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Bots are complicated. They're made to process repetitive actions autonomously and can be fairly easy to build, but they aren't always working on the side of good. Here's what you need to know.
Each year, EContent magazine compiles a list of the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry.
Voting is now closed. We'll announce the results of the first-ever EContent 100 list chosen by the people!
Ron Miller
Mar 08, 2004
Today's enterprise employees have more information at their fingertips than at any point in history. While this information can certainly help companies, how is an individual or even a large group able to keep up with the volume?
According to the Online Computer Library Center, the number of distinct Web sites grew from 2.8 million in 1998 to more than 9 million by 2002, when they stopped keeping track. When you consider that these sites consist of billions of pages and then factor in millions of Weblogs, workers are faced with an information-glut of mythical proportions. While this information can certainly help companies track competition, understand markets and trends, and gather more information than ever believed possible, how can a large group, much less an individual, be able to keep up with the volume?
One way is with RSS, an XML specification for content syndication, which allows you to subscribe to the information you want to see and get notified anytime new information is available. What's more, companies can take advantage of the simplicity of the RSS specification to feed information inside and outside the firewall. For instance, companies can set up internal RSS feeds for employees on subjects such as the latest changes in the Human Resources portal or updates of concern to individual departments or projects or, rather than sending an email newsletter to customers, you could provide the same information as an RSS feed. In both of these examples, organizations provide information only to the parties that are truly interested, subsequently relieving some of the pressure on clogged email inboxes, which up until now have been the de facto information collection center.
What is RSS?The RSS acronym has a number of meanings, but it has come to be aptly defined as Really Simple Syndication. According to Chris Pirillo, who runs Lockergnome's RSS Resource (a site devoted to all things RSS), it is an XML specification used to describe how to display content (also known as a feed) in a piece of software called a news aggregator. Content providers write their feed according to this RSS specification and people can subscribe to the feed using the news aggregation software. News aggregators (See sidebar) come in a variety of styles including desktop clients, Web-based services, and even one that works inside Microsoft Outlook.
Each news aggregator works a little differently, but they all provide a way to subscribe to a content source, then organize and view feeds (subscriptions). Instead of seeing a whole article, you view just a headline and a summary, which allows you to quickly scan the information and then click through to the source Web site to read the entire article of only specific items you want. After you subscribe to a feed, you can receive site updates as often as every 15 minutes or at whatever time interval you choose.
You can subscribe to individual Web sites (such as the NewYorkTimes.com or CNET.com) or build a feed on a particular term such as your company name or industry. Any time that term turns up on a Web site or blog, you will then be informed via your news aggregator software, rather than your email box.
Information Gathering Made EasyAlthough RSS is only just beginning to make headway into the mainstream enterprise computing environment, it has great potential to help knowledge workers gather information more efficiently. What makes the news aggregator so useful is that it collects information effortlessly from the sites you previously needed to visit. Scott Young, CEO of UserLand Software, one of the pioneering RSS companies and makers of the Radio UserLand and Manila blogging tools, says, "RSS is an interesting way of getting information and news that you don't have to look for. In the past you went to a Web site, and if you liked it, you went to that site over and over again. If you had 10 sites you liked, that's what you did (or more than likely you didn't have time). RSS allows the information to come to you."
In addition, it's software that doesn't require a lot of training to understand. Jennifer Klyse, enterprise application analyst at Washington, DC law firm Patton Boggs, is in the process of implementing the NewsGator news aggregator in some areas of the firm. She says, "I think this is a relatively low tech application from a user perspective." She feels most users will require only a demonstration of how it works and maybe a handout to refer to later.
For technical workers, RSS offers a fairly straightforward implementation path. Jake Savin, lead programmer at UserLand, says that it's simple enough for a mid-level IT person to implement. "RSS is very simple, very easy to read, and more transparent than most XML formats," Savin says.


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Suit: Doctors mistakenly declared Chicago boy dead
CHICAGO – The parents of an 8-year-old boy have sued a Chicago hospital, alleging doctors pronounced their son dead though he was still alive and refused to listen to desperate relatives who insisted he continued to move his eyes and body.
CHICAGO – The parents of an 8-year-old boy have sued a Chicago hospital, alleging doctors pronounced their son dead though he was still alive and refused to listen to desperate relatives who insisted he continued to move his eyes and body.
The lawsuit, filed this week, accuses Mercy Hospital and Medical Center of negligence and alleges that nearly five hours passed before staff agreed to perform a cardiac ultrasound, which showed Jaylen Dorsey's heart was beating.
"You didn't have to be a doctor to see that the heart was pumping blood," the boy's father, Pink Dorsey, said at a news conference Friday.
Hospital officials deny the allegations.
Jaylen, who has a disability that keeps him bedridden and on a ventilator, was found unresponsive by his mother, Sheena Lane, on Feb. 18. He was taken to Mercy Hospital and doctors there pronounced the boy dead.
The family says Jaylen's eyes continued to flick open, but that his parents were told the lingering effects of medicine were causing that to happen.
"We're not doctors, so we just went along with what they told us," Dorsey said.
So family members began to plan a funeral for the boy.
But when other relatives arrived at the hospital, they gasped when they saw Jaylen's eyes opening, the boy's father said.
The lawsuit says the family had to demand that medical staff conduct more tests and that a cardiac ultrasound finally showed the boy's heart was beating.
The hospital, which rejects the lawsuit's allegations, said in a written statement that Jaylen arrived at the hospital after suffering full cardiac arrest for 25 minutes and doctors treated him for "an extended period of time" before declaring him dead.
"Despite extensive resuscitative efforts, Jaylen did not immediately regain a pulse and no heart activity was noted for several hours," the hospital said. "… While this is a very rare occurrence, extensive resuscitation efforts, medication and young age can result in a patient's heart function returning spontaneously. We hope for continued strength for Jaylen."
His parents are seeking $200,000 in damages. The lawsuit says they suffered hours of "severe emotional distress."
The boy's parents also worry that the hours he was off his respirator while at the hospital may have worsened his condition.
Lawyer for the parents said that because of the ongoing litigation they would not release details about his disability.

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Valente, Marco (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This document contains a description of the main purposes and characteristics of Lsd. It discusses the problems related to the use of simulations in social sciences and describes how Lsd tackles these problems. In general, the use of simulations is constrained by two kinds of problems: difficulties in building the programs and difficulties to make use of other people's programs. Lsd proposes a system to facilitate both aspects of the use of simulation models. This document is mainly concerned with the use of simulations by unskilled computer users, and describes in detail how Lsd can be successfully used to explore and use a model without requiring any programming knowledge. Though it is not the main concern of the document, there are also few hints on the aspect of simulation program building. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8105
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Some descriptive results from DenmarkBille, Trine (, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the labor market for artists and in the creative industries more broadly: How important is a formal education for jobs in the creative industries? How are the careers of people with a creative education? Do they work in the creative industries or outside the creative industries? How is the profile of the jobs within the creative industries? Alper and Wassall (2006) present an overview of the economic, mainly empirical research concerning the labor market of artists. Different types of studies can be distinguished: theoretical models of artistic career processes, qualitative interviews and data, retrospective surveys and panel data based on surveys (either true panel studies or quasi panel studies). Some of the most extended studies on artists' earnings are done by Alper and Wassall on American census data, where data comes from peoples selfreporting in surveys, and peoples' occupation is based on time spent at work during a single reference week. This do obvious have some drawbacks. Register data from Statistics Denmark representing true panel data, makes it possible to overcome some of these problems and gain new knowledge on the career patterns of artists, their income, the importance of education, multiple jobholding etc. The register data used in this paper includes a lot of variables on socio-economy, income, employment etc. for the Danish population in the period 1994-2003. The paper includes a discussion and delimitation of artist and the creative industries, and presents new empirical results on the labor market for artists and in the creative industries URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7750
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Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We measure the quantitative importance of labor mobility as a vehicle for the transmission of knowledge and skills across firms. For this purpose we create a unique data set that matches all applications of Danish firms at the European Patent Office to linked employer-employee register data for the years 1999-2002. The Danish workforce is split into "R&D workers", who hold a bachelor's or a master's degree in a technical field, and "non-R&D workers". We find that mobile R&D workers ("R&D joiners"') contribute more to patenting activity than immobile R&D workers. Furthermore, R&D workers who have previously been employed by a patenting firm ("patent exposed workers") have a larger effect on patenting activity than R&D workers without this experience. Patent exposed R&D joiners constitute the most productive group of workers: for firms that patented prior to 1999, one additional worker of this type relates to an increase in the number of patent applications of the new employer by 0.0646. This corresponds to a 14 percent increase in the mean number of yearly patent applications. We also find that mobility of R&D workers increases the joint patenting activity of the donor and recipient firms, confirming the importance of labor mobility for innovation in the economy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7704
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A Comparative Study of Workers Conditions in Football Manufacturing in China, India and PakistanLund-Thomsen, Peter; Nadvi, Khalid; Chan, Anita; Khara, Navjote; Xue, Hong (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: A critical challenge facing developing country producers is to meet international labour standards and codes of conduct in order to engage in global production networks. Evidence of gains for workers from compliance with such standards and codes remains limited and patchy. This paper focuses on the global football industry, a sector dominated by leading global brands who manage dispersed global production networks. It assesses the work conditions for football stitchers engaged in different forms of work organisation, factories, stitching centres, and home-based settings, in Pakistan, India, and China. It draws on detailed qualitative primary field research with football stitching workers and producers in these three countries. The paper explains how, and why, work conditions of football stitchers differ across these locations through an analytical framework that interweaves both global and local production contexts that influence work condition. In doing so, it argues that current debates on the role of labour in global production networks have to go beyond a narrow focus on labour standards and CSR compliance and engage with economic, technological and social upgrading as factors that could generate sustained improvements in real wages and workers conditions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8938
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Labour Market Implications of a Compressed Wage Structure when Education and Training are EndogenousMalchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Skaksen, Jan Rose (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We consider the economic implications of a compressed wage structure which is exogenously determined by institutions. An important feature of our analysis is that human capital is endogenous and can be achieved either as formal education or as informal training within firms after entering the labour market. While institutional wage compression decreases the incentives of individuals to become educated, it increases the incentives of firms to invest in training. As a result, the net effects of wage compression on the aggregate human capital level and GDP are ambiguous. Moreover, with wage compression, a skillbiased technological change may cause wage inequality to decrease. Keywords: Wage compression, training, education, inequality, institutions, skill-biased technological change. JEL: I21, J31, J5, O33. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7574
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Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during an unemployment experience. Within a search and matching framework, we show that both natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spill-overs, inducing employment to increase in the other sector and the effect on labour market performance therefore depends on whether discrimination is present in only one sector or in both sectors. Discrimination may induce workers to train more or less than natives after having lost their skills, dependent upon which sector there is discrimination. Net output tends to the be most negatively affected by discrimination among high-skilled workers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9157
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Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spillovers, inducing employment increases in the other sector. Discrimination may induce immigrants to train more or less than natives, depending on the sector where it is present. Welfare tends to be most negatively affected by discrimination among highproductivity workers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8520
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Filges, Trine; Kennes, John; Larsen, Birthe; Tranæs, Torben (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper studies labour market policy in a society where differently gifted individuals can invest in training to further increase their labour market productivity and where the government seeks both effiency and equity. Frictions in the matching process create unemployment and differently skilled workers face different unemployment risks. We show that in such an environment, training programmes that are targeted to the unemployed complement passive transfers (UI benefits), unlike a general training subsidy. Combining passive subsidies with a training subsidy conditioned on the individual being unemployed (for a while) - the typical Active Labour Market Programme - implies a favorable trade-off between equity and efficiency which encourages high spending on training. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7511
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Lunde, Jens (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Abstract. In Denmark, taxation of residential property returns varies considerably with the type of ownership and type of tenure in terms of the way income is calculated, the types of taxes applied and tax rates, which range from 0 % to above 60 %. Together with other housing subsidies this disparity in taxation contributes to the pronounced lack of tenure neutrality in the Danish housing market. The paper illustrates how tax rules alone create distortions and imbalances in the housing and residential property markets and discusses as well the magnitude of the imbalances. The method used is the application of a set of return and user cost equations. The tax aspects of the long-standing rather unequal treatment of private rental dwellings, social rental dwellings, owner-occupied dwellings and private co-operative dwellings, which have drawn decisive tracks in the markets, are discussed. The lowering of the tax rate for the return of institutional pension savings to 15 % which came into effect in 2001 has created a substantial advantage for pension funds compared with private investors with regard to investments in rental residential properties. The owner-occupiers' user costs and subsidization are shown to depend on their capital structure and to a large extent they depend on whether the owners' most obvious savings alternatives are either personal investments with heavily taxed returns or institutional pension savings with lightly taxed returns. Also private co-operative associations are tax exempted, and this fact in combination with the prospects of improved legal conditions for raising loans to finance the individual apartments will almost certainly lead to this form of tenure – as "tax free ownership" – capturing part of the market for owner occupation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7154
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présentation à la Journée d'étude de l'ADBU le 17. sepembre 2004Cotta-Schönberg, J. Michael von (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6935
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Horst, Maja (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to explore the associations made in mass mediated articulations of biotechnology. It serves as the basis for further analyses of mass mediated controversies and the purpose is to establish a map of the landscape of mass mediated articulation of biotechnology. Which kinds of genetic research and technology are articulated in what way? What can be associated to what in the mass mediation and when is it portrayed as controversial? In short this is a study of associations in the news production that serves as a way of establishing an empirical archive for further work. It is based on a relational ontology inspired by French philosopher Bruno Latour, supplemented with the method of content analysis developed within sociology of mass media. The aim is to study the production of networks of articulation in mass media by looking at the outcome (the articles), which they produce. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6366
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Christensen, Bent Jesper; Raahauge, Peter (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We consider a random utility extension of the fundamental Lucas (1978) equilibrium asset pricing model. The resulting structural model leads naturally to a likelihood function. We estimate the model using U.S. asset market data from 1871 to 2000, using both dividends and earnings as state variables. We find that current dividends do not forecast future utility shocks, whereas current utility shocks do forecast future dividends. The estimated structural model produces a sequence of predicted utility shocks which provide better forecasts of future long-horizon stock market returns than the classical dividend-price ratio. KEYWORDS: Randomutility, asset pricing, maximumlikelihood, structuralmodel, return predictability URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7135
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Sørensen, Asger (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6402
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An Explorative DiscussionFoss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Although recent economics contributions represent important strides forward in the understanding of leadership behavior, the cognitive and symbolic dimensions of the phenomenon have attracted virtually no interests from economists and game theorists. I argue that an understanding of these dimensions may be founded on coordination games, particularly to the extent that these illustrate interactive belief formation. In this context, leadership is defined as the taking of actions that coordinate the complementary actions of many people through the creation of belief conditions that (at least) substitute for common knowledge, and where these actions characteristically consists of some act of communication directed at those being led. The concept of common knowledge (or, its approximation by means of notions of common belief) is argued to be particularly important to understanding leadership. Thus, leaders may establish common knowledge conditions, and assist the coordination of strategies in this way, or make decisions in situations where coordination problems persist in spite of common knowledge. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6877
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Entrepreneurial leadership?Hansson, Finn; Mønsted, Mette (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6378
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Entrepreneurial leadership?Hansson, Finn; Mønsted, Mette (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6369
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Jeppesen, Lars Bo; Laursen, Keld (Frederiksberg, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper introduces a model of knowledge sharing of lead users located in a public and unrestricted community of users. While existing literature on knowledge sharing focuses on allocation and collaboration processes inside or among companies we extend this to the community level. We then focus on how key agents — lead users — facilitate knowledge sharing in this setting and the features that moderate such sharing. Our results show that lead users are central to search and integration of knowledge from different external sources of relevance to their communities. Inside the community lead users are active in both "giving and taking" knowledge. Further, as users build up experience they tend to give more knowledge, thus suggesting a dynamic pattern of knowledge sharing in which increases in experience make way for important knowledge diffusion processes in the community. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7870
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Are Entrant Firms Exposed to a 'Shock Effect'?Pedersen, Torben; Petersen, Bent (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6557
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implication of growing cross-border interdependenceNarula, Rajneesh (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6606
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knowledge-based and property rights perspectivesFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6921
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First, there was "I Want To Fight Tom Brady" vs. Tom Brady.
Today, there will be Dave Wannstache vs. Mel Kiper. I am going to try and out-project Mr. First Round Projection himself.
If you don't remember, a couple of months ago I said I was going to wage a competition between myself and Kiper and see whether I can out-project him. Let's be clear, here. I have no access to the inside information that Kiper has. Furthermore, the man has been doing these mock drafts since the Stone Age, so he has more expertise than I do. But, I fancy myself as more than a casual NFL fan, so I think I can hold my own.
Here are the rules. We'll be using The Huddle Report's scoring system. One point for each player correctly placed in the first round, and an additional two points for players matched to the correct team.
The tough part about doing a projection is that you know trades are going to mess everything up. Once a trade happens, it creates a domino effect, and your mock draft goes to hell. Initially, I was thinking about doing a projection with a few trades mixed in, but since Kiper's does not, I decided to do mine straight up in order to play on an even playing field. Without further ado, let's go to the table:
Feel free to leave predictions or comments about the draft in this post. Enjoy it, cause it's the one slice of football you get until training camp in July.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Can the Stache Out-Project Mel Kiper (Judgment Day Edition)
First, there was "I Want To Fight Tom Brady" vs. Tom Brady.
Posted by Dave Wannstache at 11:53 AM
11 comments:
- Sam said...
I'm impressed. And you've got balls too, going against the "highly likely" pick of Balmer, according to the PG. I hope you're right though. Not only because I want Groves more, but also because I enjoy seeing newspapers (and Kiper) with the inside info lose out to a blogger.
- April 26, 2008 at 12:59 PM
- Dave Wannstache said...
I can't see Balmer. Just doesn't seem like a Tomlin type of player. He's an underachiever.
I will say this, there are a lot of rumors coming out of Pittsburgh that the Steelers really like Jerod Mayo. I don't think it makes sense, but, I would not be shocked if he were the pick if he's still on the board. That kind of goes a little against what I said in my post yesterday.
- April 26, 2008 at 1:02 PM
- Pat said...
Wanny you are the man. I love that you always have the guts to do these types of things. We'll change the name of the blog to Doubt About Kiper for a day if you win.
- April 26, 2008 at 1:30 PM
- Dave Wannstache said...
Hey, I'm happy to do it.
The NFL Draft is the one offseason event I look forward to the most. Add to the fact that this one seems so wide open, and it just adds to the intrigue.
- April 26, 2008 at 2:15 PM
stache out to an early lead....5 for 5...
- April 26, 2008 at 3:36 PM
- bgsteelfan said...
Kiper is 2 for 5, about right for him. Draft expert my ass. As for us, I hope we stay away from Groves and Balmer. We don't need a hybrid DE in the 3-2, and I think we are OK at DT. I think we have to go OL or for a big RB. WR would also be a mistake I think. I just hope they don't repeat Last years.
- April 26, 2008 at 3:40 PM
I hate the Patriots.
I also don't get everyones hatred of Balmer. Steelers nation won't be too happy with the selection of a RB, though. All the yinzers will be saying we already have Fast Will.
- April 26, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Ha! You kicked Kiper's ass with your first 6 picks.
I can't stand Kiper, he's just a Ravens homer who was hoping Matt Ryan would drop to #8.
- April 26, 2008 at 4:03 PM
- Dave Wannstache said...
Trades have messed me up a bit... but I'm still doing ok.
This stretch right here could ruin any offensive line plans the Steelers may have.
- April 26, 2008 at 4:27 PM
- April 26, 2008 at 5:54 PM
- Pat said...
I got you winning by a count of 48-35 stache. The Dallas picks are hard to score, but either way, you beat Kiper.
- April 26, 2008 at 6:40 PM


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941 South Milwaukee Ave
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2019 Lincoln Nautilus
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The available Ultra Comfort Seats with 22 way adjustability put you in control of your own comfort. Leather-trimmed, heated, and ventilated front seats were designed to ensure a luxurious driving experience.
Charging your phone is now as simple as setting it down. Inside the center front console media bin is an inductive charger that wirelessly charges compatible phones.
*See Owner's manual for compatible phones and how to adapt others for charging
You choose the destination, we'll watch the road. As part of available Adaptive Cruise Control technology, Lane Centering uses data from the forward looking radar and camera to provide continuous steering support to help keep the vehicle centered in the lane.
*Lane Centering doesn't control steering.
With EasyFold® second-row seats, making the most of the available cargo space is as simple as pressing a button. How you fill it is up to you.
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Sundays at Reds: New Location, Same Tasty BreakfastPosted: October 23rd, 2012 | Author: JR | Filed under: American, Breakfast, brunch, Peabody, Reds Kitchen + Tavern | Tags: pancakes as big as your head, Red's, Red's Sandwich Shop | No Comments »
Having been to Red's in Salem on many lazy Sunday mornings, we were excited to check out their latest incarnation in Peabody (on Rt. 1). It's an enormous space but quite welcoming, with diner-style counters up front and family-style tables elsewhere, plus a nice-looking bar.
We arrived around 12:30 and were a bit disappointed to learn that lunch is not served on Sunday; the restaurant moves right from breakfast to dinner (starting at 2:00). Unlike their sister restaurant, this location serves alcohol and is open until 10pm Sunday through Wednesday and 11pm Thursday through Saturday.
Nonetheless, we ordered up some of our breakfast favorites and thoroughly enjoyed them. The pancakes have got to be one of the best deals around, with three platter-sized fluffy cakes for $6.25. We had the chocolate chip, but the blueberry and banana are also delicious. Served with a side of bacon or sausage ($2.50), it's enough food to last until bedtime.
Two eggs with thick-cut Canadian bacon, home fries, and rye toast also hit the spot ($6.50). The home fries are crispy outside, soft inside, and well seasoned, without being too heavy on the salt or garlic.
Like just about everything on the menu, the omelets are a great value: a huge portion of eggs with generous fillings. We enjoyed the tried-and-true Western with cheese ($6.25) and the more unusual fresh spinach with feta ($6.25). You can create your own concoction from a variety of ingredients and cheeses.
Unfortunately, the breakfast specials that day sounded great and were sold out when we arrived. Guess we'll have to get up earlier if we want to sample the lobster benedict or one of the other benedict-style offerings. We managed to make do with a respectable waffle ($5.50), bacon, and a tasty Absolute Bloody Mary ($9.00).
The Sunday dinners we saw on the tables as we left looked tempting, so we'll definitely plan a return trip to try the chicken pot pie ($9.50) and the rib-eye steak ($24).
Reds Kitchen + Tavern
131 Newbury St, Peabody
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HowMuchMileage brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 96 Designs von 30 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
A non-profit game modification development team is seeking a new logo design for an upcoming version of a game modification for "Counter-Strike: Source" called "GunGame5", now coded using the Python scripting language.
What is GunGame?
To help to understand, I will link you to an interview with the lead developer of the game: http://www.fpsbanana.com/pages/1095
Simply put, GunGame is a modification that is level-based where every player on the game server is given a specific set of weapons, in a specific order. The players all start on the same weapon, and as they gain kills, the players "level up" to the next weapon. Once a single player completes all weapons in the weapon order, that player wins, and a new match begins.
The GunGame Community:
GunGame is the most popular Counter-Strike: Source modification with over 2,000 servers worldwide hosting the modification.
- A Python (snake) integrated into the logo.(Notice that 5 could probably be turned into a snake pretty easily)
- A possible *hint* of Monty Python since Python is named for that.
- Maybe some kind of shield in the back, maybe.(this is not that important)
- The winner will need to supply artwork in various sizes in a minimum of 1 vector format readable by Adobe Illustrator and other sizes in TIF format plus one in PSD(Photoshop Document).
- Take a look at the link to the interview. The GunGame4 logo is there. This logo should look better than that one.
- Also check http://gungame5.com/forums
- Monotone images.
- Don't use images from the game as they would already be copyrighted.
- Don't use cartoonish images for the snake.
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.


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Question: Will the economy benefit from a drop in labor force participation in the next decade?
Yes, 2; No, 12
Marney Cox, San Diego Association of Governments
Answer: NO
Whether the economy benefits from a shrinking labor force depends a great deal on why it is getting smaller and if it is affordable. The most popular and expected reason is the retiring post World War II baby boomers. But the data unexpectedly showed declining participation rates for ages 25 to 54 and rising rates for people over 65. Recent reports suggest choices to leave the labor force are heavily influenced by three forces: a restructuring economy, generous social programs and marginal tax rate disincentives. If it's the latter forces, the economy will suffer, not benefit.
Phil Blair, Manpower
Answer: YES
If employees are working only to get healthcare then they are probably not motivated employees. And they will open up those millions of jobs for people who do want to work and are energized by the experience. There are also long-term advantages for American families when both parents do not have to work merely to get health coverage for their family. If we insist that Americans plan on their retirement through mandatory Social Security then we need to mandate they have healthcare, one way or another.
Kelly Cunningham, National University System
Answer: NO
It is ludicrous to expect the economy to grow with fewer producers and greater government dependency. Falling labor force participation rates are bad for the economy and socially destructive. A system that penalizes producers and rewards non-producers is slated for failure. The CBO report underscores the flawed U.S. social safety net imposing high marginal rates on working class adults. Eligibility rules often mean individuals lose more than a dollar in benefits for every additional dollar they earn. It is long past time to restructure how we build safety net programs and combat poverty. Unleashing productivity results in greater economic growth.
Gina Champion-Cain, American International Investments
Champion-Cain did not participate this week.
Alan Gin, University of San Diego
Answer: YES
There is some concern about the retiring baby boom generation and whether there will be enough workers left to support programs such as Social Security and Medicare. But if workers voluntarily leave the workforce due to the Affordable Care Act, it must be because they are better off as a result, and that's positive for the national economy. Some will leave the workforce to be stay-at-home parents. Others will retire earlier. And still others will become entrepreneurs, not having been able to do so previously for fear of losing health care coverage. There is the added benefit of opening up jobs to the people who are currently unemployed.
Stephan Goss, Zeeto Media
Answer: NO
Having 2.5 million people quit their job should not be interpreted as a benefit for the economy. Basically, the federal government is encouraging people to leave their job and receive a subsidy paid for by working taxpayers. When Press Secretary Jay Carney stated the CBO report is good news because it will now empower individuals to follow their dreams is very concerning. When did it become a good thing to disincentivize people to work? If the CBO report was genuinely a positive economic outlook for the country, we would see its proponents touting the actual numbers – In this instance we are not seeing that.
James Hamilton, University of California San Diego
Answer: NO
Even though from a personal perspective some people would be better off not working and spending more time with their family, that personal value doesn't get counted in GDP. Our standard measures of economic performance will go down if there are fewer people working, and the average person will have to consume a smaller amount of market-produced goods and services. One place we may feel that is in programs like Social Security and Medicare. Those people who remain working will end up carrying a bigger load to make up for the smaller contributions from those who have left the labor force.
Jamie Moraga, intelliSolutions
Answer: NO
If workers elect to quit their full-time jobs, shift to part-time versus full-time status, and baby boomers retire, then our labor supply is reduced. Departing full-time workers may not necessarily be replaced with other full-time workers. All of this could hurt the nation's budget, as an estimated 2.5 million fewer people will be paying taxes on their earnings. Government resources could become strained with the reduction in workforce, which then falls to the taxpayers. Essentially if you have people working fewer hours, then you have less income, which then equates to lower GDP.
Gary London, The London Group Realty Advisors
Answer: NO
The impending retirement of aging baby boomers (regrettably I am one) is a long anticipated demographic reality. But the difference for this generation is that presumably we will live longer and healthier, and from my discussions with my buddies, few of us really intend to retire soon, and certainly not at age 65. So a voluntary "drop" from the labor force is by no means a certainty as projected. Technology, which I view the greatest labor level threat, has a far greater implication to labor force participation and for the future positioning of our economy as a whole than a few retiring baby boomers with bad knees.
Jim Plante, Pathway Genomics
Plante did not participate this week.
Norm Miller, University of San Diego
Answer: NO
The economy will become less productive per capita as the old guys like me start to phase out of the labor pool. Private health care coverage will be replaced by public (read tax payers) and the only economic signal that will "improve" is the unemployment rate which will go down. Total employment and productivity will still grow, albeit a touch slower.
Rick Sanborn, Seacoast Commerce Bank
Answer: NO
A drop in the labor force will not be beneficial for the economy. When people are employed they earn money. When they earn money they spend that money buying goods and services. Buying goods and services creates economic gain and the need to produce more goods and services (economic growth). Fewer people in the labor force not only creates the opposite effect (less buying of goods and service), but it creates a larger drag (or drain) on those working, as those working need to support those who are not (i.e. extended unemployment benefits paid for by working taxpayers).
Lynn Reaser, Point Loma Nazarene University
Answer: NO
A slower growth in the work force will dampen economic growth and gains in per capita income. It will make it more difficult to pay for the cost of Social Security, healthcare, national security, and other government programs. It also raises the risk that individuals will retire without the necessary savings and assets to last for the remainder of their lives, which are becoming increasingly longer. Immigration to offset smaller indigenous increases in the labor force will be necessary to sustain faster economic growth.
John Sarkisian, Pro Performance Sports
Answer: NO
By definition economic growth is defined as an increased capacity to produce goods and services. It is people who have the ability to innovate and produce goods and services. Many think that business is trying to eliminate labor and its associated cost. While in some cases that is true in most cases growing businesses need people and recognize they are their most valuable asset is it's people. More important is the social cost of people not being in the workforce. People need and want to be included in a productive society. That need is largely satisfied by being in the workforce.
Dan Seiver, Reilly Financial Advisors
Answer: NO
But it won't be hurt, either. If workers willingly choose to retire from the labor force, in particular because they now have access to affordable healthcare, they are better off. Other workers can be hired/promoted to fill their positions. They are better off too. If, on the other hand, labor force participation rates fall because unemployed workers give up the search for employment, that is not good. What we need over the next decade is strong growth in productivity, which will drive living standards higher regardless of the rate of population and labor force growth. For that, we will need more business investment, more R+D, and a more educated population.
Chris Van Gorder, Scripps Health
Answer: NO
It would only give the impression of a strengthening economy because the 2.5 million people leaving the workforce would be doing so voluntarily, which would make them ineligible for some government unemployment benefits while they would still be eligible for even more expensive benefits like Medicaid and welfare programs. This is not evidence of an improving economy – on the contrary, it should send up a red flag. The government should be focusing on job creation by reducing job-killing regulations at the local, state and federal level while continuing to improve educational systems so we have a qualified workforce for the future.


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Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers is preparing to give midfielders Raheem Sterling and Joe Allen a rest after acknowledging fatigue played a part in their home defeat by Aston Villa on Saturday.
Sterling has been hugely impressive in his first Barclays Premier League season but has only just turned 18 while Allen is also getting used to life at Anfield after following Rodgers from Swansea in the summer.
The Reds boss told www.liverpoolfc.com: "There is no doubt Raheem is one who does need that breather.
"I've thought about it over the past couple of weeks. In order to do that you need to have that depth to take him out and put somebody else in.
"That's something I'm thinking about - who to put in. He's a naturally very, very fit boy but he needs that mental rest as well.
"For the kid, it's about efficiency as well. Tactically he's still very young. That time will come and he will get the breather soon enough.
"There is no doubt, after working with Joe and seeing him, he's another one. If we're honest, there are a few who could do with that breather, especially mentally. It's something for sure I need to have a wee look at."
Liverpool have been juggling Premier League commitments with a Europa League campaign and Saturday's 3-1 loss left them 12th in the table, 20 points behind leaders Manchester United.


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ROFLMAO - the legend of Liam!Originally Posted by roseboy64
ROFLMAO - the legend of Liam!Originally Posted by roseboy64
marc71178 - President and founding member of AAAS - we don't only appreciate when he does well, but also when he's not quite so good!
Anyone want to join the Society?
Beware the evils of Kit-Kats - they're immoral apparently.
Is it appropriate for someone under suspension to be holding any position of authority?Originally Posted by Nikhil4eva
Well he's not been granted the rights to make the official site as yet and also, it's not really a position as authority as he would do exactly as instructed by the CWBCC. I repeat, however, he's not been approved as yet. We'll wait to see what Neil and others have to offer and compare them for the best.Originally Posted by marc71178
Sreesanth said, "Next ball he was beaten and I said, 'is this the King Charles Lara? Who is this impostor, moving around nervously? I should have kept my mouth shut for the next ball - mind you, it was a length ball - Lara just pulled it over the church beyond the boundary! He is a true legend."
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Career cricket
311 wickets @16.54 and 3021 runs @ 34.56 from 176 games over 11 years H.S 178*
Member of the CW GreenCricket Web Career:(end of season 11) FC: 7404 runs @ 30.85 H.S 253* : One Day: 7331 runs @ 48.55 H.S 155*
Off season: FC 1209 @ 52.51 & One Day: 921 @ 92.10COD4: djs clanWorld Of Warcraft: just sensational
id rather someone use the format we used and just update things of that..Ill try to make one now
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Lords Lounge, Off Topic, The Happening Place in CW and OT.
Co Chairman CWBCC - Cricketweb XI - CW Green | Manager of Hampshire CC - Wccc | Chairman of the Muralitharan Supporters Club ~MSC~ |
Current Stats:
2* - 17-4-35-3 - Season Ends..
Current Record
Batting - RHB: M:48 Inns:43 Runs:457 H/S:33* Ave:15.5 N.O:10
Bowling - Off Spin: O:280 M:40 Runs:975 Wickets:104 Ave:9.3 S.R:15.6
Jesus brings life eternal
Or something.
RIP Fardin Qayyumi (AKA "cricket player"; "Bob"), 1/11/1990 - 15/4/2006
hahah i'd laugh if cricinfo wanted to sue us for copy right. we'd get in this huge media thing and all the stars would be interviewed like Gilchrist and that then they might come interview some of us CW XI players...
then they'd interview Liam and Malcolm Speed
WCC - Manager of Warwickshire
Can someone please update the site?
Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson = Greatest Ever Manager
"One from ten leaves zero." - Eric Williams, former T&T PM
Member of Cricket Web Green
Member of Northside Power
R.I.P Fardin Qayyumi
ive officially started on it today..
Hey members of CW Cricket. Most of the basic webpage layout done and more..all i need is to put in information..captains of the the various teams could you please send me weekly news/information to convey for your Dev team to firstname.lastname@example.com so i can put it up in your various team section..Also please continue posting suggestions and information to put on the webpage on the Cricketweb XI forum under the webpage topic. Sorry for the errors that are still there, i know about some of it and will fix it.
Visit it at http://www.cricketweb.net/cwbcc/index.html
Looks very, very good Reuben mate.
Very good work
Self Elected Vice-President of AAAS
(Ajit Agarkar Appreciation Society)
"Uniting Ajit Agarkar Fans World Wide"
Always Live Life With: Intensity, Integrity and Intelligence
Good job there Reuben
Wee suggestion though: a link to Liam's presentations thread (or, alternatively, that you could read each player's presentation on the site), would be nice.
A follower of the schools of Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett, Benaud and Thunberg
I had a glimpse of Eureka
Chewing me up, chewing me up and spitting me out
-jected, I was rejected
I wasn't good enough to be elected
Lava, it was like lava
Moving through my body like fire
you mean player profile ?a link to Liam's presentations
yep good idea i will get onto that..
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text: This June, the National Aquarium will present Dora & Diego's 4D Adventure, a new family friendly theatrical film and attraction based on Nickelodeon's hit animated preschool series Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go!. For the first time ever, families can see these popular characters animated in digital 3D, with special effects that make the story burst off the screen. To kick off the new film, a Diego costumed character will make a special appearance at the Aquarium on June 26 and 27. In Dora & Diego's 4D Adventure, visitors will join Dora, Diego and Boots as they travel from the tropical rain forest to the icy Arctic in a high-speed chase to protect the world's animals from Swiper's newest invention—a Robot Butterfly! The National Aquarium's 4D theater combines the visual drama of a 3D film with a variety of sensory effects that are built into the seats and theater environment, bringing on-screen images to life with added effects such as water mist, a neck air blast, snow, bubbles, leg ticklers, scents, enhanced floor lighting, and seat vibrations. The 4D Theater is included in the Total Experience Package, giving visitors another option to enhance their Aquarium experience. Single tickets are also available for purchase onsite. The film will play in rotation with Planet Earth: From Pole to Pole which appeals to an older audience. Click here to find more details and show times. Dora & Diego's 4D Adventure was produced by SimEx-Iwerks and Super 78. SimEx-Iwerks is the leading innovator of immersive 3D and 4D Attractions and the exclusive distributor of the industry's best selling film titles. The company supports over 150 family-friendly attractions in more than 30 countries. Super 78 Studios is a group of artists and technicians who have consistently delivered entertaining and educational stories across all platforms. For over 12 years, the award winning creative and production company continues to help extend well-known brands and intellectual properties into special venues and the experiential market. Since its launch on Aug. 14, 2000, Dora the Explorer has emerged as a global phenomenon and ranks among the top-rated shows in major television markets worldwide. The show is seen in more than 151 markets around the world and is translated in more than 30 languages. Nickelodeon, now in its 30th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in almost 100 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 15 consecutive years. For more information or artwork, visit www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA – News, VIA.B – News). Categories: Exhibits


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Each Daemon Dice™ Booster provides a new breed
of fiendish gladiators to send into the Infernal
Arena. New Purebreed abilities can change the tide
of battle. Any breeds can be combined to create new
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standing (or at least squirming).
Fester daemon (yellow plastic/red ink): Fester daemons are covered in blisters so swollen with vile pus that they burst when wounded! Each attack/ability that causes a body part to be wounded inflicts a stun damage against the attacker which is taken immediately after all the fester daemon's damage has been suffered.
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Welcome to the Image Gallery / Image Library for Tamborine Mountain Bed & Breakfast, located on beautiful Mount Tamborine nestled up high in the Gold Coast Hinterland.
Here we share with you our own images depicting our B&B guest rooms and facilities, our gardens, our past guests, Mt Tamborine flora & fauna and more.
We hope that you enjoy our images and that they help you to decide whether you will visit Mount Tamborine and Tamborine Mountain Bed & Breakfast.
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For Developers ONLY! These files are bundled in the latest Auctioneer builds as well. They provided separately here in this download, only for convenience for Developers needing to download only these libraries for compatibility testing.
Stubby is a stub-loader. It takes care of loading LoadOnDemand AddOns based on user or developer selected options. It is currently used by the Auctioneer AddOns team for all of their AddOns. Stubby also includes a hooking library to facilitate the creation of extremely flexible stubs.


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Trust Benefit to come up with these cute little sets, and this time it's a box with some mini sized classic products that are there to make you look…bright(er).
You get:
– girl meets pearl – liquid pearl for face – 7.5 ml
– posietint – poppy-pink tinted lip & cheek stain – 4.0 ml
– high beam – luminescent complexion enhancer – 2.5 ml
– erase paste no. 2 – medium brightening camouflage for eyes & face – 3.2 g
I have all of these products separately already…so it is worth getting it in this set?
Well that depends if you want mini sized products for your handbag…
Or maybe you are a Benefit virgin and haven't tried these products out yet. In which case, for less than £30 you can give all four of them a spin.
It comes with a funky mirror. I personally hate cardboard packaging so I won't be toting the box out anytime soon:
I actually find these minis super cute! Especially the Posietint (I still have to review these products, I am just backlogged!). The Erase Paste will last a while even though it's just a little tub!
Overall this is a nice pick of products. Concealer, highlighter, blush and lip tint, primer. I guess all you'd need then is some mascara and eyeliner and you'd probably look quite hot. (Probably).
This kit costs £28.50 and you can buy it here.


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Guardian Gear® Pet Cots are available in crimson. Large cot has one center leg and X-Large has two center legs for added support.
Care: Frame: Wipe clean with a damp cloth. Cover: Remove cover from frame. Machine wash in cold water. Tumble dry on low heat. Alternate Assembly Instructions Download Assembly Instructions (PDF File)
**Why is the cot cover so tight? So that it is less likely to bow or sag with stretching over time.
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By Anne Helen Petersen Picture the person who comes into the library and heads straight for the magazines. She beelines for People, maybe spends some time with Vanity Fair. She may or may not tear a few pages from the copy when it suits her needs. She loves celebrities: she'll read InStyle if you have it,…


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Hi there! Thank you for checking out my blog! I'm glad that you decided to see what's going on at Baking in the Burbs. Since it's Friday, I decided to go all out and make some fun cupcakes.
These babies are not low carb or low sugar but they are amazing! The cupcakes are snickerdoodle flavored and they have an apple filling. Yummy! I topped them with cream cheese frosting and some store bought garnishes such as cookies and caramel syrup. Today, is definitely a splurge day and I don't feel one bit bad about it.
I was having a goofy day anyway. I sat for 20 minutes waiting for the cupcakes to finish baking and then I realized I hadn't put them in the oven. Silly me! Have you ever done something like that? It must be the heat. I'm just glad that it is Friday and I can slow down a little.
I hope your weekend is off to a good start and that you are taking time to rest and enjoy yourselves!
😋 Jennifer
Cupcake batter:
3 cups all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk ( I used 2 percent but whole milk will work)
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Apple filling:
1 medium baking apple peeled and chopped into small pieces
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream cheese frosting:
8 ounces cream cheese room temperature
1/2 cup unsalted butter
4 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Extras for garnish (optional):
Caramel sundae syrup
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
For cupcake batter:
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer, add flour, sugar, and baking powder. Mix on low until combined.
3. Add milk and butter. Run mixer on low.
4. While mixing, add vanilla and cinnamon.
5. Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners or spray with baking spray. Fill each well 2/3 full with cupcake batter. Bake for 20-22 minutes on the middle rack. Remove from oven and cook.
For apple filling:
6. In a medium sauce pan on the stovetop on medium heat, melt butter. Add brown sugar and stir.
7. Add apples, cornstarch, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir and heat until bubbly and sugar has dissolved.
8. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Cool.
9. Using a frosting tip, take a core piece out of each cupcake like shown:
10. Fill each hole with apple mixture.
For cream cheese frosting:
11. In the bowl of a stand mixer, add cream cheese and butter. Run on low speed until combined.
12. Slowly add powdered sugar while running the mixer.
13. Add cornstarch and vanilla and mix until combined.
14. Pipe cream cheese frosting on cupcakes and garnish with a sprinkle of cinnamon, cookies and caramel syrup (optional).
Serve and enjoy!
Note: garnishes were not factored into nutritional facts.


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The Belen Marsh
A really cool short trip south of Albuquerque
The jewel of the City of Belen is nestled behind a Taco Bell.
It's the Belen Marsh, an accidentally made salty wetland where nearly 100 species of birds come to entertain bored photojournalists.
Legend has it the Belen Marsh was created when road crews dug out a large amount of earth to build a freeway bypass. They ended up hitting the water table and brackish water filled the hole in the ground, forming an ideal place for shorebirds to hang out.
Many amazing birds can be found in the marsh: Snowy Egrets, Ibis, Black-necked Stilts, American Avocets, Kill Deer and a bizarre duck called Ruddy which has a turquoise bill. There are also muskrats in a nearby irrigation canal and a clutch of burrow owls is roosting in a nearby field. It's a great place to take children who will find the large shorebirds reminiscent of dinosaurs.
The marsh has, unfortunately, been used as a dumping ground, but a local environmental organization has gone out and cleaned up some of the wreckage. It sits on private property so it is probably wise to stay on the street, unless, of course, you are daring.
It has been a source of contention, as one group wants to see the marsh drained and filled to make way for a parking lot. Another wants it left alone as it is a unique miniature ecosystem.
To get to the marsh, take I-25 south to the first Belen exit. Head east. Once you see the Taco Bell, take a right. It is to your left. It's buggy down there so bring mosquito repellent. A camera wouldn't hurt either, and it's a good place to practice taking action shots. Those birds move.
Enjoy. And hurry before some oil company comes along and starts drilling and there are no more birds to enjoy. It could happen.


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Faithful Forever Pets has a variety of complete packages to meet the needs of all pet parents, when memorializing the memory of a treasured pet.
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On Monday May 19, 2008, government contractors started killing the kangaroos on a former naval base in Canberra, Australia. By May 29 they (514) were dead. This, in a diary in reverse, is their story and the fight to save them. Warning: this site contains images of animal suffering that may disturb some viewers. Photography: Ray Drew
ALL OF THE KANGAROOS IN THE PHOTOGRAPH ABOVE ARE NOW DEAD. THEY WERE NEEDLESSLY KILLED IN THE LAST WEEK OF MAY 2008, following a world wide campaign to save them. The area to which they were later driven and killed can be seen at the top of the image. This site forms part of the National archive at the National Library of Australia. Images © Ray Drew 2008
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LOOKING BACK FROM early June, 2008: It's over. A crane was there at 10 am, and it removed the remaining chiller boxes at noon. All day I heard the clink and clang of the temporary fences being dismantled – the same sound I heard when some kangaroos, in panic, ran into them last week. I sat next to an old guy, a survivor kangaroo, who was feeding in a remote corner of the site. I am sure I knew him-- he had half an ear torn off from a battle some time ago – and by that I recognised an old friend. A friend appeared through the bush and joined me. We sat there together for quite a time. As the last fences go, the site has an ugly emptiness of death after a plague. I passed the place (above) where fifty or so animals used to lie by the water, some occasionally bathing, and all that remains are pockets of flattened grass.
This series of events have changed our lives. All those who witnessed it from the fence were sickened by what they saw -- animal carers, experienced press photographers, lawyers, writers, teachers. Some of us have dedicated ourselves to work for the kangaroos. Some have rededicated themselves. Some have formed new relationships, some may have lost theirs. Some are preparing for court. There are many stories. Some have sworn to leave Canberra. All will never be quite the same.
It was the first kangaroo massacre, as far as I know, that has been fully 'outed', and it revealed the dark underside of European Australia, a society that has never accepted the landscape and its wildlife. We also saw cold bureaucracy at work, and with it, a neo-Cartesian scientism . These events have been comprehensively photographed, videoed, and recorded, live. And the world knows about it. I have always believed (and discovered) that showing or publicly 'outing' once hidden atrocities works powerfully to end them, whether it be in a mental institution, a prison, an abbatoir, or a kangaroo 'cull'. In this case we saw, in this decimation, acts of murder of another mammal carried out with dissociated sadism; we saw young PhD students herding the animals and we saw security guards joining in. Almost depraved, other than that, were the rationalisations for the killing and the disinformation in which allegedly respected academics took part: ludicrous, if not so tragic.
I do believe that we have given the perpetrators a hell of a shock. But of course they'll try it again, and again. And they will be answered.
Hundreds of kangaroos at the Belconnen Naval Transmission station, Canberra, Australia, were slaughtered. Their crime: growing up on fenced-in land, 118 ha in size, which the government wants to develop. In a series of rationalisations, the government first announced the animals had to be 'culled' because they were starving (a standard government excuse). Later, more sophisticated rationales - they were supposed to be endangering a rare grasshopper, a golden sun moth, and a peppercrest. When, earlier, these and other 'vulnerable species' were discovered on other patches of land, the government happily built over them. When destroying the kangaroos, contracted vehicles haphazardly criss-crossed quite large sections of the site. The resultant dust bowl in the central area was not caused by grazing kangaroos, but the contract killers. So much for the vulnerable species.
A not-too-distant analogy: in the concentration camps of WW2, human beings who opposed the Nazi ideology were classed as Untermenschen, sub-humans, likened to animals. They were placed behind barbed wire, some were made subject to fertility experiments, most forced into killing chambers and executed en masse. Their bodies were thrown into pits. They were removed to make way for more living space. That process, that mechanism, has returned to eliminate wild animals in order to make room for more living space. The kangaroos have been labelled 'pests', killed, body parts made into scrotum bags and novelties, devalued, brutalised, vilified, and eaten. I spoke to an elderly European lady who witnessed the killing. 'Other than the fact that they were killing kangaroos,' she said, 'it was the same as it was then with the Nazis. It brought it all back.'
The fundamental ideology that animals exist to be controlled, utilised, exploited, tortured, or killed by human beings is so deep seated and widespread, so embedded in this culture and civilisation, that nearly all scientists cannot comprehend a viewpoint other than this. In fact, 'civilisation,' it may be argued, is an elaborate project to try to justify and rationalise distantiation from other animals and nature. The careers of most scientists are intertwined with this neo-Cartesian, anthropocentric outlook. Hope for a change appears to lie more in the field of new ideas and protest arising in the fields of deep ecology, eco feminism, cultural studies, or contemporary psychoanalysis.
|MAY 29, 2008 The 'cull' has allegedly finished. Apart from the experimental animals, only a few kangaroos appear to remain of over 500 (we trust those two will be allowed to live out their days). We shall confirm that it is really all over when the internal fences come down. Most of the bodies of the dead animals were removed to another military base today for burial.
MAY 28, 2008 noon The killing continues, but there are only perhaps 50 animals left (around 450 killed). A few male kangaroos have staged a fightback. A witness saw a male kangaroo jump over a pursuer's truck. Four attempts were made by contractors and security guards to corral the kangaroo and all failed. We hope he survives. No doubt the contractors, who have no sense of mercy, will retry in the early morning. (We pray that they shall be spared). Video and still cameras from different locations will be watching them. Below: A dead kangaroo is taken away from near the killing area. I do not know how it died. There is another animal nearby with a collar. That means it is supposed to be saved for experimental purposes. But because it has apparently escaped from the enclosure where those animals have been kept, procedure demands it be re-anaesthetised before being sent back.
MAY 27, 2008, 12.30 pm. (Tues) Contractors drive about fifty kangaroos toward the kill area. Few remain, although it is expected roundups of remaining animals will go on until at least the weekend. It appears that even the very old animals, with less than a year or so to live, will be killed - and the youngest as well. Although thousands of individuals have come together in ever increasing numbers on the Internet to protest this act of callousness, most of the citizens of Canberra have remained apathetic. Many people who ride their bicycles past the scene above show not the slightest concern for the welfare of the animals. When all is said and done, their death can be put at the feet of a public which, to date, has no sensitivity to animal suffering. A visitor, who drove 600 miles to the site, arrived today to ask, 'where are the thousands of protestors?' When told there were only a half dozen protesting tonight at the site, he yelled, 'WHY?' Why indeed.
On the other hand, the many thousands of people here in Australia and overseas who are appalled by this action have renewed their determination to end such horrors. The practices of those who conducted the killing have, for the first time, been comprehensively documented by modern media, and Australian government will have a lot of explaining to do to an increasingly critical world.
MAY 26, 2008 World wide protest against the continuing kill increases. A number of Australian filmmakers are already beginning documentaries. This 'cull,' which Defence and the ACT government, would be quickly concluded and forgotten, has galvanised hundreds of animal care organisations throughout the country. An Australia wide network involving thousands of people disgusted by this kill is being constructed. All the audiovisual footage of the cull has been sent to a large number of databases for future publication in this country and overseas.
Today the killing continued, but at a slower pace. Most killing is now attempted in the early morning and later afternoon.
A disturbing and illegal move has seen the contracted security guards join the 'cull' to herd the kangaroos. Protestors and even press photographers are also being filmed by this new alliance.
MAY 24, 2008. The killing goes on. The contractors, this time aided by guards (an act quite out of their jurisdiction) have been herding the kangaroos. 100 (perhaps more) kangaroos now appear to remain. This photograph shows some herded into the area close to the killing area. All are terribly stressed (note the arm licking). Those who visited the site today, animal carers and media people, have been shocked, and many have vowed not to rest until the world sees this cold brutality. One of the most experienced wildlife campaigners in Australia stated that it was the most sickening spectacle he has ever witnessed. The photographs below suggest, but do not fully depict, the living horror. It is interesting to note that no local sitting politician has attended the site to witness the suffering of these animals. The so-called ecologically conscious Greens party here have ignored it. Five kangaroos escaped today by squeezing under the boundary fence. It is becoming harder and harder for the perpetrators to force the roos into the kill zone - they are running in the opposite direction when the door is opened. But it is a losing battle.
MAY 23, 2008. I have not added photographs, because the images I have today are similar to those below. The images will be used in further court action. I will only add that the remaining kangaroos have learned not to approach the killing circle. To counteract this 'beaters' have used a kind of hessian net to force the animals forward. It is worth noting that the perpetrators are scientists, accompanied by students, not farmers or outback hillbillies. Their version of science allows the utmost dissociation. Naturally, those who have witnessed the slaughter, some over days, are very angry indeed. I note that public intellectuals are considering writing a critique of anthropocentric science in an entire issue of a forthcoming well-known journal; several film makers are working on a documentary of the events; Australia Zoo (Wildlife Warriors) have now condemned the cull - the world now knows more about Australia's culture of wildlife abuse. And the world is not amused.
Of course, there have been reactions. A handful of locals gathered near the site to celebrate the 'success' of the cull with a banner inviting those passing to a barbeque of 'roo steaks.' They were pictured on page one of the local paper. Australia has a long way to go before a sincere acknowedgement of animal consciousness and suffering develops. They remain objects to be controlled, managed, exploited and killed.
MAY 22, 2008. After eight protestors were arrested when they staged an indigenous re-occupation at the site, the killers have been darting animals as fast as possible. The same kind of events happened at the site: earlier today a kangaroo trapped in the killing area tried to jump over the walls - witnesses saw half its body appear above the hessian -- which must have been 5-6 metres high (see pic below) Then it fell to its death, shot by a dart gun loaded with very potent drug(s). It was a sight that moved onlookers to tears and rage. A campaign to arrest vocal protestors is underway. About 7 pm: Carol Drew arrested outside the main gate.
MAY 21, 2008. Warning: these photographs show an animal "cull". In the image below, 'beaters' - two female and one male - drive kangaroos into the opening at far right. The grey/silver coloured box inside the opening conceals a man (the top of his head may be faintly seen) who shoots the kangaroos with a dart. Inside the kill circle the walls were doubled in height because kangaroos were actually leaping twice their height to escape. Now escape is impossible. At left, two kangaroos, in panic, have collided with a metal pole. Near the centre of the pic, a young kangaroo (joey) stands bewildered. Operators now try to kill at dusk, when photographers have great difficulty with insufficient light.
Above: When contractors tried to force more kangaroos by driving behind them with this vehicle toward the killing zone, a young animal slammed into the wire fencing and died. The individual who actually shoots the all the animals from a hide is at right. They placed the body in a bag.
Today about thirty were killed, but the area once propular with kangaroos -- near a lake -- is now empty. 'Experts' once tallied the number of roos on site to be up to around 700, but as only about 200 have been killed and the site is already looking deserted, evidence is mounting that they lied about the numbers.
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2008 The same slaughter as Monday's (see photos below) repeated today. The only difference is that huge press coverage showing terrified, injured, and shot roos, has forced the contractors to resort to cunning. After the press called it a day, they started shooting at dusk, in semi darkness. A witness said she saw 30 more killed. When darkness set in, killing staff had not left the area. A visit to the site at 10 pm revealed that finally, all was still. -- until 7.30 am on Wednesday (tomorrow) when the whole ugly episode - in the name of science -- will continue. In the Orwellian world of the killing machine, helicopters flying overhead with press photographers are to be banned because they 'stress the animals '-- but driving them into a killing yard after a day's wait and shooting them with lethal darts is not. Kangaroos making massive leaps over the killing circle, in a last desperate attempt to escape, and dying with broken legs, is not, apparently, stress.
More protestors have arrived from interstate, but their numbers are few. The Australian public has been shaken by press photographs of the slaughter, but seems paralysed to act. In part they think that if the government has sanctioned it, (and even the RSPCA has sanctioned it), there must be a good, moral reason for having them killed. They also fear that if they demonstrate, they could be arrested. Recent online polls show that the public are now divided about 50-50 for and against the kill. While the main body of kangaroos are killed, another small team is darting females and while they are unconscious, injecting them with sterilisation drugs. We saw two kangaroos left unconscious, and on awakening, were crashing into tree trunks and falling over. This went on for over thirty minutes. Some of these 'guinea pigs' have had multiple tests, multiple invasions of their integrity. This kind of scientism is ugly, brutal, and patriarchal.
MONDAY, MAY 19, 2008 The FIRST DAY of the kill.
On a foggy morning, contracted workers set up the last fences in order to trap kangaroos on the site. They consist of men and women, many of whom are government employees. They do not know they are being photographed.
The kangaroos are 'beaten' by noise and hand signals to run left into a race leading to a killing zone to near the centre of the naval base.
They arrive at a 'killing zone' at the end of the 'funnel'. Here a joey is left alive (temporarily) - (small figure 1/3 of the way from left) while its mother and another kangaroo can be seen silhouetted, dead behind a hessian screen. The car at right pulls a trailer in which the bodies are thrown.
|The innocents are in a state of shock and fear. They group together seeking a way out of their prison. They are killed in groups of ten. Below: they are forced onward to the place where the shooter awaits.
Workers warily approach the body of a kangaroo. This photo indicates how some humans fear wildlife - the man at left (actually, the shooter) looks as if he is approaching a brown snake. Apparently the small kangaroo escaped from the killing zone and collapsed back into the approach section. It died.
Tomorrow (Tuesday May 20) the killing will go on until - unless a halt is called -- all the living animals you see on this page are dead.
This is how Australians treat their national symbol. If they get in the way or urban development, they must go. Translocation is extremely rare.
While those who love and care for injured kangaroos weep, the mass does not. A popular Sydney daily newspaper printed the news of the slaughter in Canberra. Nearly 150 people wrote in within an hour or so with their comments. About 140 delighted in the kill, slurring the very few who opposed it. The bloodhounds wrote statements calling kangaroos 'pests', abusing people like Sir Paul McCartney who oppose the slaughter, demanded people eat kangaroo meat, and so on. Even the late Steve Irwin, who loved kangaroos, would have been branded a 'hippy' (sic) or a 'wanker'. Most of the attacks contained statements that are grossly ill-informed. This is the general state of Australian 'culture' at this moment in time. This is the country that campaigns to save the whale.
We ask you to protest. Ray Drew.
Photographs © Ray Drew 2008
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Australia: a culture of violence toward its native animals.
The government has claimed that moving the animals is too expensive. It has also claimed (reasons vary from month to month) they overcrowd the site, that they are endangering vulnerable species, or they are starving and they must be killed for 'humane' reasons. The protesters say all these accusations are false, and the real reason is that the animals must be got rid of to make way for urban development. It is a fact that the local government intends to build housing on the grasslands outside the base fence, and probably inside as well when they take possession of the base within 18 months. No mention has been made of danger to rare species in the grasslands that extend outside the base fence. Do vulnerable species cease to exist a metre from the boundary wire? Astoundingly, the government allows cattle to graze there. The truth is that the ACT government has a policy of never translocating kangaroos -- killing is its traditional solution to animals that get in the way of development or sheep or cattle farmers. Within Australia, kangaroo lives are almost valueless, other than as a source of meat or hide. Comparatively few Australians admire their beauty and sensitivity - those that do love them do so with great passion. Otherwise, the gentle animals appear to arouse an unreasoning hatred among sectors of the population. Whenever the government announces a 'cull' (kill) thousands do NOT flock to protest the slaughter. In contrast, visitors to the country adore them and cannot understand the mass slaughter, which amounts to 3.6 million or more a year. That amounts to 10,000 killed every night.
GENERAL WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAY DREW: emus, wallabies, birdlife, etc. http://www.raydrew.net/intro.htm
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Kangaroo drinking at sunset at the old naval base, early May 2008. She has been killed.
A kangaroo at the base about a week before the kill decision was made by the Australian government. Now dead.
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Stocks edged higher Thursday after a pair of reports provided more evidence that the U.S. is maintaining a slow but steady economic recovery.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dropped last week and is near the lowest level since June 2008, the Labor Department said Thursday. Weekly applications are just 1,000 above a five-year low reached last month.
Also, a survey from the payroll company ADP showed that American businesses added 176,000 jobs in August, fewer than in June and July but roughly in line with the monthly average for the year.
The encouraging reports came one day before the government releases its closely watched employment survey for August. Many investors believe that a strong report will ensure that Federal Reserve policymakers will decide to reduce, or "taper," economic stimulus at their meeting later this month.
The U.S. central bank is buying $85 billion in bonds a month to keep long-term interest rates low and to stimulate the economy. Fed stimulus has helped drive a bull market in stocks that has lasted more than four years.
"The data is shaping up that the Fed probably lays out a tapering schedule in September," said Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Investors.
While stock markets may be volatile in the coming weeks, investors will ultimately regard the cut in stimulus as a positive sign because it means that the economy is strengthening, Orlando said. "It should leave stocks in great shape."
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 6.61 points, or less than 0.1 percent, to 14,937.48. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose two points, or 0.1 percent, to 1,655.08. The Nasdaq composite gained 9.74 points, or 0.3 percent, to 3,658.78.
Some retail stocks were among the biggest gainers.
Costco rose $3.12, or 2.8 percent, to $114.62 after the discount store chain said revenue at stores open at least a year rose 4 percent in August, slightly faster than Wall Street's expectations. Walgreen's also gained after reporting a strong rise in sales last month. Walgreen's rose 70 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $50.19 after reporting a 4.8 percent increase in sales.
In government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note climbed after the jobs reports. It also edged higher after a private survey showed that the U.S. service sector expanded at the fastest pace in nearly 8 years last month as sales and orders grew and employers ramped up hiring.
The yield on the 10-year note rose to 2.99 percent from 2.90 percent late Wednesday. The yield has climbed more than 1.3 percentage points in four months and is at its highest since July 2011 as bond traders anticipate that the Federal Reserve will cut back on its stimulus.
Rising yields on Treasury notes matter for the economy because they are used to set mortgage rates and other key interest rates. Average fixed rates on U.S. long-term mortgage rates rose to 4.57 percent this week, close to their highest of the year.
Stocks slumped in August, in part due to concern that the Fed would slow stimulus and the higher interest rates would harm the economy. The S&P 500 index fell 3.1 percent, its biggest monthly decline since May 2012.
It appears, however, that investors are getting more comfortable with higher borrowing costs.
"We don't anticipate that a gradual rise in rates will choke off the economy," said Dave Roda, regional chief investment officer for Wells Fargo Private Bank. "We are still looking at very low rates historically."
In commodities trading, the price of oil rose $1.14, or 1.1 percent, to $108.37 a barrel. Gold fell $17, or 1.2 percent, to $1,373 an ounce.
Among other stocks making big moves:
— Conn's, a consumer finance company, fell $7.95, or 12 percent, to $60.36 after the company reported second-quarter earnings that missed Wall Street expectations.
— Groupon rose 37 cents, or 3.5 percent, to $10.66 after Morgan Stanley raised its recommendation on the stock to "overweight" as the online deals company tweaked its business model.
— Louisiana-Pacific, a building products company, rose $1.69, or 11 percent, to $16.95 after the company said late Wednesday that it is buying Ainsworth Lumber of Canada for $1.1 billion.


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