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This makes me so hungry!ReplyDelete
Dear AnonymousReplyDelete
You've been away?
Nice to see you back in force ;-)
Lovely blue. I love to use cobalt as well- although if I'm not careful it is hard to reproduce well between the scanning and the printing...ReplyDelete
And all that chocolate-buying-as-tax-write-off...??!! Good deal!
I loved his macarons too.
But I ate them so fast I forgot to make notes.
I have to go back and eat them again it seems...
- Anonymous10:49 AM
No Carol I have not been away. I meant NO WAY can one be sad, looking at this cobalt blue and chocolate... in refering to sad songs about blue... In fact I am new here. I clicked on BLUE to see you've done another blue segment earlier last year. I see I have much to check out. Am enjoying it ALL. I'm the one who wrote about the Saturday Tea party.ReplyDelete
CM in Or
corey directed me to your blog, and i cannot tell you how much i have enjoyed pouring through every lovely post! this spring i will return to paris after 30 years and i am filled with excitement at the endless possibilities that await - thanks for the delicious preview - i'll be stopping by again and again!ReplyDelete
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On a single day in January 2014, Utah's individual health insurance market now about 143,000 people strong could more than double in size as scores of uninsured heed federal health reform's mandate to purchase coverage.
One estimate, by an actuary consulted by the state's Legislative Health Reform Task Force, pegs growth at 50 to 150 percent.
It's an educated guess, based on research from other states and a poll of local insurers, said actuary Troy Pritchett with Milliman in Salt Lake City. But if predicting enrollment is hard, estimating how much these newcomers will cost and how much to charge them is even harder.
"[It's] very likely the most challenging actuarial problem ever faced by companies doing business in Utah," Pritchett told task force members last week.
What's clear, he said, is there will be winners and losers. And without taking steps to balance the score, the losers the young and healthy could see prices increase by as much as 135 percent.
"There's a lot of uncertainty, and uncertainty usually leads to higher prices," Pritchett said.
The "individual market" is where you buy insurance if your job doesn't come with health benefits. It's the path to coverage for just over 5 percent of insured Utahns, primarily the self-employed and part-time and low-wage workers.
And it's a market with fewer price protections than small and large employer groups enjoy. New regulations in the Affordable Care Act seek to remedy that. But the law leaves states leeway in implementing and enforcing the rules. How Utah chooses to act could determine how far prices swing, and whether insurers thrive or fail.
That's where the task force comes in. "The sooner we get to decide how to handle this, the better prepared insurers will be," Pritchett said.
New rules, new costs • Among the uncertainties is the precise mix of new enrollees.
Some will be a boon to insurers: the young and healthy. Others, the sick and uninsurable, will increase costs with their pent-up demand for medical care.
Pritchett sees newcomers breaking down like this: 35,000 to 130,000 will drop their current policy in favor of government-subsidized plans on Utah's health exchange; 30,000 to 80,000 will have been previously uninsured; and 6,000 to 9,000 will have pre-existing conditions that have made them uninsurable.
It's this last group that worries insurers most. Utah's federal high-risk pool, the insurer of last resort for many of these high-cost patients, pays out $8 in claims for every $1 in premiums collected.
Right now the government plugs the gap. But when this group enters the individual market, their costs will be borne by fellow policyholders.
Their presence, alone, could cause rates in the individual market to rise 35 to 45 percent, said Pritchett.
New industry regulations will cause yet another rate spike for the young and healthy. Come 2014, insurers will have to take everyone, even if you're sick.
They won't be able to exclude coverage of pre-existing conditions or charge you more for them. They can no longer charge women more than men and there are limits on how much more they can charge you based on your age.
For individually insured young adults, these rules, coupled with medical inflation, could add an extra 68 to 90 percent to premiums.
Spreading the risk • Of course, that's the idea of insurance: the healthy subsidize the sick, spreading risk and keeping prices manageable for everyone.
But it will only work if "young invincibles," who have shirked buying insurance until now, pony up, said task force Chairman Rep. Jim Dunnigan, an insurance executive and Republican from Taylorsville.
He fears some will pay the health law's $98 annual tax penalty instead of shelling out thousands for coverage.
Most young adults will qualify for federal subsidies, making coverage more affordable and attractive. "But for the poor soul who doesn't, there's going to be some sticker shock," Dunnigan said.
Lawmakers are exploring fixes permitted under the health law: the "three R's of insurance," risk corridors, risk adjustment and reinsurance. These tools protect insurers from footing disproportionate shares of high-cost patients.
• A risk adjustment program will require plans that enroll the lowest risk customers to make payments to plans that enroll the highest risk patients.
• In each state, insurers and health plans will make contributions toward reinsurance, or financial support for the individual market plans that end up covering patients with high medical costs.
• Under a risk corridor program, certain health plans that have lower-than-expected costs will make payments to the federal government, and certain plans with higher-than-expected costs will receive payments.
What that means, said Dunnigan, is that everyone will feel the ripple effects of the explosion in the individual market.
He believes the "three R's" will put some downward pressure on rates but won't be enough to keep prices in check.
Still, in Massachusetts, which pioneered the insurance reforms in the Affordable Care Act, enrollees in the state's exchange, or "Connector," have seen rates drop for the last two years.
Dunnigan thinks that's as much a reflection of the economy, and constrained health spending, as anything else. True reform won't happen until the country stops focusing on insurance prices and starts addressing the underlying medical costs, he said. "It's easy to go after insurers. They're an easy target."
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April 9, 2012 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: WIC Cost Containment Resources - Important!
SUBJECT 2: Cost Containment Instructions for MOWINS - Important!
SUBJECT 3: New Breastfeeding Handout
SUBJECT 4: Emerging Leaders in MCH Nutrition Training Institute
SUBJECT 5: Continuing Education Opportunity
SUBJECT 6: National Screen-Free Week, April 30-May 6, 2012
SUBJECT 7: REMINDER-WIC Help Desk Meeting
SUBJECT 8: FFY 2013 LAP Training Registration
WIC Cost Containment Resources: Important! - Information about WIC Cost Containment Resources is listed on the attached sheet. Please share with your staff. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Takako Tagami at email@example.com. (FIVE ATTACHMENTS)
Cost Containment Instructions for MOWINS: Important! - The 2012 WIC Cost containment actions will be implemented on Monday, April 16, 2012. Attached are the instructions for MOWINS changes. It is important to share with all WIC staff. Staff must be logged off MOWINS by 5:00 PM, Saturday, April 14, 2012 in order to receive the food item updates on Monday, April 16, 2011. If you have any questions, please contact the WIC Help Desk at 1-800-554-2544 or Melissa Seaver at firstname.lastname@example.com (ONE ATTACHMENT)
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Please encourage future nutrition leaders to apply for this year-long training program.
We appreciate your assistance in this recruitment effort. By working together we can help guarantee that strong nutrition services will exist in the future for women, infants, children, adolescents, and families.
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Continuing Education Opportunity: The Nutrition Services Branch - NC Division of Public Health in collaboration with UNC - Chapel Hill is pleased to announce that Module 2: Basic Nutrition, of the Pediatric Nutrition Course (PNC) is open for registration. This is an online, faculty guided, self-paced module of about 20 hours to be completed between May 14, 2012 and July 20, 2012. The overall goal of the course is to provide nutritionists with the knowledge and skills needed to improve the nutritional health of the pediatric population.
Module 2 Basic Nutrition consists of the following nine topics:
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- Unit 2: Infant and Toddler Nutrition
- Unit 3: Child Nutrition
- Unit 4: Adolescent Nutrition
- Unit 5: Formulas
- Unit 6: Anemia
- Unit 7: Physical Activity
- Unit 8: Elevated Blood Lead
- Unit 9: Sports Nutrition
Module 2 of the PNC is approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration - American Dietetic Association for 20 CPEUs - Level 1. Continuing education units will also be awarded from the Friday Center for Continuing Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Fees: For all nutritionists and dietitians residing outside of North Carolina the course fee is $100.
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National Screen-Free Week, April 30-May 6, 2012: Love it or hate it, TV and other entertainment screens are part of American family life. Americans spend three to four hours a day in front of screens. This time includes watching prerecorded movies, playing video games and surfing the Internet, sometimes simultaneously. Like too much of any good thing, however, research suggests that the amount of time we spend in front of screens can have negative consequences. Parents or grandparents, healthcare professionals, clergy or others can download the Screen-Free Week Organizer's Kit free. Read more at:http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/actions/screenfreeweek2012.html. If you have any questions, contact your District Nutritionist.
REMINDER-WIC Help Desk Meeting: This is a reminder that there will be no WIC Help Desk coverage on Friday, April 20, 2012, from 8:15 am to 10:15 am. Although staff will not be available during these hours, feel free to leave a message and all calls will be returned as soon as possible. The purpose of these meetings is to review processes and procedures in order to provide the highest quality customer service to local agencies and WIC participants.
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Attachment #1 - 2012 Missouri WIC Cost Containment Project Resources
Attachment #2 - WIC Cost Containment - Handout EN & SP
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Cherry wrote:Just one gray. It doesn't have the mg info on the bottle but the pill is gray and says 100 on it. I just assumed this meant 100mg? I dunno, maybe not.
What are your concerns about Cephlexin every other day? It was every day per the vet but he said we can drop it to every other day as long as it is still effective. We ran out and she was off it for a couple weeks. She almost immediately had a staph infection.
My concern is that Cephalexin is active in the bloodstream for 8-12 hours, meaning your dog should be getting pills every 8-12 hours (most dose every 12) to maintain serum levels of antibiotic. Intermittent use sounds like a plan for creating resistant staph species to me. This is a risk with any chronic antibiotic use however, and its unknown if pulse therapy is really damaging or not. I just don't like it...
Pulse therapy is most often seen in dogs who's owners can't afford the gamut that is needed to treat the true underlying condition and prevent the infections. Cherry is NOT one of those dogs, she's had everything done and done well, and I know deep down this is likely keeping Cherry comfortable and is best for her well-being. As always, quality of life comes first.
The temaril-P that I am familiar with has 2mg of prednisolone per pill. If your medium dog is getting 2mg of prednisone every other day, thats a pretty low dose, which is great!


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|2011-04-07, 18:54
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books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
Drake 8,8/10 you love that gun right and finaly someone than noticed the reflection ...
Second, to answer some of your questions, I make my signatures so than it fit my tastes, more than in the purpose to impress others. Do I try to stand out; no, but lets see some fact; now , I am doing/using signatures in serie , quoting full text of songs or poetry, either in english, french or japanese... before that I passed a whole year with different signature each week , all based on a little serie of light novel, almost abscent of this forum ( you can look on my thread to see by yourself... ) . Do I want to experiment, do somethin different; of course but there's 2 thing than will always reduce my possibility to do so: I use PhotoShop Element ( which have less tool thanthe full PhotoShop ) and the necessity of making the text readable. At the end, I try to improve and to do news things but there's limit.
Third, one Patchy's defence, one thing than make them less stand out is the quantity of them on this forum. The more signature of him than he see, the less ovelty they have, but it's the case of everyone of us's signatures. Can he do something different, yes but that's isn't what those than request him signature want. One example:
Spoiler for the example:
That's Patchy's work and yet...
|2011-04-07, 20:48
|Link #18345
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Magic Land
>.< Didn't knew that the discussion here were part about my style, only thought that this thread will be a RTS sig... ok.. here's what I said...
Some pointers I'm using on my signatures and I think the others.
* First the characters involved, "Don't you want anything you work on to be an expression of yourself?" (quoted)..
> First of all I think mostly designers here are already expressing how they felt for a certain character/series involved, do you know how? even though there's what you called similarity in style, you cant changed the fact that the artists who made it liked his/her works positively good or negatively bad/ similar effects or not... thats how they express themselves.... I think..
Look at Halad-sempai style, just liked you said mostly all of them are similar but when you look closely some of them were fractal, some of them were smudge, some of them were splat, some of them were combination.
* style? yup Im sure I mostly have the same style, but that doesnt mean I can't change (I think that's also the feeling of other artists here when they became comfortable on their respective style... this time see ganbaru-sempai, she can change from the usual monochromatic style to the current colorful style she have...)
Me? (I'm not boasting) but if my works wouldnt stand out I can proudly said why does my inbox always have a request messages?
TBH it's the eyes of the viewer/requester (as in your opinion that like you who couldn't liked my works... there are still some people who liked our works even still as they can see repeatedly have the same style over and over again...) if he/she could say that even though this person does have the same style you can't argue that it's good and pleasant in the eyes, or it is about the artist's style himself, as long as it looks pleasant in his/her eyes..(I have seen many graphic artists on grafx forum with the same style [c4d] all over and over again... but I cant deny the fact that even though they're the same style, they're really really good and jaw dropping...
Are these the same?
They're all my works but yeah they've the same pattern in most of it but you think they've the same outcome?... mostly I used dusts glow but that's what you called my trademark or what you should called comfortable place or sometimes using the same pattern for fixing some bad parts at them... Many people can change from the usual plain to techno to vectors to etc. styles if they wanted to... it's just they dont liked to leave it as long as they were pleasant to the artists and to some people who are praising they're style.... so I have my gratitude towards other people who were praising us despite the similarity, they can said its still a good work ^^..
and for those people who were praising us even though they're looks like repeated/recycled stuffs...
I think you're still lacking something in terms of gfx designing if you can say that most of the style that were using are the same, at first I'm kinda what you called "annoyed/irritated or something liked that, but now it doesn't affect me anymore, since not to be rude but rated by someone who lacks experience in seeing/making/determining/pointing what style some signatures or how they've been made...., that doesnt affect me at all even you'll rated my works -100/10 ^^... just my 2 cents here...
and oh of course...
Have a nice day ^^...
Rating: Halad-sempai.... 4/5 [still on the mount of having that Masha fever, XD]
*goes back to my usual routine*
Last edited by Patchy; 2011-04-07 at 21:53. Reason: Sorry for involving you two Halad sempai, ganbaru sempai... just setting an example
|2011-04-07, 22:54
|Link #18346
Senior Member
Spoiler for offtopic, response to patchy/delirium:
OgodItsKanon : Pretty .. please don't tell me that's a trap, though ? With Hetalia being what it is, I find it hard to believe it would have cute girl(s) in it :x. 8/10
|2011-04-07, 23:08
|Link #18347
Manga Addict
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: England, UK
Age: 27
Aah~ I thought the consensus was to move this 'discussion' to pm's/comments rather than in the thread. This is just begging for a mod-cleanup. =.=
Drake: Simple and effective as always. Chicks and guns are always a winning combo. 8.5/10
|2011-04-07, 23:14
|Link #18348
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Scanning...
Age: 32
Each artist develops a certain style, its bound to happen, its also something that defines him, they make totally different pieces but you can always know who is it from just by looking at it, which i think its a good thing, it gives a certain personality to the line of work, i for one like Patchy's work, sure all have the same feel to them but each is different.
@JRendell: this disscussion although started by the same one is a bit different... anyway 8.6/10 a few small artifacts but nice looking.
Drake: nice 9.3/10.
OgodItsKanon: 9/10
CMHerrera: don't take this the wrong way (or as an insult) but for some reason Aizen creeps me up in your sig , still the quality is good and i like the color combination so 9.5/10.
|2011-04-08, 00:23
|Link #18352
Senior Member
Your signature is WAY too big for the forum .. See rules. Hell, it should even show a box where your signature must fit inside when you are choosing a signature ... + Bad quality, awful rainbow borders and weird text. 3/10
|2011-04-08, 01:04
|Link #18353
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: hell
Dist: Very pretty. 9.2/10
|2011-04-08, 01:57
|Link #18355
Falling for Ginsama ^3^
Graphic Designer
@Dist 7/8/7/9 so around 8 overall
nice placement for your render. I like the light source and the color it is.
I like what you did with the bg, but it would look even nicer with more depth and atmosphere.
6/7/6/7/ so around 6.5
I like that you made unit1 all black cuz with that red the purple would have clashed. I like the eyes and bg being same in color. Good job with it. Bg could use a little more work. In which i mean try making something using different sources of pictures and such.
|2011-04-08, 02:09
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Abstract Side of Reality
Age: 29
As far as my signature is concerned, you are right. I could probably put something else in with the background, but I liked how it was at that point so that's what I used. Thank you for the suggestions. They are actually very much so appreciated.
|2011-04-08, 04:21
|Link #18358
books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
CMHerrera 8,8/10 did you used this one before ?
JRendell 8,7/10 interesting focus
OgodItsKanon 9/10 simply great
delirium 8,4/10 adding more render, especialy if not ''working with each other'', disperse the focus of the sig
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- Describe a challenge you've overcome or a smart resource you've found for your kitchen.:
- The (rather limited) countertop was made with some non-conventional material that and I was afraid is would simply disintegrate upon using. In addition, it was about an inch lower than my adjacent farm-style sink, making it awkward to use the only counterspace available! I bought a slab of butcher block at Ikea and using a jigsaw, cut out the shape of my counter and simply laid it on top of the existing countertop. Since I rent and it fits so snugly I didn't apply any adhesive. I love the white/purple/wood combination and the added utility of a butcher block counter. Installing a light under the cupboard also went a long way to enhancing the utility of the space.
Finally, the small space has forced me to be more economical in my cooking style - keeping heavily used items in easy to reach places and cleaning as I cook.
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Mount Washington College to close 2 campusesBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
July 09. 2014 8:26PM
MANCHESTER — Citing declining student enrollment and a desire to focus on the growing popularity of online learning programs, officials with Mount Washington College announced on Wednesday a decision to close schools in Nashua and Salem and consolidate all student and faculty to their Manchester campus.
The closures will take effect before Sept. 9, the start of the 2014-15 school year, according to Stephen White, a spokesperson for Mount Washington College (formerly Hesser College) and the Kaplan Education group, which purchased Hesser in 2000.
"Mount Washington College has made the strategic decision to focus its time, attention and resources against a more concentrated academic portfolio, while also growing its low cost national online program," said White. "As a result, it will stop enrolling new students in several programs within Allied Health and Arts and Sciences and close two campuses in Salem and Nashua by year's end."
White said students and faculty at the Salem campus, located at 11 Manor Parkway, and the Nashua campus, at 410 Amherst St., were notified of the decision Wednesday.
"Approximately 70 percent of students enrolled in the programs being taught out and discontinued should be able to complete their studies and programs before the end of the year," said White. "Remaining students in these programs will have several different options to continue and complete their studies, including at the main campus in Manchester in the fall."
According to White, the closures are expected to impact a total of 540 students — 340 at the Nashua campus, and another 200 in Salem. He said the closures will also result in an estimated 50 employee layoffs.
"It will initially impact staff members, but over time faculty could be affected as we teach-out and discontinue programs," said White.
One employee, who spoke to the New Hampshire Union Leader on condition of anonymity, said she was notified Tuesday by phone that her job was being eliminated.
"I would say we had some idea it was coming, but it still hurts," said the woman. "When I got home, there was a message from someone crying who lost their job too. I prepared for something like this, and took some extra jobs about a year ago, but I'm not sure everyone there is in the same position I am."
White said officials at Kaplan aren't worried about overcrowding at the Manchester campus, located at 3 Sundial Ave., as students from the two other sites enroll there. There are currently 550 students enrolled at the college in the Queen City.
"We have space available to accommodate them at the Manchester campus," said White.
In August 2013, officials at Kaplan opted to close Mount Washington campuses in Portsmouth and Concord, resulting in 45 layoffs and the dislocation of approximately 380 students.
White said two open houses are scheduled for July 23 and 24, from 5-7 p.m. at the school's Manchester campus, with staff members on hand to answer student questions about the changes.


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Centrist in Disguise: How Anti-Austerity Can France's Hollande Be?
Only hours after the polls closed Sunday, French President-elect Francois Hollande wasted no time in attacking the Franco-German austerity consensus.
He threw down the gauntlet to German Chancellor and fiscal enforcer Angela Merkel, triumphantly declaring: Europe is watching us. Austerity can no longer be the only option.
The moment that I was announced president, he added, I am sure in many European countries there was a relief, hope at the idea that at last austerity is no longer inevitable, and my mission is to give to European construction the dream of growth.
But while he may have narrowly convinced France, analysts are unsure Hollande can persuade the rest of Europe, let alone a resolute Germany, to abandon the austerity juggernaut.
Indeed, if one delves beneath the lusty rhetoric, Hollande's plans are not quite as socialistic as he would have many of his supporters would believe.
Sure, there will be the usual left-wing concessions for his supporters, as domestically Hollande has already pledged to create 60,000 new jobs in education, while at the same time boosting opportunities for the young.
In a direct attack on his predecessor's deeply unpopular 2010 pension reforms, he has also pledged -- at least for some workers -- to roll back the retirement age from 62 to 60.
But in a nod towards fiscal responsibility, he has also promised a €100 billion savings plan, and a balanced budget by 2017 - a feat not achieved in France for the past 30 years.
There is one rather large catch, however.
Hollande needs to return France to growth, and quickly, or his plans will fail.
And with half his savings expected to come from higher taxes on the rich and corporations, he has been criticized at home as a typical tax-and spend left-winger, more likely to damage France's reputation in international markets than dig the country out of its public debt, which now stands at an alarming 87 percent of GDP.
Far from overseeing a dramatic reversal of the German Fiskalpakt, commentators expect Hollande to become a prisoner of circumstance, doomed to talk big but deviate little from the austerity program.
His socialist ideology will not stop the reforms, said Laura Gonzalez, assistant professor of finance and business economics at Fordham University in New York.
Hollande, like [ex-Premier Jose Luis Rodriguez] Zapatero did in Spain, will have no choice but to implement reforms and control the deficit.
The only change will be in stressing growth strategies, not only austerity measures, like Merkel rushed to clarify last week.
Others, however, doubt Hollande can deliver on his promises at all.
Many would question whether he has France on the right path, said Desmond Lachman, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative-leaning Washington think tank.
He is reminiscent of [former Socialist President] Francois Mitterrand, who was forced to do a U-turn when his policies didn't work.
Mitterrand, the first Socialist Party member to become president under the Fifth republic, embarked on his own course of radical economic reforms in the early 1980s, including a spate of nationalizations.
But, with the economy in crisis, after just two years he was forced to reverse course.
Hollande is problematic for France in two ways, Lachman added.
Where is he taking France... and where is this taking the French-German relationship?
While not there yet, France runs the risk of becoming associated in the markets' minds as potentially another Italy.
But, while Hollande is in for severe disappointment if he hopes to renegotiate the Berlin-backed Fiskalpakt, he may yet be able to influence an implacable Merkel.
Throughout the campaign, he has gathered a following of European leaders behind the banner of continent-wide job creation and growth policies and, more specifically, increased lending by the European Investment Bank and the redeployment of unused EU cohesion funds to stimulate growth.
This is something Charles Kupchan, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, thinks is the most likely outcome when the pair meet in the near future.
I don't think he is going to come in and break a lot of china... he's a centrist and a pragmatist, said Kupchan.
He's got a double game on his hands here, keeping one eye on the French economy and how much stimulus the market will bear, and the other on Merkel and how far he can push her.
The austerity measures in place will remain in place... but what you will see is Merkel saying, 'stick to the fiscal pact, stick to the fiscal constraints but let's see what we can do for a workaround'.
Whatever the outcome, we will not have long to wait. Hours after his election was confirmed, the new French president was cordially invited to Berlin, with Merkel adding she was sure the two would work closely together.
But while the two are sure reach an agreement on growth that runs parallel to austerity, one thing's for sure: The days of the Merkozy alliance are gone.


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N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chadian troops attacked an Islamist base in northern Mali on Saturday in heavy fighting which France called part of the final campaign to drive al Qaeda from its mountain hideouts.
Thirteen Chadian soldiers and 65 al Qaeda-linked rebels were killed on Friday in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains near the Algerian border, where French special forces are also hunting Islamist bases, Chadian military sources said.
A senior Chadian military source said on Saturday his country's heaviest losses during the international offensive in Mali centred around a rebel base that appeared to be of "significant importance" as the militants were not fleeing.
The violence underscores the risk French and African forces become entangled in guerrilla war as they help Mali's weak army.
French troops were also fighting in the Adrar area, French President Francois Hollande told a news conference, in what he called a "last phase" of the campaign begun when Paris sent troops to Mali last month to stop a southward push by Islamist rebels who seized control of the north last April.
"These battles will continue," Hollande said on Saturday. "It is the last phase because it is most likely that AQIM's (al-Qaeda's north African arm)forces are hiding there."
Troops from neighboring African nations - including 2,000 Chadians - have deployed to Mali and are meant to take over leadership of the operation when France begins to withdraw forces from its former West African colony next month.
Five people, including two Islamists, were also killed in In Khalil - a town bordering Algeria 1,700 km (1,000 miles) northeast of the capital Bamako - on Friday in car bomb attacks on Tuareg MNLA rebels with French links, an MNLA spokesman said.
The pro-autonomy MNLA rebels are helping the French to fight al Qaeda and its allies. It was the MNLA's defeat of Mali's army last year that triggered a coup in Bamako and sparked chaos allowing the Islamists to launch their own campaign.
The Tuareg fighters' Paris-based spokesman Moussa Ag Assarid said on Saturday the MNLA came under heavy machine gun fire from "terrorist" groups in In Khalil, most likely Islamists.
France 24 television reported local Arab groups said they had launched attacks against the Tuareg MLNA rebels.
It is hard for Reuters to verify such reports from Mali's extreme north because of restrictions on media travelling there.
After driving insurgents from northern towns such as Gao and Timbuktu, France and African allies have focused on the remote northeast mountains and desert - an area the size of France - that includes networks of caves, passes and porous borders.
They believe some of eight French hostages held by al Qaeda-linked groups are being kept in the area.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday he deployed about 100 troops to neighbouring Niger for unmanned reconnaissance flights over Mali to share intelligence with French forces.
Paris has said it plans to start withdrawing some of its 4,000 troops from Mali next month. But rebels have fought back against Mali's weak and divided army, and African forces due to take over the French role are not yet in place.
A Malian military source said on Saturday they had recovered 23 Islamist bodies from Gao, where French and Malian troops fought Islamists on the streets earlier in the week.
(Additional reporting by John Irish in Dakar and Pascal Fletcher in Bamako; Writing by John Irish; Editing by Jason Webb)


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eCryptfs is a file system that lets you encrypt files and folders. The main advantage of eCryptfs is that you dont have to encrypt whole partitions. You can instead define a folder on the local file system to be mounted with the eCryptfs file system. All data stored in a folder that is mounted with eCryptfs is gonna be encrypted immediately.
Creating a private folder using eCryptfs
Here I will describe how to create a private (encrypted) folder within your $HOME directory. To start we will need to install the 'ecryptfs-utils' package.
# equo install ecryptfs-utils
eCryptfs comes with predefined scripts to setup a private directory. Prerequisit is, that the group 'ecryptfs' is defined and the user who executes the script is a member of this group.
# groupadd ecryptfs
# usermod -G ecryptfs <username>
After this is done we can run the setup script as user:
$ ecryptfs-setup-private
The output should be looking like this:
Enter your login passphrase [<username>]: Enter your mount passphrase [leave blank to generate one]: ************************************************************************ YOU SHOULD RECORD YOUR MOUNT PASSPHRASE AND STORE IT IN A SAFE LOCATION. ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase THIS WILL BE REQUIRED IF YOU NEED TO RECOVER YOUR DATA AT A LATER TIME. ************************************************************************ Done configuring. Testing mount/write/umount/read... Inserted auth tok with sig [e92ed746d5b6af67] into the user session keyring Inserted auth tok with sig [e5194342fe7d8bf5] into the user session keyring Inserted auth tok with sig [e92ed332d5b6af67] into the user session keyring Inserted auth tok with sig [e5948744fe7d8bf5] into the user session keyring Testing succeeded. Logout, and log back in to begin using your encrypted directory.
After the setup has completet sucessfully you will find the new direcrories '.Private' and 'Private' in your $HOME. The '.Private' directory contains the encrypted files and is mounted into the 'Private' directory. The setup script creates a shortcut to mount the '.Private' directory and a README file. If this files are present it indicates that the encrypted directory is not mounted yet. So we will have to mount it before we can store our files encrypted. To do that we execute the follwing command:
$ ecryptfs-mount-private
Now all the files and folders we create in the 'Private' folder are gonna be encrypted immediately.
You can put the 'ecryptfs-mount-private' to your autostart options in order that the private folder gets mounted on login. In some cases it is necessary to make the script: '/usr/bin/ecryptfs-mount-private' suid root in order to be able to mount the private folder as normal user.
Encrypt the whole $HOME directory using ecryptfs
Encrypting the home directory of a user requires a bit more of manual work. First backup the home directory of the target user:
# cp -r /home/<username> /home/<username>_backup
Now we are going to create the encrypted folder that is going to be mounted in the users home directory.
# mkdir -p /home/.ecryptfs/<username>/.Private
That done, we can initially mount the directory using eCryptfs.
# mount -t ecryptfs /home/.ecryptfs/<username>/.Private /home/<username>
The output should look like this:
passphrase: Select cipher: 1) aes: blocksize = 16; min keysize = 16; max keysize = 32 2) blowfish: blocksize = 8; min keysize = 16; max keysize = 56 3) des3_ede: blocksize = 8; min keysize = 24; max keysize = 24 4) twofish: blocksize = 16; min keysize = 16; max keysize = 32 5) cast6: blocksize = 16; min keysize = 16; max keysize = 32 6) cast5: blocksize = 8; min keysize = 5; max keysize = 16 Selection [aes]: Select key bytes: 1) 16 2) 32 3) 24 Selection [16]: Enable plaintext passthrough (y/n) [n]: y Enable filename encryption (y/n) [n]: Attempting to mount with the following options: ecryptfs_unlink_sigs ecryptfs_passthrough ecryptfs_key_bytes=16 ecryptfs_cipher=aes ecryptfs_sig=fe465c9b42ee0999 WARNING: Based on the contents of [/root/.ecryptfs/sig-cache.txt], it looks like you have never mounted with this key before. This could mean that you have typed your passphrase wrong. Would you like to proceed with the mount (yes/no)? : yes Would you like to append sig [fe465c9b42ee0999] to [/root/.ecryptfs/sig-cache.txt] in order to avoid this warning in the future (yes/no)? : yes Successfully appended new sig to user sig cache file Mounted eCryptfs
First eCryptfs asks you for a passphrase for the encrypted file system. Enter a secure password there! Next you are asked about your encryption preferences. NOTE: if you want to enable filname encryption please have in mind, that it can cause problems if you are using long file names. At the first mount a warning is shown that the current signatur cannot be found in the actual signature store. Answer both questions with yes in order to add the current signature!
Next we have to store the mount information into a file since we may need it for auto mount purpose:
# mount | grep ecryptfs > /root/ecryptfs_mount_options_<username>
At this point we are done with the preparation of the encrypted folder. The next step is to automatically mount the encrypted folder at login time. But first we have to unmount the encrypted folder.
# umount /home/<username>
Auto mount the encrypted $HOME using PAM_MOUN
In order to use our encrypted home folder we have to mount it at login time. To do that we are going to use the pam_mount package.
# equo install pam_mount
Next we copy the signature store to the unmounted user home. Please make sure, that the encrypted folder is not mounted at this time!
# cp -r /root/.ecryptfs /home/<username>
To avoid that eCryptfs will ask for the password at each login we will wrap the passphrase with the login passphrase of the user.
# ecryptfs-wrap-passphrase /home/<username>/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase
The program will ask you first for the passphrase of the eCryptfs-mount and then for a wrapping passphrase. We will use the login password as wrapping passphrase.
Now we create an auto mount file in the .ecryptfs directory of the user.
# touch /home/<username>/.ecryptfs/auto-mount
And of course we have to make sure, that the user is the owner of its .ecryptfs directory.
# chown -R <username>:<username> /home/<username>/.ecryptfs
In the next step we have to configure pam to use the eCryptfs and pam_mount at login time. To do that we have to add some lines to the '/etc/pam.d/system-auth' file. Pleas take care about the order of the entries!
[...] auth required pam_unix.so [...] auth optional pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap auth optional pam_permit.so auth optional pam_mount.so [...] password required pam_unix.so [...] password optional pam_ecryptfs.so [...] session required pam_unix.so [...] session optional pam_mount.so
Now we have to configure pam_mount to auto mount our encrypted directory. First we have to add the 'luserconf' parameter in order to tell pam_mount to use user defined configuration files which can be found at the root of their home directory. Second we will have to define the mount command that is used for lclmount. A typical pam_mount.conf.xml can look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE pam_mount SYSTEM "pam_mount.conf.xml.dtd"> <pam_mount> <debug enable="0" /> <luserconf name=".pam_mount.conf.xml" /> <mntoptions allow="verbosity,users,noauto,rw,exec,nosuid,nodev,loop,encryption,fsck,nonempty,allow_root,allow_other,ecryptfs_key_bytes,ecryptfs_cipher,ecryptfs_fnek_sig,ecryptfs_unlink_sigs,ecryptfs_sig" /> <mntoptions require="" /> <path>/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin</path> <logout wait="0" hup="0" term="0" kill="0" /> <lclmount>/bin/mount -i %(VOLUME) "%(before=\"-o\" OPTIONS)"</lclmount> </pam_mount>
And finally we define the user entry for pam_mount
<pam_mount> <volume noroot="1" fstype="ecryptfs" path="/home/.ecryptfs/<username>/.Private" mountpoint="/home/<username>"/> </pam_mount>
We are almost ready. Now just we have to decide in which way we let the common user mount a file system. Normally only root can mount hence under this conditions we would get a permission error. One way would be to make the mount command suid root. But I dont prefer this approach since I consider it a security risk. Another approach would be to use sudo and define the lclmount command in the /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml. The approach I use is simply an entry in the /etc/fstab with user flag to allow the user to mount his file system.
We remember the /root/ecryptfs_mount_options_<username> that we created before. Now we are gonna need it. The content of this file should look something like:
/home/.ecryptfs/<username>/.Private on /home/<username> type ecryptfs (rw,ecryptfs_sig=fe848c9b42ee0999,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,ecryptfs_passthrough,ecryptfs_unlink_sigs)
Now we have to change this line in order to fit the fstab syntax and we also have to add the user and noauto option. If you want to execute files in your home directory you may also add the exec option. So our final entry in /etc/fstab should look like this:
/home/.ecryptfs/<username>/.Private /home/<username> ecryptfs noauto,user,exec,rw,ecryptfs_sig=fe848c9b42ee0999,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,ecryptfs_passthrough,ecryptfs_unlink_sigs 0 0
If you have done everything correct, the next time that the user logs in the new encrypted file system should be present. If not you will still see the .ecryptfs configuration directory.
If everything works well you can copy back the home backup folder into the home folder.
Encrypt home directory with ecryptfs in the Gentoo wiki ArchWiki - eCryptfs


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- Association of College and Research Libraries. (2000). "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education." American Library Association: Chicago. Report which provides and explains the standards agreed upon by ACRL, with detailed information on information literacy and its relationships with higher education and technology.
- Germain, Carol Anne. "Empowering Students II: Teaching Information Literacy Concepts with Hands-On and Minds-On." Library Instruction Publications: Pittsburgh.
- Gradowski, Gail, Snavley, Loanne and Dempsey, Paula. (1998). "Designs For Active Learning: A Sourcebook of Classroom Strategies for Information Education." American Library Association: Chicago.
- Grassian, Esther S. and Kaplowitz, Joan R. (2001). "Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice." Neal-Schuman Publishers: New York.
- Bicknell-Holmes, T. and Hoffman, P.S.. "Elicit, Engage, Experience, Explore: Discovery Learning in Library Instruction." Reference Services Review 28.4 (2000): 313:322. Explores the different types of "discovery learning" in relation to library instruction to students.
- Curzon, S.C. "Developing a Program of Information Literacy: How California State University Did It." College and Research Libraries News 61.6 (2000): 483-486.
- Farber, Evan. "Faculty-Librarian Cooperation: A Personal Retrospective." Reference Services Review 27.3 (1999): 229-234. A study which discusses library instruction and the relationships between librarians and faculty.
- Huwe, Terence K. "Some Best Practices for Personalizing Outreach." Computers in Libraries 26.2 (February 2006): 36-38. This article provides information on forms of digital outreach. The four types of outreach discussed are blogs, RSS, e-news, and alerts. Huwe discusses the best ways to incorporate these newer possibilities for outreach into a library program.
- Knight, Lorrie A. "Using Rubrics to Assess Information Literacy." Reference Services Review 34.1 (2006): 43-55.
- Lichtestein, A.A. "Informed Instruction: Learning Theory and Information Literacy." Journal of Educational Media and Library Sciences 38.1 (2000): 22-31.
- Matoush, Toby Leigh. "New Forms of Information Literacy." Reference Services Review 34.1 (2006): 156-163.
- Ramsay, Karen M. and Jim Kinnie. "The Embedded Librarian." Library Journal 131.6 (April 1, 2006): 34-35. This article focuses on electronic outreach to student and faculty at the University of Rhode Island. This article provides information on the changing role of the librarian.
- Webber, S. and Johnston, B. "Conceptions of Information Literacy: New Perspectives and Implications." Journal of Information Science 26.6 (2000): 381-398. This article discusses the meaning of information literacy, as well as approaches to understanding and addressing this problem.
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Customizer-in-Residence Open Studio Series
January 25, 5–8 pm; January 26 & 27, 1–4 pm
Friday, January 25, 2013 - 5:00pm
Catch Bay Area hackers, makers, and DIYers in action as part of the we/customize Customizer-in-Residence series, on Fridays from 5 to 8 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 pm. Watch the process of expert customizers and participate in transforming objects with clothing mash-ups, toy hacking, music remixing, and more! Visit the open studio to customize something different every week, then see your finished work featured on Flickr and wecustomize.org!


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By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a Connie Passalacqua Hayman
I watched the premiere of Good Afternoon America today with cold fear in my heart: Will this show be good enough to replace (and thus cancel) General Hospital if it really catches on this summer after this nine-week experiment?
I got the heebee jeebees right away. Hosts Josh Elliot and Lara Spencer (who also are on this show's progenitor, Good Morning America) introduced themselves and immediately showed us photos of their kids and families. It wasn't two minutes until the words "Fifty Shades of Grey" came out of their mouths and the first guests were a sexologist and (okay), and a comedian. The next segment was on coupon shopping.
Sure, the daytime audience is overwhelmingly female. But why does this afternoon show have to insist on treating all of us as girls? I have [Read more…]


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2 Spherical Ice Makers: MoMA vs. MUJI (+ Expert Tips) Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits
Spherical ice doesn't just look great in a drink, it has practical advantages too. Today we're going to look at two trays that can be used for making spherical, er, "cubes" at home. And as an added bonus, we'll be talking to cocktail ice expert Camper English as well.
Why Use Spherical Ice?
Before we get started testing spherical ice makers, it's worth stopping a moment to consider the benefits of using the round stuff in the first place. Of course there's the obvious aesthetic appeal. An oversized crystalline sphere can be quite mesmerizing to look at nestled in a tumbler of whiskey, spinning slowly as you turn the glass this way and that. But there are practical advantages to this shape too. Because a sphere has the smallest surface area of any shape relative to its mass, a ball-shaped piece of ice will melt more slowly, keeping things cool but producing less watery dilution during the time it takes you to finish your drink.
Which Ice Maker to Choose?
Spherical ice first took off as a cocktail-bar trend in Tokyo, so it should come as no surprise that two spherical "trays" currently most readily available on the U.S. market are of Japanese origin (MUJI is a no-frills Japanese design brand; the tray stocked by the U.S.-based Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) gift shop is Japanese-made). This week I test-drove both and found advantages and disadvantages to each.
MoMA's Spherical Ice Tray Set
Price: $16 for a set of 2 double-sphere trays online (Note: I purchased a single double-ball tray for $8 at MoMA's brick-and-mortar store in NYC)
Size of Ice Spheres: 2-inch diameter
Dishwasher safe?: Yes
Freezing time: approx. 4-5 hours (in my freezer, anyway)
(Side note: I don't know if you'll consider this a pro or a con, but this particular model is a little bit anatomically suggestive, don't you think? Glad we got that out of the way.)
Pros: Makes 2 spheres at once. Quick and easy to fill. Hard plastic is less likely to absorb odors.
Cons: A little messier to fill as water sometimes sloshes over the edges (it's best to perform this operation in the sink). Top and bottom pieces sometimes separate during the freezing process, creating an extra ridge of ice around the equator of the sphere. Must bring to room temperature - or run under cool water - to release frozen spheres from mold.
MUJI Silicone Ice Ball Maker
Price: $11.75 for a single sphere
Size of Ice Sphere: 2 1/4-inches diameter
Dishwasher safe?: Yes
Freezing time: approx. 4-5 hours (in my freezer)
Pros: The silicone "lid" peels off quickly and easily, and the ice sphere releases cleanly with less risk of cracking.
Cons: Makes only one sphere at a time. The directions that come with the product say not to fill the mold up all the way, but to leave some room for expansion of the ice. This involves some guesswork. I haven't used this particular model long enough yet to determine this for sure, but know from experience with other silicone ice trays that the material will sometimes absorb unpleasant food odors from the freezer.
My Take-Away
I'm completely sold on the spherical "cube" concept. The rye whiskey I tested them out with stayed cool without getting too watery, and there was even a fair-sized piece of ice left in the glass when I finished (something that rarely happens when I use regular cubes). Although both the MoMA and MUJI models have their pros and cons, I'd consider either one a good choice for regular home use.
One thing I was frustrated with on the aesthetic side, though, was the lack of clarity in the ice. With high (and naive) hopes of attaining a perfectly clear crystalline form, I tried the standard trick of using filtered water to remove impurities and boiling it before putting the trays in the freezer so that it would take longer to freeze, allowing the air bubbles more time to escape. But it was all to no avail. Frustrated, I decided to consult an expert on cocktail ice: Camper English
Camper's Method
Journalist and founder of the cocktail blog Alcademics.com Camper English knows a thing or two about ice. In a quest to produce a perfectly clear block, he spent nearly a year experimenting with the stuff, testing and re-testing, filtering and refiltering, freezing and refreezing.
I asked him: What am I doing wrong? How can I make a perfectly clear sphere of ice?
Well, to make a long story short, it turns out there is a way, but it doesn't involve using either of the molds I tested. Camper explained that the problem with the molds is that the ice will begin to form on the outside first, driving air bubbles and impurities to the center of the sphere, where they'll inevitably stay trapped.
Camper did, however, discover a way to make a perfectly clear block of ice in his home freezer. You can read all about his ingenious method on his blog, Alcademics.com here. Hint: "It's all about controlling the direction of the freezing."
Okay, so far so good. But, in the absence of advanced ice-carving skills, how can you possibly go from a block to a sphere? Well, there is one way...
Once one of his blocks was ready, Camper brought it over to a bar across the street from him and tried out one of these astounding - albeit pricey - machines that reshape ice using pressure and heat. The final result? A beautifully clear, seamlessly shaped sphere. Okay, maybe not the most accessible option for most of us, but nice to know it can be done.
Have you ever had a drink with spherical ice? Ever made it a home?
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Related: How to Make the Best Ice for Summer Cocktails
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Nora Maynard is a longtime home mixologist and an occasional instructor at NYC's Astor Center. She is a contributor to The Business of Food: Encyclopedia of the Food and Drink Industries and is the recipient of the American Egg Board Fellowship in culinary writing at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow. She previously covered food and drink in film at The Kitchn in her weekly column, The Celluloid Pantry.
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Mary Beth and Lou Billittier Jr. are announcing the final list of competitors in the first ever "Chef's Restaurant Media Meatball Eating Challenge." This non-competitive food challenge is scheduled for noon on Tuesday, Aug. 20, at Chef's Italian Restaurant, 291 Seneca St. (at Chicago), in downtown Buffalo.
In addition to the "Media Meatball Eating Challenge," the Billittier family will announce plans for a major downtown event to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Chef's Restaurant. The Billittier family has been recognized for its philanthropy in the Western New York community and for helping countless organizations for decades, while operating one of the most popular restaurants in Buffalo.
Mary Beth and Lou Billittier Jr. are continuing in the tradition of their late parents, Louis and Ann Billittier, who took ownership of the restaurant in the 1950s. Lou Sr. passed away in 2000, and Ann Billittier passed away in May of this year.
Media participants are competing for a "Meatball Trophy" and bragging rights. Those looking to eat more meatballs than their peers in 90 seconds include:
·Channel 2 WGRZ Michael Wooten
·Channel 4 WIVB Don Postles
·Channel 23 WNLO Matt Snyder
·Channel 7 WKBW Keith Radford
·Channel 7 WKBW Aaron Mentkowski
·Channel 7 WKBW Autumn Lewandowski
·Channel 7 Business First Elizabeth Carey
·Channel 67.1 WBBZ-TV Kim Piazza
·YNN TW Cable Jon Dougherty
·YNN TW Cable Scott Patterson
·WBEN 930 AM Tony Caligiuri
·WBEN 930 AM John Zach
·WBLK-FMDJ Heat
·WBLK-FMDJ Big Rob
·WKSE 98.5 FM Shy Guy Shawn
·WJYE 96.1 FM Laura Daniels
·WJYE 96.1 FM Brian Russell
·WJYE 96.1 FM Heather Davis
·WGRF 96.9 FM Carl Russo
·WGRF 96.9 FM DJ Jickster
·WEDG 103.3 FM Ted Shredd
·WYRK 106.5 FM Liz Mantel
•Drew Cerza, noted food marketing expert and creator of the popular "Wingfest" event in downtown Buffalo, will host the "Media Meatball" mayhem. His own culinary contest, the "Chicken Wing Eating Challenge," is scheduled for Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 at Coca-Cola Field.


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Police Investigate Threats Against Atheist Teen
Note To Jessica Ahlquist Warns 'We'll Get You'
Police in Rhode Island are investigating a threatening letter sent to a teenage atheist at the center of a dispute over a high school prayer banner.
WJAR-TV reported that the handwritten note to Jessica Ahlquist warns that the police won't watch her forever and that "we will get you."
The note's author encourages Ahlquist to leave Rhode Island and said they know her family's license plate numbers.
Police in Cranston are investigating.
The 16-year-old Ahlquist successfully challenged the constitutionality of a banner at Cranston High School West which contained the words "Our Heavenly Father" and "Amen."
A federal judge in January ordered the banner removed. It was taken down last month after school leaders decided not to appeal.
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The career of Iowa State softball second baseman Sara Davison has been over for mere days. The first weekend of life without softball is about to begin. The first weekend without softball is a culture shock for all players, but it will in particular for Davison, who finished her career wearing ISU's cardinal and gold 209 times, the fifth-most in school history.
"It was a privilege to play in, and start in so many games," Davison said. "There have been many days where you are hurt or are in pain, and there is a mental block you have to get over each time to get ready to play."
The legacy of Sara Davison's career is tough to pinpoint a whole five days into her post-Iowa State career. Though she did not put up the gaudy offensive numbers that get players recognized as the best in a school's, conference's or sports history, that does not mean a career did not leave anything for future Cyclones to see or learn from.
Davison, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, was not too familiar with Iowa State before being contacted by head coach Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler and her staff.
"I wanted to be a part of a college town," Davison said. "I had actually never heard of Iowa State. Once they said they were interested in me I started learning more about ISU. When I stepped on campus, I knew this was where I wanted to be."
Davison got antiquated with Iowa State, from a softball perspective, very quickly as she started all 49 of Iowa State's games as a freshman in 2011 at shortstop. Her debut campaign resulted in her setting two Iowa State freshman records, the first was the highest on-base percentage by a Cyclone freshman at .408 (since broken by Rachel Hartman this season at .414) and walks with 24, 10 more than any freshman in ISU history.
"I have been a good walker my entire career," Davison noted. "Having been a catcher for most of my life, I usually know pitches that I can hit and what will and will not be called strikes. I do my best to wait for a pitch that is the best to hit. If we are in a situation where a walk is as good as a hit, I will take the walk over the potential glory of hitting it higher and further."
Davison's ability to get on base via walking is unprecedented in ISU history. She leaves Ames as ISU's career leader for walks with 83. She is also the first player in ISU history to draw 20 or more walks in a season three times. To Davison, walking is not just keeping you bat on your shoulder, it must be earned.
"It all depends on the situation," Davison observed. "Early in the count I am looking for one pitch. With one strike, I expand the zone a little. With two strikes, I am going to foul off everything that is close. I want to force the pitcher to bring something over the plate. If they don't, I am going to walk. If they do, I am going to hit it."
Her eye for a good pitch is reflected not just in her walk numbers, but in her ability to not strike out. Davison walked more than she struck out, 83 to the "BB" category to 62 in the "SO" department. This past season, she only struck out nine times in 159 at-bats. Her career batting average of .273 ranks 29th in school history, but her career on-base percentage of .371 puts her up to ninth in school history for OBP.
After her freshman year, Davison moved over to second base when the Cyclones brought in Lexi Slater to take over at shortstop. The duo have had a dynamic relationship that has helped them and the Cyclones succeed when in the field.
"There are no words to describe what it is like to have the connection we had on the field," Davison noted. "We can not communicate because we know what each other are thinking and where we are going to be. It makes practices more fun, and it made softball more enjoyable."
In her three years patrolling the right side of the infield, Davison had a .971 fielding percentage.
"Fielding has always been my favorite part of softball," Davison stated. "Growing up, my teams would take lots of reps in the field. That is how I became the player I was."
With the season and, in turn, her Iowa State career over, Davison was asked what she would miss the most. Her response was two words:
"Turning two. "
The double play. Davison was part of turning 30 double plays in her Iowa State career. Some were fairly simple (she had an unassisted double play at Texas Tech this season), some not so much (she was part of a "strike 'em out, throw 'em out double play that included a run-down against UNI as a sophomore).
Seeing someone other than No. 6 taking charge at second base will be a different sight for Cyclone fans to get used to. There was a comfort to knowing that regardless of the circumstances, you could always count on seeing the same effort and discipline day in and day out from Davison. At the least, ISU fans got to enjoy that 209 times over the last four years.


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Silver Peak Systems today released a software-only edition of its WAN optimization product that will allow users and vendors to deploy it on a variety of hardware and hypervisors, from virtualized blade servers to storage area networks (SAN).
Additionally, Silver Peak announced a partnership agreement with telecom company Avaya, through which its Silver Peak VX family of virtual WAN optimization appliances can reside as a module with the Avaya Secure Router 4134. The server module also supports dedicated CPU, memory and storage, allowing the Silver Peak virtual WAN optimization appliance to operate independently of the Avaya SR 4134 routing platform.
Silver Peak said its new Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) software comes with a flexible subscription-based pricing model that enables users to deploy WAN optimization more conveniently, said Rick Tinsley, Silver Peak president and CEO.
Silver Peak has not changed the underlying software that is used on all of its WAN optimization appliances , but it has add a new software development kit (SDK), an application programming interface (API) and new pricing options.
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Dylan performs with practiced verve
"I came to bury, not to raise," spat Bob Dylan during "Pay In Blood," seven songs into a fairly stellar set Friday before a full house in the University at Buffalo's Alumni Arena.
Indeed, it seemed he meant what he sang, for the show was less about raising the ghost of '60s-era Bob Dylan than it was about burying anyone's expectations of the man. Love Dylan or hate him – it most likely doesn't matter to the man himself. He's here to inhabit the present moment, and if that means playing a set heavily slanted toward newer songs, deep cuts from throughout his all-but-peerless career, and revered classics in completely revamped guise, then so be it.
"Pay In Blood" is a dark song, one of many such tunes from Dylan's most recent album, "Tempest." This is Dylan in hellfire preacher mode – or perhaps, more accurately, world-weary, resigned preacher mode – as the detached observer of the mess man has made for himself. Dylan and his band – freshly minted guitarist Duke Robillard, making his debut with the band at UB, and long-serving sidemen Tony Garnier on bass, George Recilie on drums, Stu Kimball on rhythm guitar, and Denny Herron on pedal steel and mandolin – deliver this particular brand of tune flawlessly, as if they are playing the seedy lounge in Hell's antechamber. But all of Friday's show wasn't doom and gloom.
Indeed, Dylan was downright playful at times, seemingly invigorated by the new blood in the band, and happy – in Dylan's terms – to be inhabiting this particular moment.
The widely varied set list reflected the ease with which Dylan was conducting himself, moving gracefully between newer songs from his post – "Time Out of Mind" persona, through a few stone-cold classics – the closing salvos of "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Ballad Of A Thin Man" offering the strongest examples of the latter.
The show kicked off with a slightly rockabilly-inflected take on "Things Have Changed," one of Dylan's strongest late-period songs, and one that reveals a narrator who is "locked in tight" and "out of range," a man who "used to care/but things have changed." Anyone still clinging to the notion of Dylan as emblematic '60s protest singer might've finally gotten the clue via this song's impassioned delivery. If not, the equally bleak world view espoused by "High Water" probably did the trick. Both tunes were played very well, with Robillard jumping in with both feet, embracing his role as primary soloist in the band, even if Dylan did cut several of his solos short with a nod of his straw boater-covered head.
There were a few of the country swing-inflected arrangements Dylan has favored of late, in the form of "Spirit on the Water" and "Thunder on the Mountain," the latter featuring a lengthy rave-up between Robillard's guitar, Herron's pedal steel, and Dylan's strange but spot-on piano. But happily, compared with last summer's appearance at Artpark, the swing material didn't overwhelm the set. Dylan breathed life into "Tangled Up in Blue" as swampy Southern blues – a strong performance even if he did stumble over a few of the verses.
"Early Roman Kings" was an homage to Muddy Waters' stop-time blues format, while "Visions of Johanna" came draped in blue velvet, delivered in a lilting half-time.
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Ronald Harvey, 76 - August 18, 2010
Ronald "Ronnie" Dean Harvey, 76, of Gothenburg passed away Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.
Services will take place on Saturday, Aug. 21, at 2 p.m. at the Evangelical Free Church of Gothenburg with the Rev. Larry Viter officiating. Burial will be at the Gothenburg Cemetery.
A visitation will be held on Friday, Aug. 20, from 5-7 p.m. at the Evangelical Free Church of Gothenburg.
Harvey was preceded in death by: his wife, Evelyn, who passed away on the same day six years earlier; his parents, Albert and Verna; an uncle, Onie; an aunt, Mae; brother, Roy; sisters—Beverly Earll and Rosie Rhinehart; a special cousin, Glenn Harvey.
Survivors include: his children—Cyndi (Kelly) Wohlert of O'Neill, Ronnie Lee Harvey of Lexington, and Barbie (Tom) Wolfe of Cozad; brothers—Don (Debbie) and Jim, all of Gothenburg, George (Peggy) of Columbus, and Lawrence of Napa, ID; sisters—Dorothy Andrews of Gothenburg and Sharon (Fred) Engberg of Joplin, MO; extended family members—Rollie (Dorothy) Brown of Gothenburg, Charles (June) Brown of Brady, John (Elaine) Brown of Eustis, Violet Montgomery and Harold (Susie) Brown; seven grandchildren—Cressi (Doug) McClellan of Williston, ND, Kristopher (Becky) Wohlert of Kenesaw, Lacy Harvey, Travis (Amanda) Harvey and Amanda Aguilar, all of Lexington, Amber Wolfe of Gothenburg, and Derek Wolfe and fiancé, Brooke Conroy, of Cozad; 12 great-grandchildren.
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When many of us thirst for a chilled drink, we think back to our science lessons and recall that when water is placed in the freezer, it turns into ice. It seems a man in Chile forgot this and has been arrested for trying to steal five tons of ice from a glacier in order to sell "designer" ice cubes to local bars. Now, I'm no expert in fraud or theft, but it seems to me that it would be easier to make ice cubes the traditional way and then lie about their origin, rather than trekking up Patagonia's Jorge Montt Glacier and hauling five tons of ice down to sell on the black market.
It is no surprise to learn that the man was arrested after police intercepted his refrigerated truck en route to the capital of Santiago. In the back was an estimated £3,900 worth of illicit ice that was reportedly bound for the city's bars. The man is to be charged with theft (and if they can make it stick) violation of national monuments.
The Jorge Montt Glacier is part of the Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, and scientists have been alarmed that it is retreating by half a mile each year. It is one of the world's fastest shrinking glaciers and has been cited as evidence that man-made climate change is warming the planet. It seems sceptics now have some evidence that global warming may not be responsible – it could simply be an underground movement of thieves looking for unique ways to chill their drinks.
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Nitro returned to the Central Valley last fall -- and in a big way.
California's Central Valley has not heard the deafening roar and smelled the smells of nitro drag racing since the mid '70s, when nitro cars ran at tracks like Raisin City in Fresno and Kingdon in Lodi. Famoso in Bakersfield is the only track still in operation that runs nitro cars, but it is too far south for some to get to easily.
Yet nitro returned to the Central Valley last fall — and in a big way — when the Fuel Altereds hit the strip at the Eagle Field Runway Drags. Eagle Field is an old WWII air base and museum located just south of Dos Palos, California. It has been the scene of vintage-style, flag-start drag racing since 2009. Rocky Phillips, who created the event, has put on the drags every year with a volunteer staff. All of the proceeds from the race go to help the museum; restore the old hangar, admission offices, and barracks; and for upkeep at the base.
"This October's event was our best yet," said Rocky, with more than 200 cars running and in excess of 2,000 fans in attendance for both days. The AA Fuel Altereds were this year's highlight, smoking their tires all the way down the airstrip. The Altereds on hand included Pure Hell, Pure Heaven, The Witch Doctor, The Joker, and the Mike Sullivan Topolino, all running single passes down the airstrip so the fans could see each of their runs.
The event had one unfortunate mishap, when Brian Youngblood's '64 Fairlane gasser — with his father Dennis behind the wheel — crashed and rolled. Fortunately, he walked away from the accident. The great fans of Eagle Field passed around a helmet for Brian and collected more than $2,000 to help him with the car's repairs.
Every year the Eagle Field drags gets bigger and better. Rocky plans to have the Altereds return next year, along with Rich Guasco's Pure Hell running against Stormy Byrd's Revelation dragster in an old style, match-race showdown. Joe Hickenbottom, a regular at Eagle, also plans to have around 30 gassers from all over California and the Northwest, to really show the fans what tru-stalgia drag racing is all about. For more information on next year's events, check out EagleFieldDrags.com.