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This layout was inspired by sketch #46 @ Creative Genealogy Scrapbooking. I rotated the sketch clockwise and used striped instead of circles:
Tal is doing his "Aliyah LaTora".
I used: DCWV patterend papers, Sonburn cardstock, Fiskars border punch, Sharpie, Ink It Up! black Ink, eyelet.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Bar Mitzva
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Senior citizens deserve a peaceful, healthy and trouble-free retired life because their past deeds have contributed richly to the betterment of society and others' living conditions. In their working days, they have paid taxes and contributed to the benefits of the society. Now it is the opportunity for the society to repay them.
To make life easier for the seniors, both government and private institutions have several special offers. They include programs like social security, healthcare packages, tax benefits, insurance benefits, etc by the government. Private businesses also do their share by offering specialist services and special senior citizen discounts. Seniors deserve all these, because they were the contributors to the society in the not so distant past.
However, it is to be noted that none of the benefits for delivered to the seniors on a platter. In fact, somebody has to identify the benefits and programs available to them and apply for the benefits. You may get senior citizen discounts you book a ticket with a travel agent. You may not receive the healthcare benefits or insurance because simply because you haven't applied for them.
Senior citizens are mostly a confused lot, because most of them aren't aware of most of the benefits available to them. You may miss several opportunities this way, by not knowing about them. Although there are websites, magazines, and newspaper reports aimed at seniors, it takes time to learn about the benefits and the right methods of applying for them.
The Benefits Available to Senior Citizens
Senior citizens have several benefits to avail. Social security and healthcare are the main items you should not miss. Also there are Disability Insurance Benefits, Supplemental Security Income, Disabled Adult Child Benefits, Disabled Widow's/Widower's Benefits, etc. Retirement benefits, spousal benefits and disability benefits, are all things seniors can take advantage of. The only thing is knowing them and using them.
After retirement, it is time to explore the world. There are special travel offers specially for the senior citizen groups offered by different travel planners. Apart from lower tickets and restaurant costs, you can also benefit from accessible holidays. Even disabled people too can find the cottages, restaurants, libraries, etc. They don't come from the government, but by companies and institutes that offer good services to the seniors.
Life is in fact good for the seniors. You can take advantage of the many programs offered by governments and businesses, because people in your age group have contributed richly to the betterment of businesses and working of the society.


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San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions: Work by Tamara Albaitis, Amy Wilson Faville, and Calder Yates
San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions:
Work by Tamara Albaitis, Amy Wilson Faville, and Calder Yates
The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco will host an exhibition and reception for current artists-in-residence Tamara Albaitis, Amy Wilson Faville, and student artist Calder Yates on Friday, September 21, from 5-9pm and Saturday, September 22, from 1-5pm. This exhibition will be the culmination of four months of work by the artists who have scavenged materials from the dump to make art and promote recycling and reuse. A plant give-a-way will also take place beginning Friday on a first come basis. Plants have been rescued from the Public Disposal and Recycling Area and nursed back to life. Larger plants as well as propagated new starters will be available, one per visitor.
Tamara Albaitis: Dwell
When Tamara Albaitis has spoken to elementary school tour groups during her residency she often has asked, "What is your favorite sound?" Invariably someone will respond with the title of a song, and upon further prompting will understand that they are not being asked exclusively about music, but about the vast auditory experience that surrounds us every moment of every day. How sound figures in our existence can be a complex thing. It is the white noise soundtrack to our lives, but its ubiquity sometimes renders it outside our consciousness. Some people are acutely tuned in, while others hardly ever contemplate it, yet it is a human universal, rich with meaning and associations born deep within our psyches. Albaitis calls attention to this core sensory experience as a way to connect us to our environment and to each other through sculptural sound installations that combine the playful, visceral, primal, and poetic in unexpected ways.
Though Albaitis actually sculpts sound through its placement, movement and repetition, her main physical sculptural medium is speaker cones and wire. She has found these in abundance at the dump and has gathered countless yards of speaker wire and hundreds of discarded home stereo speakers from which she's extracted the raw cones. Albaitis has crafted a large-scale, cocoon-like form viewers/listeners are invited to enter for an immersive auditory experience, as well as smaller sound sculptures. Reflecting her background in painting and drawing Albaitis uses speaker wire to "draw" on walls, one of many ways she explores the physicality of sound. Other scavenged materials have been incorporated into her work, including fur and leather, appealing to Albaitis for their role as protective skins, and various personal items that have emotional associations. She has also been inspired for the first time to use the speaker boxes she normally discards, stacking them for a sonic cityscape. Audio is drawn from varied sources including a found collection of CDs capturing sounds from space, field recordings of the Recology facility, voice recordings from scavenged cassette and reel to reel tapes, and Albaitis's own heartbeat.
Explaining her sound installations Albaitis says, "Conceptually, these unfold as questions about sustainability (psychological and environmental), dependence, and the complex relationship between people and nature in a techno-centric culture." A live performance with Delisa Myles (http://delisamyles.com) will take place during the exhibition receptions, Friday evening at 7:30pm and Saturday afternoon at 3pm.
Albaitis received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and attended the International Institute of Art in Hangzhou, China where she studied Chinese landscape painting. In 2003 she was invited to establish the first experimental sound department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received the first MFA in sound art in the United States. She has been a recipient of a Eureka Fellowship and a James Irvine Fellowship and has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Amy Wilson Faville: Everything is Beautiful
During her residency Amy Wilson Faville has continued with a body of work that explores discarded materials. Prior to her residency she was painting public dumping sites in her Oakland neighborhood, and while at Recology she has chosen to work in mixed-media collage, capitalizing on the wealth of items thrown away to make representations of discarded materials from discarded materials. Faville seeks to turn the tables on the refuse—creating something beautiful from the abject—while also posing larger questions about consumption and sustainability. Says Faville, "To me, trash contains both narrative and metaphor. Stories are implied by things that are discarded and abandoned; heaps of cast-off belongings symbolize our economic decline and societal malaise."
Faville's working process first involves photographing her subject matter to create reference images for her paintings and collages. She discovered that photographing within the Public Disposal and Recycling Area (the dump) was challenging—objects moved through too rapidly as piles were quickly pushed by front loaders. However, individual piles of materials waiting to be recycled including mattresses, carpet, and damaged recycling and compost bins, sat longer for their photographs, so became the subject of her work. The resulting collage representations are rich with the repetition of form and line found in groupings of multiples. Faville's titles for her pieces such as Mattress Canyon and Carpet Mountain speak both poetically to the enormity of the subject matter and ironically to its position as the antithesis of anything found in nature.
Faville's collages combine a range of found materials including 1970s-era wallpaper culled from sample books, colored file folders, fabrics (including mattress ticking cut from her subject matter), and her own drawings. Faville gravitates to the vivid colors and bold patterns prevalent in 60s and 70s textiles, so in her work the dreary and bedraggled become vibrant, as we are invited to take a slightly psychedelic journey through these representations of accumulated objects. Pieced together colors and patterns also suggest quiltmaking, the domestic, and related feelings of comfort and familiarity. Faville will also present an assemblage of collected materials as a three-dimensional collage emerging from a wall of her drawings and other two-dimensional work.
Faville received an MFA and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco, and is in the collections of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco and the di Rosa Preserve in Napa. She is a faculty member at Diablo Valley College where she teaches drawing, painting, design, and color theory.
Calder Yates: Corpus Curare
Calder Yates has used the Recology San Francisco facility as a staging ground for video works, drawings, and mixed-media sculptures that explore disruption and precariousness, and the strategies employed in negotiating such conditions. Using lo-fi materials in stripped-down productions, Yates presents situations in need of navigation and efforts that have gone awry. With an undercurrent of implied danger and an often comical poignancy, works probe common feelings of vulnerability and powerlessness.
Gesture and movement are important components of Yates's work. Previous projects have been participatory, requiring the navigation of chance situations, and while at Recology he has involved facility workers in similar challenges. His choice of mundane objects speaks to their universality while also adding an element of the absurd. Yates addresses the desire to make things better and the sense of futility that often results from our limitations as humans.
Explains Yates, "Specific experiences inform my approach. These include having lived in Florida and witnessing the aftermath of hurricanes and working as a teacher. There is a specific terror in recognizing that your attempts to ameliorate a situation would in fact lead to complicating the problem if not exacerbating the suffering altogether. And that's what interests me."
Yates is a graduate student in the sculpture department at the California College of the Arts. He holds a BA in political science and studio art from the New College of Florida. He has exhibited at the Vermont Studio Center and was the APAC Artist in Residence at the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, Florida. Yates's work will be on view at the Recology Environmental Learning Center at 401 Tunnel Avenue.
The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco is a one-of-a-kind program established in 1990 to encourage the conservation of natural resources and instill a greater appreciation for the environment and art in children and adults. Artists work for four months in studio space on site, use materials recovered from the Public Disposal and Recycling Area, and speak to students and the general public. Over ninety-five professional Bay Area artists have completed residencies. Applications are accepted annually in August.
Reception-Friday, September 21, 2012, 5-9pm
Reception-Saturday, September 22, 2012, 1-5pm
Art Studio located at 503 Tunnel Ave. and Environmental Learning Center Gallery at 401 Tunnel Ave., San Francisco, CA
Admission is free and open to the public, all ages welcome, wheelchair accessible. http://www.recology.com/AIR


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - In charge nearly the entire way, Duke Williams and Nevada let the New Mexico Bowl spin out of control at the end.
Matt Scott threw two short touchdown passes in the final 46 seconds and college football's postseason started with a wild one when Arizona recovered a late onside kick and rallied past the Wolf Pack 49-48 Saturday.
Nevada led 21-0 in the first quarter and was ahead 45-28 entering the fourth period. The Wolf Pack (7-6) had a chance to seal the win, but a hard-spinning kick bounced off Williams' chest and was covered by Arizona's Marquis Flowers.
Scott then tossed a 2-yard TD pass to Tyler Slavin with 19 seconds left.
'You come down to the last 2 minutes or whatever it was and we don't make a play,' Nevada coach Chris Ault said. 'It happened. It's reality.'
'You look at that and you feel, I'm just sick for those seniors. There's no question about it. I'm sick for this whole football team. We had an opportunity to win a football game and we didn't,' he said.
Nevada led 48-35 with 1:48 left after Allen Hardison made a 25-yard field goal.
Arizona (8-5) quickly scored a touchdown, setting up the onside try. Wildcats kicker John Bonano grounded it fast at Williams.
Earlier, Williams made an interception at the Wolf Pack 8. This time, no such luck.
'The ball bounced 2 feet away from me,' he said. 'It was coming hot. I just figured I'd make the play and when it counted, I wasn't able to make it. It was coming hot. The ball was coming real fast. Two feet away from me, it bounced up, popped up and bounced off my shoulder pad.'
Arizona was still 51 yards away from the end zone without a timeout, Wolf Pack linebacker Albert Rosette pointed out.
'If we recover it, the game is over,' he said. 'They got it, but they still have to go down and score a touchdown. They don't have any timeouts. The game is not over. We can still keep them out of the end zone. It's not like they can kick a field goal. It's hard to see them recover, but it wasn't the game.'
Matt Scott hit Garic Wharton for 28 yards and Austin Hill for 21 yards. The Wildcats completed the improbable comeback with Scott's short throw to Slavin.
'They scored 14 points in less than 2 minutes,' Rosette said. 'I don't know. I'm still in shock right now. We made some mistakes there at the end. We still felt we were in it. We still felt that we were going to win that game and to lose like that, it hurts.'
Nevada quarterback Cody Fajardo finished with 256 yards passing and three touchdowns, while also rushing for 140 yards and another score.
Wolf Pack running back Stefphon Jefferson gained 180 yards and scored twice.
Two of Fajardo's scoring tosses went to tight end Zach Sudfeld, both in the first half as Nevada took a big lead.
Arizona came back behind running back Ka'Deem Carey, who finished with 172 yards and three touchdowns. Scott threw for 382 yards and three scores and also ran for one.
'It was an unbelievable game,' Sudfeld said. 'Just the momentum swings back and forth. Just big swings on both sides. It was a crazy game to play in.'


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Vatican City, Dec 10, 2013 / 05:52 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Caritas International has initiated their first global campaign to eradicate hunger, promoting the basic human right to food, and encouraging fraternal solidarity in ensuring that everyone has enough.
In a video message for the Dec. 10 press conference announcing the launching of the campaign, Pope Francis stated that "I am happy to announce to you the launch of a campaign against global hunger by our very own 'Caritas Internationalis' and to tell you that I intend to give my full support."
The Pope highlighted that the work of Caritas, a relief agency of the Church, "is at the heart of the mission of the Church and of Her attention towards all those who suffer because of the scandal of hunger."
Caritas specifically chose to launch the campaign, entitled "One human family, food for all," on Dec. 10 to correspond with Human Rights Day, because the initiative is based on our right to have adequate and nutritious food in order to live a dignified life.
One of the primary goals of the global effort, a confederation of 164 various organizations, is to completely eradicate hunger by 2025.
Operating on three different levels in order to achieve their goal of ending hunger, Caritas plans to first begin a global advocacy for the right to food, and to help foster national objectives for this which each individual country can decide based on their resources.
The charity organization is also encouraging each individual person to reflect on personal habits and attitudes regarding the use and waste of food, and to base future actions on the principles of justice and charity.
Cardinal Peter Kwodo Appiah Turkson, who was due to be present at the conference but is has travelled to South Africa for the funeral of former president Nelson Mandela, emphasized in a message read by a representative that the global problem of hunger is a "human issue."
Pointing to the title of the campaign, the cardinal, who is the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, observed that "hunger comes as a lack of human solidarity," and from a lack of acting "as brothers and sisters."
It is also a "moral issue," he continued, because it involves human freedom, and we are free to either "act" or to "ignore" the situation.
This campaign, Cardinal Turkson stressed, "is for food nutrition and food security, not against the hungry: let us eliminate hunger, not the hungry."
Pope Francis reflected in his video message on the feeding of the five thousand in the Gospel, stating that "when the Apostles said to Jesus that the people who had come to listen to his words were hungry, He invited them to go and look for food."
However, "being poor themselves, all they found were five loaves and two fish," he noted, pointing out that "with the grace of God, they managed to feed a multitude of people, even managing to collect what was left over and avoiding that it went to waste."
"We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion – one billion people who still suffer from hunger today," the Pope explained, stating that "we cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist."
"The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone. The parable of the multiplication of the loaves and fish teaches us exactly this: that if there is the will, what we have never ends.
Pope Francis then asked that all "make a space" in their hearts for the "emergency" of upholding the "God-given" right to food, appealing that each person "give a voice to all of those who suffer silently from hunger, so that this voice becomes a roar which can shake the world."
"Let us pray that the Lord gives us the grace to envisage a world in which no one must ever again die of hunger."
At the end of the press conference marking the launch of the campaign, the attendees travelled at noon to the Roman Church of Saint Francis in Repair to initiate the beginning of a "wave of prayer," which will continue to travel around the world.
All have been invited to participate in the wave of prayer, or follow it on Facebook at "IAmCaritas," or on twitter with the hashtag "#Food4All."


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Hi All,
I am learning Differential Equations, and came across a specific problem of Dirichlet BVP, which says that:
Given x'' = f(x'), x(0) = 0 = x(1), If f(0) $\neq $ 0 and f has two zeros of opposite sign (say, $r^+$ $\gt$ 0 and $r^−$ $\lt$ 0) then all solutions to Dirichlet BVP have derivatives satisfying
$r^−$ $\lt$ x'(t) $\lt$ $r^+$ , $\forall$t $\epsilon$ [0, 1].
Is this true? How can be this shown?
Also, can someone please tell me how to establish apriori bounds on the derivative of solutions on [0, 1] for the BVP x'' = [(x')$^2$ − 1]$^n$ ?


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The Passion
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When you're over fifty, it becomes increasingly difficult to be an up-and-coming director. Gianni Dubois knows this only too well. He hasn't made a film for years, and now that he has the chance to direct a young TV star he can't even think up an idea for a story. As if this wasn't enough, a leak in his apartment in Tuscany has ruined the 16th-century fresco in the chapel next door. To avoid being sued and publicly shamed, Gianni must accept the bizarre proposal of the town major to direct the Good Friday celebrations in exchange for immunity. And so he finds himself spending a week in deepest Tuscany trying to put together a kind of Stations of the Cross, with the apostles, Pontius Pilate, the crucifixion, and a terrible and incredibly vain local actor in the part of Christ.


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A Jewish Feminine Mystique? : Jewish Women in Postwar AmericaMaterial type: TextSeries: eBooks on DemandPublisher: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (283 p.)ISBN: 9780813550305Subject(s): Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Jewish women -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Jewish women -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | Jewish women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Jewish Feminine Mystique? : Jewish Women in Postwar AmericaDDC classification: 305.48/8924073 | 305.488924073 LOC classification: HQ1172 .J49 2010Online resources: Click here to view this ebook.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Biographies of Contributors; Index
In The Feminine Mystique, Jewish-raised Betty Friedan struck out against a postwar American culture that pressured women to play the role of subservient housewives. However, Friedan never acknowledged that many American women refused to retreat from public life during these years. Now, A Jewish Feminine Mystique? examines how Jewish women sought opportunities and created images that defied the stereotypes and prescriptive ideology of the "feminine mystique." Focusing on ordinary Jewish women as well as prominent figures, leading scholars explore the wide canvas upon which American Jewish women made their mark after the Second World War.
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Author notes provided by SyndeticsHASIA R. DINER is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University. She is the author of numerous volumes, including We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 .
SHIRA KOHN and RACHEL KRANSON are doctoral candidates in New York University's joint Ph.D. program in history and Hebrew and Judaic studies.
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Although a Wednesday European Union summit meeting ended with Greece being urged by leaders to remain in the joint currency bloc, Germany did not back down on its stance that Athens must adhere to austerity measures already agreed to. Countries had already been directed to work on contingency plans should Greece leave the group, and emergency borrowing at the European Central Bank (ECB) rose in the wake of a funding cutoff to four of Greece's banks.
Reuters reported that although President Francois Hollande of France pushed for joint euro bonds, highlighting the change in regime in the wake of former President Nicolas Sarkozy's departure, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany wasn't having any of it. Nor was she inclined to cut Greece any slack.
The main topic of the informal get-together was a discussion of how to stimulate economic growth, but the Greek situation loomed large and the meeting dragged on into the night. Merkel voiced her opposition to euro bonds and to allowing Greece to back off on its austerity promises.
Regarding the former, she said that a much closer fiscal union among the nations in the euro zone must be achieved before such bonds can be discussed. "There were differences in the exchange about euro bonds," she was quoted saying after the meeting ended. Merkel has been opposed to such joint bonds from the beginning and has not softened her stance.
On Greece's efforts to change the terms of its bailout, she was equally firm, saying, "We want Greece to stay in the euro, but we insist that Greece sticks to commitments that it has agreed to."
Three officials were cited as the source of news that countries in the group were told via a Monday teleconference to prepare for a possible Greek exit from the euro zone. The teleconference was among members of the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG), which is made up of experts who work for euro zone finance ministers.
Greece's finance ministry denied that any such agreement was reached, but Finance Minister Steven Vanackere of Belgium was quoted saying, "All the contingency plans [for Greece] come back to the same thing: to be responsible as a government is to foresee even what you hope to avoid." His account was confirmed by two other senior E.U. officials.
In addition, a document was cited saying such an exit could potentially cost the E.U. and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 50 billion euros ($62.82 billion) to ease the transition and ensure an "amiable divorce."
Meanwhile, emergency overnight borrowing at the ECB rose to its highest level since mid-March, when the Greek debt restructuring deal drove it up. Nearly 4 billion euros on Thursday added to what has been a steady increase in such borrowing, apparently pegged to a cutoff by the ECB of four Greek banks from their normal means of funding.
The ECB does not reveal the users of its emergency funding, but the four banks have apparently been driven to use emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) rather than the ECB's normal overnight borrowing window. ELA is more costly and charges 0.75 percentage points more interest than normal ECB funding; in addition, it can only be used once ECB policymakers have approved the move. "If [funding at the overnight window] …rose above 5 billion, I'd start to be concerned. But I would need to see more of a pattern," one London-based money market trader was quoted saying. The trader, who requested anonymity, continued, "This could be a failure of one payment late in the day. If it was a liquidity issue, it was probably from one of the southern banks. But it might just as well have been between two very well-known large banks."
Another topic of conversation at the informal summit was the discussion of proposals from the European Commission (EC) for a legal framework to accommodate the closure or reorganization of insolvent banks in a way that can avoid a repeat round of taxpayer bailouts.
Considering the looming possibility of a Greek exit and the state of Spain's banks—on Wednesday Spain bailed out Bankia to the tune of 9 billion euros, but still insisted it would not seek a bailout—the subject was prominent in the talks. However, there too the chance of Merkel giving her approval was considered slim.
In an editorial published Thursday, Bloomberg editors pointed out that although Germany is considered the "responsible adult" and Greece the "profligate child," Germany has also been bailed out. Saying that Germany's banks were "Greece's enablers," the editorial went on to say that German banks had built up substantial exposures to the currently debt-troubled countries of the euro zone.
"By December 2009, according to the Bank for International Settlements, German banks had amassed claims of $704 billion on Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain, much more than the German banks' aggregate capital. In other words, they lent more than they could afford," the editors said.
They continued, "When the European Union and the European Central Bank stepped in to bail out the struggling countries, they made it possible for German banks to bring their money home. As a result, they bailed out Germany's banks as well as the taxpayers who might otherwise have had to support those banks if the loans weren't repaid." That happened as an effect of the structure of the euro, and amounted to far more than Germany's direct contribution to Greece's bailout.
Should Greece exit the euro and runs result on banks in Spain, Italy and Portugal, much of Germany's capital could be wiped out, it continues—not to mention the effects on Germany's economy and on the E.U. itself. To avoid such a fate, it concludes, Germany will have to do all that it has so far refused to do and then go even farther, preserving the euro system lest the collapse take it down along with the rest.


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The spammers have found the XAMPP forum and are making drug posts in many threads.
Can the moderator please remove these spam posts in the threads?
Thank you.
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Good idea but seems not to to have been taken up by the spam buster who seems to be a bit sluggish at the moment.greno wrote:I think that it is going to be necessary to moderate the first 25 posts of new users in order to stop the manual spamming.
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Dog owners are never shy about spreading their pets' pictures around, and most of us have been known to, at least once, dress up the dog. So it seems that World Cup 2014 has created the perfect storm, giving dog fanciers across the globe a chance to show off their lovable mutts, support their favorite national soccer team and do it all in cyberspace.
Social media is the perfect place for showing off our dogs and World Cup spirit. Instagram has been flooded with pictures of dogs in various World Cup attire. The folks at Klooff, a popular pet photo-sharing app, also noticed the trend and took it to another level, creating posters using an assortment of dogs.
A spokeswoman for Klooff says the World Cup is garnering more social media activity than the past Super Bowl, Olympics and Academy Awards combined and has created a surprising new fan base involving pets.
Klooff says the gallery of posters it created illustrates a cultural shift in the way people celebrate their pets' personalities and involve them in their everyday lives.
I don't know about that, but it certainly has produced some cute pictures of dogs in costume. To see a slideshow of pictures, go here.


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Cannery Row offers hints of its history
Modern-day visitors can still discover traces of Cannery Row's storied past
The phrase Cannery Row can carry different connotations for different people.
Lovers of California literature and history think of the seedy yet welcoming and diverse portside community that John Steinbeck documented in the novel that gave the street its name.
Modern-day visitors to the Monterey Bay Aquarium think of overpriced fried calamari and trinket shops.
But anyone willing to look past the sea otter stuffies might notice fascinating traces of the area's vibrant fishing and canning history. Immigrant communities have fished and worked here since the mid-1800s, and at one point in the mid-1900s, there were 19 sardine canneries along the row, employing workers from all over the world.
Before refrigeration, putting the fish on ice and drying or canning it were the only ways to preserve fish long enough to transport it to market, explained Jim Covel, the aquarium's senior manager of guest experience and resident history buff. As canning technology developed in the early 20th century, companies expanded to better take advantage of huge sardine populations in the bay.
Unfortunately, they took too much of an advantage, and overfishing devastated the sardine industry by the early 1950s. The area went into decline until the 1984 opening of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which brought new life to Cannery Row.
The sardines and other fish populations have recovered, and much of the original cannery architecture is still intact and worth checking out.
A good place to start is McAbee Beach on Cannery Row at Prescott Avenue, for a look at Chinese and Portuguese immigrant history.
Chinese fishermen came to the area in the 1850s to harvest salmon and squid, which they dried outdoors. But as other ethnic groups moved in, anti-Chinese sentiment grew.
In 1906, the settlement at China Point burned under mysterious circumstances, forcing its inhabitants to relocate to McAbee Beach until 1924. You can stop here and stick your feet in the sand while checking out displays about Portuguese whalers who worked here in the 1860s.
To the northwest is the Monterey Canning Co. Built in 1918, it's a good example of cannery architecture, now filled with shops.
The main building of each cannery was on the bay side of the street. Canneries also had redwood "hoppers" - floating storage tanks - in the bay for fishing boats to dump their catches. Large pipes pumped the fish from the hoppers into the warehouse, where employees prepared, cooked and canned the sardines.
Elevated bridges still run across Cannery Row, some of which held conveyor belts that moved the filled cans out to the back warehouses across the street, where they were labeled and dropped into a railcar. The old railroad track behind the warehouses has been converted to the pedestrian pathway that runs between Cannery Row and Wave Street.
Farther along on Cannery Row, the Pacific Biological Laboratories, covered in old wood siding, is hard to miss. Marine biologist Ed Ricketts, inspiration for Steinbeck's main character in "Cannery Row," lived and worked here, studying and collecting sea life samples for labs and museums all over the country.
The building is closed to the public, but you can walk through a narrow path to check out the back of the lab with its own tiny beach and tide pools, to see where Ricketts held specimens in concrete tanks.
At the end of Cannery Row, the Monterey Bay Aquarium is the best place to learn about the area's history, if you're willing to buy an entry ticket. Built inside the old Hovden cannery, the largest on the row and the last one to close, in 1973, the aquarium has a large cannery exhibit on the ground floor where the old boilers still stand.
"All the Steinbeck fans eat this up," the aquarium's Covel says.
Covel explained how cannery owner Knut Hovden, a Norwegian transplant, revolutionized canning by increasing efficiency and capacity. Films from the cannery's heyday capture the mostly female staff hard at work on the production line.
After leaving the aquarium, head back in the direction you came to Bruce Ariss Way, a narrow alley with a few preserved workmen's cottages, with displays describing the experiences of immigrant workers from Japan, the Philippines and Spain. It looks like a hard, spare life, but one that thousands flocked to before things changed forever in the middle of the last century.
If you go
Guided tours: For guided tours of the area, contact Monterey Waterfront & Cannery Row Tours, (831) 521-3304; www.montereywaterfrontcanneryrowtours.com.
Lab visits: The Cannery Row Foundation (http://canneryrow.org) offers occasional visits to Ed Ricketts' lab. The City of Monterey also offers tours, but reservations are required. The next tours are scheduled for Oct. 13. For reservations and more information, call (831) 646-5640.
Bookshelf: "Cannery Row" by Michael Hemp, is a good historical source.
Tara Duggan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @taraduggan


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This website is a sister of the Moths of India, Cicadas of India, Odonata of India, Reptiles of India, Amphibians of India and Birds of India websites, under the umbrella of the Biodiversity Atlas – India project. Similar to those websites, it is designed to disseminate comprehensive information on various aspects of the biology of Indian butterflies, encourage their observation to study their natural history and ecology, gather population and distributional data in a centralized database, and spread awareness about their conservation. It is developed by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies ("IFoundButterflies"), an organization of butterfly biologists and butterfly-watchers, who work towards research and conservation of Indian butterflies. Butterflies of India is a model of "citizen science", where ordinary citizens participate in gathering scientific data and building this free resource on Indian butterflies. So get involved! You can contribute butterfly pictures or spot records, write species pages, contribute other articles, or just spread the word.
Cite this website along with its URL as:
Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors) 2020. Butterflies of India, v. 2.99. Indian Foundation for Butterflies.


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A new program from the company's A9 unit — dubbed Clickriver Ads — is designed to allow businesses to place targeted text ads on Amazon's product pages. That means a hotel chain could create a sponsored link on an Amazon.com page about luggage or a car manufacturer could advertise on a page about automotive books.
The Seattle online retailer explains the program, which is in test mode and open to a select number of participants, as a way for advertisers to "engage shoppers and searchers on Amazon.com."
"Clickriver presents an opportunity to connect to customers, via sponsored links, at the precise moment that someone is searching or looking to purchase on Amazon.com," the company writes.
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Olympic gold medalist Carly Patterson got married, People reports.
Patterson, 24, wed Mark Caldwell, 27, in a large ceremony at the Main Street Garden Park in Dallas, Texas. Patterson, who won the gold in the gymnastics women's all-around in 2004, wore a Vera Wang gown
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Patterson and Caldwell met at a wedding more than three years ago. "This might sound cliché, but after two weeks of dating Mark I knew he was a completely different from any other guy I've ever met," Patterson said. "I feel so lucky and fortunate that I get to spend forever with my best friend and the love of my life."


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The official PASS Blog is where you'll find the latest blog posts from PASS community members and the PASS Board. Contributors share their thoughts and discuss a wide variety of topics spanning PASS and the data community.
Looking for the latest blog posts? We've recently moved the PASS Blog to its new home at https://www.pass.org/PASSBlog.aspx. You can still view older blog posts here but please update your bookmarks so you can continue getting the latest posts from the PASS Blog.
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Hooray – we're ready to announce the details of the 24 Hours of PASS event that's coming to an internet connection near you on March 21st! Read on for the day's schedule, some of my thoughts on the 24 Hours of PASS concept, information about the platform, and an announcement which I think is really quite a big deal and worth making a fuss over.
24 Hours Straight
So – March 21st. No overlap with any other days, just 24 Hours of PASS, squeezed back into a single day. The last few events have been split over two days, running from noon to midnight (GMT), which conveniently fits in daylight hours of the Eastern United States. To help with the current push for internationalisation (and there's more on that later in this post), we're starting at midnight GMT (which is a perfectly reasonable 8pm in New York on March 20), and running through to the following midnight GMT (which is the next 8pm in New York, strangely enough). I'd like to be able to give prizes to people who attend all twenty-four, but I'm not quite that keen. Tell you what though – I'll cheer on Twitter and my blog for anyone who tells me they've made it through all of them. I know people have done it before, and hopefully plenty will again.
VC involvement
The Virtual Chapter portfolio isn't mine. It's Denise McInerney's. She's doing a brilliant job, and we both see a strong correlation between 24HOP and the VCs. There are likely to be lots of people who tune in to 24HOP who haven't really noticed that there are virtual chapters that meet, providing excellent online meetings, several times every month! We've roped in many of the VC leaders to help choose the sessions, host the sessions, and more. In fact, I suspect that many of the sessions that were submitted but not chosen could well be getting selected for the Virtual Chapters in the weeks and months to come. The Virtual Chapters are one of the best things about PASS, and it's great that 24HOP can be showcasing them this time around. Most of the VCs are represented, including Performance, Data Architecture, PowerShell, Professional Development, and the larger ones like BI and AppDev. Even the newly forming BigData VC. The Oracle VC isn't. Sorry, Scott.
LiveMeeting is such a great product. If you haven't tried it out, you really should. It's been our platform of choice here at 24HOP for ages now. Unfortunately, 24HOP seems to have outgrown it. People who have tuned in to recent events will have noticed that the video hasn't always streamed as nicely as we'd like, and although we really do love LiveMeeting, we're going to try a different platform – called IBTalk. This thing looks really impressive, and has some really cool features too. Most importantly, it should scale well. And record nicely. And allow eval forms nicely. And make coffee* (*feature list may not be completely accurate).
I know you've already read about how the event is going to be 24 hours straight, ignoring the fact that numbers may well be lower while the US sleeps. But that's not the only way in which 24HOP is becoming more international...
During the event, the IBTalk people are going to provide Live Closed Captioning. So you can get subtitles during the event! But there's more...This captioning will be available in fifteen different languages!
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, German, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai. You want subtitles in Thai? No problem. Watching with a Turkish friend? Sure, no worries. Even if you're just more comfortable in Dutch than English...
PASS is serious about trying to reach people around the world. With these languages, I think most people are covered. There are a few gaps, such as not having Swedish or Bangla – but apparently just about everyone in IT in those areas speaks English anyway (so I'm told).
The platform also has an amazing feature that translates questions, so if you're more comfortable asking a question in Russian or Portuguese, you can do that. The presenter will see the question in their own language, and the attendee will read the answer in theirs.
The Schedule!
Read the full schedule at http://www.sqlpass.org/24hours/spring2012/SessionsbySchedule.aspx and http://www.sqlpass.org/24hours/spring2012/SessionsbyTrack.aspx. And while over at the 24HOP site, register for the sessions you're interested in. But in the meantime, check out that list! I'm sure you'll recognise plenty of the names, but probably not all. You'll also notice there are plenty of speakers from different parts of the world, including the UK (like Mark and Neil), Australia (like Julie), and Israel (like Ami).
It's going to be a massive event. Get registering soon!
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With its economy on an austerity diet that has already caused a contraction of 18.4% over the past four years, Greece is on track to shrink another 4% in 2013, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). That could put Greece on the road to economic woes not seen since the Great Depression.
Bloomberg reported Monday that as Athens continues to try to shrink its debt level in accordance with bailout requirements, it's headed for the largest cumulative loss of economic output in a developed country in at least thirty years—and, according to Washington's Bureau of Economic Analysis, that loss could rival the 27% plunge the U.S. experienced during the Great Depression in the early 1930s.
"Austerity has been destroying tax revenue and therefore thwarting the intended effect," said Charles Dumas in the report. Dumas, chairman of Lombard Street Research, a London-based consulting firm, continued, "There's no avoiding austerity, though, because these people have no borrowing power. The deficits are there."
In addition to economic woes, the danger rearing its head from the '30s is the potential for political turmoil. The rise of the anti-foreigner Golden Dawn party, with its logo resembling a swastika, stirs echoes of the rise of Hitler in a debt-ridden Germany before World War II—particularly since the main opposition group in Greece is Syriza, which takes some inspiration from Marxist policies. The comparison is evocative of the similar positions of Nazis and Communists in Weimar Germany.
"The experience of the 1930s says you need to stimulate the economy," said Vassilis Monastiriotis in the report. Monastiriotis, a senior lecturer in political economy at the London School of Economics, added, "The rise of the far right in Greece isn't something ephemeral that will go away when the crisis ends. And it's very dangerous if the rise of the right causes relations with neighbors like Turkey, Macedonia, say, to deteriorate."
Data from the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden indicate that Germany's economic contraction of approximately 34% during the period following 1929 gave rise to Hitler's ascension to power in 1933—and, further, that even after growth began again in 1934, it took Germany until 1937 to boost its output past what it had been in 1929.
The lack of results from constant and harsh austerity measures has caused European leaders to back off from their demands for continued cutbacks—which have done nothing to alleviate the situation. Greece has cut pensions, medical coverage and the pay of civil servants; it has also slashed other budgetary items, all to no avail—and is further expected to boost its retirement age from 65 to 67.
"Greece has done all that without achieving anything," Barbara Ridpath, chief executive of the International Center for Financial Regulation in London, who headed Standard & Poor's ratings activities in Europe until 2008, was quoted saying. "That's the sad thing."


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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) The Buffalo Bills coaching search went into overdrive Friday, when team officials interviewed three candidates, including Oregon's Chip Kelly, one of college football's hottest prospects.
The Bills announced just before midnight that newly promoted president Russ Brandon and his top executives also interviewed recently fired Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith and Syracuse coach Doug Marrone. The Bills, stationed in Arizona for much of this week, didn't provide details regarding where the interviews took place or how long they lasted.
Next up for Buffalo is a trip to Denver on Saturday, when the team is scheduled to interview Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy, according to a person familiar with Buffalo's plans. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the team has not revealed who they've lined up to meet.
The Bills are in the midst of their fifth coaching search since 2001 after Chan Gailey was fired on Monday.
It was a busy day for Kelly, as well. He also interviewed with Cleveland on Friday, and a person familiar with those negotiations said the Browns are nearing a deal with Oregon's offensive mastermind. Kelly's interviews were conducted a day after he led the fifth-ranked Ducks (12-1) to a 35-17 victory over No. 7 Kansas State in the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona.
Following the win, the 49-year-old Kelly said he wanted to get the interview process over ``quickly.''
Kelly was also supposed to meet with Philadelphia. However, a person familiar with the interviews says the Eagles are ``heading in another direction.''
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team isn't discussing its negotiations publicly. The person added the Eagles planned to interview several other candidates regardless of any conversations with Kelly.
The Eagles were granted permission Friday to interview Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians and Seahawks defensive coordinator Gus Bradley and are scheduled to meet with McCoy in Denver on Sunday, as well.
The Bills are coming off their second consecutive 6-10 season and have not enjoyed a winning record since a 9-7 finish in 2004. They own the NFL's longest active playoff drought that's now at 13 consecutive seasons.
Buffalo has already interviewed former Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt, who was fired on Monday, as well as Cardinals defensive coordinator Ray Horton.
The Bills' meeting with Smith did not come as a surprise. Several reports surfaced over the past few days that the former Bears coach was interested in the Buffalo job since he was fired by the Bears on Monday. Smith has indirect ties to the Bills through former Bears defensive assistant coach Gill Byrd, who is the father of Buffalo safety Jairus Byrd.
Smith is a defensive-minded coach, who would have an opportunity to put his stamp on Buffalo's revamped but under-achieving defense, which struggled last year. The unit was among the NFL's worst despite the addition of defensive end Mario Williams, who signed a six-year, $100 million contract in free agency in March.
Marrone has been credited for turning around the Orange in four seasons. Syracuse rolled to an 8-5 finish by winning six of its last seven games this season, including a 38-14 win over West Virginia in the Pinstripe Bowl last weekend.
McCoy has become a hot prospect in his fourth season with the Broncos. He's played a key role in helping speed Peyton Manning's transition after the star quarterback signed with the team in free agency last offseason. McCoy has 13 years of NFL experience as an assistant, and previously spent eight seasons working under Broncos coach John Fox in Carolina.
Over his career, McCoy had quarterbacks reach 3,000 yards passing seven times. That includes Manning, who finished sixth in the NFL this season with 4,659 yards.
As the AFC's top seed, the Broncos are off until opening the playoffs on Jan. 12. They've allotted time for interested teams to interview McCoy in Denver this weekend. McCoy has also been linked as a candidate for coaching vacancies in Arizona and Chicago.
AP Football Writer Rob Maaddi in Philadelphia, and AP Sports Writer Tom Withers in Cleveland, contributed to this report.
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Tourists dominate on road to title
No team won more games in 2012 than the Asheville Tourists. In doing so, the Class A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies stormed to their first South Atlantic League crown in almost three decades.
Under the tutelage of fiery veteran manager Joe Mikulik, the Tourists used a lethal combination of outstanding young bats and strong arms to stand out from the crowd.
Asheville went 88-52 to clinch the best mark on the circuit and the top winning percentage of any Class A team. Only the Advanced A Winston-Salem Dash (87-51) had a better winning percentage among full-season teams, and just one team -- the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats (45-27) -- fared better on their travels than Mikulik's troops, who went 43-26 away from McCormick Field.
"There is no doubt about it that we had a lot of talent on this team," starting pitcher Ben Alsup said. "We had a lot of offense and a lot of good pitching. The team had a lot of personality and we meshed together really well.
"A lot of the players on this team will have the chance to move up next year depending on what the organization needs. In terms of individually, we have a lot of guys that can go a long way."
Alsup is among the current crop of Rockies looking to join the list of 66 other players once managed by Mikulik before reaching the Majors.
But this year's class of Tourists would seem to be the last within the Rockies organization to have that opportunity. Mikulik was released by the Rockies three days after winning the title, according to the Asheville Citizen-Times.
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The Tampa Bay Rays' Class A Short-Season affiliate went 52-24 to post the best mark in the New York-Penn League in 2012. Once the playoffs arrived, the Renegades were equally impressive, rallying from behind in the semifinals vs. Brooklyn and the Championship Series vs. Tri-City. The title gave the team its first silverware since 1999. Voting results »
At the time of clinching the championship, Mikulik's 938 wins with the team were the most by any active manager with the same club. The longest-tenured manager in team history (13 seasons) told the newspaper he had made it clear that he wanted to move up in the organization, but the club reportedly said it wasn't possible.
"I was very proud to manage this club. It was my 13th season managing here and it was our first championship," Mikulik said a month before his firing. He was named Manager of the Year for the fourth time after receiving the honor in 2001, '07 and '08. "I'm very proud of these young men, and I will not forget this season.
"I think we were very good, and I think we were exceptional in the middle. There were some nights when we could have competed with Double-A and Triple-A teams. Out of 10 tries, we might have been able to beat a Double-A team three times, maybe five times. These guys should move through the system quickly. For the level they were playing at this year, they were exceptionally good."
Asheville led the South Atlantic League with a team batting average of .278, 20 points above the league average. Its 812 runs scored were the most on the circuit, as were the club's 127 homers, 729 RBIs and 335 doubles.
In terms of pitching, the team was also consistently above average, ranking fourth in ERA (3.82) and tied for first with West Virginia in complete games (five), despite playing in hitter-friendly McCormick Field.
Asheville won the Southern Division's first-half crown by 4 1/2 games over the Savannah Sand Gnats, and they were 12 games above .500 in the second half. In the playoffs, after losing the first game of the Championship Series to Greensboro, the Tourists then outscored their opponents, 29-7, to secure the crown.
The Tourists got production up and down the lineup, especially from the infield. First baseman Harold Riggins, a seventh-round Draft pick in his second year of professional baseball, led the team with 19 homers and 76 RBIs in 87 games, and 19-year-old shortstop Trevor Story -- Colorado's No. 2 prospect -- added 18 longballs, 63 RBIs and a circuit-best 43 doubles in his first full campaign.
Midseason South Atlantic League All-Star backstop William Swanner crushed 16 homers in 88 appearances -- both career bests -- while Jered Simon, Taylor Featherston, Sam Mende and Tyler Massey each recorded double-digit homers and at least 50 RBIs.
"The hit totals, RBI totals, all those important stats, it was spread up and down the lineup," said Jeff Bridich, the Rockies' senior director of player development. "There wasn't one guy that took it and ran away with it. They were dangerous from top to bottom.
"If you take that season, that 140-game season and you extrapolate to [a big league season], this was a 100-win season. That takes an incredible amount of continuity and consistency and health."
On the mound, the Tourists sported four 10-game winners, the best one-two punch in the league and one of its top relievers as well.
Alsup's 14 wins tied for the most in the league with Lexington's Michael Foltynewicz, while Tyler Anderson collected 12 victories -- including a pair of complete games -- and topped the circuit with a 2.47 ERA among qualifying hurlers.
Chris Jensen matched Anderson's record with his own 12-3 season, and Daniel Winkler earned 11 wins and stood second to Augusta's Clayton Blackburn with 136 strikeouts.
At the back end of games, Jefri Hernandez finished a league-best 42 contests while ranking first with 21 saves. His work was complemented by fellow relievers Kenneth Roberts, who went 4-1 with a 1.85 ERA in 50 appearances, and Russell Brewer, who fanned 76 batters over 60 1/3 innings in 47 games out of the bullpen.
Anderson, Riggins and Story were all selected to the Class A Postseason All-Star Team for the 2012 campaign.
"I would absolutely say this was a balanced team," said Alsup. "For instance, sometimes I would go out and give up five or six runs and wouldn't deserve to win the game, but the offense would be productive and score more. The locker room was a lot of fun -- it was a blast. You look forward to going to the field every day. Sometimes it can be grueling, but I had fun every day.
"Mikulik is a firecracker. He's very upbeat and he brings confidence every single day. He's very high tempo in every single thing that he does, and that is important when you look at your main leader."
For Alsup, the process and development is all about being ready when your time comes. And, though the 24-year-old Louisiana native may still be a couple years away from making an impact in Colorado, he wants to do everything he can to put himself in the big picture and give the team's front office something to think about.
"They don't tell you too much from an organizational standpoint [about promotions], but when they call your name you have to be ready," he said. "The organization has a really good idea of when you're ready, but you still never know when you will get that call to go to the next level.
"But I will always remember winning the championship. It was awesome to dog-pile with all of these guys after being with them every day for so long trying to achieve the same goal. Dog piling on someone else's field was amazing."
That celebration, set off when the Tourists cruised past Greensboro 10-4 in Game 4 of the best-of-5 Finals, was the culmination of more than a decade of work for Mikulik and his team.
Jordan Ribera, who drove in four runs and fell a triple shy of the cycle in that decisive game of the Championship Series, said the title reflected as much upon their skipper as the players who took the field every day.
"Joe Mikulik is the best manager, by far, that we have ever played for," Ribera said after hoisting the trophy. "He comes to the field with heart, emotion, energy, fire. He gets us fired up to play. It's a long season; it's tough. He brings that energy when we don't have it. We were so proud tonight to do it for him. It really was for him, not only ourselves."
Mikulik, a former ninth-round Draft pick who played with the Tourists in his second year of pro ball in 1985, said the experience of playing meaningful postseason baseball will serve the players well down the road.
"It's a vital necessity for player development," Mikulik said. "On average, a player stays in the Minor Leagues for four years. If you can play on one or more championship teams, you're very lucky. Going through the playoff situation lets them know what they need to do to succeed.
"If you look at the San Francisco Giants, some of those guys were on Augusta. The Yankees, the Nationals, they have young players who got playoff experience in the Minors. They learned how to win when they were in a pennant race or a championship series when the season is on the line. When things are tough and you have to make a pitch or have a quality at-bat, that's the best development you can have. That's why guys who get to the Majors are successful, because they go through the postseason and playoff atmosphere and learn how to win."
Bridich, meanwhile, attributed the success to believing in each other and dealing with whatever adversity they faced, especially early in the second half when the team -- at least by 2012 standards -- struggled.
"The way that they did it was special," he said. "They did it largely as a consistent unit. There wasn't a whole lot of movement. It was a group that stayed healthy and stayed together. By May, you could see they had jelled as a unit and that they were playing for each other. It was a true group effort."
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Bravo to Christina Julian ("Beams of Honor," July 6). I don't see why this is a controversial issue. If you were offered steel from the World Trade Center to honor the dead from 9-11, and had free shipping, a downtown site and an artist with a good design, wouldn't you accept the offer too?
It's not costing the city of Napa any money to build this sculpture, and if the Napa Valley Register wants people to donate money to build a WWII memorial instead, maybe they can host some fundraisers themselves. People have different reactions to tragedy, and some could think the sculpture is tacky, but every public art project ever made has been called tacky by at least some people. It's art, and it's all subjective.
I vote that the memorial gets built, and the healing begin.
Sherri Newman
Jane Austen Is Rolling in Her Grave
The tone of this article ("Twitterature," June 22) suggests that a woman who has a husband and children cannot be taken seriously, is not intelligent, and is someone that would best be ignored. It suggests that young women in their 20s are ignorant and tasteless.
The internet and Twitter have really opened up a world for women in these groups who do not have to answer to the prejudice held against them that they are unintelligent, inconsequential creatures. Their opinions and voices are making a difference, and if it puts more control into their hands to affect society, all the power to them.
I do not have children or a husband, nor am I in my 20s, but I see no reason to sniff my nose at women in those categories.
Cee Martinez
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I'm not sure what NPR has to do with the issue ("Bumper," June 22). My understanding is that American Public Media and National Public Radio are competitors in providing programming to public radio stations. There are, in fact, no NPR stations; there are only public radio stations that buy both NPR programs and some APM programs. People generically refer to these stations as NPR stations, but they're wrong. My understanding is that NPR had nothing to do with any of this.
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When You're Rich
California Democrats last month closed the remainder of what had been a gaping budget deficit by a combination of deep spending cuts, optimistic revenue projections and new fees that are sure to be challenged in court. This will include $100 million in cuts to the in-home services program.
When you're rich and lose money on a leveraged investment, you are a victim of the bad economy and deserve to be bailed out; when you're poor and lose money on a risky investment, you're a financially incompetent yahoo who chases get-rich-quick schemes.
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(CNN) -- At this point are there any celebrities left who have not done the Ice Bucket Challenge?
All across the Internet the famous are taking a dousing in the name of raising money -- and bringing awareness -- to Lou Gehrig's disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. The participants include such figures as Iggy Azalea, Lady Gaga and Chris Pratt.
Some, like Justin Bieber, have taken the challenge more than once.
"All right, second Ice Bucket Challenge," Bieber said in a video posted on his Instagram account. "Today I nominate my Beliebers all over the world. I know you guys got an ice bucket."
CNNMoney: $15 million pours in from Ice Bucket Challenge
"Guardians of the Galaxy" star Pratt attempted a different twist by drinking Blue Ice Vodka and Smirnoff Ice instead of dumping an ice bucket on himself. But he didn't get away with his scam as a pair of friends proceeded to pour cold water over him multiple times from a balcony above.
"Really," Pratt sputtered. "That's so cold!"
Pop star Lady Gaga was one of the latest celebs to post her video on her Instagram account. The singer was silent as she sat in a chair, dressed in what appeared to be a studded bathing suit and poured ice water over herself from a massive silver bowl.
"Scandal" star Kerry Washington accepted two bucket challenges -- one as a stand-in for the cast and one for herself. And she wasn't the only celeb from a Shonda Rhimes show to get on board. The cast of "Grey's Anatomy" also participated.
Once the stars have completed the challenge, they have in turn challenged fellow celebs to take the plunge themselves. Others celebs participating include Oprah Winfrey, the cast of "The Voice," Jennifer Lopez, Robert Downey Jr., Nina Dobrev and James Van Der Beek.
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How does the OPC reconcile economic and spiritual ministry in the field, especially in light of "fake Christians" who come for the worldly benefits?
I am familiar with this real problem as a missionary to Uganda where the OPC has two mission stations. James 2:15-16 (as well, of course, as many other passages) teaches that we must demonstrate Christ's love financially as well as spiritually. In trying to faithfully follow our Lord in the mission field, there are three principles by which we try to be directed.
First, 2 Thessalonians 3:10—"if anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat." The financial assistance we offer is primarily geared toward helping people to provide for themselves (micro-enterprise loans, vocational training, etc.).
Second, our primary goal is to help establish the indigenous church as the "go-to" party in the individual Christian's life (as opposed to the missionary). This drives our general ministry goals—we train pastors, elders, and deacons to do the work of the ministry rather than pastoring congregations ourselves. In the area of economic assistance, this means that we try to work through the individual's pastoral leadership. In a cross-cultural situation, we simply aren't aware of all the resources that a person must access to handle a financial need—how to approach the clan, the procedures for going through the LC system (Local Commissioner), etc. These are things that the brothers and sisters here know well, and the pastoral leadership can guide the person through the proper procedures and weed out a good 90 percent of the financial problems. Generally, people approach the American missionary because he has all the money, and it allows the person to avoid conflicts within the clan or community.
Third, we try to keep the spiritual ministry at the forefront of our presence in two ways. First, we don't provide large amounts of assistance to people that we are developing a relationship with. We try to keep the focus on the spiritual ministry, and then after a period of time are more open to financial requests. The goal is to weed out those who are simply "in it for the money"—if it takes a long period of time to get hold of the cash, they become discouraged and leave, and the ones who remain are (generally) the ones who are truly interested in the spiritual ministry. Second, we first offer small loans and see whether or not the individual is trustworthy to repay those small amounts before going on to larger loans.
In all of these principles, we are daily crying out to Christ for wisdom and strength. This is a very pressing problem in engaging in ministry in the third world, and there are always exceptions that need to be made. For example, the AIDS patient who is born again and needs immediate assistance with medications. Should we assist and then run the real risk of the church being seen as a "free AIDS clinic" and setting up financial burdens which the indigenous church can never support, or should we hold the line and say "until you have gone through a 6-month membership class, you will not be eligible for any financial assistance" and place ourselves in the position of watching a new believer die because he or she hasn't dotted our "i's" and crossed our "t's". Each individual case is an opportunity for prayer, counseling, and teaching, and each one brings with it effects that will resonate for years through the church and community. We would certainly appreciate your prayers that we would be faithful vessels of Christ's mercy (both spiritual and physical), would be strengthened in our labors here, and would be a strengthening influence in the African church.
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Usually when I hear "Etsy" and "car accessories" in the same sentence, I picture a colossal knitted car cozy or maybe a shift knob made from the head of an old troll doll. I'm happy to say I'm a big jerk who doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, since these fake car badges are pretty fun and are available on an Etsy store.
The selection is pretty great, and skews heavily to the geeky: there's Tardis badges, Commodore 64 and Atari 2600, AT-AT, Land Speeder, Canyonero, USS Enterprise registration numbers, and the always handy POS.
What makes the badges (which are cast in plastic from silicone molds) so effective is how well they ape the slightly futuristic blocky letterforms used by so many car companies now. These badges would probably go unnoticed unless you were really looking.
This is such a fun idea I'm sort of surprised I haven't seen it before. I suspect once 3D printing becomes more common we'll see even more of this sort of thing, and I'm all for that.
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Josh Gad and his wife, Ida Darvish, welcomed their second daughter over the holiday weekend.
"Well, it's official. I am a daddy again," the 1600 Penn alum tweeted Monday night. "And my wife deserves an award for her incredible strength and amazing demeanor. #luckiest-man."
Gad, 32, married Darvish in 2008. They are parents to daughter Ava, 3, and revealed last November that they were expecting another little girl.


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Utah Bucket List: Astounding wildflowers carpet Utah's mountain meadows in color
Bright jackets, boots and skis are not the only blasts of color in Albion Basin at the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon in Utah.
The more natural hues of red and gold take a turn in the seasonal display each autumn. But the real outburst happens each summer when the wildflowers of Utah's high country bloom en masse.
"It is absolutely astounding and vastly underappreciated," said Richard Middleton, who at 75 volunteers to lead walks during the annual Wasatch Wildflower Festival. "We did a training course at Silver Lake [at the top of Big Cottonwood Canyon] once and counted 75 different flowers in bloom. How many places can you find that in 3/4 of a mile?"
According to the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation, which hosts the annual Wasatch Wildflower Festival along with the four ski resorts and local, county and federal partners, there are 1,200 different species to be counted along the Wasatch Range. Many blossom during a short time span each summer, carpeting meadows, luring outdoor enthusiasts to the mountains.
"Summer at these high elevations is so intense because it is such a short growing season, so when it really peaks it is just spectacular," said Jessie Walthers, Cottonwood Canyons Foundation director. "Nature is so abundant and doing everything it can to bloom and send everything to seed in that time frame. It is a time of vibrant intensity."
The festival is being held July 26-28 with nature walks, music and kids' activities and stops at each of the four ski resorts: Brighton, Solitude, Alta and Snowbird.
The Cottonwood canyons, of course, are not the only places to find natural wildflower tapestries. Cedar Breaks National Monument east of Cedar City also holds an annual wildflower festival. Other popular locations that only require a drive to witness the flowers include Wolf Creek Pass (State Highway 35 between Woodland and Tabiona); Monte Cristo (State Highway 39 between Huntsville and Woodruff); Boulder Mountain (State Highway 12 between Boulder and Torrey); Logan Canyon (Highway 89 between Logan and Bear Lake); and Guardsman Pass (between Brighton and Park City), to name a few.
Some people are fine just seeing the plethora of wildflowers, but others are curious and question what they are seeing.
The guided walks are an excellent place to start a more intimate knowledge of the fauna of the canyons. It is, after all, how Middleton and fellow nature-stroll volunteer Bob Benton got their start in wildflower identification.
"The first flower that made me want to know its name was the Wasatch penstemon," Benton said. "That thing is wired with electricity. I had never seen anything that bright. Once you see one you want to see another one."
Benton taught himself the flowers of the canyons and now enjoys helping others learn the names. He tells people on his walks, which range from wide-eyed toddlers in backpacks to hikers enjoying their seventh or eighth decade in the mountains, not to worry if they can't remember all the flowers he points out.
"It is the peak of the season, and there are so many to remember. It can be frustrating. I tell them if they can remember just two they are doing well," he said. "I encourage them to take another hike and maybe they will be able to add another one or two and pretty soon they can lead the walks."
Learning the names, Walthers says, is creating an important connection to the plant, the mountain and the canyon.
"Knowing the names of the plants is a more intimate and sensitive way to enjoy our mountains," she said.
The volunteer guides also discuss the importance of watching where you step in the woods. They describe the environmental impact of plucking flowers to share at home.
"If you pick flowers you are not only taking food away from pollinators and other wildlife. You are also taking away the next generation of wildflowers and stealing the opportunity for others to enjoy them as well," Middleton said. "If we have 100,000 visitors in the canyons every year and everybody picks just one flower, that is a real impact."
Walthers said the festival is about more than the wildflowers; it is also about the place where they grow.
"The wildflowers are such a treasure in the summer in the Wasatch, and they're also a sign of a healthy watershed," she said. "It's in all our interests to be sure they are protected and well cared for; for their beauty, but also our own drinking water."
For Benton, the flowers are just another excuse to escape from hot weather and life in the big city.
"You walk a bit from the trail head and stop. You look around and think, 'This must be where the gods live,' " he said. "It is so incredibly lush, so incredibly vibrant and it is 20 minutes from our homes. It is just so special."


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Free Recycling Services Offered To All Henderson and Vance County Residents at Recycling Day on Saturday, April 26 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
The Vance County Appearance Commission and the Henderson Community Appearance Commission are coordinating the first Henderson-Vance Recycling Day in the front parking lot of the City Operations Center on Beckford Drive in Henderson. Citizens of Vance County are urged to bring recyclable items to the event.
All collections of recyclable items are being offered free of charge by the vendors who will be on hand for the Recycling Day event.
No hazardous materials will be accepted at the Recycling Day event. Organizers of the event reserve the right to refuse to take some items.
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- Metech Recycling: accepting electronic items including audio and video tapes, batteries, cameras, cell phones, circuit boards, complete computer systems, computer mice; copy machines, CPUs (towers), laptop computers, hard drives, data cartridges, computer monitors, computer keyboards, microwaves, office printers, overhead projectors, scanners, stereos, televisions, typewriters, VCR/DVD players
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- The Salvation Army: accepting clothing, shoes and toys
- Local Government Federal Credit Union: accepting important, personal documents for shredding. These documents can include any confidential papers such as financial statements and tax documents. Each individual who brings items for shredding is limited to three document boxes or 75 pounds of papers to be shredded. A shredding truck will be on hand to shred items at the event.
- Rebuilding Hope: accepting recyclable items that can be used in home repair construction projects and may include building materials, as well as still usable furniture, appliances, cabinets, sinks, toilets, windows
Additional information will be shared by the following agencies:
- The Vance County Sheriff's Department and the Henderson Police Department: providing child safety information and child safety seat checks
- The Henderson-Vance Safe Kids Coalition: sharing information with families regarding child safety issues
- Vance County Cooperative Extension Service: providing information on Vance County 4-H youth programs
- Kerr-Tar Council of Governments: providing information on preventing identity theft and offering giveaway items to those who attend the event
- The Henderson Community Appearance Commission: providing information on recycling and its importance
- The Vance County Appearance Commission: providing information on recycling and its importance and conducting drawings for free gifts
- WIZS 1450 a.m. Radio: broadcasting live from the event's site and urging local residents to bring their recyclable items
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Nielsen Announces New Beauty Market Agreement with NPD
Firms will Co-Produce Beauty Cross Channel Monitor, the Most Comprehensive Report Available on the Beauty Market Today
Schaumburg, U.S. – April 24, 2014 – Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, today announced a new agreement with The NPD Group, a global information company, to jointly produce the quarterly U.S. Beauty Cross Channel Monitor. The report is the most comprehensive review on the U.S. beauty market performance available to the industry currently, providing the only total market view spanning both the Prestige and Mass retail channels.
"The new agreement allows Nielsen and NPD to offer clients an unparalleled depth of insight and actionable intelligence," said John Lewis, President, Americas, Nielsen. "This will enable clients to make more informed business decisions and capitalize on new market opportunities."
"We are committed to delivering the best information, insights, and solutions for our clients in all of the industries we serve," said Karyn Schoenbart, President and Chief Operating Officer, NPD. "We look forward to collaborating with Nielsen on this critical overview of the beauty marketplace."
The Beauty Cross Channel Monitor will combine Nielsen and NPD point-of-sale data across food, drug, prestige department stores, and all retail outlets combined, providing a precise read on sales and performance for all beauty categories including dollar sales, unit sales and average retail price, in addition to a ranking of the top 75-100 brands.
The two organizations have worked together closely to create more refined product definitions, creating a more comprehensive view of product performance. This will allow brand marketers to better evaluate the performance of categories, segments and brands across major beauty distribution channels to better understand and respond to new U.S. beauty market opportunities.
This is the second market information agreement between Nielsen and The NPD Group in 2014. The two firms are collaborating in the Offices Supplies market. As part of that arrangement, Nielsen is serving as NPD's preferred analytics partner for NPD clients in the Office Supplies market, enabling clients to fully capitalize on the expanded market coverage to optimize current marketing programs, including analysis of a client's marketing mix.
About Nielsen
Nielsen Holdings N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global information and measurement company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence and mobile measurement. Nielsen has a presence in approximately 100 countries, with headquarters in New York, USA and Diemen, the Netherlands. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com.
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The NPD Group provides global information and advisory services to drive better business decisions. By combining unique data assets with unmatched industry expertise, we help our clients track their markets, understand consumers, and drive profitable growth. Sectors covered include automotive, beauty, consumer electronics, entertainment, fashion, food/foodservice, home, luxury, mobile, office supplies, sports, technology, toys and video games. For more information, visit npd.com and npdgroupblog.com. Follow us on Twitter: @npdgroup.
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KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A family of 10-year-old quadruplets in Kamloops, B.C., is dealing with more devastating news about the health of their children.
Two of the boys were diagnosed with Lyme disease earlier this year and now tests show the other boy and girl also have the disease.
Their mother, Deborah Hrychiw, says ever since Isaac and Judah were diagnosed after a holiday in B.C.'s Shuswap region she wanted to get the expensive testing procedure done for her other two children.
Now her suspicions have been confirmed. with both Rose and Eli testing positive for the disease, although she says Eli's immune system has been able to fight off many of the symptoms.
Hrychiw says Rose will have to start the same intensive treatments that Isaac and Judah are getting at a clinic in Palm Harbor, Fla.
She says the boys are halfway through the treatment, and it's already showing results. (CFJC)
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I am going to be knitting this blanket forever. I see that now, as plainly as I understand that I am destined to never catch up on the laundry, and that email can never be truly finished. I also see that a large blanket knit from laceweight might have been a bit of an overshoot, if you catch my meaning. I have only about a month left, and this blanket pretty much refuses to get done, despite much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Today, I have gleefully and delightedly finished the centre. It's a small centre, as planned, and now I've got to make a move to get this thing sorted to be knit in the round. Tonight I'll leave the stitches at the top live, and then pick up stitches down the first side, then unpick the provisional cast on along the bottom, and pick up more stitches along the second side. I don't have time to make a mistake, so I've spent a little time today picking up stitches along the side of my swatch.
Obviously, one side had too many (you can see it flare out, there on the right) and the other one looks pretty good. That's the rate I'll be going with.
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