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From the usefulness of code enforcement data to financial savings from plant-level water sensors, the 'Raisin Capital of the World' is looking to make a number of tech advancements in the coming years.
The Central Valley of California may not seem like the ideal place for technology innovation. Known for its agricultural production, the area is likely home to more farmers than computer programmers. But that may change in the years to come, as Fresno, Calif., attempts to tie its agriculture heritage with the power of open data and broadband connectivity.
Fresno will be partnering with the Fresno Unified School District later this year on a "Shrink the Bubble" campaign to introduce residents to what open data can do in the community. Using an application linked to code enforcement data, areas littered with the most rubbish and graffiti will be highlighted on a virtual map with a "bubble" layer, and then prioritized for cleanup. Students will photograph and blog about the project to document how the city is being improved.
Fresno CIO Carolyn Hogg explained that the goal is to show citizens the kind of data the city has in a non-threatening way that allows people to embrace the potential and usefulness of big data. The project should begin during the school district's break in April.
But the use of big data in Fresno won't end there. Hogg expects to use the application, being built by Bitwise, as part of a long-running effort to apply data to various city issues. For example, following the Shrink the Bubble campaign, Hogg wants to map water data in response to citizen complains about a recent water rate hike.
"Eventually we want to show where our problem areas are with water in the city, the reason for that rate hike, and what it would mean to them by not addressing these big bubbled areas," Hogg said, referring to how water issues would appear on the application.
"We're going to be using that concept to share information so we can have more of a participatory community with the data that the city has," she added.
Fresno also has its sights set on rolling out broadband to its downtown core and many of the rural farming areas within the surrounding area. Using a federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant, Fresno is going to open up its main downtown artery – which is currently only walkable -- to traffic. When that happens, the city is going to install fiber conduit in the ground.
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At that point, Fresno will be looking to telecommunications companies to offer service levels of a gigabit or more. At least one provider is keeping tabs on what Fresno is up to. Hogg is a member of the San Joaquin Regional Broadband Consortium and revealed that AT&T has had a representative at their meetings for the past couple of years. Hogg expressed optimism that Fresno's efforts will spur competition between providers once the fiber is in.
That high-speed connectivity is going to be needed. As a pilot city in the U.S. Economic Development Administration's Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) initiative in 2012, Fresno realized that to increase its capacity as a local government, it has to attract technology talent that enhances its historical strength – agriculture.
Officials believe technology developed locally can be applied in the area, improving crop production and revenue. But broadband is needed to entice developers.
"A lot of cities are trying to rebrand themselves, and we realized that we're already branded – we feed a third of the world here," Hogg said. "Fresno County has been the No. 1 ag producing county in the nation for the last 45 years … we grow over 350 different types of crops, which makes us unique to states that grow only one or two, like corn or wheat. So we are a great incubator for R&D for agriculture."
Getting gigabit-plus Internet speeds in Fresno could be a difficult sell, however. While a few places such as Kansas City, Kan.; Provo, Utah; and Austin, Texas are getting the gigabit treatment via Google Fiber, it's long been documented that private telecom companies tend to build out primarily in areas they feel they can profit. So if providers don't see dollar signs in California's Central Valley, it might be an uphill battle to realize some of the city's goals.
Hogg admitted that she's aware of many of the struggles other cities have had to bring in high-speed Internet power, or even start their own broadband network when private providers wouldn't service an area. But she was confident Fresno could make a good case and inspire competition among providers.
Some farmers in Fresno are already using "smart ag" technology to plow fields more efficiently and water sensors for plants. While wireless broadband is needed for those practices to spread further, that kind of tech could help potentially double what Hogg believes is a $25 billion per year industry in Fresno County.
"The great amount of water savings with water sensor technology [can help] to get some subsidized funding from the irrigation districts, which will help offset the costs it takes for the big telecos to come to rural areas," Hogg said. "So those are the types of conversations we're having, and we're actually getting interest in it now from the telecos."
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SAQ?Program To Be Offered
Emmetsburg High School will once again conduct its Speed, Agility and Quickness program. SAQ will run from Feb. 25 through May 1 for 20 sessions and is open to all athletes in grades 6-12.
Workouts include speed development, agility and pylometrics for quickness.
Workouts will meet in the High School gym on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:30 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.

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No doubt, staying up-to-date on the latest security patches is critical in today's threat environment. In addition to the many security initiatives we engage in as a vendor to help keep our products and our users safe, the single most important advice we can give to users is to always stay up-to-date. The vast majority of users who ever encountered a security problem using Adobe products were attacked via a known vulnerability that was patched in more recent versions of the software. This is why we've invested so much in the Adobe Reader/Acrobat update mechanism introduced in 2010, and more recently in the Flash Player background updater delivered in March of this year and used for the first time with last week's Flash Player security update. Both update mechanisms give Windows users the option to install updates automatically, without user interaction. A Mac version of the Flash Player background updater is currently in beta and will be available very soon—stay tuned.
In the meantime, we welcome today's initiative by Apple to encourage Mac users to stay up-to-date: With the Apple Safari 5.1.7 update released today, Apple is disabling older versions of Flash Player (specifically Flash Player 10.1.102.64 and earlier) and directing users to the Flash Player Download Center, from where they can install the latest, most secure version of Flash Player. For more information, visit http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5271.
Remember: The single most important thing we can do to protect ourselves from the bad guys is to stay up-to-date. A thank you to the security team at Apple for working with us to help protect our mutual customers!


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Vintage Bicycles - Bianchi
Bianchi Ghisallo Classic City .. Bianchi Ghisallo Classic City Bike 1970s55 cmCampagnolo parts. Relaxed riding positio.. Campagnolo parts. Relaxed riding position.€799.00
Bianchi Branded Children City .. Bianchi Branded Children City Bike 1970s46 cm22 inch wheels. Practical. 22 inch wheels. Practical.€899.00
Bianchi Steel Road Frame Set 1.. Bianchi Steel Road Frame Set 1990s57 cmColumbus tubes. Ovalized downtube. Origi.. Columbus tubes. Ovalized downtube. Original paintjob.€599.00
Bianchi 605 Classic Celeste Ro.. Bianchi 605 Classic Celeste Road Bike 1990s59 cmOvalized tube. Celeste paintjob. Ovalized tube. Celeste paintjob.€1,299.00
Bianchi Campione d'Italia.. Bianchi Campione d'Italia Classic Road Bike 1980s58 cmBianchi Special tubing. Aero seat stays... Bianchi Special tubing. Aero seat stays. Campagnolo Nuovo Record.Sold
Bianchi Campione del Mondo Roa.. Bianchi Campione del Mondo Road Bike 1950s57 cmTop notch model. Campagnolo Shifting. Top notch model. Campagnolo Shifting.Sold
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In 1885, when he was 21 years old, Edoardo Bianchi started manufacturing bikes in his shop in Milan, Italy. Edoardo had previous experience hand-making medical tools, so he had an acute understanding of how to manufacture precise instruments; a skill that translated into meticulously crafted bicycles. In 1888 he developed his first bicycle with tyres produced by Dunlop, and in 1899 the first palmarés for a Bianchi bike was achieved by Giovanni Tomaselli at the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris.
Traditionally, Bianchi bicycles have always been painted in Celeste – a turquoise green with an origin steeped in myth. Some people simply claim it was used due to an availability of cheap, surplus military paint, whereas others mention a story involving the green eyes of a former Italian queen for whom Edoardo built a bicycle. Even the current management of Bianchi doesn't really know why the colour was used so extensively, but the iconic status of 'Bianchi green' means it is one of the most recognised and revered brands in cycling.
Classic and vintage Bianchi models
Bianchi Tipo M - This was the top model in the 1920s; the Tipo M is a lightweight racing bike equipped with the famous "Giro Ruota" gearing, a flip flop hub with freewheel and single cog to be switched manually according to rider's need.
Bianchi Saetta - Produced between 1933 and 1939, the Bianchi Saetta (Italian for thunderbolt) was a lightweight, lugged steel frame with particularly refined lugs, iconic Bianchi head-tube with integrated headset and a chain oiler at the seat tube.
Bianchi Folgore - Produced between 1940 and 1949, the Bianchi Folgore is inseparably connected with the epic victories of Fausto Coppi at the 1946 Milano-Sanremo and the 1947 Giro d'Italia. Normally equipped with the iconic Campagnolo Cambio Corsa: a two-lever operated gearing developed by Tullio Campagnolo.
Bianchi Paris-Roubaix - Produced between 1950 and 1952, the Bianchi Paris-Roubaix is one of the Milanese brands most iconic models. It takes its name from both the Hell of the North and Campagnolo's unique Paris-Roubaix groupset.
Bianchi Tour de France - Designed in 1952 and manufactured in 1953, to celebrate Coppi's enormous victory in the 1952 Tour de France; Bianchi produced a prestigious model called the Bianchi Tour de France. It did not remain in the catalogue for long, however, and by the end of 1953 was never made again.
Bianchi Campione del Mondo - If you have seen ever pictures of professional racers like Fausto Coppi riding a Bianchi bicycle, you have most likely seen a Bianchi Campione del Mondo. First released in 1954 to celebrate Coppi's 1953 World Championship.
Bianchi Specialissima - Released in 1958, the Bianchi Specialissima was made to be as light as possible whilst retaining the stiffness required to translate the power of professional cyclists into formidable speed. With a 27.2mm seat tube, head-tube oiler and a Campagnolo Record Strada Groupset, the Bianchi Specialissima was built by the Bianchi Reparto Corse – the Bianchi Racing Division – with competition in mind. The same model was subsequently used by the legendary Bianchi-Salvarani Team in the 1960s.
Bianchi Specialissima X3 - Unmistakably Bianchi for the famous "Celeste paintwork", the Specialissima X3 is a rare model released in the early 1980s and only sold for a short period of time. The frameset was built with Columbus tubes and differed from other models for a few, refined details: a sloped fork crown, aero-shaped seat stays, "V" shaped brake bridge.
Bianchi Specialissima X4 - Probably one of the finest and most beautiful steel racing bicycles ever produced. Bianchi produced the Specialissima X4 for six years between 1986 and 1991 – they are impeccably crafted, used only the best components and are very rare.
Bianchi Centenario - The legendary Bianchi Centenario, developed to celebrate 100 years of Bianchi. Essentially, the Centenario was developed from the epic Bianchi Specialissima X4 and included special, gunmetal cromovelato paintwork.


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The market is going down, up, down again ... and maybe sideways for a little while. What should you do?
Everyone's financial situation and tolerance for risk is different. What may be good advice for a 21-year-old may not be the best course of action for a 65-year-old. Some investors may be able to afford a little risk in their portfolio ... others not. And while some folks may be able to muddle through, others may need a professional financial adviser to sort out their situation.
But there are some basic things all investors should keep in mind ...
The Basics ...
Diversification: You've heard the expression "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." The same holds true for portfolios. If all your investments are in the same category, and that category takes a hit, you'll take all the damage. If your investments are spread out over different categories, then a big hit in one only means a little damage to you. For that reason, many investors divide up their holdings between stocks, bonds and other types of investments. And they often carry the strategy even further, divvying up stock holdings between large companies and small companies, for example. (Check out CNBC stock guru Jim Cramer's take on diversification).
Asset allocation: So if you want to diversify, how do you do it? That basically depends on your age and your appetite for risk. Generally, the older you are, the less risk you want to have in your portfolio, since a loss will be harder to make up over time. So older folks may want more bond holdings in their portfolio, since bonds are considered less risky than stocks for the most part. On the other hand, younger investors may be willing to take on more risk, as so may want a greater percentage of stocks in the holdings in hopes of greater gains over time. Other investments, like commodities and real estate, may also enter into consideration although professionals often differ about the relative safety of these types of investments. (Watch a discussion of asset allocation here)
Dollar Cost Averaging: Many investors purchase stocks and other investments at regular intervals in fixed dollar amounts. This tends to reduce the volatility in their portfolios, regardless of what direction the market is moving, because as prices of securities rise, fewer units are bought, and vice versa. (Read more hereandlisten to Blackrock's Bob Doll discuss it here.) In certain markets, however, some traders ... usually those with shorter time horizons ... argue against such strategies. (You can hear one such argument here).
You can delve deeper into these terms and other financial lingo in our glossary. In addition, you can learn more about investing basics at our Investor Center and some of the larger economic concepts at play in CNBC Explains.
The Next Level ...
Now for some savvy investors, market downturns mean opportunity ... a chance to buy stocks with good potential for growth at bargain prices. This is where research and strategy come into play. And learning about the nuts and bolts, like ...
Knowing the difference between a market order and a stop order.
Knowing the difference between growth stocks and value stocks.
Understanding the metrics of the market, like P/E ratios andBeta.
And beyond that, there's a whole range of strategies and theories ... from chart patterns to short squeezes to option straddles. CNBC's trading program "Fast Money" has a whole "trade school" devoted to these subjects. And, of course, Jim Cramer discusses stock investing regularly on his show, "Mad Money."
Of course, some people prefer to have a professional financial adviser handle the sophisticated matters. There, too, are some individual things to consider. (Read more here).
No matter where you are in terms of investment knowledge, investors all agree on one thing ... don't panic.
This story, originally published in February, 2008, has been updated.


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BalticClimate videos and photos
Climate Change Perceptions in the Baltic Sea Region
"BalticClimate final report: Questionnaire Results – Regional Conditions, Problems and Potentials due to Climate Change"
focuses on climate change perceptions in the Baltic Sea Region. It shows general results from surveys implemented in 2009 and 2011, reflections and conclusions:
- Overall documentation
- Specific reports for BalticClimate's Target Areas
It also contains the questionnaires on climate change perceptions sent out in 2009 and 2011 to project partners, associated organisations and further actors in BalticClimate's Target Areas to survey their understandings and attitudes to climate change and their work with mitigation and adaptation.
The complete report (282 pages) is available for
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Note for all members:
Members can only log into the Member's Area by using your A'van Club membership number as your Member login ID. Your Club membership number is on your A'van badge. If you have any queries concerning this, contact the Web Manager via email on firstname.lastname@example.com
The Avan Club of Australia Inc. is a national organisation for the owners of "A-shaped" folding camper vans manufactured by A'van Campers Australia Ltd. The club was started in May 1999 in a home garage in Melbourne, and there are now over 1,200 members from all parts of Australia.
The main purpose of the Club is to establish and encourage friendship amongst people who own an "A-shaped" camper, and to share ideas with others who have a common interest. This is being done very successfully by annual national gatherings and through regular weekend gatherings of members in their own areas.


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TokyoMilk Dark Destiny Body Souffle Review
What We're Sweet On: A Sexy Take on Body Lotion
When you think of your destiny, we're guessing that body lotion is the last thing on your mind. But cult-favorite brand TokyoMilk is making us reconsider that with its Dark Destiny Body Soufflé ($40). Infused with midnight jasmine, sweet honeysuckle, and freshly cut ginger, this body butter doubles as a seductive perfume. But that's not to say it skimps on moisturizing. Destiny boasts an impressive array of skin-quenching ingredients, like shea butter and avocado oils, to smooth out even the most stubborn dry skin. The best part is that is doesn't leave behind that greasy residue that some lotions do. Glide the creamy lotion all over your limbs, focusing on your pressure points, and you can just about kiss your perfume goodbye.


text: Hannah Sommers directs product development in the NPR library, making sure that resources are driven toward high priority initiatives and that the library is contributing to innovation at NPR. Hannah received her MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin and was a legal research librarian prior to joining NPR. She was recognized as a Mover & Shaker by Library Journal in 2013.


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by Matt Slick
From Vatican Collection Volume 1, Vatican Council II, The Conciliar and Post Conciliar documents. General Editor Austin Flannery, O.P. New revised edition 1992; Costello publishing company, Northport, New York. 1992 pages 420-421 (par. 65)
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65. But while in the most Blessed Virgin the church has already reached that perfection whereby she exists without spot or wrinkle (cf. Eph. 5:27), the faithful still strive to conquer sin and increase in holiness. And so they turn their eyes to Mary who shines forth to the whole community of the elect as the model of virtues. Devoutly meditating on her and contemplating her in the light of the Word made man, the Church reverently penetrates more deeply into the great mystery of the Incarnation and becomes more and more like her spouse. Having entered deeply into the history of salvation, Mary, in a way, unites in her person and re-echoes the most important doctrines of the Faith: and when she is the subject of preaching and worship she prompts the faithful to come to her son, to his sacrifice and to the love of the Father. Seeking after the glory of Christ, the Church becomes more like her lofty type, and continually progresses in faith, hope and charity, seeking and doing the will of God in all things. The Church, therefore, in her apostolic work too, rightly looks to her who gave birth to Christ, who was thus conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, in order that through the church he could be born and increase in the hearts of the faithful. In her life the Virgin has been a model of that motherly love with which all who joined in the church's apostolic mission for the regeneration of mankind should be animated.
66. Mary has by grace been exalted above all angels and men to a place second only to her Son, as the most holy Mother of God who was involved in the mysteries of Christ: she is rightly honored by a special cult in the Church. From the earliest times the Blessed Virgin is honored under the title of Mother of God, whose protection the faithful take refuge together in prayer in all their perils and needs. Accordingly, following the Council of Ephesus, there was a remarkable growth in the cult of the people of God towards Mary, in veneration and love, in invocation and imitation, according to her own prophetic words: "all generations shall call me Blessed, because he that is mighty hath done great things to me," (Luke 1:48).
Comments on this passage
- Nowhere in Scripture are we told to put our eyes upon anyone other than the Lord himself. We are told to fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith (Heb. 12:2). In addition, it is Jesus who is the model of virtue--not Mary. Though she was greatly blessed and undoubtedly a godly woman, she still needed a savior. Mary said, "And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior." (Luke 1:47). Contrary to the Roman Catholic teaching that Mary was sinless, Mary herself admitted that God was her savior. A sinless person does not need a savior. It is in the person of Jesus that grace and truth (and virtue) are best exemplified. Our eyes should be kept on him.
- "Spouse"? Still researching to discover what is meant. The Catholic church doesn't seem to be too clear on this.
- The only proper object of preaching and worship is God. Jesus said, " . . . You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only." (Matt. 4:10). The incredible danger of making a person other than God, such as Mary, the subject of both preaching and worship is warned about in Exodus 20:4-5, "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me." God clearly warns against creating any idol before which anyone should bow. It goes without saying that the countless images of Mary strewn throughout Catholic churches all over the world are most assuredly shrines of idolatry since thousands of times a day Catholics over the world break the commandment of God by bowing before these images in worship.
- We should look to Christ alone. When you take your eyes off of Jesus and put them on anything else, or anyone else, you will be led astray.
- Where is this taught in Scripture? Where does it say that Mary was exalted above angels and men second only to her son? This would mean that Mary is just under Jesus, the creator of the universe, in position. Vatican II's comments are not biblical. This teaching cannot be found in Scripture and should be abandoned.
- This is a misleading term. Mary is not the Mother of God in the sense that God, the creator of the universe, had a mom. The divine nature has no mother since God is eternal and self-sufficient. Rather, Mary is the mother of the human nature of Jesus--not the mother of the divine nature. The human nature took its biological essence from Mary. The divine nature is from God. But we have to be careful here. Mary is, however, the mother of the person of Christ who has two natures: divine and human. Roman Catholics use the ambiguity of the term to elevate Mary to a place she should not be and in so doing--promote their idolatry.
- 1. "Cult" in this sense means a community of worshippers and not the "non-Christian cult" meaning that is often used of Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.


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- by Imran Khan
Here we are, on the eve of a red wave that will see the GOP wrest over 60 House seats, 8 Senate seats, and 7 Governorships away from the Democrats. As a free-market, small government advocate, I greet this development with only minimal enthusiasm. In fact, on a scale of 1 to 10, while I certainly rate the Democrats as a shameful 1, I cannot give the Republicans a score any higher than a 4. My ratings of 1 and 4, interestingly, offend not just Democrats but Republicans as well. Allow me to elaborate.
Republicans have held the Presidency for 28 of the last 42 years. They have also held majorities in Congress for substantial periods of time. Yet, no one can dispute that the US is far more left-leaning than it was in 1968. Government spending as a percentage of GDP is much higher, incidence of single motherhood is vastly higher, free enterprise is less respected, individual liberties are lower, and popular entertainment has become vulgar, disgusting, and immoral. These are all things Republicans do not desire, yet it has happened under their noses anyway. We can thus conclude that :
Republicans winning elections does not counter leftism, it merely postpones the inexorable advance of leftism.
So why are Republicans unable to advance what their voters want, while the left can advance their agenda whether they are in office or not? The reasons for this are as follows :
Marketing Ignorance : Longtime readers are aware of how I strongly emphasize that one must never refer to leftists as 'liberals'. In reality, they are illiberal, intolerant, and rigid. By allowing them to assign a positive word like 'liberal' or 'progressive' to themselves, the right already concedes the battle before it has even begun. Would you want to enter into a public debate with someone under the agreement that they get to call themselves the 'smart/good person' while you have to be known as the 'dumb/evil person'? Yet this is what the right readily agrees to, and they appear to be incapable of learning from their errors. In 8 years, I have seen just two articles by a Republican describing why it is unwise to refer to totalitarian leftists as 'liberals', while every other article posted daily continues with this foolishness.
But it goes further. For years and years, the left has behaved with extreme hypocrisy on issues of race, ethics, and pro- vs anti-American stances. The response that the right delivers is to point out this hypocrisy in a polite manner, expecting the left to acknowledge their error and not repeat it in the future. Needless to say, the left has no problem with hypocrisy and projection, and has no intention of changing this. Yet, the Republicans still fail to notice that pointing out such examples of hypocrisy has no effect on the debate. The definition of insanity, or at least stupidity, is repeating the same action a number of times, and expecting a different result, but Republicans fail to see that the character of their opponents is far too uncivilized for the toothless tactics that Republicans restrict themselves to.
Take, for example, the African-American vote, which usually goes 90-96% for Democrats. This is true even if the Republican candidate is black and the Democrat is white (as was the case in 3 major races in 2006). An examination of recent history quickly reveals this loyalty towards Democrats as more than a little odd. George Wallace ran for President as a Democrat on a segregationist platform as recently as 1976 (note that this was after Nixon's 'Southern Strategy' approach). Furthermore, Robert Byrd, a senior leader in the KKK, was a US Senator in the Democratic party until 2010. These facts would make it less surprising for blacks to vote 90% Republican than the current reality of the opposite. But this yet again shows how poor Republican messaging is. The party of George Wallace and Robert Byrd still manages to get 90% of the black vote, due to the left's tireless propaganda in black neighborhoods, and historical revisionism in school textbooks in inner-city public schools. As a result, the black vote is not even remotely available to Republicans, and with African Americans being 11% of the US population, for a Democrat to win a nationwide election, he only has to get 40 out of the remaining 90% of votes to be cast. The Republican, by contrast, has to get 50 out of the remaining 90%. That is correct, for a Republican to win, he has to get not 50 out of 100%, but 50 out of 90%.
And while Democrat tactics have been underhanded, the Republicans can only blame themselves for being so weak, inobservant, and slow to comprehend what they are up against.
The Judicial Battlespace, Where Only One Side Shows Up : Elections are only half of the battlefield. The other half is the legislative/judicial landscape where laws are discreetly created and enacted without voter approval. The left tirelessly pushes its agenda through an army of lawyers and judges, with the right not even noticing. This unchallenged activity from the left is the reason that they have managed to reduce their dependence on the electoral process, easily duping Republicans into thinking that winning elections is a 'victory against leftism'. That Republicans be distracted from even noticing this crucial other half of the battlespace is quite acceptable to the left.
As just one example, this is why the left is easily able to distract Republicans with inconsequential side issues like 'gay marriage', while not a single 'social conservative' protested that New York became the final state out of 50 to replace fault-based divorce with 'no-fault' divorce. For 'socons' who claim to care about preserving the institution of marriage, yet not utter a single word about a legal system that has been rigged to increase lawyer revenues by making it easy and profitable for women to get divorces, is shockingly dim. To put it even more plainly, the number of straight men avoiding marriage to women due to gay marriage legislation is zero, whereas the number of straight men avoiding marriage due to brutally anti-male laws is sizable. The socon reaction to this, in their strategic brilliance, is to attack gay marriage and ignore what really disincentivizes marriage.
Aren't conservatives supposed to be the people who understand how economic incentives work? This socon behavior would be the equivalent of an astronomer being unaware of the existence of the Moon, and is the reason that most 'socons' do not deserve to be taken seriously.
This is why a massive form of brutal redistribution in America today is not even noticed by those who claim to oppose socialism. Alimony is awarded to a divorcing wife on a 'no fault' basis, putting the husband into a 70% marginal tax rate. Even if he did not want a divorce, failure to pay this 'no-fault' alimony carries possible imprisonment. Thus, he is placed into near-slavery, and certainly has no incentive to invent new technologies or start new businesses. 10-30% of the male workforce being under a 70% tax rate during their peak earning years cannot be good for the economy, yet not one 'conservative' is fighting this, as pedestalization trumps capitalism in the conservative ideological hierarchy.
Republican Appeasement of 'Feminists' : As I explained in The Misandry Bubble, a lot of men, both left and right-leaning, have an extremely inobservant belief that groveling to women and excusing them of wrongdoings that no man would be excused for, is the way to get women to like them. In reality, women have the opposite reaction to a man who is too willing to appease, and find such a man to be a useful puppet at best. What makes it worse when a conservative Republican does it, is that in being a white knight, he tosses aside every other principle he claims to advocate.
Most would consider Steve Forbes to be a prominent, central representative of conservative Republican ideology. However, in Forbes magazine he has taken to publishing frequent articles that are decidedly misandric. I had the opportunity to ask him about this online, and he surprisingly gave the unthinking answer, "As a man with 5 daughters, I am concerned about women's issues.". How nice of him, but surely someone as intelligent as Steve Forbes would recognize that caring about the enviroment does not equate to an endorsement of the most fringe lunatic enviromentalists. So why can't he make such a distinction with 'feminism', rather than declare that he endorses any and all 'feminists' without questioning the possibility of extremism (which certainly harms his daughters) in their midst?
It goes deeper. The need for many conservatives to pedestalize women is so ingrained, that when someone points out to them how (and why) serial killers receive a torrent of love letters from an army of swooning women, the conservative gets angry not at the women, but at the messenger who points out this inconvenient reality. Flat-earthers do not like seeing evidence that the Earth is a sphere, and conservative pedestalization of women is precisely the same psychology.
Now, for any leftist reading this, I am going to reveal a secret to you. The secret is : it is easy to get a conservative to support any and all government programs as long as it is packaged as 'chivalry'. Do you want more government-subsidized daycare for unwed mothers to get them to vote Democrat? Tell a conservative that supporting this is 'chivalrous' while opposing this is 'misogynistic'. Do you want conservatives to support another tax on the wealthy to finance Obamacare? Tell him that women will suffer without Obamacare. Do you want more money to go towards teachers unions so that they can indoctrinate public school students even more deeply into Marxism? Tell a conservative that female teachers are underpaid (even though they aren't), and need a higher wage. Do you want cap-and-trade or any other Al Gore legislation passed? Find some convoluted way to show conservatives that women would suffer more than men if more carbon dioxide were produced. Yes, they really can be duped that easily. The typical conservative will jump at the chance to out-left a leftist when the prospect of appearing like a hero to women (again, refusing to learn that this actually repels women) presents itself. Try it, and see how every other principle, from small government, to free markets, to support for two-parent upbringings, to adherence to the US Constitution, will be jettisoned in their rush to be a pedestalizing white knight.
My Republican friends get angry when I give away this weakness to the other side. My answer to them is that if your side is so weak and needy that you are afraid of this weakness being revealed, how can you possibly support such useful idiots? Reform your side instead, and even I would subsequently rejoin.
Steven Baskerville discusses how conservatives who think they are 'tough on crime' have little understanding of the tyranny they have enabled, by building the left's Trojan horse for them. Over here, Ferdinand Bardamu describes how Democrats and Republicans unite to form the Misandry Party. For example, both parties are under the belief that innocent 'single mothers' were abandoned by 'deadbeat dads', and a typical debate between left and right would constitute an argument about who has done more to punish 'deadbeat dads'. In reality, it is usually the mother who has discarded the father's presence, while seizing his money, and is further using the state to prevent him from receiving joint custody or even visitation rights. But this reality is such a departure from the prevailing narrative that such a man can go to neither party for any sort of Father's Rights support. Many conservative women are not sympathetic to the oppression of men under state-backed misandry, and only seek to replace the leftist brand of 'feminism' with a slightly more religious version of their own.
These three reasons are why we see conservatives rarely driving an agenda, but rather only opposing what the left dangles before them as a distraction. Hence, the right keeps falling back and falling back, ceding more and more ground with each cycle. The alternating of power between Democrats and Republicans constitute a two-steps-back, one-step-sideways descent into leftism, so pardon me for not being too excited about the sideways step, the mere postponement we are about to take through the party earning a 4 taking seats from the party earning a 1 out of 10. Their inability to distinguish between insignificant side issues and the topics that actually matter, combined with the needy chivalry that trumps every other principle that they claim to hold, makes the current conservative/Republican mainstream fatally flawed.
While I was in strong agreement with the GOP during the crisis of the last decade, the War on Terror, I see them as very much in a 'useful idiot' role in the crisis of this decade, The Misandry Bubble.
This brings us to the core mismatch in US politics. As the emergence of the Tea Party has shown, at least 70% of the electorate wants lower taxes and lower spending. The approval ratings of the last 3 Presidents all rose and fell in tandem with the level of government spending. All this is established, yet the voters can't seem to figure out how to achieve it.
Back to The Misandry Bubble, where I establish that 70-80% of all government spending is a transfer of wealth from men to women in some form or the other. Entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare are mostly financed by taxes paid by men, but are mostly consumed by women, who live 7 years longer than men, thus creating a reality where a woman's post-65 lifetime is twice as long as a man's (7 years for a man, 14 years post-65 for a woman). Most of the increase in public sector employees have been female. Through unopposed 'feminist' lobbying, most of the $800B stimulus was diverted away from infrastructure projects since too few women work in those, and instead diverted to the already bloated healthcare and education sectors in order to employ more women. Teachers are not just well-paid, but it is a profession that men are mostly barred from. Extreme subsidization of single motherhood has created an America where 41% of all babies are born out of wedlock.
Therefore, if the electorate is truly interested in shrinking the size of government, they first have to confront the artificially created absurdities in American society that are currently considered normal. There is a reason that all traditional societies, whether European or Asian, shamed unwed mothers and recognized them to be parasites. There is a reason the word 'homewrecker' was common until recently. There is a reason there were no jobs for 'court appointed visitation supervisors' to be employed by the state to oversee the actions of a man who has had his children taken from him on a 'no fault' basis. There is a reason that any successful society defended the institution of marriage fiercely by making marriage at attractive arrangement for the man, which in turn ensured that the woman was better off as well. No successful society has replaced the family unit with government, yet America is attempting to do this with taxpayer funds.
To even the most strident Tea Partier, I ask, how badly do you want to trim government spending? Badly enough to cut single mothers off from the trough, and thus prevent the creation of future single mothers and their spawn? Badly enough to lay off thousands of teachers, and fight teacher's unions attempts to prevent merit-based performance reviews? Badly enough to be far more courageous than needy socons, and work to crush the predatory divorce industry, that strives to increase divorces in order to employ more people in the divorce ecosystem? Badly enough to phase out major elements of SS and Medicare (and Obamacare), even if 'women will suffer from the cutbacks'? Badly enough to be called a 'misogynist', 'loser', and 'worse than Hitler'? Badly enough to receive every form of shaming language they can fling at you?
If the answer to any of the above questions is 'no', then you are not ready to do what it takes to reduce government spending. There is no return to the non-defense spending levels of 1960 or even 2006 without curing this culture of the disease currently killing it, and the Tea Party will not be able to take their cause to the next level without such courage. To make this even more clear :
There will be no reduction in Federal, State, or Local government spending in the US without a fierce and pervasive detection, confrontration, and reduction of state-supported misandry, currently propped up by both Democrats and Republicans.
Do you, the American voter, have what it takes to save America?
As a Futurist, it is my job to bring attention to topics that will become more widely discussed several years from now. When the points detailed here are discussed more openly in 2017-18, remember who defined the heart of the challenge in 2010.
Note on Comments : As I already explained in The Misandry Bubble, any Pavlovian utterance of the word 'misogynist' takes very little probing to quickly reveal itself as just projection of anti-male bigotry outward, and is an admission of such bigotry. Although I am amused that 'feminists' still can't even spell the most important word in their vocabulary.


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Bits and Atoms: Limited Statehood and Digital Technology
Steven Livingston, a Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs at George Washington University, discusses his upcoming book Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood. Livingston will be giving a lunchtime talk about Bits and Atoms on Monday December 9, 2013 at 1:00pm in Annenberg Room 500.
Much of the development, governance and more general international affairs literatures speak of failed or fragile states when describing a breakdown of governance capacity.[1] In Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood Gregor Walter-Drop of the Freie UniversitätBerlin and I use a different formulation. We provide a more nuanced conceptual foundation for thinking about the nature of statehood and how digital technologies might serve to ameliorate the effects of what we call limited statehood.
Following Max Weber, statehood is characterized by a monopoly on the means of violence, the ability to make and impose binding rules, and by the effective provisioning of public goods. An area of limited statehood is defined by the absence of some or all of these qualities. As Thomas Risse and his colleagues have argued, limited statehood has at least three manifestations. It can be territorial, limited to a particular geographical space within the larger context of the sovereign borders of an otherwise consolidated state. The urban slums of Nairobi, Lagos, or Rio are territorial areas of limited statehood, confined spaces where basic public goods – clear water, sanitation, security, and infrastructure such as roads and sidewalks — are missing. Limited statehood can also be sectoral, limited to specific policy areas where the governance capacity of the state falls short. And it can be temporal, where an otherwise fully consolidated state suffers a temporary loss of governance capacity.
Disasters in this respect constitute a governance stress test, measuring the governance capacity of state institutions. When Typhoon Haiyan swept through the Philippines in November, destroying everything in its path, the Philippines government was overwhelmed by the enormity of the challenge found in restoring order and providing for basic public services. In much the same way, the Japanese government was overwhelmed by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. The tsunami added to the burden when it caused level 7+ meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans fits this category "in the sense that U.S. authorities were unable to enforce decisions and to uphold the monopoly over the means of violence for a short period of time."[2] These examples make clear that even fully consolidated states such as Japan and the United States can experience periods of limited statehood.
Understood in this way, about two-thirds of the world's population lives in or is exposed in some way to an area of limited statehood.[3] Yet limited statehood, so understood, does not translate into the absence of governance capacity. Governance, both historically and contemporarily, has been provided by nonstate structures or other governance modalities. There are at least three governance modalities. There is governance by government, the state-centric governance modality found where states are consolidated; governance with government involves cooperative networks of public and private partnerships; and governance without government, where nonstate actors and community groups are self-regulating and provide for public goods.[4]
This latter category is of particular interest to the contributors to Bits and Atoms. Where states are limited or altogether absent, can digitally enabled collective action serve as a part of an alternative governance modality? By taking advantage of the lower communication costs associated with nearly ubiquitous mobile telephony, even in most urban and even rural locations in Africa and South Asia, NGOs and community groups are able to organize collective responses to shared needs. Rather than through hierarchical organizational structures (such as states), digitally enabled collective action uses various information and communication technologies in the pursuit of collective goods. Bits and Atoms considers the role of digital technology in governance by limited states and by alternative governance modalities. Gregory Asmolov, for example, looks at the way an open source digital map (Russia Help Map) was used by affected publics in their self-organized response to the 2010 wildfires. While the Russian state served up palliative half-measures in response to its inability to mount an effective response to the fires, citizens mobilized and coordinated their efforts using the Russia Help Map platform. Primož Kovačič and Jamie Lundine of Spatial Collective, a social enterprise working with technology in the provision of collective goods in Mathare, a Nairobi slum, look to slum community mobilization around technological platforms. Inspired in part by Amartya Sen's arguments about the importance of accountability for good governance, Joseph Siegle of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies examines how nonstate actors leverage information and communication technologies to hold states more accountable. And Patrick Meier, Director of Social Innovation at the Qatar Foundation's Computing Research Institute, describes the power of crowdsourcing on mobile platforms as a means of coordination in areas of limited statehood, whether they are defined in territorial terms, such as in slums, or temporally, such as in a disaster zone. In each of these cases, digital technology plays a role in facilitating collective action initiatives that fill some of the gap created by a form of limited statehood.


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Our friend and very talented photographer Sarah Deragon at Portraits to the People recently spent an afternoon baking with her adorable nephew. She wanted to share her experience, recipe and the lovely photos with us. She also took the rather "glamorous" photo of Stacie and me on our About page. I generally dislike having my photo taken and am seldom pleased with the outcome. However, Sarah made us super comfortable during the "photo-shoot" and Stacie and I are both quite happy with how we look. 🙂
Since it that time of year, Sarah is offering our readers a break on their family photos and holiday cards. Contact her and say you heard about her through "A Little Yumminess" for your special deal. Check out her sample holiday cards and portfolio on her website. I am pretty sure you will be pleased with the results as well.
Sarah, I am intrigued by the "chocolate mayonnaise cake with cream cheese icing and rainbow sprinkles" you mention below. We may need the recipe for that!
Don't Mess with a Classic by Sarah Deragon
Every Saturday, I spend the day with my sister and her two children. Aden is two-and-a-half and Isabel is one. I adore being an aunt—they're always happy to see me, I come bearing presents, and I rarely have to change a poopy diaper.
The other day, my sister and I were hanging out with Aden. It was cold and foggy outside (a classic San Francisco summer day) and I decided that we should bake something. I've always loved baking and I have fond memories of making various sweets with my parents, like sugar cookies, pancakes, coffee cake, and my all time favorite—chocolate mayonnaise cake with cream cheese icing and rainbow sprinkles. My parents even installed a piece of butcher block in their kitchen that was lower than the rest of the countertop, so us kids could stand on a stool and participate.
My nephew is past the point of taking all of the pots and pans out of the cabinets and banging on them, so we decided to go on a baking adventure together. I am a big fan of the classics, so I went directly to the source—the Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe.
- 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Two large eggs
- One (12-ounce) package Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
- 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
- PREHEAT oven to 375° F.
- COMBINE flour, baking soda, and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in morsels and nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.
- BAKE for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
Aden was super helpful scooping the sugar out of the measuring cup into the large mixing bowl and he even poured the flour into the wet ingredients without making too big of a mess. He did grab the egg as my sister was cracking it, so we had to pick out a bunch of shell, but he had a blast and that's all that mattered. Baking with him was definitely the highlight of my weekend. He really loved the cookies and we had to stop him at three! Warm chocolate chip cookies and milk—mmmmmmmmmmm!


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I wish to have more control over the time frame that the light and buzzer are activated for.
I then installed a time switch , also bought over the counter and so the whole appratus only becomes actiated at after 10 pm until 5 am in the morning.
The problem is , one it must be outdoor and two the wind must not activate it.I understand that two passive mounted in parralel willhem prevent this. I need those passives and how to wire to activate the buzzer and light switch.
Any help would be appreciated. Funds are the problem and I can not afford the commercial retailers at this stage.
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My readers make some of the best comments. They're definitely engaged in what's happening in the EHR world and provide me amazing inspiration for future posts. In this case, John Brewer commented on my post about meaningful use forcing doctors into ACOs. Here's a portion of his comment:
MU is actually easy…depending on your EHR. Much of MU is dependent on whether you EHR is able to pull the relevant data – Oh sure, you need to change your ways to ensure you get the required "counters", and THIS is really where many docs get frustrated.
Add to the frustration that it generally takes clicking in 3 to 7 different places within an EHR to get ONE counter, and you can see why the frustration grows.
I really find it interesting that John Brewer says that meaningful use is easy, and then illustrates what makes it not easy. I think the point he's making is that there's nothing that's a real challenge to accomplish in meaningful use. You can do any of the tasks really easily. However, just because something is easy doesn't mean that it's not time consuming. Meaningful use really is quite easy, but it can also be a real time suck.
When I think about the meaningful use time suck, I wonder if we're creating a generation of doctors who hate their EHR because of the meaningful use time suck. I've written previously about the EHR physician revolt. If I dig a little deeper into this revolt, I see a revolt against the EHR time suck and not the technology itself.
Doctors don't want to become data entry clerks. Unfortunately, the meaningful use requirements often have this affect on doctors. I fear that this will create a cohort of doctors who hate their EHR. Most doctors won't be able to separate the technology from the regulations. For them it will always be the software's fault.
Are we creating a generation of doctors who hate EHR?
Source: Meaningful Use is Easy


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What's on in Tameside
Mossley Library (George Lawton Hall)
George Lawton Hall, Stamford Street, Mossley OL5 0HR
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- Longitude: -2.046274300000050 & Latitude: 53.519100599999990
Time for a Rhyme (Mossley Library) - (this is not visible to the public yet)
Monday 3rd August 2020 from 2:15pm to 2:45pm
Location: Mossley Library (George Lawton Hall)
Time for a Rhyme
Join in the fun at rhyme times where we love singing our favourite rhymes and shaking our instruments! Sessions are free and suitable for children aged 0-4 years.
Contact phone number: 0161 342 3787
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This fun gift set includes our 'You got this' blush pink canvas pouch and our 'You go girl' enamel pin, packed together in a debossed confetti print kraft card gift box.
Our blush pink pouches make a fantastic clutch and are perfect for carrying your handbag essentials. Screen printed by hand in bright blue on blush pink canvas.
Our enamel pin badges are perfect for jazzing up jackets, totes, backpacks and all sorts. Made with copper toned metal and white hard enamel, supplied on a fun and colourful recycled card backing board.
The pouch, pin, and gift box have been made in the UK, hooray!
- Sturdy blush pink canvas pouch
- Pouch: 280mm by 200mm (11 by 8 inches)
- Copper and white pin badge
- Pin: 35mm by 22mm
- Beautiful sturdy gift box
- Made in the UK


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An event every day that begins at 12:00 am, repeating until October 20, 2019
Categories: Historical, Visual Arts
Artist Oskar Schlemmer came to the Bauhaus, Germany's legendary school of art, architecture, and design, in 1920. Schlemmer, known primarily at that time as a sculptor, embraced the multidisciplinary educational philosophy of the Bauhaus and began working in media and performance. Schlemmer truly left his mark in 1922 when he designed and executed his seminal performance, the Triadic Ballet. The exhibition and an accompanying installation of artworks in Gallery 250 are presented in commemoration of the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus. The exhibition is on view in Gallery 301 from May 31 through October 20.
Copyright © 2020 Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis. All Rights Reserved.


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Common name: The Pallid bat
Where to find them: This widely distributed species, along the west coast of the North America, has a range from southern British Columbia through Montana to central Mexico.
Roosting: The pallid bat roosts in a variety of places but favors rocky outcrops. They can be found roosting in anything from caves, rock crevices, mines, hollow trees, to buildings. At night they choose temporary roosts for resting between feeding bouts that are near, but different from, day roosts.
Diet: A. pallidus is an insectivorous bat and has a unique foraging pattern among North American bats. They fly very close to the ground, then dip down to grab ground-dwelling prey. This bat has extremely good hearing and the foraging strategy allows bats to use passive hearing to find prey moving on the ground. They may also make contact with the ground to grab larger prey. They also forage for insects among leaves and flowers. Additionally, they will take smaller prey in the air using echolocation. Pallid bats take larger prey back to their roosts and remove hard parts, such as wings, legs, and heads, from prey before consuming them.
Unique traits: Pallid bats use vocalizations to locate other members of their group. There are four main call types used to communicate with other individuals: a directive call is used to find another individual, a call consisting of squabble notes tells bats how to space themselves when roosting, a buzz call used for intraspecific encounters, and ultrasonic pulses for orientation and communicating exploratory activity to other individuals. Another unique trait is how agile they are on the ground; they are good at crawling and climbing.
Recent research: Barber tested if A. pallidus is able to process two different streams of auditory information simultaneously while hunting. This research shows that pallid bats behaviorally modulate their echolocation calls to be able to switch focus between two streams of auditory information, but cannot truly dually orient themselves via echolocation and listen to insect movement. (Barber et al., 2003)
Information from animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/


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Sake School: A Chat with Greg Lorenz, Sake Brewer
Sake comes from Japan, right? Not always. Greg Lorenz, brewmaster of Momokawa brewery in Oregon, is on a mission to open people's minds about American-brewed sake. I recently had the opportunity to ask him a few questions about how a non-Japanese speaker became a premium sake brewer, what challenges he faces brewing sake in Oregon, and the future of the sake industry in the US.
How did you get involved with sake?
By being an unemployed algae grower. I was looking for work and when I heard about an opening as a brewer at SakeOne, the prospect of growing two different organisms (both yeast and koji) really fascinated me. That was 9 years ago, and I've been able to supplement my training with the brewery with regular visits to our sister brewery in Aomori, Japan. Every couple of years I travel there and live in the brewery for a couple of weeks, making sake. I do not speak Japanese, but they've provided me with a tremendous amount of support in translation so I can ask the brewers any questions I have and discuss any issues I'm encountering in the US.
How does American-grown sake rice compare to Japanese sake rice?
It's similar in the sense that we can mill down to similar levels, but we don't have the variety to generate so many different flavor profiles. Because we are just one brewery dedicated to premium sake, we don't have the infrastructure of a whole local industry to cultivate a larger variety of sake rice strains.
Why do you only make junmai ginjo sakes?
The vision of the brewery was to only focus on premium sake, so we do not brew any table sake. And the US legal system does not allow distilled alcohol to be added to brewed alcohol, so we cannot make honjozo sakes here.
How do you think consumers view American-made sakes vs. those brewed in Japan?
New consumers who are interested in exploring sake find Momokawa very approachable, largely due to the English printed labels; Japanese sake labels can be intimidating.
If you're dealing with a person who already has an opinion that isn't fully researched, they may have some misconceptions about American sake. We use Japanese machines, Japanese technology, Japanese yeast, koji, so we really honor the Japanese dedication to premium sake.
What do Japanese people think about American made sakes?
Those who have taken the time to taste it are surprised; we regularly see Japanese visitors in our tasting room at the brewery who have a really positive response.
What are some concerns you have about sake consumption in America?
The average American, even today, going into a Japanese restaurant, asks for "sake" like it's all the same. Despite all the education, many people don't think beyond just hot sake. I'm also definitely concerned that the industry is not educating distributors and restaurateurs on how to properly store and serve sake. As a result, many people end up consuming over the hill, oxidized sakes and getting turned off to the category altogether.
How do you see the sake category growing in the next 10 or 20 years?
In more sophisticated markets people want more information and are getting to know the differences between sake styles. So we'll likely see that trickling down to smaller markets, too.
What do you think beginners misunderstand about sake?
Some of the flavor profiles are just not familiar to beginners; being a teenager and learning how to drink coffee, you sip it for the first time and it is absolutely awful, but most adults do drink coffee because it's so prevalent in the community. Sometimes people feel the same way about sake; if you didn't grow up with those flavors, you might not be an immediate fan. Sake doesn't have that depth of a penetration in our culture, so you really have to go the distance to develop a palate for sake.
Do you think the audience in the Pacific Northwest is more open to sake than elsewhere in the country?
Portland has the #1 sake consumption per capita in the country, which is pretty amazing. There's a lot of Japanese influence throughout the West coast, so the focus on Japanese food and beverage is really high. Also, microbrewed beer, coffee, locally produced wines—many of these trends were pioneered in the Pacific Northwest, and to this day the culture is very adventurous and exploring.
Home brewing beer has become quite popular over the years; is anyone making sake at home?
Yes! F.H. Steinbart, a company in Portland, buys koji-kin, milled sake rice, and yeast from SakeOne and sells ingredients to people who want to brew sake at home. Fred Eckhardt, a brewing expert, has authored a great book on brewing sake and teaches a workshop once a year as well.
Disclosure: Monica Samuels is the Sake Ambassador for Southern Wine & Spirits of New York, which distributes the Momokawa sake line.
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We had a really fun Labor Day this year. It was my mom's birthday (hello, I didn't even get a picture
with her. Oops.) so my family went up to Canyon Glen and had a fun picnic lunch.
Bryant and Tyler came dressed in the exact same outfit. Ha ha ha. So cute.
Tyler and Kallie look so big just running around on their own. Kallie refused to wear shoes that day so she was just running around barefoot.
The kids had a blast throwing rocks in the river. Of course.
Then that evening we had another picnic at a different park with Brandon's family. Both times it took the twins quite a while to warm up to a new place (what's with that?) but eventually they had a lot of fun.
We went back to Brandon's parents' house and made s'mores that evening and just had a really great day.


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Winchesters and Women
I am writing this after a hellacious day, so forgive my lack of insight. I started this weekend with a different format, and then duh, came up with this more cohesive one.
The Winchester men have complex relationships with the women they encounter as they do their job. I find it interesting that Sam seems to have more relationships than Dean, despite having lost Jessica and Dean so clearly longs for a family. Why, I wonder?
First we have John and Mary. John clearly adored his wife, still wearing his wedding ring 22 years after her death, was so driven to find her killer that he took his boys on the world's longest road trip, stripping them of their home. Did he look at his children and see his wife, knowing he had to protect them as he hadn't protected her?
No doubt he had encounters with other women later, as apparently the episode "Jump the Shark" will reveal. But Mary was his be-all and end-all love. I wonder if he ever discovered she didn't trust him enough to tell him the truth about who she was.
Sam had a normal life for a few years, something he always longed for. He had a beautiful girlfriend who supported him in a way his family never did, who encouraged his strengths. Losing Jessica in the way he'd lost his mother crushed him. He knew he couldn't have a normal life until the Yellow-Eyed Demon was destroyed, and so he went on the hunt.
He had an almost kiss with Lori in "Hookman," and shared things with Meg as he hadn't with anyone since Jessica's death in "Scarecrow." In "Provenance," he met beautiful, smart, charming Sarah. When he tried to give her the whole, "People around me get hurt," she essentially told him to snap out of it.
One of my favorite exchanges in the whole series is between Sam and Sarah.
Sarah Blake: [watching Sam and Dean dig up a grave] You guys seem to be uncomfortably comfortable with this.
Sam Winchester: Well, this isn't exactly the first grave we've dug. Still think I'm a catch?
(Funny, I just realized that every one of those episodes is on my iPod.)
Sarah is the first girl he kisses after Jessica dies, months later, remaining faithful to his dead love all that time. I loved Sarah, and would love to see her return, though I know things would be way different between her and this grown-up Sam.
We don't see Sam in relationships in season 2, until Madison. Ya know, the werewolf chick. He babysits her and resists her efforts at flirtation, not knowing if she's a monster or not. And when they are successful (they think), he's more than willing to celebrate by pinning her to the wall, and….guh. The arms make their first appearance.
And then he realizes she isn't cured. She's still a monster and he hunts monsters. When she asks him to end her suffering, he mans up. And it knocks him back into himself, more unwilling to risk himself than ever.
I think that's why he chooses to continue his sexual relationship with Ruby. She knows what the stakes are. She knows what she risks. She can protect herself. In Sam's eyes, she's safe. Still, I don't think he lets himself care for her. That she's a demon has a lot to do with that, of course, but I think he's just already given too much of himself. He knows there's no light at the end of the tunnel, that there will be no happily-ever-after. He's resigned he can't go back to a normal life, and so he settles with a relationship with Ruby.
For all that Dean wants a family, he doesn't let himself get involved with women the way Sam does. Yes, he charms them, but his more meaningful relationships were in the past-Gumby Girl (okay, that was mostly sex, but he did think he had a kid) and Cassie. With Cassie, Dean broke the Golden Rule of the Winchesters, don't tell ANYBODY the truth. Dean, who never went against what his father said, told Cassie the truth and she freaked. Showed him. You see he doesn't have any real relationships with women now. Heck, how can he?
She believed him easily enough when she needed him, though, right?
I've heard some people call her whiny, but I liked her enough. And that love scene was Smokin'. I ended up buying the Bad Company CD for that song.
I don't even want to talk about Jo, because that was just such an unnatural pairing, so forced. I liked Alona Tal in Veronica Mars, but loathed the Roadhouse women. Yeah, don't want to talk about that.
I'm not sure if Carmen, from "What Is and What Should Never Be," counts. After all, she was a product of Dean's imagination. She was a down-to-earth girl, though. Wouldn't it be lovely if Dean did get a girl like that, who understood him and kept him on an even keel?
And then there's Anna, the Angel. Again, I felt this relationship was a bit forced, though I liked the conversation they had on the hood of the Impala, when she talks to Dean about following the orders of a father she didn't know and couldn't understand. What kind of relationship do you think the two of them might have when she returns?
I know I didn't do justice to Dean's relationships, and I'm sorry. Maybe you could help me flesh that out?
Which relationship do you think met each boys' needs best? What kind of woman do you think each boy needs? Why do you suppose Sam gets more love than Dean?


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I was going to read all that, UnclEvl, but I've passed it on for one of my agents to do it instead
Basically, the Playstation network got badly hacked and they're still running aroung like headless chickens. I wouldn't trust it even if it was finally resolved. Just link them to this thread (and others you've posted on on the internet), cut them loose, and let paypal and the credit card companies deal with them, advisng others to do the same. In the end, the customer always wins.
I'm sure these support staff, with their dubious musketeer names, are only going through a checklist and are unable to think for themselves, anyway. So you are wasting your time with them as they give you the runaround.
Just keep the console for home gaming and PC for internet stuff.


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(Boston, Mass. July 20, 2009) – Wes Ripple of the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) was recently honored with the "2008 National 104(g) Program's Wastewater Operator Trainer's On-Site Technical Assistance Award" by EPA. EPA's Office of Wastewater Management formally acknowledged Mr. Ripple at the annual National 104(g) Wastewater Operator Trainers' Conference this past June in Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Ripple received the award for his outstanding efforts in helping the Town of Bristol Wastewater Treatment Facility attain 1st Place in the "Most Improved Plant Category" that was part of the 2008 EPA National Operations and Maintenance Excellence Awards Program. EPA values the outstanding work of Mr. Ripple and the entire Operations Section of the NHDES' Wastewater Engineering Bureau for continually providing essential on-site technical assistance to wastewater treatment plants throughout the state of New Hampshire.
"The professionals providing on-site technical assistance to wastewater treatment plant personnel play an essential role in ensuring water quality protection," said Ira Leighton, acting regional administrator for EPA's New England Office. "I am proud to acknowledge Mr. Ripple's on-going contributions and commitment to provide necessary technical assistance to municipal wastewater professionals so they may be able to better protect water quality and public health, as well as to keep New Hampshire's waterways clean. We are honored to have Mr. Ripple received this well deserved recognition on a national level."
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The U.S. looks like Japan: Investors rejoiceMay 16, 2013: 12:11 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
The U.S. economy is still not close to being fully recovered from the Great Recession, but investors could give a mouse's posterior about this sad fact.
That point was hammered home Thursday. Stocks, which many believe are due for a fall because of how well they've done this year, were flat despite a trio (troika if you're nasty) of disappointing jobs reports.
Housing, which has been the life of the economic party so far this year, took a bit of a stumble. Starts plunged in April.
The job market, which seemed to be slowly getting better, also may be taking a step back. The latest weekly initial claims figures, which are admittedly volatile, rose sharply from a week ago.
Related: 11 cities where workers are disappearing
And inflation? What's that? Consumer prices fell for the second straight month. The absence of runaway inflation is of course a good thing, especially when you consider that the Federal Reserve has pumped an inordinate amount of money into the system with its asset purchase programs. But if prices continue to dip, that's a big problem. Deflation is much worse than mild inflation. Just ask Japan.
Ah yes, Japan! It has taken steps to combat deflation with a vengeance this year. The Bank of Japan's stimulus, dubbed Abenomics in honor of the country's prime minister, is like the Fed's quantitative easing.
On steroids.
And human growth hormones.
Related: CNNMoney's Fear & Greed Index shows Extreme Greed in market
There's the rub. The longer that the U.S. stays in tepid growth mode -- what I've been calling the "low and slow barbecue recovery" since 2010 -- the comparisons to Japan will only increase. After all, the U.S. also has an aging population and a large government debt load. The Great Recession ended in June 2009 and here we are in May 2013 still with a lackluster recovery. So we're almost halfway to our own Lost Decade.
The perverse thing about this is that Wall Street would be overjoyed if the Fed had more of an excuse to expand QE, as opposed to reducing or tapering it.
Investors naturally love that the Bank of Japan is out-Fed-ing the Fed. The Nikkei's more than 40% surge this year makes the 15% rise in the S&P 500 look puny by comparison.
Even though there are many smart people, including members of the Fed, who are worried that QE ∞ will eventually cause a huge inflation headache and create more nasty asset bubbles down the road, the market doesn't expect the Fed to pull back on its easing anytime soon.
That's really the only reason to explain why stocks are continuing to head higher despite a round of first-quarter earnings that has been mixed at best. Wal-Mart (WMT) posts disappointing sales and the market brushes it off? Farm equipment giant Deere (DE) issues weak guidance yesterday and we hit record highs again?
Related: Abenomics is good for Japan (and the U.S. too!)
Investors clearly expect the Fed to keep coming to the rescue. Forget about "Sell in May and go away." The only cutesy market aphorism that matters right now is "Don't fight the Fed."
And with good reason. The most influential members of the Fed -- chairman Ben Bernanke, vice chair and likely Bernanke successor Janet Yellen and New York Fed president William Dudley -- have gone out of their way to stress that they don't think the Fed can afford to end QE as long as the job market and overall economy remain weak.
Bernanke has also been taking pot shots at Congress for its refusal to help get the economy back on track. As long as the Fed talks about fiscal policy being a drag, there is absolutely no chance that the central bank is going to take away the heavily spiked punch bowl.
The so-called bond vigilantes have pretty much given up hope that rates are going to shoot higher anytime soon. Sure, the 10-year yield has crept up near 2% again. But that's still much closer to the all-time lows than where it was when the economy was roaring in 2005 and 2006.
And even Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher, a self-described inflation hawk who has in the past been critical of Fed stimulus, said in a speech Thursday that politicians are a big reason why the economy hasn't yet rebounded in the way most of us would like.
Fisher, who titled his speech "Fiscal Policy. Oy!" had these tough words for elected officials -- a group I like to call our nation's least and dimmest:
"I have sworn fealty to a dual mandate of conducting monetary policy so as to maintain price stability AND create the monetary conditions for full employment and prosperity for all, not just for the rich and the quick. This, I fear, we will fail to do unless Congress and the president develop and deliver on a strategy that complements ours at the Fed."
Translation? If you think the Bank of Japan is aggressively easing, you've ain't seen nothing yet.
That's why stocks could keep climbing. It doesn't matter that the economy is not healthy enough to make most average consumers feel better. Wall Street only cares about the Fed.
Related: Warren Buffett worries about 'Fed experiment'
This can't last forever, of course. Sooner or later, the economy is either going to slow so much that we have to start worrying about another recession (and no amount of stimulus will help prevent a market pullback if that happens) or the economy will start showing signs of a legitimate, sustainable and robust recovery. In that latter case, the Fed will have no choice but to end QE and start raising interest rates.
But for now, at least, investors can enjoy the fact that the United States is basically morphing into Japan Lite. Who cares about the health of the economy as long as central banks keep those printing presses running 24/7/365? Joy.


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Particulate matter is a major air pollutant consisting of tiny solid or liquid particles of soot, dust, smoke, fumes, or mists. The particulate matter with a size of 10 microns or smaller (about 0.0004 inches or less) is normally referred to as PM10. The size of PM10 allows the pollutant to reach deep in the lungs, where they may be deposited
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- motor vehicles (5%)
- area wide sources: windblown dust from open lands, dust from construction, landfills and agriculture, wood burning stoves and fireplaces, wildfires and brush/waste burning (total 89%)
- industrial sources (6%)
From year 1990 to 2000, overall PM10 emissions increased as the population went up. The diesel particulate matter, which imposes the most significant risk to human health, has dropped 40% from 1990 to 2000 due to stringent emission standards and the introduction of cleaner diesel fuel.
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Ambient levels of PM10 are routinely monitored at approximately 150 sites in the California ambient air quality measurement network. The statewide average concentration of PM10 during 1998-2000 was 29 ug/m3 (micrograms per cubic meter). Relative to the statewide average, the Los Angeles County region was 34% higher for the same time period.
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3 ex-soldiers accused of plot to kill DEA agent
NEW YORK >> Two former American soldiers — one nicknamed "Rambo" — and a German ex-soldier were charged Friday with plotting to kill a U.S. drug enforcement agent and an informant after a law enforcement sting interrupted their plans to use five ex-military snipers to protect illegal drug shipments, authorities said.
The charges were announced by prosecutors in Manhattan, where an indictment unsealed in federal court portrayed a trio of ex-soldiers eager to kill for money.
"That's fun, actually for me that's fun. I love this work," one was quoted as saying in court papers. The documents described numerous conversations at meetings outside the United States that were recorded by Drug Enforcement Administration agents building their case with help from confidential sources posing as drug traffickers.
The defendants were charged with conspiracy counts and were held for appearances in U.S. District Court, though it was not immediately clear who would represent them.
"The bone-chilling allegations in today's indictment read like they were ripped from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. "The charges tell a tale of an international band of mercenary marksmen who enlisted their elite military training to serve as hired guns for evil ends."
The indictment described Joseph Hunter, also known as "Rambo," as a contract killer and leader of the group of ex-snipers.
Hunter recruited several ex-soldiers in late 2012 and early this year to be a security team for drug traffickers, said the indictment. According to the court papers, the DEA's sources promised Hunter at a March meeting in an Asian country that his security team would be protecting thousands of kilos of marijuana and would be seeing "tons of cocaine and millions of dollars."
Audio and video recordings of the meeting show Hunter discussing "bonus jobs" of contract killings, saying the men he had recruited want to do as much "bonus" work as possible, the indictment said.
According to the indictment, Hunter served in the U.S. Army from 1983 to 2004 before becoming a contract killer who successfully arranged several slayings. At one meeting, Hunter was captured on tape describing how he had arranged the killings of real estate agents.
The indictment said a DEA source posing as a drug trafficker in May proposed killing a DEA agent and a boat captain providing information to U.S. law enforcement authorities, saying it was necessary because there was a "leak" within the narcotics trafficking organization.
In an email exchange, Hunter responded: "My guys will handle it. ... Are you talking about both the captain and agent or just the captain?" according to the indictment.
Also charged in the assassination plot were Timothy Vamvakias and Dennis Gogel, a German citizen.
The indictment said Vamvakias served in the U.S. Army from 1991 to 1993 and from 1999 to 2004. He was a sergeant, serving stints in South Korea and later as a military police officer in Puerto Rico.
Gogel was in the German armed forces from 2007 to 2010, attaining the rank of corporal and receiving commendations for his sniper skills, the court papers said. He was deployed for a time in Kosovo.
Two others were arrested on drug charges. Slawomir Soborski, a citizen of Poland, was a member of an elite counter-terrorism unit while serving in the Polish armed forces from 1998 to 2002 and from 2003 to 2011. He later worked as a security contractor in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti and elsewhere, court papers said. Michael Filter served in the German armed forces from 2006 to 2009.
To carry out the assassination plot, Vamvakias and Gogel offered ideas and plans, including the need for machine guns, cyanide, a grenade, masks and appropriate weapons, the indictment said.
The court papers said Gogel provided the DEA source with two sophisticated latex facemasks that could make the wearer appear to be of another race. The masks were among items Gogel and Vamvakias brought along when they arrived in an African country on Wednesday planning to carry out the murder-for-hire plot, the indictment said.


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Katharine "Kay" E. Reichert was an Air Force nurse who served with the Far East Air Force in Japan during the Korean War. After her return to the United States, Reichert earned her B.S. in Nursing Education from the University of Pennsylvania and then her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. The bulk of this collection is comprised of photo albums and scrapbooks documenting daily life and excursions to destinations around Japan. Also included are official and personal papers and ephemera, yearbooks from Reichert's studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and artifacts such as medical bag and equipment, military insignias and honors, and door signs.


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