text: This Italian speciality, that originates from the northern Italian province of Lombardy, is crusty and has a marvellously light crumb structure. It is made with olive oil, which gives it a Mediterranean flavour and a soft, delicate texture. In 1982 a small band of dedicated flour experts got together to talk about dough. One of them, Arnoldi Cavallari, a miller in his late forties became especially excited. For years, Rome could only look on in horror as large-scale baguette imports from France threatened to monopolize the lucrative Italian sandwich industry. It was time to hit back with an equally commercially viable product. That's how Cavallari came up with the Ciabatta Polesano. It was hailed as the bread that saved Italy, and since then it has rocked the sandwich world.


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Before you rev up your RV's motor and hit the road, make sure your mobile kitchen is ready for the trip. These tips reduce the risk of meal mishaps as you travel highways and byways.

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Alumnus earns local newspaper's Reader's Choice award for Best Teacher
March 04, 2011
Sandy High School
From his entertaining delivery of information to his contagious passion for nature, alumnus and teacher Andrew Wex has inspired his students to love learning. Wex M.A.T. '05 earned a Reader's Choice Award for Best Teacher in a contest sponsored by his local newspaper, The Sandy Post.
Wex has taught science at Sandy High School for six years and accidentally came to teaching after working as a security guard at a school and discovering he had a knack with youth.
Sandy High senior Sam Loos told The Sandy Post that Wex has earned the support and admiration of his students not only for being fun, but also for being "dedicated" to his work.
"Wex is more than willing to go beyond the curriculum just to teach us all about something he loves," Loos said. "He's really more of a friend, more of a mentor, more than just a teacher."
Read the full article to see what other students and colleagues had to say about Wex and his passion for teaching.


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AUSTIN, Texas - The storybook ending didn't have another chapter or two like he would have preferred, but coach Bob Thomason was at peace with the finality Pacific's NCAA Tournament loss to Miami provided.
AUSTIN, Texas - The storybook ending didn't have another chapter or two like he would have preferred, but coach Bob Thomason was at peace with the finality Pacific's NCAA Tournament loss to Miami provided.
After 25 years, Thomason is no longer the Pacific men's basketball coach, a decision he announced in May and one that became a reality when the final buzzer sounded in Pacific's 78-49 loss to Miami in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday afternoon. The Pacific faction in the crowd chanted "Thanks, Coach T" in the final minute and gave him a standing ovation. While that was going on, Thomason was still coaching.
"I was mad with a minute to go wondering why Tim (Thomas) was bellying up at the side on defense instead of chesting up," Thomason said. "You just coach to the end. There's no sentiment because I got through all that last May. You move on, and I'm looking forward to it."
Thomason will remain a Tiger at heart. He has been one since 1967, when he became a freshman guard at Pacific for coach Dick Edwards. Thomason's playing career also ended in the NCAA Tournament in 1971, with the Tigers falling 78-65 to Long Beach State. Thomason has been a part of six of Pacific's nine NCAA Tournament trips.
"Coach Thomason has been a wonderful part of the university," Pacific President Pamela Eibeck said. "He developed a basketball program that we are so very proud of and it came to epitomize the values of the university. We will miss him and we're sad to see this era come to an end."
Thomason had a long coaching odyssey before arriving back at Pacific in 1988. He was an assistant coach at Stagg High School for two years before becoming the head coach at Escalon High in 1973. He then moved to Turlock High in 1976 before landing at Columbia College in Sonora in 1981. That led to the head coaching position at Stanislaus State in 1985, which set up a return to his alma mater.
The Pacific program was going through a terrible period that included a 5-24 mark in the season before Thomason's arrival, but he eventually turned it around and made NCAA Tournament appearances in 1997, 2004, 2005, 2006 and this season. Thomason retires as the Big West Conference's all-time leader in wins (436).
Thomason's parents, Bob Sr. and Donna, who have regularly traveled with the team over the past quarter-century, made the final trip to Texas as well, as did his eldest son, Jeff. Bob Thomason Sr., who was a player at San Jose State and head coach at Pittsburg High School, inspired his son to get into coaching and has always been his harshest critic. Even he was impressed with the coaching his son did in his final season.
"This team came so far from where it started," the elder Thomason said. "I think it's in the top five coaching jobs he did here. He stayed with it and kept believing they would get better, and they did."
Senior forward Colin Beatty said his two years with Thomason were about a lot more than basketball after he arrived from Lanham, Md.
"The last two years of my life have been a blessing," Beatty said. "I'm lucky he recruited me and I love him for giving me an opportunity to play for his team. I learned a lot about basketball, family and leadership and I'm going to take those skills with me for the rest of my life."
Thomason, 64, isn't yet sure what's next for him, other than getting in a round of golf today after playing just once during the season. Thomason said his wife, Jerri, had some unopened exercise equipment awaiting him when he got home, so he might start there.
"I've coached for 42 years, so how do I know how I'm going to feel not coaching?" Thomason said. "I don't know those answers, but I'm looking forward to it. I told my wife, 'You should take three months to figure out things you might want to do or not do.' She's a little nervous because she's only known me as a head coach, so she will either like me better or we're going to have problems, but we have been married 40 years, so I think we're OK."
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Vienna, Ohio, September 19, 2011 – Millwood Inc. (www.millwoodinc.com), a worldwide industry leader and innovator of unit load and packaging systems, materials and services, has hired Ralph Rupert as manager of unit load technology.
An expert in both corrugated materials and unit load design, Rupert will work with local, regional and national sales representatives to develop systems based unit load designs that will reduce customers' overall packaging expenses and complement their sustainability initiatives.
He will also work with Liberty Technologies' engineering group on the design of automated materials handling and packaging systems and lead Millwood's initiative to establish a certified unit load test lab at the corporate technology center to run tests under ASTM and ISTA guidelines.
"If we're going to provide the most sustainable and economical unit load solutions to our customers, we need to test a design up front and verify its success after the fact," says Rupert. "A test lab will allow us to tie all of the components of a unit load together into a systems based approach."
"Over the last year, we have been putting more science, engineering and testing behind the redesigns we have been offering our customers," adds Joe Pecchia, director, strategic accounts and technology development. "Ralph's hiring solidifies that direction."
Prior to joining Millwood, Rupert was the director of the Center for Unit Load Design at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., where he is completing his PhD. A nationally-recognized author and expert on pallet design and corrugated and plastic packaging materials, Rupert is the chair of the ANSI – MH1 pallet standard committee and a member of ISTA.
"We have wanted to have someone with Ralph's experience on our team for a long time," says Ron Ringness, executive vice president, sales, marketing and technology. "His hiring enhances our commitment to the unit load concept and his experience with corrugated packaging adds to our body of knowledge in those areas."
Ringness expects the unit load test lab to be operational by the third quarter of 2012.
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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas guard Anthlon Bell knocked down a 3-pointer on the first possession Monday night, giving the Razorbacks a quick lead.
Fred Gulley added to it on the next possession with a 3-pointer from the corner.
Those two possessions were all it took for the Razorbacks to show their struggles from long range against Louisiana-Lafayette wouldn't continue four days later.
Arkansas leaned on its 3-point success during an 89-78 win against Southern Methodist in front of an announced crowd of 8,927 in Bud Walton Arena. The Razorbacks — who were 2-for-13 from long range against ULL — went 11-for-22 against SMU to build as much as a 24-point lead before holding on late.
The 11 3-pointers were the most Arkansas has made under coach Mike Anderson, topping the previous best of 10 (which the Razorbacks accomplished it four times last season). It also was Arkansas' best shooting performance since 2010-11.
"We put in a lot of work over the summer time shooting," Bell said. "Coach stressed it because we know we can't just rely on the inside game. We've got to have people knock down shots. … We took it upon ourselves to be a better shooting team."
Bell led Arkansas' 3-point charge Monday night, going 3-for-7 from long range after putting up an 0-for-4 performance against ULL. But he wasn't alone.
The Razorbacks scored 15 of their first 21 points behind the 3-point line and made 8 of 14 in the first half. Bell had three of those 3-pointers, but got help from five others (Gulley, Michael Qualls, Kikko Haydar, Jacorey Williams and Ky Madden).
The long-range success helped Arkansas take a 46-30 lead to the locker room, cruising in what was expected to be its biggest test to date this season.
"They were prepared. They made shots," SMU coach Larry Brown said. "When you're playing with a lead at home, the basket gets huge and we never could put any heat on them until late to make shots difficult. …
"I watched film. They didn't come out shooting balls like that."
It continued after the break. Qualls made another 3-pointer in the opening minutes to push Arkansas' lead to 53-35. Haydar made the 10th a little later to give Arkansas a 62-40 lead with 12:37 left. Qualls made one more with 9:32 left, helping the Razorbacks push the lead back to 22 at 70-48.
"I thought they came out and really set the tempo to the game in the first half and it's easy to set it when you make shots," Anderson said. "We made shots, our defense was really charged up, and that enabled us to have a little cushion at halftime. I always tell our guys, when you come back out, the first five minutes are critical and we came out and really continued to establish tempo."
But the sharp shooting stopped. So did Arkansas' easy night.
SMU clamped down on Arkansas defensively and went on a 19-4 run of its own over a six-minute stretch, slicing a 22-point deficit down to seven at 74-67.
"We just lost intensity playing like the game was over and it really wasn't over," Arkansas forward Alandise Harris said.
The good news for Arkansas is that Harris delivered down the stretch for the second straight night. The junior notched his own 3-point play by driving to the basket, drawing a foul and making a layup with 2:39 left. He knocked down the free throw to give Arkansas some temporary breathing room with a 10-point lead.
"That's what we brought him for," Anderson said. "He's a guy that can make plays, whether it be for himself or others. … When things kind of get stagnant, you've got to have someone you can go to, and something that can make something happen."
SMU cut the Arkansas lead to six when point guard Nic Moore made buckets on consecutive possessions. But guard Mardracus Wade poked the ball away from Moore on SMU's next trip down the floor and Qualls came up with it. He threw an outlet pass to Coty Clarke, who tossed a lob to Harris for a dunk.
Arkansas was able to hold on the rest of the way.
Harris led Arkansas in scoring for the second straight game, finishing with 21 points on 5 of 12 shooting. He didn't attempt any 3-pointers, but was perfect from the free-throw line (11-for-11) to lead Arkansas' 28-for-37 performance.
Qualls turned in another strong all-around night, too, finishing with 17 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists. Bell added 11 as Arkansas improved to 3-0 for the second straight season and third time in the past four years.
It also helped the Razorbacks extend their Bud Walton Arena win streak to 17 games in the last test before traveling to Hawaii for the Maui Invitational.
"Just keep cool," Qualls said about Arkansas' demeanor when the game got tight in the second half. "It's almost like you can be too calm and let it pass or you can be too nervous. You just have to round up your team and say, 'We are not going to lose. Especially here in Bud Walton. We are not going to lose.'"


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Air New Zealand to introduce organic, fair trade coffee
The airline has signed a contract with Christchurch-based Hummingbird Coffee to serve its coffees onboard in its international Business Premier and Premium Economy cabins as well as in its airport lounges.
The airline conducted extensive tastings of various brands of coffee, including blind tastings with customers at altitude and with external coffee experts both on the ground and in the air, eventually working with Hummingbird to create a bespoke blend for its customers.
Air New Zealand General Manager Customer Experience Anita Hawthorne says showcasing Kiwi products in the customer experience is a key way the airline can supercharge New Zealand's success from an economic perspective, an important pillar of its sustainability framework.
"Not only is our partnership with Hummingbird improving the quality of coffee onboard for customers, importantly we are also helping to showcase a great Kiwi brand all over the globe and helping to improve grower livelihoods and environmental impacts."
Hummingbird Coffee has been roasting coffee in Christchurch for almost 30 years and was one of the first companies to directly import fair trade organic coffees into New Zealand in 2002.
Air New Zealand's customers have demonstrated a clear love of coffee. The airline's popular coffee ordering feature on its mobile app remembers orders and offers a cup to lounge eligible customers upon entering certain Air New Zealand lounges. It then notifies the customer when their order is ready to be collected from the barista. The app has proven to be extremely popular with customers since its introduction with more than 2.8 million orders placed to date.
Hummingbird Coffee will be available onboard Air New Zealand flights and in its lounges from later this month.
In another move to improve the sustainability of its inflight service, Air New Zealand has also introduced a new programme to recycle paper coffee cups used onboard domestic jet services which is expected to divert 60 tonnes of cups from landfill yearly. Previously there has not been access to a recycling plant able to process at the scale the airline requires, however a new facility in Auckland is helping to change that.
About Star Alliance:
The Star Alliance network was established in 1997 as the first truly global airline alliance to offer worldwide reach, recognition and seamless service to the international traveller. Its acceptance by the market has been recognized by numerous awards, including the Air Transport World Market Leadership Award and Best Airline Alliance by both Business Traveller Magazine and Skytrax. The member airlines are: Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air China, Air India, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, Avianca, Avianca Brasil, Brussels Airlines, Copa Airlines, Croatia Airlines, EGYPTAIR, Ethiopian Airlines, EVA Air, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, SWISS, TAP Portugal, Turkish Airlines, THAI and United. Overall, the Star Alliance network currently offers more than 18,400 daily flights to 1,300 airports in 191 countries. Further connecting flights are offered by Star Alliance Connecting Partner, Juneyao Airlines.
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How to Make a Spanish Tortilla
How-tos, Tips, and Tricks
Having immersed myself in Spanish tortilla-making over the last few weeks, I've come to the conclusion that if there were an "If You Learn To Make Only One Dish This Ought To Be It" Award, the Spanish tortilla would make a very good candidate. In Spain, it's the go-to dish for a snack, a meal for an unexpected guest, or a late-night tapas snack. Not to be confused with Latin American flour or corn tortillas, the tortilla española is made with potatoes, onions, and eggs. It can be eaten warm or cold pretty much any time of day and can be easily rounded out into a meal with the addition of a salad and some cheese.
My friend Raquel, who moved to New York from Spain as an adult, remembers that for recess, school kids packed a tortilla bocadillo, a slice of tortilla sandwiched up in a baguette. Jose, who grew up mostly in New York and spent summers in Spain, said that as a hungry teenager, he'd come home, open the fridge, and mow through the greater part of a tortilla before dinner. Now, as adults living in New York, they continue to make tortillas regularly and they recently shared their tips with me.
The Basic Spanish Tortilla
The basic steps to making a tortilla are straightforward: cook slices of potato and chopped onions in a good amount of olive oil, mix them with beaten eggs, pour the mixture into a skillet, flip, and turn it out onto a plate to either eat warm or save for later. The only scary part is the flipping and even that isn't so scary if you wait until the eggs have set enough. Raquel's advice on flipping: "Be decisive—just go for it."
In talking to my tortilla-making role models, it struck me that there are probably as many variations on the basic theme as there are Spanish households. As Raquel diplomatically answered when I asked her about the ideal tortilla, "everyone likes their tortilla the way their mother made it." She also recalled (with a somewhat incredulous expression) that in the Basque region where she grew up, it's common for tortillas to be flipped only once and to be served with fairly moist centers. Her mother, who is not Basque, however, flips her tortilla several times and also browns her potatoes lightly before adding the eggs. So this is how Raquel now makes her tortillas.
José, whose family lives in Galicia, would disagree with both the Basque habits and with Raquel. He says that the potatoes should never be browned nor should the center ever be wet. (José and Raquel, by the way, have never met. I wonder what kind of tortilla debate would ensue if I were to introduce them to each other...)
One thing José and Raquel would agree on is their preference for non-stick pans. This modern adaptation of their parents' methods allows them to make the tortilla with significantly less oil than the those made with the classic cast iron skillet. I'd made a resolution to use non-stick pans as little as possible (you may too, after reading the chapter on Teflon in Slow Death by Rubber Duck), especially when using higher than a medium-low heat. So I set out making my tortillas the old-fashioned way, keeping in mind Raquel's observation that every cook's tortilla is unique.
And as with any dish, with repetition, I began to develop my own style.
To see the basic steps of tortilla-making, check out the slideshow »
Many of the tips came from Raquel, Jose, and Jose's wife Tricia (who reported her tortilla-making observations to me directly from Spain this summer!). If you have a favorite way to make Spanish tortillas, let us know about your trademark techniques.
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Glencore, JPMorgan sued over aluminum prices
Glencore Xstrata and JPMorgan Chase & Co face a U.S. lawsuit alleging they artificially inflated aluminum prices, the second legal challenge related to metal warehousing in a week.
The suit, filed in a district court in Florida, also names Goldman Sachs, the London Metal Exchange (LME) and subsidiaries of both JPMorgan and Goldman and accuses the companies of antitrust practices and racketeering.
Frustration over long waiting times and inflated prices at metals warehouses across the world has led to growing criticism of banks that own commodity assets and trade raw materials.
U.S. regulators are scrutinising ownership of commodity storage facilities by major U.S. banks.
Last week, Goldman and the LME were named as defendants in a separate Detroit lawsuit.
The latest case, filed by Florida-based aluminum user Master Screens and an individual plaintiff, expands the geography and number of companies being sued.
The companies could face fines if the lawsuits are successful.
Warehouse owners and outgoing LME CEO Martin Abbott have said the complaints over long lines at warehouses are unjustified, arguing there is no shortage of metal.
Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan dismissed the Florida suit. Goldman tried last week to diffuse the criticism over warehousing by offering immediate access to aluminum for end users holding metal at its Metro warehouses.
"We believe this suit is without merit, and we intend to vigorously contest it. We also note that aluminum prices are down 40 percent from their peak in 2006," a Goldman Sachs spokesman said.
"There are no queues at our warehouses. We believe this suit has no merit," a JPMorgan spokesman said.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd, owner of the LME, also said both lawsuits were without merit and the LME would contest them vigorously. It added that it had not been served with either of the suits.
A Glencore spokesman declined to comment.
The Florida lawsuit alleges "manipulation of the aluminum market through supply price fixing," among other practices.
The lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, which is seeking class action status and was filed on Aug. 6 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, is Master Screens Inc. and Daniel Price Bart, described in the filing as "a purchaser of beverages sold in aluminum cans."
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Captive Genders, second edition
We are so excited that AK Press will be publishing the second, revised, and expanded edition of Captive Genders in October 2015. Along with all the brilliance of the first edition, it will include a new foreword by abolitionist and trans revolutionary CeCe McDonald which explores the importance radical books like Captive Genders played for her during her incarceration. From her prison cell, Chelsea E. Manning wrote "On the Intersection of the Military and the Prison Industrial Complex," which thinks about the relationship between and military and the prison system. TGIJP Executive Director Janetta Johnson and journalist Toshio Meronek wrote, "Custody's Long Shadow: Reentry Support as Abolitionist Work," which argues that supporting people after they are released is vital to abolition. Radical Native transgender activist-scholar Kalaniopua Young wrote, "From a Native Trans Daughter: Carceral Refusal, Settler Colonialism, Re-routing the Roots of an Indigenous Abolitionist Imaginary," which brings into focus the unsettled histories of colonialism, forced gender normativity, and prison.
The powerful analysis and compelling arguments in this collection force readers to conclude that the political and theoretical connection between prison abolition and trans and queer liberation is fundamental to social transformation and justice. –Beth E. Ritchie author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
Captive Genders reminds and instructs that life is about relationships and desires free from neglect and repression, gendered constraints, policing and brutality, and disappearance. The anthology contributors share transformational insights, mini-memoirs, analyses and theories about captivity. Their writings lead and nurture us to a deeper understanding and struggle for justice with freedom and peace. –Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved Community
Captive Genders is an essential book that brings home that trans and gender non-conforming lives are deeply structured by the prison, that violence can never be an antidote to violence, that abolition must extend to the gender binary, and that formerly incarcerated Black trans women will lead the way. –Jin Haritaworn, author of Queer Lovers and Hateful Others: Regenerating Violent Times and Places
We will be doing a few book related events to celebrate the second edition. If you would like to help bring us to your city/town hit us up at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Reviews and Events
There is a great new review of Captive Genders along with Queer (In(Justice in the journal Antipode by Katelyn Angell and Stina Soderling. You can read the pdf here. Also, there will be a Captive Genders event (with Toshio Meronek and Eric A. Stanley) organized with Montreal's Prisoners Correspondence Project on March 29, 2013 at 3:30pm at 1800 Létourneux, Montreal Québec. The event is part of RADICAL QUEER SEMAINE. There will also be a Captive Genders reading and discussion in Boston on April 24, 7pm at Northeastern School of Law. (free and open to everyone, more info soon).
Captive Genders event in Philly
Captive Genders: Teach-In on Abolitionist Imaginings and Transgender Activism
Penn Women's Center, 3643 Locust Walk
Join us for an afternoon of documentary films profiling activists Kiyoshi Kuromyia and Marsha P. Johnson followed by a teach-in with activists Reina and Che Gossett about prison abolition and legacies of transgender activism.
Films will be screened from 1:30-3:00 pm; teach-in/discussion 3-4:30 pm.
Reina Gossett lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and believes creativity & imagination are vital in movements for self determination. She is a trans activist & artist, working as membership director at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and blogging at thespiritwas.tumblr.com. Reina's work has been featured in Barnard College's The Scholar & Feminist Online, as well as Captive Genders: Trans Embodiement & The Prison Industrial Complex, Post Post Script Press and Randy Magazine.
Che Gossett is a member of ACT UP Philadelphia, on the steering committee of the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, a board member with the Sex Worker Outreach Project and has been involved in queer and/or trans and gender nonconforming decriminalization, decarceration and prison industrial complex abolitionist organizing. Che is currently working on a biography of queer AIDS activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya.
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Released in August 1959, Miles Davis's classic album "Kind of Blue" is considered by many to be the greatest album in the history of jazz. "Kind of Blue" is certainly Davis' best selling album, and although precise figures are disputed, it is cited as the best-selling jazz record of all time.
Released in August 1959, Miles Davis's classic album "Kind of Blue" is considered by many to be the greatest album in the history of jazz. "Kind of Blue" is certainly Davis' best selling album, and although precise figures are disputed, it is cited as the best-selling jazz record of all time.
Along with Davis on trumpet, his group for this recording features an all-star lineup including Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on alto saxophone, John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wynton Kelly and Bill Evans alternating on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Jimmy Cobb on drums.
The songs on the album are "So What," "Freddie Freeloader," "Blue in Green," "All Blues" and "Flamenco Sketches." All compositions were listed as being written by Davis, but many jazz scholars and fans believe that Bill Evans wrote part or perhaps all of "Blue in Green" and "Flamenco Sketches."
Davis had a habit of taking full credit for his sidemen's compositions after he had reinterpreted them, but that's a topic for another column altogether.
Davis is considered one of the foremost innovators of jazz music. He is credited with changing the direction of jazz on, not one, but three different occasions.
The first was his 1949 "Birth of the Cool" album, where he slowed down the frenetic velocity of bebop and presented cool jazz to the world. In 1969 he released the controversial album "Bitches Brew," which kicked off the jazz-rock fusion era.In between, he introduced the world to modal jazz.
"Kind of Blue" is considered the beginning of modal jazz, a format in which the song form is based more on chord scales than a series of chord progressions. "There will be fewer chords, but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them," Davis explained to his band at the time.
Pianist Bill Evans added in the album's liner notes, "As the painter needs his framework of parchment, the improvising musical group needs its framework in time. Miles Davis presents here frameworks which are exquisite in their simplicity and yet contain all that is necessary to stimulate performance with a sure reference to the primary conception."
The songs for the album were created as a series of modal sketches, in which each performer was presented a set of scales that gave them a roadmap for their improvisations.
Although "Kind of Blue" is considered the beginning of modal jazz, Davis had previously used this method on his earlier album, "Milestones," and the modal format had actually been developed in the early '50s by jazz music theorist George Russell. A fan of Russell's, Davis looked at this new method as an avenue to escape the dense, chord progression-based compositions of the time, which he had called "thick." The resulting album is a sonic gem based around beautiful melodies.
In addition to world-class musicianship, the listener is drawn in through a relaxed and free-flowing theme with a great sense of openness and space. This approach has attributed greatly to the album's popularity as even the uninitiated jazz listener can relate to the intense yet relaxing mood that this recording creates.
The contrasting musical styles of each player on "Kind of Blue," and their individual takes on the new modal form, certainly are a major component of the record's magic.
John Coltrane's intense tone and breathtaking dexterity is the perfect balance to Davis' contrasting smoothness and minimalist approach to phrasing. Adderly falls somewhere in the middle of the two, offering a more melodic interpretation while maintaining his typical bright, upbeat phrasing. Bill Evans, while either accompanying or soloing, sets the mood for the group as he drifts effortlessly atop the swinging groove laid down by drummer Jimmy Cobb.
Paul Chambers, a true virtuoso on bass, serves as the harmonic foundation for the group while delivering his impeccable sense of time and superb intonation to the mix. Wynton Kelly, considered one of the most swinging pianists ever, performs only on the blues based "Freddie Freeloader." Davis selected Kelly for this specific track as he thought highly of his blues stylings.
If you're curious about, or think that you may like jazz, but are not sure that you quite get it, you owe it to yourself to purchase this album. I would suggest the new CD/DVD dual disc release that contains the entire album on the CD audio side, and, on the DVD side, the entire album in 5.1 Surround Sound and LPCM Stereo along with a 25-minute making of documentary, "Made In Heaven," featuring black-and-white film and stills, the voices of Miles Davis and Bill Evans, plus interviews and more.
If you'd like to research this landmark album further, "The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpiece," a terrific book by Eric Nisenson, a noted author of a number of highly regarded books on jazz including "Ascension: John Coltrane and His Quest," provides a thoroughly detailed look at the sessions leading up to the album. The author provides the cultural, social and historical setting for the recording and includes biographies on each of the musicians. The book makes a wonderful companion to extended listening and review.
This is typically the one album that is generally recommended as the perfect introduction to jazz. For those of you who are already jazz fans, I welcome any feedback on "Kind of Blue" or your thoughts on the best jazz album of all. For those new to jazz, seek out "Kind of Blue" and take a listen; I'm betting that it won't be the last jazz record you purchase!
Johnny Souza is working jazz musician and alumnus of Berklee College of Music. He was born, raised and still lives in Plymouth, Mass. Find out more about Johnny at www.johnnysouza.com. Also, feel free to submit your feedback or questions to Johnny at email@example.com.


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Moldex3D Mesh is an advanced mesh generator for fast preparation of complex geometries for Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE), including plastic injection molding and structural mechanics.
The Moldex3D Mesh plug-in accesses the newly-enhanced and versatile functions of Rhino 5.0, which makes it capable of importing models in various CAD formats for cleanup, modification, midplane extraction, etc. Moldex3D Mesh supports numerous mesh types, including 2D triangular and quadrilateral meshes and 3D tetrahedral, prismatic, hexagonal, voxel (brick), and pyramid meshes.
Among the automatic and semi-automatic mesh generators that are available in Moldex3D Mesh, the Boundary Layer Mesh (BLM) generator is the most powerful one for complex geometries. The BLM generator allows users to firstly generate inward one or two layers of prismatic meshes out of the triangular surface mesh of the object, followed by filling up the internal space with quality-controlled tetrahedral mesh. With this unique BLM, FEA solvers can capture the variable distribution, such as temperature, more accurately with much less number of elements than the isotropic tetrahedral mesh. The BLM model also benefits the FEA solvers by much more quality mesh than the multilayer anisotropic tetrahedral ones.
Moldex3D Mesh is a natural fit for Rhino users who are interested in exporting quality mesh for structural FEA or injection molding CAE using Moldex3D. More information of Moldex3D Mesh can be found at www.moldex3d.com/en/products/advanced/moldex3d-mesh.
The mesh input/output formats that are supported by Moldex3D Mesh R12.0 are as follows.
Solid Mesh Input
Solid Mesh Output
Shell Mesh Input
Shell Mesh Output
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OTTAWA, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Kaspar Daugavins tallied in the seventh round of the shootout Thursday to bring Ottawa a 3-2 decision over the New York Rangers.
Both Ryan Callahan for New York and Jakob Silfverberg for Ottawa scored in the shootout's second round, after which a goaltending duel kept the penalty shots coming.
The goal by Daugavins gave the Senators their third straight victory and made a winner out of Ben Bishop.
Bishop came into the game after starting Ottawa goaltender Craig Anderson suffered an apparent leg injury in a collision with New York's Chris Kreider 1:43 into the third period. The backup goaltender gave up two goals in the third, but then stopped six out of seven in the shootout.
New York's two third-period goals came 49 seconds apart to put the Rangers in front, but Mika Ziebanejad scored on the power play for the Senators to force overtime.
Henrik Lundqvist made 35 saves for the Rangers, who have lost two in a row after winning four out of five.


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As part of their Weekend Food for Kids program, Assistance League of Northern Virginia, in collaboration with Dominion Virginia Power, purchased food and packed over 11,900 individual food bags for hungry children during the 2012-2013 school year. Dominion Virginia Power provided a $20,000 grant to support this program. In addition, 160 Dominion volunteers donated over 800 hours to help 44 Assistance League volunteers feed 1,500 students who qualify for free and reduced-priced lunches in five schools in Prince William County, Fairfax County, Falls Church and the city of Alexandria. The students received nutritious supplementary food to take home for the weekend on a monthly basis.
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You never forget your first time.....I had originally posted this review a few years ago under the Loreley Amphitheatre gig for Aug. 20th 1983 as there was no mention of this gig on U2.com! So, here goes again.... Phoenix park, Dublin, Sunday, 14th August 1983. What an introduction to live music! 17 years old, Leaving Cert results acquired 72 hours previously and attending my first ever concert. A blistering hot summer day. There with my best friend, his girlfriend and my date, a girl called Carole Coleman, who later went on to sort out George W. Bush! We got the bus from the city and walked through Phoenix park in the early afternoon sunshine, the distant sound of the music getting closer with every step. Suddenly we were there. It was.......... even now, I still can't find the words to describe it.........the sound, the heat, the feeling.......... I bought the first of many U2 T-Shirts that day, probably an unnoficial one and we shared cans of flat Fanta and melting Twix bars. There are photographs and a ticket stub too and they will be found. Following sets by Big Country, Eurythmics and Simple Minds, Dave Fanning introduced U2, who ran onstage and launched into 'Out Of Control' as the late summer sunshine faded. It was as if we were engulfed in a wave of.........something - and I still can't describe what it was. I remember 'Surrender', 'October', 'I Will Follow', A Day Without Me', Gloria, 'Party Girl', Bono dancing with his dad, singing Happy Birthday to The Edge, 'New Year's Day', 'The Electric Co.' and '40'. We got seperated from my friend and his girlfriend towards the end, but it didn't matter. Annie Lennox joined the band onstage for the last song '40', and I'll never forget walking back towards the city in the darkness, everyone singing 'How long to sing this song' late into the night. We all met up again at a bus stop and made our way home. I've seen U2 many times since then of course, but the memories of that day will stay with me forever. Brendan McGee


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(AP) -- John Brennan was headed for the priesthood when, while sitting idly on a bus as a student at Fordham University in the 1970s, he stumbled on a recruiting ad for the CIA. Now, after years of poring through intelligence, trekking with Mideast tribesmen and overseeing some of America's most controversial and lethal counterterror missions, he's pursuing a calling with just as much responsibility and arguably a lot more stress as the nation's top spy.
It's the second time that Brennan has made a run for the job as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The stern-looking man who nonetheless salted a few wry quips into his brief comments Monday at the White House pulled himself out of consideration in 2008 after being accused of supporting a terrorist interrogation program that critics called a form of torture. Within weeks, however, President Barack Obama ensconced Brennan as his top homeland security and counterterror adviser, giving the veteran intelligence officer a far broader portfolio
-- and grasp of power -- than he would have had at the CIA.
Now, the White House says Brennan has since helped end the harsh programs, and wants to send him back to Langley, Va., where the CIA is headquartered outside Washington.
"Leading the agency in which I served for 25 years would be the greatest privilege as well as the greatest responsibility of my professional life," Brennan, 57, said in accepting the nomination. He promised to make the agency's highly secretive programs as transparent as possible, without risking security, to preserve public trust in spy games.
He also offered a "shoutout" to his wife, Kathy, his son and two daughters and his parents, whom he thanked for being patient and supportive throughout his years of constant work. "I think I am going to need it for a little bit longer," Brennan said.
Until recently, it was not clear that Brennan even wanted the job. He previously had told friends and colleagues that he was eyeing retirement at the end of Obama's first term, during which he spent chasing down crises and overseeing strategy on such issues as drone strikes in Pakistan to the thwarted attack by so-called underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to rampant U.S. mass shootings to the federal response to Superstorm Sandy.
He also has been dubbed the unofficial ambassador to Yemen for his frequent interplay with Sana'a over rehabilitating detainees from the Navy prison at Guantanamo Bay and, more urgently, burgeoning threats from local al-Qaida militants.
Obama called Brennan, who advised his 2008 presidential campaign, "one of my closest advisers" and "a great friend" whom he credited with hobbling al-Qaida and terror threats to the U.S. "He is one of the hardest-working public servants I've ever seen," Obama said. "I'm not sure he's slept in four years."
Despite his steady-as-she-goes assiduousness, Brennan has not shied from scrapping with Congress, and in February 2010 chastised "too many in Washington" for letting politics get in the way of national security. Though it's believed he'll be easily confirmed, he will face pointed questioning in the Senate about the U.S. drone program that has resulted in some civilian deaths and strained diplomacy in its pursuit of militants in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.
He'll also be needled about the interrogation program that kept Brennan from heading the CIA four years ago. Brennan served in two top CIA positions and built the National Counterterrorism Center in the years following the Sept. 11 attacks, but since has disavowed at least some of the agency's interrogation methods, including waterboarding, which simulates drowning. When he withdrew his name from consideration in 2008 to avoid a messy Senate confirmation fight, Brennan said he was not involved with the decision-making process about the program or other controversial methods of curbing terrorism, including renditions
-- spiriting foreign suspects to nations where there are no or few laws preventing harsh interrogations.
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However, a year earlier when he was a private national security consultant to CBS News, where he worked after briefly retiring from the government in 2005, Brennan said the interrogations program "has saved lives" because they yielded information from "the real hard-core terrorists ... hardened terrorists who have been responsible for 9/11."
Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, said he predicted the interrogation issue would not be a matter of debate since Brennan helped end the program while at the White House. But Republican Sen. John McCain, a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, said Monday he plans to resurrect the matter during confirmation.
"I have many questions and concerns about his nomination to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency, especially what role he played in the so-called enhanced interrogation programs while serving at the CIA during the last administration, as well as his public defense of those programs," McCain said in a statement.
Senate Intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, whose committee will hold hearings to consider Brennan's nomination, said she too will pursue answers about the interrogations program, which was adopted shortly after 9/11 during the administration of President George W. Bush. But she made clear that Brennan will sail through confirmation: "I believe he will be a strong and positive director," Feinstein said in a statement.
The hearings also will give senators a chance to shed new light on a program that Brennan has strongly endorsed: the targeted attacks on militant hideouts overseas by drones, or unmanned spy planes.
Brennan was the first Obama administration official to publicly acknowledge the drone program, which he termed last April "legal,"
''ethical" and "wise" despite the civilian casualties. He has described himself as fully committed to upholding moral and legal avenues to combatting terrorism and making the strategies for doing so as public as possible. Experts believed the U.S. has more than quadrupled the number of drone strikes since Obama took over from Bush.
Additionally, Brennan is expected to be asked about alleged Obama administration leaks of classified information to reporters, which is under Justice Department investigation.
If confirmed, he would return to the CIA, where he worked for 25 years, including a stint as station chief in Saudi Arabia and as President Bill Clinton's daily intelligence briefer, to bolster an agency that has been somewhat sidelined by intelligence reforms following 9/11, and was shocked by the sudden November resignation of former director Gen. David Petraeus, who left after admitting to an affair with his biographer.
CIA officers and other intelligence officials "need and deserve the support of all of their fellow Americans, especially at a time of such tremendous national security challenges," Brennan said.
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Kent State Planetarium Presents "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence"
Kent State University's Planetarium will present "The Search for Extraterrestrial Life," on Friday, Feb. 15, Saturday, Feb. 16, and Friday, Feb. 22. During the presentations, audience members will explore celestial objects in Ohio's night sky that may contain extraterrestrial life, and the presenter will describe stories of attempts to communicate with intelligent life in other worlds.
This presentation takes place every year, but organizer and director of the Planetarium, Brett Ellman, says he tries to put a new spin on each year's show.
"Almost every modern astronomer believes there is life elsewhere and quite possibly intelligent life," says Ellman. "I talk about the way people for hundreds of years have been thinking about life elsewhere in the universe."
The hour-long presentation is available three nights this year, and it is free and open to the public.
"I want the audience to enjoy themselves and appreciate how beautiful the universe is," says Ellman. "It's an entertainment thing. It's for fun. It's very popular with children."
Children six and older are encouraged to attend and to bring a drawing of what they think a space creature looks like, or they can create one at the show, says Ellman.
"I want children and adults to get a sense of fascination."
Seating is limited, so reservations are recommended. Reservations are being accepted now by calling 330-672-2246. For more information, visit http://planetarium.kent.edu/.


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The Organ of Saint-Sulpice
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In my old age I've come to love classical music over anything else. If I *had* to pick, I'd say that Vivaldi's cello concertos are my favorite in the genre. Another favorite piece is Handel's Organ Concerto #13.
I think pipe organs are pretty cool and I love to here them in person. A few years back we attended a wedding in a huge San Antonio church and the beautiful organ was used for preludes as guests arrived. Quite enjoyable…
My wife and I were fortunate enough to listen to an organ recital at Saint-Sulpice Church in Paris (organ is pictured above). There are regular Sunday afternoon recitals which are typically performed by an American organist named Daniel Roth. There is another organist who occasionally plays and we never did find out who was playing that day. The organ is approximately 150 years old and is nearly the same now as when it was first installed (an electric blower being the most significant addition).
The church itself is quite amazing. The current building was mostly constructed in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. However, even the today the church is technically not finished as one tower was replaced in the late 18th century but its planned twin was never built (an old mismatching tower remains). Saint-Sulpice is comparable in size to Notre Dame Cathedral (barely smaller) and we found it just as interesting inside. The image below gives a view of one small portion of the interior.


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If you have a lot of CPU power and working on battery. If you do not need that much of power and would like to rather save some battery power by disabling some cpus then you can use the below script. This script disables cpus from 4 to 7. You can change the number in the for loop. You would need the sudo to be setup or remove sudo and run the script as root. The script will show you the currently active cpu's before and after disabling the CPU's.
If you want to disable to cpus from the grub itself then you can add the below parameter in grub.cfg or grub2.cfg in the vmlinuz line:
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#!/bin/bash - #=============================================================================== # # FILE: disablecpu.sh # # USAGE: ./disablecpu.sh # # DESCRIPTION: # # OPTIONS: --- # REQUIREMENTS: --- # BUGS: --- # NOTES: --- # AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal (aka) # REVISION: --- #=============================================================================== #set -o nounset # Treat unset variables as an error cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep cores|wc -l for i in {4..7} do sudo sh -c "echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$i/online" done cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep cores|wc -l
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The city's 311 app adds photos and GPS coordinates that help work crews locate the trouble spot and prepare to respond.
Winnipeg, Manitoba's 311 call center receives about two million telephone calls and 65,000 emails each year. The city also has a 311 website and on August 13, the city launched a 311 mobile app for iPhone and Android. Ten days after launch, the Winnipeg 311 app has been downloaded about 5,000 times and users have submitted 300 service requests.
So with a mature 311 call center, why did the city decide to go mobile? According to 311 Manager Melanie Swenarchuk, technology is evolving quickly and the city wanted to engage citizens on the go. The app, which cost $15,000 Canadian, was done in conjunction with the city's CRM provider Kana Lagan, and integrates into the city's back-office systems. "Having an issue reported does not require additional staffing," said Swenarchuk. "It may mean additional issues are coming to the surface which should have been reported anyway."
Each type of service request or report has its own template, and Winnipeg is considering adding others. For things that do not fit one of the current reports, a resident can click on the feedback link which sends an email directly into 311. And while Swenarchuk said that 311 telephone conversations have some advantages for complex issues, the ability to submit photographs and GPS coordinates on the mobile app provides additional details that were not possible before.
"We're getting more photos and it's certainly advantageous to our work crews," said Swenarchuk, "as they can immediately see at a glance the nature of the service request and adequately prepare. On the phone, we're relying on the citizen providing really detailed information as to the location, the curb lane, which direction, whereas the app has the actual GPS coordinates ... so the citizen is actually selecting the location on a map."
Swenarchuk is monitoring the rollout closely. Comments have been mostly positive as to ease of use. The app also runs on iPads, with BlackBerry devices and iPODs under development. "The reports will help us keep the neighborhoods clean and safe and engaged with the citizens of Winnipeg," said Swenarchuk. "It will increase the pride of living in the neighborhoods and help us to be accountable and more responsive."
Five or more years ago, when the city first rolled out 311, one caller wanted instructions on how to cook a Christmas turkey. These days, however, the residents of Winnipeg are sophisticated users of one of the more advanced mobile 311 systems in North America.


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A group of about 30 Dolores middle and high school students let their guards down on Wednesday and got down to answering some very tough questions.
What makes them feel safe and welcome?
The groups of students were mixed and from different backgrounds and were taking part in the a program dubbed SPIRIT (Student Problem Identification and Resolution of Issues Together). The program was facilitated by C. Kit Chalberg, an employee with the U.S. Department of Justice, a community relations service.
Chalberg was a step by the Dolores School District to ease tensions at the schools following an alleged hate crime that occurred in late November involving the harassment of a teacher and the ban of the display of Confederate Flag.
"They are discussing what it means to them to feel safe at school," said Principal Brandon Thurston, as students sat in groups and discussed issues at the Ponderosa Restaurant.
"This whole process is up to them," Thurston said.
What came out of the discussion was interesting.
Some students felt the close knit group of Dolores had some disadvantages.
"It is hard for people to feel welcome if they didn't grow up here," one girl said.
"There is a lot of judging at the school," another said.
Others felt that having colored skin made them stand out.
"Color changes everything," she said.
She explained that the lake of diversity makes things difficult.
Middle school students felt that the upper classmen were unfairly hard on the sixth graders and freshmen in high school said they felt the same way.
Others felt that if you have a different opinion, it should be respected.
"People don't recognize others' opinions as valued, but as something to hate others for," one student said.
Others said that we have to be careful even when joking around with friends.
"Others may hear you and take offense," one student said.
Students also said it is difficult to have new administration.
Others felt that athletes are held at a higher level at the school.
But others said they felt very welcome in Dolores as a new student and thought that encouraging and offering a wide variety of extra curricular activities helps students feel welcome.
"Everybody has beliefs," one student said. "Nobody's purpose should be to cause conflict."
Another added, "We don't all come from the same home life."


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The Blind Retriever
"Who left behind these bags?"
This is the sort of question that can cause great alarm on a bus in terror-conscious Jerusalem. In this case, however, there was nothing to worry about because the forgotten bags were obviously filled with innocent sweets.
But to whom do they belong?
The speculation about his identity soon came to an end when a blind lady announced that she knew exactly who it was. When he entered the bus she had recognized his voice greeting her as belonging to a very special Jew who was in the habit of visiting the Senior Citizens Home where she lived and distributing sweets. She thereupon assumed responsibility for returning them to him on his next visit.
It thus took a sightless woman to fulfill the mitzvah of returning lost property.


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Elegant evenings under the stars, brilliant blue skies, and emerald green palm trees set the stage for a chic desert wedding set against a stunning mountain backdrop.
Weddings in Palm Springs capture the essence and style of Hollywood regency, desert modernism, old world glamour and romantic Spanish hideaways.
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Ducks Unlimited is applauding the efforts of a bipartisan group of senators who this week released S. 2282, legislation that would reauthorize the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) through 2017. Sen. Jim Inhofe (OK) introduced the bill last night along with Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA), and five other co-sponsors signed on: Sens. Thad Cochran (MS), Tim Johnson (SD), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Mary Landrieu (LA) and David Vitter (LA).
"This is a great day for conservationists throughout the United States. Ducks Unlimited is extremely grateful to Senators Inhofe, Boxer, Cochran, Johnson, Klobuchar, Landrieu and Vitter for their leadership in introducing legislation to reauthorize NAWCA," said Paul Schmidt, chief conservation officer for Ducks Unlimited. "This joint effort by the chair and ranking member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, coupled with a diverse suite of bipartisan co-sponsors, is a testament to how NAWCA is a model for uniting diverse and effective partnerships in support of shared conservation objectives."
The bill is expected to be included on the hearing schedule for the Environment and Public Works Committee on April 24, along with several other conservation bills.
Rep. Rob Wittman (VA) introduced a companion bill in the U.S. House of Representatives—H.R. 1960, the North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act—on behalf of himself and Rep. John Dingell (MI) on May 24, 2011. Thirteen additional co-sponsors have joined in support of the bill, and Ducks Unlimited continues to reach out to House members to ask for their support of the program.
Schmidt reiterated DU's support of H.R. 1960, its sponsors and co-sponsors on Thursday as he testified before the House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs. "We commend Congress for their foresight in creating NAWCA in 1989 and repeatedly taking action to ensure the long-term success of this important program," he said. "NAWCA is the most effective wetland restoration program in the country, and we strongly urge the Committee to reauthorize NAWCA for an additional five years."
Ducks Unlimited is also asking its members and supporters to encourage their senators and congressmen to support NAWCA reauthorization through an online call to action.
NAWCA conserves North America's waterfowl, fish and wildlife resources while producing a variety of environmental and economic benefits. Its success is driven by partnerships involving federal, state and local governments; nonprofit organizations like DU; and community groups. Every federal dollar provided by NAWCA must be matched by at least one dollar from non-federal sources.
Because the program is so effective, NAWCA funds are usually tripled or quadrupled on the local level. More than $1 billion in federal grants has been allocated for NAWCA projects—a figure that has leveraged an additional $3 billion from matching and non-matching funds. Since its inception, more than 1,600 NAWCA projects have contributed to the conservation of more than 25 million acres of habitat across North America.
Ducks Unlimited is the world's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving North America's continually disappearing waterfowl habitats. Established in 1937, DU is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, with special events, projects and promotions across the continent. Ducks Unlimited has conserved more than 12 million acres thanks to contributions from more than a million supporters across the continent. Guided by science and dedicated to program efficiency, DU works toward the vision of wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever. For more information on our work, visit www.ducks.org. Connect with us on our Facebook page at facebook.com/ducksunlimited, follow our tweets at twitter.com/ducksunlimited and watch DU videos at youtube.com/ducksunlimitedinc.
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SEIU Is a Partner with Obama Youth Corps
By Patch Adams
April 4, 2011
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is not only known for their violent tactics against those who oppose them, but for being in bed with the Obama Administration. So what I have to tell you next should be no surprise.
Earlier I broke the story about how Obama's 21st Century Youth Conservation Corps is actually a vehicle that is being used to indoctrinate your children into not only believing in Global Warming, but as the Secretary of Interior, Ken Salazar said, to turn your children into "Engines of Change."
The 21st Century Conservation Youth Corps is being administered by the Department of Interior's 'Youth Department' that was created in 2009 by Ken Salazar. And according to the 'Youth Department's' website, Youthgo.gov, it's their job to "inspire" The Next Generation of Conservation Leaders:
"The Department of the Interior is uniquely positioned to help millions of young Americans reconnect with our natural and cultural heritage, put thousands of young people to work in the great outdoors, and inspire the next generation of conservation leaders."
Who is partnered up with Youthgo.gov in order to help "inspire" those new Conservation Leaders? According to the partnership page of Youthgo.gov several government and leftist organizations including AmeriCorps, The Sierra Club and something called The Blue Green Alliance.
According to the Youthgo.gov, The Blue Green Alliance is a harmless organization made up of unions and environmental organizations.
"The Blue Green Alliance is a national, strategic partnership between labor unions and environmental organizations dedicated to expanding the number and quality of jobs in the green economy."
But According to The Blue Green Alliance website they are NOT just about saving the Planet, but pushing forward the ideas of collective bargaining:
"The Blue Green Alliance works on issues ranging from energy and climate change to transportation to workers' rights and green chemistry. Specifically, BGA is working to:
•Pass comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation that is based on two overriding principles - the best scientific advice on reduction targets and solutions that create and save millions of American jobs;
•Restore the rights of workers in the United States to organize and bargain collectively;
•Establish a 21st Century trade policy that promotes growth and prosperity across all sectors of global society, and embeds enforceable labor, environmental, and human rights standards in our trade agreements; and
•Create an informed 21st century policy on toxic chemicals that protects workers and communities from dangerous chemicals, enhances public health and promotes safer alternatives."
The Blue Green Alliance accomplishes this work through:
•Comprehensive Climate Change and Energy Legislation. BGA advocates for its recent global warming legislative principles, which expresses support for an economy-wide cap-and-trade system.
•Renewable Electricity and Energy Efficiency Standards' Campaigns. In partnership with dozens of other advocacy organizations and businesses, BGA promotes the passage of state and federal legislation mandating the production of renewable electricity.
•Employee Free Choice Campaign. BGA advocates for the expansion of workers' rights in the United States through passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.
•Transportation Act Reauthorization. BGA advocates for transportation investments that create green jobs in freight rail, high-speed rail and other infrastructure projects that contribute to solving global warming.
The Blue Green Alliance is also interested in 'education' that involves the Communist/Socialist ideals of 'Social Justice' and they even brag about working with Al Gore's 'Green' Organization:
"The Blue Green Alliance Foundation is working to educate the public about the job-creating potential of environmental investments, including solutions to global warming, with programs including:
•The annual Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference, which took place in Washington, D.C. in 2009, brought together labor, environmental, business, academic, political and social justice leaders to share research and ideas for achieving a refashioned, green economy.
•Labor Climate Project. In partnership with former Vice President Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, the Blue Green Alliance Foundation is working with union members across the country to educate blue-collar constituencies about the urgency and solvability of global warming and how its solutions can revitalize our economy and create good, union jobs."
Ironically, Carol M Browner, known Socialist and Obama's Climate Czar until she stepped down at the beginning of this year, is a former board of directors member for Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection.
Now you may wonder who belongs to this Socialist Sympathizing Labor type 'Green' Organization. Well according to their About Us and Membership page , several unions and environmental groups including The Sierra Club and SEIU:
"Launched in 2006 by the United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club, this unique labor-environmental collaboration has grown to include the Communications Workers of America (CWA), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA), Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Sheet Metal Workers' International Association, United Auto Workers and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). The Blue Green Alliance unites more than 14 million members and supporters in pursuit of good jobs, a clean environment and a green economy."
If you click on the Map that is located on the Youthgo.gov website you will notice who the Youth Department of the Department of Interior is 'partnering' up with in each state. Not surprisingly, you will see that The Blue Green Alliance is working with the government in almost every state of the union. And according to The Blue Green Alliance website, their state-based chapters have a coinciding 'Green' agenda:
"State-based BlueGreen Alliance Chapters. The Blue Green Alliance Foundation and the local chapters of its national partners are working in states around the country on climate change, workers' rights, clean energy job creation, fair trade and green chemistry."
So it would seem that The Blue Green Alliance and SEIU are 'partnering up' to brainwash your children through Obama's 21st Century Conservation Youth Corps into believing in climate change, collective bargaining and social justice while at the same teaching them how to be 'Engines of Change' so they can 'refashion' the U.S. into some socialist 'Green' economy.
Don't you love watching your tax dollars at work?
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Several years ago, SAP introduced enhancement packs, which were supposed to provide a much easier and less painful way to upgrade its ERP (enterprise resource planning) software. Executives extolled how customers could add new functionality without committing to a full-blown upgrade.
But in reality, the packs involve enough work on the part of customers to inspire a session at last week's Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas that focused on how to make the process as "silent" as possible.
The very notion of SAP upgrades tends to inspire "fear and apprehension" in customers' minds, said speaker Calvin Hill, SAP release manager at Microsoft, which uses SAP ERP.
But enhancement packs are well worth the effort for many reasons, not the least of which is that the new functions provided can help cut down on the amount of custom code companies write, he said.
Some key steps should be followed by all customers weighing enhancement pack upgrades, according to Hill.
For one thing, technical staff should perform a functionality scoping exercise with business users, to determine which enhancement pack features should actually be included in the upgrade and help minimize risk and downtime, he said. It's also important to perform an impact assessment of the changes inside a sandbox environment, Hill added.
SAP is providing tools to help with enhancement pack projects, including a business process change analyzer, he said.
It's wise to consider placing any discretionary SAP system work on hold while the enhancement pack is implemented, he said.
Hill gave his talk in a large conference room with few empty seats, suggesting that many SAP customers are both interested in applying packs but aren't certain of the best way to go about it.
Overall, SAP users are adopting the enhancement pack strategy, but "slowly," said analyst Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research.
While the packs have "helped ease the pain" of upgrades, "the promises of plug and play and upgrade when you want is not entirely true," he added.
While SAP has shown no public indication otherwise, it's conceivable that the company could somehow back away from enhancement packs over time in favor of SaaS (software as a service) extensions to the core ERP suite.
The next generation of the suite, which isn't expected to emerge for a number of years, could also provide an improved means for adding functionality instead of continuing with the enhancement pack approach.
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It's the time of year when it is dark outside as students are waiting for the bus and walking or riding their bikes to and from school. While short days are something we're all accustomed to in Alaska, evolution has not helped our ability to see any better in the dark.
Almost everyone of with a license to drive has probably driven by a child on a darkened street at some point, and said to themselves with a feeling of relief, "I almost didn't see that kid!" In fact, most drivers need a minimum distance of 260 feet in order to stop in time to miss something on the road; more if the road is slick. If a child in the roadway is wearing dark clothing, a driver's reaction time is greatly reduced – allowing just 55 feet to stop after seeing the child. Even wearing white clothing gives drivers a mere 180 feet of reaction time – not enough to avoid an accident or quite possibly a catastrophe.
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Though the leaders of France and Germany, François Hollande and Angela Merkel, are something less than great friends, the nation's top curators seem to be getting along just swimmingly. The Institut Français, which oversees France's Venice Biennale pavilion, announced that it will trade spaces with Germany at the 2013 biennale. Art Review first reported the news.
From the group's release, which includes a statement of support for European unity:
"This move had been discussed time and again in the past decade, and this year the curators and artists chosen for the French and German Pavilions decided to start a constructive dialogue, eventually agreeing to exchange the spaces of the pavilions, without any specific artistic collaboration. International dialogue is a given in today's art world, which seems much more defined by the meeting of cultural spheres than by the rigidity of national borders. Moreover, the curators as well as the artists feel committed to the vision of a common European culture in the larger framework of a global cultural community."
Someone already made the wife-/husband-swapping joke.
Germany has said it will present Ai Weiwei, Romuald Karmakar, Santu Mofokeng and Dayanita Singh at the biennale. France is offering up Anri Sala.


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I imagine the city being set up carved into rock along two facing cliffsides that are separated by a river. The river comes in from the north from the lake, curves towards the west as it makes it way south, and then curves back east at the end of the city before it breaks west again and drains from the coast. The two cliffsides are connected by large arched bridges for the top levels and cheap wood and rope bridges for the bottom. The cliffside on the left is nearly pure Hammerfellian. Not in architecture, but in decor and people. The people on the right are mixed between Imperial and Hammerfellian and they mix quite well despite the crime that grips the city. At the top level of the Imperial side sits an Imperial monastery. A once beautiful building, it now sits mostly empty and rundown. The Imperial guard has been so run thin that an Imperial in fear of the Kali Mes cant even find sanctuary from them in the monastery, as they Kali Mes will just walk right in and kill them there on the spot.
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I'm "Doctor Dan", founder of the Medical Mastermind Community. This is largely an online resource for premedical and medical students, where they can get mentorship and study resources for their entire 11+ year educational journey.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
What draws you to a class?
My first character in WoW was a warrior. My first character in D3 was a Barbarian. As time goes on, you try out other classes to see what else you like. In WoW, I found out that I really enjoy both tanking and healing. Especially healing on a druid or shaman. In Diablo, I really enjoy sprinting around and whirlwinding shit to death on my Barbarian. Both my Warrior and Barbarian are beefy (I feel like Cartman lol, BEEFCAKE!!!).
My wife prefers ranged DPS. She doesnt like being in middle of all of the mobs if she doesnt have to, especially in instances.
Every person has a much difference preference. What are yours?
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When I first started WoW in Vanilla my first character was a mage and I really didn't like it so I made my paladin. I was holy from the start and despite leveling taking forever, I loved it (back when consecration was a holy talent). Since then, I have loved playing holy on my paladin. That is why I continue to play my paladin, I just love healing on that class. Unfortunately, I know how to suck as a mage, and that is a little embarrassing.
- October 24, 2012 at 10:39 AM
- Kal said...
So far, specs that have really clicked for me are SV Hunter, Disc Priest, Enhance Shammy, Blood DK, and Prot Pally. I slip into those playstyles like a well made dovetail joint.
I love my Rogue, and it's the first to 90 (for Tillers Harmony) but it has yet to click in the same way the others did. My 63 Warrior is the same way.
- October 24, 2012 at 11:11 AM
- Kal said...
I guess I forgot to answer the question so I'll try again:
SV Hunter: F-ing Explosive Shot Biotch!
Disc Priest: Bubbles!
Enhance Shammy: A beautiful female Dwarf kicking ass with wind and flame powered beer mugs!
Blood DK: The very essence of the Death Seeker. Also, the A Team.
Prot Pally: The sound of a Shield of the Righteous landing, or an Avenger's Shield going out, it's just so magnificent.
- October 24, 2012 at 11:38 AM
Ah, man after my own heart! I love being in the middle of the action. So, I almost always pick melee first though I'll usually try ranged stuff later because I'm an altoholic. I love wearing thick armor and being able to take damage as well as I dish out pain. Besides, in most rpg games, big swords and plate armor look the most bad ass. =)
- October 24, 2012 at 1:09 PM
- Christopher said...
I usually go for light, fast melee - rogue, ranger, etc. first, but I love tanking, so my DK is my main now. I also like healing, but can't stand ranged dps. I get bored :)
- October 24, 2012 at 1:53 PM
I like characters with a large toolset (off-healing, CC, stuns, snares), as it's a lot of fun to try to use spells creatively. Prot paladin, Smite priest, Shamans in general, SV hunter are some of my favorites.
- October 24, 2012 at 3:30 PM


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A casino is a facility where people gamble. Casinos are seen throughout the Grand Theft Auto series but Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas introduced gambling and interactive casinos where the player can gamble.
GTA San Andreas
- Caligula's Palace (accessible)
- The Camel's Toe
- The Clown's Pocket
- Casino Floor (accessible)
- Come-A-Lot
- The Emerald Isle
- Four Dragons Casino (accessible)
- The High Roller
- The Pink Swan
- Pirates in Men's Pants
- Royal Casino
- Starfish Casino
- The Visage
There are three accessible casinos where the player can gamble. There is a variety of activities to wager money on. The player can borrow money from the casino, leading to a negative money value. If the money is not repaid, Carl will get phone calls from loan sharks threatening him to pay up soon or he will be physically harmed. If money is still not repaid, loan sharks armed with Micro Uzis and AK-47s will show up in black Vincents and attempt to kill Carl. The loan sharks carry a lot of money so money can be repaid by simply killing them and picking up their cash.
GTA Liberty City Stories
- Alderney Casino (abandoned)
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text: Verpi 0 Posted October 23, 2012 My friends where discussing the timing of anytime. The rules state that you can ditch your items and followers anytime. Now lets say that a thief wants an item from the warrior. but the warrior doesn't want the thief to have the item so he plans to ditch it. Its the thiefs turn and he is 1-6 spaces away. When can the warrior still ditch his item? 1) before the thief rolls the die 2) After the thief rolls the die 3) After the thief lands on the warrior's space 4) after the thief declairs he is going to encounter the warrior 5) after the thief declairs he is going to steal from the warrior Same thing with spells Lets say character A casts Aqusition on character B, again to take an item. When can character B still ditch his stuff? 1) before character A announces he's casting the spell 2) after character A announces he's casting the spell 3) after character A states who his target is Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Like something out of The Blair Witch Project, piles of rocks and twigs began appearing in early November along West Leigh Drive.
It all started after defiant drivers began veering into yards to dodge new bumps in the road.
The speed bumps are designed to slow traffic traveling through West Leigh. While most residents concede they've calmed traffic, the bumps also have flared tempers and sparked a wave of off-road vandalism, the witchy piles... and more vandalism.
"It's become a game of cat and mouse, and whoever's doing it is being aggressive," says resident Anne Powell.
This isn't the first war over traffic calming in the pricey West Leigh subdivision. This Ivy enclave of two-, three-, and four-acre lots has property values hovering around $400,000. West Leigh tots go to the highly rated Meriwether Lewis Elementary School.
But in 1999, it was the grown-ups who got a lesson in politics after one of the three neighborhood associations installed stop signs– 22 of them– to slow traffic.
The stop signs proved so unpopular with some West Leighers that banners began emerging wish such pleas as "Free West Leigh." Some of the stop signs were mysteriously uprooted and tossed aside or totally ignored by lead-footed motorists.
The skirmishes ended only after county officials pointed out that county authorization for the signs was needed, and that the homeowners association could be held liable if an accident occurred. The surviving signs were removed.
Flash forward three years. In November, the West Leigh Property Owners Association for Section 1, the same group who had installed the ill-fated stop signs, put in six speed humps– this time with county approval.
Traditionally, traffic engineers and fire and rescue groups don't like speed humps because they can pose a hazard in an emergency. "We still don't really like them," says county director of engineering and public works Mark Graham. "We approved them with some trepidation" because of the homeowners association request, he adds.
Graham notes that the correct terminology is "hump" rather than "bump," because humps are gradually elevated– unlike the more abrupt bumps– so that speeding drivers won't lose control of their cars.
West Leigh Property Owners Association president Rick Kast says that a motion to create the speed humps was voted on at the association's annual meeting last year with very little discussion. Overall, the response he's received to the humps has been positive, and he thinks they're working well to slow traffic, he says.
As for the scofflaws driving around the humps and uprooting the nearby caution signs, Kast calls such behavior "pretty aberrational and isolated." He's concerned about the damage to private property and says if he finds out who the culprits are, he'll notify the police.
Are otherwise law-abiding citizens really performing acts of vandalism?
Charles Glady believes that one person in a jacked up truck or SUV has been doing most of the damage. Two of the caution signs were propped in Glady's yard last week, which has become a rutted, off-road alternative to the hump in front of his house.
Glady, who is unable to walk, can't ride his scooter through his yard to walk his dog because the turf is so rutted by tire tracks.
While Glady didn't favor creation of the humps in the first place, he doesn't think they're that big a deal– aside from the damage to his property, of course– because he can drive over them at 25 mph, the posted speed limit.
Now he's considering putting a hazard in his yard to deter the renegade driver or drivers: a big piece of plywood with screws poking up through it. "Let 'em get flat tires," he says.
Across the street from Glady, Anne Powell also tried to deter the scofflaws by piling rocks at the end of the hump when tire tracks started forming a gully in her yard. Now she's rethinking her strategy. For one thing, the barricade method "makes the neighborhood look ugly."
Instead, Powell would like to find the perpetrators and ask them to stop, one on one.
"It's a neighbor-to-neighbor issue," she observes while admitting that she does feel a lot safer walking her children to the bus stop with the humps in place.
Others in West Leigh dispute that the humps were necessary in the first place. "We don't really have that much traffic here," says Nancy Lauer, a Section 3 resident.
Lauer is particularly miffed that she had no say in the installation and claims the whole issue was "railroaded" by a few people in the Section 1 homeowners association.
Lauer declares that she's not paying her dues this year because of Section 1's unilateral hump decision.
Meanwhile, she's had two flat tires from potholes in West Leigh Drive that went unfilled for years– until the humps went in.
"It's taxation without representation," says Lauer. "I'm saving the money for a wheel alignment."
Still, even those who dislike the humps decry the property damage that they've prompted. West Leigh Drive, a private road, serves as a convenient cut-through between Route 250 and Owensville Road.
The county suggests installing plastic traffic delineators at the ends of each hump. But couldn't those meet the same fate as the speed hump signs, and the piles of wood and rocks that are being mowed down by angry commuters?
"Oh, yeah," says the county's Graham. "There's no question they could get run over. That's always going to be an issue."
He adds, "When we approved the humps, we suggested they may not be the best solution."Read more on: west leigh