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The Ride camera comes very neatly packed into a nice little box filled to the brim with adapters, power cables and varying mounts. It is clearly designed to accompany any mode of transport offering an array of flat stick-on mounts and Velcro grips.
Cycle Swap will start with an awareness exercise involving cab and bus drivers in Reading. Participants will be given cycling awareness skills throughout the morning and in the afternoon they will be provided with helmet cameras to document how they navigate through the varied conditions in Reading. This exercise will raise awareness and help build a better relationship between road users and cyclists.
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The Box Chevy game has seen its share of ups and downs - literally and figuratively - and if any group is indicative of the big rim game's evolution, it's this one![read more]
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Lawn & garden equipment for homeowners
The Husqvarna Battery Series is a range of highly efficient electric cordless chainsaws, trimmers and hedge trimmers, driven by a powerful 36V lithium-ion battery pack. The battery, combined with a specially developed brushless motor, gives you performance similar to gas powered products. To keep working, you can quickly exchange the battery from one handheld to another*. Landscaping and yard work has never been greener and easier! *For battery compatibility details, see battery page.
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Movik Networks Adds Mobile Telecom Veteran to Drive Growth of Mobile Broadband Experience Technology
Littleton, MA, USA – February 1, 2011 – Movik Networks is publicly releasing technology designed to dramatically improve the mobile broadband experience. Movik's Content Aware Edge (CAE) product line increases the efficiency and intelligence of mobile content delivery. Mobile networks powered by Movik's technology, enable subscribers to have faster access to video, websites, social media sites, and other Internet-based applications.
In order to lead the company through this important growth phase, Movik announces the hiring of John St. Amand, an experienced and successful mobile telecommunications executive, as the company's Chief Executive Officer.
"John will be a tremendous addition to the Movik team. His experience and industry knowledge will prove invaluable as Movik continues to develop their market opportunity worldwide," said Ed Anderson, Managing General Partner of Northbridge Venture Partners.
"Mobile broadband usage is expanding at an enormous pace, with subscribers demanding instant access to content and applications over a wide variety of devices," stated John St. Amand, Chief Executive Officer of Movik Networks. "I'm tremendously excited to join the Movik team as our operations scale to meet commitments to our growing customer base."
Most recently, Mr. St. Amand was a Venture Partner with Highland Capital Partners where he specialized in working with companies focused on mobile technologies. Prior to Highland, Mr. St. Amand was President of Alcatel-Lucent's (NYSE: ALU) Multi-Core Networks and Lucent Technologies' Converge Core Networks (prior to the merger with Alcatel), Mr. St. Amand was responsible for managing multi-billion dollar businesses encompassing mobile and fixed core network elements from both companies.
Before Alcatel-Lucent, Mr. St. Amand was the Founder and CEO of Telica, which built mobile and fixed core switching equipment. The company secured more than 60 customers, including many incumbent operators around the world. Telica was acquired by Lucent in 2004 for $330 million.
"John will be a great asset to Movik. I had the pleasure of working closely with him as an investor in Telica and while he was with Highland. The opportunity for Movik is huge, and John is a proven winner that will help the company grow and scale as a market leader," said Sean Dalton, General Partner at Highland Capital.
"The team and I are excited to have John on board," explained Ramji Raghavan, founder and Chief Technology Officer of Movik Networks. "Movik has the potential to change the way content is delivered in mobile networks helping fulfill the promise of a true broadband user experience. Attracting John to the team is testament to the vision and success we have achieved to date."
Movik Networks has received funding from North Bridge Venture Partners and Highland Capital Partners, who have backed some of the leading companies in the communications and technology sector, including companies like Starent, Sycamore, Cascade, Wellfleet, Arrowpoint, Sonus, Camiant, Telica, Lycos, Mapquest, and Avid.
The company is headquartered in Littleton, Massachusetts, USA with R&D and customer support groups located in Bangalore, India.
About Movik Networks
Movik Networks enables mobile operators to improve their subscribers' experience by intelligently delivering mobile content from the edge of their networks. The company's technology leverages network and content awareness to quickly and easily scale content distribution, establishes policies and procedures based on real-time network conditions, and implements traffic management techniques that make the most efficient use of the existing network infrastructure. To learn more about Movik Networks, please visit: www.movik.com.


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Archive for December, 2010
Posted on December 31, 2010 - by admin
Questions to Challenge Your Growth This Year
As we enter the New Year of 2011, it's important to have specific direction if we're to grow intentionally. While preparing questions to challenge myself, a friend sent me something Dr. Don Whitney had written. I combined some of his with mine since he has some good questions also. You may have more of your own. This is a suggestion for you to use as a guideline to begin & track your growth this year.
(1) What's ONE thing you could do this year to increase your enjoyment of God? (2) What's the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year? (3) What's the most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life this year? (4) In what spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year, and what will you do about it? (5) What is the single biggest time-waster in your life, and what will you do about it this year? (6) For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year? (7) What single thing that you plan to do this year will matter most in 10 years? In eternity? (8) Who do you most want to encourage this year? (9) What is your plan for reading the Bible this year? (10) In what area of your life do you need to improve and what's your plan for it? (11) What trip do you want to take this year? (12) What ministry or service do you want to be involved in and when are you going to do it? (13) What person or family do you want to bless secretly this year who could not pay you back? (14) What strongholds, sins, attitudes, or bad habits are you going to pray God for freedom from this year? (15) What pain, bitterness, grudge, jealousy, resentment, or past experience are you going to release and let go this year? (16) What attitude or spirit (pride, envy, etc. ) do you most want God to convict of before it takes root this year? (17) How do you plan to put God first in your finances, your marriage, your plans this year? (18) What lesson did you learn last year from experience that you will be wiser for this new year? (19) What specific goals have you written out for your better health this year? (20) What are you going to do now with this list? Remember, "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you've always been".
Have a Great New Year!
Posted on December 9, 2010 - by admin
The Christmas ADVENTure
With Christmas Day right around the corner, there's a lot to be excited about! I remember when my boys were little they would wake up each morning in December and move a little mouse one day forward on the Advent Calendar Debbie had hanging in the kitchen. For them it was a reminder that Santa Claus would be visiting soon, but its true meaning goes much deeper than that.
Advent means coming or arrival. It does not actually signify the coming of Santa Claus, obviously, but the arrival of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Let's take a look at the truths of Advent together. It's my hope that you will decide to celebrate the coming of the Messiah each day between now and Christmas. Reflect on these truths in your home and create traditions that will make Christmas more meaningful.
The celebration of Advent Season focuses on two things…
1. The birth of Jesus, which is his first Advent
2. The anticipation of His return as King, which will be the second Advent
There are many ways to celebrate the season as well as to give you and your family daily reminders that the coming of the Lord, Christmas Day, is near.
You are most likely already familiar with The Songs of Advent. Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, Oh Holy Night, The First Noel, Silent Night, What Child Is This?, Joy To The World, and Oh Come All Ye Faithful. I love that this is the one time of year that the world is singing our songs…songs about Jesus, the hope of the world, and yet many don't even realize that is what they're singing about. Make these songs of Advent part of your life during the Christmas season. You can catch them anywhere…most cities have radio stations that devote the entire month to playing nothing but Christmas music. Tune in and let the songs and prayers of the season reign in your thoughts.
There are also different Symbols of Advent. One symbol I'm sure many of you have seen at the grocery store is the Advent Calendar, which is a great way to build anticipation. Twenty-four numbered windows or doors act as a count-down clock to Christmas Eve. Often times these doors or windows unwrap a small gift for children each day, like candy, chocolate or Bible verses. This is a wonderful way to teach your children what the Christmas season is truly all about. Having them open up a Bible verse from the Christmas story in the Bible, or even and Old Testament prophesy speaking of the birth of the Messiah is a great idea!
Another symbol is the Advent Wreath. It's a circular evergreen wreath with five candles, four around the wreath and one in the center. The wreath itself is actually full of symbolism. Each week a candle is lit, counting down the weeks until Jesus' arrival, and a different aspect of Christmas is explained. The shape of the wreath, a circle, is to remind us of God. His eternal nature has no beginning or ending. The green of the wreath reflects newness and renewal. The candles symbolize Jesus as the light of the world, and also that we are called to be a light to the world. The outer candles represent the period of waiting during four Sundays of advent and symbolize the four centuries of waiting between the prophet Malachi and the birth of Christ. The colors of the candles are also for a reason. There are three purple or blue candles, one pink or rose candle, and one white candle. There is a specific order and meaning for the lighting of each candle.
The first candle is purple and called The Candle of Hope. Micah 5:2 says, "But you, Bethlehem, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel…" It's a reminder that a savior is promised. It's to be lit the first Sunday of Advent and every night thereafter until Christmas.
The second candle is also purple and is The Candle of Peace. Isaiah 9:6, "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. It's a reminder of the peace only God can provide for the soul. It is lit the second Sunday of Advent and every night until Christmas.
The third candle is rose colored and called The Candle of Joy. Luke 2:10-11, "But the angel said to them, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." It reminds us of the joy the shepherds and Magi felt at hearing about the birth of Christ. It's lit the third Sunday of Advent and every night thereafter until Christmas.
The fourth candle is purple and known as The Candle of Love. John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." It represents the love God displayed by giving His Son to die for our sins. It's to be lit the fourth Sunday of Advent.
The fifth candle is white and is The Christ Candle. It's white reflecting the purity of the sinless Christ. It's placed in the center to reflect where Christ should be in our life and is lit on Christmas Eve.
Advent is marked by a spirit of expectation and anticipation. Just as the prophets, the people, the magi, Zacharias, Mary, and others long in excitement for the birth of Jesus, the Bible tells us we should feel that same excitement for His return one day. Philippians 3:20, "But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ."
You see, there is so much more to celebrate this month than the singular day of Christ's birth. Start your Advent celebration today! Emmanuel is coming and we have so much to joyously celebrate!


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Adjournment Debate. - Farming Community Health Contributions.
Wednesday, 13 May 1987
Dáil Eireann Debate
An Ceann Comhairle: Deputy Barry Desmond has given me notice of his intention to raise on the Adjournment the subject matter of the waiver of health contributions from the farming community. We have a shortage of time. May I suggest that the Deputy take seven minutes and the Minister four. Is that satisfactory? Agreed.
Mr. Desmond: The total amount outstanding from farmers and collectable by the Revenue Commissioners now stands at £9.7 million. This is in respect of the years commencing 5 April 1985 and presumably to 5 April 1987, inclusive. The figure is suggested as an estimate. I was quite taken aback when I heard from the Minister for Finance in reply to a question raised by Deputy Wyse that the actual amount which is likely to be collected out of the £9.7 million is a derisory £2 million. I am concerned, and the House should be, that £7.7 million of health contributions for the years 1985-86 is effectively being written off prematurely on a questionable basis by the Revenue Commissioners. I should like to indicate the effect of a loss of Appropriations-in-Aid to the Health Vote of £7.7 million. If the Department of Health had the full £9.7 million in 1987, as they should have because that money is due — reminders have been sent to those concerned — it would provide pay and pensions and employer contributions for 1,000 health workers. It should be remembered that other sections of the community pay their health contributions on a weekly or monthly basis.
The Estimate of the Department of Health is made up on the basis of £10,000 per worker and if the amount outstanding was available there would not be any need to pay off 1,000 people employed by the health agencies or to cut services. That is the impact of the failure to collect those contributions. I am not satisfied about this matter. Only now, after two or three years, are the Revenue Commissioners indicating that because of overall limitations on staff resources they are commencing enforcement proceedings in the case of health contributions. That is not acceptable [1931] particularly when one realises that revenue is urgently needed to keep essential public services in operation. The Government did not have any difficulty in writing off, in addition to that £7.7 million, a figure of £6 million in farm tax. Legislation has not gone through yet to deal with that issue and, hopefully, it will not go through. I hope the Government will revise their policy decision in that regard before the publication of the Finance Bill on 22 May.
We are faced with the position that a section of the community whose representatives through the IFA are simultaneously calling for a massive reduction in public expenditure are, in effect, having £6 million written-off in farm tax and a further £7.7 million due in health contributions waived by the Minister for Finance. That is something the rest of the community should feel irate about and it should be addressed by the Minister. If the Minister, who is responsible for the public service, could find 125 people for Jobsearch I am sure he could find 20 or 30 people in the public service to issue enforcement proceedings through the sheriff's office in respect of health contribution arrears. The Minister laid off 200 people in the farm classification office and I am sure he could have asked them to stay for a couple of months to collect the arrears of contributions. Those skilled persons, including a number who live in my constituency, are now drawing the dole. The money is due and there is no excuse for not collecting it. I may be regarded as being anti-farmer but I am not. As far as I am concerned we must all pay our due share of income tax and levies to maintain essential public services. A bitter lesson is being learned now in rural areas with county hospitals closing down and basic community care services being withdrawn because of the lack of financial resources for health boards. That arises because of the decision in regard to the farm tax and the failure to collect health contributions.
Were I a farmer and had seen over the years one Government being played [1932] off against the next, and one party being played off against another with promises of amendments in the taxation system, I too would be tempted not to bother paying any taxes, including health contributions. As far as I know the only time farmers now pay will be under the regulations I brought in. If they go into hospital they will have to pay £100. They will have to pay when they are faced with the extremity of an emergency admission but that is not good bookkeeping, good taxation or good administration. I urge the Minister to remedy this as a matter of the utmost public importance.
Minister for Finance (Mr. MacSharry): I am delighted to have an opportunity tonight to dispel any misconceptions which may have arisen in this area and others. I am pleased to be able to say that what Deputy Desmond has said is totally untrue and misleading. There has been no write-off whatever of any tax liability. It is nonsense to say, as Deputy Desmond did, that £6 million has been written-off in respect of land tax. He is aware that another provision of the budget was a reduction in the VAT refund to farmers which yielded the same amount straightaway to the Exchequer. Let us deal with facts and not create banner headlines for emotional reasons.
As I indicated in the course of my reply to the question tabled by Deputy Wyse the health contributions due from full-time farmers are collectible by the health boards for years prior to the year ended 5 April, 1985. Contributions from full-time farmers for the year ended 5 April 1985 and subsequent years are collectible by the Revenue Commissioners as are contributions from part-time farmers for all years. Arrears of approximately £6 million are due to the health boards from farmers and these are being pursued by the boards.
I also indicated in my reply yesterday that there was a total balance outstanding of £9.7 million in respect of farmers' health contributions which are collectible by the Revenue Commissioners. I emphasised that the figure of £9.7 million was no more than an estimate and on the [1933] basis of previous experience the amount will be subject to downward revision on closer examination, on appeal, and for various other reasons and the figure will change accordingly. In fact, a large part of contributions outstanding relate to cases where income tax is under appeal, that amount of the £9.7 million being £4.5 million. Late appeals may be received in other cases. The Revenue Commissioners estimate that these factors and such collection difficulties as those arising from the financial position of some farmers will result in an actual collection of £2 million out of the total balance outstanding of £9.7 million. I should also like to stress that £2.5 million has been paid by farmers in health contributions. I wish to emphasise, as strongly as possible, that the difference between the balance outstanding and the expected yield is due primarily to factors such as the amounts being reduced on appeal and is not, as has been alleged, as a result of a decision not to pursue these arrears from farmers.
I should also emphasise that arrears of health contributions from farmers are only a very tiny fraction of the total tax to be collected at any given time. It is perfectly sound administrative practice on the part of the Revenue Commissioners, and common business sense, to deploy resources towards the collection and enforcement of the various taxes in a way which reflects the scale of the arrears in the context of all arrears of tax. This practice was, of course, followed by the Revenue Commissioners during the previous administration, during the course of which collection responsibility for health contributions for full-time farmers was transferred to the Revenue and at a time when that administration was reducing the staff at the Revenue Commissioners. All the facts should be put on the table.
[1934] I accept there is scope for improvements in the collection and enforcement of health contributions. There is always scope for improvement. The question is, of course, a simple pragmatic one: what resources are required and what extra tax would be collected as a result.
Improved enforcement also will require that the existing enforcement agencies will have to experience some relief from the heavy burden of the very large numbers of income tax and VAT cases which they have to handle at present. There are prospects that the appointment of 12 Revenue sheriffs last year and the operation of the tax clearance certificate scheme in relation to public contracts and grants will make a contribution towards this and that the enforcement agencies, sheriffs and solicitors, will have the capacity to take on health contributions.
I can assure the House that the Government will take all possible steps to bring about a situation where more effective enforcement of health contributions will be effected. To this end I am asking the Revenue Commissioners to review their present operations in this area to see if a speedy improvement can be instituted and what cost-effective changes can be made.
The collection and enforcement of health contributions is not as satisfactory as I would wish. On the other hand, statements about £7 million of contributions not being pursued are grossly exaggerated and totally untrue. I am reviewing the present position to see what further improvements can be made and whether these would be cost-effective.
The Dáil adjourned at 9 p.m. until 10.30 a.m. on Thursday, 14 May 1987.
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As of October 2014 you will no longer get a paper tax disk, it's quick and easy to check online so no problem is there?
In this move they are also bringing in a new rule that will stop the tax disk staying with the vehical during all of the some 7 million privet sales. The vendor will have to claime back their remaining tax and the new owner will have to re-tax the car. All well and good you say, they will have to have insurance to get the tax but there are several problems here......
1 When you take out insurance it can take upto 5 days for your insurance to show up on the national database, you will not be able to get a licence online untill you appear on this database.
2 When you sell a car you can only claim back the whole months remaining and when you purchase a car you have to pay for tax to the begining of the month this means if the average road fund is £200 the DVLA will be raking in an extra £117 million pounds a year in TAX. Seeing as it's the lower paid people that tend to purchase and sell cars privetly it's them that will be affected by the tax the most!


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Stats: The Last Player To Do What Rick Nash Is Doing
Rick Nash has eight goals on the season and all eight have come in the third period.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Nash is the second period in NHL history to have his first eight goals be in the third period.
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Pickled Onions
2 Tbsp chopped fresh cilantro
1 ½ tsp ground cumin
½ tsp ground chipotle chile pepper
½ tsp salt
⅛ tsp ground allspice
4 whole-wheat bun, split
8 tsp reduced-fat mayonnaise, divided
- To prepare pickled onions: Whisk vinegar, brown sugar, salt and allspice in a medium glass bowl. Microwave on High until the mixture boils, 2 to 3 minutes. (Alternatively, bring the mixture to a boil in a small saucepan on the stove.) Add onions and toss to coat.
- To prepare burgers: Preheat grill to high. Place turkey in a medium bowl and gently mix in cilantro, cumin, ground chipotle, salt and allspice until distributed throughout the meat. Form the mixture into 4 patties. Brush with oil.
- Grill the burgers until cooked through and no longer pink in the center, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Meanwhile, toast buns on the grill, if desired.
- Drain the onions, discarding the marinade. Spread 2 teaspoons mayonnaise on each bun; top with a burger and pickled onions.
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- Calories 309
- Calories from fat 108 15%
- Total Fat 12gm 18%
- Saturated Fat 3gm 22%
- Monounsaturated Fat 1gm 31%
- Sodium 738mg 16%
- Total Carbohydrates 27gm
- Fiber 4gm
- Protein 26gm
- Cholesterol 65mg 9%
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TOOELE, UTAH, MAY 27 - Geico Suzuki's Martin Cardenas won a thrilling last lap battle over Latus Motors Racing's Jason DiSalvo to take the victory in the Daytona Sportbike race at Miller Motorsports Park.
DiSalvo led from the start and built up an advantage of 1.216 secs. over Cardenas on the 10th of 16 laps. Then on the next lap it came down and would continue to until the 14th lap when Cardenas was right on DiSalvo.
The final lap started with the two nose-to-tail and Cardenas looking for a way through. His first move came on the inside in the double left Black Rock Hairpin, though DiSalvo closed the door on the exit and stayed in front. They exited the next pair of corners, Right Hook and Knock Out, side by side, with DiSalvo continuing to stay in front. Further up the road there was traffic looming.
DiSalvo kept the lead through the Attitudes, a three corner sequence that leads to the final left Tooele Turn before the track heads back to the finish line. Cardenas drafted alongside DiSalvo in the left hand Clubhouse Corner, DiSalvo counter-attacked in the next looping right Wind Up but to no avail. In the final corner (Release) Cardenas went under the lappers who'd been looming and who did DiSalvo no favors. All that was left was the short drag race to the stripe, which was won by the Colombian by .100 sec.
The win was the fourth in five races for Cardenas, who extended his championship points lead over Y.E.S. Graves Yamaha's Tommy Hayden. Hayden had problems from the start and finished ninth.
Cameron Beaubier, Hayden's teammate, took back third from Ducshop Racing's Jake Zemke (Duc) on the penultimate lap. Beaubier had pressured DiSalvo in the early going before being passed by Cardenas on the eighth lap. Zemke made his move early on the 14th lap, losing it to Beaubier on the next lap.
Bobby Fong (Meen Motorsports Racing Yamaha) finished well behind the lead four and by himself. M4 Lucas Oil Suzuki's Dane Westby was next, with JD Beach (Road Race Factory/Red Bull Yamaha) and Benny Solis (Kneedraggers.com Yamaha) close behind.
Daytona Sportbike Results:
1. Martin Cardenas (Suzuki)
2. Jason DiSalvo (Triumph)
3. Cameron Beaubier (Yamaha)
4. Jake Zemke (Ducati)
5. Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
6. Dane Westby (Suzuki)
7. JD Beach (Yamaha)
8. Benny Solis (Yamaha)
9. Tommy Hayden (Yamaha)
10. Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
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Clostridium perfringens
Clostridium perfringens is not the 24 hour flu although it is often confused with being. It is one of the most wide spread foodborne pathogens in the world, commonly referred to as the "food service bug" 1. The type A strain of C. perfringens is caused by a bacterial infection that releases alpha-toxins and is associated with undercooked and improperly handled meats. This type of food poisoning, although usually mild, can have some devastating consequences to an individuals' overall health. Bacterial infection symptoms can range from bloating and stomach discomfort, to gas gangrene lesions and even death. Gas gangrene, Clostridial myonecrosis, lesions multiply up through the skin as gases are released from its alpha-toxins. This is the bacterium's fermentation process of metabolism, resulting in immediate tissue death. Along with tainted meat, the bacterium can normally be found within the human gastrointestinal tract, fecal matter, and soil. Its endospores can lie dormant for long periods of time until the right conditions present itself to begin its germination process. Whether or not careful food handling was present during its preparation, C. perfringens endospores can survive in proper cooking conditions and can withstand boiling temperatures for up to an hour 2. Due to its ability to germinate so rapidly, C. perfringens has been facilitated, in combination with other deadly agents, to create some very destructive forms of biological warfare. In 1991 the University of Bagdad was suspected of using the a-toxins from C. perfringens to combine it with small pox DNA, creating an apocalyptic chimera, a virtually indestructible virus that could wipe out entire populations over a very short period of time. These potential weapons of mass destruction played a contributing factor in the United States initiation of both gulf wars over the past two decades.


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My twilight chapter 1
Disclaimer: I do NOT own the twilight books! I don't own any of the characters or anything! I just did this for fun and you can read it. Hope you enjoy!
I did write this but I repeat I don't own the characters or anything. Just did it for fun. :)
STORY-- Bella just moved to Forks, Washington where she has her own place. Something in her dangerous past causes her to pull away from everyone she cares for. To protect them. Can she keep these secrets hidden when she is faced with true love? And she is already a vampire something in her past caused that as well.
Chapter 1
My name is Bella Swan. I'm 17 and have been for a while. But I don't like to think of my past now is my future. But why does my past have to follow me around?!?!?!
I have to start school tomorrow, and I hate school. It gets boring once you have done it over, and over, and over. And I have to resist all the humans! Uh! I'd rather just eat them.
Lucky for me I'm a vampire with powers. I can control my thirst very well so I'm able to make it through the school day and hunt after. I usually eat humans that I believe are evil and heartless. I don't like killing people but what else can I do? And what I really love is that my eyes don't get red! They are chocolate brown forever!
Another power I have is to hide. If vampires are around they don't know I'm a vampire because I smell like human. So I can hide from all vampires.
Over the years I've got a lot of money so I don't need to work to pay for m hotel. I have a LOT of free time. I taught myself how to play the guitar do I play it almost every second of everyday, except when I'm hunting.
I was playing I am Iron Man on the guitar when I glanced at the clock. Dang! I'm half an hour late for my first day at a new school! Oh well.
Chapter 2
When I arrived human males were looking me up and down. Gross! Maybe I could work this to my advantage... If someone was willing to come to my place. Free lunch!
I walked into my first class- English. The first sent that hit me vampire. Vampire! Someone in this class was a vampire! But who?
"You must be miss swan! Did you get lost? Your almost an hour late!" The filthy human teacher was talking to me.
"No I wasn't lost I just didn't feel like coming on time." Class laughed. I turn to them. Which one was the vampire?
"Well I'll excuse you because your new but don't let it happen again. Take a seat." The rest of the classes went by slow. I kept getting new vampire sents. There are...3 no! 5 vampires in this school not counting me.
Finally it was lunch time! I grabbed my food and scaned the crowd. Ah! There at the back table there were 5 people all pale and hot. One was small like a midget she had messes up hair that stuck out everywhere. The guy next to her was blond. Beside him was a girl that was really pretty and looked stuck up. Beside her was another guy that was huge!!! He looked really strong. The one that caught my attention the most was the guy with the brownish bronze hair he was... Really really hot. And he was staring at me he looked frustrated.
"Y-you can sit with me?" Some ugly human male was talking to me. "Im mike."


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I'm getting a solo tent made with a number of custom modifications one of the possibilities is getting the tent floor done in [1oz] cuben vs. [1.1oz] silnylon. (the tent canopy is already being done in cuben) The modification would be a $60-80 increase and reduce the weight by about 1.5oz. Since I'm hoping for this to be "the" tent I've always dreamed of and wanted I'm thinking of going all in and getting all the upgrades I would ever want now.are there any reason why I would not want to go with a cuben floor for my tent? The price upcharge is a non issue for me at this point. Thanks in advance.
Cuben, by reputation, is more prone to abrasion damage than silnylon. I use a cuben fiber groundsheet with my Hexamid but the design of the tent provides a layer of netting to add some additional protection to the groundsheet. I often use the groundsheet for cowboy camping but I take care to clear the ground of sticks and rocks. I think you'd be fine but I'd personally use a polycryo groundsheet with it. Fortunately if you do damage it, it's fairly simple to repair.
I plan to use a footprint either way I go, dunno if that matters. I also clear the ground and am generally very careful with taking care of all my gear
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The way I see it is the cuben will wear out faster than sil but I dont think its a problem because it will still last a long time. If I had a sil tent I would want a sil floor, cuben tent cuben floor vise versa. Cuben has a few advantages like weight and its not slippery. If you are thru hiking for several months you might want to replace it at the end. You could always mail the tent back to the maker and have them sew in a new cuben floor ($100?).
The cuben will probably wear out much faster than other materials. Whether or not that is a problem will vary by user. So you have to determine how much the lighter option of cuben is worth to you.I think that carrying extra weight in a groundsheet to protect a tent floor kind of defeats the purpose of a tent, which is why most of my shelters are floorless. But that is my opinion, others disagree.
I would go silnylon and no ground sheet.Cuben is sketchy as a floor material. It's okay for a while, but once it starts to fray the end isn't far off. Opting for silnylon with no groundsheet is (1) cheaper (2) lighter and (3) more durable.
Personally I would never use cuben as a tent floor. This last weekend I discovered that my 1.0 oz cuben pack liner is not even remotely waterproof after about a year and a half of use. I could only imagine it being worse for something you sit and kneel on.
Has anyone actually worn though a cuben floor all the way to the point of it not being useable?1.0 cuben is pretty tough and I honestly don't see it fraying to the point of disintegrating. I can easily see it lasting hundreds of nights.
I have personal experience with this, in a way at least. What you almost never can find on questions like this is someone who has recently tried it "both ways", so there's almost always an experience bias to answers. Including mine.Anyway, for my 2011 CDT thru-hike, I bought a cuben Lightheart Solo tent, and decided to go with silnylon floor. In part because that saved a little money, but primarily due to concerns about how cuben would last as a floor.Post-hike (and I slept in that tent pretty much every night), both upper and lower are intact, it's still my go-to tent. What I can't know is how a cuben floor would have fared instead.I do agree that not all cuben is alike. If the tent body (upper) type of cuben were used as the floor, I'm not confident it would have lasted. But a thicker, more abrasion proof cuben might have done fine. I presume with less of a weight savings, however, and I think for me it would have been $100 more.Bottom line, if I were to do it again I would still go with the silnylon floor.
I agree that cuben has the advantages of (1) not being annoyingly slippery like silnylon (2) being somewhat lighter and (3) being more waterproof initially. Ideally I'd like a 30D PU coated floor.My experience with stuff sacks is that a year down the road silnylon is going to be more waterproof. All my cuben stuff sacks leak substantially after moderate use. My 1.5oz cuben food sack was super ratty before a bear stole it this fall. I've got small misc. gear stuff sack I made from 1.5oz cuben, but I'm opting not to bring it on the PCT this summer because it's starting to fray and I think I treat it pretty nice.I had a HMG Echo I with a 1.5oz cuben floor. There was no damage to it when I sold it, but I only had 5-10 nights of use on it. I think it theory 100+ nights is possible, but it could also be ruined by one night on granite.I guess like all things it's really situation dependant. If you camp on nice surfaces and take care of your gear it'll last a long time.
I use silnylon bottom bivy with no other groundsheet. Used it for years. Still seems waterproof.Seems like it defeats UL to have a second groundsheet or footprint.If silnylon is too slippery, put a little silicone:mineral spirits. Then it's not slippery. If it loses waterproofness, this also works to fix that, although for slipperyness, you just need to put it in the middle where you sleep, for waterproofness you have to carefully cover entire surface.
I have had great success with my tent with cuben floor. Even after my thru hike, it is still in great shape. No leaks. I think it is a much better application than a food bag. I had to replace my cuben fibre food bag as it split at the seams. Also, cuben is very easily patched if necessary.
"Has anyone actually worn though a cuben floor all the way to the point of it not being useable?"1.0 cuben is pretty tough and I honestly don't see it fraying to the point of disintegrating. I can easily see it lasting hundreds of nights."After a "first time out" on 10 day JMT trip my .75 cuben floor was full of pinholes, to the point that I would collect water between the floor and my air mat, raining or not, on just damp campsite ground.Was it "worn through"? Nope.Is it usable? If you don't mind the potential of a wet floor and wet gear.I don't think it's just a matter of careful campsite grooming. I believe there is an inherent flaw in the way the facing gets worked against the individual spectra fibers, on the ground and while carried in a pack. Certainly where the Spectra spacing is wide, as with the lighter fabrics. And with my .75 ounce.Many folks thought .75 was indestructible. But until someone does some wear testing on 1.0 oz cuben, followed by Hydraulic Head testing, I'll chose something else.
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Silnylon. If it starts leaking, just reseal it. I agree with Jerry.Like other have said, cuben is not very abraision resistant. Floors are generally the area of most damage with a tent. It will take 3-4 times as much damage as the canopy. I would probably bite the bullit here, and simply go for the extra 1.5oz. Later, after recoating, this may be another two or three ounces. But your maintenence will only cost about $10-15. Over the same time period (about 2-3 years) you will likely need two floors, roughly, 1 per year. This would be about $200 plus shipping. Over the life expanctancy of the tent? Calling it five years, shows a huge difference in cost for only about a 5-6oz overall weight savings. (Chances are, you will only need to do it every other year if you use it for 2 months per year, anyway.)
Edited by jpovs on 06/15/2014 14:00:21 MDT.
I am going to make the unpopular suggestion that I will readily admit is mostly due to paranoia. I personally always have to have a ground cover, regardless of the material of my tent or bivy or whatever. So knowing that I am more comfortable always using a ground cover, be it a silnylon or Cuben tent/bivy, I took a step back and looked at the advantages of each fabric a bit differently.The whole abrasion thing with Cuben is not really an issue if you have a ground cover. I use a double ground cover most of the time, which is a DIY job of a garbage bag and a cut up piece of space blanket with duct tape to hold them together. Plus a small Cuben stuff sack, this double ground cover weighs 88g. This gives me the peace of mind knowing that my Cuben bottomed bivy (which is what I use most of the time) has two layers of protection. Of course I am like most of us here, in that I am also careful and make sure to clear the ground and all that. I even lay my ground cover and then lay on top of it and feel around for any pieces of debris I may have missed, and this technique really ensures I do a good job clearing ground.There is another item of gear that comes into play here, which is sleeping pads with any kind of air in them. If you use them, they also benefit from having a little extra protection with a ground cover.But seeing as silnylon is slightly heavier, and also slippery, and I read in a few threads on here that sometimes with pressure it can seep water through, and given my personal issue of always using a ground sheet, Cuben wins out for me.If you don't care about being extra cautious with your floor, go for siynylon and no ground cover. If you want/need to be extra cautious and will usually or always use a ground cover, go for Cuben. If you are even more paranoid/cautious than I am, go for silnylon plus a ground cover and just deal with the extra weight.It's worth noting that ground covers are not the heaviest addition either. You don't have to be crazy like me and use a two layer one. In my 4 season kit for winter/frigid/very cold temps I use just a garbage bag as a ground cover, as I don't use a tent or bivy in these conditions, and it only weighs 42g plus a tiny Cuben stuff sack. Even a really tough Tyvek ground cover is going to be around 3-4oz I think. I think once my double ground cover gets worn out and needs replaced, I might get a Tyvek one in the future.Good luck whatever you pick.EDIT - fixed some typos, added a few details
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"I wonder why no one goes with 1.43oz cuben for the floor? I would think this would still be lighter than the silnylon floor including seam sealent?"At last check, HMG was using 1.43oz cuben for their floors in the Echo shelters. Lightweight nylon (30D) is about 1.1oz/yd and then with the silicone coating it ends up at 1.3 to 1.5oz/yd. So opting for 1.43oz is effectively weight neutral. Yes you might have to seal some silnylon seams, but you also have to seal or tape cuben seams.My suspicion is that the amount of fibers used in cuben isn't the real hang up for abrasion. The limiting property is likely the outer mylar layers since pinholes can form in cuben without breaking any of the fibers. To this, >1.0oz cuben with the thicker .18 mylar is better than the lighter cuben with .08 mylar, but it's still pretty bare bones. I'd wager than a simple polycro floor would be stronger, more durable and lighter but it wouldn't have the trail-steez of cuben.
"The whole abrasion thing with Cuben is not really an issue if you have a ground cover."There are industry standard "wear tests" used to evaluate matierals. One is a "flapper test" where the fabric is held in front of a fan and allowed to "flap" for a set amount of time. Another is a "washing machine test" where the agitation simulates wear. (Gore's choice). There are other tests.So, no "abrasion", no "pointy things", no "kneeling".For many samples, Cuben has failed these tests. It pinholes.I recognize that many have used cuben for a lot of applications without seeing a problem. But when push comes to shove, testing has shown that the durability is questionable.
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The East Lincoln High football team, which won the Class 2A state championship last season with a perfect
16-0 record, will be forced to forfeit its first three games of the season for using an ineligible player.
The Mustangs, who are currently ranked second in the state in the Class 2A poll, were 7-1 to start the season. They're currently 4-4. East Lincoln is at home on Friday night to play West Caldwell (1-7, 0-4), then closes the regular season at home against Maiden on November 1 and at West Lincoln on November 8.
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Daniel Bernstein, PhD, is no stranger to experimental research. During a 20-year career at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the social psychologist ran studies on motivation and learning so rigorously controlled that he had participants live around-the-clock in an apartment for a month to study how restricting access to daily activities affected their behavior.
But an increased passion for improving student learning led him to shift his focus to improving, writing about and reflecting on his own teaching, as part of the Carnegie Foundation-supported movement known as the scholarship of teaching and learning or SoTL ( See Higher-ed movement aims to elevate teaching).
A Carnegie scholar for the past five years, Bernstein has been conducting research on learning progress among students in his psychology classes that departs from conventional research and exemplifies SoTL. He uses existing classroom conditions and applies trial and error, learning theory and other methods to meet particular educational goals, such as improving student performance and getting more students to participate in class.
"My presumption is that if the kids haven't learned my material, it's not because the registrar gave me a bad lot of kids," says Bernstein, who directs the Center for Learning at the University of Kansas. "It's that I haven't found the right way to teach it yet."
In the first semester of his project, Bernstein rewrote his traditional essay exam, changing it from a format that asked students to describe the principles of learning to one that tested whether they could apply those principles in real contexts. Under the new format, student performance plunged 15 percent to 20 percent below the previous semester's scores, flying in the face of the notion that if you understand the abstract version of an idea, you can apply it, he says.
The next semester, Bernstein tried bringing those numbers back up while maintaining the more difficult testing format. He added some out-of-class computer-based reading exercises where students answered alternate versions of questions on a topic until they got a certain number right.
Test scores continued to be low, yet something positive occurred, with students participating more: "Instead of people being in fear when I'd call on them in class, everybody kind of looked forward to it," says Bernstein.
The following semester, using the idea that people are guided by good examples, he posted several former students' answers to an essay question online and asked students to judge them--without telling them which ones he'd marked highly.
At exam time, Bernstein gave them completely different versions of the question, producing a major improvement in performance. He then had students discuss their answers in class, which yielded even better results. The eventual success of the intervention--repeated several times, with the same results--demonstrates the value of the SoTL approach, Bernstein believes.
"There's much more shortage of effective teaching than there is of theory waiting to be used," he notes. "As long as people are using, evaluating and sharing with others the quality of their student work and using that as a metric, it seems to me it's a big winner."
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Movement Highlight: General Balancing Technique
Hey MovNation people!
In yesterday's blog entry "You Are Meant To Shine" we released a combo-workout video titled "One Step At A Time." Today I'd like to highlight some general pointers about efficiency in walking in balance. Check out this movement video highlight in slow motion.
Efficiency will make any movement look easier than it actually is, and as you may notice, this basic balancing action is performed with efficiency.
- Begin with straight posture constantly maintained, the spine is kept elongated. The head may slightly but not exaggeratedly lean forward so I can look down to the surface of support.
- I always place the ball of the foot on support first. This allows to better feel the surface and area that is about to support me next, as well as how properly my foot is placed on that surface. If the proprioceptive feedback I get from it is good, I will then decide that I can safely shift bodyweight from the trail foot to the front foot. In case anything unpredictable happens in the process of shifting weight to the front foot, I can always push my weight back to the trail foot or swiftly reposition my front foot. All of this would be way more difficult if I was to place my heel on support first, as this body part doesn't have as much sensitivity and mobility as the forefoot.
- I keep my arms and shoulders relaxed, as I do not rely on them for counterbalancing by extending them on each side of my body. If you think about it, counterbalancing (usually with the arms, but also the legs, hips or trunk) will only occur when you are already losing balancing and need to recover. Of course depending on the difficulty of the environment where you are balancing as well as the level of your balancing skills in relation to that environment, counterbalancing may be needed. But you want to train to rely on the primary joints ensuring stability here, the ankles, knees and hips, and keep them all vertically aligned with a straight posture all the way to toes to head, with minimal disturbing motion on the frontal plane (or any other body plane for that matter). This is important not only for improving your general balancing skills, but for practical reasons as well. Indeed, in real world action you may need your arms for holding, throwing or catching a light object, communicating by gestures, or for swiftly transitioning to a jump for instance. If you must rely on your arms for counterbalancing and maintaining your stance, then you won't be able to use them for anything else.
- Breathing: you may not notice it, but an ample yet relaxed breathing from the abdomen should be constantly maintained. Breathing control will support good posture, relaxation and focus. Breathing may not be perceptible from the outside as it is like an internal movement, but breathing efficiently is a certainly a fundamental skill that just like other movement skills must be mastered.
Now you guys get yourself a 8 to 12 footer 2×4 or anything equivalent and start apply those technical reminders. Everything is interrelated in movement, an improper position of your feet on the surface will force you to compromise with your posture as you shift bodyweight to the front foot, too much relaxation will make you wobbly and create unnecessary counterbalancing tensions, too much tension in the body will alter your breathing, holding your breath will compromise your focus and relaxation etc…Practice until you can walk in balance with a tall posture, relaxed arms and breathing, and precise, well centered placement of your feet on the surface.
After you've developed this general technique, and only then does it become time to increase complexity by practicing with more challenging environmental demands such as more narrow, rounded, smoother, less stable or higher surfaces.
Tomorrow I will highlight stepping under.
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The Los Angeles Kings wanted a good tune-up for the regular season when they played the Hamburg Freezers Tuesday night at O2 World Arena in their final preseason game.
Well, they are getting just that. After two periods here, the Kings lead 4-3, taking their fourth lead of the game as Brad Richardson scored the go-ahead goal with just 16 seconds left in the second period.
The Kings got off to a dream start, scoring just 36 seconds into the game.
Justin Williams' goal, on the first shot of the game, was a seemingly harmless wrister from the right circle that seemed to handcuff John Curry, the Hamburg goalie. Curry played the past several seasons in the Pittsburgh Penguins' system. This is his first year with Hamburg.
After carrying the play for close to five minutes, the Freezers were rewarded with a power-play goal that tied the game at 1-1. Former NHLer Serge Aubin, who played 374 NHL games for Columbus, Colorado and Atlanta, beat Jonathan Quick with a nasty shot from the slot with 7:09 left.
On the very next shift, Alex Martinez restored the lead for the Kings, snapping home a brilliant feed from Dustin Brown, who used the wide ice of the Olympic-sized rink here to give himself some separation.
However, with a little more than two minutes remaining in the period, Kevin Schmidt, from Markham, Ont., pinched in from the point and received a perfect pass, which he fired over Quick's shoulder to tie the game heading into intermission.
In the second period, the teams exchanged goals again to send it into the third deadlocked.
The Kings failed on a pair of power plays in the first half of the second period and then watched as Hamburg scored on the counter-attack to take a 3-2 lead midway through.
The Freezers earned the goal, as they dominated play on the scoring shift before Aubin scored on his own rebound after Quick had made two initial saves on the sequence. It was Aubin's second goal of the game.
Just as was the case in the first period, though, Hamburg couldn't hold a lead as the Kings stormed back and got a goal from Anze Kopitar after passes from Justin Williams and Scott Parse, who is in a dogfight to make this team.
Quick was pulled after the goal in a pre-planned move as Kings coach Terry Murray put in Jonathan Bernier for the second half of the game
Kings defenseman Drew Doughty is making his preseason debut in this game after signing a new long-term deal late last week and has already made two good defensive plays.


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Ventura facing tough budget choices in next fiscal year
A little more than halfway through this fiscal year, the city of Ventura has brought in $1.4 million more than officials projected.
"Considering what we've been through the last five or six years, that's not a bad report," interim City Manager Johnny Johnston said at Monday night's City Council meeting.
But the city's on track to spend $2.6 million more in the 2013-14 fiscal year than in this year, early figures show.
The problem isn't a gap. State law requires a city to adopt a balanced budget, which Ventura will do by the June deadline, Johnston said.
"The question is: How do you close that gap?" he said.
The answer depends on whether the council will continue its trend of using one-time money and reserve funds to balance its budget or make cuts that could be unpopular.
Monday's discussion, which Johnston called a "primer in municipal finance," gave the council a chance to look at the issues that may be the biggest challenges.
The city's sales tax collections are up $933,000, as are property taxes, by $200,000, and the transient occupancy tax, by $500,000. The last number is particularly heartening because it suggests more people are traveling, Johnston said.
Rising pension costs account for $453,000 of the increased spending, followed by higher salary costs of $1.08 million, including benefits and raises, and a $50,000 rent increase at the Ventura Avenue library branch.
In recent years, the city has limited spending by delaying work that affects streets and other infrastructure and supposedly has not invested properly in information technology. City officials said both issues had to be addressed.
"Our biggest funding challenge is deferred maintenance," Councilwoman Christy Weir said. "That is our biggest problem, and it keeps getting bigger, and we keep not solving it."
Mayor Mike Tracy expressed concern about the city's dwindling general fund reserves. The account had $38.1 million in 2008, but reserves dropped to $28.3 million by 2012, officials said.
The decrease is a "very graphic example of how we've been getting by," Tracy said.
Compensation was another concern.
Weir requested historical information on compensation, including how the budget was divided by department compared with previous years.
Councilman Neal Andrews, who has long argued for pension changes, requested several years' worth of compensation figures and information on how they compared with inflation, private sector compensation and the city's revenue.
"The public needs to understand where the problem is," Andrews said.
The council directed staff members to gather that information for upcoming budget workshops.
Johnston told the council to consider what it would take to adopt a budget that spent what the city brought in, without the help of its fund balance or one-time moneys.
David Grau, chairman of the Ventura County Taxpayers Association, praised the city for presenting a frank look at its finances. But the one public speaker on the topic said the trend must stop.
Reopening Fire Station 4 with no plan to finance it once a federal grant runs out — in the next fiscal year — was irresponsible, as was continuing to delay work on the streets and the Aquatic Center, Grau said.
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Instead, the Windows 8.1 Start button will get users to the Start screen, as Microsoft apparently thinks that nobody would ever need just a single menu when they can replace it with a full screen.
As you can see in this new clip, the Start button is always visible on the desktop, while it completely disappears when entering the Metro UI. Still, users can easily access it by simply moving the mouse cursor in the lower left corner.
In addition, Microsoft will also provide users with a dedicated option to turn the Start button off completely, just in case they love the new Windows 8 UI more.
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- 3 cups plus 2 tablespoons (14.1 ounces/400g) white bread flour, plus extra for dusting
- 1 1/2 teaspoons (0.18 ounce/5g) instant yeast
- 2 teaspoons (0.35 ounce/10g) fine salt
- 6 tablespoons warm milk
- 2 tablespoons (1 ounce/28g) superfine sugar
To Glaze
- 1 medium free-range egg
- 2 tablespoons milk
To knead by hand: Mix together all the dough ingredients in a large bowl to form a dough. Knead for about 10 minutes, until smooth and shiny.
Or, to use a stand mixer: Fit the dough hook and add all the dough ingredients to the mixer bowl. Mix on low speed until combined and mix for about 10 minutes, until smooth and shiny.
Shape the dough into a round, place in a bowl, and cover tightly. Leave in the fridge overnight.
The next day, divide the dough into 2 pieces and form into the shape of your choice. Lightly flour the loaves, lay them on a wooden board or linen cloth, and cover with a plastic bag. Leave them somewhere nice and warm to proof until almost doubled in size; this could take 3 or 4 hours, as the dough is cold.
Preheat the oven to 400°F. For the glaze, beat the egg and milk together. Transfer the risen loaves to a baking sheet and brush all over with the glaze. Bake for about 10 minutes, then lower the oven setting to 350°F and bake for a further 30 minutes, or until golden brown. Let cool on a wire rack.
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Technically Speaking; 2005: Confirming the Promise of 2004
Pace, Andrew K., American Libraries
This report from the Exhibit Hall of the ALA Midwinter Meeting will try to stick to themes, rather than verbose details about specific vendor offerings. It's affirming to see so many of the promises from last summer's Annual Conference in Orlando come to fruition on the vendor floor in Boston. This column could have easily been filled with those fruits, punctuated with the flavor of so many colorful press releases. Press packets were filled to overflowing this winter with some grand (and grandiose) announcements.
Making sense of new products, vendor changes, alliances, and acquisitions is a daunting task for a single column. This month I will highlight three themes in evidence at the Exhibit Hall.
Who isn't nostalgic once in a while? Luddites long for the days before computers, technophiles wax poetic about the days of 64K hard drives and 300-baud modems, and librarians everywhere recall those mythical library patrons and researchers who knew exactly how to use a library and were forever grateful for the bountiful resources provided for their consumption.
But nostalgia and technology are not mutually exclusive. In fact, I'm calling one trend the nostalgic application of library automation. Rather than introducing a dozen new products with bells and whistles, several vendors are going back to basics.
Raising the bar on user-centered design, Endeavor Information Systems announced a new usability initiative intended to create clear and simple interfaces for public and staff users of the Voyager ILS. As part of an ongoing collaboration with their parent company, they are capitalizing on Elsevier's User Centered Design Team and building on the experience gained from usability testing on Encompass, Endeavor hopes to improve both the end-user experience and patron satisfaction.
Arguably first to market with a reinvented OPAC, TLC proudly demonstrated its own improvements to the traditional online catalog. Technology from search and discovery software companies MediaLab and Endeca (AL, Feb., p. 48-49) are completely reshaping the look and feel of the traditional online catalog for a more graphically oriented and commercially savvy patron base, who have come to expect more from an online resource discovery experience. VTLS has also announced a partnership with MediaLab to distribute Aquabrowser as part of its Vectors portal. Sirsi launched Rooms 2.0--revamped as an "enterprise portal solution"--for one-stop library resources and services.
Not to be outdone in the OPAC arena, several online databases are also rethinking their searches. Several features of faceted searching--the ability to narrow or sharpen searches using different elements from a record's metadata--can be found in several of Elsevier's new product offerings, including Engineering Village 2, the free Scirus search engine (www.scirus.com), and Elsevier's latest offering, Scopus. Endeavor's new usability engineering will certainly incorporate some of the functionality found in other Elsevier products. One wonders how long it will be before the Elsevier name is used interchangeably for Endeavor.
Of course, search and discovery is only the first step in the traditional library experience. Self-checkout and RFID have gone from marginal technologies to mainstream in just a few years. Self-checkout stations certainly don't look like they used to. Bulky and clumsy hardware has been replaced by ergonomic and aesthetically pleasing machines like the new V-Series system from 3M.
Notable on the floor were Libramation's stackable multiformat self-checkout stations, with intuitive interfaces and quick receipting. Libramation is also reportedly working with Comprise Technologies to devise a method for online payment from self-checkout stations. Comprise's SAM continues to integrate computer-session management, cash handling, and print-recovery systems in a comprehensive access-management system. …


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SEO as it relates to Google universal and personalized search.
Early this year, Google stepped up its push toward personalized search results for users logged in to Google services. Four months later, personalized search began to offer users a minor reshuffling of search results. It's hardly noticeable to the average user right now, as it takes time to build up trends based on personalized search patterns.
Today, I'll help increase your understanding of personalized search influencers as they relate to natural SEO (define).
First, let me point out SEO professionals have plenty of reasons to see nonpersonalized search results. If you don't want your personal search history to influence your search results, make certain you're not logged into any Google service, such as AdWords, Bookmarks, or Gmail, while searching with Google. You can flush your search history on a regular basis, too. Or, you can simply append (&pws=0) to the end of any search query string to get nonpersonalized results. This is a particularly handy tip when you get a call from a client or your boss asking about search results you're not seeing. Take everybody back to the baseline of unpersonalized results, and now you have a conversation.
Personalized Search
Personalized search is the active default setting on new Google accounts. For those with existing accounts, personalized search histories must be manually enabled. Once enabled, Google closely monitors your search sessions to develop a pattern from your search queries and associated actions. Behaviors that influence personalized results include:
Universal Search
While personalized search has yet to create more than an irksome ripple in page-one results, Google's universal search has the potential to change the paradigm of page one search results, particularly for big brands.
Search for "coca-cola" and see what's above the fold when you click on the stock quote information from Google Finance, or display the map for the history of Coca-Cola exhibition in Atlanta, as fed from Google Maps. The page change is dramatic, greatly influenced by content from Google search verticals over any measure of personalization.
Universal search, like OneBox results before it, can include results from blog search, book search, Google Base and product search, code search, the Google directory (DMOZ), Google Finance, Google Images, Google Local and Maps, Google News, Patens Search, Google Scholar, Google Video, and Google Web search.
If you're going to control your brand messaging in Google, it's important to leverage vertical venues now. According to Hitwise, early beneficiaries of Google Universal's initial stickiness and clickiness include Google Maps and Google Video, through which search-referral traffic is soaring. For the average online retailer with brick-and-mortar stores, this means Local Search is more important than ever. Get those listings audited, updated, and optimized now (especially as geotargeting is one of the more accurate aspects of personalized search).
If you're not distributing video to YouTube, Google Video, and Metacafe, think about how much search-referred traffic your brand is potentially missing. Someone else could be pilfering traffic from your hard-earned branding efforts, particularly as Google has just expanded its video repertoire to include results from Vimeo.com, CollegeHumor, eBaum's World, Yahoo Video, and MySpace. Yet only YouTube and Google Video present inline video player options in search results.
The same applies to images. No matter what type of Web site you optimize, Google Images can play a key role in sending search referrals from universal search. Follow standard guidelines for optimizing images used on your site, such as image size, file name, alternative attribute, annotation, and linkage, to have the opportunity to grab another top spot in Google Universal SERPs (define). Images can play a role in Google News results too, particularly if many of your images originate on blogs.
If you don't blog for the brand, consider sponsoring fan-based blogs or providing valuable insider tips and news to vocal brand advocates. Reconsider your press release syndication services and ensure Google News is in the mix. Not doing press releases? Now's the time to get in the game and publish news briefs and articles about your organization's philanthropy, location-specific promotions, or the latest news from sports sponsorships and the like.
With an ever-evolving pattern of relevant search results, the long-standing futurist mantra has changed. It's no longer enough to think locally and act globally. Personalized and universal search mean you must also position brands horizontally and syndicate vertically. That way, you can truly own optimal brand messaging in Google.
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Authors: Mary Amiti, Oleg Itskhoki, and Jozef Konings
Large exporters are simultaneously large importers. In this paper, we show that this pattern is key to understanding low aggregate exchange rate pass-through as well as the variation in pass-through across exporters. First, we develop a theoretical framework that combines variable markups due to strategic complementarities and endogenous choice to import intermediate inputs. The model predicts that firms with high import shares and high market shares have low exchange rate pass-through. Second, we test and quantify the theoretical mechanisms using Belgian firm-product-level data with information on exports by destination and imports by source country. We confirm that import intensity and market share are the prime determinants of pass-through in the cross-section of firms. A small exporter with no imported inputs has a nearly complete pass-through of over 90 percent, while a firm at the 95th percentile of both import intensity and market share distributions has a pass-through of 56 percent, with the marginal cost and markup channels playing roughly equal roles. The largest exporters are simultaneously high-market-share and high-import-intensity firms, which helps explain the low aggregate pass-through and exchange rate disconnect observed in the data.


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Abstract: Since behavioral consultation was first described 20 years ago, a number of assumptions have emerged in the literature and gained legendary status despite being based either on weak or non-existent data Noell and Witt (1996) initially identified five assumptions underlying behavioral consultation including: (a) consultative services are more cost efficient than direct intervention, (b) collaborative consultation are more effective than expert consultation, (c) verbal interactions with teachers result in significant behavior change, (d) skills learned during the consultation interaction will generalize across subjects and behaviors, and (e) direct contact with the client are unnecessary for behavior change to occur Because these assumptions do not have a solid empirical basis, we prefer to call them "myths." In an attempt to "demythtify" behavioral consultation, we present four additional myths not previously discussed to further emphasize that what many practitioners have been taught about how to conduct consultation may not be the most effective means for teaching consultees new skills, improving treatment integrity, and improving client outcome. We also hope to provide an impetus for new research directions to enhance the effectiveness of consultation practice.
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