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Perfect for photographers who don't dig the lens flare look but want to keep their kit as minimal as possible, the awkwardly-named Hoocap combines a lens cap and hood into a clever transforming accessory. It keeps fingerprints and scratches off your lens, and glare and flares off your photos.
At the moment the Hoocap's only available for a limited set of lenses—namely the Canon EF-S 17-55mm and the Nikon AF-S DX 17-55mm. But a wider range will soon be available for camera makers like Sony and Leica as well. At $49 it's not going to break the bank if you've stuck with just the kit lens that came with your camera. But if you've got a large collection of lenses in your arsenal, equipping them all with their own Hoocaps will get pricey very quickly.
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Dinosawer wrote:BFett wrote:character sheetReading, how does it workTalvieno wrote: After you fill out your character sheet, simply copy the bbcode at the bottom and paste it in the main thread.
Note: This is not the main BTE thread. Don't post character sheets yet.
To be honest it's not as well placed as it could be. That should be the first line above the auditions post, not a little sentence at the very end of the paragraph where I'd glance over it. Also, why the heck isn't the BTE page up for characters? **Insert annoyance here**

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Milk Price War Pits California Dairy Farms Against Cheesemakers
California is the largest milk producing state in the U.S., accounting for 20 percent of the national supply. Photographer: Sam Hodgson/Bloomberg
Ray Souza's voice cracks a bit when he says it, when he tells how his family's Turlock, California, dairy farm is struggling to pay the bills.
"We go from black to red month by month," the 66-year-old said. "For us, it's break even at best."
Souza is like many other dairy farmers in the state who say the price they're paid for milk from cheese producers isn't enough to cover the soaring cost of feeding cows. Those economics have caused a fifth of California's dairies to shutter since 2007, according to state agricultural figures.
California is the largest milk-producing state in the U.S., accounting for 20 percent of the national supply. Cheesemakers buy about 43 percent of all the milk produced in California at prices set under the state's unique pricing system rather than by federal formulas.
The dairy industry has petitioned the state to raise the prices cheesemakers must pay to buy California milk and have sought legislation to change a pricing system that dates to the 1930s. The producers say raising prices will harm them, the very people the dairy farmers need to buy their milk.
"There needs to be a balance between producer prices and what the market can bear in terms of the product we manufacture and the market for those products," said Rachel Kaldor, executive director of the Sacramento-based Dairy Institute of California, which represents processors. "In order for us to be able to stay in business, we need to be able to buy milk at a price that allows us to do that."
Five Classes
Under California's system, the state Food and Agriculture Department sets the minimum price for five classes of milk. The most expensive is fluid milk found at the dinner table. The cheapest is cheese. The system was set up in part to encourage more cheesemakers to open plants in California.
Farmers say the state system pays less than federal prices for milk used to make cheese and for whey, a dairy byproduct. California's system worked for dairy farms a half-century ago, when 60 percent of milk sold was fluid. Now, almost 80 percent is sold for products such as butter, dry milk, powders and cheese, the least profitable of the classes.
The system has left cheesemakers paying less for milk they buy from California than elsewhere. California farmers in March were paid 19 cents per gallon less for milk sold to cheesemakers than those in Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Texas and Arizona, according to state and federal figures.
Corn Soars
With the bulk of their product sold at the cheapest prices, hundreds of dairy farms were unable to stay in business as livestock feed costs rose. Corn prices, for example, reached a record $8.49 a bushel on Aug. 10 after last year's drought, the worst since the 1930s, lowered U.S. output by 13 percent.
Frantic to boost income, farmers have been flooding the market with as much milk as they can, causing prices to decline even more.
"The last-man-standing syndrome comes into play," said Sybrand Vander Dussen, president of the Ontario, California-based Milk Producers Council, which represents the state's family-owned dairy farms. "You are trying to last longer than your neighbor."
The farmers have been pressing California Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross to add as much as a $1.20 subsidy per 100 pounds to the price of milk used for cheese. The price reached $15.91 in June.
'Antiquated' System
Ross has said she doesn't believe the problems facing the dairy industry in California can be fixed simply by increasing the minimum price. Last month, she again rejected their petition and opted to add a temporary surcharge of 12.5 cents per 100 pounds on average for all five classes for six months.
"California dairies and processors must operate within national and international markets that require the manufacture of milk products to be competitive with those produced elsewhere in terms of variety, price and quality," Ross said in a letter announcing her decision June 21.
She also acknowledged that the program needs to change.
"Our system of regulated milk pricing is an antiquated one that impairs the ability of the dairy industry to rise to this challenge," she said.
The dairy farmers pressed Assemblyman Richard Pan, a Democrat, to introduce a bill that would require the state's milk-pricing system to more closely match how the federal program works. Pan's bill was blocked by opposition from the cheese industry.
First Step
Nevertheless, Pan helped negotiate a short-term fix that has the cheese processors paying $110 million into a milk pool to be shared by dairy farmers while a task force devises a permanent fix.
"We needed to get immediate relief for California dairy farmers," Pan said in an interview. "This is a good first step."
Souza, the Central Valley farmer, said that in the last year he's seen three of his neighboring farms go out of business. He watched one day as cattle trucks rumbled up to one of those farms and repossessed the owner's Jersey cows.
"She was sitting off to the side and crying," Souza said of the owner. "There is so much emotion right now in the industry. These are folks who have worked their entire life in dairy, sometimes multiple generations, and suddenly they don't have a farm anymore."
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Statement of PurposeThe Baldwin Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States. This includes all works first published before 1923. The period from 1880 or so until 1922 offers a wealth of material in all categories, including: Nursery Rhymes, Fables, Folk Tales, Myths, Legends and Hero Stories, Literary Fairy Tales, Bible Stories, Nature Stories, Biography, History, Fiction, Poetry, Storytelling, Games, and Craft Activities.We offer these resources at no charge and grant permission to individuals to print copies for personal and educational uses. The texts are formatted so that attractive copies can be printed easily, in larger type for younger readers and smaller type for older ones, with illustrations included where possible. Teachers and parents can make use of the readers that are already available, or they can construct their own readers by selecting stories from the existing pool.We hope that by offering these online texts that more of today's children will become familiar with the works of Padraic Colum, Howard Pyle, Andrew Lang, and James Baldwin, that were read so widely just a few generations ago.To guide parents and teachers in their selection of stories for particular children, we plan to include suggested age ranges for each of the stories, both the age at which children first enjoy hearing the story read to them and the age when they can typically read the story to themselves. In addition we look forward to compiling anthologies of stories and lists of books suitable for each age.The Baldwin Project is named in honor of James Baldwin (1841-1925). In the Acknowledgments included in his The Book of Virtues, William J. Bennett declares his indebtedness to James Baldwin among others: "The editor also gratefully acknowledges the endeavors of scholars and collectors such as James Baldwin, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, and Andrew Lang, who in a past age devoted their energies to preserving some of the best of our heritage, and whose works have supplied this volume with many truly great stories."We seek to accomplish in the online arena at the beginning of this century what James Baldwin achieved in the world of print at the beginning of the last century: bringing yesterday's classics to today's children.
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Weinhof Waldschütz
The Waldschütz family has vineyards in Kamptal and Wagram.
They make lovely and fresh wines, Grüner Veltliner and Riesling, but also rarer varieties, some ample Weissburgunder and very generous reds.
Their focus is on family, tradition and experience. The winery has been in its present state since 1992 and from day one they have committed themselves completely to their wines. There are 16 hectares of vineyards which are their pride and joy. Mostly on sunny slopes they are located in the two well known wine growing areas of Kamptal and Wagram.
Primary rock, sandy loam and gravely loess as well as deep loam-loess soils allow very fruity, noble wines of charming elegance. What earth and nature initiated is carefully finished by them, taking tradition and optimised wine culture in the cellar into consideration.
Anyone who came to our Austrian dinner or to the Austrian tasting could not fail to be impressed by young Ralph Waldschütz. He will be a star one day and you've met him here first!
Riesling Anzenthal Wagram Reserve Weinhof WaldschützSuperb food white.


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First, a reminder that the debate format has changed to a PollDaddy voting system, followed by a massive thank you for making last week's Half-Life debate the largest Game Debate Destructoid has ever had since I started this feature series back in 2006! Once the poll was closed we had a total of 1,032 votes! Let's take a look at the top three results:
This week, as this year's E3 comes to a close, let's take on the three varying sized elephants in the room. For this debate, let's not use words like "best" or "favorite" or even "winner" and instead make this really simple. Hold on to your butts and get ready for an important question: If you can only ever own one console out of the Wii U, PS4, and Xbox One, which console would you choose right now? Keep reading and scroll down to make your official PollDaddy vote!
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In my interview with Elizabeth Travis, PhD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, she noted the extra effort it takes to put women on scientific and technical panels:
I organized an international meeting a year ago as a program chair and I said to my committee "Do not bring me a symposium without at least one woman speaker." There was the usual rolling of the eyes and comments like "Don't we want the best?" That's used frequently to challenge women. I said "You have just insulted every woman in this organization." One man was so keen to do this, he had a symposium with all women faculty speaking—it takes that kind of effort.Are there sites for your profession that do what GeekSpeakr does for high-tech women? Let me know in the comments, and I'll post a compilation. If your professional organization or networking group includes a speakers' bureau or similar signup, make sure your name and topics of interest are registered there, too.


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(These are screens from the in-process version, so don't get hurt feelings if names change before it's released...)
I forgot about this project. The first Class of Heroes got fairly mixed reviews. Is this one supposed to be a vast improvement over the first?
Huh, I thought they wouldn't localize the game anymore since that whole Kickstarter mess. Nice!


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Whether it was 86-year-old Bruce Huffman singing, doing a monkey impression or asking his wife, Esther, 79, to "see your boobs," the elderly couple trying to figure out how to work their webcam is entertaining -- and their accidental video now has more than 4 million views on YouTube.
The Huffmans were trying to figure out how to work their computer's webcam when they recorded about three minutes of footage, which their granddaughter uploaded to YouTube and called it "Webcam 101 for Seniors," according to the Associated Press. The McMinnville, Ore. couple met at a retirement community and recently purchased a laptop to record videos for their grandchildren which started the whole viral sensation.
The couple were married in 2004, when Esther married widower Bruce for his joie de vivre, which is plainly evident in the video.
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While the elderly and technology are usually a tired gag in itself, the video shows much more. It shows a glimpse of a couple who get along and don't let minor frustrations ruin their happiness.


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BANGKOK (Reuters) - An oil spill that has blackened beaches at a Thai holiday island was having an extreme impact on tourism and could spread to the coast of the mainland and affect the fishing industry, officials and an environmental group said on Tuesday.
Tourists were pouring off the island of Koh Samet, 230 km (142 miles) southeast of Bangkok, while soldiers and volunteers in white bio-hazard suits struggled to clear black oily sludge off the white sand.
"We're working to move visitors to other locations if they want to move," Tourism Minister Somsak Phurisisak told reporters.
"I'm very concerned, I didn't think this spill would impact tourism in such an extreme way."
About 50,000 liters of crude oil poured into the Gulf of Thailand from a pipeline on Saturday, about 20 km (12 miles) off the coast, the fourth major oil spill in Thai history.
The pipeline operator, PTT Global Chemical, apologized and said the leak had been plugged. The clean-up operation would take another two to three days, it said.
Worst hit was the beach at Ao Prao, or Coconut Bay, but tourists elsewhere on the island were getting out.
"We're staying on another beach but we're not taking any chances. We are checking out," Daria Volkov, a tourist from Moscow, told Reuters.
Koh Samet, known for its beaches and clear, warm sea, is thronged by domestic and foreign tourists, thanks to its proximity to Bangkok.
"Tourists are leaving, some have cancelled their bookings," said Chairat Trirattanajarasporn, chairman of the provincial tourist association.
"Samet is popular with Russian and Chinese tourists but they won't stay long if this mess isn't cleaned up."
Pakdihan Himathongkam, a government spokesman, said aircraft were releasing chemical dispersants over the 1 km (half a mile) long oil slick, while Ao Prao beach was closed to the public.
"Our worry is that it could reach the mainland," Pakdihan said.
Environmental groups raised questions about the true extent of the disaster.
"What has happened is far more serious than what PTT said on the first day. We can expect an impact on fisheries and from chemical contamination in the food chain," Ply Pirom, programme manager at Greenpeace Southeast Asia, told Reuters.
PTT Global Chemical Pcl is part of state-controlled PTT Pcl, Thailand's biggest energy firm.
Another subsidiary, PTT Exploration and Production Pcl, was involved in Australia's worst offshore drilling accident in 2009, when thousands of gallons of crude oil spewed into the sea after a damaged oil well blew up.
The slick from the Montara oil field off Australia's northwest coast spread as far as Indonesian waters. An Australian government inquiry blamed the spill on systemic shortcomings at the Thai oil giant.
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So. During the blog's impromptu "Lebowski Fest" the past couple of days, I didn't get an opportunity to share the news about two upcoming movies I've heard about. Both involving gangsters.
The first is a new "Scarface" movie planned by Universal.
The second is an N.W.A. biopic, tentatively titled after their debut album, "Straight Outta Compton"
One of these makes me giddy with anticipation, the other tests my gag reflex. See if you can guess which one is which. The answer, after the break.


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2010 Cochon 555, New York: Fatty Cue was Robbed
Butcher Tom Mylan's tools atop his handiwork. Photograph: Adam Robb / Eat Me Daily
Two days before the official opening of Zak Pelaccio's long-anticipated Malaysian barbecue joint Fatty Cue, his restaurant was robbed.
As the sun set over Pier 60 in Manhattan last night, hundreds of well-fed revelers washed down heritage pork with Averna Juleps, picked [...]


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For all coaches, sports psychologists and athletes who want to raise their game and are Android users, today we've evened the playing field with your iphone buddies. Now you can download the Android version of FocusUp in the Amazon store. We'd love to hear your feedback on this initial version. We expect it will require some tweaking and bug-fixing but we wanted to get it in the hands of all the spring sport athletes who have been banging at our door asking for when the Android version would be released.
Follow in the footsteps of Roy Halladay, Cy Young Award winning pitcher, and many other elite athletes who with just a few minutes of practice every day, improve their concentration habits and increase their ability to enter the zone by using the concentration number grids featured in FocusUp.
FocusUp Pro for Android and Kindle Fire. Buy it today in the Amazon Store!
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The Honeywell SUPERIOR ALLERGEN is made of a self-supported pleated media offered at a value. The unique filter construction of Honeywell SUPERIOR ALLERGEN requires less energy for lower energy cost. Its electrostatic charge and larger surface area of pleated material improves the efficiency of its dust-holding capacity. Housed in a recyclable clay-coated moisture resistant frame, this filter captures particles as small as 1 micron. In comparison, a human hair is approximately 150 microns in size. The Honeywell is effective against the following contaminants: microscopic allergens, disintegrated feces, tobacco smoke, insecticide dust, lead dust, mold spores, pollen, pet dander, nuisance dust, and dust mite debris. The leader in the air filtration, Flanders provides air filtration products for pharmaceutical laboratories, the space programs, nuclear containment, and commercial industries.
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So much for controversy.
President Obama told the nation's schoolkids to work hard, listen to their teachers and wash their hands in his much-anticipated pep talk, broadcast in schools across the country.
"Every single one of you has something you're good at," Obama said. "Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide."
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The president offered inspiration to loners and kids growing up in tough circumstances, saying he knows how they feel.
"I get it," Obama said. "I know what that's like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn't fit in."
But ultimately, it is up to each student to blaze a trail to success.
"At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home – that's no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude," Obama said. "That's no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That's no excuse for not trying.
"Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future."
The president delivered the 18-minute speech from Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va. The White House released the president's remarks ahead of time to help reassure critics he was not trying to indoctrinate students by holding the talk in a school setting.
The president did not address political issues like health care in the speech, though mindful of the prospect of swine flu sweeping through schools, he advised kids to wash their hands frequently.
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The Amorphians are believed to begin life underground, no Amorphian in this stage of life has ever been observed. The known life of the Amorphian begins when it seeps out of the ground in its adult form. The adult is ameboid in form and roughly 2.5 inches in diameter when shaped as a sphere at the start of its above-ground life. As it ages it will shrink gradually until it is only .25 inches in diameter as a sphere, and then it will return underground.
Amorphians change color at frequent unpredictable intervals by a process inolving special light distorting cells which are believed to have inspired much of the technology used during the Conflict by both sides. All Amorphians change their color at the same time, though it is not understood how they coordinate this or whether it serves any purpose.
Shortly after the Amorphians' discovery, the drug developement company Pharmacon? moved their research and development laboratories to the Amorphians' homeworld. Cospiracy theorists have several reasons for this, but the most likely reason is as a tax dodge, as according to the laws of the time, the planet was governed by the Amorphians, and thus not part of the Union. Despite the quarantine of the Amorphian homeworld, Pharmacon? has been allowed to continue its operations there, including frequent shuttles sent to and from their Main Office on Earth.


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Jun 25, 2011
Charlene II (I'm Over You) by Stephen Colbert & the Black Belles
Time for me to add Colbert back into my DVR lineup.
Jun 18, 2011
Keenan Cahill Kills it with 50 Cent
I needed something to make me laugh this morning so I replayed this video of Keenan Cahill.
How in the world did he get 50 Cent to make a guest appearance? Keenan's facial expressions are priceless. I think there should be a word for video-lip-synching kids spitting rhymes so dope.
Jun 5, 2011
Why Bother?
Why Bother, a photo by p!speaks on Flickr.
I know we won't be doing any 'downward dog' moves, but I'm hoping the first class is slow, easy and relaxing. Just like this Beagle named Bruce.
Jun 4, 2011
Gumball Wars
Gumball Wars from Scott Thierauf on Vimeo.
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IDC (insulation displacement contact) D-sub connectors are a type of electrical connectorthat's designed to be connected to the conductor(s) of an insulated cable, most commonly a ribbon cable(a cable with many conducting wires running parallel to each other on the same flat plane).
Applications for IDC D-sub connectors
IDC D-sub connectors, attached to ribbon cables, are helpful in situations where you need to make a lot of connections without a big number of wires. They're commonly used in computer and electronic systems that require multiple data buses to link internal peripherals, such as disk drives to their drive controllers. They're also frequently used in industrial and telecom applications.
How does an IDC D-sub connector work?
With an IDC D-sub connector, there's no need for cable preparation – in other words, you don't need the strip the cables of their insulation before connecting. To connect the cable to the connector, there are sharpened blades (or contacts) on the connector that force through the insulation around the cable, making a secure connection.


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Hello everyone, Perry Krug hailing you from the Couchbase headquarters in Mountain View, CA where we've just released the next major version of Membase Server: 1.7.
For a visual demonstration of the new UI in 1.7, including a look at our 100-node cluster, please watch a brief (5 minute) video.
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For details of the release, read on!
Along with the usual stability improvements and bug fixes, we've added a whole slew of new features and capabilities:
- New commands for working with expiration times and synchronous replication
- Greatly enhanced clustering, replication and rebalancing
- Basic alerting on error conditions and upgrade availability
- Redesigned UI for better and more granular monitoring
It's this last point that I want to focus on today. See Frank's blog for more details on the other new additions and Dustin's blog for the new commands.
The management of older versions of Membase Server (1.6.x) was made possible through a streamlined UI built on top of our REST API. We received many accolades on the statistics we presented, and the fact that you could see up-to-the-second real-time traffic statistics of a live Membase node/cluster. but, there were some limitations: you were limited to 30 viewable statistics; these statistics were only available as aggregated numbers across all the nodes within a cluster; the indication of "up" or "down" of an individual server was limited and sometimes confusing.
Through our various production and test deployments, we gained an immense amount of experience on how to better monitor and troubleshoot Membase Server, which is reflected in the new release. We've introduced a variety of new areas of monitoring and have improved upon the existing capabilities:
Per-server statistics
With 1.7, you can now use a drop-down menu to select an individual server. With clusters growing larger by the minute, you can also enter a few or all digits of the server name (either IP address or hostname depending on your configuration) and receive immediate results without having to scan through a long list.
When viewing an individual server, we also added stats around RAM, swap and CPU usage (we learned that it is not really useful to aggregate these.)
Slicing-and-dicing this in a different way, 1.7 also allows for any individual statisic (let's say "disk write queue") to be displayed across all servers. Simply click on the blue arrow within the mini-graph of any statistic and you'll see what I mean.
Expanded field of statistics
Prior to 1.7, Membase Server exposed 16 statistics by default with the ability to choose another 14 to display, which is nothing to sneeze at. However, now with 1.7, you have roughly 87 (at last count) to choose from…that's almost a 3x increase! (I say "roughly" because a few statistics are duplicated in various places to make it easier to pull them out.)
The statistics are now broken down into a few sections for easier viewing:
- "Server Resources"– RAM/swap/CPU usage of an individual server
- "Summary" – quick-glance statistics including ops per second and item counts, etc. These 12 stats provide continuity between 1.6.x versions and 1.7
- "vbucket Resources" – Much more detailed information about the status, count, activity and memory utilization of our active, replica and pending vbuckets. A total column is also provided.
- "Disk Queues" – Expanding on the singular "disk write queue" of 1.6.x, this new section breaks out the item counts, drain/fill rates and average age of data in the various disk queues for active, replica, and pending vbuckets.
- "TAP Queues" – Never before seen graphs and monitoring of the various inter-node communication queues related to replication and rebalancing. We also have a section for "client" TAP queues representing the data flowing to external consumers of our TAP data.
As I mentioned above, all of these statistics are available per-bucket and either aggregated across the whole cluster or from an individual node.
Improved Server Status monitoring
In 1.6.x, our only indication on the status of a server was either "up" or "down"…and that status was derived strictly from Erlang's view. We ran into cases where the UI reported the server as "up" when in reality it was not.
Membase Server 1.7 enhances the up/down monitoring to add a third status of "pending" (denoted by a yellow box). This is designed to indicate that the actual memcached process (responsible for the actual serving of data) is not functioning properly. It may have recently crashed and is warming up (indicated by an increasing item count) or is unresponsive to stats requests (rare, but possibly indicating a hung process).
This new status indicator helps to shed more light on the level of function each node has within the cluster.
We also added a pie chart to each bucket in the "Manage Buckets" screen to indicate how much of the data within that bucket is available. If a node fails, some percentage of the data is possibly unavailable and we wanted to help make that clear.
Monitor Server Screen
A brand new UI page showing a concise list of all nodes within the cluster. While this information is available elsewhere as well, we felt it important to present some specific statistics about each node in an easy to view and search list.
This new screen includes an up/down/pending status marker, swap/RAM/CPU usage and Active/Replica item counts for each server. You can also click on the server name to get the detailed graphs for each bucket on that server.
All this work was done with our customers/users/support team in mind and we made sure the keep the best parts:
- Simple, clean and FAST interface for managing and monitoring a Membase Server cluster
- Per-second statistics for live traffic monitoring
- Completely RESTful API allowing for external monitoring (in case our UI isn't enough!)
- "All nodes created equal" means that any node of a cluster can serve the UI and has a consistent view of the cluster
- Easily selectable mini-graphs to display on the "main graph"
Thanks for reading, thanks for your interest, thanks for your support. Until next time…
Perry Krug
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When he wrote this previous post on __autoloading classes, he didn't know he'd get as large of a response as he did. So, based on that, he decided to post a follow-up with a new version and some improvements.
The enhancements include: the addition of directory scanning for the files, using the SPL RecursiveDirectoryIterator for scanning, and Windows support (via the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant).
The post also includes a note on the backwards compatibility (fine except for an issues with a preg_match_all) and a quick example of how to use it.


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Friday, May 6, 2011
birdie onesies
7 comments:
- Katie said...
So cute! I love felt but have never used it for clothing appliques because I was afraid of how it would wash? Have you tried it before? Is it best to use a wool felt and prewash it or use a synthetic? Super cute idea and such a quick gift idea too!
- May 6, 2011 at 11:20 AM
- Ashley said...
Love them Megs! So cute!!
- May 6, 2011 at 1:18 PM
- Unknown said...
so cute! I love your blog and I LOVE your adorable dollies - if I weren't in major saving mode, I would totally snatch up two of them for my two friends who just had little girls. I'm bookmarking them, nonetheless!
- May 6, 2011 at 4:29 PM
super sweet. I love them! thanks again for your phone call this week ~ it totally made our day. much love to you and a very, very HAPPY mother's day to you!!!
- May 8, 2011 at 2:46 AM
- Unknown said...
So cute!
- May 8, 2011 at 4:38 PM
- Gaspord Adventures said...
I love these! What a treat to get be on the receiving end of these adorable little onesies. :)
- May 10, 2011 at 8:34 AM
- meg + andy said...
thanks gals!
katie- i've only appliqued a couple times with felt but since its the synthetic kind it doesn't shrink. regardless, they probably won't last forever- especially with frequent washings..oh well! :)
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Turkeys, rabbits and a 200-pound sow named Candy inhabit the backyard of Nathan and Julie Harris home off County Road 216 in southern La Plata County.
Their 16-year-old daughter, Samantha, is raising and breeding Candy for a 4-H project, but like parents helping out with homework, her dad will be responsible for getting Candy ready to conceive piglets.
Because of health risks posed to human females by the drug that manipulates swine reproductive cycles, Nathan Harris will be lacing the drug onto hot dog buns for Candys consumption.
He better not spill any drug on exposed skin because it can cause instantaneous urination, said Doug Davis, a pig farmer who advises 4-H members on swine projects.
Getting piggies to market, or in this case, the La Plata County Fair, is complicated business, but then farming is not even the full-time occupation for the Harrises, who work in law enforcement and store security.
Given the modern science of producing piglets, hobby farming is practically a misnomer, too.
Samantha tends to Candy every day. While she has a passion for animals, she is not thinking of farming as a career.
At my age, I want to go to college, to either get a degree in teaching or nursing, Samantha said. You can always do farming on the side.
Rise of the hobby farm
Farming as a full-time occupation is on the decline. In 1969, it represented 9 percent of all jobs in La Plata County. By 2009, it accounted for 3 percent of the workforce, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Still, census data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture suggests that farming remains a popular pursuit, especially for those who like to keep a few animals around the house.
Between 2002 and 2007, which is the most recent data, the number of farms in La Plata County with 24 or fewer pigs grew from 28 to 33. The number of farms with nine or fewer cattle grew from 111 to 117.
The increase in small poultry operations was even more profound. The number of farms with any poultry increased from 66 to 101 with 78 farms classified as having only one to 49 poultry animals, such as chickens, turkeys or geese.
Greg Felsen, the agricultural extension agent in La Plata County, credits the local food movement for the popularity in hobby farms as more people want to know where their food is coming from.
This weekend, Fort Lewis College is hosting the fourth annual Homegrown Conference for foodies, restaurant owners and farmers interested in local, healthy food. Farmers represent about a quarter of the 200 participants.
Conference meals, such as sausages, frittatas and soups like potato leek and ginger carrot, were made from locally sourced ingredients.
Referring to the variety of dishes made from animal products, FLC program coordinator Rachel Landis joked that Im a vegan, and Im organizing this.
Moment of conception
Of course, people approach hobby farming with diverse interests and objectives. Some 4-H families raising livestock for the La Plata County Fair, for instance, prefer more natural methods and never would use drugs, such as Matrix, which manipulates swine reproductive cycles, Felsen said.
If local sows are to have piglets in time for the county fair in August, they need to become pregnant by mid-March.
Davis likes the swine drug for taking the guessing out of breeding.
Breeding is easy. Getting the right day is the hard part, Davis said.
Without the drug, farmers have to depend on clues such as moodiness and a swollen vulva to determine whether a sow is in heat.
Because pig semen cannot be frozen and is viable for only 48 hours, it must be shipped live for artificial insemination.
So farmers have to know when to order it. Shipping often is more expensive than the sperm. Six of seven students breeding pigs chose artificial insemination for the 4-H Catch-It program, said Julie Harris.
What kills you is the shipping because it must be overnighted. Youre paying about $70 just on the shipping, she said.
When the Harrises first got the pig in October through the Catch-It program, which donates pigs for 4-H students, the pig was only 70 pounds. Now, Candy has plumped up to 200 pounds on a steady diet of corn.
The Harrises are leaning toward artificial insemination for the convenience, Samantha said.
Samantha favors semen from a species of pigs called the blue butts.
Theyre actually black they look like Oreos, Samantha said. They have a white stripe underneath them.
Samantha, who has bred rabbits, said she is not feeling squeamish about the moment of conception.
Last year, Samantha held onto a sow to make sure she stayed down. It didnt bug me. ... Ive grown up with animals.
For safetys sake, Davis warns human females not to go anywhere near the drug.
This is where the dads come in, he said.
The drugs website, www.matrix-swine.com, advises women who are pregnant, or suspect, they are pregnant not to handle the drug or its packaging. The drug can disrupt menstrual cycles and prolong pregnancy. Women of child-bearing age are told to be extremely careful.
Merck, the manufacturer, did not respond to calls for comment.
While Samanthas father, Nathan Harris, a deputy for the La Plata County Sheriffs Office, is helpful with the chores, he is not crazy about animals, said his wife, Julie Harris.
He does not like to give shots but was receptive to getting Candy ready for heat, Julie Harris said.
When we found out you just have to put it in the hot dog bun, she said, he was like, I can do that.


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To celebrate the PC release of iOS smash Sword & Sworcery, there's an "Iwata Asks" (oknotreally) about the game over on its official site. Once you're done reading that, you may well notice the astonishing new wallpaper featured on the site.
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Calvinator wrote:Here's my take on it:
There is NAPPA. I am a NAPPA member. The group of breeders must follow their breeding requirements.
There is the VPP-GNA. I am a member. The group of breeders must follow their breeding requirements. This group may only have less than 5 litters the whole year. It is a small, but growing group.
There is PCNA. I am not a member. Some of the VPP-GNA members are also members of the PCNA. This group seems to have very few litters. Their required testing only occurs in CA or OR. That can be challenging for most.
CAPA no longer exists!
There are breeders that are not affiliated with any group. Some of them are very dedicated breeders. Some of them are interested in money.
Then there are the puppy mills! BEWARE!!! I'd gladly tell you who. I'd gladly tell you in an open forum, but it might get me kicked off.
bwjohn wrote:by picking pudelpointers you stepped into it.
there are several groups in the US vying for the top spot/group/registry/alliance/breed group, what ever you want to call it.
With Pudelpointers, I think you have a really high chance of the dog being at least a very adequate hunter, no matter which group or person you get it from. With a few caveats. Overall the breed is still very much dominated by working dogs or not very far from it at all.
You could skip all of the different groups in the US and just import a dog from the source, a dog from the German Registry. If that interests you at all, contact me via pm and I will give a contact that could get you started in the right direction.
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Well, being the concerned cachers that we are,myself and Steve from TrezursRfun after seeing the conditon of the Railbridge cache GC# GCGTD6,we decided to take it upon ourselves to help this one out. The container apparently had leaked and everything in it was pretty much trashed. We cleaned and dried up the container and CITO'ed the rest. We replaced with a new logbook and added some other goodies to it. It looked like the owner hasn't logged in for a while, so we thought that was the most appropriate thing to do. It is a nice area but doesn't get much traffic.
We also visited the Birdsacre cache in Ellsworth GC #GCGY6C and found that cache also in dire need of some attention. In this instance I emailed the owners who also havent been to the website in quite some time to inform them of the situation. I also emailed Gpsfun and he posted a log to the effect that he is giving them 10 days to respond to the maintenance issues or he will be requesting that it be adopted.
This is a beautiful spot for a cache as some of you know who have visited it can attest and hate to see it be archived. If there is anyone in that area of the state who would be willing to adopt it after the 10 day time limit expires I'm sure other people to visit it would appreciate it.
We hope that we took the appropiate measures and hope that other cachers who come across caches like these will do the same. Thanks


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Welcome to the World Harrier Organization
The World Harrier Organization is a loose association of friendly groups or clubs who practice the sport of hare and hounds. In this sport, there are hare(s) (a runner or runners) who lay a trail (usually cross-country) with various trail marking materials (like flour, chalk, or the toilet paper used in the second WHO gathering in Orlando picture below). The hares are then followed by the pack of hounds (other runners) a few minutes after the hares are off. The eventual goal of the hounds is to catch a hare before the trail is completed. It is quite fun, with the side effect that you may accidentally get into shape doing the sport. Some participants may run fast, others just jog and most groups nowadays permit walkers to negotiate the trail. They are loosely kept together in ability packs through the use of false trails and ingenious trail design (hopefully). A few groups may occasionally pre-lay trails, kind of taking the sport out of it, but they try to make up for it with social activity along the trail. Most groups in the world chase a live hare setting the trail ahead of them. Groups usually finish their runs with some social activity, song, refreshment and snacks, and sometimes a meal. But, for a better description how we at W.H.O. expects the groups of our loose association to conduct themselves, read the W.H.O. Creed on the left.
As Stray Dog, our founder wrote many years ago (now updated for W.H.O.),
"The World Harrier Organization is a state of mind - a friendship of kindred spirits joined together for a bit of hounds and hares sport, reliving their childhood or youth, releasing the tensions of everyday life, and generally acting a fool amongst others who will not judge you or measure you by anything more than your sense of humor."
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Our Direction
If you are an experienced harrier, this is a more universal treatment of the sport than is usually expressed in other associations of hare and hounds, such the Hash House Harriers (HHH). We encourage all types of groups in our association as long as they are generally comfortable with our creed (read it in the left column). We do not, like the HHH, require any social liturgy (i.e. a Down Down) nor do we frown on hare and hounds groups who have a competitive nature. Traditionally, the sport was a competitive one. We accept friendly Hash House Harrier groups that have no problem with our creed (most of the hundreds of groups I have run with on four continents around the world). Most importantly, we accept almost all the other hare and hounds groups around the world who would not fit into the HHH social model – groups who are competitive and/or also hold races, religious groups, teetotaler groups, family and children's groups, etc. It is not
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with WHO – if you participate in the hare and hounds sport as a significant part of your activity, your organization is a fit with us.
Our Roots
The roots of the World Harrier Organization began from the first Global Trash Hash. This effort was born from Global Trash publishing efforts that began as a magazine in 1993, reference books in 1994 listing groups, then a global annual event in 1995 (Global Trash Hash) that attracted international participation. That same year, we supported a website and on-line directory where hare and hounds groups registered themselves with us - thus began the registry of hare and hounds groups under one banner that you see here. In later years we assumed publication of the InterHASHional News and began offering more and more website and social media features to members and groups registered with us. After a few name changes, we finally become the World Harrier Organization. Therefore, through a continuous ancestry,
we claim a founded date of 1995 as an internationally accepted gathering of hare and hounds members and groups who registered on our website, with some participating in our annual event.
Our Website
The publisher's previous efforts covering the HHH and cross country running will be forwarded here (gthhh.com, worldhhh.com, worldhhh.org, InterHASHionalNews.com, XRunning.com, et. al.) Those efforts emphasized the Hash House Harriers or only cross country running, leaving out a large number of hare and hounds groups who practice the sport in a more traditional manner. The World Harrier Organization is a more inclusive organization and this website will reflect a wider view of the sport. Like the old gthhh.com and later worldhhh.com, we will provide a reference for hare and hounds (once called the Hash Bible), that will now be rewritten to become the World Harrier Organization Manual. Email lists have been created and forums soon created to provide a social media side of our website for our members. As from the early days of Global Trash, we now include a directory of members and groups belonging to the World Harrier Organization. There is a calendar of W.H.O. and member group special events. Within the next year, we will provide free websites, harelines, photo albums and email services to member groups and much more, as we did in the past.
So come on back and we will give you a great site where harriers all around the world can find information, list their groups, exchange ideas in our social harrier media and more or less find a more friendly media and wider viewpoint for the sport of hare and hounds than ever before expressed on-line or hardcopy.
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Follow the arrows and see the order of the processes carried out in a cell.
1 ve 2. Every foreign substance is stopped for inspection at the entrances to the cell.
3. The inside of the cell is like a busy factory.
4. At the center of the cell is the nucleus, which acts as a data processing center.
5. The cell has also a site functioning like a refinery.


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Hunkydory Christmas: Snowy Days
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Books for the movie lovers on your gift listNovember 28, 2012
Books for the movie lovers on your gift list
Steven Rea of the Philadelphia Inquirer
It's the 30th anniversary of E.T., the 50th anniversary of the first 007 film, the Star Wars franchise isn't dead (thanks, Disney), Leo Tolstoy's 1870s romantic tragedy gets at least its ninth movie adaptation, a New Yorker magazine critic wonders what's happening to his medium, great actors and a great acting dynasty are celebrated, great directors are interviewed, and the star of Looper and The Dark Knight Rises has a teensy-weensy collection of teensy-weensy stories to share.
If it's November, it must be time for publishing houses to stock the shelves with books aimed squarely (and hiply) at the movie-obsessed. If simply going to a theater, or clicking on your Netflix queue, or flipping to Turner Classics isn't enough — when you need to eat, breathe, sleep, and excrete movies — these books are for you. (Some of them, anyway.)
A roundup of new titles ready to be given, or gotten:
Anna Karenina: The Screenplay by Tom Stoppard (Vintage, $15). The award-winning playwright and scenarist turns in his explicitly theatrical version of the Tolstoy classic, explaining himself and his ideas about Tolstoy in a pithy intro.
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies by David Thomson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $35) One of the most knowledgable, enjoyably idiosyncratic, and prolific writers on the movies jumps back and forth in time and across media (TV, YouTube, smartphones, the silver screen) in this insightful study of how movies shape our consciousness, collective and otherwise.
Do Movie Theaters Have A Future? Part 1 from t j brearton on Vimeo.
Do Movie Theaters Have A Future Part 2. from t j brearton on Vimeo.
Do Movie Theaters Have A Future? Part 3 from t j brearton on Vimeo.
Do Movie Theaters Have a Future? Part 4 from t j brearton on Vimeo.
Do Movie Theaters Have a Future? Part 5 from t j brearton on Vimeo.
Do Movie Theaters Have A Future? Final Part from t j brearton on Vimeo.
Do the Movies Have a Future? by David Denby (Simon & Schuster, $27). A collection of essays, reviews, and think pieces celebrating the good, bad, and ugly of contemporary cinema (and not so contemporary — read his takes on Joan Crawford and Victor Fleming). Does Denby answer his titular big question? Now, that would be a spoiler.
'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial': From Concept to Classic (Newmarket Press, $24.99) Packed with production stills, storyboard pages, how'd-they-do-that? effects breakdowns, and the illustrated Melissa Mathison screenplay, this oversize paperback celebrates the otherworldly wonders of Steven Spielberg's, well, classic. With an intro by the man himself.
Harry Potter: Film Wizardry by Brian Sibley (Collins Design, $45). Still experiencing Harry withdrawal? Try this elaborate commemorative tome, a revised and expanded version of the 2011 edition, full of removable facsimile documents, Hogwarts secrets, saucy anecdotes from HP cast members, behind-the-scenes info on Dementors and Hippogriffs, maps, magic tricks, and more.
Hollywood Unseen by Robert Dance (Antique Collectors Club, $75) Not sure how I feel about the cover photo of Humphrey Bogart on a bike (the very same image included in another eminently gift-worthy book, Hollywood Rides a Bike: Cycling with the Stars! by yours truly), but this huge and handsome coffee table book, culled from the John Kobal collection of vintage Hollywood glamour portraits, candids, and production stills, has photos to die for. From Marlene Dietrich to Barbara Stan wyck, James Dean to Marilyn Monroe, icons at work, at play, at ease, and at their sexiest, nuttiest, and most mysterious and mischievous.
The Little Blue Book for Filmmakers: A Primer for Directors, Writers, Actors, and Producers by Carl Gottlieb and Toni Attell (Limelight Editions, $19.99) Just what it says: Little. Blue. A practical manual for making your way through the movie-biz maze.
The Making of Life of Pi: A Film Journey, by Jean-Christophe Castelli (Harper Design, $35) Gorgeous, color-photo-packed "making of" book, with a foreward by Life of Pi novelist Yann Martel (he "hates the movie! a joke, a joke) and an intro by the always-intriguing director Ang Lee.
The Man Who Saw a Ghost: The Life and Work of Henry Fonda, by Devin McKinney (St. Martin's, $29.99) Deeply wrought biography of the dark, conflicted, amazingly talented actor, whose personal life was messy, and whose professional life resulted in some of the truly great films – and film performances – in Hollywood history.
The Music of James Bond, by Jon Burlingame (Oxford, $35) The title songs and soundtracks, and the people behind them, from Dr. No to Quantum of Solace. (What, no Adele singing the theme to Skyfall?!) A fascinating look at the composers and crooners, the fortuitous accidents and fateful musical choices that have propelled the 007 franchise forward with rhythm and style.
Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made, by Alan Eisenstock (St. Martin's, $25.99) A pair of Mississippi nerd tweens remake Raiders of the Lost Ark. A fanboy odyssey, nicely told.
The Redgraves: A Family Epic, by Donald Spoto (Crown, $26) Michael, Vanessa, Lynn, Corin, Joely Richardson, Natasha Richardson – a British acting dynasty spans generations, overcoming tragedy and the occasional bad script to become a kind of quality brand of thespian ism. Vanessa can bring gravitas to Mission: Impossible, and author Spoto tries to explain how.
Star Wars: A Pop-Up Galactic Adventure, by Matthew Reinhart (Scholastic, $36.99) Renowned "paper engineer" Reinhart does his magic on the three "Star Wars" prequels and "The Clone Wars," and all the characters, conflicts, droids, and galactic action contained therein. And then uncontained, literally unfolding before your eyes.
Steven Spielberg: A Retrospective, by Richard Schickel (Sterling, $35) Movie by movie, Schickel and Spielberg talk. A 40-year overview of a career still going strong.
The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories 2, by Joseph Gordon-Levitt & wirrow (HarperCollins, $14.99) Long ago, the Looper star started an online indie-music collaborative, HitRECord (as in hit the record button). The site has also become host to a short-story collaboration —more like story fragments, or haiku-size prose poems — and Gordon-Levitt has culled quirky gems for Vol. 2. A handsome hardbound book full of wit, whimsy, and a little wisdom. And the elfish illustrations of wirrow


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Submitted by Lance Robert of StreetTalk Advisors
The Lie That Is Social Security
The problems facing the U.S. economy are daunting especially when it comes the issues of Government spending and the current deficit. We recently wrote about the dependency on Government programs which is currently making up as much as 35% of personal incomes. Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare make up the largest portions of the current spending requirements of the Federal Budget. The current administration has promised that cuts will not be made to government "entitlement" programs but is that a promise that any administration can actually keep?
When it comes to Social Security the facts are rather alarming. By 2017 the Social Security Administration will pay out more in benefits than it takes in. This is not surprising given that in the 1950's there were roughly 5 workers for every retiree. Today, it is roughly half of that. With 78 Million "baby boomers" moving into retirement the demands on social security are set to spiral higher in the coming years ahead. Is it really any wonder then that with demographics heading in the wrong direction, not to mention a much slower growth economy, that the Social Security Administration has moved up its estimate that the Social Security Fund will be exhausted entirely by 2033?
With these rather stark points in mind it was much to my dismay that Smart Money published an article by Alicia Munnell entitled "Social Security: The Cheapest Annuity In Town" which stated: "The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College has just released a new study that shows that the best way for people to turn their 401(k) balances into a stream of income is to 'buy' an annuity from Social Security. Many people don't recognize that Social Security is in the annuity business, but it is and it has the cheapest product in town."
The premise is that as individuals approach retirement they should use 401k and IRA asset's first to live on and postpone drawing Social Security for as long as possible. ?She states: "A much better alternative is for the household to 'buy' an annuity from Social Security. They can make this 'purchase' by using their savings to pay current expenses and delaying claiming to get a higher monthly benefit at an older age. The savings used is the 'price' and the increase in monthly benefits is the annuity it 'buys.'"
This sounds great on the surface. She uses the following example: "Consider a retiree who could claim $12,000 a year at age 65 and $12,860 at age 66 - $860 more. If he delays claiming for a year and uses $12,860 from savings to pay the bills that year, $12,860 is the price of the extra $860 annuity income. The annuity rate - the additional annuity income as a percent of the purchase price - would be 6.7 percent ($860/$12,860). Remember that Social Security benefits are indexed for inflation, so the retiree is buying a real annuity."
The proverbial "fly in the ointment" was brought forth by Jim Horney at the Center on Budget Priorities where in an USA Today article he exposed the lie that is Social Security: "It's not easy, but it can be done. Retirement programs are not legal obligations." Read that last sentence again. While we have all been led to believe that there is some "lock box" in Washington that are safeguarding the semimonthly payments that are drafted from our paychecks — the reality is that this is simply not the case. This is why Mr. Horney stated that Social Security should not count as part of the deficit because, unlike businesses, the Government can change what it owes by lifting taxes and cutting benefits.
Therein lays the problem with Ms. Munnell's article. The "cheapest annuity in town" may also be the worst possible investment. Why? Because the money you pay into Social Security is not yours. Politicians can confiscate those dollars at their discretion such as when the Clinton Administration used the dollars from Social Security to balance the budget. They can raise the retirement age thereby shortening the number of dollars that must be paid out. Moreover, as we have seen over the past decade, they can eviscerate their obligations by debasing the dollar. In other words, by spending your saved retirement dollars today, which could be invested in assets that will produce an income stream in the future, in the hopes of a better "annuity" stream in the future there could likely be very negative ramifications. This is especially the case when you consider that the average American is woefully under-saved for retirement and two nasty bear markets during this century alone has all but insured that many Americans will be working far longer than they originally planned.
Combine those issues with the reality that eventually the government will have to take steps to begin to deal with the problem that is Social Security. While there has been much discussion of the issue of cutting the deficits, reducing spending and raising revenue to return to a path of prosperity — the simple fact is that nothing can be accomplished without attacking the 800-lb guerrilla that is entitlement spending.
My friend Doug Short wrote an excellent commentary on this very issue which is worth reviewing in the context of this article. The simple fact is that while "By law, the federal government can't tell the truth," according to Sheila Weinberg of the Chicago-based Institute for Truth in Accounting, the "math" doesn't lie. The entitlement programs alone consume more than the entire tax revenue for the year which is why the current Federal Debt levels have now surpassed 100% of GDP.
The trend is clearly unsustainable and something will have to ultimately give. While Ms. Munnell believes that Social Security annuities are a better deal than those in the private market the major difference is that the government has no "legal" responsibility to pay what is currently owed. In the coming years the currently under-saved and aging "boomer" population may be faced with the tough decisions of working longer and reducing their standard of living. For those that are currently working and paying into the system — the best advice still remains to save more, spend less and be self reliant for your retirement because the truth is that "social safety" net may just turn out to be a big fat lie.


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CSU Bakersfield to host March Open House at FACT
February 25, 2014
California State University, Bakersfield announces a free Open House at Facility for Animal Care and Treatment (FACT) on campus at the Environmental Studies Area on Saturday, March 1st. The open house will be operating from 1 p.m.-4 p.m. and is free to all.
During the open house, guided tours of FACT will feature talks and demonstrations with live birds of prey, including hawks, owls and a golden eagle. CSUB Biology students will also give visitors an opportunity to make a journal from recycled materials and participate in an interactive scavenger hunt. New this month, visitors can make a recycled bird feeder to hang in the trees at FACT or take home to feed their own backyard birds. Members of CSUB's 60+ Club will be on hand to sell nature gifts, T-shirts, note cards, coloring books, zoobooks, and other items.
The public is encouraged to visit the FACT webpage and discover more about the center as well as the items that are currently on the wish list. Wish list items will be collected during the open house. The wish list can be found at http://www.csub.edu/fact/registry.htm.
FACT is a wildlife rescue/conservation education project founded in 1975 by Ted Murphy, CSUB emeritus professor of biology. FACT students and volunteers care for hundreds of injured or orphaned birds of prey, conduct tours of the facility and offer classroom programs for thousands of Kern County school children each year. As a unique project of CSUB's Biology Department, FACT is supported by an annual fundraising barbecue, members of Friends of FACT, and the sale of gift items at open houses held throughout the year.
To get to FACT, enter campus through the south entrance off Camino Media Boulevard (Roadrunner Drive). Turn right into Parking Lot I and, at the softball field backdrop, follow the dirt road over the bike path to the parking area. For more information, contact Marlene Hensley, FACT Coordinator, at 661-654-3167.
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Kilpatrick on Trial: Recap of Day 40
Prosecution says Kwame Kilpatrick talked differently with pal than with other contractors
DETROIT – The government in the Kwame Kilpatrick federal corruption trial contended Thursday that former Detroit mayor Kilpatrick did not text other contractors about specific water contracts the way he did with his friend Bobby Ferguson.
Earlier in the morning, lawyers for the former mayor, Ferguson and Kilpatrick cross-examined government witness Carol Paszkiewicz. The EPA agent, who has taken the stand at various points throughout the trial, testified yesterday to Kilpatrick and Ferguson texting about Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) contract 1368. Ferguson was sub-contracted to Inland Waters Pollution Control on the project which went on to include repair work of a sinkhole collapse at 15 Mile Rd. in Sterling Heights.
Mike Rataj, lawyer for Ferguson, began his cross-examination by attempting to discredit earlier witness Kathleen McCann, a former executive at Soave Enterprises, who had testified to being in an "arranged marriage" with Ferguson on 1368 at the behest of Kilpatrick who had allegedly held up the water contract until Inland Waters hired his friend.
Rataj got Paszkiewicz to concede that given that McCann and her boss Tony Soave were at the top of the chain of command, they would be the ones to have the least knowledge of day-to-day contracts.
In reference to the sinkhole project in Sterling Heights which generated $3.1 million in revenue for Ferguson Enterprises Inc. (FEI), Rataj introduced documents showing that Ferguson sub-contracted work to other contractors. There was a contract agreement with company Six-S for $482,585 and invoices from 4 other sub-contractors totaling more than $110,000. Rataj's point was that FEI did not pocket the full $3.1 million but had to pay out a substantial amount to its sub-contractors.
Rataj also pointed out that many contractors had connections within the DWSD and that it was not unusual for them to leverage those relationships in order to get the inside scoop on upcoming water contracts. He singled out contractors D'Agostini, DLZ, Inland Waters and Lakeshore as companies that had approached former DWSD director Victor Mercado directly about water contracts. Paszkiewizc conceded this was true.
At one point, Rataj tried to say that the witness impeached herself by failing to mention yesterday that contract 812c, one of 5 contracts Kilpatrick asked Judge John Feikens to approve after his special administratorship to award water contracts was terminated, was a security contract. After reviewing the transcript, Judge Nancy Edmunds determined that the witness did not impeach herself.
The witness had testified yesterday that 4 out of the 5 contracts Kilpatrick sought Feikens's approval on were for Ferguson including 812c which she said used D'Agostini & Sons as a pass-through for one of Ferguson's companies.
US Attorney Mark Chutkow took less than 15 minutes to dismantle Rataj's cross.
Under re-direct, Paszkiewizc testified that 3 of the 5 contracts approved by Judge Feikens were for Ferguson Enterprises and that D'Agostini had funneled work on contract 812c to DFT, a joint venture that included Ferguson. The total in revenue for Ferguson for those approved contracts was more than $11 million.
Chutkow then listed where the sub-contractors Ferguson took on for the sinkhole project were based: Northville, Brighton, Harrison, Waterford and Sterling Heights. Not one of them was Detroit-based. And not one of them was minority-owned either.
The prosecutor concluded by bringing back text exchanges between Kilpatrick and Ferguson about water contracts. In one from March 2003, Ferguson texted "Hello Black you haven't released that contract right." To which Kilpatrick replied "Right they know I'm holding it." Chutkow then produced a text exchange between the two in which contract amounts were discussed and another where Ferguson discussed how he should move in on the sinkhole project.
Chutkow asked the witness if in her investigation she had found any texts like this where the former mayor discussed water contract specifics with other contractors. Paszkiewicz replied she had not.
Kilpatrick's lawyer Jim Thomas quickly jumped in and had the witness agree that she did not believe text messaging was the only way the former mayor communicated during his administration.
Court resumes Friday at 9am.
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Missouri's geography is highly diverse, ranging from the Ozark Mountains to the Missouri River and the beginning of the Northern Plains. Living in Missouri puts residents near the center of the United States. This state has a natural beauty that would put most states to shame. The best places to live in Missouri are Glendale, Town and Country, Creve Coeur, Ballwin,... Beyond the natural appeal, a thriving economy and low cost of living are more reason to pack up and make a move to America's Heartland. Major industries in Missouri include food processing, aerospace, transportation equipment and beer making. Missouri's overall crime rate hovers just above the national average by just a few percentage points. But the major cities across the state are what pull the numbers higher. Missouri's cost of living is nine percent cheaper than the national average and housing is one of expenses where you'll find the biggest savings. There are plenty of great towns in Missouri that boast low crime rates and safe neighborhoods. Here are the 10 best places to live in Missouri in 2019: 1. Columbia. (best place for overall) 2. Chesterfield. (best place to retire) 3. West Plains. 4. Wildwood. (best place to raise a family) 5. Kirkwood. (best place to retire) 6. Town and Country. (best place to retire) 7. Ballwin. (safest place) 8. Bonne Terre. (cheapest place) 9. Clayton. (best place to raise a family) 10. Ozark. Thanks for watching this video. I hope it\'s useful for you. (This article is an opinion based on facts and is meant as infotainment) ► Subscribe for latest video ! ► https://g...


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DWTS18 Rumor: Golnesa "GG" Gharachedaghi Practicing Moves For Dancing With The Stars Season 18?
Yesterday, The Shahs Of Sunset's Golnesa "GG" Gharachedaghi, posted the instagram below with a quote that said, "Practicing my moves with @cherylburke for Dancing With The Stars! I'm not quite sure what I'm doing here but it's better than my twerking! #Shahs #GG #DWTS #GreatNight #GettingOurGrooveOn #Fart". I kinda think she just meant this randomly, but, hey, you never know right? Enstarz and Celeb Dirty Laundry (thanks Vin!) have also picked up on the story drawing further attention to it. Really….who is she? I've never heard of her?


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The International Education Programs Office provides support to schools that have or would like to offer world language classes to students.
Currently, the world languages taught in Seattle Public Schools are:
For specifics about which languages are taught at which schools, download the SPS World Languages Regional Offerings 2019-2020.
In addition, a number of non-profit organizations, such as One World Now, offer other languages after school, including Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Russian, and Korean.
Elementary schools that offer state-funded full-day Kindergarten are required to provide experiences in a world language other than English. The goal of the experiences is to develop an interest and desire to continue learning languages later in their schooling. The goal is not to master a language. For resources on providing world language experiences, visit http://www.k12.wa.us/WorldLanguages/WorldLanguageExperiences.aspx.
Some elementary schools are also able to offer before or after-school enrichment classes in a variety of world languages. Contact us if you would like to connect with organizations that are currently offering these types of programs.
Most middle schools and K-8 schools offer some type of World Language program. Some schools offer a 6th grade exploratory class where students have an opportunity to spend some weeks learning about different languages. Most schools offer two years of middle school level language (the equivalent of one year of high school), such as Spanish 1A in 7th grade and Spanish 1B in 8th grade. Some schools offer language all three years (6th, 7th, and 8th grade), i.e. Spanish 1A in 6th grade, Spanish 1B in 7th grade, and Spanish 2A and 2B in 8th grade. Denny, Hamilton, and Mercer International Middle Schools also offer Dual Language Immersion Continuation programs for students who participated in elementary Dual Language Immersion or are heritage language learners of Spanish, Japanese, or Mandarin Chinese.
We are currently in the process of evaluating how to strengthen the pathway from middle to high school world language programs so that students can begin a language in middle school and continue it in high school at an appropriate, challenging level.
In 8th grade, any student may be tested for proficiency in a language and earn high school Competency-Based Credits in a world language based on the results. The student may also be considered for placement in a higher-level class at high school based on the assessment results and middle school teacher recommendations (if space is available in the appropriate level in high school). Individual high schools may have their own placement process. Check with the school counselors or World Language Department Head.
Starting with the class of 2021 in Seattle (2019 in other districts in the state), there will be a high school graduation requirement of 2 credits of world language for most students. We are working with the "Revisioning High School" team of principals to prepare for expanding offerings of world languages to more students in more schools.
The Washington Association for Language Teaching (WAFLT) last year received clarification from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) and the State Board of Education about several aspects of the new 2-credit requirement. WAFLT issued a letter to districts outlining useful information for families and students.
World Language Course Outcomes by
level were developed by a team of World Language teachers in
Seattle working with a national consultant, Donna Clementi, in 2010.
They were updated in August 2015 to match the revised World-Readiness
Standards for Learning Languages and Washington's revised World Language Learning Standards.
The targets for high school world language seat-time courses were set by the World Language teachers in 2010 based on the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines:
Level 1 World Language Course - Novice Low to Novice Mid
Level 2 World Language Course - Novice Mid to Novice High
Level 3 World Language Course - Novice High to Intermediate Low
Level 4 World Language Course - Intermediate Low to Intermediate Mid
Level 5 World Language Course - Intermediate Mid to Pre-Advanced
Learn more at SPS International Education > World Language Credit Testing.
High school seniors who meet all state and district graduation requirements may earn the Seal of Biliteracy by attaining a high level of proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in one or more world languages in addition to English.
Learn more at SPS International Education > Seal of Biliteracy.
Students and families may be seeking alternative pathways for studying a world language for a variety of reasons, including lack of space in current world language courses at the student's high school, interest in studying a language not offered at the high school, need for flexibility in the student's school schedule, and others. The State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction provides a Guide to Online Learning through the new Alternative Learning Department.
Currently, Seattle Public Schools is not providing support for individual students to complete courses available through the OSPI Online Learning Course Catalogs. Families who would like to can register and pay for these courses on their own. If the students are seeking high school credit for such a course, they need to complete the Equivalency Course of Study Proposal form and obtain approval prior to registering for or beginning the course. The Equivalency Course of Study Proposal form can be requested from the school counselor and is used for online, Summer Running Start Courses, and college courses outside of school. We ask school administrators (most often the principal) to provide this approval given their understanding of their students and the connection between the particular request and the school's course offerings.
Note that any courses that are approved through the Equivalency Course of Study Proposal appear on the transcript as Out of District (OOD) credits with a generic course title, such as "World Language." The high school transcript would not indicate which language or which level was completed. As an alternative, students who take out of district courses may prefer to complete Competency-Based World Language Credit Testing in our district, because these credits are entered on the high school transcript as course titles by language and level, and are more informative to colleges (or employers) looking at the student transcript. World Language Credit testing can also qualify a student for the Seal of Biliteracy – something that OOD or seat-time courses cannot do. Students who plan to earn credits through World Language Credit Testing do not need to seek prior approval for any learning experiences outside of school that help them develop language skills and demonstrate that proficiency to qualify for credits.
SPS World Language teachers share resources via Schoology and several websites:
Upcoming trainings are posted on the Calendar page:
NEW WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHERS: Here's a link to resources for the New World Language Teachers Workshop held each year in August:
World Language (and Dual Language Immersion) teachers are considered a
"high needs" hiring priority for Seattle Public Schools Human Resources
because each year the district has struggled to fill all of the open
positions. The situation is likely to get worse now that, starting with
the class of 2021, 2 credits of a World Language will be part of the
high school graduation requirements (although it is possible for a
student to waive the requirement as part of a personalized pathway).
If you are a teacher of Spanish, French, Japanese, Latin, or Mandarin
Chinese, please consider working in Seattle Public Schools. Check out
the Careers page.
The Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB) has announced a
series of changes to the process for certificated teachers to add
endorsements. Specifically, currently certificated teachers can now add a Designated World Language Endorsement
through testing alone. Likewise a World Language Teacher can add a
Social Studies Endorsement through testing (in order to teach in a
secondary Dual Language Immersion program, for example). Learn more at PESB Retooling.
For certificated teachers who would like to add a Designated World
Language Endorsement and need help to prepare for the required tests,
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March 1st, 2012
George Clooney on gay rumors: Who does it hurt?
Brad Pitt has joked that he and Angelina Jolie will marry when their pal George Clooney can wed his partner - as part of their stance on not marrying until all Americans, regardless of sexuality, can tie the knot - and Clooney's said it's a comment he still hears.
Even aside from Pitt's well-intended quip, Clooney's been the subject of gay rumors for a while - not that he cares.
"I think it's funny, but the last thing you'll ever see me do is jump and down, saying, 'These are lies!'" the actor tells the Advocate. "That would be unfair and unkind to my good friends in the gay community."
He continues, "I'm not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing. My private life is private, and I'm very happy in it. Who does it hurt if someone thinks I'm gay? I'll be long dead and there will still be people who say I was gay. I don't give a s***."
He also probably doesn't "give a s***" about what you think of his ardent support for his "Ides of March" co-star Ryan Gosling to be named "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine.
"Not that I don't think Bradley Cooper is a perfectly sexy guy, but I'm still shocked that Ryan Gosling didn't get Sexiest Man Alive last year," Clooney says. "I thought he worked hard and ran a very solid campaign, so I feel that he was ripped off."
And for those of you who latched on to his remark about Michael Fassbender at the Golden Globes - when he joked about the size of a part of the actor's anatomy in the film, "Shame" - as an indication of his sexuality, Clooney says he was just being honest.
"Well, c'mon," he tells the Advocate. "Every guy who saw that movie was like, 'Jesus Christ,' at the exact same time."
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