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FLEXO Magazine : Sustainable Summer 2010
4 Sustainable FLEXO summer 2010 www.flexomag.com FTA's First Five sGP Printers Earlier this month, C -P Flexible Packaging, York, PA was recognized by the SGP Partnership as a certified SGP Printer. The acknowledgement makes C-P the fifth FTA member and flexographic printing company to earn this status. The other companies include: • Global Packaging, Oaks, PA (March 2009) • InterFlex Group (formerly C&H Packaging), Merrill, WI (Oct. 2009) • Robbie, Lenexa, KS (Feb. 2010) • Coating Excellence International, Wrightstown, WI (March 2010) While all of FTA's SGP certified members have always been environmentally minded to some degree (three are also past FTA Environmental Excellence Award winners), the task of meeting SGP criteria required major modifications to many areas of each plant's operations. When talking with FLEXO, representatives from each company were asked to explain how their workplace has changed in three different aspects: Plant. What changes were made to the building physically or organizationally as part of certification? Process. In other words, how has the workflow changed? What do employees do differently? Has the company 's mindset/cul- ture changed in respect to certain behaviors, and if so, in what ways? Product. How was the product coming off the press affected by the efforts to become SGP certified? Does each company take on more "green" jobs? Are they using more " green" substrates, etc.? C-P Flexible PACkAGinG Responses by Scott Hammer PlAnT There have definitely been more changes organizationally than physically to the build- ings. Organizationally, my title and responsibili- ties were changed to focus on and include all areas of sustainability—facility, process, materials, transpor- tation, and reducing, reusing, and recycling opportunities. We also have a sustainability steering committee that consists of five managers/directors who meet once each quarter to create direction, and objectives, etc. for the sustainability committee. The sustainability committee is made up of repre- sentatives from all departments and meets once per month to discuss project status, new potential projects, the "Sustain- ability Topic of the Month," the election of our "MGP" (Most Green Person)" of the month, etc... Physically, any changes to the building must be in-line with our internal employee/product safety requirements and AIB requirements, but some changes have been made—i.e . a new internal dispensing system for a greener cleaning prod- uct. And when purchasing new equipment, we do ensure that any potential for sustainable components or modifications are discussed, i.e . extra insulation, higher efficiency motors, etc. ProCess C-P Flexible Packaging has been doing sustainable initia- tives since even before my arrival 10 years ago. C -P has been and continues to be a very environmentally conscience company. And recently, with our involvement with the Sustain- able Packaging Coalition and the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership, I think that we have become more knowledge- able about the subject, and are now able to better educate our employees and make them more aware of what they currently do, and allow them to determine if they could do it more sustainably. Some great ideas have been generated by our employees. I think one thing the employees now do differ- ently, though, is that they take what they have learned about sustainability at C-P and apply it more in their personal lives. I know that I have. ProduCT We have had customers continually follow-up with us about the status of our certification, as they were generally excited about what we were doing. Since we have just received our certification, I think that it is too soon to say what impact it will have on the products coming off of our presses/equipment or FTA SGP Printers that also won FTA Environmental Awards include: • Robbie (2010) • Coating Excellence International (2009) • InterFlex Group (as C&H Packaging) (2008) C-P Flexible Packaging: Certified sGP Printer June 2010 FLXO_Sustainable_Summer10_v2.indd 4 7/13/10 4:55 PM
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Next week at Epi we will be taste-testing Greek yogurt. The plan is to try both the fat-free and fabulous full-fat varieties. Check out our 29 other Taste Tests here.
I remember the days when Fage seemed to have a monopoly on Greek yogurt, but that's no longer the case. Now you've got Chobani, Greek Gods, Yoplait, and even Stonyfield Farm to choose from, along with a few others.
I know I have a favorite brand (I am kind of obsessed and have tried them all), but do you? What's your favorite way to eat it?
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Paul Bennett, 54, and wife Simone Wright, 40, are at the centre of a major police alert after a Christchurch millionaire alleged the couple emptied his bank accounts of $400,000.
Police admit they have no idea where the couple are but the Herald on Sunday can reveal the pair have evaded capture from New Zealand authorities on serious charges for the past six years.
Police and Customs will not say how the two have managed to skip between countries without raising the suspicions of border officials.
The pair have smooth-talked their way around the world, including into the cockpit of the Hollywood A-lister Russell Crowe's private helicopter.
When police issued an alert in 2008, the couple were wanted on charges including theft and serious fraud in Australia and New Zealand, and an alleged sex assault on a young girl in Auckland.
The motocross community is also fuming after allegedly losing around $100,000 to the self-styled "team manager".
After an absence of six years, Morrinsville-born Bennett and his TV personality wife returned to New Zealand with new identities, selling Rolex watches on TradeMe and brokering helicopter deals.
The Herald on Sunday was told Bennett, using another alias, tried to lure Walker into his management fold in 2008 when she was on the cusp of becoming famous.
Motocross publicist Alan Henderson, who shared an office with Bennett for six months, said the Olympian met Bennett to discuss a potential management deal.
"This was in 2008 and she was looking at the big picture.
"It fell over because he disappeared suddenly in the dead of night with his wife from his Northcote townhouse."
Walker could not be reached for comment.
Henderson claims some of the sport's elite lost tens of thousands of dollars in fees paid to Bennett who promised to secure positions in high profile European teams, which never eventuated.
"It amazes me how the police have never managed to pick him up."
Henderson said many people were highly embarrassed after they were left out of pocket by the manager they simply knew as 'Paul'.
He understood Bennett and his partner left New Zealand by sea.
For one wealthy businessman, meeting the couple -- who he knew as Dave and Sarah Kite -- has allegedly left him substantially out of pocket.
The Christchurch businessman, who does not want to be identified, says he was swindled to the tune of $400,000, including $100,000 in helicopter deals and another $250,000, comprising business income and an insurance payout, which was allegedly fraudulently diverted.
Said the duped millionaire: "We thought people were late payers, which is a bit unusual and I always thought the insurance was just being dragged out."
Instead it is alleged Bennett opened an account with the ASB Bank and began trading as the businessman's company.
ASB spokesman Christian May confirmed the bank was involved in a police investigation.
"We are aware of this case which is now in the hands of the police. We are doing everything we can to assist the police with their investigation but, in the circumstances, we are unable to make any further comment," May said.
The businessman said the couple used a high-end online watch store to lure prospective wealthy targets.
He said Bennett came across as a likeable, knowledgeable man and was very convincing.
"He talked himself up about flying important people around. He's a bit of a name dropper and liked to talk about flying important film stars and Formula One racing drivers around Europe."
A Customs spokesperson said people on legitimate passports were able to move freely across borders unless police placed an alert on their system.
- Lynley Bilby of the Herald on Sunday


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Hey everyone! I listened to a Chris Oatley podcast today about a website called Patreon that's set up to help fans support artists. It's a phenomenal idea. It's a great way to show your support for artists who are trying to make a living doing what they love.
It's a lot like kickstarter, but instead of helping people achieve one large goal, it helps them to achieve smaller ones. As an artist it can be hard to find ways to make money and as a fan it can be hard to show the artists you admire your support without spending a ludicrous amount of money. On Patreon, you pledge to pay a certain amount once a month or every time the artist releases new content. If you don't want to pay more than a certain amount you can put a cap on your donations.
Artists have the option to post goals that they want to achieve and keep their Patreon patrons updated as they achieve those goals. The goals can be anything from wanting to remove ads on your site to buying new recording equipment for the band.
The artists also have the option to give rewards to their patrons. For example, when I set up my page I included rewards like monthly live streams, google hangout sessions, wallpapers, prints, etc.
It's awesome that there are opportunities to be and stay connected to artists and fans. Spread the word! Patreon is awesome!
Here's my patreon page.
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Earlier this month, PSP owners received a great puzzle package in the form of Mercury Meltdown. The sequel to Archer MacLean's Mercury, Meltdown tested a player's dexterity at moving a blob from one point to another as well as their problem solving skills. It also tried to fix a lot of the problems that the previous game had with not autosaving progress, level design and multiplayer modes. Soon, PS2 owners will have the opportunity to maneuver the elemental orbs through a horde of tricky mazes with Mercury Meltdown Remix.
For players that may not know how to play Mercury Meltdown, the concept is easy to grasp but tricky to master. Players will start in one Laboratory, and will unlock others as they progress through the various levels that comprise that stage of the game. Taking control of a blob of mercury, you'll be forced to navigate levels with an assortment of traps, pitfalls and other hazards, which can strip sections of mercury away from the main blob. A gauge on the left side of the screen indicates how much mercury remains on a level at any point in time, and there's a line indicator that lets you know how much mercury you have to keep so you can activate pressure plates, switches and other objects in the world. There's a time crunch on completing the puzzles within each level as well: A countdown timer lets you know what the average time is to finish a stage. If you manage to reach the finishing zone in time, you receive a happy face within the timer; if you take too long, an angry face takes its place.
Luckily, you won't fail the level if you cross the finish line after time is up, although you will lose out on additional bonus points. After each level, you receive a score based on how well you did, such as the amount of mercury that you save and the amount of time remaining on the countdown clock. You'll also be graded on the number of bonus icons that you pick up on each level, which also helps you unlock new skins for your mercury, additional lab levels and even party games within Meltdown. All five of the party games from the PSP version make a return in Remix, so you'll be able to try your luck at Paint, Matrix, Race, Shove and Rodeo. This, combined with the more than 200 levels available, should add to the replayability factor of the game.
Players will also need to contend with the new objects and status features of the game. Heaters make your blob of mercury move faster and split into smaller orbs easier, while coolers make it slower and harder to break. Solid gates will fuse the bubble into a hard ball that can roll on rails or be accelerated around tracks. The paint system now provides a color wheel to help you figure out what combinations of paint you'll need to clear gates, as well as multiple paint dispensers to solve larger puzzles faster. More of the surfaces within the game have been affected, with sticky and slippery floors that slow down and speed up bubbles respectively. You'll even need to interact with blocks and gelatin squares to trigger switches.
The same visual style from the PSP version of the game remains, which should please PS2 owners who have seen the portable game before. Thankfully, the camera is tied to the right analog stick, while control of your mercury is tied to the left analog stick. This gives you much greater control of the blob as you squeeze through each maze. Strangely, though, there doesn't seem to be any multiplayer or online play in the build that we played. We'll have more on Mercury Meltdown Remix soon, so check back for more.


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Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
Although you may search the market far and wide for value, sometimes the best plays are right under your nose.
Two consumer discretionary stocks offer upside, Kevin Dreyer of the Gabelli Funds says.
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
Check out which companies are making headlines after the bell Wednesday:
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
ConAgra will continue to make acquisitions a key to its growth strategy even after the Ralcorp deal, CEO Gary Rodkin told CBNC on Thursday.
While deal making has been relatively subdued this year, there has been a flurry of recent activity that may signal 2013 could be very good for merger volumes, one banker told CNBC.
Take a look at some of Friday's midday movers:
Take a look at some of Friday's morning movers.
ConAgra Foods announced on Tuesday it will acquire Ralcorp Holdings for about $5 billion to boost its presence in the private-label food market.
Oct 11- General Mills, Mondelez, Hershey, ConAgra Foods. ,Pinnacle Foods, TreeHouse and Ralcorp. *Moody's: US Food Packagers' Operating Profits Likely to Rise in 2013.
*Kraft has spun off snacking business from grocery* Danone keeps Vitasnella brand for milk derivatives* Mondelez makes over a third of sales in Europe By Antonella Ciancio and Dominique Vidalon.
*Danone keeps Vitasnella milk derivatives. *Mondelez makes over a third of sales in Europe. MILAN/ PARIS, Oct 5- Kraft Foods Europe, which is being integrated in spun-off snack giant Mondelez International, is buying Italy's Vitasnella snack business from French foods maker Danone for an undisclosed sum as part of its consolidation plans in Europe.
Oct 3- Food company Ralcorp Holdings Inc said on Wednesday it appointed investor Keith Meister to its board of directors. Meister's firm, Corvex Management, revealed a stake in Ralcorp in August and urged the company to either sell itself, buy another company, or change its strategy nearly a year after Ralcorp rejected a takeover offer from ConAgra Foods Inc.
Oct 3- Food company Ralcorp Holdings Inc said on Wednesday it appointed investor Keith Meister to its board of directors.
Oct 3- Ralcorp Holdings Inc:. *Appoints keith a. meister to the board of directors. *Meister to join strategy and financial oversight committee that is charged.
Jim Cramer's researcher, Nicole Urken, takes a look at some pockets of value creation in this unpredictable market.
Now that Post has split from Ralcorp, Cramer thinks the company can turn things around.
Mad Money's Cramer explains how cereal maker, Post is likely to become extremely profitable, now that it's independent of parent company, Ralcorp.


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After being demoted to the Tulsa 66ers of the D-League on Saturday, Reggie Jackson has been recalled by the Thunder to rejoin the team prior to Sunday's matchup with the Heat, reports Darnell Mayberry of The Oklahoman (via Twitter). In one game with the 66ers, Jackson scored 22 points, notched eight assists and grabbed seven rebounds. The former first-round pick out of Boston College will share time with the newly-acquired Derek Fisher in a crowded Thunder backcourt.
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Neal Bonahoom was on the fast track.
After a great sophomore football season at Orange Glen High, college recruiters were supposed to flock to his door and throw scholarship offers at him.
But a serious back condition sidelined the hard-charging linebacker all of last season and threatened his senior season.
Hard work and dedication have paid off, however, and Bonahoom is back on the field, playing at a high level as the Patriots head into Valley League play Friday against San Marcos.
Question: Take me back to your sophomore season. How exciting was it to be a starter?
Answer : It was really quite an accomplishment. I got moved up for the playoff game against Scripps Ranch as a freshman. That's when I made up my mind I was going to start on the varsity as a sophomore. And it was awesome.
Q: Then your back gave out. What happened?
A : I had been busting my butt working out, then started getting some pain. It went down my left leg all the way to my toes. Turns out I had a bulging disk and it was toward the spinal cord. I had to have back surgery.
Q: Obviously, it went well or you wouldn't be playing again, right?
A : Well, yes and no. The surgery went well and I was OK as a regular person. But I was told my football career could be over, that I might never play again.
Q: You're playing again, so what changed?
A : I was in a wheelchair for two months. I went to therapy or the chiropractor every day. I took ice baths. I did a lot of core work. I wasn't going to give up.
Q: What changed the doctors' minds?
A : I had the surgery on July 12, 2011. In December, I went for a checkup, and they said I had healed just fine and could play again. But at my own risk. I took that as a challenge. I told myself I could do it.
Q: Did you jump right back into a football routine?
A : My first football workout was Jan. 20. I hammered the weights. I did agility drills. I gained back the 30 pounds I had lost, and I'm back to 180 or so.
Q: How did you gain back the weight?
A : Carbs. Lots of carbs. Lots of protein. Lots of baked potatoes, yogurt and oatmeal. And at least a gallon of water every day. No fast food. No candy.
Q: Was there a time you thought you might not play again?
A : The decision was still up to my parents. If they said OK, then it was a go. Finally in April, they said OK.
Q: What drove you to come back?
A : I wanted this, not just for myself, but for the school, the coaches and my parents. We had a great group come into OG as freshmen, and I wanted to get back on the field for those guys. Plus, I think I can be an inspiration for kids with injuries. Show them that hard work and determination can pay off.
Q: Is there a chance for further injury?
A : Yes. But it's the same chance as the guy playing next to me.
Q: Kris Plash, your coach, says you're an unbelievable leader. Does that come naturally?
A : I've always tried to do things the right way. The injury was humbling. I had always been a captain in Pop Warner. So when I was hurt, I decided to be with the team as much as possible. So yes, I guess leadership does come naturally.
Q: What is it about playing middle linebacker you like so much?
A : You're the QB of the defense. I get to blitz and hit. It's a great feeling to see a 6-foot-5 guard coming at you, then slide off and make a tackle. I study film like crazy. I watch three hours of film a day. So I'm prepared when the game starts.
Q: What are your college plans?
A : I lost my junior year to the surgery, and junior year is the big year where the recruiters see you. So I have some ground to make up. I don't know if Division I colleges see me as a player, but I think I can help someone.


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Do you guys know how to use a contingency list or what?
Guys are logging onto the site when they have a pick coming up in 3 or 4 turns & not putting anyone on their contingency list.
Can someone explain to me why you're doing that?
If you log onto the site & see that your pick is coming up, you can't add 4 or 5 players to your list?
If you don't understand how to use the list then send me a PM & I'll help you out.
I know that we have plenty of time to finish the draft before the season starts but this is really pushing it.
Sorry about the rant, I guess I've been up too long with too little sleep the night before but after all the work that went into getting everyone ready for this we end up doing 8 picks in 19 hours.


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Beer complaint against Mariah Carey closed for being stupid
Luckily Mariah Carey is free to spend her Memorial Day weekend free of government intrusion, because the L.A. County Dept. of Children and Family Services has closed its investigation into whether she's been abusing her new twins, Monroe and Moroccan. Glad to see the case workers are working on the pressing matters.
As you'll recall, somebody sicced the cops on Mimi after she drank some Guinness at the suggestion of a nurse to help the singer brestfeed her newborns. Well, that ended up getting DCFS involved, causing daddy Nick Cannon to understandably get all angry and leading to an interview with a social worker, who found there was no merit to the complaint, TMZ says. They also found that if you spin in a circle real, real fast, you get dizzy.
Mariah's lawyer, Laura Wasser, was present at the interview, in which Carey noted she was only taking her nurse's advice and didn't hide the fact she drank some beer. What we really want to know is that with all the kids who are abused in that state, was DCFS really wasting time and tax dollars asking one of the most famous women in the world if she dared to drink a beer after her kids were born?
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WASHINGTON -- Gay spouses of military veterans are not able to obtain the benefits given to straight couples even despite the Supreme Court's ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act, an Obama administration official said in a letter released Tuesday.
Federal benefits granted to military spouses include disability and survivor benefits and joint burial at a veteran's cemetery. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki wrote in an Aug. 14 letter that because these benefits are governed by Title 38, which defines spouses as members of the opposite sex, the spouses of gay veterans could not receive them.
"Certain provisions in title 38, United States Code, define 'spouse' and 'surviving spouse' to refer only to a person of the opposite-sex," Shinseki wrote. "Under these provisions, a same-sex marriage recognized by a State would not confer spousal status for purposes of eligibility of VA benefits. Although the title 38 definition of 'spouse' and 'surviving spouse' are similar to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) provision at issue in United States v. Windsor, no court has yet held the title 38 definitions to be unconstitutional."
In the letter, which was released by the office of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and first reported on by the Washington Blade, Shinseki says that the VA supports the enactment of the Charlie Morgan Spouses Equal Treatment Act, which would remove the requirement that a surviving spouse be a member of the opposite sex in order to receive benefits.
The military has already said it will extend benefits to the spouses of active duty members of the military and civilian employees who are in same-sex marriages. Shaheen said in a statement that Congress needed to pass the Charlie Morgan Act to make things fair for veterans in gay marriages.
"We need to pass the Charlie Morgan Act to bring Department of Veterans Affairs benefits policy in line with the Supreme Court's ruling striking down DOMA. I'm committed to making this happen," Shaheen said in a statement. "Every individual who serves in uniform deserves access to the benefits that they've earned and rightfully deserve. We can't tolerate this type of discrimination, especially in the aftermath of a historic Supreme Court ruling that declared the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional."
Attorney General Eric Holder announced last year that the Justice Department would no longer defend Title 38 in court. "The legislative record of these provisions contains no rationale for providing veterans' benefits to opposite-sex spouses of veterans but not to legally married spouses of veterans," Holder wrote. "Neither the Department of Defense nor the Department of Veterans Affairs identified any justifications for that distinction that could warrant treating these provisions differently from Section 3 of DOMA."


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Wood Redux
"For the first time in my life, I've written some love songs," says Greg Wood. He and Racket are at McElroy's Pub on a Tuesday night, talking about his upcoming solo debut, Ash Wednesday, and other things, and the beer and stories are flowing mightily. Wood's newfound softer side came after 1999, the worst year of his life, one in which he almost died, spent two months in Ben Taub, lost an eye permanently and the ability to walk temporarily, and his long-running, critically acclaimed band and decade-plus marriage both broke up.
You'd think that after such tribulations Wood's songs would be darker than ever. You'd be wrong. "For the first time I was able to write about my personal feelings other than negatively," he says, pausing to tuck a pinch of cherry- flavored long-cut Skoal in his gums. "It was always, 'I hate this, I hate that, I wish you people would die.' These days I think the human race isn't so bad, and I want some part of it to survive."
"Specifically, this part of it," he says, pointing to himself.
Wood has discovered that penning love songs is even harder than writing bitter rants. The competition is stiffer, for one thing. "The hard part about writing a love song is writing one that other people can identify with, because we all fall in love differently," he says. "It's almost impossible to express yourself by saying, 'Well, I fell in love with somebody, but not the same ol' way. I did it a different way.' "
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Wood has been doing things differently for a long time. Take, for instance, a true story from many years ago that's as weird as anything fellow Kentucky native Hunter S. Thompson's pharmaceutically amped brain has come up with. In the house he shared with his wife and Tab Jones bandmates Devon Fletcher, Eddie Hawkins and Scott Daniels, Wood downed a fifth of Old Grand-Dad and blacked out. At some point thereafter, he took several hits of LSD, which restored his memory. Only he wasn't himself anymore. He was Russian dissident/author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and his Montrose home was a Siberian gulag. Wood knocked the knob off every door in his house, and then went outside and paced the perimeter of the chain-link fence, looking for a means of escape. There was only one way out, and that was to burrow.
He was just getting started when the police arrived to check up on what neighbors thought were gunshots. They couldn't come in through the door because he had removed the knob, so Wood was horrified to see a policeman crawling through his window.
Wood's roommates told the cop that Wood was merely drunk and that things were under control. And after deducing that no shots had been fired, the policeman was ready to go. As he was walking out, he turned to Wood, who was clad in only a bedspread and bleeding from having rolled nude in the glass from a bottle he had broken.
"Are you sure you're all right, son?" the officer asked.
"Yes," replied Wood. "But as soon as you leave," he added, pointing to his roommates, "these people are going to kill me."
Too many nights like that will have consequences sooner or later. Wood's bill came due early in 1999.
After collapsing at home, Wood checked into Ben Taub. "It took a day for them to figure out what was wrong with me," Wood says. "At first they told me I had AIDS. I spent 24 hours thinking I had AIDS." Finally, doctors discovered the correct diagnosis: Wood was suffering from endocarditis, an infection that was gnawing away at one of the valves in his heart. He was hours away from death by internal bleeding when he underwent open-heart surgery.
Wood says that both heredity and the environment he created are to blame. He does have a congenital heart defect, but much of his trouble stemmed from, as he puts it, "not taking care of myself and living like a wolverine."
"I had gotten really sick," he says. "Some people can jump back five or six days after heart surgery. It took me a month. I was in Ben Taub for 28 days after the operation, the infection had gotten so bad."
Wood's ordeal was just beginning. "I came out of the hospital thinking the worst was over. I had heart surgery; I was 35 years old. What worse can happen now? It turns out I was home for two weeks, and I noticed I had something wrong with my right eye."
Wood went back to the Tub. This time he was in for 30 days. Facilitated by his diabetes, the infection had spread from his heart to his eye. "The end result was I lost my right eye," he says. "I spent two months in Ben Taub in the winter of '99. I did get a couple of songs out of it." (Wood can laugh about it still; he recently joked that he and Billy Joe Shaver are proud members of the Missing Body Part Club.)
Meanwhile, his band Horseshoe melted away. "Everybody needed something to do," he says. "My main partner in the band was Scott Daniels, and Carolyn Wonderland wanted him to be her guitar player. While I was in the hospital, I gave him my blessings to go and join with her. He went out on the road, making money and playing some good gigs, and I felt guilty about calling him back to Horseshoe. I thought it was just time to end Horseshoe."
Besides, Wood thought his run as a musician was over. The antibiotics that finally stamped out his infection also destroyed his inner ear. Though his hearing was intact, Wood lost his sense of balance, and he had to spend much of the rest of the year relearning to walk. To this day, he can't jump into water or walk into a dark room without tumbling into vertigo.
"At that point I just quit," he says. "I thought I was never gonna be on stage again." Wood worked at home in laptop publishing, until Charlie Sanders (Jesse Dayton's bass player) coaxed him out of retirement. "The next thing I know I'm in a studio and Jesse Dayton's producing my new record. That was it. I was back in the game."
Wood genuinely enjoyed working with Dayton on Ash Wednesday, even though it entailed a certain loss of creative control. He says that with Horseshoe, the goal had been to capture the "neighborly" feel of the sloppy-tonk on the Rolling Stones classics Let It Bleed and Beggar's Banquet. "There was a short period of time there where the Stones captured a lifestyle," Wood says. "You hear those records and you thought, 'Wow. I am part of the Stones world. I may not be a junkie or banging black models, but the point is I sure feel that through their records.' Admittedly, on this new album, I didn't try to do that as much."
Dayton and the crack band on the album (which includes Dayton, Daniels, Sanders, bassist Ben Collis, keyboardist Pete Gordon, drummer Chris King, guitarist Rob Mahan and string whiz Brian Thomas) smoothed out Wood's rougher edges. "Jesse did a great job on the record," Wood says. "All of his ideas were good. There's not a song on there recorded the way I would have recorded them, and I'm still happy with it."
After wrangling over packaging, sequencing and editing for six months, the CD is now pressed and tentatively set for release in September locally and October nationally. Wood is working on getting together a road band, but he confesses that he doesn't like to gig. "Performance is my least favorite part of music," he says. "That surprises some people, who think I'm a natural performer. I'm uneasy; I'm not comfortable. I want to stand up there and tell people how I feel and not even dress it as music, so I probably should have been a comic. But I wasn't very good at that. I found that I was better putting stuff to melody first."
Wood's between-songs banter is often as entertaining as his music. While the days when he would read Rimbaud and Bukowski between songs are long past, his Bill Hicksian rants on the headlines of the day remain. They can be so funny, and at times powerful, that they throw music fans for a loop. "When people come expecting music and I give 'em comedy, they're shocked," Wood says. "People want to be in this pasteurized world, and when I give them my take on the daily news, they get upset. Personally, I think if people could learn to expect that from me, then they could learn to accept it. It's hard for me as an obscure artist to get away with that. It would be one thing if I was Michael Stipe -- he can talk about Greenpeace all he wants. It's another to be this totally out-of-the-loop character talking about R. Kelly and all his travails."
In a day when what was recently mainstream country is now deemed "alt," where does a stone gonzo character like Wood fit in? "I guess I'm the next step," he says, his words building into an evangelical frenzy. "I think people are looking these days for musical forms they're comfortable with. But they're looking for lyrics that speak to them, unlike the stuff that's coming out of Nashville now. It doesn't speak to anybody. It speaks to a mythical demographic. They make up these groups of people like the sad, lonely women who want to hear a brokenhearted country song. They don't want to hear that! Or maybe they do. The point is they're like any other group of people. They're diverse. They want to hear Billy Ray Cyrus, or they want to hear John Lennon. They want to hear a different approach to the same feelings. Somebody's gotta give it to them. Somebody's gotta say, 'Okay, here's something that sounds like country, but listen to the words. I'm gonna take you someplace you haven't been with country.' And hey, country can take you a lot of places."
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Curiosities: Is it true that laughing is good for your health?
Indeed, says Robert McGrath, a clinical psychologist specializing in mind/body wellness at University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and for many reasons.
"Humor results in a general decrease in stress hormones. Vigorous laughter temporarily increases the heart rate, benefits the immune system, increases alertness, and exercises skeletal muscles. Levels of epinephrine and dopamine decrease as a response to humor and laughing," he says.
The physical effects actually resemble those of a good workout, McGrath adds. "There is an increase of endorphin levels, the body's natural painkiller."
Laughter is often used to help survive difficult situations, McGrath says, and it has many positive but indirect long-term benefits, including increasing the sense of well-being, making pleasant connections with others, managing stress, and increasing creativity.
The benefits of laughter extend after the chortling, chuckling and guffawing ceases, he adds. "Following extended laughter, there is a brief period during which blood pressure lowers and heart rate decreases."
Laughter, indeed, is the best medicine. "And if you are not ready to start your day with a full dose of this great medicine, just smile," he adds. To stay healthy and happy, McGrath prescribes 30 minutes of exercise, 15 minutes of humor, and 15 minutes of smiling meditation.
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Dessert Variety With New, De Luxe Kre-Mel
There are two leaflets in this collection. The panel is a wrap-around and shows various desserts. The back panel also shows several boxes of Kre-Mel. (Form) 517-1 CPR Co.
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Krem-Mel Dessert
Publisher: Corn Products Refining Co. (New York, N.Y.)
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Citation: Dessert Variety With New, De Luxe Kre-Mel. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=1747


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'More than quadrupling an estimate it put forth last year for new agents, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) now says that it will need more than 4,000 new agents to enforce the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. And in addition to these new agents, the IRS is also asking for more than $300 million in new funding to help fortify the infrastructure it will supposedly need to unconstitutionally force Americans to purchase government healthcare.
The constitutionality of Obamacare is currently being reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court, and yet the IRS is already acting as though the overhaul is definitive law. According to IRS budget requests, the agency says it needs a massive cash infusion to "continue the development of new systems and modifications of existing systems required to support new tax credits." But in reality, this money will more than likely be used to spy on Americans and fine them for failing to purchase adequate health coverage.'
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Roller skating isnt Rajon Rondos only pastime off the basketball court. The Boston Celtics point guard also enjoys bowling.
This week he hit the lanes at Kings with over 80 students from 10 Boston schools as part of the Step Up Your Game Challenge, a new initiative by the Celtics which rewards students for achieving academic improvement.
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- Evolution and expression of homeologous loci in Tragopogon miscellus (Asteraceae), a recent and reciprocally formed allopolyploidJennifer A Tate
Department of Botany, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
Genetics 173:1599-611. 2006..Synthetic F(1) hybrids between putative diploid progenitors are additive of their parental genomes, suggesting that polyploidization rather than hybridization induces genomic changes in Tragopogon...
- Rapid, repeated, and clustered loss of duplicate genes in allopolyploid plant populations of independent originRichard J A Buggs
Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Curr Biol 22:248-52. 2012..The high frequency of single-allele losses detected and low frequency of changes fixed within populations provide evidence for ongoing evolution...
- Transcriptomic shock generates evolutionary novelty in a newly formed, natural allopolyploid plantRichard J A Buggs
Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Curr Biol 21:551-6. 2011..Our results suggest that regulation of gene expression is relaxed in a concerted manner upon hybridization, and new patterns of partitioned expression subsequently emerge over the generations following allopolyploidization...
- Concerted evolution of rDNA in recently formed Tragopogon allotetraploids is typically associated with an inverse correlation between gene copy number and expressionRoman Matyasek
Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v v i Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics, Kralovopolska 135, CZ 612 65 Brno, Czech Republic
Genetics 176:2509-19. 2007..Paradoxically, despite their low copy number, repeats of T. dubius origin dominate rDNA transcription in most populations studied, i.e., rDNA units that are genetic losers (copy numbers) are epigenetic winners (high expression)...


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I don't know if this is the section to be doing this in, but here it goes.
I have some experience, but not much, so I was wondering if any filmmaker would like some free help on a project this summer? I am a fast learner, but I want to be a documentary filmmaker and the cinema department at my school isn't giving me very much practical experience.
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Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) completed the first step in transforming the bank's securities processing back-office operations on October 14 by transferring them to Accenture Post-Trade Processing, a service launched by Accenture and Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE:BR). The solution is designed to help the bank improve competitiveness, adapt to changes in regulation and market infrastructure, and reduce costs. Accenture Post-Trade Processing is managing the back-office securities processing for SG CIB – including settlement, asset servicing, reference data, reconciliation and administrative accounting – under the agreement between Accenture and the bank announced in July. As part of the initiative, a number of SG CIB employees have joined Accenture with post-trade processing skills relevant in more than 50 financial markets. In the second phase, Accenture Post-Trade Processing will transfer SG CIB's securities processing to a new, multi-entity platform based on Broadridge technology. The platform is designed to reduce resources and simplify preparations for compliance with new and existing regulations; optimize performance with access to real-time trade information; and quickly and efficiently launch new financial products and enter new markets. The new platform will allow Accenture Post-Trade Processing to serve multiple clients operating in Europe and Asia-Pacific. "We are very pleased with this initiative to create a new securities back-office outsourcing solution for investment banks in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Accenture Post-Trade Processing will allow us to deliver top-level services to our clients while being price-competitive with the largest players in the industry," said Christophe Leblanc, Chief Operating Officer, Corporate & Investment Banking, Private Banking, Asset Management and Securities Services, Societe Generale. Eugenio Bonomi, senior managing director and head of Accenture Post-Trade Processing said, "Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking shows foresight and vision with this initiative. In an increasingly competitive and capital-intensive industry, this new approach to post-trade processing will help the bank meet its efficiency and client service objectives. Our longstanding relationship with Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking and understanding of the global investment banking business is helping make this a seamless transition."
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Birmingham American Federation of Teachers to hold meeting
The Birmingham American Federation of Teachers will hold a meeting tonight at the St. John AME Church at 708 15th street at 5 PM tonight.{} At hand is the issues going on with the Birmingham School system.{} The event is open to the public.
The meeting will include school board members, the School Board Attorney, Rep. John Rogers, Rep. Mary Moor, and representatives from both the Birmingham AFT and the Alabama Education Association.


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Unreal Tournament III
Review by CrimsonGear80
"Big, muscular, steroid-induced freaks frag you. What more could you ask for?"
As a PC game, Unreal Tournament has done quite well for itself. When it was moved to consoles, it did OK but not as well. Heck, the last time I actually played an UT game, it was back in 10th grade in computer lab, when someone put the UT1 demo on the computers and everyone would just play LAN games the whole period. So, when I find out that Epic games and Midway are unleashing Unreal Tournament 3 on the PS3, I was generally excited. Who else wouldn't be excited at a fast-paced, sci-fi, multi-player FPS where it's basically shoot first, ask questions later gameplay? The bigger question is, after player such awesome online games like Warhawk and Call Of Duty 4, would UT3's action still appeal to me
or you?
Unreal Tournament 3 does feature a single player campaign with a story. You play as a typical, Epic Games steroid-induced hulking main character with a soul patch on his face that must fight aliens, or something. He is joined by other steroid-men and his sister, who is of course smoking hot. Seriously though, you will not care about UT3's story. It is so boring and is told in such a way that you just won't care about it. What I'm trying to say is: it's very generic. It also has a very horrible ending that suggests the next UT will have a horrible story as well. Also, for a game called Unreal Tournament, there are no Tournaments to be found here, unless you set up something in online multiplayer. Weird. I guess I was trying to figure out which button on my controller made my character perform a Batista Bomb, rather then give two shakes about the story. Still, UT isn't about story
Controls for UT3 are your typical FPS controls, so they shouldn't be too hard to master. One thing I must applaud: UT3 lets you fully customize your controls! Praise Jeebus! Epic also threw in keyboard and mouse support for those who want it, which I'm sure will please the PC elite who decided to get this for PS3 instead of PC.
UT3's single player campaign is basically a training mode for the main event, which is the multiplayer. Basically, all it consists of is you and your squad playing against bots in multiplayer modes with the story stringing them together. So when Dave Batista (which is what I will call the main character from now on since I could care less what his actual name is) says its time to go into the city and thin out the enemy numbers, that means it's time for a team deathmatch. The AI of the bots and your squad mates in story mode will mostly depend on what difficulty you play it at. I played it on normal, and the AI for the most part was a mixed bag. Sometimes, the enemy bots (which can usually number from 4 to 6) gave a good fight and forced me into some sudden death moments, while other times I beat them to death in less than three minutes. Your squad AI doesn't really fare as well. While in regular deathmatch modes and in warfare mode (which I will get to in a bit) they seem to be OK, in capture the flag they were hardly any use at all. Basically, a lot of times I would see them just running around the map doing nothing, and when they did actually manage to capture the flag, it seemed like they would rather shoot at enemies then run the flag back to the damn base and score. Of course, this always lead to them getting fragged and the enemy taking back their flag. Also, one of your squad mates will stay at your base to guard the flag from enemies so of course they would suck at it and pretty much always let the enemy get away. Not very fun when you alone have to both beat your bone-headed allies to the enemy flag AND keep the enemy from getting yours.
However, there is an upside to this, as story mode can be played in co-op mode with up to three other players online. I love how pretty much anyone at anytime can jump into the campaign and replace your dumb AI squad mates. Of course, this may make story mode far too easy on any difficulty, since 4 human players can kick the crap out of sub-par AI any day of the week. Still, it's a very cool feature and could actually make story mode a little more tolerable. Unfortunately, there are no split screen modes in UT3, which will disappoint some.
UT3's multiplayer modes are for the most part pretty common ones. You've got your regular and team deathmatches, regular and vehicle capture the flag modes, and duel mode (1-on-1 deathmatch). The best mode though, in my opinion, in the warfare mode. Warfare mode has two teams attempting to capture various power nodes on a map. Capturing a node is done by either claiming it while it's still neutral, or by destroying it if the other team holds it. Controlling nodes will give the team controlling them numerous weapons and vehicles to use. More importantly, controlling every node on the battlefield will expose the enemy's power core at their base, where you have to go and destroy it to win the match. A nice twist to this mode is orbs, which you can pick up at your teams base, which will allow you to instantly capture a node. Even a losing team can turn the whole battle around by using these, making warfare mode a back-and-forth, exciting affair. You AI squad can actually do some good here, as they captured and re-captured nodes quite frequently.
Lets talk about guns and vehicles. When you respawn, you start off with a cool looking pistol, from there you can pick up some devastating futuristic weaponry such as miniguns, rocket launchers, flak cannons, shock rifles, and link guns. You can even pick up a mini-nuke called the Redeemer and blow up pretty much anything in your way. I found every weapon pretty damn fun to use and you should have no problems blowing people to bloody bits with them. Then we have the numerous vehicles you can jump into, which are available in the bigger maps and while playing warfare and vehicle (duh!) capture the flag modes. They range from single-seat hoverbikes to huge tanks with turrets that can hold up to 5 players! You even get to use some alien rides, like the War Of The Worlds-looking Darkwalkers and the creepy, octopus-looking orb-like Scavenger. Vehicles control pretty well and have very unique weaponry ranging from bombs to lasers. A few can even become invisible for a short time. Players in warfare mode can even do their best Marty McFly impression by using a hoverboard. Just press square to pull the board out, where you will enter third-person view to easily move around the battlefields faster. The downside to this is that at the slightest hit by an enemy weapon, your character will crash and burn, and by the time he gets up he would already have been blown to smithereens. Rounding out single player modes is instant action, where you can pick any multiplayer mode, map, and have it out with up to 15 bots, whose AI you can tweak for bigger challenges. As a matter of fact, playing a bunch of instant action mode stages and shouting in-between each one: ITS TIME TO FIGHT DA ALIENS!! makes for a more interesting story than the actual story this game has.
Now on to the main event: online multiplayer. After creating your own custom character, you'll be on your way to fragging others in no time. It is very easy to customize a search to find whichever type of game your looking for. After that, a list of games is given to you, and all you got to do is choose one and start the carnage. If you choose to host a game, a ton of customizable options are presented to you, such as time and score limits, forced respawning, and whether or not to use bots to fill in empty spots. You can even use mutators, like low gravity or instagib, to spice up your game quite a bit. All in all, you should find something you like everytime you play online.
UT3 supports up to 16 players on every game mode on pretty much every map, and as long as you join a game with a ping count that isn't 4 digits, you should have a fast and frantic lag-free experience. I must say that I have had a few warfare matches that were just godly in how fun they were. UT3 also supports voice chat, the PSN friends list, and leaderboards. The biggest support however is the mod support. Mods are user-created content like new maps and the like that can keep a game fresh for years. Owners of UT3 for the PC can take whatever mods they make with the Unreal Engine 3 tool-set and convert them for use in the PS3 version. If this works out well, then fragging fans will have a TON of things to look forward to in this game. Hell, people who want a fun, fast, and frantic alternative to other online games probably already have much to look forward to.
Unreal Tournament 3 is one hell of a beautiful looking game. Textures are excellent and the environments are highly detailed and designed. I got fragged many times in the space station stage because I was too busy admiring the damn level. Guns and vehicles all look great and have imaginative designs to them as well. Character models, despite being Epic games trademark hulk-men, are pretty good. The small amount of cut-scenes in the story mode are impressive as well. Although the framerate can take small dips when you're on a map with the maximum amount of bots, most of the time the games runs at a smooth 30fps in 720p. The worst annoyance when it comes to the graphics is the texture pop in that can happen at the start of a match sometimes. Still, overall it's one excellent looking game.
All the sound in UT3 is pretty sharp, from explosions to gunshots to vehicles. The music in the game is mostly techno-like and really nothing special. Surprising, voice acting is pretty good; it's just too bad it's attached to an uninteresting story. Of course, you'll also have the trademark UT announcer yelling things like RAMPAGE and HEADSHOT during your matches. Makes good use of Dolby 5.1 surround sound.
Let's face it: you don't buy this game for it's single player modes. Very fast and fun online co-op and versus multiplayer plus mod support will keep shooter fans very happy for a very long time.
Futher proving that the Playstation Network will eventually become a force to be reckoned with, Unreal Tournament 3 is a must own for anyone who enjoys online shooters. As long as you DON'T expect an epic single player game, you should be just fine.
+Fast, frantic, and fun gameplay
+Awesome multiplayer with awesome multiplayer modes
+Mod support will keep things fresh for a long time
+Almost full customization for everything, including controls!
+Beautiful graphics
+Good sound and voice acting
+Tons of replay value
-Weak single player campaign
-Story? What story?
-Me no like play as steroid generic guys
-AI squadmates and bots can go from decent to awful
-No split screen modes
-Some texture pop in
-The main character wants his rematch (god I hope wrestling fans read this review and get that)
Reviewer's Rating: 4.0 - Great
Originally Posted: 12/29/07
Game Release: Unreal Tournament III (US, 12/11/07)
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CENPA Job Openings
|Postdoctoral Position in Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics
Postdoctoral Position in Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics
The University of Washington Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics (CENPA) has immediate openings for postdoctoral appointments for work on one or more of the following experiments: the Axion Dark-Matter eXperiment (ADMX), which is a RF-cavity search for axion dark matter in our galactic halo; a 6He beta decay experiment that is searching for non-standard-model currents in weak decays; and the Majorana Demonstrator, which is testing the Majorana nature of the neutrino.
ADMX is one of three DOE-NSF "Generation 2" dark-matter searches. It's beginning operation at CENPA after an extensive upgrade to ultra-low noise SQUID/JPA microwave amplification and 3He cooling. We seek a postdoctoral associate for this program (see depts.washington.edu/admx). Our group's technical interests include spectral signal estimation, development of cryogenic and vacuum instrumentation, and research on quantum-limited low-noise microwave electronics and resonators. The successful applicant will share our group's interest in experimental cosmology, broadly considered, and our interest in challenging measurements. Tasks include operation of the detector, analysis of the ADMX data, and development of detector systems.
A postdoctoral fellow working on the 6He experiment would work on all aspects of the ongoing laser-trap experiment and on developing a new method for determining the beta spectrum shape by detecting the electron cyclotron radiation. This would be the most sensitive experiment considered so far to look for chirality-flipping interactions. Experience with laser traps is welcome but not required.
The Majorana Demonstrator is a double-beta decay search using an array of HPGe detectors enriched in 76Ge, currently running in the SURF Laboratory in Lead, SD. A postdoctoral fellow working on this experiment would have rich opportunities in data analysis, which is lead out of our group, and would also participate in detector operation, local test stand construction and measurements for alpha backgrounds, and R&D for a future ton-scale Ge experiment.
We welcome highly motivated applicants having a Ph.D. in atomic, nuclear, or particle physics or astronomy, or who are expecting a Ph.D. before starting the position. Applicants should submit with their application letter a curriculum vitae and a list of publications, and have three letters of recommendation sent to Prof. Hamish Robertson (email@example.com), CENPA, Box 354290, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195. Electronic submission is encouraged. Applications received by December 16, 2016 will receive full consideration.
The University of Washington is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. The University is building a culturally diverse faculty and staff and strongly encourages applications from women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and Vietnam era veterans.
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Women's groups speak against govt committee
Women's rights groups on Monday thrashed the government appointed committee of jurists claiming none of the members have handled women-related cases, HT reports.delhi Updated: Dec 25, 2012 02:37 IST
Condemning sexual violence in the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old, women's rights groups on Monday thrashed the government appointed committee of jurists claiming none of the members have handled women-related cases.
The government announced the committee of jurists headed by former chief justice of India JS Verma with justice (retired) Leila Seth, former chief justice of Himachal Pradesh high court and Gopal Subramanian, former solicitor general of India, to give recommendations on amending laws to provide speedy justice and enhanced punishment in sexual assault cases."None of them has worked on women's issues. Neither of them has been a women's lawyer nor has a background of research on women's issue,"said Vrinda Grover, advocate and women's rights activist.
Commenting on the December 17 gang rape and subsequent angry protests demanding death for rapists, Grover added, "Unfortunately the debate has moved towards the kind of punishment. But that will happen only after conviction."
The rate of conviction is dismal as statistics show that cases of rape have a conviction rate of as low as 26 per cent. Questioning the rationale behind 'fast track courts', the activists said, "These do not work because there is no supporting infrastructure. For instance, Delhi has only three forensic laboratories handling all kinds of forensic examinations."
Kalpana V, associated with Delhi-based Jagori, said: "We need to understand that there is a basic change that needs to take place— it is, what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour."


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Winchell Mountain Coffees from the Sandra Boynton Coffee Collection
Are you a mom and a coffee drinker? Then you know how much mommy really needs coffee and oh, do we have the package for you! Winchell Mountain Coffee takes the phrase "Mommy Needs Coffee" very seriously. Winchell Mountain Coffee proudly introduces their exclusive Sandra Boynton Coffee Collection. This collection is witty, playful, and smile-inducing on the outside, but caffeine-fueled bliss on the inside! This collection includes 15 varieties of roasted coffees with names like "Expresso Overdrive," "Not a Morning Person," and "Bob's Diner." Product was received for review purposes and this post may contain affiliate links.
In order to help you celebrate Valentine's Day, Winchell Mountain Coffee is sharing some caffeinated love with a limited edition Viennese roast called "Valentine's Day: An Affectionate Blend." We were sent this coffee along with three others ("Beach Blend", "Wide Awake", and "Country Morning") to try from this fun collection. Each bag has a fun Sandra Boynton character on the front and each smells amazingly well! The taste? Out of this world! Even though the smell is out of this world, the taste is not overbearing. Each coffee is very mild and tastes smooth and great. I am not a daily coffee drinker, but I could get used to these coffees! My husband loves the "Beach Blend" and the "country Morning" blends best. He's the coffee drinker in our house! 🙂 These fun, tasty coffees make a fabulous gift for Valentine's Day to your relatives and friends who are coffee lovers.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Despite the positive action of the past few days, Mom and Pop have gotten plenty bearish on U.S. stocks of late. First, there was some eye-popping fund flow data on Wednesday. For the week ended April 18, long-term mutual funds investing in domestic equities saw outflows of $8.68 billion, according to data from the Investment Company Institute. That's equal to the total amount of outflows for such funds over the past three weeks. Interestingly, the main beneficiary of this exodus was funds investing in foreign equities, which saw inflows of $8.73 billion. Bonds and hybrid funds, which invest in both equities and bonds, also did well, attracting inflows of $5.25 billion and $1.18 billion respectively. Then today came the latest sentiment survey from the American Association of Individual Investors. Those identifying themselves as bullish, meaning they expect the S&P 500 to rise over the next six months, dropped for a fourth straight week, losing 3.5 percentage points to 27.6%. That's significantly below the long-term average of 39% and a dramatic drop from a near-term peak of 51.6% for the week ended Feb. 9. The recent roller-coaster action in the major U.S. equity indices this month with the U.S. economic data softening, problems in Europe flaring up once again, Apple ( AAPL) pulling back from its all-time high, and the end of Operation Twist looming at the end of June seems to have stoked fears that Wall Street could be in for a repeat performance of the past two years when the gains early in the year gave way to cruel summers. The bear camp swelled to 37.4%, up 3.6 percentage points, and elevated from its long-term average of 30%. Those identifying as neutral totaled 35%, virtually flat with last week's reading and above a long-term average of 31%. After Thursday's surge, the markets have regained most of the ground lost during this recent stretch of turbulence, righting the ship so to speak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has regained 13,000 in convincing fashion, the Nasdaq has tacked on nearly 3% in the past two days, and the S&P 500 is sitting just a hair below 1400 after peaking above that level in intraday action for the first time since April 5. Mark Arbeter, chief technical strategist at S&P Capital IQ, says a convincing break through 1400 could herald the market's ready to move another leg up. "The S&P 500 is in the process of breaking the bearish trendline off the recent highs, a bullish sign, in our view," he wrote in commentary on Thursday. "However, there is some minor chart resistance that sits up in the 1,390 to 1,400 region, and this may represent a ceiling in the next week or two. However, if this overhead supply gives way, we think it could be off to the races on the upside. We are still looking for a final rally that takes the S&P 500 up to at least the 1,450 zone, and possibly up near 1,500." Before that happens though, Wall Street will need to digest the late Thursday that Standard & Poor's has lowered its credit rating on Spain to 'BBB+' from 'A.' This can't be a big surprise but it could still rattle sentiment (and raise the country's borrowing costs).
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This is the first one, and this should prove to be an important blogospheric contribution.
I do recommend this to you because I think it is important, but I do so with some minor trepidation. I made a contribution to the carnival which, unfortunately, seems by my reading of the text to have been wrapped in a potentially inaccurate statement about me, which I shall endeavor to correct here. I'm sure the problem results entirely from an accident of wording.
Go read the carnival then report back, please.
OK. The implication could be that I've spent "a few days of my life" faced with issues of diversity in science. I'm sure the carnival writer did not intend this meaning, but the truth is that sometimes no matter how careful we are with our writing, meanings intended are not always the same as meanings transmitted.
As an educator, with a job, a career, a reputation, all that sort of thing, I see this as important enough to address. The truth is that I've been facing diversity issues (yes, as a white male … facing them as an ally) for a very long time, and in many ways. For many years I annually taught one of the few courses at UMN (a rather large school, so this is a bit embarrassing for the school as a whole) that explicitly addressed race and racism in full historical, biological, and cultural context, and the only course designed to address (and ultimately debunk, as it turns out) the biological basis for race based approaches. I taught a graduate class for teachers regarding diversity in the classroom. I've done all sorts of stuff like that. The particular story I tell in the blog post at the carnival, which by the way ran over three or four years time, was just one story among many. So the phrase "a few days in his life" is terribly inaccurate even in reference to that post.
Again, please go check out this carnival (and it's later incarnations as they develop).


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How they scored
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|4 plays, 9 yards, 1:58
|Connor Barth 40-yard field goal. Key plays: The Bucs took the early lead thanks to cornerback Aqib Talib's interception of Charlie Batch on Pittsburgh's second play of the game, stepping in front of the errant throw at the Steelers 31. Josh Freeman completed second- and third-down passes to wide receivers Mike Williams and Sammie Stroughter, respectively, but still fell a yard short of a first down. Barth remained perfect for the season (4-for-4) with his successful kick.
|2 plays, 45 yards, 0:53
|Mike Wallace 46-yard pass from Charlie Batch (Jeff Reed kick). Key play: It didn't take long for the Bucs to feel the impact of Tanard Jackson's suspension. On second and 11 from the Bucs 46, Batch lobbed the ball toward Wallace on the right side of the end zone. Rookie Cody Grimm, replacing Jackson at free safety, appeared to have Wallace covered. But Grimm never turned to find the ball, allowing it to settle in Wallace's arms despite being in the receiver's face.
|15 plays, 74 yards, 8:45
|Connor Barth 24-yard field goal. Key plays: The Bucs put together one of their most impressive drives of the season behind Josh Freeman's arm and the debut of running back LeGarrette Blount. Freeman completed passes of 16 yards to Mike Williams, 11 to running back Cadillac Williams and 13 to tight end Kellen Winslow, who made a great catch after the ball had been tipped at the Pittsburgh 7. Blount added 26 yards on four carries, one of them good for a first down. An incompletion and a short completion to Sammie Stroughter forced the Bucs to settle for the field goal.
|6 plays, 67 yards, 3:49
|Rashard Mendenhall 3-yard run (Jeff Reed kick). Key plays: The Steelers made quick work of the Bucs defense. Mendenhall picked up 15 yards on first down. On consecutive plays came a 24-yard scramble by Charlie Batch (on third and 6) and a 21-yard pass from Batch to tight end Heath Miller to the Bucs 3. Mendenhall scored one play later to extend Pittsburgh's lead.
|2 plays, 44 yards, 0:47
|Mike Wallace 41-yard pass from Charlie Batch (Jeff Reed kick). Key plays: For the second time in the half, a long Batch pass to Wallace should have been knocked away by the Bucs defender but wound up as a touchdown. This time, two plays after a fumble by the Bucs' Mike Williams was recovered at the Tampa Bay 44, Batch's long pass was tipped by cornerback Aqib Talib, who appeared to have the interception, in the end zone. But the ball deflected into the hands of Wallace, who pulled it in for his second touchdown of the game.
|11 plays, 79 yards, 4:02
|Hines Ward 9-yard pass from Charlie Batch (Jeff Reed kick). Key plays: Batch continued to carve up the Bucs secondary, completing passes to Antwaan Randle El (14 yards), Mike Wallace (13) and Ward (19) to the Bucs 16. A 7-yard pass to running back Mewelde Moore and a spike set up third and 3 at the Tampa Bay 9. Batch (under no pressure) waited for Ward to find an opening in the back of the end zone and hit him for his third touchdown pass of the half.
|8 plays, 53 yards, 4:21
|Jeff Reed 24-yard field goal. Key plays: The Steelers stuck to their ground game, running the ball on the drive's first six plays with the big gain coming on Rashard Mendenhall's 34-yarder off right tackle that would have gone for a touchdown had safety Cody Grimm not nudged him out of bounds at the Bucs 14. Two runs and an incompletion forced the Steelers to settle for the field goal.
|Brett Keisel 79-yard interception return (Jeff Reed kick). Key play: The Bucs seemed poised to cut into Pittsburgh's lead, facing first down at the Steelers 17 as the fourth quarter began. But Josh Freeman's quick pass to the left bounced off receiver Sammie Stroughter and into the hands of Keisel, who rumbled down the right sideline untouched for the touchdown.
|10 plays, 68 yards, 4:09
|LeGarrette Blount 1-yard run (Connor Barth kick). Key plays: Backup quarterback Josh Johnson and rookie receiver Arrelious Benn connected on three passes for 33 yards. And Johnson hit tight end Jerramy Stevens for another 22 yards (to the Pittsburgh 8) after most of the starters were yanked. Blount was denied the score on third and goal from the 1 but bulled his way in on fourth down for the game's final points.


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HOOVER, Ala. -- Mike Slive gets asked the question all the time: "Is the new college football postseason format good for the Southeastern Conference?"
The conference's commissioner always has the same answer: "Unequivocally yes."
A four-team playoff has been the big bully on the playground of storylines this offseason, and a room filled with more than 1,000 media members waited for Slive to address it. It took him about 16 minutes to do so.
Slive immediately gave an 8-year-old history lesson, referring back to the 2004 undefeated Auburn Tigers as the initial spark behind the SEC's campaign for a college football playoff. The Tigers were left out of national championship contention despite not losing a game.
"Each of us tried to balance our responsibility to our league and to the great game of football as a whole," Slive said. "We found a way to come together. As a result, we are now able to provide student-athletes and fans with a championship format that not only protects the best regular season in sports, but enhances it."
It is no secret that the development of the playoff is far from over. Revenue distribution, which bowls will be involved, sight selection for the national championship game and the composition of a selection committee, are all issues that still need to be solved.
While the sport has still not figured out what criteria for being on the selection committee will be, Slive did know how the teams will be determined: a combination of win-loss record, strength of schedule, conference championships and head-to-head competition. Slive also said the new system will force teams to fix their non-conference schedules in accordance to the difficulty of their conference slates.
The reset button: Early in his speech to the 2012 SEC Media Days gathering, Slive addressed recruiting rules - one of the few topics he addressed in 2011 that he said still needed to be reset.
"We recommend permitting the use of text messaging, the language of our student-athletes, removing hard and fast recruiting calendars to a recruiting-person-day model and regulating only what counts," Slive said.
In addition, Slive added that what he talked about last July in terms of multi-year scholarships has been a success. He said there is still work to do in terms of ensuring that student-athletes can return to their universities down the road for further and unfinished education.
The Nittany Elephant in the room: Slive got somber for a portion of his speech, and rightfully so.
Without directly naming anything to do with the ongoing Penn State scandal or former head coach Joe Paterno, Slive addressed the "headlines of last week" and called for a serious need of checks and balances between university and athletic program.
"No one person -- no matter how powerful, no matter how successful - should be allowed to derail the soul of an institution," Slive said.
When asked for further detail about his statement in a later question-and-answer session, Slive repeatedly said he had said all he wanted to say about it earlier and declined comment.
Project X -- not the movie: Project X is no longer. The rumored nickname for what was supposed to be the secretive development of an SEC Network television channel has been renamed Project SEC, according to Slive.
It has long been in talks that the SEC has looked into the format the Big Ten took with starting its own television channel and found interest. For the first time, Slive admitted with a grin that those plans are certainly in development and caved into saying it's no longer much of a secret.
But for any further details, people will have to keep waiting.
"I'd love to say more. I know you'd love for me to say more. I won't say more," Slive said. "I will before I get too much older and you get too much older."
Etc.: Slive commended the conference's schools on the development of minority employment, pointing out there will be three minority head coaches in the league this season. ... The "Champions' Bowl" is the project name for the bowl agreement between the SEC and the Big 12. Slive said there is little known about it at this time aside from the fact it will be a New Year's Day primetime game. ... Slive said the league set out to find marquee home match-ups for its two new teams, Missouri and Texas A&M. He believes the right opponents were found in Georgia and Florida, respectively.
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