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Posted on 07/25/2011 4:55:36 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
(Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday a bill allowing illegal immigrants to receive privately funded scholarships to attend the state's public colleges and universities.
The bill, dubbed the California Dream Act, passed the state Legislature earlier this month and aims at helping illegal immigrants who have earned a high school diploma after attending at least three years of high school in the state.
"At the end of the day, if we're going to continue as a powerful, equal-opportunity society, we're going to have to invest in our people," Brown, a Democrat, said at the signing ceremony in the library of a Los Angeles community college.
The state law is named after a national bill introduced in Congress last year to give young, undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for at least five years a path to citizenship through college or military service.
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There ya' have it, the dogma of the democrat party, illegal aliens are "our people".
Leftwing sh*t-for-brains politicians will break us all.
Sorry Jer', but after the Revolution and Recovery of California to the Union, you will have to be disposed of properly like every other traitor.
I guess yet another thing is going on the ballot for the PEOPLE to vote on.
american taxpayers pay for what their families do not have access to;
your out-of-state nephew or niece pays out-of-state tuition
while your illegals pay in-state.
It means the law is for thee and me, not for them.
What logic is behind a 'act that allows a 'private' entity to pay someone to break the law, and hurt citizens, without any consequence?
What other 'private' entities are allowed to pay people to break the law without consequence? Is a drug cartel a private entity? Can they pay illegals with loyalty to them and Mexico, to become attorneys and book keepers for them, on the California taxypayer dime? We know the cartels are opening offices in San Diego and places north. They'll need attorneys and book keepers and other office help. How much money is Jerry Indonesian Oil Brown getting from them to sign this piece of treason to the idea of equal justice?
Wow, the hits just keep coming from my wonderful state. Stupidity on parade...
Correction. It is not stupidity, it is corruption inflamed by Marxism or global communism, take your pick.
It is not stupid, it is purposefully destructive.
"At the end of the day, if we're going to continue as a powerful, equal-opportunity society, we're going to have to invest in our people,"
I absolutely agree with this statement. But I don't believe that illegals fall under the catagory of "our people"
Maryland got up enough petitions to stop this, come election time we will beat it.
I live in MD too. This sh*tbag of a law was passed AGAINST the expressed wishes of about 70% of MD citizens ...
O'Malley is gonna be exposed for the punk he is after this gets turned down by the voters ...
AND, Casa de Maryland is gonna look REALLY foolish when the courts throw out their challenge to the petition ...
...allowing illegal immigrants to receive privately funded scholarships to attend the state's public colleges and universities.
your out-of-state nephew or niece pays out-of-state tuition
while your illegals pay in-state.
That's how I read it as well.
If you are an illegal alien and you have lived anywhere in the US illegally for five years you get California in state tuition, but if you are a US Citizen and you have lived anywhere else in the US but California you have to pay out of state tuition to attend a UC University.
This is a tax on Californians - out of state tuition helps keep in state tuition at an affordable level.
If California starts importing illegal aliens to attend UC Universities they will have raise in state tuition by a large margin.
The net result will be to really degrade the quality of a UC education. This will not concern California politicians one bit because they have already degraded the value of a California K-12 education and they are very proud of their destruction of their K-12 system.
"Governor" Brown loves illegal aliens. They're his people. Liberals, black and poor whites be damned.
mexicans have degraded the colleges and universities of california.
the union public schools have passed along kids that are not ready for collegiate study.
what was it recently? an article that 90% of berkeley freshmen need remedial studies?
many of the community colleges are attempting to revisit junior high and high education.
it's a mess.
meanwhile, as we agreed above, the invaders enjoy educational privileges that the tax payers themselves cannot have.
The people of the State of California voted in 1994 to never have this. That will of the people was overwhelming, and his buddies - Gray Davis and the Reconquista Mexicans - managed to stage a coup and overthrow the law by a questionable legal trick.
Davis was recalled mostly because of that.
And this guy thinks he can just spit in California's face?
Bye bye, Jerry Geezer. Between this and "Gay Pride Studies", you're gone.
Recall Now.
Allowing criminals to attend California colleges or do anything in this country. Brown is a POS!
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Los Angeles is calling me. I don't like the sound of it. All these kids on heroin, they do it for the hell of it. Oh yeah, California. A lust for fame has taken the wheel. The hills are burning out like the friends you thought were real. The trannys on the boulevard are screaming, "Everybody's famous for the weekend!" Wake up, need it. I got that feeling.
Drugs and make up, I think you're made up and all of you are larger than life. Ladies want to hit this, lawyers want to kiss this. Nothing in my pockets so put me on your guest list. In cyberspace the stars are floating naked--a constellation prize for having made it. Rap stars are doing time, I'm standing in their spotlight. Don't want to go to California. Don't want to hear your California ways. And if you need a place to go
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So, I was at a friend's baby naming ceremony this afternoon and missed most of the Cubs/Cardinals game.
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Paul Maholm had his second straight brutal start, and the Cubs never had a chance (particularly with a … weaker lineup than usual). Yadier Molina and today's voodoo magic special Matt Carpenter (who?) did the bulk of the damage. Lendy Castillo struck out four in two innings, which is nice, but he also gave up a two-run bomb to Carpenter, which is less nice.
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Shale has provided a boom to manufacturers, but not to their workers, according to this analysis from Reuters. A French-Japanese joint venture, Vallourec Star, just opened a $1.1 billion state-of-the-art steel pipe mill in Youngstown, "a big example of the money that has flowed into the state's industrial sector in recent years thanks to the surge in U.S. natural gas and oil drilling," the news service says. Timken Co. and U.S. Steel Corp., among others, are pumping millions of dollars into their Ohio plants to boost production. "But state employment data, academic research and a week-long tour of half a dozen factories in Ohio suggests the shale gas revolution has been a disappointment when it comes to job creation," Reuters reports. Tom Waltermire, CEO of economic development organization Team NEO, tells Reuters, "The industries benefiting are more capital intensive than labor intensive. Even a manufacturing renaissance won't require the same headcount per unit of output as we had 20 or 30 years ago. If it did require that, the renaissance would never happen." Reuters cites a March study by Cleveland State University that concluded that while gas exploration had unleashed a surge in economic activity in Ohio, "job growth — even in counties directly affected by the drilling — was stagnant." The employment growth that many assumed would follow the energy investment was "not yet evident," the study's authors said. For instance, the big Vallourec Star will employ just 350 workers. And the $100 million Timken put into a new intermediate finishing line at its Faircrest Steel Plant in Canton ultimately results in fewer, not more, jobs. "Timken's old intermediate finishing line employed more than 200 workers and processed pipe and other products in 10 days, according to plant manager Larry Pollock," Reuters reports. "The new facility, built to meet surging demand from the energy industry, employs fewer than 30 and can process the same material in as little as two hours."
Reuters says shale's impact on job creation in Ohio is disappointing
The Cleveland Orchestra long has enjoyed a spot in the Big Five American orchestras, along with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. But this piece in The New York Times argues that while "the idea of the Big Five may still exist in the public imagination, you no longer hear talk of it in the profession except from Big Five members, when, occasionally, they find it useful." The orchestra landscape "has changed greatly over the last half-century," according to the newspaper, and "the economic fortunes of the flagship ensembles have changed with the fortunes of their cities." The Times says the criteria of membership in the Big Five, "never firmly established, began with quantities. They included size of budget, number of recordings, amount of touring (especially stops in New York), presence on radio and television, and number of year-round musicians. Quality, it was more or less assumed, would follow the numbers." That's vague, but "the notion of a Big Five carried real meaning and impact for a time," The Times says. "If you go far enough back, 30 to 40 years," says Gary Hanson, the Cleveland Orchestra's executive director, "the defining element of success had a lot more to do with an institution's ability to compete for talent than anything else. In that competitive environment, there was a direct relationship between reputation and quality." Mr. Hanson tells The Times that the Big Five orchestras benefit slightly from a "residual reputational momentum." He adds, "But today, the ability to maintain a viable orchestra and pursue greater quality depends almost entirely on philanthropy. It depends on the ability of the local community to fund its orchestra." Cleveland "is a particularly difficult case," The Times concludes, "with so many corporations having fled the city. But with Franz Welser-Möst as music director, the Cleveland Orchestra has retained its lofty artistic profile while relying on major gifts and on residencies in Miami, Vienna and elsewhere."
Claiming their turf: A Stark County company is among those giving artificial grass a fresh look, according to this story in The Wall Street Journal. Manufacturers "have developed new 'yarns' that make synthetic grass look less shiny and more natural," the newspaper says. There are six companies — including the Stark County company, ForeverLawn in Uniontown — that make artificial grass in the United States, and The Journal says residential sales have increased about 30% a year for the past five years, according to the Association of Synthetic Grass Installers. "Homeowners can have a full lawn of artificial grass installed or use it in specific areas: between pavers in a driveway, in a courtyard, around swimming pools and under swing sets," according to The Journal. There are even varieties of synthetic grass for pet owners that include a drainage system, says Brian Karmie, co-founder of ForeverLawn. The pros of artificial lawns: No mowing or watering required, and most last 15 to 20 years. The downside: "Prices can be high, with large, high-quality lawns costing as much as $100,000," according to the newspaper. First, do no harm: Bloomberg reports that crash-avoidance technology that engages truck brakes automatically before an impending crash "may prevent almost 300 fatalities a year and yield $3.1 billion in economic benefits," according to a U.S. Transportation Department report. The U.S.-financed study, conducted by University of Michigan Research Institute and posted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website, "is part of the agency's review as it decides whether to issue a regulation later this year," according to the news services. Crash-avoidance technology already is "on the road in small numbers," Bloomberg says. Bendix Commerical Vehicle Systems, an Elyria-based unit of German manufacturer Knorr-Bremse AG, is among the leaders in the emerging field, according to the story. Summertime pleasures: As part of its summer travel coverage USA Today profiles the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, which it says "may be the least-known and most family-friendly national park that draws big summer crowds." It's "an unusual national park because it lacks a natural spectacle — not a mountain, canyon, crater or even a natural lake," according to the newspaper. Nonetheless, hiking trails abound, "and the flat park is a bicyclist's paradise," USA Today says. "Few trails will challenge the ultra-fit, but they're perfect for parents with young kids or aging Baby Boomers looking to mix exercise and beauty. One long trail stretches along the old Ohio & Erie Canal next to a working tourist train that runs for 20 miles." It's not unusual, the paper says, "to see 6,000 people on the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath — one of four major bike paths in the park — on a Sunday afternoon. Spread over 20 miles, that's not as crowded as it may sound."
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VANCOUVER, B.C. - The Vancouver Whitecaps ended their seven-game MLS winless streak on Saturday, as Canadian Russell Teibert scored his first two professional goals in a 3-1 win over the LA Galaxy at BC Place.
The win, Vancouver's first in franchise history against the Galaxy, took a ding out of the defending MLS Cup champion's dominance over the 'Caps, in which they had won four of their previous five encounters, including a postseason matchup last year.
WATCH: Zardes scores first MLS goal
Vancouver (3-4-3) hadn't won an MLS match since March 9 prior to the breakthrough on Saturday, while the Galaxy (4-3-2) dropped their second straight game.
Teibert opened the scoring on 63 minutes, hitting a left-footed strike from outside the area past a fully outstretched Carlo Cudicini into the bottom left corner. The strike, aided by Nigel Reo-Coker's signature gut-busting run forward in the midfield, marked the Niagara Falls, Ontario, native's first MLS goal.
The 20-year-old doubled Vancouver's lead on 76 minutes, smashing home a ball teed up to him by Gershon Koffie in the box.
In the 86th minute, the Galaxy got a goal back through Gyasi Zardes, who headed home a Jose Villarreal cross for his first MLS goal, (WATCH at right) but it turned out to be nothing more than a consolation goal.
Darren Mattocks ended a miserable drought by scoring his second goal of the season in stoppage time to seal the win with the Galaxy piling on the pressure late after Zardes' marker.
Teibert might not have been on the field at all had it not been for an early injury to Daigo Kobayashi, who left the match in the 14th minute due to a left ankle strain.
LA Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez almost scored an own goal in the 36th minute, directing a Reo-Coker cross toward his own goal, but Cudicini reacted well to parry away.
In the 61st minute Landon Donovan sent Hector Jimenez down the right, and the winger crossed into Gonzalez, who headed just wide to the right of target while unmarked in the area.
The Whitecaps are back in action on Wednesday, as they take on the Montreal Impact in the first leg of the Canadian Championship final at Stade Saputo. The Galaxy return to play Wednesday on the road at the Philadelphia Union.


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California Foreclosure Starts Drop 62 Percent from December to 7-Year Low; Scheduled Foreclosure Auctions at Over 1-Year Highs in Florida, Illinois, New Jersey
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IRVINE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/14/13 -- RealtyTrac® (www.realtytrac.com), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties and real estate data, today released its U.S. Foreclosure Market Report for January 2013, which shows foreclosure filings -- default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions -- were reported on 150,864 U.S. properties in January, a decrease of 7 percent from the previous month and down 28 percent from January 2012. The report also shows one in every 869 U.S. housing units with a foreclosure filing during the month.
"The U.S. foreclosure landscape in January was profoundly altered by the effects of new legislation that took effect in California on the first of the year," said Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac. "Dubbed the Homeowners Bill of Rights, this legislation extends many of the principles in the national mortgage settlement -- including a prohibition on so-called dual tracking and requiring a single point of contact for borrowers facing foreclosure -- to all mortgage servicers operating in California. In addition the new law imposes fines of up to $7,500 per loan for filing of multiple unverified foreclosure documents. As a result, the downward foreclosure trend in California accelerated into hyper speed in January, decisively shifting the balance of power when it comes to the nation's foreclosure activity.
"For the first time since January 2007 California did not have the most properties with foreclosure filings of any state. Instead that dubious distinction went to Florida, where January foreclosure activity increased on an annual basis for the 11th time in the last 13 months."
High-level findings from the report:
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With one in every 344 housing units with a foreclosure filing in January, Nevada posted the nation's second highest foreclosure rate for the fourth consecutive month. Overall Nevada foreclosure activity decreased 43 percent from a year ago, but foreclosure starts (NODs) increased 19 percent from the previous month and were up 87 percent from January 2012 to a 16-month high.
A 32 percent month-over-month jump in scheduled foreclosure auctions helped the Illinois foreclosure rate rise to third highest among the states in January. One in every 375 Illinois housing units had a foreclosure filing during the month.
Other states with foreclosure rates among the nation's 10 highest were Arizona (one in 501 housing units with a foreclosure filing), Georgia (one in 513 housing units), Ohio (one in 612 housing units), Washington (one in 674 housing units), California (one in 753 housing units), Indiana (one in 784 housing units), and Michigan (one in every 837 housing units).
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Theresa Tessitore, 89, of North Kingstown, passed away January 21, 2012 at Kent Hospital.
Born in West Warwick, she was a daughter of the late Antonio and Elizabeth (Alagreto) Tessitore. Miss Tessitore was a bookkeeper for Atromed, Inc. for 20 years. She was a communicant of St. Francis de Sales Parish and a member of the choir, the parish prayer group and performed in many parish plays. She was an avid Patriots fan.
She was the sister of the late Dora Gendron, Louis Tessitore Sr. and John Tessitore. She is survived by her nieces and nephews, Patricia Ann Kinney of Ashaway, Anthony Tessitore of New York City, John Tessitore of Turkey, Istanbul, Louis Tessitore Jr. of North Kingstown and Stephen Tessitore of Chester, Conn.; her grandnieces and grandnephews, Pamela Ann Joplin of Deerfield, N.H., Donald Edward Kinney Jr. of Ashaway, Michelle Ann Kinney of Warwick, Jason Michael Kinney of Hamstead, N.C., Courtney Elizabeth Tessitore of Honolulu, Hawaii, Nicholas Andrew Tessitore of North Kingstown, Lorna Elizabeth Dean of East Hampton, Conn. and Stephanie Marguerita Tessitore of Milwaukee, Wis.; and her great-grandniece, Isabella Maria Kinney. She is also survived by her lifelong companion, Lucille I. Willette of North Kingstown; her nephew, Douglas S. Eccleston of West Warwick; and her nieces, Cheryl A. Filipkowski and her husband, Joseph, of Warwick and Debra C. Achterberg and her husband, Michael, of West Warwick.
Her funeral will be held Jan. 25 at 8:45 a.m. from Urquhart-Murphy Funeral Home, 800 Greenwich Ave., Warwick, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in St. Francis de Sales Church, 381 School St., North Kingstown. Burial will follow. Relatives and friends are invited and may call Jan. 24 from 4-8 p.m.
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Update: This post was published on Sept. 14. On Sept. 15, the European Central Bank, along with other central banks from around the world, announced a new lending program to fight the slow-motion run on Europe's banks. Here's more on that program.
Fear can wreck a banking system and cause havoc in an economy. That's why the recent worries about big French banks are so important, and so scary: Even without a Greek default, Europe could slide into a financial crisis.
For the past few months, what The Economist called a slow-motion run has been underway for big French banks. It looks different than the classic bank run, where ordinary people lose confidence in a bank and rush to pull their money out. That's because big European banks are different from traditional, Main Street banks.
At a Main Street bank, regular people put money in savings and checking accounts. This is, in effect, a short-term loan to the bank. The bank then takes that money and makes long-term loans to other regular people in the form of mortgages, small-business loans, and the like.
Big European banks work sort like that — but on a much, much bigger scale.
Big institutions like money-market funds lend billions of dollars to big European banks. These are short-term loans of a month or so.
The European banks take that money and make huge, long-term loans to big companies national governments. That includes loans to Greece (in the form of Greek bonds) and other countries with financial troubles.
Recently, many of the big institutions that lend money to French banks have grown worried about the banks' loans to Greece and other countries. So they've started pulling their money out of the banks.
For example, U.S. money market funds reduced their deposits in French banks by about a third between May and August of this year, according to one recent analyst report — that's tens of billions of dollars they've pulled out of French banks.
So far, French banks have been managing. They've been paying higher interest in order to borrow from other sources. In a pinch, they can also borrow from European Central Bank. This may allow them to muddle through, particularly if European leaders come up with a bigger, bolder bailout plan for Greece that eases investors' worries.
But if the slow-motion bank run continues, the banks may ultimately be forced to sell off bonds and other assets they hold. If several banks are forced to sell assets at the same time, the price of those assets will fall. It's simple supply and demand.
As Gary Jenkins of Evolution Securities put it when I talked to him this morning: "If all the banks go, who is buying?"
In the language of finance, this can push a bank from liquidity to insolvency.
At the beginning, the bank is fundamentally sound, but can't come up with enough money to meet its short-term needs. It has liquidity problems.
So it's forced into a fire sale of its assets. This drives down the assets' value. The fall in value means that the bank is no longer fundamentally sound — it's insolvent. In plain terms, the bank is bust.
The big French banks are too big to fail. So instead of going bust, they would get a bailout from the French government.
But this would likely be an ugly, scary process. It would cause more fear, and more problems, in financial markets throughout Europe and beyond. It could, in short, be another financial crisis.
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The movie "It's a Wonderful Life" includes the following scene: Jimmy Stewart, playing the manager of a savings and loan, is trying to get out of town for his honeymoon when he sees people racing down the street.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (as character) Don't look now, but there's something funny going on over there at the bank.
MAN: (as character) You got any money in the bank, you'd better hurry.
INSKEEP: It's a run on the bank, people scrambling to withdraw money. A panic is not always that dramatic. And, in fact, in recent months, a slow-motion invisible bank run has been underway at big European banks. Here's Jacob Goldstein from our Planet Money team.
JACOB GOLDSTEIN: Who's causing this slow-motion bank run? In a way, it's us. In your retirement account, you probably have some money in stocks, some in bonds and some in cash. That money in cash, it's not actually a bunch of bills sitting in a vault somewhere. It's probably invested in what's called a money market fund. This is where the invisible run is happening. David Glocke is a money market manager at Vanguard, where he manages $130 billion.
DAVID GLOCKE: You know, money market managers, we kind of have a bunker mentality. You know, we're not looking to take risk. We're trying to hide from it.
GOLDSTEIN: For a long time, part of the way Glocke hid from risk was by making loans to big, safe European banks. But these days, the banks don't seem as safe as they used to. Those big European banks, and especially big French banks, have loaned lots of money to Greece and to other troubled European countries. This makes people like David Glocke nervous. If Greece doesn't repay the French banks, the French banks may not be able to repay David Glocke. How much do you have invested in French banks right now?
GLOCKE: Zero.
GOLDSTEIN: The French banks say people like David Glocke have nothing to worry about, but in the past few months, lots of other U.S. money market funds and other big institutional lenders have yanked hundreds of billions of dollars out of European banks. This slow-motion invisible bank run has not yet turned into a full-blown panic, but it is worrying enough that just yesterday, the European Central Bank and other central banks from around the world stepped in. They told the European banks if the David Glockes of the world won't lend you the money, we will. This program is scheduled to run for about six months, so it should buy some time for European banks. That could be enough, but only if Europe puts together a plan to bail out Greece and the other troubled European countries, and only if investors like David Glocke at Vanguard actually think the plan will work.
GLOCKE: I expect at some point when conditions have improved in Europe, that we'll begin to invest in those banks again.
GOLDSTEIN: Do you think six months is enough time? Do you think they'll have their act together in six months?
GLOCKE: I certainly hope so.
GOLDSTEIN: But if Europe doesn't resolve the debt crisis, this slow-motion bank run is likely to continue. And one key thing about bank runs: They tend to feed on themselves. So, what starts out in slow-motion can turn into a full-speed crisis. For NPR News, I'm Jacob Goldstein. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The separate living room offers flexibility as it could also be used as a family room. The open plan kitchen and dining room offers space to entertain family and friends. A cupboard located in the hallway provides practical storage. The utility room also offers access to the rear garden.
First floor
The first floor features a family bathroom and three generously-proportioned bedrooms, the third could alternatively be used as a study.
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"Orbit" is commissioned by the Department Of Cultural Affairs, composed by the Living Legend Jazz Violinist Michael White as the prestigeous COLA (City Of Los Angeles) Individual Artist Fellow. It will be premiered and performed LIVE at Grand Performances, the SoCal largest free public concert presenter, with his band "Michael White Quintet", consists of such Jazz master musicians who performed with numerous Jazz Giants throughout their careers - Michael Howell guitar, Heshima Mark Williams bass, Kenneth Nash percussion and the world best kept secret Jazz vocalist & Qigong/Taiji artist Leisei Chen.
Sharing the stage with a beautiful fellow performing artist, indian choreographer, dancer, writer and designer Malathi Iyengar and her dance company, will premiere her new work "Love Trajectory".
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For several years, the Seven Clans Casino and Hotel outside of Thief River Falls has sponsored an outdoor bluesfest. It began with one short evening of music and has morphed into two days of blues goodness, usually for no cost. Across from corn and wheat fields and no other commercial or residential buildings around, this location was the site I first saw Buddy Guy and his band.
This year, the casino initially decided to sell tickets to its blues show. However, by Thursday, management had agreed to waive the cost and offer its blues goodness for free as they had in the past.
On Saturday, August 25, I caught the last day of the festival with its blockbuster lineup. Because local favorite, Jonny Lang had a scheduling conflict and cancelled, his slot for the evening was filled by Indigenous and Joe Bonamassa. But even before these worthies took stage, audiences were treated to two widely different blues sets.
Situated on the asphalt parking lot next door to the casino, blues fans set up their lawn chairs in the best places to see and hear these bands. In the back, a van sold grilled eats, including Indian tacos (taco fixings on fry bread) and soft drinks. Coffee was free. Since the casino is owned by the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, which has prohibited alcohol on the reservation, there was no beer for sale. That didn't dampen the fans' enthusiasm. A number of bikers rode in and parked their hogs in a space designated for them on the other side of the lot, but well within seeing and hearing distance of everything. They were up dancing and grooving to the music.
Setting the tone for the night, Little Bobby & The Storm, a local five-piece, produced solid, straight-up blues. Their harmonica player was spot on and offered just the right color for their short blues set. After they packed up, they were off to Plummer, MN, to finish their evening doing the last day of two-day benefit for local soldiers returning from Iraq.
Next up was the Blues Guitar Women, who had been traveling in Europe since the beginning of the year. Consisting of Canadian blues artists Sue Foley and Roxanne Potvin and America's own Deborah Coleman, this power trio divided up their set by allowing each woman a piece of the action and then coming together in two's and three's for some added fun. Roxanne Potvin laid down fine blues guitar that was equaled by her strong voice. Deborah Coleman, that lady of the blues, was up next, doing slow blues and funk, with her signature vocals. Unfortunately, the keyboardist, a flashy player from Holland, kept drowning out Coleman's guitar, and the soundman didn't correct for it.
Finally, Sue Foley brought her hot pink guitar up on stage and with Potvin, backed up Coleman in a tune. But Foley's piece of the set slayed us all. Alone on the stage, she did an early blues tune by a woman she had recorded in her 2-CD collection of important blues women called Blues Guitar Women. With her higher register voice, it was as if we were all listening to that blues woman of yore. Also, her instrumental "Mediterranean Breakfast" was stunning. I first heard it at the 10,000 Lakes Festival in 2005 when Foley did a kick butt set on the Field Stage. She was phenomenal this particular evening.
It was growing dark when Matu brought out his new band, the new version of Indigenous. Since his two brothers and sisters decided to pursue separate projects a year ago, Matu has been trying to keep the madhouse touring on schedule that this South Dakota band has been doing. Discovered in the late 90s, Indigenous, a band of young blues players, was hurled into the national music scene, eventually playing every significant blues venue in the country–and with all of the greats. Last year, Matu released a new album, Chasing the Sun, that is a more soulful version of the blues. That was what audiences saw on Saturday night.
Matu is a well-seasoned singer/songwriter and blues musician. His guitar work is heavily influenced by Jimi Hendrix and his vocals by Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. On stage, though he can be a guitar demon, he is generous with his fellow band members. He also steps back to allow Chris Lager, the lead guitarist of his new band, shine, falling into rhythm guitar.
After Indigenous, the evening just kept getting better. Joe Bonamassa and his newish four-piece band just slammed us all. The crowd, which had been a bit reserved all day, now packed the front of the stage as I'd seen in many a show at a club. It was mainly young people, but there were a few veteran guitar players I knew who were down front watching every guitar stroke and chord change. Bonamassa sang his heart out and played like a dynamo, but, like Matu, he was also generous with his band members. He and the rest of his players left the stage while his drummer laid down a wicked drum solo; then they all came back and picked it up.
After Bonamassa left the stage, the audience called for an encore. He came out, not with an electric, but with an acoustic with a pickup. He then launched into "High Water Blues," a song he said that he was surprised no one had covered that night.
Seven Clans Casino and blues fans that night were very lucky to get this lineup. Bonamassa was ready to launch his CD tour in Pennsylvania on Monday, but swung up to the northwestern Minnesota in the heart of farm country to start his tour at the Last Ride Bluesfest.
Next year, I don't know how Seven Clans Casino can outdo this fest.


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This series of six webinars is presented by the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership and the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2). This program is directed toward those who currently work at the university-industry interface or who wish to begin such collaborations.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard will provide an update on its efforts to rise above the sinking PC market when it releases quarterly earnings Wednesday after the closing bell.
The quarter will likely reveal how far HP still must go.
Revenue is expected to fall, which would make it the seventh consecutive quarter of comparable declines. Management has already predicted shrinking profits, although job cuts and other money-saving measures may have helped HP dodge the huge profit declines suffered by its rival, Dell Inc. Last week, Dell reported that its quarterly earnings plunged 79 percent.
Analysts, on average, are predicting Hewlett-Packard Co. will post adjusted earnings of 81 cents per share on revenue of $28 billion during its fiscal second quarter ending in April, according to FactSet That compared with adjusted earnings of 98 cents per share on revenue of $30.7 billion at the same time last year.
As has been the case for the past two years, the threat against the company's personal computer division is the greatest. There has been a seismic technology shift to smartphones and tablets, and away from laptop and desktop machines. No company has been as hard hit as HP, the world's largest PC maker.
Although its measurements don't precisely align with HP's fiscal quarter, the research firm International Data Corp. said HP was having a tough time selling PCs to start the year. HP's PC shipments plunged 24 percent during the first three months of the year, according to IDC. That was worse than the erosion in the overall PC market, which dropped 14 percent from last year.
The company, based in The Palo Alto, Calif., probably had to slash prices to spur PC sales. That's what Dell did, and its profit margins were the casualty.
HP's Meg Whitman believes it may take another two or three years before the company's revenue begins to rise again steadily She is trying to engineer a turnaround by building more PCs with touch-control screens, selling more tablets and expanding product lines in business software, data analysis and storage and technology consulting.
HP's stock is stuck below recession-era levels, and they are down 3 percent over the past year. The Standard & Poor's index is up almost 27 percent in that same time frame.
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The Phillies have completed a three-player trade with the Houston Astros for righthander Roy Oswalt.
Lefthanded pitcher J.A. Happ, outfielder Anthony Gose and infielder Jonathan Villar are going to Houston.
Villar, who has been removed from single-A Lakewood's lineup tonight, is hitting .272 with two home runs and 36 RBIs. Villar, 19, has 42 errors in 99 games as Lakewood's shortstop but projects as a corner infielders down the line.
Gose, who turns 20 on Aug. 10, is hitting .263 with four home runs and 20 RBIs for single-A Clearwater. He has 36 stolen bases but has been caught stealing 27 times.
Happ, whom the Phillies have injury concerns about, has made three starts this season after finishing as runner-up National League Rookie of the Year. He is 1-0 with a 1.76 ERA in three starts. Happ, 27, strained his left elbow on April 15.
Happ was running on the warning track at Citizens Bank Park around 3 p.m. and was pulled aside by pitching coach Rich Dubee and the two entered a tunnel down the rightfield line.
The monetary details of the trade are still unknown.
The two teams have reportedly agreed on a way to handle the remainder of Oswalt's salary. ESPN is reporting the Phillies have asked the Astros to pay a "significant portion" of the $5 million Oswalt is due for the remainder of this season plus the $16 million Oswalt is due in 2011.
Then, of course, there is the $16 million club option for 2012.
That has been the sticking point all along, a baseball source told The Inquirer earlier in the week.
"Oswalt has [Astros general manager] Ed Wade and everybody else at his mercy because of that no-trade clause," the source said. "I know the Phillies thought they were close to having it done last week, but I think the difference was that option year."
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Jackie Manz is a business and strategic management consultant and twenty-one year resident of Lake Oswego. Her local governmental experience includes serving as co-vice chair on the Lake Oswego Citizens Budget Committee and Chair and Vice-Chair of the Hallinan Heights Neighborhood Association. She was appointed to and served on the Oregon Tourism Commission, Oregon Heritage Vitality Task Force and was a founding member of the Oregon Sustainable Tourism Action Initiative. She held many volunteer positions within the Lake Oswego School District, and was an active community volunteer while living abroad. Jackie and her husband Christian have two adult children, a son and a daughter, who both attended and graduated from Lake Oswego public schools.
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What combination of SDL and patches are everyone using to compile ScummVM for WinCE?
I'm still using SDL 1.2.6... I see Cerial has on his site a set of patches for 1.2.13 (http://blog.cryptopath.org/2009/07/how-to-compile-scummvm-with-latest-mingw32ce-and-sdl/) but the latest stable is 1.2.14 which seems to contain a lot of interesting fixes.
Does anyone have a patch for this version of SDL?
Don't think the changes are that great between .13 and .14 actually. A couple of bug fixes, but not sure if they affect the ScummVM build? Should n't be to hard to do the ce patch from 13 ontop on .14.
Fair enough. I'm working on building 1.2.13 for now but I'm getting a libSDL.la instead of an libSDL.lib. I know knakos has special Makefile in his patches that builds the libSDL.lib but I cannot get that Makefile to work at all in 13. Any advice?
I'm just thinking, was/is Knakos building for WM6/6.5 (Based on CE5) or building for CE6 (Which the upcoming Windows Phone is based on).
There might be differences. If you find a CE port its more likely to build than a WM6 port. (WM6 have lots of more goodies in it (Handwriting etc) which is not present in CE)
I'm on WM6.5, thus CE5. Fairly certain this is what knakos was working on. In fact, the Makefile he uses in his patches works fine for me in 1.2.6 and it does build a libSDL.lib. But since I can't use that Makefile in 1.2.13, I have to use the one generated during the configure and it creates .la and .a files... This has got to be simple!
I gave up on getting 1.2.13 going - there was tons of changes done by kostas in the 1.2.6 patches that would be a major overhaul for the 1.2.13 graphics engine. I know Cerial managed to get 1.2.13 going but I don't see how, from looking at his patches, considering that ScummVM is not going to find a lot of the custom functions added by kostas in 1.2.6.
I'm still open for suggestions, but will focus my changes on 1.2.6 for now.
I am using SDL-1.2 in your project for WinCE changes slightly, mainly:
- Completely rewritten gapi videodriver (this code already added sdl-1.3)
- The correct definition of the cursor position when you turn the screen
well I might add right mouse click emulation, but it depends from the tap delay, so this part of the code I have made in application space.
Perhaps it is useful to you.
Patch works with the latest version of sdl-1.2 from the repository hg.
Amazing work! Just what I was looking for. Very useful to me.
I did have to hack it up a bit to compile but I did get ScummVM running successfully with it. I am not having success with the mouse cursor on screen orientation changes yet though. Will hack at it some more. Any clues as to why you said it was patched to work with orientation but not working for me?
EDIT: Ah, I get it. The patch supports various orientations, but does not support orientation changes in game. I had that working with 1.2.6 so I'll see if I can work it in this version.


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Trupanion Warns: Grapes and Raisins are Deadly to Cats and Dogs
Trupanion reminds pet owners that grapes and raisins are poisonous to dogs and cats.
(Vocus/PRWEB ) April 12, 2010 — Pet health insurance company, Trupanion, recently received one of its largest grape ingestion claims and reminds pet owners about the dangers of grapes. Trupanion receives claims for raisin and grape toxicity on a regular basis. About ten percent of the foreign body ingestion claims received since the beginning of the year were for grape or raisin ingestion. The average amount for grape or raisin claims was $235.63 with the largest in the amount of $1,466.83.
"Many pet owners are unaware that grapes and many other human foods are poisonous to pets. We hope to educate all pet owners so that they can prevent distress and danger to their pets as well as costly trips to the veterinarian," said Senior Vice President, Darren DeFeo.Both cats and dogs are susceptible to grape and raisin toxicity. Acute renal failure can develop within 48 hours of ingestion. It is not known exactly what in grapes and raisins causes illness, but ingestion of either one can cause kidney failure to dogs and cats. Raisins are more concentrated than grapes, therefore contain more toxins. Trupanion has more information about grape toxicity at their pet health concerns guide.
Trupanion's goal is to spread awareness about foods that are poisonous to pets as well as the benefits of pet insurance. By preventing pets from eating dangerous substances, pet owners can save themselves and their pets heartache and stress, and cut down on costly vet bills.
About Trupanion
Trupanion pet insurance offers cat insurance and dog insurance in the United States and Canada. Trupanion is self-underwritten by the American Pet Insurance Company, allowing Trupanion to offer a customizable pet insurance policy with no benefit schedules. Enrolled pets receive $20,000 of lifetime coverage for diagnostic tests, surgeries, and medications if they get sick or are injured with no annual limit. Trupanion's mission is to protect the cherished bond between pets and their families by ensuring that pets are able to receive optimal veterinary care. For more information about Trupanion, call 800-569-7913 or visit http://Trupanion.com.
About the North American Pet Health Insurance Association
Trupanion is a founding member of the North American Pet Health Insurance Association (NAPHIA). Founded 2007, the North American Pet Health Insurance Association is committed to educating and promoting the values and benefits of quality pet health insurance to North American pet owners, the general public, and veterinary community. As an association, we are committed to high standards and transparency in all of our actions and products. To learn more, visit the North American Pet Health Insurance Association website at http://www.naphia.org.
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NEC Corp. will provide Norkring Slovenia, a Slovenia-based commercial broadcaster, with PASOLINK NEO, NEC's ultra compact microwave communications system, through NEC Eastern Europe. As a result of this agreement, the company now provides the PASOLINK system to 16 countries throughout Eastern Europe, in addition to the systems it has deployed in 144 countries all over the world.
PASOLINK NEO enables customers to expand transmission capacity easily and affordably for increasing communications traffic by upgrading software for a single platform that flexibly supports a wide variety of interfaces, without the need to purchase additional hardware.
Norkring Slovenia is driving the creation of new broadcasting infrastructure in preparation for Slovenia's scheduled launch of terrestrial digital broadcasting in September 2010. Under the terms of the contract, NEC will deploy PASOLINK throughout all of Slovenia, helping to connect the country's digital TV transmitters.
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FT. MYERS AND DELAND, Fla. (Oct. 31, 2013) – Two weeks after playing in Jacksonville, the ETSU volleyball team returns to the Sunshine State as the Bucs take on Florida Gulf Coast and Stetson this weekend in Atlantic Sun Conference play.
ETSU (17-7, 11-1 A-Sun) takes on conference preseason favorite FGCU Friday at 7 p.m., inside Alico Arena, while facing Stetson Saturday at 5 p.m., in the Edmunds Center.
- ETSU capped off its three-match homestand with a perfect mark after sweeping Kennesaw State (25-18, 25-23, 25-19) Tuesday night inside Brooks Gym.
- With the victory, the Bucs extended their home win streak to 12, while ETSU has swept five of its six opponents in Brooks Gym this season.
- Junior middle blocker Meredith Hardy (Kingsport, Tenn.) broke the all-time Atlantic Sun blocks record after finishing with eight, which moved her career total to 429.
- Senior Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) posted her sixth straight double-double (12 kills/10 digs), and junior Jamie Rutledge (Kingsport, Tenn.) finished with 35 assists, seven blocks and six digs. Fellow junior Ivey Rice (Johnson City, Tenn.) hit a team-high .364 (11-3-22).
- FGCU enters the weekend with a record of 11-14 and an A-Sun mark of 7-5 after defeating Mercer but falling to Kennesaw State and North Florida last weekend.
- Individually, the Eagles' offensive attack has been led by 3.19 kills per set from junior outside hitter Jessica Barnes, while senior outside hitter/middle blocker Kaitlin Holm and junior middle blocker Olivia Mesner have added 3.02 and 2.79 per set, respectively. Mesner, who hit .658 (25-0-38) in FGCU's five-set loss at North Florida on Monday, ranks fourth in the A-Sun with a team-leading hitting percentage of .340.
- Junior setter Gigi Meyer ranks third in the conference in assists (10.54), while junior libero Whitney Masters is sixth in digs per set (3.88).
- As a team, FGCU is hitting .211, while allowing its opponents to hit .233. The attack rate ranks among the top half of the conference, but the Eagles' opponent attack percentage sits at seventh.
- FGCU leads the all-time series, 7-3, but the Bucs have won the last two meetings in the series.
- ETSU swept the Eagles back on Oct. 12 in Brooks Gym, while the Blue and Gold snapped FGCU's 15-match win streak last season.
- The Eagles are 5-0 all-time against the Bucs inside Alico Arena, but ETSU has won a pair of games inside the gym (2010 A-Sun Tournament).
- After winning four matches last season (none in conference play), Stetson has made a big turnaround as the Hatters enter weekend play at 15-11, 6-5 A-Sun. The 15 overall wins are the most since ending the 1996 campaign with 16 victories.
- The Hatters are led by senior outside hitter Kaley Melville, who is averaging 3.47 kills per set, while senior middle Ellen Hawks leads the team with a .320 hitting percentage.
- As a team, Stetson is holding its opponents to a .188 attack percentage, but the Hatters are being out-blocked, 2.25 to 1.67.
- ETSU is 14-0 lifetime against the Hatters and the Bucs have won all 12 matches since joining the A-Sun in 2005.
- The Bucs swept Stetson back on Oct. 11 in Brooks Gym as ETSU out-blocked the Hatters, 13-1. Hardy ended with 10 kills (.500 attack percentage) and five blocks, while sophomore Khadijah Wiley (Columbus, Ga.) finished with five kills and eight blocks (four solo). Along with their 13 blocks, the Bucs hit .314 (44-12-102) and held Stetson to a .066 (25-19-91) clip.
- Click here for live stats of the FGCU match.
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- The Bucs are in the midst of a four-match win streak and have won 13 of their last 14 matches. During this four-match run, ETSU is averaging 14.33 kills, 13.47 assists, 13.73 digs, and 3.13 blocks per set, while also hitting .253 and holding the opponents to a .144 percentage.
- Two Buccaneer players have broken A-Sun all-time marks this season as Megan Devine is now the all-time leader in kills (1,807) and Meredith Hardy holds the new blocks record at 429. Devine is also the ETSU program leader in kills and she also ranks second among active NCAA Division I players in total kills. Meanwhile, Hardy holds the all-time ETSU record for block assists (368) and ranks second in total blocks. Hardy is 109 blocks away from breaking the program record for total blocks, which is currently held by Jennifer Pennington (537, from 1993-96).
- Devine enters weekend play needing 18 digs to pass Kaena Apana for fifth all-time in ETSU history. Devine has 1,370 digs in 124 matches played.
- Devine has recorded double-digit kills in all 23 matches played this season, while Hardy is totaled at least one block in each of her last 86 outings.
- Along with her blocks, Hardy has tallied 866 kills in 89 matches.
- Jamie Rutledge has totaled 2,521 career assists in 77 matches, and the junior setter is 23 assists shy of moving into fifth all-time in the Buccaneer record book.
- Eight of ETSU's wins have been sweeps this season, while the Blue and Gold have won six of their seven four-set matches.
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From the article, "On one hand, Nintendo has the right to make sure content it owns is portrayed in the way it wants. It also has the right to make money from its property. But there is a grey area here that I think goes beyond copyright law. Let's Play videos are, in a way, a form of free advertising. Content creators build up loyal audiences and turn them on to games they may not have otherwise considered. These videos also result in additional game sales for video game companies. It's reasonable to think game companies overlook copyright claims because it's getting something much more valuable in return – new customers. They tell their friends, those friends tell other people and the trend continues. However, this is obviously about money to Nintendo more than anything else. And for that, it makes the company come off as petty."
Sad fact is that Nintendo is right, the terms of service clearly state we don't actually own the rights to the games we buy. It just sucks that smaller Youtube people lose that piece of the pie. Wonder if Wii Viewer is going to take a hit?
Nintendo, obviously. I hate "lets plays", I really dont understand the point of them. Just play the game yourself. That and the fact that the people playing them are always obnoxious, entitled babies.
Quote from the last paragraph:
"Nintendo has a right to make content ID claims, but this was a bad move for public relations. People are going to view this situation as Nintendo taking money from blue collar YouTubers purely out of greed. That's not the image Nintendo needs right now. It needs all the exposure and goodwill it can get (especially for the Wii U)"
I pretty much agree with that. While I believe Nintendo does have the right to place ID claims of videos of their first party games, by doing so they will start to be compared to the likes of MS and EA; greedy companies that don't have any passion for the industry, they're only concerned with pleasing shareholders.
Honestly, I have never owned a Nintendo console and as a core gamer the Wii U does not tempt me in the slightest, but at least I can admit Nintendo makes amazing games and has a real passion for the industry. If they keep going down this route I'll probably be putting them in the same category as Microsoft.


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Lynne's Antique Barn Outdoor Kitchen
Name: Lynne
Location: Durham, Ontario, Canada
Some of you may remember Lynne's treehouse from a previous My Great Outdoors post. This time she's sharing an outdoor kitchen with us, made from stone from an old barn foundation she discovered on her property. Read on to learn more about her creative re-use of found materials.
From Lynne:
We discovered an old stone foundation from an original barn on our property. The barn had burned down many moons ago, and the original stone walls had still withstood the test of time....but they were difficult to completely see. The walls were almost completely buried by earth, garbage and overgrown trees.
We had the entire space excavated and found cool barn hardware and funky barn remnants along the way. As we rebuilt some of the stone walls (some had crumbled) we added the barn hardware back into the stone walls for interest. Now, in the walls, you can find old metal buckets, hooks and water feeders. Great conversation pieces!
We built a timber frame within the stone walls and created an outdoor kitchen, complete with a sitting area and poolside fireplace for entertaining. The pool kitchen countertop is created from concrete — both as a money saving project and something that will withstand our cold Canadian winters (snow snow snow!). The countertop and other spaces needed to be 'four seasons' worthy.
We built a fun outhouse (we call it our "boudoir") complete with whitewashed walls and a chandelier. It is not only eco friendly, but has running water and is vented — so it could be a 'beautifully smelling' space :). We use cedar wood chips as our compost. Whitewashed buckets filled with cedar chips are close at hand - instead of using a flush toilet.
Close to the pool, we have an adult sized treehouse (also featured on Apartment Therapy). The treehouse sleeps four, and has an upcycled slide for quick exit.
We love spending a summer with friends and family, and poolside entertainment is what it is all about for us. It gives us a chance to entertain at home and hear the wondrous sounds of the kids happily playing in the pool and surroundings.
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Loading a desktop with DesktopX (Newbies #15)
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Thursday, July 7, 2005 by Cordelia | Discussion: Tutorials
Today's topic is loading a DesktopX 3.0 desktop. A DesktopX desktop is basically a snapshot of your desktop. It can be a desktop you've arranged with all of the widgets and objects you like displayed in a pleasing manner (or a displeasing manner, if you have a taste for suffering. Who am I to judge?).
It might also be something that has been set up for "fun" - I'll have to look up this "fun" word when I'm done here. Perhaps someone could provide me with a tutorial on "fun"?
And finally, a desktop might be a secure environment that restricts the user to a limited number of functions. Why would anyone want to do this, you ask? Well, what if you have small children and want to restrict their access to certain programs/folders on the computer. Admittedly, many 5 year olds know more about computers than I do, but it is still possible to restrict them.
Let's see some examples of this. Here is a screenshot of my current desktop.
Now I open DesktopX and click on Load Desktop...
There are 2 desktops that currently come with DesktopX 3.0. The first one is a game called "Keepie Ups" and it looks like this (click on thumbnail for a larger view). If I click on that soccer ball, the game tallies how long I can keep it in the air. You can see my pathetic score in the upper right and left corner of the screen. I don't feel bad, though - I've always sucked at any sport other than self-loathing or running away.
The next desktop is the "Guest" desktop. Have family coming over for a visit? Will they all be clamoring to use your computer? Load this desktop and restrict their access to your files. One button takes them to the Internet, and the other can be set up to take them to a program they can use - perhaps "Word". Simply right-click on the "My Program" icon and set the link to go to the program you want.
Notice that any widgets or programs you have running when you set the desktop will remain active and visible after you set the desktop.
This desktop is not secure. This desktop would be perfect for my mother (whom I love very much, but who is a technophobe), however most small children will have this desktop unloaded in a matter of seconds. Truly secure desktops can be created with DesktopX Enterprise Edition, but that is well beyond the scope of this article.
And that, my friends, is all there is to loading an already made desktop. Making your own is a whole other article. Probably the next one .
If you don't have DesktopX 3.0 you can get it here.
This link will take you to the FAQ page for DesktopX. It's quite possible that I am leaving a lot of questions unanswered in this tutorial, and it's not because I don't like you. (I do, believe me.). It's a very complicated program, and it seems to me that if you can imagine it, you can create it with DesktopX. My little tutorials are just for beginners, no0bies, greenhorns...etc.
Check out the other Newbie Tutorials here: #1: Intro., #2: WindowBlinds, Part 1, #3: WindowBlinds, Part 2, #4: Screenshots, #5: IconPackager, #6: Wallpaper Basics; #7: Logon Studio; #8: CursorXP; #9: BootSkin; #10: RightClick; #12: WindowBlinds Advanced; #13: DesktopX 3.0: Loading Widgets; #14: Loading Objects with DesktopX
My Desktop:
Skin: Encoded by PixelPirate (It's new, and it's awesome)
Cursors: Encoded by PixelPirate (Keeping with the theme)
Wall: Simplicity by Nerio (Ok, I've used it before, but I can't help it: it's good and it just goes with a lot of stuff!)
Icons: Icon-A-Day by mormegil (was there any question what I'd be running?)


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Thai PM shuffles pack and takes key defence post
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BANGKOK (AFP) – Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Sunday became the first woman to head the kingdom's defence ministry in a cabinet reshuffle that gives her more influence over the powerful army that ousted her brother.
As defence minister Yingluck claims a seat on Thailand's defence council which appoints army top brass in a nation where the military has carried out numerous coups, the most recent toppling her brother Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006.
The leadership of the army is due to undergo an annual reshuffle in October, although it is unclear whether its current chief will retain his position despite approaching the end of the customary three-year term.
Speaking before the reshuffle was announced, Yuthasak Sasiprapha, who was appointed deputy defence minister, said Yingluck would not cause problems with the military.
"She can do it, she can work with the army," he told reporters.
Deputy Prime Minister Pongthep Thepkanjana said the prime minister had considered the reshuffle "carefully and "selected suitable people" for cabinet posts.
The hugely influential army is the official protector of the revered monarchy and is also seen by many as the guarantor of the establishment.
It draws a large budget and is fighting a rebellion in the kingdom's southernmost provinces which has killed more than 5,700 people in nearly a decade.
But the army has also been a key player in the nation's tumultuous political history.
Thailand has been plagued by political divisions and sometimes violent street protests involving so-called 'Red Shirt' supporters of Yingluck -- and her self-exiled brother Thaksin -- and 'Yellow Shirts' who support the pro-establishment opposition.
Thaksin was ousted by an army coup in 2006, prompting years of bitter political jousting that has at times spilled into bloodshed.
The country is still recovering from street protests by Red Shirts in 2010 that culminated in a bloody crackdown by security forces.
About 90 people were killed and nearly 1,900 wounded in a series of clashes in May 2010 between demonstrators and security forces.
Courts have ruled that some protesters were killed by security forces, leading to charges of murder being laid against then-Prime Minister and current opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva -- accusations he strenuously denies.
No army officials have been charged over the unrest.
Several protest groups have sprung up in recent months against the government of Yingluck and the influence of her brother, who is seeking a return to the kingdom but faces jail over corruption charges.
On Saturday the Bangkok Post predicted the move would allow Yingluck -- much pilloried as Thaksin's stooge -- to tighten her grip on power, and indicated that she enjoyed a "rock-solid relationship" with army top brass.
Elsewhere in the reshuffle, outspoken former deputy prime minister and staunch Thaksin loyalist Chalerm Yubamrung was downgraded to head the labour ministry.
Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom was axed after facing weeks of flak over a controversial scheme guaranteeing prices to rice farmers that caused the kingdom to lose its place as the world's top exporter of the commodity last year.


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Similar to ineffective labour chapters in previous agreements, the CPTPP obliges a complainant to prove both that a member country has not enforced its own labour laws and that this violation has had an impact on trade. In practice, this burden of proof is so difficult to meet that there has never been a single successful labour complaint , let alone sanctions, under the labour chapter of any FTA. The CPTPP will prove ineffective in addressing the serious, systematic labour and human rights violations that occur in Mexico, Vietnam and some other member countries.
If anything, under the CPTPP these inadequate labour protections have been weakened. Vietnam has delayed commitments made to the U.S. to strengthen its national labour protections, and a rule allowing government purchases to be conditional on respect for labour rights has been suspended. By turning a blind eye on labour protections, Canada has completely undermined its proposals for effective labour rights in the NAFTA 2.0 and future trade agreements.
Other elements of the Trudeau government's self-styled progressive trade agenda — including gender equity and Indigenous rights—are nowhere to be found in the CPTPP. Meanwhile, the environmental chapter contains only the same, mostly toothless, protections found in the original TPP. The Canadian government claims it achieved some (still secret) wording in a new preamble that aligns with its progressive aspirations. But a treaty's preamble is at best a guide to interpretation; it does not change, let alone override, the obligations in the text of the treaty.
Some might argue that the Canadian government had little choice: it could sign the unmodified agreement or be left behind. The Canadian big business lobby, except for the Detroit three automakers, was firmly behind the deal. But there is always a choice.
With or without the CPTPP, trade with the Pacific Rim (which represents
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, much of which is already tariff-free) would continue. Looking back, the whole robotic exercise of resuscitating the TPP, rather than starting fresh and working towards a reset of global trade and investment rules, may prove to be an historic blunder.
If the Trudeau government's rhetoric about progressive trade and inclusive growth means anything—which is an open question—then it requires a genuine rebalancing of trade treaties to better protect workers, citizens and the environment, and to confront the 21 st century challenges of extreme inequality and runaway climate change.
CCPA Senior Research Fellow Scott Sinclair directs the centre's Trade and Investment Research Project.
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An Interview with Phil Meyer
In the spring, Darien Library hosted the Marine Art Exhibit. Marine Art is regarded as one of the most popular forms of fine art. In practice, it takes many forms, including painting, drawing, printmaking, beach scenes, and all art showing boats. At the close of the show, we had the opportunity to interview Phil Meyer, whose incredible model ships had graced Main Street during the exhibit. In this interview Mr. Meyer talks about the art and craft of model ship building, and points out the details of each of the ships that were displayed.


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In this pivotal election year, fellow citizens, I give you a chilling vision of two Americas.
One America is the swing states, the dozen or so states that don't fall into the Democratic or Republican camps and will ultimately decide the presidential election. Those unhappy states — they know who they are — are already being flooded with noisy political advertising, day and night.
The other America, the happier America, is what political strategists call "safe states." In these lucky places, television viewers are mostly safe from being inundated with presidential political harangues.
COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS: Presidential Election 2012
Election day is almost four months away, but the bombardment has begun in key swing cities such as Columbus, Ohio, and Orlando, Fla., where television stations are already running short of advertising time to sell. One media consulting firm, Borrell Associates, forecasts that political advertising this year will approach $10 billion nationwide, a huge increase from the roughly $7 billion spent in 2008.
If those numbers look suspiciously round, it's because they're just guesses. Nobody knows how much money will be spent because so much of the spending is coming from a new source, the "independent committees" that can raise money in unlimited amounts — and, in many cases, can keep their donors anonymous.
Political advertising, and spending on political advertising, isn't inherently bad. Just ask the owners of those television stations, who have seen their businesses get a nice shot in the arm.
And even negative political ads — the ones with ominous music, accusing candidates of mismanaging the economy or flip-flopping or being unprepared to handle a crisis — aren't inherently bad.
Scholars who study these things say that negative ads are often more informative — and even more accurate — than positive ads, in part because they get more scrutiny. When a candidate tells you he's fighting for America's families or working for better schools, who can prove him wrong? But if he calls his opponent a felon or — worse — a job outsourcer, he knows he'd better provide some evidence.
"Negative ads can be good because they generate a conversation," argues John G. Geer, a political science professor at Vanderbilt University who watches ads so you don't have to. "It's a struggle between competing messages, and voters have to adjudicate their accuracy. But that's what campaigns are about."
This year, though, voters in the swing states are likely to have a harder time adjudicating the accuracy of the advertising they see. First, because there's going to be so much of it. And second, because so much of it will come from those anonymous independent committees — and their commercials tend to be less scrupulous about the facts.
"Third-party ads are more deceptive because they're less accountable; you can't tie the candidate to them," noted Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, which runs a monitoring project called FactCheck.org. "And when they're anonymous as well, we've already seen this year that those ads have a higher level of deception."
So far, the new groups with anonymous donors are overwhelmingly Republican, and they have big plans. The Crossroads organization founded by former George W. Bushaide Karl Rove says it expects to raise $300 million; another, funded partly by the conservative Koch brothers, promises $400 million.
But that doesn't mean Democrats have unilaterally disarmed: The "super PAC" supporting President Obama says it hopes to raise $100 million.
It also doesn't mean that the GOP will have a monopoly on deceptive advertising.
FactCheck.org has identified problems with ads supporting each of the candidates. About an Obama ad that took aim at Bain Capital, the investment firm Romney once ran, the website concluded: "Some of the claims in the ads are untrue, and others are thinly supported." A Romney ad questioning Obama's loans and grants to the solar industry, including companies run by Democratic donors, "strains facts to make its point" and "twisted" the words of the Energy Department's inspector general, the group found.
What can voters do about these ads? The first step is to watch them, whether you're in a swing state or not. Many are available on YouTube or on the sites of watchdog groups.
The second step is to check their accuracy, by going to FactCheck.org or one of the other organizations that do the work of evaluating political advertising claims.
The third step, Jamieson says, is that if you think a commercial is deceptive, you can ask a television station manager to take it off the air until it's been fixed. Stations are required to run commercials from candidates as is, but not commercials from independent groups.
The problem is that television stations like the millions of dollars in revenue they're collecting for these ads, and they can charge a higher fee to independent committees than to candidates, who get a break on advertising rates.
"The stations don't make money on the candidates," Jamieson noted. "They make it from third-party groups."
I don't know how you're spending your weekend, but I'm devoting mine to watching a bunch of these commercials. Next week, to celebrate my column's move from Thursday to Wednesday, I'll unveil my picks of the season's best and worst ads so far.