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The only thing that comes to mind is to make dead bang sure that absolutely nothing (you, process or otherwise) has the file in question in it's grips. I've yelled and screamed at my boxen only to discover hidden away under a layer of terminal windows that I'd be doing something that the OS would interpret as access and therefore a resulting error message of 'file busy'. That it is a text file is interesting but may or may not be of help. Is the file part of previous step(s) of the make? Some sort of temporary file? You might also determine if editing (out) the entry in the make file is enough to work around the problem. Another possible source of help might be to contact the author of the module to see if anything comes to mind. Module installs are not always a simple and straight forward process and you might be running up against some need that is unobvious and problematic on your machine.
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American fashion model Karlie Kloss has revealed that she likes misting her face with rose water in the morning due to its refreshing and moisturizing qualities. Rose water, which is created through the distillation of rose petals and water, is a natural and sweet-smelling beauty product that is great for freshening up skin throughout the day and which can also be used as a toner for dry skin types. It also has anti-inflammatory properties, so is great for reducing redness and soothing irritated skin.
Those with oily skins can also benefit from using a face mist to freshen up their skin throughout the day. Lavender water is particularly good for those with oily or acne-prone complexions. You could even try making your own face mist using purified water and essential oils. This can be stored in the fridge and used to tone and freshen up your skin when required.
Trust in Mother Nature
Natural skincare has become increasingly popular in recent years, due to the potentially harmful nature of many chemical ingredients used in synthetic beauty products, and many supermodels have cottoned on to this trend. Supermodel Lindsey Wixson is a big fan of natural beauty brand RMS Beauty, and both she and Lily Cole are fans of tea tree oil for helping to keep their complexions blemish-free. Miranda Kerr is also a big advocate of organic products and has even launched her own beauty line, KORA Organics.
If you don't want to splash out on skin products, you could try making your own natural skincare products using ingredients found in your kitchen. Many common kitchen staples can double up as beauty products, such as olive oil – which makes a great natural body moisturiser – and brown sugar, which can be mixed with olive oil to make an exfoliator. Oatmeal is also a useful ingredient for those with dry or eczema-prone skin, either used as an exfoliating cleanser or added to bathwater.
Use an SPF
One of the most important steps for maintaining a supermodel-like complexion is to make sure you always apply sunscreen before you leave the house. Czech-born supermodel Paulina Porizkova, 47, puts her youthful complexion down to the fact that she started using a daily SPF on her face when she was in her 20s. Heidi Klum also advocates wearing a daily SPF and avoiding spending too long in the sun.
As these supermodels know, when it comes to wrinkles prevention is better than cure, so try making an effort now to ward off one of the leading causes of wrinkles. While many of us wait until summer to bring out the sun protection, the UV rays which cause premature ageing (as well as skin cancer) can penetrate through clouds and cause irreversible damage. To help delay signs of ageing, wear an SPF of at least factor 15 every day.
Go makeup-free
Many supermodels, including Adriana Lima and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, are regularly seen out and about without a stitch of makeup. In fact, many of them make a point of going makeup-free while they are away from work. Ranya Mordanova has revealed that she will only wear concealer on her days off, and Bar Refaeli has said she also likes to go make-up free while not working to allow her skin to breathe.
Going make-up free every now and then is good for your skin, and it can also be good for your confidence to know that you don't need all the cosmetics. To look beautiful without your makeup, try exfoliating your skin and applying a good moisturiser for a natural glow, grooming your eyebrows to help shape your face and wearing colours that complement your natural complexion.
Eat beauty-boosting foods
To get clear and flawless skin it is important to pay attention to your diet as well as your skincare, as most supermodels know. Karolina Kurkova is said to drink green smoothies made from green vegetables and fruit juice as part of her healthy diet, while Mirte Maas has revealed that she eats a diet rich in healthy foods such as whole grains, fresh fruit and veg. Aminata Niaria also puts her glowing skin down to her high consumption of fish, which is rich in beauty-boosting omega-3 fatty acids.
To keep your skin in good condition, make sure you eat a well-balanced and varied diet rich in face-friendly foods, including nutritious fruits, vegetables and oily fish. Deficiencies in nutrients such as iron and vitamin B12 can lead to pale, sallow skin, so make sure you are getting enough of these nutrients in your diet. Nuts are also a great source of vitamin E, which can help the skin to retain its natural moisture levels and stay soft and hydrated.

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Short story great Alice Munro says she is 'probably' done writing
NEW YORK: Less than a year after Philip Roth announced he had stopped writing books, another literary great may be retiring: Alice Munro.
The 81-year-old Canadian author, widely regarded as one of the world's greatest short story writers, told Canada's National Post during a recent interview that she was "probably not going to write anymore." Munro made the comments after receiving the Trillium Book Award for the story collection "Dear Life."
"Not that I didn't love writing," she said, "but I think you do get to a stage where you sort of think about your life in a different way. And perhaps, when you're my age, you don't wish to be alone as much as a writer has to be. It's like, at the wrong end of life, sort of becoming very sociable."
Roth, 80, made similar comments last year in explaining his decision to quit. The list of voluntary literary retirees is tiny, with the vast majority of authors continuing for as long as health permits.
Fiction editor Deborah Treisman of The New Yorker, where Munro has often been published, told The Associated Press on Thursday that she has not received any new material from Munro since last year. Munro's most recent story in the magazine, "Amundsen," appeared in August 2012. "Dear Life" was published in the fall.
Munro, whose other books include "Open Secrets" and "Friend of My Youth," has said before that she was quitting, only to resume writing. During a brief interview posted last fall on www.newyorker.com , she acknowledged her previous statements.
"I do stop — for some strange notion of being 'more normal,' taking things easy. Then some poking idea comes," she said. "This time, I think it's for real. I'm 81, losing names or words in a commonplace way."


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Six out of the eight species of the baobab tree are endemic to Madagascar
The island is home to a vast array of animal and plant life
Madagascar has lost 90% of its forest to deforestation
The government is trying to protect the forests by marking areas as national parks
With their unique shape and imposing stature, the majestic baobab trees have been an icon of Madagascar's landscape for centuries, unmovable symbols of the tropical island's luscious scenery.
Six out of the eight species of the long-lived tree are endemic to Madagascar, the island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa.
The stunning country is home to a rich ecosystem that boasts an incredible mosaic of animal and plant life evolved for tens of millions of years in complete isolation. As a result 90% of Madagascar's wildlife exists nowhere else on the planet.
In the midst of it all, the mighty baobab has stood tall for generations, its barrel-like trunk reaching a height of 18 meters.
Often described as "the upside down tree" due to its unusual shape – the tree's branches look like roots sticking up in the air – the baobab has sparked many legends throughout the centuries. An ancient myth goes that when the gods planted the trees, they kept walking away so they placed them upside down.
Read related: Madagascar's 'lemur lady' on saving endangered animals
Communities in Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in the world, have long been benefiting from the deciduous trees – their fruits are edible, their leaves are used for medicinal purposes, while their large trunks are often excavated to serve as shelters or store water during dry periods.
"There are many interactions with the life of community living around forest," explains botanist Jimmy Razafitsalama.
"First, they use the bark for the construction of their house and then they use leaves as medicinal plants. They eat also the fruit because the fruit are very rich in vitamins and don't forget also it's one of the attraction for tourists to come here."
But while tourism proceeds can generate income for people often living on less than $2 a day, many other human activities are posing a serious threat to the baobab trees and the island's one-of-a-kind ecosystem.
Largely dependent on the island's natural resources, many rural communities in Madagascar have to make ends meet by exploiting the land that surrounds them – the country is estimated to have lost 90% of its forest to deforestation over the years.
Environmentalists say that activities like slash-and-burn agriculture – where an area of forest is cut and burned to create fields – logging for timber and fuelwood and charcoal production are all destroying the island's beautiful rainforests and their endemic biodiversity.
"They cut the trees down to clear the land for agriculture or for grazing their animals," says Razafitsalama, who has moved to the island's northernmost part near the city of Diego Suarez to teach locals about biodiversity.
In recent years, authorities in Madagascar have taken up a series of initiatives to save its precious forests. The country has launched several conservation and reforestation projects and has also marked many regions in the country as national parks, attracting ecotourists from across the world.
Razafitsalama says that more needs to be done to safeguard the future of the baobab trees and the vast array of unique species living in Madagascar's forests.
"Now the government they want to increase the surface of protected areas. They made a big effort but right now I see for baobab it's not yet representative," he says.
"A good example is this forest in front of us – it is not protected but this has the highest concentration of population of this endemic species."
Unless more action is taken and behaviors change, Madagascar, one of the world's true biodiversity hotspots, will risk losing more of its forests, putting in danger the survival of its unique species.


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Saul Bolton's new eatery, Red Gravy, which opened at 151 Atlantic Avenue in December, got props from the Zagat Blog earlier this week. Now Gothamist weighs in, also offering some keen pics and the dinner menu.
Gothamist: "Chef Saul Bolton, the talented toque who runs Saul, one of the first Michelin-starred restaurant in Brooklyn, has opened a new joint in Brooklyn Heights called Red Gravy. The 75-seat trattoria is located in the space formerly occupied by Mezcal at 151 Atlantic Avenue, and it's not a flashy affair. Exposed brick walls and wooden ceiling beams, simple chandeliers and a modest bar layout create a casual framework for Bolton's seasonal Italian menu. Considering Bolton's impeccable reputation and the lack of competition on this stretch of Atlantic, we're not surprised to hear Red Gravy's been mobbed."


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Set in a traditional stone house with a Lake Windermere outlook, this refined, family-run hotel is a 12-minute walk from the villages of Bowness and Windermere, and within 0.9 miles of the A591 and National Rail trains. Elegant, individually decorated rooms have en suite bathrooms, flat-screen TVs, and tea and coffeemaking facilities. Upgraded rooms add sitting areas, while suites have separate living rooms, iPod docks and DVD players. Some have private balconies, and bathrooms with TVs. Room service is available. Free full breakfast includes vegetarian options. High-end British cuisine and Sunday lunches are served in a fine-dining setting.
Set among secluded gardens with views to Lake Windermere, this posh hotel dating to the early 1900s is 1.2 miles from The World of Beatrix Potter Attraction in Bowness village. Airy rooms with period decor feature en suite bathrooms, flat-screen TVs, WiFi access and tea and coffeemaking facilities. Some rooms feature sitting areas, while upgraded rooms with expansive lake views have iPod docks and fresh fruit. Free buffet or cooked breakfast is offered. A quaint restaurant serves modern British cuisine and traditional afternoon tea. There are ornate lounges and a garden terrace, plus croquet sets.
Nestled among quaint English gardens and overlooking Lake Windermere, this high-end hotel is housed in a traditional 1870s mansion once owned by children's author Beatrix Potter. Ranging from simple rooms with tartan fabrics to airy suites with contemporary decor, all units are stair-access only and feature free Wi-Fi, flat-screen TVs, and tea and coffeemaking facilities. Some have lake or garden views. Suites add separate sitting areas and/or fireplaces. Room service is available. Breakfast and parking are free. There's also an acclaimed restaurant and a bar. Other amenities include gardens, lounges, an indoor pool and massage services.
Overlooking Lake Windermere, this elegant country house hotel is 1.1 miles from Bowness-on-Windermere town centre and 1.4 miles from Windermere Golf Club. Country-chic rooms come with flat-screen TVs, and tea and coffeemaking equipment. Upgraded rooms add lake views and/or private balconies; some also have whirlpool tubs. Free breakfast is served in a refined modern British restaurant with a terrace; afternoon tea and evening meals are also available. Other amenities include gardens and event facilities.
This cosy boutique hotel with a dancing fountain is 1 mile from the Arts & Crafts-style Blackwell house and 3 miles from Hill Top, the former home of Beatrix Potter. Chic rooms with ornate furnishings offer free Wi-Fi and flat-screen TVs, and some have outdoor hot tubs. Upgraded rooms and suites add fireplaces, living areas and circular or 4-poster beds, plus private patios and/or steam rooms. Room service is available. Parking and full breakfast are free, and a swanky restaurant serves classic British fare with local ingredients. There's a glass-enclosed pool with a fountain, a steam room and a sauna, plus a full-service spa.
Set on a country estate with 14-acres of gardens, this upscale hotel offers views of Lake Windermere and is a mile from Bowness village and the Windermere Golf Club. The sophisticated rooms feature flat-screen TVs, free WiFi and designer toiletries. Upgraded rooms add sitting areas, and suites include separate living rooms. Some rooms have private verandas, hot tubs and lake views, and a loft-style suite features a kitchen, dining area and a telescope. In-room spa treatments are also available (for a surcharge). Modern British cuisine is served in an elegant restaurant. Guests have access to a nearby spa and fitness facility.
Set among landscaped gardens in a 1901 Georgian-style country house with an annexe, this upscale hotel is 2.6 miles from the World of Beatrix Potter and 9.1 miles from Abbot Hall Art Gallery. The warm, sophisticated rooms and suites feature flat-screen TVs, minibars, and tea and coffeemaking facilities. Some add garden access, fireplaces and/or patios with private hot tubs. Airy suites offer additional sitting areas, plus whirlpool tubs in most. WiFi is free. A full English breakfast and 4-course dinner in the fine-dining restaurant are included, along with passes to a nearby spa. There's also a bar, a llama field and a croquet court.
In a circa-1900 stone-built property on Windermere lake, this rural hotel is 1.8 miles from the notable Arts and Crafts house Blackwell and 3.5 miles from Windermere Golf Club. The refined, traditional-style lodgings all include en suite bathrooms, and have TVs, and tea and coffeemaking facilities. Suites add antique oak beds, sofas and lake views, as well as outdoor hot tubs and/or garden/decked areas. Fishing passes are free, as well as Wi-Fi in the bar area, and private parking. There's an upscale restaurant serving traditional British cuisine, a bar and a seasonal, waterside snack bar. There's also an indoor pool, a spa and 2 jetties.
Set on sprawling, picturesque grounds with a private jetty on the Lake Windermere waterfront, this traditional hotel occupies a grand Georgian mansion. It's within 3.6 miles' drive from the A591 and National Rail trains at Windermere. The ornate, period-style rooms feature antique furnishings, free Wi-Fi and flat-screen smart TVs. Upgraded rooms add armoires, chaise lounges or sofas, and desks or vanity tables. Private log cabins have kitchens. Modern British cuisine is served in a formal restaurant, plus there's an ornate lounge bar. Afternoon tea or picnic baskets can be taken on a lawn overlooking the lake (fees apply).
A 7-minute walk from Windermere, this upscale hotel is also 10 minutes' walk from The World of Beatrix Potter. The elegant rooms have free WiFi and flat-screen TVs, plus tea and coffeemaking facilities. Suites add separate living areas; some have whirlpool tubs and balconies. Breakfast and parking are included in the rate. Other Amenities include a British restaurant, a bar and a cosy lounge. There's also a spa with an indoor pool, a sauna, a steam room and a plunge pool, as well as 2 hot tubs.
Tucked inside a 19th-century stone mansion overlooking Lake Windermere, this sophisticated hotel is a 5-minute walk from The World of Beatrix Potter. The 26 refined rooms (available on a B&B or half-board basis) feature flat-screen TVs, and tea and coffeemaking facilities; some also have lake views. Upgraded rooms add sitting areas. Room service is available. Featuring a grand piano, cosy lounges and views of the countryside, the white-tablecloth bar/restaurant serves free breakfast daily, along with traditional British cuisine, and a carvery lunch on Sundays. Off-street parking is available.
Set in a row of 17th-century fishermen's cottages on the banks of Lake Windermere, this relaxed pub with rooms is 11 minutes' walk from the town centre and 4 miles from Wray Castle. Quaint rooms feature sitting areas, flat-screen TVs, and tea and coffeemaking facilities. Most have lake views. Upgraded rooms add private entrances and furnished patios. Cooked breakfast and bike storage are complimentary. The casual pub offers a bright restaurant, and a bar with a lakeside beer garden.
Overlooking Lake Windermere, this genteel, stylish hotel is 0.8 miles from the centre of Ambleside, 4.9 miles from Grasmere and 10.4 miles from Grizedale Forest Park. Chic, contemporary rooms feature free WiFi, flat-screen TVs and tea and coffeemaking facilities; some have outdoor seating areas overlooking the garden, and 1 suite has a terrace with views over the lake. The full English breakfast features locally sourced ingredients. There's a fine-dining restaurant focused on seasonal produce and a bar serving classic dishes. Room service is also available.
Stonecross Manor Hotel is situated on the outskirts of the Lake District in the market town of Kendal. The M6 and West Coast main line provide easy access to the Hotel. Kendal is approximately 10 minutes drive from the M6 and the train journey from London to Kendal is usually less than three hours. The town is fast becoming the festival town of the north with nationally renowned festivals, including: MintFest, Mountain Film Festival and Comic Art Festival. For outdoor enthusiasts, this Lake District Hotel is an ideal base from which to visit England's best known National Parks, the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales. Privately owned and benefiting from a small team of warm and friendly staff, Stonecross Manor Hotel is steeped in history having been built in the 1850s as an orphanage for young girls. Whether travelling for business or leisure, a short break or long holiday we have something for you. Our newly refurbished heated indoor swimming pool has powerful massage jets, steam room and a spa; the perfect place to come and relax. As well as a great place to stay we offer outstanding food. An eclectic mix of modern and traditional cuisine, healthy salad selections, full vegetarian menu, snacks, afternoon […]
Milnthorpe Road, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 5HP
The Riverside Hotel, a converted 18th century tannery set on five floors, is situated on the banks of the River Kent in Kendal beneath the ruins of the town's 12th century castle. A short walk away is the centre of this famous market town with its bustling shops, galleries and museums. It's also close to the train and bus station, is only a 20 minute drive from Lake Windermere and convenient for all the must-see attractions. WHY CHOOSE US? 58 en-suite bedrooms, including two junior suites River View Restaurant The Tannery Bar & Bistro Sanctuary Health Club with pool, spa pool, sauna, steam room and gym Two well-equipped meeting rooms Undercover, free car parking for 40 cars, further spaces five minutes away Dogs welcome in most bedrooms, including in the bar Free wireless internet access Near to train and bus stations Stair-lift to access bedrooms and a room with a roll in shower, it's easy to access the pool.
Stramongate Bridge, Beezon Road, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 6FS
Every good hotel believes they have the special formula for the perfect stay, but our guests tell us that we deliver it. Maybe it's our location in the charming 'auld grey town' of Kendal, the range of complimentary facilities and tempting extras on offer, or our dedication to exceptional customer service. Our team aren't satisfied with good – they think you deserve the best. Whether it's choosing the best room for you, recommending a delicious meal, or helping you with your bags, time and time again our guests comment on the friendly team who go that extra step to make every customer visit the very best it can be. Whatever your requirements, we think we've balanced the personality and passion you'd expect from an independent business with the advantages of a larger, established hotel group to ensure your stay is perfectly tailored to you. Come stay with us and we hope you'll agree – it is a memorable experience.
Castle Green Lane, Kendal LA9 6RG
Our Creative Gardens service offers you full advice, consultation, survey and innovative design services, and provide estimates and quotations for any part of your garden – no matter how large or small.
Lake Road Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 0DW
Ellipsis Design is a professional web design company that develops websites that look great, function well, and are poised for traffic. We work as consultants, providing advice, feedback, and ideas to help ensure your business ends up with the perfect website. Rather than boxing you into one specific website solution, our team takes on a custom web design project by determining what your goals are. Web design is much more than just slapping some words and pictures together and posting them on-line. Designing the ultimate web site involves conceptualization, planning, producing, post-production, research and advertising. At Ellipsis Design we know that web design involves a lot of work – and we're not afraid to roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty.
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Established in 2012 The Gentry Co prides its self on providing exceptional service in sophisticated and relaxed surroundings, customer service is what we believe to be the key to our success so whether it be a simple bead trim, a bespoke grooms package or just a quality sharp haircut, The Gentry will cater to your every requirement ! With complimentary ice cold beer on tap and the finest hair care and grooming products available to take home, why not visit The Gentry co and experience quintessential English barbering at its finest.
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Four TRAXXAS USAC Silver Crown Championship cars ventured to Gateway Motorsports Park near St. Louis Wednesday for an evaluation test aimed at a possible series engagement at the 1.25-mile paved oval in 2013.
The Madison, Ill. facility last hosted the USAC series in 2001, the last of five races held between 1997 and 2001 resulting in victories for drivers Pat Abold, J.J. Yeley, Ryan Newman, Tracy Hines and Dave Steele.
Car entrants 6R Racing of Noblesville, Ind. and RW Motorsports of Lederach, Pa. participated in the test, with drivers Kody Swanson of Kingsburg, Calif. and Taylor Ferns of Shelby Township, Mich. piloting 6R cars and Bobby Santos of Franklin, Mass. and Jerry Coons Jr. of Tucson, Ariz. in RW machines.
According to all accounts, the tests were successful, with speeds reaching 141.764 mph., near the track record of 143.967 mph achieved by Steele in 2001. The fastest speed of the session was posted by Santos, who scored two series pavement victories this year at Indianapolis, Ind.
"We were pleased with the results of the test and the enthusiasm exhibited by Gateway management and the teams involved," said USAC's Silver Crown Director James Spink. "We look forward to future involvement at Gateway and the excitement generated by a possible 2013 series appearance."
6R Racing, under the tutelage of Darryl Guiducci, and RW Motorsports, guided by Steve Weirich, each own historic Silver Crown achievements. 6R shares the all-time series victory record of 27 by Tony Stewart Racing, while RW captured this year's 2012 series car entrant championship and recorded five wins by three different drivers.
Coons participated in the 2001 Silver Crown race at Gateway, finishing 13th in the 100-mile race.
Ferns, USAC's winningest female driver ever with eight feature victories and a 2011 USAC D1 Midget Championship on her resume, is a Silver Crown series rookie, while Coons, Santos and Swanson all have series victories.


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Benson is a town in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States, near the intersection of Interstates 95 and 40. Benson celebrates Mule Days on the fourth Saturday of September, a festival that attracts over 60,000 people each year. In 2010, the population was 3,311, up from 2,923 in 2000. == History == The town of Benson, which derives its name from early settler Alfred Monroe ("Mim") Benson, owes much of its historical development to the railroad line which passed through the present location in town in 1886 on its route between Fayetteville and Contentnea. More information on the history of Benson and the surrounding communities may be found at the new Benson Museum of Local History located at 102 W. Main Street, next to the Mary Duncan Library.
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Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health (MP3 CD)
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A provocative look at how eliminating wheat from our diets can help us lose weight, shrink unsightly bulges, and reverse a broad spectrum of health problems--from acne to diabetes and serious digestive disorders. Since the introduction of dietary guidelines calling for reduced fat intake in the 1970s, a strange phenomenon has occurred: Americans have steadily, inexorably become heavier, less healthy, and more prone to diabetes than ever before. After putting more than two thousand of his at-risk patients on a wheat-free regimen and seeing extraordinary results, cardiologist William Davis has come to the disturbing conclusion that it is not fat, not sugar, not our sedentary lifestyle that is causing America's obesity epidemic--it is wheat. How this once-benign grain--now genetically modified almost beyond recognition and found in virtually every course of every meal--has come to have such a profound and deleterious effect on our collective well-being is one of the great untold health stories of our generation. In Wheat Belly, Dr. Davis exposes the truth about modern-day wheat, deconstructing its historical role in the human diet and the agricultural evolutions that have created a hybrid grain that has a greater impact on blood sugar levels than pure cane sugar and many of the addictive characteristics of a narcotic. He sheds light on wheat's connection to weight gain as well as to a host of other adverse effects from diabetes to heart disease to immunologic and neurologic disorders like celiac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and dementia. Finally, to help listeners dependent on wheat products make the move to a wheat-free diet, he presents a clear-cut action plan packed with food and lifestyle tips, meal plans, and recipes. Informed by decades of clinical research and backed by case studies of men and women who have experienced life-changing transformations in their health after waving good-bye to wheat, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at a familiar food as well as an affirmative life plan for regaining health and losing unwanted pounds.


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comsat is the server process which listens for reports of incoming mail and notifies users who have requested to be told when mail arrives. It is invoked as needed by inetd(1M), and times out if inactive for a few minutes.
comsat listens on a datagram port associated with the biff service specification (see services(4)) for one line messages of the form
If the user specified is logged in to the system and the associated terminal has the owner execute bit turned on (by a biff y), the offset is used as a seek offset into the appropriate mailbox file, and the first 7 lines or 560 characters of the message are printed on the user's terminal. Lines which appear to be part of the message header other than the From, To, Date, or Subject lines are not printed when displaying the message.
user access and administration information
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
svcs(1), inetadm(1M), inetd(1M), svcadm(1M),services(4), attributes(5), smf(5)
The message header filtering is prone to error.
The in.comsat service is managed by the service management facility, smf(5), under the service identifier:
Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). Responsibility for initiating and restarting this service is delegated to inetd(1M). Use inetadm(1M) to make configuration changes and to view configuration information for this service. The service's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command.


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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Carolyn Murphy On The Move...Again: Part 2
Our rudimentary research shows that in addition to the L.A. property she's currently got up for sale, over the last six (or so) years Miz Murphy has owned (at least) four other homes including a two-story contemporary squeezed on to a tight lot in Venice (CA) and a spectacular, swimming pool-free Spanish style in the comparatively staid flats of Brentwood in Los Angeles (CA).
Just before moving to her current crib—the one in Brentwood now up for grabs—Miz Murphy very briefly owned and occupied a 19th century, Greek Revival-style red-brick townhouse on a leafy street just a couple blocks from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (a.k.a the BQE) in New York City's (mostly) dignified and historic Brooklyn Heights 'hood.
Property records reveal she bought the four-floor, two-unit townhouse in August 2010 for $3,600,000 but quickly succumbed to her incurable case of The Celebrity Real Estate Fickle and sold the property just about nine months later, in June 2011, for $3,920,000.
A quick study of the floor plan included with listing information from the time of the sale, which Your Mama managed to haul up out of the murky deep of the interweb, shows the floor-through garden level apartment has 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom and a couple of (possibly decorative) fireplaces. Depending on what gets counted and/or used as a bedroom, the triplex owner's unit has 4-6 bedrooms and two fairly small but thankfully windowed bathrooms, both somewhat inconveniently located off the stair landings.
Tall pocket doors divide the parlor floor living room, with original floor-to-ceiling windows, a decorative fireplace, and (unpainted) wood floors, from the dining room, with almost identical fireplace and painted wood floors. The kitchen, wedged tightly into a tall and model-thin space behind the dining room, has—or at least had at the time Miz Murphy sold it—Euro-style appliances, open shelving, extra-big farmhouse sink, through-the-wall a/c unit, and a room-wide row of large, six-over-six windows that overlook the back garden. The kitchen looks like it was bought from IKEA but we have no knowledge whatsoever whether it actually was or was not.
Anyhoo, the second and third floors each have two good-sized bedrooms and one squeezer-of-a-bedroom that—in Your Mama's humble and utterly meaningless opinion—might both better be utilized as a home office, dressing room, toy storage closet, meditation lounge, play space and/or what-have-you.
Miz Murphy and her current crib—the one in Brentwood now on the market—were featured in all their tawny and glossy-rustic glory in the March 2012 issue of Vogue. She told the fashion-obsessed peeps at Vogue—we have a copy of it thoughtfully provided by an aide de camp we'll call Rhonda Rainyday—that she left Brooklyn and hightailed it back to Cali because '"having the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway outside my door was too much for me."'
Before briefly alighting in Brooklyn Miz Murphy (and child) spent a few years in a rather dynamite 1907 Craftsman bungalow on a bucolic 3-ish acre estate in Ojai, CA she bought in December 2007 from Wrigley gum heir Paxson "Packy" Offield for $3,500,500.
Our online research turned up an archived listing for the gated estate in Ojai that shows the updated and upgraded bungalow measures around 3,400 square feet and contains 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. A separate guest house offers additional living and slumbering space plus a private pooper.
The large living room has a lots of multi-pane windows, a wood-beamed ceiling and imposing (but still cozy) river rock fireplace. The country kitchen has a yummy walk-in pantry, commercial-style appliances, open shelving for the dishes, butcher block counter tops and an adjoining dining area with river rock walls.
Upstairs the living room-sized master bedroom has a high wood ceiling, hardwood floors, a second imposing (but still cozy) river rock fireplace and an attached, two-chamber bathroom with twin pedestal sinks and a claw footed tub.
We're not sure who is responsible for the day-core of her Ojai house but it all leaned and veered heavily towards a more East Coast Americana than French Provençal. Then again, we don't know a decorative donkey from a goat, so...
Although she did not sell her Ojai estate until September 2010 Miz Murphy was, as usual, bitten by the bug of her incurable case of The Celebrity Real Estate Fickle way back in May 2008, just five months after signing on the deed's dotted line. Between May 2008 and September 2010, according to the fine folks at Redfin, Miz Murphy de- and re-listed the property a number of times at a variety of prices until, according to property records, it finally got snatched up, at a quarter million dollar-plus loss to her, for $3,250,000.
So, she went from Venice to Brentwood to Ojai to Brooklyn, back to Brentwood and now where? Where, oh where shall Miz Murphy next set down some (if history tells us anything, probably temporary) real estate roots? Ironically—or annoyingly, depending on your point of view—Miz Murphy also told the Vogue people (in the March 2012 issue), '"I don't see us staying in Los Angeles...I Don't think it feeds you in the way the East Coast does."' First of all, hunny, pleeze. Secondly, we suggest you beware the chanting hordes of Buddha statue owning Tinseltown New Agers who migrated from the East Coast to rub magic crystals all over their co-dependant inner children while the sun set over the fiery Pacific Ocean. Trust Your Mama when we tell you those people can get ugly when dissed and (probably unintentionally) dissed they were. And, thirdly, does all this soul feeding nonsense mean the model's packing up and moving cross-country, again? Could be. Or not. Who knows?
Heaven's to Betsy, children, this bracingly beautiful beehawtcha moves house so frequently she probably has to keep a moving company on retainer so they're ready the very moment her feet get itchy. But that's really calling the kettle black since Your Mama and The Dr. Cooter have had two apartments, three houses and three offices in the last 10 years. Good grief. When we're not packing or unpacking, we're making plans for our next pack and unpack. But that's another story for another day in another place with an bottomless mid-morning cocktail in hand.
listing photos and floor plan (Brooklyn): Brown Harris Stevens via StreetEasy
listing photos (Ojai): Village Properties via Redfin
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Babyface Edmonds, Carolyn Murphy, Lena Dunham. Mama, I don't know these people from Adam and don't want to. Please use people worth hearing about, not obscure nobodies.
A devoted reader - June 14, 2012 at 6:02 PM
Mama, when you and Dr. Cooter catch your next bout of the Real Estate Fickle, let your children write a ditty about your little Hollywood Hills bungalow, will you? We'll compose it, send it in, and you can post it up on here!
For your sake, Mama, I pray that there is nary a windowless pooper or a goddamn pot rack in your abode. Lawd have mercy! I have faith in your choice in day-core, however. - June 14, 2012 at 7:32 PM
the outside of the brooklyn house is pretty. this woman is a nobody though.
- June 14, 2012 at 9:12 PM
She is #9 on the Daily Telegraph's list of the 10 top models, having dropped a rung from last year. She supposedly made 3.5 million last year. Not much in the world of celebrity.
- June 15, 2012 at 6:59 AM
Even though you may not know who she is dosent mean she's a nobody. She a pretty big face in the fashion industry.
- June 15, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Try walking into your looking department store cosmetic area or maybe, idk, opening a magazine ...
- June 15, 2012 at 11:55 AM


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The past month hasn't been a good one for people concerned about online privacy.
First, hackers stole personal information from 100 million accounts at Sony, then Symantec announced that Facebook might have accidentally leaked its users' information to advertisers and other third parties for several years without realizing it.
The breaches, coupled with some high-profile credit card hack attacks, have people worried—and rightfully so. If they're not safe with some of the biggest holders of personal data around, is their data safe anywhere?
You may not like the answer.
"There's nothing consumers can do," says renowned security expert Bruce Schneier. "We are regularly giving our data to third parties who, in many cases, don't care very much about our privacy. There's a serious economic reality going on that when companies breach our privacy, they don't feel it."
There are, however, a few steps you can take to make things a little more difficult for cyber criminals. Here are the top six from experts:
- Don't use the same passwords. It's easy to fall into bad habits—and one of the worst ones people have is resorting to the same password on multiple sites. It might be easier to remember, but if it's compromised one place, it puts you at risk on a widespread basis.
"All passwords should be unique to that account," says Jay Foley, executive director of theIdentity Theft Resource Center. "That's a major block."
If you find yourself getting overwhelmed, consider creating an excel spreadsheet with your various accounts, usernames and passwords. Just be certain to password protect that file and ensure that your own computer's security is rock solid.
2. Don't use the same security questions. Just as people use the same passwords, they also tend to pick the same security questions—and thieves can use those to brute force their way into other accounts in your name, even when there's a flag on the account to watch for possible fraudulent activity.
"Those security questions are critical," says Avivah Litan, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "When an account is flagged as high risk, the service provider will typically ask you the answer to your secret question. Typically, these questions are very similar across the board. Once the criminal gives it, he's in."
When possible, come up with your own question and answer. And try to avoid the same questions at different sites.
3. Beware your history. Online shopping is one of the fastest-growing segments of retail, but people often don't think about what happens after they complete a purchase.
"One of the biggest problems facing online shoppers is everyplace you've done business, you've left your personal information behind," says Foley.
That makes you vulnerable at multiple locations you may have long forgotten, but there are a couple of alternative options. Services like ShopShield allow shoppers to keep their address, credit card information and more at a single location, instead of multiple e-tailers.
And FirstData is experimenting with card readers that are designed to attach to consumer's computers, letting them swipe credit cards at home and not have to leave that data on file with an online retailer.
4. Share less. As social media grows, people have become a lot more open with personal information. You've probably heard not to announce on Facebook when you'll be out of town (it's an open invitation for thieves). But too many people don't realize they could be handing out their passwords without meaning to.
Here's how it happens: People often choose a favorite pet or their child's name as a password, to help them remember it (and thinking that a stranger wouldn't know that sort of thing). But on their Facebook page, they've got all that information available and may not block access to it adequately via the site's security settings.
5. Watch for red-flag questions. If you've had data stolen, that doesn't automatically mean you're at risk for identity theft, but you are a more likely target for a phishing campaign.
Even if your data has not been compromised yet, never click a link (or open an attachment) in an email from someone you don't know. The same advice goes when it appears to be from your bank or credit card company. Thieves are sophisticated enough to make very realistic looking emails and sites. Always type in the URL manually.
"Anything you read in an email is subject to verification," says Foley. "That's the rule by which I live."
6. Read the fine print. Living our lives online has made us a much more fast-paced society. So fast, in fact, that most people don't bother to read the policies they agree to at many sites. Most assume the language is basically the same everywhere and is meant to protect them, but often they're signing away their rights.
Major corporations, for instance, might include a clause noting that by accepting the terms of their agreement with one subsidiary, you give them the right to share that with all of its holdings, meaning all of a sudden, your data is at dozens, hundreds or even thousands of sites without your knowledge.
Read privacy policies closely and see with whom the companies you do business with share their data.
Ultimately, none of these steps will protect you entirely, but by limiting the number of locations where your data is available and making it a bit tougher for hackers to use one account to leverage others, you can put up some firewalls to prevent a single hack from exposing you to multiple headaches.


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WEST OCEAN CITY- The Coastal Lacrosse Club is hosting its third and final free clinics for young players this Sunday, November 6, at the club's practice facility on Route 611 in West Ocean City.
The club will host the third of three free clinics for children ages 6-14 this fall on Sunday. Experience is not necessary as the clinics are structured for both new and experienced players. Interested players do not have to be members of Coastal Lacrosse to participate as the clinics are open to all children. This week's clinic will be held at the club's practice facility known as Hudson Fields on Route 611 in West Ocean City from 12:30-2 p.m. For more information, visit the club's website at www.coastallacrosse.com or call (410) 641-2280.


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Most of us will, blessedly, never be in Karilyn Bales's shoes. We will never know what it is like to discover that the person we married, the father of our two young children, has been accused of mass murder. Most of us wouldn't even be able to begin to imagine how we might feel, or what we might do.
But most of us aren't married to men in the military. Those who are—the more than one-million-strong 'milspouses' who make up the 'silent ranks' of the U.S. Armed Forces—can imagine it all too well. In the days after the news broke that Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, a 38-year-old father of two from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State, had allegedly killed 16 Afghan civilians, many veterans and service members hastened to distance themselves from the horrific act, rejecting the notion that PTSD or combat stress could be blamed for the soldier's actions. But while the men scurried, the women rallied, taking to their blogs and social networks to voice their unconditional support for Bales's wife, whom many even began to call 'Kari.'
Sequestered on a military base in Washington State with her 4-year-old daughter, Quincy, and 3-year-old son, Bobby, Karilyn Bales reportedly hasn't seen her husband—who is now in solitary confinement in a military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas—since he was deployed to Afghanistan in December. On Monday, she issued her first statement since the news of her husband's alleged attacks broke. "I too want to know what happened. I want to know how this could be," she said. "The victims and their families are all in my prayers, as is my husband who I love very much."
It was the thought of Bales sequestered on base, cut off from her friends, and her family in nearby Bellevue, that prompted Lori Volkman, a prosecutor in Washington State and the wife of a Marine reservist, to pen an open letter on her blog. "I can only imagine what you felt as you stared blankly at the officer who arrived without any answers to give," she wrote. "And when I thought of my own husband and my own children, and how devastating it would be, I sat at my own dinner table with my mother, another military wife, and we cried for you."
In three days, the post has gotten more than 10,000 hits, Volkman says. Visitors have left more than 150 comments (more than on anything else she has ever posted) and of them, just four are negative. "Kari, be strong and hold on to your beautiful children," wrote Kimberley. "My family is sending love to yours as it sends those in Afghanistan that lost their loved ones that awful day." Most, however, address just Bales. "Please remember, you really are not alone," reads one typical entry. "Many are saying, 'but for the grace of God, could have been my soldier.'"
Volkman's is far from the only site where women are voicing such sentiments. Brittany Jaccaud wrote a similar open letter on her blog, His Military Wife. Army wives are posting in the comments sections of news articles, Facebook groups, and in the myriad online support groups that have sprung up for military spouses in recent years. What is expressed on these pages goes beyond simply woman to woman, or wife to wife. It reflects a unique solidarity—the kind that comes only from a shared experience that includes long stretches of single parenting, repeated relocations, and, of course, an almost unspeakable fear of what might happen during the next deployment.
"As military wives, our biggest fear is our husband not coming home," Jaccaud told The Daily Beast. "We all go through the nightmares of something bad happening. We all go through that worry…. But never in our right minds could we fathom getting this call."
Still, the news about Bales struck particularly close to home for the 27-year-old mother of three. Until last December, she and her husband—who, like Bales, is a staff sergeant—also were stationed at Lewis-McChord. "I don't pretend to know what happened, but being a military member married to a staff sergeant, I've been there," she says. "Same rank, same duty station. It's frightening. It hit home that it could be anybody."
That refrain—it could be anybody, it could have happened to any of us—shows up so often on blogs and comment pages that you might forget we're talking about a man who allegedly targeted women and children in a brutal, murderous rampage. "The one thought that keeps coming back to me is there but for the grace of God…." Ellen M wrote beneath Volkman's open letter. "This could have been anybody's spouse."
"Honestly, situations like this worried me just as the fear that he would be killed, captured or injured," wrote Megan, whose blog says she is the wife of a wounded warrior, beneath a post about the attack on a military-run site called SpouseBuzz. "I feared that he would break and do something to dishonor himself, our family, and our nation."
This is hardly the first time such fears, awful as they are, have been typed into comment boxes or blog entries by women such as these. More than two years ago, a woman named Julie Anna, whose husband had been in the military for nearly a decade, and also was stationed at Fort Lewis, wrote, "I have seen the wonderful man I met and married change after war and I have literally watched the demons dance around him through it all. The hell we, as a family, have gone through has been the worst nightmare I have ever endured." Last October, reflecting on the trial of another sergeant accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan, she wrote that she and her husband were both on antidepressants, "as is the rest of the army population….okay maybe not everyone. Just the ones that have been in for several years now, the ones who will actually admit when things are really screwed up."
They are heavy confessions, to be sure, ones that can feel invasive to read as an outsider. But together, these—along with sunnier blogs, the ones filled with photos of smiling children and stories about trips to Walmart gone awry, and indeed even the one written by Karilyn Bales herself—make up a sort of modern chronicle of the effect of war on the home front, analogous to the letters sent by our grandfathers during World War II and Vietnam.
"They write themselves into the larger conversation about the cost of war," says Alison Buckholtz, the author of Standing By: The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War. "These are our war logs."
This—the cost of war on families, wives, and children—is something fewer and fewer of us can identify with. A Pew report released last year found that a smaller percentage of Americans today have served in the Armed Forces than at any other time since the period between the two World Wars—around half of 1 percent of us, or 1.5 million of 240 million Americans over age 18.
"There's a bigger gap than ever between civilian families and military families," Volkman told The Daily Beast. "We can all sympathize with Kari Bales, but we can't all empathize with what she's gone through….events like this can widen the gulf even further."
But understanding the anguish of an American family surely comes easier than understanding that felt by Muhummad Wazir, the Afghan man who lost 11 members of his family—including his mother, wife, four daughters, and two sons—in last week's massacre. Most of us, blessedly, are separated from that kind of pain by not just a gap, but a chasm.


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Fla. Professor Makes Class Trample on Jesus' Name; Suspends Student Who Refused
A Florida Atlantic University professor made his students write the name "Jesus" on a piece of paper and then trample on it, as part of a "lesson in debating," a student suspended for refusing to participate in the exercise has revealed.
"I'm not going to be sitting in a class having my religious rights desecrated," student Ryan Rotela, a Mormon, told WPEC. "I truly see this as I'm being punished."
Rotela explained that his Intercultural Communications class was told to write Jesus' name on a piece of paper, then gather together and stomp on it. The student refused, however, and picked up the paper from the floor and put it back on the table.
The professor, Deandre Poole, was apparently trying to teach the students a "lesson in debate," but the student found the assignment to be insulting and offensive.
"I said to the professor, 'With all due respect to your authority as a professor, I do not believe what you told us to do was appropriate,'" Rotela said. 'I believe it was unprofessional and I was deeply offended by what you told me to do.'"
The student was suspended afterwards by the university, who is defending the instructor.
"As with any academic lesson, the exercise was meant to encourage students to view issues from many perspectives, in direct relation with the course objectives," Noemi Marin, the university's director of the school of communication and multimedia studies, told Fox News.
"While at times the topics discussed may be sensitive, a university environment is a venue for such dialogue and debate," Marin added.
Stomping on Jesus' name is actually an entire lesson, which is included in the textbook for the class, called "Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach, 5th Edition."
"Have the students write the name JESUS in big letters on a piece of paper," a synopsis for the lesson reads.
"Ask the students to stand up and put the paper on the floor in front of them with the name facing up. Ask the students to think about it for a moment. After a brief period of silence instruct them to step on the paper. Most will hesitate. Ask why they can't step on the paper. Discuss the importance of symbols in culture."
Paul Kengor, the executive director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, told Fox News that such a lesson is a direct example of secular society targeting Christianity.
"These are the new secular disciples of 'diversity' and 'tolerance' – empty buzzwords that make liberals and progressives feel good while they often refuse to tolerate and sometimes even assault traditional Christian and conservative beliefs," Kengor said.


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I'm often approached by teachers looking for new ways to connect their students to climate change. Sure there are lessons and videos galore through groups like the CLEAN network, but what about books that are engaging and, most importantly, age-appropriate? That becomes a trickier task, particularly as middle school and elementary teachers try to find new ways to engage their students. As I was looking for ideas to help them out, I was thrilled to discover Scott Bischke's book, Fish Tank: A Fable For Our Times. Bischke, a chemical and environmental engineer by training, has worn many different hats, from working as a researcher at national laboratories, to serving on the Mayor's Task Force, to drafting the municipal climate action plan in his hometown of Bozeman, MT. Each time we chatted he was either on his way to or just back from another wild adventure.
It turns out that the book is as compelling as Bischke. Without giving too much away, the book follows the story of a group of sea creatures (from fish to turtles) living happily in a fish tank. When the owner goes away, they are left with a caretaker who ignores their needs and takes off for the season. Left to their own devices, they have to work to resolve issues as resources dwindle, the temperature heats up, and a small crack starts to develop on the side of the tank. Can they work collectively to figure out a response that benefits everyone, or will there be definite winners and losers? A clear metaphor for climate change, this book takes a thriller angle to get you on the edge of your seat—will these sea creatures be able to pull together to save their own little planet?
I not only got Bischke to chat with me this week about his book, but also convinced him to donate 24 books for a give-away to one lucky teacher! More on that at the bottom of the blog (be sure to enter to win!). In the meantime, here's a Q&A with the author!
Q. What was the inspiration for this book?
A. Climate change or, more broadly, environmental protection, has run through my career as a regular theme. I also love writing, and have written four well-received (thankfully!) popular press books. After tackling climate change from many perspectives--as a researcher, an engineer in an industrial setting, a social servant in local government, and an advocate--it seemed like the only avenue left was literature. Hence, the concept for Fish Tank was born.
I settled on this choice of story during a 90-minute drive from Helena, where I'd just attended an energy conference. Funnier still, I wrote Fish Tank in my head during those 90 minutes. Not verbatim, of course, but I had the setting as well as the entire plot line and characters described, probably to 95% of what the finished book would become. After that it was simply a matter of putting pencil to paper (OK, fingers to keyboard, but that just doesn't sound as poetic).
Q. Have you seen people use your book in the classroom before? What sorts of conversations did it start?
A. Fish Tank has been used in a variety of settings and at a variety of levels. While most of the classrooms have been in the middle school age group, I am aware of classes from 5th grade to college using it as a catalyst for the discussion of climate change.
Teachers report that students love the book's characters, which of course is an important first step in getting students engaged in the story and how it might apply to their lives. Some readers end up being happy, or sad, or mad, all of which are good responses. The key is that the story brings them into a world where they are thinking about climate change. And that world is an accessible place—not scary or boring or filled with data and doomsday proclamations. Instead it is a place of story, a cerebral place, a place to reflect upon and then perhaps consider how similar scenarios are playing out in their own lives.
Along with classrooms, Fish Tank has been used as a book-of-the-month reading selection for a number of book clubs. Foremost among them, surely, was the Climate Stewards Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, made up of educators from across the country.
And here's something really intriguing: A church in Arizona asked if they might adapt Fish Tank to be a readers' play for their kids. I said "Absolutely!" with really only two stipulations: that they remain true to the story, and that they make the play they develop available for free to any teacher (or others) who might want to use it. They will be putting on the play on April 24th, 2016 and have invited me to attend. Wow, sorry to gush, but I am really excited to see the results of their efforts!
Q. In the story, the Earth is represented by a fish tank, and the fish are desperately working to either take advantage of the resources or try to save them. This is a pretty clear analogy to climate change. What made you choose the setting for this story?
A. The Martian aside, we are isolated here on Earth, "It's the only planet we have, we can't mess it up" as some have taken to saying. So I wanted a closed space that evoked that same challenge. I toyed with numerous ideas, but finally settled on an aquarium as the perfect metaphor, an essentially closed system that all creatures, regardless of their political bent, rely upon for their lives.
Q. In the story you have different characters with different approaches to conservation. Can you talk more about how your sea creature characters relate to what you've seen in the real world?
A. Sure I can, but I'd rather not. Why? Because the question runs against what I am trying to achieve with Fish Tank. What I think as the author has some value, of course, but what I am really after is for the reader to determine for themselves who the characters represent. They may see leaders, followers, activists, scientists, politicians, business people, news people, the disinterested general public, corporations, and much more. Who the characters of the book represent is for the reader to decide. That's one of the things I love about allegories—to me there is no right or wrong interpretation.
Q. What do you want kids to take away from the book?
A. I want readers—be they kids, teens, or adults—to come away from Fish Tank thinking critically about the most important issue of our times, climate change, and how society makes decisions around climate change. We must engage people in every possible way with this discussion. Some will react to data, some to trusted scientists, some to celebrities they care about (even if said celebrity has no standing in the field—I don't know why, it's just true). And some will react to this story because for them, for so many of us, stories can change the world. That's my biggest hope.
And if you'll allow me to be even more altruistic for a moment, my ultimate goal for the book is to help change society's discussion from one of denial and "Who cares?" to one of understanding and "What can I do?" The success or failure of that goal, of course, rests with Fish Tank's readers. But for me, I am certain of one thing: I want to leave the next generation and generations to come the world they deserve, not one that has limitations put upon it by my generation's sense of entitlement, lack of foresight, or, perhaps worst yet, complacency.
Q. How do you think teachers could best utilize the book in their classrooms?
A. Gosh, that's a tough one for me, not being a teacher and recognizing that I don't know the ins and outs of how teachers inspire their students. One thing I do know is that I have the greatest respect for teachers and the critical role they play in shaping students' minds and, hence, the future of our society.
That said, I created an in-depth discussion guide for teachers (and book clubs), which is available in one version of the book. I tried to capture the essence of what I hope to convey in the book through the discussion guide. I think the questions there can be invaluable in starting discussions that bridge students from the story of Fish Tank into how it parallels their own lives, whether directly or through what they witness every day. The discussion guide is pretty exhaustive; I created it with the idea that teachers could pick and choose questions and create lines of inquiry depending on their desired emphasis and the level of their students. My hope is that teachers will use it as a guide to approach Fish Tank under some sort of Socratic method—inquiry leading to discussion, discussion to further questioning. The goal is not to find right or wrong answers, but instead to stimulate critical thought and hopefully help readers derive some level of personal interpretation, and perhaps even illumination.
Interested in getting copies of Fish Tank for your classroom? The author has generously donated 23 copies (plus one with a discussion guide) for a teacher to use in her/his classroom. If you are a teacher, enter to win here! As always, we'll add a few extra freebies in our winning package to you. We'll be accepting entries until the end of January!
Want to find out more about this book? You can find Fish Tank: A Fable For Our Times by Scott Bischke on Amazon, Facebook, GoodReads, Google+, and more, or at Emountainworks.com. A Fish Tank discussion guide for classrooms and book clubs can be downloaded at the website, or found embedded in one version of the book. Kindle and other eBook formats are available at online stores. Scott invites contact from interested readers, teachers, and/or book clubs. He assures us discounts on Fish Tank are available for friends of NCSE! Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Developed by Sony, the X-Balanced Speaker Unit achieves high sound quality and powerful sound pressure for a richer, deeper, more rewarding listening experience.
The rigid and lightweight Mica Reinforced Cellular (MRC) speaker cone and dust cap contributes to the sound quality.
Unlike the circular diaphragm in a conventional speaker unit, the newly developed X-Balanced Speaker Unit in the XB33 features a non-circular diaphragm. This not only maximises the area of speaker diaphragm, increasing sound pressure for more punchy bass – it also reduces driver excursion while maintaining the same sound pressure, resulting in less distortion. Meanwhile, the unit's off-centre design and optimised weight balance help to enhance clarity and widen the sound stage.
The layout of the side passive radiators has been optimised to reproduce clear bass sound.
Hit the LIVE SOUND button and hear your music in a whole new way. Bring your party to life with a unique three-dimensional sound experience – creating festival vibes wherever you go.
The speakers of the SRS-XB33 are carefully designed to give you a real three-dimensional experience. Our angled speakers with DSP technology send your music to a wider area, creating a festival vibe, wherever you are.
There's no fun without party lights. The SRS-XB33 features a speaker light and a multi-colour line light that flash in sync with the beat. You can even change the colour of the line light to suit your mood.
Enjoy the same song, multiplied, with Party Connect. Connect up to 100 compatible wireless speakers with BLUETOOTH® technology and the music and lights sync-up so everyone dances to the same beat. Set a random pattern or set the lights to blink in a circle.
Control the party from the dancefloor, with the Sony | Music Center app – select your favourite playlists, cue the next song, or change lighting patterns and sound modes.
Download the Fiestable app and you'll be able to control the lighting on the SRS-XB33, and you can also use motion control gestures on your smartphone screen.
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Near Field Communication (NFC) and Bluetooth® technology remove the need for wired connections and complex set-up sequences. Simply touch your NFC-enabled device to the speaker for a quick, seamless connection, then start streaming your music collection. No NFC? No problem. Connect via Bluetooth and you're ready to go.
Use a USB Type-C® cable to charge the SRS-XB33 and if your smartphone's running low on power, just plug it into the speaker's USB port to charge up the battery.
Whether you place it horizontally or vertically the SRS-XB33 sits securely so you can always find space for it, wherever you're partying.


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Depilatories start marketing to men, teens
NEW YORK Balding may cause a person to become self-conscious, but the depilatory market has shown the world that being hairless is a good thing, according to a recent New York Times article.
Depilatory maker Nair, which was developed and introduced to the market in 1940, was initially designed for women to remove hair with wax strips. Now, however, Nair has become one of the leading depilatory companies on the market, with about two-dozen products on shelves to date (including wax and bleaches) and has expanded its target audience to both teenagers and the male population.
A recent campaign known as "Nair Pretty" is aimed at first-time hair removers, and is featured in fruity scents. The advertisements can be found in teen magazines and even Redbook magazine, as company executives suggested that young girls aren't always the ones who buy their toiletries.
Although sales of men's depilatories are less than a tenth of women's ($8.6 million to women's $86.9 million over the last year), according to Nielsen Strategic Planner, it has become for common for men to remove their hair with beauty products, as opposed to laser removal. Nair has even filled that niche, citing that men are now progressively more inclined to remove their back or chest hair, practices that have been portrayed in the media with "Seinfeld" and, more recently, "The 40-Year Old Virgin."
Additionally, Sally Hansen has also ripped into the depilatory market, making it Nair's top competitor. It recently developed and marketed depilatories and wax strips for men. The company has not taken the step of reaching a younger demographic with a product geared at teenagers, but it is said to be advertised in the same magazines as Nair, as it has become a common practice.
"The whole hair removal situation has changed," the Times quoted Stacey Feldman, vice president for marketing at the women's health and personal care division of the Church & Dwight Company. "Now people are removing hair from eyebrows to toes, and using all kinds of different products. People are more open about it and they feel more confident, cleaner."


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Hewlett-Packard and Oracle are trading barbs over the latest step on the way to trial in their dispute over Intels Itanium chip platform, with HP officials applauding a judges decision to toss Oracles request to throw out HPs case.
Santa Clara County Court Judge James Kleinberg in a court document May 14 outlined his reasons for refusing Oracles summary judgment request, essentially saying that HPs positionthat an agreement laid out between the two companies in the 2010 settlement of a previous court obligated Oracle to continue supporting Itanium in its software development planswas reasonable enough to be considered at trial.
Kleinbergs order came two weeks after he refused requests by both companies to throw out key parts of the case, saying there was enough merit to all of them to let them go to trial.
At issue is the decision by Oracle executives last year to end software support of the Itanium platform, saying that Intel had plans to stop developing the high-end chip in favor of its much more popular Xeon processors. HP railed against the decision, calling it the latest in a series of moves to harm HP Itanium customers. HP estimates there are about 140,000 joint customers running Oracle software on HPs Itanium-based Integrity and NonStop servers.
The legal dispute is the most recent example of the deteriorating relationship between the one-time close partners that started with Oracles purchase of Sun Microsystems and its hardware business, bringing it into direct competition with HP. The acrimony was further heightened when Oracle in 2010 hired ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd as president. HP sued, and officials have argued that in the settlement of that case, Oracle had agreed to continue supporting technologies that benefitted joint customers.
Oracle officials have argued that the language in the settlement doesnt rise to the level of an official agreement.
In his May 14 order, Kleinberg said that such interpretation should be decided in court, arguing that it is not unreasonable to interpret the Reaffirmation Provision as imposing a prospective obligation on Oracle to continue to offer products for HPs platforms; the plain language is readily susceptible to that interpretation. If the prior, existing obligation before [Mark] Hurds hiring involved a clear and consistent practice in which Oracle offered its product suite on all HP platforms without written porting agreements or payments, then the Court sees no inherent contradiction in reaffirming that this arrangement will continue going forward.
HP officials praised the decision, saying they were pleased that the Court ruled that the language in the HP/Oracle agreement can be interpreted to require Oracle to continue porting its software products to the HP Integrity platform, as Oracle did for years before the agreement. As the ruling states, Oracles interpretation would make the agreement illusory and should be rejected. We look forward to trial, where the details of Oracles deliberate, anti-customer business strategy to drive hardware sales from Itanium to inferior Sun servers will be revealed.
In an email to the AllThingsD news site, Oracle attorney Dan Wall saw the decision in a different light.
HP cannot be happy with this decision, Wall wrote. The Court did not accept HPs interpretation of the Hurd settlement agreement; in fact, it rejected out-of-hand the most recent version of HPs argument, which equated the contract with terms HP proposed, but Oracle rejected. HPs lawsuit, like Itanium itself, is living on borrowed time and will never succeed.
Oracle executives have argued that Intel engineers informed them of Itaniums imminent demise, a statement that Intel officialsincluding President and CEO Paul Otellinihave denied, saying they have a product road map that stretches toward the end of the decade. Oracle has accused HP of false advertising for not telling Oracle or its customers that HP was paying Intel $88 million a year to continue development of Itanium.
In a court hearing earlier this month, Wall reportedly told Kleinberg that there was no chance of the two sides reaching a settlement in the case, where HP is looking for $4 billion in damages. The case is expected to go to trial late this month or in June.


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Harlem's gentrification continues. There are arguments for the good and the bad of it. But one thing for certain is that there are abuses and resources to help people impacted by them deal with them.
One such resource has been created by The New York State Homes and Community Renewal agency. It is a Tenant Protection Unit. It is specifically designed to "protect the rights of rent regulated tenants" and "detect landlords' fraudulent acts and non-compliance with housing law."
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It's Asia. It's the Equator. And it's hot.
I started this blog when I realized I was approaching the big 4-0 and there was no time to waste. I've had this yearning to be a writer since I was six. Corporate life got in the way, but journalling helped me through it.
Today any attempt leaves me feeling like an imposter. I hope that by writing daily for an audience, I will learn to 'pity the reader' and some form of decent writing style with emerge.
In 'Groundhog Day', the Bill Murray character gets trapped in the same day for a year. He starts off not being able to play the piano, but after a year of practice he masters it. I guess all those cliches are true. Like, practice makes perfect and genious is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
I adore books by V S Naipaul, Paul Theroux, Haruki Murakami, Peter Mayle, Bill Bryson and Yann Martel. I admire Naipaul's searing honesty. Paul Theroux brings me on long train journeys to exotic locales and I am thrilled, but safe in my armchair. I enjoy the charming wit of Mayle and Bryson. Murakami's poetic words soothe my soul, while Yann Martel's beautiful language and stories touch a chord in me.
Because I am painfully shy and extremely self conscious (although I may not appear that way in this blog), I enjoy the freedom of being an anonymous blogger.
(Originally Posted on Tiny Island, my wordpress.com blog which I started in 2010)


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Work / Life Balance at Intel
Work / Life Balance | Our Values | Life at Intel | Giving Back
Managing your career and your personal life can be challenging. Intel is committed to making it easier. We want to help our employees make the most of both worlds. Whether you are a parent or have education goals, eldercare responsibilities, or just some of life's details to attend to, we have a variety of programs in place around the world to help.
To address the diverse needs of our employees, we offer a range of options that varies across businesses, geographies, sites, and job types.
Flexible Work Options
If your personal responsibilities require professional flexibility, Intel may be the perfect fit for you. We offer creative approaches to help you meet your commitments in life. From compressed workweeks, flextime, and alternate start times to telecommuting, and part-time and job share positions, each business unit has a range of options for you to explore.
We also offer a variety of rideshare and transportation programs that make getting to work less of a hassle. From subsidies for public transportation to the Intel Air shuttle, which makes daily flights between our sites (US only), it's one more thing you won't have to worry about.
Health and Wellness
Excellent coverage and preventive care, proactive programs, and a range of fitness resources help keep our employees healthy and happy.
We offer excellent medical and dental coverage and preventive care, as well as proactive wellness programs and access to mental health and fitness resources.
Employees also benefit from a wealth of personal development seminars and opportunities, such as finding better ways to balance life and work, financial planning and information for healthier lifestyles. Many locations have access to fitness centers and recreation facilities, enabling employees to have the convenience and resources they need for their physical and mental well-being.
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Take care of your family with our childcare and eldercare solutions and resources, online homework help for your children, adoption assistance, and other family-related benefits.
Some locations provide assistance in finding quality childcare and priority access to childcare centers near our sites. Programs may include access to summer camps, tax deferral options for childcare services, and prepaid backup care. By investing in our communities and the education offered at local childcare providers, and developing relationships with childcare centers that meet national accreditation standards, we offer successful site-specific solutions.
For employees who find themselves caring for their parents, we may offer on-site caregiver training.
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From work-life seminars and paid sabbaticals to tuition reimbursement, Intel University, and employee groups and clubs, we want to help our employees grow.
Becoming a well-rounded individual benefits you personally and professionally. At Intel, we know that growth is an ongoing process. Creativity and innovation at Intel come from the diverse people who work here.
Intel University and our other career training courses offer in-person and online opportunities for learning and applying new skills. Whether you want to develop new management capabilities, improve your computing skills, learn factory-specific information such as machine processes, or enhance your personal organization, Intel University has a course for you. As an Intel employee, you also have access to an extensive online library of the latest management, leadership, business, and technical publications through Books 24x7.
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As an Intel family, you can benefit from other services as well, such as employee discounts and referral services, nursing mothers' rooms, adoption assistance, and online homework help for students in grades 4 to 12. We also offer employees and their dependents confidential and convenient access to short-term professional counseling services to help with any life challenges that may arise.
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Humphrey Plantagenet, duke of Gloucester
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Humphrey Plantagenet, duke of Gloucester (born 1391—died Feb. 23, 1447, London, Eng.) English nobleman who was the first notable patron of England's humanists. He became known as the "good Duke Humphrey," but many historians, pointing to his unprincipled and inept political dealings, have questioned the appropriateness of the title.
The fourth son of King Henry IV, Humphrey was made Duke of Gloucester in 1414 by his brother King Henry V (ruled 1413–22), and from 1415 to 1420 he served in a series of campaigns in the Hundred Years' War against France.
Upon the death of Henry V in 1422, Parliament decreed that Gloucester should serve as acting regent for the infant king Henry VI while the official regent, John, Duke of Bedford, was leading the troops in France. By 1425 Gloucester was embroiled in a bitter power struggle with his uncle, Henry Beaufort, chancellor and chief minister of the realm. This feud continued until, in the mid-1430s, Beaufort gained firm control over the government. On Feb. 18, 1447, Beaufort's successor as first minister, William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, had Gloucester arrested. Five days later the duke died, probably of natural causes. The popular belief that he had been murdered led to widespread uprisings in 1450.
Gloucester was one of the first Englishmen to appreciate classical Greek and Roman literature. He provided extensive patronage to English and Italian humanists and presented a large part of his library to the University of Oxford.