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McBride Charles Ryan was established in 1988 by its principals Robert McBride and Debbie Ryan.
Initial projects were mainly private houses, however since this time the scale of projects has gradually increased along with the practice's exposure in leading architectural journals.
With awards across all major architectural categories, McBride Charles Ryan has demonstrated an uncanny versatility in providing excellent architecture in many different and varied fields.
MCR responds to local concerns and yet the experimental nature of the work and boldness of
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St. Stephen R.C. Church Parish's 150th anniversary Fall Festival and Farmers Market will take place Friday, Sept. 28, from 4 to 7 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 29, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, Sept. 30, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Pictured, event co-chairs Jo Klock, left, and Rose Marchetti prepare the baskets that will be raffled. In addition to a basket raffle, the event will include a chicken dinner on Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.; a bake sale, children's games (co-chaired by Eileen Klein), chicken chowder and other foods and drinks. The activities all take place in the St. Stephen School cafeteria, 2080 Baseline Road. (photo by Larry Austin)

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Most heritage sites in BC tell stories of determined people that carved out lives among a landscape of gigantic mountains, thick forests and the vast Pacific Ocean.
Ninety-one National Historic Sites, ten Provincial Historic Sites and three UNESCO World Heritage sites provide a wide range of experiences, many of them interactive and at well-maintained, restored locations.
In celebration of Canada's 150th birthday on July 1st, 2017, Parks Canada is offering free admission to national historic sites and national parks for the entire year!
Hop in a stagecoach and pan for gold at Barkerville Historic Town, or ride a clattering rail car at the Britannia Mine Museum. Learn about fur traders at Fort Langley National Historic Site and fishermen at the North Pacific Cannery. The Kettle Valley Rail Trail follows a historic route through tunnels and over trestles – cycle a section or hop on the 1912 Kettle Valley Steam Railway.
Other historic sites in BC are off the beaten path – perfect for adventurous types with vivid imaginations. Step in ancient dinosaur tracks at Tumbler Ridge, or hike to the Burgess Shale and uncover bizarre fossils in Yoho National Park. Wander through weathered wood cabins in ghost towns such as Sandon. Or, tread softly between massive Haida First Nations mortuary totem poles on the Queen Charlotte Islands.
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Vancouver Island: The historical legacy of resource industries – logging, fishing and forestry.
Northern British Columbia: Dinosaur tracks, totem poles, the Alaska Highway and the North Pacific Cannery.
Cariboo Chilcotin Coast: Gold rush history prevails: Barkerville, roadhouses and the Cariboo Wagon Road.
Kootenay Rockies: Fort Steele Heritage Town, ancient fossils at Burgess Shale, heritage buildings in Nelson and the SS Moyie.
Thompson Okanagan: Historic ranches, such as O'Keefe Ranch, the Kettle Valley Steam Train and the SS Sicamous.
Victoria: Nearly two dozen nationally recognized heritage buildings (including the Fairmont Empress and Parliament buildings) and Canada's oldest Chinatown.
Vancouver: Gastown, a huge Chinatown, and naturally historic Stanley Park.
The stately Fairmont Empress Hotel is a Victoria icon (and, rumour has it, is home to a few ghosts). Admire the regal architecture and indulge in the nearly century-old Empress tradition of afternoon tea, complete with freshly-baked scones.
The green-domed Parliament Buildings are within easy walking distance of the Empress. Built in the 1890s (and designed by a shrewd 25-year-old architect), the Parliament Buildings are home to BC's Legislative Assembly.
Vancouver's historic Chinatown is one of North America's largest, and Victoria's Chinatown is Canada's oldest. Pose for a photo at the ornate and colourful welcome gates, dig into plump, hot dim-sum, or browse shops in Fan Tan Alley, Canada's narrowest street.
In Vancouver, stroll along the cobblestone streets of historic Gastown. Named for "Gassy Jack" Deighton – a talkative saloon-owner – this the birthplace of Vancouver. Today, it has an eclectic mix of shops and restaurants, as well as the much-photographed steam clock.
The legacy of the nineteenth century gold rush lives on at well-maintained heritage sites such as Barkerville (near Quesnel) and Fort Steele (near Cranbrook). Period costumes, interactive displays and entire towns created from restored heritage buildings make these sites "must-sees."
Hundred-year old roadhouses in the Cariboo are great places to rest – just as they were over a century ago – and ghost towns such as Sandon or Quesnel Forks provide a less structured peek at old buildings left to decay.
For an authentic perspective on a miner's life, head underground. The Britannia Mine Museum near Squamish and Kimberley's Underground Mining Railway offer tours that travel right into dark, cool underground tunnels.
In the late 1800's, salmon canneries popped up along the coast. Two excellent examples of historic canneries remain: the North Pacific Cannery near Prince Rupert and the Gulf of Georgia Cannery in Richmond. While the backdrops are very different – deep green forests versus the bustling village of Steveston – both attract plenty of visitors interested in West Coast fishing history and strolling along boardwalks.
Fort St. James and Fort Langley are national historic sites that showcase the days when beaver fur hats were in fashion. These forts were outposts for the Hudson's Bay Company, and European goods were exchanged for furs, salmon and berries.
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CHICAGO (AP) — A federal bankruptcy judge in Chicago has given power wholesaler Edison Mission Energy the go-ahead to emerge from bankruptcy by selling most of its assets to NRG Energy Inc. for $2.6 billion.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jacqueline Cox signed off Tuesday on Santa Ana, Calif.-based Edison Mission's Chapter 11 plan agreed upon last month by the company, corporate parent Edison International and certain creditors.
Edison Mission will remain an Edison International subsidiary after the $2.64 billion asset sale, which includes several coal-fired power plants along with other wind and natural gas assets in Illinois. The affected electric plants are near Pekin, Joliet, Waukegan and Will County.
Edison Mission Energy and Chicago-based subsidiary Midwest Generation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December 2012, listing $5.13 billion in assets and $5.1 billion in debt.
Edison Mission blamed its financial troubles then on low power prices, high fuel costs and the need to retrofit coal-fired power plants to meet environmental regulations.
Princeton, N.J.-based NRG Energy said that with the purchase of Edison Mission's assets, NRG becomes the third-biggest U.S.-based generator of renewable energy. NRG said it will have some 53,600 megawatts of total generating capacity.
NRG said the deal is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter, after being approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.


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UK-based provider of IT solutions enhances network monitoring for customers, increasing per-server processing capability by 6x
The Challenge
London-based Modrus Limited provides hosting, cloud, and virtual IT solutions for its customers. Founded in 2004, Modrus is an experienced supplier of outsourced computing and telephony solutions, as well as an industry-respected retailer of networking and VoIP equipment.
Modrus uses Zenoss Network Management software to spot network issues before they ever become problems for its customers. But as its customer base and corresponding network load grew, its hosted Zenoss system servers began to slow.
Modrus's Managing Director, Edward Armitage described the difficulty: "Zenoss generates a significant amount of disk I/O. Our systems were running close to 100% capacity, so any small performance issue would massively impact the monitoring system."
To ensure slowness never affected the company's quality of service, Mr. Armitage promptly began looking for a solution that could deliver the following:
The Solution
A Cut Above: Providing Enterprise-Level Reliability
After researching options, Mr. Armitage determined Fusion ioMemoryTM solutions had a proven track record for reliability: "We identified Fusion ioMemory use cases through Internet forums that equaled or exceeded our performance requirements, and which had been running for many years."
Making Performance Problems and Server Footprint Disappear
The data load on the system had exceeded the capability of Modrus's previous servers. Mr. Armitage was concerned about how to handle future growth while maintaining the best-in-class monitoring service they provided to their customers.
Maximizing Performance per Server
With those goals in mind, Mr. Armitage added a Fusion ioMemoryTM ioDrive Duo® 640GB card to one of its Zenoss servers and moved the Round Robin Database (RRD) data onto it. He found that the performance problems disappeared. Mr. Armitage said, "We processed a total of 11,400 data points per minute across three servers in the old system. With an ioDrive Duo card, we can process 24,600 data points on just one server. This tells me that one server is processing six times the data of the old configuration."
The chart below shows the server performance improvements.
Edward Armitage, Managing Director, Modrus Limited
Driving Costs Down Now and In the Future
The three-to-one footprint consolidation the ioDrive Duo cards enabled had a significant impact on Modrus's current hardware costs. "SanDisk has really reduced our costs. We've managed to decommission some hardware and simplify our monitoring platform," Mr. Armitage explained.
He also pointed out that these cost savings would continue well into the future: "The SanDisk-powered server is only running at 25% capacity. Not only are we now delivering a better quality of service to our customers, but our workload can increase significantly before we need to add more hardware."
The chart below shows the performance density improvements:
Less Administration, More Value-added Work
Modrus realized an additional cost benefit by implementing Fusion ioMemory solutions: the simpler, more powerful system was much easier to maintain.
Mr. Armitage said, "We spent a great deal of time coaxing the old system along. We were spending an average of an hour a day, ensuring that the system didn't lose data. The new infrastructure is significantly better. Our guys now spend less than an hour a week monitoring the system."
This freed staff to spend time on more value-added activities. Mr. Armitage added, "In essence, the engineer has moved from a daily tactical role to a more strategic role, where he has the time to look for ways we can improve our infrastructure monitoring."
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Database Servers
Implementing Fusion ioMemory solutions gave Modrus the following benefits:
Mr. Armitage concludes, "We're now considering using the ioDrive Duo cards elsewhere because it's a guaranteed fix. You know you can get a performance improvement with an ioDrive Duo card."
About Modrus
Modrus, founded in 2004, is an experienced supplier of outsourced computing and telephony solutions, as well as an industry respected retailer of networking and VoIP equipment. The business employs 40 staff, of which 35 are members of the customer facing sales and technical support team. Modrus has a deep understanding of enterprise networking, collectively having had many years of experience architecting, managing and supporting complex network environments.
The performance results discussed herein are based on internal Modrus testing and use of Fusion ioMemory products. Results and performance may vary according to configurations and systems, including drive capacity, system architecture and applications.
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It's summer. Schools are out; folks are heading out to vacation; it's time to sit back and take it easy. At least that's what I thought until I showed up at this year's TechEd in Orlando, Florida. There, I found out that the rumors are true: SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 1 has been released! Just last month in my commentary, "Microsoft's First-ever BI Conference Was a Success" (InstantDoc ID 96334), I rambled on about how SQL Server "Katmai" was to be released in 2008, and now Microsoft has gone on record branding it "SQL Server 2008" (SQL2008--looks weird doesn't it?) and even handing out CTP DVDs at TechEd.
Being the resident business intelligence guy, my personal favorites in the June CTP are the Change Data Capture (CDC), star join query optimizations, MERGESQL statement, and enhanced dimension design in Analysis Services. CDC will let applications (e.g., extraction, transformation, and loading) access records of database changes, which should improve performance and reduce application complexity. Star join query optimizations will reduce query response time by recognizing data warehouse join patterns. MERGESQL is a new T-SQL statement, which can insert information and update information with a single statement. The enhanced dimension design UI in Analysis Services will help developers use best practices when creating and editing dimensions.
Microsoft is trying to centralize public involvement in the CTP cycle by using the Microsoft Connect infrastructure (http://connect.microsoft.com) Microsoft Connect is a centralized, standardized Microsoft Web site that connects the software development process with interested developers in the partner and customer communities. The Web site replaces the past BetaPlace site and prevents each software product from having its own beta program site. As a registered Connect participant, last Friday I received an informative email, "SQL Server Connect Newsletter #1," which covers the CTP release and upcoming related events. You can check out the newsletter at http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/content/content.aspx?ContentID=5634. Of notable interest is a series of six Web seminars that explains different aspects of SQL2008 and a pretty good technical white paper, "SQL2008 Product Overview," that highlights what's new in SQL2008.
If you're starting to get your feet wet with this early build, make sure to read SQL Server MVP Andy Leonard's blog. In one entry, Andy guides readers in great detail how to do a "SQL Server 2008 June CTP Risk-Averse Installation".
So right when I thought things were going to slow down for the summer, I've fallen behind again. Now I'm hard at work building a new Virtual PC to figure out what's working, what isn't, and what's of notable interest to me in the June CTP.


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'The Bachelor' couple sets televised wedding date
October 14, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Mark your calendars: Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici of ABC's "The Bachelor" are getting married.
Their wedding ceremony will air live on ABC on Jan. 26. "The Bachelor: Sean and Catherine's Wedding" will be hosted by Chris Harrison.
Lowe was named the franchise's 17th bachelor after he was rejected by Emily Maynard on "The Bachelorette."
Other couples to marry from "The Bachelor" or "The Bachelorette" include Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter, Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney, and Ashley Hebert and J.P. Rosenbaum.
"The Bachelor" returns in January with Juan Pablo Galavis looking to find his match from 25 eligible women.


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"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." Psalm 9:17
Suggested Further Reading: Ezekiel 8:5-18
How often do you forget his presence too! In the midst of a crowd, you are conscious every one of you of the presence of man, but perhaps this very moment you are ignoring the fact that God is here. In your shop on the morrow how carefully you will take heed that your conduct is circumspect if the eye of your fellow-man is observing you. But before the presence of God, with the Eternal eye upon you, you can presume to practice the paltry tricks of trade or to do that which you would not have revealed to mortals for all the world; careful to shut the door, and draw the curtain, and hide yourselves in secret from men; strangely forgetting that when the curtain is drawn and the door is shut, God is there still. No walls can shut him out; no darkness can conceal the deed from his eye; he is everywhere and sees us in all things. Why, my hearers, we are all guilty in this respect in a measure; we forget the actual presence and the overlooking eye of God. We talk as we dare not talk if we were thinking that he heard us. We act as we would not act if we were conscious that God was there. We indulge in thoughts which we should cast out if we could but bear in perpetual remembrance the abiding presence of God, the Judge of the whole earth. Forgetting God is so common a sin, that the believer himself needs to repent of it, and ask to have it forgiven, while the unbeliever may solemnly confess this to be his crying sin, a piece of guilt to which he dare not profess innocence.
For meditation: The Christian should make a positive effort to do everything to the satisfaction of his unseen but seeing Lord (Ephesians 6:5-7). This was the principle that Joseph adopted (Genesis 39:9).
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Welcome to our e-commerce web site. Stokes Seeds is a distributor of flower, vegetable, and herb seeds as well as many garden accessories to customers throughout North America. What makes Stokes Seeds unique is our focus on quality garden seed and extensive growing information. Unlike most other seed companies we sell to both home gardeners and commercial growers. This gives us the advantage that no order is too small or too big.
We sell to commercial growers in amounts as little as $5.00 and as much as $100,000. At the same time home gardeners get the same seed and pricing that is made available to commercial growers. Yes, we have only one high quality standard for flower, vegetable and garden seed sold to professionals and hobbyist.


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I am used to needing to replace insects on display. There are several factors that have an effect on their longevity and for the most part they do very well, but insects only live so long. I get so preoccupied with them that I forget about the more long-lived species such as the arachnids – like tarantulas and scorpions.
I recently realized that I have had the same 3 tarantulas on display for about 3 years. Female tarantulas can live upwards of 30 years if properly cared for. And as long as they are alive, I keep them on display. I started thinking, duh, why don't I get some new tarantulas so people will have something different to look at? This is not to say that the ones on display aren't gorgeous! I curently have a Mexican red-knee, an Indian ornamental and a Goliath birdeater. All three are strikingly beautiful animals! The birdeater will stay because it is the largest spider and people are definitely curious about that. The other two can retire, for now, to the peace and tranquility of the containment room.
So, I have got to go shopping! Ordering tarantulas is so much fun because there are so many to choose from. They come in an unbelievable array of colors; it can be so hard to choose! I wanted to pick those that are better suited for display and not for handling. We do handle tarantulas for our outreach program, Bugs on Wheels, but for that we have Rosie, a 17 year old Chilean rose hair that is such a doll and quite possibly the sweetest, most patient tarantula that ever lived!
Once I perused what was available, I picked the only two that I could get as adults and one spiderling that I can raise. It should be an adult in about a year. Getting a box of live bugs in the mail is like Christmas, it's so exciting! When I saw these tarantulas for the first time I was overjoyed, they look even better in person. They are very shy, which is why they are not appropriate for handling. They will live in the containment room until I have a chance to put them on display for everyone to see. Let's meet them!
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First, let's meet the Antilles pinktoe (Avicularia versicolor). Spiders in the genus Aviculariaare very common in the pet trade. They are native to the rainforests of South America and a few Caribbean islands. These tarantulas are pretty docile but can move very quickly! They actually have a habit of shooting excrement, also called guano, at their pursuers and they can actually be quite accurate. They are all characterized by pink tarsi, giving rise to the name pinktoe. The Antilles pinktoe is native to Martinique and Guadeloupe. They are tree-dwelling and spend their time in funnel shaped webs made in palm fronds or bromeliads. They are absolutely beautiful with a green carapace or head, a red abdomen and green legs, all covered with reddish pink hairs. They are very hairy! I took pictures of my new friends, unfortunately, they don't really do them justice. She is a sub-adult, so she needs to shed one more time to be fully grown. She will look great on display.
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The other large female I purchased is called a Brazilian red and white or Nhandu chromatus, formerly, Lasiodora cristata. This spider is swiftly gaining in popularity. They are very large and sometimes called a white-striped birdeater. They have a grayish white head, white and black striped legs and a bright red abdomen. These are terrestrial tarantulas from Brazil. This species is nervous around people and will bolt if they feel frightened. I briefly held her the other day and she did quite well. I hope to have her feeling at home on display very soon!
The 3rd tarantula I purchased is one of the most popular species of spider and definitely one of the most beautiful. It's called a Greenbottle Blue Tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens). Wow, that's a mouthful! The only ones available were spiderlings about .5-.75 inches long (very tiny). We used to have one of these spiders and they are really magnificent so I thought I'd try raising one. I only hope that it's a female. They are very hard to sex at this size, but I will find out when it gets a bit larger.
The only drawback to having a male is that it would only live for a couple of years compared to the long-lived female. When I opened up the box, I thought I had gotten the wrong thing. It looks completely different from the adult! I knew it would, but I was not expecting it to look so drastically different. When full grown, this spider will have metallic blue legs, a bluish green head and a bright red abdomen They are very striking. They are native to the desert areas of Venezuela. They live in burrows lined with silk to protect them from the harsh climate. They tend to be skittish and run very fast when disturbed. Maybe since this one is so young, I can get it more acclimated to being handled. I can't wait to see how beautiful it will become!
|Greenbottle Blue Tarantula
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I think these tarantulas will have long and happy lives here, especially since I spoil everything in my care, but in a good way! I hope they will be around several years from now when I'll be training a new entomologist to care of them. In the mean time I hope you'll stop by to take a look at them in the Entomology Hall. Hopefully, even if you think you're arachnophobic, you can gather up the courage to take a close look and see how colorful and beautiful a spider can be! Happy bug watching!


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In connection with William Buckley's historic divestiture of the ownership of National Review yesterday, NRO has posted the rousing Publisher's Statement that Buckley contributed to the magazine's debut issue in 1955. It's the conservative version of the shot heard 'round the world — what a brilliant and audacious statement of purpose:
We have nothing to offer but the best that is in us. That, a thousand Liberals who read this sentiment will say with relief, is clearly not enough! It isn't enough. But it is at this point that we steal the march. For we offer, besides ourselves, a position that has not grown old under the weight of a gigantic, parasitic bureaucracy, a position untempered by the doctoral dissertations of a generation of Ph.D's in social architecture, unattenuated by a thousand vulgar promises to a thousand different pressure groups, uncorroded by a cynical contempt for human freedom. And that, ladies and gentlemen, leaves us just about the hottest thing in town.


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So did you guys hear that Games Workshop is suing anyone who uses the term "Space Marines" without their permission? I'm sad we missed out on this action; BrikWars never had any Space Marines.
In the grimdark future of military litigation, there is only the corporation of Grimes Worstschlock. While nobler empires focused their efforts on the glory of battle, GW sent out its lawyer legions in secret, to snap up trademarks for words like "war," "battle," and "military," winning court decisions to prove that those concepts had never been used by anyone else in history and were the sole property of GW. All military forces were forced to cease and desist while tied up in court drama and red tape.
Except for one force too moronic to be litigated against: the Space Maroons. Space Maroons are too stupid to ever have any chance of learning to read or to understand the claims of enemy lawyers.
And the stupidest of these are the legendary Ultramaroons, claimed to be splattered from the unwiped turd of Slugtard Haltendimmyr himself, the SlackTron god of stupidity.


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Once again, here is our monthly look at a few of the noteworthy people who we lost during the month of February:
Dorothy Edith Gilman ( June 25, 1923 – Feb. 2, 2012) was an American author of mystery and spy fiction. She was best known for the Mrs. Pollifax series of spy novels about grandmother Emily Pollifax, who becomes a spy in her 60s.
Jill Kinmont Boothe (Feb. 16, 1936 – Feb. 9, 2012) was a former alpine ski racer who competed in the mid-1950s. In early 1955, she was the reigning national champion in the slalom, and a top prospect for a medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics. While competing in the downhill at the Snow Cup in Alta, Utah, on Jan. 30, 1955 — the same week she was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated — she suffered a near-fatal accident which resulted in paralysis from the neck down. Kinmont was the subject of two movies: The Other Side of the Mountain in 1975, and The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 in 1978.
Jan Berenstain (née Grant; July 26, 1923 – Feb. 24, 2012) was an American writer and illustrator best known for creating the children's book series the Berenstain Bears with her husband, Stan. Jan and Stan met on their first day of class at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art in 1941 and married five years later, on April 13, 1946.
So the members of the North Boulder Alliance would rather buy the proposed housing site for chronically homeless than have those undesirables move into the neighborhood?
Nice. Boulder Housing Partners wants to build a 31-apartment complex near the homeless shelter, at 1175 Lee Hill Dr. But the neighbors have complained that it would concentrate the homeless population even more into their area.
How about use that money to help people become un-homeless? If the property was bought for more than $800,000 almost two years ago, how much are the North Boulderites willing to pay to make the project go away? A cool million?
That would buy a lot of blankets, soup and job training programs.
Some satisfied reader threw a large rock through our glass front door in the middle of the night last week.
Actually, we have a short suspect list of loonies that we've identified, but if you saw something at our building the night of Feb. 23, call us.
A real class act, eh? But our dutiful Daily Camera delivery person went ahead and tossed the newspaper through the gaping hole, and didn't bother reporting the crime.
Hey, when you work for the MediaNews Group monopoly, you just keep your head down and do your job, you don't ask questions. Otherwise you might get outsourced.
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If you've been asking, "Where can I get the most delicious balsamic vinegar on the planet, and find well-designed kitchen gizmos and stunning dinnerware from Finland?" I know the answer: bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy in Rhinebeck. (And yes, that's how the name is styled, to the bewilderment of copy editors across the region.)
Sean Nutley and Gregory Triana opened bluecashew a few years back in the little hamlet of High Falls, then moved last Christmas into bigger and better quarters in Rhinebeck, where the stream of likely customers runs a little more steadily.
The Balsamico Suite vinegar mentioned above is from the Bartolini family. It's aged for 12 years, and is so intense and syrupy, you can taste hints of chocolate. It's wonderful on salads, of course, but best drizzled over pears or other fruit, or a good cheese, so that you can discern its sweet tartness. Nutley says they've been telling customers to pour it over ice cream or panna cotta. "Panna cotta is ridiculously easy to make," he adds, in case you thought otherwise. At $30 for 8.5 fluid ounces, it's a bit of a splurge, but worth every penny. Other specialty foods in the store include white truffle oil, basil and pepper oils, coffees and teas. The Cucina cleaning supplies are so eco-friendly, they're almost edible, too.
Liven your table with bluecashew's many dinnerware collections, like these Taiki plates and mugs
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All very good points. But I'm still trying to figure out how Jesus, as god, sits at the right hand of himself.
There is no time in heaven, and it's in another dimension. Or something.
Well, in Revelation, when the New Jerusalem is revealed, we are told that it has no need for light as god provides all the light by his presence in the city. So there isn't going to be day and night - there will just be day. Now since people in heaven don't have bodies of matter, like we do, they are not going to need sleep. Similarly, as the Psalmist put it, "he that keepeth Israel neither slumbers or sleeps" referring to god. So, no need to worry about time up there as there won't be days and nights, there won't be any sleeping (shame really, as a good night's is my idea of heaven!) and, maybe, this 'sitting on the right hand of god' is more metaphorical, meaning juts to being joint ruler with himself. So, Jesus can work all the time that he sends meeting and greeting. It will be such a nice party! As for the other religions and us atheists - well we are all destined for the 'other place', probably with wailing and gnashing of teeth. Unless......Maybe Christianity od wrong and the religion really ought to be Islam. Then, no doubt what with the vast numbers of virgins queueing up near the gate of heaven to greet and martyrs and all the rejoicing going on - probably a pig roast too - there will be too much noise to hear the Christians, other religions and atheists being tortured with boiling water in the other place. .... unless.....Perhaps Hinduism is the true religion....... (repeat with your choice of religions) Of course, it is all bunkum! When we die, its all over and we won't even know we died.


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Tech News: iPad to Benefit Most From Estimated $2.1 Trillion in IT Spending This Year
Plus, iWatch is likely coming in 2014, Microsoft's smartwatch is making moves, and Spotify offers a response to a muscian backlash.
$2.06 Trillion Will Be Spent on IT in 2013; the US, Apps, and iPad Are Winners
In its annual report on global IT spending, Forrester Research projects that enterprises and government will spend $2.06 trillion on software, hardware, and IT services. According to the report, a full $819 billion of that total figure, the majority by far, will be spent by the United States, representing 5.9% growth over IT expenditure in 2012. The next biggest expenditure is expected from Asia Pacific at $492 billion.
Leading Forrester's figures is software expenditure, at $542 billion, with the majority of it being on applications ($234.6 billion). Tablets lead the hardware category, with expenditure expected to increase by 36% to $21 billion. Specifically, the iPad will capitalize most on that growth. As Forrester analyst Andrew Bartels wrote in the report, Samsung (OTCMKTS:SSNLF) Galaxy and Mircrosoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Surface tablets are "helping to expand the tablet market, without putting much of a dent in the growth of the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad so far."
It is worth noting that the estimates don't include consumer spending, and that Gartner put out its own report a few weeks ago, estimating global expenditure of $3.7 trillion on IT. Explaining the lower Forrester figure, Bartels wrote, "The continued recession in Europe and slowing growth in China will offset improvement in the US, Japan, and some emerging markets."
Apple's iWatch Likely to Debut in 2014; Company Still Hiring for Project
The Financial Times has reported that Apple is working to overcome some pressing engineering challenges involving its much-rumored and much-discussed iWatch, and is still hiring employees to work on the project. As the report read, "The company has begun hiring 'aggressively' for the project in recent weeks, say people familiar with Apple's plans for the wearable device."
It is not unusual for Apple to bring in outside talent to work on the development of new devices: it did so for iTunes, the iPhone, and even the original iPod. This has often happened through the acquisition of small companies, such as FingerWorks, which helped develop the iPhone's touch screen, but the hiring of individuals is also common. The most recent high-profile hiring was of Paul Deneve, the former CEO of Yves Saint Laurent, who is likely helping the company develop the iWatch and its marketing plan.
According to the Financial Times story, we will likely see an iWatch in fall 2014.
And Now, a Microsoft "Translucent Aluminum" Smartwatch
According to The Verge, testing of a smartwatch prototype at Microsoft has moved over to the company's Surface team, which now includes both Xbox and Surface tablets after the company's recent reorganization. Previously, a smartwatch designed by the Xbox accessories team was being tested in prototype form.
This news follows earlier reports that Microsoft has recently begun requesting 1.5-inch displays from components manufacturers, that the smartwatch prototype has a variety of removable colored bands that will be central to the device's marketing, and that the prototypes are made with Oxynitride Aluminum, an expensive and translucent derivative of aluminum that is rumored to be three times harder than glass.
Apple Investigating Electrocution Death of Chinese Woman
Last Thursday in China's western Xinjiang region, a 23-year-old Chinese woman named Ma Ailun was killed by electrocution when she answered her Apple iPhone 5 while it was charging, according to the the official Xinhua news agency.
Said Apple in an email, "We are deeply saddened to learn of this tragic incident and offer our condolences to the Ma family. We will fully investigate and cooperate with authorities in this matter."
Since Thursday, China's microblogging website Weibo.com (NASDAQ:SINA) has been buzzing with warnings about using iPhones while they are charging.
As Hong Kong University of Science and Technology professor Johnny Sin Kon-on told the South China Morning Post, "There is a risk using an electrical device while its installed battery is being charged, be it a shaver or a phone."
Spotify Defending Its Streaming Service Against New Backlash
In protest of what they see as poor returns to artists, particularly those with smaller followings, several musicians have pulled albums from Spotify. Notably, Thom Yorke, the lead singer of Radiohead, has pulled down side projects, including his solo album The Eraser and his newer band Atoms for Peace's album Amok. (Flea, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, is the bassist for the band.) Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich, the long-time producer of Radiohead's and Yorke's side projects, have both tweeted against what they believe are abusive payment policies at Spotify.
Responding to this public showing, Spotify has made its own public statement, drawing attention to the fact that the company has already "paid $500 million to rights holders so far and by the end of 2013 this number will reach $1 billion." Moreover, the company stated that it is "100% committed to making Spotify the most artist-friendly music service possible, and are constantly talking to artists and managers about how Spotify can help build their careers."
Spotify has 24 million active users, and it is estimated that 6 million of them pay the subscription fees for Spotify premium, which plays without commercials. This news comes after several major bands, including Metallica, Pink Floyd, and The Eagles recently signed deals with Spotify. Of course, Yorke and Godrich are more concerned about the smaller artists than the heavyweights.
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Pablito wrote:I haven't been out yet, but it seems like that last round of storms probably took care of coverage at the higher elevations. That's where they're going to have to go anyway, cuz there isn't going to be any wind lower down this weekend.
Forecasts are for 6-12 MPH. If it's deep snow, I don't think that that's enough wind. If it's crusty or hardpack, probably. Any perspectives? Last week when I was at Skyline, most of the guys were on 14s in similar wind.
A 14M LEI is pretty big to haul up to Red Lake Ridge.
I was out skiing on Red Lake Peak and also near Roundtop last weekend, and the snow situation above 9k feet is pretty crappy. Basically all the exposed slopes and ridgelines were pretty thin coverage, with lots of ice and icy vegetation sticking through. Got some great powder skiing in the trees on east facing slopes, but nowhere I'd want to fly a kite. I was trying for my first snowkite run, but there was insufficient wind...


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Carly Rae Jepsen Covers 'Cosmo' January 2013
Carly Rae Jepsen plays it up with patterns on the January 2013 cover of Cosmopolitan mag.
The 27-year-old Canadian sensation chats with the glossy about Justin Bieber, keeping it playful on stage and songwriting. Check it:
On the push Justin Bieber gave her career: "I never get tired of being asked about him. I'm forever indebted to him for the lovely boost that he's given me."
On people who say she dresses too young: "I love being classy and as elegant as possible in my apartment. But when I'm onstage, I can't dance in 4 � -inch heels, so I'll generally sport flats. I'm 5 feet 2, so yeah, I'm going to look a little bit more playful. But I don't think that means I'm trying for an age younger than I am."
On seeing her songs come to life: "For me, the goal of music has never been 'I need to be the biggest superstar in the world.' It was 'I want to spend my life doing this, and I want to make a career that I can live off of so I don't have to tend bar and waitress to make this fly.' I don't want to be Cinderella for a night. I want to be Cinderella for life."
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Bellator 127 Results and GIFs: Straus Buries Wilcox, Gonzalez Decimates Parisyan
Bellator 127 was arguably the weakest card on paper of the season so far. Still, it had some decent fights on it and some good action. For a free fight card, it was certainly worth the watch.
Of note on the prelims, Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou defeated an overmatched jobber in Malik Merad. Here's a GIF of the finish (this GIF and others in the post via Zombie Prophet/Fansided):Read More DIGG THIS


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Just some info on the Jacket. It was made by a leatherman in Konduz Afghanistan. It cost me $150 for him to make. Its pockets were specifically designed to carry my camera, lenses, accesories, computer personal items etc etc. Since its a jacket, I have flown all over the place and never once have I been stopped and told I cant board the plane with it. Weight when full close to 50lbs. Countries flown in and out of USA, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Dubai, Afghanistan, FIJI, Guam, and many stops in between.
Terry is a pretty burly guy, and with the vest on - use your imagination. He says that he can actually walk down a plane aisle with it, but that he has to scoot sideways.
What do you guys think? I think it's pretty cool and definitely a way to "stick it to the man" when flying.


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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investor Warren Buffett says most stocks are trading at reasonable prices even though the market has soared this year.
Buffett said on CNBC Wednesday that thinks stocks are generally selling in a reasonable price range.
Even though stocks prices are up, Buffett says that doesn't automatically mean they are overpriced.
Buffett is chairman and chief executive of the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate. He is known for his ability to identify stocks and businesses selling for less than they are worth.
Buffett was in New York City on Wednesday to dine with the winners of last year's charity auction of a lunch with the Omaha, Nebraska, billionaire. The anonymous winner paid $1,000,100 last year for the lunch.


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Agriculture and Health Policies in Conflict: How Subsidies Tax our Health: Agricultural Policies Versus Health Policies
Agricultural Policies Versus Health Policies
One way to evaluate how agricultural support programs affect consumption and thus health is to evaluate their impact on price and food availability. However, the relationship between federal subsidies and retail prices of commodity products is complex, in part because other factors, such as the growth of the biofuels industry, which has increased the market price for feed grains like corn and soy.41,42,43 Nonetheless, there is little question that abundant, low-cost commodity inputs distort the market for unsubsidized products and give unhealthful foods—animal products, refined fats, and corn-based sweeteners—a competitive advantage.
Producers who might grow fruits and vegetables have a strong disincentive to do so, even though market prices for these crops may be higher, because government support for commodities compensates for low prices and also ensures against risks of production. In the current market of higher-priced feed grains, producers have an even greater incentive to select corn over broccoli. Moreover, federal support for the dairy and livestock industries has led to overproduction, leading to the placement of excess cheese, cheap meat, and other products in school meal programs.
Federal Supports Contradict Federal Nutrition Recommendations
Although the Dietary Guidelines for Americans call for reducing intake of saturated fat and cholesterol, federal subsidies favor the production of meat and dairy products that are the principal sources of these hazardous components. Much of the corn and soybeans grown in the United States, which together received more than $96 billion in subsidies over the last 15 years,44 is used for animal feed, as well as to produce processed sugars (particularly high fructose corn syrup) and fats (for example, soybean oil, which is a coproduct of feed production and makes up 69 percent of Americans' fats and oils intake45), and ethanol.
In January 2011, USDA introduced a new version of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. These guidelines called for increased intake of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and a decrease in saturated fats, cholesterol, and solid fats. The top sources of saturated and solid fats in the American diet are dairy products, and the only sources of cholesterol are animal products (meat, dairy products, and eggs). Nonetheless, a review of the more than $246 billion in subsidies provided to U.S. producers between 1996 and 2009 demonstrates that the foods supported by government subsidy programs starkly contrast with those recommended for health.
Approximately 63 percent of domestic food subsidies supported crops grown for feed or livestock directly, about 20 percent supported grains for human consumption (including those processed into refined grains and other food products), and approximately 15 percent went to crops that would become sugar or sweeteners, starch, oil, and alcohol for human consumption.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend limiting intake of cholesterol and saturated fat. However, the food products that deliver these undesirables receive the vast majority of subsidy dollars (See Figure 3.) Fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes for human consumption receive only about 2 percent of all subsidies, although these foods, along with whole grains, should constitute the majority of Americans' daily consumption.
Figure 3. The vast majority of crop subsidies directly or indirectly support the production of the least healthful foods.
This calculation excludes subsidies supporting crops that are exported as well as nonfood crops like cotton and corn for ethanol.
The long-standing conflict between health policies and agricultural policies was highlighted by the President's Cancer Panel in its 2006-2007 report:
"Efforts to halt and reverse current obesity trends are unlikely to succeed without the participation and collaboration of governments, non-governmental organizations, industry, educators, and individuals. For example, current agricultural and public health policy is not coordinated—we heavily subsidize the growth of foods (e.g., corn, soy) that in their processed forms (e.g., high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated corn and soybean oils, grain-fed cattle) are known contributors to obesity and associated chronic diseases, including cancer." (National Cancer Institute 2006-2007)
The American Medical Association weighed in on the debate in a 2007 resolution calling for efforts "to ensure that federal subsidies encourage the consumption of products low in fat and cholesterol."46
Subsidies Benefit Agribusinesses Producing Unhealthful Foods
Since the 1970s, U.S. agricultural policies have increasingly encouraged the overproduction of agricultural commodities, including corn and soybeans, by gradually removing supply management policies that restricted how much producers could grow. The resulting glut of commodity crops made it increasingly difficult for producers to profit from the sale of their crops, leading to a greater emphasis on maximizing yield and a growing reliance on government subsidy payments.
At the same time, smaller farms coalesced or were purchased by large farms that could more easily turn a profit from large volume commodity sales. Large corporate grain handlers and processors who purchased the cheap grain profited, and agriculture in the United States became an increasingly industrial, corporate-driven sector.
The overabundance of cheap feed crops has influenced the nature of food production. Animals raised in concentrated feeding operations on grain and soy feed are significantly cheaper to produce, and large factory farms have proliferated. Although biofuels production competes with livestock production for grains, apparently resulting in prices that are significantly higher than they would otherwise be, subsidies continue to distort the market for feed crops like corn and soy.
Although some subsidy programs are intended to provide a safety net for agricultural producers in cases of low production or poor profitably due to weather, market price variations, and other factors, most producers in the United States do not benefit from subsidies, because planting restrictions and other barriers often prevent small farmers from collecting payments. Between 1995 and 2009, 10 percent of farmers received 74 percent of farm subsidies, and 62 percent of U.S. farmers did not collect any subsidies.47
Reductions in Feed Prices Lower Livestock Operational Costs
Changes in the cost of feed grains are reflected in changes in food prices at the retail level, although the precise impact depends on the proportion of grain input in the final product. The Center for Agricultural and Rural Development of Iowa State University estimated that a 30 percent change in the price of feed grain would change "egg prices by 8.1 percent, poultry prices by 5.1 percent, pork prices by 4.5 percent, beef prices by 4.1 percent, and milk prices by 2.7 percent."48
For most livestock production operations, feed represents a significant portion of input costs. Between 1997 and 2005, large livestock producers saved an estimated $3.9 billion annually—nearly $35 billion in total—due to the reduced cost of feed containing subsidy-supported corn and soybeans.49 For broiler chicken and egg production, feed costs constitute about 60 percent of production costs, leading to a 13 percent reduction in operating costs between 1997 and 2005. For the chicken industry, this means a savings of at least $1.25 billion per year. The nation's largest chicken producer, Tyson Foods, saved $2.6 billion over the nine-year period. Industrial hog producers enjoyed a savings of 15 percent in their operating costs, and beef and dairy cattle producers each saved approximately 5 percent over the same period.50
According to an economic analysis by Elanor Starmer and Timothy Wise of Tufts University, "U.S. policies have made industrial livestock operations appear more cost-efficient than they would if feed were properly valued in the marketplace. They also suggest that taxpayers and farm families have, in effect, been subsidizing factory farms' feed purchases."51


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I have already written loads about Apple 's iWatch, so if you want the most recent update go here and if you want the background and to take a peek at some of its rivals then check here. Even though it hasn't been confirmed the iWatch already exists, well in the minds of some very clever designers and Photoshoppers. Here …
Pocket squares!
It's probably a first that Alexis Petridis at The Guardian picks up on a trend before the Brandish team but here's an exception. Whilst his column on Saturday featured the said accessory with a standard suit, I recently spotted a Liberty sales assistant making a much more imaginative use of the pocket square. He'd paired a vintage-looking, 'farmer' check Barbour shirt in cream/khaki with a Liberty pocket square in one of their classic, 'arts and crafts' prints in a cool, pale blue. Perfectly folded into the shirt pocket, the pocket square positively fizzed against the rural check of his shirt. Were this boy walking down the street in New York City he'd have been a moving target for The Sartorialist.
The Guardian's Alexis Petridis tries out the Mark Ronson look
Who'd a thunk ol' Petri Dish was on You Tube?! Well here is showing us how to dress like Mark Ronson.
This seems to consist of a Specials-lite look of Ray Bans, retro jacket and pork pie hat. The respected music journalist doesn't always hit the menswear mark, but to his credit he is self-depreciating enough to be loveable… Give it a watch!
London's Street Style, is it the best?
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The Sartorialist may have crowned New York as the centre of street style but Paul Flynn has written an eloquent piece on why London style is among the most interesting in the world, as part of the G2 London fashion special in the Guardian today.
DJ Spoony reveals his shopping secrets
DJ Spoony has been telling the Guardian about his favourite type of shirts, where his manbag is from and all other types of fashion-related stuff.
Hadley Freeman says enough to high fashion on the high street
Rare are the occasions when I disagree with Hadley Freeman, there was a bit of fuss about bright opaque tights when her book came out but on the whole she's a good 'un.
Today in Guardian though Hadders was less than enthusiastic about the Comme des Garçons collection for H&M saying: "while Comme's granddad styles might look like the apogee of chic when done with the highest quality of fabrics and sold in the snootiest of department stores, the budget versions, one suspects, will have a different look."
Jess Cartner Morley dissects Barack Obama's style
With an admirable eye for detail the Guardian's Jess Cartner-Morley has being giving the US presidential candidate's dress sense the once over:
Barack Obama's own wardrobe has been striking in its simplicity.


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This is my 1971 Camaro Z28 Rally Sport. I have been working on this car for about 3 years now and it has come a long way from the Basket Case it was when I got it. I look for the car for almost 4 years and ended up finding it practically in my backyard in a barn.
A friend of mine told me he had this car but I didn't take him seriously and a year later after an exhaustive search I decided to call his bluff so to speak. He actually had the car! It had just been painted Cortez Silver with a cheap paint and I think it had more dirt on the car than paint. It had no interior, no glass and barely ran. The timing was off so bad that if you ran it for any small amount of time cylinder 7 header glowed! The motor was shot but had potential for a rebuild. This car had been tortured in it's day and looks like it was set up for racing by an amateur with slapper bars and huge 60s on back and small 50s on front with modern 80s era wheels. The car was definitely a basket case and my family thought I was crazy for buying such a heap...but I could see the potential.
I immediately put glass in the car to close up the cab and had the car completely DAed and painted. After paint I immediately set to work on the interior spending many late night hours wrestling with carpet and headliner.
By May of the 2005 the car made it's first show. It was our clubs show so it wasn't actually competing. We got the motor running decent but alternater was not charging and I had to run from home to the event with 2 batteries in the trunk. Also I had to start the car from under the hood. Which was little embarrassing.
But now the car is complete with a rebuilt motor pushing 400 HP. You never stop working on them and I still have plans to do a lot more stuff.
Oh by the way I was entered in a private show of about 25 cars that was judged by Boyd Coddington and won first place last year.
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Otherwise you'd know that what matters isn't the number of families or the number of people in each of them; it's how many bedrooms each family will occupy and how nice each bedroom is. Your rental house is likely to have a comfortable master suite, as well as a room so small that its occupant will have to, as the old joke goes, step outside to change his mind. So you guys need to agree on a price for each bedroom, prices that together add up to the rental fee. Then each family should pay for the bedrooms its members use.
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Seriously, you have good reason to be annoyed. But when your client's child gets married and you're invited to the wedding, you'd be foolish not to send a gift. So send one. As Michael Corleone would say, it's not personal, it's strictly business.
Q I'm planning to leave most of my estate to the local animal shelter. Since my assets consist mainly of my small home, I don't want my estate to be paying thousands of dollars to some lawyer to serve as executor. Unfortunately, I don't have anyone to ask to do the job. Now, though, my neighbor's daughter, a young mother who seems honest and hardworking, has volunteered to be my executor, and she doesn't even want to be paid. My question is: How much of a burden would that be on her? And how much of a bequest should I leave to her to say "thank you"?
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You're getting way ahead of yourself in worrying about how much to leave to someone it appears you scarcely know.
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So I noticed that on two previous threads (the greatest city in the world, and is your city a world class city) that cuisine became a point of substantial pride as well as contention.
Being from the New York Region I feel that culturally food is at if not close to the heart of the New York experience. My time in Santa Fe shared that same bond between a city identity and food, Green Chile is core to the identity of New Mexicans (Note: in the Southwest Chile is spelled with an "e" unless you're from Texas).
In Metro New York things like the Diner culture are an amazing blend of Greek, Italian and Jewish cultures, having the best pizza is a matter of pride (sorry Chicago), and neighborhoods live or die based on their concentration of ethnic restaurants (Jackson Heights in Queens is a prime example of a revitalization tied to becoming a little India).
Class and overall city attitudes seem to play a part as well. Blue Collar Chicago has it's Vienna dogs, Buffalo NY it's Buffalo Wings, White collar San Francisco Sushi and Smoothie bars.
Is food core to the urban experience or just something that comes hand in hand with cosmopolitan living? What foods define your city/region? (Note this doesn't have to be limited to just food, perhaps a wine or a beer culture can substitute similar.)


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The Houston Dynamo posted their fifth consecutive preseason shutout, as they defeated LA Galaxy 1-0 Friday morning at The Home Depot Center, in Carson, Calif. Nathan Sturgis scored the games lone goal as the Dynamo improved to 5-0 during their preseason campaign.
The Dynamo nearly got on the board in the 3rd minute, when Colin Clark picked up a loose ball around midfield. Clark raced down the left wing and sent a cross to Brian Ownby. The rookie midfielder took one touch and fired a low shot to the far post, but Galaxy goalkeeper Josh Saunders knocked the ball away for a corner kick.
Much of the Galaxy action in the first half went through midfielder David Beckham, and the England international nearly had his hand in two scoring opportunities late in the half. In the 36th minute, Beckham played a through-ball to Edson Buddle who sent his shot directly at Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Hall. Minute later, Beckham curled a free kick from 28 yards out toward the top corner of the net, but Hall tipped it away with his out-stretched hand to keep the game scoreless.
Similar to Wednesdays game against Montreal, Houston broke through in the second half. In the 68th minute, midfielder Josue Soto picked up the loose ball from 35 yards out and sent a looping cross into the Galaxy penalty box. Sturgis who had moved up from his center back position for a corner kick second earlier backpedaled and flicked a header past goalkeeper Bill Gaudette.
Rookie forward Colin Rolfe, who entered the game at halftime, was ejected in the 72nd minute for a harsh tackle on Galaxy defender Andrew Boyens.
The Galaxy tested Hall once more, on a late strike from Rafael Garcia, but the Dynamo goalkeeper punched the ball over the crossbar to preserve the shutout.
The Dynamo will play their next match Sunday morning against the Portland Timbers. The match will be played on University 2 and will kick off at 12:30 p.m. CT.
Houston Dynamo vs. LA Galaxy
February 10, 2012 The Home Depot Center University 1
Preseason Scrimmage
Scoring Summary:
HOU Nathan Sturgis (Josue Soto) 68
Houston Dynamo - Tally Hall, Andre Hainault (Kofi Sarkodie 46), Jermaine Taylor (Bobby Boswell 46), Geoff Cameron (Nathan Sturgis 46), Corey Ashe (Oscar Recio 46), Brian Ownby (Warren Creavalle 46), Adam Moffat (Josue Soto 46), Je-Vaughn Watson (Philip Aseweh 46), Colin Clark (Eder Arreola 46), Darryl Roberts (Macoumba Kandji 46, Daniel Roberts 81), Will Bruin (Colin Rolfe 46, Cam Weaver 73).
LA Galaxy - Josh Saunders (Bill Gaudette 46), Bryan Jordan (J.T. Murray 46), Tommy Meyer (Bryan Gaul 46), AJ DeLaGarza (Andrew Boyens 46), Todd Dunivant (Dustin McCarty 46), Hector Jimenez (Ryan Thomas 46), David Beckham (Michael Stephens 46), Marcelo Sarvas (Rafael Garcia 46), Paolo Cardozo (Stephen Posa 46), Pat Noonan (Adam Cristman 46), Edson Buddle (Jack McBean 46).


text: Director of Urban Design at WSP, specialises in how to plan for movement and create great urban spaces. Andrew was part of the team involved on Poundbury in Dorchester and was an advisor to the Government with the Urban Task Force, co-authoring 'Manual for Streets' amongst other papers. He is currently delivering strategic advice to large masterplanning projects in Scotland, Eastern England and the South West.


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The youths in our student centers face many challenges. Because of cultural paradigms, poor academic preparation by the national school system (especially in rural areas), and financial barriers, one of the greatest challenges for youths is learning how to dream.
Often it is difficult for children and students to pursue a vision to move forward. Many young women in Guatemala are forbidden to pursue a college education, and in some cases they are not even allowed to finish high school.
Young men are also faced with a similar challenge, as they are called to provide for their home at a very young age, which keeps them from finishing their high school education.
According to Guatemala's National Statistical Institute (INE, 2002 Census), only 16.71 percent of youths in Guatemala receive a high school education.
Despite these challenges, our church partners play a key role in releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name. Poverty is defined not just as economic insufficiency, but when viewed holistically the poor tend to lack vision, trust, self-esteem and opportunities for a better future.
"It is a process in which we try to launch them as leaders. Many people say: 'They are young. They are not competent.' But if we do not let them lead, they will not be able to develop their leadership. We are there by their side to help them," says Gerson, Dios es Amor Student Center Director.
The student center begins working with children to help them plan for their futures at age 12, which marks a significant time of change in their lives. The staff begins by sharing with the youths the opportunity that the Leadership Development Program (LDP) offers, and identifying and developing each child's strengths, skills and talents.
"If they have an aptitude for music, we encourage them to use their talent for worship. Others develop their leadership by taking the responsibility of coordinating devotional activities for the children," says Gerson.
The staff at the student center provides mentoring and other activities that teach valuable lessons to promote holistic development and preparation that stays with the students, even through their college years and into adulthood.
The student center also addresses age-appropriate issues, such as sex, diseases like HIV, vices, and peer pressure. In addition, due to the dangerous environment that the children are exposed to, the student center also invites the Communications Representative of the National Police to talk to the students. He discusses time management and creates awareness of the negative consequences of joining gangs and using drugs.
Moreover, the staff helps youths with their academic performance through tutoring, especially the areas in which they are struggling in school. However, the hard work of improving their academic performance cannot be done without additional encouragement from the staff and a deep understanding of the importance of education by the children.
Another is to invite LDP students to the centers so that they can be role models to the children. The LDP students serve as an example to the children that they, too, are capable of becoming leaders. After all, the LDP students were once in the children's shoes, with similar backgrounds, and now they are in a place with unlimited possibilities.
"I always said 'wow' when I saw the LDP students. They motivated us and demonstrated a genuine interest in us. They taught us that we were able to achieve our dreams. I especially remember a graduate, Letty, who motivated me to dream, and today she is my mentor," says Sindy, a former beneficiary at the student center who is now an LDP student.
The student center and the LDP students act as key agents of motivation and inspiration, teaching youths to dream. Yet dreaming is not enough. It is necessary that the children learn how to state their goals and have an action plan. Therefore, the student center uses an important tool called My Plan for Tomorrow, a blueprint of goals in every area of life, with specific actions to take planned by the students.
The most important preparation the student center provides, however, is to tell youths about Christ. Many children give their hearts to Jesus, transforming their lives forever. And the blessing does not end here, but salvation spreads to their families.
The student center promotes a lasting committed relationship with the Lord. The children not only are introduced to Christ, but persevere in His ways, even after they leave the center.
The student center also equips youths to be servant leaders. This has a powerful impact on their families and friends as they look out for the needs of others.
In some instances, the church provides food or staff collects food items from the students. Then, the staff and the children pack the food in bags and share it with the community or with the beneficiaries' families who may be going through hard times.
Sindy is actively involved in serving the church and reaching out to her community. She is a Sunday school teacher. She helps as a sound technician in her church, is part of the church choir, and directs their presentations. She offers support for the deacons, takes care of the Sunday program at church, and helps with vacation Bible school, reaching out to the children of her community.
In addition, Sindy was very active volunteering at the student center, and every so often the center invites her as a guest speaker to talk to the children. Sindy also organizes sports activities that involve the community and represent the church as an active agent that blesses the youths in the area.
Nevertheless, many capable dedicated students are not able to achieve the goal of entering the Leadership Development Program.
In 2008, 108 students applied, and there was a quota of 30 to be selected. In 2009, 22 out of 80 were selected, and in 2010, 24 out of 80 were selected.
Many consider the dream of being an LDP student, receiving a college education, and becoming a leader almost unreachable. Many apply and are not chosen, but they persevere with hope.
"The first time I applied I was rejected. I felt that my world was over. I seriously doubted my abilities, but the church was there to motivate me to believe that I was still capable, and I applied again," says Aury, an LDP graduate and one of Compassion Guatemala's partnership facilitators.
Many students overcome major challenges to meet the requirements. For example, Juan Carlos applied to the program last year and was not chosen either. He had recently lost his father and absorbed part of his father's responsibility in his home. This put a lot of pressure on him, which affected his academic performance. He is encouraged and eager to apply again, after improving his GPA.
Many are left heartbroken after applying. One young man, Carlos, got to the last stage of recruiting process but was not chosen due to quota. He got discouraged, and it affected his drive to serve and be involved in church.
Still, Carlos did not give up on his dream, and today he is a freshman in college. The church did not give up on him either. The church decided to pay the initial college expenses for Carlos so that he could have a new beginning.
Today Carlos works as a teacher during the week to pay for his expenses, and he studies on the weekends.
"The Leadership Development Program motivated me to go on, even though I did not get in. Education is an urgent matter for me. It is what I always wanted, and I love what I do," says Carlos.
Yet, they all have something in common. They all have learned to dream and hope:
"My dream is to manage and own my business and help others," says Aury.
"My dream is to become an architect and work for the state," says Carlos.
"My dream is to go back and help the children in the student centers with their problems and to have my own business," says Sindy.
"My dream is to study communications, and reach out to the youth through the radio so they can come to know the Lord," says Juan Carlos.
"I want to help the children in the student center and provide laboratory tests to improve their health and teach the Word," says Yajayra, a child at the student center.
These dreams are not only in God's hands, but in yours as well.


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Norethisterone enanthate plus testosterone undecanoate for male contraception: effects of various injection intervals on spermatogenesis, reproductive hormones, testis, and prostate Meriggiola, M. Cristina; Ernst, M.; Costantino, Antonietta; Pelusi, G.; Saad, F.; Bertaccini, Alessandro; D'Emidio, L.; Bremner, William J.; Morselli-Labate, Antonio M.; Kirsch, B.; Martorana, G.; Rudolph, I. (Endocrine Society, 2005-05)The goal of this study was to find the most favorable injection interval of norethisterone enanthate (NETE) plus testosterone undecanoate (TU) in terms of gonadotropin, sperm suppression, and prostatic effects. ...


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Gesneriaceae Research
Gesneriaceae Links
Smithsonian links
United States National Herbarium Type Specimen Register provides data and images for all type specimens deposited at US, including type specimens of Gesneriaceae.
Greenhouse image archive has numerous high-quality photographs of Gesneriaceae taken by Leslie Brothers in the Smithsonian's research greenhouses.
Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana is an online revision of the Gesneriaceae published by Hemsley in the multi-volume Biologia Centrali-Americana edited by Godman and Salvin in the 1880's. The original volumes, including vol. 2 (containing Gesneriaceae) have been scanned and are online.
A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs, and Climbers of Myanmar provides a searchable list of all the species of Myanmar (Burma).
Flora of the Hawaiian Islands can be searched for a complete listing of the Gesneriaceae of the Hawaiian Islands (Cyrtandra), with complete taxonomic, bibliographic, and type data.
Flora of the Marquesas Islands can be searched for a complete listing of the Gesneriaceae of the Marquesas Islands (Cyrtandra).
Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas can be searched for a complete listing of the Gesneriaceae of the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana).
Preliminary Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield can be searched for a complete listing of the Gesneriaceae of the entire Guiana Shield (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and adjacent parts of Venezuela and Brazil).
Index Nominum Genericorum can be searched for a listing of generic names of Gesneiaceae, with information on authorship and publication.
Non-Smithsonian links
The Genera of Gesneriaceae is a collaborative effort between Anton Weber (Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, Austria) and Laurence E. Skog with a complete list of the genera of Gesneriaceae, with descriptions, illustrations, and additional information on the family.
Research in Old World Gesneriaceae (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh) focuses on the Gesneriaceae subfamily Cyrtandroideae, which encompasses around 80 genera and over 1900 species.
Flora of China: The entire text of the treatment of Gesneriaceae by Wang Wen-tsai, Pan Kai-yu, Li Zheng-yu; Anna L. Weitzman, and Laurence E. Skog is available in html (includes links to illustrations) or pdf file.
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens has a long history of research on Gesneriaceae and numerous types of New World gesneriads are deposited in the SEL herbarium. For more information: Gesneriad Projects at Selby Gardens
The Gesneriad Society is a non-profit organization devoted to the cultivation and study of Gesneriaceae and the society's website contains numerous links to other websites. Funding is available to students and researchers through the Elvin McDonald Research Endowment Fund. For information on the Endowment Fund, contact Larry Skog.
Gesneriad Reference Web is primarily a horticultural reference with basic taxonomic and cultural information and numerous high-quality photographs. Extensive list of links to other websites.


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Guy Shows Cop Testicles, Avoids Criminal Charges
When it comes to getting out of cop trouble, women have it way easier than us guys. It's not like we have the luxury of flashing our racks to get out of tickets, although that'd be really awesome. Wait, do women even do that? They should.
So what's a dude to do, when Johnny Law brings the hammer down? Take a cue from this guy, that's what.
Obviously, there comes a time in every man's life when he's driving and gets the unavoidable urge to slap the ol' salami. For us, it's kind of a daily issue, so when we heard about this potential wanker down in Port St. Lucie, Florida, we sympathized.
However, this seemingly innocent dude was just hanging out in his car in a parking lot, when a woman thought she saw him taking care of business down south. The 34-year-old lady called police, but when they arrived on the scene, the guy cleared things up.
According to the police report, Mr. Baloney Pony claims "he raised his right short leg up and began to scratch himself because of a rash on his testicles." Clearly, a case of itchy balls is the worst, but the story wasn't enough for police. What got him off the hook? Showing the officer his rash-covered testicle.
Well folks, another day, another lesson learned-- showing your irritated sack can keep you out of the slammer.


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Turkey Chili Pie
For Jalapeño Pico:
1⁄4 cup diced pickled jalapeño
1⁄4 cup diced green onions
1⁄2 cup diced white onion
1⁄4 bunch diced fresh cilantro
1 large lime, juiced
Salt and black pepper
For Turkey Chili Pie:
1⁄4 cup vegetable oil
1 white onion, chopped
2 tbsp. fresh minced garlic
2 lb. smoked turkey breast, diced (1/2-inch)
3 tbsp. chili powder
1 tbsp. ground cumin
2 tsp. dried oregano
Salt and black pepper
1 cup diced tomato
1 cup tomato sauce
3 cups turkey or chicken stock
16 oz. corn chips
1 cup shredded Jack cheese
1⁄2 cup crumbled goat cheese
1⁄2 cup sour cream
1. For Jalapeño Pico: Combine all ingredients; refrigerate.
2. For Smoked Turkey Chili: Heat oil in a large pot. Saute onion and garlic until soft. Add turkey; cook until it starts to brown. Add spices and cook 1 minute. Add tomato, tomato sauce and stock; simmer 30 to 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Per serving, pile 2 oz. corn chips in shallow bowl. Top with 8 oz. hot chili, 2 tbsp. Jack cheese, 1 tbsp. goat cheese, 1 tbsp. sour cream and 2 tbsp. Jalapeño Pico.


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DENVER (AP) — Champagne? Nah. U.S. Olympians might prefer to celebrate their gold medals next year by downing an old-fashioned peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
The U.S. Olympic Committee signed a deal Tuesday with J.M. Smucker, bringing the maker of Smucker's jelly and Jif peanut butter into the Olympic fold for the Sochi and Rio de Janeiro Games.
USOC chief of marketing Lisa Baird told The Associated Press the deal came out of Smucker's long relationship with U.S. Figure Skating, which pushed the jelly maker over to the USOC. The USOC helps underwrite training, travel and other expenses for American Olympic athletes.
"This is the kind of market-leading brand we love," Baird said.
Financial details of the Smucker's deal were not disclosed. The agreement lasts through 2016.
Smucker's will combine with Procter and Gamble, Coke, Budweiser and Kellogg's in an Olympic-themed promotion that wraps several of their products together under the red-white-and-blue banner of Team USA.
The promotion, called "The Power of ...," brings products from some of the world's largest and most competitive companies together in displays at Targets, Wal-Marts, Safeways and other grocery chains. Their common bond is supporting the U.S. Olympic team.
"This works both ways," Baird said. "We have things we want sponsors to support. But this is one where they really win when they combine to get the most out of the value of our marks, our ideas, our athletes into their environment."
The USOC has been looking for innovative ways to increase revenue from the sponsorship side, which generated $78 million in 2011. (The amount is almost always higher in Olympic years.)
Baird came from Procter and Gamble, and that was one of the first big sponsors she landed after taking the USOC job.
The idea behind "The Power of. ..." promotion first took hold for the Vancouver Games in 2010 with a single retailer, Safeway. The number grew to 24 for the London Games and the participants were impressed.
Often, event-based promotions give sponsors about a week to take advantage of the hype surrounding that event; the run-up to the Olympics and the Games themselves provides months.


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March 5, 2013
Early HIV treatment, specifically during acute HIV infection, can limit the virus from forming HIV reservoirs in central memory CD4+ cells, according to study results presented at CROI 2013 in Atlanta, Ga.
Researchers in Thailand screened 52,767 patients for HIV using both nucleic acid tests (NAT) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) tests. Only 89 were identified as having acute HIV infection. Of these, 75 were enrolled in the study within three days and then started on antiretroviral therapy within an additional two days.
Lead author Jintanat Ananworanich, M.D., presented findings on the first 68 participants. The median age was 29 and 91% were men who have sex with men. The median duration of infection at baseline was only 15 days.
The patients were separated into three groups by Fiebig stage:
At the time of diagnosis, Fiebig 1 patients had the lowest levels of median HIV DNA compared to the Fiebig 2 and 3 groups. "As the Fiebig stage progresses, there's more seeding of the reservoir," Ananworanich stated. Notably, 92% of the Fiebig 1 group had undetectable integrated HIV DNA in their peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), compared to 29% of Fiebig 2 and 53% of Fiebig 3.
By week 12 after starting treatment, the median HIV DNA levels of those in the Fiebig 3 group mirrored levels seen in patients who have been on treatment for five years. By week 48, the Fiebig 3 group had HIV DNA levels similar to elite controllers. Interestingly, the Fiebig 1 group had HIV DNA levels similar to elite controllers throughout 96 weeks of treatment. In terms of integrated HIV DNA, 93% of all groups achieved undetectable levels by week 48.
To attempt to determine where HIV established and maintained its reservoirs, the researchers ran additional tests, including leukapheresis, a procedure that separates white blood cells from blood samples. After 24 weeks of treatment, integrated HIV DNA was detected in CD4+ cells, but not PBMCs, B cells or CD8 cells. However, even within the CD4+ cell subset, only two out of five patients had detectable levels.
The researchers looked even further into the subsets of memory CD4+ cells to possibly identify the reservoir location. They found that central memory T cells had low infection frequencies when compared to transitional memory and effector memory T cells. Anaworanich pointed out that in chronically infected HIV patients, the central memory T cells show higher frequencies of infection and typically rank first or second as a reservoir site. Her team's finding that the reservoir in the Thai patients, after early treatment, is actually in the transitional memory and effector memory T cells could lead to new strategies in reservoir eradication, she said.
While these results are promising, Anaworanich noted that the sample size was small and that they had yet to determine the levels of replication-competent virus in these patients. The next steps could include analytical treatment interruption to identify correlates of a functional cure or a therapeutic vaccine.
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