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Frozen Four Semifinal Notebook
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PITTSBURGH Both Yale's Andrew Miller and Quinnipiac's Jeremy Langlois scored important goals in their teams' national semifinal wins on Thursday. They also surpassed career milestones after their performances.
Miller's assist on Mitch Witek's first-period goal tied him with Bob Brooke as the program's all-time assists leader. The helper was the 113th of his career. He enters Saturday's national championship game just short of becoming the all-time leader in assists.
Langlois' first-period goal against St. Cloud State was the 100th point of his career.
"It was definitely good to get that monkey on my back," Langlois said. "It couldn't have happened at a better time for me and in such a pivotal game. But I think it's more the team aspect that I was able to score in such a pivotal game."
Miller and Langlois look to add to their totals on Saturday night when they lead their teams into the national championship game.
Been a while
Before Thursday's national semifinal showdown with UMass-Lowell, Yale's last game played in Pittsburgh was a pair of games against Queen's College (Canada) in January 1925. This year's Frozen Four also marks the first time since 1996 (Denver's McNichols Arena) that the Bulldogs played in an NHL arena.
One situation where Yale was more than comfortable, however? Playing in overtime. After defeating UML in Thursday's extra-time session, the Bulldogs improve to 6-0-3 this season in games decided by an overtime period.
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Before this season, the state of Connecticut had only seen one school make an appearance in the national semifinals (Yale, 1952). Now, with Yale and Quinnipiac earning victories on Thursday, a pair of Connecticut schools will play for the national championship on Saturday night. Prior to the Frozen Four this week, Connecticut governor Dan Malloy tweeted that the two ECAC schools "established #CT as the center of college hockey universe."
On Saturday at the CONSOL Energy Center, they'll be just that.
Just the Start for Lowell
This is far from the end for Lowell.
The River Hawks graduate just three seniors this spring, and will return, barring any pro signees, 24 members of a team that not only advanced to the Frozen Four, but won both the Hockey East regular-season and tournament championships.
"I think these guys have a great future," said Riley Wetmore, one of the few members who won't return. They've got great leadership in the locker room for the next couple of years. For me, it's just disappointing that, yeah, I just can't put it into words. It's just tough right now."
Of Lowell's 123 goals scored, they're slated to return 86 percent (106) of them. On top of that, freshman sensation Connor Hellebuyck, with a year under his belt, is downright frightening to the nation's other 58 teams.
Battle of Connecticut
The national championship game represents the first between teams from the same state since 1978 when Boston University defeated Boston College, 5-3. The contest was also the last time two teams within such close proximity met for a title.
BU and BC are just about 4 miles from each other. Quinnipiac, in Hamden, Conn., is just about 7 miles from Yale in New Haven.
The meetings between the teams within the ECAC have become especially important to both fanbases. In the last two years, QU has dominated the games, though, with a 4-0-1 record. Despite the rivalry, both teams are just focused on winning the game.
"Those games are irrelevant now," QU captain Zack Currie said. "We both know what the other team's going to bring. The stage and what's at stake is going to be way bigger than any games we've played so far. It's completely different.
A New Chapter for St. Cloud
Prior to 2010, St. Cloud State had gone 0-8-0 in the NCAA tournament. After defeating Northern Michigan in 2010, SCSU coach Bob Motzko expected things to change. It took the Huskies three seasons to get back to the tournament, but the success this season has changed the program's reputation.
The wins over Notre Dame and Miami in Toledo, Ohio, two weekends ago didn't erase the frustration of previous years. They did, however, solidify the Huskies as a first-tier program in college hockey. Despite the loss to Quinnipiac on Thursday, SCSU was clearly among the best teams in the country this season.
"I think we have an awful lot to be proud of," SCSU senior and Hobey Baker finalist Drew LeBlanc said. "Hopefully, we put St. Cloud State hockey on the map and laid the foundation and groundwork now for things to come."
A Rough Start
Quinnipiac's three, quick goals to start Thursday semifinal put St. Cloud State in a tough spot the rest of the way. SCSU coach Bob Motzko admitted after the game that his team would do anything to erase the frustration of the first 10 minutes of the games.
Both coaches knew the early part of the first period would be difficult given the overtime in the UMass-Lowell Yale game. However, the sides appear to have dealt with the adjustments differently.
"You don't expect to come out flat-footed," LeBlanc said. " I don't know if it was the other game going into overtime and delaying us a bit, but give (Quinnipiac) credit. They handled it better than us.
Pecknold prepared his game for the eventual delay. While the Bobcats didn't change their preparation, the experienced team clearly responded better than its opponent. Pecknold said he and his staff warned their team throughout the week that they may have to wait to start the game.
"I actually thought it was great when the first game went into overtime," Pecknold said. "We had prepared for it. We talked about it during the week."
College Hockey News writers Joe Meloni, Scott McLaughlin, A.J. Curry, Mike McMahon and Adam Wodon contributed to this report.


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Dishes inspired by 'Downton Abbey'
Sizzle and steam, Edwardian style
The romance. The intrigue. The big, beautiful country house.
We can analyze the recipe for success of "Downton Abbey," the British television import whose Season 3 makes its breathlessly anticipated debut on PBS on Sunday, until our cups of tea go cold. But one element that can't be overlooked, especially for those of a culinary bent, is the food.
Rather than letting it serve as mere eye candy, creator and writer Julian Fellowes has worked crepes, puddings, roast chicken and other edible props into some of the series' most memorable plots.
Who can forget Mrs. Patmore's disastrously salty raspberry meringue pudding? How many fans fell hook, line and sinker for the implication that Branson the chauffeur would off the famous British general with a poison-laden soup?
The lavish spreads enjoyed by the aristocratic Crawley family in early-20th-century England are enough to inspire envy in those who might be watching with a microwave dinner in their laps. The show has revived an interest in British food, particularly that of the 1910s and 1920s, with spinoffs including Pinterest boards, blogs and a recently released unofficial cookbook.
Replicating that setting for the show requires a tremendous amount of research and logistics. Because the downstairs portion of Highclere Castle, where "Downton Abbey" is filmed, couldn't stand in for the servants' quarters, the production team built a kitchen set about 60 miles from the castle.
Thanks in large part to the inventory available on eBay, production designer Donal Woods acquired original tools such as copper molds, bowls, mixing machines, mincing machines and stone-glazed sinks.
"Probably about 60 to 70 percent of the stuff in there is from that period," he says.
Food economist Lisa Heathcote consults her library of historical cookbooks as well as her own knowledge of period food.
Of course, the food has to be cooked and plated — twice, in some instances. Filming on each set occurs miles and weeks apart. For scenes in the dining room, Heathcote prepares food off-site and then warms and plates it in a field kitchen. She tries to steer clear of too many foods that need to be served hot, though, because it's difficult to keep them that way. Filming a dining scene can take 10 to 12 hours, and multiple takes mean plates are constantly being cleared and refreshed.
Long shoots can wreak havoc on prepared food, so certain ingredients, particularly fish, are off-limits.
Heathcote's tricks include dying cream cheese pinkish-red to resemble salmon mousse and serving a chimera-like entree she calls "chicken fish," or poultry prepared to look like fish with sauce on top.
All that results in a very elegant-looking dinner party on the set. In reality, though, it would have been even more over the top, says the Countess of Carnarvon, who, with her husband, the Earl of Carnarvon, lives at Hiclere Castle.
"There were a lot more courses," anywhere from five to seven, she says. (Home cooks may soon be able try some of those courses: The Countess suggests she may publish a cookbook of Highclere recipes next year.) In her 2011 book, "Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle," she relates that for a dinner of 10 or more guests, the four footmen, more than we see around the table in "Downton," would have powdered their hair and dressed up for the occasion. The powdering went on until 1918.
Lady Carnarvon understands the compromises that need to be made for the purposes of television.
Lady Carnarvon says she and Highclere's head chef and two sous-chefs don't live under the same kind of pressure felt by the characters and their real-life counterparts, especially now that she's been living at Highclere for 13 years.
"I think as you become more at home," she says, "you actually become more relaxed, so if something did go wrong, I'd simply ask the staff to go get a load of pizzas."
What to eat while you're watching 'Downton Abbey'
Looking to throw a "Downton Abbey" viewing party? In addition to the dessert recipes below and those found on page 10A, here are some other dishes to fill out your spread:
- French 75. A sparkling wine cocktail created during World War I.
- Deviled Eggs. A staple on Edwardian appetizer platters, according to blogger Pamela Foster.
- Broiled Oysters with Peach and Paprika. These were an Edwardian favorite.
Main courses
- Basic Roast Chicken. Mrs. Patmore, the cook, saw hers fall on the floor.
- Beef and Guinness Stew. Fitting for the downstairs staff.
- Hearty Beef Pot Roast with Red Wine and Thyme. Stereotype or not, it's still a classic.
- Shepherd's Pie. Something else that might be enjoyed in the servants' hall.
- Shiitake Beef Wellingtons. Every guest gets his or her own phyllo-enclosed packet.
- Irish Whiskey Cake. Show solidarity with Branson the chauffeur's advocacy for Irish independence.
- Victoria Sandwich Cake. A very British dessert named after the famed queen.
- White House Sticky Toffee Pudding. This take on the British treat comes from a White House executive pastry chef.
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Penn's Zach Main raising the bar in the weight room
Since he was just a kid, 10 years old and a whole lot smaller than he is now, Zach Main has been an avid weightlifter. But this spring, the rising junior at Penn finally found out just how strong he really is.
"I wanted to get into competitive weightlifting," says Main. "See where I fall with other people."
After setting an Indiana high school bench press record at his first-ever competition (352 pounds at a state event in Kokomo last March), he then broke the national mark at the beginning of June. At the Natural Athlete Strength Association's USA Nationals in Laughlin, Nevada Main benched 170 kilos, equal to 374.78 pounds, for the championship.
"I just got up and I went and I hugged my parents," Main says of the moment after his record lift. "I about busted down in tears. I couldn't believe it."
"It'll give you goosebumps," says a proud dad, Randy Main."
"And tears for me," adds his mother, Laurie. "When I got the hug that was pretty cool. You know because normally, 16, don't have time for Mom."
Outside of the gym, Main is a fantastic all-around athlete. He's clocked a 4.7-second time in the 40 yard dash, plays outfield in baseball and started as a sophomore at defensive end for the Penn football team.
"I want to play both in college, baseball and football," says Main. "It'd be a real big achievement for me because I've looked up to Bo Jackson."
Bo Jackson of course inspired countless tales bordering on myth. And Main has his own growing list of exploits. At 14-years-old he hit a home run out of Notre Dame's ballpark. When he started lifting in fourth grade, he maxed out at 185 pounds on the bench -- fourth grade! And his current athletic endeavors are smashing the family's food budget.
"We always joke, he eats like a baby," Randy says. "Every two hours."
"We don't walk out of Meijer or Martins with less than a couple hundred dollars," says Laurie.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown has informed Browns president Mike Holmgren that he will not attend the Sept. 19 ceremony when the team unveils its new ring of honor.
Brown, considered the greatest player in team history, is one of 16 Hall of Famers to be inducted in the ring during halftime of the team's home opener against Kansas City.
Brown was an adviser to Browns owner Randy Lerner before he was stripped of his duties by Holmgren, who was hired in December.
Brown sent a letter to Holmgren that was obtained by The Plain Dealer. In his letter, Brown says he had no formal contract as an adviser with the Browns, and he believes his agreement with Lerner was violated because a clause in it stated he would answer to no one but the owner.
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Anchorage's Rover's Run Trail -- No. 5 on Travel & Leisure magazine's list of "World's Scariest Hikes" -- is back in the news.
Surprise, surprise.
Bears, of which Alaska's largest city has many, have again been spotted on the trail that runs adjacent to what at the moment is a salmon-filled Campbell Creek. Bears like to eat protein-rich salmon.
Officials in the state's largest city are advising people to avoid the dangerous trail. They could meet a bear, either grizzly or black. The same could happen on just about any trail in and around Alaska's largest city.
A grizzly was shot and killed on the popular Turnagain Arm Trail above the even busier Seward Highway just days ago. But the odds of meeting a bear on Rover's Run at the moment are higher than elsewhere.
How many bear watchers this will attract to the trail is unknown. The Russian River on the Kenai Peninsula has become a significant attraction for bear watchers ever since officials started warning anglers to be wary of the many bears that feed where the Russian flows into the larger Kenai River.


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I would first like to thank the members of the Democratic Party of Pakistan for owning our decision to field St0l3n1 as the Country President Candidate. I thank raao, Dio_Eraclea & maniak1715, respective party presidents of PRF, Vento & Revolutionists for endorsing our candidate. Your endorsement and support shall strengthen Pakistan further and lead us all to success.
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SHANDAKEN, N.Y. -- The Town Board appears ready to pass a law that will allow farm stands to be larger and exist on non-farm properties.
The proposed law -- the subject of a public hearing scheduled for 6 this evening in the Town Hall on Route 28 in Allaben -- could put an end to years of squabbling over the stand owned by Al Higley and his son, Alfie, a member of the Town Board.
"Barring any major changes to the law, we will be voting on the law immediately following the public hearing," said town Supervisor Rob Stanley.
The Higleys' stand, called Hanover Farms, is on state Route 28 in the hamlet of Mount Tremper and was cited in 2008 because, according to then-Code Enforcement Officer Gina Reilly, the fruit and vegetable operation did not comply with size restrictions specified by the permit the town Planning Board granted the business in 2003.
Reilly said at the time that the business had grown well beyond the 100-square-foot limit set by the Planning Board.
The proposed law increases the allowable size of farm stands, based on a percentage of the size of the property on which they sit; and� mandates that farm stands be no more than one story high or occupy only the ground floor of a multi-story structure.
The law also would change the current requirement that a farm stand be located on a farm. There is no farm near the Hanover stand, and the business also sells item that critics say are not farm-related.
Since 2008 the Higleys have attempted to reach some agreement with the town that would allow the stand to remain. They also have threatened "expensive litigation" if the town does not cooperate.
Alfie Higley was elected to the Shandaken Town Board last fall. At February's monthly meeting of the board, he abstained from voting on the proposal to schedule tonight's hearing.


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In an incident that could conceivably have affected the election had it been disclosed earlier, two Iranian fighter jets fired at but missed an unarmed Predator drone in international airspace near Kuwait on November 1st. Officials aren't sure whether the Iranians missed on purpose or were worn out from playing a 30-hour Assassin's Creed III marathon. [CNN]
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16 Aug, 2012
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14 Aug, 2012
Are You Making the Right First Impression on Twitter?
By Portent Staff
First impressions are important. I remember when I was younger; I met a girl on a cruise that was high class and a lot wealthier than I was. Ordinarily she wouldn't have given me a second glance, but after I saved her from an ill-advised swim, we fell in love almost immediately, even though she… Read More
10 Aug, 2012
How to: Mine server logs for broken links
By Ian Lurie
I've broken this out into lots of steps. You could do it all in one or two steps with a shell script or other geekery. I wrote this to keep each step simple, and get you into Excel as quickly as possible, instead. I've railed about fixing broken links for years now. I've presented webinars… Read More
7 Aug, 2012
10 stupid blogging mistakes I've made
By Ian Lurie
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6 Aug, 2012
SEO: Trading Tactics for Craft
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I just finished 3 intensive days at MozCon 2012. Not for intellectual sissies or social introverts, the days were spent listening to presentations, demonstrations and exhortations from a list of luminaries. There was something for everyone: link building is the road to perdition, how-tos on link building, agile all over the place, data modeling, crunching,… Read More
3 Aug, 2012
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Since moving downtown to the Smith Tower, Portent has been getting a lot more social in Seattle. So when we saw that the Mariners were hosting a Social Media Night on August 1st, we grabbed our smart phones and headed over. Social Media Night Many sports organizations have been early adopters of social media, and… Read More
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For months now, Portent CEO Ian Lurie and Director of Search Marketing Elizabeth Marsten have not slept. They have not eaten. They have missed out on critical episodes of True Blood. Why? Because they have been brewing brilliance with co-authors John Arnold, Marty Dickinson, and Michael Becker, developing the second edition of Web Marketing All-in-One… Read More
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30 Jul, 2012
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These are the notes from my Mozcon 2012 presentation. I emphasize 'notes'. There's quite a bit of stream-of-consciousness going on here. If you want to see the presentation and supporting materials, instead, go to the bit.ly bundle, or check out the slides themselves, right here: I think the folks at SEOMOZ are mad at me.… Read More
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If you want to skip the babbling and just sign up, click here, then install the app. Life is very random. You've probably noticed. For example, did you know that I like Marilyn Manson's music, but I'm also a fan of Beethoven. I love to watch the NFL but not baseball. I like electric cars… Read More
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How do you know when you should use a lander over a category or product page in PPC? Well, yes, you test. But let's say you've tested between the two, but are stuck in a circle and would really like to test a category lander just for PPC and need some "evidence" to convince a… Read More
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ObamaCare causing 5-hour ER waits in California
ObamaCare causing 5-hour ER waits in California
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Published by: Dan Calabrese on Monday July 7th, 2014
Remember one of the Democrats' leading arguments in favor of ObamaCare - that more people with health insurance would mean fewer people relying on emergency rooms as their primary health care provider? There was always a huge problem with that. ObamaCare also promised to lower premiums, which is a logical impossibility when you consider all the added benefits it was supposed to deliver, so they tried to cut costs by narrowing provider networks.
As a result, access to primary care providers was actually lessened. And guess where that's driving people to: Emergency rooms!
As KMPH-TV reports, emergency rooms in California are seeing five-hour waits as a result. Not potentially at some point in the future. Now. Five hours is now the average ER wait time throughout California:
This was as predictable as the day is long. There is no way you can guarantee universal access to something while causing the money spent on that same thing to go down. And when you try, your inevitably pathetic attempt will result in the people being asked to provide the service either leaving the profession entirely or severely limiting who they will see - and under what circumstances - because the government has made the business of being a health care provider an economic loser.
Reporter Erik Rosales explains the situation perfectly, particularly in his interview with the doctor who explains he has stopped accepting patients with ObamaCare-subsidized insurance plans. Why? Because he charges $80 for an office visit, while his own costs are $48 per visit. That's a decent profit if he sees enough patients. But ObamaCare policies only pay him $47 per visit. If he accepts that, it costs him money to see patients. Even if you wanted to do that, you couldn't. You have to make a living.
So as more doctors refuse ObamaCare-insured patients, they had for the ER, and ER doctors tell Rosales that their activity is on the rise - and a lot more of it is for what they describe as primary-care type stuff rather than true emergency medicine.
The basic, fundamental flaw in the Democrats' thinking was always this: They thought the ideal situation in health care would be for everyone to have fantastic health insurance policies, and they also thought they only reason people didn't have such policies was that the law allowed insurance companies to turn them down. Pass a law mandating acceptance with price controls, and bam, everyone would have insurance, everyone would go see their primary care physicians for preventive care, and health care spending on the whole would go down.
That was wrong. People didn't lack coverage because health insurers were meanies who didn't want to cover them. Insurance companies are like any other business. They want as many customers as they can get. But there are real, often difficult-to-manage costs involved with paying for another person's health care, and those costs become all the more complicated when people expect you to pay for everything rather than merely insuring against risk like most other insurance policies do.
Understanding none of this, the Democrats went ahead and passed ObamaCare, completing ripping up a system that had a lot of flaws but nonetheless saw more than 80 percent of Americans happy with their coverage, and replacing it with a complete disaster whose negative effects are only starting to be seen and understood. And even now they don't understand the damage they've done, because they never understood health care finance in the first place and they still don't.
I have a friend in TX, who, last night, went to ER. After close to 3 hours and still a long wait ahead, she decided to go home and try to make it until morning, to go to the dr. However, she wasn't at home long, before she got much worse, and this time had to call the ambulance. Since they picked her up she got treated quicker. However, that's not a good thing having to wait as long as she did, and as the ones in CA are doing.
That was like that before ObamaCare. Try again.
And that's different from the norm for years how?
Really- ER waits are notoriously long- well before the ACA-
Did people just fall out of the sky?
Has no one had issues with shitty insurance before the ACA?
I guess we (my hubs and I) have had the lousiest employers in the country because we have had insurance issues/concerns for years- and I worked in HC for 35 years!!!
Maybe some places but the longest we've been in the ER is 2 hours tops before we had been treated and on the way out.
Quoting Pema_Jampa:
That was like that before ObamaCare. Try again.
There was a study done on ER use in either Washington or Oregon after they expanded medicaid. The goal was now that people had coverage it would lessen ER use and they'd go to the dr instead. They found that ER usage went UP by 40%. Ooops, guess that didn't work.
Oh gee, back in the 80's when Reagan was President , I took my daughter to an ER . (She had an ovarian cyst; however they didn't even diagnose that then, It took another year and another Doctor to spot it). But we waited for three hours while they saw little kids with colds . Mommies taking their kiddies to the ER hoping for a prescription for cold meds that would put them to sleep. When they finally got around to seeing my daughter, they asked if she was pregnant! She was a VIRGIN. They apologized and sent her home with pills for menstrual cramps.
Should I blame Ronnie Reagan?
hmmm , I remember long waits like this back in the 70s and 80s. This is NOTHING new. As a matter of fact, I choose a certain hospital around here that usually does not have long waits. Some of the other ERs have had long waits going back decades.
Very sorry to hear about your friend JC. A preview of Obamacare in America. Predicted and forewarned....
Quoting jcribb16:
I have a friend in TX, who, last night, went to ER. After close to 3 hours and still a long wait ahead, she decided to go home and try to make it until morning, to go to the dr. However, she wasn't at home long, before she got much worse, and this time had to call the ambulance. Since they picked her up she got treated quicker. However, that's not a good thing having to wait as long as she did, and as the ones in CA are doing.


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MONDAY, Sept. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Male partners of women with breast cancer have a significantly increased risk of an affective disorder severe enough to require hospitalization, and this risk increases with increasing severity of the cancer, according to research published online Sept. 27 in Cancer.
Naoki Nakaya, Ph.D., of the Danish Cancer Society in Copenhagen, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study of male partners of women with breast cancer to assess the risk for an affective disorder severe enough to require hospitalization. Over one million Danish men aged 30 years or older with no history of hospitalization for this reason who were living with a female partner for at least five years were included in the study.
Breast cancer was diagnosed in the partners of 20,538 men over the 13-year study period. The researchers found that men with a partner diagnosed with breast cancer were at increased risk for a severe affective disorder requiring hospitalization (hazard ratio, 1.39); a dose-response increase in risk was seen for increases in breast cancer severity. When a partner died of breast cancer, their male partner had a 3.6-fold increased risk of developing an affective disorder compared to the men whose partners survived.
"Such interpersonal effects on health challenge our understanding of cancer as a physical disease, as it can also have important social and psychological effects," the authors write. "We suggest that some sort of screening of the partners of cancer patients in general and of those of breast cancer patients in particular for depressive symptoms might be important for preventing this devastating consequence of cancer."
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Plans for grouse fall short, feds say
The agency that will decide whether the greater sage-grouse receives protection under the Endangered Species Act says a Bureau of Land Management proposal for protecting them in northwest Colorado needs strengthening and a key provision likely would lead to a drop in their numbers.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made the observations in letters submitted by the Dec. 2 deadline for commenting on the BLM's draft document for management of greater sage-grouse territory in the region.
The oil and gas industry, area governments, agriculture, recreation and other interests have been contending for months that the measures the BLM is contemplating are overly restrictive and would cause significant economic harm. Oil and gas company Encana warns in its own letter to the BLM that the agency's plans "will significantly impact both Encana's existing operations and its future operations" in the region and include provisions that would violate Encana's existing lease rights.
The BLM is considering the measures in hopes of helping keep the greater sage-grouse from being listed for Endangered Species Act protection. That's something the Fish and Wildlife Service must decide on by 2015 under a court-ordered settlement, and a listing could result in even stricter protective measures.
The BLM's draft document analyzes four alternatives, including a preferred draft that would modify national-level recommendations based on local input and concerns. Fish and Wildlife says that proposal, if revised as it recommends, would meet most of the conservation objectives identified in a report by federal and state science sage-grouse experts and released earlier this year.
One major concern for the agency is that the BLM proposal would not follow the national recommendation for a 3 percent cap on man-caused disturbance in the bird's priority habitat. Instead, the BLM proposes a 5 percent cap, applying only in "ecological sites that support sagebrush" within that habitat. Recent research suggests the higher cap would lead to population declines, Fish and Wildlife says.
It cites one study suggesting there should be no less than 1 percent man-caused disturbance within 5 kilometers of the bird's leks, or mating grounds. Another study concludes a Wyoming strategy involving a 5 percent cap could result in a 7 percent to 9 percent drop in sage-grouse in core areas, even with $250 million spent on conservation easements.
Among other things, Fish and Wildlife also recommends in the case of existing oil and gas leases allowing an average of one disturbance per square mile in priority habitat in a given management zone. It also calls for a year-round, 0.6-mile buffer protecting leks from all types of man-caused disturbances in all sage-grouse habitat, and says it understands that more recent Colorado Parks and Wildlife data suggest a larger buffer such as a 1-mile one may be warranted.
Neither the parks department nor any other Colorado agency filed comments by the Dec. 2 deadline, although Gov. John Hickenlooper's office indicated in late October plans for the state to do so. However, in response to concerns from local governments, Hickenlooper recently named a point person on greater sage-grouse, John Swartout.
Said DNR spokesman Todd Hartman, "We're taking some more time to put together the right alternative and the BLM is working with us on that."
BLM spokesman David Boyd said the parks department and the state Department of Natural Resources are among 14 cooperating agencies that work with the BLM throughout the process, including on developing a final proposed alternative.
"Not every cooperator will submit formal comments during a public comment period, but most typically do," he said.
Hickenlooper has called for a "Colorado-based solution" that protects the sage-grouse while not infringing on existing economic activities such as oil and gas production, grazing and community development.
In its letter, Encana said that in the BLM's planning area the company has more than 677,000 acres of federal oil and gas leases and nearly 200,000 acres of private leases and mineral deeds.
"Encana supports an alternative which recognizes that additional oil and gas development can take place" within the planning area without adversely impacting sage-grouse, the company said. It said three of the four alternatives under consideration, including the BLM's preferred alternative, place drastic, unreasonable limitations on oil and gas development.
"Encana recognizes the difficult task the BLM faces to manage public lands in the Planning Area for multiple use, and encourages the BLM to remember that oil and gas development is a crucial part of the BLM's multiple use mandate," it wrote.
Further, the company contends that BLM's sage-grouse document "does not adequately or sufficiently protect valid existing rights" that the agency's own land use planning handbook says must be honored.
"The BLM must comply with its planning handbook and recognize existing rights. Any attempts to modify existing rights could violate the terms of Encana's contracts with the BLM and the BLM's own policies," Encana said.
Boyd said the BLM received about 7,500 comments by the deadline. Boyd said "a large number" of the comments received consisted of form letters. Several form letters drafted by conservation groups urge the BLM to implement strong protections for the sage-grouse. They're signed by people in Grand Junction, across Colorado, and in other states such as Florida and West Virginia.
One letter, originating from the Sierra Club, says, "Recent requests by some local and state officials to keep the Grouse off the Endangered Species List raise special concern, as they seem to be acting to promote rapid exploitation of shale oil and gas resources. Some propose local 'public-private partnership' to manage lands the grouse inhabits. However, some of the 'partners' stand to profit heavily from an estimated $34 billion in potentially exploitable resources that lie under prime grouse habitat."
In a detailed separate letter it submitted in addition to leading a form-letter campaign, WildEarth Guardians echoed Fish and Wildlife's concerns about the 5 percent disturbance cap, calling it "too high to sustain" sage-grouse.
The group said, "We encourage the federal agencies to set aside a system of reserves, comprised of all Priority Habitats, where only activities scientifically shown to be compatible with maintaining and restoring sage grouse populations to secure population levels are permitted."


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Gerhard Krieger received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.S.) and the Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degrees in electrical and communication engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 1992 and 1999, respectively. From 1992 to 1999, he was a Scientist at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, where he worked in several interdisciplinary research projects related to the modelling of biological and technical vision systems by applying higher-order statistics and nonlinear systems theory. In 1999, he joined the Microwave and Radar Institute (HR) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. From 1999 to 2001, he developed signal processing algorithms for an innovative forward-looking radar (SIREV). Since 2001, he has been the Head of the New SAR Missions Group at DLR (HR). His technical interests include the development and analysis of innovative SAR system concepts based on bi- and multistatic satellite formations, digital beamforming, SAR interferometry, and tomography, as well as advanced signal and image processing techniques.
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- 1. In a large saucepan, combine the corn syrup, sugar and butter; cook and stir over medium heat until butter is melted. Pour into a large bowl.
- 2. Combine dry ingredients; gradually beat into sugar mixture (dough will be stiff). Chill for at least 1 hour. Roll dough to 1/8-in. thickness on a greased baking sheet. Cut into desired shapes; remove dough scraps.
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"Ghost" town of
Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma
Location: Eight miles west of Adell Post Office
The town began when Scott Eason opened a general store
shortly after he homesteaded 160 acres in the run of 1891. The store was
first located only about a half mile east of the Cleveland County line.
J. F. Jim Quillan came to the county in 1895 and started a large general
store in the new location of Eason in 1898, in a two story building.
L. C. Holloway owned 320 acres near Eason and had homesteaded in 1891 and
was the treasurer of Eason township in 1900. Nate P. Willis,
owner of Eason Nursery and Fruit farm, arrived in 1892. His apples
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Heavy fog from the coast of Texas all the way to Tampa has impacted several cruises. As of this morning the Voyager Of The Seas and the Carnival Conquest are still moored in Galveston. They were supposed to leave yesterday but the port authority closed for all traffic.
Elsewhere the Inspiration was held out of Tampa and will not embark new passengers until 5pm today and the Fantasy apparently is having similar problems getting in to Mobile.
Have you heard yet if and when the Fantasy finally got in to Mobile?
Who would have thought this fog would have been so intense (dense) to cause all of these delays.
Looking at Gene Sloan's twitter link, it appears the Fantasy still hasn't docked. Read HERE
Thanks, Dave. I saw that earlier, and was thinking they (Carnival) would have issued another statement by now. Since this is such an unusual event on this scale I am really curious about it.
Yes, I also am disappointed that Carnival hasn't posted any updates on their website. They can and should do better.
I'm not all that surprised they didn't update the site as most everyone is either waiting in Mobile or on the cruise. This is going by their past history of how they handle these things in regards to site updates. It would have been nice though for others being effected by this delay to have a central information source from the horse's mouth so to speak. They could just add a link for updates or something along that line.
They finally posted an update link . The info says 6pm, but it wasn't live on the site until much later.
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(Newswire.net -- June 7, 2013) Lajolla, Ca -- As the playing field of real estate investment has shifted in 2013, the "inventory spiral" has real estate investors all over the place scratching their heads and wondering what the heck they are going to do about acquisition.
Kent Clothier has long been known for his keen ability to recognize changes on the playing field, pinpoint the challenges that are being presented with any given market, and zero in on the competitive advantages needed to circumvent them.
With his proven track record in the real estate investment game, and a cache of products and systems that are widely known for their efficacy, Clothier has become a highly respected and sought after coach, and mentor, in the real estate investment field. So, when Chris Richter proffered the $15,000 coaching fee for a bit of Clothier's time, Kent Clothier had no idea what he was in for.
Richter, a real estate wholesaler with an engineering background, had done pretty well in the real estate wholesaling business until, like so many others, he lost everything in 2008. With a family to support, Richter knew he had to do something. Desperate to turn things around, he went into his "cave" and started doing research, knowing there had to be something he was missing that would help him get his real estate investment business back on track.
After countless hours of compiling and crunching dozens of data points per property, he started to see a trend. When he found that trend, he knew he had a model that would give him that competitive advantage he needed to get rolling again. Richter had found a way to systematically find, and purchase, vacant properties, before anyone else knew about them. He started using his system, and it worked spectacularly. The only problem was, he didn't know how to automate it. Everything he was doing, he was doing manually.
"The kid spent $15,000, just so he could 'pitch me' on a great idea he had. We ended up in our own version of "SharkTank". – Kent Clothier
Richter approached Clothier about coaching him on his real estate investment business. Joining Clothier at his house in La Jolla, California, Richter shared with Clothier what he had been doing. Clothier was blown away.
Turning in astonishment from the meal he was preparing, he asked, "You seriously have that information"?
Richter had cracked the code on how to find hidden deals. "I couldn't believe it", Clothier said, "he had figured out what we had never been able to figure out. He had found the patterns. Suddenly I had become the student, and the student had become the teacher".
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In today's crazy real estate market, where there are actually bidding wars and lotteries for making offers on properties, Clothier has done it once again; he has created, and made available to the real estate investment community, that oft-times illusive competitive edge.
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How long do i need to keep business tax records
Business Records: How long do I need to keep tax records?
How long do I need to keep tax records?
Good business record keeping helps you –
(a) manage your business
(b) make sound business decisions.
A client is preparing to move premises and this is a great opportunity to clean out old records and files, but what can you keep, what can you destroy and how must records be kept?
• Under The Corporations Act, you must keep proper accounting records and retain documents for a period of seven years after they are prepared, obtained or the transactions completed, whichever occurs latest
• It is a legal requirement to keep good records
• Records must be kept in English or in a form that can be accessed and understood. This is in order to work out the amount of tax you are liable to pay.
Business Records: How long do I need to keep tax records?
Under tax law, you must keep records:
• That specify and explain all transactions for a period of five years. This includes any documents that are relevant for the purpose of working out your tax liabilities. You should make records of transactions as soon as they occur or as soon as possible afterwards
• Relating to all taxes
for which you are liable. This may include income tax, goods and services tax, pay as you go taxes, capital gains tax, and fringe benefits tax
• Relating to any election, choice, determination or calculation made under a tax law, including the basis on which any were made
You will have to keep business records for longer if you use information from those records in a later tax return – for example, if you claim a loss carried forward from a business activity in an earlier year. Under these circumstances, you must keep the records until the end of any period of review for that later return. You may also need to keep records relating to assets for capital gains tax purposes for a longer period. You can issue and store records in either paper or electronic form.
Therefore when moving premises or archiving records, the period that records need to be kept is at least 7 years and the records can be kept in electronic or paper form. This can save a company valuable space, storage costs and also make the records easily assessable.
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Tough but fair. Pain with a purpose. Shared burden.
This year's budget has been a hard sell.
What you've been hearing for the last month is most likely: political spin, political spin, tax hikes, political spin, political spin, welfare cuts, political spin, political spin.
But all you really want to know is: what does this mean for me?
We cut through the pollie speak and give you no-nonsense, and a more personal look, at how the budget could affect students, workers and jobseekers alike.
Meet Jill. She's currently in year 9 at a state school. Ever since the budget was announced, her school's been pretty worried.
Under the new budget, there are plans to dump the Gonski reforms in 2017-2018, which is when two thirds of funding was meant to be released.
Education peak bodies aren't too happy about this and are particularly confused, considering the government is injecting $245m into reviving the national school chaplaincy program.
While Jill is too young to worry about these things at the moment; her parents are concerned over the budget's proposed university reforms.
Why? Because if the legislation is passed, by the time Jill is ready for uni, it may cost her a whole lot more to get a degree.
The major game changer is the deregulation of uni fees. As of 1 January 2016, unis will have free reign and can charge whatever they want for courses.
Experts are saying this will most likely drive uni fees up, but the government says it's too soon to speculate. Fees could go up, but they could also go down.
The thinking behind this move is to create a more competitive market and to boost the quality of Australia's universities. So while Jill faces potentially pricier fees, she should be getting a more superior education in return.
A combination of budget proposals will also see Jill pay more of her uni fees.
The government is looking to lower funding to Commonwealth Supported Places by 20 per cent. This means that Jill will have to pay 61 per cent of the costs of her degree, not the previous 41 per cent.
Jill also faces higher HELP debt (previously known as HECS), and she's going to have to pay her loan back sooner.
The budget is proposing changes to the indexing of HELP loans to an interest rate system, where Jill could potentially pay up to 6 per cent interest on her student loans, and she'll have to start paying this back when her income hits $50,638 rather than the original threshold of $53,345.
In a bid to create greater access to unis, the budget is also forcing unis to redirect 20 per cent of revenue made from fees towards scholarships for disadvantaged students.
Jill's from a lower socio-economic family, so if she keeps up her grades, she could be eligible for this.
This is Brad and he's been looking for a job.
Like many young people he's been pretty unlucky in the job market, so to get him by he's been receiving Newstart from Centrelink.
But this is about to change. The government's lifting the age of eligibility for Newstart from 22 to 25, meaning if Brad is no longer eligible for Newstart. Instead his payments will be downgraded to Youth Allowance (which is $96 less per fortnight).
It's ok though; Brad's looking to take up an apprenticeship as a chippy.
Under the new budget proposal, Brad won't be able to receive the $5,500 Tools For Your Trade payment though.
The government is looking to cut this initiative as of 1 July 2014, and replace it with the Trade Support Loans scheme instead.
Under the new scheme, Brad can borrow up to $20,000 to help cover everyday costs while he completes his apprenticeship.
To be eligible he needs to complete a trade that's on the National Skills Needs List, and complete either a certificate III or certificate IV that will go towards his trade.
The loan will be subject to indexing, and of course, Brad will have to repay it once he finishes his apprenticeship and is earning an income of $53,345 or more.
There's definitely a huge incentive for him to finish as well. With the budget outlining a 20 per cent discount off his loan – which is a saving of potentially $4k if Brad borrows the full amount.
Once he's a fully-fledged chippy, Brad's employment prospects look quite good with the government outlining $11.6 billion in funding for new infrastructure projects.
This is Janine. She's a broadcast journalist currently working at the ABC. And she's expecting!
As a mum-to-be on a salary of $80k (below the income threshold of $100k), Janine's eligible for Abbott's signature Paid Parental Leave scheme.
If it gets passed, the scheme will have most mums smiling and means Janine will be able to receive up to $50,000 for six months of maternity leave after her new bub arrives.
On the downside, Janine's not sure how the cuts to public broadcasting are going to affect her job. The ABC director has warned staff of 'uncertain times' ahead, so Janine and her colleagues are definitely worried.
The ABC and SBS are set to lose one per cent of annual funding over the next four years (which roughly equates to $120 million).
So there is a chance Janine will be let go.
If this happens and Janine becomes unemployed, as an under 30 year old she might have to wait a maximum of six months till she can receive Newstart.
In a bid to encourage Australians to work rather than live off the dole, the budget includes some drastic changes to welfare payments.
Janine's past employment will reduce her waiting period. However, after this term, Janine will only be able to receive Newstart for six months at a time. This six-month cycle of benefits and waiting periods will continue until Janine gets a job or turns 30.
Meet George. He's a high-earning public servant.
With an income well above $180k, George will have to pay the two per cent Debt Levy – which will come into effect next financial year and last three years.
While the tax irks George a fair bit, he's more worried about his job right now.
The budget measures include approximately 16,500 cuts to public servant jobs, so George isn't sleeping very well.
It won't be all doom and gloom though. If George has to re-enter the job market, there's a lot of incentives for businesses to hire him and other mature aged workers (50+).
Under the government's new Restart program, employers will be paid up to $10k for hiring mature-aged workers.
Without doubt, this year's federal budget has been a highly divisive and hotly debated topic. While the opposition and uproar has been vocal, the budget has drawn some international support.
The head of the OECD, Angel Gurria, recently praised the government for its attempts to address the budget deficit, labelling the budget as a 'sustainable, durable solution' to stabilising government finances.
Remember though, the budget is subject to legislation being passed through parliament, and the Opposition has vowed to block these measures.
So we've all just got to wait and see what the pollies do now.
Got friends, family or co-workers who are just as confused as you were about the budget? Share this article with them.


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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli President Shimon Peres met with the wife of Jonathan Pollard, who asked Peres to request her husband's release "before it is too late."
Esther Pollard met with Peres in Jerusalem on Sunday, two days after her husband reportedly was rushed to the hospital suffering from an unspecified emergency condition.
An official at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex told JTA on April 6 that Pollard, 57, was returned to the North Carolina complex, where he is serving a life sentence for spying for Israel.
However, Pollard's representatives later told JTA that prison officials are authorized, for security reasons, to inform media only that Pollard is a convict at the prison and to offer no further information. Pollard's representatives said he is at the Federal Hospital, about four miles from his prison, is on IV and not able to eat. They said he is conscious and alert.
Peres reportedly told Esther Pollard that he may file an official request later Sunday with President Obama to pardon her husband. Obama announced last month that he would award Peres with the presidential Medal of Freedom in June; a petition signed by more than 35,000 Israelis has called on Peres to link the awarding of the medal to clemency for Pollard. Former captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit signed the petition last week.
"I appeal to you as Jonathan's wife so that you might use your influence because I do not want to be his widow,". Esther Pollard reportedly told Peres on Sunday. "Jonathan's strength is slipping away, and I do not know what will happen the next time I receive a telephone call about his health problems."
"I am very disturbed and worried by the latest reports on Jonathan's health," Peres said during the meeting.
Peres said that in trying to expedite Pollard's release, "I intend to work quickly, taking into account the most serious considerations, and to appeal to President Obama and request that, in light of his severe health situation and after having sat for many long years in an American prison, he positively consider releasing Jonathan Pollard from prison."
Pollard, who has been imprisoned since 1986, reportedly has suffered from a variety of illnesses.
Peres reportedly discussed Pollard earlier Sunday during a meeting with Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar. The Israeli president reportedly promised Amar that he would work to secure Pollard's release.


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Bureau of Land Management Natural Resource Specialist Kelly Williams is baffled more Tehama County residents do not know about the 17,600 acres of recreational land the Bureau of Land Management operates a few miles north of Red Bluff.
A bill from Rep. Wally Herger, R-Chico, may change that.
In 2007, Herger drafted a bill that would create the Sacramento River Bend National Recreation Area.
A similar bill was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Barbara Boxer, but neither made it through.
Last week, Herger's Director of Communications, Matt Lavoie, confirmed efforts were under way to contact Boxer so the two could introduce identical bills into their respective branches of Congress.
The bill's language will not be finalized until Boxer's office is reached.
If the bill passes, Williams said he does not expect much to change for visitors to the Sacramento River Bend Area. The entire property is open to the public for camping, fishing, hunting, hiking, biking and horseback riding 24 hours a day, free of charge.
What it could do is give the area the kind of attention it lacks. Without being recognized as a national recreational area, BLM has little funding available to repair signs damaged by buckshot or add amenities like bathrooms and maps between parking spaces.
The designation would also place the area on maps that show Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, the Mendocino National Forest and a handful of other national recreational areas in California.
The first time around
Tehama County Administrator Bill Goodwin said the first time he heard of the idea was in 2006, when the Shasta Cascade Wonderland Association visited Tehama County in its campaign to get the area national designation.
The group had been successful in initiating discussion with Boxer's office and the BLM. But because the group used the term ?Conservation Area,? the Board of Supervisors worried the designation could pose new restrictions on use of the land.
In comparison, Herger's 2007 bill, which Lavoie said was written at the request of county officials, makes specific mention of the Tehama County Board of Supervisors as members of a new advisory council, along with local agriculture and private landowner representatives.
Because about 1,000 acres overlap with Shasta County, it also called for its Board of Supervisors to appoint a representative.
Goodwin said he expects similar language to be used in Herger's new bill.
?As they create a master plan for the area, we just want to make sure Tehama County citizens have direct input,? he said.
Can't see the forest ? or the trees
Williams has overseen the area for 30 of its 36 years. During that time BLM has expanded the land it owns in the Bend area dramatically, if not the publicity it receives.
When BLM's first claims were purchased in 1972, it had 700-800 acres of land, about 500 of which were surrounded by private property and inaccessible to visitors.
The area may grow greater still. In an pending agreement between BLM and a pair of ranchers, the bureau hopes to add two parcels measuring 56.2 acres and 35.37 acres.
With so much land, Williams wonders why local residents do not know about the massive recreational resource.
Some people he meets have lived in Red Bluff for 20 years and still do not know about the area.
Tear down this fence
Buying the land is not so much about improving conditions for wildlife as it is guarding the land against development, Williams said. The BLM tears out gates, fences and dilapidated barns, and sometimes adds fish to a pond, but for the most part native plants and animals are no better off than they were when the BLM's land was privately owned.
Contrary to perceptions that the BLM grabs land and gates it off from the public, the bureau has no authority to invoke eminent domain and can only obtain land from willing sellers.
As for gates, Williams finds himself tearing out more fences than he adds.
Gates are occasionally added to prohibit vehicles from going off the gravel road, but there's no restrictions on where people can camp or hunt.
Williams sees BLM's role as preserving the land for future generations. As California's population expands to a projected 52 million residents by 2040, the central valley is expected to grow even faster than the state's coastal areas ? meaning today's ranches could become tomorrow's suburbs.
With land under BLM control, visitors can walk all the way from the edge of Highway 36 to the Sacramento River. With the area's relative obscurity, they could easily go half a day or more without seeing another human being, Williams said.
Putting it on the map
Williams hopes to convert a former home into a visitor center to help guide people who are new to the area. But his biggest hope is still that the Bend area will be formally recognized as a recreational area.
If bills from Herger and Boxer are introduced and pass, it may just put the Bend area on the map.
Staff Writer Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114, or at email@example.com


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August 2012
Use TextExpander to Run iTunes AppleScripts
I was inspired by this recent article by Dr. Drang on using TextExpander to insert the URL of Safari's front document wherever you're entering text. There might be some benefits to being able to get current information in iTunes with a TextExpander AppleScript snippet or two. Or, as I describe below, three.
In case you don't know, TextExpander is a typing shortcut tool for the Mac whereby you enter a little abbreviated text and a predefined batch of text is inserted where you're typing. One of its amazing features is its ability to fire AppleScript snippets the same way. TextExpander can't accommodate hulking huge AppleScripts but it does allow for some pretty flexible 'scripting.
Before I get to the AppleScript part, here's how to set up TextExpander:
TrackSift is a Mac Gem
I think I'll take the day off! Macworld reviews TrackSift as a Mac Gem and awards it four mice. Thanks!
AppleScript Save Changes in Mountain Lion
I've been meaning to post this for the record. Shane Stanley has written up How Mountain Lion Changes the Rules for AppleScript at TidBITS. He explains how scripts and AppleScript applications can be saved in an uncompiled state. If you distribute or system manage AppleScripts and develop on Mountain Lion you really should be aware of these changes.
Dupin 2.5.1 Posted
The latest version of Dupin, the iTunes duplicates manager, fixes a couple of bugs that cropped up in v2.5 as a result of some minor inconsistencies between Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion operating systems. New in version 2.5.1:
- Improves compatibility with OS X 10.8
- Fixes UI glitch in Re-Playlist window
- Fixes errant track analysis in Re-Playlist under Snow Leopard
- Fixes issue which could cause crash during Consolidate History under 10.8
- Fixes issue whereby ratings may not be displayed correctly after Consolidate History
This version of Dupin is a free update if your current Dupin registration was purchased after June 2011. If your registration was purchased before July 2011 then you can upgrade your registration for $7.
More information is available on the Dupin product page.
Gatekeeper Settings, Redux
As I mentioned previously, some scripts from this site when downloaded to OS X 10.8 may not pass Gatekeeper Security when set to the "Mac App Store or Developer ID" setting (the default Gatekeeper setting). To over-ride Gatekeeper settings, Control-click/Right-click the script in the Finder and choose Open from the contextual menu, then allow the script to be opened.
However, for a small number of scripts, even this may not work. You may see an OSStatus error message and the script will still be unable to run.
It appears to occur with a few .app scripts, but not all.
I'll try to catch these scripts (and if you run into one, let me know) and update them. In the meantime, the fix is to temporarily lower your Gatekeeper Security settings to allow apps from anywhere to launch. Once the script is launched, you can restore your Gatekeeper settings.
PITA, I know.


text: Politics 4 February 2013 Osborne's ring fence will be made of cheese wire Power to break up the banks. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML So Osborne is going to "reset the banking system". A difficult thing to do with trust between Westminster and the banks at an all time low. How is he going to do it? Well, first there's going to be a ring-fence: but it's to be not so much electrified as made of cheese wire - if banks don't respect it, regulators will be able to break them up. It's not just about the fence though - he also plans to make the banking sector more competitive by making it easier to switch bank accounts, and by introducing a new regulator who'll aim to help out new competitors who want to enter the game. There are also talks over how consumer power can be increased, to hold the banks in check. There is a plus side for the banks: the leverage ratio won't be changed beyond 1:33, but as might be expected, they have not taken kindly to the news: Anthony Browne, the head of the British Bankers' Association said: This will create uncertainty for investors, making it more difficult for banks to raise capital which will ultimately mean that banks will have less money to lend to businesses. "What banks and business need is regulatory certainty so that banks can get on with what they want to do, which is help the economy grow. This decision will damage London's attractiveness as a global financial centre. "Uncertainty" isn't really the issue though - banks have been under changing regulation since 2008. The main problem for the banks will now be flexibility, according to Credit Suisse analysts (via FT Alphaville): Reducing options to transfer capital and funding – As we understand it, banks will be under tight scrutiny to implement strictly a ring-fence. This will clearly limit the flexibility for banks when setting-up their ring-fence plans and limit options to transfer capital and funding. Although this is hard to estimate at this stage, this could increase the overall costs of the reform for the industry. We currently do not have an impact in our estimates. If ring-fence is to work, it needs to be enforced - but as banks make their money by finding their way around such restrictions, a truly impenetrable fence'll cost. Here is a summary of the estimated hits to the economy via FT Alphaville: Estimates costs from implementation – The draft legislation published in October 2012 highlighted the following costs for the broader industry and economy: (i) on-going costs of £2-5bn per annum, which compares to our total profit £26.1bn for the five listed UK banks in 2014E; (ii) one-off transitional costs of £1.5-2.5bn; (iii) negative GDP impact of 0.04-0.1%; (iv) reduced tax receipts of £150-400mn (this assumes all bank costs are passed onto the consumer); and (v) a reduction in the value of the government's shareholdings in RBS and Lloyds Banking Group in the range of £2bn to £5bn relative to a 'do nothing' baseline scenario (compares to current value of £45.1bn). › 400ms of insider information If banks don't respect the fence, regulators will be able to break them up. Photograph: Getty Images Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles "I'm frightened, genuinely frightened": how London terror attacks affect the rest of the country Inspiring to empower: how to solve the UK's STEM skills gap Laying the foundations for conflict-free construction Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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What do these places have in common: Camp Lejeune in North Carolina; Mountain View, California, where Google headquarters are located; Endicott, NY – the birthplace of IBM; and 389 Superfund sites in at least 48 states plus Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands? All are contaminated by trichloroethylene (TCE), a carcinogenic solvent. TCE's health hazards are well-documented. So why are Republicans rushing to condemn EPA's just-completed TCE risk assessment?
The heath effects of occupational solvent exposure don't always fade with time. A new study has found that years — sometimes even decades — down the road from their last workplace exposure, some workers are still experiencing very real cognitive impairments.


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To address concerns of a lack of cohesion among leaders and the need for a more unified student voice, the University of Wisconsin's student government members are optimistic a newly-approved constitution, which is up for referendum during the Spring Elections, will allow for improved governance.
The new constitution will be released to the student body for a vote in the Associated Students of Madison's elections held March 11-13, according to ASM Chair Andrew Bulovsky. He said the new constitution is a "much better structure" than the current constitution.
ASM Nominations Board Chair Sean McNally said the need for a new constitution dates back to a 2008 initiative. Since then, he said members of Student Council have been talking about the need for new legislation.
A new constitution would amplify the shared governance power of ASM, McNally said, adding it would help student government serve and reach more students.
"It's a really complicated system right now," McNally said. "[A new constitution] would make ASM more accessible."
McNally said the proposed constitution would cut the existing ASM constitution, which is 160 pages long including bylaws, almost in half. The Student Council-approved constitution is currently 15 pages long with 40 expected pages of bylaws, he said.
A 15-member bylaw committee will draft specifics, McNally said, adding this kind of opportunity to redraft these documents is rare.
"There is a lot of stuff we don't use anymore," McNally said. "[The bylaws] contradict themselves left and right."
Bulovsky agreed with McNally and said many existing bylaws are unnecessary and excessive.
In addition, Bulovsky said the ASM constitution is vague as it stands today. The new constitution would specialize the branches of ASM and allow Student Council to focus on grassroots initiatives and campaigns, he said.
The proposed constitution will combine all financial allocating bodies, including the Student Services Finance Committee, Finance Committee and the Student Activities Center Governing Board, into one branch. The new Appropriations Branch, will make it easier for groups to understand the funding process, McNally said.
Also, with the creation of an Appropriations Branch, McNally said all large grants approved by the Finance Committee and budgets approved by SSFC would no longer have to be approved by Student Council. He said this would allow the Council to focus on campaigns, grassroots initiatives and shared governance.
This will help branches of ASM specialize, Bulovsky said, adding a combined financial branch will help mitigate disagreements between Student Council and SSFC.
McNally said the new constitution would also create a Student Senate he described as equivalent to Student Council.
However, McNally said the biggest change to Student Council would be the creation of a President's Council. This body would essentially look like Coordinating Council with the addition of the leaders from other large student organizations on campus, he said.
McNally said large campus ideas from the President's Committee would allow strong grassroots initiative to be brought to Student Senate. This would make ASM more transparent and useful while also allowing increased input from students, he added.
"ASM is a web between the different actors on campus," McNally said. "What this is trying to do is expand our reach and expand our web to have a much more unified student voice."


text: Thanks for the bug report. I've fixed the bug: see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2817 Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of | Nicolas Frisby | Sent: 04 November 2008 01:03 | To: haskell Cafe | Subject: [Haskell-cafe] template haskell overly conservative during splicing? | | When using template haskell (via Derive) to generate this (exact) instance: | | instance Foldable ((->) Int) => Foldable | Data.Derivable.InterpreterLib.Test.List | where foldMap f (Cons x0 x1) = (const mempty Cons `mappend` | foldMap f x0) `mappend` foldMap f x1 | foldMap f (Nil) = const mempty Nil | | I realize the context is insatisfiable. My issue, is that I can't even | reach that "challenge". I get this error instead: | | Malformed type AppT ArrowT (ConT GHC.Base.Int) | When splicing generated code into the program | | I couldn't find an existing ticket or discussion for this issue | relying on the phrase "malformed type". I couldn't even find the | source that generates that string in haskell-src, template-haskell, or | ghc-6.8.2. Can anybody help? | | Thanks for your time. | _______________________________________________ | Haskell-Cafe mailing list | Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe


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Gamification Part II
March's design & delivery SIG will focus on the practical application of Gamification in designing and delivering training!
The Design and Delivery Forum assists trainers in our community to develop the competencies of Instructional Design and Delivery. Meetings are free for members and $10 for non-members. The Forum structure allows for all participants to contribute to the discussion. Please be sure to bring your ideas and best practices.
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The most impressive and ambitious game of E3 2012 has now officially added itself to the next-gen roster. Following the unveiling of the PlayStation 4 at Sony's Future of PlayStation event today, Ubisoft's Yves Guillemot took the stage to confirm that Watch Dogs, as many had already anticipated, will be releasing as a launch title for the future console. A later Ubisoft press memo also announced the game for release on Nintendo's Wii U.
Coinciding with the announcement was the brand new Watch Dogs gameplay demo viewable above (ostendibly running on the PS4). E3 introduced us to Watch Dogs's cyber-savvy protagonist, Aiden Pearce, who can hack into any electronic device connected to Chicago's central operating system and leverage it for his own ends. The demo that premiered today begins with Aiden as a wanted fugitive — perhaps for the elaborate assassination he orchestrated during our initial glimpse of the game — who still appears to be on the prowl for lowlifes and miscreants.
As the camera swoops over the Chicago River, glistening in the daytime sun and flanked on both sides by towering skyscrapers, an impressive sense of magnitude is conveyed by the game that's impossible to avoid mentioning: It feels distinctly next-gen. But Watch Dogs clearly aims to thrive on the smaller details as well. Finite bits of information begin displaying around Aiden the second we arrive over his shoulder. Using a device Ubisoft calls "the Profiler," he taps NPC cell phones, hacks an ATM and scrambles a security camera. Vital, even intimate, personal data about targets begins streaming onto the screen, and before we know it the scene flows from unassuming street walk to reconnaissance mission to heated chase sequence.
When the demo hits this new gear, it brings Watch Dogs's gameplay into another dimension. Gone is the predatory sleuthing; Aiden now harnesses his abilities — both technological and physiological — to run down his fleeing prey and then escape from the police himself. He skirts through a storefront interior, gliding over a table like Connor in Assassin's Creed 3 (though whether or not this sequence is similarly pre-rendered is unclear), and eventually hacks a distant fuse box to knock down his target. He hacks a set of street bollards to destroy one pursing police car and enters a time-slowing phase to shoot the tire of another. For his coup d'état, Aiden overrides the controls of an oncoming L train, forcing it to a brief stop while climbing onto the roof and riding away to safety.
The demo doesn't conclude with a Watch Dogs release date, but pre-order posters that leaked last week for the game advertised availability by the 2013 Holiday season. Coincidentally, in advertising the game for "all home consoles," the posters also foreshadowed both Watch Dog's Wii U confirmation today and Sony's Holiday 2013 window for the release of the PlayStation 4. It's hardly surprising that Watch Dogs is being planned as a next-gen launch title, and today alone has us confident that it will be more than ready.
What did you think of today's new Watch Dogs gameplay demo?
Watch Dogs is anticipated for a late 2013 release. Confirmed platforms include the Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, Wii U and PC, although an Xbox 720 version is almost certainly waiting in the wings.
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