varying hours & by appointment, 212-677-0876: Grand opening of The Matzo Files, an open ended group exhibition of over 250 artists presented in boxes & files, with a rotating selection of featured, curated art shows, call for more information or go to matzofiles.org for more information, an alternative, non-profit organization supporting local & outside artists who are emerging, all work is for sale.
Studio 18 gallery, 18 Warren St., Wed.-Sat., 1-6 p.m., 212-385-6734: LARRY WEBB & BOB WITZ, paintings, through Mar. 12.
Swiss institute, 495 Broadway, 3rd fl., Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-925-2035: Body Proxy, project developed by NORMA JEANE, through Mar. 26.
Synagogue for the arts, 49 White St., Mon., Wed.-Thu., 1-5 p.m., Tue., 1-7 p.m., or by appointment, 212-966-7141: Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, group exhibition, through Feb. 27.
A taste of art, Mon.-Fri., noon-8 p.m., 212-964-5493: Japanese Illustrators, group exhibition, through Mar. 7.
Tracy williams, ltd., 313 W. 4th St., Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-229-2757: Traces Everywhere, group exhibition of works on paper, through Feb. 26.
Westbeth arts gallery, 57 Bethune St., Thu.-Sun., 1-6 p.m., 212-989-4650: JANE BOLLMEIR, early and recent paintings, Feb. 26-Mar. 20.
Yeshiva university museum, 15 West 16th St., Tue.-Thu., Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m., 212 -294-8330: Manhattan Mincha
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Mastering your asthma means understanding your medications, using them correctly, and monitoring your signs and peak flow on an ongoing basis. But it's important to try to avoid the things that trigger your asthma in the first place.
Many of the same culprits that trigger allergies also trigger asthma -- and if you reduce your exposure to them, it will mean less inflammation, fewer symptoms, and a potentially lower dose of medication. Consider the following important allergens:
Anyone who has persistent asthma and is using daily medications should probably get tested for allergies, if they haven't already done so. Skin or in vitro allergy tests may determine whether you are allergic to certain allergens (like animal dander, dust mites, mold, or cockroaches). Once you have a better idea of what's triggering your asthma, you can focus on taking specific steps, like keeping pets out of the bedroom or removing carpeting.
Many studies have suggested that reducing indoor allergens in your home reduces asthma symptoms, so these steps should be seriously considered.
Finally, keep in mind that allergies can either increase or decrease with age. Allergy testing, therefore, is like a snapshot of a moving picture. Even though you or your child has been tested once, testing again may be appropriate, especially if your living environment has changed.
Immunotherapy, also called allergy shots, has been shown to reduce asthma symptoms. This strategy should be considered when you know that certain allergens are causing your asthma, you can't avoid these allergens and they cause symptoms year-round, and drug therapy is not working well. However, keep in mind that people with asthma are more likely to have bad reactions to allergy shots than people who take them just for allergies, and that asthma experts are not in agreement about what role this strategy should take.
Some people are exposed to irritants in their place of work -- such as chemicals, dusts, gases, smoke, and fumes. These irritants can trigger pre-existing asthma, but in other cases they can actually cause asthma that wouldn't otherwise occur. Therefore, it is important to deal with these irritants as soon as possible -- the longer you wait, the more likely it becomes that your symptoms will remain after you are no longer exposed to them in that workplace. An allergist or pulmonologist can help you evaluate the impact that your work environment may be having on your breathing.
National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma. Rockville, MD. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, US Dept of Health and Human Services; 2007. NIH publications 08-4051.


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Chilean fans storm media centre at World Cup stadium
A group of fans wearing Chile jerseys weren't as successful as the real team.
Chile will move on the next round after a 2-0 win over Spain but a number of its fans aren't as lucky. They will either be sent home or spend some time in a Rio de Janeiro pokey.
Fans who couldn't get into the Spain-Chile game Wednesday stormed through the media security check outside Maracana Stadium, slammed through a media centre door and attempted to rush down a corridor to get into the seating area.
On their way, they pulled apart two large sections of flimsy, plywood walls in the media centre as they rushed headlong, attempting to find some way through to the stadium. When they realized there was no way in, they attempted to escape by tearing down the walls.
A few intrepid fans did get into media centre, but were quickly herded away.
Their actions led to a statement from FIFA and the local organizing committee.
"Ahead of the Spain versus Chile match at the Maracana, a group of individuals without tickets violently forced entry into the stadium, breaking fences and over-running security. They were contained by the security and did not make it to the seats.
"The situation was brought under control quickly and at least 85 intruders were detained, according to the military police of Rio.
"The organizers of the FIFA World Cup condemn these acts of violence and will communicate further information and measures to be taken in due course."
Reporters were working in the large media centre an hour before the Chile-Spain game when a section of partition suddenly collapsed. Tables and chairs went flying in all directions.
A minute later, with the media snapping pictures of the aftermath, a second section of the wall collapsed. In the corridor leading to the stadium, a mass of people struggled to move, causing another wall to collapse in their rush to avoid authorities.
They were eventually surrounded and made to sit in the corridor before being marched out.
Thousands of Chilean and Spanish fans mingled outside the stadium before the game. Three hours before kickoff, security had to chase down six fans wearing Chile jerseys who calmly attempted to walk around the media checkpoint while security guards were busy scanning bags.
The situation is a black eye for FIFA and security. There are thousands of security, police and military personnel standing around outside the stadium but there weren't many in the area around the media check-in.


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Tax Competitiveness
"There is no evidence, at present, of a general trend amongst companies to move away from Switzerland, but much will depend on whether Switzerland succeeds, also in the future, in providing a competitive legal and economic setting for conducting business," the government said today. "Switzerland thus faces the challenge of maintaining and strengthening the features that make it an attractive and reliable business location, including the competitiveness of its tax regime and the efficiency of its financial centers."
The pressure to regulate the industry comes as the European Union pushes Switzerland to abandon a so-called auxiliary regime that has attracted commodity traders by allowing them to pay less tax on income from outside the country. That permits traders in Geneva to pay an average tax rate of 12 percent.
While the commodities industry created about 8,000 jobs in Geneva alone, the costs outweigh the benefits because the "dodgy activities" of trading companies could damage Switzerland's reputation, Carlo Sommaruga, a lawmaker for the Social Democratic party, the second-biggest in the Swiss lower house, said last year.
Corruption Threat
The kind of corruption seen under the United Nations oil- for-food program for Iraq under Saddam Hussein could damage Swiss companies' chances of winning contracts abroad and diminish the country's role as a global financial center, according to Sommaruga. A UN found 2,253 companies made illegal payments to Iraq to win oil business, former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who led the report, said in October 2005.
In May 2006, Trafigura pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to falsely telling energy companies that Iraqi oil it sold them in 2001 had been obtained in compliance with the UN's oil-for-food program. Vitol, which had revenue of almost $300 billion last year, pleaded guilty to grand larceny in November 2007 and paid $17.5 million restitution for its actions when buying Iraqi oil under the program.
The Swiss government proceeded with the joint investigation of the commodities industry by the finance, economy and foreign ministries even after lawmakers voted 98 to 93 against it 12 months ago.
Human Rights
The review follows Switzerland's decision in March 2009 to meet international standards to avoid being listed as a tax haven and attempts to settle a U.S. investigation of at least 11 banks that allegedly helped American clients hide money from the Internal Revenue Service. Some Swiss lawmakers are concerned that the lack of commodities industry regulation may hurt a nation struggling to shed its image as a haven for undeclared assets.
"The Federal Council expects of all companies operating in or out of Switzerland to conduct themselves responsibly, and with integrity, in complying with human rights, environmental, and social responsibility standards, both in Switzerland and abroad," the Swiss government said in the report.


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I would imagine they will show up about the same time as the wave 4 Star Tour figures.
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If this isn't enough to turn the election in Nethercutt's direction, the people of Washington must be unconscious. See the ad, titled "Different," here.
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Jewish World Review Feb. 27, 2013/ 17 Adar 5773
Sequestration: Bring It On!
By Roger Simon
I have lived through America's past disasters: Vietnam. Watergate. Disco.
We survived them all. We have grown strong at the broken places.
But now the pols have come up with a new word to panic us: sequester.
It is supposed to scare us witless. But, in truth, hearing a politician tell us, "We are heading toward sequester," is really no scarier than hearing the words, "I don't like the looks of that mole," or, "Welcome to Carnival Cruise Lines."
The sequester was designed to be so horrible that both the Republicans and Democrats in Congress would recoil from it.
All sorts of things will be cut under a sequester: border security, airport security, Head Start, public housing support, NASA, special education, the FBI, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and national defense.
But do you know what does not get cut? Take a guess. That's right: The salaries of senators and representatives do not get cut under sequester.
Congressional staffers — those people who actually read and write the laws, get coffee and have to go before the cameras to explain why their boss has been found in a Motel 6 with a pole dancer named Mercedes Dee Lite — face a 20 percent pay cut through furloughs.
But members of Congress? Their six-figure salaries will continue to roll in, even as money to Medicare patients gets cut.
So why did anybody expect Congress to be repelled by a sequester?
Sure, members of Congress might have to figure out how to put those plastic coffee pods in the machines themselves, but these people are not fools. They will order out. If they can figure out how to work the telephones.
True, the doomsayers says that our national defense will be cut by $42.7 billion. But this still leaves billions and billions for pork: armaments that don't work and weapons systems that not even the Pentagon wants. Members of Congress insist on spending this money, however, to show voters they can bring home the bacon.
The current fallback plan under sequestration is to make sure there is enough left in the defense budget to pile sandbags around John Boehner.
True, our border defense might temporarily suffer. But so what if Mexico retakes Texas? It was theirs to begin with. And you can't make an omelet without breaking some huevos.
But even before the first shots have been fired — and our troops may be limited to five bullets and three sharpened sticks each — there has been some collateral damage.
Journalism legend Bob Woodward has written an article saying that President Barack Obama has been fibbing about who is to blame for sequester. This led journalism legend-in-training Ezra Klein to say Woodward has been fibbing about Obama.
I carefully read every word of each reporter's detailed and nuanced arguments. Which is a lie. I read some tweets about both. And it seems that Woodward and Klein both seem to think we should care what our politicians have said in the past. As the French, who are preparing to take back the Louisiana Purchase, would say, "Tres drole." (You jest, dude.)
Woodward personally has enough money to erase the U.S. deficit, rendering sequester moot. He won't do it, however, because he believes people should be taught how to fish rather than giving them a fish. Speaking of which, why is Wendy's running commercials bragging about its "North Pacific Cod"? Does "cod" really sound appealing no matter where it comes from? I would much rather Wendy's say, "Our burgers come from North American cows and do not include hooves and lips."
But I digress. Last Friday, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was brought into the White House briefing room to tell reporters the utter havoc that sequester would wreak on the American public by cutting $600 million from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Safety would not be compromised, LaHood said, but: "Flights to major cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco and others could experience delays of up to 90 minutes during peak hours because we have fewer controllers on staff."
Delays of up to 90 minutes? You mean shorter delays than we have now?
Sequester — bring it on!
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Todco, a Lexington recycling business, has received a $40,000 grant from the state to purchase a skid steer loader.
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The company held a grand opening and ribbon cutting April 22 — Earth Day — for its new picking conveyor for construction and demolition materials. The conveyor cost $750,000.
DENR's Recycling Business Assistance Center awards the small, recyclcing business development grants to North Carolina recycling businesses to reduce solid waste disposal in a manner that encourages the reuse and recycling of materials and job creation.
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Nicholas Crane in Ludlow
Broadcast Thursday 28 July, 9pm on BBC 2.
Towns, whether seaside, countryside or aspiring to be cities, will be explored in a new series by The Open University and BBC, and produced by Tern Television. Town with Nicholas Crane aims to put towns back on the map and refocus them as important sustainable communities amongst predictions that by 2030 a staggering 92 per cent of us will be living in urban areas.
For most people, that conjures up the bright lights and big opportunities of our great cities. But there is another way to live the urban life: Towns - smaller than cities but more intimate and much greener.
Geographer and adventurer Nicholas Crane will explore four iconic British towns: Scarborough, a survivor perched on the edge of Yorkshire; Ludlow on the Welsh border, the quintessential English country town; Perth, gateway to the Scottish highlands and a town that wants to be a city; and Totnes in Devon, birthplace of a new environmental vision for the future. In each programme he uncovers the secrets of their survival; the reasons for their enduring appeal; and what they can teach people today about living the urban dream.
Dr Gerry Mooney, Academic Consultant for The Open University, said: "Town with Nicholas Crane provides a great platform to explore some of the key social sciences issues of today around questions of community, sustainability, inequality, diversity and power, and through areas of the UK that have often been overlooked in academic and policy making debates."
The four programmes will be broadcast on Thursdays at 9pm, BBC2, starting on 28 July with Ludlow, then featuring Scarborough, Perth and Totnes.
Additional learning resources focusing on the featured towns and others across the UK will be available on the OpenLearn website from the start of the series. For further information, please see link (right).
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Executive Producer for the BBC is Sam Anthony; Executive Producer for Tern TV is Harry Bell; Series Producer is Colin Cameron. The Open University academic consultants for the series are Dr Gerry Mooney and Matt Staples.


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Anyway, can anybody tell me what the side stories are about? And what's their place in canon.
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See? Even I can make the Laura saving Ichika scene better than the author.
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その顔は昔の千冬姉に異常に似ていた pg 221
What kuroishinigami translated was
" But, that face abnormally resembled Chifuyu-nee. "
The word that was left out was 昔 (mukashi - past), so the translation should be "that face abnormally resembled Chifuyu-nee in the past"
Does Chifuyu now looks the same as Chifuyu's then? Does Laura haves a photo of Chifuyu from 8-9 years ago? It is impossible for Laura who was 7 - 8 years old to meet Chifuyu, when IS was in it's early stage
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^ Currently busy catching up with what popular nowadays (haganai, Fate/Zero, Monogatari series etc), so I'll probably spend less time with whatever IS related :P, and by the time I finish them , I think they would have been discussed to death
When vol 5 wasn't translated, they are people who mistook Autumn as Chifuyu, and I have no doubts if vol 6 wasn't translated and just by looking at the picture, people would have thought that Madoka was a new character. I don't think I should bring real life 3D examples of how a girl can change into a woman in 8-9 years period
In my humble opinion, rather than thinking "I can write better" than the author, people should spend the time connecting the dots, or better, try to read the novels in it's original language. Sure IS can be categorized as B- or C grade novels, and the plot isn't that breath taking (if there is any ), but the plot is greatly depending on Ichika and other characters' monologue, so people should pay more attention to them
Also, I also would like to confess my mistake. I translated "Eye" for "Auger"in my summary, but they correct German spelling is "Auge", so sorry , must be my finger :P
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I guess IS is not that bad, but it's just that there many much better stories. Personally, I only read the translations of the first few volumes, so I'm not here to judge. It has great potential, but from the spoilers Kuroishinigami gave, I don't feel it's worth my time to get disappointed (unless it improves and ends with a bang somehow ). I was reading HnA recently (just done with v4), but again, from the spoilers from Hikari (aka Icy Tear) on how bad it went later, I don't think I will continue anymore. I rather read a well-written rabukon, well set up with a consistent style, so as to speak. My personal comparison is relative to the LNs I've read, though it can be very subjective and opinionated at times.
The ones you're catching up are not merely popular, they are great reads (I will overall rate them 8 or higher on a scale to 10), IMO.
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After reading the short stories, I can't
believe how much better Cecilia is portrayed
here, I came to like her a lot despite not
being a Cecilia fan myself, which really says
something, weird thing is that these were
written by Izuru anyway, so why is the
portrayal so much more endearing here?
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Is there a website where you can read volumes with FULL ILLUSTRATIONS not word word word word word picture word word word word picture.. This means a lot to me. Oh and English xD
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Deep water got nearly all the bids in third federal oil and gas lease in the Gulf of Mexico since the BP oil spill.
Of $133.8 million in winning bids, only $4.6 million was for areas less than a half-mile underwater. Chevron USA Inc. and ConocoPhillips Co. led a group of companies that made 131 bids for 116 tracts in the western Gulf.
That brings total lease sales in the Gulf to more than $2 billion over the last 12 months. Before that, lease sales were halted as the federal government scaled back production and imposed sweeping new safety measures and requirements following the Deepwater Horizon disaster in April 2010.
Recent huge discoveries producing 100,000 to 200,000 barrels a day, such as BP PLC's Thunder Horse field and Shell's Perdido field, have been in deep water, said Erik G. Milito of the American Petroleum Institute.
"That's where the focus is," he said.
Neither BP nor Shell was among the 13 companies that submitted bids for Wednesday's sale.
Chevron USA had two of the day's highs: a total of $56 million in high bids, and the largest single bid. That $17.2 million bid topped offers of $11.3 million by Anadarko US Offshore Corp. and $11.3 million by Exxon Mobil Corp. for the same tract. It was the farthest west of four tracts in a row for which Chevron had high bids totaling nearly $38.2 million.
ConocoPhillips had more high bids, 62 to Chevron's 28, for a total of $51.7 million.
Overall, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management offered about 20 million acres in the western Gulf, off Texas and extreme western Louisiana and got bids for about 652,500 acres. Seventy tracts are at least half a mile deep, and 35 others are nearly a mile under water.
Production in the Gulf is still below the levels forecast before the 2010 oil spill. Geoffrey Brand, senior economic adviser for the American Petroleum Institute, an industry trade group, said output is about 29 percent below the 1.76 million barrels a day that the federal Energy Information Administration had predicted for 2012.
U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said the moratorium imposed by the government after the BP oil spill has cost the U.S. money.
"There is no disputing the fact that our nation's domestic energy production on federal lands is far lower than what was projected before this administration took office, and is trending in the exact opposite direction of the rapid growth we're seeing on private and state lands," Vitter said.
The western region's previous sale, last December, brought more than $324 million in leases. The central Gulf, the region where BP's Macondo well was located, is a much more attractive area for drillers. An auction for that region in June brought in $1.7 billion in high bids, the fourth-largest amount for that region since 1983 and $751 million more than the one for the same area in March 2010, a month before BP's Macondo well blew out.
BP had $239.5 million in winning bids in the June lease sale.
The bureau rejects bids considered below fair-market value. It rejected 22 of June's 454 high bids as too low. It will be months before it decides if any of Wednesday's bids will be rejected.
The idea of setting a fair market value for the tracts interested members of an energy delegation from Myanmar, who questioned BOEM official Thierry DeCourt through a translator before the sale.
About 3 percent to 5 percent of all bids are rejected as "grossly underbid," he told the group.
The Environmental Protection Agency's suspension of new federal contracts for BP on Wednesday had nothing to do with its not bidding, said John Rodi, BOEM's regional director for the Gulf of Mexico.


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Wilbert H. Krack photographs, 1930-1934 | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
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Scope and Contents: The Wilbert H. Krack photographs (1930-1934; 0.1 cubic feet) encompasses ten photographs of Triangle Fraternity, twelve photographs of buildings from around campus, twenty-five photographs of sets and scenes from various plays and four miscellaneous shots. Krack was a member of the Play Shop Board, so there are many good images from play sets. The images have been placed in an acid-free folder and arranged by each of the four categories.


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Lansing trio — Joe Schneider, Clay Young and Roy Clayter — awarded KVL first-team accolades
Thanks to its first state championship final since 1950, it should come with little surprise that the Lansing boys' basketball team is reaping multiple awards.
On Tuesday, five Lions were recognized by the Kaw Valley League for their play this season.
Junior guard Joe Schneider, as well senior forwards Clay Young and Roy Clayter, all received first-team all-Kaw Valley honors.
Schneider led Lansing in scoring with an average of 13 points per game and 311 total points on the season. He also was the team leader in assists with an average of 3.1 per game.
Young was third in scoring with an average of 8.8 points per contest and third in rebounding with four rebounds per game.
Clayter was the team's second leading point-getter with 8.9 per game. He also led the Lions in rebounding with 111 total rebounds this year and in steals with 43.
During Lansing's state tournament run, Clayter averaged 18 points per game, a team high.
Junior guard Khalil Bailey and senior guard Lucas Mein both earned honorable mention nominations.
Bailey was second in rebounding, averaging 4.4 per game and 7.5 points per game. Mein averaged 5.5 points per game and had 26 steals on the season.
The Lions finished first in the KVL with a 12-1 record and ended the year 22-2 overall, the best record ever in school history. The squad lost 46-40 to undefeated Shawnee Mission South in the 5A state final.


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Below is the transcript of a press conference held at CROI 2010 on Feb. 16, featuring Anthony Fauci, M.D., Director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Anthony Fauci: It's a pleasure to be here this afternoon. I'm going to talk later on in the day. The title of the talk is "The HIV/AIDS Research Agenda: A View From NIAID."1 And what I've elected to do is rather than go through a very detailed research agenda of everything that we'd be planning to do through our grantees and contractors, I've picked three issues that I consider bold -- high risk, but high return -- that we are going to be pushing the envelope on, under the larger rubric of the common goal that we all have here at this meeting, to control and ultimately end the HIV/AIDS pandemic. I'm not going to talk a lot about pathogenesis at all -- not that I don't think that's very important, because actually that's what I do in my other hat of a scientist. But I'm going to talk about three issues.
Anthony Fauci, M.D.
The first is to aggressively seek, test and treat infected individuals. The second is the issue of the possibility of curing at least a proportion -- I don't know how large that proportion would be, or when it would occur -- of HIV-infected individuals. And lastly, but overwhelmingly importantly, is preventing new HIV infections.
So you have to go to two other things. You've either got to be able to get people on therapy or you have to prevent new infections. And if you look at the cure -- again, I'm not going to go into any detail; I'll be happy to answer any questions about that -- that is a high risk, but incredibly high-impact endeavor. We would have never have thought that we would have had any drug against the retroviral infection 28 years ago, when I first started seeing patients at the NIH [U.S. National Institutes of Health] clinic in the summer of 1981. And now we have 30 that in combination bring the viral load down to practically nothing, certainly undetectable in a large proportion of people. So that's the cure.
The next is prevention. I've divided prevention into two parts, [and one is] antiretrovirals as prevention. And there are several ways we're going to be talking about that this afternoon/evening. One is microbicides with antiretrovirals in it. One of the young fellows asked a question of Susan Buchbinder about whether microbicides without ARVs [antiretrovirals] in it is a dead issue. I wouldn't say it's a dead issue, but it's on a respirator and it has "Do Not Resuscitate" tagged on it. I think what we're going to have to do is clearly go with ARV. And if somebody comes up with a great idea that doesn't have an ARV in it, we'll certainly look at it carefully and peer-review it. But I really do think that our experience over the last several years is that we've got to go with ARVs in microbicides.
The next is PrEP [pre-exposure prophylaxis], which was explained beautifully both by Susan and by Scott Hammer. A very important issue. The question is, is it going to be feasible? And the other is "test and treat," which you heard both from Kevin [De Cock] as well as from Scott. And that's an issue that really requires feasibility studies. And I think the research there is, can it be done? One of the points I want to make is that we shouldn't make the perfect be the enemy of the good, in the sense that if we don't go by the model of 95% of this and 96% of that, I still think the concept of treatment as prevention is very, very promising. We've seen data at the community level by Julio Montaner and others. I think it's something we need to pursue -- I know we're going to pursue, because we are going to pursue it.
And the last is a vaccine. I'm going to review for you the history of vaccinology, very briefly, where we are now, post-Thai trial, dividing it up into two issues. One is, what are we going to learn from the Thai trial and where do we go from there? As well as some of the fundamental issues and questions of vaccinology, which were brought up beautifully by Julie Overbaugh and others. So I'm going to try and put that at a 30,000 to 40,000-foot perspective in 25 minutes.
[question asked off-mic; John Mellors, who moderated this discussion, rephrased it into a microphone]
John Mellors: What do you think is the reason the Thai trials showed a signal in the right direction?
Dr. Anthony Fauci: First of all, we don't know. That's part of the post-Thai research agenda. But importantly, we know what it isn't. And that's why I find that trial, even though the percentage was relatively low, 31%, barely significant, it tells us that you can prevent acquisition with something that is not the classical neutralizing antibody. Relates very interestingly to what Julie was saying when she was looking at whether neutralizing antibodies actually can block acquisition in a model other than a sort of a pre-prepared primate model. The answer is, we don't know. We hope it's an antibody, but it may be something else. We're not sure. Hopefully, we'll be able to find that correlative immunity. If we do, I'm going to be very happy and so are a lot of other researchers in the field.
[inaudible question about how to successfully implement a "seek, test and treat" strategy]
Anthony Fauci: How should we do it? Well, we delineated that -- for those of you who want to get the details of it -- in a JAMA [The Journal Of the American Medical Association] commentary that we wrote, a short while ago, Carl Dieffenbach and I, but fundamentally they're all feasibility studies. We're going to be doing a study, which I'll mention in my talk very briefly, in sister cities. We're going to be doing it in Washington, D.C. And we're going to be doing it in the South Bronx. And it's very interesting. Before you can get to test and treat being something that works, you've got to find out is it feasible to test everyone in a particular community. If you do testable, is it feasible to get them on therapy? If you therapy available, will they take the therapy? And then all the questions that Kevin and others asked. What about resistance? What about behavioral disinhibition? What about cost to the individual versus society? What about the ethical considerations? So it's a research agenda that has multiple components to it. So there are a lot of important operational-type research questions, which we are going to pursue.
[inaudible question]
John Mellors: Let me repeat that: What's changed to increase enthusiasm for the cure research agenda?
Anthony Fauci: Well, what's changed is the realization that as good as we get with keeping people alive for decades, there is a persistent reservoir, that my lab and several other labs have studied, that doesn't disappear no matter what you do with the currently available drugs. The currently available drugs are fantastic for keeping people well and infected. What we're trying to do right now is saying, why not -- I mean there's a whole list of possible chemical molecular activation concepts that are going to be pursued. Doug Richman and colleagues outlined that very nicely in a Science article, a short while ago. So what it really is is setting a high bar for ourselves, that there are ways that we know people can be well with a residual, small reservoir.
We tried things that I'll very briefly mention. Starting people as early as you can possibly treat them. We have some patients that we've collaborated with the Canadians on that within a couple of weeks to a month of the time that they were sure was their exposure, we started them on aggressive modern-day triple and sometimes quadruple combination. And we followed them for a very, very long period of time. And even when we couldn't find the virus by PCR [polymerase chain reaction], which we -- you know, you can always find the virus by PCR, we know that when you stop therapy in them, it comes back. So we really have to go after that reservoir. And it was as several speakers have said, that's really the challenge. So that's really changed. The realization that pushing and pushing and pushing with the current therapy is not going to get us there.
[inaudible question about whether, due to limited available funding for NIAID, Dr. Fauci is suggesting there will be less of a focus on some of the emerging issues facing HIV-infected patients, such as bone disorders, inflammation, cardiovascular disease, etc.]
John Mellors: So the question is, with limited resources, how do you prioritize?
Anthony Fauci: Well, you just do that. You prioritize and it doesn't necessarily, though it's obvious, your question is very meritorious because that's the first thing that comes to your mind. You have a limited number of money. You want to do these things. What are you going to not do? When you look at any portfolio, you don't say, "We're not going to study aging in HIV." What you do is that you're going to have to fund the most highest ranking priority grants within an area. So we don't cut areas out. It's just that we're not going to have the luxury to go down and fund 25 people in a certain area. We may be able to fund 15 or 12 and then have the others go to something new that we want to do. There's not going to be massive shifting of money. We've been doing that for some time now. Everybody is struck with the fact that we have a flat budget this year. Guess what? We've had a flat budget for six and a half years.
John Mellors: I can't help but ask this question with the two guys to my left [Eric Goosby and Anthony Fauci] here. So there are effective means to block transmission. There are technological fixes that we already have at our disposal. But the penetrants to the people, the populations at risk, is less than one in five. Who's responsible for improving that and basically how do we get there? What is PEPFAR's [U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief] role? What is NIH's role? What is any agency's role?
Anthony Fauci: That's a great question. My good buddy of 28 years here [pats Eric Goosby on the arm], we've discussing that for a long time. I refer to it at a recent talk I gave as, you know, you talk about the credibility gap and the resource gap, I call this the responsibility gap. It really is. I mean it's a responsibility gap because the NIH with their research agenda is mandated to do this. PEPFAR with their treatment, prevention and care agenda is mandated to do that. I think we both realize now, as well as others, we're certainly not the only two players in the field, realize that there is an enormous gap there of operational, implementation type of research. Why when we have -- I'm going to show a slide that several people showed -- 12, 13 research-proven prevention modalities and 20% of the world who could benefit from them have access to them? I mean we've got to find out exactly what you're asking, John. Why is it that they're either not getting it or when they're getting it, they're not abiding by it? And that's a research question. You can call it operational. You can call it whatever you want, but we're working together to get that answer.
John Mellors: Ambassador, do you have any thoughts on that?
Eric Goosby: Thanks, John. It is a terrific question and I think Tony answered it really nicely. From a PEPFAR perspective, we are realizing the mandate need to scale prevention like we scaled treatment. We are no longer in a position where we have the cover, if I could use that word, to not engage in strategies that we know are effective and that need to moved from pilot to scale. We are committed over the next two years to do just that in most of our focus countries in PEPFAR. And I think you're right to challenge us on it.
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