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Snow is white; "yellow snow" is snow that is urinated on. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" was popularized as a song title on Frank Zappa's album, Apostrophe ( ' ) (1974), with the lyrics:
"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow."
THe jocular saying had been popular before 1974. "Don't Eat (The/Any) Yellow Snow" patches used by skiers and snowmobilers were popular in 1971. "Don't eat any yellow snow" might have been cited in print since at least 1968. (The Google Books dates can be incorrect.)
"If you see a rabbit laying little brown eggs, don't eat them. They're not chocolate" is a similar saying.
Wikipedia: Don't Eat the Yellow Snow Suite
The "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow Suite" is made up of the first four tracks of Frank Zappa's album Apostrophe ( ' ), "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow", "Nanook Rubs It", "St.Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast", and "Father O'Blivion." Each song in the suite is loosely connected, although the songs are not all connected by one overall story/theme. The suite was only played in full from 1973 to 1974 and 1978 to 1980. "Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast" contains Zappa's percussionist Ruth Underwood on marimba who added a very distinct sound to many of his songs in the early 70s.
"Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" is a song about a man who dreams that he was an Eskimo named Nanook. His mother warns him "Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow."
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S.E.T.P. Technical Review
Society of Experimental Test Pilots
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It's what Eskimo parents tell their children, "Don't eat any yellow snow."
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The audience, baffled, would be quiet, straining to catch this bit of wisdom, wide open for it when it came. "Don't eat the yellow snow!"
23 January 1971, The Register-Star (Rockford, IL), pg. A3, col. 7 ad:
7 February 1971, Sunday Post-Crescent (Appleton, WI), "Patches for Snowmobilers Profitable Hobby fo Pair," pg. B2, col. 2:
One of the hottest selling patches is one with an Eskimo and the warning, "Don't Eat Yellow Snow."
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Hahti Trust Digital Library
Yearbook of the Medical and Nursing Schools
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"Don't eat the yellow snow" ... Dr. Baublis
OCLC WorldCat record
Apostrophe ( ' )
Author: Frank Zappa
Publisher: [S.l.] : The Zappa Family Trust, p&©1974.
Edition/Format: Music CD : CD audio : Rock music : English
Don't eat the yellow snow (2:07)
Don't eat the yellow snow
Author: Uwe Göbel
Publisher: [München] [Galerie Claudia Jaeckel-Göbel] [Frankfurt (Main)] [Kretschmer u. Grossmann] 1981, [1981]
Edition/Format: Book : German
Urban Dictionary
Yellow Snow
Snow that has been urinated in
Billy urinated in the snow and it turned yellow
by Anadonia October 15, 2003
OCLC WorldCat record
Don't eat the yellow snow : pop music wisdom
Author: Marcus Kraft
Publisher: Amsterdam : BIS Publishers, 2012.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st ed
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void __declspec(naked) ISR()
__asm pushad
// Handle interrupt
__asm popad
__asm iretd
This is the basically the simplest Interrupt Service Routine (ISR) that can be constructed. Now we know that the CL and LINK output 32 bit images by default. What this means is that all opcodes generated by the compiler will be 32-bit. However that may not always be the case. Take the GCC inline assembler for instance.
void ISR()
// Ignore Prolog
__asm__ ("pushad");
// Handle interrupt
__asm__ ("popad");
__asm__ ("iret");
// Ignore Epilog
Both code examples are the same. In fact both will output the same opcodes, minus the prologue and epilogue in the GCC case (GCC does not support naked functions for the x86 architecture). If you are looking closely you will notice that the GCC has an "iret" instruction instead of "iretd". So how can they generated the same opcodes? Well many assemblers consider them to be the same thing, even though "iret" is the 16-bit instruction and "iretd" the 32-bit, because the compilers infers which one to use depending on the bit-ness of the resulting binary.
If you look at the Intel Architecture guide vol 2a you read that even the underlying opcodes are the same, 0xCF. However if in the CL example I replace the "iretd" with "iret" something very fishy happens. MS takes the perspective that if you are writing in assembly you know what you want and it respects that, GCC makes some assumptions. The resulting opcode for CL using the "iret" instruction will actually be, 0x66 0xCF, this is very different from 0xCF. The 0x66 prefix overrides the default operand size (Intel Architecture guide vol 2a: chapter 2.1.1); in this case the input to the opcode is not a 32-bit argument but 16-bit. The same can be done for 16-bit opcodes. If you write in 16-bit assembler, you can prefix an opcode with 0x66 and the CPU will supply a 32-bit argument to the 16-bit opcode. I had originally written the "iret" instruction because I 'assumed' that the MS Assembler was doing what the software guide suggested. This cause all my interrupts to blow up. The only way to track down this issue was to actually step through the kernel and examine the assembly generated for the ISR.


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You, the savvy citydwelling comedy snob (or if you prefer: comedy connoisseur) have likely become wary of character comedy, given what we have in that sector lately. Remember Katy Brand's Big-Ass Show? Of course you do, and that's why you're right to be wary.
Cariad Lloyd, though, has managed to overcome that particular impediment to become the character comedic of choice among critics and Londonist's staff lately, thanks to a generous handful of appearances on E4, Radio 4, BBC3, and the Edinburgh [festival? circuit? kerfuffle?]. In the first couple of minutes she's on stage, Lloyd is throwing around cards to music in a parody of that Bob Dylan video and although it's not ground-breaking or even particularly hilarious in its own right, she has enough energy to carry it.
The rest of the show canters on in much the same way, all breathless enthusiasm and routines that require Lloyd to move and dance around the stage that's exhausting even to think about in the blisteringly hot Soho Theatre, which is just an inhumane venue for audiences, more so for the performers.
Much of Freewheelin's humour depends on how much you know about popular culture, and so an extended first bit that mashes Scandinavian detective series with the Moomins flew right over your correspondent's head but the finale, skewering Zooey Deschanel and her show New Girl hit exactly the right kind of spot (ditto the part where an Asda worker flips between a health and safety seminar and a melodramatic film-noir monologue). The characters and the routines are fine; Lloyd's talent, we suspect, derives mostly from her improv skills, which get the odd moment to shine but are otherwise spent in your common-or-garden audience participation bits.
Still, we enjoyed it. Although there's nothing particularly earth-shattering in it, The Freewheelin' Cariad Lloyd was a fun way to spend an evening, largely because Lloyd is just a hell of a lot of fun to watch. It was solidly "pretty good".
The Freewheelin' Cariad Lloyd is at the Soho Theatre from the 14-16 February, tickets £10-£12.50. More information is available on the Soho Theatre website, and do think about taking a bottle of water either for you or for Ms. Lloyd.


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For the 13th consecutive year, the Belcourt again presents this very popular program. With all three categories offered—Animated, Live Action, Documentary—this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country (and now the world), don't miss this year's selection of shorts.
The Academy Award nominations will be announced on Tue, Jan 23, and this page will be updated shortly thereafter. Catch the Mar 4 awards ceremony on screen right here at the Belcourt at our annual fundraiser, A Red Carpet Evening.
DEKALB ELEMENTARYDir. Reed Van Dyk | USA | 20 min.
Inspired by a 911 call placed during a school shooting incident in Atlanta, Georgia. WATCH THE TRAILER
THE ELEVEN O'CLOCKDirs. Derin Seale and Josh Lawson | Australia | 13 min.
The delusional patient of a psychiatrist believes he is actually the psychiatrist. As they each attempt to treat each other the session gets out of control. WATCH THE TRAILER
MY NEPHEW EMMETTDir. Kevin Wilson, Jr. | USA | 20 min.
In 1955, a Mississippi preacher tries to protect his 14-year-old nephew, Emmett Till from two racist killers out for blood. Based on true events. WATCH THE TRAILER
THE SILENT CHILDDirs. Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton | UK | 20 min.
THE SILENT CHILD centers around a profoundly deaf four year old girl named Libby who is born into a middle class family and lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her the gift of communication. WATCH THE TRAILER
WATU WOTE/ALL OF USDirs. Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen | Germany/Kenya | 23 min.
For almost a decade Kenya has been targeted by terrorist attacks of the Al-Shabaab. An atmosphere of anxiety and mistrust between Muslims and Christians is growing. Until in December 2015, muslim bus passengers showed that solidarity can prevail. WATCH THE TRAILER
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Well its that time of year again and the Art College I study with are having their annual art competition. I have chosen to use this piece for my entry, inspired by an early morning walk through the botanical garden next to my workplace when the lovely water lily pond was in full bloom. It truly was sight to behold and imprinted on my memory so I wanted to capture that in this little piece. You need to be a student of the college to enter and entries have now closed, I only got in by the skin of my teeth as I have been away from my course work for a little while.
I love this college as I have done a prior course, straight into my current and have plans for more, for me its like getting my BA but being able to pick and chose exactly what I want to study and work on my personal limitations and strengths. The true learner centred adult learning environment! Of course I won't hold a BA but for me its more about the knowledge and skill I achieve and once I finish I hope to hold a few Diplomas and Advanced Diplomas. The other great thing about it are the wonderfully helpful staff and supportive learning environment. Being an adult educator myself I value what they provide.
London Art College: http://www.londonartcollege.co.uk/
All images on appear on this blog are copyright Janet Trotta
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California reached a milestone late last month when federal immigration officials quietly announced that all 58 counties in the state are now participating in Secure Communities, a controversial program created to track and deport dangerous criminals.
Unveiled in late 2008, Secure Communities is billed as a showpiece of immigration enforcement. Under the Immigration and Customs Enforcement program, state and local police must check the immigration status of people who have been arrested and booked into local jails by matching fingerprints against federal databases for criminal convictions and deportation orders.
But today, Secure Communities is mired in problems. About 60% of the 87,534 immigrants deported under the program had minor or no criminal convictions, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's statistics, even though the program was aimed at dangerous criminals.
Moreover, state and local law enforcement agencies are growing increasingly uneasy about participating in a program that they say thwarts their ability to work with communities with large immigrant populations. Police are concerned that taking on the role of enforcer makes it more difficult to build trust in immigrant communities that are already fearful of reporting crimes or providing crucial information. A report released last week by the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based research group, found that police chiefs across the nation worry that checking suspects' backgrounds against databases that include immigration warrants is blurring the lines between public safety and immigration enforcement.


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How Ekaterinburg affects ECLW Round 2!Photo: Courtesy Fenerbahce
From Thursday to Sunday four ECLW matches will be held, as two title pretenders will meet tomorrow: Linz – Zamek (October 8th, 18:00 CET)
There is no time for the rest: top players of the Old Continent must to switch from the recent 2015 LIEBHERR ITTF European Championships to ECLW which will be continued by the Round 2 from Thursday to Sunday. Each of these four days one game will be held, starting from the Group D encounter between two title pretenders: Linz – Zamek (October 8th, 18:00 CET).
The top seed and double ECLW champion TTC Berlin Eastside travels to Turkey to face ECLW newcomer Bursa. Berlin`s Coach Irina PALINA speaks:
"All the players from both teams took part in the European Championship in Ekaterinburg. It is very important that SHAN, SOLJA and POTA a few days could be switched with both positive and negative emotions left over from the Championship. I hope that the injuries during the Championship will not prevent fight against a strong opponent."
In the Group B the 2012 ECLW runner-up SVNO STROCK will try to inscribe second win in a row. WSA Women Head Coach Neven CEGNAR explaines:
"After our victory against Cartagena (3:0) our team will play in its best possible line-up, lead by well experienced international player from Japan Sayaka HIRANO. Our opponent Szekszard has players with a lot experience, but we want to impose ourselves as favorites for the quarter-final place. I believe that we`ll be able to show again high quality game, as well as present our further individual and team improvement. All our players – Sayaka HIRANO, Tatiana BILENKO, Matilda EKHOLM, Lea RAKOVAC, Tamolwan KHETKHUAN, Marie MIGOT and ZHANG Lily, lead by Coach Tamara BOROS will give their best for the new confirmation of our ambition in the ECLW. We are looking forward to new challenge in Hungary."
Defending champion Fenerbahce is determined to repeat 2014/15 perfect score (10-0) but it will be a very hard challenge. Istanbul`s side goes to Metz this Friday, as manager Gürhan YALDIZ announces big fight, hoping that new individual European champion Elizabeta SAMARA will continue her winning streak in ECLW:
"Our players were very successful in 2015 LIEBHERR ITTF ECH, accomplishing very good results and reaching medals. New crowned European champion SAMARA, our member in the last five years, showed that she is in a good form. We would like to win in 2nd Round aiming quarter-final spot. Metz is very strong and very experienced team, they have very good and strong players. We know very well each other . They always have good results at home, but we did not lose since last season. I think it will be good and difficult match.
ECLW Round 2
Group A: Bursa Büyükşehir – TTC Berlin Eastside (October 10th, 16:00 CET)
Group B: Szekszard AC – SVNO STROCK (October 11th, 17:00 CET)
Group C: Metz TT – Fenerbahce Spor Kulubu (October 9th, 19:30 CET)
Group D: Linz AG Froschberg – Zamek Tarnobrzeg (October 8th, 18:00 CET)


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Major Injury Accident on Hwy 101 Last Night
The driver came around a curve, lost control, and his vehicle went off the road. It rolled over and ended up about 200 feet over the embankment.
"The driver sustained [an] injury to his arm and was transported to Howard Memorial for his injuries," Taylor explained.
He added, "The CHP would like to remind everyone that the max speed is for ideal conditions (dry clear roadway). Winter is upon us…Leave early…drive at a speed safe for the roadway conditions and check your tires to make sure they have adequate tread."


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My favorite part of the day were first when the fireman were trying to get the hose into the front door and it was obviously crazy heavy and there were only 2 trucks there at this point and he looked at all of us and asked can i get two or three of you to help; that was all he needed to say - not even 5 seconds later there were at least 25 men in suits pulling the hose into the front door of the church. 2nd were the greatness of the neighboring churches - they were so lovely and Christian - offering a place to wait, to give us a comforting arm and to mourn the historic building we called home.
I must give some props to my blackberry curve - it took all these pictures and for being a phone's camera i must say the pictures are pretty good!
This picture you can see the roof caving in and fire entering the chapel.
They concluded it was an electrical fire that started in the attic above the balcony in the chapel with some exposed wires and had been festering for awhile before any fire alarms went off.
It was quite the Sunday and certainly something i won't forget anytime soon!


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Timeout at the Plate # 11
Day 126
Sitting down to read some baseball blogs, you may recognize there are all types of bloggers. You can find angry bloggers and happy bloggers, naive bloggers or ones with eternal hope.
Today's Timeout at the Plate focuses on a blogger who has love for all the teams in her "area." I say "area" because this blogger values her privacy and this writer has no clue as to where she really lives. But that's okay, because here at the Timeout franchise we value privacy of all those cool enough to submit their time to the format. You don't need to tell me anything more than you would like and I make sure each and every participant knows that. The only thing that is not a mystery about this blogger is her love for the game.
In all honesty I have no idea who "Erin" really is, but that doesn't matter because when
Plunking Gomez hit the blogs it was near an instant sensation. Rightly so, as this blog contains everything Minnesota in one respect or another and just saying the word plunk makes for a fun visit. Plunk, plunk, plunk…sorry I digress..
So with no further hesitation I present to you the genius behind the Plunking Gomez sensation and maybe a little more into the mind of the mysterious Erin Kathleen.
I think I may be the biggest fan on MLBlogs of the name "Plunking Gomez." I can't recall how many times on the community blog I put Plunking Gomez is the best just to be able to write Plunking Gomez. Please explain how you came to the title.
Well, since I don't visit the community blog very often, I'll have to take your word for it.Coming up with the title was actually the hardest part of the whole thing. It just seemed like all of the
clever blog titles were taken, and I was having trouble coming up with something clever and original. But then I remembered Go-Go, and how he would annoy opposing pitchers with his attempts to bunt and steal and just cause havoc on the base paths. And occasionally, a pitcher would get fed up with his antics and throw at him. And thus, an original, if not necessarily clever, blog title was born.
Anyone who reads your blog, depending on the season, can tell you are an all around Minnesota sports fan. Is baseball your first love?
Yes, and it's mostly because my first memories of the Twins were of them winning a World Series. If my first memories of the Vikings were of a Super Bowl title, and not of my father swearing at the tv, then I would probably love football more. That's just the way it is.
I think though, that as I've gotten older, I've started to appreciate the game itself a lot more. I like how slow it is. I love how pitchers and hitters are always playing mind games with each other. I love stolen bases and good defensive plays, and just little things like that. They're almost more exciting than home runs. Almost. But mostly I love how unpredictable it is. Sometimes it's great, like when the 2006 Twins made an incredible late-season run to capture the division title before getting swept by Oakland in the ALDS. And sometimes it's frustrating, like when the 2007 Twins got off their best start in nearly a decade, posting a 10-6 record by the end of April, only to fade down the stretch and finish 79-83, their worst record since Ron Gardenhire took over in 2002.
When I think of your blog I think "jaded" as a descriptive word for your feelings on Minnesota sports. Is this correct and if yes, why?
Well, I don't know jaded is really the right word. Realistic perhaps. You just tend to not expect much after suffering through many years of failure and mediocrity. And even when you finally have a good team you just can't allow yourself to get too excited about the season.
You always have this nagging feeling of impending doom, like this is all too good to be true and something bad is about to happen. At least that's what I learned from the 1998 Vikings.
I can't really think of a pitching staff that overall has been lights out this season so far. The Twins picked up Juan Morillo from the Rockies to help their staff and the dude has a nasty fastball but lacks command. Do you think the pitching coaches in Minnesota can change his career around?
I hope so. A guy whose fastball averages around 96.5 mph would certainly be a good thing to have in the bullpen! Morillo wasn't great with the Twins, but he still has a lot of upside and it will be interesting to see if the coaching staff can tame some of his wildness. He just cleared waivers and was sent down to AAA Rochester, where he's been perfect in his three appearances so far. I do think he'll benefit from working with Bobby Cuellar, the Red Wings' pitching coach, who's had a great deal of success in teaching a lot of the Twins' prospects to throw strikes. He doesn't yet have a good breaking pitch to complement his fastball, other than a seldom-used slider, so perhaps the coaching staff will try to teach him the changeup.
Erin, what's the biggest thing that irks you about Twins baseball?
Do you mean how the Twins play? Or the organization itself? Because the thing that's driving me the most insane right now is all of the runners stranded on base. The pitching is making me want to vomit right now, too.
Lately you have been giving a lot of love to Joe Mauer. Is this Jen J. Diatribe of a Law Student type crush love or just a great deal of admiration for the guy?
It is a great deal of admiration for the guy. Oh, don't get me wrong, I think Joe is cute and everything. But I don't care all that much about that kind of thing. I wouldn't want a guy on my team who can't hit or field his position, no matter how good-looking he is. But mostly I'm just amazed at what Joe can do both on the field and at the plate. He has such a good eye at the plate, and he has to be one of the toughest hitters to get out in the league. And besides being a two-time batting champ, he's also one of the best defensive catchers in the game, not to mention a sort of babysitter for the somewhat inexperienced pitching staff. I guess it just kind of amazes me that he's so good while playing one of the most physically demanding
positions in the game.
Speaking of Jen J. the loss of Joe Crede to the Twins was a big blow to that gal. What player loss on the Twins would be a similar impact for yourself?
Well, obviously losing Mauer would be tough. It's probably inevitable, but the thought of Joe in anything but a Twins uniform makes me ill. Losing Johan Santana was hard, too, since he's basically a strikeout machine and the rest of the young starters will probably never be that good. But this is the kind of thing you get used to when you're a fan of one of the most frugal organizations in baseball. Once a player develops into a star, he's probably going to
end up leaving via free agency. Or he'll get traded for a bunch of prospects, and the whole process will start all over again.
It's still early in the season and the Twins have had some ups and downs. Do you think with all your in-depth analysis at Plunking Gomez you have an idea of how the rest of the season is going to go?
Oh, I don't know. Before the season started I wrote that I didn't think this would be much better than a .500 team, even with Mauer in the lineup, and so far that assessment has been correct. I think the starting pitchers will probably be OK. Scott Baker and Kevin Slowey
are certainly much better than their performances to date would indicate. But Glen Perkins will come back down to earth, and Nick Blackburn probably won't be anything more than a back-of-the-rotation starter in the mold of Jon Garland and Carlos Silva. Some of the
right-handed hitters in the lineup might start to be more productive, but having to divide playing time among four outfielders seems to be hurting the development of some of the younger players.
But most of all, I think that the failure to add a competent reliever during the
off-season is going to haunt the Twins. Matt Guerrier and Jesse Crain have had to log a lot of innings so far this year, and Crain's shoulder has already started to suffer for it. Jose Mijares shows a lot of promise, but it's really only his first season in the major leagues and it's too early to tell if he will continue to be a dominant reliever. The rest of the bullpen are a bunch of stiffs who probably shouldn't pitch in blowouts, let alone close games.
Finally, if you had to pick just one Minnesota franchise to win it all, who would it be?
The Vikings. Vikings fans have suffered enough already!


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Eventful Trip
I was in the Malawi capital Lilongwe on Tuesday and yesterday to attend to some pressing business and what a trip it was! I usually stay at a certain Christian media house in Lilongwe where they have accommodation facilities. On Tuesday night around 9.30 I was woken up by shouts and the wailing of a siren. Apparently one employee of the organisation was returning from a field trip and found the gate locked. He somehow opened it. The man came upon four guards fast asleep at that relatively early hour! He proceeded to kick the security officials who in their sleeping stupor thought thugs had laid siege to the facility and started shouting for help and pressed the panic button that set off the alarm! My my my!!! It was sometime before the guards realised it was only a member of staff trying to wake them up through unconventional means.
Then on Wednesday a man appeared at the Christian media establishment calling on the head of the organisation to ordain him as a pastor. The man said the executive was fit to annoint him! The media house's chief however declined to do the honours!
I left Lilongwe for Blantyre around 4pm through Zomba because I was with friends traveling in that direction. We arrived in Zomba around 8pm to find public transport had stopped operating for the night. My pals were going to a workshop and thought they could take me in at a lodge they had been booked. I refused the offer trusting that God will make a way, and I told them they could leave for their function By 8.25pm nothing had happened and things looked grim. I made a cry from my heart saying: 'God show yourself strong in this situation'. As I whispered the word 'situation'...a twin-cabin car stopped by me and the driver asked if I was heading to Blantyre. WOW!! God remains faithful!!


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Posted by Josh Alper on February 2, 2018, 11:52 AM EST
Bengals cornerback Adam Jones' 2017 season ended with a trip to injured reserve because of a sports hernia injury and he'll be rehabbing it over the first weeks of 2018.
Jones posted a video of himself in surgical garb on Instagram Thursday and Katherine Terrell of ESPN.com confirms that he had a procedure to repair the injury. There's typically a recovery timeline of a month or two after such an operation, so Jones should be ready to go for offseason work.
Jones is under contract to do that offseason work with the Bengals. It's the final year of his deal and Jones is set to make a salary of $5.3 million with a cap number of just under $7 million. The Bengals would get most of that back if they chose to part ways with the veteran.
Jones had 23 tackles and an interception in nine 2017 games.


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Are you looking for a way to reduce your sugar consumption without adding potentially dangerous artificial sweeteners to your diet? If so, Xagave just might be what you are looking for.
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White agave is an outstanding source of calcium and blue agave is a great source of Inulin, which is a water soluble fiber that offers many weight management and health benefits. As with other types of dietary fiber, consuming Inulin results in a filling effect. Additionally, Inulin is said to help boost the immune system, moderate blood sugar levels, improve digestive health, and increase both calcium absorption and bone density levels.
Xagave has a Glycemic index of between 30 and 35, making it an excellent natural sweetening agent for individuals who are trying to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight by following a low Glycemic diet. It's also a good sweetener choice for individuals who are following diabetic diet.
Unlike other natural sugar replacements, like palm sugar, Stevia, and Lo Han, Xagave's flavor does not vary from batch to batch and is quite simple to use. With Xagave, you can expect consistent levels of sweetness every time you use it. That's just one of the reasons this product is such an excellent choice for home cooks who want to cut down on using sugar and artificial sweeteners.
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Delicious Meets Nutritious is the best selling agave nectar cookbook in the U.S. and features instructions for preparing a number of great recipes using Xagave. A few of the delicious dishes included in this book are: Blueberry Lemon Bundt Cake, Lemon Meringue Pie, Maple Glazed Holiday Ham, Old Fashioned Buttermilk Syrup, and many others.
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The Financial Detective, 1996 is a case study that tests one's financial analytical ability. Given the company's description of its strategic and operating profile in a particular industry, the analysts should examine and match a particular set of common size financial data and ratios to a company's description.
In short, the financial practitioner must exercise due care in examining the details and fine prints of the company's strategic and operating description, employing the lesson learned of the fundamental theory of finance of a company. In particular, a good grasp of the application of various financial ratios would help in the analysis and in matching of the strategic and operating description against the common size financial data and ratios.
For each of the 8 industries, two companies, with dissimilar operation and strategy, are described. Included in the given are the common-size financial data and ratios of two companies for each industry.
A particular company will be matched or identified based on the given description of its operation and strategy vis-Ã -vis the given set of common size financial data and ratios, or vice-versa.
Explain the differences in financial results across industries.
The analysis takes the following process:
1. Analysis of the common-size financial data that showed significant differences between companies for each of the 8 industries, as shown in Annex A.
2. Identify from the operating and strategic description of the company such characteristics and features that markedly distinguished one from the other, as shown in Annex B.
3. Perform cross-referencing and analysis between the identified financial data that showed significant differences between companies against the differences in the operation and strategic description.
Health Products
In terms of percentage of total current assets to total assets, Company A (44.4%) is higher than Company B (28.7%).


text: Born in Detroit and raised in California and Chicago, Balentine's father's eyes were fixated on the same stars as Arrow Brown's. A music-lover but not a musician, he fed his young daughter a steady stream of his favorite R&B and gospel songs and encouraged her to perform them for the family. Alongside childhood friend and future Emotion Sheila Hutchinson, Linda formed the vocal harmony trio the Shirlettes. Their 1968 silver-winning performance at a Regal Theatre talent show might've netted them gold, were it not for five Jackson siblings from nearby Gary, Indiana, then on their first steps toward mega-stardom. Williams told Balentine that if she really wanted to make a record, he could introduce her to Brown. "Glad About That" was rehearsed only a few times before cutting the track, while rehearsals for "You're A Habit Hard to Break" dragged on for weeks. Brown felt the latter tune was the surefire hit he'd been chasing, and wanted it to be perfect. Finished with her recording sessions, Balentine was given a single white label copy of the resulting 45—one of only three copies known to exist today. There's no evidence that Bandit ever released the record commercially.


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Watching: I just finished season one of Call the Midwife. Oh so good! It is on PBS, and well worth the watch. I, however, have been having crazy pregnancy dreams now.
Thinking about: My planting season, and how I am going to spruce up my yard. I already purchased two galvanized tubs to put near my bird bath. I am thinking of plant a small shrub in each and then filling it with pansy for now, since I have no idea if it is going to stay warm. All of my flower beds need new mulch and I just got out my planters, so I have yet to "lay out a planting plan".
Reading: Well, my Kindle decided that it won't work anymore......so, I am trying to decide if I should pony up and get a new one (I have had this one for 4 years) or pay to get it fixed. UGH.
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Date: Thu Apr 25 1996 - 19:16:42 EDT
->> "They held everything in common" from Lk's Ac
->> also would fit in here as well.
->This has always intrigued me. Others too have wondered whether this is
->historically probable. It's usually referred to as "primitive communism,"
->but there's no indication of shared means of production, only of pooled
->resources. If it really existed, we have to read a lot between the lines.
->Another possibility is that the apparent Essene model of two social levels
->of participation might have been emulated. Or is it an ideal construct
->derived from OT Deuteronomic/prophetic conceptions?
This "common holding" appears to be limited to Jerusalem; I don't think
there is much hint of it in the early churches in general. Rather, the rest
of the Christian commonwealth (apposite description!) were exhorted to
contribute of their excess to the "poor saints at Jerusalem".
A suggestion I have met is that this issue arose because of the special
conditions in Jerusalem. Note references in Jn 9, 12 and 16 to the
excommunication of Christian sympathisers. (I understand that such
excommunication limited the victim's permissible contact with synagogue
members to the buying of food only. In practice, *in Jerusalem*, this
would greatly reduce the believers' ability to provide for themselves.
Additionally, according to Acts 6, "a great company of priests" became
obedient to the faith, losing their means of livelihood as a result.
-> I find chapter 6 of Acts one of the murkiest in the
->whole book, for reasons I have stated previously and won't repeat now
->unless asked.
Please enlighten me! I'm just preparing some notes, mainly on Stephen's
speech in chapter 7, but anything interesting on chapter 6 would be
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China's Path to InnovationChina's economic development is one of the great stories of our time. Today (July 28, 2015) we are starting our special focus on China with a review new book on the development of China's innovative capacity. China's Path to Innovation written by the Oxford Professor Xiaolan Fu. Although a new trade press book seems to come out almost every week on China's innovative capacity, there are relatively few scholarly treatments on the subjects. For this reason, Xiaolan Fu's book China's Path to Innovation (Cambridge University Press, 2015) is a welcome addition to the literature.
Review by Johann Peter Murmann
China's economic growth over the past four decades is nothing but spectacular, as these comparative figures show.
Source: Worldbank
Until recently, Chinese firms have conquered world markets largely by imitating western products and making them a lot a cheaper. Solar panels are an important example of this strategy. Alternatively, they conquered global markets by contracting for firms like Apple to manufacture the electronic gadgets that we all hold in on our hands. Even though China manufactures all iPhones, Apple makes the vast majority the profits in the value chain (Kraemer, Linden and Dedrick 2011
But what if Chinese firms move up the value chain? What if China is able to create more firms like Apple that innovate entirely new product classes? What will this mean for the competitive position of western firms? How soon is this likely to happen?
Corporate strategists and policy makers in western countries worry deeply about these questions. Not surprisingly, significant interest in writings on China's current and future innovation capacity has built up during the past few years.
To satisfy this thirst for more knowledge about innovative Chinese firms, a new trade press book seems to come out almost every week. Here are three that I found stimulating:
These trade books are typically written by consultants who have worked with many of the companies covered in the books. They do a good job in describing how some companies are breaking the stereotype of imitative Chinese firms. In the case of Rein's book, for example, one learns a lot about changing consumer preferences in China because his consulting firm does a lot of market research for global consumer companies. Tse focuses on describing just how entrepreneurial the now-famous Chinese firms are and how they excel in business model innovations.
But to date there are few research monographs that go beyond picking out striking cases of innovative companies. We clearly also need systematic analyses of China's growing innovative capacity. For this reason, Xiaolan Fu's book China's Path to Innovation (Cambridge University Press, 2015) is a welcome addition to the literature. Fu is Professor of Technology and International Development at Oxford and has written about innovation in China for more than ten years. China's Path to Innovation has 16 chapters ([/url]Table of Contents[/url). Most of the chapters are revisions of articles that previously appeared in academic journals. If you have already read all of Professor Fu's published papers, the book will not break much new ground with the exceptions of chapters 2, 8, 11, and 12. However, for scholars like myself who have not read her previous work, the book is a very convenient access to her writings and new insights. It also provides an excellent overview of scholarly literature on the development of Chinese innovative capacities. For this reason, it deserves to be in the library of anyone working on China's innovative capacity.
For those readers who want to know more about the book, let me describe briefly each chapter. After a brief introduction, Chapter 2 provides a useful overview of innovation in China since 1978. Many useful graphs and figures (there are about at 100 of them throughout the book) demonstrate how much more China is spending on R&D, how much patenting has increased, how many more students are graduating from university, how many more journal articles are published in China, what regions host most of R&D, etc. The increases in the inputs to innovation are nothing but stunning. If you know nothing about innovation in China, this is an excellent one stop introduction to the subject.
China's Path to Innovation is arranged in three major parts. Part 1 (Chapters 2 to 5) deals with "international knowledge transfer and technological takeoff". Chapter 3 examines the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on regional innovative capacity. The chapter shows that most FDI has been concentrated in a few coastal regions in China and that the positive impact of FDI on regional innovative capacity depends on adaptive capacity of the region, proxied here by R&D intensity and labor force skills. In coastal regions with sufficient absorptive capacity, FDI increases regional innovative capacity. This was not the case, however, in central regions for the period from 1998 to 2004. An important observation made in the chapter is that foreign firms because of the lack of sufficient patent protection in China did not bring their most advanced technology to China and did not invest more into innovation (p. 73).
Chapter 4 is an elaborate econometric study examining technological and information spillovers from FDI in Chinese technology-intensive from 2000 to 2007. The study reveals that there are no sizable technological spillovers, but that local firms learn about exporting and market opportunities from the presence of foreign companies. Just how important foreign technology firms are in the Chinese economy in the period until 2007 is summarized in this statement: "On average, foreign invested firms produce 89 per cent of China's total exports in high technology products" (p. 92), writes Fu. It would be useful for someone to update these figures for the past 8 years to see whether the numbers have come down.
Chapter 5 is devoted to teasing out to what extent the technological upgrading of Chinese firms is due to indigenous innovation versus the importation of foreign technology. Again the analysis is based on a large econometric study that estimates the sources of total factor productivity growth for for 53,981 firms. The key findings are that in low-tech and medium-tech industries, Chinese firms have experienced sizable productivity growth not because of foreign technologies but because of collective indigenous innovation. In high-tech sectors, foreign firms dominate the technological frontier and very little technological spillover to domestic firms seems to have taken place. This leads Fu to conclude that industrial policy needs to be tailored to specifics of each sector and its particular state of development. Just how easy this is for policy makers is certainly a fundamental question that deserves more of our attention.
Part II (Chapters 6 to 10) takes a much closer look at China's ability to develop indigenous innovation capacities and catch up with leading western countries. Chapter 6 examines The role of state policy in shaping innovation practices with a focus on open innovation. I had not seen anyone apply the concept of open innovation to an entire country, and it is important to note that "open innovation" is here meant metaphorically as relying on other parties to get innovation done. Recall that Deng's opening of China in 1978 was based on the realization that China technologically was woefully behind the West and that to raise the standard of living China needed to get access to advanced technology. Fu presents data that show how important open innovation is important in China: More than a third of 1408 manufacturing firms responded in a 2008 survey that they partnered with other firms both for product and process innovations. For me the most valuable part of the chapter was to bring into one place a review of the main public policies for open innovation in China from 1986 to 2009. While the government policies initially were focused on getting foreign companies to share their technologies and expertise with Chinese firms through joints ventures and licensing (called inbound open innovation), the Chinese government has in recent years focused on making it easier for domestic firms to acquire foreign companies and thereby gain access to cutting-edge technologies (this is called outbound open innovation). The reason for this is that foreign firms are more and more unwilling to share their leading technologies due to limited intellectual property right protection in China. Hence Chinese firms can only get access to foreign technology by buying foreign firms or setting up their own R&D laboratories in foreign countries, where they can hire scientists and engineers who have knowledge and connections that are not available in China. ZTE, Huawei and Haier are prominent examples of this trend.
Chapter 7 examines drivers of open innovation for firms in emerging economies, using the case of China. The idea is to examine to what extent firms are responding to technological, financial or institutional constraints and risks in choosing or avoiding open innovation strategies. Replicating the European Community Innovation Survey, the study is based on again on the 2008 survey of 1408 Chinese manufacturing firms, representing 18.2% of the total R&D spending in China. Only 625 made it into the econometric analysis, and large firms are over-represented. Nonetheless, the results show that large firms are more likely to engage in open innovation. The strongest finding perhaps is that without considerable R&D expenditures proxying for the absorptive capacity, firms do not engage much in open innovation. Consistent with many other studies, the different types of firms engage in different amounts of open innovation. Private enterprises do more than state-owned enterprises and foreign-invested firms. Once again, the study underlines how important private enterprises for China catching up with the advanced countries.
Chapter 8 is one of the most exciting chapters for students of universities and their role in economic development. Even under communism, Chinese universities had the role of solving practical problems of society. Fu reports something that I did not previously know: To stimulate industrial development and to force universities and research institutes to work on use-driven problems and push them into the market, the government cut funding for research from 1986 to 1993 by an annual rate of 5%. This led research institutes and universities to create their own enterprises to make money. The core of the chapter examines an interesting hypothesis regarding the role of universities in developing economies in contrast to their role in advanced economies. Is it the case that universities in China have an important role in helping Chinese firms absorb and diffuse technology from the most advanced countries rather then helping local firms develop new-to-the-world products? Drawing on the aforementioned innovation survey and benchmarking against a sample of the UK firms that filled out a similar survey, Fu finds that Chinese universities indeed helped firms to absorb foreign technology and develop products that are new to China rather than new to the world. The opposite is true for UK universities: They helped British firms to develop new-to-world-products but not diffusing innovations. Those companies in China that work on new-to-world-products benefit not only from domestic universities but from foreign universities, and most interestingly from those that are not in the most advanced countries but countries that are more on the development level of China. Fu is careful to point out that we need further studies to confirm the conclusions with data that are not based on the subjective evaluations of firm managers.
Chapter 9 examines the Chinese optical fibre and cable industry. Fu acknowledges that there are additional problems with the reliability of the survey data in this study. The dependent variable is very subjective. Firm managers were asked to rate whether they are leaders in the industry. You can skip this chapter.
Anyone who travels in China realizes that if "necessity is the mother of all inventions" China should become a leader in environmental innovations to deal with the widespread pollution of air, land and water. Chapter 10 offers a comparison of the efforts of China and India to build an indigenous solar and wind industries. Such a chapter could have been effective if detailed scholarly histories of the industries in China and India had already been written. I have done quite bit of research on the solar industry of China, and for me the treatment of development of the Chinese solar industry was too coarse-grained. What I found most rewarding about this chapter was Fu's discussion of the environmental pollution caused by so-called green technologies. Dominating global solar production, China exports this green technology while keeping the pollution created during the production processes in the country. Fu here reminds us that we need to assess the total environmental impact of producing and using green technologies.
Part III (Chapters 11 to 14) focuses on China becoming a global innovative leader. Chapter 11 offers an exploratory case study of how Huawei and ZTE became global players in the telecommunications industry. Huawei is the top patent filer in the world and ZTE is No.3.
To get a deeper understanding how these two firms upgraded their capabilities to beat Western firms in many markets, Fu and her co-author Zhonghuan Sun interviewed 17 leading executives of the two firms. In essence, the chapter offers an account of the cognitive maps that senior executives have to explain how their firms became successful. Here are the key reasons cited: The first step in the success of the two firms was to initially go after markets that the incumbent players did not care about, be this the country side of China rather than big cities or later developing countries rather than developed countries. With a foot in the door and some scale economies built up, the firms could then attack incumbent western firms in their core markets. Second, the two firms listened closely to their customers and concentrated their research and development efforts on what the customers wanted. (This strategy does not work always work, as Clay Christensen pointed out in his book on the hard drive industry.) Third, both firms engaged in alliance and JV with leading firms in the industry and through this learned to upgrade their own capabilities. (Why the leading firms when they were not customers would enter these JVs in the first place is not made clear.) Fourth, both firms built country-level organizations all around the world and then set up organizational processes to transfer knowledge not only from headquarters to foreign subsidiaries but also from foreign subsidiaries to HQ. Fifth, the firms set up R&D laboratories in many places in the world to tap knowledge.
Future research can build on this chapter and bring into the comparison leading incumbent firms from which Huawei and ZTE grabbed market share. Are we dealing with short-cycle technologies (Lee, 2013) where it is easy to catch up with incumbents because those technologies rely less on existing technologies? Further, did ZTE and Huawei have unbeatable cost advantages over their western rivals in the 1990s and early 2000 mixed with economies of scale? Was the cost advantage also in R&D? If most of the patents of the firms came out of the Chinese laboratories rather than the foreign laboratories, this could be the case. Clearly ZTE and Huawei are leading examples of Chinese firms becoming innovative. I hope other researchers will continue to dig into these key Chinese firms and unravel more details about how they became innovative.
Chapter 12 returns to the dataset that was already used in Chapter 8 and presents data that is consistent with the case study of Huawei and ZTE. The chapter analyzes what types of collaborations help firms to achieve more radical innovations measured in terms of the percentage of novel new sales. The results are very interesting. It turns out there is only one type of collaboration that matters after controlling for all other types of collaborations. It is not collaboration with a foreign subsidiary; it is not collaboration with a foreign supplier, or foreign private research institute or collaboration with foreign university or public research institute. It is not collaboration with domestic partner. No, the only thing that helps is collaboration with a foreign customer. If ever there was very specific and actionable advice to Chinese companies on how to develop more innovative products, this is it. I think this finding is one of the most important insights of the entire book.
Chapter 13 examines how efficient China is in creating innovations by comparing China with a number of other developing and developed countries. The econometric exercises underpinning this analysis involves stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). First, a few words about what is meant by innovation efficiency. Fu explains that innovation efficiency "reflects a nations intangible capability for transforming direct, tangible inputs—Investments in R&D, the stock of engineers, scientists, and skilled labor, and investments in education— into final commercially successful innovation outputs" (p. 331). Think about this intangible capability as the social, cultural, legal and economic infrastructure of a country. The degree of patent protection would be one element. Trusting that the government will not take away the fruits of your innovation would be another. The good news for China is that in 2011, with a benchmarked score of .22 , China was more efficient in creating innovations than France (.20), Spain (.09), Russia (.08), and Argentina (.06). But compared to Japan (1.0), which is the most efficient country, South Korea (.85) and the US (0.80), China is still far from the efficiency frontier.
Chapter 14 lays out an agenda for how the Chinese government can improve the innovation efficiency of the country. A wide range of policy measures are discussed. Fu sees as the most important goal to stimulate the private sector to take a higher share in the Chinese economy and to subject the state-owned enterprise sector to more competition. She is against the state targeting particular industries for special support and instead wants the government to focus on "horizontal policies" that apply to all sectors. The government should continue to increase its spending on R&D to catch up with more advanced countries, but not focus on particular sectors in the economy. One interesting proposal Fu makes I had not encountered before: She recommends that the government should set up a Central Innovation Leading Group (CILG) led by the prime minster. The idea is to achieve a better coordination among the various ministries and local governments whose policies impact China's innovation capability.
The concluding sector recapitulates the key findings of the book and provides suggestions for future research. In my view, Fu's call to do more research on the role of the state is the single most important one among her many suggestions. Aside from the aforementioned proposal (CILG), throughout the book there is very little discussion about the role of the state and the machinery of government. The only place where different levels of government in China appear explicitly is in Fu's discussion of the solar industry. Once the solar industry took over, many different regional and city governments sponsored solar companies in their territories, only to lead to a massive oversupply of solar panels, dramatic price declines and bankruptcies. The Communist Party as far as I can remember does not appear at all in the book. It seems to me that future research on the role of the state in China needs to grapple with the organization and the competition among factions without the Communist Party. We in the innovation studies community often pay too little attention on the political process through which any science and technology policy is made. This is why we have too little sense what policies are politically easy or difficult to implement. Someone should write a study about how science and technology policy is made in China similar to the wonderful study of Victor Shih (2009) about the political struggles within the Communist Party and with government technocrats to keep inflation under control in China.
In the meantime, I recommend that any scholar interested in China's innovation capacity read China's Path to Innovation.
—Johann Peter Murmann Published: July 28, 2015
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Lee, K. 2013. Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up: Knowledge, Path-Creation, and the Middle-Income Trap. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Rein, S. 2014. The End of Copycat China: The Rise of Creativity, Innovation, and Individualism in Asia: Wiley.
Shih, V. C. 2009. Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation: Cambridge University Press.
Tse, E. 2015. China's Disruptors: How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business: Penguin Publishing Group.
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Saturday, December 6, 2008
The season of Traditions
It is a snowy wet day here in Alberta and I enjoyed the day out with my friend, L. shopping and having a belated Birthday Lunch. The lunch was delicious and so was the time spent with a good friend. I did some Christmas shopping and checked out a local pottery guild sale. I found some very nice things for very good prices so I have a few pieces of pottery for friends and family on my list. Christmas shopping is something that I do all year round. As well. I like to keep some things on hand for gifts in case I have forgotten someone's special day. My mother has always had a gift box and I seem to have carried on that tradition.
I have a harder time having gift box items for my main man and the boy. It is harder for me to buy for my immediate family than anyone else. Sometimes I run out of ideas and so I fill up their stockings with things that they need- socks, underwear,coffee coupons for Tim Hortons- a popular Canadian coffee house(we do have Starbucks and Second Cup coffee places too), and other things that are consumable.
Yes even socks are consumable- at least they seem to be in my house- We have a large bag of one sock wonders that seem to have lost their mates. Does anyone else have that problem? I buy the males in my house socks in sets of 6 pairs that are all the same and that still doesn't solve the case of the disappearing socks. Maybe the dryer eats them or the dog or......
Our son will celebrate his 21 birthday next week. I am not sure where the time has gone... He is wonderful young man just finding his way in the world... We are still looking for that special birthday gift that recognizes that he is officially an adult.
In the meantime the Christmas buzz permeates life... My school children are excited and reflect the anticipation of the season. The joy and innocence of young children and their overwhelming belief in the spirit of Santa Claus fills me with warmth and pleasure each and every year. in the meantime, my students are busy learning their song for Christmas concert- "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth". They will look so cute all dressed up and singing on our school stage.
Today's quilt is a quilt that I showed in a local guild show around 2004. It is a double wedding ring quilt that is large enough to use as a cuddle quilt or on the Christmas table. I made this quilt to honor my father's mother, Olive. My grandmother was a quilter who made quilts out of whatever was available. She was a farm woman who was a great canner( she would put up 300 jars of wild fruit in a year) and baker( my mother still uses her dark fruit cake recipe for Christmas). Olive worked hard all of her shortened life- she passed away when she was 43. She had many health problems and unfortunately she died before I was born. Grandma Olive would have used feed sacks and recycled clothing to make pieced arcs instead of the continuous arcs of this double wedding ring quilt. She would have pieced and quilted her quilts by hand as they did not have electricity in the farm house that was my father's childhood home. I had the benefit of using acrylic templates and a rotary cutter- her tools would have been cardboard templates and scissors. Our technology may be more developed but the techniques would have been similar.
I would love to have one of her quilts, but I don't think that there are any of them left. I like to believe she would have liked this quilt even though is a modern take on a traditional quilt. Personally, I am very fond of the rich colors and the way the flowers lay in the rings. If I did another one, I would have fussy cut the centers of the quilt pieces. The binding needed to be true bias binding to go around the scallop edges.
Its been a while since I made a new Christmas quilt I have some gorgeous Laurel Burch fabrics gathered for a Christmas quilt but it will have to wait until after Christmas.
There are some really beautiful Christmas quilts out here in Blogland. If you have time, do check out some of the links on my sideboard- you will find some really wonderful pieces of work that people have lovingly created.
Last week I mentioned that my husband, Bruce went looking for pieces of the meteor that fell on the prairies in November. For those of you who might be interested in checking out my husband's meteorite adventure you can find photos of it here...http://skyriver.ca/astro/bruce/meteorite.htm
In the meantime, I will be preparing some snacks to share for our last quilt class on Monday and shopping for my loved ones. Oh and making nuts and bolts and making the odd bracelet with beads and putting up some more Christmas decorations and....the list grows by the minute... I did get the Christmas Village up as well as the Stain glass in the dining room window- Next to find the Christmas Santas and Snowmen for the mantle..
'Tis the season of traditions and celebrations...Remember to take time to savor the time spent with family and friends - to me, that is really what I hope our season will be all about..
Happy Quilting,
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Week 2 vs. Saints
In order to take the next step, the Panthers have to make playing in Charlotte a tall order for teams, particularly division opponents. Last season the Panthers allowed the Saints to come back late in the fourth quarter in a 30-27 loss. Time to turn it around.
Week 8 at Bears
Another potential W the Panthers let slip away was in Chicago last season. Carolina was in position in the second half, but couldn't make the key plays, despite gaining a whopping 543 yards of offense. This would be a tough road win that would energize one of the NFL's youngest rosters.
Week 14 vs. Falcons
Ditto with the dreaded Falcons, who swept the Panthers last season. Carolina blew a 23-7 halftime lead at home versus the Falcons, ultimately falling 31-23. Ron Rivera's group must close these division games out, especially at home.
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China Securities Regulator to Suspend New 'Circuit Breaker' Mechanism
Says system didn't work out as expected, instead exacerbated stock losses
China's securities regulator announced a suspension of a new "circuit breaker" mechanism designed to help stabilize the stock market, saying the system didn't work out as expected and instead exacerbated stock losses.
In a statement issued late Thursday night, the China Securities Regulatory Commission said the circuit breaker system will be halted starting Friday. It didn't say how long the suspension will remain in place.


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June 29, 2014
An application is about to be submitted by the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority for a New York casino gaming license.
The due date for all applications is set for Monday.
The Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority has proposed redeveloping the former Concord Hotel located in Tompson. The town is in Sullivan County. The project is estimated to cost $600 million.
the tribe is currently one of two developers interested in the Catskills location. The other is Empire Resorts.
All applications are due June 30. There are four casino licenses available for development in upstate New York.
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You know I love all things crafty! I really love scrapbooking, it's just hard for me to start and finish a project since it takes SO long. I found this scrapbooking software, My Memories, that is really fun to use though, and its easier because you don't have to sit at a big table with 23908 things out, glue, scissors, get all your pics printed, etc, etc. You can just sit at your computer, sip on your coffee without the worry of spilling it all over your paper, and do it.
I didn't read a tutorial, help page, or anything to make these. I wanted to try it out from the perspective of a first time, without extra help and research, and see how user friendly it was. So anything I say about what it does or doesn't do is just my experience from my general use.
I still haven't made our wedding scrapbook like I had planned to, so I thought I'd try out a wedding page! I made this with the My Memories scrapbooking suite.
This is a collage of the most important parts of our wedding ceremony with the actual wording we wrote. I made my own custom layout with this one. You can change the shape of the pictures, add shadows, embellishments, words, word art, and more. You can rotate things around and change the opacity too.
Unfortunately you can't do much with the text boxes. I couldn't really rotate them or change the shape of them. You can make them follow a circle or square though.
Here is one of their premade templates. This one is for Christmas.
I used it to make a Christmas card!
Unfortunately you can't do much with the text boxes. I couldn't really rotate them or change the shape of them. You can make them follow a circle or square though.
Here is one of their premade templates. This one is for Christmas.
I used it to make a Christmas card!
You can see I repositioned some things, added smowflake, etc. This was fun!
I went through lots of awesome things about the program above, so lets do some cons.
I mentioned the text boxes aren't that versatile. Rotating is a super pain in the butt. It isn't smooth like Microsoft Word for example. You have to move the slider that makes it rotate, see where it lands, then micro-adjust it again. The entire program runs very slow like this. It isn't my computer, because I have a pretty fast computer. When choosing picture for my layout, it was faster to open the file with the pictures on my computer, memorize the number, scroll down to it in the program, and click it before the preview even uploaded.
You can make all sorts of things with this software: scrapbook pages you can put in a digital scrapbook online or have printed, photo books, cards, slideshows, invitations, stationary, or custom gifts like a mug for grandma. I love that you can export the files as a jpegs and put them on Facebook!
The My Memories scrapbooking software sells for $39.97. If you use my coupon code: STMMMS46363, you can get $10 off that price, and an additional $10 to spend in the My Memories store to buy things like different scrapbook paper, stickers, etc.
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Conservation and Preservation
The 444-acre Estate encompasses globally endangered pine rockland habitat, among the largest blocks of this ecosystem remaining in the United States, as well as coastal tropical hardwood rockland hammocks, mangrove forests, salt marshes, a coastal dune island and the submerged resources of Biscayne Bay.
It is also one of the few remaining Environmentally Endangered Lands (EEL) (http://www.miamidade.gov/derm/program_EEL.asp) in Miami-Dade County and is cared for and maintained by a full-time Natural Areas Management (http://www.miamidade.gov/parks/about-volunteering-natural_areas-summary.asp) crew. The Estate serves as an outdoor classroom and laboratory for students and scientists.
Outside of the Estate, these natural communities continue to disappear at an alarming rate, but within the Deering Estate's protected boundaries they are studied, restored, enhanced, and cared for by specialists.
Rare and native plants thrive here, including orchids, bromeliads, ferns, and more than 40 species of trees. A variety of wildlife, such as gray foxes, spotted skunks, squirrels, snakes, butterflies, and birds inhabit the area. Through our daily Natural Areas Tours, our education and interpretive staff guides visitors through the Estate's protected habitats.


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Death Inc., the rather lovely looking strategy game from Ambient Studios, has managed to find life after Kickstarter. The innovative title from a developer consisting of the people behind LittleBigPlanet, Burnout and Fable failed to scrape together even half of the $300,000 they needed from the crowd funding site, but have announced today that the game will be released anyway. And the good news? If you pre-purchase, you'll be able to play the alpha version of the game right now.
I didn't really pay much attention to this, but I remember reading, on multiple different websites, that this game was remarkably similar to a handful of iOS and PC titles already out. Someone cited a specific iPhone game (I don't know what it was, as I don't own one) that was essentially identical to this new game, with the flashy art style the only thing differentiating this title.


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County planning commissioners, in reducing a developer's rezoning request from five homes to 3.5 homes per acre Friday, said they were sending a message to all owners of undeveloped residential property in the south county area .
The message, said Commissioner Lloyd Hasner, concerns the densities that will be approved in the heavily congested areas west of Boca Raton and Delray Beach.
Hasner, a builder by trade, explained that "the price of land is based on the perception of densities that can be expected."
When expectations are for more homes per acre, land prices go up, he said. If a developer has to pay a high price for land and then cannot develop at nearly the densities he expected, "he will have monetary problems," Hasner said.
"So the message has to be clear from us to the people down there to keep the price of land down so we can still have affordable housing," Hasner said.
Resident Mel Werfel, representing the South County Political Cooperative, said his group's position is that densities in the south county area should all be lowered. "We feel strongly about this because the (planned major revisions) to the comprehensive land-use plan are still a long time away," and until then densities have to be kept under control, Werfel said.
By a 5-0 vote, the commission recommended that the County Commission, sitting as the Zoning Board early next month, approve the rezoning request by Schmier and Feurring Properties on 15.5 acres near Lyons Road and Glades Road, at 3.5 units per acre. The Zoning Board has the final say.
The developer wants to build 77 villas, in duplex and triplex formations. The commission has recommended he be permitted to build only 54 homes.
Schmier's representative Charles Putnam argued that "other development in this area could actually justify a much higher intensity. With the fewer units (you are recommending) we are probably talking about only 100 fewer trips per day. That is not going to resolve the traffic problems in the south county," he said.
A shopping center will soon be built on 20 acres adjoining Schmier's property. Carteret Savings and Loan, which is selling Schmier the land also owns the commercial tract. The Zoning Board rejected the shopping center rezoning request last year. But the developer sued and won.


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Funniest Jokes-By-Funniest-Stand Up Comedians - Live Videos Must Watch
Steve Martin Jokes:
♥ Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything!
♥ There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I will not stand for that.
♥ Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It is something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.
♥ I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
♥ You know what your problem is, it is that you have not seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
♥ The doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
♥ Why is it we do not always recognize the moment when love begins, but we always know when it ends? * As Harris K. Telemacher in "L.A. Story" (1991)
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Dana Carvey impersonates Bush and Perot
Grammys 2002 - Airport Security with Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart Jokes:
♥ I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
♥ Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.
♥ We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There is just one problem - it is in North Korea.
♥ We declared war on terror—it is not even a noun, so, good luck.
♥ Here is how bizarre the war is that we are in Iraq, and we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went into Iraq, Germany did not want to go. Germany. The Michael Jordan of war took a pass. Jon Stewart's Stand-up performance at RIT, 2005
Steve Bridges - As George W. Bush with George W. Bush!
Bill Maher - Anti-Pharma Rant
Bill Maher Jokes:
♥ Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
♥ I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
♥ Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I do not need.
♥ They are talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that is used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna cannot even smoke in bed.
Steve Bridges as President Obama - January 2010 - Pt 1
The Supermarket Experience
Jerry Seinfeld Jokes:
♥ Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.
♥ Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them is making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge.
♥ There is very little advice in men's magazines, because men do not think there is a lot they do not know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked."
♥ Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they are killing living creatures. Why restrict it to plants? "Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel.
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Stand Up
Larry David Jokes:
♥ Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there is your diamond in the rough.
♥ If you tell the truth about how you are feeling, it becomes funny.
♥ I am surprised Hitler didn't round up the toupee people.
ClassicTelevisionBlog - Comedian Rodney Dangerfield
Rodney Dangerfield Jokes:
♥ My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.
♥ Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.
♥ I am at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep, they will have someone to talk to.
♥ A girl phoned me and said, "Come on over. There's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home!
♥ Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Bush-ificating with 2 legends - Dana Carvey and Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller Jokes:
♥ A recent police study found that you are much more likely to be shot by a fat cop if you run.
♥ The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dartboard.
♥ The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.
Gran Turismo® (PSP) Jay Leno Interview
Jay Leno Jokes:
♥ Here is something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
♥ The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This was not for any religious reasons. They could not find three wise men and a virgin.
♥ Now, there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you have met your New Year's resolution?
♥ The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.


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We've heard wrong. There is no choice of light-rail routes. When the facts are known, it is the categorical imperative that they be located on Long Beach Boulevard.
Most of the patronage south of Willow Street will come by bus and on foot. It has always been so. The Long Beach Boulevard corridor, bounded by Pacific and Atlantic avenues, is set up to handle it:
--There are no parking lots for Los Angeles patrons there.
--All bus lines, from the far corners of the city, serve this corridor, as did the predecessor local streetcar lines.
--The street now called Long Beach Boulevard was especially constructed wide enough for boulevard traffic and additionally wide enough to carry two tracks for what we now call "light rail." This requires no condemnation of property.
--Restoring the mistakenly removed light-rail reserved median will not take away from the current number of traffic lanes, but instead will increase the capacity of the boulevard to move people.


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Hello, Jo Jo in Germany! You are very handsome and playful! Happy Cat of the Day!
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Hello, Jo Jo in Germany! You are very handsome and playful! Happy Cat of the Day!
Dearest JoJo, what a beautiful boy you are! You are so handsome with that snowy white fur that looks so soft and that sweet face with the one yellow eye and one blue. You are adorable in both of those great photos. I wish I could reach through the screen and across the ocean to Germany and pet you! I can't, of course, but I know your loving and beloved people will pet you for me .
And what a delightful personality you have! You protect your home from strange cats. You are a big boy with one paw as big as extra fingers, but you meow like a little kitten. You like dogs and sometimes cuddle with your family dog. In fact, sometimes you act like you're half dog, eating dog food and playing fetch! You are independent and sleep where you want to. Sometimes you are friendly and a bit lazy, and sometimes you act like a little kitten, which is very cute. You and your family members all love each other very much, don't you. What a wonderful love-filled home you share!
Congratulations, darling JoJo, on being chosen today's Cat of the Day! We hope you and all your family and friends are enjoying a fine celebration, full of fun and lovies and all your favorite games and treats.
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
-- Terry Pratchett (19482015), Sourcery
Congratulations on being honoured as Cat of the Day, JoJo!
What a handsome white boy you are! Your coat looks so soft and is beautiful! You have a cute pink nose, and a green and blue eyes, that is quite normal for white kitties. I hope your hearing is fine.
How nice that you have been with your family since you are tiny kitten, they are lucky to have a sweet companion like you, and you are lucky to have a safe home where you are loved.
You are an independant boy, but you still like to cuddle up with the dog, and you are quite determined to protect the house from any intruding cats.
Enjoy a day of fun, celebration and playtime with your strings and little balls. I hope you get pampered with some extra treats and lots of love. I wish you a long, happy and healthy life, sweetie!
"I don't know which weapons will be used in the third World war, but in the fourth, it will be sticks and stones" --- Albert Einstein.
You are a very special cat with two different eye colors! How unique!
I have a cat that acts just like you, he likes to protect the house from other cats and he is very big like you! He also purrs very loudly and sometimes enjoys dog company.
You are such a deserving cat of the day and it is clear that your owner loves you very much!
I wish you a day full of love and cuddles!!!
Hi JoJo in Germany! Happy Cat of the Day!
What a big, beautiful boy you are, JoJo! Your cream colored coat is gorgeous, and how stunning are your bi-colored eyes! And by all accounts you're every bit as charming and personality packed as you are beautiful...half cat/half dog, so adventurous and playful, brimming with energy and a zest for life (that is when you're not napping, being lazy, or cuddling with your doggie pal or humans)!D Of course your family loves you just as you are! You're pure kitty purrfection! How lucky your humans are, having a furry family member, a best friend for life in you, JoJo! You're the best, and so very deserving of your big day of honor!
Thanks for ending my day with a BIG smile, sweetheart! Meeting you, seeing your lovely photos, has been a real treat! Hope you're enjoying a very special day of celebration, playing with your string and ball, cuddling with your doggie friend and humans, being treated to all your heart desires and more! Lots of love, snuggles and kisses to you, beautiful JoJo, our very special and most deserving Cat of the Day, EVERY day! Love to your doggie sibling, too!
Gorgeous JoJo!!!
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And my Rainbow Bridge Furangels...Jingles, Cody, Fritz, Chessa, Satin, Buddy, Lizzie, Oliver, Squeaker, Moonbeam, Rosie, Ruby~
Everyone agrees, your cat Jo Jo is indeed a very special and fine looking cat! It is so nice he is freinds with the dog and very cute, he acts like part dog too!
Lieber Jo Jo, du bist ein wunderschoener Kater! What a handsome boy you are, with your snowy white coat and those beautiful eyes.
You are very independent, coming and going as you please, and you let everybody know when they get on your nerves. But you also have your playful and cuddly side, even with the dog.
Jo Jo, you are a special and wonderful kitty, and I wish you and your family a great day full of celebration, and many more happy and healthy years together.
Congratulations to handsome Jo Jo for being Cat of the Day!
All things work together for good to them that love God.
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It can be hard to separate office life from personal life, making it hard to transition from the office environment into family life for the weekend, especially during the summer.
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Closing out your week on a summer Friday in an orderly and positive way is a great way to make a clean psychological transition into your weekend. Nobody likes the feeling of unfinished business hanging over their head while playing with the kids or dining with the family on Sunday night, so it's important that you do what you can to make as clean a break as possible when walking out the office door at the end of the week.
Based on conversations I've had with clients over the years on how to make a clean mental break, here are a few ideas to help make the weekend transition a clean one:
Check the Win Column. Celebrating success is something we could stand to do a little more of, particularly in these tough times. Before walking out the office door you should always do a quick check of what you got done over the week as a reminder of your positive contributions to the organization.
Take note of something that went well, compliment a co-worker on an accomplishment, or drop a thank you note to a client. The idea is to find something positive that makes you feel good about your job and make sure that moment is the last thing on your mind before walking out the door.
Tidy Up. Before walking out the door for the weekend, take a few minutes to scroll through your inbox, toss any unnecessary paper piled on your desk and straighten up your workspace. This will give that feeling of a fresh start when you arrive on Monday.
Close the Door…Literally. When you leave the office, make sure you actually leave! Try and tie up any loose ends so that you can truly disconnect. Don't leave anything hanging that you can quickly take care of before heading out. There is nothing worse than having that feeling of something hanging over your head over the weekend.
Truly Disconnect. I recently met a CEO who turns off his phone at 6:00 every Friday night. Don't be afraid to shut down your smartphone or at least shutoff the e-mail alerts and let people know about the policy. When you walk out that door be sure to tell your colleagues the period of time you will be unavailable and stick to it! It's important to be present for your family and friends.
As we head into summer keep your priorities in mind. Most of us strive to live well and strike a positive work-life blend, so be sure to close every Friday in a way that will allow you to disconnect for a couple days and genuinely engage in some summer fun.