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On September 23, 2007, just one night before the Dancing With the Stars fifth season premiere, co-host Samantha Harris felt contractions and went to the hospital. When the doctor said Samantha wasn't dilated, she asked, "Well, can I come back in another day, after the premiere?"
Her doctor replied, "No, you're having the baby tonight!
At 1:49 a.m., Josselyn Sydney Hess was born.
Popularized by her role as a reporter on E Entertainment Television, 34-year-old Samantha Harris is now best known as the effervescent co-host of ABC's Dancing With the Stars. "It's truly a dream job," says Samantha. She's already taken her daughter to the set and plans on buying baby Josselyn "her own sequin gown."
I had a chance to chat with the busy star during some rare downtime. We spoke about first-time motherhood, baby product must-haves, and dealing with the pressure to stay thin in Hollywood.
It seems that Samantha and husband Michael Hess were destined to have a daughter. "Early in our relationship, we went to Australia, and for some reason we had a conversation about how if we ever had a daughter together, we should name her Sydney."
Four years later, Josselyn Sydney was born. "We just loved the name Josselyn," says Harris, "and the 'J' honors Michael's grandmother, whom he lost."
In April 2007, Samantha announced her pregnancy live on Dancing With the Stars. She was in her second trimester at the time and very excited to be pregnant. "It dawns on you how amazing a woman's body is, to be able to create life," she says. Still, squeezing into gowns and standing on her feet wasn't always so easy. "I was tired here and there and tried to sneak in a nap when I could."
A self-confessed "workout fiend," Samantha exercised 35 weeks out of her 38-week pregnancy. During her maternity leave from E, she worked on losing her baby weight by going to the gym and taking walks with Josselyn. Her main goal was to "stay fit and get strong again," but she admits to feeling some pressure to lose the weight.
"Being in gowns that are showing a lot of my shape in front of 20 million people, in front of dancers who have the most amazing cut-up figures on earth…sure, there's some pressure."
Since returning to E, Samantha confesses that although workouts haven't "gone to the wayside," they have taken "a big backseat."
Balancing work, family, and a new baby is hard for most moms, and Samantha is no exception to the pangs of mommy guilt. "The desire to be home with her is so strong. There's no way to avoid feeling some sense of angst," she says. "You anticipate just how much you're going to love your child, but until you experience it, I don't think that anyone describing it to you can do it justice." She makes a point of being home to put her daughter to bed at least five or six nights a week.
Samantha also made the decision to breastfeed. "It's something none of my friends from home were choosing to do, but a lot of my L.A. friends were doing it. I knew it would be a challenge, but I thought that it was a wonderful choice to make if it works out." She intended to stop breastfeeding when she returned to work, but a few bouts of mastitis made the weaning period difficult.
When our discussion turned to baby products, Samantha was eager to share advice. "People kept encouraging me to get a bottle warmer," she says, "but I found that running tap water very hot was all I needed to warm up milk." One product she loves is her video screen monitor, which allows her to "see what [Josselyn's] doing in her crib and not have to disturb her or crack open the door."
So are there any more babies in Samantha and Michael's future? Samantha doesn't have any immediate plans to get pregnant again, but she does say it's a possibility down the road.
"Both of us come from two-child families, and we each liked having a sibling, so it'd be nice to give Josselyn the same opportunity," says Samantha. "For now, we just really want to enjoy Josselyn and spend time getting to know her."

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Accommodations at the Rookery Inn
A new 2 bedroomed cottage on the north coast beneath Rookery Mt. looking over the cliffs and bird colonies. Located a 40 minute drive from the Saunders Island Settlement on the north coast of the island, it is the newest accommodation on Saunders Island. The Inn is fully equipped for 4 with central heating and 24 hour power. It is set in a remote position in the north of the island, home also to colonies of black-browed albatross and rockhopper penguins. Located closer to the settlement than other cabins, The Rookery Inn still provides a feeling of isolation with fantastic hiking.
• 2 twin bedrooms
• Shared bathroom (shower/WC/sink)
• Shared kitchen/seating area
• Self-catering accommodation only
• Gas fired cooker, hot water, heater & refrigerator
• All bed linen, towels, crockery and cooking utensils supplied
• Electricity supplied by small generator for general use as well as convenient for charging camera and computer batteries.
Saunders Island Amenities
A small store is located on the island with range of tinned, dried and frozen foods available. Fresh meat, eggs, milk and bread also available. Ask about pre-catered meal packs from Stanley.
About Saunders Island
This 30,000 acre island, situated about three miles off the north west coast of West Falkland, is still an active sheep farm and is important historically for being the site of the first British settlement in 1765. It is one of the Falklands supreme wildlife sites, with Gentoo, Rockhopper, Magellanic and rare sighting of Macaroni and Chinstrap penguins. Since 1980 a small breeding colony of King penguins has become established. Four species of raptors, King and Rock cormorants, Black-necked swans and many other shorebirds are easily accessible from the settlement or at the many and varied wildlife 'hot-spots' around the island.
However the attraction to the wildlife enthusiast is undoubtedly the Black-browed albatross colony which stretches along the north coast from The Neck, so named because it is a narrow sandy isthmus between two high parts of the island.
The northern beach is covered in stunning white sand pounded by majestic surf and is home to all of the penguin and bird species listed above. The wildlife colonies continue along the north coast to Rookery Mountain. The "shower" formed by fresh water running down over the cliff and used by the Rockhopper penguins to preen their feathers makes for great photographs.
On rare occasions Fin and Sei Whales have been seen off the island. In all cases amazing photo opportunities abound, and Saunders Island is the perfect place to escape from the pressures of urban life.


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Critic's Diary, Part 1: Zach Braff's Impressive Trip to the "Garden State"; Mixed Reactions to "Chrystal," "Primer," and More
by Stephen Garrett
As the 2004 Sundance Film Festival gets into full swing, one dramatic competition movie has quickly seized the hearts of Park City audiences: "Garden State." Writer-director-actor Zach Braff, best known as one of the hapless hospital residents on TV's "Scrubs," has fashioned a quirky-with-a-capital-Q romantic comedy in which he stars as a struggling, lithium-numbed L.A. actor who returns to New Jersey for his mother's funeral. There he re-connects with high school friends he hasn't seen in a decade and meets Sam (Natalie Portman), a brash beauty who gives him the confidence to turn his life around.
Spicing up the story are a vintage motorcycle with a side car, a knight in shining armor, a gravedigger best friend, a man made rich by inventing silent Velcro, an adopted African sponsored by Sally Struthers, an epileptic girl who wears a crash helmet at her desk job to maintain her health insurance -- and it's all topped off by a deep, dark family secret.
Braff directs his undeniably charming script with a refreshingly confident and imaginative style that at its best invokes Mike Nichols' work in "The Graduate." But the end result still feels like a greatest-hits of other people's singular cinematic visions: the deadpan visual humor and bittersweet ennui of Wes Anderson mixed with Cameron Crowe's lovable earnestness and topped off with a small dollop of Hal Ashby romantic nihilism.
Still, any combination that winning makes for the kind of sweet date movie that makes Sundance audiences swoon and distributors salivate. Its theatrical release is a given.
The other dramatic competition films that also unspooled in the first day have sparked more muted reactions. Ray McKinnon shows promise but falls short with "Chrystal," a ponderous Ozarks-set drama about an ex-convict (Billy Bob Thornton) seeking redemption from the wife he crippled and son he Killed in a car crash 20 years earlier. McKinnon shows an absorbing eye for hypnotic composition, but the overloaded script tries to fit too many characters, subplots and dementia into an already strained drama. Another ambitious film, Shane Carruth's "Primer," about scientists who have invented a machine that can give them anything they want, is rich with technological jargon that invokes comparisons to "Pi" and seems to have split audiences into those who are either dazzled by its intellectual premise or dismiss its ruminations as arch and overbearingly pretentious.
No films in the festival's other sidebars have yet captured peoples imagination and cranked up the buzz machine quite as much as "Garden State," although a documentary competition selection comes close. Matt Mahurin's "I Like Killing Flies" is a tribute to the diner Shopsin's, a Greenwich Villlage institution run by a cantankerous man with an infinite menu and limited patience for the uninitiated among his clientele. The sold-out public screening did turn-away business and left the lucky attendees well-fed with cinematic musings and genuinely hungry for a delicious meal.
While American Spectrum offers many accomplished independent films that Have debuted at other festivals, it also features movies that, though far from the caliber of dramatic-competition picks, still hold ideas that linger. A case in point is "Second Best," Eric Weber's wildly uneven portrait of a failed writer and self-professed loser (Joe Pantoliano) who struggles to come to terms with the success of a longtime best friend. Even while laboring under uninspired direction that's coupled with a script which feels half-polished at best, the dark comedy still packs an occasional misanthropic wallop delivered with the clear-eyed loathing of a man so angry at the world that his rants fascinate.
A guilty pleasure among the special screenings is "In the Company of Women," a 90-minute retrospective look at the ladies of the independent film movement that plays more like a tribute clip reel than an in-depth analysis of womens impact on the business. Going back only as far as 1985's "Desperately Seeking Susan" and concentrating mostly on the 1990s, "Company" concentrates on the same dozen directors and actors for their reflections, excluding any male commentary in favor of a girl-power positivity that ultimately limits the dialogue about women's chronic minority status in the dream machine. And there are conspicuous absences: Where, for instance, is any mention of Gena Rowlands, let alone her on-camera perspective and insights? Still, the film serves as a vital reminder of searing, original visions, from "Gas Food Lodging" and "Go Fish" to "High Art" and "Boys Don't Cry." A definitive look at women in indie film will have to wait, but even this truncated glimpse is long overdue.
[This is the first in a three-part series of Stephen Garrett's critical diary of the festival.]


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Barbara J. Nelson is dean emerita of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and professor emerita of its Public Policy department. She is the founder of The Concord Project and adjunct professor emerita of Social Welfare, Urban Planning, and Political Science at UCLA. While dean she was a member of the UCLA Chancellor's Executive Committee and a former chair of the Council of Professional School Deans. Prior to her appointment as dean, she was vice president and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Radcliffe College where her portfolio included academic programs and strategic planning. She is a contributor to the Huffington Post on social equality and cultural issues.
Dr. Nelson's fields of expertise include strategic decision making, conflict mediation in civil society, multi-stakeholder decision making, leadership, social policy, nonprofits and philanthropy. Her research and policy work includes comparing crisis decision making between the British Fighter Command and the German High Command in the WWII Battle of Britain. Additionally, Dr. Nelson researches contemporary strategic decision making by American foundations. She is the founder of The Concord Project, which builds bridging social capital that allows people from divided communities to work together on projects of mutual benefit.
Dr. Nelson is the author of six books and over 85 articles, book chapters, and cases. Leadership and Diversity: A Case Book (2004) (PDF) demonstrates how linking leadership and diversity improves policy education and policy making. The Concord Handbook: How to Build Social Capital Across Communities (written with Linda Kaboolian and Kathryn A. Carver, 2003) (PDF) provides the ideas and best practices for starting and sustaining organizations that successfully bring together people from groups with historic conflicts. Nelson and co-author Najma Chowdhury won the 1995 Victoria Schuck Award for Women and Politics Worldwide, bestowed by the American Political Science Association for the best book in the field of women and politics. In 1989, Nelson and historian Sara Evans won the Policy Studies Organization's prize for the best book in the field of policy analysis for Wage Justice: Comparable Worth and the Paradox of Technocratic Reform. Nelson is the author of Making an Issue of Child Abuse: Political Agenda Setting for Social Problems (1984) and American Women and Politics (1984).
Barbara Nelson has worked or done research in over 25 countries, and has made major contributions to policy making and civic life in the United States and abroad. She was a member of the Board of the Greater Los Angeles United Way; The Geena Davis Media Project, an organization dedicated to improving the portrayals of girls and women in children's media; and UCLA Hillel. She was a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
Dr. Nelson's civic contributions included co-chairing the National Commission to Reduce Infant Mortality of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. She is a former board member the Center for the New West, Radcliffe College, the American Political Science Association, the National Council for Research on Women, the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), and the Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA). She was a Kellogg National Leadership Fellow and has held visiting fellowships at the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Serbelloni, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Harvard Kennedy School, and the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development..
Before her appointment at Radcliffe, Barbara Nelson served on the faculties of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, where she was the founder and director of the Center on Women and Public Policy. She earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in political science at Ohio State University, where she was elected to Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honorary society.


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Failed CO2 Targets: Going Through the Motions in Doha
Part 2: 'Far Too Little Is Happening'
The UN's most important tool in the fight against climate change, emissions trading, has turned into a problem child instead. Recently the price of a ton of carbon dioxide sporadically fell below 7 -- a joke for the managers of many a major company. The head of the German Federal Environment Agency, Jochen Flasbarth, vacillates between despair and resignation: "I don't see that anyone within the EU is noticeably applying pressure or proposing any good solutions."
This wasn't always the case. But Germany, once a trailblazer, has too many other problems at the moment. Although the country is attracting a lot of attention worldwide with its Energiewende experiment, politicians and environmental groups doubt that the climate is the government's main motivation. "For now, the Energiewende is really just a power generation turnaround," says Merkel's fellow Christian Democrat Klaus Töpfer, a former environment minister. "If we don't want to question our climate goals, we do have to address the issues of warming, mobility and energy efficiency just as resolutely. Far too little is happening in this regard."
The federal government was already expecting emissions trading to generate at least 2 billion in revenue for its Special Energy and Climate Fund in 2013. According to internal Finance Ministry calculations, that number will likely decline by 750 million -- money that will no longer be available for domestic and international climate protection projects. This upsets Altmaier, who is traveling empty-handed to Doha, where he is already scheduled to spend only two days. So far he has waited in vain for support from Merkel in his dispute with Rösler. That too speaks volumes, says Green Party climate policy expert Hermann Ott. "There's nothing left of Angela Merkel the self-proclaimed climate chancellor."
More Practical Solutions Needed
Despite all this, no politician in Germany, touted as a model country on environmental matters, is willing to back away from the 2-degree target. "It's about saving face," says Oliver Geden, a climate expert with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. That's why the Germans are resorting to methods that auditors would probably characterize as an accounting trick.
This is how the trick works: You allow temperatures to shoot up by more than 2 degrees Celsius at around the middle of the century. Then you reduce greenhouse gas emissions to such an extent that the planet's temperature curve falls below the magic limit of 2 degrees above current levels by 2100. Practically speaking, no climatologist will be alive to experience that day, which makes it easy to reach such a resolution, which insiders refer to as "overshooting."
Climatologists are also discussing ideas to filter greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere or to cool the planet artificially. One idea that was seriously considered was to blow sulfur dioxide through 25-kilometer (16-mile) tubes into the stratosphere, where it would reflect sunlight. In July, a US entrepreneur dumped 100 tons of iron sulfate into waters off the Canadian island of Haida Gwaii, in the misguided hope that global warming could be stopped by artificially accelerating algae growth.
It would be more intelligent for cities and industrial sectors to join forces, and for countries to form alliances to develop climate-friendly technology. This would be better for the planet than producing yet another stack of draft resolutions, Geden says.
At least climate policy experts have chosen the ideal backdrop for their washout in Doha. The host country Qatar is the global leader on one climate issue: The oil sheikdom on the Persian Gulf has the world's highest per-capital emissions of CO2.
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Consumed: The Best Things I've Eaten This Week
By Sara Deseran on December 09, 2011 3:33 PM
Enough of the fried chicken, the pizza, the burgers, the deli sandwiches bursting with a half pound of meat, that crazy-delicious kouign amann (finally figured out that this is pronounced queen a'mann) Belinda Leong is making for Four Barrel. Enough with the death-by-straight-booze cocktails. The holidays haven't even hit yet and the food trends in this city are going to kill me.
Where are the salad trucks? I might have to move to LA to recuperate from this year of recession comfort food.


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When the next super-fast mobile network launches in 2020 you will be able to download a high-definition movie in one second flat.
But the future fifth generation, or 5G, network is not really being designed for you.
In fact, it will be built for your car, fridge, smartwatch, toothbrush, lightbulb and a host of other everyday objects to communicate with each other online, a phenomenon known as the Internet of things.
Handling the new traffic is a key challenge for network operators gathering at the four-day Mobile World Congress opening Monday in Barcelona, Spain.
Worldwide data traffic generated by people's mobile devices will multiply 11-fold by 2018, according to US telecommunications equipment manufacturer Cisco.
But the traffic generated between connected objects, so-called machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, will already be greater than all the world's mobile telephones combined by 2015, it said in a study.
Mobile networks will need to boost capacity by 1,000 times by 2020 to cope with the huge growth in M2M traffic if lag time is to be avoided, said Ulrich Dropmann, senior executive at Finnish mobile services group Nokia Solutions Network (NSN).
Many objects will only send a trickle of data but the combined data flow will be "considerable" said Dropmann.
The 5G networks will launch in 2020, with a broader rollout from 2025, said Frederic Pujol, head of mobile broadband at consultancy group IDATE.
The prospect of 5G networks may seem distant in countries where 4G has yet to be deployed, but in countries at the cutting edge of technology such as South Korea, operators are already installing an advanced version of 4G to handle the demand.


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Easy to Use and Transport
With the BA-55, ease of use is the name of the game. There's nothing complicated about it: just turn on the wireless microphone and/or plug in your instruments, set the volume to the desired level, and go. That's it! The BA-55's automatic anti-feedback system blocks acoustic feedback without interrupting your audio. For easy transport, the BA-55 has a convenient built-in storage compartment to house your wireless microphones and accessories.
Multi-Purpose PA
The BA-55 lets you enjoy great sound anywhere, indoors or outdoors. Use batteries or the included AC adapter for the ultimate in convenience and flexibility— For speech, position the BA-55 vertically and the internal accelerometer will automatically switch operation to mono mode for maximum sound projection. For music, place the BA-55 horizontally and it will automatically switch to stereo mode; this is perfect when using MP3/CD players at dance parties, etc., or any application where wide sound projection is desired.
Built-In Echo/Reverb
Onboard the BA-55 is an Echo/Reverb that sounds great and is easy to use, with a single knob that adjusts both the effect type and amount. When you turn the knob from the Off position to 12 o'clock, you activate a natural plate-reverb-type effect that adds a natural ambience to your voice and/or instruments. When you turn from the 12 o'clock position to maximum, you switch to a repetitive echo-type effect. The echo/ reverb can also be turned on and off from the included DR-WM55 wireless microphone for convenient remote control (see below).
Wireless Microphone Included
The BA-55 package includes a high-quality wireless microphone (DR-WM55). Designed specifically for this system, the mic has Power On/Off and Echo On/Off switches. The Echo switch is linked to the BA-55's Echo/Reverb effect, which lets you enable and disable it directly from the mic. This is a very handy feature, allowing the effect to be quickly turned off when speaking or making announcements, then easily switched back on for singing.


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Draghi Acts: Is It Inflationary?
This article originally appeared on the Daily Capitalist.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has decided to bailout its bankrupt members, mainly Italy and Spain, by buying their shorter-term bonds (1 to 3 years) with newly created money. The idea is to drive down their interest rates to alleviate their debt cost burden, and to send a message to the world (the financial markets) that they stand ready to back the euro.
There is a twist here though. The European Central Bank will seek to "sterilize" the funds it injects into the economy by withdrawing an equal amount of money from the economy. They do this by offering banks one week deposit certificates at the same rate as overnight money. Thus the idea is that this will effectively render the new money inflation neutral.
The head of the Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, was the only nay vote for this new program, termed Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) to distinguish it from QE. He is quoted as saying OMT is "tantamount to financing governments by printing banknotes." Shmart fellow, he. It seems the Germans are the only ones in Europe who seem to understand what money is.
Here's how sterilization works. The ECB will buy as many sovereign bonds as it sees fit to drive down short-term bond rates. It creates new money to buy these bonds from banks. The banks now hold a lot of cash equal to the ECB bond buys. At the same time the ECB will sell to the same banks one-week notes to suck up the same amount of new money it created for the bond buys. The net effect: the ECB has removed €x billion of sovereign bonds from the market. They have also removed the same amount of money from the money supply and these banks now own one-week ECB notes instead of 1 to 3 year sovereign bonds. If the ECB does this often enough it will drive interest rates down because bond investors know that they ECB stands ready, willing, and able to do this. Why fight the ECB (or the Fed)?
The obvious impact of this move will be to create joy among banks holding mainly Spanish and Italian debt. They have exchanged a risky asset for a more stable asset (ECB paper). Readers will recall that sovereign debt of any EMU country is counted as a Tier 1 asset for member banks. Thus Greek debt is equal to German Bunds in the regulators eyes. We all know that is not true and so do the banks' depositors.
Because of the ongoing recession in most of the Eurozone, lending has shrunk, so banks aren't doing much with their reserves anyway. According to this report, these banks are holding €770 billion in excess reserves. Now they will have even more reserves when the ECB get through with its open-ended OMT. These could be another €640 billion of OMT purchases and these will no doubt also end up as sterilized excess reserves.
This creates a bit of a problem. For one thing, the balance sheets of banks for purposes of calculating reserves haven't really changed by exchanging sovereign bonds for ECB notes. It is still Tier 1 capital and it will still be held as excess reserves. If loan demand kicks up, will the ECB be able to restrain its banks? We have the same problem here.
The other thing is that everyone knows that because there is no fiscal union, but only a monetary union, the Germans are the only ones with the money to finance the debt of its fellow profligate states. By giving Spain and Italy interest rate relief, the Germans are worried that their zeal for reform will wane and stick Germany with their bill. Think of it as a debt union rather than a monetary union. As Bundesbank head Weidmann said:
When the central banks of the euro area buy the sovereign bonds of individual countries, these bonds end up on the Eurosystem's balance sheet. Ultimately, it's the taxpayers of all other countries who are liable for that. In democracies, parliaments ought to decide on such a far-reaching mutualisation of risks, not the central banks.
Then what if Spain and Italy fail to carry out the agreed to reforms that condition the implementation of OMT? Let's say they go along with massive bond purchases and, say Italy, fails to meet its conditions to funding? Would they then liquidate their bond portfolio and let the chips fall where they may? Not likely.
As Herr Weidmann said, this kind of bailout is "too close" to central-bank financing of government deficits "with a printing press." He is right; history has shown that this is a slippery slope as the Germans should know. This program will give little lasting relief to the Eurozone's problems, and it may delay reforms as domestic political pressures could easily change the scenario. And I believe at some point they have three choices: allow countries to go bankrupt; dissolve the EMU; print money. My vote is for the latter. Of course the miracle of political and economic reform is a possibility if the Germans have their way, but don't count on it.
Despite the overwhelming evidence that money printing doesn't work, the Eurozone overlords will to do it anyway. Why do they do this? Monetary inflation is the last resort of governments who are over their heads in debt. Instead of going bankrupt (there is no way we or the overindebted Eurozone countries can repay the debt) they make the debt cheaper to pay off by inflating the money supply. It's an age-old last resort of incompetent rulers.
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Sir Draghi ignores numerous points that have been published over the last 6 weeks.
I applaud Econophile's attempt to keep people focused on the stupidity of this Miracle Cure.
There are many 'forgotten negatives' in the recent exultations over Draghi's premises;
1- The German Supreme court has not ruled on the constitutionality of the ECB's bond buying plans;
2- All 17 Euro countries must signoff on the significant treaty changes attached to those changes.
3- Ms. Merkel is quiet, but still very much alive. Remember 'No bond buying as long as I'm alive'?
4- All 17 Euro countries must contribute money to the new EFSF /ESM?;
5- Italy and Spain have to contribute significant money to fund the new EFSF/ ESM? to fund their own bailouts;
6- Austria, Netherlands and Finland have refused to contribute any money;
7- China has declined to contribute;
8-France just nationalized another busted bank. I doubt they'll be contributing any money;
9- Spain said they want no conditionality and have not requested a bailout;
10- Italy has not requested a bailout;
11-Draghi has published a PLAN that ignores these issues as well as the feasibility of ever implementing it;
12- Draghi has already spent 3 trillion Euros on 2 LTRO's that may never get repaid;
13- Nothing has changed in the bookeeping frauds committed by most Euro members.
Spanish bad-banks hold underwater mortgages off balance sheet;
Germany & France ignored their 2003 violations of Maastricht treaty requirements on Deficit levels;
Abolishment of short-selling and mark-to-market rules by all Euro financial authorities.
The Internet blocks the ability of Leaders to tell big lies FREQUENTLY. The people are no longer stupid or numbed by daily newspapers.
I hope you Optomistic Investors have reasonable sell-stops under your long positions.
There's nothing wrong with raising stop levels as bears like me continue to be wrong!
" It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be revolution by tomorrow morning "
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It will be inflationary down the line (it already is for the average person food, gas, etc) but that's the thing people might want to consider who will make all that money when they raise the interest rates on all the government debt!
Look, they are all printing, the Fed, the ECB, to prop up the status quo and prevent a deflation. Asset values (collateral) are falling, so to keep the banks from getting nervous and pulling credit lines on each other central banks are dousing them in cash. If banks are liquid they dont get scared. And when banks get scared, they get mean.
Black swan events are rare, right?
Gas at $4/gallon; bread, meat, milk all up; what inflation?
Our Federal Overlord wishcasters tell us we're all OK. They'll be some of the first against the wall when I am king.
by by EUR and USD.
hello global monetary authority.
thank you for saving us.
The ECB will buy as many sovereign bonds as it sees fit to drive down short-term bond rates. It creates new money to buy these bonds from banks.
The ECB will LEND, accepting as collateral as many sovereign bonds as it sees fit to accept. The ECB is a BANK, not Santa Claus.
The ECB creates new CREDIT to obtain bonds from the banks. It does so by making ledger entries in the accounts of its bank-clients. It is absolutely constrained by the availability of good collateral.
If there is no good collateral (fraudulent collateral) any ECB loan is a BAD LOAN on its face, if there is defective collateral the ECB loan is an instant loss, a BAD LOAN and the ECB is insolvent.
The ECB is taking over the private sector's role in offering credit to sovereigns. As such it is a 'front' for the private sector (which funnels funds to sovereigns by way of the ECB).
The ECB loans are still loans, they must be repaid. Discount window operations tend to be very short-term: no word about repayment of loans from ECB.
If the ECB does not specify repayment it has no credibility. If it specifies repayment terms the exercise is pointless. The borrowers are all bankrupt, they need grants, not loans. However, the ECB is a bank, it offers loans only ... not grants. It can offer secured loans only (otherwise it becomes instantly insolvent as it has little capital and cannot absorb a loss).
Meanwhile, the 'ECB sterilization' is a play on words. The ECB cannot afford to return any of its own inventory to the marketplace: these worthless bonds in the marketplace are why there is a crisis in the first place!
What is more likely is an accelerating run out of European banks. There is no more last line of defense for them.
The ECB creates new CREDIT to obtain bonds from the banks
Credit is money in a fiat system. This "credit" is created ex nihilo. Where the borrower had an asset, he now has cash (credit) -- to buy more sovereign debt? The effect is to creat artificial demand for sovereign debt and thus artifically suppress ates. Same game Bennie's been playing. Anyway you "sanitize" or spin it, it is debt monetization and bubble blowing.
who says it won't ?
Three months before fiat velocity deacceleration leads to hyper inflation. Thats the verdict of the specialists.
But the race to the bottom continues...and musical chairs is what this is about.
Is it Inflationary?
from the article:
"... It [the ECB] creates new money to buy these bonds from banks"
That is as far as you need to read to answer the question.
Gold up $40 in one day, Silver not too far behind % wise. I'm wondering when food will be called a "barbaric relic".
And the Central Planners say:
"Inflation? What inflation?
Why, home prices and treasury bonds don't show any inflation.
What are you people talking about?
We have a deflation problem, the DOW needs to be at 20,000."
Draghi prints, monetizing Spain, Greek, Cypress, Portugal, Ireland, and soon to be Italy, France, Belgium, debt, Euros and Euro value INCREASES?
Yes, the ECB will print ...
And what Econophile doesn't get is that Germany is going along, to make sure there is not a collapse in German banks, insurers and pension funds, all linked in daisy-chains to the GIIPS debt ...
And the reason the euro will stay strong, even as some of the Club Med countries are poised to exit and fragment the euro-zone, is that Continental Europe is still the richest, best-off sector of the world
- We have no trade deficit, we grow food, we have industry, we are self-sufficient once Russian energy is included
- We have 3x the bank deposits of the USA, despite similar size economy (about 1/4 of global GDP)
- We owe the money to ourselves, not foreign creditors, we can play games with the debt and write it off if we must
- We still have a functioning legal system that protects human rights, with almost no one in jail in Continental Europe, and no crooked judges like in the US helping steal billions in private bank accounts and putting millions of people in a gulag
- We have the biggest gold reserves in the world
- Our North-West Continental Europe is still the nicest place to live on the globe
- We have no trade deficit, we grow food, we have industry, we are self-sufficient once Russian energy is included
1. Not having a trade deficit does NOT mean you are self sufficient (where does all
the uranium / iron ore / aluminium etc come from ?)
2. As the euro short selling lemmings seem to fall of the cliff again after about just 1 year ago another horde did it (they never seem to learn it ); how long will we have industry if the dollar would REALLY go down this time ?
Our North-West Continental Europe is still the nicest place to live on the globe
Definetly not if you prefer a warmer climate, much less population density and also
do not want to drive on narrow roads in cities that were built more then 500 years
The dollar will simply be replaced by the next "Reserve Currency". Right now most bets seem to be on this being the Yuan, butwith China facing a rocky road ahead this is obviously no sure thing.
Narrow roads encourage energy efficient forms of transport - such as rail. Smaller compact cities (a characteristic of 500 year old development) encourage use of self-propelled transport = exercise = a fitter population. They also have the character and history missing in the more modern cities.
Higher population density allows greater economies of scale, and more efficient private or public service provision. It also encourages more space / energy / resources efficient design and use of available space - good example being Holland - VERY high population density but abundant green spaces / rural space, due to the acceptance of QUALITY high density accommodation, and people take a PRIDE in their Communities, with a very evident high degree of social cohesion.
Countries such as America, Canada and Australia really need to learn the lessons of being far more efficient - "Bigger" is NOT "Better" and comparing the "Best Housing in the World" mass produced shoddily built Australian crap (currently renting in outer Melbourne) with what I owned in Amersfoort, I'll take my small home anyday.
bank guy in Brussels says, "Our North-West Continental Europe is still the nicest place to live on the globe"
But no body wants to raise children there...
Correction, TH. No one can afford to raise chuldren.Not if you work.


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Langford, Fulton and Wills were stand outs for sure. Wills went to Willard-Johnson to challenge the winner but was not allowed to do so.
Fulton-Willard was talked about allot, just type in 'Fulton Willard' into google newspaper archives between 1917-1918 (and before 1917 for that matter) to read some of that. Many consider Fulton number 1 contender from 1917 when he beat Langford, although there's a racial element to that given Wills had already beat Langford numerous times
I'm not sure Willard ducked Fulton, as I know he talked about them fighting and donating the proceedes to charity, but he didn't fight him either and he didn't fight anyone of note either. So I don't think he can be called a dominant champion on that basis, especially given his lacklustre pre-title form
I never said he was '****py', I said he wasn't a dominant champion because he didn't fight anyone of note as champion and was semi-retired, I also noted he was also old when Dempsey fought him. I can tell you haven't read the papers of the time to form your opinion
Errr do you even understand the argument.. The argument isn't whether or not I believe Willard was a great champion or even a good champion. I believe he was a **** poor champion and the main reason Dempsey is so overrated (that win) That isn't the argument.. Luf claimed that many believed there were no rightful challenges to Williard and that nobody was viewed as being better than him during much of his reign. THAT is the argument... and what we were talking about. You claimed that williard was viewed in his own time as being a poor champion.. Those are the sources I want to read more on. Should I make a snide remark about you not being able to grasp the argument at hand?
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In October Sayed Musa handed a letter to a Westerner who came to visit him several times in jail in Afghanistan. He also asked the visitor not to come back, fearing that any misstep could lead to his death.
The letter, a copy of which WORLD received in late October (and can be viewed in its entirety below, except for several people's names redacted for their protection), begins with a plea "to the international church of the world and to the President Brother [Barack] Obama and to the heads of ISAF force in Afghanistan." It describes his imprisonment since late May "due to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, saviour of the world." It also describes daily beatings and torture: "They did sexual things with me, beat me by wood, by hands, by legs, mocked me ("he's Jesus Christ"), [spit] on me. No body let me for sleep night and day." He also has received death threats.
Musa, 45, has one wife and six children. His oldest child is 8 and one is disabled. Musa himself is an amputee dependent on a prosthesis for one of his legs. Despite his own disability, he describes in the letter how a prosecutor and other Afghan judicial officials have refused to protect him and even encouraged the abuse from fellow prisoners.
I first learned of Musa's arrest and imprisonment from a fellow Afghan Christian while in Kabul in late July (see "Fugitives,"Aug. 28, 2010)-all regarded as part of a crackdown against Afghans who have converted from Islam to Christianity.
A co-worker of Musa, worried about the repercussions of having a Christian in his workplace, reportedly turned him in to authorities, notably Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security, sometimes referred to as the "secret police." Yet for over 15 years Musa (whose name is often transliterated as Said Mosa or Mossa) has worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as an orthopedic therapist, largely assisting victims of the war. That work, along with a photo of Musa helping a recent amputee, appeared in the local magazine Afghan Scene about the time of his imprisonment. Musa's friend has since left Kabul and is seeking asylum in another country, while at least one other Christian may remain in jail.
What's ensued is a lot of back-door diplomacy, as Westerners working in Kabul notified U.S. and European embassies there, members of Congress, and international organizations, including the ICRC. On Oct. 29, with the letter putting new pressure on officials, Musa was moved to another prison, where he reportedly is separated from other prisoners. We hope and pray he will be released soon and that he and his family will be allowed to leave the country.
Most seem to believe it will take a nod from President Hamid Karzai to secure Musa's release. We've been down this road before: In 2006 Christian convert Abdul Rahman, in similar captivity, was exiled to Rome following international pressure and Karzai's intervention. At that time Karzai promised that Christians would be tolerated in Afghanistan.
As Christians approach this month's International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church on Nov. 14, we can take little solace in these deeds done in darkness-when back-channel deals take precedence over adherence to Afghan law, while those assured that no one is watching imprison and torture an amputee. Not only were diplomats with vital interests in Afghanistan slow to respond, but the ICRC-with a mandate, according to its website, of "visiting prisoners" and "helping victims of conflict and internal violence, whoever they are"-has not visited Musa in prison nor intervened.
Further, the United States has spent millions of dollars through non-governmental organizations to reform Afghanistan's judicial system. One USAID-funded program, the Rule of Law Project, has trained court officials, judges, prosecutors, and others to follow Afghanistan's constitutional procedures-and at the provincial level where Musa was incarcerated for five months without legal representation, equal protection, or formal charges filed.
In the end, despite the back-door diplomacy, the quiet persistence of fellow Christians, and massive efforts by the United States to help Afghanistan, Musa was left to craft his own defense in a two-page prison epistle written in broken but legible, tightly lined English, and signed "Your destitute brother."
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Can you post a link to the servo you're using?
The servo I was using is the HSR-5995TG converted to continuous (basically they removed the pot and put it outside the case). I'll probably put the pot back in and program it for 180 degree.
I'm not sure how that would work from a wiring perspective. If you're using it for a battery operated camera (so no wires) I see how that could work, but for tracking purposes, your wires are going to get all twisted.Plus the servo will lose track of where it is (I'm assuming). Doesn't it just keep spinning round and round or am I missing something?
That conversion turns a servo into a continuous-rotation drive. Basically, if you command left or right, the servo just keeps turning left or right forever, rather than stopping at any particular point. They're used on the wheels of small differential drive robots, etc.
If you want the servo to stop at a particular angle, you will have to either reconnect the pot to the output shaft as you mention, or connect it to some other part of the mechanism. The latter can be helpful if, for example, you would like to add some gearing to the output shaft to make the servo stronger, or gearing to the pot to make it measure a wider sweep.
Thanks TCIII.
What I wanted when I bought the servo was one that would go more than 180 degrees and need one that's pretty strong so it can support a Yagi antenna, if needed. I think the Grand Wing servo isn't quite strong enough for what I need but will take a look at it.
Really appreciate everyone's replies!
Check out the Servo City or Robotshop.ca pan/tilt servo set ups. You can utilize a smaller indirect servo, with a pot on the axis, for the results in question.
Thanks Guys. I'lll look at the ServoCity stuff.
Next problem - how to get the GCS to see a joystick... I have a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro and a Logitech gamepad which are both properly installed but I can't get HKGCS to recognize either of them anan't find any instructions on how to make them work. Any suggestions?
It's hit or miss I think. My old real flight USB joystick works, but we couldn't get an xbox controller working.
Thanks, Josh.
I have the joystick and gamepad that Paul mentioned in the RCGroups thread but can't get either one to work. Just doesn't seem to recognize them. :(
I used the Grand Wing servo in a Lynxmotion turntable in place of the standard Hitec servo. I had to modify the servo mounting and turntable attachment point, but can support and turn a fair amount of weight.
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Pros: EASY set up. Awesome Picture Great black levels. No Edge light bleeding what so ever. no stupid super reflective coating that the dell U2711 has. Stand is good. The monitor is very bright crisp and clear. The dell U2711 is good too but i ultimately decided to take a chance on this monitor and i am very happy with it. Their is a mat coating of some sort on this screen but its not reflective, u only see it on a pure white screen. Its hard to explain but its no problem at all ( i cant imagine it bothering anyone). I am never going to use the speakers in this monitor because i have my own but you don't buy this monitor for the speakers. Also the monitor looks pro
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Web's Largest listing of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding events
2,968 crowdsourcing and crowdfunding sites
Editor's Note: Earlier in a two-part series on Crowdsourcing.org, Paul Spinrad recalled his experieces as the first mover on crowdfunding for equity in the U.S. and took an analytical look at the movement that has risen up around crowdfunding and the JOBS Act. Paul also sent along some footnotes of a sort that demonstrate just how influential the initial petition to the SEC that he helped create have become over the past two years.
On June 24, 2010, the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) in Oakland, CA submitted to the SEC the first public petition for a crowdfunding exemption, which the SEC posted as File No. 4-605, "Request for rulemaking to exempt securities offerings up to $100,000 with $100 maximum per investor from registration." The legal work for researching and writing the petition was itself crowdfunded on IndieGoGo as "The Crowdfunding Campaign to Change Crowdfunding Law," and the donors are all listed in the petition's first footnote.
The SELC petition subsequently inspired more public comments than any previous SEC rulemaking petition, and catalyzed a movement that resulted in the signing of the CROWDFUND Act, as Title III of the JOBS Act of 2012. At a recent Milken Institute roundtable on crowdfunding, one participant described this legislation as one of the most momentous and rare exemptions in U.S. securities laws since the Securities Act of 1933. Here are some citations that reference the SELC's influential petition.
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LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf on Saturday said that international cricket will soon return to Pakistan, underlining the ICC was fully backing Pakistan on resumption of international contests in the country.
"The ICC fully supports Pakistan as far as the return of international cricket is concerned and it [ICC] is very serious on this issue. And we are confident that we will see international cricket activity in our own backyard in the near future," Zaka said here on Friday after returning from Sri Lanka.
As PCB chairman, Zaka stressed, his immediate responsibility was to ensure the return of international cricket to Pakistan, adding he was making strenuous efforts together with the ICC to address this most demanding issue.
"We have been playing our [home] international series abroad for the last three and a half years to fulfil our international commitments.
"And it is a positive sign that we are making gradual progress to see that international cricket will soon return to Pakistan," he remarked.
The PCB chief highlighted that he had been lobbying for the resumption of international cricket in Pakistan by taking into confidence prominent former cricketers from whom, Zaka added, he would also seek their input in this regard. —APP


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Nowadays, photography is such an abundantly used medium that its functional principles are being slightly forgotten. If we take a picture by mobile phone or a reflex camera, the main principle has not changed since the first one was taken by Nicéphore Niépce in 1820, it is still based on the same principle drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in Codex Atlaticus or even far before (about 4th century B.C.) described by the Chinese philosopher Mo-Ti. Nowadays, when our world is broadly digitalized and cameras are common parts of mobile devices, experimentation with classical photography has become paradoxically even more expensive than it used to be. Therefore, by introducing Rubikon, I would like to mediate these principles in a funny and easy-to-use way. Nevertheless I would also like to offer mass photographers an alternative way not to take just gigabytes of pictures but also some shots with unique atmosphere and specific creative approach.
Rubikon is a paper cut-out, which becomes a functioning camera (camera obscura) after gluing together.
In 1979 the ABC magazine published a jigsaw called Dirkon, which paraphrased the single-lensed reflex cameras, which used to be very popular at that time. The cut-out Rubikon was first published in 2005 in the 8. issue of the ABC magazine, 25 years after introducing Dirkon. Since that time it has been also published in foreign media dealing with photography. Rubikon is also used as a teaching aid at some schools of photography and elementary schools.
The second version of Rubikon, The Pinhole Rebel is even more user friendly and easy to build.
Before putting it together, read the manual carefully, please! I will be very grateful for any feedback, comment or idea for improvement.
Rubikon of author Jaroslav Juřica is subjected to Creative Commons license Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Unported Czech Republic.
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While Political Machine 2012 is probably the de facto election year strategy game of choice for PC and Mac players right now, those looking to run a campaign on iOS and Android devices can always check out Election Game 2012: Race for the White House. While we can't attest to the quality of this game (we haven't played it personally) developer Lunagames promises a down and dirty political campaign to win the highest office in the land: the presidency.
Lunagames calls the Election Game 2012 a "fun strategy game" that offers the ability to choose your favorite politician (President Barack Obama or Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney), make TV appearances, take questionable campaign funds, rally volunteers, run political ads in regions where you need votes, the ability to react to "humorous" world news, raise campaign funds, and a whole lot more.
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JAN 22, 2013 - Business Insider
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If President Obama were to accomplish one thing in his next term, it should be to lower significantly the unemployment rate. At a current 7.8% (according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) roughly 12.2 million people in the U.S. are without jobs. The economy matters. People are happy when they're productive at work and making money. Anyone who says that money doesn't matter either has a trust fund or is about three days into Burning Man and is still high on the novelty of the barter system (try to take down a Moncler coat at Barney's with some wampum and see how far
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Oil Falls Below $70
Updated: 10/24/2008 - Oil prices have fallen below $70 a barrel in Asia.
Updated: 10/24/2008 - Oil prices have fallen below $70 a barrel in Asia.
Updated: 10/22/2008 - Records show Alaska governor Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited. An AP investigation found Palin later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.
Updated: 10/22/2008 - Monday night on 11 News, we showed you video of police rushing a group of protesters after they had run into the middle of the street as Governor Sarah Palin's motorcade approached. Now officials say the group is under criminal investigation.
Posted: 10/21/2008 - Any business owner will tell you it's hard to operate without any employees and with a growing concern of worker shortages in the Grand Valley some businesses are looking elsewhere for employees.
Posted: 10/21/2008 - A Grand Junction club is giving away a "lion's share" of donations to help local non–profits.
Updated: 10/21/2008 - There's more relief at the pump this week as gas prices continue to fall.
Updated: 10/22/2008 - You saw it first on 11 News at ten on Monday, chaotic video of police rushing protestors who ran into traffic. Now police have released dashcam video.
Updated: 10/21/2008 - A Clifton elementary school teacher is one of only two woman on the western slope to ever be crowned Miss Rodeo Colorado in more than 30 years.
Updated: 10/22/2008 - A memorial service will be held this weekend for a well known dentist who was gunned down in a north Grand Junction neighborhood on October 11 for reasons still unknown.
Updated: 10/22/2008 - A high court found Ex-Prime Minister guilty of corruption when he used his office to help his wife to buy property.
Updated: 10/21/2008 - Some Delta cribs are being recalled after the side rail brake broke and infants died.
Posted: 10/21/2008 - Airlines are cutting back the number of flights for the holiday season, which could mean more expensive and fewer seats.
Updated: 10/21/2008 - Obama has taken time off from his campaign to visit his Grandmother in Hawaii.
Posted: 10/21/2008 - Possibly thousands of fossilized dinosaur footprints have been found on the Arizona-Utah border.
Posted: 10/21/2008 - A father and son on a hunting trip died after their vehicle plunged about 700 feet off a steep mountain road near Glenwood Springs.
Posted: 10/21/2008 - A 76-year-old Texas man who'd been missing since Saturday has been found alive and well in the northern Colorado mountains.
Posted: 10/21/2008 - A 6-year-old Yorkshire Terrier burned on a stove in a Lakewood apartment is recovering at an animal hospital as his owner remains behind bars accused of arson and cruelty to animals.
Posted: 10/21/2008 - Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain is dismissing the notion that he can't win the presidency if the top issue is the flagging economy.
Posted: 10/21/2008 - Delta Enterprises is voluntarily recalling nearly 1.6 million older versions of its drop-side cribs after two infant deaths.
Posted: 10/21/2008 - Barack Obama is canceling nearly all his campaign events Thursday and Friday to visit his gravely ill grandmother in Hawaii.
Posted: 10/21/2008 - President Bush may be open to a new round of economic stimulus.
Posted: 10/21/2008 - The new chief executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are trying do more to stop the home foreclosures hammering the housing market.
Posted: 10/21/2008 - Leading congressional democrats are very pleased that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is backing the idea of another stimulus package.
Updated: 10/20/2008 - Thousands of people descended upon Suplizio Field Monday night to hear Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin speak. She spent the night discussing things like the economy, taxes, and even Joe the Plumber -- all to appeal to Western Slope voters and get them to carry Colorado for the Republican ticket.
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Where do you find the longest posts, the ones that have the most feeling in them? The ones we fans absolutely hate having to rewrite? Of course, it's the Senate Chambers. And I wrote a nice, long post, and clicked Submit. It locked up on me, and I had to do it over! :crybaby: This has happened several times. So, I'm curious: What causes vB to eat them? I myself am a member of vB forums with vBulletin 3.5, and have identical layouts, but even when they had the same version number as this forum, it never ate long posts like that. That forum got pretty bogged down recently, and I am known because I jumped to 800+ posts in a matter of months. :o A lot of those were long. What would cause long posts to be lost like that? It's very irritating.
Just copy your post before you post, you won't lose another post this way.
OK. Anytime I exceed, say... 3 paragraphs, I'll Copy and Paste it into Notepad. But a post like this one shouldn't require a C&P backup. :)
I don't think you need to paste it into notepad every time, you can just copy it and it will be stored until you copy something else.
I still have this problem at work... absolutely horrid.... I can only 'quick repy' there and I can't edit them.
Then sometimes it works flawlessly.... amazingly annoying.
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Shrimp and Rice Salad
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Prep 2 hrs
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Serve this on individual plates on top lettuce leaves, garnish plates with quartered tomatoes, a couple of whole shrimp and a few whole olives. This is wonderful for a summertime (or any season) luncheon. Double or even triple the recipe to serve your guests. This should be made a few hours in advance and chilled to blend flavors. Prep time includes chilling time.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 1⁄2 cups cooked rice
- 2 cups shrimp, cooked and peeled (can leave whole or cut in half)
- salt and pepper
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (or to taste)
- 1 1⁄2 cups cauliflower florets, washed and uncooked
- 1⁄4 cup green onion, finely chopped
- green olives, chopped (any amount desired)
- 1 small green bell pepper, chopped
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 3 tablespoons French dressing
- In a small bowl whisk together the mayo and French dressing (adjusting the French dressing to taste).
- In a large bowl mix together ALL ingredients with the dressing, adjusting salt and pepper to taste.
- Cover and chill for several hours before serving to blend flavors.
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Made this yesterday for today's lunch, and it was excellent! Love the combination of raw cauliflower and shrimp. I used less onion and did not put in the green olives but that is a matter of personal taste. Thanks for another keeper Kittencal. Made for 1-2-3 Hit Wonders!
This is great full meal salad that I enjoyed very much. I have to first say that I skipped all of the dressing except for 1 tbsp of reduced fat mayo mixed with a liberal amount of lemon juice. Glancing at the recipe just now I see that I forgot to add any olives....I'll put 'em in next time. I lightly cooked the cauliflower and peppers only because I'm currently having a lot of dental work and softer is better right now. As I knew that I wasn't going to be using dressing as the recipe asks I cooked the rice in veggie broth for added flavor. I found the resulting salad excellent tasting as well as quite healthy. Thanks Kit for this one.


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I went for a 15 mile ride this morning. On the way home the RD began making a high pitched squeaking noise. I think it is coming from either the jockey or guide wheel. The noise is not constant, and it is most prevalent when I'm on the small chain ring and the next-to-largest rear cog. I'm running a six-speed cluster with Shimano derailer from the late 1980's.
Naturally, the noise goes away if I'm not pedaling. Anyone have a tip on isolating the noise?
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Seminar: GMOs and Drought Tolerant Crop Varieties
Seminar: GMOs and Drought Tolerant Crop Varieties
Dr. David Zilberman
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California Berkeley
Friday, February 21, 2014
Orbach Science Library, Room 240, 12:00-1:30 pm
Abstract: Concern about climate change, population growth, and lack of water availability has led to the development of a wide array of technologies in agriculture. One of these technologies is genetically modified [GM] varieties. This technology applies new developments in molecular and cell biology to agriculture. While they have only been adopted in a select few crops, they have made a major difference, increasing the supply of corn, soybean, and cotton substantially, reducing their prices to make meats more affordable to the poor, and reducing the footprint of agriculture. Yet, there is significant resistance to GMOs motivated by honest uncertainty, but also commercial interest. One of the most touted applications of GMOs is in drought-tolerant varieties. Drought tolerance is one of the applications of GM that seems tolerable and has been supported in Africa and other developing countries. While adoption of these technologies has merit, under many circumstances it is likely to be less beneficial to farmers than pest-controlling varieties, which can have major positive impacts on their lives. Introduction of pest controlling varieties may actually enhance the adoption of drought tolerant varieties.
About the Presenter: Professor David Zilberman holds the Robinson Chair in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at U.C. Berkeley, with areas of expertise including agricultural and environmental policy, the economics of innovation, risk and marketing, and water, pest control; biotechnology and climate change. Professor Zilberman is a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (AERE), and is the recipient of the 2000 Cannes Water and the Economy Award. He won the AAEA 2002 and 2007 Quality of Research Discovery Award and the 2005 and 2009 AAEA Publication of Enduring Quality Award. He has edited 16 books and coauthored 240 papers in refereed journals. Professor Zilberman received his B. A. in Economics and Statistics at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, FAO, USDA, EPA, and CDFA. He also served as Department Chair from 1994 to1999, and was on the boards of the AAEA and C-FARE and on three NRC panels.
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From the "Ghosts of Cleopatra Hill" in Jerome to the presidio of Tubac, our first European settlement, it isn't hard to find traces of Arizona's Wild West past as you travel the state's highways and byways.
Just the name Arizona conjures up images of a West too tough to die, where frontier justice prevailed and cowboys and Indians held center stage.
By 1912, Arizonans were in the throes of celebrating the ultimate prize after fighting long and hard for status as a separate state. The rolling capitol – which had been hopping between Prescott and Tucson – found a permanent home in Phoenix, and communities throughout the state were poised to step up to the promises offered by statehood.
Europeans Establish a Settlement at Tubac
Growing from a settlement torn by skirmishes between pioneers and the state's native inhabitants into the present-day charming arts community, Tubac in Southern Arizona is well worth a visit.
The town's Presidio San Ignacio de Tubac, established in 1752, is Arizona's oldest Spanish fort. The presidio was raised to protect a fledgling settlement of European colonists – brought to expand Spain's New World empire – against raids by the land's native residents.
Be sure to visit Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, where you'll see part of the original foundation, walls and plaza floor of the 1752 commandant's quarters, an authentic 1885 schoolhouse and the first printing press used in Arizona.
Old & New Reside Side by Side in Tucson
Tucson, the Territorial Capitol of Arizona from 1867 to 1877 and the home of Arizona's first university, is now Arizona's second largest city.
You can still find glimpses of this modern city's early history tucked away like hidden jewels, from the white sandstone facade of the 1866 St. Augustine Cathedral to the vibrantly colored adobe homes and businesses in the Barrio Historico neighborhood.
Prescott – Arizona's Two-Time Territorial Capitol
The charm and beauty of Prescott – Arizona's Territorial Capital from 1864 to 1867 and, again, from 1877 to 1889 – is enhanced by the rich Arizona history brought to life at the Sharlot Hall Museum.
The crown jewel of the museum is the Prescott's Territorial governor's mansion. Take the time to roam the museum's parklike grounds, breathe in the fragrance of the rose garden and explore Fort Misery and the several period houses relocated to the property during the 1900s.
Another historic stop, the Yavapai County Courthouse played a part in Arizona politics for many years – the late Senator Barry M. Goldwater always kicked off his political campaigns on the building's steps.
Don't head out of town without a stroll down Whiskey Row. During the town's Wild West heyday, saloons and gambling halls lined this now-historic block. Today, the area offers a variety of charming dining, lodging and shopping options.
The Roving Capitol Makes a Permanent Stop
Phoenix became the final site of Arizona Territorial government in 1889, and the first State Capitol in 1912.
Step back into this era at Historic Heritage Square in downtown Phoenix. Experience a taste of the late 1880s in the only remaining block of the city's original town site.
Stroll amid Victorian houses along tree-lined sidewalks lit by period streetlights. Duck into the cozy Pizzeria Bianco – occupying one of the square's historic buildings – for a creation from James Beard Award-winning chef Chris Bianco.
The Town Too Tough to Die
No visit to Southern Arizona would be complete without a stop at one of the state's wildest of the Wild West towns – Tombstone.
See reenactors shoot it out at the OK Corral, and join other curious onlookers at the Bird Cage Theatre, now a museum, to eye its bullet-riddled interior. A visit to the Tombstone Courthouse State Park will provide you with an authentic history of this "Town Too Tough to Die".
The Ghosts of Jerome
With streets so twisting they would give a rattlesnake a headache, Jerome looks out across the Verde Valley from its perch on Cleopatra Hill.
After the town's mine closed in 1953, Jerome's few remaining residents were determined not to let their town slip away. Instead they recreated its image, building it into a well-known arts community and tourist attraction.
Today the town offers thriving shops, museums, accommodations and restaurants. It was designated a National Historic District in 1967 by the federal government.


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I came to yoga in my mid-twenties when I needed something to counterbalance the rat race I was faced with at work. I initially tried different yoga classes at the local gym, before signing up for an Ashtanga course. I instantly fell in love with this style of yoga. After 10 years of practice, with all its ups and downs, I completed my CYQ teacher training in London.
My dynamic classes emphasize moving with awareness, building strength and breathing correctly. They are physically challenging while focussing on correct alignment, but most importantly the classes are fun and encourage students to enjoy their practice.
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Fan-filmed video footage of soul singer Cee Lo Green performing a cover version of the DANZIG classic "Mother" during his appearance on day two of the Lollapalooza festival on Saturday, August 6 in Chicago, Illinois can be seen below. The GNARLS BARKLEY frontman took to the stage wearing sunglasses, large black shoulder pads with metal spikes, hardware store chains and fishnet stockings.Cee Lo Green previously joined MTLEY CRE on stage on June 14 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to perform his hit song "Forget You" (a.k.a. "F--- You") as part of a mash-up with CRE's "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)". According to RollingStone.com, Cee Lo Green dropped in a couple of his own lines: "Fuck you! And fuck her too!" before happily leading a chant of "Cre! Cre! Cre!"
CEE LO GREEN Covers DANZIG's 'Mother' (Video)
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One of the first craft beers on the scene in South Africa, the Brewers & Union Handwerk IPA is a well-balanced IPA with notes of citrus, honey and pine in the bitterness. Crisp and easy drinking, this is great with rich foods.
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Hiker rescued from Camelback Mountain trail after suffering heat-related illness
PHOENIX - A 23-year-old hiker was rescued off Camelback Mountain Sunday after suffering a heat-related illness on Cholla Trail.
The woman was located by rescue crews before 10:30 a.m. and was taken down the trail with a 'big wheel' some time after that.
Cholla Trail is one of the more advanced trails on the mountain and the hiker was reportedly inexperienced.
She was taken to the hospital to receive attention for dehydration and complications from the heat.
There is no word on her condition as of Sunday afternoon.
It's always important to hike within your comfort zone and experience level.
Always be prepared and hydrated a few days before your hike and use caution when participating in strenuous exercise in extreme temperatures.