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Loups=Garous – As Random as the Equal Sign in the Title
For our next entry in this Let's Watch a Movie series, I'll share my thoughts on Loups=Garous… along with Ace Railgun! Ace runs a great blog that has a good variety in its posts–not to mention a ton of impressive artwork for his site's characters! Be sure to check it all out, but first–let's take a look at what Loups=Garous has in store for us.
Cute Girls Doing Cute Things… In a Dystopia?
Ace Railgun: Controlled by the government and monitored all times of the day in every location. It's a pretty standard story idea except that the system in Loups Garous is logically flawed and the seriousness of the situation is taken away by the fact that a bunch of school girls can walk to a park which isn't monitored and get up to all kinds of nonsense. That and murder can happen without the cameras seeing. Murder happens a few times in Loups Garous and every time it seems kind of strange. The first murder gets justified as defense but when a main character died it's because she "stole original ideas and created unoriginal art." She says she didn't do this but the crazy masked man has no word of this and murders a complete stranger. I'll admit I lost interest in the middle so this might have been more justified but I missed that if it even happened.
Cholisose: I read the synopsis for this film and got pretty excited. It seemed like a story trying to blend dystopian fiction with some degree of slice-of-life and mystery. I was intrigued! But unfortunately… the film failed to blend the different genres very well for me. This film is kind of a mess, to put it plainly.
Looking at Wikipedia now, the plot for the original novel actually sounds really interesting–but it sounds rather different from what this film gave us. XP I guess I just never got a good feel for how this dystopia operated? And in regards to the slice-of-life… Well, I never quite grasped what these girls normally did, and why the things they did were not allowed (if they weren't–I'm not even sure what they were or weren't really allowed to do). Perhaps this should have been adapted into a 12-episode series, or something.
A Flawed Cast
Cholisose: The characters held a lot of promise, I felt. Our protagonist, Makino, was actually a little unique for making her extreme shyness into an actual communications disorder. Too bad the film didn't delve into that more! I would have liked to see her grow as a character in some way over the course of the story, but all in all she never really did anything. At the very least, I think the film could have used her better as a viewpoint character to really paint the world of the film into a more foreboding, frightening place.
Tsuzuki was probably my favorite character of the four, since she actually had some energy about her. To put it simply, she was a lot of fun! Perhaps a little too by-the-numbers for the genki girl archetype, but I thought it meshed well with the whole computer hacker sidekick trope. If the film had gotten into her backstory even the tiniest bit, I think she could have been a rather interesting character. (Again, I'm thinking this story needed much more time to work with…)
Perhaps the most important character of the main cast though is Kono, the eponymous loups garous… whatever that is. Is she a monster literally in some sense (ie genetically engineered or something?) or is this all just metaphorical? At any rate, she was nice and mysterious. Perhaps the most interesting tidbit I can throw out about her is how her character was handled in the English dub. Apparently the characters all refer to her as a boy (eg "Mr. Kono"), and she is indeed voiced by a man. I can hardly begin to guess why this was done. XD Granted, she has a rather masculine face, but Kono's clearly a girl (and even wears a schoolgirl's outfit in a flashback scene). Perhaps the English dub version does this to hint at Kono being a genetically engineered being of some kind? (ie as a "loups garous", Kono is of neither traditional gender?) Or just wanted to throw in something to make the film even more random than it already was?
Oh, and there was another character, right? …Myao. The Chinese kung fu fighter! I liked her name.
Ace Railgun: Not a single one of those characters had a backstory, not a single one of them. Okay I lied there was a rape scene for one of them as a child so I think that counts. Although the girls all lacked back story they were still interesting enough for me to keep watching until the end. Not a good cast but it could have been so much worse.
Random Plot is Random
Ace Railgun: There was this constant back story which involved the school bringing the girls together to create some j-pop group but I'm not sure what this was suppose to achieve. Occasionally the murder plot is dropped for some awkwardly animation of the j-pop group they aspired to be like and the shy girl dancing like them. This only got worse as it was completely forgotten in the second half of the movie only to be brought back in the final scenes as the girls trash a government facility with j-pop playing in the background.
There was one thing I really liked about ending. You know that scene in every movie where the main characters confronts the big bad guy in his office in the skyscraper and then they have a long conversation before he runs off after being found out for his evil ways and unleashes some evil on the world which results in a huge fight and his arrest. That doesn't happen… well it kind of does the conversation occurs and then girls get into trouble. At that moment the girl secretly running the whole plot is like "Fuck this shit." and walks up to the villain and casually stabs him in the neck and rolls her eyes. This was boss and totally redeemed the movie for me.
Cholisose: There were a lot of things hand-waved in this film, and a lot of plot points that seemed rather silly for a murder mystery thriller. Just a few too many "…… Really?" moments to take the film as seriously as it would have liked.
I will admit though that while the Big Bad of the film was completely random and uninteresting, I have to agree with Ace that it was awesome (and hilarious?) how Kono just goes "Sorry, I'm killing you now" in the middle of his Final Intimidation Speech.
Final Thoughts
Cholisose: This film is all over the place, and not in a creative or artistic way. It's definitely a plot-driven story, but it doesn't actually work for me because the story is just so incoherent. And with the characters as undeveloped as they are, it's difficult to care about any of them very much. It doesn't help that three of the four main characters are rather bland personality-wise, on top of this. There's lots of great ideas in this film, but it just does not weave any of them together very effectively. Great art and animation though, particularly for the style used in the character designs. In the end I won't call Loups=Garous a terrible film, but I'll have to rate it as mediocre at best (and rather disappointing at worst).
Ace Railgun: Cholisose sums it up nicely, decent story with too many unexplored ideas and poor execution.


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9 Tips for Practicing with Your Child
By Goran Berg
Parents of young children learning music are advised to be involved in their daily practice sessions. These tips are provided by Suzuki string instructor Goran Berg specifically for the Suzuki method but may be applied to musical study in general.
- Be responsible for getting practice started. Sometimes children are very willing to take out the instrument and practice, but most kids will need a gentle reminder.
- Set a regular practice schedule and make an agreement about it with your child. Stay consistent and practice daily.
- With very young children, short practice sessions, even down to 5 minutes each, 2 to 3 times a day, are more effective than one long session. Set one goal for each session.
- Rule of the thumb: Stop before tears. Your goal is to end the practice with a smile on your child's face!
- Stay with your child and practice with him/her. Remember that practice is lonely and children like company. Accustom him/her to the fact that you are the home teacher, and that you will be providing help and supervision.
- Don't always start at the beginning. Locate exactly where a difficulty is in the music and try to limit the practice to those few notes or so. Repeat until you have corrected it for five times in a row. Then go back to the beginning of that phrase or piece and do the whole part in context correctly for five times.
- Always use the marked fingerings and bowings. Learning is much more efficient if these are consistent with the others in the group and in the program. Later, students might learn variations on those rules.
- Become accustomed to repetition and to continued use of the same repertoire over long periods. Remember the old Chinese saying: "If you want to see something new, walk the same path everyday."
- Be positive. Make suggestions that don't affect your child's self-esteem. For example, avoid negations, like "don't" and "no, never, wrong" and such. Express what TO do rather than what NOT to do!
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Goran Berg is a respected teacher of the Suzuki method for strings, the owner of Sycamore Strings Academy and is on faculty at the Crowden Music Center.
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A person in my company has returned from vacation and to his surprise, some of his messages, dating from the period he was away, lost their unread mark.
Would there be another reason (technical) for this situation or did someone inside our company (maybe outside too) is hacking his mailbox?
It sounds to me like someone did read some of this person's email messages. Most likely, they were using the person ID when they did this. I do not know how this would happen to random messages by accident (although anything is possible with software).
For more information, see Tech Note #169936 in the Notes Knowledge Base. Go to http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/support, enter 169936 into the search box and read this technote. It tells you more than you want to know about unread marks.
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Category Archives: Data Migration
Oracle Data Migration Best Practices: Join Us And Learn
Are you interested in Oracle Data Migration Best Practices? Are you upgrading, consolidating or migrating to or from an Oracle application? Moving to the cloud or a hosted service? Research and experience confirms that the tasks associated with migrating application data during these initiatives have the biggest impact on whether the project is considered a failure or success. So how do your peers ensure data migration success?
Informatica will be offering a full day Oracle Migrations Best Practices workshop at Oracle Application User Group's annual conference, Collaborate 14, this year on April 7th in Las Vegas, NV. During this workshop, peers and experts will share best practices for how to avoid the pitfalls and ensure successful projects, lowering migration cost and risk. Our full packed agenda includes:
- Free use and trials of data migration tools and software
- Full training sessions on how to integrate cloud-based applications
- How to provision test data using different data masking techniques
- How to ensure consistent application performance during and after a migration
- A review of Oracle Migration Best Practices and case studies
Case Study: EMC
One of the key case studies that will be highlighted is EMC's Oracle migration journey. EMC Corporation migrated to Oracle E-Business Suite, acquired more than 40 companies in 4 years, consolidated and retired environments, and is now on its path to migrating to SAP. Not only did they migrate applications, but they also migrated their entire technology platform from physical to virtual on their journey to the cloud. They needed to control the impact of data growth along the way, manage the size of their test environments while reducing the risk of exposing sensitive data to unauthorized users during development cycles. With best practices, and the help from Informatica, they estimate that they have saved approximately $45M in IT cost savings throughout their migrations. Now that they are deploying a new analytics platform based on Hadoop. They are leveraging existing skill sets and Informatica tools to ensure data is loaded into Hadoop without missing a beat.
Case Study: Verizon
Verizon is the second case study we will be discussing. They recently migrated to Salesforce.com and needed to ensure that more than 100 data objects were integrated with on-premises, back end applications. In addition, they needed to ensure that data was synchronized and kept secure in non-production environments in the cloud. They were able to leverage a cloud-based integration solution from Informatica to simplify their complex IT application architecture and maintain data availability and security – all while migrating a major business application to the cloud.
Case Study: OEM Heavy Equipment Manufacturer
The third case study we will review involves a well-known heavy equipment manufacturer who was facing a couple of challenges – the first was a need to separate data in in an Oracle E-Business Suite application as a result of a divestiture. Secondly, they also needed to control the impact of data growth on their production application environments that were going through various upgrades. Using an innovative approach based on Smart Partitioning, this enterprise estimates it will save $23M over a 5 year period while achieving 40% performance improvements across the board.
To learn more about what Informatica will be sharing at Collaborate 14, watch this video. If you are planning to attend Collaborate 14 this year and you are interested in joining us, you can register for the Oracle Migrations Best Practices Workshop here.
Was Your Last Data Migration Project On Time and On Budget?
Data migration projects are notorious for going over budget and over time. These large projects typically cost around $875,000 and an average of 30% of that is due to project overruns. In today's fast-paced, big data era, organizations cannot afford these missteps. Unfortunately, many companies treat major data projects as one-off events. This approach leads to product launch delays, produces no re-usable assets or best practices, and presents an outsized risk to business objectives.
I look forward to sharing how the successful organizations we work with have combated these issues using Master Data Management (MDM) as a platform for systems consolidation, migration, and upgrade projects. MDM accomplishes the following:
- Creates authoritative, trustworthy data
- Simplifies migration architecture using a hub-and-spoke model
- Maintains data consistency across new and old systems post-migration
- Enables reuse of data, mappings, and rules for the next migration project
In summary, MDM allows organizations to minimize risk and increase the speed of data migration.
To address this topic, I will be hosting a webinar titled "MDM as Platform for Systems Consolidation, Migration and Upgrade" on March 19th at 2:00 PM Eastern. In this webinar, you will learn about:
- Challenges faced in systems consolidation, migration and upgrades
- Solutions MDM brings to address these challenges in pre-migration, during-migration, and post-migration phases
- Examples of companies using MDM to manage data migration as a repeatable process
- Tips for expanding the use of MDM beyond data migration for operational and analytical purposes
Join me to learn how MDM works in practice and to gain understanding of how it can help make your next systems consolidation, migration, or upgrade the most efficient and effective yet. Sign up today for the webinar on Wednesday, March 19, 2014.
Streamlining and Securing Application Test and Development Processes
Informatica recently hosted a webinar with Cognizant who shared how they streamline test data management processes internally with Informatica Test Data Management and pass on the benefits to their customers. Proclaimed as the world's largest Quality Engineering and Assurance (QE&A) service provider, they have over 400 customers and thousands of testers and are considered a thought leader in the testing practice.
We polled over 100 attendees on what their top challenges were with test data management considering the data and system complexities and the need to protect their client's sensitive data. Here are the results from that poll:
It was not surprising to see that generating test data sets and securing sensitive data in non-production environments were tied as the top two biggest challenges. Data integrity/synchronization was a very close 3rd .
Cognizant with Informatica has been evolving its test data management offering to truly focus on not only securing sensitive data – but also improving testing efficiencies with identifying, provisioning and resetting test data – tasks that consume as much as 40% of testing cycle times. As part of the next generation test data management platform, key components of that solution include:
Sensitive Data Discovery – an integrated and automated process that searches data sets looking for exposed sensitive data. Many times, sensitive data resides in test copies unbeknownst to auditors. Once data has been located, data can be masked in non-production copies.
Persistent Data Masking – masks sensitive data in-flight while cloning data from production or in-place on a gold copy. Data formats are preserved while original values are completely protected.
Data Privacy Compliance Validation – auditors want to know that data has in fact been protected, the ability to validate and report on data privacy compliance becomes critical.
Test Data Management – in addition to creating test data subsets, clients require the ability to synthetically generate test data sets to eliminate defects by having data sets aligned to optimize each test case. Also, in many cases, multiple testers work on the same environment and may clobber each other's test data sets. Having the ability to reset test data becomes a key requirement to improve efficiencies.
Figure 2 Next Generation Test Data Management
When asked what tools or services that have been deployed, 78% said in-house developed scripts/utilities. This is an incredibly time-consuming approach and one that has limited repeatability. Data masking was deployed in almost half of the respondents.
Informatica with Cognizant are leading the way to establishing a new standard for Test Data Management by incorporating both test data generation, data masking, and the ability to refresh or reset test data sets. For more information, check out Cognizant's offering based on Informatica: TDMaxim and White Paper: Transforming Test Data Management for Increased Business Value.
Reducing Business Risk with Data Integration
A study by Bloor Research put the failure rate for data migration projects at 38%. When you consider that a failed data migration project can temporarily hold up vital business processes, this becomes even more bad news. This affects customer service, internal business processes, productivity, etc., leading to an IT infrastructure that is just not meeting the expectations of the business.
If you own one of these dysfunctional IT infrastructures, you're not alone. Most enterprises struggle with the ability to manage the use of data within the business. Data integration becomes an ad hoc concept that is solved when needed using whatever works at the time. Moreover, the ability to manage migration and data quality becomes a lost art, and many users distrust the information coming from business systems they should rely upon.
The solution to this problem is complex. There needs to be a systemic approach to data integration that is led by key stakeholders. Several business objectives should be set prior to creating a strategy, approach, and purchasing key technologies. This includes:
- Define the cost of risk in having substandard data quality.
- Define the cost of risk in not having data available to systems and humans in the business.
- Define the cost of lost strategic opportunities, such as moving into a new product line or acquiring a company.
The idea is that, by leveraging data integration approaches and technology, we'll reduce much of the risk, which actually has a cost.
The risk of data quality is obvious to those inside and out of IT, but the damage that could occur when not having a good data integration and data quality strategy and supporting technology is perhaps much farther reaching that many think. The trick is to solve both problems at the same time, leveraging data integration technology that can deal with data quality issues as well.
Not having data available to both end users who need to see it to operate the business, as well as to machines that need to respond to changing data, adds to the risk and thus the cost. In many enterprises, there is a culture of what I call "data starvation." This means it's just accepted that you can't track orders with accurate data, you can't pull up current customer sales information, and this is just the way things are. This is really an easy fix these days, and one dollar invested in creating a strategy or purchasing and implementing technology will come back to the business twenty fold, at least.
Finally, define the cost of lost strategic opportunities. This is a risk that many companies pay for, but it's complex and difficult to define. This means that the inability to get the systems communicating and sharing data around a merger, for example, means that the enterprises can't easily take advantage of market opportunities.
I don't know how many times I've heard of enterprises failing at their attempts to merge two businesses because IT could not figure out how to the make the systems work and play well together. As with the other two risks, a manageable investment of time and money will remove this risk and thus the cost of the risk.
Get Your Data Butt Off The Couch and Move It
Data is everywhere. It's in databases and applications spread across your enterprise. It's in the hands of your customers and partners. It's in cloud applications and cloud servers. It's on spreadsheets and documents on your employee's laptops and tablets. It's in smartphones, sensors and GPS devices. It's in the blogosphere, the twittersphere and your friends' Facebook timelines. (more…)
Enterprise Application Projects Are Much Riskier Than You Think
IT application managers are constantly going through a process of integrating, modernizing and consolidating enterprise applications to keep them efficient and providing the maximum business value to the corporation for their cost.
But, it is important to remember that there is significant risk in these projects. An article in the Harvard Business Review states that 17% of enterprise application projects go seriously wrong; going over budget by 200% and over schedule by 70%. The HRB article refers to these projects as "black swans."
How can you reduce this risk of project failure? Typically, 30% to 40% of an enterprise application project is data migration. A recent study by Bloor Research shows that while success rates for data migration projects are improving, 38% of them still miss their schedule and budget targets.
How can you improve the odds of success in data migration projects?
- Use data profiling tools to understand your data before you move it.
- Use data quality tools to correct data quality problems. There is absolutely no point in moving bad data around the organization – but it happens.
- Use a proven external methodology. In plain English, work with people who have "done it before"
- Develop your own internal competence. Nobody knows your data, and more importantly, the business context of your data than your own staff. Develop the skills and engage your business subject matter experts.
Informatica has industry-leading tools, a proven methodology, and a service delivery team with hundreds of successful data migration implementations.
To find out more about successful data migration:
- Informatica World: Visit us at the Hands On Lab – Data Migration.
- Informatica World: Informatica Presentation on Application Data Migration.
Application Data Migrations with Informatica Velocity Migration Methodology
Friday June 5, 2013 9:00 to 10:00
- Informatica World: Data Migration Factory Presentation by Accenture
Accelerating the Power of Data Migration
Tuesday June 4, 2013 2:00 to 3:00
- Bloor White Paper: Lower Your Risk with Application Data Migration: Next Steps With Informatica
- Informatica White Paper: De-Risk Your Application Go Lives
Informatica World Healthcare Path
Join us this year at Informatica World!
We have a great line up of speakers and events to help you become a data driven healthcare organization… I've provided a few highlights below:
Participate in the Informatica World Keynote sessions with Sohaib Abbasi and Rick Smolan who wrote "The Human Face of Big Data" — learn more via this quick YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K5d9ArRLJE&feature=player_embedded
With more than 100 interactive and in-depth breakout sessions, spanning 6 different tracks, (Platform & Products, Architecture, Best Practices, Big Data, Hybrid IT and Tech Talk), Informatica World is an excellent way to ensure you are getting the most from your Informatica investment. Learn best practices from organizations who are realizing the potential of their data like: Ochsner Health, Sutter Health, UMass Memorial, Qualcomm and Paypal.
Finally, we want you to balance work with a little play… we invite you to network with industry peers at our Healthcare Cocktail Reception on the evening of Wednesday, June 5th and again during our Data Driven Healthcare Breakfast Roundtable on Thursday, June 6th.
See you there!
Great Interview with Ochsner Health System
HISTalk published a recent interview with Ochsner Health System CIO, Chris Belmont. Chris and his team are great Informatica clients and I really like how he conveyed the benefits of making Informatica the data backbone of their Epic implementation. I can't say it any better than Chris already has so I've extracted a few take-always below and you can read the entire interview here
On the importance of migrating legacy data into the new EMR: "Informatica was critical in getting us there. We learned on the first site. We thought it was a good idea to go in there with an empty slate and say, let's just build it all from scratch and start with a clean slate. Let's make sure the record's in good shape. We quickly realized that was a bad idea. Not just in the clinical areas, but in the registration area."
On the value of Application Retirement: "That's going to be a big win for us. In fact, we're targeting about $13 million in operational benefit when we turn off those legacy platforms. Informatica is going to allow us to get there."
On not ever being 100% Epic: "We're watching it, but frankly it will be a while – and I would argue never – that we'll be 100 percent Epic. A lot of the data that we have that Informatica allows us to get our hands on and load into our warehouse is non-Epic data."
On the nuggets Informatica is helping them to uncover: "We're correlating a lot of data, not just from Epic, but I think right now we have like 25 different systems that we're running through Informatica and into our warehouse. The gold nuggets that are coming out of that data are just tremendous."
On challenges and opportunities: "It's going to be, how do we do more with the data we have…having that data in a format that's easily, quickly, and very accessible is going to be key. Gone are the days where you can throw an army of analysts in a room and say, "Give me this report" and you wait three weeks and they give you something that's less than optimal. I think the days of, "Tell me what I need to know before I even know that I need to know it" — I think those are the days that we're looking forward to. With the tools we have with partners like Informatica with their tools, I think we can achieve it."
Meet Chris and his team in Informatica Booth 5005 during HIMSS 2013.
HIMSS 2013 — right time, right place, it's on!
Learn How Ochsner Health System is Unlocking the Potential of Data in Booth 5005
Nothing tells a more compelling story than a happy customer. This is why we are excited to have Ochsner Health System join us during HIMSS. Jonathan Stevenson, Director of Analytics and Data Management, will be in Informatica booth 5005 sharing the Ochsner Health System accountable care plans, the analytics vision, success to date and lessons learned.
Ochsner Health System is Southeast Louisiana's largest healthcare delivery network with eight hospitals, thirty eight health centers, over twelve-thousand employees and hundreds of applications. This data resides in disparate clinical and operational data silos. This is a challenge for an organization that has been chosen to be one of the early shared savings program participants. The requirements for success include knowing what's happening with patients outside of the four doors of Ochsner, forming community best practices and knowing where patients are seeking care. (more…)


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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Bill O'Brien took the podium, looked straight ahead and uttered the kind of words you would expect from someone who had just been introduced as Penn State's new head football coach.
Those who want to help with the upcoming Sunflower Diversified Services Charity Gala have a list of items to choose from. The event is set for 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 3 at the Highland Hotel, 3017 10th, Great Bend.
Great Bend Police
The Golden Belt Community Concert Association will present Carpe Diem String Quartet in its fourth concert of the 2011-12 season. The concert is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, at the Great Bend Municipal Auditorium, Lakin and Stone.
Chuck Pike will present information on the Great Bend Recreation Commission Foundation and the GBRC Noon/AM basketball program when the recreation commission board meets at 4 p.m. Monday at the Carl Soden Recreation Center, 1214 Stone St.
The Great Bend Public Library will offer free introductory computer classes to the public this month. Hour-long sessions are available at 3 and 7 p.m. for each class, GBPL Marketing Director Jennifer King said.
When you're young and single or married with children, looking for to retirement or elderly, estate planning something to consider. Estate planning is, by definition, a process designed to help you manage and preserve your assets while you are alive, and to conserve and control their distribution after your death according to your goals and objectives, says Shirley Flick, a Certified Financial Planner professional.
In today's volatile market, many people are confused about how to best manage their savings portfolio. Conventional wisdom says that what goes up, must come down. But even if you view market volatility as a normal occurrence, it can be tough to handle when it's your money at stake.
Of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World," the only one still in existence is the Great Pyramid of Giza. This tells you something about the strength of the pyramid structure, but it also suggests that the pyramid may be a good metaphor for other endeavors you wish to endure - such as your investment strategy.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - The record seemed hollow for Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein without a victory.
ELLINWOOD – Kansas State Treasurer Ron Estes will address the community ambassador class of High School seniors at the Ellinwood High School and fifth and sixth graders at the Ellinwood Elementary School Tuesday. The treasurer will address the community ambassador class on the importance of credit card responsibility and the grade school students on the topics of saving and budgeting.
ULYSSES - Ernest Orr Everett, 93, of Ulysses died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital in Ulysses.
LINN VALLEY - Robert Delmar "RD" Green, Jr., 83, passed away Jan. 6, 2012 at his home in Linn Valley.
Delete - Merge UpNEW YORK (AP) - Calvin Johnson took one look at the voting and smiled broadly.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Friday avoided jail time until June 1 in a Las Vegas domestic violence case involving an attack on his ex-girlfriend while two of their children watched in September 2010.
DETROIT - Brad Ausmus is hoping he'll have a chance to use every position player on his roster before too long - no sense letting backups become rusty at the beginning of the season.
TOPEKA - The State Library of Kansas announces the First Annual Talking Books Traveling Art Show, "Through Different Eyes: Achieving a New Perspective," featuring artwork created by Kansans with visual and/or physical impairments. The exhibition will be at the Great Bend Public Library, 1409 Williams St., from Saturday, April 5, through April 20, with free admission.
Margaret L. Prosser, 92, died April 3 at Cherry Village Nursing Home in Great Bend. Born Oct. 29, 1921, in Pryor, Colo., she was the daughter of Matthew and Mary (Fabiney) Vigna. On Nov. 22, 1945, she married Joseph D. Prosser in Beaver. He died on Sept. 12, 1982. A Great Bend resident since 1945, coming from Pryor, Colo., she was a homemaker.
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The Great Bend Area Support Group of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Kansas will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Thelma Harms Room at St. Rose Ambulatory and Surgical Center.
Each nine weeks Hoisington Middle School faculty and staff choose students who have shown leadership throughout the school. This can include being respectful to adults and students, improving in grades, being helpful in and out of the classroom and just showing leadership qualities. To promote these qualities, students participated in a Leadership Luncheon on March 24th. Those students nominated for Leadership Luncheon 3rd weeks were: Addie Smith, Sean Zaczek-Schridde, Rheanna Spires, Paige Schoonmaker, Camdon Nickelson, Holt Hanzlick, Devon Kinslow, Jake Curtis, Isaac Prosser, Nate Larkin, Katherine Warnken, Rudy Gearhart, Bryce Shelor, Alyssa Davis, Avery Brewer, Daphne Copp, Dylan Richards, AJ ...
"Pope Francis, I have never been to Catholic confession before, but I have a few things I have to get off my chest."
If there's one thing Republicans hate even more than health insurance for a growing number of Americans, it's empirical evidence that Obamacare is insuring a growing number of Americans.
On Tuesday, Kansas formally joined an Oklahoma-led lawsuit challenging the process by which a federal agency decided to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said. Governor Sam Brownback had announced last Friday that Kansas would be joining the suit.
TOPEKA – The Charles Hulme Foundation of Great Bend has given $100,000 to The Nature Conservancy in Kansas, for the Our Kansas Prairie Legacy: The Next Steps capital campaign. The donation is a lead gift in the campaign and will be used to protect and improve wetland habitats across Kansas, including at Cheyenne Bottoms Preserve.


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books about: economist
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler
Cass R. Sunstein
Penguin Books
, 2009
For fans of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow , a revelatory new look at how we make decisions A New York Times bestseller An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Nudge is about choices—how we make them and how we can make better ones. Drawing on decades of research in the fields of behavioral science and economics, authors Richard ...
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
Basic Books, 2014
Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right expert" solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first place. Further, they produce an accidental collusion with benevolent autocrats," leaving dictators with yet more power to violate the rights of the ...
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Erik Brynjolfsson
Andrew McAfee
W. W. Norton & Company
, 2014
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When President Bush awakes each day in the pre-dawn darkness, even before bringing his wife a cup of coffee he reads a daily devotional written by a First World War Scottish preacher.
As war in Iraq looms, the attention of observers is turning to the evangelical writings of Oswald Chambers, who brought the Gospel to Australian and New Zealand troops in 1917 and who now fills Mr Bush with the conviction that an Iraqi war would simply be a battle between good and evil.
Mr Bush, who rediscovered God 17 years ago when he gave up heavy drinking to help his marriage, is a President whose faith in the power of God permeates the White House and underscores all his policies. This includes his approach to the War on Terror and to Iraq. In Saddam, the President has said, America is simply encountering evil.
The devotional lectures of Chambers, who died of a ruptured appendix in 1917, make up My Utmost For His Highest, the bestselling daily devotional in the world.
The work has sold two million copies in the United States since 1991, and after Newsweek magazine reported the importance it holds for President Bush it looks likely to sell even more. Chamberss message, much of which was written in wartime, is a simply written direction to devote oneself to the Almighty. In turn, God will lead us through life with a sense of victory.
There is a fatalistic element in Mr Bushs faith, David Frum, a former White House speechwriter, recently said. You do your best and accept that everything is in Gods hands a disclosure that unnerves the Presidents detractors, particularly when they ponder how it might affect him as Commander-in-Chief of the biggest military power in history.
Mary Hutchison, the British publishing manager of Chamberss 40-odd works, said: I was told the day after he became President that he read Oswald Chambers. I cant speak for George Bush, but a lot of what Oswald Chambers wrote was in the middle of war, which is an appealing connection to many at the moment.
Chambers expressed his central message thus: Sometimes God brings us to a point of climax. That is the Great Divide in the life; from that point we either go towards a more and more dilatory and useless type of Christian life, or we become more and more ablaze for the glory of God.
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Carlson likes to help people build the garden they want. Not sure what that means? Let's say you're a big fan of bamboo. The high desert of Idaho isn't exactly bamboo territory. All plants have sun, soil, water and upkeep needs — and a southern Idaho garden can't always meet those needs without careful planning. That's what Carlson wants to help with at her nursery.
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Yesterday I completed the 1.5" body lift. Today it got an oil change.
Today I had a pair of 52" braided stainless steel pneumatic lines made for connecting the rear air manifold of the OBA project to the air tanks in the air tank carrier. I also picked up four 1/4" MPT to 1/4" FPT 90 degree fittings and four 1/4" MPT to 1/2" OD tube compression fittings. With a little luck (regarding the weather) this weekend I can finalize the air tank connections within the air tank carrier, install the air carrier under the truck, and connect it to the rear air manifold.
drove through some sand and water to take a shorter way to work. with the storm we had last night some sand drifted accross the main road on post and the mps closed the road. so rather then going the super long way around, i cut thru a little area i know of and saved a few miles.
This morning I crawled under the truck to check the transmission for signs of continued fluid loss, as I suspected she was still dripping but couldn't be sure across the last two days (due to rain). Sadly, she's still leaking ... and it is, in fact, about 3-4 times worse than prior to having the work done.
I contacted the shop that did the work (which is, of course, warranted) and set up a time to bring the truck back. I also checked the trans fluid level just to be sure it was still in good shape.
Bleah. So much for air tank carrier installation, this weekend.
today I ordered a spare set of clear depo headlights (for my proper HID retrofit) and the morimoto H1 projector retrofit HID kit! cant wait to get on this mod when i get it
depo headlights clear ($84.00 on amazon)
morimoto h1 retrofit kit ($300.00 from the retrofitsource.com + $8.50 for shipping insurance)
My truck has been mostly sitting lately, but I got it out for a drive yesterday and really enjoyed the tweaks I made to the performance tune.
I drove it today like I normally do, waiting for GM's high quality rack and pinion to fall off the truck :-)
Today I met with the mechanical engineer and machinist who are designing and fabricating the three brackets for use under my hood in my on board air project. We altered the previously-discussed design of the compressor bracket after reviewing potential fitment problems -- and might have a model as early as next week. We planned out the coalescing filter bracket (arguably the easiest of the three), and also designed and modeled the air manifold bracket.
To get an idea of what kind of work we're doing, part number 35 in this diagram is a M8 thread size flange nut. There are two studs protruding from the firewall that use this nut. For the front air manifold bracket we will remove these nuts and replace them with a set of elongated, threaded 1/2" diameter studs made to spec ... to support a flat aluminum plate to which the air manifold will be bolted.
Here's an overhead shot from the 3D model. The air manifold is shown in gold while the elongated studs and flat aluminum plate that comprise the bracket we're fabricating are shown in gray.
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@Conlan Rose,
You expressed interest in this project, hence the detail level of this post. I'd have uploaded the 3D PDF model as an attachment so that you could download it and then zoom into or even rotate it, but @Steve apparently has PDF's limited to 78.1KB ... and this -tiny- 3D model is 84.0KB, so I can't share it, here. Hence the best I could do was a photo. I tried, though...


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Currently 12-09-2012, according to the success vs unsuccess reports our success rate is 52% out of total reports.
Having a Wi-Fi problem ?
Your Wi-Fi stopped working or seems broken?
If you are about to do a factory reset - try this application first, it might heal your device!
No promises made, no guaranties, but it has been tested on some devices with a malfunctioned WiFi which otherwise required factory reset and fixed the problem.
Here is the current list of devices which success reports were sent on:
HTC Desire / HD / Evo / G1 / Glacier / Hero / Magic / Legend / G2 / One
Motorola Droid / Milestone
Nexus One
Samsung GT-i5510 / GT-i5700 / GT-5800 / GT-i9000 / GTi9000M / GT-P1000 / SPH-M900 / SGH-i896 / SGH-i897 / SGH-T959 / SHW-M110S / SHW-M130 / SPH-D700 / SPH-M900 / SPH-M910 / SPH-M920 / S / S2 / S3
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Just one click - activate it, let it do its magic, wait for a few seconds (up to about one minute) and thats it!
Please note - if your hardware is broken there isn't any software which can fix that. This app solves problems in Android OS which cause the Wi-Fi to stop working properly.
It is recommended installing this app now that your Wi-Fi does work so it will be available if Wi-Fi stopped working and your 3G is expensive.
Fixing wifi is just the first phase - in the near future we plan to add GPS and bluetooth fixing.
Wifi Fixer
Wifi Fixer is a background service that works around several problems with Android wifi, including: Wifi shows connected but internet data not available Known network in range but not detected Best network not used Supplicant frozen Supplicant in (likely by heuristic) failure state
Apps can't prevent disconnections or boost low signals.
Wifi Fixer will detect and attempt recovery when these problems are detected.
You can tune your Wifi Acess Point's settings to minimize disconnections. Please refer to Wifi Fixer's help documents for more information.
Current version: 184.108.40.206
Read Known Issues in app's built-in documentation
For full changelog, click on the project site linked in Developer Info
Don't use market comments for support: Please use email or project site linked in Developer Info.
Wifi Fixer is an Open Source project.
Rooted Users: If you use a utility to revoke permissions, Wifi Fixer will crash. All are necessary and documented at https://wififixer.wordpress.com/wifi-fixer/app-permissions/
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This app needs ROOT (Superuser) access to work.
In many ROMs including CyanogenMod / AOKP / Other Custom ROMs many times you get "Avoided poor Internet Connection" message while trying to connect to your WiFi even when the signal is good. This app will help you connect in such situations.
If it worked for you, RATE FIVE STARS! :)
Email Feedback at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Play store link: http://goo.gl/Q0YzC
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Wifi Analyzer
Shows the Wi-Fi channels around you. Helps you to find a less crowded channel for your wireless router.
Wifi Fixer (Donate)
Be aware that the return window is 15 minutes.
For support, visit http://wififixer.wordpress.com or email the developer using the link below.
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This is Lite version with Ads, Please try 1Tap WiFi Repair Pro to show support for development.(Home Screen Widget + No Ads in Pro version)
NOTE: Basically repairing is achieved by refreshing the WiFi connection. Android system is forced to reset the WiFi which solves most of the common issues with WiFi.
Features/Expected Results:
★ 1Tap to repair all the common issues with WiFi.
★ Home Screen Repair Widget (Pro Feature)
★ Good WiFi signal strength through intelligent signal resetting.
★ Experience good signal.
★ Android system automatically sets the best WiFi available.
★ Resolves IP conflict between two WiFi through refreshing WiFi.
★ Auto Close after Refreshing network.
★ Notify last Refresh time.
The ultimate solution to all your WiFi issues, This App runs innovative code to resolve any IP conflicts between WiFi and resets the best WiFi in the area, Optimizes the WiFi strength in less than a minute.
GCM Wifi Fix
This app should work around this issue. Keep in mind that the app is in a early stage of development. Detection of best interval for your setup needs to improved. It also can be that the app uses a bit more battery than without. On my device it's not the case.
The issue in general depends on your mobile and your router. It can be that a mobile is working while another one isn't working on the same router. Also a mobile can work with a router while it's not working with another router. Confused? yeah, it's complicated.
It works for met at least for my favorite app "mysms", but it should also fix the issue for other apps that use GCM (Gmail, WhatsApp, MightyText, ....).
WiFi Connection Manager
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1. Support AP (Access Points) SSID with special characters, such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Greeks, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese, UNICODE and so on.
8. Display saved network password. (require device to be rooted)
3. Fix device Wi-Fi problems.
4. Instant connect. Once searched, once start connecting. Way faster than the system build-in Wi-Fi scanner.
5. Static IP settings support. Auto switch between different AP.
6. Switch between available networks, solving the network conflict problem.
7. Add/Connect to certain hidden SSID network (depends on device and network conditions).
8. Manual add network, with special support for EAP/LEAP encrypted network.
9. Pause scan, convenient to browse many results.
10. More detail network information, network bandwidth, channel and network type.
11. Auto detect Web Authentication.
12. Backup/Restore saved networks.
13. Add/Share Wi-Fi network with QR code.
14. Arrange network connecting priority.
15. WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) support for Android 4.0 or above devices.
16. Automatical switch between saved networks when signal is not ideal.
About the required permissions:
Camera is for adding Wi-Fi network via QR code.
Phone and Internet is for the AdMob plug-in made by Google.
Storage is for backup and restore saved network.
WiFi Manager
Includes home screen widgets: one displays detailed connection info, another lets you switch among your favorite networks with a single tap, and yet another toggles WiFi Access Point.
Can scan for and switch to the best network out of several configured.
New and improved:
• Better graphics, including a dark color theme;
• Assign your own descriptions and icons to individual WiFi networks - never forget what that "XYZ1234" network is;
• Switch among your favorite networks with a single tap by using the WiFi Network Switcher widget. It will even enable WiFi if needed.
• Automatic switching between fixed and dynamic (DHCP) IP addresses (Android Settings in 2.* can't do this);
Some features require that you purchase the $1.75 premium package, available right in the application through Google Checkout (safe, secure).
These features are: advanced per-network options (description, icon, IP address), the one-tap network widget, and two widget themes inspired by Android 4.0.
All the other - essential - features are free: the widget with detailed connection info (four sizes, two free themes), scanning and connecting to networks, the network list view, the network signal radar.
Orders are processed and saved by Google and can be reactivated after a phone reset / flash, or on a new phone.
About requested permissions:
"Change system settings" is needed to switch between fixed and dynamic IP addresses, if configured so.
"Prevent phone from sleeping" is needed so you can enable automatic scanning and discover open networks around you.
"Market billing service" is needed to make purchases.
Since version 2.5, supports per-network IP address and proxy server settings on Android 3.* / 4.*, included in the free version.
If you have an issue or a question, please contact me at email@example.com (email is also shown in the about box and below).
Also - a visually matching Bluetooth toggle widget. Find it below under "Related" and "Developer Info".
WiFi OnOff
Allows you On/Off your WiFi with only 1 click.
Check our OnOff Widgets Pack! All widgets in one with skin support!
Wifi Repair for Android
Having troubles connecting to your wifi? Give Wifi Repair for Android a try!
1. This app restarts your network connections to kickstart your wifi download speed.
2. Enjoy faster wifi download speeds.
Wifi Static
You can set static IP with the built-in Settings app(Wireless & networks, Wi-Fi
settings, menu key, Advanced), but it maintains only ONE
configuration. This app is an enhancement of that.
osmino Wi-Fi: free WiFi
You get an automatic access to available Wi-Fi. Without having to know any parameters and network settings – osmino Wi-Fi will do it for you.
You can also share the password to a known Wi-Fi network and make it available to other osmino Wi-Fi users, just select "Share" and agree by filling checkbox.
To access the wifi hotspots database whenever and wherever you are without having to connect to the Internet you can download the data to your device and use the augmented reality. Place your phone on the space around you and you will see where, how far away from you is the nearest hotspot, its name, users' reviews of the connection speed and the location comfort rating.
osmino Wi-Fi: Free Wi-Fi is a great way to improve the quality of communication through Viber, Skype, WhatsApp, ICQ and other instant messenger services and VoIP, 3G when the signal is not strong enough, or if you do not want to incur additional costs for mobile 3G Internet. Use social networks Facebook, VKontakte , Twitter and Instagram with osmino Wi-Fi easier and cheaper, this app will allow you to get an opportunity to significantly increase the speed of the Internet connection of your smartphone or tablet. Video calling, voice, streaming video, downloading movies and music, or just surfing the sites - all this will be made much easier if you have installed a mobile application osmino WiFI: Free WIFI.
Information about public hotspots is automatically set on map, according to the data received from users' devices. When you connect to any public network we receive on our server the network location, name and access settings and automatically show it on the map.
So we create the use-proven public Wi-Fi hotspots map based on users' data. The more users subscribe to osmino, the more disposable wifi hotspots there are on the map.
Heading for a new place? Going abroad? Don't want to pay for roaming? Then discover available Wi-Fi hotspots in point of your destination on Wi-Fi map. Enjoy your trip and free and fast internet across the world.
If osmino Wi-Fi doesn't run on you device or there are any bugs, please, contact us email@example.com. We closely examine all of the feedback.
It's not a Wi-Fi hacker app!
There are already nearly 5 000 000 wifi hotspots on osmino map in more than 50 countries.
Wifi Inspector
Wifi Inspector is a simple tool to see all the devices connected to our network (both wired and wifi, whether consoles, TVs, pcs, tablets, phones etc ...), giving relevant data such as IP address, manufacturer, device name and MacAddress.
Wifi Inspector also allows to save a list of known devices with custom name and find intruders in less than 30 seconds. This makes it easier for us and you will not need to go checking the data whenever we make a scan.
All this in a clear and simple design that allows us to see that our personal data are safe in a few seconds.
No doubt, Wifi Ispector ALWAYS find ALL connected devices!! More than 60,000 active installations demonstrate their reliability!!
We continue working to improve Wifi Inspector and we greatly appreciate that you share your opinions whether positive or negative. We have almost no reports of problems in the poor ratings (only one star with no comment) This makes difficult that we can improve the application. Please if you have any problems / suggestions do not hesitate to send it to us, in your comment or with email, and we will try to fix it.
- Spanish
- English
- Italian
For a better experience we recommend Android 4.0 or more
Keywords: wifi, control, intruder, steal, neighbor, data, analyze, network, net, safe, security, hack, protect, velocity, boost, booster, internet, auditor, pass, password, key
WiFi Connect
1. Signal strengh
2. Channel number
3. Security type
4. Link speed
5. Hardware vendor
6. IP number, and etc.
You can see which one is good and bad intuitively, and it is very easy to use.
WiFi Picker also supports notification feature.
Wi-Fi Matic - Auto WiFi On Off
If you are willing to help me translate the app to another language please send me an e-mail!
Wi-Fi Matic is an Android app that activates and deactivates Wi-Fi of your device automatically depending on your location, helping you to save battery and consumption of data through your operator network.
It detects automatically the location of known Wi-Fi networks (f.i: home, office, etc.), turns on Wi-Fi when you arrive a place where there is Wi-Fi, and turns it off when you leave that place.
After some training (*), the app should learn all your commonly used Wi-Fi access points, allow your device to use Wi-Fi in the usual places and keep Wi-Fi off where it is not needed.
- How does it work?
It DOES NOT USE GPS nor Android network location services, as it uses your operator network cell identifiers (cell tower identifiers) as the relative location where you are, and where your Wi-Fi networks are. It is designed to minimize usage of resources and battery.
Wi-Fi Matic detects and learns automatically locations where you are connected to a Wi-Fi, not needing much configuration. It also allows you to manage manually your Wi-Fi when needed not interfering with you or with your device data connections.
- How is it used?
1.- Run the app and click on "Enable Wi-Fi Matic".
2.- If you want to connect to a Wi-Fi for the first time, do it as usual in the Android Wireless networks settings menu. If you want to connect to a Wi-Fi you have already connected to before, just turn on Wi-Fi manually and let Android establish connection.
3.- And that's all: Wi-Fi Matic will learn your Wi-Fi location when you get connected. Whenever you leave that place, Wi-Fi will be automatically turned off and whenever you get back, Wi-Fi will be automatically turned on (*)
(*) Depending on your mobile carrier network configuration and your access point signal strength, Wi-Fi Matic might need some time to precisely learn all needed cell tower identifiers and work accurately. Check Frequently Asked Questions.
Wi-Fi Rabbit
It can also show Wi-Fi access point information, toggling Wi-Fi ON/OFF, and switch access point.
Widget style can be selected from "rabbit" or "cat".
Please check it out "Bluetooth Bear", "Volume Dog", and "3G Monkey".
Wi-Fi Rabbit
Bluetooth Bear
3G Monkey ( for Android2.3 or later )


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Category → Arizona "Show Your Papers" Law
June 25th, 2012
The Supreme Court - In Moment of "Sanity" - Overturns "Show Your Papers" Law -- And "Life Without" For Chidren Who Commit Murder!By Peter Le Force -- In a rare but transient moment of judicial equanimity and integrity -- the Supreme Court voted 5-3 to overturn the most onerous of the Arizona "Show Your Papers" law -- essentially saying that Arizona was intruding into the domain of federal law and government -- and over-reaching into things in which they had no business meddling in. Conservatives Scalia and Alita excoriated everybody from President Obama to Jesus in their hysterically strident and bitter dissenting opinions (Elena Kagan recused herself because she was involved in the debate regarding the law early in its trajectory through the court system in her partisan role as President Obama's Solicitor General on behalf of the Obama administration. . . Likewise, in a ruling on whether is was constitutional for under-age children (younger than 16) to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole (or Life Without - as it is called in common legal talk) -- or a sentence to a life in prison until dead. This time the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to forbid the mandating of a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole for underage children who are convicted of committing murder. The swing vote in this case was Anthony Kennedy, who, to his credit, just could not come down this time on the side of making it mandatory to send children who have been convicted of committing murder to life in prison without parole. Regrettably, however, while Justice Kennedy showed admirable sensitivity and humanity by coming down on the side of reason and compassion in support of some flexibility in the sentencing of children in capital cases, he nevertheless has no compassion or sensitivity to the preservation of democracy in the United States by voting with the four political hack conservative wing-nut fascist justices to rule against the Montana Corrupt Practices Act -- and proclaiming that states had to abide by the Supreme Court Citizen United ruling. . . The Montana Attorney General promised publicly after the ruling was announced that the battle wasn't over -- and that ultimately he felt pretty certain that eventually the law will be thrown out. I think so, too. The Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act decision will be announced on Thursday, June 28, 2012, the last day the court is in session -- immeidately after which the justices will leave town -- and will be gone -- until they resume in October of this year. . . But for today -- we were 2 for 3. Thank you Anthony Kennedy -- and may god speed your return to sanity and your ultimate vote to reverse your original democracy killing decision in Citizens United. . .
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Shaking off snake venom, flexible display screens and krill-sniffing penguins in this week's news
Snake venom no sweat for opossums
A pit viper's hemorrhage-inducing venom is no sweat for some opossum species that devour the snakes with impunity. Now scientists at the University of Minnesota and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City have figured out why the opossums don't give a hoot about possibly getting bitten. The snake venom targets an important blood-clotting protein, but the opossums' blood clotter is chemically modified and evades the toxin's molecular clutches, researchers report online June 22 in PLoS ONE. Other beasties that eat venomous snakes, such as honey badgers, mongooses and hedgehogs, have different tricks for disarming toxins, suggesting that antivenom strategies evolved multiple times in animals. —Rachel Ehrenberg
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(66 Recipes) Created by CBUFFY
Recipes in this Collection
Very Good 4.4/5
(22 ratings)
A layered taco dish that is too perfect!
Submitted by MORNINGWAITS6
Carbs: 28.3g | Fat: 26.1g | Fiber: 3.8g | Protein: 25.5g | Calories: 453.6
These are great served as a side dish with any meal.
Submitted by KEVINKELLY
Carbs: 25.1g | Fat: 9.8g | Fiber: 2.7g | Protein: 3.7g | Calories: 200.2
This recipe has been marked private.
Very Good 4.2/5
(39 ratings)
Submitted by TOLLER43
Carbs: 12.7g | Fat: 0.7g | Fiber: 3.7g | Protein: 3.9g | Calories: 66.1
A super easy mix to put together and store so you can make muffins easily and for very low cost and calories! I make the mix about once a month and then store it in a big #10 can (the size of a large coffee can) with a lid. On top of the lid I put the directions for making the muffins so that even my children can put them together.
Submitted by DOITNOWM
Carbs: 26.6g | Fat: 0.7g | Fiber: 0.7g | Protein: 2.9g | Calories: 124
Good 3.8/5
(62 ratings)
Submitted by ANGELAHELWIG
Carbs: 4.3g | Fat: 5.3g | Fiber: 1.4g | Protein: 8.1g | Calories: 100.6
This recipe has been marked private.
This is a delicious chicken recipe that my family loves
Submitted by ALECSANDRA
Carbs: 4.3g | Fat: 8g | Fiber: 0g | Protein: 19.4g | Calories: 166.4
This is a hearty soup that is great for the whole gang! The best part is how easy it is to make.
Submitted by GENIETEST
Carbs: 30.5g | Fat: 10g | Fiber: 8.5g | Protein: 17.9g | Calories: 268.1
Very Good 4.5/5
(33 ratings)
Low Fat Chicken Meal
Submitted by SUZYQUE19
Carbs: 4g | Fat: 0.5g | Fiber: 1g | Protein: 7.6g | Calories: 50.6
Very Good 4.3/5
(69 ratings)
Give canned pears gourmet appeal by gently simmering them with dried cranberries and spices. The result is so good people will think the recipe came from a celebrity chef.
Carbs: 47.6g | Fat: 0g | Fiber: 2.7g | Protein: 0.2g | Calories: 186.3
Very Good 4.4/5
(19 ratings)
Easy dinner for 2
Submitted by WINKATYOU
Carbs: 21.6g | Fat: 1.8g | Fiber: 3.7g | Protein: 28.9g | Calories: 223.1
This delicious pie makes it's own "crust" while baking. My mother-in-law gave me the recipe.
Submitted by JESSICAB1221
Carbs: 28.4g | Fat: 0.3g | Fiber: 2.5g | Protein: 5.7g | Calories: 133.2
This recipe has been marked private.
Very Good 4.7/5
(3 ratings)
Oats and cornmeal add healthy grains to this classic quick bread. Make it in mini muffins to save calories. Fancy enough for a Thanksgiving feast, but too good to eat only once a year!
Submitted by JUDYFIT
Carbs: 40.8g | Fat: 12.5g | Fiber: 3.1g | Protein: 5.1g | Calories: 284.3
Very Good 4.3/5
(6 ratings)
Delicious, tropical, Thai dessert... easy and simple to make!
Submitted by BRIGHTHOPE
Carbs: 28.7g | Fat: 8.8g | Fiber: 2.8g | Protein: 2g | Calories: 184.2
Very Good 4.5/5
(4 ratings)
Here's a decadent dessert that's good for you!
Submitted by SPARK728
Carbs: 30.3g | Fat: 2g | Fiber: 3.7g | Protein: 1.6g | Calories: 131.4
Good 3.8/5
(4 ratings)
Use your Crockpot or slow cooker to make this delicious bread pudding that is guilt-free!
Submitted by LADONAB
Carbs: 26.7g | Fat: 5.3g | Fiber: 4g | Protein: 4.5g | Calories: 161.7
I love this stew! It is so easy and leaves me feeling satisfied. I use 3/4 cup as a serving. If it is too spicy for you, substitute a can of diced tomatoes for one of the diced tomatoes w/chilies.
Carbs: 17.9g | Fat: 0.8g | Fiber: 5.4g | Protein: 7.8g | Calories: 115.8
Very Good 4.0/5
(1 rating)
The coconut cream is a little luxury, but gives this soup a wonderful south asian flavour.... yummy! You can add a touch of chili powder if you want to add some kick...
Submitted by AUSSIECAT
Carbs: 14.2g | Fat: 9.7g | Fiber: 4.7g | Protein: 7.1g | Calories: 172.7