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Their slim papery ears are like ham. Ham is tasty and goes well in sandwiches, but clogs arteries and tips scales. Their fur is like cotton candy. After the sugar rush, your teeth rot. It's fun to breathe fire but the inevitable result is inhaling clouds of black smoke. That's not good for your lungs.
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They live in boxes. Some boxes are huge, some boxes are tiny. All boxes are rectangular and finite. It's so tempting to rummage through boxes eating muppets. I'm good at it! I snack on them like California rolls. But you'll find more nutritional content in a bag of Cheetos.
It's much better to be vegetarian. Adopt cute muppets and put them on a leash. My mentor got really good at that. Famous for it, even. He's invisible but if you can't see his shadow then you're blind.
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You thought Brit looked awfully svelte on the cover of this week's OK! magazine, didn't ya? It's the one that screams, "Britney Lost 15 Lbs in Just 4 Weeks!"
Turns out it was taken back in 2003 for a Glamour magazine photo shoot, ancient history in Britwreck time. So she probably was 15 pounds lighter ... but that was well over four years ago.
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Most of the time, my stock selections hail from sectors and industries that rank high in terms of technical performance. However, I don't use sector strength as my prime screening criterion. There is always room in a portfolio for a leading stock -- even if the rest of its industry peers are laggards.
There's another reason for scanning weak industries: It's often possible to identify stocks that are currently weak performers, but may hold potential. That's true both technically and fundamentally.
The worst performing S&P 500 large-cap sector is telecom. This month, it has advanced just 0.42%. To give an idea of how badly it lags, the second-worst sector is utilities, which has a January gain of 2.77%.
When I think of telecoms, I first think of the two DJIA components, AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ), both of which are showing fairly miserable technicals.
AT&T is set to report its fourth quarter after the close on Thursday. Even if it were to deliver spectacular results and gap higher, the stock would still have plenty of work to do before showing any kind of technical buy signal.
Frankly, neither DJIA telecom interests me at the moment, as they are not getting the kind of moving average support I like to see in a stock that has pulled back from prior highs. That's not to say they won't be viable buy candidates at some future date -- but for now, they are best left alone.
Instead, my attention was drawn to a mid-cap, TW Telecom (TWTC), which provides telecom services in markets around the country. Like its larger peers, this stock is also consolidating, but unlike AT&T and Verizon, TW is trading above key moving averages, and is within striking distance of its previous high.
The company was founded as Time Warner Telecom, a joint venture of Time Warner and U.S. West. The current iteration of TW Telecom went public in 1999.
Earnings growth resumed last year, after several quarters in a row with no year-over-year gains. The company is expected to report its fourth-quarter results sometime early next month. Analysts are anticipating income of $0.15 per share on revenue of $376.80 million. Those would be improvements on the year-ago quarter.
For 2013, consensus estimates call for earnings of $0.55 per share, up 55% from 2011. For this year, analysts are forecasting income of $0.70 per share, which would mark a gain of another 27%.
TW Telecom is currently somewhat extended. The stock closed Wednesday at $27.18, 5.6% above its 50-day line and 9.5% above its 200-day. A pullback to a short-term moving average may offer the next buying opportunity.
From the wireless telecom subsector, American Tower (AMT) is a technical standout. The stock has been in a sustained uptrend since August, 2011. It has pulled back to its 50-day moving average a few times since then.
However, a deeper correction could be constructive, flushing out investors and traders lacking in conviction, and setting the stage for bargain shoppers to scoop up shares. For now, however, it's out of purchasing range, meaning that buyers risk getting shaken out in even a small pullback.
Analysts are expecting earnings to have grown 71%, to $1.69 per share, in 2012. The company is expected to report last year's results next month. This year, the operator of towers for mobile telecom, TV and radio is expected to earn $2.12 per share, a gain of 25%.


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CHICAGO - Professional Freezing Services, a cold storage warehouse and distribution company serving the Chicago area, violated federal law by failing to hire an applicant for its warehouse manager position because he had prostate cancer, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today.
According to the EEOC's administrative investigation, Professional Freezing Services refused to hire William Harvel for its warehouse manager position after learning that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. EEOC District Director John P. Rowe, who supervised the investigation said, "We found that Professional Freezing refused to go forward with Havel's hire-which had been in the works for some time-because it found out he had cancer."
Denying employment to someone because of a disability, such as cancer, violates the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). The EEOC filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago (EEOC v. Professional Freezing Services, Civil Action No. 13 C 4183, after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement through its statutory conciliation process. The suit has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo. The agency seeks back pay and compensatory and punitive damages for Harvel and an order barring future discrimination and other relief.
"Under federal law, the fact that a prospective employee has cancer or any other disability is irrelevant. The question is whether he or she can do the job, and if he or she needs a reasonable accommodation to do so which the employer can provide without incurring an undue hardship. That's it," said John Hendrickson, the EEOC Regional Attorney for the Chicago District Office. "Our position in this case is straight-forward-Havel could have done the job. Professional Freezing violated the ADA in refusing to complete the process of bringing him on board."
The EEOC's Chicago District Office is responsible for processing charges of discrimination, administrative enforcement and the conduct of agency litigation in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and North and South Dakota, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
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The Business Case for Sustainability
Engineer, lawyer, and activist Chris Davis '76 explains why it pays to go green.
By Lee Michaelides
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Chris Davis '76 gave up a high-powered legal career to spread a message the world cannot afford to ignore: "Climate change is a risk to the entire global economy."
Davis argues that businesses must become sustainable, "generating long-term shareholder value by embracing opportunities and managing risks from economic, environmental, and social issues." As director of the investor relations program at Ceres, a nonprofit that advises corporations and institutions on sustainable business practices, he puts his argument into action.
Davis and his colleagues at Boston-based Ceres are proponents of paying attention to the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) as a way of evaluating if a business is sustainable. TBL is an idea hatched in England almost 20 years ago. The United Nations and community governance groups embraced it as an accounting standard about six years ago, and the idea is gaining credibility in the private sector, too. TBL calls for businesses to track and report environmental, social, and governance—a.k.a. E, S, and G—metrics as well as conventional profits and losses.
According to Davis, the sustainability concept is helping companies widen their thinking. "Some of the most successful businesses, like IBM and 3M, are good at not only the financial part, but the E, S, and G parts," he says. And he's working to show other corporations the value of environmental, social, and governance factors.
DAVIS WORKS AT THE INTERSECTION of big money and environmentalism. He rubs elbows with Fortune 500 executives, money managers who control billions of dollars, and eco-celebrities such as Bill McKibben, who founded 350.org to help solve the climate crisis.
Davis himself has been interested in environmental issues since high school, when the first Earth Day grabbed his attention. At Dartmouth, Professor Hans Grethlein, who taught courses on systems and environmental engineering, and Gordon McDonald from the College's fledgling Environmental Studies Program, influenced him as well. Having come of age when fire on Ohio's Cuyahoga River was symbolic of the country's pollution problems, Davis started his career in wastewater treatment. He worked in that field for two years and was on the verge of returning to Thayer for an advanced degree when he realized, as he puts it, that "my verbal skills were better than my quantitative abilities." He left his engineering job and enrolled at Harvard Law School, where he later became a member of the Harvard Law Review.
After practicing environmental law for almost 30 years, Davis joined Ceres in 2010, taking an 80 percent pay cut to gain a new career direction. "I quit as a partner at a big law firm because I was convinced I wasn't working on things that made a difference," he says. "I wanted to spend the rest of my working life trying to solve problems like climate change."
His personal pay cut aside, the economic case Davis makes for sustainable business and investment strategies is straight and to the point: Socially conscious investing isn't code for poor monetary returns.
"Big companies are starting to get that sustainability issues should be integrated into corporate strategy and management. These things are important and impact the bottom line. There is an increasing amount of data that suggests that this isn't just feel-good stuff. Sustainable business practices really matter. Deutsche Bank did a meta-analysis that came out last year of more than 100 academic studies that showed in virtually all cases, companies that had a high rating for sustainability had superior financial performance and had a lower cost of capital in terms of raising debt and equity," says Davis. Other studies, he notes, report that companies with high sustainability ratings outperform market averages in the long term.
Like many in the environmental community, and even some in the business community, Davis is a critic of quarterly capitalism. "It's bad for everybody except the traders and speculators and hedge funds. If you are managing a perpetual endowment or pension fund, you need to take a longer view, which is not necessarily beating your benchmark every quarter," he says. Davis is aware that making the case against quarterly capitalism can be tough because the compensation packages of many money managers, his target audience, are based on annual results. Even so, he says, "We argue for long-term capital investment strategies."
Thinking long-term makes it hard to ignore climate change. Indeed, corporations and investors are paying more attention to scientists and environmentalists on the realities and consequences of climate change. Accordingly, Ceres has been advising its partners, including heavyweights such as the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and BlackRock, to ask more questions about sustainability and risk. For example, if a pension firm owns stock in an oil company that has extensive coastal refineries, what long-term risks does the firm face from rising sea levels and stronger hurricanes? Large institutional investors need that kind information to make smart choices for their portfolios, Davis insists.
Increasingly money managers are feeling pressure from their stakeholders to do something about climate change. Dartmouth is a case in point. When environmentalist Bill McKibben and writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams came to campus this past May to advance their campaign for colleges to divest from fossil-fuel stocks, a standing-room-only crowd filled 105 Dartmouth Hall, and 400 people signed a divestment petition addressed to the Dartmouth trustees.
Davis, who answered questions about divestment when he delivered a Jones Seminar on Science, Technology and Society at Thayer School last January, advises students to take a more nuanced approach to the issue. Students need to "understand a little about fiduciary duty," he says. "It would be irresponsible and illegal for trustees to make a political statement in how they invest the endowment." Instead, Davis says, students should ask for a climate and carbon risk assessment of the portfolio. They should also ask tough questions, such as: How big is the carbon footprint of the portfolio? How dependent is it on investments in so-called dirty energy? "Students need to figure out how the endowment can be part of the solution while still earning strong returns," he says.
Davis is not defending the status quo for investors or big oil. "Oil companies have reasonably good short-term returns, but the transition to a low-carbon economy is essential or we're going to cook the world," he says.
"There are real risks in investing as usual," he points out, "and money managers need to take a serious look at a portfolio from a fiduciary duty standpoint. Ignoring environmental factors and ignoring sustainability or not seriously integrating them into an investment strategy is not consistent with fiduciary duty."
Pension funds and endowments won't sell their investments in fossil-fuel companies instantly for two reasons. "Immediate divestment of fossil-fuel companies may not be a legal option trustees could exercise," says Davis, speaking as a former lawyer. A second reason is the amount of money involved. The energy sector is worth some $6 trillion, and there are not enough sustainable businesses or new technologies to absorb all that money right now. Instead Davis argues that a five-year window for divestment and reinvestment is more realistic.
As Davis convinces money managers about the benefits of sustainable investing, the capital they invest will fund a host of new opportunities [see sidebars below].
Davis urges engineers who will help create those opportunities to think broadly. "All engineering and business problems have technical, operational, environmental, social, political, and financial dimensions, all of which need to be addressed for a successful solution," he says. "Getting it right technically might get you halfway there."
And in today's climate—both business and environmental—halfway is not a viable option.
—Lee Michaelides is a contributing editor at Dartmouth Engineer.
Opportunities in Sustainability
Which business sectors will grow as the global economy embraces sustainability? Here's Chris Davis' list:
- Healthcare ("A sustainable business has happy, healthy employees.")
- Energy efficiency
- Renewable energy
- Distributed generation ("The future is not giant power plants.")
- Green buildings
- Improved operational efficiency
- Life cycle analysis of products
- Sustainable agriculture
- Transportation efficiency
- Waste reduction and recycling
- Water-efficient technologies
Building a Better Future
Thayer faculty recommendations of technologies that show promise for sustainability.
Cross-laminated timber systems. More widely used in Europe than in the U.S., these are being used for larger-scale structures (buildings 20 stories tall or more). Using timber rather than steel and concrete is more sustainable, as the wood is renewable, recyclable, recoverable, and stores carbon.
—Professor Vicki May
Fusion energy. It will require massive social commitment to make a scaled-up system of supply and distribution, but it is capable of removing energy as a constraint on development and the accompanying distortions.
—Professor Daniel Lynch
Hybrid-electric and high mpg vehicles; solar hot water heating. These open up the possibility to dramatically reduce energy use and carbon production without a significant paradigm shift or painful modification of behavior/habits of the general public. Rethinking building management and intelligently designing heating and cooling processes—for example, solar hot water heating—could have a tremendous impact.
—Professor Jason Stauth
Hydraulics. Using pumps and high-pressure fluid to transfer power from offshore wind turbines or hydrokinetic tidal turbines to on-shore electric power-generating stations may prove to be a more economical way to harness wind and tidal energy.
—Professor Brenden Epps
Integrated food production systems. Beef production accounts for more than half of all land devoted to agriculture in the United States and yet delivers a much smaller fraction of both calories and protein. The land devoted to beef production could be devoted to producing food in a more land-efficient way, thus lessening pressure to clear land, which is a major source of habitat loss and greenhouse gas emissions. Producing and consuming food in a more land-efficient way could also make room for biofuels, which likely have to be substituted for fossil fuels in a carbon-constrained world for a significant—about half—of mobility requirements.
—Professor Lee Lynd
Net zero homes. They're available now and will become more affordable with faster paybacks every year.
—Professor Solomon Diamond
Photovoltaic solar energy; smart buildings and cities. Photovoltaic solar technology has made significant progress, and prices are coming down. Smart buildings and cities, which use censors and remote control to balance energy loads, decongest traffic, and the like, are reducing energy consumption and emissions.
—Professor Benoit Cushman-Roisin
A smart grid. It enhances the integration of renewables into our energy mix.
—Professor Mark Borsuk
Pulse-Electro-Thermal Deicing. PETD technology uses quick pulses of electricity to instantly loosen ice from surfaces such as solar panels and wind turbine rotors. (In the United States and Canada about 17 percent of power generated by windmills is lost due to rotor icing.) The technology can remove ice from windshields in two seconds using very low energy from a car battery. If used to loosen ice in commercial, industrial, and residential icemakers, PETD would save up to 40 percent of electric energy used by those devices. If used in no-frost refrigeration and AC-evaporators, PETD could save from 15 to 40 percent of electric energy.
—Professor Victor Petrenko
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NEWARK, N.J. -- Another standout game by James Reimer, a couple of good bounces of the puck, and great penalty killing has the Toronto Maple Leafs inching closer to their first playoff berth in nine years.
Rookie Leo Komarov and Tyler Bozak scored, Reimer made 27 saves, and the Maple Leafs held New Jersey without a shot during a 64-second, two-man advantage and earned a 2-1 victory on Saturday night that extended the reeling Devils' losing streak to six games.
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The Maple Leafs' fourth win in five games strengthened their position in the tight Eastern Conference playoff race. The Maple Leafs are fifth in the East, seven points ahead of the 10th-place Devils, who are three points behind the eighth-place New York Islanders and the postseason cutoff.
"You want to beat the teams that are trying to catch you and create a little more gap," Bozak said. "We're happy with the win but we have a couple of more big games coming up with the Rangers and the Devils again, so it's going to be key for us to get a few more wins and keep this thing going."
Toronto has 10 games remaining in the lockout-shortened season. The last time the Maple Leafs made the postseason was before the 2005 lockout season.
"It was a big game for us, the team closest in the standings," said Reimer, who is 5-1-3 in his last nine appearances. "It kind of feels like a playoff game, so it was good for us to get the win, I thought the boys played great."
David Clarkson deprived Reimer of his second shutout in three games with a goal with 8:23 left, but the Devils fell to 0-3-3 in their last six games.
The six-game skid is the second one this season for New Jersey, following an 8-1-3 start. The defending conference champions haven't won since top forward Ilya Kovalchuk injured a shoulder.
"There is some frustration in not winning," coach Pete DeBoer said. "Whether we win 1-0 or 2-1, we have to find ways to win games. That's the bottom line and that's where the frustration lies. The solution has to come from within the room."
Komarov scored early in the first period to stake Toronto to a 1-0 lead, and Bozak tallied midway through the third to double the advantage.
Komarov's second goal was scored when he deflected a shot from the point by defenseman Mark Fraser past defenseless Devils goalie Martin Brodeur. The 26-year-old Komarov had missed the previous six games because of an upper body injury.
The Devils had a great chance to tie the game when Nikolai Kulemin and James Van Riemsdyk were called for minor penalties 56 seconds apart, with the second coming at 14:02.
New Jersey, which was beaten by Boston 1-0 on Thursday night despite getting 40 shots, had none against Reimer in the two-man advantage.
Andy Greene had the best chance but his shot from the point was blocked.
"The table was set for us, and we didn't take advantage of it," DeBoer said.
Bozak's 11th goal of the season was a little fluky. He took a lead pass from Phil Kessel, broke in on Brodeur and nudged a shot on goal. Brodeur got the blade of his stick on the puck, but it popped up and rolled into the net before Steve Bernier could stop it.
"The guy kind of caught me from behind, and I just tried to chip it, and it was lucky enough to cross the line," Bozak said.
Clarkson beat Reimer with a shot between the pads after defenseman Marek Zidlicky made a pass to spring him for a break in.
The only reason the Devils weren't ahead after the first period was Reimer. He made outstanding stops on Adam Henrique from the left circle and on a couple of chances in front by Stephen Gionta. His best save was an uncontested pad stop on a rebound attempt by Steve Sullivan, who was acquired by the Devils on Wednesday from Phoenix for a second tour with New Jersey.
"He was huge," Van Riemsdyk said of Reimer. "We got in penalty trouble in the first period and he stood tall for us."
Brodeur, who made his eighth straight start since returning from a back injury, didn't have much work but he kept the goal-challenged Devils in the game with an in-close stop on Kessel.
Both teams hit a goal post in the first period.
Devils defenseman Mark Fayne had his shot from the right point hit someone in the circle and deflect off the post. Clarke MacArthur hit the post late in the period.
The Maple Leafs played without Joffrey Lupul, who was out with an undisclosed injury sustained on Thursday against Philadelphia. He had five goals and five assists in his last five games.
Leafs coach Randy Carlyle said Lupul was evaluated by medical personnel on Saturday, and added that the forward hopes to skate on Sunday.
- Kovalchuk is close to returning, DeBoer said.
- Maple Leafs leading scorer Nazem Kadri appeared to hurt his left knee after being tripped by Fayne in the second period. He was down on the ice for a while but returned soon after.
- The 38-year-old Sullivan played parts of two seasons with the Devils from 1995-1997. He later played for Toronto.


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Sambar..its an everyday recipe in most of the households in Andhra. When I thought of posting this recipe my dear hubby asked why I wanted to post such an easy recipe. This was the scene which happened yesterday in our house…
Me: I want to post my sambar recipe today in my blog.
DH: Sambar….. but its such an easy everyday recipe, who would read that?
Me: Yes, I know.. Do you know how to make it?
DH: Of course, its a child's play.
Me: Then why don't you make sambar today?
DH: Why not? Today I will show you how to prepare traditional south Indian sambar (with a proud "only I can do it" smile on his face)
After almost 2 hrs…
Me: Its almost two hours.. what are u still doing in the kitchen?
DH: I have almost completed it… but it didn't actually turn out like the regular Sambar..I am mean it tastes good…but not like the one you make.
DH: I am not sure what went wrong.
Me : (Seeing the outcome.. of so called Sambar) What is this??? What did u add?
DH: Veggies, Tamarind juice, Sambar powder..
Me: What about Dal?
That was it.. at that moment I decided posting Sambar recipe is not at all a bad idea 🙂
What do you need :
Toor Dal : 1 cup
Small Sambar onions : 10 -12 (to add as whole) OR Big Onions : 4 or 5, quartered
Assorted Veggies : 2 cups (Carrots, Radish, Bottle gourd, Drumsticks)
Tomatoes : 2, quartered
Green chillies : 2 or 3, slit ,depending on your taste buds
Curry Leaves : a few
Salt :according to taste
Sambar Powder : 2 Tbsp
Coconut powder : 1 tsp (optional)
Jaggery : 1 Tbsp (optional)
Tamarind : 1 large lemon sized (soak in hot water and extract juice)
Fresh Corriander : a handful
For Tempering/Tadka:
Ghee : 1 Tbsp
Hing : 1 large pinch
Mustard seeds: 1 tsp
Jeera : 1 tsp
Dry Red chillies : 2 or 3
Curry Leaves : a few
- Pressure cook dal with 2 cups of water. Mash and keep aside. ( I grind it in a Mixer for a min)
- Take a large cooking pot, and add 1 glasses of water(around 3oo ml). Bring it to a boil.
- Add all ingredients from onions to curry leaves.
- Add salt, and cover and cook for 5 mins, till half done.
- Then add Sambar powder, Tamarind juice and cook till veggies are done.
- Add cooked dal. Mix well. Add an extra glass of water, if you feel its too thick. Adjust salt and add more tamarind juice if required.(i like it a lil bit tangy).
- Add coconut powder and jaggery, mix well.
- Heat ghee a separate pan, add hing and then mustard seeds and let them splutter, red chillis and roast for a few seconds, finally add jeera . Don't burn them. Lastly add curry leaves and immediately add to sambar.
- Turn off heat and finally add fresh coriander.
- Serve hot with Steamed Rice or with Idly, Dosa.
Mom's Tips :
Coconut powder and Jaggery can be added depending on taste. You can even omit them if you want.
Mom usually adds them when making sambar for idly or dosa. For eating with rice, she omits them.
For step 2, alternatively you can add oil and do Step 6 and then Step 3 and 4. When they are half done add water. And proceed with Step 5.
Sambar Powder :
(For approximately half a Kilo)
Dry Red Chillies : 100 gms
Dhaniya/Corriander Seeds : 150 gms
Toor dal : 50 gms
Chana dal : 50 gms
Urad dal : 50 gms
Miriyalu/Peppercorns : 50 gms
Jeera : 20 gms(2 Tbsp)
Methi seeds : 10 gms(2 tsp)
Rice : 10 gms(2 tsp)
- Fry all ingredients seperately without oil.
- Grind together into fine powder.
- Store in an air tight jar.
Mom's Tips:
For long time storage, double the ingredients.
Adding a few curry leaves also gives extra flavor. Don't add too much as it gives the powder a greenish color.
Food Event :
Sambar is my entry to the event Flavors of South India, being hosted by Simply Food.
Sambar Powder is my entry to the event Back to Basics being hosted by Desi Soccer Mom.


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Thirty years ago one of the RAF's most incredible ever bombing raids took place over the South Atlantic. The Black Buck Vulcan raids were long-range operations against Argentine targets on the occupied Falkland Islands.
One of the problems facing any attacking force is that of gaining air superiority. Without it, the enemy can bomb and landing operations at will. Even so, when the task force did land at San Carlos it only had a minimum of air superiority, and still lost two ships sunk. Early on it was identified that the Argentines could attempt to operate fast, high performance jets such as the Mirage from Stanley airfield.
Without Stanley airfield, the Argentine Air Force had to operate from bases on the mainland. As such, aircraft patrolling over the Falklands or on missions were at the very limit of their range, had to be refuelled on their journey, and had limited potential for payloads and dogfighting. If, however, Stanley airfield could be used, their time on station could be improved considerably.
The RAF's Vulcan fleet was on the verge of retirement. Designed and built by Avro as nuclear bombers during the early Cold War, although the Royal Navy had taken over the core nuclear deterrent role, hardly anyone in the Vulcan fleet had even practised conventional bombing. Immediately that the Stanley airfield problem became apparent, the Vulcan fleet began practising air-to-air refuelling (their likely operating base would be Ascension Island, still thousands of miles from the Falklands), conventional bombing and avoiding the Argentines known anti-aircraft missiles, particularly Roland and Tiger Cat, and Rheinmetal anti-aircraft cannons.
Beginning on the night of 30 April and 1 May 1982, Vulcan Bombers of 44 Squadron RAF launched ultra long range bombing raids on Argentine targets on the occupied Falkland Islands. After the first aircraft intended for the raid – XM598 piloted by Squadron Leader John Reeve -developed a fault with the rubber seal on its canopy window, XM607 piloted by Flight Lieutenant Martin Withers took over. Vulcan 607 was refulled an incredible SEVEN times during the southbound journey, from Victor Tankers flying out of Ascension Island.
21 1,000lb bombs were dropped, on a track bisecting the runway at an angle of 35 degrees – calculated to ensure that at least one, and possibly two bombs would crater the runway. Reconaissance photographs appear to suggest that at least one bomb did hole the runway, and the others fell in the vicinity of the airfield. It has been suggested by some that the Argentines created fake craters on the airfield, in order to mislead British intelligence. Whether the craters were fake or not, no fast jets attempted to fly out of Stanley – only lower performance types such as the C-130 Hercules. Of course, it may be that the Argentines had never intended to fly Mirages out of Stanley anyway. If that is the case, then they were making a grave error. Even so, British planners had no way of knowing this.
I'm really in two minds about the legacy of the Black Buck raids. That it was a remarkable feat is beyond question. As a morale boosting raid, it still sounds great today. The statistics speak for themselves – the longest bombing raid in history at the time. It would have taken 11 Sea Harriers to deliver the same payload of bombs. But notably, it was also the RAF's only real headline involvement in the Falklands War. Ever keen to promote itself, did the junior service push for the raids to avoid missing out on the party and the potential feel-good factor afterwards? Not to mention that a succesful, high profile role in any way is usually a good bargaining chip when it comes to the usual post-war rethinking of defence policy.
But, was it worth it? Well, to assess whether it was worth it, we have to substantiate what effect it had. This is where things get slightly tricky. I'm yet to be convinced, either way, whether the runway at Stanley airfield was damaged or not. And, if so, to what extent. The problem is that so much rides on the legact of Black Buck, that records – including aerial photographs and eyewitness reports – have been variously interpreted to fit whatever argument various parties have seen fit. Of course, it suits the RAF to argue that Black Buck was succesful. Any organisation that, reportedly, moved Australia on the map to suit its argument, is not going to be too bothered about misleading people. We also have to recognise the vast resources expended in the mission – in that sense, did the raids represent good value militarily? Were the Argentines going to operare Mirages out of Stanley? Even if they had, would it have made a big difference? A lot of interconnecting ifs and buts.
As much as I find Rowland White's Vulcan 607 a ripping yarn, and a triumph of British ingenuity and application, in terms of the purely military value of Black Buck, I think the compelling case is yet to be made. Historically, do they deserve to stand up against the Dams raid, the Tirpitz raid or Peenemunde, for example? Whilst undoubtedly a heroic effort of stamina and skill, the Black Buck raids had a lot less flak flying at them for the duration of the journey compared to the average Lancaster pilot over the Ruhr in 1943 and much more modern technology at hand. And, it has to be said, something of a higher chance of survival too.
Related articles
- 30 years ago today, one of the RAF's greatest missions of all time: a long range surprise attack to the Falklands (theaviationist.com)
- RAF bomber crews 'made secret plans to attack airfields in Argentina in daring night-time raids' (dailymail.co.uk)
- I am the mighty Vulcan bomber flying high in the sky (myheartsingspoetry.wordpress.com)


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A few months ago, Jeff Shallit wrote about an article in The Scientist, and it got creationist Kirk Durston's attention.
I won't go through ANY of the details - Durston, like many creationists, prefers overly verbose rhetoric to concise language, but feel free to slog through all his patronizing gibberish if you'd like. Others dealt with the technical details of Durston's claims, but I found this short statement very informative:
The question is, is the functional information encoded in the gene that codes
for RecA an example of ID? (I choose RecA because it is an average length
protein, it is a universal protein found in all life forms, and I've done some
work on it.) To answer that question, we need a scientific method to identify
examples of ID that does not yield false positives, yet does not rule out
obvious examples of ID (such as Venter's 'watermarks', or laptop computers) and
is general (i.e., can be applied to forensics, SETI, archeology, and biology).
When I read this (re-read it, actually - I had read the entire exchange some months ago) this really struck me as profound.
And maybe I am just slow and others ahve already recognized this, but it seems ot me their entire line of reasoning regarding "informaiton" and how evolution cannot account for it rests on one little subtle assumption. But it is a big one - a great big foundational assumption which makes their entire 'no new infromation' enterprise little more than a tautology.
Can you see it?
It isn't about ID detection methods or the arcane mathematical details that accompany his boasts. It is this:
...is the functional information encoded in the gene that codesfor RecA an
example of ID?
The functional information ENCODED IN the gene.
Why would they think it is intelligently derived? Because that start out with the a priori position that the 'information' that the gene contains/possesses was PUT IN IT. It is ENCODED:
–verb (used with object), -cod⋅ed, -cod⋅ing.
to convert (a message, information, etc.) into code.
–verb (used with object), -cod⋅ed, -cod⋅ing.
to convert (a message, information, etc.) into code.
And how is this 'conversion' done if NOT by an intelligent agent, right?
They start out with the assumption that a gene did not arise via natural means and by virtue of the arrangement of it's nucleotides and ends up producing a useful protein, no they start out assuming that a specific protein was needed/desired and that the gene was then 'somehow' acquired in order to make this needed/desired protein.
In other words, they start out assuming what they want to be true.
To be fair, I suppose one could say the same of non-IDcreationists. They start out with the assumption that genes are natural entities, polynucleotides shaped by natural forces into a gene that when transcribed and translated makes something useful.
The difference is, the IDcreationist has mere faulty analogies to support their position.
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It's a very enticing proposition….that a single, over the counter pill can reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke as well as cancer. Are we there yet? Should we be recommending routine aspirin use even in people without significant cardiovascular risk factors? (click here for a great review of the biology of aspirin by Dr. Quesnelle.)
Recent studies support this proposition although as with most studies, the devil is often in the details. Two meta-analyses led by Peter Rothwell of the University of Oxford examined the effects of aspirin on cancer incidence and death. The first analysis looked at patient data from 51 randomized trials that compared daily aspirin use with control treatments to prevent vascular events such as heart attacks and strokes. They found that aspirin use reduced the risk of non-vascular death by approximately 12% compared with a control treatment and this effect was mainly due to fewer cancer deaths after five years of aspirin usage.
A second analysis looked at whether aspirin use had any impact on the risk of metastasis from solid cancers. Once again, the patients were participants in five randomized trials comparing aspirin with control treatments to prevent vascular events. In total, 987 new solid cancers were diagnosed among the 17,285 participants. Patients who received aspirin were 46% less likely to have cancer with distant metastasis than those using a control treatment.
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NEW YORK Michael Kors is having a moment.
Business is booming, shares in his lifestyle brand (KORS) hit an all-time high last month and he was honored Wednesday with the 2013 Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion. But the 54-year-old fashion designer isn't letting the success go to his head.
"Things really haven't changed; it's just gotten a bigger scale. We're not just thinking about America, we're thinking about the world," said Kors in an interview Wednesday. "But for me it's always the excitement of what I'm working on and what's the next project."
Oscar winner Hilary Swank presented Kors with the award from The Couture Council of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
"I count myself among the diverse echelon of women who wear his clothes, which include Angelina Jolie, Blake Lively, Jennifer Lopez, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sigourney Weaver and Mrs. Obama, to name just a few," Swank told the crowd at the Lincoln Center luncheon. "Michael understands and appreciates women and his clothes reflect that."
Past award recipients include Oscar de la Renta, Valentino and Karl Lagerfeld.
Vogue's Anna Wintour and models Doutzen Kroes and Iman were on hand to celebrate Kor's accomplishments.
"I have known Michael for, God who knows, over 25 years and he's been a dear friend," recalled Iman before the ceremony. "He's just extraordinary. He's a gifted gabber. So he has a gift of storytelling. But most importantly, I think he makes consistently - year in and year out - women look the best that they can ever look."
But for Kors, there's little time to soak up the accolades. He's got a runway show to prepare for next week during New York Fashion Week.
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Paris, 2 March 2006 - GAVI congratulates France and the UK for their years of work invested in the search for creative new ways to pay for the measures that will be needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals. GAVI takes particular note of their decision to support an initiative that will save the lives of millions of the world's poorest children through the use of vaccines and the development of health systems.
The Paris Conference on Innovative Development Financing Mechanisms, which took place from February 28 to March 1 under the direction of President Chirac, demonstrates clearly that some governments have now made significant advances in fulfilling their pledge to meet the Millennium Development Goals.
GAVI reminds all concerned that, if 2005 was the year for making commitments, 2006 has to be the year during which the promises are fulfilled.
With the support of France, announced in detail on February 28th, and Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Italy and Spain, we are preparing to launch the International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIm). This first-ever mechanism for using capital markets to obtain development funds is expected to raise US$4 billion and to prevent 5 million child deaths between 2005-2015, and more than 5 million future deaths among adults.
During the conference in Paris, the governments of France and the UK also announced the terms of an agreement that will move forward the development of the International Finance Facility for Immunization.
They will participate as well in a new French initiative that will use taxes on airline ticket sales to provide universal access to drugs against AIDS through 2010. France's launch of the Air Solidarity Contribution initiative in July will in the future raise funds to purchase drugs needed to fight pandemics, such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, which are crippling poor countries.
This sense that complex problems require creative solutions is also behind a second initiative that holds great promise. Under an AMC (Advanced Market Commitment), donors promise to help finance the purchase of vaccines if and when they are developed and if countries ask for them. AMCs will generate the necessary funds to accelerate the research and production of urgently needed vaccines. GAVI and the World Bank will give their recommendations on the implementation of such a mechanism at the next G7 Meeting in April.
France is now demonstrating, through both word and deed, that it is ready to act to move beyond traditional forms of development assistance to fight global poverty.
The commitments made by the governments of France, Brazil and the United Kingdom and the other countries that have decided to support innovative financing mechanisms are an embodiment of this new spirit. They demonstrate that governments, having pledged through the Millennium Development Goals to dramatically reduce poverty in poor countries by 2015, are now concentrating on the practical steps required to fulfill this promise.
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September 7, 2012
The centennial celebration continues at Loyola University New Orleans this fall with the launch of a Presidential Centennial Guest Series. The Most Rev. Gregory Michael Aymond, Archbishop of New Orleans, will start the series off with his talk, "Catholic Education: Gifts and Challenges in 2012 and Beyond," on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. in Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, located in the Communications/Music Complex, on Loyola's main campus. For those unable to attend in person, the presentation will be made available via live streaming on Loyola's website at http://www.loyno.edu/2012/catholic-education-gifts-and-challenges-2012-and-beyond.
Archbishop Aymond will explore issues facing Catholic education today and invite response and commentary from an esteemed panel of Catholic higher education leaders, including Loyola University President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., Xavier University of Louisiana President Norman Francis, J.D. '55, H '82, and Our Lady of Holy Cross College President Ronald Ambrosetti, Ph.D. The event is free and open to the public.
Aymond, the 14th archbishop of New Orleans, holds the unique distinction of being the first New Orleans native to serve as archbishop of New Orleans in the 216-year history of the local church. He graduated from St. Joseph Seminary College in St. Benedict, La., earned a master's degree in divinity from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, and was ordained as a priest of the New Orleans Archdiocese in 1975.
From 1973-81, he was a professor, business administrator and then rector of St. John Vianney Preparatory Seminary in New Orleans. From 1981-86, he was professor of pastoral theology and homiletics and director of education at Notre Dame Seminary. Aymond served as president-rector of Notre Dame Seminary from 1986 until the end of the 1999-2000 academic year, longer than any rector in the seminary's history. He was ordained as an auxiliary bishop of New Orleans in 1997 and became coadjutor bishop of Austin in 2000, succeeding to head the diocese until his appointment in New Orleans in 2009.
Loyola is celebrating its centennial throughout the 2012-13 academic year with a host of centennial-based activities and special guest speakers. The Presidential Centennial Guest Series was developed by President Wildes and well-known political power couple and New Orleans residents, Mary Matalin and James Carville. The series will provide an array of cultural, artistic, Catholic and intellectual perspectives. Each will supplement Loyola's mission of providing outstanding holistic Jesuit education and serving the New Orleans community.
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James L. and Linda B. Krag to Jonathan and Emily McKeon, 0.630 acre on State Route 6, 6678 Plank Road, $162,000.
Donald G. Heyne, trustee, to James F. and Betty Jane Adams, 8 Ednam Village, $540,000.
Glenmore Associates Ltd. to R.D. Wade Builder Inc., two lots in Glenmore, $345,000.
John P. and Donna M. Franko to Paul D. Barton and Elaine C. Corales, 0.311 acres at 5360 Windy Ridge Road, Cory Farm, $399,900.
Weather Hill Development LLC to Church Hill Development Co., nine lots, $2,168,000.
James E. May, trustee, to Anthony J. Gadient and Amy L. Coffman, 1.560 acres at 529 Rookwood Place, Ednam Forest, $800,000.
Wendell W. Gibson Inc. to Boyd R. and Sharon O. Marquardt, 0.713 acres at 1470 Cedarwood Court, Redfields, $475,000.
Anne C. D. Montague to Evan and Sandra F. Stern, parcel in Ednam, $570,000.
Jackie Brown Payne, trustee, to James W. and Gladys M. Morris, 0.5 acres at 2312 Proffit Road, $8,000.
Larry D. and Patricia R. Lindberg to George and Susan Varghese, 0.103 acres at 1518 Westfield Court, Wynridge, $241,500.
John H. and Donna B. Darden to Jason M. Fisher and Caryn R. Gibson, 344 Key West Drive, Key West, $430,000.
Meadow Wood Inc. to Mary T. Goodhall, condominium unit at the Villas at Southern Ridge, 1313 Villa Way Court, $175,000.
Nellie F. Gochenour to Micah D. Herron, 5.09 acres in White Hall Magisterial District, gift.
James A. Mankie, trustee, to Richard A. and Greta G. Dershimer, 304 Lake Forest Lane, Four Seasons patio homes, $312,000.
Tyler and Suzanne Taigen to Joyce Roberts, trustee, 0.209 acres at 114 Running Fox Lane, Foxcroft, $339,000.
David J. and Amy Ward to Carol Szczyglinski, 0.137 acres at 2302 Ravenswood Court, Forest Lakes South, $280,000.
Church Hill Development Co. to Cavett K. Conaway, 1964 Tudor Court, Avon Park, $285,870.
William M. and Beverly S. Carpenter to Michael W. Boyes and Melanie K. Smart, 4.912 acres on State Route 701, 3033 Alberene Church Lane, Esmont, $275,000.
Horizon Associates LLC to Sheryl Lynn Taylor, 0.045 acres at 1338 Wimbledon Way, LeParc, RiverRun, $255,000.
Thomas Howland to College Communities LLC, condominium unit at Parkside at Eagle's Landing, gift.
Linda B. Mikell to Deborah E. Adams, 1720 Goldentree Place, Hollymead, $306,000.
John R. and Jody R. Mahoney to Adrienne M. Consylman, 0.473 acres at 2094 Lakeside Drive, Lake Albemarle, $500,000.
Georgie S. Grissinger to Evans M. and Gladys M. Leake, 5.04 acres at 1591 Garth Road, gift.
Jacqueline E. Samson to Linda Marques, trustee, 1190 Rose Arbor Court, Branchlands Retirement Village, gift.
Steven L. and Codie C. Peters to Jason A. and Jennifer P. Hughes, parcel in Scottsville Magisterial District, $78,950.
Fitz LLC to Robert B. and Karen A. Heathcock, 6.870 acres in Hidden Forest subdivision, $295,000.
Peter R. and Sylvia M. Chandler, trustees, to Jay J. and Carrie J. Eisenberg, 1.459 acres at 4520 Shagbark Lane, Hickory Ridge, Earlysville, $649,000.
Erick J. and Rachele A. Koenig to Lynn M. and Rober L. Green Jr., unit in Hessian Hills condominiums, 111 Hessian Hills, $211,000.
L&K LLC to W. Gerald and Kim L. Martin, 2.0 acres in White Hall Magisterial District, $160,000.
Jonathan W. Cannon to Sarad A. and Cortney W. Davenport, 688 Lockesley Terrace, Sherwood Manor, $175,000.
I&J Home Builders LLC to Johnny P. and Tracy L. Shifflett, 8.0 acres at 2109 Legends Way, Woodridge Estates, Scottsville, $171,947.
James F. and Amanda H. Winecoff to Kenneth R. and Ann-Marie Koppenhoefer, parcel in South Fork Farm subdivision, $335,000.
Church Hill Development Co. to Ashley P. Maddox, 1948 Tudor Court, Avon Park, $242,210.
Janice S. Funk to Daniel D. Ralston, 1/15th interest in 528 acres in White Hall Magisterial District, $60,000.
James R. and Cynthia B. Dodds to James A. and Sharon A. Harris, 1.505 acres at an1836 Ed Jones Road, Scottsville, $140,000.
March Mountain Properties LLC to Old Trail Carriage Park LLC, 27 lots at Carriage Park subdivision, $1,400,000.
Wendell W. Gibson Inc. to Diane and Robert A. Michelucci, 2.038 acres at 3505 Foxwood Drive, Foxwood Forest, $698,983.
Joey D. Herring to Vineyard Estates LLC, 2.0 acres on Blenheim Road, $70,000.
Joey D. Herring to William Moses, 2.0 acres on Blenheim Road, $180,000.
Meadow Wood Inc. to Ronald J. Gilbert, trustee, condominium unit at Villlas at Southern
Ridge, $172,500.
Meadow Wood Inc. to Ann Susan Gilbert, condominium unit at Villas at Southern Ridge, $164,950.
Craig Enterprises Inc. to James W. and Virginia L. Hayes, 0.243 acres at 1323 Gate Post Lane, Highlands at Mechum's River, $392,127.
Craig Enterprises Inc. to Anthony P. and Mary Jean Sapino, 0.173 acres at 1480 Gate Post Lane, Highlands at Mechum's River, $370,531.
Meadow Wood Inc. to Richard E. and Laura M. Monroe, condominium unit at Villas at Southern Ridge, $159,950.
Robin C. Warner to Adam J. and Latrina R. Candia, 3.110 acres at 123 Overlook Drive, Sherwood Farms subdivision, $385,000.
Slade R. and Amber Culp to Tina L. McPheeters, 1668 Cool Springs Road, Townwood, $199,500.
R.D. Wade Builder Inc. to Peter Russell, trustee, parcel in Glenmore, $714,502.
Sycamore Creek LLC to Jack P. and Mary Jo Desario, parcel in South Fork Farms, $275,000.
Jian and Zhihong Chen to Robert M. Tirrell and Leslie M. Comstock, 0.158 acres at 990 Canvas Back Road, Redfields, $430,000.
Murcielago LLC to Murcielago Properties LLC, 29.160 acres at 5045 Blenheim Road, the Farms at Turkey Run, $295,000.
Michael M. and Ashlea L. Maddox to Jonathan D. and Kara G. Redman, 5.06 acres at 5834 Jefferson Mill Road, Scottsville, $199,999.50
NVR Inc. to Jeffrey J. and Lisa Ann Saucerman, 0.300 acres at 5363 Park Road, Westhall, Crozet, $398,605.
Eleanor B. Young to Landon D. Saul, 0.232 acres at 93 Biltmore Drive, Bennington Terrace, $285,000.
Emma W. Robinson to Wanda L. and Alexander D. Robinson Jr., 2.03 acres on State Route 717, 5353 Secretary's Sand Road, Green Mountain, gift.
Bettie B. Davis, executrix, to Mark W., Michael W. and Kathryn J. Farrington, 0.429 acres at 1216 Oak Hill Drive, Oak Hill, $242,000.
Jean Alix and Nadine C. Zephyr to Tracy L. and Meagan O. Scott, 2.118 acres at 3510 Foxwood Drive, Foxwood Forest subdivision, Barboursville, $680,000.
Susan K. Nelson-Adams to Felix M. Hernandez, 0.113 acres at 2273 Sparrow Lane, Briarwood, $253,900.
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James E. May, trustee, to Anthony J. Gadient and Amy L. Coffman, 1.560 acres at 529 Rookwood Place, Ednam Forest, $800,000.


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In two weeks, my parents will move to Vermont from the town in Northern Virginia where I grew up, their home for 37 years.
More on that later; for today all you need to know is their new front door in Vermont needs work. Everyone – the real estate agent, the sellers, the contractors they consulted – agreed that the door should be repainted or replaced, and that the doorstep needs to be repaired.
My parents told me about the front door as they were listing all of the work to be done on their new Vermont house, which isn't really "new" at all; it's a 1928 beauty that requires the kind of upkeep you'd expect of an 86-year-0ld house. But when they mentioned the front door, I said, "Don't worry too much about that; nobody's going to be coming through your front door, anyway."
They stared at me for a beat, then said, "That's just what everyone else told us!"
After moving to Vermont, I learned quickly that most Vermont front doors – particularly those of older, farmhouse-style homes -- are optical illusions, formalities at best. Their very existence is just aesthetic: to give the house some symmetry, or to make clear which side is the front. Whatever their purpose, it's certainly not to serve as an entrance. At least not after the first visit.
When we began making friends in our town and were invited over to their homes, we kept finding ourselves in similar situations: We'd pull up to our friend's house, exit the car, and knock on the front door. After a couple of minutes, the door would open to reveal our friend's confused face. "Oh!" they'd say, "You can come in through that door." Then they'd point to a door off to the side of the house, the door that served as the real entrance.
I'm certain that the idea of using a side door as the de facto entrance isn't unique to Vermont; at the very least, this setup is likely practiced throughout the New England states, and possibly elsewhere. But having lived previously in New York City (where you were lucky to have one front door leading into your closet-sized apartment) and the San Francisco Bay Area (where space is at a premium and most houses are straightforward bungalow or craftsman styles), it was new to us.
There's a very practical reason why most Vermont homeowners use a side door as the primary entrance: Usually, this door opens directly into the mudroom. And in Vermont, the mudroom bears no resemblance to the tidy, pristine storage spaces featured in Pottery Barn catalogues; Vermont mudrooms are used so often and so violently that the word "mudroom" here is almost a verb. Given what your guests have to walk in just to get through the dooryard (a term I've learned since moving to Vermont), you want them to enter via the mudroom.
The Vermont mudroom is covered in actual mud for several months of the year, followed by sandy flip-flops, wet towels, bits of grass and leaves (green), bits of grass and leaves (brown), wet rain boots, wet snow boots, soggy gloves/hats/snowpants, skis, snowshoes, chunks of slush mixed with road salt --- and back to mud. Multiply exponentially by every child and pet, and you get the idea.
I have a great appreciation of the side entrance, because unfortunately our own house was constructed without one. (What can I say? The original owners were from Texas). Instead, our house features a more suburban-style design, in which the mudroom is accessed via a door from the attached garage. This makes it easy for our family to enter directly into the mudroom, but would force our guests to come through the open garage door and squeeze past our car.
Maybe that's not a problem in Texas, but here it means that our guests end up coming through our front door, cramming into our front entryway, chucking their boots on a miniscule boot tray and stuffing their coats into the tiny closet. And our front hallway ends up covered with dirt, pebbles, slush puddles, and ash. (My husband likes to use the ash from our woodstove to "sand" the front walkway and driveway. What can I say? He's from California).
That's okay; what's a little slush and ash between friends? But the worst thing about always having to make our friends come through the front door is the false sense of formality it imposes. Instead of tossing their coats onto pegs and flowing from the mudroom into the heart of our house, our friends always have to let us take their coats and usher them through the living room.
So the impractical reason – the heart reason -- for using the side door is that it's a symbol of intimacy. Deliverymen and solicitors may always knock on the front door, but once you've been directed to the side door and allowed to see the mudroom, you know you're a friend.
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For this year's event, the Arnold Arboretum will present Making the Invisible Visible at the Weld Hill Research Building. Collaborating with the Education Office of the Consulate General of Spain and the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid, the Arboretum invites the public to explore some of the ways that scientists study plants. Participants will be able to meet Spanish researchers at the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid via Skype, extract DNA from common fruit and make necklaces from the material, learn about current Arboretum research, and use microscopes to examine plant parts like bark, leaves, and seeds.
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Peter is always an inspiration for authentic Greek food, and I finally got around to making his Greek Macaroni and Cheese for a precious lady friend of mine. As usual I tweaked the recipe a bit, but a big thanks to Peter for the inspiration. I served this with jalapeño and Cheddar scones for an especially cheesy meal. Soon it will be time to go vegan for a few days to cleanse myself of all of these rich dinners! Spring can't come soon enough.
|Greek Macaroni and Cheese
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Adapted from Kalofagas
Cuisine: Greek
Published on March 30, 2010
This easy-to-prepare Greek-style macaroni cheese is loaded with Kalamata olives and fresh Gruyère and Feta cheeses — absolutely heavenly
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Drawing has served as the basis and focus of my studio practice for many years. It is an immediate and visceral means of visual research and exploration. However, recently I have begun to feel restricted by the conventional format of a 2-dimensional drawing hung on a flat wall. While my commitment to drawing remains strong, I am experimenting with methods of bringing the drawings into a more three dimensional realm through combining them with structures and objects constructed of a variety of store bought and found materials.
Through the process of installation I hope to re-contextualize my drawings both in relation to each other and in relation to the viewer. I wish to create a situation that pushes beyond the visual and into the experiential, to play with both physical and temporal space. I wish to experiment with the possible dialogues between specific constructions and specific drawings, between what I choose to obscure and what I choose to expose and to explore how this contributes to the generation of a mythology.
As I continue, my desire is to continuously reinvent the relationships between the drawings to the objects to myself and the viewer.


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Blogging anti-blogger Murray Chass has written one of his patented half-lucid anti-blog blog posts about the Hall of Fame. Near the end of the post, he dodders over to the subject of his own voting habits. This one's a treat:
When I voted for the first time, I submitted a full ballot, all 10 lines filled with names. By the time I voted a year later, I had reconsidered what I had done. In voting for 10 players, I was saying in essence I wanted to see 10 players inducted into the Hall at the same time.
How foolish, I realized. Having 10 players enter the Hall at the same time would detract from the honor for each player. In addition, the induction ceremony would take forever and require a break for dinner. On subsequent ballots I placed an X next to three or four names at the most, sometimes only one or two.
A break for dinner! This is too perfect. Hall of Fame voters are so pompous and self-important that they can't be bothered to sit through the Hall of Fame's induction ceremony.
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When I open my laptop at Starbucks a Chrome-window is automatically opened. It shows the login-page that allows me to log on to BT OpenZone for free Starbucks-wifi.
What kind of mechanism is used to achieve this? After all I don't get the same effect with my Ubuntu-computer or my Android phone.


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Money Magazine recently named its top 10 career choices for young people. Here, we review their picks and offer resources to finding a degree to get you started in the field.
- Product/Brand Manager
With a bachelor's degree in marketing, or a marketing concentration on a business administration degree, a product manager can expect 21% growth through the next ten years. With a median salary of $90,100 it's not surprising this job is number one on the list.
- Registered Nurse
An associate's degree is usually required for one to become licensed as a registered nurse, and job opportunities are plentiful. An RN can specialize in areas such as pediatrics, surgery, orthopedics, or geriatrics and earn a median salary of $59,800. Job growth is expected to be fruitful through the next several years, hovering somewhere around the 29% rate.
- Property Manager
In the real estate industry, the management of rental property is a huge enterprise, and those with bachelor's degrees in real estate are some of the most sought-after grads around. Boasting median salaries of $81,400 and a 15% growth rate over the next several years, this career is a hot one for students to consider.
- Accountant
Accountants have experienced steady job growth for years, and that trend isn't about to stop. Opportunities are plentiful for grads with bachelor and associate degrees in accounting. Accountants work in all facets of business - for individual companies in all industries, as well as for specialized accounting firms. Opportunities are projected to increase by 22% through the next few years, and median salaries were last reported to be $50,100 per year.
- Information Technology Generalist
What would a top 10 jobs list be without a computer-related position? You'd be hard-pressed to find a single organization out there that didn't rely on the day-to-day input of an information technology staff. A wide variety of IT degrees exist, though opportunities are likely best for those with a bachelor's degree. The median salary for an IT generalist was reported at $47,800, while opportunities are expected to increase by 31%.
- Engineer
There are dozens of engineering specialties, and they're all hot career options right now. Engineers typically require a bachelor's degree and can look forward to a 15% increase in job opportunities, as well as a median income of $53,600 annually.
- Environmental Engineer
While all engineering specialties offer ample opportunities, there isn't one hotter than environmental engineering. All environmental jobs are booming right now, and environmental engineers with a bachelor's degree will find job opportunities increasing by 30%. With a median annual salary of $52,400 and a worldwide interest in going green, it doesn't look like the environmental engineering industry will be hurting any time soon.
- Event Planner
Event planners enjoy a constantly-changing job - no event is ever the same, and no day is ever the same. Opportunities for event planners are expected to increase by 22% and median salaries were last reported to be $52,600 annually. There is no specific college major or degree required to become an event planner, but many who earn degrees in marketing, advertising, human resources, business administration, or hospitality go on to have exciting careers in event planning.
- Financial Advisor
More and more people are consulting financial advisors for guidance on how to invest and manage their money. In fact, more and more young people are starting out careers under the advice of a financial advisor. With such an increasing interest in financial advising services, it's no surprise that this is considered one of the best career fields to get into. With a bachelor's degree in finance, a grad can look forward to 12% growth and a median salary of $66,800.
- Investment Specialist
Along the same lines as financial advisors, investment specialists are enjoying 26% career growth as more people plan for retirement and are interested in the stock market. Investment specialists currently enjoy a median salary of $72,000, and most enter the field with a bachelor's degree in finance.


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I could swear this is a ScrappleFace story hacked into the CNN site, but it is apparently authentic: "Rumsfeld unsure of missing 'mojo.'"
According to the lead in the CNN account: "U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said he does not know whether or not he has lost his mojo, as a leading news magazine suggested, largely because he doesn't really know what mojo is. 'Is Rumsfeld Losing His Mojo?' was the headline in Time magazine above a story about Rumsfeld's recent difficulties concerning Iraq policy and differences with U.S. lawmakers. 'Have you lost your mojo?' CNN's Jamie McIntyre asked Rumsfeld during a Pentagon briefing."
CNN helpfully concludes the story by noting, "Legendary blues singer Muddy Waters also famously sang in the 1960's, 'I got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you.'"
As Power Line's resident pop music fan, I would like to add that the definitive version of Muddy's great "Got My Mojo Working" (his trademark song, recorded several times) is the live version on the recently reissued "Fathers and Sons" recording that Muddy cut with Paul Butterfield, Michael Bloomfield, and Otis Spann in 1969. On "Fathers and Sons" it comes in two parts, "Got My Mojo Working Part One" and "Got My Mojo Working Part Two," recorded live in Chicago at the Super Cosmic Joyscout Jamboree. Muddy and the gang take it to the limit on that one, a glorious moment in the history of Western civilization.
The CNN story about Rumsfeld reminds me of my one personal encounter with him, coincidentally in 1969 when I was working as an intern for then-Senator Walter Mondale. Rumsfeld was serving as a congressman and had spoken to a group of interns in a presentation that my roommate and I had attended. A few days later we went to see the movie "If…." at a sold-out showing in Georgetown.
The movie was a somewhat bizarre blend of fantasy and reality. After the movie we noticed Rumsfeld among the crowd streaming out of the theater. My roommate shouted to him, "Mr. Rumsfeld, what did you think of the movie?" "I didn't get it," he said with a bemused shrug of his shoulders, in a manner that I am sure was akin to his reaction to today's mojo question.
Since humor has been in somewhat short supply this week, I would also like to take the opportunity to add that the top story on ScrappleFace at the moment rivals the story of Rumsfeld's possibly misplaced mojo: "Dean charges Kerry with metrosexual discrimination."
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National Cotton Council Chairman Woody Anderson must still be shaking his head. Days after Anderson wrote the U.S. Trade Representative asking him not to allow cotton to be singled out in the Doha Round negotiations Robert Zoellick sounded like he was doing just that.
The cotton industry has become the whipping boy for international organizations that believe farm subsidies reduce crop prices in developing nations. The U.S. cotton program took the brunt of the blame for last fall's collapse of the Doha Round negotiations after countries led by Brazil tried to push through a separate provision for cotton.
Anderson, a cotton producer from Texas, was responding to reports that WTO General Council Chairman Shotaro Oshima's framework package for restarting the Doha negotiations included a specific heading for cotton apart from the agriculture negotiations.
Rather than separating cotton, Anderson asked Zoellick to try to move cotton back under agricultural negotiations in the World Trade Organization talks that began in Doha, Qatar, in 2001.
A few days later, Zoellick, speaking during the G-90 meeting of trade ministers in Mauritius, promised to push for reforms of the U.S. cotton program. "We know this is of primary concern to a number of countries," he noted, "And I want you to know that I'll push for reforms, too, at home, as well as in the international context."
Zoellick tried to link the cotton issue to a general reform of trade-distorting subsidies and barriers to market access for all commodities. By promising to reform the U.S. cotton program, however, he may have added fuel to the fire that seems to keep simmering in Africa's cotton-producing countries.
Anderson's letter stressed that U.S. leaders will not support any negotiating process that continues to single out cotton based on outdated information and flawed analysis such as that used by Brazil in its WTO complaint against the U.S. cotton program.
He stressed that theme in speeches in Texas and New Mexico in mid-July, rebutting the arguments made by a University of California agricultural economist in the Brazilian complaint.
Although Brazil claims the U.S. cotton program harmed Brazil's cotton producers, Anderson noted that U.S. cotton production is declining while Brazil's last cotton crop was 85 percent larger than its 2001 crop.
In another speech, Gary Adams, the NCC's vice president of economics and policy analysis, said an expected global cotton production — primarily in China and Brazil — has pushed down world prices and "will exacerbate the economic stress being felt by cotton producers."
Adams said recent forecasts by USDA and the International Cotton Advisory Committee project a record world cotton crop of 102 million bales for 2004-05, a 9 percent increase over 2003-04.
Referring to Brazil's complaint, Adams said "I can't help but question the basis of that analysis. The market we are seeing unfold shows very clearly that as China goes, so go world markets. It also demonstrates that Brazil has tremendous potential to increase cotton production."
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We seasoned genealogists remember what it was like to search the census index volumes and then go to the microfilm to look at the census images. REALLY seasoned genealogists remember what it was like BEFORE there were printed census indexes. Researchers today jump online, type in a name, and Voila! There is the nicely digitized census image right on the computer screen. When did you first start using a computer in your genealogical research?
Dick Eastman, founder of Eastman's Online Genealogical Newsletter, had a head start on most of us. In the computer field by occupation, he began entering his family information on punch cards using a mainframe computer back in the early 1970s!
Eastman will draw on his nearly 40 years of experience in genealogical computing when he is the featured speaker at the Indiana Genealogical Society's annual seminar at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne on April 10. His topics will be:
- Genealogy Searches on Google
- Blogging for Genealogists
- Conservation: Keeping Up with Technology
- Grandpa in Your Pocket: Portable Gadgets for Genealogists
The two-track seminar also will feature the following topics:
- Our Golden Door: Introduction to Immigration, by Ron Darrah
- Voyages at Your Fingertips: Online Immigration Records, by Melissa Shimkus
- "Our Military Heritage" & WeRelate: Two Digital Initiatives of the ACPL Genealogy Center, by Curt Witcher
- Photo Restoration Using Adobe Photoshop, by Kay Spears
Festivities begin the evening of April 9, when the Genealogy Center of ACPL will be open extended hours from 6 p.m. to midnight for conference attendees. Registration and exhibit browsing will begin at 9 a.m. April 10. Sessions will be from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with lunch on your own and a 1 p.m. Society of Civil War Families of Indiana Induction Ceremony and IGS annual business meeting.
Advance registration for the seminar is $30 for IGS members and $35 for non-members. Registration at the door will be $40. Online registration is available at the IGS website.


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What you get in the Lumia 900 is the perfect mixture of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 (or, really, Windows Phone 7.5 Mango,) Nokia's incredible hardware design, and AT&T's (late) entrance into the LTE realm with a smartphone that people are paying attention to. Even better? You get it all at a $99 price point with contract. In the smartphone world, we'd call this one a steal.
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New Pages: Films and Latin Translations
Inspired by Dick Eastman's mention of the film 'Death or Canada', I have decided now is the time to add the films page to this blog. On the page I have included links to films which detail various aspects of Irish history, as well as others which are simply to enjoy.
Also, I have added a page of translations for some of the Latin terms you might come across while doing your family history research.
I hope you enjoy the pages and find them useful.
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Jennifer, I just saw that film mentioned on another blog and watched the two-minute trailer. The topic is pertinent to my own family history research, as that is exactly the route several of our ancestors took in ultimately arriving in the United States.ReplyDelete
Thank you for posting your commentary on each of the films you have listed. I respect your recommendations. There is so much to learn about the broader contextual setting of these immigrants' experience, and your analysis helps readers hone in on the more pertinent of the offerings.Replies
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Thanks very much for your comments. I really appreciate them. I really like the idea of films because it gives us yet another medium from which to launch our research, and I am unabashedly a big fan of the work of both Professors Mark G. McGown ('Death or Canada') and Ronald Rudin ('Remembering A Memory').
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Beginners 1 hour session starts at 6.45pm for £6 (includes £1 to use one of my djembe drums). There are sessions up to advanced level drummers who stay till 10pm.
No need to book a course just "pay as you go." Please let me know you are coming to make sure I bring enough djembes.
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Isn't it time for you to become a revalueist?
Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, foundations, NGOs, social enterprises, businesses, educators, journalists, general public.
The CEO of Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties — one of Socialbrite's nonprofit clients — was recently invited to give a talk at TEDx San Joaquin. So three members of the Socialbrite team, Carla, Shannon and myself, met with the SF Goodwill communications team and hammered out the rough outlines of the 15-minute talk that Debbie Alvarez-Rodriguez fleshed out and delivered beautifully.
TEDx San Joaquin just posted Debbie's talk, so I embedded it above to showcase what I thought was a stirring idea: The choice before us to live in a disposal economy or what Debbie terms "the revalue economy." Continue reading