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At the Burberry textile mill near Keighley, England, traditional and modern techniques combine to create our signature gabardine. Cotton fibres are chosen for length and fineness before being coloured and spun into super-strong yarn.
Our trench coats are made in Castleford, England, using over 100 individual processes. The most intricate of these is the crafting of the collar, which takes more than 180 stitches to create a fluid curve so that it sits perfectly on the neck.
The cuff straps and belt are stitched to keep their edges clean and flat, while the iconic check lining is carefully cut and placed to ensure it is symmetrical.
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The story of the trench begins in Yorkshire, England, where our signature cotton gabardine is woven before the coat itself takes shape. More than 40 looms, years of training and over 100 individual processes go into its creation.
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Monmouthshire gets £461k from car parks
12:46pm Thursday 17th April 2014
12:46pm Thursday 17th April 2014
A COUNCIL'S car parks made nearly half a million pounds in 2012/13, according to figures from the RAC Foundation.
A "profit" of £461,000 was earned by Monmouthshire County Council from parking charges from an income of £1.1 million, although the figure was down by 36 per cent on the year before.
The RAC said Welsh councils had generated £8.7m in parking surpluses, with Cardiff having the biggest surplus at £2.6m.
Caerphilly council generated £162,000 from an income of £659,000 – down by 30 per cent over the same period of time.
Newport generated an income of £660,000 – but its parking services cost £206,000 more than that.
In Blaenau Gwent, parking services cost £311,000, while in Torfaen parking services cost £39,000. Only £7,000 was generated in income in the authority.
Neither of the authorities charge for parking in council run car parks.
Professor Stephen Glaister, RAC Foundation director, said: "Parking must always be about managing congestion, not raising money and we would recommend that all local authorities produce an annual parking report detailing their parking strategy."
A Monmouthshire council spokesman said: "The figure provided is the gross income over and above the cost of operating the service. In Monmouthshire this money is accounted for in the authority's overall revenue budget.
"But it is reinvested legitimately in associated traffic/transport services."
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"Not wearing a seatbelt was a mistake," Patterson said in a statement issued Tuesday. "I accept my responsibility and paid the $65 fine this afternoon."
As the passenger of a Chrysler 300 driven by James Cram, also a county employee, Patterson was involved in a serious crash at the intersection of Walton and Opdyke in Auburn Hills.
Crash investigators determined that Anthony Prainito, the driver of a Volkswagen Passat, failed to yield while turning left in front of Patterson's vehicle causing the collision.
Prainito has been charged with three counts of committing a moving violation causing serious impairment of a bodily function. His passenger also suffered injuries
Police cited Prainito for not wearing a safety belt but declined to cite Patterson until after his release from the hospital last week.
Cram, who the crash reports indicates did not have his seat belt on, has not been issued a ticket.
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Fedora core 5, partitioning
I need a command to partition swap space On a Fedora core 5 install
The unpartitioned space is already available.
Does fedora 5 use swap partitions in the same way as redhats earlier distros.
And finally about how much swap is optimal w/ 220 mgs of ram.
Hi, yes you will need swap, roughly 2.5 x your ram (550Mb) is widely considered to be right.
Use the Installer's partition manager (the 4th option in the drop down list), add swap space, then add a / (root) partition (use all remaining free space) for a sound basic installation.
If windows is installed, take care not to accidentally format or delete it.
edit: there is a dedicated forum for fedora, your post would get more replys there (probably) :)
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How much swap depends on two things: how much ram do you have to work with, and what kind of work are you doing that might max out the ram.
The more ram you have (1, 2, or more gig of ram), the less likely you will ever see swap in use unless you are doing something ram intensive, such as editing bit-mapped graphics or sound files.
The less ram you have (512 meg or less), the more likely you will need swap.
General rule of thumb: If ram is less than 1 gig, make your swap equal to or greater than the amount of ram (up to twice the size of ram, or more if working with sound or bit-mapped graphics).
If Fedora is already installed, and you need to format free space for swap, try cfdisk. It's text-based ala dos. It will show you partitions and free space. Use the arrow keys to move up or down the list. Select free space. Use the tab key to move among the options at the bottom of the screen to select format. You will have options of what to format it for. Select swap. Select Write and press enter to write the new partition table. Then Exit.
It would be a good idea to reboot before anything else to commit the changes, otherwise, you may end up with overlapping partitions. Reason: the partition table in use is the one you booted up with. The new table isn't recognized until you reboot, or something to that effect. I remade some partitions once without the reboot, and really screwed things up. Took quite a bit of research to learn my error. And quite a bit more work (including a reinstall and restoration of a backup) to correct my error.
If you have a free partition with FC5 already installed, from the terminal logged in as root, enter:
mkswap /dev/hdXn (Xn is the partition to use for swap)
If you don't have a free partition, but you have free raw formatted space, from the terminal logged in as root, enter:
fdisk /dev/hdXn
n (to create new partition, then answer the questions)
w (to commit the changes)
mkswap /dev/hdXn
You'll also need to edit /etc/fstab to have the swap space mounted during boot. Add a line such as:
/dev/hdXn none swap sw 0 0
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The Best Apps, Tips & Tweaks Of The Week [06.30.2013]
It's that time of the week again when we round up the most popular as well as the less-popular but equally useful apps, tips and tweaks that you may have missed during your hectic workweek. This time around, we discuss Windows 8.1 Preview, the updated stock camera app for Android, two Google Reader alternatives, an Android app for predicting who you are going to call next, and an app for Windows 8 / RT that streams music based on an occasion, among other excellent apps and tips.
Our Windows 8.1 Preview Coverage
This week saw the release of the much-anticipated Windows 8.1 Preview at Microsoft's BUILD 2013 conference. Although the latest iteration of Microsoft's desktop OS is an incremental update, it does sport quite a few new features, changes and apps, which we've been playing around with and bringing to your attention throughout the past week. Following are the articles we've posted up until now:
The New Start Button & Improved Start Screen
Changes & Additions In The Lock Screen
The New Unified Smart Search Feature
Multitasking & Improved Snap Feature
Deeper SkyDrive Integration
Boot To Desktop & Other Navigation Options
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The Google Play editions of the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S 4 – both running on Android 4.2.2 – come with an updated camera app that isn't even available on Nexus 4 running on the same version of Android. Thanks to the vibrant developer community, an APK of the app is now available for download and installation.
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Anonymously Search The Web With DuckDuckGo For Android & iOS
DuckDuckGo may not give the same high quality search results as Google, but the service promises not to save your search queries or log any other data. Privacy-conscious mobile users now have the option to install the native DuckDuckGo app for quicker searching. The fact that it doubles up as a good news reader makes it even better!
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Digg Launches Google Reader Alternative For iPhone & iPad Users
With the demise of Google Reader, technology companies big and small are doing everything they can to provide Reader refugees' a go-to RSS reader. Among dozen others, Digg has come up with Digg Reader. Although the web version is currently in private beta and quite rough around the edges, the iOS version is open to all users and seems relatively polished. Definitely worth a try before you settle down with one RSS reading service for the next few years.
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Listen To Mood / Occasion-Based Music Playlists On Windows 8 & RT With Songza
Pandora and Last.fm are great for discovering new music based on your listening history and taste, but Songza's approach is a mighty good alternative: discovering new music based on an occasion or your current mood. The free service has now finally made its way onto Windows 8 and RT, albeit in the form of a somewhat buggy app.
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Installing ClockworkMod Recovery / TWRP is usually involves a short list of easy-to-follow steps; Recovery Tools reduces that to a single tap. Simply launch the app on a supported, rooted device, and tap Flash ClockworkMod / TWRP Recovery! It's that easy. You don't even need to reboot your device for the flashing process.
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Dialapp For Android Magically Predicts Who You Are Going To Call Next
Who thought you could innovate today's smartphone dialer app? Well, the developers of Dialapp did, and they have delivered! Dialapp will analyze when, where and who you make calls to, and then predict who you are going to call next based on this information. Good stuff!
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EaseUS MobiSaver Is A Powerful Data Recovery Tool For iOS Devices
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Sectos For Android Backs Up, Passcode-Protects And Hides Your Photos From Gallery And File Manager Apps
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I think Uli is the only designer left with personality, and nobody takes her serious. I think she is a contender for the final 3.
I'm just thrilled to see that for the second week in a row the girl didn't do a halter!
She might be the dark horse this time around. Something tells me if she makes one crappy outfit she'll be Auf'd real quick since she's kinda quiet.
i love her and really want her to win. I loved her dress this week....
I agree she does overdo it a little w/ the dresses. However I think that her eye for catchy chic prints makes up for what would otherwise be "too much of the same thing" I def. think that her looks are gorgeous overall.. She has made me want to wear dresses for more than just special occasions. Yes I live in florida, and perhaps (like the judges said on this weeks show) the dresses would only fit in in certain regions... but they are beautiful and creative none the less. Did we forget about the blazer she made for over the dress on the dog challenge? Or how about the outfit she did for the mom challenge? Yes her look involves prints and overall a "flowy" look... but b/c she does what she does best who can be mad a ther? There are others on the show who could be pinned the same way So I guess what I am trying to say is- If it looks good do it. Its obvious the woman is able to make blazers and pants etc.. So its not like she isnt knowledgeable- It just seems like her style leans more towards flowy dresses and yes halter type dresses at that... Do your thing Uli!!!!
I do like her gowns. She has a very specific point of view - kind of reminds me of Chloe Dao in that regard. She also seems to take a woman's body and comfort into account, though the clothing is still pretty.
I just worry that the judges are tired of seeing her scarves-sewn-together look. I hope she pulls something very different out for the next challenge, or her passport might get another stamp real soon.
I like her gowns as well. They're fun, flirty, and colorful. She seems like a really sweet and loving person, and I'd love her to make top 3.
Why is it boys talk so much, when they have nothing to say? And girls have plenty to say, but no one will listen?
--Vada Sultenfuss
Whatever. Like any reality show, the judges have their little pets that can't do any wrong and then there's everyone else.
Still crazy, after all these shears
"lambikins, put the crack pipe down and back away from the keyboard." Unklescott
"lambikins... I have come to the conclusion that you are the Jedi Master of the Kitchen on FORT!" SuperBrat
The judging is indeed fickle and inconsistent. But the fact of the matter is so is the fashion business. And it's TV.
I was very surprised to see the judges criticize her jet-set outfit with "can we see something else?" after she made that gorgeous outfit for Kayne's mother and the strapless dress in the recycling challenge. Plus the cute little jacket for the dog challenge. She's won me over. Not my favorite, but most of her stuff is good.
I did like Jeffrey's outfit (even if it was very Hot Topic rather than Chrome Hearts) but do you know how many men, even "jet set" men would look ridiculous in that? Uli's outfit was more versatile. She missed the mark on mixing the patterns this week though. It looked like she rooted through a box of fire sale polyester scarves to make it.


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Yotaisc, a high-tech company from Beijing, China, is exhibiting a new rotary-winged UAV on its booth (C99). The X200 employs coaxial, contrarotating rotors to reduce the footprint of its main rotor. This has the added benefit that rotor torque is eliminated, thereby negating the need for a long tailboom and tail rotor.
Control of the X200 can be accomplished completely autonomously through the HeliAP system, although there is also a manual remote-control option. The X200 has a maximum payload of 220 pounds, but there is a trade-off with fuel carriage. With a 66-pound payload the X200 can carry 176 pounds of fuel, giving a maximum hovering endurance of five hours.
As well as its UAV activities, Yotaisc also provides bird detection and clearance equipment to the Chinese market. It currently offers the DeTect Merlin bird detection radar, YXD series of directional acoustic emitters, HLQ11-10 hand-held green laser bird-scarer, and the TOM500 fixed green laser device developed by Lord Imaging in France. Last December it was announced that four TOM500s are to be installed at Kunming Airport in southwest China.


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A great looking machine from Icon- that is a common result for them. High quality parts in the right area.
This is not a club quality treadmill but it looks like it. For $1,500 some compromises still have to be made but you get quality parts in key areas. Icon has a long history of making the best looking treadmills in the business. They do cut corners to get a treadmill that looks like it should cost $3,000 selling for $1,500. With that said, you can put some serious training on this machine but it may lack some of the beefiness needed for the most serious trainers.


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AUGUSTA — A Waterville man pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated criminal trespass and two counts of assault in exchange for the state dismissing three other charges, including robbery.
Junious J. Liggins, 32, was sentenced to five years in prison, with all but 18 months suspended, and two years of probation.
Conditions of probation ban him from contact with the victims and the co-defendants in the case, and he is prohibited from possessing dangerous weapons. He also was fined $600.
Assistant District Attorney Joelle Pratt told the judge that Liggins and two other people broke into an apartment on Water Street in Waterville, pushed an occupant down and held him at knifepoint.
An affidavit by a Waterville police officer said a wallet containing $50 and a cellphone were taken. Another man, Clifford Dumont, and a 14-year-old girl were charged in connection with the same incident.
Pratt said the confrontation occurred after a series of text messages between two groups of individuals about "what they were going to do to one another."
Pratt also told Justice Thomas Humphrey that Liggins has a previous conviction for grand larceny in Virginia — for which he received a fully suspended sentence — as well as convictions for petty larceny in New York and criminal possession of marijuana in Florida for which he received "time-served" sentences.
Liggins' attorney, Stephen Bourget, asked for the fine payment to be delayed until a few months after Liggins is released from prison. Justice Thomas Humphrey agreed.
Bourget said Liggins previously had worked as a successful bloodworm digger but would be unable to return to that work for a while.
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After two weekends free of competition, Ohio Bobcats wrestling is eager to get back to competition on the mat. The 'Cats get that opportunity on Sunday when they travel to Columbia, Missouri, to take on the Missouri Tigers.
"I think we are hungry and tired of practicing," Ohio head coach Joel Greenlee said.
The dual meet will be Ohio's first Mid-American Conference matchup of the season, and it comes against a tough Tigers team that is ranked 11th in the nation by InterMat. The reigning MAC Champions and fourth-place finishers at the 2015 NCAA Championships boast eight ranked wrestlers in their lineup.
Ohio is ranked 17th nationally, and MAC coaches picked the Bobcats to finish second in the conference behind Missouri. If Ohio is going to exceed expectations, dethrone the Tigers and claim its first MAC Championship since 2001, the Bobcats know Sunday's meet is a chance to take a big step forward in that direction.
"We want to go in there and impose our will on them," Ohio 197-pounder Phil Wellington said about taking on the Tigers. "They are our first MAC dual and we want to be MAC Champs." Greenlee thinks the upcoming dual is a good test for his team—a measure to help him gauge his team's success and progress.
Last season in Athens, the Tigers defeated an Ohio lineup dealing with several injuries. Missouri led 25-6 through eight matches, and with a victory clinched, the Tigers forfeited their last two matches to win 25-18.
In 2013, the Bobcats' last trip to Columbia, Ohio took three matches from Missouri, but fell 23-10. In a 6-4 decision, Wellington handed then-freshman J'den Cox his first college loss. Cox went on to win a national championship that season, and since that loss he has beaten Wellington twice at the MAC Championships.
The two 197-pounders didn't face-off in last year's dual, but in his second trip to Missouri, Wellington is hoping to repeat his 2013 showing in front of the Tiger faithful.
I know what it takes to beat him, so I'm going to have to focus on what I do and do it well," Wellington said. "He's going to be very defensive. And I just have to focus on making deliberate shot attempts."
Wellington is currently ranked 13th, while Cox sits at second.
The meet will feature at least one more showdown between ranked grapplers. At 174 pounds, Ohio's No. 6 Cody Walters takes on Missouri's No. 9 Blaise Butler. In the 157-pound bout, the Bobcats' 19th-ranked Sparty Chino could take on ninth-ranked Joey Lavallee, but the Tigers have wrestled several wrestlers in that spot this season.
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The Duchess of Cornwall attends Booktrust's 20th anniversary
13th June 2012
The Duchess of Cornwall's skills as a storyteller were in high demand with a group of young listeners today.
Her Royal Highness's rendition of her favourite children's book was a hit with three and four-year-olds who shouted at her "again" and "again" when she had finished.
The Duchess narrated New Zealand author Lynley Dodd's Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, a story about the adventures of a hairy dog, as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Bookstart reading programme.
The Duchess is Patron of the reading and writing charity Booktrust which runs the Bookstart project which provides free books to young people.
A host of names from the world of children's literature were guests at the event celebrating the programme with famous names including BBC 6 Music presenter Lauren Laverne, singer Cerys Matthews, former children's presenter Floella Benjamin and author Margaret Drabble.
Sat amongst the youngsters from a primary school and children's centre, at the exclusive venue of Kensington's Roof Gardens in central London, The Duchess read to the hushed audience, raising and lowering her voice and putting on voices.
At the end when she closed the picture book a little boy called out "read it again" and many of the other children joined in but she had to leave to join the adults at a reception in another part of the gardens.
Lauren Laverne also read to the children and described the importance of introducing her sons, aged and four and one, to books: "My kids love books, we love reading together. It's a real pleasure reading aloud to them, there's a lot of pleasure for both of you.
"It doesn't have to be a chore, if it is you're probably reading the wrong thing."
Bookstart provides free books to babies, toddlers and three-year-olds and during the past 20 years has gifted 30 million books to parents to read to their children.
Gruffalo author and Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson was also part of the celebrations, reading a poem based around her favourite books, which included Winnie the Pooh and Jane Eyre.


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Head Football Coach Derrin Lamker announced today that Bridge Tusler has committed to UNI for football. He talked about his regard for Tusler and his impact on Osseo High School.
"UNI is getting a 3.6 gpa kid who is a leader and a stud on and off the feild. Mr. Football. Metro player of the year. Gatorade player of the year. And in my opinion one of the best citizens to come thru the doors at osseo high school."
Tusler had an existing offer from North Dakota. He had interest from Iowa State, Minnesota, Michigan and more.
He is also a talented basketball player. His Osseo squad won the State title last year and they are a top contender again this season.


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India election: From boardroom to campaign trail
One trend of India's election campaign is the number of candidates with high-level corporate backgrounds entering the political fray.
And if they are successful, it would help change the make-up of the Lok Sabha, or the lower house of India's parliament.
So what is bringing the business barons into the election battleground?
The BBC's Yogita Limaye has been on the campaign trail in Bangalore.
Watch: India Business Report
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Kristie Kintner joined the Virginia Athletics Foundation staff in June of 2002. An integral part of the Foundation's donor services program, she coordinates football and basketball parking and ticketing and serves as the liaison for individual game requests for tickets and parking. Additionally, she provides administrative support for the development team and assists with special events and donor stewardship.
Prior to joining the staff, Kintner and her husband, Nathan, moved to the Charlottesville area from Central Pennsylvania. She worked for two years as the executive assistant and CAD designer for Commonwealth Recreation, Inc., a local playground and skate park distributor. The couple has a son, Walker.
"Working with my VAF co-workers and donors. I enjoy the family-oriented dynamic the VAF has and that everyone works towards a common goal."
The 2005 football win against Florida State.
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The Board of Trustees has responsibility for the strategic direction of The Fellowship and ensures the staff team achieves the Business Plan. At least three-quarters of Board members must be people with Polio. The Board meets every two months.
Elected by our members, the Board of Trustees is responsible for the strategic direction of the charity and has the legal duty to ensure The British Polio Fellowship complies with relevant legislation.


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The information you need is always at your fingertips. Make intelligent decisions and act fast. Keep customers happy with order status.
Accept table orders and deliveries on a rock solid, stable system that's easy to use. Don't lose orders, support customer enquiries on orders and more.
Free up staff time by automating routine tasks and induce more advanced decision making. Take advantage of delivery platforms to take orders.
Manage orders in your restaurant in a clear and modern way on an iPad. 9Cookies makes the most of this powerful touch-screen. You can quickly flick between tables and orders, accept payment by cash or credit card and more.
9Cookies makes it easy to manage delivery orders. You can quickly enter phone orders as repeat customers are identified instantly using CallerID and our customer database. 9Cookies also integrates tightly with Delivery Hero so you get notified as soon as new online deliveries come in.
As soon as you assign a delivery to a driver, you can keep track of exactly where that driver is and watch them live on your iPad or laptop/PC. Never lose track of where your drivers or deliveries are at any time again.
As well as being a delivery system, 9Cookies is also a world-class touch-screen point of sale system for restaurants. Take orders, accept payments, print receipts, have different waiters log in and much more right from your iPad.
You can take orders right at the counter simply by choosing the items and then accepting the payment. 9Cookies even opens your cash drawer and prints receipts on popular receipt printers.
The Manager contains reports on all aspects of your restaurant including revenue, bestselling items and much more. Moreover, you can create and edit your menu, keep an eye on your deliveries and drivers and access your customer information.
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Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken....it's gotten decent reviews. Anyone?
Has anyone seen A LATE QUARTET?
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I saw it and couldn't get past the bizarre casting. I didn't think any of them were believable as musicians and I'm a fan of Walken, PSH and Catherine Keener.
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I saw it and liked it very much. Beautifully acted.
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Ended up going. I have a high tolerance for pretension, but I found it SO pretentiou that I was completely uninvolved.
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It's excellent.
I was shocked how overlooked it was for movie awards season, especially considering the caliber of the talent involved.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman deserves an Oscar nomination for his work in this movie -- NOT 'THE MASTER."
Catherine Keener should have a Best Supporting Actress nomination before Jacki Weaver or Amy Adams.
LATE QUARTET is a brilliant, underappreciated gem.
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Ashton on Iran nuclear deal: 'I take nothing for granted'
The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif has told the visiting EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, that a nuclear deal could come in the next four months.
Baroness Ashton told the BBC's Lyse Doucet that there was "no guarantee" her talks would lead to a comprehensive agreement, and that she took nothing for granted.
World powers want Iran to scale back its nuclear work to ensure it cannot assemble a nuclear weapon.
10 Mar 2014
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China's Oldest-Known Bone Tools Analyzed
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
BEIJING, CHINA—Seventeen bone tools recovered from Ma'anshan Cave in southern China have been analyzed by a team led by Gao Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Francesco d'Errico of the Université de Bordeaux. The oldest tools, from the cave's Stratum 6, are three awls dated to about 35,000 years ago. Six spear points, awls, and a cutting tool were found in Stratum 5, and they are an estimated 34,000 years old. The youngest of the tools, from Stratum 3, include two types of barbed points that date to between 23,000 and 18,000 years old. All of the tools were crafted by scraping and grinding. The tools from strata 5 and 3 were also polished. "Ma'anshan Cave records the oldest formal bone tools from China, and amongst the oldest known evidence of indisputable barbed point manufacture outside Africa," Zhang Shuangquan of the IVPP told Phys.org. "Change in the hunting toolkit between strata 5 and 3 may indicate a shift in prey preference from medium to small size mammals and fish, which needs to be verified by supplementary analyses," he added. To read more, go to "An Opportunity for Early Humans in China."
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Energy is an excellent hedge against inflation. Yet too often "energy" is conflated with oil. While oil may be a good investment it is by far the most expensive energy commodity. Oil prices have never been higher with the exception of their brief climb to $140+ per barrel during the middle of 2008. As of now Brent Crude trades at over $115 per barrel, just over 20% off of its all time high. West Texas Crude has underperformed Brent as of late, yet it is still only slightly more than a third off of its all time high. In this article I look at other opportunities: coal, uranium and natural gas.
The prices of these commodities are all considerably more than 50% below their respective all-time highs hit in 2008 (2007 for uranium). There are reasons for coal, uranium and natural gas underperforming oil. Yet these reasons have been known for years, and the price depreciations that have occurred appear to have played out. Furthermore, coal and uranium prices are still in long-term uptrends, while natural gas bottomed at $2.00 per MMBtu's (million British Thermal Units), which is a long-term support price going back to 2000.
The shares of their producers have generally fared far worse as their profits have plummeted or turned negative, while their counterparts in the oil industry have seen record profits and record share prices in many cases. This has created enormous opportunities for patient, contrarian investors.
The Price of Energy
The following table illustrates the fact that oil is overvalued relative to coal, uranium and natural gas:
|Assumed Price
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|17.6 MMBtu/ton
|Uranium Oxide
|180 MMBtu/lb.
|Natural Gas
(Note #1: of course this ignores the cost of extracting energy from these energy commodities once they have been mined and refined. Yet as a long-term investor I have to assume that the low prices of coal, uranium, and natural gas relative to oil will spur innovation that minimizes these costs, particularly for uranium.)
(Note #2: For coal I am using the more expensive Powder River Basin Coal (see data source). Northern Appalachia Coal is far less expensive at $2.50/MMBtu.)
The disparity in price between these four commodities relative to the energy that can be extracted from them is unsustainable, and over the next decade or two I suspect that businesses and governments will gravitate towards the cheaper energy sources I outline in this article.
In what follows I look at coal, uranium and natural gas separately and suggest a couple of investment ideas that will likely benefit from their respective price increases.
The coal industry has been a target of the Obama administration. Consequently, over the past couple of years coal prices have languished. Furthermore shares of coal producers have plummeted in value with many companies showing steep losses, or in some cases, bankruptcy. From the chart above we see that coal prices are just 20% of oil prices. So while environmental fears are bandied about in the United States, nations that view energy security as a top priority such as China will gravitate toward coal.
Unfortunately individual investors will have a difficult time buying coal directly. There is no ETF that provides direct exposure to coal prices and the futures market for coal is relatively illiquid. Thus the best way to get coal exposure is by buying coal producers. KOL is an ETF that holds several companies, including many Chinese companies. However coal companies vary greatly in terms of the value and consistency they provide, and given that the industry is having trouble turning profits I prefer to focus on individual companies that have strong balance sheets that will be able to withstand the storm should it last.
My favorite coal investment is Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ:ARLP). The company has several operations, primarily in the Illinois Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. It also has operations in Pennsylvania, Western Virginia, and Ohio. Over the next four years it plans to increase production to nearly 50 million tons, which is a 40% or so increase from current levels. While the United States may continue to reject coal as an energy source the countries of Southeast Asia will be more than happy to take it off our hands at these depressed prices, and there are plenty of rail lines near ARLPs operations that can ship the coal to the west coast so that it can reach China, Korea, Singapore…etc. by boat.
Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. has remained profitable while other American coal companies have seen enormous losses. It also pays a large dividend that currently stands at more than 7%, and has managed to increase the payout every quarter throughout the bear market in coal. The third quarter of 2012 was the only quarter that the company's dividend payout exceeded profits.
Nuclear power is by far the cheapest form of energy I discuss here, and uranium is among the cheapest assets in the world. At current uranium prices nuclear power costs less than 10% of coal and natural gas, and less than 2% of oil. Furthermore it is also the most environmentally friendly source of energy provided there are no accidents. But as we have seen, most recently with the Fukushima debacle, a single mistake can have incalculable consequences. However, unless you accept an "Armageddon" scenario, disasters such as those at Fukushima or Chernobyl provide essential learning experiences that strengthen and stabilize the industry long term.
The Fukushima incident has led to a collapse in uranium prices, and the shares of uranium companies followed suit with many falling well over 80%-90%. Many nations abandoned or postponed their nuclear reactor projects. However China, Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia all have plans to build several more nuclear power plants as they recognize the benefits that nuclear power will bring to their developing economies.
This being the case uranium is not only the cheapest source of energy, but demand exceeds supply. Currently new mine supply is roughly 145 million lbs. while demand is 175 million lbs. Furthermore, the largest uranium miner, Cameco Corporation (NYSE:CCJ) projects here that demand will be 225 million lbs. by 2021.
Investors interested in uranium who wish to avoid mining risk should consider Uranium Participation Corp. (OTCPK:URPTF), a holding company managed by Dennison Mines Corp (NYSEMKT:DNN) that simply holds uranium oxide and uranium fluoride. The company has management fees of less than 1% of its assets, and it currently trades at slightly less than its book value.
URA, the Global X Uranium Miners ETF, should provide far more upside than the metal itself, although it is subject to mining risk. The fund has fallen by more than 2/3 since the Fukushima incident and provides excellent value at current prices. If it didn't hold a large position in Cameco, which is highly profitable and pays a small dividend, then this decline would have been far steeper. While I hold some URA shares, I should note that the fund holds several small companies that are not in production yet, and I believe that, in general, such companies should be evaluated on a company by company basis.
For those interested in a speculative uranium company one of my favorites is Virginia Energy Resources Inc. (OTCPK:VEGYF). Virginia Energy has a flagship property in Virginia called Coles Hill that has more than 150 million lbs. of estimated uranium resources. It also has the Otish Basin property in Quebec, which is an exploration property, although uranium mines take 10-12 years to bring to production once deposits are discovered, so investors should not expect any cash flow from this property until well into the next decade.
Virginia Energy is a long-term investment with high risk, as the company currently has no cash flow and there is a moratorium on uranium mining in Virginia, although the company anticipates that this will be lifted by the end of the year. The reward can be substantial given that you pay less than $0.20 per pound of uranium and get the Otish Basin property for free. If the gap between the price of nuclear power and other forms of energy narrows, as I expect it will, and if Virginia Energy is able to get its Coles Hill mine into production, then this company can make fortunes for its early investors. I should note that the shares traded as high as $0.90 each just a few weeks ago, and they now trade under $0.35, so this may be an excellent buying opportunity.
Natural Gas
Of the commodities I discuss in this article natural gas is my least favorite, and I currently hold no natural gas position. While the price declines in coal and uranium are due to political issues, natural gas has seen an enormous supply glut. Nevertheless natural gas is still much cheaper than oil on a cost per MMBtu basis, and it is cheap relative to production costs in many instances, which will provide enormous leverage to shares of producers should natural gas prices rise. We may see prices rise (normalize) given that natural gas can be liquefied (condensed) and shipped to places where the price is higher than it is in the United States. Natural gas has one advantage over coal and uranium that I should note, namely that it is perceived to be the most environmentally friendly by many (although there is speculation hydraulic fracturing [i.e. "fracking"], the new method of extracting natural gas, causes earthquakes).
Investing purely in natural gas is difficult because often oil and natural gas are found together. The First Trust ISE Revere Natural Gas ETF, FCG, invests in companies that have significant exposure to natural gas. So does the Van Eck Global Unconventional Oil and Gas ETF: FRAK. There are also ETFs and ETNs that track the commodity--UNG and GAZ--however they have failed to track the price of natural gas due to the fact that they must roll over their futures contracts, which trade in contango. DCNG is an ETN that attempts to overcome this issue, although it has only been minimally successful.
Every portfolio should include some exposure to energy. Yet, as I hope I have made clear, not all energy investments are created equal, and the difference can be one of several hundreds or even thousands of percentage points in returns. Thus while it may be simple to just buy Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) or the Select Sector Spiders Energy ETF: XLE, investors who dig a little deeper and who are willing to withstand potential short-term pain will be mightily rewarded.
Disclosure: I am long ARLP, OTCPK:URPTF, URA. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
Additional disclosure: I am long VEGYF.PK, which is currently not in Seeking Alpha's system.


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New parents are given little information on bottle-feeding and could often be getting it wrong, researchers have said.
Mistakes in the concentration of formula and timing of feeds are common, according to the new report. This can lead to overfeeding, which can cause obesity, or babies not getting enough milk.
"Mothers who bottle-fed their babies experienced negative emotions such as guilt, anger, worry, uncertainty and a sense of failure," said the study. "Mothers reported receiving little information on bottle feeding and did not feel empowered to make decisions. "Mistakes in preparation of bottle feeds were common."
This all rings true in my experience. All new mothers have it drummed into them that breast is best. I was shown videos and given leaflets about breastfeeding until they were coming out of my ears. But I haven't got a clue how to prepare a bottle.
Apparently demonstrations on how to prepare bottle feeds are prohibited from antenatal classes, in case they encourage mothers down the "wrong path". I have friends who were berated by their health visitors for stopping breastfeeding even though they were being chewed to pieces by their babies.
I know why breastfeeding is so good but if it's not possible, surely more should be done to help mothers with the alternative, and not just make them feel bad about it?


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OLIVIA Bannon completed the unique achievement of a hole in one at the Broome Manor Tiny Tigers course recently.
The 10-year-old junior member carded her ace at the 73-yard seventh hole on the junior specific course at Broome.
Using a nine iron and aiming straight at the pin Bannon cleared the bunker at the front of the green and off two bounces watched her ball roll into the cup.
Lee Hayward, who coaches Bannon in his advanced junior coaching group, thought his charge deserved her unique feat because of her work ethic and practice she puts in.
"Olivia is a hard working and very enthusiastic youngster who loves to play and practice and is always playing in Broome's competition and supporting events. She is a pleasure to teach and deserves credit for her hole in one.
"It's amazing really, there's only been two that have holes in one I've known since I started coaching here a few years ago. You don't get many holes in one, you see tour players going years without one, so it's a unique achievement.
"Olivia hits the ball very straight, she's very in control of her game, she's one of the ones who rarely misses fairways. She's certainly one to watch for the future, she's getting her handicap down all the time."


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Australia Car
Australian Car Repair Issues? Ask an Auto Mechanic for Answers ASAP
Hello and welcome to Just Answer
There are two things on the EF that cause this
1. is the inhibitor switch or gear position switch - it tells the computer what gear you are in as well as preventing starting in gear. If it is faulty the ecu doesn't know what to do.
2. Is the Throttle position switch, if this is faulty the computer drops into kickdown and flares the engine or drops into limp mode.
Thats the most common causes in my experience. I imagine the new gearbox came with a gear position switch fitted so I'd go for the throttle position switch (TPS)
Mechanic Martyn
Hello again
4000 rpm is still very high even with the power option in.
I have an EF and an AU and worked on countless falcons. I have never experienced gear changes that high unless the throttle was very hard depressed.
If you are only on half throttle the changes should occur much earlier.
This may get better with a bit of driving with one driver as the computer learns the driving style of that driver.
After the gearbox change it will be a relearn but this usually takes only around 30 to 50kms.
Ok this usually indicates a problem with the information getting from the TPS to the ecu and down to the transmission. It can be a TPS (throttle position switch) problem.
In which case remove the wiring plug on the TPS and spray the contacts with a contact cleaner - this may help but if the TPS is faulty it will need replacing.
OR - It could be an ECU problem - can be replacd with a second hand one but ...
TRY checking the harness down to the gearbox, give every connection a wriggle and a open and clean, a loss of even a tiny voltage over a dirty connection can cause problems.
Check that plug into the gearshift position switch again.
Try going for a drive with the TPS disconnected if its the same then that will be the cause. Under $100 on ebay.


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By JEFF RUSS
T-G Staff Writer
One newcomer and two incumbents won Ashland City Council races Tuesday.
Incumbent Bob Valentine Jr. will continue to represent Ward 2 as he defeated challenger John Chorpening by 201 votes, 670-469.
Sandra Hedlund Tunnell won the Ward 4 seat by almost 200 votes, 415-192, over Fred Pryor. Write-candidates -- Howard Scanlan, James Burdine and Tina Kiplinger -- received 24 votes among them.
All vote totals are unofficial.
In Ward 3, incumbent Ruth Detrow won an uncontested race.
Tunnell takes over for Paul Wertz, who decided to step down after 24 years on council. After the result came in, Tunnell said she wanted to thank all the voters and was excited to be elected.
"I've made my ideas pretty clear, and I want to continue the work that economic development started," she said. "We need to be bold and go out there and make Ashland special."
Tunnell, 36, 376 Sandusky St., recently became a stay-at-home mother to her infant daughter. Prior to that, she was bank manager at First Merit Bank and Woodforest National Bank. She said she plans to talk to Wertz before taking office.
Valentine, 52, 1126 W. Main St., will serve his second term on Ashland City Council. He said he wanted to thank the voters for their support and he will continue to do the job to the best of his ability.
"I learned a lot the first four years, and I hope to learn a lot more the next four years," he said. "I appreciate the people who let me use a piece of their land for signs, and I must have done enough to get back in."
Ashland mayor Glen Stewart received 4,020 votes in an uncontested races.
n Jeff Russ can be reached at 419-281-0581, ext. 237, or email@example.com.


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Watching TV in South Dakota
Here at CableTV.com, we find South Dakota cable TV fascinating. Here's why. DVR use in the U.S. is growing, but only 7% of the population uses a DVR for the majority of the shows. And while 97% of people still watch traditional television there are now 48% who stream some TV programs online. In South Dakota, that's roughly 669,808 who watch regularly broadcast television. Many of those people are two screeners, though, since South Dakota has 387,359 online video streamers.


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I Need Help With This Cake....please...!
Decorating By KeltoKel Updated 23 Dec 2008 , 3:02pm by IcedTea4Me2
The cake says - WELCOME BABY BROSEKER
The clothes are on the word BABY.
It really doesn't look that light in person.
maybe add some pink and yellow flowers in the grass.
what about adding some flowers in the grass to brighten it up a bit?
what about adding more color to the writing. im sorry i can't really see it to know what color it is
I think it looks cute but it does look alittle boyish with all the blue background. maybe put some tiny drop flowers in the grass or something
Flowers....great idea! Reds and purples!!!!
Maybe even a red ladybug.
You guys are the best.
Ok, the writing on this cake right now is just plain white, like the clouds.
What if I changed the writing to a light green or pale pink? Would writing in pink make it too girlie then?
Thanks again.
Light green is a nice genger neutral color for shower cakes. So is yellow. Maybe some yellow flowers along the border or in the grass? Cute cake btw!!
I'd a big yellow sun at the top! That would brighten it up! And ditto on the flowers, maybe pink and purple or yellow?
*I'd DO a big yellow sun. Sorry, that's what happens when you are distracted/screwing around at work. lol
Thanks everyone. I posted the cake and went with the lighter green and flowers. I think it worked!
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found a new home!
Plenty of my friends are looking
for one too. Find a pet to adopt.
I am already neutered, up to date with shots, good with kids, and good with cats.
They can be adopted as a trio, two as a pair or to a home with another cat to play with.
Augie is a silver tabby, Firefly is a torbie (Tabby/Tortoisesehll-mix) and Snowdude is a blue-eyed flame point Siamese-mix.
These kittens love to eat, play and snuggle with each other and with their people.
The kittens are healthy, neutered/spayed, micro-chipped, de-wormed and vaccinated for rabies and distemper. Their adoption fee of $125 each benefits the rescued dogs and cats of FCACC. To meet and possibly adopt any of these kittens, please contact their foster mom Kathy at email@example.com for an adoption application. They are being fostered in the Beverly neighborhood of Chicago.
Augie, a Chicago Domestic Shorthair kitten was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Domestic Shorthair for sale in Chicago, or seeking a Domestic Shorthair kitten from a breeder in Chicago.


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Beau Casper Smart is speaking out after a second transgender model claimed she had a tryst with Jennifer Lopez's ex-boyfriend before he and J.Lo broke up.
In an exclusive statement to Access Hollywood on Sunday, the choreographer/actor said new claims made by Xristina Marie to The Sun newspaper are false.
"There is no truth to any meeting or physical encounter," Casper told Access. "I am weighing my options on the appropriate action to take against Xhristina Marie and/or The Sun."
PHOTOS: Jennifer Lopez's Loves Over The Years: On-Screen & Off!
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, although news of Jennifer and Casper's split was confirmed on Friday, their relationship has actually been over for close to two months.
One of the rumors regarding the cause of the couple's split involved transsexual bikini model Sofie Vissa, who claims she exchanged racy photos via text and social media with Casper – a claim which Casper denies, according to a source close to the dancer.
PHOTOS: Hot Shots Of Jennifer Lopez
"Casper does not know this person, has never met this person, has never seen this person and most importantly never has communicated with this person via direct message or in any other manner," the source told Access on Friday. " [The] Vissa relationship does not exist, never has and is a complete fabrication."
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UNDATED (AP)— Ryan Braun is admitting taking performance-enhancing drugs during his NL MVP season of 2011.
The suspended Milwaukee slugger says in a statement released by the Brewers that he took a cream and a lozenge containing banned substances while rehabilitating an injury.
Braun says, "It was a huge mistake for which I am deeply ashamed and I compounded the situation by not admitting my mistakes immediately."
Braun tested positive for elevated testosterone in October 2011. But his 50-game suspension was overturned when an arbitrator ruled that the urine sample was mishandled.
Braun apologized to the collector of the urine sample, his teammates and Commissioner Bud Selig, saying: ""I have no one to blame but myself."
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Neiman Marcus
The cybersecurity threat is real … so commit
Just because an organization lacks credit card numbers or bank account numbers does not mean that it is not a viable target for cyberattacks.
The top 5 largest cyberbreaches of 2014 (for now)
The year 2014 has seen some of the largest breaches to date, and here we'll run down the details of the five incidents that compromised the most data – at least so far.
GM names first cybersecurity officer
Perhaps trying to inoculate itself from such issues, General Motors on Sept. 24 announced that it has selected its first cybersecurity chief.
Home Depot investigating potential data breach
Home Depot announced on Sept. 2 that it was looking into "unusual activity" that could indicate a possible breach of customer credit card and debit card data.
Uncharted territory
Many state attorneys general are beginning to expand their views into completely new territories. Some of these areas reflect inquiries made by federal agencies, while others represent a direct response to local concerns.
Can your lawyer keep a secret?
With increased investment in cybersecurity as a strategic imperative, the second and more fundamental issue to address is the cultural change that comes with a secure environment.
Inadequate data breach preparation, response should lead to removing 70 percent of directors at Target says ISS
Proxy adviser suggestion to remove seven of 10 directors at Target, in response to massive data breach, sends reminder to other boards to be prepared.
New tool launched in an effort to stave off data breaches
A new tool has been created which can help to identify, and even avoid, major merchants and hotels who have exposed credit and debit cards and other personal information to hackers.
Bank pulls out of class-action lawsuit against retail giant Target
The class-action lawsuit from two banks surrounding retail giant Target's data breach experienced a bizarre twist as New York-based Trustmark National Bank backed out of the suit, claiming it was baseless.
5 of the strangest lawsuits making headlines
Teller's greatest trick, a too-popular firing range, and three more strange suits in the news


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After having to spend two years at Missionary boarding school (high school age) one of the issues my theological instructors were absolutely adamant about was interpretation of Revelations. It was maintained and firmly pounded in that this book was NOT to be interpreted at all, nor dissected. The warning we were taught was in the last chapter (I've only included the two phrases involved):
........if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.
..........If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life,
I'm not of this religion (and so what I determined to be a kind of exile at this school was extremely uncomfortable), yet studying the Christian Bible was interesting, full of magic, fantasy, intrigue, dubious historical data, murder, rape, incest, and enlightenment ... all the stuff that opens the imagination of all humans.
I can tell you, however, that the instructed advisement of this particular book was taken to heart since it does generate an ever-flowing fertile field of hoaxes.
My answer is 'no'. We're all globally too terrified of nuclear war because the stuff would come back to annihilate even the button-pusher!


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Tax volunteers ready
Mahube Community Council will begin taking appointments for free tax preparation sessions staring Wednesday, Jan. 19.
But those who plan to take advantage of the services can't start filing until Jan. 31 and everyone is encouraged to wait until they're ready with all of their documents and forms.
Karen Lenius, Mahube senior program director and the Tax Aide program coordinator, said 13 volunteers will be filing tax returns this year in Becker County.
The program is sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons (AARP), which first began in Becker County in the mid 1980s.
"The focus is to help low- to moderate-income taxpayers with particular attention to elder clients," Lenius said.
There are no strict income guidelines, though, so individuals and families who consider themselves low to moderate income are eligible, she said, adding that about 80 to 85 percent of the local population is qualified.
Volunteers began training last week and have put in 40 hours to become certified in basic, intermediate and advanced levels.
"These guys are very good about what they know about taxes," Lenius said of the volunteers.
The Tax Aide program is offered in Becker, Mahnomen and Hubbard counties. Last year, 2,004 returns were filed electronically with volunteers working 4,021 hours.
Volunteer John Downs, of Detroit Lakes, has been filing taxes with Tax Aide for 25 years. He said he enjoys helping the elderly and the low-income population.
"Especially when most people I work with are on Social Security and they don't have much money," he said. "When they get a little money back, they appreciate it."
Last year, Becker and Mahnomen county residents received about $1.4 million in refunds. Lenius said many of the clients may not be aware of the credits they're eligible for and end up with a surprise chunk in the end.
Volunteers will be done training this week and ready to work 60-hour weeks by the end of the month. To make an appointment with the Tax Aide program, call Mahube at 218-847-1385. Appointments last about 50 minutes.
Volunteers will be at Mahube Community Council Jan. 31 through April. 18 Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Appointments will also be taken for evening and Saturday sessions at the Detroit Lakes Library starting Feb. 1 through April 14.
Everyone is asked to bring Social Security numbers for all family members included on the tax return. If you are receiving social security benefits, you must bring the form SSA 1099 that you received this month indicating the total social security benefits for 2010.


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In an extraordinary outburst, Ferrari has labelled Stefan GP 'vultures' and blamed the poor state of some of the F1 2010 new arrivals on Max Mosley's 'holy war' against the manufacturers.
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Not always regarded for its diplomacy and tact when it comes to political matters in F1, less than three weeks from the beginning of the 2010 world championship campaign, Ferrari has launched a stinging attack on the lamentable state of some of the newcomers set to swell the grand prix starting grid this year - the product, the Scuderia contends, of former FIA President Max Mosley's 'holy war' that drove half of the manufacturers out of the sport.
F1 will celebrate its 60th birthday in 2010, but it is a very different-looking field to that which lined up 24 or even twelve months ago, with Honda, BMW and Toyota having all since departed the fray and Renault having sold out a majority 75 per cent stake in its Enstone-based outfit to Luxembourg investment firm Genii Capital.
Whilst the manufacturers in question left for varying reasons, Ferrari claims that behind all of their withdrawals was the hell-bent determination of Mosley to implement a controversial and ill-conceived ?40 million budget cap on every competitor from this season onwards - a move that was subsequently postponed until 2012 in response to fierce criticism and opposition from within the top flight, albeit coming too late to prevent Honda, BMW and Toyota from walking away.
In their stead have arrived a host of new challengers, with Lotus F1, Virgin Racing, Campos Meta 1 and USF1 confirmed on the entry list - and Serbian hopeful Stefan GP waiting patiently and expectantly in the wings should any of them falter.
The most likely to fail to make the grade are incontrovertibly Campos - which late last week was taken over by majority stakeholder Jos? Ram?n Carabante [see separate story - click here] after falling significantly behind on its payments to chassis-builder Dallara, leading to a costly halt in construction - and USF1, which remains in all sorts of financial difficulty with mooted sponsors pulling the plug and the North Carolina-based concern having applied to the sport's governing body requesting to be permitted to skip the opening four grands prix as it continues to try to make the grid.
Neither Campos nor USF1 has yet to turn a wheel in anger - and neither is likely even to do so until the practice day for the curtain-raising Bahrain Grand Prix at Sakhir on 12 March, if indeed they make it that far in the first place. It is a sorry story, Ferrari opines - and the Prancing Horse leaves little doubt as to who it believes is the guilty author.
'For many of the teams, this coming week is a crucial one, as the bell rings to signal the final lap, with the last test session getting underway in Barcelona,' reads a special 'Horse Whisperer' feature on the famous Maranello-based outfit's website. 'It is one last chance to run the cars on-track, to push reliability to the limit and to try and find some performance. That's the situation for many teams, but not for all of them.
'Of the 13 teams who signed up - or were induced to sign up - for this year's championship, to-date only eleven of them have heeded the call, turning up on-track, some later than others, and while some have managed just a few hundred kilometres, others have done more, but at a much-reduced pace.
'As for the twelfth team, Campos Meta 1, its shareholder and management structure has been transformed, according to rumours which have reached the Horse Whisperer through the paddock telegraph, with a sudden cash injection from a munificent white knight, well-used to this sort of last-minute rescue deal. However, the beneficiaries of this generosity might find the knight in question expects them to fulfil the role of loyal vassal. All this means it is hard to imagine the Dallara-designed car showing its face at the Catalunya Circuit, with Sakhir a more likely venue to witness the return of the Senna name to a Formula 1 session.
'The 13th team, USF1, appears to have gone into hiding in Charlotte, North Carolina, to the dismay of those like the Argentine, [Jos? Mar?a] L?pez, who thought he had found his way into the Formula 1 paddock (albeit with help from chairwoman Kirchner, according to the rumours) and now has to start all over again. Amazingly, they still have the impudence to claim that everything is hunky-dory under the starry stripy sky.
'Next, we have the Serbian vultures. Firstly, they launched themselves into a quixotic legal battle with the FIA, then they picked the bones off Toyota on its death-bed. Having got some people on-board, around whom there was still a whiff of past scandals, they are now hovering around waiting to replace whoever is first to drop out of the game, possibly with backing from that very same knight in shining armour whom we mentioned earlier.
'This is the legacy of the holy war waged by the former FIA President. The cause in question was to allow smaller teams to get into Formula 1. This is the outcome - two teams will limp into the start of the championship, a third is being pushed into the ring by an invisible hand and, as for the fourth, well, you would do better to call on Missing Persons to locate it. In the meantime, we have lost two constructors along the way, in the shape of BMW and Toyota, while at Renault, there's not much left other than the name. Was it all worth it?'


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An editorial by Ricardo Radulovich strongly advocates using seaweed, macro-algae, to solve our energy issues.
Until now, seaweed has been valued mainly as food, but also as fertiliser, animal feed, and recently for a growing phycocolloid industry producing algin, agar and carrageenan. But it could also be a major fuel.
Macro-algae (seaweeds) are cultivated at sea, mainly by simply tying them to anchored floating lines. Seaweeds do not require soil, and are already provided with all the water they need, a major advantage over land production of biofuels since water is the most limiting factor for most agricultural expansion, especially with climate change.
We have calculated that less than three per cent of the world's oceans — that's about 20 per cent of the land area currently used in agriculture — would be needed to fully substitute for fossil fuels.
In March, 2007, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, the Mitsubishi Research Institute, and several companies announced a project to develop bioethanol from seaweed. The plan is to cultivate Sargasso seaweed in an area covering 3,860 square miles in the Sea of Japan. This will be harvested and dissolved into ethanol aboard ships, which will carry the biofuel to a tanker. The process is expected to yield 5 billion gallons of bioethanol in 3-5 years. [equal to about 326,000 barrels of oil per day or one percent of OPEC oil production]
The Japanese seaweed fuel project would put Japan in the range of Brazils biofuel output levels. Brazil and the United States are the current world leaders in biofuel production (Brazil uses sugarcane and the US mostly uses corn and soybeans) The USA and Brazil produce about 70% of the worlds biofuel.
Currently about eight million or so tonnes of seaweed are produced each year, with a market of nearly $6 billion, primarily China, Japan and Korea. The seaweed is grown for food.
Indonesia harvested 1,079,850 tons of seaweed in 2006 but is expected to reach 1.9 million tons in 2009. In September, South Korea's government signed a deal to lease 25,000 hectares (61,750 acres or about 90 square miles) of Indonesian coastal waters to grow seaweed for bioethanol fuel.
Italy is looking at seaweed biofuel.
Fungus Produces Diesel
A fungus has been discovered in the rainforest which could be used to produce biodiesel.
Biofuel news
Camelina (a weed that can grow in colder climates)biofuel feedstock.
Top five cultivated seaweeds in the world are Laminaria, Porphyra, Undaria, Eucheuma and Gracilari. These together account for 5.97 million metric tonnes of seaweed production. Top 10 countries…


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Post-Game Quotes: Game 3 of NCAA Baseball Championships
June 14, 2010
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Austin Super Regional TCU 4, Texas 1 UFCU Disch-Falk Field
TCU Head Coach Jim Schlossnagle
Opening Statement:
On the atmosphere at Texas: I thought we were an Omaha team and I said to myself that I thought I was going to be sick if this team doesn't play in Omaha simply because we're playing another team that belongs in Omaha - that being Texas in a place that is really, really hard to win.
On what they can accomplish in Omaha: With our pitching and the fact that you don't have to play every day, I think we can do a lot of things. I haven't seen UCLA or Arizona State in person, but a lot of the other teams I know a lot about and I really don't think we're going to see as good as pitching in Omaha as we've seen here. There's going to be no pitcher in Omaha better than Taylor Jungmann or a closer better than Chance Ruffin. That's no disrespect to the other teams that are going to be there, but it's a shame that Texas and TCU have to play when I think Texas and TCU are two of the top eight teams.
TCU CF Aaron Schultz
On making it to Omaha: Obviously, we want to win our conference and the regional, but going to Omaha is our ultimate goal. To finally reach Omaha for the first time in school history is awesome for me, my teammates, and the TCU community. I'm just trying to soak it all in.
On his over the shoulder catch in center field: I was so pumped up from my home run. I felt like a million bucks out there even though my body was so worn down from the season. During that inning I just knew that a ball was going to be hit to me and when that one was hit I just took off running. I got a good jump on it and I felt like I was flying out there.
TCU RHP Kyle Winkler
On the benefit of being third in the rotation: I noticed that when our other pitchers got behind, Texas started to get most of their hits. My biggest key for today was to try and keep the ball down and get ahead of hitters. As long as you get ahead of any good team you can get them guessing a little bit.
Texas Coach Augie Garrido
Opening Statement: It's always difficult to deal with the unexpected. First of all, I think TCU had to beat us. I thought we played with pride. I thought we played hard. I thought we played with confidence. And I didn't feel like a sense of letdown or complacency. What we saw was a game between two evenly matched teams. The separation could come to the lack of timely hits. I think we left eight runners on in scoring position. And they hit a couple home runs that no one else has been able to do so we have to give them credit for that. These teams could play 100 games and it would be 50-50. They matched Brandon's (Workman) pitching performance with their own. They made some great defensive plays, which it took to keep the innings under control. So it's a devastating, heart-wrenching experience for the Longhorns and we certainly had our share of victories but now we have to respect the championship game for what it was. It was a game that TCU did what they had to do in a timely fashion.
On the team's attitude after the game: We're extremely disappointed. This is what I'm talking about when I say that it is a cruel game. This is one of those moments where it is absolutely heart breaking and gut wrenching. The thing you want to take from it is, 'what can we do next time around so this doesn't happen to us again?' You have to learn from these kinds of bitter failures. You have to put some values to them or else all they do is destroy you.
Texas 3B Kevin Lusson
On facing TCU RHP Kyle Winkler: We saw some film on him and we knew what kind of stuff he had. He had his cutter today. I feel like we took a lot of good at-bats, we didn't swing at many bad pitches. We hit the ball right at people. Like Coach (Garrido) says, it wasn't meant to be.
Texas RHP Chance Ruffin
On giving up a two-run home run: He (TCU CF Aaron Schultz) did a good job of battling. I had a 2-2 count and I thought I had to get one over the plate because I didn't want to walk another guy. I brought a slider down and in. It caught too much of the plate and he capitalized on it and did a good job of hitting it.
On his feelings after the game: I can't even find the words to describe it.
It's like a bad dream. You really wish you could have it back and do it all
over again. It's just an indescribable bad feeling.
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Excerpt From God's Gift of Perfection Series
Chapter 24—Part 2
"Let patience have its perfect work." We are so often impatient with ourselves, not content to trust God to do His work, that we hinder, just when we want to hurry on His work. We are impatient with God. Instead of the adoring trust of Him, the God of peace, who is perfecting us, we worry ourselves because we do not see what we had thought out for ourselves. "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him" (Psalm 37:7) is the law of faith, not only in times of abundance, but especially in the path of perfection. Faith is the law of the Christian life to an extent that very few realize. The assurance that rests in the unseen power that is working out its Holy Purpose will never be disappointed. As it has been said of an elderly saint,
"She was sure that, however long any soul might have to continue in the path of humiliation, with self-emptying, the end, with all who were faithful, would one day be a filling to overflowing of all their inward being with the presence of the Holy One."
"Let patience have its perfect work." This is the command. To those who obey it, the potential offered is certain, "that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing." How words are heaped up to make us feel what the aim and expectation of the believer ought to be! Perfect, something finished, that satisfies its purpose; entire, that in which every part is in its place; and lacking in nothing, just all that the Father expects: such is the Christian character as God's Spirit sets it before us. There is a perfection which the Christian is to regard as his duty and his life. Where patience has its perfect work, it will bring forth what the farmer longs for—fruit unto perfection. "God's work in man is the man. If God's teaching by patience has a perfect work in you, you are perfect."
But where there is to be this perfect fruit, there must first be the perfect seed. And that seed is the perfect heart. Without this, from what source could patience have its perfect work? With this, every trial, every difficulty, every failure even, is accepted as God's training school, and God is trusted as the Faithful One, who is perfecting His own work. Let there be first the perfect heart—that will lead to perfect patience, and that again to the fully perfected man.
Jesus Christ was Himself not perfected in one day: it took time; in Him patience had its perfect work. True faith recognizes the need of time, and rests in God. And time to us means days and years. Let us learn each day to renew the vow: "This day I will live for God as perfectly as His grace will enable me. This day I will, in the patience of hope, trust the God of all grace, who Himself is perfecting me. This day I will be perfect and entire, lacking nothing." With such a vow renewed day by day, with faith in Christ who has perfected us, and God who is perfecting us, patience will do its perfect work. And we will be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.
Previously Perfect Patience—Part 1


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I'm 14 and I really, really, really hate my receding chin. I've already had my bite fixed, with help from an orthodontist. I'm still young but I don't think it will come out anymore that it has already. Plus, I have a square-shaped face, and it looks funny. I've considered chin augmentation but it costs a lot. If that's the only option, I will. What should I do?
How to Correct a Receding Chin of a 14-year-old?
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Weak chin in a 14 year old.
Braces to correct your bite may have only fixed a symptom.
Retrognathia often requires what is called a "sliding genioplasty" to lengthen the entire jaw, not just the chin.
Often this will require a new period of braces which initially will make your bite worse, but it is in preparation to move your jaw forward, correcting your chin in the process.
Talk with an Oral Surgeon who specialized in orthognathic surgery.
Learn more: http://www.coastalcosmetic.com/
Receding Chin for Adolescent
Without photos and an exam it is impossible to give you accurate advice. It is possible that you will get some correction naturally due to your young age. If this does not occur in the next few years a chin augmentation is a relatively simple procedure successful for most patients but depending on the nature of your chin absence of projection, an othognathic surgery called a sliding genioplasty may be indicated after orthodontics
Options to make your chin larger
If your teeth are in alignment than jaw surgery to move your teeth may not be necessary. If your teeth are not in alignment than you may need to have jaw surgery to move your teeth and jaw. In either case, sometimes the chin bone can be cut and slid forward to make it appear larger. Alternatively, you can have a chin implant made form your own tissues or foregn materials. Prices will vary tremendously.
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Options include genioplasty, chin implant, orthognathic surgery
It all depends on your bite.
Edward Angle was the first to classify malocclusion. He based his classifications on the relative position of the maxillary first molar. The mesiobuccal cusp of the upper first molar should rest on the mesiobuccal groove of the mandibular first molar.
* Class I: Here the molar relationship of the occlusion is normal or as described for the maxillary first molar, but the other teeth have problems like spacing, crowding, over or under eruption, etc.
* Class II: (retrognathism, "overbite") In this situation, the upper molars are placed not in the mesiobuccal groove but anteriorly to it. Usually the mesiobuccal cusp rests in between the first mandibular molars and second premolars. There are two subtypes:
o Class II Division 1: The molar relationships are like that of Class II and the anterior teeth are protruded.
o Class II Division 2: The molar relationships are class II but the central are retroclined and the lateral teeth are seen overlapping the centrals.
* Class III: (prognathism, "underbite" or "negative overjet") is when the lower front teeth are more prominent than the upper front teeth. In this case the patient has very often a large mandible or a short maxillary bone.
If you have malocclusion, orthognathic surgery could improve your chin position especially if you have a class 2 occlusion where the top jaw is more anterior than the bottom. Correcting this can project your chin forward.
If you have a Class one occlusion, and your chin is still posteriorly situated you have what is called retrogenia or microgenia, a chin implant could improve the appearance of your chin. Sometimes, correcting a malocclusion can still leave you with a small chin and an implant may still be needed. Genioplasty is the actual movement of the bone in a forward and inferior direction to increase the chin size vertically and horizontally.
Chin implants can only increase the vertical dimension approximately 2mm anymore usually has traditionally required a genioplasty. Although there are custom implants that can give you more vertical height of your chin. Genioplasty is a significant surgery and many people feel it is more work than worth the recovery. Chin implant recovery is much less than a genioplasty in most hands.
You should come in to discuss this with someone qualified to consult you about this.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Technical Article => Business => Business
9 fields platform companies need to fight for
If you are person reading technology news much, you will find a large part of the tech news are about a few companies : Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, in which the first four are today's "Big Four (platform)" as said by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt.
These giants have both competition and cooperation in many areas, and each has its own place in the world, with Schmidt's words, Google dominates search, Apple designs device, Amazon occupies e-commerce and Facebook leads social. Although he did not talk about Microsoft (because he has kicked Microsoft out of the four major platforms), we defer to define it as Microsoft defines PC.
However, over time, these giants are no longer satisfied with just sticking to their own piece of territory, they have begun to expand in all directions in order to enrich their own territories. This evolution trend towards the direction of integration of software and hardware is more and more obvious There are 9 fields which these giants will fight for in the future :
- Smartphone
- Tablet PC
- Social network
- Search
- Map
- Video(TV+Movie)
- Music
- Publishing
- Cloud service
Google involves in almost all these 9 fields. Search, maps, video and cloud services are its core competitiveness, it also has a very big advantage in smart phones and tablet PCs because of Android. Apple touches all other fields except search and social network. All other fields are the current focus of Apple, among them, tablet PC, smart phones, music and publishing are its core, the map is likely to become Apple's most important product in the future although the current Apple map has many problems.
Amazon was considered as just an e-commerce company, it now appeares as not just an e-commerce company but a technology giant. Cloud services, publishing and music have become its core, It also involves in tablet PC with its Kindle reader, Also it is likely to touch the map field through cooperation with Nokia, and now there are news that Amazon will soon launch its own smart phone. In search, even though there is no mass search service targeted to public, Amazon's e-commerce is a search engine in its own.
Microsoft involves in all other areas except publishing, Despite it's a bit late for them to get in tablet and social, but it has begun to invest heavily in these areas, especially tablet.
Now the weakest among them may be Facebook, now its main area is still social, but there was news that Facebook wouldl launch its own mobile phone, although it was later denied by Zuckerberg, he still stressed the importance of mobile experience. 1 billion monthly active users allowes Facebook to have more room for expansion. The honeymoon cooperation with Apple makes up for its lack of mobile and hardware experience.
Overall, the integration of software and hardware has become a very clear trend, and this can be seen from the success of Apple and the intervention of Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Today, the software industry's prosperity is likely to some extent contribute to the revival of the hardware industry. Now electronic products are not only simple hardware any more, but the integrated product of the software and special hardware.
The most successful companies in the future will have excellent software embedded in the unique hardware to achieve a seamless effect. This mode will appear in more and more fields, the pure hardware or software company will be difficult to compete in the future market.The above 9 fields are necessities for success of this model
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Three Views Of Digital PreservationWednesday, February 5th, 2014
I worked on a large inventory project with a group of media production units in the Department of Defense a few years ago. We were at one of the storage facilities and a shipment of albums that had been on a base in Spain came in that day. As we were opening one of the couch-sized boxes to get an es