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Sure, with headlines that have the words "luxe" and "homelessness" there is room for doubt, but the mayor is right to say that transitional housing facilities have gotten better over the years. This is not to say that people would rather stay there than have their own permanent arrangement, but given that they have a clean bed, plumbing, and meals while they deal with their issues, they are sometimes better off staying in a safe place.
To better understand this, you have to get past what you think a homeless shelter is in the first place. No longer are these gymnasiums with cots and noisy temporary residents. Instead, the city takes a few days to figure out where to place someone (or a family) and then they are recommended to a transitional housing program, where they stay anywhere from a few days to maybe a year or two.
In the meantime, professionals at these facilities try (not always successfully) to get these people into jobs so they can move on. This is a giant leap from the old days, and if that is what the mayor was alluding to, he is right on.
The reason why people may not want to leave these facilities is that there is not much hope out there economically. But that is only a guess. There is a whole profession that works to instill dignity back into this community, where years ago the system was only a means of corralling people off the street.
Are they great places to live? No, but they beat living under an overpass. And if a man thinks an overpass is the next stop, you bet he is staying in the program.
The problem is that until a few years ago, a homeless person would stay in a transitional program (temporarily) and then qualify for permanent housing. They would pay a percentage of whatever their income was toward rent, and the rest was supported by the government.
That program is going away, and that means that people are hesitant to leave the transitional stage. So, with all the jokes and criticism, the mayor was right. He knows this issue, even if his ten-year plan did not get the traction that he wanted.
The Yankees and the Playoffs
Why do the Yankees get knocked out of the playoffs so often? The first answer is that it is just hard to win games, and all playoff teams are pretty good. To be more precise, the Yankees have a lot of trouble with an opposing team's ace and number 2 starting pitchers.
Forget the macho sports talk about teams choking in the playoffs. And you can throw out the nonsense that the Yankees do not play hard because they are paid too much. Every team plays hard.
The Yankees routinely get bounced out of the first round of the playoffs for one reason: it is a best-of-five series. The Yankees win their division often, but even in seasons when they win close to 100 games, they have one interesting habit – they only beat certain pitchers.
Each team usually has five starting pitchers (some use four). That's great for the Yankees, who routinely fatten up on an opposing team's number 3, 4, and 5 starters. Think about it, if you lose to the top two pitchers and beat the next three, you are now winning 60 percent of your games. Over a long season, this helps the Yankees win a lot of games.
In a first-round, best-of-five series, where the Yankees face the top of a rotation, they have trouble. If a series goes to a fourth game, the Yankees see the ace again. They do not get the luxury of pounding out the bottom of the rotation.
You can see this with individual hitters. Over a 162-game schedule, right fielder Nick Swisher gives the Yankees a good jolt in the line-up. In the playoffs, however, when the Yankees are facing the top of a rotation, Swisher hits a paltry .160. And so it goes.
If the Yankees want to make a good season go further than the first round, they need to start winning when they face the top of the rotation. This is why the record does not tell the whole story of a team. Right now, they are too geared toward winning over the long haul, and the playoffs are not the long haul.


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The project has created entirely new operating models to improve the well-being of agricultural entrepreneurs and how they can cope with difficulties.
Investing in facilities that respect animal welfare enabled a meat processing company to improve its profitability while responding to society's ethical concerns.
Brand new manufacturing and packaging procedures were developed in order to produce healthy nutritional products for children from fruit and vegetables.
A dairy farm combined three RDP supported operations to increase and modernise milk production and secure one full-time job.
Set up an operational group to improve the efficiency of the fruit production sector in Spain by developing new approaches for joint management of farms.
Set up an operational group to test different practices for optimal catch crop management and assess their efficiency in reducing nitrogen and carbon emissions.
An integrated municipal strategy to build a sustainable development model for the local economy based on the agri-food identity of the territory.
Supporting vulnerable people and facilitating their re-integration into society through small volunteer jobs on local farms.
The project aimed to improve farmers' soil management skills and know-how on profitable and resource-efficient farming.
A project to enhance the competitiveness of agriculture and the food industry, as well as the low-carbon economy, through the analysis of alternative future scenarios.

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Wednesday's column (read it here) is a reflection on my year in electrons — namely, how I got my first cell phone in January and later bought a couple of other electronic devices, as well as recently signing up for Twitter. It answers the occasional reader question of "what do you think of your cell phone?" and also craftily advertises my Facebook page, Twitter account and this blog.
Oh, yeah: Twitter. I rolled this out slowly and until Wednesday's column have promoted it only via FB and in the fine print at the end of my column. You can find my account at @DavidAllen909.
All the writers and editors at the ol' IVDB have been encouraged to sign up, so I decided to get with the program early(ish) rather than hold out. Wish I'd taken the plunge a couple of years ago, actually.
My Facebook page, btw, now has a name (long, because "David Allen" was taken): DavidAllencolumnist.
You're encouraged to check out either or both, if you're so inclined, and especially if you already use Twitter or FB.
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Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home Collection - PP159
Collection finding aids of Photograph Collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Maryland Historical Society Library
ca. 1861-1900
Prints and Photographs Division, Maryland Historical Society
201 W. Monument St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
Finding aid created by Katherine Cowan with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, January 2000
The facility that became the Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home in Pikesville (Baltimore Co.) dates back to 1818, when it was a Federal Arsenal. In 1888 it was converted into a residence for soldiers who served the Confederacy during the Civil War, remaining in operation until 1932. A brochure published by the home in the 1890s describes it as providing the veterans with: "a haven of rest . . . to which they may retire and find refuge, and, at the same time, lose none of their self-respect, nor suffer in the estimation of those whose experience in life is more fortunate".
At the time of its opening, the Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home was a prominent feature of Pikesville, which otherwise had only two dozen houses. The population of the home reached 139 after the first five and a half years of operation. A place of special pride at the home was the relic room, where trophies and memorabilia were displayed along with portraits of Confederate military leaders including Harry Gilmor, Henry Little, Lloyd Tilghman, Isaac Trimble, William Murray, and Raphael Semmes.
In Baltimore City, over 1000 Confederate soldiers are buried at Loudon Park Cemetery, 700 of them in a separate section. The Confederate Monument at the cemetery was created by sculptor F. Volck in 1870. In Pennsylvania, the 2nd Maryland Infantry C.S.A. Monument on Culps Hill at Gettysburg Battlefield was created by J.A. and W.T. Wilson and dedicated ca. 1886.
Collection Origin
Transfer from Gallery, 1989 (002809) and 1992 (003964).
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 1 box containing 20 photoprints made in ca. 1861-1900 with 2 large photographs stored separately (not found). Subjects are facilities and residents of the Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home in Pikesville (Baltimore Co.).
Portraits of individual Confederate officers include William H. Murray, Franklin Buchanan, Josiah Tatnall, Harry Gilmor, Isaac R. Trimble, Wade Hampton, and Bradley T. Johnson. There are group portraits of C.S.A. regiment reunions and other outings.
Other images include: a view of memorabilia in a relic room ("Confederate Bazaar"), a horse-drawn covered carriage with driver, wheel chairs, a carriage house, the Confederate Monument in Loudon Park Cemetery (Baltimore, Md.), and the 2nd Maryland Infantry C.S.A. Monument on Culp's Hill at Gettysburg Battlefield (Penn.).
Note: Related materials are found in the Maryland Historical Society. In the Manuscripts Department: MS. 256, Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home Record Books, 1882-1932; MS. 257, Confederate Record Books, 1861-1865; and MS. 2825, Collection of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in Maryland, 1871-1926.
The photographs are arranged according to PP catalog numbers. Items are stored individually in folders.
Container List
1 Box and 2 large photographs
Box 1
PP159.1 - Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers Home, ca. 1890. Shows horse-drawn carriage and driver.
PP159.2 - Commandant's Office, ca. 1890. [misindentified on rear of photograph] Dup/copy neg Z24.1474.
PP159.3 - Outbuilding, ca. 1890. Dup/copy neg Z24.1475.
PP159.4-6 - Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers Home, ca. 1890.
PP159.7 - Group portrait of veterans, can. 1895.
PP159.8 - Group portrait of veterans, ca. 1895. Dup/copy neg Z24.1476.
PP159.9 - Group portrait of veterans and others at 2nd Maryland Infantry C.S.A. Monument at Culp's Hill, Gettysburg, Penn., ca. 1886.
PP159.10 - Confederate Monument at Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, ca. 1870. Dup/copy neg Z24.1473.
PP159.11 - Admiral Franklin Buchanan (1800-1874) and Commodore Josiah Tatnall (1795-1871), ca. 1870.
PP159.12 - Relic room with memorabilia, "Confederate Bazaar", 1898. Dup/copy neg Z24.1477.
PP159.13(Pr)- Capt. William H. Murray.
PP159.14 - General Henry Douglas Kyd (1838-1903), ca. 1870. Framed albumen print.
PP159.15 - Group portrait of veterans and their friends at Pen Mar, 1890.
PP159.16 - General Wade Hampton (1818-1902) and General Bradley T. Johnson (1829-1903), ca. 1900. Dup/copy neg Z24.1481.
PP159.17 - Group portrait of veterans and others at 2nd Maryland Infantry C.S.A. Monument at Culp's Hill, Gettysburg, Penn., 1894. Dup/copy neg Z24.1480.
PP159.18 - Group portrait of veterans and others at 2nd Maryland Infantry C.S.A. Monument at Culp's Hill, Gettysburg, Penn., ca. 1890.
PP159.19 - Major General Isaac R. Trimble (1802-1888), ca. 1865. Crayon photograph. Dup/copy neg Z24.1482.
PP159.20 - Colonel Harry Gilmor (1838-1883), ca. 1863.
Large photographs, stored separately (ITEMS NOT FOUND)
PP159.21 - 53rd Maryland Regiment C.S.A., ca. 1861. Includes Clapham Murray (ca. 1837-1925), Robert Hough, and Capt. William H. Murray.
PP159.22 - General Lloyd Tilghman (1816-1863), ca. 1863. Crayon photograph, ca. 1885 (posthumous portrait?). © 2001 Maryland Historical Society - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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The lies are killing us: The need for immigration reform
Understanding that "you are my other self" will lead us to a new national vision grounded in solidarity.
I come from the El Paso-Juárez border communities. For the past 15 years, El Paso has been ranked as the second safest city in the nation, while, just across the border, Ciudad Juárez ranks the second most dangerous city in the world. Daily in Juárez eight to 10 people are murdered, decapitated, kidnapped, tortured, or are simply disappeared.
Each year between 80,000 and 100,000 children are caught by the border patrol trying to cross illegally into the United States. In our parish we have a ministry with these children, children like 5-year-old Marisol, a beautiful little girl from Guatemala. She was caught trying to cross the border with a coyote, who had been paid to bring her to the United States.
When she was caught, she had a piece of paper in her hand with a phone number in her Guatemalan village. During the whole trip she had kept it in her hand, but when the officers opened it, most of the numbers were missing. This little girl will perhaps forever be separated from her family.
Immigrants like Marisol show us that immigration reform is more than simply a matter of human rights for undocumented immigrants. It is a matter of survival for the poorest. No child of God should ever have to leave her family at 5 years of age to be able to eat and survive in our world. Like the majority of people who cross the border, these are not terrorists or drug smugglers but our brothers and sisters.
The growing anti-immigrant sentiment in our country since 9/11 did not happen because people suddenly wanted to become cruel and heartless. It began because people started believing a lie about who we Latinos are, both documented and undocumented.
This is why immigration is a defining issue that is about us—all of us Latinos—and about how we will shape the future of our church and our country. There is a saying in Spanish, "La mentira nos trae la muerte." Lies bring death.
The lie is that immigrants, and by association all of us Latinos, are disposable as human beings and not worthy of human dignity and respect. And this lie is killing us.
An immigrant recently told me, "I've been sacrificing myself for my family, but in this country I am worth nothing." Latinos and immigrants encounter racism, resentment, and extreme hostilities against them, and these masquerade as patriotism and now also as national security.
By now we are familiar with the countless problems immigrants endure as a result of this lie: an increase in border deaths to more than 400 a year; raids, arrests, and deportations separating families; a backlog in family reunification and visa requests; militarization of the border; sexual exploitation of women immigrants traveling north; abuses in detention centers.
Arizona has recently made national headlines for passing harsh anti-immigrant laws, but today more than 20 states have introduced even harsher laws than Arizona. The solutions these laws propose perpetuate lies, persecute innocent people, expose all of us Latinos to racial profiling, and cause death and suffering to the poor. Those who say that they are not against immigrants yet support such oppressive laws are practicing backdoor racism at its worst.
Sure, every nation has a right to protect its borders against impending threats, but immigrants working to feed their children are not a threat to anyone. Their presence is not a threat, it is a human right; and we support their right to a better life.
Many today scapegoat the poor for self-serving political gain, for economic greed, and security fears. Their lies blind people from seeing Christ in others and keep them from hearing the gospel call to hospitality of the stranger among us. These lies are being used to justify injustice and foster racism that causes pervasive exploitation of immigrants, who are demonized as illegal, as alien, as suspicious human beings.
Since the majority of the more than 90 nationalities that daily cross our borders are from the Americas, it is our Latinidad itself that is being attacked. We know that the root causes of immigration include extreme poverty, unemployment, political and military corruption, and government instability in the countries of origin. However, we Latinos and Latinas throughout the Americas also know that the United States shares in the responsibility for these conditions that drive immigrants north across our borders.
It is not a secret that once the estimated 12 to 20 million currently undocumented immigrants become citizens, our country will be different. This process has already begun, but wait until we get to vote, buy homes, graduate from universities, and become elected officials.
Es mentira (it is a lie) that immigrants will not learn English. In our parish we have some 100 people learning English to become citizens, and similar programs exist all over.
Es mentira that all immigrants are here illegally. The truth is that the majority are here on some type of visa.
Es mentira that stronger enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border will stop immigrants from crossing the border. It is jobs that bring immigrants to the United States.
Es mentira that immigrants are draining our health care and educational systems. The fact is that immigrants contribute about $90 billion in taxes, much more than the $5 billion they use in services.
Despite these lies I feel optimistic because this is our time, this is Latino time. We are coming of age, and we want to help fashion a new nation: one that is more just, equal, and free for all citizens, especially the poorest.
But we will need to do this the Latino way, grounded in a new vision we inherited from our indigenous ancestors, who said, "Tu eres mi otro yo," (you are my other self). This is a profound spiritual vision of life, an economic program for justice, a cultural solution for peace, and an authentic reform for human dignity.
Tu eres mi otro yo is the Latino way. We are all linked as one. We stand together, or we fall together. We are each other, and we need to help each other. Our ancestors teach us: If I despise you, I despise myself. And if I promote the good in you, I promote the goodness in me and everyone else.
Our fathers, mothers, and abuelos have always taught what Christ teaches us: that we were made good and for good. When we see life from this decidedly Latino worldview, we discover that there are more good people in the world than bad, that the world is in truth moving toward this oneness. This is the Latino good news.
I believe that our greatest meaning in life comes from our solidarity with others, especially the struggling poorest among us. As long as they do not eat, have health care, get a good education, live in decent housing, get treated with respect and dignity, then we all remain incomplete in ourselves and as a nation.
In a time of such propaganda, lies, drastic poverty, violence, racism, and war, in this time when human life seems so dirt cheap, we must proclaim that each person matters, that they matter enormously to us because tu eres mi otro yo.
As a Latino from the border I have reason to feel optimistic about life and our future because in us we carry this deep Latino desire to live out our God-given oneness; at the end of all our human struggles, we will see that it is our oneness that will win over lies, divisions, hate, and racism. In the end the glory will go to those who know how to embrace tu eres mi otro yo. In the end victory comes in our togetherness.
I look at our Latino history in terms of the biblical story of the Exodus: Some have crossed the sea into the Promised Land of no more borders. Others are still in the water trying to make it to land. And some arrived late and are still wandering in the desert. Moses told them to be at the edge of the sea by 10 a.m., but, being Latino, they arrived at noon. They are still out there dreaming and wondering what it will be like when they get to the other side. Some of them are dying without water, acceptance, lack of health care, food, or shelter.
But today we say, "Come, venganse," we are with you because our ministries represent solidarity in the struggle for human rights for all people.
The divisive border wall exists also in our hearts. When the border fence went up, I was part of a march protesting it. I remember walking up to the ugly steel barrier. I put my fingers through the fence, and I felt deep anger. I wanted to tear it down with my bare hands.
I kept remembering the Raramuri children in our parish missions in Mexico's northern Sierra Tarahumara, who do not have enough to eat, whose fathers and brothers search for ways to feed their families. Holding the fence I remembered their empty stomachs. I could hear Ester ask her mother, "Are we going to eat today?"
Holding the fence in my hands, I said a prayer. I asked Jesus to forgive us. And I asked la Virgen de Guadalupe to protect her children. What the fence says is: "I don't want you to be my other self."
Those of us who live on the border question whether the racial make-up of our families has anything to do with the fact that Canada and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts do not have disgusting walls, yet their combined border miles far exceed our 2,000-mile-long southwest border.
This immoral wall along our border and in our nation's heart is causing moral damage to the nation's soul with long-term consequences far beyond the fears we have of terrorists. It says that we have stopped dreaming of the possibilities to help each other as human beings in the land of the free. It says that we have given in to smallness of our hearts because of the fear-filled lies that claim doom when we welcome the strangers in our midst.
This ugly $242 billion wall is a wake-up call that our national leadership has failed to help us and that it is time for us to offer a better vision for national problems. We need to stop the further construction of this wall, tear it down, and make good use of the materials. What we need instead is just, comprehensive immigration reform, which will help America become a decent nation.
This is an historic moment for us. We have never been this close to immigration reform, and we are not backing down because we are not afraid of those who oppose us. I have seen in the faces of Latinos all over the country that we are ready to show our resolve, our conviction, and our dedication to the immigrants and to reform. We want to do what it takes because we deeply believe that justice will triumph over hate, that love will conquer racism, and that common compassion will overcome the lies.
I still believe in the dream of a better, more just America for everyone. We will not surrender to the lies and the indignities directed against us. Hope runs through our veins, and the cause of reform endures in our hearts.
Today I remind those who stand in the way of our work on immigration reform that history is on the side of justice:
You did not want slaves to be free, and slavery was abolished.
You did not want women to vote, and today they even make the laws.
You did not want minorities to go to school, and today we graduate with honors.
You did not want gays in the military, and today they serve with distinction.
You did not want seniors to have Social Security, and today they get their monthly benefit.
You do not want immigrants in our country, and now they even serve as judges on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Be clear on this: God is on our side and on the side of immigration reform. It may take us a while, but we will win.
Latinos, Latinas, this is our time in history, let's not waste it. Let us join with every man and woman of good will who shares our gospel convictions for a more just and joyous world.
America, we Latinos are here to stay. Don't be afraid of us, join us. We are passionately determined in our convictions. Our parents and grandparents worked too hard, sacrificed too much. Too much blood has been spilled for us to be bystanders in the emerging new America. We are a proud people and filled with great faith and hope, and we want to share it with you.
This article originally appeared in the December 2010 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 75, No. 12, pages 34–36).
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Pittsburgh drug dealer to view daughter's body in court
Ronnie Lubron Steave lost teenage daughter Mysharri Millender in Beechview car crash
A convicted Pittsburgh drug dealer can have a private funeral viewing of his daughter's body -- in the courthouse, a federal judge ruled after prosecutors and marshals raised security and other concerns about letting the man go to a church funeral viewing.
Ronnie Lubron Steave, 39, pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking Wednesday and was jailed at a federal detention center in northeastern Ohio to await sentencing.
His daughter, 17-year-old Mysharri Millender, died in a car crash Sunday. Steave's attorney asked that his client be allowed to go to her visitation at a city church.
Prosecutors objected, saying Steave is a risk to flee because he faces 15 years in prison, is a danger to the community and because of costs of transporting him and securing the viewing.
Federal marshals also told the court that they frown upon such arrangements for security reasons, though they've done it when judges have insisted.
That's why U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab crafted a compromise to have the girl's body brought to the courthouse for a private viewing, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
The judge ordered Steave's family to pay for the transfer, and details were still being arranged Friday.
"My client's grateful that he's going to be able to at least have this opportunity," Steave's attorney, Kenneth Haber, said in an interview. "I'm pleased the judge is allowing him to do this."
Pittsburgh's U.S. Marshal Steven Frank said he believes this is the first time such a thing has been done at the city's federal courthouse, though his office found instances of it in other jurisdictions.
"In this case it's a defendant whose daughter passed away in a tragic car accident," Frank said. "We have suggested it based on what they've done in other districts to maximize security."


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The new craft beer-inspired restaurant, Dallas Beer Kitchen, opens at 4 p.m. today at 1802 Greenville Ave.
Joe Scribner and Bryan Kaeser, who run a blog called Best Damn Things, have been carefully crafting this spot, which will have 30 beers on tap. The duo plan to marry craft beer, comfort food and good customer service -- the three key components to success they picked up on while blogging about other area restaurants and bars.
Aesthetically, the focus will be on the huge garage doors that open the front of the restaurant, surrounded by rustic brick walls and exposed beams and picnic-style tables.
Late last night DBK released the list of 30 beers that will be on tap.
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The three nitro taps will pour Oskar Blue's Old Chub, Young's Double Chocolate and Deschutes Obsidian Stout.
The 27 other include: Founder's Dirty Bastard, Victory Gold Monkey, Lakewood Lager and Temptress, Revolver Blood and Honey, Oskar Blue's Dale's Pale Ale, Green Flash Hop Head Read, Boulevard Saison Brett, North Coast Old Rasputin, Victory Storm King, Ballast Point Sculpin and Victory at Sea, Firestone Walker Union Jack and Velvet Hammer.
The mains on the menu are an ode to movies: The Big Lebowski is a half-pound burger with roasted green chiles, sautéed mushrooms and Swiss ($11). The Goodfella has Jimmy's shaved Italian beef topped with hot peppers, onion, bell pepper, melted provolone and sweet mustard on a buttery pretzel bun ($10). The Lion Heart is a breaded and fried chicken breast with a house-made orange marmalade sauce topped with a jalapeño cilantro slaw ($8).
They also have a full line-up of Dublin Sodas, a Guinness cake served with Henry's Ice Cream and "oven roasted Pop Tarts topped with Henry's Super Vanilla Bean ice cream and sprinkled with Fruity Pebbles" ($5). The menu fails to mention if the Pop Tarts come with the thin veneer of icing or not. And sprinkles? Are these the Pop Tarts with sprinkles? Guess we'll have to go over to find out.


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The Emblem of Love Round Robin I have been participating in over the past several months is winding down.
Mine arrived home from Margaret last week and its gorgeous. Its stitched on 36 ct. white edinborough over 2 with Crescent Colors Wavy Navy.
I received Edgar's round robin and was the last person to stitch on his and will be mailing his home to him today.
Now since I haven't signed up for any other exchanges I can start working on some things for myself! I just don't know where to start. I have so many patterns that its kind of mind blogging. Guess I will just pull stuff out and see what looks good!
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Thanks for stopping by.
Happy stitching.
Wendy Jo
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Emblem of Love Round Robin
The Emblem of Love Round Robin I have been participating in over the past several months is winding down.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
New Fat Quarters and A Belated Birthday Gift
I received a belated birthday gift from Carol yesterday. It's a beaded scissor fob made with REAL jade beads. It is so pretty! Plus she added a heart charm and I love hearts! I have been searching for my silver dovos and they are missing...mmmm so I will find another pair of silver scissors and give this beaded scissor fob a home!
Thanks so much Carol. Its absolutely gorgeous. (Sorry for the poor pic...its very dark and rainy again here today)
I joined Carolyn's board http://letsquiltandstitch.yuku.com/ and participated in the fat quarter exchange and received fat quarters from...CAROLYN! She sent a wide variety which I really like as these are some great ones I can really put to use!
Thanks so much Carolyn!!!
I have been working on Edgar's rr (Emblem of Love). I am the last one to stitch on Edgar's and then I send it home to him. Its been enjoyable to stitch on everyone's rr as they have used a variety of threads (silks, etc.) so its given me an opportunity to try new ones.
Rex and I are getting new kitchen flooring put in on Friday. We decided to go with wood so I can't wait for that to be put in. I think it'll warm up our kitchen alot. Which is kind of dark right now.
Well, I think I will close for now and visit a few blogs and answer some e-mails and get back to some housework before stitching.
Thanks for stopping by and happy stitching.
Wendy Jo
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Hello players! Got a full slate on my update today, so here we go…
Sire Special!
All sires/DS that would normally be 175 points/credits or less are half off until the new year. All DDS's that would normally be 100 points/credits ot less are half off during the same time period. The prices shown for these sires are already has the discount applied. You have to acquire them in real time, not with the bidding process (they are the same cost there).
Special Races for 2018
I am hoping I can get to those posted next weekend. I was able to get to them early last year, but no such luck this year due to a variety of other things.
Equinics Update
First off, I would like to thank Mano for being rock solid for years when helping with the Equinics. He has a much better understanding of their nuances than anyone else, and his hard work in the events has often gone without fanfare. Unfortunately, he had to step aside this year, and things looked bleak that these would be able to run at all.
Thankfully, long time player metallinut stepped forward to try and take it over. He's doing a great job but, unfortunately, things have changed greatly in the sim over the last several years and have made his job more difficult than I anticipated.
Although we have a very strong residency base still, we have lost a couple of large, long time residencies. After some research on my end, it has become obvious that these dynamic shifts have made maintaining the integrity and fairness of the Equinics a quagmire we had previously not had to face.
We still plan on running them in late February, but I need time to consider a lot of things : are we running too many races still? Should smaller residencies entries be limited? Are there other issues that should be addressed? I will be talking with metallinut, kingab, and devovo over the next week to see what we can do to manage these shifting dynamics. I will happily listen to other opinions on changes/ideas via email. Once decided, metallinut will take over the process again with a much better blueprint of how to attack things considering these new dynamics.
Unfortunately, the end of the year is the busiest time for me in many regards (special races, sire reratings, year end-game rollover, holidays, year-end commitments at work), so exact Equinics details may take time to develop. We will try to get out a formalized Equinics schedule out by the end of the year (which I know is late, but getting this right is far more important than being hasty). Just remember that the last week in February will include a lot of G1s.
Thanks for your patience, and you'll likely be seeing some sire help requests coming up soon!
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NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese manufacturing output grew last month for the first time in more than a year but a surprise contraction in U.S. factory activity tempered optimism about the health of the world economy on Monday.
Business surveys also showed the euro zone's manufacturing sector shrank for a 16th straight month, though a little less rapidly than in October.
A rise in HSBC's China manufacturing PMI to 50.5 in November, its first time above the 50-point growth threshold in 13 months, suggested the world's second-biggest economy may be heading into 2013 with more momentum after struggling this year.
The expansion in Chinese factory activity should provide a boost for world growth, particularly since recovery in the debt-strapped euro zone still appears a long way off.
Yet the outlook elsewhere in Asia, including India and South Korea, was less encouraging. And in the United States, manufacturing shrank in November, turning in its worst showing in more than three years.
"The overall picture is certainly one of a weak global economy," said Joshua Shapiro, chief U.S. economist at MFR, a global consulting firm. "U.S. manufacturing is suffering from weak domestic demand and soft exports. Europe is weakening clearly, Japan is going nowhere, and I don't know what to make of the wiggles in Chinese economic data."
The U.S. Institute for Supply Management said its index of factory activity fell to 49.5 from 51.7.
That added to worries about the world's largest economy, particularly ahead of a possible budget crisis over tax and spending policy at year end.
"The manufacturing sector appears to be moving sideways. We haven't seen much growth in the business sector for the last six months now," said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Pierpont Securities in Stamford, Connecticut. "That doesn't bode well (for growth) going forward."
A separate report from information firm Markit painted a different picture of U.S. manufacturing, with the sector growing at its quickest pace in six months, though firms said that was in part due to an increase in demand following superstorm Sandy, which hit the east coast in late October.
In Canada, the pace of manufacturing growth slowed for a fifth consecutive month, which analysts said reflects uncertainty about the world economy.
The pace of growth in Mexican manufacturing rose in November, driven by a jump in new orders.
The big emerging economies that have contributed most to global growth recently have struggled of late, with India's economy expected to grow at its weakest rate in a decade.
Brazil logged an unexpectedly weak third quarter, though manufacturing expanded last month at the quickest clip in nearly two years, suggesting a gradual turnaround.
That has left investors once again hoping China will take up the slack, after seven straight quarters of slowing growth.
"There is growing confidence that China's economy bottomed in July-September, with signs of firmer external demand," said Hirokazu Yuihama, a senior strategist at Daiwa Securities.
China's rebound helped push JP Morgan's Global Manufacturing PMI to 49.7 last month from 48.8 in October.
But some said the global significance of China's data was unclear. "They're not a pointer necessarily that the rest of the global economy is recovering," said Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec in London. "We suspect there is an element of domestically driven growth coming through in the numbers there."
Aside from China, the outlook for other major Asian economies looks uncertain, especially because easy monetary policy in the developed world has pushed up the value of currencies in the likes of Korea and Taiwan, hurting exports.
Manufacturing continued to contract in both countries last month, while India's factory sector expansion remained well below the rate seen in the years before the global financial crisis.
Markit's Eurozone manufacturing PMI rose to 46.2 in November from October's 45.4, though it stayed below the 50 mark dividing growth from contraction for a 16th straight month.
While the decline among the euro zone's embattled factories eased in November, the latest PMIs showed the economy is on course for its worst quarter since the depths of early 2009.
"With official data lagging the PMI, the rate of GDP decline is likely to have gathered pace markedly on the surprisingly modest 0.1 percent decline seen in the third quarter," said Chris Williamson, chief economist from survey compiler Markit.
British manufacturing activity shrank less than expected in November, but the sector remained fragile as orders edged down, a survey found on Monday.
Additional reporting by Lucy Hornby; Editing by Jeremy Gaunt, Clive McKeef, James Dalgleish and Chizu Nomiyama


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Some books are best read in complete silence, but sometimes you stumble upon the perfect music to pair it with. Today, we want to know about the songs you listen to while you read.
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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Pony up: House/stable offer equine-imity
ADDRESS:12339 Dolley Madison Road
NEIGHBORHOOD: Orange
SIZE: 2,600 fin. sq. ft. cottage 1,280 fin., barn 2,200 sq. ft.
LAND: 3.086 acres
CURB APPEAL: 8 out of 10
LISTED BY: Owner, Emile Labuschagne 540-672-3025
Several years ago, we had the pleasure of spending a month at a villa in Tuscany. Before we went, visions of classic columns, marble floors, and elaborate wall hangings crowded our dreams, and so imagine our surprise to find the "villa" was, in fact, a huge, three-story stucco house and stable combo.
The living quarters on the second and third level, while not luxurious, were almost elegant (in a rustic way), while the first level was home to the farmer and his family– and several oxen, chickens, dogs, and cats. Every morning we were awakened by the rooster crowing and the oxen snuffling and stamping. Within a few days, living above a farm operation came to seem normal, and within a week or so, it was hard to imagine why anyone would think of exiling the animals to a far-away barn.
The owner of this week's house, a horseman, feels the same way. So when he bought this three-bedroom rambler several years ago, he promptly enlarged an attached two-car garage into a four-stall barn. Now the compound consists of the house, the two garages, and the barn wing comprising four stalls, a tack room, wash bay, and hay storage. Almost as fetching as the Tuscan villa.
So right away it's clear that this property is not for everyone. First, the buyer will need to be comfortable practically living at Montpelier. According to the owner, the house was built in 1961 by Marion DuPont Scott for her veterinarian, Dr. Hughes, on ground that was originally part of the estate. Three enormous shade trees in the front yard hint that another building probably stood on the parcel before this one, but there's no evidence of it in the current house.
The location in Orange County has some benefits, however– a quick one-hour spin to the cultural and gustatory allures of Washington being the foremost. (And Charlottesville, 26 miles south, has some attractions too, accessible in half the time.) Not that the site– on a tranquil one-lane road with a picturesque wooden railroad bridge– doesn't have charms of its own: distant views of lush fields, other cozy homesteads, and the Blue Ridge in the distance.
The house itself is pretty ordinary. Shaded by those big trees, it sits on a little rise that accentuates the pleasant prospect to the southwest. A tidy brick walkway leads to the front door that opens to a very large living room with a seven-window-wide bay, wood-burning fireplace with marble surround, and lots of light.
The kitchen just behind the living room is almost as large and provides views of the courtyard and the menagerie. New stainless appliances (including a wine cooler), birch counters, white Florida floor tile, and white beadboard wainscoting make the room seem breezy and bright. The door here, opening directly to the stable area, is probably used more than the front door, and that contributes to the homey, relaxed feel.
The brightness of these two rooms unfortunately accentuates the dark, gloomy aura of the large dining room. Although it has two windows, they're small and somehow fail to admit much light. The arrangement of these rooms would no doubt work well for an after-the-foxhunt brunch or post-Montpelier steeplechase party, but the kitchen is likely where everyday meals will be taken.
A short hall leads to a full bath, small bedroom/office, and two more bedrooms, one a largish master with half bath. Bi-fold doors front several closets, and there's a laundry/mud room leading back to the stable area.
The house has an oil burner and no air conditioning, but that's probably no loss given the breezy prospect and the trees. There's a wood stove in the kitchen that no doubt keeps the place warm on normal winter days– and residents probably keep pretty warm anyway, doing all that stable mucking. There's no attic and no basement, but the two garages used to be rooms of the house, and so they provide plenty of dry, non-smelly storage for people who don't mind parking the car outside.
One nice amenity is the two-bedroom cottage that Dr. Hughes used as his veterinary office. It has recently been rented and could be again, since it has a good-size kitchen, full bath, a big living room and is currently being spruced up. It's far enough from the house and stable to seem like a completely separate property.
The big thing, obviously, that will determine who buys this place is the attached stable. While the owner has attempted to create what he calls a "European style courtyard" enclosed by a wooden fence just out the back door, it's covered with mulch, not abloom with perennials, and the fact is that the sights, smells, and sounds of a stable are omnipresent. For some folks, that will be a total deal-breaker.
But if your heart is beating faster at the very thought, gallop straight up the Constitution Route with your checkbook in your saddlebag.


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DOVER – Relyco, a leading provider of value-added business printing and payment solutions, announced the company was recognized for its community involvement in helping to make Dover "a great place for young people to live, learn, and thrive" at Tuesday night's 100 Best Communities for Young People award ceremony held at the New Hampshire Children's Museum.
For the second year in a row, the City of Dover was the only community in N.H. to receive the 100 Best Communities for Young People designation.
America's Promise Alliance and ING together with the Dover Coalition for Youth and Youth to Youth program presented Relyco with an award for its support of End 68 Hours of Hunger, a private, not-for-profit, volunteer effort to confront the approximately 68 hours of hunger that some school children experience between the free lunch they receive in school on Friday afternoon and the free breakfast they receive in school on Monday morning.
Attending the ceremony and assisting with the awards presentation were the Mayor of Dover, Dean Trefethen, and Gov. Maggie Hassan.
"It's a great honor to be recognized for how Relyco continues to help the Dover community. We're extremely proud to have played a role in the city being named as one of the 100 Best Communities for Young People," said CEO Mike Steinberg.
"We get involved with organizations like End 68 Hours of Hunger because we feel it's our duty to help the community in which we conduct our business. Our company takes great pride in our social responsibility which makes Relyco a very special place to work."
In 2012, Relyco hosted a local food drive that yielded nearly $8,000 in cash and food donations for End 68 Hours of Hunger.
The company also continues to be a supporter of the organization through employee contributions and fund raising efforts.
For more information, please visit www.relyco.com.


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Boreal countries are rich in forest resources, and for their area, they produce a disproportionally large share of the lumber, pulp, and paper bound for the global market. These countries have long-standing strong traditions in forestry education and institutions, as well as in timber-oriented forest management. However, global change, together with evolving societal values and demands, are challenging traditional forest management approaches. In particular, plantation-type management, where wood is harvested with short cutting cycles relative to the natural time span of stand development, has been criticized. Such management practices create landscapes composed of mosaics of young, even-aged, and structurally homogeneous stands, with scarcity of old trees and deadwood. In contrast, natural forest landscapes are characterized by the presence of old large trees, uneven-aged stand structures, abundant deadwood, and high overall structural diversity. The differences between managed and unmanaged forests result from the fundamental differences in the disturbance regimes of managed versus unmanaged forests. Declines in managed forest biodiversity and structural complexity, combined with rapidly changing climatic conditions, pose a risk to forest health, and hence, to the long-term maintenance of biodiversity and provisioning of important ecosystem goods and services. The application of ecosystem management in boreal forestry calls for a transition from plantation-type forestry toward more diversified management inspired by natural forest structure and dynamics.
Keywords: adaptive capacity, adaptive management, biodiversity, disturbance regime, ecosystem services, global change, natural disturbance emulation, resilience, sustainable forest management
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Lora necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Looking to re-design iconography for a set of audio collections- 20 icons in total- each icon representing a specific category.
this is for a series of DVDs under the title SONOPEDIA- The Encyclopedia of Sound Effects. The idea is that each DVD (sfx library) represents a volume of the encyclopedia.
We're fine with using/tweaking stock icons as long as they all have the same look and feel.
SONOPEDIA- The Encyclopedia of HD Sound Effects
COMMENT TO ALL: (nov 4) i'm very impressed with everyone's button/block design and style. If you want to take it to the next level I would ask to experiment with the icon style and content- meaning the dog, the UFO, the human... everyone's suggested a music note for the "musical" category. It works, and some look better than others. But is there something that represents music that might look just as good and also be more unique? So far, #9 and #15 are on the next level of uniqueness... The dog looks different than everyone else's in #9, and the style is different in #15.
UPDATE: we definitely like shape and contour to the icons (everyone hashad this so far) but we don't think angled images will work (like #11,#5, or the middle row of #4).
ALSO: if you can suggest a font that would match your icon style, that would be an added plus. Our logo will be somewhere on the DVD (doesn't need to match the logo but compliment it):
We're a sound effects publishing company looking to re-design a set of icons for our latest DVD releases- individual categories from a larger library called SONOPEDIA. A designer completed the project already but we aren't happy with the 1980s clip art resemblance.
We don't need the entire DVD cover art- just the iconography with a relevant color scheme behind or as a part of each icon (a solid color square behind each icons could work)
An example of the current look (which we will be replacing with your design) is here (we don't like):
image 1
We're looking for something sleeker, more modern/hi tech, something that conjures up words like: pristine, high definition, innovative, next-generation. The icons don't have to be full of detail, but should have more shape and contour than the current icons.
For an example we like see soundsnap.com. We're looking to inject a bit more 'sleek' and a little less 'cute' than soundsnap's, combined with maybe a tad bit more detail. Another example of what we LIKE:
istockphoto iconography
istockphoto iconography example 2
istockphoto iconography example 3
We're fine if you some or all of your icons are stock images- or maybe you can fine 50% of the categories and design the rest so they all match. Feel free to keep the current content (for the category ANIMALS there is currently a dog, for MUSICAL there is a staff with notes) but it's not a requirement.Categories are: * Ambience * Animals * Cartoon * Emergency * Fire * Foley * Horror * Household * Humans * Impacts * Industry * Musical * Office * Science Fiction * Sports * Technology * Transportation * Warfare * Water * Weather
There will most likely be a few rounds of apporval/revision as part of the completion process.
Thanks and have fun!
- Icons should have color banner/block/square behind each one. - If icons are multi colored, it may make sense to have the same color behind each one. If icons are single colored, the background colors should be different.
- submissions should eventually contain all 20 icons (like example 3)
- Simple, sleek, hi-tech, innovative
- for Print and Web
- EPS, photoshop or illustrator files
- a 3D look could be nice
- Microsoft word-styled clip art
- example we don't like #1
- example we don't like #2
- lots of detail


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As a mother it scares me that the three children that I spend so much time caring for could be gone or severely injured in a moment. We protect them by making sure that they eat good food, dress appropriately for the weather, wear their seatbelt in the car, look both ways when crossing the road. Yet, there are so many, split seconds, that can turn a world upside down.
My heart goes out to the family of the Vermont skier, Cody Marshall. Cody is presently in a coma in Utah because of one of those split second silly things. One of those silly things that I could see my old boys doing, just goofing around, just being silly. One of those scary, bone-chilling moments that can bring a mother or father to their knees. Cody, 26 years old, from Pittsfield, Vermont is in Utah for training for the United States Ski Team. He was training for the 2010 Winter Olympics. He was out at the mall with some friends and slid down the rail of the escalator – a simple act that any boy might consider. Except this slide cost him, big time. He fell backward off the rail and fell 20 feet. He is now in a coma. A split second. Devastating.
His family has put up a blog to monitor his progress and report it to friends and family worldwide www.codymarshallsblog.com. I am sure that his family never expected to be at his bedside in a hospital monitoring him and showering him with prayers to come out of the coma and return to his life. As a mother it is a nightmare come true. My heart and prayers go out to he and his family. Shivers go up my spine to think that split seconds can break a mother's heart and there is nothing that you can do to protect them from it. Life, that is.


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Rsfranks necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 76 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
BerrieHill Research Company (http://www.berriehill.com/)
BRC is an advanced R&D company, well known in our field. We strive for technical excellence and take risks in order to advance the state of the art. We create tools for warriors who demand the highest performance possible. Logo Communicates that we are high tech, stable, patriotic, agile, responsive, forward thinking.
(From the website) BerrieHill Research Corporation executes R&D programs and provides direct technical on-site support to various government organizations and laboratories. BRC's principal technical areas include antenna analysis, computation, and design; antenna arrays; radar cross section computation and analysis; radar system hardware design; radar fabrication; and radar signal processing. We perform world-class electromagnetics modeling and can fabricate prototypes of antennas and antenna structures on an accelerated basis since the design and fabrication teams are collocated. BRC's staff has many decades of experience in antenna analysis, design, modeling, and simulation.
Current Customers and Partners- USAF researchers, Universities researchers, Potential employees other Defense Contractors need to see a professional service provider. Engineers, Mathematicians and Physicists need to see this company as a peer of large DOD vendors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing and SAIC as well as institutions like MIT Lincoln Labs.
They are technical but grounded thinkers. They analyse data before making decisions. They are competitive. 1/3 of the audience has achieved a PhD in their field.
Logo Communicates that we are high tech, stable, patriotic, agile, responsive, forward thinking.
1. Logo that is consistent with the company culture and values:
Values- Technical Excellence, Forward Looking Research.
Culture- Freedom and Responsibility, Innovation and Self Discipline
2. Evolution from the current design, but retain elements of the current design. (This is to maintain value and equity of current signage, emblems etc). Customers and prospects who are familiar with the company should recognize the new logo. Current design incorporates an element that looks like an antenna array with a starburst in the middle. It is desirable to maintain this element or something like this.
3. Move company name from "BERRIEHILL RESEARCH COMPANY" TO "BRC". Font in logo seems outdated, should update.
4. One design that meets all requirements Separate treatments, if necessary for optimal application on Website use, Signage, and Emblems on shirts
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WASHINGTON — While American spy agencies have believed that the Iranians halted efforts to build a nuclear bomb back in 2003, the difficulty in assessing the government's ambitions was evident two years ago, when what appeared to be alarming new intelligence emerged, according to current and former United States officials.
Intercepted communications of Iranian officials discussing their nuclear program raised concerns that the country's leaders had decided to revive efforts to develop a weapon, intelligence officials said.
That, along with a stream of other information, set off an intensive review and delayed publication of the 2010 National Intelligence Estimate, a classified report reflecting the consensus of analysts from 16 agencies. But in the end, they deemed the intercepts and other evidence unpersuasive, and they stuck to their longstanding conclusion.
The intelligence crisis that erupted in 2010, which has not been previously disclosed, only underscores how central that assessment has become to matters of war and peace.
Today, as suspicions about Iran's nuclear ambitions have provoked tough sanctions and threats of military confrontation, top administration officials have said that Iran still has not decided to pursue a weapon, reflecting the intelligence community's secret analysis. But if that assessment changes, it could lift a brake set by President Obama, who has not ruled out military options as a last resort to prevent Iran gaining nuclear arms.
Publicly and privately, American intelligence officials express confidence in the spy agencies' assertions. Still, some acknowledge significant intelligence gaps in understanding the intentions of Iran's leaders and whether they would approve the crucial steps toward engineering a bomb, the most covert aspect of one of the most difficult intelligence collection targets in the world.
Much of what analysts sift through are shards of information that are ambiguous or incomplete, sometimes not up to date, and that typically offer more insight about what the Iranians are not doing than evidence of what they are up to.
As a result, officials caution that they cannot offer certainty. "I'd say that I have about 75 percent confidence in the assessment that they haven't restarted the program," said one former senior intelligence official.
Another former intelligence official said: "Iran is the hardest intelligence target there is. It is harder by far than North Korea.
"In large part, that's because their system is so confusing," he said, which "has the effect of making it difficult to determine who speaks authoritatively on what."
And, he added, "We're not on the ground, and not having our people on the ground to catch nuance is a problem."
Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful civilian purposes, but American intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency have picked up evidence in recent years that some Iranian research activities that may be weapons-related have continued since 2003, officials said. That information has not been significant enough for the spy agencies to alter their view that the weapons program has not been restarted.
Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, agrees with the American intelligence assessments, even while Israeli political leaders have been pushing for quick, aggressive action to block Iran from becoming what they describe as an existential threat to the Jewish state.
"Their people ask very hard questions, but Mossad does not disagree with the U.S. on the weapons program," said one former senior American intelligence official, who, like others for this article, would speak only on the condition of anonymity about classified information. "There is not a lot of dispute between the U.S. and Israeli intelligence communities on the facts."
In trying to evaluate the potential perils of Iran's nuclear program, the United States' spy agencies have spent years trying to track its efforts to enrich uranium and develop missile technology, and watching for any move toward weaponization — designing and building a bomb.
Hunting for signs of the resumption of a weapons program is more difficult than monitoring enrichment and missile-building activities, both of which require large investments in plants, equipment and related infrastructure. American intelligence officials said that the conversations of only a dozen or so top Iranian officials and scientists would be worth monitoring in order to determine whether the weapons program had been restarted, because decision-making on nuclear matters is so highly compartmentalized in Iran.
The extent of the evidence the spy agencies have collected is unclear because most of their findings are classified, but intelligence officials say they have been throwing everything they have at the Iranian program.
While the National Security Agency eavesdrops on telephone conversations of Iranian officials and conducts other forms of electronic surveillance, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency analyzes radar imagery and digital images of nuclear sites. Outside analysts believe high-tech drones prowl overhead; one came down late last year deep inside Iranian territory, though American officials said they lost control of it in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, clandestine ground sensors, which can detect electromagnetic signals or radioactive emissions that could be linked to covert nuclear activity, are placed near suspect Iranian facilities. The United States also relies heavily on information gathered by inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency who visit some of Iran's nuclear-related facilities.
But collecting independent human intelligence — recruiting spies — has been by far the most difficult task for American intelligence. Some operational lapses — and the lack of an embassy as a base of operations ever since the hostage crisis three decades ago — have frequently left the C.I.A. virtually blind on the ground in Iran, according to former intelligence officials.
In 2004, for example, the C.I.A. put a whole network of Iranian agents in jeopardy after a technological mistake by an agency officer, according to former intelligence officials.
In 2005, a presidential commission that reviewed the prewar failures of the intelligence on Iraq's supposed weapons programs faulted American intelligence on Iran, saying it included little valuable information from spies.
More recently, the C.I.A. suffered a setback in efforts to question Iranian exiles and recruit nuclear scientists. Two years ago, agency officials had to sort through the wreckage of the strange case of Shahram Amiri, an Iranian scientist who apparently defected to the United States in 2009 and then returned to Iran in 2010 after claiming he had been abducted by the C.I.A.
His case is eerily similar to that of Vitaly Yurchenko, a K.G.B. officer who defected to the United States in 1985 and went back to the Soviet Union later that year, claiming he had been drugged and kidnapped by the C.I.A.
Like Mr. Yurchenko, Mr. Amiri's case has provoked debate within the agency about whether he was a genuine defector, and whether any of the information he provided could be trusted.
The United States and Israel share intelligence on Iran, American officials said. For its spying efforts, Israel relies in part on an Iranian exile group that is labeled a terrorist organization by the United States, the Mujahedeen Khalq, or M.E.K., which is based in Iraq. The Israelis have also developed close ties in the semiautonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, and they are believed to use Kurdish agents who can move back and forth across the border into Iran.
American intelligence officials, however, are wary of relying on information from an opposition group like the M.E.K., particularly after their experience in Iraq of relying on flawed information provided by the Iraqi National Congress, an exile group run by Ahmad Chalabi.
"I'm very suspicious of anything that the M.E.K. provides," said David A. Kay, who led the C.I.A.'s fruitless effort to find weapons program in Iraq. "We all dealt with the Chalabis of the world once."
Just as in 2010, new evidence about the Iranian nuclear program delayed the National Intelligence Estimate in 2007, the last previous assessment. Current and former American officials say that a draft version of the assessment had been completed when the United States began to collect surprising intelligence suggesting that Iran had suspended its weapons program and disbanded its weapons team four years earlier.
The draft version had concluded that the Iranians were still trying to build a bomb, the same finding of a 2005 assessment. But as they scrutinized the new intelligence from several sources, including intercepted communications in which Iranian officials were heard complaining to one another about stopping the program, the American intelligence officials decided they had to change course, officials said. While enrichment activities continued, the evidence that Iran had halted its weapons program in 2003 at the direction of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was too strong to ignore, they said.
One former senior official characterized the information as very persuasive. "I had high confidence in it," he said. "There was tremendous evidence that the program had been halted."
And today, despite criticism of that assessment from some outside observers and hawkish politicians, American intelligence analysts still believe that the Iranians have not gotten the go-ahead from Ayatollah Khamenei to revive the program.
"That assessment," said one American official, "holds up really well."


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British Columbia Birth Registrations, 1854-1903 https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1307731 – These are birth registrations, delayed birth registrations, and delayed registrations of Indian births. 38,340 Records as of 23 July 2010
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Dear All,
I am writing to you from Pakistan. I wish to bring to your attention the fact that Muslims across the world are launching protests against the right to free speech and having social networking websites banned in their countries.
The court in Lahore, Pakistan, issued a sentence today, banning Facebook for an indefinite period of time. The URL of the social networking site will be blocked by the telecommunication authorities. This action was taken in response to some 20 people protesting against Facebook outside the court.
This entire hue and cry is a response to a facebook page inviting people to submit drawings of Mohammad on the 20th of May to challenge the sheer intolerance of Muslims when it comes to bringing their religious beliefs under scrutiny.
The implications of this action can be dire for atheists, free thinkers, non-Muslims and relatively more tolerant Muslims residing in these countries. Such ill-conceived attempts at trying to appease and pander to the religious sensitivities of Muslims can be utilized in future to curtail any semblance of democratic rights that we did enjoy in the past. Today it is facebook, tomorrow it could be who knows what.
I call for all atheists and free thinkers to rise up in arms against such despotic attempts to curtail the freedom of expression in countries, such as mine. We could use any and all help that comes our way. Appeal to your media, your governments to pressurize governments like mine into revoking such undemocratic orders.
In solidarity
Younas Chowdhry
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I would like to throw out a challenge to every man and woman of the Lenoir County area to make a choice, and either disagree with the Kinston Champion plan and offer something better, or support this project to save our mall, encourage betterment for our veterans, our youth, and prosperity for all of our community.
I would like to throw out a challenge to every man and woman of the Lenoir County area to make a choice, and either disagree with the Kinston Champion plan and offer something better, or support this project to save our mall, encourage betterment for our veterans, our youth, and prosperity for all of our community.
If you make a stand on one choice or the other, and follow-up with positive action, you are choosing to make a difference that will impact present and future generations substantially. The alternative, it seems, would be indifference, apathy, and counterproductive to progress.
�There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.� � Julius Caesar, Act IV Scene III William Shakespeare.
As the pitcher of this challenge, I am merely the insignificant servant deploying what I believe to be a concept of divine persuasion; if anytime over the years I have stepped on your toes, you don�t have to like me � remember this is not about me, and it�s not about you: it�s bigger than us.
This challenge is particularly put in the ball field of Patrick Holmes, B.J. Murphy, Joe Tyson, Tony Sears, Mike Jarman, George W. Graham, Buddy Ritch, Dawn Stroud, Bill Ellis, Greg Hannibal, Adrian King, Jimbo and Joan Perry.
This also includes all our past and present city and county political leaders, professionals, Committee of 100 members such as Martin Arthur , Guy Basden, Eric Cantu, Victor Kosinski, Guy Skinner, Herman McLawhorn, Fred Hunneke, Pastor Evelyn Coleman.
Veteran, organizational and business leaders like Stephen Hill, Laura Lee Sylvester, Kay Johnson, Michael Ingalls, Gerald Forrest, Leon and Rev. Sherri Ezzell, Jim Bailey, Reece Gardner, Rev. Bonnie Clark, Rev. Rick & Jane Vernon are also needed, along with local Realtors, especially pastors, media reporters, college instructors, teachers, trainers and coaches.
Surely we see the obvious �nobody benefits when more of our businesses close, Vernon Park Mall gives up the ghost and more of our city residents transfer to other locations for employment.
Few areas of the globe have a more talented journalist than our Kinston Free Press Editor, Patrick Holmes. I�d like Patrick to utilize his gifted powers to implore with various of our community elite, their opinion, (including his own wise perspective) to make a public hard copy forum, to either shoot down the Kinston Champion proposal (see guest column of Nov. 7 at Kinston.com or veteranschallenge.org) with an alternate solution, skillfully promote the Kinston Champion proposal, citing citizen backing, or state the population is disinterested and unwilling to get involved.
The increasing wave of local support for veteran events has been so very encouraging. Sanderson Farms, Spirit AeroSystems, the Woodmen Community Center, the new Veterans Home, HammerOut Crossfit Training Facility � are all remarkable forward steps for this community, but more is needed soon before it�s too late. Of the small number of mall stores remaining, some are hanging on by a thread.
Some local veterans are doing exceptionally well while many suffer with mental, physical and financial needs. Numbers of our community are struggling. To add the Veterans Pavilion, the other community projects for our teens, seniors, kids, the Kinston�s Got Talent stage, the decrease in utilities and crime and the numerous community involvement projects outlined in the Kinston Champion Project, would only encourage more folks to visit Kinston and participate in the businesses and endeavors here, simultaneously enhancing the education, skills and talents of our citizens.
A segment of this upcoming Monday night�s Veterans Challenge community event will be utilized for community input to the Kinston Champion proposal � The Veterans Day Celebration was so enjoyable we decided to continue the covered-dish idea. Whether you are a leader in the community yet or not, please feel encouraged to let others know these plans and attend Monday�s Veterans Challenge Community Christmas covered dish celebration with a covered dish or 2-liter beverage at 7 p.m. at the former Expressions/Brody�s building of Vernon Park Mall.
There will be entertainment by Bobby Merritt of LCC, presentation of colors by Kinston High�s JROTC, acknowledgements, prizes and community input. Please get involved and let�s start 2013 off with increased community participation!
Debby Guthrieis the director of Veterans Challenge in Kinston. You may contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com. The opinions of the guest columnist are not necessarily those of The Free Press.


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What is Orthodontics?
Orthodontics is the specialty concerned with moving and adjusting the teeth within the mouth in order to enhance their appearance and improve their function. Orthodontists are dentists with additional training, which allows them to straighten teeth and align jaws in order to give their patients a healthier bite.
When teeth are crooked or don't bite together well it can lead to social embarrassment as well as serious health problems. Poor jaw alignment can strain the muscles that move the mouth, leading to jaw pain and headaches. Crooked teeth are significantly harder to clean effectively, leading to an increased risk for gum disease and tooth decay. In addition, teeth that are seriously out of place can lead to difficulty speaking or eating.
To move the teeth within the jawbone, orthodontists use dental appliances to put pressure on the teeth. Some are fixed in place; others are removable. Examples of appliances include:
- Braces, made of metal, ceramic, or plastic
- Components that enhance braces, such as archwires, elastics, or headgear
- Clear aligners, or invisible customized trays that fit over the teeth
- Retainers to prevent teeth from shifting out of their new position
Whether you have overcrowded teeth, a misaligned bite, an overbite, or some other alignment issue, an orthodontist can help you have a healthy and beautiful smile.


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|Skeleton shrimps
|Pariambus typicus
|Scientific classification
Leach, 1814
Caprellidae is a family of amphipods commonly known as skeleton shrimps. Their common name denotes the threadlike slender body which allows them to virtually disappear among the fine filaments of seaweed, hydroids and bryozoans. They are sometimes also known as ghost shrimps.[2] Caprellidae contains 88 genera in three subfamilies.
Caprellids are easily recognizable from other amphipods because of their slender elongated bodies. Their bodies can be divided into three parts: the cephalon (head), the pereon (thorax), and the abdomen. The pereon comprises most of the length of the body. It is divided into seven segments known as pereonites. The cephalon is usually fused to the first pereonite; while the highly reduced and almost invisible abdomen is attached to the posterior of the seventh pereonite. They possess two pairs of antennae, with the first pair usually longer than the second pair. The cephalon contains mandibles, maxillae, and maxillipeds which function as mouthparts.[3][4]
Each pereonite has a pair of appendages known as pereopods. The first two pairs are modified into raptorial appendages known as gnathopods. These are used for feeding and defense, as well as locomotion. The third and fourth pair of pereopods are usually reduced or absent altogether. In the third and fourth pereonites are two pairs of gills. Sometimes a third pair of gills may also be present on the second pereonite. In mature females, brood pouches formed by extensions of the coxae (oostegites) are present on the third and fourth pereonites. The fifth to seventh pair of pereopods are smaller than the gnathopods and are used for clasping objects the animals anchor themselves upon.[3][4]
Most caprellids are highly sexually dimorphic, with the males usually being far larger than the females.[5]
Caprellids are exclusively marine and are found in oceans worldwide. A few species are found in the ocean depths, but most prefer low intertidal zones and subtidal waters among eelgrass, hydroids and bryozoans. They are typically seen attached to substrate by their grasping appendages called the pereopods.
Caprellids are omnivorous, feeding on diatoms, detritus, protozoans, smaller amphipods, and crustacean larvae. Some species are filter feeders, using their antennae to filter food from the water or scrape it off the substrate. Most species are predators that sit and wait like a praying mantis, with their gnathopods ready to snatch any smaller invertebrates which come along. They accentuate their adaptive form and colouration by assuming an angular pose, resembling that of the fronds among which they live.[6] They remain motionless for long periods of time while waiting to ambush their prey, often protozoa or small worms.
Caprellids are typically preyed upon by surf perch, shrimp, nudibranchs such as the lion nudibranch Melibe leonina and brooding anemones (Epiactis prolifera). Since they often inhabit eelgrass beds with sessile jellyfish, (Haliclystus and Thaumatoscyphus), the caprellids frequently become jellyfish food.[7] Caprellids are not normally considered a main source of food for fish, but when shiner perch (Cymatogaster aggregata) migrate into the eelgrass beds for reproduction, they target caprellids.[8]
Reproduction and growth[edit]
Mating can only occur when the female is between the new and hardened exoskeletons, which both male and female molt in order to grow. After mating the female will brood the fertilized eggs within her brood pouch. The young will hatch and emerged as juvenile adults.[9] After mating, the female in some species have been known to kill the males by injecting venom from a claw within their gnathopod.[10]
Caprellidae is classified under the superfamily Caprelloidea which belongs to the infraorder Caprellida of the suborder Corophiidea. Caprellidae contains 1345 genera in three subfamilies.[1]
- Abyssicaprella McCain, 1966
- Aciconula Mayer, 1903
- Aeginella Boeck, 1861
- Aeginellopsis Arimoto, 1970
- Aeginina Norman, 1905
- Caprella Lamarck, 1801
- Caprellaporema Guerra-García, 2003
- Cubadeutella Ortiz et al., 2009
- Deutella Mayer, 1890
- Eupariambus K. H. Barnard, 1957
- Hemiaegina Mayer, 1890
- Heterocaprella Arimoto, 1976
- Liriopes Arimoto, 1978
- Liropropus Laubitz, 1995
- Liropus Mayer, 1890
- Mayerella Huntsman, 1915
- Metacaprella Mayer, 1903
- Metaprotella Mayer, 1890
- Monoliropus Mayer, 1903
- Noculacia Mayer, 1903
- Orthoprotella Mayer, 1903
- Paracaprella Mayer, 1890
- Paradeutella Mayer, 1890
- Paradicaprella Hirayama, 1990
- Paraprotella Mayer, 1903
- Pariambus Stebbing, 1888
- Parvipalpina Stephensen, 1944
- Parvipalpus Mayer, 1890
- Pedoculina Carausu, 1941
- Pedonculocaprella Kaim-Malka, 1983
- Pedotrina Arimoto, 1978
- Postoparacaprella Arimoto, 1981
- Premohemiaegina Arimoto, 1978
- Pretritella Arimoto, 1980
- Proaeginina Stephensen, 1940
- Proliropus Mayer, 1903
- Propodalirius Mayer, 1903
- Protella Dana, 1853
- Protellina Stephensen, 1944
- Protellopsis Stebbing, 1888
- Protoaeginella Laubitz & Mills, 1972
- Prototritella Arimoto, 1977
- Pseudaeginella Mayer, 1890
- Pseudolirius Mayer, 1890
- Pseudoliropus Laubitz, 1970
- Pseudoprotella Mayer, 1890
- Tanzacaprella Guerra-García, 2001
- Thorina Stephensen, 1944
- Triantella Mayer, 1903
- Triliropus Mayer, 1903
- Triperopus Mayer, 1903
- Triprotella Arimoto, 1970
- Tritella Mayer, 1890
- Tropicaprella Guerra-García & Takeuchi, 2003
- Verrucaprella Laubitz, 1995
- Cercops Krøyer, 1843
- Paracercops Vassilenko, 1972
- Pseudocercops Vassilenko, 1972
- Aeginoides Schellenberg, 1926
- Caprellina Thomson, 1879
- Caprellinoides Stebbing, 1888
- Chaka Griffiths, 1974
- Dodecas Stebbing, 1883
- Dodecasella K. H. Barnard, 1931
- Hemiproto McCain, 1968
- Hircella Mayer, 1882
- Jigurru Guerra-García, 2006
- Liriarchus Mayer, 1912
- Mayericaprella Guerra-García, 2006
- Metaproto Mayer, 1903
- Paedaridium Mayer, 1903
- Paraproto Mayer, 1903
- Perotripus Dougherty & Steinberg, 1953
- Phtisica Slabber, 1769
- Prellicana Mayer, 1903
- Protogeton Mayer, 1903
- Protomima Mayer, 1903
- Protoplesius Mayer, 1903
- Pseudocaprellina Sundara Raj, 1927
- Pseudododecas McCain & Gray, 1971
- Pseudoprellicana Guerra-García, 2006
- Pseudoproto Mayer, 1903
- Pseudoprotomima McCain, 1969
- Quadrisegmentum Hirayama, 1988
- Semidodecas Laubitz, 1995
- Symmetrella Laubitz, 1995
- ^ a b C. De Broyer, M. Costello & D. Bellan-Santini (2010). "Caprellidae". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-05-04. Retrieved 2013-04-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ a b Gail V. Ashton. "Caprella mutica Schurin, 1935". Caprellids, LifeDesks. Archived from the original on January 4, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
- ^ a b Judith Oakley (2006). "Japanese skeleton shrimp - Caprella macho". Marine Life Information Network: Biology and Sensitivity Key Information Sub-programme. Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
- ^ "Caprella mutica Schurin, 1935 – Japanese skeleton shrimp". NOBANIS: European Network on Invasive Alien Species. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
- ^ Encarta Reference Library Premium 2005 DVD. Article - Skeleton Shrimp
- ^ Eugene N. Kozloff (1983). "Sessile Jellyfish". Seashore Life of the Northern Pacific Coast. University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-96030-2.
- ^ Edsel A. Caine (1991). "Caprellid amphipods: fast food for the reproductively active". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 148 (1): 27–33. doi:10.1016/0022-0981(91)90144-L.
- ^ Kevin Mwenda (2005). "Caprella laeviuscula". The Race Rocks Taxonomy. Lester B. Pearson College.
- ^ Jennifer Telnack. "Caprella laeviuscula: the smooth skeleton shrimp". Intertidal Marine Invertebrates of the South Puget Sound. Archived from the original on May 16, 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2010.
External links[edit]
- Media related to Caprellidae at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Caprellidae at Wikispecies
- Some information on Caprella bathytatos
- Photos of skeleton shrimp


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It's been a while since you've angrily stared at a basketball roster and wished you could start all over … unless, you're Dan Gilbert, in which case, not a day has gone by where this wasn't something you did at least twice. I hear you. I feel you. I touch you, Tommy. It's all good. It's that time of the year again. Time for Kevin Martin to strain a tricep? No … well, I mean, yeah. If this were a normal season, that would be correct, but for 2011, it's time to sign up for one of Razzball's fantasy basketball leagues. Come. Join in our reindeer games (because, sadly, reindeer will be in season when the NBA kicks off!)
The details are being etched into stone tablets as we speak, but here are the basics: we're going to open as many 12-team leagues as there are readers interested in joining up. Last year, I only updated the combined efforts of each league a small handful of times. This year, I'm putting on my Hulk hands so this year's handful will be much more plentiful. After all 1,980 regular season NBA games are tabulated, we'll crown not only individual winners from each league, but one supersexy, ultra-macho, uber-menche winner among all the winners. (What's he or she get for winning? That's a good question. I'm working on it. Maybe something, maybe nothing. If you've got ideas, drop them in the comments – gently). We're going to take the best scores among all the leagues to determine the best overall fantasy owner. Your standing in each individual league will determine your standing within your league. Picture your individual league as your division or conference. Pictured it? Good. We're moving on.
Here's how things shook out last year. For the Top 10-15 players from last year, I'm creating a special league for just you guys. Make sure to mention your final standings in the comments if you happen to be one these lucky cats. If you're a forgetful lucky cat, the final standings can be found here.
We're going to fill up as many fantasy leagues as we can for the next couple of weeks with a draft sometime between December 15-23. Each Razzketball league will be a 12 team, 13-player Roto rosters (I know H2H is preferred, but it's harder to link multiple leagues with H2H) that will shape up like this: PG/SG/G/SF/PF/F/C/C/3 UTIL/3 BENCH. The fantasy leagues will be played at ESPN's site and they will be free to join. I prefer Yahoo, but Yahoo doesn't give non-leaguemates the ability to see the leagues – those yahoos.
Drop me a line down in the comments so I know how many pints of apple juice and boxes of animal crackers we're gonna need. If you're interested in being a league organizer (we'll need one per league to accept the other 11 people into the league, set up a draft time, set it up on ESPN, etc.) please say so in either the comments or you can message me on Twitter (TWEET!), Facebook (LIKE!) or even Tumblr (TUMBL LIKE!) if you'd like to look at girls in bikini right before you alert me to your interest in joining one of the RCLs.
Jazzed? Good. Go sign up!