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I've got a couple things for sale.
DIY UQ - i made this under quilt specifically for a HH hammock. it has side pull outs that are on 6" adjustable velcro strips but i didn't always use them as some times the ground was too hard to stake into. i also incorporated a center access which uses velcro to seal. to be honest, i used this feature twice and then i got the 2QZQ mod2.
here are the material specs for the UQ
o 5 yds 1.1 camo ripstop nylon DWR
o 7 cord locks
o 24 1/8 shock cord
o 80 3/32 shock cord
o 2 mitten hooks
o 2 yards no-see-um (only to get the length, did use all of it)
o 40 Velcro
o 28oz 650-700 goose down
overall length is about 78", the shoulders 48" wide and the foot end is about 40". i've slept in the UQ down to -5F without a problem but I was also smart with my set up location.
total weight in sac is about ~34oz
I'm asking $200 shipped using paypal. If it's outside the CONUS, I will need to check shipping first.
the second is my DIY sock made specifically for a RHS HH mod 2. I think the new HH zippers are on the left so unless you have a mod2 i'm not sure this will work.
- the top layer is a breathable 1.0 ripstop
- bottom is a 1.1 downproof (nonbreathable) ripstop with a single of IX on the inside with two draw cords.
- draw cords at each end
weight is 11oz in sac
I'm asking $140 shipped using paypal, If it's outside the CONUS, I will need to check shipping first.
here is a youtube link showing both and some photos'


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South Carolina is a true Southern belle, with colonial mansions, sweeping oaks and breezy beaches that all stretch out gracefully under the sun. Vacationers love this state mostly for the coast, which is a sparkling jewel of silver sands and turquoise ocean, but further inland there is plenty to behold as well.
Its alluring cities combine history, culture and a buzzing nightlife in addition to activities geared toward travelers of all ages.
Some of the places you will want to explore include:
- Charleston: With its quaint, classic charm, this lovely city has been named the most well mannered in the U.S. It is also full of historical buildings, fine arts, dining and shopping.
- Blue Ridge Mountains: West of Charleston are these breathtaking natural gems, which are brimming with beautiful scenery, hilly hiking and a sense of freedom.
- Myrtle Beach: Defining the American-style summer vacation, this area offers amazing beaches as well as the Grand Strand. For some good old-fashioned fun, the latter features amusement parks, concerts, a boardwalk and tons of food stands.
- Hilton Head: Known for its sustainable development and ecotourism, this island has an impressive amount of untouched forests and beaches making for great hiking, diving and discovering. Be sure to spend some time under the shady limbs of the Liberty Oak, a symbol of the island, or grab your clubs and hit some golf balls at the Heritage Golf Classic, a stop on the PGA Tour.
- Columbia: As South Carolina's capital city, this area includes a historic entertainment district located downtown, several museums, zoos and Lake Murray, a great place for water sports of all kinds.
- Greenville: If mountain exploration is what you are after, this town is where it is at. There are also a variety of cultural attractions here and a revitalized downtown area that includes an impressive 20-acre park.
There are plenty of activities for visitors to enjoy in South Carolina. For those who want to hit the high seas, cruises from South Carolina are a popular pick. If tee time is your finest hour, golf packages in South Carolina hit a hole in one. Families often find adventure within the theme parks in South Carolina or in the natural surroundings of South Carolina national parks.
Once your day draws to a close, there are several options for where to stay. A vacation rental could include a condo in downtown Charleston or a beach rental on its outskirts. Visitors can easily locate a number of properties to suit their needs depending upon what they desire.


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"The Conjuring," the latest Hollywood tale of demonic possession, has an air of authenticity.
The story may or may not be true, but "The Conjuring," the latest Hollywood tale of demonic possession, has an air of authenticity, thanks in part to one local theology expert.
The film follows the investigation of a haunting at a Rhode Island farmhouse where the Perron family, led by parents Carolyn and Roger Perron (Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston), lived in the 1970s.
As Carolyn is gradually taken over by a spirit that drives her to kill, paranormal investigators the Warrens – Ed, a demonologist, and Lorraine, a trance medium – step in to help. The couple (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) rely on Lorriane's clairvoyant abilities and traditional Roman Catholic exorcism rites to rid the family of its demons.
"I was totally blown away that everyone got the theology of Catholicism exactly right," said Diana Pasulka, a UNCW associate religion professor hired as a history and language consultant on the film. "As a consultant, you have no idea if they're going to do what you're telling them or not. In this case, every time you hear Latin spoken in the movie, I helped with the translation."
Pasulka just so happens to be writing a book on the doctrine of Purgatory and the medieval Latin Church. The Latin that audiences will hear during a flashback to an earlier exorcism and in a pivotal scene at the haunted house features a kind of Latin that dates to the Middle Ages.
Pasulka can read and speak medieval Latin, but can't pronounce the words exactly, she said.
She and the film's writers, Chad and Carey Hayes, recruited one of her former UNCW students, Chris Moreland, now in graduate school at the University of California Berkeley, to help.
"The last scene is tough. I anticipated problems with actors being able to recite the verses from the 'Rituale Romanum' (one of the Roman Rites) and Patrick (Wilson) was having a bit of a hard time remembering the verse," Pasulka said. "When I finally saw the movie, I could not believe how eloquent it was."
The professor, a mother of five who has worked at UNCW for 11 years, said she initially resisted working on the film because she thought it might sensationalize the Warrens' experiences.
She's also a believer.
"I didn't want to be involved in any projects that are gratuitously evil or violent, but Chad and Carey wrote a positive story and were adamant that good would triumph over evil," Pasulka said. "When I was at set and watching some of the scenes, I was terrified, but when I saw the movie, I only have really good feelings when I look back now. I think a lot of people who are religious will respond to the message."
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Gloria Weldon, an assistant manager at Dana Dining Hall, joined the St. Lawrence University Dining Service team in February 2003.
Gloria graduated from Harrisville Central School and Jefferson Community College, majoring in Human Services.
Gloria has an extensive background in the food service field starting with working in her family owned restaurant. She managed several restaurants in the Watertown and Sackets Harbor area as well as managing a non profit Veterans organization.
Gloria makes her home in Fowler, NY and has a son serving with the U.S. Army in Ft. Riley, KS.
Gloria recently retired from the Vermont Air National Guard after 23 years of service.


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AP Interview: new Polish movie honors Lech Walesa
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Solidarity leader Lech Walesa has largely fallen from grace in the eyes of his Polish countrymen. Oscar-winning filmmaker Andrzej Wajda says he wants to restore his longtime friend as Poland's hero in his latest movie — which he calls the hardest of his life.
"Walesa: Man of Hope" is the last part of the Polish cineaste's trilogy about how worker disillusionment with communism helped to bring about the system's demise. It shows how Walesa grew from a regular worker at a time of violent food protests to a charismatic strike leader who negotiated with communist authorities and finally to national hero and international statesman who won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize.
The movie has its world premiere next week at the 70th Venice Film Festival, out of competition. Meanwhile, Wajda told The Associated Press in an interview that he is laying the groundwork for screenings in his homeland, planned for October.
"I think that this false image of Lech as the source of trouble and defeat must not be spread around," said the 87-year-old Wajda. "No one seems to remember anymore that he brought us freedom."
Walesa's reputation was badly tarnished in Poland during an authoritarian 1990-95 presidency in which he clashed with consecutive governments, alienated friends and advisers and angered the Poles with welfare promises that he could not keep. He has also faced accusations of collaboration with the communists, which he denied and which have been dismissed by a special screening court.
Amid the controversies, Wajda said he felt a need to present the true Walesa to the world — and remind people of the Solidarity leader's enduring legacy.
"I am an old man, an old film director, and this might be the last film in my life," he said. "But I would not want to part with life without having made this movie. This is my duty."
In 1995 Walesa bitterly lost his re-election bid to former communist Aleksander Kwasniewski, and has withdrawn from active politics. He lectures around the world about Poland's peaceful transformation to democracy, culminating in June 1989 general elections. That vote paved the way for similar change in other countries of the communist bloc.
Wajda, who received a lifetime achievement Academy Award in 2000, said he wanted his film to show his "admiration" for the man. In Poland, Wajda's friendship with Walesa has raised questions about how objective the filmmaker can be in creating any movie about the Solidarity leader's life. The film ends before the start of Walesa's controversial presidency.
Wajda met the electrician Walesa during the 1980 wage and labor rights strike at the Gdansk Shipyard, where he successfully led thousands of protesters and founded the free Solidarity union, rising to be the nation's independence leader. Wajda still believes that Walesa is the "hero of our times" — and wants his movie to help young people appreciate Poland's history.
"My aim was to make a movie about a people's hero, a politician who came from the social lows and rose to his position purely and only thanks to his own will, his own strength, his own energy, his intelligence."
But he conceded that it was the "hardest movie that I ever made" because it tells a story that is still in the making, with the hero still alive and able to comment on how he was portrayed.
Neither Walesa nor his family were consulted during the making of the film. But Walesa recently saw it in a private screening and his reaction was "good," Wajda said — albeit with a hint of hesitation.
Contacted at his office in Gdansk, Walesa said the movie was "excellent, very well done, but there is a problem with me."
"Wajda based (his movie) on the idea that only a conceited man, a supercilious one could have won. But I was not so haughty," Walesa told the AP. "If I had been so, then workers would not have carried me on their shoulders."
Wajda's two previous movies in the series about Poland's workers' discontent with communist rule were the 1975 "Man of Marble" and the 1981 "Man of Iron" — about the rise of Solidarity, with Walesa appearing in it — which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award.
The Venice festival was chosen for the latest movie's premiere because it was there that, in 1957, Wajda won international renown for his out-of-competition movie "Ashes and Diamonds." In 1998, Wajda received the festival's Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.


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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin college student is accused of molesting six young children and videotaping the assaults under such titles as "Monster Unleashed," and police said Friday they think there are more victims.
Alexander R. Richter, who attended Gateway Technical College, was jailed on 49 felony charges after authorities say he volunteered to baby-sit his classmates' children and then repeatedly had sex with the boys and girls on camera as they cried and begged him to stop. Police said they have identified six children in videos and photographs recovered from Richter's home in Racine, about 30 miles south of Milwaukee.
Investigators are asking other victims or their families to come forward with information.
"We're not putting a number on it, but from the evidence we've recovered we believe there are additional victims," Racine police Sgt. Marty Pavilonis said.
Richter, 28, was arrested last week and faces dozens of charges including first-degree sexual assault of a child under 13, sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child pornography. He remained in jail Friday after a judge set his bond at $1.5 million in cash a day earlier.
Richter's public defender, Margaret Johnson, did not immediately return a message for comment. A preliminary hearing has been set for Wednesday.
According to a criminal complaint, Richter approached at least one classmate last year and offered to baby-sit her children — a son who was then 6 years old and a daughter who had just turned 4. Richter is accused of making at least 11 videos of himself having sex with both children, including one in which police say he guided the boy into attempted sexual activity with his sister.
The allegations came to light last month when the boy, now 7, touched another child inappropriately, the criminal complaint said. When confronted, the boy told his mother that was how "Alex" touches him and his sister, according to the complaint.
Investigators say the children told them Richter had oral and anal sex with them on multiple occasions, used sex toys on them and filmed them taking baths.
When detectives served Richter with a search warrant last week he told them, "I'll save you time, the things you are looking for are under the coffee table," according to the complaint.
Officers seized an unspecified number of DVDs, a tripod, cameras and a hard drive.
Prosecutors said some DVDs contained videos of Richter having sex with the two children and photos of the siblings posing naked and simulating sex acts with each other. They said one DVD, titled "Monster Unleashed," showed Richter having sex in his home with four different children — three girls and a boy. The youngest child, one of the girls, just turned 5 this month.
In some of the footage, the children are crying and can be heard telling Richter to stop or seen trying to fight him off, according to the complaint.
Pavilonis said authorities are trying to determine whether any of the images have been shared with other people as child pornography.
"A number of investigators and officers have children," the police sergeant said, "and we certainly investigate as if our own children were involved."
Dinesh Ramde can be reached at dramde(at)ap.org.


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Through a grant from the Lilly Foundation, Hyde Park Union church has provided chaplaincy services to Jackson Park Hospital for over a decade. From this experience HPUC is now ready to launch a new ministry in partnership with the hospital: The Gilead Project. Already, several academic and theological institutions have joined with HPUC in supporting Gilead—The Divinity School at the University of Chicago, The Urban CPE Consortium, The First Baptist Church of Chicago, the American Baptist Churches of Metro Chicago and now, McCormick Theological Seminary. The mission of Gilead is to provide quality pastoral care for those in need while providing a unique, hands-on learning experience for seminarians. We are deeply committed to both the spiritual needs of our patients and the learning needs of our students. Therefore, chaplains in The Gilead Project are professionally trained and supervised with the support and resources of both JPH and HPUC.
General geographic, population, ethnic make-up:
A Southside, urban community hospital, Jackson Park's patient population is predominantly African American, with most identifying as Protestant Christians. The medical staff represents a varied ethnic and religious heritage from around the world. Roughly half of the patients at JPH are on Behavioral Medicine units, and many suffer from chronic mental illness, poverty, and/or substance abuse. JPH has a poor reputation within its own neighborhood, and bears a heavy social stigma from its neighbors. It is a hospital of modest means and resources, but with a hard-working and devoted staff who work with the chaplains to provide the patients with the best possible care they can.
Students will serve as chaplains, providing spiritual strength and support to the JPH community. Working with a variety of cultures and faith traditions, students will offer ecumenical ministry and pastoral care to patients, as well as fellow caregivers. Chaplains will find themselves providing care for those in acute medical emergencies as well as for those suffering chronic conditions—persistent poverty, substance abuse, mental illness, inadequate healthcare, and homelessness. The nature of the work offers our students the very unique opportunity to perform a variety of rituals and engage in liturgies from various traditions. Invariably, our students will minister to those experiencing grief and loss. Sometimes this means offering prayer or having a conversation. Sometimes it could mean holding someone's hand while they weep. Other times, it could mean playing cards or commiserating over hospital food. Whatever the method, our ministry is to abide with our patients, helping them find meaning, and to restore dignity and humanity to those who suffer.
Chaplains at JPH develop superior skills in pastoral authority, theological reflection, triage, interfaith dialogue, and most prominently, pastoral care and the ministry of presence. The work of the chaplain is challenging, innovative, and often deeply emotional. As such, Gilead is committed to providing sophisticated and thoughtful supervision, both in a group setting and in one-on-one individual supervision.
Rev. Wesley Sun is the founding director of The Gilead Project. A licensed American Baptist minister, he has served as chaplain and department director to several homeless shelters and hospitals in this city, including a full year of service at JPH. Originally from sunny Florida, Wesley moved to Chicago to complete his MDiv at the University of Chicago before taking a position as a Lilly Resident at Hyde Park Union Church. Wesley has completed four units of Clinical Pastoral Education and will begin ACPE supervisory training while overseeing Gilead. In addition to his keen interest in pastoral care and theology, Wesley enjoys comic books, martial arts, and really good food. He encourages his students to think creatively as ministers, and to bring their own interests, talents, and passions to their work.
Jackson Park Hospital is located at 7531 S Stony Island Ave, just a short drive away from Hyde Park. The hospital is easily accessible by car, with a free visitor's parking lot and ample street parking nearby. Public transportation is also a convenient option via CTA Bus 28, which runs between Hyde Park and the hospital regularly.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The threat by majority Democrats to change Senate rules to make confirmation easier for some nominees could open up two cans of worms that could weaken the chamber's minority party for years to come.
Exasperated by what he considers excessive Republican efforts to block some of President Barack Obama's appointments, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is threatening to use his muscle to change the rules so only simple majority votes are needed to approve top-level federal agency jobs.
Currently, opponents can thwart those appointments with filibusters. Since those delaying tactics take three-fifths majorities to end, Reid currently needs the votes of 60 of all 100 senators to push those nominations through his chamber — a high hurdle since Reid generally controls only 54 votes, including two usually loyal independents.
If Reid prevails, that could encourage Republicans to broaden the exception whenever they recapture the Senate, experts say, perhaps also eliminating the 60-vote margin needed to end filibusters on legislation. Republicans have pointedly said would make it easier to establish a nuclear waste depository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, which Reid has thwarted for years.
Several experts said the change would be the biggest since 1975, when the Senate reduced the threshold needed to end filibusters from 67 votes to 60.
Another issue is Democrats saying they will change the rule by a simple majority vote.
Currently, opponents of a rules change can start a filibuster that special rules say can be ended by a two-thirds majority of voting senators — 67 if all 100 lawmakers vote.
Yet over the years, the Senate has used simple majority votes to overrule its own presiding officer and change how its rules are applied.
Combined, the two moves would make the Senate similar to the House, where the majority rules and the minority party enjoys little leverage.


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DAVIDSON, N.C. (Mar. 18, 2005) - The Buccaneer women's tennis team lost their first SoCon match of the season by the Davidson College Wildcats in a 6-1 decision on Friday afternoon. East Tennessee State's record now stands at 11-4 overall, 4-1 in the SoCon, while Davidson is 11-3, 4-0.
The Buccaneers picked up their lone point of the match in doubles with wins at No. 1 and No. 3. The pair of Sylwia Ziolkowska (Warsaw, Poland) and Masha Ilina's (Kyiv, Ukraine) defeated Meghan Fillnow and Kelly Fillnow 8-3, while Olya Batsula (Minsk, Belarus) and Gemma Halim (Jakarta, Indonesia) paired at No. 3 to defeat Kim Whelan and Lindsey Powel.
From that point, the tides turned as the Wildcats took each singles point in straight sets.
"Davidson is a tough team and they are very consistent," stated Head Coach Steve Brooks. "The scores weren't indicative of how the match went. We just couldn't win the point. Tomorrow we need to come out strong and covert to win the ad points."
Weekend action continues for women's tennis as they travel to Charlotte, N.C. to face UNC Charlotte tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m.
East Tennessee State 6, Davidson 1
1. Ilina/Ziolkowska (ETSU) d. Fillnow/Fillnow (DAV) 8-3
2. Patterson/Linville (DAV) d. Knight/Volobueva (ETSU) 8-5
3. Batsula/Halim (ETSU) d. Powel/Whelan (DAV) 8-3
1. Kelly Fillnow (DAV) d. Sandie Knight (ETSU) 6-3, 6-4
2. Meggie Patterson (DAV) d. Masha Ilina (ETSU) 6-4, 6-1
3. Kelsey Linville (DAV) d. Sylwia Ziolkowska (ETSU) 6-0, 6-3
4. Meghan Fillnow (DAV) d. Elena Volobueva (ETSU) 6-3, 6-0
5. Kate Levitt (DAV) d. Olya Batsula (ETSU) 6-4, 6-2
6. Kim Whelan (DAV) d. Gemma Halim (ETSU) 6-1, 6-2


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|For Immediate Release
December 4, 2012
Keith Cota
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|Manchester Public Informational Meeting
I-293 Exits 6 And 7 Improvements Study
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation announces a combined Public Officials/Public Informational Meeting is scheduled to continue community discussions concerning the I-293 exits 6 and 7 improvements study in Manchester, New Hampshire.
The meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 7:00 pm at the Manchester City Hall Aldermanic Chamber, One City Hall Plaza, in Manchester.
The purpose of this meeting is to present citizens and public officials with information regarding the proposed project and to solicit public input in order to ensure that project decisions meet public transportation needs, community goals, and protect and enhance the environment. Accordingly, NHDOT assures that this project will be administered according to the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and all related statutes to ensure nondiscrimination.
Any individuals needing assistance or auxiliary communication equipment due to sensory impairment or other disability, should contact the Bureau of Right-of-Way, NHDOT, PO Box 483, Concord, New Hampshire 03302-0483 – TDD Access: Relay NH 1-800-735-2964. Notification for the need of assistance should be made at the earliest convenience.


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From Jon Heyman of CBS Sports:
"The Dodgers' attempt at Fielder, with a high annual salary on the four years Fielder was guaranteed to be a Dodger and the always favorable player opt out, is believed to have put them among the final three teams in on Fielder..."I kind of wish I didn't know that.
The details -- as limited as they are right now -- had the Dodgers paying Fielder $26 million for the first four years and "in the low $20-million range" for the last three years. There was also an opt-out clause in the contract.
I, and others, have written about Fielder to the Dodgers before he signed with the Tigers this week. It made sense. But in the end, it's hard to blame him for not taking a 7-year, $160ish million deal instead of a 9-year, $214 million deal.
This is, most likely, the last time I'll write about him in detail. Good luck to him in Detroit. It's too bad Victor Martinez had to go and tear his ACL. The Dodgers will enter the season with James Loney at first base, which was to be expected all along.


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Magnus and the Dark Lord
Magnus and the Dark Lord is the second chapter in Kid Icarus: Uprising for the Nintendo 3DS. It goes further in-depth in the storyline, expanding on the war going on between the nations. This chapter also introduces a few new areas to the game, including the Zodiac Chamber and a luxury called the Hot Spring. Two new characters are met - Magnus, a bounty hunter that is known as the strongest of the humans, and Gaol, a Dark Lord in Medusa's army.
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This chapter begins with Pit flying through a dark, stormy sky. Lightning sent from the Underworld Army is able to injure the angel, eventually finishing him off, if it isn't evaded. However, it is easy to dodge, as light appears before the lightning hits a specific area. Eventually, Palutena sends Pit into a large tornado in order to give chase to the Underworld Army, but Pit is halted by Gyrazers in the process. Luckily, he makes it out and enters a ridge in the ground, a canyon, where he must fight off numerous Underworld enemies. Later on, Pit reaches a dark cave underground, and he and Palutena remark that the "Underworld baddies" seem to enjoy it. They are then ambushed by Gyrazers. Porcuspines and many other various enemies. Once Pit re-enters the outside world, he is quickly chased down by a Belunka spitting out enemies such as Monoeyes and Miks. The angel is able to stop the beasts, and quickly flies away.
Palutena then leads Pit with the Power of Flight up over a giant wall that stands in his way of reaching Gaol's Castle. Here, they are attacked by many different enemies that Pit easily defeats, and then he glides over a giant wasteland with the warring humans below. He exclaims that the humans need their help, but Palutena can't keep the Power of Flight going for more than five minutes, so she takes him immediately to Gaol's Castle, where he lands and begins to pursue the Dark Lord himself.
[edit] Land Battle
When Pit lands, he is seen on a terrace outside of Gaol's Castle with various food items surrounding him to recover health. The first enemy Pit encounters after opening a door through the use of the first switch in the game is a Monoeye. However, he soon meets with Skuttlers and Skuttler Cannoneers. After he defeats them, he gains access to a Treasure Chest that is holding a weapon of some sort.
When Pit goes up the stairs, he is met by a door that is locked. To unlock it, he must defeat a Boogity on the right side and flip the switch behind it and flip the switch on the left side of the room. When he does, a Ganewmede appears in front of the door, which is easily defeated through the use of melee attacks.
As Pit advances through the castle, he will eventually run across Magnus, a human mercenary working to make some money with the defeat of Dark Lord Gaol. He is an extremely powerful human, as exclaimed by Palutena, and quickly begins to assist Pit with the ambush of monsters in the room. He later proves to be very skilled with traveling, as he can tell when there is a Mimicutie around, telling Pit that he knows its a decoy. After they meet and fight together for a little while, they travel forward and enter Gaol's throne room.
[edit] Zodiac Chamber
In the hallway before finding Magnus and the monster ambush, there is a wall that appears to be transparent. If Pit decides to pass through it, he will find the very first Zodiac Chamber in the game. This one contains the Sagittarius Bow.
[edit] Boss Battle
When Pit and Magnus first enter the chamber of Gaol, the battle begins. Gaol and Magnus begin to have a conversation, and it's made obvious to Pit that they used to know each other from somewhere. Gaol uses things such as suction vortexes to stop Pit and pull him in just before attacking him with a dark attack. He will also summon Skuttlers by his side, to which Magnus asks if these are the "new recruits", confirming Palutena's thought that they used to be in a mercenary group together.
After Pit and Magnus defeat Gaol, it is revealed that she is actually a young woman with blonde hair, and Magnus kneels next to her body and apologises. Pit is sorry for 'killing' a human, but is told by Palutena how she looks to be still hanging-on, before he is whisked away back to Skyworld.
[edit] Trivia
This chapter contains one of the first references to Kid Icarus' brother series, Metroid, in which Gaol losing her amour and turning out to be a young woman is reminescent of the first Metroid game, in which it turns out the player-character, which is assumed to be an android or a muscular man in a suit of armour, turns out to be a blonde-haired woman after her armour disappears.
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Additional 12th Latin GRAMMY Performers Announced
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Pablo Alborán; Alex, Jorge Y Lena; Intocable; Los Tigres Del Norte with Paulina Rubio; Demi Lovato; Reyli; Black Eyed Peas' Taboo; and Wisin Y Yandel are the latest artists added to the lineup for the 12th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards telecast, it was announced today by The Latin Recording Academy. Confirmed to present awards are current Latin GRAMMY nominees Héctor Acosta, Banda Los Recoditos, Saúl Hernández, and Natalia Jiménez; actress and singer/songwriter Adrienne Bailon; boxer Juan Manuel Marquez; and actress Sofia Vergara. The biggest night in Latin music is set for Nov. 10 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas and will air live on the Univision Network from 8–11 p.m. ET/PT (7 p.m. Central).
Additionally, the 12th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards Pre-Telecast Ceremony will be streamed live internationally at www.latingrammy.com (as part of Latin GRAMMYs en Vivo's live online coverage) beginning at 1:30 p.m. PT. Winners in approximately 33 of the 46 Latin GRAMMY categories will be announced prior to the evening's telecast, kicking off a full evening of celebrating excellence in recorded Latin music from around the world. The Pre-Telecast will take place from 1:30–3 p.m. PT at Mandalay Bay, and the live stream will remain on the site for 30 days following the event. Presenters and performers for the 12th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards Pre-Telecast will be announced shortly.
Alborán has three nominations: Best New Artist, Song Of The Year for "Solamente Tú," and Best Male Pop Vocal Album for Pablo Alborán.
Alex, Jorge Y Lena have two nods: Album Of The Year and Best Pop Album By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for Alex, Jorge Y Lena.
Los Tigres Del Norte also are up for two awards: Record Of The Year for "Golpes En El Corazón" (with Paulina Rubio), and Best Norteño Album for Los Tigres Del Norte And Friends MTV Unplugged.
Wisin Y Yandel have two nods for Best Urban Music Album for Los Vaqueros: El Regreso and Best Urban Song for "Estoy Enamorado."
Intocable are nominated for Best Norteño Album for Intocable 2011.
Rubio has a nod for Record Of The Year for "Golpes En El Corazón" (with Los Tigres Del Norte).
Previously announced performers are Pepe Aguilar, Calle 13, Franco De Vita with Alejandra Guzmán, Paula Fernandes, Maná with Prince Royce, Pitbull with Marc Anthony, Romeo Santos with Usher (in their live television debut together), Shakira, Sie7e, and Marco Antonio Solís. Previously announced presenters are Angelique Boyer, Chiquinquira Delgado, Sandra Echeverría, Erik Estrada, Kermit the Frog, Adamari López, Silvia Navarro, Sebastián Rulli, Zoe Saldana, Blanca Soto, and David Zepeda. Cristián de la Fuente and Lucero will co-host the Latin music industry's 12th annual premier event.
The 12th Latin GRAMMY Awards will be supported on radio via Univision Radio (the official Spanish-language radio network of the Latin GRAMMY Awards), and highlighted on the Internet at www.latingrammy.com and www.univisionmusica.com, including video interviews and photos, an extensive archive of past shows, and dedicated forums for fans to share their excitement leading up to the live broadcast. Additionally, the telecast will be distributed internationally to more than 100 countries.
For the first time ever, LatinGRAMMY.com will feature Latin GRAMMYs en Vivo, which will feature live coverage of the 12th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards and interviews from various locations such as the green carpet, the Pre-Telecast Ceremony, backstage, and the media center beginning at 1:30 p.m. PT.
Preceding the Awards telecast, Univision will present exclusive "Noche De Estrellas" ("Night Of The Stars") coverage of the celebrity arrivals direct from the Latin GRAMMY Awards green carpet starting at 7 p.m. ET/PT (6 p.m. Central). Presented by "Nuestra Belleza Latina" host Giselle Blondet and "Sal Y Pimienta" host Lourdes Stephen, "Noche De Estrellas" will feature live interviews and commentary on the stars and their fashions, and will provide viewers with an intimate and up-close look at Latin music's most glamorous gala event.
A limited number of tickets to the 12th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards are available to the public and may be purchased through the Mandalay Bay Events Center box office or Ticketmaster.
For updates and breaking news, visit The Latin Recording Academy's social networks on Twitter and Facebook.


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West Texas Intermediate crude was little changed as data from China and Europe signaled a slowdown in global manufacturing and equities climbed for a third day.
Oil slipped 1 cent as China's preliminary manufacturing data for April showed expansion was less than in March. Euro- area output shrank for a 15th month. U.S. oil supplies probably rose to the most since 1990 last week, a Bloomberg survey showed before a government report tomorrow. Equities gained on better- than-expected corporate earnings and U.S. new-home sales. Crude briefly extended losses as stocks tumbled just after 1 p.m. in New York on a false report of a bombing at the White House.
"The Europe and China numbers are rather weak," said Tariq Zahir, a New York-based commodity fund manager at Tyche Capital Advisors. "The equities definitely helped oil today but I do think we will continue to go lower. We had that blip due to the false White House headline. It looked like there was some high-frequency trading going on."
West Texas Intermediate for June delivery settled at $89.18 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices have dropped 8.3 percent this month and 2.9 percent this year. The volume of all futures traded was 19 percent above the 100-day average for the time of day at 3:45 p.m.
Brent for June settlement fell 8 cents to end the session at $100.31 a barrel on the ICE Futures Europe exchange. The volume of all contracts traded was 4 percent above the 100-day average.
Chinese Manufacturing
"The manufacturing numbers were really what hurt the market," said Bill Baruch, a senior market strategist at commodities trading firm Iitrader.com in Chicago. "Some of the earlier pressure has been relieved."
The preliminary reading of 50.5 for a Purchasing Managers' Index in China released by HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics compared with a final 51.6 for March. The number was also below the median 51.5 estimate in a Bloomberg survey of 11 analysts.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. cut its 2013 Brent price forecast to $105 from $110 in a report today by analysts including Jeffrey Currie in New York. They highlighted the increased risk that Chinese demand growth will remain weak in the near-term.
The International Energy Agency and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries reduced their 2013 global oil- consumption estimates earlier this month.
"China gives more downside risk to these demand forecasts," said Jacob Correll, a Louisville, Kentucky-based analyst at Summit Energy Inc., which manages more than $20 billion in companies' annual energy spending.
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First, a little background. Before being acquired by VMware, Nicira developed the Stateless Transport Tunneling (STT) protocol for tunneling between open source software switches in the Openvswitch project.
VXLAN, which is now an IETF draft standard, was originally proposed by Cisco. Cisco sources say that the company then got VMware involved (although the IETF draft has a lot of names on it). The end result is VMware is telling everyone that it has this great VXLAN overlay network technology that removes any hypervisor dependency from physical network devices. Even better, it's configured and managed from vCenter.
The question is, which protocol will win?
Nicira and STT
Prior to acquisition, Nicira had a software controller for managing tunnels between virtual switches, and used OpenFlow-like commands to configure the vSwitch. STT is a tunneling protocol that connects the virtual switches, thus forming a virtual network.
STT performs this task well enough. It uses the TCP protocol for encapsulation. Supposedly, operating systems can use the TCP offload function of modern network adapters for better performance.
However, STT also has several limitations. One problem is that the limited entropy in the STT header means it doesn't balance loads evenly over Ethernet port bundles in network backbones. Depending on your network design, this could be a significant limitation.
Second, STT currently works only with the Openvswitch software switch on Linux hypervisors such as Xen or KVM. That's not necessarily a problem for cloud providers and very large organizations; for instance, eBay is using Nicira in its OpenStack deployment. However, VMware is more common in enterprise data centers. It's possible VMware could add STT to the ESXi vSwitch, and thus deliver a multicloud network overlay strategy, but the VXLAN protocol already has a lot of momentum.
VXLAN's Multicast Issues
VXLAN depends heavily on a multicast-enabled underlay network to handle broadcast/unicast/multicast Ethernet protocols. (I use the term "underlay network" to describe the physical devices that pass Ethernet frames and IP packets.) What's not well understood is that IP multicast is complex and risky to operate.
Each VXLAN-enabled device is known as a VXLAN Tunnel End Point (VTEP). When the VTEP is configured with VXLANs, it will be configured to join an IP multicast group. Joining the multicast tree is the method for VTEPs to discover the MAC of each host in the VXLAN in a self-configuring and autonomous method. Direct server-to-server data flows are transported through the VXLAN overlay in unicast packets.
IP multicast also provides an efficient way to broadcast Ethernet frames to all servers as is required--for example, for unknown MAC address flooding and IP ARP Requests.
VMware recommends a separate multicast group for each VXLAN; thus, 50 VXLANs would require 50 separate multicast trees in an attempt to control L2 Ethernet flooding problems. L2 loops remain a problem in VXLAN networks, but the failure domain is reduced to an individual VXLAN itself. The problem is that each of those multicast trees requires state to be held in the network layer, which consumes CPU, memory and TCAM space. TCAM size is a serious limitation on network diameter, and overloaded TCAM is serious network threat.
A lesser performance problem is the frame replication silicon in the switches. At its core, multicast is a method for duplicating Ethernet frames inside the hardware of your network. One multicast frame must be sent out of every Ethernet port that needs to receive it. On a data center core switch, this could mean replicating one received frame to 300 ports (thus, 1 Gbps of inbound multicast packets results in 300 Gbps output). Network switches require dedicated silicon to handle the duplication process. For example, this is an approximation of silicon pathways inside a single M1-series line card from a Nexus 7000 showing the replication engines on the blade:
There are a number of IP multicast routing protocols that maintain the multicast trees, including PIM-SM, PIM-DM, BiDir and ASM multicast. In general terms, PIM-SM will be the default choice because it's got the widest vendor support, but that isn't saying much. Most data center switches do not support multicast protocols today. This can make VXLAN hard to deploy in existing networks and usually requires new network hardware.
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Law and the Courts
August 31, 2018
ACE submitted this letter to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to serve as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
October 2, 2015
Comments on the Department of Education's August 18, 2015 draft Dear Colleague Letter to institutions of higher education regarding the handling of student medical records.
May 15, 2015
Letter to Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA), chair and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on the S. 590, the Campus Accountability and Safety Act (CASA), introduced by Sen. Claire...
September 17, 2014
Comments from ACE and a coalition of 10 higher education and library groups to the FCC in response to the agency's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on net neutrality.
September 5, 2014
Letter to Sens. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) the campus sexual assault bill introduced by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), the Campus Accountability and Safety Act (S. 2692).
July 21, 2014
Submitted to the Department of Education on in response to the notice of proposed rulemaking regarding proposed regulations to implement changes made to the Clery Act by the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act.
July 18, 2014
Comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission from ACE and 10 other organizations on the importance of protecting and promoting an open Internet.
July 9, 2014
A group of associations, including ACE, sent this letter to the leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade in support of the Targeting Rogue and Opaque Letters (TROL) Act of 2014.
June 25, 2014
Letter from ACE President Molly Corbett Broad to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions in advance of the June 26 hearing, "Sexual Assault on Campus: Working to Ensure Student Safety."
April 3, 2014
Sent as a followup to the March 14 meeting between the task force and the higher education community to discuss how best to ensure a safe, secure environment on campuses.


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A new day of financial analysis has arrived in the form of the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), a standard whose goal, according to XBRL.ORG, "is to provide an XML-based framework that the global business information supply chain will use to create, exchange, and analyze financial reporting information." The XBRL Project Committee, led by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), in July finalized the XBRL 1.0 specification, which defines XML tags for financial reporting. As companies begin to use XBRL for annual reports, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, and other data, XML-enabled applications will become investment-research power tools.
The first generation of XBRL tools is aimed at accountants, who will populate generic templates with data and publish them directly to the Web. From there, anyone can extract and analyze the data using XML-enabled spreadsheets and charting applications. Among the first such applications to market will be Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access upgrades.
XBRL consists of a core language of XML elements and attributes used in document instances as well as a language to define new elements and taxonomies of elements referred to in document instances. XBRL uses XML's Canonical Form to create hierarchical taxonomies for different accounting standards. Each hierarchy identifies the document instances and their attributes used for financial reporting. An XML schema defines these taxonomies' syntax. XBRL includes relatively few XML elements, but it has a rich set of attributes that are applicable to most elements.
Each instance document is a collection of XBRL and other custom user elements that represent accounting, financial, or other business-related information in accordance with the XBRL specification. An instance document is essentially useless without the associated taxonomy, which explains the information in the instance document. The taxonomy explains the meaning of those elements and how those elements relate to one another.
In XBRL, the most fundamental concept is the item. An item is a fact that you're reporting about a given company with a corresponding time period. For example, an item might convey that a company with a stock market ticker symbol of SAMP reported revenues of $7 million for the year 1998. An item doesn't have to be numeric.
A group is a set of related items that can appear in any order and be interspersed among other text and elements in any XML document. The XBRL instance documents transmit some set of financial facts. There is no constraint on how much or how little the set contains.
An equally important part of the XBRL framework is the element and its relationship to other elements within a taxonomy. In XBRL, the notion of a taxonomy element corresponds exactly to the notion of an element within an XML schema. Although any given item can refer to only one taxonomy within any given XML document, any number of XBRL items can refer to any number of taxonomies, and you can compose taxonomies together to extend other taxonomies.
In the ensuing "infobonanza," individual investors and financial professionals will have faster and easier access to financial reporting data. XBRL can help analysts discover companies that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. XBRL is more than a year old, but it's bound to keep evolving. Having codified the US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), the XBRL Steering Committee plans to address worldwide standards. Using a consistent set of international tags will simplify comparison of US and non-US companies, making XBRL a requirement for emerging markets hoping to attract US capital.
XBRL is a great case study in developing flexible XML documents. For more information, visit the XBRL.ORG Web site.


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Now we're ready to introduce goals and the operations that build them. Every goal will be an instance of this class:
A goal simply wraps up a block of code, and to pursue that goal in a particular state, the block is called with the state as an argument. So "goal" is really just a nice name for a , but having a dedicated
class gives us somewhere convenient to put methods for building different kinds of goal.
There are only four kinds of goal in the language we're building, and two of them are very basic.
The first kind, called
, is the only kind of goal that isn't made out of other goals. An
goal contains two values, and when it's pursued in a particular state, it tries to make its two values equal by unifying them in that state.
Here's an example. We'll make a new state that has some variables in it, and then use a
factory method to make a goal that says
is equal to
If we pursue that goal in our original empty state, we get back a stream of results:
(We're using an
to represent a stream here. An enumerator is just an object we can call
on and keep getting more values out.)
The first result in the stream is a state that says the value of
So the goal has succeeded in making
equal to
If we try to retrieve another result from the stream we get a
exception, because the goal only produced one state:
Here's how
is implemented:
To construct an
goal we have to provide the two values,
. When the goal is pursued in a particular state, it unifies
in that state and produces a stream of states — an enumerator — as its result.
The code inside the
block yields an output state if unification was successful, otherwise it does nothing, so the resulting stream either contains a single state or is empty.
Explicitly creating variables just to pass them to a goal is a bit inconvenient, which is why we have the other kind of basic goal, called
. The job of a
goal is to run an existing goal and automatically provide it with as many local variables as it needs.
For example, we can take an
goal that expects to use a variable called
, and wrap it up into a
goal so that the local variable
is automatically created when we need it:
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MONTGOMERY, AL (AP) - An Alabama legislator has proposed a measure that would make the right to bear arms a fundamental right in the Alabama Constitution.
That right is already in the U.S. Constitution as the Second Amendment. Republican Rep. Mike Jones of Andalusia told the Web site al.com his proposal would allow state voters to make it part of the state constitution. He said this would make it more difficult for state courts to restrict the right to gun ownership.
Jones said if approved his proposal would also add language to the Alabama Constitution barring international treaties or laws from interfering with the right to bear arms.
The proposed amendment will be considered by lawmakers during the 2013 session that begins Feb. 5.
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Angels We Have Heard on High
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Away in a Manger
Beautiful Savior
Break Forth, O Beauteous, Heavenly Light
Coventry Carol
Deck the Halls
First Nowell, The
Friendly Beasts, The
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Good Christian Men Rejoice (In Dulci Jubilo)
Good King Wenceslas
Hark, The Herald Angels
Holly and the Ivy, The
How Glad I am Each Christmas Eve
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
In Dulci Jubilo (See Good Christian Men Rejoice)
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I Saw Three Ships
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Jingle Bells
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
Joy to the World
Lo, How a Rose
Merry Christmas Time
O Christmas Tree (See O Tannenbaum)
O Come All Ye Faithful (See Adeste Fideles)
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
O Little Town of Bethlehem
O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)
Silent Night
Sing Sing Songs of Joy
Song for Christmas, A
Up on the Housetop
We Three Kings
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
What Child Is This?
While Shepherds Watched (Jungst-Tkach)
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Microsoft has stopped providing XP users with security updates, forcing them to either upgrade to another, newer operating system, or gamble with their safety. While the latest usage figures show that a large portion of users are moving away from XP, there's still a sizable number of users who aren't - or can't.
If you're an XP user, or know some XP users, there's a trick which makes it possible to receive security updates for the aging OS for another five years - right up until April 2019.
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This is a great site for kids with informational movies about science, anatomy, weather, and more.
Milk Matters (for kids)
This site, created by the National Institutes of Health, aims to increase awareness about the importance of calcium in the diets of tweens and teens. Eating and drinking calcium-rich foods is especially important to 11- to 15-year-olds because bones grow fast during those years.
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U.S. stocks swung between gains and losses, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 16,000 for the first time, after a Federal Reserve official said policy will remain accommodative as the economy improves.
Boeing Co. rose 1.8% after securing record plane orders on the first day of the Dubai Air Show. Tyson Foods Inc., the largest U.S. meat processor, advanced 1.5% after reporting revenue above analysts' estimates on a gain in prices and sales volumes for beef and chicken. Microsoft Corp. fell 1.4% after Bank of America Corp. cut its rating to underperform from neutral.
The S&P 500 slipped 0.1% to 1,796.19 as of 2:51 p.m. in New York. Earlier, it rose 0.2%. The Dow average added 39.79 points, or 0.3%, to 16,001.49. Trading in S&P 500 stocks was 7.5% below the 30-day average during this time of the day.
"As we keep going and making new highs, we get into new territory and the air keeps getting thinner and thinner up here," Tim Hartzell, who helps manage about $425 million as chief investment officer at Sequent Asset Management, said via phone from Houston. "Everybody is watching Yellen and feel comfortable that she'll continue QE, maybe even put more into the system."
New York Fed Bank President William C. Dudley said he's "getting more hopeful" the U.S. economy is gaining strength as the drag from fiscal policy wanes. The central bank's monetary policy is likely to be accommodative for a long time, he said today. U.S. stocks have risen for the past six weeks, reaching all-time highs as Janet Yellen signaled she will continue stimulus efforts as the central bank's chairman.
China Reforms
The policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee is buying $85 billion of bonds every month and won't taper its purchases until its March 18-19 meeting, according to the median estimate of 32 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News Nov. 8.
China's leaders vowed to allow more private investment in state-controlled industries and expand farmers' land rights as part of the ruling Communist Party's biggest package of economic reforms since the 1990s. Chinese stocks rose, with the benchmark index for mainland companies in Hong Kong surging the most since December 2011.
"To the extent that these reforms might lead to some higher estimates of growth in the coming years, that would be welcomed by investors," John Carey, a portfolio manager at Pioneer Investment Management, which oversees $20 billion.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, the gauge of S&P 500 options known as the VIX, rose 3.6% to 12.63. It has fallen 30% this year.
Boeing, Tyson
Six out of 10 main industries in the S&P 500 fell, with raw-materials producers retreating 0.3% to pace declines. Financials companies rallied 0.6% as a group for the biggest gain.
Boeing added 1.8% to $138.54. The company took an early lead over rival Airbus SAS in the biennial Dubai expo, signing up Etihad Airways PJSC for its new 777X wide-body planes as well as for more 787 Dreamliners.
Tyson climbed 1.5% to $29.21. The company said fiscal fourth-quarter sales rose 7% to $8.89 billion, beating the $8.87 billion average of 12 analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
Consol Energy Inc. fell 3.7% to $34.64 for the second-biggest decline in the S&P 500. The coal producer was cut to neutral from buy at Citigroup Inc. by analyst Brian Yu, who said in a note that the outlook for metallurgical coal looks worse than base metals. Peabody Energy Corp., the largest U.S. coal producer, lost 3.3% to $19.43.
Microsoft Downgraded
Microsoft declined 1.4% to $37.34. Bank of America analyst Kash Rangan cut the shares to underperform from neutral, citing the risk that the board will select a chief executive officer that disappoints investors.
Nvidia Corp. dropped 2.1% to $15.83. The shares were cut to underweight, or sell, from equalweight, or hold, at Morgan Stanley.
Cheap is converging with expensive in the American equity market, narrowing options for investors looking for bargains after the broadest rally on record lifted almost 90% of the S&P 500 this year. A measure of the dispersion of price- earnings ratios in the S&P 500 compiled by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. narrowed to 41% in June, the lowest on record, and held around that level since.
Investors this week will scrutinize minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee from its Oct. 29-20 meeting and public remarks by Fed officials. The minutes are set to be released on Nov. 20. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is due to speak tomorrow, while Fed Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard will deliver a speech on Nov. 20.
"This week is crucial, there is a lot of Fed speak," Quincy Krosby, a market strategist for Newark, New Jersey-based Prudential Financial Inc., which oversees more than $1 trillion, said by telephone. "Investors want to get a little bit more color and atmospherics from the minutes."
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Latin Name: Avena sativa, Avena fatua
Common Names: Milky Oats, Wild Oats, Catgrass
Taste: Sweet
Energetics: Neutral to Sl. Warm, Sl. Moist
Actions: Nervous and endocrine resorative, relaxant and stimulant nervine, antispasmodic
This vibrant green grain has slowly but surely become a very important (and lately, necessary) ally for me. Infinitely useful in our burned out, mentally overworked and emotionally underfed culture, I find myself dispensing this sweet herb on regular basis. Personally, this has been an important helper in restoring some of the diminished elasticity and "bounce backness" of both my physical and emotional wellbeing.
I should be clear that I am specifically speaking of the Oat tops, harvested in their milky stage (in other words, the unripe seed when full of a white milky fluid, before they become "oats") and preserved fresh, usually in alcohol. Oatstraw and dried Oat tops are lovely, but they're a different medicine (to be discussed here sometime in the near future).
This year I was able to harvest a bit of my own and also ordered some from the wonderful Zack Woods Herb Farm. And to top it off, Darcey often has a great abundance of Wild Oats in her Sonoran bioregion and has generously offered to harvest some for me next spring.
The plants are quite easy to grow if you can just keep the critters out of them, I lost about 3/4 of my crop this year to the beasties but still managed to get enough for some tea and tincture. In case you don't want to buy some huge amount (100 lbs or so) of seed, you can look for organic catgrass seed, which is just Oats. You can get it cheap and in small amounts this way. If you live in a very warm climate, the milky heads may be ready sometime near the beginning of May, but this year here in the mountains ours matured at the same time as Vermont's did, about a week ago. In general, they tend to be closer to the beginning of July, but we've had abnormally cool nights this year in New Mexico.
Milky Oats' most remarkable actions tend to be seen in exhaustion. It is a profound restorative for the nervous and endocrine systems which are so easily depleted by a stressful lifestyle and bad diet. It's no replacement for proper nutritional therapy but an excellent therapeutic agent for the process of healing. It seems to directly provide a special sort of "nerve food" for the body, to rebuild the nervous apparatus in a way that is both nutritional and yet more.
Avena is quite helpful helpful where there is mental and physical exhaustion along with inability to focus, heart palpitations, loss of libido, irritability and potential addiction issues. This isn't a random list of symptoms, it's a real pattern that's worth keeping in mind.
Ellingwood may have described it best in his overview of Avena:
Its selective influence is directly upon the brain and upon the nutritive functions of the organism, increasing nerve force and improving the nutrition of the entire system. The influence of a single full dose is promptly felt, similar to the influence of any active stimulant, but more permanent. It is a stimulant, sedative and direct nutritive tonic, apparently restoring the wasted elements of nerve force…
It is a remedy of great utility in loss of nerve power and in muscular feebleness from lack of nerve force.
In the overworked conditions of brain workers–ministers, physicians or lawyers—in the general prostration from great anxiety and worry…
With these, there is so-called nervous dyspepsia, atonicity, in fact, of the entire gastrointestinal tract. There is heart feebleness with some irregularity; there is cool skin and cool or cold extremities: there is melancholia, irritability, peevishness, vagaries of thought, morbid desires and fancies, usually accompanied with autotoxemia which demands persistent elimination. With these avena is directly indicated.
In sexual neurasthenia it is the remedy par excellence, as it has a selective influence upon the nerve structure of the genito-urinary apparatus…
In conjunction with cactus, or apocynum, as these remedies are indicated, it will be found of much service in the treatment of weak heart, and the resulting complications.
In addition, there is also often an underlying sense of depression, a deep dark hole that can be felt through the anxiety and exhaustion. A slow but steady lessening of interest in life, often due to the simle lack of energy needed to maintain such interest and activity, although sometimes complicated by a deep seated emotional sadness, feelings of loss and unresolved grief. Tucson herbalist Charlie Kane states that:
There is some difficulty in describing what Wild oats actually does; it is not an overt sedative, nor is the plant overtly stimulating, but this does not detract from the fact that if you are physically and emotionally "rode hard and put away wet" the plant imparts a sense of stability.
Depressive states arising out of pushing through workload on the job or at home are lifted. The edginess and frayed-end feeling of kicking nicotine, opiate or alcohol habits is also lessened. As Michael Moore succinctly puts it, "This is crispy critter medicine".
This is also a wonderful remedy for any case of great grief from loss. A teacher of mine, when faced with huge grief from the untimely loss of a loved one, found the only way he could stay afloat (and alive) was by juicing and drinking large amounts of fresh Milky Oats (he also found that Elderflower tincture helped a great deal). In addition, Henriette Kress says:
Milky oats is the single best herb for sudden loss, be it from the tsunamis in Asia or from cancer in somebody close to you. I recommend it both for those who are directly affected by the loss and sorrow and for those who stand beside them, frustrated by their sheer helplessness.
While Milky Oats is a classic overall nerve restorative and relaxant, it does have some very specific indications. Perhaps foremost is when someone's nerves are so deeply burnt out and hypersensitive that they can't stand to be touched. Even when they want a hug, the stimulation of intimate contact will make them feel like pulling their hair out. I have vividly experienced this myself and also observed several times in clients. Skullcap is also quite specific for sensory hypersensitivity but Milky Oats excels where the sense of touch is the most sensitive aspect. Skullcap and Milky Oats also combine exceptionally well for a great many cases of nervous exhaustion.
Ashwagandha and Milky Oats is another favorite combo of mine, especially for adrenal burnout with insomnia, nervousness, inability to focus, lack of libido and sensory hypersensitivity. They also combine nicely with Nettle Seeds when there's exhaustion to the point of chronic fatigue and ongoing lack of vital energy. 4And then there's the wonderful Peaches 'n Cream formula, a tasty combo of Peach twig and Milky Oats that is fabulous for overheated, red-faced, can't relax type A people who really need some nourishment and chill out time.
While material doses of a dropperful can be useful and certainly safe with such a gentle herb, I find that I often use closer to seven to ten drops at a time. It's best repeated quite often (a min. of three times per day) and used steadily over a period of at least several months. The only side effect I've ever noticed is the tendency to bring on mild hot flashes in some people, that effect seems to lessen of a period of taking the herb so it may just be a symptom of an initial increase in vital force. It could potentially be too moistening for some individuals, but where it is clearly indicated it is unlikely to cause any adverse effects.
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Herbal Medicine of the American Southwest
Medical Herbalism by David Hoffmann
The Earthwise Herbal by Matthew Wood
The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism by Matthew Wood
Notes from Materia Medica lectures by Matthew Becker (NAIMH)
Class notes from Charles Garcia
Henriette's Herbal
Hard Rock and Milky Oats by Angie Goodloe
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Hallo Kiva,
I just harvested a whole load of milky oats, wanting to use them for exactly the set of symptoms you describe – and then dried them, thinking I needed to take them as an infusion. Are they any good at all for these symptoms now? If not, do you know where can I get good milky oat tincture that can be shipped over to Norway?
Mmmm, perfect timing for me, Kiva. Thanks. 🙂
Kiva such a wonderful article. I am interested in your thoughts on making a tincture with fresh vs. dried Milky Oats.
Pamela: you should be able to buy milky oats tincture in any health food store – look for Bioforce's (or Vogel's) "Avena" tincture.
Thats what I was thinking as well, I have some arriving soon. The reference I have says tincture 1g fresh oats to 2ml of [75% alcohol and 25% water] is this what you would recommend as well or do you have other suggestions.
Thanks for your help, Jim
I have a question for you about nettle seeds, since you mentioned them in this post I hope you don't mind if I verge off of oats for a quick question about nettle seeds…
I have LOTS of healthy vibrant nettles on my property they have lots of seeds drooping abundantly off of them, but everytime I pick them and eat a couple I either burn my fingers or the inside of my mouth, which is no fun. Is there some basic thing here I'm missing, how are you able to just eat them fresh without getting burned?
ah, milky oats. You should've recommended folks get ahold of a black light so they can trip out on the glowing tincture…
Super nice tincture to use as a base for formulas… juts made myself a blend of milky oats, violet and lemon balm the other day.
Fresh nettle and milky oats tincture combined excels at helping people switch from chronic adrenal/sympathetic excess into metabolic/parasympathetic balance.
Milky Oats is the plant that should become the highly arketed herb fad – so broadly applicable, so unlikely to cause aggravations, even among a wide array of constitutions.
My husband is exactly the profile for milky oats but he is a recovering alcoholic. I have him drinking the dried oatstraw infusion every day but can't use a fresh alcohol tincture with him. do you know if a glycerite would be effective? Also, the juicing idea is great. here in northern cali oats grow wild all over our property and our friends properties and their friends properties…but its a short window where they are green. maybe freezing the juice? anyways, just mainly wondering about a glycerine tincture of milky oats.
Wow, such helpful information here Kiva! Thank you thank you thank you…
hmmm… a black candle?
When you say just the seed for the tincture, you mean no stalk at all right?
Any idea of roughly how many seeds I need to sow in order to get enough seed for say 500mls tincture? I've grown oatstraw before so have a sense of that, but I seem to remember there's not much seed to each stalk.
Also, do you think there is much difference between wild oat and the cultivated ones?
Thanks, that is helpful 🙂
I am learning about the milky oats.. and have made some tincture.. hoping it is the answer for my hubby how is suffering from nerve pain, ,, which in turn comes anxiety and then depression..
I am wondering what to do with the green oats that have dried rock hard.. what would I be able to use them for.. maybe the infusion.. or could I use them in a vinegar infusion.. I am lucky to have learned some of this wonder herb that is growing right in front of us.. everywhere.. I have gathered some but I fear not enough.. I like the idea of the tinctures.. there is so much to learn..
I wonder then if the oats were harvested at the wrong time,, It was earlier on in the summer when I harvested them.. it's all experimental for me this year.. I am learining by doing and researching as I go..
I do think I got the perfect oats my last time out for the tinctures.. they were really full and milky.. I made some vinegar as well.. I am hopeful it will make a difference for my Husband who is depleted .. and suffering.. with pain.. and depression .. I am in search for a answer for him.
I will let you know if you like of any success with this wonder herb.. thanks for your help.. I will use the dried and hard oats for infusions ..
Is anyone still monitoring this post? I grew some oats this season, harvested some a couple of weeks ago in the milky stage and dried them in the barn for tea. When I was looking things up today prior to processing them, I discovered that I could have made a tincture from the fresh milky oat tops. It sounds like, from the comments here, it's too late to make a tincture from the dried ones. Is that right? I originally grew and dried these for my mom for tea, but now am thinking that my father-in-law would also benefit. He, however, would be unlikely to brew and drink them as tea, so I thought of the tincture. So, if it's not too late and I can still make tincture from the dried tops, would someone let me know? Thanks!
Dear Kiva–
What a wonderful article. My sister and I have decided to start in on the Milky Oat Tops tincture. We both are also drinking raw apple cider vinegar (diluted) each day. Can you tell me, are the two compatible and should there be any specific amount of time between ingesting the two different things?
Thank you.
Oh, and one more question regarding tinctures. If I boil some water and remove it from the stove, then put the drops of tincture into the hot water and let the water cool, is it true that the alcohol will evaporate and the herbal concoction will be unharmed and still as effective?


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I'm just going over some excerpts from Ab Urbe Condita again and, as seems to be a pattern when it comes to Livy, there's a few that are causing trouble. Any advice on the following is, as always, appreciated:
Cum sui utrosque adhortarentur, deos patrios, patriam ac parentes, quidquid civium domi, quidquid in exercitu sit, illorum tunc arma, illorum intueri manus, feroces et suopte ingenio et pleni adhortantium vocibus, in medium inter duas acies procedunt
With each side urging their own that the native Gods, the fatherland and the parents, the citizens at home, whomever was in the army, were watching, thereupon the arms of those peoples, their band, advanced, both ferocious and with a spirit filled with voices of exhortation, into the gap between the two armies
Itaque ergo erecti suspensique in minime gratum spectaculum animos intendunt
And so, resolute and upright, they turn their spirits towards a might spectacle at least
Ad quorum casum cum conclamasset gaudio Albanus exercitus, Romanas legiones iam spes tota, nondum tamen cura deseruerat, exanimes vice unius quem tres Curiatii circumsteterant
While the Alban army cheered with delight at their fall, total hope had neverthless not yet deserted the Roman host, breathless with the plight of the one who the three Curatii had surrounded
I'm pretty certain I've got the essence correct here, but I'm not sure where "cura" fits. Perhaps "total hope and care"?
Iam aliquantum spatii ex eo loco ubi pugnatum est aufugerat, cum respiciens videt magnis intervallis sequentes, unum haud procul ab sese abesse
Now some distance from that place where he had fled, he was fought [?], when looking back he saw them following at a great distance, that one was not at all distant from himself
Alterum intactum ferro corpus et geminata victoria ferocem in certamen tertium dabat; alter, fessum vulnere, fessum cursu trahens corpus victusque fratrum ante se strage, victori obicitur hosti
The uninjured man gives the other a blow with the sword and victory doubled gives a third; the other, having been beaten and body weary with the wound, tired through running, dragging himself before the ruin of his brothers, casts himself before the victorious soldier
Male sustinenti arma gladium superne iugulo defigit
Barely supporting the weapons he plunged the sword into his throat from above
The notes state that "sustinenti" is a dative of reference, but they seem to have almost infinite tranlsation possibilities. Saying that though, I'm not sure my translation is amongst them.
Romani ovantes ac gratulantes Horatium accipiunt, eo maiore cum gaudio prope metum res fuerat
The rejoicing and cheering Romans receieve the Horatius, with praise all the greater as the battle was nearly [?]
I think I have the essence of what's implied here, but I can't for the life of me figure "metum". I know it's fear/dread/anxiety as a noun, but I don't see how that would fit here as a nom.
And last but not least, there's "super alium alius" which I can't decide whether to translate as "one after another" or "one over another".
Anyway, that's me finished with Livy for a while. I can't exactly say that it's been fun; indeed, my head invariably feels like it's been stuffed with cotton wool after a few hours wading through his words. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


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The Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs (OLCA) develops and conducts the legislative program of SSA, serves as the focal point for all legislative activity in SSA, analyzes legislative and regulatory initiatives and develops specific positions and amendments. The Office evaluates the effectiveness of programs administered by SSA in terms of legislative needs, and analyzes and develops recommendations on related income maintenance, social service and rehabilitation program proposals, particularly those which may involve coordination with SSA-administered programs, and on other methods of providing economic security. It provides advisory service to SSA officials on legislation of interest to SSA pending in Congress. It also provides legislative drafting to officials within the Executive Branch, congressional committees, individual Members of Congress and private organizations interested in Social Security legislation. It establishes and maintains a working relationship with all Members of Congress. It serves as SSA's information gathering and dissemination staff on congressional activities affecting SSA programs and handles certain claims and administrative matters that are particularly urgent or sensitive to Members of Congress.
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- The Immediate Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Legislation and Congressional Affairs (TBA)
- The Office of Legislative Development and Operations (TBJ)
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