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JFK's impact on today's leaders
On this special edition of Capital Download with Susan Page, dozens of past guests share how President John F. Kennedy impacted their lives.
WASHINGTON — Fifty years after he died, John F. Kennedy's life continues to reverberate through today's generation of leaders.
A 5-year-old boy in Korea who would become president of the World Bank. A farm family in North Dakota whose daughter would be elected to the U.S. Senate. Dominican immigrants in New York whose son would serve in President Obama's Cabinet.
USA TODAY asked recent guests on the video newsmaker series Capital Download what impact President Kennedy had on their lives. Republicans and Democrats, civil rights and labor leaders, White House aides and others offered anecdotes that underscored the power of JFK's message, then and now.
"I was living in Atlanta, watching TV; they broke into the broadcast, whatever it was, and said the president had been shot," recalled Julian Bond, then a 23-year-old organizing protests against segregation in Georgia. He would become chairman of the NAACP. "I didn't know him. I had never met him. ... But I felt as though I had lost a friend."
It was a shocking moment etched in the memories of many.
"I think everyone in America can say exactly where they were, exactly how they felt when they heard the news," said Ann Romney, wife of 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. She was 14 years old and living in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., in suburban Detroit. "I happened to be home sick from school that day. I was in my parents' bedroom. I remember the pajamas I was in. I remember the sun was shining. I remember — it was just frozen in time."
Richard Trumka, now president of the AFL-CIO, was a ninth-grader in Nemacolin, Pa., a coal-mining town near Pittsburgh.
"People cried," he said, recalling the school assembly that was convened to announce the news. "People wondered what it meant, why anybody would do that to such a great man, someone who cared so much about the country."
"That sense that something really bad had happened even pierced my 5-year-old's brain," said Janet Napolitano, former governor of Arizona and secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
For Valerie Jarrett, now a senior adviser to President Obama, the sharpest memory is of watching the funeral procession on TV. At 14, she found herself identifying with Kennedy's children.
"It was the first funeral procession I had ever seen, and I remember his children and that was so poignant for me, and of course I thought about my own dad and what that must have felt like," Jarrett said. As an adult, she would get to know Caroline Kennedy: "She embodies a lot of her dad's spirit."
For her community in North Dakota, Kennedy had been a groundbreaking figure, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp said.
"I grew up in a very Catholic community, and I will tell you that my community never thought that we would see a Catholic president, and in many ways it was a breakthrough much like an African-American president, for Catholic Americans," she said. "I don't think that there was any Catholic home in North Dakota that didn't have a picture of JFK next to the pope."
On the other side of the country, in his aunt's apartment in New York City, Kennedy's picture was displayed next to one of Jesus Christ, recalled Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez. He would end up working as a staffer for JFK's brother, Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy.
"I still have those photographs in my basement, because I was helping to clean out her apartment (when she passed away) and those are the only two things I took," Perez said. "For so many Latinos, President Kennedy just embodied the spirit of optimism. ... I used to tell Sen. Kennedy that he may have been the first Latino president."
John Kennedy's appeal stretched even to South Korea, where Jim Yong Kim's family was preparing to immigrate to the United States. Kim is now president of the World Bank.
Almost exactly one year after Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Kim's family arrived there. His father was headed to study at Baylor University's dentistry school.
"The first week that we were living in Dallas, in the United States, we visited the place where John F. Kennedy was shot, the grassy knoll," he said. "I remember because both my mother and father were very emotional about it, because he meant something even to this couple living in Korea with their three young children.
"He was a sign, a signal of something that was hopeful, that was looking into the future," he said. It was a difficult post-war period in South Korea, then ruled by a military government. "He represented hope for the world in a way that I don't know that any American president had done before."
Several of those interviewed cited the iconic line from JFK's inaugural address: "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
"John F. Kennedy was the reason why an awful lot of us got into public life," says Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. "Even me, I didn't get into public life until I was 50, but we had a model of him throughout most of our lives — that citizens could play a role in making our communities better."
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida congresswoman who chairs the Democratic National Committee, wasn't born until 1966, three years after Kennedy had died.
Even so, she said his legacy "has guided me throughout my career and helped me make choices about the kind of service that I wanted to provide." His message was "essentially it's the responsibility of all of us to help make America a stronger and better place."
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Campus Life
College is an exciting new adventure, which requires a lot of hard work. The University of Maine at Machias has a dynamic staff of professionals dedicated to helping students learn and succeed through a variety of out-of-classroom experiences. As you embark on your college career take advantage of all the opportunities that you will be exposed to during your time at UMM.
Whether you are a commuter, residential, or online student, check out our student resources that are available to help you navigate toward graduation. Students often ask, "What is there to do when I am not in class?" Depending on your interest, there are several ways to become involved in the UMM community. Join a varsity sport, play intramurals, or attend a meeting for a student organization to learn more. If you are still having trouble finding something for you, check out the Student Engagement & Inclusion Office located in the Student Services Center on the 2nd floor of Powers Hall.


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What I liked about Barca is that I have 5 email accounts. Barca keeps them straight. I have 5 books of addresses, several of them with several subgroups, and I use the calendar a bit. Because of my many email addresses, I like the New Mail folder under Special Folders, and I appreciate being able to look at the email in the On-Line folders if I'm too busy to deal with a lot of email. I get dozens of emails daily (legit ones). As you can tell, I am incredibly busy, holding down a job, being a volunteer editor for a fairly busy website of a political organization, and I write a lot under a pen name.
Is there a PIM that will:
- Import my mail, maintaining the separate folders and subfolders for each of my 5 email accounts?
- Will import my rather extensive and complicated address books
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Happy new year
The good people over at the Marxist Internet Archive have produced a neat selection of Communist quotes, no doubt as a happy new year present to Marxists with internet access and a penchant for quotes the world over... I picked a few at random out below...
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
Frederick Engels, The Principles of Communism (1847)
War unleashes – at the same time as the reactionary forces of the capitalist world – the generating forces of social revolution which ferment in its depths.
Rosa Luxemburg, In the Storm(1904)
Everybody talks about imperialism. But imperialism is merely monopoly capitalism.
V I Lenin, The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It(1917)
Generally speaking, art is an expression of man's need for an harmonious and complete life, that is to say, his need for those major benefits of which a society of classes has deprived him. That is why a protest against reality, either conscious or unconscious, active or passive, optimistic or pessimistic, always forms part of a really creative piece of work. Every new tendency in art has begun with rebellion.
Leon Trotsky, Art and Politics in Our Epoch(1938)


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The Mo, slang for moustache, and November come together each year for Movember.
Movember challenges men to change their appearance and the face of men's health by growing a moustache. The rules are simple, start Movember 1st clean-shaven and then grow a moustache for the entire month. The moustache becomes the ribbon for men's health, the means by which awareness and funds are raised for prostate cancer. Much like the commitment to run or walk for charity, the men of Movember commit to growing a moustache for 30 days.
The idea for Movember was sparked in 2003 over a few beers in Melbourne, Australia. The plan was simple – to bring the moustache back as a bit of a joke and do something for men's health. No money was raised in 2003, but the guys behind the Mo realized the potential a moustache had in generating conversations about men's health. Inspired by the women around them and all they had done for breast cancer, the Mo Bros set themselves on a course to create a global men's health movement.
In 2004 the campaign evolved and focused on raising awareness and funds for the number one cancer affecting men – prostate cancer. 432 Mo Bros joined the movement that year, raising $55,000 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia - representing the single largest donation they had ever received.
The Movember moustache has continued to grow year after year, expanding to Canada, the US, UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Spain, South Africa, the Netherlands and Finland.
Check out this #Movember effort to change the face of men's health http://t.co/lw7a87D via @movember
In 2009, global participation of Mo Bros and Mo Sistas climbed to 255,755, with over one million donors raising $47 Million for Movember's global beneficiary partners. We are proud to announce that last year's Canadian campaign was the second largest in the world behind Australia, with 35,156 Mo Bros and Mo Sistas coming together to raise $7.8 million for Prostate Cancer Canada.
Go to the Movember Website!


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Well-known and "in demand" for many years as one of Dallas' premier neighborhoods, Preston Hollow is conveniently located in the center of the city. It is renowned for its tree-lined streets, winding "country" roads, magnificent homes and beautifully manicured lawns. Over the past decade, the resurgence of young families building and renovating homes in this neighborhood has created an environment where excellent private schools, active families and a very short commute to downtown Dallas combine for a highly-prized location and quality of life. Stylish shops, new and trendy restaurants and popular spas are frequented by Preston Hollow's new and distinguished families plus successful professionals alike.
Preston Hollow is bounded by Forest Lane to the north, Northwest Highway to the south, Inwood Road to the west and Hillcrest Road to the east. The approximate two-square mile area lying north of Northwest Highway, south of Walnut Hill Lane, east of Midway Road and west of Preston Road remains the essential original boundaries of the area, which is now termed Old Preston Hollow.
*Note: All room dimensions, including square footage data, are approximate and must be verified by the buyer.
The information contained herein is furnished by the owner to the best of his/her knowledge, but is subject to verification by the purchaser, and agent assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The sale offering is made subject to errors, omissions, change of price, prior sale, or withdrawal without notice. In accordance with the Law, this property is offered without respect to race, color, creed, national origin, sex, familial status or disability. This is not intended to solicit property currently listed.


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Sarah Goodyear
Sarah Goodyear is a Brooklyn-based contributing writer to CityLab. She's written about cities for a variety of publications, including Grist and Streetsblog.
Let's get one thing straight: Microsoft wasn't actually stupid enough to call their new GPS feature the "avoid ghetto" app when they applied for a patent. That term was apparently coined by a local Seattle TV station. But it immediately became the name of choice for a smartphone function that mines violent crime stats to help users avoid an "unsafe neighborhood."
The app isn't on the market yet, but it didn't take long for the Internet to come down hard on Microsoft. The Root called it "ludicrous." Jezebel wondered whether it was "dude-centric." Sarah E. Chinn, author of Technology and Racism, was quoted saying, "A more useful app would be for young black men to be able to map blocks with the highest risks of their being pulled over or stopped on the street by police."
All of these people make valid points. The app ignores the diversity of risk for different demographic groups. It's a blunt instrument that could lead to entire neighborhoods being stigmatized. It perpetuates stereotypes.
But here's what bothers me even more: I worry that this app (along with many others) heralds the death of street smarts.
Whatever happened to being able to look around you and use your eyes and ears (not to mention your nose) to determine whether you were somewhere safe or not?
Whatever happened to looking at the people on the sidewalk around you, and the businesses on a given street, and deciding whether this was a place you wanted to be or not?
I love my iPhone, too, but I don't need it to tell me which way the wind blows.
A few days ago, I was walking home with my 9-year-old son when I came upon a young woman standing in the middle of Cadman Plaza Park in Brooklyn, a block-wide island of green in the city's downtown. She was staring fixedly at her smartphone, which she held up in front of her as if using it to sense a magnetic field, or perhaps radioactive contamination.
As I passed, she turned to look at me suddenly, her face drawn and anxious. "Excuse me," she said. "Can you tell me which way to the Brooklyn Bridge?"
I turned around and pointed to the bridge entrance, which was in plain sight about 20 yards from where we were standing. "Thank you so much!" she said. "I just couldn't figure it out with my GPS!"
"Wow," said my kid as we continued on. "That's really sad."
Everywhere you go these days, people are waving their phones around like dowsing devices, trying to find a place to eat, or a subway stop, or a bookstore. Are they finding them? Yes. My question is, what are they not finding? What serendipitous journeys are they not taking?
I miss the notion that a city is something to be discovered through human senses, rather than digital devices. That we can track our progress by using physical landmarks. That we can follow our instincts around the next corner and stumble upon something entirely new. (And no, I definitely am not talking about downloading yet another app that would suggest ways that we can add "whimsy" to our peregrinations.)
What if we don't know where we're going? Well, we can always ask. The richness of urban experience is grounded in face-to-face human interaction. Not face-to-phone.
Eli Pariser, one of the founding forces behind MoveOn.org and author of The Filter Bubble, has written and spoken powerfully about the way that algorithms have narrowed our experience of the Internet,. As search engines continue to serve up results that reflect searches we've already made, we're more and more confined to a slowly and progressively narrower intellectual echo chamber. In a New York Times op-ed, Pariser wrote this:
Democracy depends on the citizen's ability to engage with multiple viewpoints; the Internet limits such engagement when it offers up only information that reflects your already established point of view. While it's sometimes convenient to see only what you want to see, it's critical at other times that you see things that you don't.
I'm worried that the same filter bubble is at work in our cities, that the grand tradition of flâneurism is being eroded by a rote navigation system bounded by maps and apps. As for who generates the data and who devises the algorithms behind those apps? Your phone won't give you that information.
We used to be able to track animals through the forest. Now we're creating an environment where we need Yelp to guide us to the nearest dim sum place. What does this mean for our future ability to find our way around? At the very least, it doesn't bode well for our self-confidence, our faith in our own ability to find our way through the urban landscape.
Sometimes, batteries run out. Signals fail. And sometimes, algorithms are flawed and reductive. If we keep this up, will we still know which way north is?
For now, I'm trying to keep my own GPS navigation to a minimum. And I'm teaching my kid how to get around town on the strength of his own brain.
Because no app loads as fast as the human mind.
Top image credit: Bobby Yip / Reuters
Often ranked as one of the deadliest cities in America, Camden, New Jersey, ended 2017 with its lowest homicide rate since the 1980s.
Two new studies have revived the long-running debate over how police respond to white criminal suspects versus African Americans.
Architects and planners have an obligation to protect health, safety and welfare through the spaces we design. As the George Floyd protests reveal, we've failed.
Despite new research on police brutality, we still have no idea whether violence toward African Americans is fueled by racial prejudice. That has consequences.
As national protesters call for defunding police, a movement for anti-racist "people's budgets" is spreading from LA to Nashville to Grand Rapids.


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The title may sound serious, but believe us, it's anything but
Recently we posted an entry about what not to say when applying for a job, so to follow up, here some stuff themed around working and office life.
- "Call centre manager" is boring and not attention catching, "chatty zombie pack leader" is. More classic job descriptions.
- "Dear Sir: with reference to the above, please refer to my below…". Amuse your boss, get a holiday.
- Don't you wish you could get those people who keep stealing borrowing your pens to return them just so you can jam it in their palms as a reminder to return that freaking pen? Well with these pens you won't need to. They'll always be returned, if borrowed at all.
- The other thing about office communicating apart from the fake "Hey, how's it going" and awkward silences is corporate speak! If you are one of those that uses phrases like "we are still optimistic things will feed through the sales and delivery pipeline", STOP IT! Or read this. Then these "live" additions from around the globe.
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GREENEVILLE, Tenn. – The King Lady Tornado golf team finished day one of the Tusculum Fall Classic in eighth place out of 11 teams. Elizabeth Swallow leads King after shooting a first round 80 at the Links Hills Country Club.
Swallow, a freshman from Berkshire, England, paced the Lady Tornado with an 18th overall finish, finishing the back nine strongly with a 38. Her first round 80 (42-38) on the par-72 course was the best among the King squad in her first collegiate event.
Both Anna Walker (Marion, Va.) and Kerby Jones (Franklin, Tenn.) led after nine holes, turning in a pair of 41 scorecards and finished behind Swallow after completing their first run-throughs of the course. Walker turned in an 84 (41-43) to finished tied for 32nd place and Jones just behind her with an 85 (41-44) and share of 36th place.
Cortnee Young shot 44 on both the front and back nine for a first round score of 88 while senior Esther Gandarias shot a first round 90 (48-42).
In King's first event of the year, they find themselves in eighth place with a team scorecard of 337. Converse College and North Greenville both stand in front of the Lady Tornado in a tie for sixth 12 strokes ahead while Catawba College sits in fifth after a 323 first round score.
Lincoln Memorial (308) currently holds the lead after one round of play while UNC-Pembroke and host Tusculum College sit three strokes back in a tie for second place.
The second round of the two-day tournament will begin Tuesday morning from Link Hills Country Club in Greenville, Tenn. Live stats are being provided as scorecards come in and available on www.KingTornado.com.


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Māori people have been cooking with ingredients from New Zealand's native forests for more than a thousand years.
Pre European Māori Ingredients
Māori brought edible plants from their homeland, including kūmara, yam and taro. Along with root vegetables they also introduced kiore (the Polynesian rat) and kurī (the Polynesian dog), both valuable sources of meat.
Maori hunted a wide range of birds (i.e. mutton bird and moa), collected seafood and gathered native ferns, vines, palms, fungi, berries, fruit and seeds.
Introduced ingredients
When Pākehā (European) settlers arrived in New Zealand, Māori embraced the new foods they brought, and began cultivating them. These crops included wheat, potatoes, maize, carrots, cabbage and other vegetables. Māori also began raising sheep, pigs, goats and poultry.
Since the late 20th century traditional Māori foods have been prepared in new ways to suit the modern palette, enduring Māori cuisine continues to be enjoyed.
Flaxseed oil
Cold pressed flaxseed oil, made from the native New Zealand flax, is an unrefined oil, nothing is added or removed. It is a great source of Omega 3 and six essential fatty acids, Omega 9 antioxidants and vitamins.
Mānuka was named 'tea tree' by Captain James Cook and English botanist Joseph Banks when they found it in Mercury Bay in 1769. Mānuka wood chips can be used to add flavour when smoking food, but it is best known as the source of mānuka honey which is used to produce a growing list of products with outstanding medicinal and antiseptic properties.
Pikopiko (fern shoots)
Most of the wild fern varieties that grow in damp shady areas of New Zealand's native bush are carcinogenic - of 312 different varieties, only seven varieties are edible. The edible fern fronds, known as bush asparagus, are pale green with brown speckles. Picked before the leaves unfold, the fronds add a unique 'forest' flavour to dishes.
Korengo is seaweed which is either used in its raw state, or dried and used to season various dishes.
Pūhā, also known as sow thistle, is a green-dark green plant often found growing as a weed. The stem contains a milky coloured sap. Eaten raw, the stem and leaves have a bitter taste. Cooking does not remove the bitterness but it can be reduced by rubbing the puha plants together (vigorously) under running water. Pūhā is traditionally served cooked with pork.
Horopito, also known as the New Zealand pepper tree, can be used to replace conventional pepper in cooked dishes.
Kawakawa trees are mostly found in coastal areas of New Zealand in damp bush. The heart shaped leaves are dried, ground and then used to season, adding a rich forest aroma with a light minted flavour.
Kōwhitiwhiti (watercress)
Kōwhitiwhiti or watercress grows on the edge of fresh water rivers and creeks around New Zealand. Eaten raw or cooked, it has a mild mustard flavour.
Māori still follow the traditional Polynesian practice of cooking for large numbers in a hāngi. This earth oven or pit uses hot stones to create steam which cooks the food – to find out more about the hāngi click here.
īnanga (Whitebait)
Whitebait fishing was a well-established tradition before European settlement. To this day eager anglers wade in the water during spring to net fish. Try a whitebait patty to taste this delicacy.
Rēwena bread
Rēwena paraoa (potato bread) tastes sweet and has a slight sour/tang flavour to it, a result of the long period of fermentation it undergoes. The bread wonderfully textured and flavoursome.
Kūtai (mussels)
New Zealand Greenshell™ mussels are the ultimate health food. They are a good source of protein and are low in fat and calories. As well as being particularly flavoursome, they are also a very good source of omega-3.
Pāua (abalone)
Pāua is recognisable for its beautiful blue/green, iridescent shell and thin, black surface covering its creamy-white flesh in its natural state. Pāua is considered taonga (treasure), a gift from the god of the sea. It is highly valued for its firm meaty flesh and savoury, sea flavour. Its shell is used for jewellery and incorporated in traditional Maori carvings, usually to represent the eyes.
Tio (oysters)
Bluff Oysters are a prized delicacy in New Zealand and many of the fishers who catch them have lived on the sea for generations. The season to try these tasty morsels is from March until August.
Kina (sea urchin)
Kina is a traditional food of the Māori, eaten raw this is a delicacy. The traditional method to eat a kina is to crack open the kina shell with a rock and take out the roe by hand.
Tipa (scallops)
Scallops are more than 80 percent protein – which makes them another healthy food choice. The soft fleshy texture and delicately mild sweet flavour of scallops are enjoyed by even those who are not particularly fond of fish or other shellfish. The season for fresh scallops in New Zealand runs from October through to March.
Kōura are fresh water crayfish closer in size to a king prawn than lobster.
Known elsewhere as sweet potato, New Zealand kūmara is particularly sweet and grows in the semi-tropical regions of the North Island. It is available in red, gold or orange varieties.
Tītī (muttonbird)
The origin of the name refers to the mutton-like taste of the flesh, and possibly the woolly appearance of its young. The bird is the size of a very small duck. Due to a very short season (1st April until 31st May) these birds are very expensive to purchase and are only available for a short period of time.
Kānga kōpiro (fermented corn)
Also known colloquially as "Māori porridge", Kānga Pīrau is decidedly an acquired taste. Kānga Pīrau is prepared by putting corn cobs into sacks which are left in a clean running stream for up to six weeks until they have fermented. The corn kernels are then stripped from the cob, mashed and then cooked just like porridge and served either hot or cold.
Huhu grubs
Huhu grubs were part of a traditional Māori diet. A good fossick in fallen logs may reveal a wriggling colony. When eaten raw huhu grubs have the taste and consistency of peanut butter.


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9 comments:
- Voie de Vie said...
Well, I'll look forward to the roses ... but the tulips are rather awesome. :)
- May 4, 2011 at 2:42 p.m.
- B said...
At the last place I lived, I had a rose garden. I had to leave it behind when I moved, and I've been hankering after it ever since. I have hopes that maybe later this summer, when things settle down a little (we're in the throes of planning multiple family weddings) I might be able to prepare another one, but in the meantime I'll have to be content to enjoy yours!
- May 4, 2011 at 2:42 p.m.
- Bonnie said...
Hooray for you! That's wonderful! I had a soil test done last year, and they let me pick three things I'd like to plant, and they they'd report on those three things. When I said roses, I received the automated equivalent of, "There's no way in hell your yard will support roses." Hope you have much, much more luck!
- May 4, 2011 at 3:31 p.m.
- tamara said...
There's really nothing quite as heady as the smell of freshly turned earth after months of hibernating indoors...sun on one's cheeks, dirt under one's nails, birdsong in one's ears, and a smile on one's lips...ahhhh, Spring!
- May 4, 2011 at 8:24 p.m.
- Irene Kristin said...
Reading about your gardening makes me kind of homesick for my own garden. I'm looking forward to being "reunited" with it in August. :-) For the beeing I'm stuck in the library - looking out on the scottish spring, and listening (trying not to sing along too loudly) to Daisies. Happy gardening!
- May 5, 2011 at 10:15 a.m.
- Mary Burke said...
What kind are your roses? I have three floribundas as well - "The Fairy" (x 2) and a white just like her called "Alba Meidiland". The blooms are tiny (smaller than a loonie!) but very, very bountiful. Good luck with your rose garden - I love mine!
- May 5, 2011 at 2:50 p.m.
- Val said...
Can you tell me what kind of flowers the white ones are..they are hanging their faces down a bit..they are lovely as are the rest of the spring flowers...
- May 6, 2011 at 7:31 p.m.
- Nina said...
Love the promise of the rose garden! We live in coastal Maine and I decided to do it the easy way and plant rosa rugosas along the house. Cheaters rose bushes, but awfully pretty and they smell great also!
- May 7, 2011 at 7:20 p.m.
- Unknown said...
Val - The white flowers are Leucojum, commonly known as Spring/Summer Snowflakes.You can read more about them here.
I had never heard about them myself until I took up residence here - they came with the house. I am glad that they did.
- May 8, 2011 at 10:41 a.m.


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Nick Iannelli, wtop.com
WASHINGTON — Sequestration has spurred a lot of grim conversation about federal job loss.
The broad spending reductions that kicked in last Friday may claim thousands of positions in the D.C. area, and they are just the latest in a series of budget cuts affecting the region in recent years.
But help is apparently on the way from the private sector.
A new study cited in the Gazette shows cutbacks will likely claim about 4,000 federal government jobs in Montgomery County alone by 2017.
However, the private sector is adapting and compensating for the loss.
According to the George Mason University report, over that same period, new private jobs will total around 44,000.
Montgomery County jobs numbers have also caught up to pre-recession levels in recent months.


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This week, the Humble Weekly Sale comes with 11 albums from composer Jim Guthrie... But...
If you pay more than the average price (now $3.62) you will also get Indie Game: the Movie (which is not a game), and "Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP", available for all platforms, including Linux.
We've already seen this game in previous bundles, but if you haven't bought it yet, this could be the right moment!
- Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP: Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP delivers a completely fresh adventure gaming experience, defying conventions to develop a unique kind of storytelling. The plot is unveiled in "sessions," each of which involves traversing a mythical realm, using your sword to battle, and evoking sworcery to solve puzzles. Every scene overflows with rich graphic and auditory detail, featuring distinctive artwork by Superbrothers Inc. and music and sound design by Jim Guthrie.
So, what are you waiting for? Don't be stupid and be quick, this bundle ends in 4 days!


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INFS6321 - Enterp Transact Process Syst
Fall 2019
This course focuses on the CICS Enterprise Transaction Processing System and CICS COBOL applications. CICS architecture, online resource definition (CEDA), CSD data sets, and legacy CICS resource tables are presented. Students will design, prepare (DFHMAPS) and code a BMS mapset to generate physical and symbolic maps. Using a pseudo-conversational and modular style, students will develop, prepare (DFHYITVL), and test CICS COBOL VSAM and DB2 applications using the CICS EXEC and EXEC SQL APIs. Popular CICS-supplied transactions, e.g., CESN, CESF, CEMT, CECI, and CEDA will be reviewed. Using CICS as an HTTP Server to interface with a WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and WebSphere MQ will be introduced.
Prerequisites: INFS6130, INFS6320 and INFS6242
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In the last part of my Land of Fire and Ice blogpost series, we will have a look at some of Iceland 's magnificent waterfalls.
Easily Iceland's most popular one is Gullfoss. Being quite close to the capital Reykjavik, it was the first one of the many I visited and emotionally an intense one... I would hereby like to dedicate the image above to an anonymous lady who died beside me, while watching the power of nature, August 01, 2012. RIP
The Hvita river plunges into a two step waterfall of 32m.
Ofaerufoss in Central Iceland is a far less popular one which can be reached after a 45min hike along the river bed. It used to have a spectacular natural bridge over the falls, which collapsed in the early 90's due to a rockslide.
Despite its limited volume of water, Svartifoss is a very popular waterfall in the Skaftafell National Park.
Its black hexagonal basaltic columns, which regularly fall off, make it for a very different waterfall experience.
Along the South coast we find Skogafoss. With a drop of 60m (200ft) one of the higher ones in Iceland and surely worth a visit. Not wanting to photograph this piece of nature with hundreds of tourist in front of it, I decided to do it late at night. I do like how the few people give it a good sense of scale.
The best for last... The fact that one can pass behind the fall, makes Seljalandsfoss very special!
Hoping for the sun to break through the clouds, I waited close to 2 hours and and ended up being soaking wet...
It was an emotional moment, when the sun eventually broke through minutes before sunset. A few days later I developed a heavy cold, but it was surely worth the wait!
Iceland, we were strangers when we first met, but after one week it looks like we will be friends for life! I won't say good bye but see you later!
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Berkeley Unified's ex-Superintendent Tells All
Editior's Note: Who knew? Berkeley Unified School District's ex-Superintendent Jack McLaughlin has written a roman-a-clef about Our Town (but no competition with Thornton Wilder, I imagine.) For the full details, here's the press release we got from the "supported self-publishing provider:"
Author Reveals the Inner Spirit of Berkeley, Calif.Anyone who'd like to try their hand at a review should call and ask for a copy.
Jack McLaughlin pens new installment in trilogy centered around Berkeley culture, influence.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (PRWEB) November 09, 2012
Author Jack McLaughlin invites readers to experiences the colorful citizens of Berkeley, Calif., their issues and attitudes in his new novel, "mR. bERZERKELEY II: Big Games, Big Lies, Big Decisions" (published by iUniverse), the second installment in his latest trilogy.
"I wanted to create a series that expresses my love for Berkeley, Berkeley citizens, Berkeley institutions, Berkeley lore, Berkeley mythology and memories of the sixties and provides insights into situations and conflicts faced by a multitude of individuals in a humorous, light-read atmosphere," McLaughlin explains.
In this lighthearted spoof, McLaughlin brings the 1960s into the 20th century. His story centers around a mythical, naked mayor and a cadre of fictitious boarding-house characters embroiled in political, controversial, sexual, mysterious conflicts.
A cartoonist, a naïve freshman, a reformed prostitute, lesbian lovers, a sarcastic cook, the deformed son of a university bigwig and a Kansas politician react to the naked mayor's antics and life in Berkeley, providing a deeper glance into situations many have faced.
"mR. bERZERKELEY II" offers readers a cheerful view of the world that may differ from their own in this time of fiscal, political, religious and international crises. McLaughlin's series brings together outrageous characters in edgy situations and lets the reader experience fantasies and freedoms unavailable to most in real life.
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Jack McLaughlin worked as a public school superintendant[sic] for 33 years and received many honors, including the 1999 American Association of School Administrators California Superintendant [sic] of the Year. His 17-year residence in Berkeley, involvement in all aspects of their political landscape, knowledge of all racial, ethnic and sexual preference issues and intimate knowledge of Berkeley's fabric serve as the foundation for the books in his mR. bERZERKELEY series. He is also the author of "mR. bERZERKELEY: The Naked Mayor of Berkeley" and "The POLAR Principle."
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Frank Reiff necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 16 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
Owner/ Founder of publicspace.net, an Indie Mac Software Development Company. 38 years old, from Luxembourg, PhD in Computer Science from the UK, after 6 years spell in "industry", I became fully independent in 2006. Been working on indie Mac software since 1993.
My products include A Better Finder Rename, A Better Finder Attributes, MacBreakZ, Vitamin-R, "The Big Mean Folder Machine".. and soon Noise Machine.
Typical Mac users, mostly creative professionals, mostly between 20 and 45, looking to become more productive at work.
What are they like: they are cool, love design and have little patience for ugly or badly designed things in general :-)
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* full color 512x512 application icon
* 18x18 monochrome status item icon
The application icon should be delivered in both .icns format (optimized for different resolutions) and in either fully layered .psd or .ai formats.
The monochrome status item icon is to be delivered in .png format and if applicable .psd or .ai form. While smaller it is equally important to the flashier larger icon.
The application will be called "Noise Machine" and is a white noise generator designed to block out workplace noise by playing "white", "brown", "pink" noise and other similar sounds (waterfalls, ocean waves, air conditioning units, etc.).
I have no fixed ideas of what the icons should be like. Funny is okay. So is serious.


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I am trying to understand energy levels of electron configurations. I visited the NIST web site and discovered that the notation used here are called term symbols.
After reading corresponding wikipedia entry I worked through the carbon example in the "Term symbols for an electron configuration" section. So it appears to me that each of the $\binom{t}{e}$ microstates [(in this case $\binom{6}{2}=15$), where $t$ is number of slots in the outside subshell, and $e$ is the number of electrons] will each have an assigned energy level, or term symbol - since in the end there are 15 1s distributed in three different matrices, but only 5 possible term symbols (1 term symbol for 5 microstates, 3 term symbols for 9 microstates, and 1 term symbol for 1 microstate). However, I don't see how a given microstate maps to a specific term symbol.
For example, $M_L = 0$ and $M_S = 0$ is true for 3 microstates, but how to determine which term symbols correspond to them? Does it even make sense to do this?
Thanks gigacyan, for the detailed answer. By the wording I am not sure at the end if you mean that $M_L = 0$ and $M_S = 0$ can only have the $^1S$ term. If that is true, then the following must be totally off, but I will take a shot anyway:
So are you saying that ANY given microstate cannot be assigned a term symbol (energy level), or that just certain microstates (such as the $M_L = 0$ and $M_S = 0$ case above) cannot be assigned since there are more than one term symbol possibility?
For example, it seems that when there is only one microstate for a given $M_L$ and $M_S$ combination, it is uniquely determined as long as it falls into a matrix that has only one term symbol - for carbon, say $M_L = 2$ and $M_S = 0$ (row 7 of 15 in the microstate table) then it falls into the 5x1 table, which must be $^1D_2$.
But when there is only one microstate for a given $M_L$ and $M_S$ combination but it falls into a matrix with more than one term symbol - for carbon, say $M_L = 1$ and $M_S = 1$ (row 1 of 15 in the microstate table), it falls into the 3x3 matrix, which means that this microstate must be one of $^3P_2$, $^3P_1$, or $^3P_0$, but it is not known which. Is this correct?


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Steverson to teach 'selective aggressiveness'
Former big leaguer spent past two years as A's Minor League hitting coordinator
CHICAGO -- Todd Steverson delivered a mission statement of over one minute when asked Thursday morning about his basic philosophy being brought in as the new White Sox hitting coach.
One or two comments, though, really stood out as the basis of the team's quest to turn around one of Major League Baseball's worst offenses in 2013.
"Selective aggressiveness," said Steverson during a conference call to officially announce his hiring. "Be aggressive to your pitch within the zone.
"Nothing really good happens for a hitter outside the strike zone," Steverson added. "Period."
This hiring of Steverson to replace Jeff Manto, who was relieved of his duties on Sept. 28 after two seasons at the post, was a fairly extensive and comprehensive process as described by general manager Rick Hahn. It began with a "very expansive list of candidates," according to Hahn, including several individuals who already had held this job at the big league level.
There also were names recommended by baseball parties that reached out to the White Sox. Steverson's candidacy came up as the White Sox researched certain organizations where they admired their approach to hitting as well as their continuity of instruction from the Minors to the Majors.
In examining Oakland, a team that finished third in the American League in runs scored and fifth in on-base percentage, the A's Minor League roving hitting instructor was brought into the mix.
After assistant to the general manager Jeremy Haber put together a dossier of about 16 or 17 candidates, thorough research by the front office narrowed those candidates down to six. Hahn and assistant general manager Buddy Bell sat down with them for interviews, with White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, executive vice president Ken Williams and manager Robin Ventura joining the mix for the couple of ensuing finalists who came to Chicago. The White Sox offered Steverson the job on the same night they met with him.
"We came away very impressed with his clear and simple approach to swing mechanics, as well as his devotion to have a plan and approach to every at-bat and pitch to pitch," said Hahn. "It became fairly evident he was the unanimous choice after we sat down in Chicago."
"It's part his personality and part his knowledge and passion and ability and belief to get something out of people," Ventura said. "Those are the first things about Todd that really jumped out."
The White Sox finished fourth in runs scored during Manto's first year as hitting coach in 2012, a season during which the White Sox sat atop the AL Central for 117 days prior to a late-September fade. They were the only AL team with fewer than 600 runs scored in '13, a season during which the White Sox lost 99 games.
Their walk total of 411, as well as their 237 doubles, left them last in the AL. They finished second-to-last in on-base percentage and OPS. So it was time for a new voice and a new philosophy to address the White Sox hitters, a voice belonging to a man who spent the last 10 seasons in the Oakland organization, including two years as first-base coach and four seasons managing in its Minor League system.
Studying a successful Oakland offense serves as an admirable approach by the White Sox in the overall hitting coach hiring procedure. Then again, the White Sox don't have the same sort of hitters as Oakland, leaving it up to Steverson to impart a consistent philosophy.
His goal is to talk with or meet with every White Sox hitter prior to the start of Spring Training in February in order to get an idea of what they like to do and where they would like to improve. He also has watched video of Jose Abreu, the young slugger from Cuba who agreed to a six-year, $68-million deal with the team.
"A strong man. A very strong man," said Steverson of Abreu.
Abreu also has a good idea concerning his own swing and has the ability to hit the ball up the middle and the other way, proving to be more than just a power hitter per Steverson's impression after watching video of the right-handed hitter. Abreu should fit well in Steverson's plan of selective aggressiveness.
"Have a good educated plan and attack when you go to the plate," Steverson said. "Put yourself into good, solid position to recognize pitches, recognize strikes, and lay off balls to continue your at-bat.
"Hitting is confidence and belief with an ability to react and execute accordingly. Believe in that confidence and what you came up there to do. A hitter's job is to swing at strikes, and a pitcher's job is to throw strikes. So, take a walk when presented to you, but don't go up looking for a walk.
"Grind out an at-bat," Steverson said. "If you were to put a time clock on the game, it's the 27 outs you have. Maximize those 27 outs with a good mindset. That ability to get on base creates more plate appearances. More plate appearances mean more opportunities to score runs."


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The aroma that hits you when you open the door and enter the Jive Jerky store is a delectable dance of smokiness, dried meats, and spices that are interwoven into a whole equaling a lot more than the sum total of the individual parts.
The aroma that hits you when you open the door and enter the Jive Jerky store is a delectable dance of smokiness, dried meats, and spices that are interwoven into a whole equaling a lot more than the sum total of the individual parts.
The countertop is lined with jars of freshly cured jerky in flavors like teriyaki, spicy garlic, and buffalo wing sauce, and ranging in degrees of spiciness from the completely unseasoned "Plain Jane" to "You Pay Twice," an ultra-hot flavor only for the most daring customers.
Behind the counter are four large dehydrators filled with the latest batches of pork and beef jerky, and standing in front of them you'll see Tim O'Grady, the mastermind and chef responsible for what is quite possibly the tastiest jerky you'll ever have the chance to eat.
O'Grady, who was born in Milwaukee but has lived in the Poconos since his early teens, opened his shop on the corner of Main and Church Streets in Moscow in early June, and said that the business is doing even better than he had anticipated.
O'Grady began making jerky at home for his own consumption when he was in his early 20's, but his work as a musician and a corporate consultant for entertainment companies didn't leave much time for developing recipes. When being out on the road for work became tiresome, O'Grady decided to return to the Poconos and to focus on making jerky full-time.
Jive Jerky starts with high quality Angus beef and cuts of pork from Schiff's. O'Grady cuts the meat into strips by hand, discarding as much fat as possible.
The strips of meat are then marinated in seasoning for one to two days depending on the flavors used. The marinated meat is placed on racks in the dehydrators where it dehydrates at 165 degrees for a day or so with the exact drying time determined by the flavor and type of marinade that was used.
The three day process reduces one hundred pounds of wet meat into forty pounds of savory jerky.
O'Grady's website (www.jivejerky.com) discusses the process and ingredients used to make most commercial brands of jerky products and contrasts it with the way his product is made.
"A lot more care is put into Jive Jerky than other brands. When you go into a gas station and buy jerky there are silica gel packets in with the meat. I think it's a real turn-off to have a poisonous substance in the same package as my food," he remarked.
O'Grady continued, "All our meat is hand cut. There is a lot of time put into it. And when you buy jerky from a gas station or some other stores, who knows how long it's been sitting around. Everything here is very fresh and has been on the shelf for 72 hours at most."
O'Grady pointed out that commercial brands of jerky come in only a few standard flavors, but Jive Jerky offers both the standard favorites and many unique flavors.
He said, "We make about 20 different flavors of jerky and usually have twelve or fifteen in stock. We swap the flavors in and out so there are different kinds on different days."
Among the best-selling flavors are steak seasoning, teriyaki, the super-spicy "You Pay It Twice," and "Swinesational" maple pork.
"Everyone has their favorites, but they all sell. I can't make them fast enough, actually. I wish there were more hours in the day!" O'Grady stated.
Jive Jerky is sold in the store in three ounce packets or in bulk, and online in three-ounce packets. The website points out that one ounce of jerky provides 20 percent of an adult's daily protein requirement, as well as half of the necessary amount of B vitamins and 1.5 mg of iron.
Also available online and in the store are all-natural fruit leathers made by O'Grady's girlfriend, Fawn Dellavalle. The fruit leathers contain only two ingredients, pureed fruit and agave syrup, and are made at the shop in flavors like strawberry, banana, and kiwi.
O'Grady recently began selling Tail Waggers Jerky for Dogs, which he makes from the meat trimmings left behind during the first step of the jerky-making process.
O'Grady explained, "I take the scraps of what we're making, grind it up, and dehydrate it. There's no seasoning in it. I have a diabetic dog so I have to watch what he eats, and Tail Waggers is just 100 percent meat and won't upset his diet."
With four dogs in his household and a family tradition of involvement with service animals, O'Grady has committed to donating a portion of Jive Jerky's sales to America's VetDogs, an organization that provides service dogs to disabled veterans. O'Grady's parents, Dennis and Kay, foster dogs in their home and socialize them to become service animals and guide dogs.
Jive Jerky in specially marked packages is available at the local American Legion and other venues, and a portion of the proceeds is donated to American's VetDogs.
Jive Jerky is located at 100 South Main Street in Moscow. The store is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., but O'Grady said, "I'm generally here later, so if you see me in the building, then I'm open." Parking is available behind the store or across the street in the municipal lot. For more information, visit the website, call 236-5957, or visit the Facebook page.


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A fantasy relationship may be turning into a nightmare for a pop star couple.
Pop star Christina Milian and rapper/producer husband The Dream have hit a rough patch in their relationship after a series of photos surfaceed showing the hip-hop star getting intimate with his female assistant while on a vacation in the Caribbean, according to People.
Milian took to Twitter to express her displeasure over the episode.
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"Whatever you think, believe it," she posted to her account.
The 28-year-old singer became a mom for the first time in February, giving birth to a daughter, Violet.


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- You're both strongly influenced by Shania Twain?
- You can really rock a minidress?
- You're secretly a singer/songwriter in Nashville?
- You've been interrupted by Kanye West while accepting an award?
- You both have long legs?
- Who's Taylor Swift??!
Well, it's not really me that has anything in common with Ms. Swift -- except maybe the long legs? -- but one of the quilts I recently featured here on the blog shares her sense of style.
Let me introduce you to Leigh Ann, the creative mind behind my favorite new blog, Spincushion. Leigh Ann recently contacted me to see if I would mind if one of my quilts was featured on her blog as part of her Cover Quilts series. I replied "of course" (because I am always flattered when others want to feature my photos on their blog), but I must admit that I wasn't very familiar with the Spincushion blog.
Well, one peek and I was hooked. The Cover Quilts series is only one of Leigh Ann's ingenious creations. Color Cues, If a Quilt Lived Here, and Swatchtower are just a few of her other series of posts. High on style and beautiful imagery and low on a lot of unnecessary words -- I can probably take a few tips from Leigh Ann on this one -- her blog is pure eye candy for the fabric lover. I hope you'll check it out.
Here's my Cover Quilt. First, the cover ...
... and then the quilt photo that so magically complements the magazine cover. Isn't it cool how the colors and style can be presented in two totally different -- yet surprisingly similar -- ways?
What a fun game. Do you have any Cover Quilts in your collection?


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LITTLE ROCK — Interpreting a Bret Bielema post-game quote from Gainesville, the jury was split on whether the indictment fell on the previous coaching staff or the current receivers or both.
LITTLE ROCK — Interpreting a Bret Bielema post-game quote from Gainesville, the jury was split on whether the indictment fell on the previous coaching staff or the current receivers or both.
On second thought, it doesn't matter. The point is Javontee Herndon, Julian Horton, Keon Hatcher and the others must catch the footballs they touch. Far from perfect, Brandon Allen's throws against Florida were close enough on many occasions, a point that Bielema addressed after the 30-10 loss.
" … before we got here, they supposedly recruited a lot of receivers that could catch the ball and we've got to execute it," he said. "We've got to catch the ball and finish the routes and execute the throws."
Later, protect Allen was added to the explanation of his 17-of-41 performance vs. Florida. The sophomore would be the first to admit he didn't deliver, but a couple of blind-side whacks in the back will make one skittish. As expected, Florida went after Allen much more aggressively than Texas A&M the previous week. South Carolina's approach today will be closer to the Gators' than the Aggies.
Although only sacked a couple of times, Allen was hit on eight plays. Offensive line coach Sam Pittman said half the hits occurred because linemen missed assignments and the other half because linemen were whipped by the players they were supposed to block. Whatever the reason, Allen took a pounding.
Florida's defensive front might be the best in the SEC, but Arkansas' offensive line will be under the gun again this week, particularly if Jadeveon Clowney plays at his best.
As for Herndon, Horton, and the rest, Arkansas fans were spoiled by their recent predecessors — guys like Cobi Hamilton, Greg Childs, Jarius Wright and Joe Adams, who pretty much caught everything. I suppose the current crop performs well in practice and the only personal analogy is that the putting stroke is better on the practice green when no one is around than it is on the course when a putt means something and an opponent is lurking.
D'Arthur Cowan, who suffered a broken bone in his foot in August, caught his first pass of the season at Florida and could be more of a factor this week.
Rehashing Florida, there is a tendency to focus on the offense — including 30 yards rushing in the final three quarters — but the defense will face a more complete offense than it did in Gainesville. In a league with the Heisman Trophy winner, a two-time national champion, the SEC's all-time passing leader and a quarterback whose NFL draft stock is on the rise, South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw gets short shrift.
He is a very competent college quarterback and tough as nails. A week after leaving the game with a shoulder injury, Shaw was 17-of-20 for 262 yards and nine carries for another 50. He's hitting more than 68 percent of his passes with no interceptions in 96 attempts and has rushed for almost 1,400 yards in his career.
When Shaw was injured, South Carolina put the UCF game in the hands of running back Mike Davis, who responded with 26 carries for 167 yards. He topped 100 again last week and, as a result, has been added to the Maxwell Award watch list.
Both Shaw and Davis will benefit from the absence of Arkansas' best cornerback, Will Hines, and the fact that the Razorbacks were still shuffling the starting linebackers a week ago.
Some believers in Arkansas have cited South Carolina's so-called road woes, winning at Central Florida by three and losing at Georgia. Shaw only threw two passes before he was injured at UCF and Georgia running back Todd Gurley was carrying 30 times a game when South Carolina played in Athens.
The winner might not score 30 today, but Shaw and defense are on the side of South Carolina.


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As the astronomical spring rolled into the Northern Hemisphere March 20, it felt anything except that for Minnesota farmers.
Sub-zero wind chills and a foot of snow is blanketing the state's highly productive corn and soybean fields. Combined with a colder than normal temperature outlook over the next two weeks (temperatures won't escape the 30's through March 29), odds are in place for a delayed corn planting season.
This is in sharp contrast to 80 degree days this time of year in 2012, and concern that it actually was too warm.
"This is what farmers are worried about," says Ed Usset, University of Minnesota ag economist. "It's too cold. Even when the snows melt, soil temperatures have to warm up. Producers are worried about getting in too late. The last three days are as wintry as any we've had all winter."
On the bright side, Usset adds, snow cover almost guarantees that crops will have enough moisture to get started. Furthermore, for southern Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas, a number of storms have moved through the last four to six weeks, Usset notes. "Maybe the pattern has changed."
Usset gives a slight uptick to corn acres in the state for 2013 over last year. For two reasons: economics favor corn somewhat, and producers had a good corn year in 2012.
He sees little acres shift in the primary corn/soybean belt in the southern part, but acreage could be bumped up in northern Minnesota, although farmland is less productive there for corn and soybeans, as well as North Dakota.
Key reason why: producers in northern Minnesota had one of their best years ever for corn yields in 2012. "They got rain," Usset says, which was in sharp contrast to the heart of the Corn Belt.
Statewide, however, he gives only a slight edge to corn in acreage, in part because of challenges in growing continuous corn and what new research shows. "There is an increasing concern among farmers about continuous corn," Usset says. As a result, he looks for more to stick with a classic corn/soybean rotation.
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Stumbled upon a nice piece from the Editor of Cricinfo.com, Sambit Bal.
Cricinfo - Blogs - From the Editor - An unhealthy obsession with the Ashes
I have to admit I am in agreement with the Editor's views there. The hue and cry raised by the British broadsheets and tabloids carry no merit and in fact is hypocritical and myopic. How conveniently the forget that not only English players like Strauss benefited from playing in domestic cricket of the countries England toured, but also that in not so distant past, touring teams used to play atleast four to five first class matches before playing a test match. And there is nothing documented to my knowledge that such exposure evened the home advantage to nil.I am staggered at the way large sections of the English cricket establishment and even the English media have managed to work themselves up over Kent signing Stuart Clark for the first part of the next summer.
Not only is it a needless distraction, but it also reeks of hypocrisy. Have they forgotten the generosity New Zealand extended to them by allowing Jimmy Anderson to play for Auckland to gain match practice during Englands last tour there?
And this quote from Andrew Strauss is a bit rich: "It's very easy for the counties to be short-sighted and worry about their next championship game and season From an England team's point of view it's important we all need to buy into the fact that an England team performing well helps everyone, including the counties." He was the other beneficiary in New Zealand, playing five games for Northern Districts.
Both sides, particularly English team has been bleating about the Ashes from a long time back. It is as if the intervening test series were some sort of "practise" games to build up momentum for the coveted urn. Times have a changed.


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In a normal, functioning governmental system, important public policy measures are introduced as individual bills, public input is obtained through hearings, and the measure is openly debated by legislators. Since we no longer appear to have such a system of government, important policy issues are tacked onto spending bills, and our government leaders rely on confrontational strategies and parliamentary gamesmanship to bend others to their will.
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Five veteran San Francisco police officers and a former officer faced federal corruption charges Thursday after a three-year investigation that began when the city's public defender released surveillance videos appearing to show officers abusing and stealing from residential hotel dwellers.
The grand jury indictments allege that after the FBI and San Francisco police launched a probe in March 2011, they learned three of the officers had stolen a batch of seized marijuana two years earlier. One of those officers, Reynaldo Vargas, delivered the pot to a couple of street informants, told them to sell it and then took a split of the proceeds, federal prosecutors said.
The indictments were unsealed Thursday. They represent one of the biggest scandals to hit the police force since the Fajitagate case, which stemmed from a 2002 fight between three off-duty officers and two men over a bag of fajitas and led to allegations of a cover-up - but no criminal convictions.
Three of the officers charged this week face accusations directly related to the residential hotel searches that were brought to light by city Public Defender Jeff Adachi.
Officers Arshad Razzak, 41, Richard Yick, 36, and Raul Eric Elias, 44, all formerly assigned to the Southern Police Station, are accused of conspiring to threaten and intimidate residents of single-room occupancy hotels by entering units without legal justification by using a master key.
Razzak and Yick also are accused of falsifying police incident reports, federal prosecutors said.
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Sgt. Ian Furminger, 47, Officer Edmond Robles, 46, and Vargas, 45, of Palm Desert (Riverside County), engaged in "multiple criminal conspiracies," including dealing marijuana, stealing a $500 Apple gift card and other valuables from suspects, and stealing money, drugs and other items that were seized on behalf of the city, their indictment said.
Vargas, who had served 13 years on the force when he was fired in May 2012, used the Apple gift card to buy an iPhone and an iPod Nano at an Apple Store in San Francisco in March 2009, authorities said. They said that transaction happened three weeks before the marijuana deal with the informants.
Elias has been with the department for 12 years, Robles for 22 years, Yick for 13 years and Razzak for 19 years. Furminger, also a 19-year veteran, was charged with extorting property from an individual, but the indictment didn't provide details underlying the charge.
Vargas, who turned himself in after the indictment was unsealed, pleaded not guilty before a federal magistrate Thursday afternoon and was released on a $50,000 bond.
The five other defendants are expected to appear in court Friday.
Robles and an attorney for Elias declined to comment. Lawyers for the other three officers did not return messages. Each of the five officers has been suspended without pay.
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Vargas' lawyer, Harry Stern, said he will examine the charges closely. He said Vargas still has an appeal of his firing pending in the courts and is taking science courses in hopes of becoming a medical technician.
"The government gets to indict by dragging selected witnesses in front of a secret grand jury and asking them leading questions," Stern said.
San Francisco Police Officers Association President Martin Halloran echoed that sentiment in a statement.
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At a Hall of Justice news conference, a visibly shaken Police Chief Greg Suhr said, "I don't know that it gets any worse than this, other than an officer-involved serious injury or death, when the public trust is betrayed by a sitting San Francisco or any police officer.
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Suhr said he will seek the "immediate termination" of any officer found guilty of any of the charges.
At his own news conference, Adachi said more than 100 criminal cases, most of them felonies, were dismissed after the officers' conduct during searches came to light. He said complaints about such abuses had rolled in for years, but "the justice system turned a blind eye."
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The investigation began after San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who had been police chief until January 2011, referred the matter to federal authorities because of a conflict of interest. In March 2011, Adachi had released surveillance videos from the Henry Hotel in the South of Market neighborhood, asserting that several officers entered rooms without legal cause.
Some of the officers who were indicted have been accused of wrongdoing in the past, including in connection with drug searches. Vargas was part of a team of officers based at the Mission District Station whose conduct in a February 2011 drug-related search of a residential hotel on Julian Street brought FBI scrutiny.
Surveillance video of the officers taken inside the Julian House Hotel appeared to show Vargas walking out of the search target's room with a bag of the person's possessions, which Vargas never checked into evidence. Another officer was filmed walking out with a bag that authorities believe contained the person's laptop computer, which police also never submitted as evidence.
Vargas was also among several officers involved at a drug-related search in December 2010 at another residential hotel, the Jefferson on Eddy Street in the Tenderloin. One of Vargas' colleagues was filmed by a surveillance camera there taking away a bag of undisclosed possessions, which the officers never accounted for.
In 2012, two men and a woman sued Razzak, Elias and Yick in a federal civil rights case, alleging the officers wrongfully arrested them at the Henry Hotel at 106 Sixth St. The suit was settled in November for $125,000.
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This week's indictment accuses Yick of falsifying an official pay slip that purportedly documented a payment to an informant for providing information that led to the arrest of one of the two men.
The men's attorney, John Burris, said Thursday that while the hotel residents were struggling financially, they deserved protection because "their houses are sacred to them." Instead, he said, officers treated them in a way that was "scandalous, outrageous and disrespectful."
Chronicle staff writers Kale Williams, Bob Egelko and Vivian Ho contributed to this report.
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Most advisors understand the basics: The market price at which any ETF can be purchased is called the "ask" while the "bid" is the market price at which the same ETF can be sold. And the difference between these two prices is known as the "bid/ask spread." What besides the bid/ask spread do you need to know about ETF orders? How can advisors coordinate their trades with trading hours of commodity and foreign exchanges to get better prices?
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How important is it for advisors using commodity and international ETPs to complete their trades when those markets are still open?
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The reputation of limit orders was badly maligned after the "flash crash" in 2010. Are these types of ETF orders still suitable?
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Consumers routinely call to file a complaint about denied homeowners insurance claims in which the problem is that they just discovered a long term problem. These tend to be things like mold, rot, mildew or deterioration.
The problem for these homeowners is that Insurance is designed to cover sudden and accidental damage, but not wear and tear for home care and maintenance that any homeowner is expected to address on their own. Some policies may allow coverage for damage caused within a matter of weeks -- and they may mean that plural literally, as in just two weeks -- to be considered sudden and accidental.
Generally, an insurer will inspect the damage to determine if it could have been caused suddenly or over a period of time. An example is mold damage that resulted from a leaking hot water heater, or a refrigerator water line that's been leaking, slowly rotting the kitchen floor joists.
The upshot is this: the longer an underlying problem has existed, the harder it is to successfully claim that the damage was sudden.
Update (9/25/2012): Here's a classic case of this sort of problem.
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