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1) To post lists.
People really like lists. (Actually, I'd already figured that out. But it seemed like a good starting point.)
2) Anyone who gets published these days does so one of two ways:
a) Via being a whiz at social media and having legions of followers on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Quora. (You didn't even know Quora exists? Me neither.)
b) Because of some divine accident--like someone got a look at her doodlings and carried it into a their job at the publishing house where everyone agreed her doodlings would make a bestseller.
Because, apparently, no one is getting published the old-fashioned way of writing something great and showing it to an agent who sells it to a publisher. And yet, I see new books at the library and bookstores every time I go in....
3) Christopher Hitchens, the prominent and recently deceased atheist, is buried in the ceiling tiles of the Ballroom at the Dayton Marriott.
I know. I was surprised, too, because there was a memorial service for him yesterday at the Cooper Union in New York. But every time he was mentioned Saturday night (in the context of his statement that women have no sense of humor), the speaker would point skywards. The problem is, if Hitchens was right, there is no heaven. And if he was wrong, he doesn't get to go there. Which only leaves the ceiling tiles. (Or some theological loophole of which I'm unaware.)
4) That growing a blog is all about relationships. As Debba Haupert, of Girlfriendology.com, explained it, you need to make your blog and your Facebook and your Twitter and your I-Have-Endless-Time-to-Putz-Around-Online.com all talk to each other. (Debba had wonderful suggestions--I'm just grouchy at the idea of
5) That, paradoxically, to grow this blog I need to pare it down.
Blogs that do well, they tell me, are a little more focused than The Raisin Chronicles. In the words of Anna Lefler:
you shouldn't click on a blog one day and it's all about politics, then go back another day to find pictures of the grandchildren. (Guilty.) Other suggestions included staying away from topics that offend people, like religion and politics. (Guilty again.)
Nettie Reynolds suggested writing about things you care about or things you know about. Your readers, she said, should trust you on this topic more than anyone else.
So, sometime soon, you'll probably see the Chronicles get a facelift, maybe even a new web address. (Although I just had these adorable business cards printed, and you KNOW how I feel about wasting stuff.)
In the meantime, I'm going to think about what (fairly narrow) topic I could talk about once a week with some degree of credibility and without boring us all to death. (If there's any topic that you often find yourself thinking, "Wow, I wish I could get Jeanne's opinion on this," let me know.)


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A very tasteless focaccia.
The following is my recipe...
243 Grams Flour
243 Grams Water
Pinch Yeast
243 Grams Flour
101 Grams Water
30 Grams Olive Oil
10 Grams Salt
6 Grams Yeast
4 Grams Sugar
A wet dough, coming out to a hydration of about 77%. I fermented the poolish for twelve hours, then added the rest of the ingredients. I kneaded using the slap-and-fold method, until it was actually a dough. Raised it for a little over an hour, degassed, shaped to pan, and let it raise for a bit more than any hour and a half. Then I poked the holes with my fingers. I coated the dough with a generous amount of olive oil, and baked at 375 F for slightly more than thirty minutes. Then, I again added olive oil, in addition to a liberal amount of coarse sea salt, basil, and oregano.
However, I was quite disappointed when I tasted the bread. The topping was great, but that was the only flavorful part of the focaccia. In fact, it was too the point where I almost ripped off the top and just ate the seasoned part. Certainly with the poolish it should more flavorful?
In my attempts at artisan French bread with a similar preferment I was also quite disappointed with the lack of flavor. I was wondering if anyone noticed anything wrong with my recipe, or knows of something I can do to increase the flavor of my bread .
As always, thanks for any services rendered.

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It's looking like Vince Young may be on his way out of Buffalo. While I share concerns about his attitude and his general underachievement in the NFL after a brilliant college career, I also have not forgotten about his brilliant college career and the fact that the guy is a winner. Even during his tumultuous time in Tennessee, Young won games. But throw in there the fact that he could be seriously coached up by someone we're all learning is very good at bringing along QBs (McCarthy), and I think it would make some sense. And importantly, Young has real NFL game experience, something our present backups don't have. I wouldn't be surprised if TT takes a look at him if he's cut.
Should Pack pick up Vince Young?
7 Responses to "Should Pack pick up Vince Young?"
ebongreen Says:
August 27, 2012 at 10:35 am |
He's 29. What upside does he have to get better at the mental aspects of football?
Do you remember this play? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToR1VGaVarc The man who threw that pass just last year is not a QB I want on my team. That's an OMFG moment, demonstrating an inexcusable lack of judgement for a veteran QB.
Not to mention his lightning-rod behaviors on and off-field… thanks, but no thanks. I'd rather have Tarvaris Jackson – and so would the Bills. What does _that_ tell you? 🙂
Jon H. Says:
August 27, 2012 at 12:33 pm |
Wow. Just, wow. Your "should the Packers pick up …" or "should the Packers trade for …" posts are generally amusing, but this one takes the cake!
56Coop Says:
August 27, 2012 at 2:46 pm |
Sorry Andy–I agree with these guys. NO VY. Maybe Colt McCoy if he can be got for a deal but not VY. I'll admit though, not convinced by Harrell. Just face it, if A-Rodg goes down, we're toast.
Dave in Tucson Says:
August 27, 2012 at 7:34 pm |
VY's first pass in that game was an interception, too. Not a pick 6, but the Seahawks did turn it into a touchdown.
That game is a perfect example of why VY isn't worth having even as a #2. Your #2 is there basically to get a win against weak teams if and when (more like when, in the case of Vick) your #1 can't play.
The Seahawks were a pretty bad team last year, one the Eagles should've been able to beat (note a win there, and the Eagles would've been in contention for the NFC East down to the wire).
So, please no VY. Whatever ability he had to succeed in the NFL hasn't manifested in a long time.
mark Says:
August 29, 2012 at 6:13 pm |
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!- NOT A QUARTERBACK!!! QBs in the nfl have to be accurate -he aint
DaveK Says:
September 3, 2012 at 7:00 am |
You should write a post on ten QBs you would rather have backing up Rodgers other then VY. Shouldn't be that hard.
IROC Says:
September 15, 2012 at 3:45 pm |
VY is a winner despite what many think this youngman needed to be around a coach who believe in him ,Jeff Fisher didnt want him VY saved his job twice, he was rookie of the year and brought the Titans almost to a play off when Kerry Collins had them at 0 And 6 and under Vince Young he took them to a playoff The Titains should have kept the late Steve Mcnair to help groom Young they fail him as well VY deserve to be in the NFL


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The end of the 2004 rice marketing year is July 31, and rice price weakness gives every indication of being problematic until rice supplies can be reduced either through new export business and/or rice government forfeitures.
Since December 2001, global economic activity has gone from being anemic to robust by January 2004. That was a key factor in the strong demand U.S. row crop producers experienced in the second half of 2003 and the first half of 2004.
Today, when compared to historical standards, global economic activity remains extremely strong but non-directional. This lack of direction raises questions about future global strength and immediate demand for food commodities. A couple of the key reasons for the global economies lack of direction follow:
First, global economic activity continues transitioning from economic expansion that is fueled by financial stimulus to one that is self-sustaining. Uncertainty exists about when or if this transition will be made and the uncertainty creates price weakness for rice and other agricultural commodities.
Second, the global expansion had become so explosively strong that demand was outrunning supply of many industrial commodities, raising inflation fears and creating uncertainty about the global economy's ability to maintain an orderly economic expansion. China, developed countries, and others in 2004 took measures to slow economic expansion, to cool down inflation, to let industrial commodity supplies catch up with strong economic activity. That is a primary reason a number of agricultural commodities experience price weakness today.
So with the global rice market filled with uncertainty about future governmental actions, weather, global supplies, strength of global economic activity, and a vast array of global, political and trade events, I will discuss a scenario for price weakness and one for price strength. Make no mistake, U.S. rice price weakness exists until supplies can be reduced.
Excess rice supply is weighing heavy on the U.S. rice market. What's behind the current rice price weakness for U.S. long grain rice?
USDA estimates record 2004 U.S. all rice production and supply at 231 million hundredweight and 268 million hundredweight respectively and ending stocks at 40.1 million hundredweight, the largest since 1986. U.S. all rice production is 21 percent larger than 2000 production.
USDA estimates record 2004 U.S. long grain rice production at 169 million hundredweight and the second largest supply at 190 million hundredweight. Ending stocks are estimated at 22.5 million hundredweight, the second largest since 1986.
Asian export competitors and Latin American rice producers are currently in varying stages of harvest. With 2004-05 world milled rice production at 402.1 million metric tons, the second largest on record, short-term potential for new export business (especially in Latin America where ending stocks are the second largest in the past five marketing periods) is limited.
Global rice trade is down for the third consecutive year, which tells me:
First, countries are cautious about becoming dependent on other countries to supply a commodity as important as rice when global economic expansion is uncertain;
Second, even perceived economic uncertainty raises food security issues and that weakens the global demand for rice. When economic times are less than certain, many countries become protectionist and focus on self sufficiency in rice production.
Asian soybean rust's potentially damaging impact on U.S. soybean production has some U.S. rice producers planning to plant more rice and less soybeans.
With Latin American production, supply and stocks adequate and with Brazil out of the rough rice market, 2004-05 U.S. rice exports depend on fewer rough rice sales and increased dependence on milled rice sales.
Dangerously low global rice stocks are causing a rapid introduction of technology with China and other countries moving to introduce genetically engineered rice as well as the continued introduction of new varieties producing record yields and milling.
Now what could make me start turning a little bullish on this U.S. long grain rice market?
If the demand for industrial commodities starts to strengthen, global economic activity has a good chance of becoming self-sustaining, which suggests strengthening demand for food commodities.
Global trading prices are rising due to tight global stocks and a tight supply situation in major exporting countries. As U.S. and Thai prices converge and start moving up in tandem, I expect strengthening exports. For example, U.S. rice farmers should be more competitive vying for Iraq's 1.2 million metric ton annual business.
Improved exports in India and Pakistan would be a good sign of shifting global trade. East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia ending stocks are the smallest in the past five production seasons. Tight exportable supplies in Thailand, Vietnam and China may force buyers to look for alternative suppliers, as USDA points out, primarily India, Pakistan, and the United States.
If China enters the rice market in March or April and purchases long grain rice from Thailand and Vietnam, that would be a good sign that China's stocks are dangerously low and an indication that global rice trade would be strengthening.
If new export business were to emerge in Latin America, especially rough rice business, one would expect rice price improvement.
The world is due a significant weather disturbance. With critically low global stocks, the global demand for U.S. rice would cause a rapid price movement.
Looking forward, global rice consumption continues to exceed production and stocks continue to decline. This can only strengthen world rice prices. For the past six years, world rice yield has remained fairly flat and world rice acreage is only the sixth largest on record. World rice production of 599 million metric tons, though up for the second consecutive year, is still below the 1999 record. Ending stocks still trend downward and are at the lowest levels since 1983. Additionally, ending stocks as a percent of consumption are the lowest they have been since 1981.
Bottom line: The end of the 2004 rice marketing year is fast approaching, and rice price weakness gives every indication of being problematic until rice supplies can be reduced either through new export business and/or rice government forfeitures.
A slide show that accompanies this article is available on the Internet at http://www.aragriculture.org/agfoodpolicy/ricesitol/graphics/February282005.pdf
Bobby Coats is an agricultural policy analyst with the University of Arkansas.


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Same-sex couples often jump through legal hoops when dealing with their joint finances — and owning real estate is no exception. If the Supreme Court strikes down the law that defines marriage as the legal union between a man and a woman, some, but not all, of these obstacles may be removed.
When it comes to owning a house together, gay married couples can expect to see a few changes if the Supreme Court rules that a part of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, is unconstitutional. Those changes will affect the mortgage interest tax deduction and Veterans Affairs home loans.
A Supreme Court ruling could have a harder-to-define effect in the 50 states and District of Columbia. Each jurisdiction has its own laws regarding the treatment of same-sex couples, as well as its own laws governing ownership of real estate.
This article first describes what could happen federally with the mortgage interest tax deduction and VA loans. Then, a clickable map summarizes how same-sex homeownership is governed in the states.
Same-sex marriage and the mortgage tax deduction
Married gay couples who have a mortgage together will be able to claim the mortgage tax deduction jointly if DOMA is struck down. That's because without DOMA's federal definition of marriage, they will be allowed to file federal tax returns jointly.
Currently, same-sex couples married in states that allow gay marriage have to file their federal income taxes separately because DOMA prevents the federal government from recognizing their marriages.
"If the federal government doesn't recognize your marriage and you cannot file jointly — even if, for state purposes, you do file jointly — then one person is usually claiming the (mortgage) tax deduction even though in reality two people are paying for the mortgage," says Gideon Alper, an attorney in Orlando, Fla. "Right now, I am taking the mortgage interest deduction on my property, and my partner is not, even though we are both contributing to the mortgage payment."
Two unmarried people who have a joint mortgage can split the mortgage interest tax deduction, as co-borrowers. Say they have $5,000 in interest to deduct. Each co-borrower could claim $2,500. But splitting the deduction and filing separately doesn't always make financial sense to a couple. For example, the deduction might not be higher than the standard deduction when it is split in two.
Same-sex marriage and Veterans Affairs loans
Currently, a service member or veteran married to a person of the same sex who wants to get a Veterans Affairs loan can't include his or her partner as a spouse on the loan. According to federal rules, the definition for spouse requires the individual to be a "person of the opposite sex."
They could get a VA loan with a joint loan, but unless both partners are veterans, the VA would guarantee only the portion of the loan allocable to the veteran. For example, if the two partners apply for a joint VA loan of $200,000, the VA guaranty would apply to $100,000. Eliminating DOMA's definition of marriage would be the first step to allow the same-sex spouse of a veteran to get the same rights as opposite-sex married couples.
The change wouldn't be automatic because in addition to DOMA, Title 38 — which governs VA benefits — also restricts the definition of spouse to opposite-sex couples. But if DOMA is ruled unconstitutional, Title 38 would likely go the same way, says Caren Short, an attorney at Southern Poverty Law Center. She is co-counsel on a federal case challenging both DOMA and Title 38.
"Challenges to Title 38 exist, and they already are in a position to be decided as soon as the Supreme Court decides on DOMA," she says. "Courts that have been waiting for that decision will also find Title 38Â unconstitutional."
Many real estate rules, including title laws, are governed by states, so rules for same-sex couples who own property together vary by state.
The DOMA case before the Supreme Court focuses on whether the federal government has the right to define marriage as the union between a man and a woman. It will ultimately determine whether "the existing marriages of same-sex couples will be recognized and respected for federal program purposes," says James Esseks, director of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and AIDS Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The case challenges only Section 3 of DOMA. Another part of the law, Section 2, says that states don't have to recognize marriages of same-sex couples even if they are legally married in another state. That section is not the issue being considered by the court. Unless the court's opinion says states must recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states — which is unlikely — little will change in states that don't allow gay marriages.
States and districts where same-sex marriage is legal:
- Connecticut
- Delaware (as of July 1, 2013)
- District of Columbia
- Iowa
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota (as of Aug. 1, 2013)
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Rhode Island (as of Aug. 1, 2013)
- Vermont
- Washington
Marriage is a legal status that provides the spouses a variety of reciprocal obligations, rights and protections. Heterosexual marriages in each state are recognized by all other states, as well as by the federal government.
These states already treat same-sex married homeowners with equal rights. Married couples can take title to the house as spouses regardless of sex or sexual orientation. The overturning of DOMA would give same-sex couples in these states additional rights on a federal level, including claiming the mortgage tax deduction as a couple filing federal taxes jointly.
States where civil unions are recognized:
- Colorado
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- New Jersey
- Delaware (until July 1, 2013)
- Rhode Island (until Aug. 1, 2013)
A civil union is a legal status that provides legal protection to same-sex couples in the applicable states only. Civil unions typically are not recognized outside the couples' state of legal residency.
In these states, same-sex couples can own a home with similar rights to married couples. As partners in a civil union, they can hold title through tenancy by the entirety, which is a right that used to be available only to "husband and wife."
With tenancy by entirety, the parties own an undivided part of the property, which means a spouse can't sell his or her interest in the property without the other spouse's signature. Another benefit to this method is that, when one spouse dies, the property automatically reverts to the survivor without going through probate. Tenancy by entirety also protects spouses from creditors because a creditor is not allowed to take away the home to satisfy the debt of one spouse.
Colorado does not have tenancy by entirety. Instead, the state has marital property rules, meaning that any property acquired by a spouse during the marriage belongs to both parties. Partners in a civil union in Colorado have these marital property rights.
Still, couples in these states could remain at a disadvantage with regards to the mortgage tax deduction and other federal benefits. That's because even if the federal government recognizes gay marriage, it remains unclear whether civil unions would be treated as marriages on a federal level.
States that recognize domestic partnerships:
- Nevada
- Oregon
- Wisconsin
A domestic partnership is a state-sanctioned legal status that allows unmarried couples, heterosexual and same-sex, to formalize their relationships and which extends some state rights to those couples.
These states allow domestic partnerships, but not all grant the same spousal rights to domestic partners when it comes to owning real estate as a couple. In Nevada and Oregon, partners in a domestic partnership have the same title rights as married couples.
In Wisconsin, partners can inherit property without a will. As long as the deed lists them as domestic partners, the property can be transferred automatically if one partner dies. But when partners separate, they don't have the same marital benefits for the division of property.
Washington is a special case: As of 2014, the state will allow domestic partnerships only to couples who are 62 years of age of older. Domestic partners don't have any of the community property rights that married couples have.
State that recognizes domestic partnerships, complicated by Proposition 8:
- California
A domestic partnership is a state-sanctioned legal status that allows unmarried couples, heterosexual and same-sex, to formalize their relationships and which extends some state rights to those couples.
The most populous state allows domestic partnerships. In May 2008, the California Supreme Court legalized gay marriages. Five months later, voters approved Proposition 8, which bans the marriage of same-sex couples. That law has been challenged and is under review by the Supreme Court, separately from the DOMA challenge.
California has community property laws, which is the presumption that property acquired during marriage belongs to both spouses. Registered domestic partners in California have the same community property rights as married couples. During the period gay marriage was legal in California, about 18,000Â couples got married. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 by July. If ruled unconstitutional, same-sex marriage would resume in California — and, potentially, similar bans in other states could be affected, as well.
There's a series of potential outcomes for the Proposition 8 case, says James Esseks, director of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and AIDS Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.
"One of them is, gay couples get to get married in California, but it does not affect any other state," he says. "There is another version that could say every state in the country has to allow same-sex couples to marry. People are not superoptimistic that that is going to happen, but it could happen. Then that would change this issue about whether (same-sex) people can get married at all."
States that do not allow same-sex marriage, civil unions or domestic partnerships:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- New Mexico
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Wyoming
Same-sex couples in these states don't have the benefits and protections that married couples get. They are not allowed to hold title with tenancy by entirety in states where this right is available to opposite-sex couples. With tenancy by entirety, the parties own an undivided part of the property, so a spouse can't sell his or her interest on the property without permission from the other. When one spouse dies, the property automatically reverts to the survivor without having to go through probate. Tenancy by entirety also protects spouses from creditors as creditors are not allowed to foreclose on the home to satisfy the debt of one of the spouses.
In states with community property laws — which say that property acquired after the marriage belongs to both spouses regardless of who paid for it — the rights are reserved solely for opposite-sex couples.
Generally, same-sex couples in these states own property as tenants in common or as joint tenants with rights of survivorship. These methods are often used by business partners or relatives who own property together. While they grant the homeowners similar rights of joint ownership, they don't offer the full protection that married couples get. The rules in these states won't change with the DOMA ruling, unless the court requires states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
By Polyana da Costa ~ Bankrate.com


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MWC 15 Special
Accidentally announced too early, before the promotion was available, Sony Ericsson's free 50 GB Box cloud storage promotion, worth of US$ 19, is now available to all Xperia users which install the Box client from the Android Market and sign-in after from their Sony Ericsson Xperia device. Box, which comes with initial 5 GB of free storage space, is another cloud service which lets users view and share files from anywhere. It provides simple and secure sharing, letting users easily store files online, send big files fast, gives access from Android phones or tablets and the web and allows to collaborate with others.
Best of all, it's not available to new Xperia Box users only but to all Xperia users, even if they already have an account. After the login, the account is automatically upgrade to 50 GB.
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The two cheesy exploitation movies that hit the area last weekend are a real study in contrasts. Deadtime Stories is low-budget and silly, and just marginally watchable. Starship, while boasting a superior budget, is as dull as dried clay.
Deadtime Stories takes the time-honored omnibus route, presenting three scary stories. The first, about a pair of medieval witches and their unwilling servant boy, seems left over from some other movie—it doesn't quite fit with the rest of the film.
The other two stories are modern updates of fairy tales. "Little Red Riding Hood" is here a nubile teen in a scarlet jogging outfit who runs afoul of a werewolf. The third story is a variation on "Goldilocks," wherein the three bears are humans, escaped lunatics who find Goldi living in their abandoned house.
Goldi herself is a statuesque vixen blessed with a telekinetic power a la Carrie, which allows her to terminate her long line of suitors. She gets along very well with the bear family, and they even live happily ever after.
Under the clumsy hand of director Jeffrey Delman, this is all done tongue-in-cheek, as is the framing story of an insomniac boy having the tales told him by a babysitting uncle. It's very clear that most of the budget went for special effects, with little left over for such niceties as professional actors.
Still, Deadtime Stories is comprehensible. Not so Starship, a completely incoherent space thing, directed and co-written by Roger Christian (a name to be shunned in the future). The ads promise, "The adventure of a million lifetimes"; actually, it only seems that long.
I honestly can't tell you what the film was about, except it had something to do with some people trying to get off a planet that was being taken over by robots. Not a whit of humor, or even intelligible action.
First published in the Herald, April 1987 (?)
IMDb says that Jeffrey Delman is related to Bernard Herrmann; also, Deadtime's cast included Melissa Leo in one of her first movie roles. It opened at the Coliseum in Seattle. Roger Christian did design stuff for Star Wars and Alien, which would explain his move to sci-fi directing; he eventually did Battlefield Earth, which is a lot more fun than Starship. The movie apparently opened in Australia in '84, but knocked around and was re-cut before playing the U.S. sometime later.


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Relative makes claim in missing Detroit girl case
15-year-old says he was with father on morning girl went missing
DETROIT – The 15-year-old nephew of missing 2-year-old Bianca Jones' father, Dandre Lane, said he was with Lane the morning Bianca went missing.
Treveon Lane said he was with his uncle Dandre Lane, Bianca and two other children the night before and the morning when Bianca was reported missing by her father. Treveon Lane said he had just met Bianca earlier that week. He said the FBI, not the police, confronted him with questions about the case.
"(Bianca) was good. She was normal," Treveon Lane said. "My uncle carried her to the car, and my little cousin buckled her up. She was awake."
Dandre Lane has told police that he was carjacked at gunpoint the morning of Dec. 2. Bianca was in the car and was taken by carjackers, Lane told police. Treveon Lane said his uncle took him home at 8 a.m. that morning. At 9:55 a.m., Dandre Lane called 911 to report the carjacking and that his daughter Bianca had been taken.
On Monday, sources told the Local 4 there was evidence Bianca would not be found alive.
Sources said investigators have searched Dandre Lane's home on Mitchell Street with cadaver dogs, which did return a positive hit for signs of decomposition. Although the little girl is still missing, sources said the search for her has turned from a rescue to a recovery effort.
Organized police and volunteer efforts ended Sunday. More than 1,000 people had searched abandoned houses, fields and alleys in neighborhood.
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Can't disagree with any of that, Draykov. Pushing the price on a range that lots of people got cheesed off over is not very smart. I mean, with the low production numbers on series 1 a percentage of the interested may have been lost (those who wanted to have them all from the start, they'll check out already), then pushing the price will turn off another percentage (those who didn't like the lesser quality). Not forgetting those who have already bailed out due to the negative experience of chasing them (successfully or not), for whom Lego is a joyful and relaxing pastime, and not something they want heart/panic attacks over (exaggeration, but you get my point).
Really, Lego is back to square one on this, or at the very least should reserve any judgement until the entire first wave of series' 1 to 3 have passed. The poor initial execution means they should view it as a false start, as public response may not be anything like it was with the much anticipated first series.
And Lego should remember, if these are primarily aimed at breaking into the swaps market where kids buy them at checkouts like football cards and chewing gum, putting the price up will just mean that "mommy says no, dear".


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tomaltman necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
1st Impression of Iowa (of Iowa needs to be in name, but very subtle)
We are a new company - we specialize in car, truck and big truck full sized wraps. Other things we do is vinyl based signs for retail, real estate and all.
We are known for our high quality art and customer service - so we'd like a logo to represent those things.
We're mostly b2b - so looking to catch the eye of people who are looking to catch others eyes. :)
Our big customers are company's who have fleet vehicles which are used to advertise as they do their business.
We also specialize in commercial real estate signage.
Not sure of what we want (typical logo design I guess) - we're not locked in to any one idea.
One possible idea is a tattoo based theme (not 100% sold on this idea) - but with flowing lines and a modern look.
Other ideas may include something which has overtures of vehicles.
MUST incorporate single, two-color and full color concepts.
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Mobile searchers can now get thumbnails of their Google search results, generating even more traffic for the sake of enabling browse-by-picture.
The new feature was launched yesterday, and adds a magnifying glass beside every search result. Tapping on the glass takes one to an interface very reminiscent of that used to browse open tabs, only this interface shows thumbnails of the search results rather than browser pages:
We're still not sure how useful this is – being able to pick out desired content by image rather than text – but it certainly generates a lot more traffic.
The new previews work on the more-recent Android and iOS devices (2.2 and 4 respectively), and Google has provided a useful video for those who have trouble with the concept:
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Beethoven by the Bosphorus
Nick Shave reports from the Istanbul festival
You know the Turkish audience is behind him when they give Fazil Say a standing ovation before he has even begun to play the piano. But at the Istanbul Festival last week, the applause was less in eager anticipation of his music-making, perhaps, than in support of his freedom to speak. Say, an atheist, has been charged by the Turkish government with publicly insulting religious values after he posted a string of satirical messages – he joked about the call to prayer, for example, asking whether the muezzin had delivered it quickly in order to get away for a drink – on the social network site, Twitter. He stands trial on 18 October, and, if convicted, could spend up to 18 months in prison.
I think he should be held accountable – not for his liberal outlook that brought a packed audience to its feet at the Haliç congress centre, but for the way in which he then massacred Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in the performance that followed. All his usual idiosyncratic gestures were on show – the humming and sweeping hand gestures at the keyboard – along with some stylistic eccentricities I had not heard from him before: inner voices yanked suddenly into the foreground; crescendos and diminuendos that surged unpredictably against the natural flow of the melodic line; and a first-movement cadenza that seemed to belong to another work entirely. It was heartfelt, passionate playing, true to the way in which Say felt at any given moment – but less about Beethoven, more about Say.
After the interval, the pianist-composer shared his vision of Mesopotamia, in the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra's premiere of his programmatic Second Symphony. Written for full orchestra, bass flute, bass recorder, and the weird whine of theremin, its 10 movements formed a patchwork of evocations – its Rite-like episodes and heroic Gladiator-esque themes winning a second standing ovation. It seemed Say could do no wrong.
This year's festival, celebrating its 40th anniversary, embraced the past as much as the new. Lucas Vis's multi-media piece, Say I am You-Mevlana, written for eight voices and small ensemble, told of the spiritual journey taken by traveler Sems as he befriends the 13th-century Persian Sufi sage and poet, Mevlana. The music – featuring ney flute and kanun (a kind of Turkish zither) – was accompanied by Tessa Joosse's abstract, poetic images, reminiscent at times of Andrei Tarkovsky's equally abstract, Stalker – something to do with the timelessness, and mystical sense of place. And there were some terrific solo performances, too: Hélène Grimaud gave a stunning account of Liszt's B minor Sonata, and the charismatic young guitarist, Miloš, played a wonderfully intimate recital – Albéniz, Bach, Villa-Lobos, Domeniconi – at Istanbul University, while a stray cat, which had found its way into the University building, slinked its way up and down the stairs behind him.
There is undoubtedly something incredibly special about the Istanbul music festival. Much of it comes down to the life and soul of the city – so full of colour, from the bright reds, pinks and yellows of the spices in its market stalls, to the Manhattan-yellow taxis that bully their way between lanes of chaotic traffic. And surging silently through, is the beautiful, deep blue Bosphorus river, its water sparkling like stars beneath ancient mosques that point from its river banks, lush-green with trees, to the skies above. This Western-looking festival in the heat of an Eastern European, Islamic country is now entirely dependent upon private sponsorship for its survival – so it's good to hear it take risks. And whatever Fazil Say says about the call to prayer, as a visitor, it's hard not to be moved by its directness, and struck by the way it weaves its way into every concert.
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Ephrons' poignant tales of obsession
All three essentials in "Love, Loss, and What I Wore," which won a 2010 Drama Desk award, figure prominently in the 28 vignettes by Nora and Delia Ephron. The experience -- it would be misleading to call it a play -- makes its post-Off-Broadway Long Island premiere, performed, aptly enough, by the South Shore Theatre Experience.
Superficially, the stories, inspired by Ilene Beckerman's book of the same name, are about clothes and accessories. But the five women confessing to fashion obsessions are really talking about what animates their desire to wear something that makes them feel thinner, smarter, happier, hipper and, of course, sexier. Especially for special occasions: weddings, yes, but also the first time she tells her boyfriend that she'll spend the night, or when she's mortified by an "outfit" her mother bought her when everybody else is dressing like hippies.
Gingy, nominally the narrator, played with coy restraint by Trish Consalazio, traces her fashion history with cute drawings: from her Brownie uniform to closet artifacts with which her granddaughters delight in playing dress-up. In between, are three marriages, motherhood and the loss of a child. The other ladies play multiple roles of women we've met or, for the opposite gender, may have been at times. Harriet Baker, Mary Ann Cafiero, Sylvia Walsh and Deborah Cascio Plezia range in age and body type. The casting by director Martin Knapp reflects that of the original Off-Broadway lineup led by Tyne Daly and Rosie O'Donnell.
Players rotated frequently Off-Broadway, which is why the show is essentially a staged reading, though it seems unnecessary here. (The first reading was at East Hampton's Guild Hall in 2008.) Each woman, dressed in black, has a bar-stool-type chair and a sheet-music stand for the script, sparingly referred to on opening night. Each also has a purse (or substitute) that accessorizes one of the funnier discourses. A story about breast cancer, delivered by Walsh, is hilarious, shocking and moving. She wants a tattoo on her reconstructed breast rather than a nipple.
Loss comes in several forms in the Ephron sisters' script, but none sadder than one that's never mentioned. The show closed Off-Broadway on March 27, after 1,013 performances. Nora Ephron died June 26 of leukemia. She was 71.
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Racing Metro 20-26 Cardiff Blues, Heineken Cup, November 11, 2011
Blues lay down impressive marker
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November 11, 2011
Cardiff Blues lock Paul Tito claims the ball at a lineout
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Bradley Davies Taufa'ao Filise Juan Martin Hernandez Andrea Lo Cicero Vaina Lionel Nallet Sam Warburton
Sam Warburton finally got the French scalp he craved as Cardiff Blues recorded a vital 26-20 away win in their Heineken Cup opener against Racing Metro at the Stade Yves Du Manoir.
The Wales skipper made his first return to action after his controversial red card, which saw him banned for three weeks, for a dangerous tackle on France's Vincent Clerc in the World Cup semi-final in New Zealand.
But while all eyes may have been on Warburton's return, Warren Gatland, the Wales coach, would have been concerned at the sight of centre Jamie Roberts leaving the field in the 11th minute with a groin injury ahead of the visit of Australia to the Millennium Stadium next month.
The Blues, who welcomed back Warburton's fellow Wales World Cup stars Roberts, prop Gethin Jenkins, lock Bradley Davies and young scrum half Lloyd Williams, earned themselves a well deserved victory in Colombes. But the game was marred by an injury in the second minute to lock James Down who picked up a horrific broken leg at the tackle area and was stretchered from the field before being replaced by Paul Tito.
Racing, who were without four injured stars of their own, never really got a real foothold in the game. It took Cardiff a while to recover from the shock of Down's injury and they found themselves 6-0 down to a penalty by fullback Gaetan Germain and an outrageous drop goal by fly-half Juan Martin Hernandez.
But when the visitors did strike, it led to the game's first try. Tito was tackled into touch just short of the Racing line after a slick handling move but from the lineout, Tongan prop Tau Filise picked up the loose ball for an easy try. Fly half Dan Parks added the conversion to put the visitors a point ahead before the Scot and Germain swapped penalties to give the Blues a 10-7 lead midway through the first half.
Racing soon restored their lead after some Hernandez magic bewitched the Blues defence to put his fellow Argentinian Juan Imhoff over for a try in the corner for the side from the French capital. But just before the break the visitors crossed for their second try after a counter-attack led by fullback Chris Czekaj saw impressive rookie wing Alex Cuthbert sneak in at the corner to make it 17-14 to the Blues at half-time.
After the break, Parks and Germain swapped penalties during a cagey second half but the Welsh region never looked in danger and hung on for a deserved victory to put themselves in the driving seat for qualification from Pool Two.
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100 Years Later, Mark Twain's Autobiography
Over the course of 35 years, Mark Twain tried repeatedly to create an autobiography. His method was decidedly not chronological, swerving from one topic to the next, one time period to the next. He wrote several brief accounts of his childhood, mused on meeting General U.S. Grant in Chicago, and reflected on the beauties of the German language. Some of his efforts were only a few pages in length; others formed almost full chapters. By 1905, some thirty such "false starts" sat on the shelf in his drawing room.
In 1906, four years before his death, Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) hired a stenographer and began a remarkable series of almost 250 daily dictations, which he collated with many of his earlier efforts. The Autobiography of Mark Twain was born. By its author's decree, however, the world would have to wait another 100 years for its full publication.
Small selections of his amazing autobiography were published in 1924, 1940, and 1959, but Twain's original editor, Albert Bigelow Paine, cut large sections that he found potentially damaging to the author or offensive to early 20th-century readers. In doing so, he ensured that generations of readers would come to know only the Mark Twain that Twain's daughter and heir Clara, who died in 1962, considered appropriate.
Robert Hirst, project director of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley, recently told The New York Times, "Paine was a Victorian editor. He has an exaggerated sense of how dangerous some of Twain's statements are going to be, which can extend to anything: politics, sexuality, the Bible, anything that's just a little too radical. This goes on for a good long time, a protective attitude that is very harmful" (July 9, 2010).
Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith, the first volume of Autobiography of Mark Twain spent sixteen weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list and exists in print in over a half million copies in both traditional and electronic formats.
Supported by NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations grants dating back as far as 1979, the Mark Twain Project seeks to publish definitive editions of Twain's fiction, letters, and journalism. To date, 37 volumes have been published under Hirst's careful editorial eye.
The complete first volume of the autobiography, with notes and supplementary material, is available on-line, free of charge, to the general public.


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Tram and metros
Rail lubrication through lubrication holes
In comparison to mainline trains, the tracks of trams and metros are not such highly loaded, which is why lubricant channels drilled into the rails are the preferred choice to apply lubricants. Nevertheless, the customer needs to approve this method in consultation with local traffic authorities.
The lubricants or friction modifiers are brought to the lubrication point via high-pressure hoses. The number and position of the channels are determined on site, helping to ensure that the wheels are actually in contact with the lubricant.System options to meet customer requirements include above ground and underground pump stations, steel boxes to protect the hose connections, ultrasonic train sensors, axle count sensors and more.
SKF offers two type of system technologies:
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Our small animal hospital located on the beautiful shore of Lake Michigan is looking to add a Veterinarian to their team (Generous Sign-on/Retention Bonus and Relocation)!
Imagine life along a Great Lake! Boating, fishing, kayaking, car ferry rides from our local port. Land-lovers can enjoy beach-combing, biking, hiking, golfing, and wildlife conservation. For those who prefer their entertainment indoors, the ticket may be our local theater for live acting and musical performances or touring museums of art or maritime history. We have all of this and more right here in family friendly Manitowoc, WI (conveniently located between Milwaukee and Green Bay).
Within steps of the beautiful Mariner's Trail you will find our home away from home: Memorial Drive Veterinary Clinic. We are an expanding, dynamic, multi-doctor small animal practice and a proud member of National Veterinary Associates. For years, the community has voted MDVC winner and runner-up in the Best of the Lakeshore contest, Best Veterinarian category. We pride ourselves in practicing compassionate medicine and feel as though our clients are our friends. Many have stayed with us through the generations.
We offer a variety of services: wellness, sick pet diagnostics, and specialist referrals when appropriate. Our state-of-the-art equipment includes digital x-ray, digital dental x-ray, ultrasound, endoscopy, surgical and therapeutic lasers, anesthetic monitoring and the latest in-house IDEXX laboratory tests. The support staff is a group of knowledgeable and experienced individuals that we think of as family.
We gather monthly to enjoy pot-luck meetings, annually for holiday festivities, and occasionally for recreational activities like zoo trips and sporting events.
We offer a generous CE allowance, 401K, HFA, health/dental/vision/life insurance/liability insurance, vacation, vacation stipend, student loan forgiveness and other benefits.
Consider joining us as a full-time doctor. Whether you are new to the profession, have decades of experience or anything in between.
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Top Story: Is eclecticism and syncretism part of America's religious DNA? A recent survey by the Pew Forum seems to suggest just that. While America is dominated by various forms of Christian belief, many adherents also partake in different religious practices and subscribe to various beliefs outside the theological boundaries of their faith.
"In total, upwards of six-in-ten adults (65%) express belief in or report having experience with at least one of these diverse supernatural phenomena (belief in reincarnation, belief in spiritual energy located in physical things, belief in yoga as spiritual practice, belief in the "evil eye," belief in astrology, having been in touch with the dead, consulting a psychic, or experiencing a ghostly encounter). This includes roughly one-quarter of the population (23%) who report having only one of these beliefs or experiences. More than four-in-ten people (43%) answer two or more of these items affirmatively, including 25% who answer two or three of these items affirmatively and nearly one-in-five (18%) who answer yes to four or more. Roughly one-third of the public (35%) answers no to all eight items."
This increasing trend of heterodoxy undermines the idea that the Religious Right, and other vanguards of religious orthodoxy, have much sway outside their main base of support. When nearly a quarter of America Christians say they believe trees possess spiritual energy, I'm far more convinced we'll see a post-Christian culture than some sort of Family-style conservative Christian coup in the years to come. This transition may upset some, but I suspect that most Pagans, especially the eclectic and syncretic, will feel right at home.
In Other News: Pagans seem to be the ultimate test of how "open" your local city council's opening invocations are. When a government body is accused of engaging in primarily sectarian prayer, as is the case in Bakersfield California, they usually point out that the invocation slot is welcome to any faith tradition that wants a turn. But as Americans United senior policy analyst Rob Boston points out, that openness often grinds to a halt when a Wiccan signs up.
"When communities try to set up a totally open forum for prayers, "what usually happens is that sooner or later someone comes along from a religion that is unpopular or misunderstood" — such as a Wiccan or Pagan — "and the conservative Christians throw a fit," he said in an e-mail."
Councilmember Jacquie Sullivan says Bakersfield is ready to pass the Pagan test, stating that "it would be their turn". Did you hear that Bakersfield Pagans? Time to step up! They are ready. It's your turn! Whether the "include a Wiccan" gambit would help them in a lawsuit is still an open question.
In Toronto, a con-artist who bilked a woman out of tens-of-thousands of dollars isn't just up on charges of fraud, but also on charges of pretending to be a witch.
Det. Constable Jones says it's rare to charge someone under Section 365, but the circumstances of this case fit. "It's a historical quirk," says Alan Young, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Some sections of the Canadian criminal code reflect offences that were more prevalent centuries ago. When the code was enacted in 1892, witchcraft per se was no longer a punishable offence, he says, but lawmakers wanted to ensure witchcraft wasn't used as a cover for fraud. Section 365 states that any one who fraudulently pretends to exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, or enchantment or who "undertakes, for a consideration, to tell fortunes … is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction." "It's not really about occult activity," Prof. Young says. "It's about defrauding people."
One would assume that a real Witch would be immune from such charges. One would also hope that this near-forgotten law won't be abused in a crusade against honest psychic practitioners, as they have been in America.
The Daily Grail features an excerpted essay from Greg Taylor that is very close to my heart, the history of occult practices in rock music.
"There is a vast amount of related material we could cover: from the influence of the occult upon Norwegian Black Metal, to Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson's interest in Aleister Crowley, which has recently resulted in a feature film. Or perhaps even The Mars Volta's use of an Ouija Board in the creation of their 2008 album The Bedlam in Goliath (considering the mayhem that allegedly resulted, perhaps they should have listened to David Bowie's advice…). But, ultimately, rock music is about transcending the intellect, and just losing yourself in a maelstrom of sound and feeling."
That essay, and others, is from Darklore volume 2, available now from Amazon.com. Also, in a somewhat related note, Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth's "Thee Psychick Bible" (a project initiated by Industrial music pioneer Genesis P-Orridge) has been re-released in an updated, expanded, corrected edition. Perfect gifts for the occult music-lover in your family, and if all this talk of occult and Pagan music has you wanting to listen to some, why not check out my weekly podcast?
In a final note, the Houston Chronicle looks at the massive December pilgrimages in Mexico, with many traveling to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe (her feast day is on Saturday), located on a former pagan shrine. While nearly a million travel to gain the blessings of the "goddess of Mexico", the local priests want you to know that there is no trace of pre-Christianity left in the rites and traditions surrounding this popular saint.
"Arriving by bus, car or bicycle, the faithful first stop at the artesian stream springing from the roots of a huge and ancient cypress tree. They don crowns made of fresh flowers and leave petitions to God hanging from the fence posts, wash in or drink from the spring and dance before the statue in a small chapel … When their dance is finished, the pilgrims ride a few miles down the mountainside to the village of Chalma itself, where they walk through a gantlet of vendors and restaurants to arrive at the church. There they attend Mass, get blessed by priests and leave petitions or letters of thanks to God hanging on walls. "It is 100 percent Catholic," Manzanares said of the pilgrimage, "based in Catholic belief for the Catholic faithful." Chalma's shrine was erected by Spanish friars in the 1530s conquest in a cave that the Aztecs once worshipped as the dwelling of Ozteatl, a god represented by a large man-sized black boulder they believed had healing powers. The friars destroyed the stone, according to some accounts, and a Christ statue appeared in its place."
Catholic perhaps, but grown from "pagan" soil and tradition. Whether Guadalupe is "100% Catholic" or a Christianized version of the Aztec moon goddess Tonantzin, she is still the most-venerated goddess/saint in the Americas, and neither Catholic nor Pagan should take that lightly.
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The greatest person ever to have lived. This person is a wonderful photographer, great friend, and sexy beyond belief. He
is also probably an African prince, however this may not always be true. He has the heart of a lion.
Person 1: That guy is really f*cking awesome…
Person 2: Of course he is, he's Machaizelli!
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Dustywater necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 32 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
The LiveLung site is an initiative of the Dusty Joy Foundation, a new nonprofit with a mission to improve the lives of those touched by lung cancer through targeted programs promoting education, early detection and compassion. The Foundation will help usher in much needed research for early lung cancer detection. Dusty is the founder of the organization and a lung cancer survivor and advocate. (We also are posting another web project for dustyjoy.org with its own unique brand.)
The LiveLung site is a new web portal serving the U.S. lung cancer community. The dynamic portal will provide current lung cancer news, columns and other features. It also will recruit volunteers and donors and engage them with the nonprofit organization that best matches their interests.
We expect this site to be the "go to" website for anyone seeking information about lung cancer. With information about other lung cancer nonprofits, we expect a lot of traffic to the site. The portal will strengthen lung cancer non-profits by showcasing their organizations and directing others to join their efforts. The site will recruit those new to the world of lung cancer to direct them to the resources they need and meet individuals' need to gain a sense of control by doing something positive (volunteering, donating, etc.).
I hope you will find some satisfaction in knowing that your work is for a very good cause.
Our primary audience will be lung cancer patients, their families and friends. Our secondary audience includes other nonprofit organizations that provide support to patients. Also, we are reaching out to donors and volunteers. Finally, the site will be an educational resource for the general public seeking information about lung cancer.
- Be creative!
- Design 2 templates: 1 home page, 1 interior
- Use the attached wireframe as a general layout for the homepage
- Use the attached logo
- The interior template is more flexible, but should continue the primary elements.
- Top navigation items will be: Welcome, Newly Diagnosed, News, Resources, Lung Cancer Community and About Us. (Feel free to try different wording.)
- We're open to adding a search box on the top navigation bar if the design fits. However, include a search box somewhere in your design that will be present on all pages.
- A drop-down menu will be used for second-tier navigation. In the design, the drop-down for Welcome should be: 5 Things about lung cancer, Purpose of this site, Navigating this site, Comments. It is ok if the titles span two lines, but no more.
- The content width should be 980px wide. It is desired, but not required, for the home page to be a max height of 768px.
- The RSS feed column in the wireframe need not be continued to the interior pages.
- The winner will be required to submit both .AI / .PSD and .EPS files, compatible with CS1, of the final design.
- The winner will also be required to be available for questioning from our developer if it is needed.


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Living In London – School Days
If you are considering moving to London with children, your first thought is going to be for their schooling. The education system in England is slightly different from that in America or Canada, and it can be confusing at first. You might be tempted to place your older children into an American style school especially if they are of college going age, and there are several schools in London that offer the America syllabus, If you have younger children however, you'll find that placing them into a local school will help them make friends in the community.


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How Did One Tweet Get Oprah Winfrey in a Ton of Trouble?
After Whitney Houston's untimely death on the eve of the Grammys, the Sunday night awards show saw a 50 percent increase in viewership, but that didn't stop Oprah Winfrey from trying to poach some of those eyeballs — and it's gotten her into a lot of hot water with ratings powerhouse Nielsen.
Seems on that on Sunday night, Oprah sent out the following tweet to her nine million Twitter followers:
Every 1 who can please turn to OWN especially if u have a Neilsen [sic] box."
OWN, of course, is the Oprah Winfrey Network, the legendary talk-show host's cable network that's been suffering from embarrassingly low ratings.
Nielsen, which is considered the gold standard of television viewing habits, monitors the 25,000 households with one of its boxes to come up with the ratings for every show on the air. So if people are specifically told to watch a show, that data is contaminated.
In fact, Oprah's plea directly violated Nielsen's terms of service — meaning the next time OWN's ratings are released, there will be an asterisk noting the outcome might have been biased.
Winfrey has since deleted the offending tweet and issued a statement in which she apologized and said she "intended no harm."


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Ray Breslin has two ambitions — to get into prison, and then to find a way out. His reputation as the foremost expert on probing the nation's toughest maximum-security facilities for flaws leads him to a big job for the CIA, which wants Breslin to test their latest black-site operation. However, the job goes bad almost immediately, and Breslin finds that he'll need help in breaking out of this jam — help from a very unlikely quarter. Can Breslin find a way out, and will he discover why he got put away in the first place?
Escape Plan pairs two of the most successful action-movie headliners of all time, Sylvester Stallone (Breslin) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Rottmayer). Schwarzenegger appeared briefly in The Expendables with Stallone, but this is the first real collaboration of their careers. This looks like stunt casting, made all the more obvious by the trailer for the next Stallone film that accompanied the film, Grudge Match, which will feature Stallone and Robert DeNiro as two boxers thirty years past their prime.
With that in mind, it would be easy to dismiss Escape Plan as just a novelty for the two stars to regurgitate a few one-liners and aim to please only their die-hard fans, if readers will pardon the pun. Instead, Escape Plan is an entertaining action/mystery popcorn flick, with good performances and a storyline that keeps audiences interested to the end. The action takes a back seat to the story and the mystery surrounding Breslin's capture, although some of the mystery doesn't remain mysterious for long enough.
The film is not without its flaws, chief among them that everyone but Breslin (including the audience) smells a rat at the beginning of this deal, which undercuts the character's supposed genius and instincts. The detention facility recycles a waterboarding trope that's been passé since 2008. After a gritty and lengthy prison sequence in which revelations come at a realistic pace, the last 10 minutes of the film suddenly shifts to a hipster caper tone and pace to wrap up a number of somewhat-incredible loose ends.
On the plus side, Escape Plan has a great cast, including a rare Jim Caviezel appearance as a villain, the malevolent Warden Hobbes. Rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and Amy Ryan give credible performances as Breslin's support team who are a little brighter than their boss. Vincent D'Onofrio plays Breslin's partner, but it's not one of his best performances, and his presence in the role signals that more is going on there a little earlier in the film than the director probably wanted.
The one standout performance — and really the only emotional hook for the audience — is Sam Neill as the doctor at the detention facility, who drinks to distance himself from the ethical questions of what happens around him. Neill doesn't get a lot of screen time but uses it well, forcing the audience to connect to the will-a-good-man-do-nothing question. And although the film doesn't explicitly address it, Breslin faces the same question, given his motivation for being in the business he's chosen. Don't expect any real debate about what is necessary to fight terrorism, unlike Swordfish, which raised and then partially dodged the question. Escape Plan manages a Houdini-esque cop-out on that point in the nature of the detention facility.
Still, as a popcorn movie this is above average, and it's far better than a stunt-casted festival of tough-guy one-liners. It's not going to win any awards — except maybe the AARP Movie of the Year — but it's a fun way to pass a couple of hours. On the Hot Air scale, Escape Plan gets a three, with a bump to four for Stallone and Schwarzenegger fans or for audiences who just want some escapist fare, if you'll pardon me one last pun:
- 5 – Full price ticket
- 4 – Matinee only
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- 2 – Watch it when it hits Netflix/cable
- 1 – Avoid at all costs
Escape Plan earns its R rating. It's not appropriate for teens or children.


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Timeline: 8,000 Years of Mankind
6000 B.C. — Ancient writings from around 6000 B.C. indicate the Sumerians and Babylonians knew how to use microbial yeasts to make beer.
4000 B.C. — The Egyptians make leavened bread using yeast.
500 B.C. — The Chinese use filamentous fungi (mold) as an antibiotic to treat boils.
mid-1800's — Louis Pasteur proposes that fermentation is a result of microbial activity.
1863 — Austrian monk Gregor Mendel discovers hereditary transmission of genetic traits.
1897 — The German scientist Buchner discovers that specialized proteins called enzymes are responsible for converting sugar to alcohol.
1900 — George Washington Carver seeks new industrial uses for agricultural feedstocks such as peanuts.
1941 — Henry Ford unveils his biological car. The car body is made of soybeans, the fuel comes from corn, and the wheels are made of goldenrod.
1953 — Watson and Crick propose structure of DNA.
1973 — Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer perfect techniques to cut and paste DNA (using restriction enzymes and ligases) and reproduce the new DNA in bacteria.
1974 — Research using genetically enhanced microbes for industrial applications begins.
1986 — Microbes are first used to clean up oil spill. (first biotech patent ever issued was for a microbe to clean up oil spills)
1997 — The first industrially relevant Gram-positive microorganism (Bacillus subtilis) genome is sequenced. Also that year, Martek DHA™ and ARA oils, produced from microalgae, were introduced into worldwide markets.
1998 — The first gene chip for transcriptional profiling of an industrial organism is designed.
1999 — President Clinton signs an executive order to promote development of biobased products and bioenergy.
2000 — The largest IPO for industrial biotechnology is completed (Genencor International, Inc.).
2001 — The world's first biorefinery opens in Blair, Neb., to convert sugars from field corn into polylactic acid (PLA) -- a composite biopolymer that can be used to produce packaging materials, clothing and bedding products.
2003 — McKinsey & Co. reports industrial biotechnology is one of the fastest growing economic sectors, potentially reaching $160 billion in value by 2010.
2004 — Cellulosic ethanol becomes an economic reality with the first commercial shipment and reductions in enzyme cost.
2005 — Congress passes the Energy Policy Act, which enacts a new renewable fuel standard and authorizes billions for biofuels development.
2005 — The first enzymes for low energy (cold) ethanol production are commercialized. Corn-derived ethanol production hits 4 billion gallons per year.
2006 — President Bush announces a plan to commercialize cellulosic ethanol and make it cost-competitive with gasoline by 2012.
2007 — President Bush proposes goal of producing 35 billion gallons of biofuel by 2017.
2007 — U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces it will invest up to $385 million on six biorefinery projects over the next four years. The projects selected include: Iogen Biorefinery Partners, LLC, BlueFire Ethanol, Inc., Range Fuels, POET (Broin Companies), ALICO, Inc., and Abengoa Bioenergy.
2007 — DOE announces that it will invest up to $375 million in three new Bioenergy Research Centers, to be located in Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Madison, Wisc.; and near Berkeley, Calif. The centers will focus on reducing the cost of cellulosic ethanol.
2007 — University of Buffalo researchers describe the central mechanism of action for enzymes, explaining the complexity of biological catalysis.
2008 – The 2008 Farm Bill included a Biorefinery Assistance Program (Section 9003) for advanced biofuel production. The program included funding for grants for demonstration scale plants up to 30 percent of costs and loan guarantees for commercial scale plants up to $250 million per plant.
2009 – The USDA Rural Development approved the first ever loan guarantee to a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant. The $80 million loan went to Range Fuels Inc., in Soperton, Ga.
2009 – The Bio Economic Research Associates (bio-era™) study, U.S. Economic Impact of Advanced Biofuels Production: Perspectives to 2030, showed direct job creation from advanced biofuels production could reach 190,000 by 2022 and direct economic input is expected to rise to $37 billion by 2022.
2010 – Synthetic biology garners attention for reaching a milestone in creating synthetic life in the form of a self-replicating cell from synthesized DNA.
2010 – A 2010 World Economic Forum report showed that using renewable biomass for biofuels, energy and chemicals has the potential to contribute upwards of $230 billion to the global economy by 2020.
2011 – In his State of the Union address, President Obama said we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels and should invest in tomorrow's energy rather than subsidizing yesterday's energy.
2011 – The Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) was established to provide financial assistance to owners and operators of agricultural and non-industrial private forest land who wish to establish, produce and deliver biomass feedstocks.
2011 – The USDA finalized rules for the BioPreferred Certified Biobased Product labeling program, a voluntary program that allows biobased product manufacturers and distributors to be able to affix a USDA Certified Biobased Product label on qualifying products.
2011 – President Obama announced that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy will invest up to $510 million during the next three years in partnership with the private sector to produce advanced drop-in aviation and marine biofuels to power military and commercial transportation.


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Hope College professor John T. Quinn died Thursday (June 19) while running near the campus during the noon hour.
Dr. Quinn, an associate professor of classics who had been a member of the faculty since 1995, was pronounced dead at Holland Hospital where he was taken by emergency responders. Dr. Quinn had apparently been running alone when he collapsed near 14th Street and Lincoln Avenue at approximately 1 p.m. He was 45.
"John Quinn was a respected colleague and friend. His passion was teaching in the Classics. This he did well and with great enthusiasm. John was a faithful servant, beloved especially by his students and the campus community," said President James E. Bultman.
Dr. Quinn taught Latin as well as the two major languages of Roman Egypt: Greek and Coptic (Egyptian). His research interests included the translation of ancient texts. He took his students on study tours to Greece and in 2004 led an alumni tour that explored Italy's Roman past. During his career he was supported in his research by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of Education, the Fulbright-Hayes Group Study Abroad in Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the Consortium for Inter-Institutional Collaboration in African and Latin American Studies.
He received the B.A. from the University of Notre Dame (1984) and the M.A. (1986) and Ph.D. (1994) degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Quinn lived in Holland. He is survived by family in the Chicago area.
There will be a wake on Monday, June 23, at the Ryan-Parke Funeral Home in Park Ridge, Ill. from 3-9 p.m. The funeral mass will be held Tuesday, June 24, at 10 a.m. at the Mary Seat of Wisdom Parish Park Ridge, Ill.
A memorial service will be held on the campus of Hope College on Sunday, Sept. 7 in Dimnent Memorial Chapel beginning at 3 p.m. ET. A reception will follow in the atrium of the A. Paul Schaap Science Center.


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Appirio necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 20 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
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We are growing the number of products we have, we want to organize them better. This page will do that. (The page we will replace is located at http://appirio.com/products/ )
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