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How To: Bring your giveaways (and other programs) with you when you reformat
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Okay I knew about this method for a while now, but never really had a chance to test it out. Well recently I had decided that it is time to reformat my Windows partition because it was getting filled with too much junk. The only problem was that I was going to lose 3 months+ of giveawayoftheday software! So I decided to put my 'method' to the test and see if it would allow me to keep my giveaway programs across the reinstall.
What you need
- A partition manger (Windows partition manager will do).
- Application Mover.
- Time.
- Patience.
Some Assumptions
This method is assuming that you are reformatting your Windows partition and installing the same OS on that partition after you reformat. Also, the partition must have the same letter designation before and after the reformat, i.e. C:/.
Some Cautions
- This method will in no way gaurauntee that you will be able to successfully use your giveaway of program after you have reformatted. If your program will work depends on the program and how the developer coded it. So far, I have a 66.66% success rate with this method.
- Application Mover is a shareware program that limits you to 10 program 'moves'. I figured out a work around this limitation (a way to reset the limit once you reach it), but I was not willing to use it (damn self conscience) and I am not willing to share it – that would be unethical =D (if the developer of Application Mover is reading this, please contact me and I will explain the work around so you can get it fixed). If you are not willing to purchase a license for Application Mover (it is only $15), pick and chose the 10 applications you want to keep before we go any further.
The Good Stuff: How to keep your programs across a reinstall
This method been tested on Vista Home Premium 32-bit. It should work for Vista and XP, 32 and 64 bit users, but use this at your own risk – I am not responsible for any lose but I will take credit for any gain =D.
First thing you need to do is open up Windows Partition Manager ("Disk Management"). You can also use any other partition management tool that you desire. Shrink your Windows partition if you have no free space left. How much you will shrink your Windows partition depends on how big, in total, are the programs that you decided to keep. 5 GB should be enough for most people. With that 5 GB of free space create a new partition in NTFS format. Name your partition whatever you please. Something like Programs could be appropiate – I have my partition named "Important Files".
Next download Application Mover.
Install and run AM (Application Mover).
When you run AM, you will be prompted with this (assuming you did not buy the software):
Click "OK". You should then be brought to the 'main' screen of the program:
The only thing that concerns us is the "Current Path" and "New Path". Sure the other settings are important, but leave them at default…we don't need to mess with them. "Current Path" is where the program you are trying to move is located. "New Path" is where you want to put it. Click the "…" button next to "Current Path" and browse to the location where the program you want to move is located. For example, if I want to move Linkman Pro (which I did btw =D), I would find the folder "Linkman" and chose it. Since I installed Linkman Pro under Program Files, I would go to C:/Program Files/ and select on "Linkman" which is the folder where Linkman Pro is installed. Then for "New Path", copy and paste what is in the box for "Current Path" but replace the partition letter, i.e. C:/, with the partition letter for your new partition, i.e. F:/ (assuming your new partition is designated F:/):
At this point some of you may be thinking must we place the program in the same location on the new partition as we did on the old. No you do not have to – in fact you don't even need to name the folder the same thing. But for simplicity's sake, lets just keep it that way. If you have enough computer knowledge and are confident in your skills, by all means, change whatever you want.
Ok so, after you are done with that, click "OK". The program will start to do its thing. It will scan the folders and start moving files. On the way you may be prompted to replace some files. Be sure to replace all of them. Every time you are prompted, select "Replace" or "OK" – if you don't your program might run into problems later on. At the end it will ask you if you are sure you want to delete your files. Hit "Yes". If you get an error after that, don't worry about it. In the end it will prompt you to restart your computer. Do so. After you have rebooted, open up your new partition and see if the program was successfully moved. If so, well done. If not…try again. Keep repeating the same process until you have all your programs moved into the new partition.
Here are screenshots of an example of me moving InPaint:
After you have moved all your applications into the new partition, you should be ready to reformat your Windows partition. Be sure not to format the partition that holds your programs when you are reformatting or else you will lose all your programs! After you have installed Windows and you get back to your desktop, you can, if you want, move the programs out of your partition (i.e. F:/) and move them back into your Windows partition (i.e. C:/) if you want. Or you can just leave them in the F:/ partition like I did.
Does this actually work?
As I mentioned above, sucess rate is not 100%. I have had a 66.66% sucess rate. I moved 9 programs into my F:/ partition before I reformatted my C:/ (Windows) partition:
- PDF to HTML
- PDF to Image
- PDF to Text
- PDF to Word
- Linkman Pro
- Edraw Max
- Wondershare Photo Collage Studio
- InPaint
- AVS Video Editor
Out of all of those, AVD Video Editor, Wondershare Photo Collage Studio and InPaint all had either errors or were unregistered when I tried to run them from my F:/ partition after I reformatted my C:/ partition and installed Windows. The rest have been working perfectly so far. 6/9 = 66.66% success! And somehow, by stroke of luck, InPaint was offered by GOTD today so I had a chance to get it back after my reformat =).
TIP: For some programs, the developer enable you to use the provided registration code to activate the programs after the giveaway date. If you keep the registration codes in hand, you may be able to reinstall some of the giveaways after you reformat. YMMV. I am not giving out any registration codes, sorry!
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Because it can import and export virtual layers, there is no problem to refind all your GAOTD on a new PC.26Hi Ashraf
I have an application called Laplink PCmover. Could I use this instead of Application Mover?Regards
Dave27Both Seagate (and now) Western Digital offer free software that comes on a CD when you buy a new HDD from them.This allows you to clone your entire old drive to a new one – OS, programs, settings, documents, etc.
With the Seagate software, at least one of the drives (old or new) must be a Seagate or Maxtor. I assume the same is true for the WD program. I've used the Seagate program a number of times and it works flawlessly.
29In response to Ashraf's comment
"I was actually about to post a HOW TO on how to track what is being installed/being changed on your computer (including serial keys) whenever you install a program."
@Ashraf: Wouldn't the program that you recommend, Zsoft uninstaller fill that order?
Giovanni, I have been looking at the different methods espoused on this subject and have just finished backing up most of my wife's laptop. I was wondering if you could elaborate on making a transport file with SystemSuite as I have a copy of ver 9 around here somewhere and will likely upgrade to 10 when I finish with upgrading her from Windows 7 beta to Windows 7 Ultimate. With this kind of upgrade could I use System Suite?
31Assuming that the new OS installed is same as the old, why don't just backup the whole registry in a .reg file, copy all your program files (including those hidden) to some DVDs, copy them over to the new computer, and install the .reg file into the new OS registry. Done!
32Paragon has an app that allows coping to boot on new hardware but have not tried so far.
I download the GOTD app from the developer's site but sometimes they give a special serial key for the GOTD app which will not work to re-install.
Also, an app called WhatChanged will capture the system changes & registry files.
If not mistaken, PC Mover only allows 10 uses for a license. Read before buying since it would be a rip-off to pay for this.
Give Ashampoo Burning Studio a try as it may extract all related installed files to burn to cd. Even if it wont install (auto-run) – a copy & paste may work using the same directory of the old pc. This would be using M$ Volumn Shadow Copy which works for me. Ashampoo offers MyAutoPlayMenu which may build an exe of the copied file – haven't tried this yet either but on my list.
33All this rigamarole and jury-rigging is exactly why I don't bother with GAOTD offers. Almost everything I have ever seen on GAOTD that I wanted was later available as a true freebie (via infopackets.com or DotTech newsletter) or as a publishers special deal (aShampoo is great for special free offers). Where a freebie of the product is not available otherwise another software package that accomplishes the same thing usually is.
If I hear about something on GAOTD that I think I want I might download and install it but only to play with it a bit to make sure I want it. Then I go elsewhere to find a true freebie doesn't require all the extra effort to keep after a format.
34Also, for Giveaway of the Day I found it far easier to download the zip and save the activation page. You copy the ID from the download link and say 123, and paste it on the activation link. Like: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/activate/?id=26105
Then you save that page as an HTML file. When you want to install you set Fiddler to redirect to the saved file instead of allowing the program to access the internet. The great part is, it's super easy to automate and ensures you can run activate.exe or setup.exe. The only downside is you still won't be able to use programs you had to go online and get a reg key from the dev to activate.
35@OmegaReport: Still no good if you want to reinstall, but keep a couple apps from before.
36hmmm…. using programs manager from comodo gives us ability to recreate the setup file from monitored installation, there is also a repackager from appdeploy, and installrite.
37A much easier way is to install the giveaway program with Advanced Uninstaller Free; using it to track the installation. Then uninstall the giveaway program and Advanced Uninstaller Free will make a backup of the installation. Copy that backup to a safe location and you can then install it whenever you want.
Easy, simple and (as the name of the program implies) free.
Of course, perhaps a better solution would be to use Linux, where most Windows programs have a free alternative. If you *do* encounter a program that doesn't have a Windows equivalent, use Virtualbox to run an XP machine. Save that virtualbox image file and you can reuse it on your newly formatted disk.
39For a couple of days I and other GOTD users (probably many) were not able to install the giveaway programs. It was the first time I noticed this specific behavior during the installation: very high CPU usage for very long time (I don't know how long because I felt sorry for my computer so I killed the process every time), not completion of the "connecting with GOTD" process and maybe some other details that I don't remember.
I suspected something about a change in the installation procedure so I thought about checking their blog for some announcement and I was right; the GOTD wrapper was updated!
There are complains from the users because of a special protection program called "Themida" (btw, as a user there noted: "Themis or Themida was the Greek Goddess of justice"!). After this update the wrapper was tweaked again to resolve some problems for the users and now I can install again but they didn't make clear if "Themida" stoped being used or if -in some other way- they made the procedure less strict.
Anyway, I believe that it worths reading until the last comment (21st, by the time this comment was being written).@Ashraf (or anybody that knows the answer), why the date of this dotTech article is more recent than the date of the first comments?!!


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Banner By Me This is the story by Novella. I have been given the rights to the story so I could continue it. She hasn't had time to update the story so for those of you that have been waiting to read it, the wait is up. The story outline was sent to me so it is going to have her plan. I may change it up but not the first five chapters. Please, I know it won't be as good as Novella's but that's only because I am not Novella. Enjoy. Summary *sequel to Five Days* Bella is now living with the Cullens and Edward, forever happy. Or so she thought. What happens on Bella's and Becka's final day? The dreaded fifth day. What surprises will she encounter?
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"You're not seriously going to make me do this by myself are you?" I asked Jacob, faking the franticness in my voice. "You're going to just abandon me to suffer through the public school system while you get to go run around and play with a bunch of dogs. This just doesn't sound fair,"
Jacob chuckled as he moved through the adjoining bathroom back into our room. We had a beautiful, over sized room in the Cullen's household in the town Hightens in Rhode Island. It is a classic European style mansion, five stories with a separate two story guest house two hundred yards from the main house. It was a creamy white color with chocolate brown accents. We had a brick driveway and a grey stone fence going around the property. Esme had done a wonderful job restoring it. It was way too much but the Cullens love to live in luxury. "Have you seen my keys?" he asked.
Somehow we ended up with the biggest room in the whole house. Our room was actually two stories. It was located on the second floor and went up to the third. The roof that separated the two stories had been taken out so we had an extremely high ceiling. The north wall was painted a dark beige color while the other three were a lighter beige. We had a white carpet with a grey rug placed in the center. There was a mahogany frame for our bed and we had matching dressers and side table. We had gold comforter and sheets with bronze colored pillows. There were three feet wide windows in our room that ran from the floor, all the way to the top of our two story ceiling to make the room even more light and open.
You could still reach our room from the third story floor. On the east and south side, there was still part of the ceiling from the second floor that was cut out to be used as a pathway along the wall so you could walk in and view our room. Besides that, there wasn't really much use for the pathway except it did look cool.
"Why don't you just take my car? Then at least you'll have something to remind me of how heartlessly you're leaving me behind!" I cried in a fake voice, like a bad actress trying out for the main character's role in a school play all the while fighting to keep from smiling.
"Becky, stop being melodramatic,"
That time I couldn't help it. My face broke into a smile and I said to him, "Why? It's fun. You should try it sometime."
"Not now. Maybe later." He ran his hand through his hair. I noticed this is something he did when he thought things weren't going as smoothly as he would like.
"Why are you driving anyways? Couldn't you just run?" I asked Jacob.
"Driving would be easier and unlike you, humans don't take too kindly towards seeing a giant wolf running through their city." Oh, yah. I didn't think about that.
"Are you sure you don't want to bring me with you to La Push?" I asked giving him my best puppy eyes and cutest pout.
"Positive," he said, immune to me. You just can't pull off the puppy dog face with an actually wolf. "Don't you remember what happened last time?"
I flinched perfectly recalling what had happened last time I came with him to meet up with the pack. Neither Leah nor Paul had not taken to me kindly though the rest of them took me in with as much good grace as they could manage. Things kind of got worst when Brady asked me what the tattoos on my arm were and I had to be stupid enough to tell him the truth.
Being with Jacob had always promised to bring trouble. Luckily, I had been able to disguise his smell from the rest of the Cullens and made it so he couldn't smell them. Jasper and Bella were also keeping tabs on everyone's emotions so a fight wouldn't break out. I am forever grateful that the Cullens had let Jake move in with them.
Besides the smell and the instinct to kill each other, another problem with Jake was the aging thing. There was no way we could have him phasing with all of us vampires around and if he didn't phase in a long enough time period he would start aging again. I had considered having Jacob turned into a vampire although I quickly pushed that thought away. I don't think he would ever want to that, no matter how much he loved me. So the solution we came up with was since Jacob was still second in command in the La Push pack see as Emily refused to allow Sam to step down so he was still the pack leader, once every week he would go and visit them and patrol with them for a day before coming back. This way he refrained from aging and he also got to be with his old friends.
"Do you know where my keys are?" he asked me again, checking the pockets of one of his jackets.
I sighed. "In the long dresser, second drawer down on the right."
Jake pushed his eyebrows together but followed my directions and discovered the key to his car. "What are they doing in here?"
"I put them in there in pathetic attempt to keep you here longer." I admitted. We rarely keep anything from each other. It was an unspoken concept.
Jacob's eye immediately melted and he walked over to our bed where I was sitting cross legged, climbed on, and embraced me. "You know I don't want to leave as much as you want me to but I have to." He kissed my forehead.
I looked up at him; even though we were sitting he was still much taller than me. "I promise to behave if you take me. I won't make any wise crack or be a smart ass. I'll even take a nice, new, bright rubber ball for them to play with." I smirked at the image of watching a group of giant, mutant werewolves chasing after a bouncy ball.
"And you wonder why they don't think you're an angel," Jacob muttered under his breath.
"Excuse me," I foreigned shock. "What was that you said?"
"Nothing," Jacob said in an innocent voice.
"You really want to go? Cause I can think of a few things we could do that would be a whole lot more fun," I told him wrapping my legs around his waist leaving a trail of kisses starting under his ear traveling across his jaw.
Jacob groaned. "You don't play fair." He complained.
I snickered. "Never said I did."
Jacob untangled himself from me and I pouted again. "You know that's technically illegal seeing as you're only seventeen and I'm forty-two." He told me. He was right, I was turned when I was seventeen but he looked like a twenty-five year old.
"But you know I wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't a little bit illegal. And you're the best looking forty-two year old I've ever seen"
Jacob laughed. "Bye Beck," he kissed me one last time and left the room. I fell back down backward onto the bed. Today was going to be a long day.
"I think I might actually kill myself," I announced to Bella, Edward, and Alice. We had just finished our fourth period, English and were walking to the lunch room where Emmett, Rosalie, and Jasper were waiting. English had to be the more boring subject this whole school had to offer. Bella, for some unfathomable reason, actually liked it. To me, she actually seemed to like being here. Or maybe it was she was with Edward. Maybe if Jake was here with me this whole ordeal would be slightly more tolerable but he wasn't. Or maybe if I had gotten into chemistry class I would have something to look forward towards. At least in that class you had the chance of blowing something up.
I had no clue why we were even going to school. Hightens High School. I hated school as a human so what would make me like it anymore as a vampire. But there really wasn't much else to do. Also, Bella and I had used the school excuse as to why we wouldn't stay any longer in Voltaire.
We had to cut through the parking lot to get from the English building where Alice, Edward, Bella, and my class had been held. Some all boring stuff that I'd already learned before. This was about the five hundredth time the Cullens were going through high school. I wonder how they stand it. It was just my first day and I could barely take it.
Edward and Bella were talking to each other in a low voice. They were married now. We all could tell that was going to happen. The wedding was beautiful and extremely lavish- in other words, very Cullen styled. Jake and I weren't married. I don't know why. We just didn't get around to it and my other marriage didn't have the happiest ending. Alice was prattling on to me about some shopping trip she wanted to take me, Bella, and Rosalie on in New York City. I wasn't paying strict attention. I was staring down at my feet as I walked through the light mist. I noticed the writing on the asphalt.
Where the speed bumps were was written in bright yellow paint CAUTION: BUMPS. Except someone had taken black paint and had painted over part of the B so it now said CAUTION: hUMPS.
"Charming," I observed to the others. Secretly, I was thinking 'amateur'. I could have come up with something much better than that. But Carlisle had taken me aside and we had a talk about how my behavior had been when I was a human teenager. He had told me how essential it was that we keep a low profile. He told me I had to try my hardest and bare through it. He said that it ever became too hard for me, that I could take a day off from school though I knew from his thoughts that he was more thinking about my resistance against human blood.
I was doing fine so far. I had hunted just two days ago so I was good. I was slightly using Bella was a crutch but I knew I would eventually have to stop relying on her. It was low and pathetic but I was taking slight reassurance in the fact that Jasper struggled as much, even more, than I did.
We reached the cafeteria and joined the others. We bought the food we would never eat to keep up with our charade. Food reminded me of Jacob. He was the only one of us who could eat or sleep and do all of those human things. If I kept this, I was going to develop serious separation anxiety issues.
The five minute bell sounded. Only two more classes of utter boredom to endure. We rose soundlessly and threw away our untouched trays. We split up; Emmett, Jasper, Edward, and I heading off to physics while Alice, Rosalie, and Bella got to go to chemistry. Lucky.
"Ready for more hell?" Emmett muttered under his breath. Scary, I was just about to ask that. We rounded the corner of a building and I couldn't believe what I saw.
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For our business customers in Iowa
If it's time to install a new heating or cooling unit in your business, it makes sense to invest in an energy-efficient system. It also makes sense to ask your dealer about rebates from Alliant Energy.
Alliant Energy has great incentives on furnaces, boilers, air conditioners, water heaters, clock programmable thermostats and heat pumps that meet minimum energy-efficiency standards.
Download the 2013 Iowa Business Rebates booklet [PDF]
Eligible equipment and rebate amounts
Clock-programmable thermostats
When you install a qualified clock-programmable thermostat, you gain the flexibility of daily settings with weekday and weekend programs designed to increase your business' energy-saving potential. You can program the thermostat to adjust during different work hours, maintaining the comfort level of your employees and/or customers while lowering your energy bills by as much as 30 percent!
Equipment | Rebate |
Clock programmable thermostat | $25 each |
Must be a 7-day 5 + 2 day or 5-1-1 day program.
2013 Iowa Clock Programmable Thermostat claim form [PDF]
Water heaters
If your water heater is more than 10 years old, it probably is 50 percent less efficient than a newer model. An old, inefficient water heater can operate for years before it fails. One way to reduce your water heating costs is to replace your old water heater with a new, higher efficiency model.
Equipment | Rebate |
Electric tank type, 40 gallon tank or greater, Energy Factor (EF) 0.93 or greater | $50 each |
Electric heat pump water heater, ENERGY STAR qualified | $100 each |
Natural gas tank type, 40 gallon tank or greater, EF 0.67 or greater | $75 each |
Natural gas condensing, thermal efficiency 90% or greater | $300 each |
Natural gas tankless, EF 0.80 or greater, Must be dealer installed to verify adequate gas pressure prior to installation. | $300 each |
2013 Iowa Water Heater claim form [PDF]
Heating and Cooling Systems
If it's time to install a new heating and/or cooling system in your business, it makes sense to invest in energy-efficient equipment. With rebates from Alliant Energy, you can upgrade to high-efficiency models for less and save money in lower energy bills for years to come.
Light commercial, ENERGY STAR qualified HVAC units utilize an average of 10 percent less energy than other models. Our energy experts can explain the efficiency standards and help you determine your total reward.
Qualifying units must be shown in the current GAMA and ARI directories.
Equipment | Reward |
Natural gas furnaces Minimum Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency (AFUE) = 92.0 percent |
AFUE 92 percent - 93.9 percent | $250 |
AFUE 94 percent - 95.9 percent | $325 |
AFUE 96 percent and above | $400 |
With efficienct fan motor | $50 |
Natural gas boilers Input capacity < 300,000 Btu per unit Minimum AFUE = 85 percent |
AFUE 85 percent - 89.9 percent | $150 |
90 percent and above | $400 |
Air-source heat pumps (units less than 65,000 Btu) Minimum SEER = 14.0 and minimum HSPF=7.7 |
SEER = 15.0 or greater | $200 |
(units 65,000 Btuh or greater) (includes package rooftop) | |
≥ 65,000 and < 135,000 Btuh Minimum 11.0 EER & COP 3.4 |
[$50 x (EER-10.9)] x tons |
≥ 135,000 and < 240,000 Btuh Minimum 10.8 EER & COP 3.2 |
[$50 x (EER-10.7)] x tons |
≥ 240,000 and < 760,000 Btuh Minimum 10.0 EER & COP 3.2 |
[$50 x (EER-9.9)] x tons |
≥ 760,000 Btuh Minimum 9.7 EER & COP 3.2 |
[$50 x (EER-9.6)] x tons |
Central air conditioning (units less than 65,000 Btu) Minimum SEER = 14.0 |
SEER = 15.0 or greater | $200 |
(units 65,000 Btuh or greater) (includes package rooftop) | |
≥ 65,000 and < 135,000 Btuh Minimum 11.0 EER | [$50 x (EER-10.9)] x tons |
≥ 135,000 and < 240,000 Btuh Minimum 10.8 EER | [$50 x (EER-10.7)] x tons |
≥ 240,000 and < 760,000 Btuh Minimum 10.0 EER | [$50 x (EER-9.9)] x tons |
≥ 760,000 Btuh Minimum 9.7 EER | [$50 x (EER-9.6)] x tons |
Room air conditioners | |
ENERGY STAR rated | $50 (maximum of 20) |
Call the Business Resource Center at 1-866-ALLIANT for rebate information on other large equipment.
2013 Iowa Natural Gas Furnace claim form [PDF]
2013 Iowa Natural Gas Boiler claim form [PDF]
2013 Iowa Commercial Cooling claim form [PDF]
2013 Iowa Commercial Heat Pumps claim form [PDF]
Insulation and Building Sealing
For a project that provides maximum impact to your bottom line, consider insulation and building sealing.
Insulation levels are specified by R-Value, which measures the insulation's ability to hold in or hold out heat. The higher the insulation's R-Value, the better its thermal performance.
If you need assistance to select an energy-smart insulation contractor, consult our guide to selecting a contractor, or use our dealer locator.
Measure | Rebate |
Ceiling, foundation and in-wall insulation | 70 percent of total cost of contract labor, equipment and material up to a maximum of $5,000 for each type of insulation. |
Building Sealing | 70 percent of total cost of contract labor, equipment and material up to a maximum of $1,500 |
Multi-family insulation and building sealing | For multi-family dwellings, call 1-866-ALLIANT (1-866-255-4268) |
Your insulation claim is subject to a pre-payment, post-installation project verification.
Geothermal heating and cooling systems
A geothermal heating and cooling system, sometimes called a ground source heat pump, works on a simple premise: the earth below the "frost line" (usually about five feet down) is at a constant temperature of about 50 degrees year round. Heat can be taken from the ground and transferred through a heat pump to warm the air in your business during the winter. Heat can also be transferred back into the ground during summer to cool your business. Because the loop is self-contained and the heat pump is installed indoors, a geothermal system can have a life expectancy of up to 50 years.
Visit the geothermal section on our Web site for more information.
Ground source (geothermal) heat pumps (>180,000 Btu or 15 tons or less) |
Closed loop: Water to air: minimum EER = 14.1 and COP = 3.3. Water to water (units must be used for heating and cooling): minimum EER = 14.1 and COP = 3.1 | ($300 x tons) + [(EER - 14.1 x $50) x tons] |
For desuperheater | $100 |
Open loop: Water to air: minimum EER = 16.2 and COP = 3.6 | ($300 x tons) + [(EER - 16.2 x $50) x tons] |
For desuperheater | $100 |
Important Reminder about Iowa Geothermal Rebates
To qualify for a geothermal rebate, equipment MUST be listed in the AHRI Directory or verified by including the AHRI certificate with the rebate claim form. The rebate payment will be based on efficiency listed on the AHRI certificate or in the AHRI directory. A geothermal rebate is calculated on a PARTIAL LOAD only and may not exceed $5,000 (does not include desuperheater bonus). 2013 Iowa Geothermal (Water-To-Air) rebate form [PDF]
2013 Iowa Geothermal (Water-To-Water) rebate form [PDF]
Alliant Energy-IPL does not guarantee that the installation of high-efficiency equipment will result in reduced usage or demand or in cost savings. Alliant Energy-IPL makes no warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to any equipment purchased and/or installed, including, but not limited to, any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall Alliant Energy-IPL be liable for any incidental or consequential damage. Products and services from Alliant Energy-IPL detailed here are offered to customers of Alliant Energy-Interstate Power and Light Co.


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PublicationsInternational Activity Report 2005Morocco
Morocco is a transit country for thousands of immigrants and asylum seekers on their way to Europe. MSF is focusing attention on sub-Saharan undocumented immigrants based in the city of Tangiers and its surrounding areas.In Tangiers, MSF runs a clinic in the city center and makes visits to patients in hostels and private houses where undocumented immigrants seek shelter. MSF also uses mobile clinics in the surrounding neighborhood of Massnana to carry out patient consultations and referrals. MSF works with health authorities to ensure that undocumented sub-Saharan immigrants receive other needed health care services, such as pre- and postnatal care, tuberculosis treatment and HIV/AIDS care. At the same time, the team tries to raise awareness among Moroccan authorities and organizations about these immigrants' vulnerable situation. Responding to the earthquake emergencyOn 24 February 2004 an earthquake hit the northern region of Al Hoceima. An MSF team traveled to the area to assist the affected population. MSF distributed 2,000 blankets and plastic sheeting to families that had lost their homes. These same materials were also distributed in surrounding villages affected by the earthquake. MSF has worked in Morocco since 1997. |


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The existing law in Uganda criminalizes homosexuality, and Ugandans can face up to life in prison for engaging in homosexual acts. Lesbian, gay, bisexual,transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) Ugandans and their supporters face severe marginalization and continue to suffer from widespread discrimination, arbitrary arrests and detention, "correctional" rape, and hate crime violence, including murder.
In 2010, Julius Kaggwa, an advocate for the human rights of sexual minorities in Uganda and throughout Africa, received Human Rights First's annual human rights award. Human Rights First understands that gay rights are human rights, and, in coalition with others, we have been making the case that the U.S. government should publicly denounce this "Kill the Gays" bill and support LGBTI rights.


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Richard Newcombe takes us into the basics of building and moving inside a 3D world of our own making, using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and VB.NET.
Latest VB Graphics Articles
3D Animation in VB.NET Using WPF - Part 1
Richard Newcombe takes a look at the basic building blocks of a 3D world. While 2D animation was done by hard coding all of the graphics, 3D animation is much easier, using the WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) graphical subsystem to handle the actual image rendering.
Animation in VB.NET, Part 3
Richard Newcombe takes a look at Bitmap Animations in VB.NET. VB6 made extensive use of API's to load and initialize large quantities of smaller images. .NET has the GDI+ dynamic library, with a large selection of graphic classes and functions, which means that we no longer require API's to manipulate images.
Animation In Visual Basic .NET: Interacting with Objects
Discover how to Interact with the objects on a playing field. The article uses a game as a base for the code.
Creating your own Tetris game with VB.NET - Part 3
In this part of my series, I am going to cover the whole creation of all the shapes, and the game playing methods.
Creating your own Tetris game with VB.NET
In this article we ensure smooth animation and eliminate any flicker.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
Bypassing the Registry in Windows Store Apps and VB
Learn how to use ApplicationDataContainer and ApplicationDataContainerSettings in your Windows 8.1 Store apps.
Using AutoMapper in Your ASP.Net MVC Applications
AutoMapper is an external component that helps in creating a mapping between a source and destination model types. Read on to learn about the AutoMapper component and how to use it in an Asp.Net MVC application.


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Jasper County's top sports stories of 2012
The world didn't come to an end, the Newton football team returned to the playoffs and Iowa Speedway had itself another exciting season of racing. Overall, most would say 2012 wasn't too shabby.
Whether it was the plethora of Jasper County teams reaching state or Newton's own Larry Lust being inducted into the IHSAA Hall of Fame, 2012 was jam-packed with plenty of action to keep sports fans' attention. Join us now as we take a look at just a few of those things that made 2012 stick out.
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Drew Barrymore has another baby girl on the way, and she's already #CCertified!
As she accepted the "Newcomer Award: Mass" for Flower Beauty at Wednesday's WWD Beauty Inc. Awards breakfast, she revealed the baby's gender and the nickname she's given her baby bump, Chanel No. 5. "I am so proud to accept this in celebration of women, including my daughter and my future daughter," she told the crowd during her acceptance speech. I have grown up in a make-up chair. I loved watching women in this aspirational environment. It was and always will be important to me to send messages of empowerment."
If the moniker has you scratching your head, don't worry. As it turns out, her father-in-law, former Chanel chairman Arie Kopelman, came up with the nickname, as the little bundle of joy would be his fifth grandchild.
Though we don't know when little Chanel will arrive, it's good to know beauty runs in the family!
At the opening of Drybar's latest salon, located in San Francisco's bustling Union Square area, we caught up with the gal who made peace, love, and blowouts our mantra to live by, founder Alli Webb herself! Having started the Drybar franchise less than four years ago, you'd think that with 30+ shops already open and a full line of top-notch tools and products lining the shelves, Webb would be ending the year on a quieter note. Hardly! The empress of the blowout empire isn't slowing down anytime soon, and we're loving it. She hinted at a slew of stylish new Drybar features currently in the works, including more locations, a special satin pillow that won't undo your 'do, a more volumizing shampoo and conditioner line, and even an additional style on the blow-out menu (tentatively a straighter take on the "Mai-Tai"). Looks like our hair is going to be even hotter in 2014!
Until then, however, we'll be focusing the attention on our current woe: achieving stylish tresses for the holiday season. Between office parties, festive dinners, and friendly gift exchanges, there's a slew of events on everyone's agenda this season, and thus plenty of reasons to go the extra mile for haute hair. Webb says that big hair is the perfect complement to the sparkling holiday dresses you'll be sporting for the festivities. "People are loving big hair these days. Big hair, lots of volume, lots of bounce, lots of curls. I feel like it's so festive." And if you're looking to put you locks in an up-do, try the '60s for inspiration. "I am also really digging the mod, Brigitte Bardot look, with big hair and a tease up in the crown," explains Webb. She suggests either asking for a glamorous "Southern Comfort" with the sides pinned back or a simple but chic chignon/loose bun with a side part and a lot of volume.
The perfect finish for your 'do should be a bit unpolished. As Glam and Webb agreed: "Undone is in." Add a clip or headband if you're in need of extra embellishment and enjoy your fun, bouncy hair this holiday season!
After spending almost seven years in the Lone Star State, I was psyched to hear Uncle Karl would take Chanel's annual Metiers D'Art show to Dallas. Not only did he exceed expectations, but the beauty was a sight to behold!
Though one would think the models' hair would be sky-high (after all, everything is bigger in Texas), Sam McKnight tousled their tresses before adding Fame-era Lady Gaga hairbows to their low-slung ponytails with a few #CCertified feathers added into the mix.
Lagerfeld looked to Peter Phillips to create a glitzy take on a sun-kissed glow by cross-hatching gold and silver on the girls' cheeks, temples, and eyelids. With a few swipes of black mascara and a gentle pink pout, the ladies stomped the rodeo-ready runway at Fair Park.
While we doubt the glimmering cheeks and printed feathers will become a trend, contouring and low-slung ponies have us chomping at the bit. Giddy up!
Any video that begins with a pair of red-bottomed power pumps walking down a hallway automatically has our attention. But the remaining minute of the Pantene Philippines commercial kept us captivated – and left us thinking.
It may not appear to have much to do with shampoo, but the message of this ad is profound and applicable across all industries. The advertisement assesses how men and women are each received when they're placed in the same business situations. It highlights these sexist stereotypes and then totally shuts them down. In the CEO's office, a man is a "boss," but a woman is "bossy"; at the lectern, men are "persuasive" and women are "pushy"; in the office late at night, men are "dedicated" but women are "selfish"; caught looking in the mirror, men are "neat" while women are "vain"; strutting down the street in beautiful clothes, men are "smooth" yet women are "showy."
These comparisons highlight the intense double standards that are still present not only in the workplace, but in everyday life. With this ad and corresponding hashtag, #WhipIt, Pantene compels people to whip away the double standards that hold women back. We're definitely compelled to "be strong and shine" after watching this video – and we'll do both while strutting down the street and into the office, wearing red-bottomed stilettos. Because let's be honest here, women just do it better.
Glam checked in with Joanna Vargas, facialist to the stars and founder of the Johanna Vargas salon and skincare collection, as she navigates through Chelsea Market, meetings, and a VIP client or two — all before making sure her kids get to bed on time. Here, Vargas shares her schedule:
6:00AM | I usually try and start my day before my house wakes up. It's chaotic once the kids are up, so 6am is my only time alone. I shower and apply my Jiva Apoha body oil to damp skin. I have about 8 different scents, so I try and pick an inspiring one for the day. It leaves my skin soft and it's super pampering! For face, my go-to is my Rejuvenating Serum. I love an oil on my skin and I feel like I'm glowing once I put this one on. Then it's sunscreen (Eminence Organics Translucent Mineral Powder) and lip color; I like Bite Beauty. |
6:45AM | My kids are up and then it's getting the gang ready for school. |
8:30AM | I head into the office by way of the Chelsea Flower Market; it's one of those NYC perks. I love all the smells and colors there, and I love having fresh flowers in the salon. It's so calming for all of us, and I think one of the reasons people love coming into the salon is the oasis vibe of the place; you can really forget your stress once you enter! |
10:00AM | I usually have a few facial clients in the morning. My clients are also some of my best friends, so my work is more of a pleasure, visiting and catching up with what's going on in everyone's world. |
12:00PM | I head out of the office to lunch meetings; my go to spot is EN Japanese Brasserie. It's my home away from home! The food is incredible and it's a great place to talk. |
4:00PM | I have been doing some in-store mini-facials to meet some of the people who love the skincare line, so I head over to Space NK and then home! Cooking is my relax time, so I cook dinner and have a few hours to spend with my kids before bed! |
You've drawn a random name, asked a few co-workers what your giftee likes, but you still have no idea what to get them. Oh, we forgot to mention the tight budget that comes standard for a Secret Santa. Instead of snapping up a gift card, treat them to a bit of pampering with a stocking stuffer that saves their skin, manicure, or makeup look with a few spa-worthy faves thrown in for good measure. Even if they're not a beauty buff, they're sure to put your gift to good use.
Deborah Lippmann She Bangs and Single Ladies Nail Lacquer Set, available at HSN.com for $19.95
Philosophy "Merry Cherry Tidings" Duo, available exclusively at Nordstrom.com for $20
Bliss Winter Wonder-"Hand" Moisturizing Cream Combo, available at BlissWorld.com for $12
The Body Shop Fruit Body Butter Trio, available at TheBodyShop-USA.com for $16
Fresh Waterlily Oval Soap, available at Fresh.com for $15
Sephora Collection Au Revoir Izak Mini Brush Set, available at Sephora.com for $18
Stila Written in the Stars Palette, available at Beauty.com for $15
Earth Therapeutics Hello Kitty Ergomatic Sleep Mask, available at Ulta.com for $12
Kusmi Tea Paris Beauty Beverage Detox, available at Birchbox.com for $19.50
We're just as obsessed with nail polish as the next girl, but Hannah Bronfman has taken her love of nail décor to the next level where she made it her job to have amazing manicures.
As co-founder of the app Beautified by day and a DJ by night, Bronfman is the definition of work hard, play hard. She DJs at some of the most fashionable events and manages to wake up and get to work, both at the office and in the gym. And she does it all with the most artistic manicures you've ever seen (not to mention while looking otherwise flawless). When she's not busy spinning at an exclusive party or launch, she devotes her time to working out, eating well, and generally "beautifying."
In the video clips that make up her profile in Glamour's new series called "The Beauty Diaries," the entrepreneur tells her admirers and fans (us, duh) all about her lifestyle practices and how they tie in to her work life. From the comfort of her own sleek and bright apartment, Bronfman fills us in on her favorite beauty products and no-fail practices, which include collecting nail polish, being spontaneous with her thousands of beauty products, and making smoothies.
She makes it clear that she eats, lives, and breathes beauty: "I do sometimes think my beauty products are calling my name." Strange as it may seem to feel like a tube of red lipstick can whisper "Hannah" when it wants to be worn, we can totally understand where she's coming from.
To say I'm excited for Wonder Woman to make her first silver screen appearance is an understatement – my college thesis centered on her! We jumped for joy with the announcement that former Miss. Israel (and current face of Vine Vera), Gal Gadot, would don the iconic bustier and bracelets. Though the final product won't hit theaters until 2015, we discovered a few Gadots's beauty musts to tide us over in the meantime.
The keep her skin looking flawless, she starts with Vine Vera's Cabernet Collection Reveratrol High-Potency Vitamin Cream and the Resveratol Phyto-Elevating Mask. "This mask deep cleans my skin. My skin feels so refreshed and radiant after every use," she said. She's also a huge fan (like every beauty editor right now) of Dior's Air Flash Spray Foundation, especially when she's in a rush.
As for her lush brunette tresses, she turns to Kérastase's Caviar Hair Mask to maintain her mane through shoots, junkets, and more. "With the type of work I do, it is extremely important to take care of, and maintain my hair and my skin," she explained. "Getting my hair styled and make up done several times a week can definitely affect the health of my hair and skin!"
What's her finishing touch? A seductive scent, of course! Expect to get a whiff of Christian Dior's Hypnotic Poison when the new Wonder Woman walks by, as she said, "This is my signature smell; I won't go a day without using it!" It used to be my "signature scent" back in college (I was way too immature to wear it well), but it seems better suited for the gorgeous Gadot.
Looks like we have a few new items to add to our vanity before the end of the year!
While it is the season of giving, that doesn't mean you can't nab a little something for yourself.
L'Occitane partnered with fan-favorite bag brand Thursday Friday to recreate the French skincare brand's signature shopping bag with a little more durability. It will be up for grabs this Thursday and Friday (Dec. 12th-13th) at L'Occitane boutiques with a purchase of $65 or more. Let's be honest though, reaching that minimum shouldn't be hard thanks to all of the giftable goodies available for almost everyone on your shopping list. We personally have our eyes on the Lavender Spa set for a little at-home pampering.
This marks the second collaboration for the French favorite this year, which spent a part of the summer crafting customized ice cream flavors with Van Leeuwen. Talk about a double delight!
Set your alarms now before the bags disappear.
It takes a lot for a celebrity to commit to a beauty brand endorsement – a lot of wooing, a lot of flattery, and a whole lot of money. It totally makes sense that it would, seeing as these celebrities are bringing a lot of name recognition and potential sales to the table. When a celebrity commits to a beauty brand, they're also saying by default that their endorsement is with one company and other beauty brands won't be able or want to work with them during that time. It's a decision that shouldn't be taken lightly. For all the things that could and should be considered, you'd think that more celebrity beauty products would be of unimpeachable quality. Too often, that is not the case. Think of all of the cheaply packaged, cloyingly sweet celebrity endorsed perfumes that have cluttered the shelves through the years. How many fragrances with cotton candy top notes does the world need?
There have been many celebrity beauty product blunders, but now the game has evolved. Celebrities aren't just endorsing fragrances. Now there are celebrity endorsed and co-created makeup, skincare and hair care brands on the market. Not every celebrity beauty brand is made equal, and we're here to help you cut through the clutter. Here are 7 celebrity brands that you'll be happy to discover.
Contributing Editor, Patrice Grell Yursik is the creator of Afrobella.com, one of the first blogs to celebrate the beauty of natural hair and ladies of all skin tones and sizes. Affectionately called the Godmother of Brown Beauty Blogging, Patrice takes her readers inside unique beauty, fashion and cultural experiences.


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Course Descriptions
CT221/SED 221: Middle Childhood Philosophy and Teaching (3 s.h.)
This course focuses broadly on several areas that demonstrate the character and challenges of middle schools and their students, such as: the history and rationale of the change from junior high to middle school, including the policy, philosophy, and foundations; the culture of middle-level schools; socio-cultural influences on middle-level schooling and students; developmental aspects of young adolescents and their needs for personalization and community; gender, diversity, and bullying issues; organizational issues, such as teaming and block scheduling; advisories; parent involvement; health and safety; and transforming schools.
CT 247A: Middle Childhood Curriculum: 5-6 (3 s.h.)
CT 248A: Middle Childhood Curriculum: 7-9 (3 s.h.)
Teaching at the middle level requires a globalized approach to academic curricula that goes beyond the knowledge of an individual subject. This course emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the New York state standards and assessments. We focus on the philosophy and practice of interdisciplinary and thematic integrated curriculum as well as the skills that need to be taught and infused into all subjects taught on these levels in order to provide continuity and articulation. Instructional strategies, differentiated curriculum, teaming of students and faculty, grade-level configurations, and diverse assessments are emphasized. Students develop and demonstrate curricula focusing on the appropriate grade levels.


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'The biggest drop in living standards since the Victorian age is seeing low and middle earners suffering an unprecedented squeeze on their incomes as austerity measures continue to bite, with women and part-time workers disproportionately affected, research reveals today.
More than five million people are officially classified as low paid and an increasing number of public sector workers are struggling to make ends meet, according to the New Economics Foundation (NEF) think-tank.
It warned: "Workers on low and middle incomes are experiencing the biggest decline in their living standards since reliable records began in the mid-19th century."'
'Britain's first "social supermarket" opens its doors on Monday, offering shoppers on the verge of food poverty the chance to buy food and drink for up to 70% less than normal high-street prices.
If successful, the Community Shop, in Goldthorpe, near Barnsley, south Yorkshire, which is backed by large retailers and supermarkets, could be replicated elsewhere in Britain.
Community Shop is a subsidiary of Company Shop, Britain's largest commercial re-distributor of surplus food and goods, which works with retailers and manufacturers to tackle their surpluses sustainably and securely.'
'The Prime Minister of Thailand is to dissolve Parliament and hold an election "as soon as possible" following a wave of anti-government protests.
Yingluck Shinawatra made the announcement in a televised speech in the wake of unrest which has left five people dead and more than 200 injured in Bangkok.
She said: "After consultation with many parties, I have submitted a royal decree requesting parliament be dissolved.
"At this stage, when there are many people opposed to the government from many groups, the best way is to give back the power to the Thai people and hold an election.
"So the Thai people will decide."'
'This isn't the first we've seen of Saturn's six-sided jet stream, but NASA's calling the GIF after the break "the first hexagon movie of its kind." The "movie" is made from a compilation of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft, and depicts a hurricane-like storm at the center of the "hexagon" that has populated the planet's north pole for decades, if not centuries.'
For 34 years, Gwendolyn Beasley worked as a clerk at the Detroit Public Library and paid a portion of her salary into a fund that would someday help pay for her pension.
'Now retired, Beasley, 67, receives $1,500 a month from that pension. But she's cutting back on spending after a judge ruled last week that Detroit's pension funds, like other city creditors, may have to take a hit as the city reorganizes its finances under bankruptcy.
"I think it's so very unfair," Beasley said. "We retired expecting to get a certain amount of benefits. Now you've pulled the rug out from under us."
It's not just Detroit retirees who are worried about their pensions. Financially troubled cities in California, Illinois and Pennsylvania will soon face decisions on what to do with chronically underfunded pension funds, and experts say the Detroit ruling has made it easier for cities to argue that pensions must be cut.'
Read more: Detroit ruling opens door to pension cuts across the nation
'Saudi Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, Director General of the Saudi Intelligence Agency has commanded thousands of militants to prepare to attack the Christian city of Saidnaya in the war-torn Syria.
According to militant sources, several Wahhabi and al-Qaeda-linked groups, including the Ahrar al-Sham Brigade and the Free Syrian Army's Tahrir al-Sham brigade, backed by al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front terrorists among others, have mobilized 3,000 armed men to storm the Christian city of Saidnaya in the north of Damascus.
Saidnaya, located in the mountains and 27 kilometers (17 miles) north of the city of Damascus, is the second largest Syrian Christian city after Maaloula.'
Read more: Saudi prince Bandar led attacks on Syria Christians
'Donors in Saudi Arabia have notoriously played a pivotal role in creating and maintaining Sunni jihadist groups over the past 30 years. But, for all the supposed determination of the United States and its allies since 9/11 to fight "the war on terror", they have showed astonishing restraint when it comes to pressuring Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies to turn off the financial tap that keeps the jihadists in business.
Compare two US pronouncements stressing the significance of these donations and basing their conclusions on the best intelligence available to the US government. The first is in the 9/11 Commission Report which found that Osama bin Laden did not fund al-Qa'ida because from 1994 he had little money of his own but relied on his ties to wealthy Saudi individuals established during the Afghan war in the 1980s.
uoting, among other sources, a CIA analytic report dated 14 November 2002, the commission concluded that "al-Qa'ida appears to have relied on a core group of financial facilitators who raised money from a variety of donors and other fund-raisers primarily in the Gulf countries and particularly in Saudi Arabia".'
'The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—along with certain Arab League countries, plus Turkey and Israel, have this past week reportedly committed themselves to raising nearly $6 billion to "beef up" the just-hatched Islamic Front (IF) in Syria. These "best friends of America" want the Obama administration to sign onto a scheme to oust the Syrian government by funding, arming, training, facilitating and generally choreographing the movement of fighters of this new front, a front formed out of an alliance of seven putatively "moderate" rebel factions.
Representatives of Saudi intelligence chief Bandar bin Sultan reportedly told staff members on Capitol Hill that committing several billions to defeat the Assad regime by supporting the IF makes fiscal sense and will cost much less than the six trillion dollar figure tallied by the recent study by Brown University as part of its Costs of War project. According to the 2013 update of the definitive Brown study, which examined costs of the US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, the total amount for all three topped six trillion dollars. This never before released figure includes costs of direct and indirect Congressional appropriations, lost equipment, US military and foreign contractors fraud, and the cost of caring for wounded American servicemen and their families.'
'Local communities that are involved in fracking of natural gas should get the greatest say whether or not such methods of gas extraction are safe, Adam Briggle, a professor at the University of North Texas and an environmental activist, told RT.'
'A California county has banned a veteran employee from criticizing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act because a coworker who overheard the criticism was offended.
The employee is Norina Mooney, who has logged some 20 years of work experience with Santa Clara County, the epicenter of Silicon Valley.
According to Mooney's attorneys with the Pacific Justice Institute, she made some water-cooler talk with a fellow employee about the high number people who have had their insurance policies canceled under Obamacare.
Later, a supervisor called Mooney into a private meeting and allegedly dressed her down for the attempt at chitchat because an unidentified person had overheard the small talk and been offended.'
Read more: Police state: County censors government employee who dares criticize Obamacare
'An Israeli oil well has been reported to contain a much larger reserve than originally estimated. The oil exploration company, Givat Olam, has now increased its estimate to 3.53 billion barrels of oil and has already sold $40 million worth of oil from the site.
While Israel is now facing a bright future as an oil producer, there is one problem: Meged 5 is located on the Green Line, the official border between Israel and Palestine. Lying a few dozen meters inside Palestinian territory, according to international law and the Oslo Accords, the well should belong to Palestine.
In answer to this problem, Israel has adjusted the path of its separation barrier, bringing Meged 5 onto its side of the wall. While the well is now under de facto Israeli control, most of the reserves lie under Palestinian territory.'
Read more: New Oil Found by Israel Should Belong to Palestine
'The MoD has spent £180million on hotels and car hire for top civil servants and officers, andeven signed off on £3,000 for a Sky Sport subscription.
Officials spent £110million on hotels between 2009 and 2013, a bill which went up by £3million in three years, and a further £69million on cars.
The total included a £5,500 bill for Andrew Manley, the chief executive of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, for nearly 50 nights at the luxury New Hall Hotel and Spa in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.'
'The European parliament is lining up Edward Snowden to give evidence by video link this month, in spite of resistance by British Conservatives, a Green MEP has announced.
Jan Philipp Albrecht, a German Green MEP, said parliamentarians wanted Snowden to appear before the assembly's committee on civil liberties, justice and home affairs (LIBE).
Albrecht said it would represent a great success for the parliament's investigation into mass surveillance of EU citizens.'
Read more: Edward Snowden to give evidence to EU parliament, says MEP
'A French motorist got a nasty shock recently, after receiving a €25,000 bill from the state for road damage caused by a serious car crash in April 2012, in which he was rear-ended by a speeding, hit-and-run driver.
Ludovic Depestel, 39, from the town of Armentières near the Belgian border in northern France, got the letter in the post last week, according to TF1 television, ordering him to pay no less than €25,554 for destruction caused to road side barriers in the crash.
The problem being that the father of three, whose vehicle was wrecked, didn't cause the accident.
Depestel's only crime, he says, was being contactable by local authorities seeking damages for destruction of motorway infrastructure.'
Read more: French State bills crash victim for €25,000 road damage
'"Education is a system of imposed ignorance" – these words describe admirably the machinations of the Cameron government in the UK education sector.
This quote by Noam Chomsky, which appeared in the 1994 Canadian documentary, "Manufacturing Consent," was originally designed at the time to provoke as much as to warn against vested interests in teaching.
Under PM David Cameron, Britain's centers of learning are deteriorating from colleges where young people are educated into loathsome institutions where they are told what to think.'
'The University of London – a body representing London universities including University College London, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Birkbeck and the London School of Economics – has banned protests on its campus for the next six months.
Students who hold sit-in protests in an area in Holborn, central London, including the Senate House, the student union building, and the buildings of SOAS and Birkbeck, can be imprisoned.
The president of the University of London student union, Michael Chessum, told Channel 4 News it was a "draconian" reaction and "a sign that the university had lost the argument".'
'They are not sleeping in tents in Independence Square, but Ukraine's ultra-wealthy businessmen, known as the oligarchs, perhaps pose as grave a threat to President Viktor F. Yanukovich as the demonstrators on the streets of this capital city.
Petro Poroshenko, a pro-Western businessman, said demonstrators and Ukraine's oligarchs both want "modernization."
"Do you think there is a big difference between people on the street and people with big business?" said the most visible, and the most pro-Western, of the oligarchs, Petro Poroshenko, a shipping, confectionery and agriculture magnate whose television station has been broadcasting round the clock from Independence Square.
"There is no difference in their love of their own country," he said in an interview in the lobby of the Ukraine Hotel, overlooking the square, where the protesters appeared as miniature silent figures, waving flags and milling about bonfires. "At the end of the day, we are all talking about the modernization of the economy and the country."'
Read more: Behind Scenes, Ukraine's Rich and Powerful Battle Over the Future
'A study in the August edition of The Journal of School Health finds that the generations old theory of a "gateway drug" effect is in fact accurate for some drug users, but shifts the blame for those addicts' escalating substance abuse away from marijuana and onto the most pervasive and socially accepted drug in American life: alcohol.
Using a nationally representative sample from the University of Michigan's annual Monitoring the Future survey, the study blasts holes in drug war orthodoxy wide enough to drive a truck through, definitively proving that marijuana use is not the primary indicator of whether a person will move on to more dangerous substances.'
Read more: Study: The 'Gateway Drug' Is Alcohol, Not Marijuana
In announcing a final agreement in Bali, Indonesia on Saturday morning, head of the World Trade Organization Roberto Azevedo, said: "For the first time in our history, the WTO has truly delivered."
Unfortunately, say critics, what the deal is certain to "deliver" is more pain and suffering for the world's poorest people and farmers at the expense of the world's largest and most powerful nations and corporations.
Anti-poverty groups and food sovereignty advocates across the world were pushing off pronouncements like Azevedo's, saying that the agreement is a failure when it comes to fairness, poverty reduction, environmental protections, and the alleviation of hunger across the globe.
Read more: 'Rank Hypocrisy': WTO Deal Bows to Wealth and Squashes the Poor
'In a recent report by The Washington Post, it was revealed that the FBI has been able to secretly activate a target's laptop camera "without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording" for several years.
While this may be surprising to some, it really shouldn't be. Previous reports revealed that the FBI employs hackers to create software to remotely activate the microphones on laptops and cell phones as well as cameras. The U.S. government has also become the world's largest buyer of malware. The NSA also recommended physically removing the webcam from Apple laptops for security reasons.
In August, the Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI has developed hacking tools like this for over a decade, though they rarely are discussed publicly.'
'Why is it that there's always someone who wants to take a joyous occasion and make it difficult for others to indulge? A little town in Texas is currently in a battle to save Christmas for their children from others who seem determined to steal it.
A parent-teacher association member in Frisco, Texas seems to have been taking lessons from the Grinch. Christmas has been stolen from the kids. This year, steps are being taken to strip the holiday from their campus, because, well, you know, they don't want to offend anyone.'
'Last month, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that 317 people in 20 states had confirmed cases of Salmonella caused by chicken traced to a California processor. This should be (yet another) wake-up call that it's time to make serious changes to the way U.S. chickens are housed, raised, and processed in the factory farming system. But there is an even deeper issue at the heart of this problem: The fact that chickens are deliberately bred for excessive growth.
Factory farm speed-breeding–the practice of selectively breeding "broiler" (meat) chickens to grow three times faster than 60 years ago–has created chickens which now struggle to simply move or stand. The University of Arkansas notes that if humans grew at a similar speed, a 6.6 lb newborn baby would weigh 660 lbs after two months.'
'Sony has filed a claim with the U.S. Patent Office for a "SmartWig," a toupee or wig that contains sensitive electronics and can sync up with a smartphone or other electronic device.
The patent claim is broad and theoretical, seeking to ensure the company's intellectual property rights to as many features as possible. Among the possible components that a SmartWig could feature are a GPS sensor, a camera, a position sensor (to detect where the wig is relative to the head) and tactile feedback actuators that could produce vibrations or small electric shocks across the scalp as a way of delivering information. The patent application explains that the wig might also include devices such as laser pointers or even ultrasound transducers – allowing sight-impaired users to navigate via echolocation.'
Read more: Sony patenting 'smart wig' that can receive phone calls and even 'ring' your skull
'From the looks of an average produce section in a typical American supermarket, it might seem like modern society has access to basically every major type of fruit, vegetable and herb one could want. But a survey conducted by the U.S. National Seed Storage Laboratory back in 1983 found that the diversity of our food supply has been progressively shrinking since 1903 when a previous seed stock inventory was taken, with fewer than one-twelfth the number of unique crop varieties available today compared to 100 years ago.
Known today as the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation (NCGRP), the laboratory collected seed data on 10 common produce items: beets, cabbages, sweet corn, lettuces, muskmelons, peas, radishes, squashes, tomatoes and cucumbers. NCGRP compared the availability of seeds for each of these items in 1903 to their availability in 1983, which was still long before the time genetically modified organisms (GMOs) hit the scene.'
Read more: Seed diversity has collapsed more than 12-fold since early 1900s
'The above photograph from the NYC Light Brigade came at the end of an incredible day of action on December 5 when fast food workers in 100 cities walked off their jobs and joined with supporters in their communities to protest poverty wages. The photo proclaims "ALL OF US" with people holding signs that identify different members of the community; and proclaims "THIS IS OUR MOMENT."
The solidarity at the fast food worker protests on December 5 echoed the solidarity seen on December 3 when people throughout the United States and around the globe protested toxic trade agreements especially the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). And, that "ALL OF US" solidarity was seen last Friday, November 29 when workers walked out at 1,500 Walmarts with widespread community support at their rallies.'
2013 is almost over and the US has still not managed to get NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai to sign the Pentagon's bilateral security agreement. The agreement is of vital strategic importance for the US and NATO in respect to having a position amidst the main players in Eurasia.
The United States has set December 2014 as its so-called military withdrawal date from the NATO-manned Central Asian country. Despite the claims of the US, the Pentagon wants to keep a figure of 20,000 or more military personnel in Afghanistan, retain at least nine bases, and to use Afghan airspace and territory for Pentagon operations in Central Asia and beyond…
Afghanistan sits at a strategically important crossroad in the world and the United States has always sought to capitalize on this. The idea of an American military withdrawal from NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan has always been viewed by the Pentagon as a strategic rollback in Central Asia and more broadly as a rollback from Eurasia. Regardless of the US government's claims, leaving NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan has always been out of the question for the US military.
Nonetheless, it was claimed in July 2013 that President Obama was mulling a total withdrawal from the NATO-manned Central Asian country, or so claim the unnamed US and European officials that the reporters Mark Mazzetti and Mattew Rosenberg quoted for The New York Times (NYT). When it was published, the July 2013 NYT report by Mazzetti and Rosenburg raised many skeptical eyebrows. The news came while Washington was trying to stamp out some type of long-term security pact with Kabul to let the Pentagon continue using Afghanistan as a giant military base.
Read more: The Subtext of the Stalled Afghan-US Treaty: Will the US Trade Karzai for the Taliban?
'Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold.
They don't have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or comp time. All of their workers are full-time, and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover, if they don't like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work, they are locked up in isolation cells.
There are approximately 2 million inmates in state, federal and private prisons throughout the country. According to California Prison Focus, "no other society in human history has imprisoned so many of its own citizens." The figures show that the United States has locked up more people than any other country: a half million more than China, which has a population five times greater than the U.S. Statistics reveal that the United States holds 25% of the world's prison population, but only 5% of the world's people.
From less than 300,000 inmates in 1972, the jail population grew to 2 million by the year 2000. In 1990 it was one million. Ten years ago there were only five private prisons in the country, with a population of 2,000 inmates; now, there are 100, with 62,000 inmates. It is expected that by the coming decade, the number will hit 360,000, according to reports.
What has happened over the last 10 years? Why are there so many prisoners?'
Read more: The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?
'The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has today released its new research report titled 'GM Maize: Lessons For Africa-Cartels, Collusion And Control Of South Africa's Staple Food' showing how a select group of companies, including Tiger Brands, Pioneer and Premier Foods who have previously fixed the price of bread and maize meal, commandeer the entire maize value chain and continue to squeeze the poorest South Africans.
The ACB has recently shown that the entire maize meal market is saturated with GM maize.'
'A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in al-Jalazun refugee camp near Ramallah on Saturday.
Wajih Wajdi al-Ramahi, 14, was shot with live bullets in the back by an Israeli sniper in front of his school.
Al-Ramahi was taken to the hospital, and placed in the ICU until he died.
Locals told Ma'an that the area where al-Ramahi was shot had no clashes or any kind of rock-throwing incidents that might have provoked the killing.'
Read more: Palestinian teenager shot dead by Israeli sniper near Ramallah
'Those wondering what lies in store for Afghanistan need only look at the way the British Empire ruled Iraq in the 1920's. As Shakespeare wrote, "what is past is prologue."
Imperial Britain created the state of Iraq after World War I to secure Mesopotamia's vast oil deposits that had become vital for the Royal Navy. To control this artificial nation seething with unrest, Britain imposed a puppet king, Faisal, and created a native army commanded by British officers.
Britain's colonial rule was formalized by the 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty, a deal between puppet and master.
But real power in Iraq was held by the Royal Air Force, which was "granted" two permanent bases at Habbaniyah and Basra. The RAF ruled supreme over the open wastes of Iraq.
Winston Churchill, patron saint of today's war-lusting neoconservatives, authorized the RAF to use poison gas against "unruly" tribesmen in Iraq and Afghanistan. Britain created public institutions and sham political parties in Baghdad that had no links at all to Iraq's population, which mostly hated their British rulers.'
'Bush administration officials have long asserted that the torture techniques used on "war on terror" detainees were utilized as a last resort in an effort to gain actionable intelligence to thwart pending terrorist attacks against the United States and its interests abroad.
But the handwritten notes obtained exclusively by Truthout drafted two decades ago by Dr. John Bruce Jessen, the psychologist who was under contract to the CIA and credited as being one of the architects of the government's top-secret torture program, tell a dramatically different story about the reasons detainees were brutalized and it was not just about obtaining intelligence.'
Read more: CIA Psychologist's Notes Reveal True Purpose Behind Bush's Torture Program
'A report issued by the European Union's statistics office shows nearly a quarter of the European population were at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
Eurostat recently published the data revealing that 124.5 million people, or 24.8 percent of Europe's population, had been at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2012, compared to 23.7 percent in 2008.
The numbers included those deemed to fall within at least one of the following three conditions: at risk of income poverty, severely materially deprived or living in households with very low work intensity.
According to the data, the highest shares of individuals being at risk of poverty or social exclusion were recorded in Bulgaria (49%), Romania (42%), Latvia (37%) and Greece (35%).'
'US Congress has threatened giant oil companies with "severe financial penalties" should they resume business with Iran following an interim nuclear agreement.
In interviews with The Foreign Policy Magazine, several American officials expressed concerns about the international firms' interest to enter the Iranian oil market in the next six months.
Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Rep. Michael McCaul said that companies examining their options for "resuming business relationships" with Iran are "acting prematurely at best."'
Read more: US Congress warns oil firms against Iran business
'Israel's Economy Minister Naftali Bennett has proposed the annexation of parts of the Palestinian land of the West Bank under Israel's full military control.
Bennett, who heads the far-right Jewish Home religious party, said on Sunday that he favors "implementation of Israeli sovereignty over the zone where 400,000 (settlers) live and only 70,000 Arabs."
The hawkish Israeli minister also dismissed the US-brokered talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority as a joke.'
Read more: Israel minister proposes partial West Bank annexation
'European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has called on Europeans to resist mounting populism and extremism, as far-right political parties are gaining support in several European Union member states.
Barroso's appeal came ahead of the European Parliament elections in May, in which far-right parties look well placed, as voters are frustrated with Europe after three years of financial turmoil, contracting growth and job losses.
"I am vehemently calling on Europeans to step out of the comfort zone, to quit their silence, to not always let extremes make their move, to have – in France too – the courage to defend Europe," Barroso stated.'


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Curtis McKenzie's second-period goal was the game-winner as eighth-ranked Miami (Ohio) got back on track with a 2-1 men's college hockey win over Wisconsin on Saturday.
McKenzie scored at 16:07 of the second period for the Redhawks (13-6-5), who snapped a four-game winless streak. Austin Czarnik scored on the power play for Miami in the first period.
Michael Mersch scored the only goal for Wisconsin (9-8-5) but the Badgers' 11-game unbeaten streak came to an end.
Ryan McKay had 33 saves for Miami and Joel Rumpel 30 for the Badgers.
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MARANA, Ariz. (AP) — Matt Kuchar finally put Hunter Mahan in a hole and then answered every challenge Sunday to win the Match Play Championship.
Mahan had gone 169 holes over 11 matches without trailing in this wild tournament until Kuchar won the fourth hole of the championship match with a par, and Mahan never caught up. Kuchar took advantage of a series of miscues to build a 4-up lead at the turn, and then held off a noble challenge by the defending champion.
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Fosse- I almost wholeheartedly agree with you except for the removal of the production boost- the production boost simulates a real effect of railroads near cities- now I know it might increase rail building -but many people built rails back in the day for jsut that reason... they covered the lands.A simpler, and in my opinion more elegant, idea has been propsed many times: Remove the tile production boost from railroads, remove infinite movement (say, 1/5th movement cost... a tank can move ten tiles), and add an upkeep to rail tiles.
I would also like to suggest a predecessor to railroads- the Canal-- that could increase troop movement. It would prove invaluable to slow-progress tech games and would have to be discovered before railroads. Canals would become possible with the discovery of the Lock and work as railroads when built along rivers!
Good work on the updating nikolai