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Kate Bingaman-Burt, a graphic design professor at Portland State University, spent three years chronicling and drawing at least one of her purchases every day. And the purchases tended to be everyday expenditures: a pen, a cup of coffee, headphones, a haircut. Why did she do this? And what did she learn about herself, her shopping tendencies, and consumption in general?
That's what I wanted to find out. The author and illustrator of the recently released Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today answers my questions below.
Where did the idea for this project come from? Why did you begin doing it?
I started this project as a break from another project where I was drawing all of my credit card statements by hand. The credit card project was not fun, but that also was NOT the point. Making work about consumption and personal consumption especially is a big theme throughout my work: drawing the mundane items that we all purchase everyday just seemed like a natural next step. I also felt uncomfortable drawing objects, and drawing an object every day was the perfect way to get more comfortable with drawing. I started making work about personal consumerism around 2002 when I started photo documenting all of my purchases and then I created a brand called Obsessive Consumption to serve as the umbrella for all of my consumption projects to fall under.
Prior to my work about consumption, I worked as a designer in the home gift industry (candles, fancy foods, potpourri etc). Attending trade shows was a regular event for me, and I was really engaged by watching what people would buy or not buy, so I started thinking about my own purchasing patterns and impulses and the storytelling that people engage in over objects.
Obsessive Consumption has gone through many phases (photo documentation, installations, credit card and receipt drawings, sewing and lots and lots of object drawing), but it has always been about everyday objects and investigating why we buy what we buy, and what it says about us.
What kind of consumer are you? Do you carefully consider your purchases? Do you love to shop or what?
I love to shop. I hate to shop. Emotions connected to purchasing runs rampant in my work. I am really aware of objects and prices and of what I spend and of what I save. I see everyday items in a different light as well since so many of my drawings are of simple things, but to me they become a bit more special because of the story behind the object.
I overanalyze everything I purchase (and everything I DON'T purchase, along with consumerism, advertising, marketing and branding in general), but I kind of have to through this twisted set of rules that I have set up for myself over the past few years.
Guilt is a huge theme in my work, and so is silliness. Silliness and guilt. I realize the ridiculousness of a lot of what I do, but I embrace it. Again, guilt is a big theme, but I feel better when I make stuff with my hands and share it with people.
What is it about mundane, ordinary purchases that you find so interesting, visually or otherwise?
I have always had a fascination with utilitarian objects. The simplicity of a cup or the beauty of a receipt… these utilitarian objects are also used by a wide variety of different people, and I am interested in the unique experiences that the individual might bring to this mass-produced or simple object.
When you look at all of the things you've bought, are there things that surprise you, or that you had forgotten you'd bought?
These drawings act as a visual reminder of an experience that I might have forgotten if I hadn't documented it. Usually, when I look at a drawing I am reminded of the person that I was with when I purchased it or something that I was thinking about that happens to be unrelated to the object. Sometimes I fear that I won't remember it if I don't draw it or take a picture of it. I don't want to lose these experiences, conversations or memories. Perhaps I am really collecting these items instead of my purchases. Or I am using the purchases as a conduit for these experiences.
Are there things you bought and later regretted? If so, what?
Mostly fines (parking tickets! library fines! late fees!). I overanalyze purchases so they are usually pretty intentional at this point.
In the course of documenting your purchases, what did you learn about yourself, and about consumers and the how and why be buy stuff in general?
Even though my work starts with my own purchases, I feel that I have learned a lot more about other people and their purchases and stories. I buy a lot of what you buy: shoes, gum, coffee, tape … nothing too exciting, but conversations start with others over the shared purchase experience. I am learning new things everyday about others and their buying habits along with my own and the personal story that might be revealed from a mundane item. It is about visual storytelling through a simple system of rules focused around routines that we participate in everyday.
I have also learned that I love to draw. I get lost in lines, marks and patterns of these objects and look forward to my drawing time everyday.


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Kids' Books
August 2017
"I ask you -- what does a bug need with reading?"
~ from Linda Bailey's
The Tiny Hero of Ferny Creek Library
Recent Releases
The Tiny Hero of Ferny Creek Library
Linda Bailey; illustrated by Victoria Jamieson
Animal Fantasy. Dreamy, book-loving Eddie is bright green bug who lives with his family inside the walls of Ferny Creek Elementary School. Eddie usually sticks close to home, but when his Aunt Min fails to return from a trip to the school library, Eddie ventures out into the hazardous halls to find her. Just as the two bugs are reunited, they uncover a scheme to turn the beloved library into a testing center. Can one little bug save an entire library? With drawings by award-winning illustrator Victoria Jamieson and a "Bugliography" of classic books to try, this whimsical animal fantasy will appeal to library lovers both young and old.
Pennybaker School is Headed for Disaster
Jennifer Brown
Fiction. At the Pennybaker Hill Academy for the Uniquely Gifted, Thomas' skillful magic tricks don't exactly stand out. Among classmates who juggle chainsaws, talk to hedgehogs, or play the didgeridoo, new kid Thomas has a tough time proving himself (though being an expert spitball-shooter helps). Just as he's starting to fit in, Thomas is accused of stealing a much-loved statue from the school, and nobody except his "capital-'W' weird" neighbor Chip will help him hunt down the real thief. Similar to Stuart Gibbs' books, this series opener combines mystery and off-the-wall humor to create an uproariously funny read.
Mandy Davis
Fiction. The school cafeteria is LOUD. After years of being homeschooled, fifth-grader Lester is upset by the noise, crowds, and bullies at his new public school, not to mention the kids and teachers who just don't seem to
him. However, the school has a science fair, and like his astronaut father (who died five years ago), Lester adores science. Can winning the fair help him find his place at Quarry Elementary? And will putting a name -- "autism spectrum disorder" -- to the way he experiences things make them any easier? Find out in this honest look at the ups and downs of school for a kid on the spectrum.
The Song from Somewhere Else
A.F. Harrold; illustrated by Levi Pinfold
Fantasy. Frank Patel doesn't really want to make friends with her strange, smelly classmate Nick. But when Nick helps her escape the cruel neighborhood bullies and offers to let her hide at his house, she's not about to turn him down. It's at Nick's house that Frank first hears the beautiful, haunting music -- music that leads her to discover an unearthly secret that threatens Nick's family, and maybe even the whole world. Dark end eerie illustrations enhance the creepiness of this fantasy, making a perfect pick for fans of Neil Gaiman.
Spirit Hunters
Ellen Oh
Paranormal Fiction. Twelve-year-old Harper only has hazy memories about the events that led her family to move to Washington, D.C., but she can't push away the uneasy feeling she gets from their new house. Her neighbor, Dayo, says that the place is haunted, a claim that gets easier to believe as Harper's little brother begins acting out in alarming ways. Soon it becomes clear that in order to fight for her family's future, Harper will have to face up to the past. Filled with shivery tension and disturbing ghost encounters,
Spirit Hunters
will captivate anyone looking for a real scare.
I Wish...
Oddly Normal
Otis Frampton
Graphic Novel Fantasy. For half-witch, half-human Oddly, it only takes one careless wish to turn life upside-down. After her birthday-candle wish for her embarrassing parents to disappear actually comes true, ten-year-old Oddly is whisked away by her aunt to live in the magical realm of Fignation. Now, besides worrying about her parents, Oddly has to get used to a new house and a new school…oh, and the fact that she's living alongside zombies, vampires, and robots! Cartoon illustrations capture Oddly's fish-out-of-water struggles in this charming 1st book in the Oddly Normal series.
Genuine Sweet
Faith Harkey
Low Fantasy. With a name like Genuine Sweet, you'd think she'd have a life to match, but things aren't easy for this small-town Georgia girl. Her family is poorer than ever since her hard-drinking dad lost his job, and even though Genuine has the gift of "fetching" wishes, the wishes can only be used for other people. Trying to make the best of it, she devotes herself to helping others, yet she can't help wondering: would it be so bad to fetch just one wish for herself? Readers who like Ingrid Law's
but want a grittier look at magic and family bonds will love
Genuine Sweet
Dreamer, Wisher, Liar
Charise Mericle Harper
Low Fantasy. The mysterious jar is labeled "wishes," and it might be the only thing that can transform Ashley's terrible summer. It's bad enough that she has to babysit for annoyingly perky 7-year-old Claire -- how is Ash also supposed to deal with her best friend Lucy moving away? It's not like she can easily make new friends, since she has face blindness and can't recognize people. Finding the jar of wishes provides a welcome distraction, especially after Ash realizes that the wishes can transport her back in time. The past and the present collide in this "amusing, heartfelt" (
Kirkus Reviews
) story about friendship and change.
The Seventh Wish
Kate Messner
Fiction. It's not every ice-fishing expedition that yields a wish-granting fish, and 12-year-old Charlie isn't going pass up the chance to make some changes in her life. She could use a new Irish dancing dress, for instance, and she'd like Roberto Sullivan to notice her. Yet while Charlie's fish-wishes
come true, the results are often complicated. And when her sister Abby returns from college with a painful problem, Charlie is afraid that wishing won't be enough. Authentic and just a little bit magical,
The Seventh Wish
is destined to "zing straight to the hearts of readers" (
Kirkus Reviews
), especially those who enjoyed Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm's
Sunny Side Up
Wishing Day
Lauren Myracle
Fiction. T
hey say that i
n Willow Hill, on the third night of the third month after her 13th birthday, a girl gets to make three wishes on a special willow tree. Yet when Natasha's wishing day arrives, she visits the tree reluctantly. Natasha isn't sure she believes in magic, but she's got plenty of wishes: She wishes to be noticed by her large, messy family. She wishes for her first kiss. And most of all, she wishes for her mother, who's been missing for years. Like Wendy Mass' Willow Falls series, this trilogy-starter is a warm, realistic story with gentle hints of fantasy.
Contact your librarian for more great books!
J. Erik Jonsson Central Library
1515 Young St.
Dallas, Texas 75201

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The skin is very sturdy - it's nicely textured, applies easily, doesn't rip (i.e. it's not a cheap thin layer but a high-quality one, made by 3M).
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I'm using it to quickly tell apart my two Nexus 7s because one is 32GB and the other is 16GB. Now I can always tell which one is which. And it looks hot (I think). All of their skins do.
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Other Degrees
Seminarians have the opportunity to earn a second Masters Degree (in either Catholic Studies, Theology or Biblical Studies) during their time at Mount St. Mary's Seminary. While the Master of Divinity Degree is a professional degree; these other degrees are considered to be academic degrees. The degree requirements are specified in the course catalog in the "Special Studies" section. The degrees are not difficult for a seminarian to obtain as many of the required courses are already covered in the requirements for the Master of Divinity Degree, by the requirements of the Program for Priestly Formation, and by the requirements of the seminary pre-theology program..


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There Is Good News in Sports Again!
Good News In Sports is back. I've consolidated Good News In College Sports and Good News in Pro Sports into one blog covering stories from all over the sports world that you can truly enjoy reading. No steroids, police blotters, or contract holdouts here. Only people who are making a positive difference by their actions or example. Check it out at www.goodnewsinsports.com


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I know I may be jumping the gun a bit by posting a "Winter" recipe as it seems Summer has just recently said its final goodbye. But as the wind currently wisps outside my windows and the rain pelts down on the fragile jewel-toned foliage I just know the trees that were barely clinging to their few remaining leaves will be skinny skeleton limbs in the morning.
Also, I just couldn't wait to tell you about it.
Winter is not often highly regarded for its salads. All that is about to change.
Julienned fennel, celeriac and apple are lightly coated in a tangy homemade Creme Fraiche dressing. Piled high on plate, one invisions the hopeful thought of white snow in the months ahead, as their fork lunges into the crisp salad. This welcomed change of taste is a far cry from the usual roasted, braised and baked dishes that accompany the chilled Winter.
I must give credit for this ingenious dish to Mataio, chef and owner of Ciao Thyme Catering. You may recognize this company from such weddings as Molly and Brandon's. It is also known as my former place of employment before we made the move to Seattle.
I say former but on occasion they let me back in to teach and play in their gorgeous kitchen filled with the colors of Tuscany – it is always a joy to return. The food that emerges from that place is beyond fantastic. It is inventive, mostly local and filled with more passion that I've ever seen presented on a plate.
Jessica and Mataio, owners of Ciao Thyme catering are currently spending the month of November traveling in Italy – I am more than a bit envious. The driving force behind this trip is to seek new tastes, new dishes and a renewed purpose and love for the food they create. The lessons learned from this trip will fuel the creativity needed to inspire the menus that are never repeated. I will be the first one lined up at the door of Ciao Thyme upon their arrival home, waiting for the Italian inspired dishes to emerge.
Winter White Salad
Serves 4 as a side salad
Celeriac, also know as celery root, is the unsung hero of this dish. The flavor is similar to that of celery but with more spice and none of the obnoxious strings. It crunches like a carrot and yields an aromatic fragrance that will leave you wondering why you've never taken note of it before. You'll have to get beyond the warty and hard to peel exterior but once you do you will be rewarded with a unique flavor and a crisp crunch that we so long for in the cold Winter months ahead.
1 apple – I used a tart Pink Lady and loved the flavor it added.
1 Fennel bulb
about 1/4 of Celeriac, peeled
1 small Leek
Using a Mandolin with the matchstick blade carefully slice the apple, fennel and Celeriac. Each item should yield about 1 1/2 – 2 cups once cut. You can play with the quantity of each depending on your flavor preference. Keep all the sliced produce in a bowl of cold water with a touch of lemon juice to keep them from browning. When ready to dress the salad make sure you completely drain the matchsticks.
Thinly slice just the white part of the leek. Separate the rings.
Make the dressing.
Creme Fraiche Dressing
Making your own Creme Fraiche is an easy and rewarding experience. Here is my version which yields a thick tangy cream that you will often find a stash of in our fridge.
1 cup Heavy Cream (I microwaved it for 20 seconds to take off the chill and to speed up the process) add 1 tablespoon lemon juice to the cream. Stir. Let this mixture sit out for several hours until thick. At that point it can be refrigerated and kept covered for a couple of days.
1/4 cup Creme Fraiche
2 teaspoon Apple Cider Vinegar
Salt and Pepper to taste
Mix all the ingredients together.
Lightly coat the fennel, celeriac and apple with the dressing. Garnish with the leek rings and small parsley leaves. Serve immediately.
*As a side note I will be teaching a class in Bellingham, WA at Ciao Thyme. It is a Holiday Baking course covering some fundamental baking techniques like caramel, meringues and pie crust. I would LOVE to see some of you there – in fact I'd LOVE to see ALL of you! Check out their website for more details.


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The IPCC, Climate Change and Solar Sophistry
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. Erasmus (1466 – 1536)
Control of the science and content of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports was planned from before it was officially formed in 1988. Exposure of manipulation to achieve desired results also began early. Benjamin Santer graduated from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), where Tom Wigley supervised his PhD. He returned to the US working at the government's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He was appointed lead author of Chapter 8, titled "Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes" of the 1995 IPCC Report. It turned out Santer had significantly altered the meaning of the Chapter from that agreed on by the other authors. As Avery and Singer noted in 2006,
Santer single-handedly reversed the 'climate science' of the whole IPCC report and with it the global warming political process! The 'discernible human influence' supposedly revealed by the IPCC has been cited thousands of times since in media around the world, and has been the 'stopper' in millions of debates among nonscientists.
An Incestuous Process
Overlooked in exposure of Santer's malfeasance was the fact that the entire chapter was based primarily on two of his research papers, neither of which was published or peer-reviewed at the time. IPCC chapters list extensive bibliographies, but invariably content is dependent on the work of the lead-author. As Marcel Crok explained,
Lead authors are promoting their own work in the chapters and are often asked to give an 'objective' opinion about controversies in which they themselves are involved. A clear example of this in AR4 is Phil Jones who promotes his HadCrut3 graph meanwhile ignoring literature (Michaels/McKitrick 2004, 2006) that raises serious questions about the reliability of this graph. A second example is Briffa as lead author of chapter 3, where he, as a member of the Hockey Team, defends the hockey stick, and ignores the divergence problem (i.e. the fact that his temperature reconstruction based on tree rings is going down after 1960).
It is a logical development of the incestuous design of the IPCC process.
A Czech researcher only recently exposed the worst example of this conflict. He calls it Judithgate after Judith Lean, co-lead author of Chapter 2 of the 2007 IPCC Report. Section 2.7.1 is titled "Solar variability" and purports to be the work of several researchers according to the bibliography. Actually, the section is dependent on one paper – Lean J., Roltmann G., Harder J., Kopp G.: Source contributions to new understanding of global change and solar variability, Sol. Phys., 230, 27-53, 2005. As a Norwegian government independent reviewer wrote to the IPCC, "I urge IPCC to consider having only one solar physicist on the lead author team of such an important chapter. In particular since the conclusion of this section hangs on one single paper in which Judith Lean is the co-author." Note the comment "Confidential – Do Not Cite, Quote or Distribute." Why is this necessary for a publicly funded project that has massive global economic implications? Steve McIntyre obtained the information through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.
More disturbing was the disclosure that Lean and Claus Frohlich had altered graphs to reduce solar influence. "The original satellite data showed, that TSI (measured in Watts) increased from 1986 to 1996 by cca one third… But then Judith and Clause "laundered" the graphs and voila… solar output increase was gone." Why was any of this necessary?
Sins Of Omission and Commission
Deception of claiming Reports are complete synopses of scientific literature produced by a team of experts is enough to reject the entire IPCC findings. However it's only a part because what they chose to cover was deliberately selective. It was driven by the IPCC objective to prove human CO2 is causing global warming. Computer models and historical data were manipulated to prove CO2 was the only possible cause. This required omitting or reducing to a minimum the role of other mechanisms. Biggest threat to their claims was the Sun and just as they rewrote climate history by eliminating the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), they rewrote a small portion of the solar record and left out most of the major solar mechanisms that cause climate change.
The Lean paper only considered changes in electromagnetic energy and because of what they produced the 2007 Report concludes. "In comparison, changes in solar irradiance since 1750 are estimated to have caused a small radiative forcing of +0.12 [+0.06 to +0.30] W/m2, which is less than half the estimate given in the TAR." Prior to the adjustment the IPCC said changes in solar energy explained over 50 percent of temperature variation prior to 1950. But it's only part of the story that is more easily told by considering long-term climate changes linked to other changes in the Sun and Sun/Earth relationships.
The most recent ice maximum occurred 20,000 years ago, but few are aware that similar maxima and minima occurred over a 3 million year period called the Pleistocene Ice Age. Variations between glacial and interglacial are primarily driven by the 100,000 – year oscillation of the elliptical orbit of the Sun, a major part of the Milankovitch cycle. Few know there were at least five previous Ice Ages that appear to relate to the 220 million year orbit of the Sun around the Milky Way. These processes are still operating, but the IPCC ignore them ostensibly because of the time scale. However, as the late Theodor Landscheidt showed, there are short-term impacts of solar movements on cyclical events like El Niño.
There are a multitude of other astrophysical relationships causing cycles related to climate not considered by the IPCC.
Finally, there's the relationship between sunspot and global temperature. The IPCC consistently ignore the relationship though there's extensive literature beginning with Galileo's observations of sunspots in 1610. Initially they said there was no explanatory mechanism. This is not a valid reason if you are doing a complete summary of climate science. Svensmark's plausible Cosmic Theory appeared in embryonic form in 1991 and more completely in 1996. The 2001 Report mentioned it briefly, but it's omitted in the 2007 Report. Now there is further confirmation of the theory. Eigil Friis-Christensen, director of the Danish National Space Institute, DTU, and co-author with Svensmark in 1996 said,
The evidence has piled up, first for the link between cosmic rays and low-level clouds and then, by experiment and observation, for the mechanism involving aerosols. All these consistent scientific results illustrate that the current climate models used to predict future climate are lacking important parts of the physics."
Of course they do – because they were designed to prove CO2 was the cause, and therefore the problem.
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- European Commission will on Thursday unveil an ambitious plan for an international levy
- Named after economist James Tobin who mooted a global tax on currency trades
- The tax is likely to be challenged by some EU governments and big financial groups
Wall Street and the US administration have attacked a proposed eurozone financial transaction tax, claiming it overreaches borders, flouts international treaties and "breaks the bonds that bind our global economy".
The European Commission will on Thursday unveil an ambitious plan for an international levy on financial trades to be collected by the eurozone's biggest economies, raising an estimated €30bn-€35bn a year.
This tax blueprint, first reported in the Financial Times, includes tough anti-avoidance measures that would catch some trades executed in New York, London, or Hong Kong -- even when no eurozone entity is buying or selling the product.
While the commission is confident the plan is legally sound, the long arm of the levy has raised the hackles of big investment banks, as well as the UK and Luxembourg, which rejected such an EU-wide tax.
The US, which has long been opposed to a transaction tax, has also voiced its concerns. A Treasury spokesperson said the levy would "harm US investors in the US and elsewhere who have purchased affected securities".
If France, Germany and nine other states press ahead with a tax based on the commission's expansive proposal, it is likely to be challenged by some EU governments and big financial groups, according to several diplomats and lawyers.
A coalition of US business groups -- including the US Chamber of Commerce and The Financial Services Forum, the body for the largest US financial groups -- have written to the commission objecting to "the unilateral imposition of a global financial transaction tax".
"These novel and unilateral theories of tax jurisdiction are both unprecedented and inconsistent with existing norms of international tax law and long-standing treaty commitments," the groups argue in a letter to Algirdas Semeta, the EU tax commissioner.
"There is a high risk that their adoption could lead to -double and multiple taxation, a deterioration of international tax co-operation and trade -protectionism."
Europe's first 'Tobin tax', named after economist James Tobin who mooted a global tax on currency trades in the 1970s, levies 0.1 per cent on stock and bond trades and 0.01 per cent on derivatives transactions involving one financial institution with its headquarters in the tax area, or trading on behalf of a client based in the tax area.
As "a last resort", the tax is also applied to transactions based on where the share, bond or exchange traded derivative was issued, even if it takes place in Asia, the US or Britain.
Such a levy is dubbed a Tobin tax after economist James Tobin, who mooted a global tax on currency trades in the 1970s.
Alexandria Carr, a former UK Treasury lawyer now at law firm Mayer Brown, said those 11 countries moving ahead under so-called "enhanced co-operation" are legally bound to respect the rights of member states that do not participate.
"If [the] proposal has the expected extraterritorial reach, it would appear to ride roughshod over the competences of the 16 member states who have opted out," she said.
Those countries that have expressed interest in a transaction tax include Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia and Slovakia.


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Kid Rock Responds To Claims Against His 'Made in Detroit' Clothing Brand
Their have been recent reports painting Kid Rock's 'Made in Detroit' clothing brand in a negative light for using materials not even made in the United States. Mr. Rock himself angrily fired back at those allegations today, citing one "irresponsible" reporter in particular -- Susan Tompor of the Detroit Free Press.
On his official website, Rock posted the following letter:
Dear Susan Tompor,
Let me first start off by cordially inviting you to go f--- yourself. I have always said that I do care what people in my hometown think of me, and the hatchet job you have just written about The Made In Detroit company in The Detroit Free Press has made me so upset that I am left with no choice but to defend myself and my company. I purchased MID out of bankruptcy and asked a friend of mine (Tom Dubak) to give up the security of a good paying job at a car dealership for a chance to help revitalize this brand. The goal of MID is to re-instill a sense of Detroit pride, give back to the community, try to create jobs in our home state and maybe one day build our own facility somewhere close to the riverfront in Detroit. We have succeeded in most of the this and have big plans for the future, not to mention the scholarship fund we have created at Wayne State, the numerous sponsorships we do every year and the hundreds of thousands of dollars we have given to local charities (all of which somehow had no place in your attempt to slander us in your article).
You failed to say that the majority of our products are in fact MADE IN AMERICA. Let me address the small number of MID products not made in America, which were explained to you, but that you felt unimportant to print as part of a well-balanced and fair story. You didn't care about printing the fact that 98 percent of all clothing sold in America is not made in America. It's very difficult to even find quality and affordable USA made products, lord knows we have been looking from day one, not only for the MID brand but also for the Kid Rock merchandise we sell on tour. A simple phone call to my KR merchandise company FEA or calls to our suppliers or any other clothing company in America would have told you this. The majority of the clothes that are made in America still import the cottons and other parts needed to make these items from outside of the country.
In addition, we have NEVER laid claim to our items actually being made in Detroit, it's been on our website since we took the company out of bankruptcy what we are about –
Made In Detroit has created jobs for people in and around Detroit, we've made money for local merchants and donated money to many local charities on behalf of MID, Badass Beer and The Kid Rock Foundation along with creating 7 jobs at MID alone. As the owner of Made In Detroit I've never taken a dime of salary or profit or even expensed a meal. We, like most brands in America, use some products that are not created in America. That doesn't mean we can't do better. We're trying to move away from those products while still keeping our prices affordable and keeping us and the stores that depend on us in business. You will find a list of things we have done with MID below in which we are extremely proud and because of these and the many other things I have been able to do I walk around my hometown with my head held high. You and your editors ought to be ashamed of yourselves for not only entirely missing the point of what we do but trying to knock down MID, myself and other local brands that have done nothing more than try to prop our city and state up.
I'll finish by saying that as a result of your article and the lack of respect from not only you but from your editors, The Detroit Free press is on my shit list and my subscription has been canceled. And yes, I will go so far as to ask other like minded folks to do the same if they are tired of garbage, irresponsible reporting like yours.
If there is one thing I have learned from growing up in and around Detroit it's "Don't take any s--- from no one and be proud of where you come from!" I am. F--- YOU.
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Rock also posted a link to an ABC News report he calls, "a fair look at the clothing industry in America," which he clearly feels his brand did not get in Susan Tompor's Detroit Free Press piece. He also listed the many charities to which the Made in Detroit brand and the Kid Rock Foundation have donated well over a million dollars to since just 2010, which you can see at Kid Rock's official website.


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BRISTOL, TENN. – Senior Niko Tirkkonen found the back of the net for the game-winning goal in Coker's 1-0 victory over King College in Conference Carolinas men's soccer action Wednesday night. The win moves the Cobras to 1-0 in conference play and 3-2 overall.
The Cobras poured on the offensive pressure from the opening kick-off as 11 different Coker players combined for 17 shots, compared to just five for the Tornado. Coker also held an 8-3 advantage in corner kicks.
After a scoreless first half, Tirkkonen's goal in the 71st minute gave Coker the 1-0 win. Assisting on the game-wining goal were Noah Lascell and Tony Quiroz. Coker goalkeeper James Sweeney made three saves and earned his first shutout of the season.
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Eric Cantor thought he was setting out to nudge the Republican Party gently in a winning direction. Instead, the voters of his home district pushed him over a political cliff.
The Virginia lawmaker's surprise defeat in a primary election has already sent a shudder through the party in 2014, rattling lawmakers and delivering an abrupt reality check to politicians who think the GOP rank and file is eager for an ideological reboot.
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And with the opening of the 2016 presidential election less than a year away, Cantor's collapse is a vivid illustration of the risks involved in seeking to move the GOP's center of gravity even on a handful of issues.
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Cantor, no ideological moderate, was in many ways an unlikely target for a conservative insurgency. For years, he was perceived as a looming presence to House Speaker John Boehner's right and blamed in large part by Democrats for the breakdown of trust between the parties in government.
Yet since the 2012 campaign, the Richmond Republican has also been one of the most vocal party leaders urging the GOP coalition to revise and update its governing agenda. He has questioned the political viability of a belt-tightening message of fiscal austerity and aligned himself with an upscale faction of the party calling themselves "reform conservatives."
Cantor's poll-tested version of reform has been a profoundly cautious one, anchored in bite-size, opportunistic proposals on kitchen-table issues such as public school choice and college tuition, nibbling cautiously around the edges of bigger-ticket challenges like immigration reform and restructuring entitlement programs.
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Still, on the spectrum of GOP leaders from the slash-and-burn activists aligned with Ted Cruz, to establishment-approved, self-styled modernizers like Chris Christie and Jeb Bush, Cantor plainly lined up closer to the second group. After his defeat Tuesday, other ambitious up-and-comers may now think twice about stepping into the Eric Cantor-shaped hole in the edifice of the Republican Party.
For the Bushes and Christies of the world, that is, Cantor is a warning sign — an indication that any politician who wants to change the party, who pushes the limits of the base's patience, must gamble an incredible amount in the process.
Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips said Cantor's defeat reflected roaring hostility toward Washington, and frustration with the trappings of party leadership and all the inducements lawmakers face to turn away from a rigid small-government agenda.
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"To me, the lesson for every Republican incumbent out there is: Even when you think there's a free vote, even when you think that on the farm bill, it's time to go ahead and spend a trillion; or even when you think it's OK to blow past the sequester caps, in the end the tally sheet is being kept by a lot of Americans out there," said Phillips, whose group has already spent tens of millions of dollars during the 2014 campaign.
He continued: "At some point, over 34,000 Virginians in the 7th District made a decision that the tally sheet leaned, for the first time, toward defeating a sitting majority leader."
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, the Texas Republican who stepped down amid the 2006 election, said bluntly that Cantor's reform agenda simply wasn't "what people want to hear."
"All the things he's talking about, the federal government has no business being involved in," DeLay said. "Where in the Constitution does it say you should have a DREAM Act?"
With Cantor's resignation from House leadership still ringing in the ears of his congressional colleagues, there's still limited consensus about exactly why he lost his seat. Republicans have blamed Cantor's support for immigration reform and his cozy D.C. insider status, his plush status as a member of leadership and his light presence back in the district.


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WASHINGTON — As Congress moves to help thousands of military veterans enduring long wait times for VA medical care, the FBI revealed Wednesday that it had opened a criminal investigation into a Department of Veterans Affairs reeling from allegations of falsified records and inappropriate scheduling practices.
FBI Director James Comey told the House Judiciary Committee that the investigation was being led by the FBI's field office in Phoenix, which he described as the "primary locus of the original allegations" being examined by the VA's Office of Inspector General.
"We're working with the VA IG to follow it wherever the facts take us," Comey said in response to a question about the FBI's role in the matter.
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DENVER - A Hampton Inn franchise in Craig, Colo., owned and operated by Century Shree Corporation, will pay $85,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race and national origin discrimination suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC charged that the company illegally terminated employees beginning in August 2009 because of their race, Caucasian, and national origin, non-Hispanic.
According to the EEOC, a class of employees, including Wendy Buckley, Ashlee Flannery and Dewetta McKnight, was discharged from the Craig Hampton Inn because management of the company subscribed to stereotypes that white or non-Hispanic workers were indolent.
Employers are prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from discharging employees because of their race or national origin. The EEOC filed suit, Case No. 11-cv-2558-REB-CBS, in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
Pursuant to the consent decree settling the suit, signed by Federal District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn, the company will pay $85,000 for back pay and compensatory damages to the discrimination victims. The decree also includes a permanent injunction against the employer that prohibits it from discriminating in the future, and requiring the owners, managers, and supervisors of the company to undergo training on federal anti-discrimination laws. The discrimination victims will also be offered reinstatement to their original job positions at the hotel.
"An employer cannot discharge or refuse to hire an individual based on derogatory stereotypical beliefs about that person's race or national origin," said Mary Jo O'Neill, regional attorney for the EEOC's Phoenix District Office. "Employers cannot choose employees based on the color of their skin or their ancestry. This form of blatant discrimination clearly violates federal law."
Denver EEOC Field Director Nancy Sienko explained, "Non-economic relief, as well as monetary relief, is central to the agency's mission - and we have won both in significant amounts in this case, as we usually do. The EEOC always seeks to eradicate discrimination from the workplace so that individuals can find and maintain work based on their skills and performance and not on their race and national origin. The consent decree in this case should ensure this."
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'That 70s Show' actress arrested in California
Lisa Robin Kelly was booked on suspicion of DUI.
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — That '70s Show actress Lisa Robin Kelly, 43, has been arrested in California on suspicion of drunken driving.
The California Highway Patrol says officers noticed signs of possible intoxication when they helped move the actress' stalled car off Interstate 5 in Burbank late Saturday.
The CHP said that after an investigation, officers arrested and booked her on suspicion of DUI. Kelly was released on $5,000 bail.
An e-mail to her agent was not immediately returned.
It was not her first brush with the law. Kelly and her husband, Robert Joseph Gilliam, were arrested last November in connection with a disturbance at their home in the Charlotte, N.C., suburb of Mooresville.
Kelly portrayed Laurie Forman, sister of Topher Grace's lead character Eric, on the Fox series, which ended in 2006.
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"The first time I used my ID was the second semester of my senior year of high school. My friend and I decided it would be fun to go into downtown Washington D.C. and give our new IDs a test run. Our options were limited, for it was a Thursday night and we were unfamiliar with the area. We stumbled upon an enticing looking club and agreed to give it a whirl. Luckily both of our IDs scanned and we were led down a dark hallway into a lounge. The guy who checked our IDs brought us to a table and ensured us that a waitress would arrive shortly to take our drink order. After five minutes of observing, we realized we were not in a club. We were in a high end strip club. The 'waitresses' that had just been in classy dresses were now topless and dancing on the bar. We were shook!" - Andrew, Sophomore
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"When I was a junior in high school there was this super shady liquor store the town over from me that was well-known for serving under-aged college kids and high schoolers. They rarely ID'ed, and didn't even have a scanner. One Friday, it was my turn to buy, and I was no doubt the youngest person in the store. Being a dumb high schooler, I went up to the counter with two handles of Traveler's Club (off-brand Georgie exclusively available in Northern NJ) and wound up first in line with four 50+ year old men behind me. Strangely enough, I was very confident I wouldn't get in trouble in this situation, and my certainty did not waver even when the guy asked to see ID. I had this super shitty fake from Maryland that my friends had picked up from some dude they found on the internet the year before. Unfortunately, I had no clue that it didn't scan—or that the place had implemented scanners. Anyway, the guy scanned it, and it obviously didn't work. Most people would have left the alcohol at the counter and just tried to walk away, but I looked back at the line of grown ass men and decided I'd made it too far to turn back. Initially, the guy behind the counter told me I couldn't buy the alcohol because there was "an issue" with my ID, but something inside of me still wanted to argue with him. After minutes of desperately blaming the scanners he let me purchase the two handles of vodka and exit the store completely unscathed. As I was walking out, I looked back at the line one last time and recognized one of the men as my dad's golf buddy, who's a lawyer. :)" - Evan, Senior
Afraid of the cops? That's definitely an extremely reasonable concern. Fake IDs are definitely illegal. You
face mildly significant consequences. But does anyone ever, really?
"In high school my friends and I went camping at a site in upstate New York. We're all in this massive 10 person tent sleeping, must've been like 2:30 in the morning at this point, and I wake up to flashlights being shined into our tent. I nudge one of the boys sleeping next to me and I'm like "Hey I think we're all about to be murdered." We slowly emerge from the tent and find twelve ANGRY state troopers. We nervously were just like "Uhh good evening officers...what can we help you with?" And the first thing they did was question us about the many, many beer cans on our campsite and asked for our IDs. We figured giving fakes was a bad idea so we all gave our real IDs, until our last friend who missed the memo stumbled out of the tent and handed one of the state troopers his very shitty Connecticut fake. When we realized that he gave the officer his fake, we all start freaking out that he'll be arrested or something. We anxiously wait as they took forever to run his ID through the scanner in their car, but when they came back they said everything had checked out. They yelled at him for buying beer for minors, but they left us without any trouble." - Emily, Junior
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In this extended Macworld feature, we've packed in how-tos for writing, editing spreadsheets, creating presentations, and--yes--even running Microsoft Office itself on your iPad and iPad mini. We also have suggestions for how to best manage your files, access cloud services, print documents, and attend meetings from afar. And don't miss out on reading our in-depth buying guide for finding the perfect external iPad keyboard.
To close out this extended feature, we have opinion pieces from Senior Writer Lex Friedman, Editorial Director Jason Snell, and Senior Editor Dan Moren. Follow Dan's three-day iPad-only journey, let Jason tell you why he loves writing on an iPad, and read about Lex's iPad writing experiences.
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Bernie Kosar is a 'Cane in need.
The former University of Miami standout filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday, revealing that he is in debt more than $19 million. Unlike Brett Favre, there is no NFL comeback in Kosar's future, so he is going to have to flip a lot of burgers to come up with that kind of money.
On second thought, Kosar should probably stay away from the food industry. His steakhouse went belly up last year, and pretty much every other investment he has ever made has tanked.
Among the people listed as his creditors is his wife, Babette, who divorced Kosar in 2007. She is owed about $3 million, court documents stated. Kosar also owes the Cleveland Browns, the team he led to prominence in the 1980s, about $1.5 million, and $725,000 to the owner of the Cleveland Gladiators team in the Arena Football League. He owes a bank more than $9 million for bad real estate deals.
Kosar, 45, retired as a Miami Dolphin in 1996.
Kosar, who lives in Weston, has remained close to the UM football program as a "friend to the university." He might want to ask for a paycheck to show up on the sidelines this season.


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The price of fashion is on the rise as the death toll in Bangladesh's garment factories grows.
Another fire in another garment factory – this one about 25 miles from the garment factory whose April collapse killed more than 1,100 workers – took the lives of at least 10 more workers on Tuesday, October 8, 2013.
Most of the workers who perished in this week's fire were so badly burned they could not be identified. Approximately 50 other workers were injured in the fire, which took firefighters nearly 10 hours to overcome.
To readers who think these tragedies have nothing to do with American consumers – think again. The price of fashion is always close to home.
You see, last week's fire occurred at the garment factory Aswad Composite Mills, which produces clothing for Western retailers such as Wal-Mart, Loblaw Cos., and Hudson's Bay Co.
Wal-Mart and Hudson's Bay Co. were two of the 17 North American retailers and brands who refused to sign on to the global Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh – a five-year legally binding agreement between international labor organizations, nongovernmental organizations and retailers to improve safety standards in Bangladesh's thriving, but dangerous textile industry.
More than 70 international brands and retailers, such as H&M and Zara, signed the global accord and pledged to improve working conditions in Bangladesh's garment factories. But most U.S. retailers declined.
Instead, Wal-Mart, GAP, Target, Kohl's, Macy's, Nordstrom, Sears, L. L. Bean, J.C. Penney, Limited, The Children's Place, Hudson's Bay, Carter's, and others signed onto a weaker plan spearheaded by Wal-Mart and GAP. Their Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety is not legally binding and has left labor representatives off of its eight-member board. Essentially, the brands want factory owners to regulate themselves – an approach that has been tried in the past with fatal results for workers.
As evidenced by this week's fire, Wal-Mart, et al, still are not doing enough to ensure that the workers slaving away to make their low-priced products are safe on the job.
For their troubles, garment factory workers in Bangladesh earn about $38 a month. A month.
As long as companies are allowed to operate in Bangladesh with minimal oversight, they will continue to cut corners, to the detriment of worker safety. And as long as these companies get away with cost-cutting measures to pad their bottom line abroad, they have little incentive to maintain high standards for their workers here in the U.S.
They will rely on temporary labor instead of permanent staff; reduce staff hours to deny benefits; withhold hard-earned wages; and block workers from organizing for better conditions on the job.
We must raise the floor for workers internationally – from the garment workers in Bangladesh to the retail workers here at home.
Until we raise the bar, workers will continue to be injured or killed on the job – and that makes the price of fashion too high.


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Solutions and Innovation – the innovation unit of DHL – has recently launched a new trend report, entitled Big Data in Logistics to "move beyond the hype" and reveal the true value of Big Data for us and for our customers.
The potential for Big Data in the logistics industry had previously been highlighted in our highly acclaimed Logistics Trend Radar – a dynamic, living document designed to help us and our customers derive new strategies and develop more powerful projects and innovations.
Volume, Velocity, and Variety – Is This Big Data?
The new trend report starts with an introduction to Big Data, which is commonly described as having "3Vs" (volume, velocity, and variety). But in our opinion, there is far more to consider before we and our customers can leverage information as a production factor and strengthen our competitive position. What's required is a shift in mindset and application of the right techniques.
Big Data in Logistics goes way beyond the buzz words and offers real-world use cases. It reveals what's happening now with Big Data, and what's likely to happen in the future. It presents an exciting and important role for sophisticated data analytics – the role of consolidating the traditionally fragmented logistics industry. Successful logistics providers are likely to seize pole position as "search engines in the physical world".
This Latest Trend Report Proposes and Explores Three Different Categories of Information Exploitation:
- Operational efficiency: real-time route optimization, crowd-based pickup and delivery, strategic network planning, and operational capacity planning
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- New business models: market intelligence for small and medium-sized enterprises, financial demand and supply chain analytics, address verification, and environmental intelligence
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Holly Springs Food Cupboard helps more families
Marty Erb filled paper grocery bags with pasta, beans and rice.
Erb's wife Jane partnered with Tonya Lord to store boxes of canned goods on 8-foot wire racks.
In the garage, Tony Perna and his wife Linda organized produce and bread on fold-out tables.
The Holly Springs Food Cupboard is serving many more families than when it opened in 2012. The group now helps about 30 families a week in Holly Springs, compared to about 10 a couple of years ago.
What began as Carol Moran's calling to help the hungry has evolved into an essential food source for some residents, complete with an army of volunteers that makes it all work.
"The families range from senior citizens to families of 10 that come from generational poverty," said Pat Haggard, who helped Moran start the food pantry.
Moran knew there was a need for a local resource after volunteering at pantries in Apex and Fuquay-Varina, where Holly Springs residents were going for help.
In 2010, the Western Wake Crisis Ministry in Apex served 300 families, she said. More than 90 were from Holly Springs, and about a dozen were from the nearby New Hill community.
"When you have trouble buying food, you probably have trouble buying gas to get food from (food pantries) in Apex or Fuquay," she said.
Now Holly Springs families don't have so far to travel for help, and the cupboard is providing a perk that many food pantries don't.
The Holly Springs Food Cupboard has a garden that produced 1,800 pounds of fresh vegetables last year.
The garden was built and stocked by volunteers like Jerry DeWitt.
DeWitt, a former agriculture professor, and members of the Holly Springs Garden Club built an organic garden on one-tenth of an acre behind the food cupboard building.
It has produced tomatoes, turnips, cabbage, squash, green beans, beats, Yukon Gold potatoes, zucchini, lettuce, chard and kale.
DeWitt is also using different gardening techniques to help customers grow vegetables at home. He's growing radishes, garlic and more in a small wooden pallet. It's called "square-foot gardening."
"It can be good for one or two people ... because it maximizes space," he said.
Doing a lot with a little is the theme of the food cupboard.
Canned goods are stacked to the ceiling in some rooms, even though a group of seniors built an additional room not long ago.
Volunteers don't have a lot of supplies, so some local Boy Scouts built a compost bin and fixed the roof of the shed out back. Church groups have helped, too.
"To me, this is a great training ground for the youth," DeWitt said. "It's a great opportunity to provide education and service so maybe they'll realize, 'Hey, it's not all about me.' "
A constant need for donations
The cupboard receives a lot of donations of canned goods, but it always needs more.
Gardeners could use a shovel or two, and Moran said the cupboard could use more snacks for kids.
Granola bars, crackers, peanut butter and fruit cups are ideal. The cupboard takes some goodies to local elementary schools for snack time and sends some home with customers.
"A lot of kids come home hungry while their parents are at work," Moran said. "They need something to eat that's easy to open."
The food cupboard sits near the center of town on Holly Springs Road, off the beaten path for most Holly Springs residents. It's out of sight and can be out of mind for some people who live on the outskirts of town.
But the need is there, says volunteer Joe Hadala. And so is the opportunity to serve.
"There's a lot of poverty and a lot of hunger here," he said. "But things can be done to circumvent that."


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Turning a New Page: An Interview with Allan Fisher
Tabletalk: How did God call you to the vocation of book editing and publishing? Allan Fisher: God called me to Christian publishing in a variety of ways, only a few of which I will mention here. Through an excellent fourth-grade …Read More
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Looking for things for which to thank the Lord this Thanksgiving? Start by asking this question: Where would my church be without Christian publishing companies? Imagine your pastor preparing his sermons week in and week out with only a …Read More
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Allan Fisher served as Crossway's book publisher for the last eight years and as senior vice president and publisher for books before retiring this year. He spent nearly forty years in publishing, beginning at Baker Publisher Group and serving there as director of publications. He held the same position at Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing for five years. He continues to work part-time at Crossway on special projects and in an advisory capacity. He is a member of Bethel Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Wheaton, Ill.


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PEPPERELL -- The World Championship of amateur ham radio is coming to Massachusetts next year, and local ham-radio operators were helping prepare for it by testing sites around the region this past weekend.
"This is big international stuff, and Massachusetts is the one that's hosting it," said local ham radio operator Bob Reif. He helped set up a radio tower in Heald Street Orchard Friday morning to test the site for the competition. "It's the Olympics of amateur radio."
The World Radiosport Team Championship, a competition held every four years, will be based at sites across Massachusetts in July 2014. The competition will feature 59 two-person teams from across the world, each stationed at a different site in the area.
Competitors will be chosen based on their scores in other major competitions, and will represent all regions of the world.
Teams will be scored based on factors such as how many sites they can communicate with in a 24-hour period and how many countries and regions of the world they make contact in. The winners will be presented with medals in a ceremony after the competition.
The efforts of the Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club this past weekend served two functions: to participate in the weekend's International Amateur Radio Union High Frequency Championship competition; and to test the functionality of the sites for next year's world championships.
Local operators were testing 30 sites across the region, from Plymouth to Hollis, N.
"The sponsors are very concerned that nobody gets an unfair advantage. Not all radio locations are equal," said Bruce Blain, who was at the Heald Street Orchard site last Friday afternoon.
Blain said the competition last weekend provided an opportunity to communicate with other operators around the world and test which sites around the area are good or bad for radio communications.
If any sites are substantially better or worse than average for communicating, they will be removed from the competition in order to ensure all competitors have an equal playing field next year.
Local amateur-radio operator James Youngberg said the WRTC organizers asked the local radio clubs, including the Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club, to help test the sites.
"It's a lot of engineering and an immense amount of logistics in planning," Youngberg said.
Reif said all the local operators participating in the testing are volunteering their time to help make the competition a success.
"We want amateur radio in New England to shine. We all have a desire to help it succeed," Reif said.
Youngberg said the global competition not only shines a light on New England's amateur radio community, but provides an opportunity to network with amateur radio operators worldwide.
"A lot of what ham radio is about is making friends around the world. Here's a chance to see them eye to eye," Youngberg said.
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This pack of 6 audio CDs by Canadian speakers, recorded live at CMI events, covers a wide range of topics. Perfect for the drive to work.
Can the theory of evolution really stand the test of modern science?
Recorded at Melbourne (Australia) in March 2010 at the Countering the Rise of Atheism Conference which was hosted by Creation Ministries International.
Is there a connection between Creation and the Gospel and why does it matter?
How consistent is your Christian worldview?


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After playing Skyrim for several dozen feverish hours in the course of the review process, I figured it must be the mark of a truly special game that I immediately wanted to sink in several dozen more hours as soon as I had the time. It's just that good.
But the release-day discovery of the low-quality texture bug on the Xbox 360--the first version we got in for review, and the one I spent the bulk of my time with--gave me a good reason to hold off. One of these games only comes along every few years; might as well ensure it looks as good as it can while I see everything (else) it has to offer for the first time. I wasn't about to abandon my level-30 character to restart on another platform, so I grudgingly decided to wait for the issue to be corrected, which may still be as much as two weeks away from happening.
In a strange twist of fate, it seems like I might not have to wait after all, now that users over on Reddit have posted a set of easy steps to extract your save file from the 360 version of Skyrim and bring it directly into the PC version. I verified that the process only took about five minutes before I was up and running with my old Imperial mace-and-shield fighter from my original playthrough, except this time with a mouse and keyboard instead of a controller.
While the need to change platforms is probably rare, the PC version looks and runs dramatically better than its console counterparts, and of course features the much-ballyooed support for mods that's already yielded a Skyrim Street View feature, among other novelties. Due to those distinct advantages, some players might find themselves ready to try the PC version in a few weeks or months, maybe after the inevitable Steam sale.
The Xbox 360 is such a closed platform that the very idea this even works is sort of magical to me. Granted, the necessary tools can certainly be put to a more questionable purpose than this one, but like hardware mod chips before them, this seems like the rare situation where console modification lets you do something that's unique and ethically sound at the same time.
If you've heard about a way to do something similar with the PS3 version as well, I'm sure some readers would appreciate it if you posted your info in the comments.


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Well, the day started off with a bang (bomb?) that will be hard to top, but let's try. Chat about tonight's games down below.
7:00 p.m.
The ESPN family of networks will have LSU at Ole Miss (ESPN), Vanderbilt at Tennessee (ESPNU) and Western Kentucky at North Texas (ESPN3).
At 7:30 p.m., ESPN2 will show Virginia at Florida State and Colorado at UCLA will be on Versus.
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Either USC at Oregon or Oklahoma at Baylor will be on ABC, depending on your location. Kansas State at Texas will be on FX.
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ESPN has California at Stanford and ESPNU will broadcast New Mexico State at Brigham Young. ESPN3 will also have Fresno State at Hawaii at 11:00 p.m.


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Peter Carstensen, the George H. Young-Bascom Professor at the UW Law School, was interviewed for an article in the June 26, 2010 issue of The Economist. In the article, titled Slaughterhouse Rules: A Fight Looms over Regulations for America's Meatpackers, Prof. Carstensen says that proposed regulations would lead to greater transparency in agricultural markets.
The full article is available here.
For coverage of the Dairy Workshop, held jointly by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Agriculture, with assistance from the UW Law School, click here.
Submitted by UW Law School News on October 28, 2016
This article appears in the categories: In the Media
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People who live in Oklahoma County within the Metropolitan Library System service area are also eligible to receive a Reciprocal Library Card, which can be applied for at any of our hometown libraries.