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Lani Wendt Young – Telesa About Telesa: An island of secrets. A girl on fire. An epic battle of the elements. Can love truly conquer all? A thrilling love story inspired by Pacific mythology - featuring a sinister sisterhood of beautiful women with an environmental agenda and a fiery yet vulnerable young woman who must master her gifts - before they destroy her and all those she cares about.
About Lani: Samoan Author, Blogger and Writer of Pacific Stories. I am the author of five books and the blogger of "Sleepless in Samoa'. I write stories about strong, vibrant Pacific women ( and the tattooed men brave enough to love them)- contemporary stories inspired by our Polynesian mythology and a touch of X-Men comics.
Elle Strauss – Seaweed About Seaweed: A teen swim athlete discovers a merfolk world that threatens to keep her out of the ocean forever.
About Elle: Elle Strauss is the best selling author of otherworldly YA fiction. A married mother of four, Elle divides her time between BC, Canada and Dresden, Germany. She enjoys drinking coffee and eating chocolate in both places. She also writes upper YA/adult mixed genre romance as LEE Strauss. Visit Elle at www.ellestraussbooks.com
Kristen Day – Forsaken About Forsaken: Seventeen year old Hannah spent her childhood wading through countless foster families until finally being adopted by a wealthy family from Georgia. Unfortunately, Atlanta's high society wasn't quite ready for Hannah… or the strange events that plague her.
About Kristen: Author of the YA/PN Daughters of the Sea Series! Lover of sarcasm, Sharpies & pixie sticks. Obsessed w/all things vintage. Sweet tea addict. Wife. Closet ninja.
Karen Amanda Hooper - Tangled Tides About Tangle Tides: Yara Jones doesn't believe in mermaids--until she becomes one and opens the gateway to a love that's deeper than the oceans.
About Karen: Karen was born and bred in Baltimore, frolicked and froze in Colorado for a couple of years and is currently sunning and splashing around Florida with her two beloved dogs. She's addicted to coffee, chocolate and complicated happily-ever-afters. www.KarenAmandaHooper.com
Amber Garr - Promises and Betrayal About Promises and Betrayal: Promises: Sometimes following your heart can end up destroying the ones you love. Betrayal: Life as a mermaid can be suffocating.
About Amber: Amber Garr spends her days as a scientist and nights writing about other worlds. Born in Pennsylvania, she lives in Maryland with her husband and their furry kids. Her childhood imaginary friend was a witch, Halloween is sacred, and she is certain that she has a supernatural sense of smell. Amber is a multiple Royal Palm Literary Award winner, author of The Water Crisis Chronicles, The Syrenka Series, The Leila Marx Novels, and the upcoming Death Warden Series. When not obsessing over the unknown, she can be found dancing, reading, or enjoying a good movie.
Cheri Lasota - Artemis Rising About Artemis Rising: What if your name was your destiny? And what if that name foretold a tragic end?
About Cheri: Artemis Rising was a winner in the Chanticleer Cygnus Awards and a finalist in the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Can't get enough of Arethusa's world? Learn more about the characters, story, and the Azores Islands here. If you'd like to keep up-to-date with Cheri's publication news, sign up for her newsletter here. Cheri is a techno-dweeb and darn proud of it. She dabbles in video editing, ebook design, coding, gaming, gizmos, gadgets, tablets, and apps. Currently, Cheri is a full time freelancer focusing on Fiction & Nonfiction Editing, E-Book & Print Design, Web Design, and Book Marketing Consulting. She is also founder of AudaVoxx.com, which aims to help listeners discover and win Audible audio books. Along with her award-winning debut novel, Artemis Rising, Cheri has published her second novel, Echoes in the Glass, as well as several anthologies. Cheri also recently released her how-to e-book Design and Upload Your ePub. Cheri is a member of The Indelibles YA Author Collective, Historical Fiction Authors Cooperative, and Willamette Writers.
Heather Allen - Just Breathe About Just Breathe: Ever Harding must make the a decision that could change her life forever! Will she become a mermaid to be with the one she loves,Jack or will she stay on land with her family?
About Heather: Heather Allen is the author of The Just Breathe Trilogy, Feeling This, The Sound of Shooting Stars and her recently released Let Go about an MMA fighter. Heather finally realized her dream of becoming an author just over a year ago with her mermaid trilogy. She savors every moment on this journey and the wonderful friends she has met along the way. She has many more books planned. Ideas pop up faster than she has time to write.
Nikki Godwin - Chasing Forever Down About Chasing Forever Down: When seventeen-year-old Haley Sullivan meets a mysterious stranger, she realizes her dreams are within her reach. But when the stranger disappears, she embarks on a journey to find him and finds more than she expected.
About Nikki: Nikki Godwin is a YA/NA/LGBT author. She can't live without Mountain Dew, black eyeliner, and music by Hawthorne Heights. When not writing, she internet-stalks her favorite bands and keeps tabs on surf competitions. Her life goal is to meet David Desrosiers of Simple Plan. Her favorite pro surfers are Jeremy Flores, Gabriel Medina, and John John Florence.
Leigh Talbert Moore - Dragonfly + Undertow
About Dragonfly: Anna Sanders expected an anonymous (and uneventful) senior year until she crossed paths with rich-and-sexy Jack Kyser and his twin sister Lucy. Pulling Anna into their extravagant lifestyle on the Gulf Coast, Lucy pushed Anna outside her comfort zone, and Jack showed her feelings she'd never experienced... Until he mysteriously withdrew. Anna turned to her internship at the city paper and to her old attraction for Julian, a handsome local artist and rising star, for distraction. But both led to her discovery of a decades-old secret closely guarded by the twins' distant, single father. A secret that could permanently change all their lives.
About Undertow: In Dragonfly, Bill Kyser gave Anna the three journals that held the story behind the powerful developer's seclusion and the damaged lives of his family members. Anna hopes to find a way for Julian to know the truth, but as she digs deeper into the tragic events of the past, she realizes silence could be the only option. Now she's in an alliance with the man she formerly feared. And if Julian finds out what she knows, she could lose for good the boy she's starting to love.
About Leigh: Leigh Talbert Moore is the author of the popular young adult romantic comedy The Truth About Faking, its companion, The Truth About Letting Go, which is a Top 5 Finalist in the 2013 "Best Indie Book Awards," sponsored by The Kindle Book Review; the romantic-suspense novel Rouge, which was a Quarter Finalist in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards; and the Dragonfly series, a new contemporary YA to new adult romantic saga.
Amy Evans – CLICKS About Clicks: Clicks is a genre blending joyride of twinning, swimming and winning for anyone who loves dolphins, adventure and romance.
About Amy: Amy Evans is an author, ocean lover and dolphin mom. She loves to write books that jump genres and leave readers feeling all lit up inside. CLICKS is her first novel and was nominated for best debut for the Utopya Conference for Young Adult and New Adult books. The sequel, ECHOES, comes out in mid June. Connect with her on g+, twitter, tumblr, and facebook. Or check out her website www.amyevansbooks.com.
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text: Andy Gautrey's work floored me the first time I saw it. What a tremendous combination of elements at work here: excellent wire work, great running models, and the great look of it all. I've watched it on the 'big screen' in my living room a bunch of times now. More here and here.

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Warning: dubious calculations appear in the following text. If you're a nit-picking astronomer-type, either skip it, or correct me gently. Thanks.
Ok, maybe I sound like Carl Sagan here, but really -- assuming that our galaxy is of roughly average size, there are about 500 trillion stars in the universe. That's a 5 with 14 zeros after it, or 500,000,000,000,000 stars. If the universe is 15 billion years old, that means that there are, on average, about one new star for every 15 minutes of all of existence(!) -- 33,000 new stars for every Earth-year.
Doesn't it seem inevitible that, at least at one time, there was intelligent life somewhere else? The trick, I suppose, is whether it was there at the "right time" for us to see them.
I think it's pretty easy to run the numbers... Let's assume that human beings will be around for a total of 10 million years. Not all that long a time in astronomical terms, but a pretty long time as far as I'm concerned, and pretty conservative if things don't get too far out of hand in Kashmir.
Let's also assume that humans are roughly average as far as intelligent life is concerned (at least in terms of life forms that we might have a chance of detecting at astronomical distances).
That means that our exposure to potential extra-terrestrial life, as a species, is about 300 billion star-years, where a star-year is a year of existence of a star in the universe, which exists during the life-span of our species. That's more than twice the number of galaxies in the universe!
Now 10 million years is about 0.066% of the total age of the universe. If we assume that other intelligent species last for about the same amount of time, then we can extrapolate the likelyhood that we'll ever see them. It's about 0.000044%. Multiply that by the number of star-years that we're exposed to as a species, and we get the likelyhood that if every star were to develop intelligent (and detectible) life, that't we'd be exposed to them over the lifetime of our species. It's a very large number: 133,333.
Here's the rub. Let's say that only one in 100,000 stars ever has a planet which develops intelligent life. That leaves us with odds of about 1.3-to-one, that if we were paying very close attention to every star in the universe all the time, that we'd see signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
Then consider that we have a very hard time detecting even the existence of an entire planet orbiting a nearby star. I have no way to assign a value to this factor, but let's say for sake of example, that we could detect planets orbiting one-in-a-million stars in the universe. (Probably optimistic.) That puts us in the 13-to-one range for detecting extra-terrestrial life for the entire life of our species. Factor in Moore's Law, and you can probably change 13:1 to 100-to-one.
That gives us about one chance in 100,000 for success per year, which is -- very roughly -- one in two-thousand in my lifetime.
Since our powers of observation are astronomically speaking, pretty limited (at least for now), it should come as little surprise that we haven't heard much from our universal co-habitants.
However it's also pretty clear from the archeological record here on Earth, that life is extremely resilliant and adaptible. It might not be unreasonable to think that the number of stars in the universe which have habitable planets is much larger than the 1-in-100,000 number I used above. Maybe it's more like 1-in-10? We are, after all, already theorizing about the possibility of (non-intelligent) life existing on at least four large bodies right here in our own soalr system. (These theories are not without reason, btw.)
Perhaps the reason we haven't heard from them is that their envoronments aren't conducive to inventing technologies which we could detect from here on Earth. I personally think that it's quite likely that we're not alone, but that our roommates are so quiet or so distant, that we haven't even noticed that they're there... yet...
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In my class at Reed College, there were so many Dave-s that a friend of mine changed his name (not legally) to Dave23 -- that way everyone would know who he was. The class was only about 350 people, so does that mean that it was more than "5% Dave"? I don't know, but one of my 20 long-time best friends was in my class at Reed, and guess what his name is...
Certainly unrelated, but I understand that in the year 2000, Jacob (my real name) replaced John as the most popular name for newborn baby boys here in the U.S. John was the most popular name for something like 25 years previous, if memory serves. (It probably doesn't.)
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A muumuu, a kaftan... call it what you will. The point is: no one will know whether or not you're wearing underpants. We've seen similar garments on the runway and in the Walmart, (If your from a small town you call it THE Walmart) and if you're like me you have fantasized about wearing this pajama-like garment in public and doing it with PAZAZZ. The question that begs to be answered is, how do you style a muumuu?
I'm sure many people are appalled at the thought of wearing what is normally considered to be house lounging clothing in public. I however, am a big fan of this look for several reasons.
A. I already mentioned the underpants thing.
B. It's a breath of fresh air to any wardrobe and social situation
C. The cat lady/eccentric weirdo implications.
D. Comfort factor is turned up to 11.
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Static Leaching Studies on Pulpwood Bark Residuesby Arthur H. Benedict, (A.M.ASCE), Asst. Prof.; Dept. of Civ. Engrg., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada,
James J. McKeown, Regional Engr.; Northeast Regional Ctr., Natl. Council of Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc., Tufts Univ., Medford, MA,
Russell D. Hart, Sanitary Engr.; Anderson-Nichols and Co. Inc., Consultant Engrs., Concord, NH,
Serial Information: Journal of the Environmental Engineering Division, 1974, Vol. 100, Issue 3, Pg. 529-540
Document Type: Journal Paper
The National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc. undertook a laboratory study to define the quantities of BOD5, COD, color, Kjeldahl nitrogen, and inorganic phosphorus leached from fresh and field-aged pulpwood bark residues under several experimental conditions. Barks from northeastern species were used in all investigations. The results showed that the quantity of BOD5, COD, color, nitrogen, and phosphorus leached from bark residues under static leaching conditions depends on the storage age and storage conditions of the bark, on the characteristics of the contact water, and on the conditions under which leaching occurs. Working curves for estimating BOD5, COD, and color contributions from northeastern pulpwood bark residues are presented. Unit leaching potentials for nitrogen and phosphorus, lb/ton dry bark, are developed. The effect of freshwater and saline water leaching is compared.
Subject Headings: Oxygen demand | Nitrogen | Phosphorus | Water storage | Statics (mechanics) | Leaching | Laboratory tests | Salt water
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After reading this Washington Post story on Adam Schefter, it's becoming clear that Rick Maese is the go-to writer for profiles of semi-scrutable ESPN personalities. The Schefter piece doesn't have the surprising pathos of Maese's memorable Skip Bayless profile from a year ago, but it does provide a shockingly simple answer to the million-dollar question of how Schefter gets what he does: he bargains for it.
Working for ESPN, Schefter breaks more NFL news than anyone else, and he does it without being a league employee (Breer, Rapaport) or being in bed with the players (Glazer), so it's even more impressive. But to hear Maese tell it, teams aren't just falling over themselves to feed Schefter information. It's a tit-for-tat—Schefter gives them unreported news in exchange for their information, whether the trade be immediate or simply a scoop-to-be-named-later.
Here's Schefter informing someone in the Chiefs' front office that one of their players is about to be suspended.
"I think you maybe have another suspension coming down the pike," Schefter told him. "I don't think it's today, but I think it's coming here before the preseason's over. . . . Oh, you weren't aware of that? . . . I think Donald Stephenson. Does that surprise you? I don't know that for a fact, but I had somebody text me and say, 'Hey, be on the lookout for Donald Stephenson.' So, I'm giving you a heads-up in advance. If it starts percolating and you give me a heads-up back, that'd be great."
Four days later when the info was more solid, Schefter reported to the rest of the world that the Chiefs offensive lineman had been suspended for the first four games of the season.
"The reason people talk to you — I'm not stupid — they believe that you're going to be informed," Schefter said, "and you're going to bring something to the table for them . . . I can't stand calling somebody and just being, like, 'Hey, what's going on? Anything new?' You can't be a taker. You've got to be a giver."
That example's simple enough. The Chiefs were thankful to learn of Stephenson's impending suspension before they would have otherwise. So when they heard from the league, they confirmed it for Schefter. The team gets the heads-up, he gets the story.
This is nothing new under the sun, and it makes front offices want to be tight with Schefter—they need him as much as he needs them. But it gets a little trickier when Schefter is offering up information about other teams.
On this morning, the audience numbered only one: an AFC executive who had just called.
"Well, I got a few things for you," Schefter said. "Number one, you got the Titans and Eagles, both very anxious to trade for a wide receiver. They're both in the wide receiver market. So they're looking and my understanding is your team is loaded at receiver. . . "
One way to read this is as a reporter actively facilitating trades, in this case possibly clueing in potential trading partners to Tennessee and Philadelphia's desperation. The Titans and Eagles couldn't be too happy about that, but at the same time, as long as Schefter's fair and objective (and he's been doing this long enough for everyone to believe he is), those teams know he'll throw them a bone in turn. It's a fascinating system, a throwback to a time when sports reporters were chummier with their subjects, and it seems like it works for everyone.
Go read the full profile. At the very least, you'll learn which tight end you should reach for in fantasy this year.
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Here's a thought experiment. Let's say you could invest in a risk-free opportunity that produces a compounded annual return of 12%-14%, guaranteed, in perpetuity. Would you do it?
The catch is you couldn't invest in anything else. I mean nothing. No stocks, no bonds, no gold, no real estate, no private companies ... absolutely nothing. Still interested?
I've run this poll on a couple of our message boards, and it usually breaks down as follows: 75% say "yes" and 25% say "no."
Given the fact that the market, since 1900, has returned roughly 10% on average, you might think accepting the option to beat the historical market averages, with no "risk," would score even higher.
Furthermore, screening for stocks that delivered 13% compounded average returns over the past five years yielded only about 200 candidates, which comprises less than 5% of North American companies that trade on major exchanges. Even more challenging is the fact that most of these stocks were not your large blue-chip stocks, but rather under-followed companies that were navigating very unique events and special situations.
5-year % change
5-year CAGR
Special Opportunities
|CF Industries (NYSE: CF)
|Misunderstood IPO, cyclicality low
|Rubicon Minerals (AMEX: RBY)
|Undervalued gold deposits
|Mosaic (NYSE: MOS)
|Cargill's complex ownership stake, uncertain phosphate and potash pricing
|Cal-Maine Foods (Nasdaq: CALM)
|"Unremarkable egg producer," historical high short interests
|Seabridge Gold (AMEX: SA)
|Undeveloped and undervalued gold deposits
|Linn Energy (Nasdaq: LINE)
|Misunderstood master limited partnership
|Steven Madden (Nasdaq: SHOO)
|Stigma related to founder's legal woes
Yet despite these apparent hurdles, fellow Fools had a host of objections to taking these above market average returns:
"I can do better"
Assuming you can easily crush the market year after year is pretty hubristic given that roughly 75% of all professional money managers fail to beat the indexes. Don't get me wrong; I don't believe it's impossible to do so, but a healthy fear of the market is the beginning of wisdom.
"I want the opportunity to do better"
Several respondents who chose "no" in our poll cited the potential of runaway inflation as a reason for potentially foregoing this opportunity. In 1998, Buffett warned investors not to use their rearview mirrors to forecast returns:
Let's say you put $1 million into the 14% 30-year U.S. bond issued Nov. 16, 1981 and reinvested the coupons ... At the end of 1998, with long-term governments by then selling at 5%, you would have had $8,181,219 and would have earned an annual return of more than 13% ... And so here's what equities did in that same 17 years: If you'd invested $1 million in the Dow on Nov. 16, 1981, and reinvested all dividends, you'd have had $19,720,112 on Dec. 31, 1998. And your annual return would have been 19%.
Clearly, maintaining both mental and capital flexibility matters.
"I enjoy investing"
Buffett says that he's a better investor because he is a businessman and vice versa. Several Fools cited the inability to invest in start-ups, real estate, or private businesses as the main reason for taking a pass. Good point, given that between 1980 and 2005 the top private equity firms delivered average annualized returns of 39%. Heck, any business owner who has successfully grown even a mid-sized company from scratch has probably been compounding their invested capital at rates above 30% for five years or more.
Let me end by saying that there is no "right" answer -- only the right answer for you. Temperament and self-awareness are the only factors that should dictate whether you're part of the vast majority of investors who would be well-served by taking this proposition or the select few with the aptitude and attitude to be compounding machines.
As an analyst for Motley Fool Special Ops, I'm part of an investment team that believes that it can not only crush the market over a rolling 3-5 year period, but also compound capital at rates that would have those "75 percenters" rethinking their choice. In our first year, our average recommendation is up 16.5%, with our best performer up 67%.
One opportunity we like today is Fidelity National Financial (NYSE: FNF). This beaten-down title insurer is being unfairly lumped in with all things related to housing and the mortgage crisis. With a dominant U.S. market share and an underappreciated private equity portfolio, we see Fidelity stock price rising more than 50% within the next three years, which would land investors 16% compounded annual returns.
So if you'd like to learn more about how Motley Fool Special Ops team is targeting special situations to produce these returns, simply enter your email address in the box below today. We will send you the details on how you can begin capitalizing on these opportunities in your own portfolio.
This article was adapted from a piece originally published on Jan. 26, 2011.
Motley Fool research analyst Andy Louis-Charles owns options and shares of Fidelity National Financial. However, his mother is quite happy that he will finally be putting his law degree to work, performing complex due diligence on the next great "Special Op" stock. The Fool owns shares of Cal-Maine Foods and Rubicon Minerals. The Fool also owns options and shares of Fidelity National Financial. Motley Fool Alpha owns shares of Seabridge Gold. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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Triple Play over Broadband & Autoconfig
This year the event is divided into three separated parts.
The DSL physical part of the event will focus on access networks that lie on the ADSL2plus and VDSL2 transmission paired with the services, which are to be carried via these technologies.
Hence, Triple-Play will be another main focus of this event, for which specific test cases will be performed for Voice, Video and Data over IP. New this year: IPv6 will be introduced in the test suite.
To complete the overall view of this event, the Autoconfiguration services will also be addressed as they are becoming more and more vital for network operators to handle their customers' expectations professionally.
The following testing will be provided:
DSL Physical Layer Interoperability Testing between CO and CPE equipment. This is addressed to manufacturers, developers and system integrators of CPE equipment who provide broadband services via twisted copper pairs (such as ADSL2plus modems, VDSL2 modems, Set-Top-Boxes, IADs, etc., etc.).
Triple-Play Interoperability and Performance Testing (Video, Voice and Data Provision) between Application Server and Application Client (including Set-Top-Boxes etc.).
This is addressed to manufacturers, developers and system integrators of CO equipment who provide broadband services via twisted copper pairs such as DSLAMs providing ADSL2plus and VDSL2 lines. Optical based system manufacturers willing to test their solution in a triple play environment are also welcome. Eventually, the triple play part targets test tools manufacturers or providers dealing with Quality of Service or Quality of Experience measurements.
Autoconfiguration Interoperability Testing between Autoconfiguration Servers (ACS) and Autoconfiguration Clients (ACC) without limitation to the supported lower layer technology.
This is addressed to developers and integrators of Autoconfiguration Servers (ACS) and Autoconfiguration Clients (ACC) (independent of the supported technology, incl. pure SW solutions).
Also, developers and integrators of CPE equipment with integrated Autoconfiguration capabilities.
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The following items were taken from Romeoville police reports:
A bicycle was reported stolen Aug. 18 from a porch in the 600 block of Sherwood Court. The bike was valued at $110.
An unknown offender entered a residence in the 700 block of Mecosta Lane Aug. 17 and stole several pieces of jewelry.
A wallet was reported stolen Aug. 16 from a shopping cart in the 400 block of South Weber Road. The loss was valued at $127.
A generator was reported stolen Aug. 11 from a garage in the 500 block of Amherst Avenue. A door handle and lock were broken during the burglary. The estimated value of the items taken is $2,480.


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The Backwater Colony of Brinkland
It was only 300 years ago that Calradia founded the colony of Brinkland. This was their first step in a game of catchup with nearby empires, attempting to create something of worth to call their own. With only two towns and a modest fortification, the colony crumbled and starved. It was an abject failure.
It was only 54 years ago that the Calrad Republic came back to resettle their lost land. So far they've managed to keep it. With a handful of villages and twin port cities, Brinkland has been able to sustain itself for nearly three centuries. But it has never been able to do anything more than sustain itself. Even now, shipments of grains go across the sea to the motherland, only to return with shipments of vegetables and manufactured goods. This time Brinkland isn't so much of an abject failure, but it certainly isn't something you'd call a success.
It was only last year that the populist Consul Graccha was elected to co-governorship in Keyts-Rinaud. The people seem to finally have a voice in the matter of their own governing and he's been pushing hard to expand the territory to the North, a mostly barren but mostly safe land called the Outback. Refugees from two dying or dead villages wait in the shantytown neighborhoods of Keyts for the letter of law to spell out the boundaries in which they can settle. It has been a year.
It was only last month that the incumbent and career co-governor Consul Tiber took back imperium and has refocused his efforts to reclaim the land to the south and fight back the encroaching wild. He has put more silver in the hands of commonfolk as militia-guardsmen than Brinkland has ever seen before. Soldiers march south to New Woods Watch to build a temporary fort and begin work at pushing back the Overgrowth that claimed the ancient settlement of Kvesht. Guardsmen overflow the river battery of Geyt, green and anxious for a fight.
It was only last week that the backwater of the backwater got word that something may have been found deep in Stater's Forest. Something as old as the first settlements itself.


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Extreme divide on terror issues
The intense focus on the differences between President Barack Obama and House Republicans on government spending and tax cuts has eclipsed the yawning gulf that separates Obama and the incoming House leadership on counterterrorism policy, Guantanamo and the use of civilian courts to try accused Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other terrorism suspects.
At the moment, neither Obama nor the Republican congressional leadership seems eager to be diverted from a discussion about the economy to a national-security debate. But while the budget-related issues seem readily susceptible to a meet-in-the-middle compromise, the gap between the two sides over the war on terror can't be bridged as easily.
Decisions on many contentious questions about the treatment of alleged terrorists have been deferred for months by the Obama administration in what was generally regarded as a successful attempt to keep them from becoming election issues. But now human rights advocates are pushing Obama to act.
"They've identified a bunch of cases that are amenable to trial in civilian court, but they haven't acted on it, except in one case. ... Those things ought to start moving," said Elisa Massimino of Human Rights First. "It's not going to get any easier. ... You've got a choice between a festering sore or you rip the Band-Aid off."
Massimino said a good time to announce new civilian court prosecutions would be in the coming days, after jurors in New York return a verdict in the case of the only former Guantanamo prisoner to go to trial in the U.S., Ahmed Ghailani. Closing arguments are under way this week for Ghailani, an alleged Al Qaeda operative who stands accused of plotting bombings that killed 224 people at U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998.
"Do it on the heels of a conviction," Massimino said. "Nothing defuses the hysteria more than just going about the business of demonstrating success. ... The best way to push back is: just do it."
Closing the prison at Guantanamo was a key campaign promise of Obama's, and he reaffirmed that goal in the opening days of his administration. But looming large over any attempt by Obama to bring Guantanamo prisoners to the U.S. for civilian trials — a central part of the administration's detainee strategy — is a measure the White House agreed to in June 2009 as a way to stave off more stringent limits on the president's authority.
Under legislative language attached to a series of funding bills since that time, Obama is obliged to give 45 days advance notice to Congress before bringing anyone held in the prison to the U.S. If Obama wants to get new criminal trials going, Congress has what amounts to a month and a half to try to stop him. It could do so by attaching funding restrictions to a measure he feels compelled to sign, like the Defense Authorization bill, which could carry "don't ask, don't tell" repeal language.
"They have a clear window after the election where the existing rules would allow them to bring detainees into the U.S. for prosecution," said Ken Gude of the Center for American Progress. "We need to keep making progress and can't allow what is likely to be a very aggressive Republican congressional caucus ... to dictate to the administration where it is going on its policy." [...] go read the rest
Extreme divide? Like the one that tells everyone paying attention that Obama is a Jihadi and/or a Jihadi sympathizer? That divide?
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Gunfighters Inc. and the Florida Rail Adventures will present "The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" this Saturday in Eustis. But unlike the famed gunfight, which took place in 1881 in Tombstone, Ariz., this re-enactment will be on board a Florida Rail Association train in Lake County.
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ASUS have so far not been the best of OEMs in terms of keeping their products a secret as the specs of yet another Transformer Pad have been revealed.
Transformer Pad TF300T went through NenaMark2 tests the other day and the results showed us Nvidia 1.5GHz Quad-core Tegra 3 processor, 1280 x 752p (800) and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS.
TOday Polish website Tabletowo also reports that the Transformer TF300T runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and features a 10.1 inch display with 1280 x 800 pixels. Also under that thin exterior is a 1.2GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor (a little confusing NenaMark2 says it's a 1.5GHz CPU), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, MicroHDMI, 8MP rear camera, 1.2MP front-facing camera, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory, MicroSD card reader, and docking station connector.
Don't think users will want anything more after that impressive list of specs just revealed by us and we're pretty sure we're looking at yet another ASUS tablet hit !!
What remains to be seen is when ASUS plan to release this bad boy (surely not in Q1 or Q2 since Tegra 3 chips will release in Q3). Although we may see a debriefing or a press conference at MWC in Barcelona in a less than weeks time !!
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Rising Star Sells: Beam and Fortune Brands Home & Security
It's been less than a year since the Special Situations portfolio first purchased shares of the former Fortune Brands, a company that split into two units, Beam (NYS: BEAM) and Fortune Brands Home & Security (NYS: FBHS) . But now after substantial price appreciation, I think it's time to sell them from my Special Situations portfolio.
I first picked up Fortune Brands last July, buying a slug of 16 shares. When the price fell, I added another nine. In total, the Special Situations port bought $1,515.50 in shares. While that doesn't seem like a lot, it represented about 10% of my capital at the time.
Since then, the shares' total value has climbed to a pre-split price of $82, or $2,050 -- substantially more than my initial valuation estimate of about $75 combined. That's about $59 for Beam and $23 for Home & Security, and from the adjusted cost bases of each part, that equates to a nearly 20% gain for Beam and more than 100% for Home & Security. In total, it comes to a gain of 35% in less than a year.
The sell recs here come down to valuation. While I continue to like the economics of Beam's business, it just looks too pricey right now. And while I still think Beam has the chance to be acquired by a larger player such as Pernod Ricard or Diageo (NYS: DEO) , the price at this level is too high to continue waiting for that catalyst to appear. I estimate Beam is trading around 13.5 times my estimate of 2012 EBITDA, slightly below the 15 multiple of deals over the past decade. That 13.5 multiple translates into a forward P/E of 27. (My P/E estimate is a tad lower than the average analyst's guess of 25 for 2012.)
And on to Home & Security. It looks extra pricey (18 times EBITDA) when looking at trailing numbers, but this is a cyclical and should be valued on earnings over a longer period. When I originally valued this unit, I looked at the four years of profitability up to 2006 to gain some idea of its earnings power in a reasonable economy. In that period, the business averaged $715 million in EBITDA. At the company's current enterprise value of $4 billion or a multiple of 5.5 -- a standard market multiple -- that looks reasonably valued for a unit currently doing $235 million EBITDA (on an annualized basis).
I also cross-checked that valuation with a back-of-the-envelope valuation, assuming a value equal to assets. Home & Security's assets come to $3.65 billion -- right in line with the $3.69 billion market cap.
So the Special Situations portfolio will close up its positions in these stocks on the next market day.
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A fall from a skid atop a forklift, at Tri County Converters and Scrap Metal Recycling, claimed the life of a 38-year-old man on November 2, according to Edinburg Fire Chief Allen Smith. Edinburgh is located approximately 30 minutes south of Indianapolis.
The forklift was about 10 to 15 feet in the air when he fell backward and struck his head on the concrete floor, Smith said.
According to The Republic, the newspaper reporting on the incident, the man was not an employee of Tri County Converters Scrap Metal Recycling, he was lending a helping hand.
Under Indiana law, because the deceased was not in fact an employee of the company, his family may be entitled to seek damages from the scrap metal company. For more information, an interested party should contact Tom Hastings, the founder of Hastings Law Firm. They can assist when you or a family member is injured or killed while at work, due to third-party negligence. Tom can be reached at (317) 686-1000. Alternatively, you can contact him online at www.lawindianapolis.com.
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If any of you follow me over on the Facebook, you will realize that I have found true love... with a cooking show. Seriously, I found this fantastic channel on YouTube, which led me to the connected blog. You can watch her show on either her YouTube Channel or her website. The show is called Hilah Cooking. This is the description from her website, "I create short-form, educational, and occasionally hilarious cooking videos geared towards beginner and intermediate cooks, as well as people who are just looking for simple, low-cost recipes..." This is a fantastic description. Hilah makes even more complicated recipes easy to follow. She is entertaining and very down to earth. She is definitely not one of the haughty "professional" chefs you see on certain networks. I have watched every video from the time I found her channel & website to now, even the ones I will probably never try. Here are two of the dishes I tried for my family this week.
Fried Green Tomatoes
This is an appetizer I have never tried making. We do eat tomatoes cooked in other dishes but my family generally doesn't just pop tomatoes in our mouths. Some of us were more on the fence than others but I decided to give it a try. First, we moved down to the south and Fried Green Tomatoes are practically a staple here. If I want to give my kids a authentic Southern upbringing, we need to at least try them, right? Second, Hilah described them as tasting a bit like fried pickles, which we all love.
Here is my try at these yummy tidbits, and they were indeed yummy. I did run into a snafu with the first batch so ignore the slightly burnt ones on the bottom. If using a cast iron skillet on an electric stove, I would not heat the oil on high. Just let it take its time on medium heat and then fry. Also I cut the time on each side down to about 2 minutes but that was because my pan was too stinking hot..
You can find the recipe and video here: http://hilahcooking.com/fried-green-tomatoes/
Persian (Key) Lime Pie
We have had Key Lime Pie before but this was a new recipe for us to try. Right now, Key Limes are scarce (even in Florida) so I just went ahead and used the Persians. Even though it wasn't exactly a Key Lime Pie, it still turned out delicious. I could see this recipe being converted to a number of citrusy dishes. How about lemon or mandarin orange or kumquat? Yum!
You can find the recipe and video here: http://hilahcooking.com/key-lime-pie/


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Europe's current financial turmoil is leading to the realignment of several long-standing dividing lines in the EU culture wars. The standard typology of the "euro-optimists" (those who want more Europe), the "euro-realists" (those thought to want less Europe), and the "euro-sceptics" (those suspected of harboring dreams of doing away with the continent altogether), no longer seems to fit the picture, if it ever did.
A number of eurozone outsiders, including some with British accents, acknowledge the urgent need for more integrated economic governance, of the euro states in particular and of Europe in general, if a disaster is to be avoided. The same people often stress the importance of preserving the 27-member format and the institutions at the core of the European integration, the common market first and foremost.
On the other hand, some stalwarts of Europe "one and whole" hint darkly at the emergence of several Europes—the variable-speed Europe, the core Europe, and the peripheral Europe; the true Europe and the rest. They also repeatedly warn that even a partial breakup of the euro will mean the end of Europe as a whole. Their rallying cry is that the euro must be preserved at all costs and under all circumstances. Although it is easy to understand and empathize with their motives, subordinating the destiny of Europe to that of the euro will hardly strengthen the cohesion of the European project. After all, the EU predates the euro, as do most of the European institutions and the common market. Even the Schengen Agreement, providing for borderless travel between most of the EU member countries, preceded the Maastricht Treaty, which gave rise to the common currency.
Certainly the euro needs to be saved if at all possible because its breakup, let alone collapse, would have severe negative effects on the economies of euro and non-euro EU members alike. But arguably it is the EU, rather than the euro, which has ensured the stability, prosperity, and relative harmony in Europe so far and which thus needs to be preserved at all costs. A monetary union of the strongest economies in Europe separated from the rest of the EU members would be an economic powerhouse and would exert major influence on European affairs, but politically it would be a big step back from the current European arrangements.
Fortunately it seems that at least some European leaders are aware of this and are trying to find ways how to buttress the political underpinnings of the EU building rather than just guard its purse. For example, the idea of a directly elected EU president (and implicitly, of the emergence of a true pan-European political process) broached last week at the CDU/CSU conference by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble (apparently with the tacit approval of Chancellor Merkel) addresses the long-term euro-sceptics' criticism of a democratic gap in the center of the project.
Certainly, if people had their say in who their European leaders and ministers were, they would find it much easier to discover their common European identity, show some European solidarity and accept a measure of European authority over their common destinies. And it might then turn out that some of the eurocrats had not been such euro-optimists after all, just as some of the eurocritics were not really euro-sceptics.


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Too busy to even tweet kind of busy!!!!!!
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Too busy to even tweet kind of busy!!!!!!
12 comments:
- melissa said...
Ive been thinking of you and thought you would be busy ( bit of an understatement! )hope to catch up with you at the market , cant wait to see your stall with all your goodies! Big storm here too
- November 25, 2010 at 2:22 PM
- jodesmac said...
You are not alone :) Everything is coming 2nd to market stock in this house too. Lucky my kids like cereal for dinner :O I love love love your bags. I will be keeping an eye on what you have left after the markets (if any)
- November 25, 2010 at 2:37 PM
- Tracy aka Mad Quilter said...
I did actually wonder today if my reader had been missing your posts :) Great that you are so busy. And BTW my lounge is covered in washing too and I'm not busy!
- November 25, 2010 at 2:50 PM
- Catherine said...
You know I was only thinking about you today so I'm glad to see that you are well and wow you've been busy! Take care hope the storm isn't a bad one. xo
- November 25, 2010 at 3:26 PM
- Seaweed and Raine said...
So glad you are alive and well! :) I had been wondering - I almost sent you a message a few times (Then got distracted with the kids! Sorry!)
Your bags and little zippered confections look great! Wish I was in the NT to go to the markets and view them in person :)
I'd love a big storm... It's been too long since we've had a good one!
- November 25, 2010 at 5:07 PM
- bec said...
I'm hearing you, sister! My couch is similar, want to make more, but realized I can't. Your stuff looks so professional and well finished, I'm embarrassed really.....
I have the 'thrown together' look! Wish I could come to you market- we'll do one together one day!
- November 25, 2010 at 6:09 PM
- Amanda said...
I was just wondering about you. Assuming it was my busy bodyness but I guess it was yours. Phew now I don't feel so bad. Although you certainly have a hell of a lot more to show for your quiet then I do. Super awesome supplies girly...
And Darn that new job...It's kind of like our life no matter where we are at something is taking him away for long stretches..Grrr...
Your right though ...That's life!
- November 25, 2010 at 6:16 PM
- rachelmp said...
Are the kids hiding in there somewhere? haha. Nice makes Bianca!
- November 25, 2010 at 6:50 PM
- Frugal Down Under said...
Happy Yess market is cancelled :-(
I was going to sell my fab op-shop finds.
Berry Springs market a bit far as my car is a write off :-(
I'm going to try to make it to your stand, maybe by bus... My family has been admiring your goodies.
- November 25, 2010 at 7:02 PM
- Andi said...
If it helps ... your house looks like the cover of 'good housekeeping' compared to mine at the moment.
- November 25, 2010 at 8:37 PM
- Corrie said...
you are just keeping it real! well done! thank goodness no one can see my loungeroom at 3 oclock on any weekday!
it all looks gorgeous and we've all been there pre-market!!!!!!!
- November 26, 2010 at 3:04 PM
- MY SPACE said...
Thanks for your honesty! Hope life slows down for you soon! And best of luck at the market!
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Who among us wouldn't want to stash away an extra thousand dollars toward retirement? Unfortunately, upping your monthly or yearly savings often means depriving yourself of those little perks that make life a bit more worthwhile. So instead of urging you to forgo that morning latte or night at the movies, I've tried to come up with a few less painful ways to collect that bonus thousand bucks.
Pay yourself first
Sometimes, you have to trick yourself into saving more. Many investors devote money to savings only after they've plumbed their paychecks for all the usual monthly expenses. We Fools can't entirely condemn scrounging for financial scraps like this -- every little bit helps -- but it's not the most effective way to save for retirement.
Instead, try taking your investment money out first. If you want to invest $500 or $1,000 per month, do so as soon as you get your paycheck. Then make all your other payments. If, near the end of the pay period, you're running low on money, you can make some adjustments and spend a little less on eating out, or put off that new dishwasher purchase. The point is that you make your retirement nest egg a priority -- because it should be. If you don't look out for your financial future, no one else will. Social Security won't provide all that you need or want.
By paying yourself first, you can make sure that you're socking away as much as you need to. If this system helps you save an extra $85 per month, you'll net yourself more than $1,000 per year, mainly just by reordering how you spend your money. Automated investment plans or bank transfers can make this a whole lot easier. Consult your online bank or brokerage to see about setting up such a plan.
Free money
Speaking of automatic transfers, why not ask your employer to send money straight from your paycheck to a 401(k). That way you'll never be tempted to spend the money first; it'll never be in your hands to begin with. Also, your taxable income will shrink by the amount of your contribution, thus diminishing your tax bill.
Better yet, if your employer matches contributions to retirement plans to any degree, you can grab free money. Aim to at least contribute enough to take full advantage of that. A common employer match is 50% of the first 6% of your salary. So if you earn $50,000, and you contribute $3,000, your employer will kick in $1,500. Like we said: free money, absolutely guaranteed.
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Without even realizing it, you might spend $1,000 a year just on interest on your credit card debt. The average borrower owes about $5,000 today. If the debt that you've been carrying on your cards for a long time is in that neighborhood, and you're being charged 20% interest, as plenty of people are, you're paying $1,000 annually.
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How to Stream a Game from Xbox One in Windows 10
InformationGame streaming is the ability to play Xbox One games remotely from your Xbox One console on any Windows 10 PC on your home network.
- This feature allows you to leave your living room and play your favorite Xbox One games anywhere with access to your home network.
- Game streaming uses the power of the Xbox One console to manage the game. Your Windows 10 PC becomes a remote second screen so you can roam freely around your home while continuing to enjoy your Xbox One console and games.
This tutorial will show you how to stream a game from your Xbox One console to play on your Windows 10 PC.
NoteSystem requirements
To take advantage of game streaming, you need:
- Xbox One console: Game streaming must be enabled in Settings.
- Windows 10 PC: You must be signed in to the Xbox app with the same gamertag as on the Xbox One console.
- Network connectivity: The Windows 10 PC and the Xbox One console must be on the same home network. Options:
- Wired - Ethernet connection (recommended for both PC and Xbox One console)
- Wireless - 802.11 N/AC wireless connection
For best performance, it's recommend that your Windows 10 PC have:
- At least 2 gigabytes of RAM
- 1.5 GHz CPU or faster
- Network connection to your home network:
- Best performance: Wired Ethernet connection
- Good performance: Wireless 5 GHz 802.11 N or 802.11 AC wireless access point
- Limited performance: Wireless 2.4 GHz 802.11 N or 802.11 AC wireless access point
See also:
- Troubleshoot Xbox App Game Streaming | Xbox App on Windows 10
- Improve Xbox App Game Streaming | Xbox App on Windows 10
Here's How:
1. Turn on your Xbox One console.
2. If the game you want to play it not digital and requires a disc, then insert the game disc into your Xbox One console.
3. Connect a Xbox One game controller to a USB port on your Windows 10 PC.
4. Open the Xbox app in Windows 10.
5. Click/tap on the Connect icon on the left side. (see screenshot below)
6. If your Xbox One console is not already connected, select the name (ex: XboxOne) of the console you want to connect to, and click/tap on Connect. (see screenshot below)
7. Once you have connected, click/tap on Stream. (see screenshot below)
8. If you get a This app can't be streamed message for the TV app, then select Close with your Xbox One game controller. (see screenshot below)
9. Press the Xbox button on your Xbox One game controller to go to the Home screen. (see screenshot below)
10. While on the Home screen, scroll down and select My games & apps. (see screenshot below)
11. Select Games on the left side, and select the game (ex: Halo) you want to play on the right side. (see screenshot below)
12. Have fun playing your game now streaming from your Xbox One console on your Windows 10 PC. (see screenshot below)
13. When you're ready to stop streaming, move your mouse pointer to the top border of the Xbox app to have the toolbar appear, and click/tap on Stop streaming at the top right. (see screenshot below)
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Sam Taylor-Johnson Opens Up About Fights with 'Fifty Shades' Author E.L. James
Sam Taylor-Johnson, the director of the movie Fifty Shades of Grey, is giving further insight into her rocky relationship with the book's author E.L. James.
It's no secret that the two ladies clashed on the set of the film and Sam says it's because they had "two different creative visions."
"Her vision versus mine, and they were polar opposite," Sam says in a new interview with THR. "Every scene was fought over. It was tough. It was like wading uphill through sticky tar. Her thing was, 'This is what the fans expect.' I'd be like, 'Well, let's try and hit those marks but create a new universe at the same time.'"
Sam, who just directed the new series Gypsy for Netflix, says she didn't get much love from Hollywood after the film was released.
"There weren't any flat-out [job] offers straight away," she said. "It was ego-denting, which may not have been a bad thing. At the same time, I was like, 'Oh, I still have to keep fighting for stuff.' I just thought it was going to come a lot easier."
In another recent interview, Sam explained why she will not watch the sequels to her film.


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He focused on five areas that cause problems and question the validity of certain studies. Firstly, researchers have difficulty in handling non significant results. They tend to ignore these and focus only on significant findings which can lead to false conclusions about the genuine effects of television violence on society.
Secondly, the effects of mass media research are viewed as a unidimensional process. The researchers do not take into account that the aggressor is only part of the equation of violence as a social problem. For example, are victims more or less vulnerable ...
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concerns about mass media violence is lacking. Public opinion has shown inconsistencies in earlier studies. That is that although the majority feel that there is too much violence on television, the number of complaints to broadcasting authorities do not support this. (Cumberbatch, 1989. pp. 47-50.)
Many studies have been done suggesting that violence on television does, in fact, influence the behaviour of children. However, some of the studies mentioned below have problems which cast doubt on their validity.
If one were to ask a child what their favorite television show is, very often the child will respond with a television show that contains a lot of violence. For example, ...
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The Preuss School USCD Helps First Generation Students to Succeed
October 14, 2016
Being a unique charter middle and high school for low-income students who strive to become the first in their families to graduate from a four-year college or university is the goal of The Preuss School UCSD.
"Some of the children that come here have very low reading levels and by the time they will graduate they will be able to manage the language and have their reading up to a point that will make them able to succeed in high school and be the first ones in their families to go to college," said Viviana Zamora-Luna, teacher of the World Language Department at The Preuss School UCSD. "We have to prepare them for college."
The Preuss School began when a group of UC San Diego faculty began planning for the best way to increase the number of students in the university who come from low income or underrepresented groups. The first and most significant gift toward building the school came from Peter and Peggy Preuss and their family foundation. To recognize their $5 million gift, the school was named after their benefactors.
The Preuss School, which is jointly chartered by the San Diego Unified School District and UC San Diego, opened in 1999 on portable buildings located on UC San Diego's Thurgood Marshall College with 150 students in grades 6–8. Now, there is a state-of-the-art facility on the university's East Campus off of Genesee Avenue.
Currently, there are 846 students in grades 6 to 12 at The Preuss School, with a culturally diverse student body of 68 percent Hispanic, 10 percent African American, 19 percent Asian/Indo-Chinese, and 3 percent White.
"We have a diverse student population and we try to communicate that culture is part of where we live," Zamora-Luna said. "It's not because it's required, but because we live in a place like this, and because they are world citizens."
Zamora-Luna mentioned that students this year will have a cultural celebration during an entire week at the end of this month, that will showcase the day of the dead with several activities including the building of altars by different classes.
Students come from more than 41 zip codes throughout San Diego County.
Students are selected through a process of application and lottery, and in order to be eligible for the lottery a student must be from a low-income family and have no parent or guardian who has graduated from a four-year college.
Graduates consistently get accepted to four-year colleges and universities at a rate of more than 90 percent. The Class of 2013 was the first class to achieve a 100 percent acceptance rate to four-year colleges and universities. Nearly 100 percent of The Preuss School UCSD graduates go on to some form of higher education.
Many of our graduates have gone on to attend colleges and universities such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, and schools in the University of California system.
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In 2015, Havasu Silent Witness produced 159 tips resulting in 32 arrests by Lake Havasu City Police Department. We could not have done this without the help of citizens just like YOU who chose to get involved in the fight against crime.
Havasu Silent Witness collected $2,300 in donations in 2015. Some of these funds come from private tax deductible donations, and some are provided via fines collected by the Lake Havasu City Justice Court. Some of these funds are used to pay out reward money, but interestingly, many people who call Havasu Silent Witness don't even want a monetary reward for their information, just anonymity while providing valuable information to the law enforcement community.
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Q: I love daylilies but wished they bloomed for a longer period. How can I extend daylily season?
A: June is the main daylily month in Georgia. To extend the daylily blooming season consider adding early, late and re-blooming varieties to your garden. A few early varieties are `Gold Dust,' 'Orangeman' and `Early Flora.' A few later varieties are 'Challenger,' 'August Flame' and 'Autumn Minaret.' Two popular re-blooming varieties are 'Stella de Oro' and 'Black-eyed Stella.' Re-blooming varieties will bloom over several months. Visit the website of the American Hemerocallis (daylily) Society (www.daylilies.org) for more information and to find local daylily societies and some sources for buying daylilies. Also check the Farmers and Consumers Market Bulletin for sources. With proper selections, you can have daylilies in bloom from April to late summer or fall.
Q: Is a nectarine a type of peach?
A: A nectarine is a peach without the fuzz. Nectarines also generally have more red on the skin than peaches. Like peaches, nectarines may have white flesh or yellow flesh and be either cling or freestone. The nectarine is thought to have originated as a mutant of the peach. We grow both nectarines and peaches in Georgia.
Q: I heard that I should buy raw meat and poultry right before checking out in the grocery store. Is that true?
A: It is a good idea to buy frozen items like ice cream and sherbet last to prevent them from melting. It is also a good idea to buy raw meat and poultry near the end of your grocery store visit as well, especially if you are doing a lot of shopping. This will help keep the products cold, decreasing the chances for bacteria to grow and lengthening product shelf life. It also lessens the chances of cross-contamination — which can happen when raw meat or poultry juices drip on other food. Separate raw meat and poultry from other food in your shopping cart and make sure they are put into separate bags at the checkout. Drive directly home from the grocery store and immediately put cold food into the refrigerator or freezer.
Q: Are watermelons with yellow flesh new? I recently saw some at a grocery store.
A: Watermelons with yellow and orange flesh are not new, although they are not as well-known as red-fleshed varieties. The taste is the same. Combining the different colors makes an attractive fruit salad. Georgia farmers grow yellow and orange as well as red watermelons.
Q: What is the difference between a mollypop and a maypop?
A: Mollypop and maypop are both common names for the same plant, Passiflora incarnata, a species of passionflower. Mollypop is native to Georgia and the Southeast and ranges northward into Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri and Pennsylvania and west to Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. It is the state wildflower of Tennessee. It is an exotic-looking flower, and, indeed, most of its passionflower relatives are from the tropics.
The names "mollypop" and "maypop" both derive from the Algonkian name for the plant.
The fruit of the mollypop is edible. Allow it to ripen – it will turn yellow and even begin to shrivel – and eat the juicy flesh surrounding the seeds. This flesh tastes like Hawaiian Punch and is good to add to lemonade. Captain John Smith noted that Indians near the Jamestown settlement grew mollypops for its fruit.
Mollypop is a good choice for a butterfly garden as it is a host plant for the Gulf fritillary found throughout the state and the less common zebra longwing butterfly which sometimes appears in the southern part of the state.
Mollypop is a vine. It can be grown on a trellis or chain-link fence or allowed to climb over and among shrubs in an informal setting. Its flowers are purple. There is a pure white variety. It has a suckering nature, which means it may sprout in an area several feet from where the original plant was growing. This is not difficult to control.
If you love native plants, history, butterflies or unusual fruits, try a mollypop.
Q: What is dryland corn? I heard a farmer say he was planting some.
A: When a farmer says he planted a field of dryland corn or a field of dryland soybeans, he is planting a field of these crops that will rely solely on rain, not on an irrigation system.
Q: My neighbor has tomato plants and has offered to share some tomatoes with me if I will help pick. I've always been afraid to walk among tomato plants because when I was younger I saw a huge, green caterpillar big around and as long as my baby finger, on a tomato vine. My great aunt called it a tomato worm, and she said it had a bad sting. Is this true?
A: It sounds like you are describing a tomato hornworm. It is a large green caterpillar with a rhinoceros-like horn that looks like a stinger. Its appearance is intimidating, but it will not sting or harm you, although it can certainly eat a lot of tomato foliage. Please put your childhood fears and your aunt's misinformation aside and go pick some delicious Georgia tomatoes.
Q: What are cabbage sprouts? They look like cabbage heads but are smaller. They are larger than Brussels sprouts and not as hard.
A: The sprouts that arise on a cabbage plant after the main head is cut are sometimes referred to as "cabbage sprouts." These heads are smaller and looser (not as firm and solid) as the primary head. Because they are looser, they are generally cooked rather than being grated into slaw. Try cooking them with liquid (water or broth) and some butter, olive oil or bacon grease. Some people consider cabbage sprouts a real delicacy. They are not commonly available commercially. Check for them at local farmers markets.
Q: I heard a farmer on the news talking about the drought say it was so dry he "dusted in" a crop." What does that mean? He was not referring to crop dusting or dusting with an insecticide.
A: When a farmer says he "dusted in" his corn crop, he means that he sowed the corn seed while the ground was dry. His tractor and equipment may have made dust rise in their wake, hence the term. The farmer sometimes sows seeds in dry conditions in hopes that rain will arrive soon and cause the seed to germinate.
Q: I'm eating a lot of cantaloupes now. The seeds look meaty, and I think birds that eat sunflower seeds may eat them. Can I use the seeds in my bird feeder?
A: Yes. A few of our native birds that will eat cantaloupe seeds are cardinals, catbirds, nuthatches, blue jays, chickadees and mourning doves. Rinse the pulp off the cantaloupe seeds. Let them dry and mix them with your regular birdseed or serve them by themselves. To save cantaloupe seeds for use in the winter, let the seeds dry for about 48 hours and store them in an airtight container. Why not share Georgia cantaloupes with our feathered friends!
Q: I have been reading about how healthy lima beans are and have been eating more of them. I found fresh lima beans at the farmers market. I am familiar only with dried ones and didn't even know we grew lima beans in Georgia. Do you have some suggestions on cooking them?
A: Yes, indeed we do grow limas in Georgia. And, like you, more people are discovering how healthy they are. If the beans are still in the pod, split the pod open and push the beans out. Rinse the shelled beans. Place the limas in a pot of boiling water or stock. You can also put them in the liquid and bring them to a boil. Cover the pot, reduce the heat and simmer until the beans are tender (five to 20 minutes depending on the size of the beans.) The fresh beans can also be steamed. You can also find young limas in the freezer section of the grocery store. Cook them the same way. Add salt, pepper, butter or seasonings as desired.
Q: Someone told me that cucumber flowers are either male or female. Is this true?
A: Cucumber plants have both male and female blossoms. Behind the female flower is a miniature cucumber. The male flower has only a thin stalk behind it. Both are needed for the cucumber plants in your garden to produce cucumbers. Squash, cantaloupes and watermelons also have separate male and female flowers.
Q: May chicken salad be taken on a picnic?
A: Yes, if you keep it at the proper temperature. Cold perishable food should be kept in the cooler at 40 degrees F or below. To keep the temperature in your cooler down, open the lid as little as possible. That way, warmer air can't get and the cold air can't escape. Foods like chicken salad can be placed directly on ice, or in a shallow container set in a deep pan filled with ice.
Q: My cilantro has gone to seed. May I save the seed to plant next year?
A: Yes. You may also use the seeds in the kitchen. Cilantro seeds are better known as coriander, a useful spice. Your children may help you gather the seeds when you tell them that some people think coriander tastes a little like Fruit Loops initially when you pop a seed in your mouth.
Q: Is there such a thing as a night-blooming daylily?
A: Although it may seem like a contradiction in terms, there are night-blooming daylilies. The lemon lily (Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus) and the citron lily (Hemerocallis citrina) are the two most common daylilies that open in the evening instead of in the morning. Both are yellow and fragrant. Some named varieties of daylilies also exhibit this night-blooming trait. They are wonderful to come home to after a hard day at the office.
Q: Is it possible to grow peppermint from seeds?
A: True peppermint is essentially sterile. It is propagated by cuttings or by dividing plants. Touch and smell the leaves of a peppermint (or other mint) before you purchase it to make sure it is the one you want. Some mint varieties have a sweeter, clearer taste and fragrance than others.
Q: What is the difference between pole beans and green beans?
A: The "pole" in pole beans simply refers to their growing habit. There are green beans that are pole beans, bush beans and half-runners. Pole beans are vines that twine and require trellising i.e. on poles. Bush beans do not climb at all. Half-runners are pole beans that do not climb as tall as regular pole beans. Lima beans also have pole and bush varieties. Bush beans are popular with commercial growers and some home gardeners because they do not require trellising. However, because they grow tall on trellises and generally bear over a longer period than bush types, pole types usually yield more in the same amount of space. Both pole beans and bush beans are equally nutritious and full of fiber. Bean season in Georgia begins in late May and can run through September and even into October. Look for Georgia Grown beans at farmers markets, grocery stores and directly from the farm.
Q: Why are eggplants called eggplants when they don't look like eggs?
A: The most popular varieties of eggplants in America are large, deep purple ones. The varieties that gave the eggplant its name are white and indeed look like eggs in color as well as shape. You may see these at some specialty markets as well as green or light purple eggplants in various shapes.
Q: I found a blueberry bush, or what looks like a blueberry bush, growing wild in the woods. Could a bird eat a blueberry from one of the blueberry farms nearby and deposit the seed where it grew up into a bush? Can blueberries be grown in the shade?
A: It is possible that a bird or another animal ate a blueberry and deposited the seed in the woods where you found a blueberry bush growing. It is more likely, however, that what you found is a native species of blueberry. Several species are native to Georgia. North America's native blueberries are the parents from which our cultivated varieties of blueberries were derived. Blueberries can survive quite a bit of shade. For maximum production and for easier cultivation and harvesting, farmers and home gardeners plant blueberries in full sun.
Q: If I keep pansies well watered and fertilized is it possible to keep them blooming through the summer?
A: Pansies and violas are annuals that die when hot weather arrives. Most annuals are planted or sown in the spring, bloom through the summer and die at frost. Pansies are planted in the fall and bloom all fall, winter and spring. In most of Georgia, they have petered out by Mother's Day. Don't try to keep them on life support. Sow or plant zinnias, cleome, salvia, cosmos, marigolds, cuphea, tithonia, sunflowers, nicotiana and the many other annual flowers that will thrive in the heat.


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770CFE Computer Face Engineered Irons
Discontinued Model
Variable Thickness, CNC Machined Forged Face Design Increases COR and Delivers Better Off-Center Hit Performance
- The 770CFE irons represent the first set of irons designed with a ultra-thin, forged high strength steel, CNC machined, variable thickness face design.
- The 770CFE irons are designed with a thin, variable thickness forged face to deliver a higher COR for much more distance than is possible with a conventional thick face iron design, but also to offer golfers a much better off-center hit forgiveness because of the variable thickness face design.
- Because irons increase in loft progressively through the set, the actual force of deflection of the face will decrease as loft increases. To help maximize the amount of face deflection as loft increases in the irons, the forged variable thickness face design changes in steel alloy composition and thickness. The #3 through 7-iron faces are forged from Carpenter 455 high strength steel, designed with a variable thickness of 2.4mm/1.9mm. The #8 through wedge faces are forged from 17-7 stainless steel and machined to a variable thickness of 2.6mm/2.2mm.
- In addition, as loft increases in a set of irons, the actual position of impact on the face will change. To accommodate this slight change in iron face impact position, the thicker center section of the faces also changes in position on each 770CFE iron through the set to match.
- The 770CFE irons were individually computer modeled for face thickness dimension, face thickness position, and face material for each iron in the set to offer the best individual performance possible in a full set of irons.
- All 770CFE faces are CNC machined after forging to ensure precision in the face design. The CNC machining marks can be seen on the back of each face.
- The sole design of the 770CFE is designed to keep a large amount of mass low, but by beveling the back edge of the sole the sole width is not so wide to ensure proper sole playability from all types of turf and lie conditions.
- 770CFE irons are finished in a bright satin polish finish, with all faces CNC machined for precision dimensional specifications.
- Available in both RH and LH versions. RH in #3 – 9, PW, AW, SW. LH in #4 – 9, PW.
- 770CFE irons are produced with post-2010 new USGA scorelines.
- 770CFE irons were awarded the Golf Tips Magazine's Top Concept Tech Award for 2005.
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Comparing details with PXG Irons now you were a slight Step ahead allready…
I really liked the classic design head and sound of it.
Tom, I was wondering if you still have this head in a LH #5. This looks similar to the Tour Model forged cavity that you gave me when I left GS back in 2000. Unfortunately I lost the 5 iron and was trying to replace it.
Any chance you still have a PW head in the 770 CFE line? Mine got misplaced in a move. Thanks Ron Manter
Have you theses 770CFE left hand still in stock and if so what is the cost per head?
These are just a fantastic set of irons. Too much offset for my taste, but that's about the only knock I have against them. I (and others) have always felt that the large OEMs offered more technology in some of their designs than the component companies, but when these irons were introduced I knew Wishon offered just as much technology if not more. The longer irons can feel a bit harsh, but the forgiveness & distance will make you forget that. I think that if you want the best set of irons you can get (with more offset) then you have to give these a look.


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LG set to launch 72-inch full LED backlit 3D TV at CES
Next week marks the start of that wondrous time of year known as CES where all things geeky and electronic take the forefront online. The number of new gadgets and offerings that will be unveiled at the show is overwhelming and we are only days from the start so some of the gear is already being talked about by the manufacturers. One of the products that LG will be showing off at CES is a new 3D TV.
This is no normal 3D TV though, LG claims that the set is the world's largest full LED backlit 3D TV. The screen is a whopping 72-inches and it supports 3D content and HD resolutions as well as 2D TV. The set is called the LZ9700 and LG hasn't offer up all the specs at this time. What we do know is that the TV has a 400Hz TruMotion panel for smooth images.
It also has Smart TV functionality with support for TV apps and streaming of content from online providers. The TV also ships with the LG Magic Motion Remote control. The full details of the set should be made official at CES next week. LG offers no pricing information and no indication of whether the set uses passive or active 3D glasses.


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Members of Congress are back in their districts this month where they'll be hearing from constituents about various issues that face the country and their local communities. But in case you haven't heard, there is a pretty big fight brewing between congressional Republicans over whether or not to fund ObamaCare.
With the current fiscal year expiring at the end of September, there is going to be an extraordinary amount of pressure in Congress to pass a Continuing Resolution to keep the government running. But there is a wrinkle as many conservative members, empowered by the delay of ObamaCare's employer mandate, are pushing leadership to defund the law.
Democrats in both chambers of Congress and the media are quick to point out that defunding ObamaCare will embroil Republicans in a budget showdown with the White House, the likely result of which would be a government shutdown.
But conservative members of Congress are quick to say that don't want to shutdown the federal government. They note that they want to pass appropriations measures or a Continuing Resolution to keep the government running, they just don't want to fund a law that Americans consistantly reject and want repealed.
Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA), who has introduced legislation to defund ObamaCare, recently told United Liberty that this effort is about getting rid of a law that harms Americans, not shutting down the government.
"Of course, the Democrats will say it's all about a government shutdown," said Graves. "We want to get rid of ObamaCare and replace it with something that empowers families and individuals or, actually, what the President said years ago, he said if you like your insurance you can keep it. We sort of would like to see that happen, and that's not happening right now."
Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) says the push to defund ObamaCare is a matter of fairness for all Americans, not just those the White House wants to protect, and he puts the prospect of a government shutdown solely in the hands of President Obama.
"President Obama's delay of the 'employer mandate' is a tacit admission that it is not working," wrote Bridenstine. "Now Mr. Obama is threatening to shut down the government rather than extend a similar break to hard working individuals. He claims to be helping the poor and middle class. He is instead advantaging his big business cronies and harming individuals. This is not fair."
"It will be his choice if the government is shut down," he added.
Republican leaders in both chambers and pro-GOP pundits, including Karl Rove, are very worried that this situation could hurt the party's chances to take the Senate next year and put at risk their control of the House. Some rank-and-file Republicans have been open in their contempt of the idea.
Matt Kibbe, president and CEO of FreedomWorks, contests the assertion from establishment Republicans that fighting ObamaCare is dangerous for the GOP, pointing to recent polling on the law.
"By throwing in the towel before the debate, they are making the calculation that fighting ObamaCare is bad politics," wrote Kibbe at FoxNews.com. "That's surprising if you look at public opinion."
"On July 24 a CBS News/New York Times poll showed 54 percent of Americans oppose ObamaCare, despite four full years of Democratic salesmanship," noted Kibbe. "The Morning Consult July tracking poll finds that 77% of independents, 78% of 18-29 year olds, 75% of women, 73% of blacks, and 80% of Hispanics think the individual mandate should be repealed or delayed. So do 65% of Democrats."
Much like the amendment offered by Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) to limit NSA surveillance, the defund ObamaCare movement in Congress is highlighting fissures in the Republican Party that some would rather ignore.
The problem for many Republicans who don't get behind the push is that it could come back to haunt them through grassroots-backed primary challengers.


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Peter Gordon: A smokin' hot summer of fish
If the fish are co-operating this summer, we'd like to smoke some of the surplus catch, but don't have a smoker. We'd read that you could do it Chinese-style in a wok on the barbeque. Do you have some suggestions for the sorts of things we could marinate the fish in first, and what sorts of leaves/herbs we could throw on the smoker? - Sean, Point Chev
Marinate in something a little sweet (brown sugar, honey, maple syrup), salty (soy or sea salt), aromatic (ground star anise, ginger, garlic, kawakawa) and smoke over a mixture of tea leaves, uncooked rice (makes it a little nutty) and untreated wood chips.
Can you suggest some additions to butter that we can use on our sweetcorn? We tried chilli and that was a great combination, so we'd like to play with some more. - Margaret Williams
Grated lime zest and juice, grated ginger and garlic, smoked paprika, cream cheese mixed with any of the above.
All the new potatoes in our garden are ready to dig at once and we're trying to think up different ways of using them - salads, gratin, mashed. What is one of your favourite uses of potatoes? - Sam Withers
Soup - diced and mashed in the same pot with lots of garlic, spinach, cream and parmesan cheese. Even better if you add some raw oysters towards the end then puree to a creamy texture.