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Set in the gated community of Lake Sherwood, the tennis star's home is equipped with spectacular entertaining spaces and athletic facilities fit for a champion. Explore Pete Sampras' impressive estate.
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Designed by the seven-time Wimbledon champion himself, Pete Sampras' custom-built home features a 13,000-square-foot main house with seven bedrooms, 10 full bathrooms, a gourmet kitchen and a massive theater/game room. Plus, the 20-acre property is appointed with a 1,200-square-foot guesthouse and a 2,000-square-foot gym.
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The front façade sets the tone for the contemporary home: sleek, simple and stylish.
Both outside and in, the home's atmosphere is open and easy with extraordinarily high ceilings and simple, modern styling. The grand entryway boasts beautiful white oak floors, which extend into the family room and kitchen.
Family Room
The spacious family room features a custom fireplace, floor-to-ceiling windows and cozy seating.
Open Living Area
"One of the things the Samprases had in mind when they designed this house was clean lines," says Jordan Cohen of RE/MAX Olson. "It's got a great flow, and everything is top of the line."
Professional and amateur chefs alike can feel comfortable in the unique gourmet kitchen, which is outfitted with teak cabinetry, stone countertops and stainless steel appliances. "The kitchen not only looks great, but it's got the best appliances money can buy and all the modern amenities you'd expect of a house of this magnitude," Jordan says.
Breakfast Room
Adjacent to the kitchen, the charming breakfast nook is the perfect place to admire mountain scenery while enjoying a casual meal.
Formal Living Room
A central fireplace and custom lighting lend an inviting, elegant look to the living room, while the beautiful French doors give the room a natural glow.
Formal Dining Room
Across from the formal living room, the versatile dining room is spacious enough for large gatherings or an intimate dinner with family.
Master Bedroom
"The master suite here is fantastic," Jordan says. Massive windows showcase commanding lake views and light up the spacious bedroom.
Master Seating Area
Adjacent to the master bedroom, the sitting room is outfitted with tons of storage and a kitchenette.
Master Kitchenette
With a dishwasher, a refrigerator, a microwave and a coffee machine, the master suite's convenient kitchenette allows residents to enjoy the views from bed all day long.
Master Bathroom
Everything from a garden tub to a temperature-controlled steam shower can be found in the well-appointed his-and-hers master baths. "You can't ask for anything more when designing a master suite," Jordan says.
Master Closet
There's no shortage of storage space in the Sampras' house: The master suite is outfitted with separate his-and-hers walk-in closets, plus a large dressing room.
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A contemporary light fixture stylishly illuminates the spacious walk-in closet.
Indoor/Outdoor Living
The home's floor-to-ceiling glass doors disappear into the walls, revealing the property's fantastic outdoor entertaining areas. "There are great covered patios and an outdoor barbecue center," Jordan says. "When you have a view like this, you want to take advantage of it."
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The home's expertly designed grounds feature lush lawns and soothing water features.
Mountain-View Setting
"This is the most spectacular lot within the community," Jordan says. "It sits on 20 acres, and it's hilltop with unobstructed 360-degree views."
Infinity Pool
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WASHINGTON — The government announced Friday it is changing contractors for the troubled HealthCare.gov website, ditching lead contractor CGI Federal.
The company has been linked to many of the problems surrounding the launch of the federal health care exchange Oct. 1, which President Obama called "screwed up."
"We are working with our contract partners to make a mutually agreed upon transition to ensure that HealthCare.gov continues to operate smoothly for consumers," Aaron Albright, spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a statement to USA TODAY. "We continually evaluate our needs and remain focused on ensuring consumers have access to affordable, quality coverage, and more than 1.1 million already have enrolled in a private plan in the federal marketplace."
The government plans to replace CGI on the $90 million contract with Accenture probably early next week, The Washington Post reported. The initial launch of the website left people unable to navigate the system because of frozen pages, applications "stuck" in the system so people could not log in, and long wait periods as the site was overwhelmed by visitors. The site was fixed by Nov. 30, and people are able to enroll while experiencing low error rates and waiting periods, government officials have said.
Accenture is a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, which has worked with states to create local exchanges, including California's exchange. While California's site had initial bugs, it quickly smoothed things out. This week, California announced its exchange had more than 550,000 unique visits from Dec. 29 to Jan. 4, with about 93,000 new enrollment applications begun just in one week. Before the Dec. 23 deadline for coverage to begin Jan. 1, the site had enrolled more than 400,000 people.
Joanne Veto, an Accenture spokeswoman, declined to comment Friday on whatever discussions the company may have had with the government. "Accenture Federal Services is in discussions with clients and prospective clients all the time, but it is not appropriate to discuss new business opportunities we may or may not be pursuing," Veto said.
CGI also handled Hawaii, Colorado, Massachusetts and Vermont's exchanges.
Colorado's up to just over 50,000 now, but it started out buggy. Hawaii was still having problems with bugs in late December, and had enrolled about 2,000 people through the end of December. Vermont also has enrolled more than 50,000 people, but this week, Gov. Peter Shumlin said he planned to bring in more people to handle the state's $84 million website, which is still not working as it was designed to work.
In late December, both Massachusetts and Vermont stopped making payments to the company until the company meets its obligations. Massachusetts, which had enrolled only 497 people by the end of December, is still experiencing bugs similar to those the federal exchange dealt with initially.
The Department of Health and Human Services has sent numerous signals of its unhappiness with CGI. Last month, it put out a call for for businesses that could address concerns at HealthCare.gov, asking small businesses to describe experience that compared to the skills needed to create the website.
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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius also last month asked her agency's inspector general to review the website's development.
CGI's stock immediately felt the impact of the reports, dropping 3% Friday in midday trading.
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Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the Copenhagen Climate Summit for Mayors.
15 December 2009
Copenhagen, Denmark
Mayors from around the world, Ladies and Gentlemen,
is the greatest global challenge that we have ever faced and cities have a central role to play in tackling it.
Thank you, Lord Mayor, for bringing us together and for showing great leadership in confronting climate change.
In the past days many countries have renewed, strengthened or made new commitments to reduce GHG emissions. This is welcome, but not enough.
If we add all known pledges to reduce emissions, we are still far away from the reductions we need in order to avoid catastrophic climate change. We need to be more ambitious. Cities have a critical role to play.
Almost 180,000 people are added to the urban population in the world each day. We expect this trend to accelerate, especially in developing countries, where cities will shift to CO2 intensive energy sources. As of 2015, the newly added urban population in China will be larger than the total population of countries like Germany, France or Mexico. By 2025, there will be around 30 mega-cities, most of them in developing countries.
If urban policies are coherently integrated with environmental objectives, cities can contribute to reduce our dependence on carbon.
Mayors around the world are taking action and many of their programs have redefined the cutting edge. The OECD recognises the potential of local action and is working with local governments to forge a global collective response to climate change.
Let me share with you some reflections on cities and climate change.
Cities matter to the global climate policy agenda
Today the OECD releases Competitive Cities and Climate Change. Based on a large urban database, this report takes a look into new laboratories where the most innovative environmental programs are experimented in green building renewable energy, and a host of other fields.
Clearly, urbanisation is associated with higher CO2 emissions. But the report finds that urban development plans that favour higher density can help. For instance, Danish cities are denser than Finland's by a factor of four. On top of using less gasoline for vehicles, Danish citizens consume 60% less electricity than the Finns.
Besides densification policies, market-based mechanisms, such as cap-and-trade schemes or carbon taxes and urban congestion charges, can also help lower the overall cost of emission abatement. So it is the policy mix that matters. We have estimated that under the most stringent IPCC scenario, the cost of abatement in terms of GDP for the whole OECD can be reduced by up to half if the right policy mix is implemented.
Multi-level governance is key
Our works also shows the importance of working across levels of government and making the most of the role and prerogatives of all relevant stakeholders.
Our report on Cities, Climate Change and Multilevel Governance shows that local governments are uniquely placed to tailor climate change programmes to specific local needs. We point to successful local solutions and practices, in Brazil, Japan and the US, among others. For example, the Kyoto City's appliance labelling system, which reveals the environmental impact of air conditioning units, televisions, and appliances, is being disseminated throughout Japan. Portland's Green tests new sustainable materials using Green Building approaches. Such solutions could be easily replicated at relatively low costs.
The role of the private sector in supporting green infrastructure investment is also essential. Infrastructure investment needs worldwide will reach hundreds of billions of euros and much of this investment will take place in urban areas. We must harness this opportunity to achieve greener growth.
The good news is that many of you and your peers are taking steps to engage with the private sector. Berlin and Hannover, among others, have been working with private developers to construct and retrofit buildings to meet energy efficiency targets. And Seoul is working with private transport providers that use fuels sourced from renewable energy.
But one of my favorite projects is actually right here, in Copenhagen, whose reputation as the world's best city for bicycles was achieved through a successful partnership with the private sector. This is one reason why 36% of Copenhageners commute by bike. And this approach is catching on in many other cities.
City governments can also forge joint bidding and purchasing agreements to green their procurement policies. Working with local business, joint bidding can help lower both business and city operating costs when acquiring low carbon technologies.
If the number of innovative partnership examples is growing, it is also thanks to the role of the C 40 network. It is a pleasure to see that the network's president, Mayor David Miller from Toronto, is with us today.
However, partnerships are not always a panacea. Municipalities sometimes enter in public-private partnerships under the false impression that just because a project is "off the government books", it will become more affordable. Yes, municipalities need to draw on the capacity of the private sector, but they need to do so in ways that improve service delivery, efficiency, and environmental stewardship. Our work Our work underscores the importance of well managed competitive bidding mechanisms if we want to make the best use of such partnerships.
Take the water sector, where much work remains to be done – with 880 million people still lacking access to clean water, and 2.5 billion lacking access to basic sanitation. The OECD checklist for action urges governments to use performance-based contracts in working with the private sector on infrastructure investments including on a small number of clear, easy-to-measure indicators; such indicators could be adapted to reflect the knowledge about climate change and risk.
Last June, Ministers of Economy, Finance, Trade and Foreign Affairs from 34 countries met at the OECD to adopt a Declaration on Green Growth. They agreed to develop frameworks for economic growth that would minimise environmental deterioration and enhance quality of life. Mayors have a key role to play in fostering green growth. Cities and regions can take the lead on long-term, locally tailored eco-innovation by encouraging private investment in energy-saving solutions. We recently produced a Review of Trans-border Urban Co-operation in the Pan Yellow Sea Region showing how Chinese, Korean, and Japanese cities are forming partnerships to work on eco innovation. The City of Kitakyushu, once the capital of steel and chemical industries of Japan, has worked with the private sector to catalyse the industrial recycling cluster, creating green jobs and become the environmental model city of Japan.
The contribution of cities to green growth will be the main focus of the OECD Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers on Urban Policy. I would like to invite you to Paris on late May 2010 to continue the rich discussions at this Climate Summit for Mayors.
Dear Mayors, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Tackling climate change demands a combination of political resolution, innovation and multilateral cooperation. All three ingredients are present here today. This is your time to bring new ideas to the climate change debate.
Your work in greening land use, transportation, and building codes clearly shows that you are entering a new era in urban policy.
But we need to better understand what works and what does not work, and how the transition to a green growth economy can be achieved in practice. Cities can facilitate the creation of new green products, services and jobs – showing that green and growth can go hand in hand.
Consider the OECD an extension of your capacities, to help you benefit from innovative policy solutions taking place elsewhere.
Together let us make of this time of challenge, a future of resolve.
Thank you.
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Pastors, artists and other Christian leaders will join this weekend at the University of Miami for the One Conference, three days of rallies, music and motivation to affect South Florida for the faith.
With megachurch pastors such as Brian Houston and Greg Laurie, the conference is set for Feb. 10-12 at UM's Bank United Center in Coral Gables.
They'll tackle dire issues like human trafficking, fresh water for Haiti, Bibles for "unreached" people groups and how to respond to crises. But first importance will go to simple unity.
"We're all different, but we're of the same substance," says Pastor Bob Coy of Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale, who will be one of the 15 scheduled conference speakers. "Anytime pastors get together, that's good. Translating it into partnerships is difficult. But it's healthy to get to know each other."
Franklin Graham, another of the planned speakers, agrees.
"The churches are fragmented; everybody gets into their own niches," says Graham, who runs the Samaritan's Purse charity and the evangelistic organization of his father, Billy Graham. "We need to get them inspired, excited about the Word of God. The gospel changes lives instantly."
Besides Coy and Graham, the planned speakers include:
The Rev. Pedro Garcia, the host pastor and spiritual leader of Calvary Chapel Kendall. Garcia, who became a Christian believer in 1996 at Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale, is the founder of LIFE Radio (90.9-FM), which broadcasts to Miami-Dade and the Florida Keys.
Greg Laurie, pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, Calif., and founder of Harvest Crusades. Laurie led a crusade in Fort Lauderdale in 1995 and spoke at a Promise Keepers rally in Miami two years later.
Scott Harrison, founder of the nonprofit organization charity:water. His group has funded more than 3,800 water projects, providing more than 1.7 million people with clean drinking water.
Brian Houston, founder and pastor of Hillsong Church, which includes congregations in Sydney, London, Capetown, Paris, Stockholm and elsewhere.
Rich Wilkerson Jr., who runs a gathering in Miami called Vous. His ministry aims to infuse the gospel in music, teaching and the arts.
Musicians will include Hillsong United, a praise and worship band from Australia; Dominic Balli, a "CaliRockReggae" singer from Oxnard, Calif., and the Rebel Band, an edgy group from Miami.
The conference is being promoted with a splashy website loaded with flamboyant clipart and a video, plus bios on the invited speakers and musicians.
Garcia's wife, Lourdes, is serving as "cause coordinator" for the One Conference. She cites an estimate that 27 million people are enslaved worldwide and 100,000 American children are trafficked for commercial sex annually.
"Because Florida is a crossroads of the region, human slavery is a massive problem that many people are unaware of," she says in a statement. "We want to change that."
No one is predicting turnout, but the BankUnited Center has 8,000 seats. The Garcias say they want to make the One Conference an annual event.
Coy, of Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale, likes the idea. He mentions work in Broward County -- like the fostering agency 4Kids -- that has been achieved by church partnerships.
"God promised that where brothers dwell in unity, he will command a blessing," he says.
James D. Davis
Event: One Conference
Featuring: Rallies, music, speakers on unifying churches and ministries
When: Feb. 10-12
Where: BankUnited Center, at the University of Miami, 1245 Dauer Drive, Coral Gables
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Voluntary Actions by Irrigators Help California's Shasta River Get its Largest Return of Chinook Salmon in 50 Years
Near-record numbers of Chinook salmon returned successfully to the Shasta River last fall despite daunting, drought-related environmental conditions and a large number of migrating fish that increased the threat of disease.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) counted more than 29,000 adult Chinook salmon at video camera monitoring sites and fish weirs, making the return the largest on the Shasta River since 1962.
"Irrigation districts and individual landowners stepped up and contributed water to reduce disease risks to returning salmon," said Neil Manji, CDFW Regional Manager. "The increased flow helped cool the river water and avert disease and a potential salmon kill."
Drought conditions combined with large numbers of salmon, low stream flow and high temperatures posed a potential disease threat in the lower reaches of the Shasta River in September.
In 2002, similar environmental conditions caused more than 30,000 salmon and steelhead to die downstream in the lower Klamath River due the outbreak of two diseases, columnaris and Ichthyophthirius multifiliis or "Ich."
With flows low in early September, large numbers of salmon began returning to the Shasta River. Irrigation season was slated to continue until Oct. 1, which could have caused further reductions in river flows.
Over a half dozen key landowners and irrigators with water rights recognized the threat and decided to reduce diversions from the Shasta River to increase flow in the river. At one juncture their contributions increased the river flow to 44 cubic feet per second more than doubling the flow. This helped move salmon through the system and reduce the vulnerability to disease outbreaks that are a threat when fish are highly concentrated. Increased flow also helped disrupt the life cycles of lethal disease pathogens.
CDFW environmental scientists closely monitored the health of returning salmon and reported no significant disease outbreaks.
The impressive return of Chinook salmon last fall year is attributed to good conditions in the ocean, where salmon live and feed for up to three years, and excellent juvenile reproduction and out-migration success to the ocean.
Environmental improvement projects throughout the watershed, including water diversion screening and riverbed enhancements, may also have contributed to this year's return.


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#1 Oklahoma Rebellion07-16-2008, 11:51 AM
Finally, states want thier rights back from the feds! Well one state.
Walter Williams
One of the unappreciated casualties of the War of 1861, erroneously called a Civil War, was its contribution to the erosion of constitutional guarantees of state sovereignty. It settled the issue of secession, making it possible for the federal government to increasingly run roughshod over Ninth and 10th Amendment guarantees. A civil war, by the way, is a struggle where two or more parties try to take over the central government. Confederate President Jefferson Davis no more wanted to take over Washington, D.C., than George Washington wanted to take over London. Both wars are more property described as wars of independence.
Oklahomans are trying to recover some of their lost state sovereignty by House Joint Resolution 1089, introduced by State Rep. Charles Key.
The resolution's language, in part, reads: "Whereas, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows: 'The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.'; and Whereas, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and whereas, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and Whereas, today, in 2008, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the 2nd session of the 51st Oklahoma Legislature: that the State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States. That this serve as Notice and Demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers."
Key's resolution passed in the Oklahoma House of Representatives with a 92 to 3 vote, but it reached a bottleneck in the Senate where it languished until adjournment. However, Key plans to reintroduce the measure when the legislature reconvenes.
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I wondered why the rock was getting larger. Then it hit me.
Have you looked into how many states have a Succession movement, last I checked it was like 20. Kind of telling, when it comes to those that believe in the Constitution, and the lack of faith in the Fed.
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I wondered why the rock was getting larger. Then it hit me.
Verrry funny. My left hand isn't working correctly. The blown disc in my neck is starting to wreak havoc on the rest of my body, and the narcotics for pain are f#$%ing with my mind.
It's about damned time!!!!:mad:I feel that once a black fella has referred to white foks as "honky paleface devil white-trash cracker redneck Caspers," he's abdicated the right to get upset about the "N" word. But that's just me. -- Jim Goad
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Colony (3.5e Deity)
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|Greater Deity
|A crooked spiral overtop an array of light.
|Home Plane:
|introspection, coincidence, fate
|Clergy Alignments:
|Neutral Good, Lawful Neutral, Neutral, Chaotic Neutral, Neutral Evil
|Luck, Knowledge, Travel, War*
|Favored Weapon:
|Unarmed and Gauntlets.
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He is the oldest of the Sosha Genia and creator and father to all those except Rejiksson. He rarely makes appearances, and does so only when it is of great cosmic significance. In dark times, He is the herald of change. He prefers unarmed combat to any other. *Clerics of Colony may choose Improved Unarmed Strike as a granted domain power instead if War is chosen as a domain.
Colony permeates all of Nymnelia itself. His essence suffuses the plane, allowing him to exist without a defined form and keep watch over all parts of the plane, even when the other Sosha Genia wish to limit Him. Colony focuses much of His attention on the dealings and natures of Nymnelia, however, He still dedicates attention to His faithful followers.
He seeks to watch over those who seek knowledge and their quest to do so.
Oddly, he does have interest in war, as war is a great showing of many fates, and such a display is a spectacle for Him to behold.
He is also known as The Father.
- True Avatar: Colony is known to form a titanic glowing orb of prismatic light surrounded by a thin cloud ring. He can be seen for miles across the land.
- Ephemeral Avatars: Colony has no known ephemeral avatars as he does not seek to directly interact with mortals on a personal level.
All things have a way of balancing out in the end. As the eldest of the Sosha Genia, this is certainly a truth.
Clergy and Temples[edit]
There are few true temples of Colony, though His mark is the most widespread. Nearly every road has at least one shrine of Colony for travelers to pray upon for lucky travels. Most major roads even have stone monuments as distance markers and landmarks with Colony's symbol carved upon them. Clerics of Colony travel these roads seeking to keep the balance.
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Daily Archives: September 2, 2009
Waffle Wednesday and perhaps a challenge?
You know what day it is…
Waflle Wednesday! Yay!!!
I worked hard for these waffles though. I was up early before work to pay a visit to my new gym. I slept like a log last night, which is very rare for me. Usually I wake up a few times throughout the night, but last night I was out solid until my alarm went off! I think it's just because I'm beat from moving, but hopefully I continue to sleep well in my new place :)
Gym visit this morning was awesome. One of my favourite things about my new gym is that they have a plethora of cardio machines, none of which have time limits, or required sign-up. Which makes jumping on them randomly throughout a workout very easy!
Duration: 1:07
- 15 minutes on the elliptical, increasing resistance every 2 minutes
- three sets barbell squats
- three alternating sets dumbbell shoulder press and curtsy lunge
- 10 minutes running on the treadmill, increasing speed every 2 minutes
- three alternating sets cable horizontal woodchop and back extension
- 10 minutes on the rowing machine, alternating underhand and overhand grip
- two minute plank as the cherry on top ;)
I didn't bother counting reps today. Instead, I lifted until it felt really hard, then did two more reps. It was fun! I'm so far in love with my new gym. Tomorrow night I'm trying out one of their yoga classes.
Then it was waffle time.
The usual mix. Two Nature's Path maple cinnamon waffles, almond butter, yogurt, blueberries. Apparently the first week of September is also waffle week. I didn't have time this morning, but tomorrow I will be having some fun with waffles!! :D
I also cut the BS this morning and put my protein powder directly in my coffee.
Just stirred about 2/3 of a scoop of chocolate whey into my chilled brewed coffee. It mixed very well, I was impressed!
For some reason, I've been on a bread kick lately. I think it's because I cut "light breads" out of my diet, so I've been eating the real stuff. All I want are sandwiches!
This particular one had turkey, hummus, laughing cow and romaine.
No better way to polish off an old-school sandwich than with an apple.
This was another new apple to me – a Paula Red. I didn't really care for it. Too sour, too soft.
A festive Larabar was also consumed during my work day.
I remember liking the ginger snap flavour the last time I tried it, but today I found it was too spicy. Anyone ever notice Larabars can be a little "over-spiced?" It would probably be good crumbled over something though. Or, with cream cheese icing :P
I had a loooong afternoon at work. An early lunch + late dinner = one hungry tummy come 4 pm. So I swung by the Bulk Barn to pick up some rolled oats and a snack. Figs!
These were just bursting with crispy/gooey goodness on the inside. They held me through getting many last-minute stories written up.
My mother text messaged me today to say that she saw yesterday's blog, and that I needed placemats for my dining table. I know better than to go against my mother's wishes, so I made sure to get some for tonight! :P
Is that better Mom? :P I bought them for a buck each at the Dollarstore.
My mother also provided the food on that placemat. Veggie pizza she left in my fridge, that I added some broccoli to. Made in my brand new toaster oven (I can already tell we're going to be best friends).
My side salad was just garden veggies topped with cottage cheese. This was a huge meal and I almost ate all of it! My crazy hunger is starting to get a little more under control though. Hopefully it's back to normal by tomorrow!
To my fellow Atlantic Canadians: This Friday is Eat Atlantic Day. It's a challenge organized by the Co-op store, to eat only food produced from the four Atlantic provinces all day Friday. They're pretty lax with it. For example, they approve Just Us! coffee because it's roasted in Nova Scotia. Anyways, I encourage you to check it out! I won't be participating, mainly because my life is way too hectic at the moment. But would everyone else out there be interested in a similar challenge that we can all take part in? We can all pledge to eat "regionally" for one day. It'll be fun!
Anyways, Chris just got here and is demanding my attention. Hope your week is filled with waffles! ;)


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Take a look at today's puzzle.
On the left, I've plotted the three EIV reconstructions for the NH hemisphere using the infilled CRU series as a "target". The data is straight from Mann's website. One shows the "full" global network, one shows the "full" NH network (both of which I take to really be series selected as discussed in my Full Network post, but it's always hard to be sure) and the third one is the "screened" NH network. As I understand it, SH proxies are used in the "GL full" network to teleconnect with NH reconstruction and this is the difference with the NH "full", but again I'm not 100% sure.
The right panel shows the differences between the series, showing the differences in a cycle.
Take a careful look at both panels because lots of questions jump out at me.
First, all three reconstructions go to 2006 even though there aren't any proxies that go to 2006. How'd they do that? (Of course, we can't tell by consulting the EIV code, because, contrary to the representaton by PNAS, working EIV code isn't provided.) Did they splice the instrumental record? Could be. It's hard to tell.
Second, all three reconstructions are identical in the calibration period. How'd they do that? Is this from splicing or overfitting?
Third, look at the the year 600 in the right hand panel. The black and red series essentially flip orientation. How'd they do that? It looks like there's a reconstruction step and the regression sign for a series flips over when the composition of the network changes. Whatever it is, it's not a good sign,
Fourth, what about the green series in the left hand panel. What's going on in the early portion? How'd they do that?
Just to show that I'm not making this up. Here's a graphic from the SI in which I think that I discern some of these patterns:
Stranger and stranger.


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I decided to head to Cleveland after work today. Originally, I would've liked to have attended yesterday's too, but I wasn't feeling well and fellow ballhawk Nick Pelescak was already in Cleveland and reported a rained out batting practice on Wednesday.
I left work and drove to Cleveland and didn't get there until 4:50 PM. Batting practice had began at 4:30. When I arrived, I had a few bad breaks and didn't snag anything for the first twenty minutes I was there. I didn't even get to see the good Indians batters like Hafner, Thome, Santana or Sizemore. I was regretting even going. Why did I go? Well, I wanted to move up another spot on this list and make my 2011 season a top 5 season. By that I mean, the number of balls that I snagged would be fifth all time.
Last year I was the all time single season record holder with 544 before Zack Hample blew by me with a 30 stadium 130 game season.
Here's the list:
My first ball of the day was a ball that bounced into the trees in Heritage Park. I ran over and found the ball waiting just under the wall, so I reached in and grabbed it before an usher came rushing down and started looking for it as well. I had already grabbed it, so I just left. Since when do ushers try to get balls out of the trees in Heritage Park?
My second ball of the day was a nice catch that took some effort. An Indians blasted a home run to my right. I ran up about seven rows and cut across into an empty row and caught it on the fly backhanded here:
The White Sox BP typically sucks in Cleveland because they don't have too many good lefties, and all fans are confined to right field until 6PM on weekdays. Not a good combination. However, I had some more luck.
I caught an Adam Dunn home run on the fly here:
I had to leap to make the catch, and there were two other ballhawks jostling for position on the ball a row or two back.
Ball #4 of the day was completely lucky and random. Will Ohman fielded a ball near the wall and flipped it up over his shoulder without looking. I was standing four rows deep right here:
And the ball was directly to me. I didn't have to budge an inch. Later in BP, Ohman screamed at the crowd that he would get the balls on the field and keep them, and if they wanted a ball to catch a home run. There were dozens and dozens of kids screaming 'HERE HERE HERE' on every ball that was hit to right field. I can see why he was annoyed. Even more annoying, is that it pretty much ruined it for everyone. The White Sox pretty much completely stopped throwing balls into the crowd for the rest of BP.
My fifth ball of the day was glove tricked out of the Indians bullpen. It was a home run hit by Adam Dunn that settled right below me.
Piece of cake.
At 6:00, I had thought about running over and getting a ball about 12 rows up in left field that all of the ushers had missed, but Nick Pelescak was going to be going for the same ball, so I decided to instead head into foul territory at 6.
There was some major competition there, as a big line of people, including several ballhawks rushed in to the seats. In my haste, I dropped my Cleveland Stick. I had a decided that I would run down and see if there's any Easter Eggs, and then come back and grab it a minute later.
When I ran over I found ball #6. It wasn't just any ball though… It was an Angels 50th Anniversary Commemorative Ball. Rare.
And weird, since neither of the teams had recently played the Angels. The White Sox played them last on August 24th.
I then went back to grab my Cleveland Stick but it was gone. Someone had stolen it. Or threw it away. It was a terrible loss. If you're new to this blog, I use the Cleveland Stick to snag unreachable balls out of Heritage Park like this one:
Luckily today was my final game in Cleveland, so I'll have a new device for next year.
After having no luck in left field, I made my way over to the White Sox dugout and waited for batting practice to be over. I usually never do this, but I couldn't pass it up. Look how many White Sox fans were waiting to greet the team as they ran off the field:
Yeah. None.
As a result, I got third base coach to toss me ball #7. He's about to duck into the dugout in the picture below (between the two fans):
After snagging my seventh ball, I left thereby closing the book on Cleveland for the 2011 season.
I made it home at exactly 9 PM and Amy and I watched the Season Premier of The Office.
Here's today's baseballs:
Game: 7 balls (3 hit, 2 thrown, 1 found, 1 device)
Season: 409 balls (173 hit, 86 thrown, 87 device, 56 found)
Games: 75 games
Average: 5.45 per game
Career: 1,531 balls
Attendance: 21,487
8-9-10 Camden Yards
With the Pirates hitting the road for San Diego, I thought about flying along with them to snag my one thousandth baseball at a stadium I'd never visited before. I decided against it, since it'd be cheaper to do a couple day trips to Baltimore on Monday and Cleveland on Tuesday. And so, I hit the road for Baltimore.
I never fared well at Camden Yards. Prior to today my ballpark high was six balls in one game.


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Two weeks in the West
Big coal remains big and the weather gets wacky in the New Year. Is there a connection?
"You start doing away with cockfighting, then they're going to start doing away with rodeos … and then they're going to start doing away with hunting and fishing."
—New Mexico state Sen. Phil Griego, D, speaking in opposition to a proposal to ban cockfighting in his state, one of only two in the country where the sport is legal.
In early January,
eastern Colorado and much of New Mexico continued to dig
out after a brutal pounding by winter storms. Snowfall
broke records, stranded travelers and killed some 15,000 cows. But
Arizona faces the opposite problem: Winter has thus far dodged the
state, leaving snowpack levels at just 38 percent of average.
The severe weather could get even more intense if global warming continues. Last year was the warmest on record, and there's a 60 percent chance that next year could be even hotter, say British climatologists. Blame goes to elevated levels of greenhouse gases and a resurgent El Niño climate trend.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, D, isn't going to sit by while global warming ravages his turf. He signed an executive order in December that requires new cars sold in the state to emit less carbon dioxide and also calls for studies of various emission-reducing measures. He follows his California counterpart, Arnold Schwarzenegger, R, who last year signed a bill forcing industry to slash greenhouse gas emissions and is expected to target automobiles next.
Coal — one of the world's leading sources of greenhouse
gases — keeps chugging along, though. Last year, U.S.
coal mines set a new record for production, with
Western producers pulling 30 million tons more coal out of the
ground than in 2005. Another record for the industry: 47 people
died in mining accidents in 2006 — the highest number of
deaths since 1995. Most of those deaths happened in the East, but
2007's first fatality was in the West, on Jan. 6, at
Oxbow's Elk Creek Mine near Somerset, Colo.
A new coal mine might dig into Kane County, Utah, near the boundary of Bryce Canyon National Park. Alton Coal Development hopes to lease 3,851 acres of public land from the federal Bureau of Land Management. The public now has a chance to weigh in for energy jobs or park tourism.
Northwestern New Mexico activists prefer clean air to energy jobs, and literally stood in the way of a proposed power plant to make their point. In January, Navajo District Judge Genevieve Woody ruled that the protesters may keep pro-testing. However, they have to stop illegally blocking a road to the plant site, so workers can continue studying the plant's potential impact on the environment.
Other tidbits from
the West…
In San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom, apparently desperate to keep pro football in town, invited the 49ers to build a stadium at the decommissioned Hunters Point shipyard. A hot problem: Until 1969, the shipyard was home to a major nuclear research facility and wide-scale mishandling of radioactive material; $400 million has been spent on remediation, but it's unclear whether the site can be cleaned by the 49ers' 2012 deadline.
A Colorado program that allows landowners who put land into conservation easements to sell their state tax credits has cost the state $193 million in foregone tax collections so far, according to a recent audit. But there's no database detailing how many acres have been easement-ized or where they are located. A separate Internal Revenue Service review found that land appraisals — the basis for tax credits — are often illegally inflated.
Near Payson, Ariz., a new deer and elk crosswalk could reduce roadkill. When an animal approaches the highway, lights warn drivers, and fences guide the animal across the road. The device cost $700,000; wildlife underpasses cost $3 million each.
The invasion has begun. A marina employee recently found live zebra mussels in Lake Mead, according to the 100th Meridian Initiative, a group that has tried to keep the invasive species out of the West. Located on the Arizona/Nevada border, Lake Mead is 1,000 miles west of the nearest established population of the bivalve, which multiplies prolifically, starves competing organisms and plugs up water intakes.
Going downhill
1936: The year Sun Valley Ski Resort
opened, making it the oldest ski resort in the United States
478: Number of ski areas
operating in the U.S. in 2005
3: Number of ski areas prohibiting
snowboarding (Taos, N.M.; Alta, Utah; Deer Valley, Utah)
6/6.9: Number in millions of
snowboarders and skiers, respectively, in the United States
82: Cost, in dollars, for a
one-day lift ticket at Colorado's Vail Resort for the
2006-'07 ski season
39: Number of skiing (29) and snowboarding (10) fatalities in
2005-'06, out of 58.9 million user days
85: Percentage of fatalities that were
32.4/27.7: Average age
of male/female skiers
21.3/23: Average age of male/female
51/49: Percentage of skiers who are male/female
74/26: Percentage of snowboarders who
are male/female
12,840: Elevation (in feet) at the top of the highest chairlift in North America: Breckenridge, Colorado's Imperial Express Superchair


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Rod Remelin
Famous Sayings
H. L. Mencken Quotes
Will Rogers Quotes
Ambrose Bierce
Mark Twain Quotes
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Farewell Address
Fredrick Bastiat
The Law
Roger Sherman
Caveat Against Injustice
Lysander Spooner
No Treason
Andrew Jackson
Farewell Address
Merrill M. E. Jenkins
A Treatise on Monetary Reform
Famous Sayings
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson Quotes (1743 - 1826)
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
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Story highlights
- El Pais says it will revise its verification procedures
- Venezuela's government says it plans to pursue legal action against newspaper
- El Pais publishes a photo of an intubated man in a hospital bed, then later retracts it
- The Spanish newspaper apologizes to its readers
Early editions of Spain's leading newspaper Thursday displayed a large front-page photo claiming to be an "unprecedented" and "exclusive" look at Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's medical treatment in Cuba.
But the intubated man lying in a hospital bed shown in the photo wasn't Chavez, the newspaper soon discovered, and it began backtracking.
El Pais took down the photo, which was on the newspaper's website for about 30 minutes, and also recalled the early editions of its newspaper from newsstands.
"After learning that the image offered did not correspond to Chavez, El Pais also stopped distributing the print edition and started to send a new edition to retail outlets," the newspaper said in a statement on its website, explaining the retraction and apologizing to readers.
El Pais declined to comment on the matter to CNN. The newspaper's online statement said the photo had been provided by an agency that claimed it was an authentic image of Chavez.
"The daily has opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of what happened and the errors that could have been committed in the verification of the photo," the statement said.
Several purported photos of the Venezuelan leader have circulated on social media in recent weeks, but Venezuela's government hasn't released any new photos of Chavez since he underwent cancer surgery in Cuba more than six weeks ago.
The 58-year-old president hasn't made any public appearances since then, either.
The quick retraction by El Pais did not quell sharp criticism from the Venezuelan government and many on social media, who slammed the newspaper and said the photo was clearly taken from a 2008 YouTube video that had nothing to do with Chavez.
"As grotesque as it is false, the photo of 'Chavez intubated' that today the venerable Spanish newspaper El Pais published on its front page," Venezuelan Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said in a Twitter post.
Later Thursday, Villegas said the Venezuelan government plans to pursue legal action against the newspaper "so that these type of acts do not go unpunished."
"We will use all the legal tools within our reach to proceed to repair the damage caused not only to Comandante Chavez, the president, but also to all of Venezuelan society," he said.
The photo's publication, Villegas said, was evidence of a right-wing media campaign that aims to spread fear and destabilize Venezuela.
He also objected to the nature of the image, arguing that the newspaper's editors never would have permitted the publication of a similar photo of a European president or a member of their own families.
Diosdado Cabello, head of Venezuela's National Assembly, said publishing the photo was no accident.
"Nobody believes that the photo that appears in El Pais of Spain is something accidental," he wrote in a Twitter post, arguing that the motive behind the photo's publication was clear: "hatred."
Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner also took to Twitter to criticize the Spanish newspaper, calling the photo a "dirty trick."
Pilar Minguez was getting ready to open a bundle of newspapers as she set up her newsstand in Madrid early Thursday when she got word of the problem.
"Don't open it. I have to take the newspapers," Minguez said a distributor told her. "There was a problem, and they have to change the front page."
Nothing like that has ever happened before, particularly with the prominent El Pais, Minguez said.
"It's unbelievable, because with the number of filters it goes through, it is a little strange, truly," Minguez said.
The newspaper provided additional details into its decision-making in an article posted online Thursday night, titled, "The photo that El Pais never should have published."
"The newspaper will revise its verification procedures in view of the errors committed," the article said.
But the El Pais article also said that after being assured by a news agency that the photo was authentic and taken by a Cuban nurse who had been part of Chavez's medical team, El Pais had no way to confirm details about when the picture was taken "due to the information restrictions under the Cuban regime."
There was a lengthy debate among the paper's editors about whether to publish the hospital photo, the newspaper said.
"The conclusion reached was that the image was relevant at a time when the health of Venezuelan president is a source of great controversy and heated political debate in his country, because of his absence during his inauguration and ... in light of the lack of transparency of the authorities," El Pais said.


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This is a video of Christina Aguilera performing "Beautiful" from last night's Sandy benefit concert on NBC. (Note: text "redcross" to 90999 if you want to donate). Billy Joel also performed "Miami 2017" and changed the lyrics to say that "Staten Island drowned," which gave everyone the shivers. Jimmy Fallon sang with Billy Joel, Sting, and Bon Jovi and smiled a lot.
But if you've ever had any doubts that Christina is the diva of our generation, than this video should squash those wrongful beliefs.
NASA scientists have been searching through deep space for years in order to find something that has so few flaws as this has. By god, we have finally found it.


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The above quote, from Mark MacDonald, of the Tokyo-based game localisation company 8-4, sums up what felt so special about the best games on the SNES. It rings true for all-time greats such as Super Mario Word and The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, which emerged within a year of the system's release with an amount of polish generally unseen on a system's early games.
Technically they were sequels, but they still feel like they skipped a game, the way we might feel today if we got Halo 3 next after Halo 1.
MacDonald made his assessment in the midst of two lengthy multi-hour podcasts that celebrate the Super Nintendo hardware and its best games. Listen to both! Part 1 [Part 2
Zelda screencap via GameFAQs, snapped by The Mighty Kelp


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