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Monday, May 13, 2013
Community: four new faces
In the last two weeks, I've made four new connections. Here's what happened.
1. I met Carol at small claims court. I do some small claims mediation, and I was interested in observing what happens when people don't settle during mediation and go to trial instead. I spent a Monday in small claims court last month, watching. Carol was the judge. I was interested in how she managed the conversations in the cases, and how she explained the law to the disputants. After the trials were over, I remained in the courtroom to ask a few questions. We talked for almost 15 minutes - first about the cases, then about what it's like to be retired (me) or almost retired (her). We made arrangements to meet for coffee. We did, last Monday. We had a lively, interesting conversation and plan to have lunch sometime soon. In this case, I just showed up at something I was interested in and decided to "approach the bench".
2. I met Fran at a regional growth management planning meeting. I'm on the planning commission for my small city (population 6,500) and she has just been appointed. We talked for a few minutes at the growth management gathering and decided to meet for lunch. We did, last week! She's widely traveled, smart, opinionated and humorous, and our lunch conversation was quite interesting. We have a common interest in making our family-oriented city more senior friendly.
3. I did a workplace mediation last Friday with Lisa, a co-mediator from the Dispute Resolution Center. Lisa and I have co-mediated before; I like her style and she apparently likes mine. When we finished up the session we talked about other possibilities for mediating together. I'm looking forward to that.
4. I've been chatting off and on in my water aerobics class with a woman named Vicki. She and I are the only ones in the class with dark hair, so people confuse us with each other - odd, since she was born in Indonesia and I was born in California! Today in the water, we talked a bit about spirituality, and we're going to have coffee sometime soon. I have a strong spiritual bent but haven't been part of a church or spiritual community for almost 30 years. I'm feeling myself drawn to that now. I expect Vicki's community may suit me well and I'm looking forward to exploring that.
In each of these cases, my conversations were one on one. When meeting new people, that's where I'm most comfortable. I may not end up having friendships with all these women, but some of them may be part of my post-retirement community.
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- rosaria williams said...
We do have to extend our hand and look at possibilities wherever we are, continue to volunteer our talents and skills and be open to whatever connection is mutually supportive.
I just got elected president of the Arts Council because people have a need for the skills I bring to an organization.
Now, I'm constantly meeting new artists, arranging to network and write grants with more people than I knew existed in this town.
- May 13, 2013 at 7:30 PM
- Bob Lowry said...
You are such a vivacious great conversationalist, Linda. Opening up to new possibilities will pay off handsomely.
- May 13, 2013 at 8:26 PM
- lyndagrace said...
I am also more comfortable in a one to one situation. But I struggle with shyness. I found it much easier when I was working to find a friend to have coffee with. We had our job in common. That meant there was always something to talk about.
Being a quiet person and being retired seems to be a stumbling block for me in trying to find and establish connections.
I know the answer is putting myself out there, but that is a terrifying concept for me.
- May 14, 2013 at 3:52 AM
- DJan said...
I have made many friends in my exercise classes over the years here in Bellingham, but my most favorite people are the ones I know from the hiking group of the Senior Trailblazers. I am the opposite of you, though: I actively try NOT to get more engaged in meetings so I have more time for my own pursuits! :-)
- May 14, 2013 at 5:31 AM
- Olga said...
Community is important. We all need some level of connection. I tend to be more of a loner than is probably good for me, but I do enjoy the friendships I have made in retirement.
- May 14, 2013 at 7:50 AM
- Tom Sightings said...
A lot of people (including me) find that it's hard to meet new people after your kids are grown and you're no longer working. So good for you for providing a good example. (But that's the one appeal, to me, of a 55+ community, and the only reason I'd ever consider living in one -- that it's easier to make new friends.)
- May 14, 2013 at 10:33 AM
- Ms Sparrow said...
I have come to seek out interesting conversationalists too. Trivial conversations or gossip can get terribly boring and a total waste of time better spent elsewhere!
- May 14, 2013 at 1:16 PM
- Arkansas Patti said...
You met people with mutual interests. The best way. When I move to a new area, I join clubs that are centered around something I am interested in. In no time, it is easy to build up a core of friends and you all ready have that common interest.
Enjoy your new and interesting sounding friends.
- May 14, 2013 at 4:18 PM
- Barbara Torris said...
I like that you are doing this Linda.Reaching out to those around us is so important. Good luck with this new adventure...you are a brave woman.
Thinking of you.
- May 14, 2013 at 8:17 PM
- Out on the prairie said...
I found lots of voluteer opportunity to do on top of what I was already doing and finally landed a job back inthe workforce with a lot of pleading to do it.There are times I would like my freedom but enjoy helping others with my experience.
- May 14, 2013 at 8:44 PM
- Kathleen McCoy said...
That's wonderful that you're meeting such interesting new people and feeling a connection, Linda. I think it's really true that we meet and connect most often when doing something we enjoy.
- May 14, 2013 at 8:53 PM
- Cathy Severson said...
It's been 3 years since we moved to Arizona. I've made a number of new friends. My husband and I have a few couple friends. I miss having a buddy. You can meet people and enjoy their company, but a buddy is something special. I may never have it again. But, it would be nice.
- May 14, 2013 at 9:08 PM
- Dee said...
Dear Linda, since moving here to Missouri four years ago I haven't really made many new friends. Your posting today inspired me to try harder. Thank you. Peace.
- May 15, 2013 at 2:02 PM
- Retired English Teacher said...
This is a great recounting of how to get involved with others and become a part of a community. I love how you went outside of your normal routine and comfort zone and by doing so met so pretty amazing people. I love that part of you.
The medication training that you took has really been a great bonus in filling a void in your life after retirement. I watched you use the skills you have and was so impressed when we were on Vashon.
I hope once I am feeling better to become more involved in the larger community. You have given me a great blue print on how to do so.
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As the nights draw in and the temperature drops with the fall into autumn in here in the UK, a trip to Tampa, Florida in late September could be seen by some as an excuse to stock up on Vitamin D! Team members Andy Lloyd and Dr Hannah Rudman enjoyed a few moments in the sun in Tampa, whilst spending most of their time at ASTC 2016, the annual international conference for the Association of Science and Technology Centers.
They presented to c. 70 Science and Technology professionals interested in the interactive research pod, and the data and ethical consent gathering tools that we have "Embedded in the Exhibit". The pod was also mentioned in the opening article of the June 2016 edition of Dimensions, the quarterly glossy magazine of the ASTC community which was given away to all conference participants.
The wider conference was launched by a lively and inspiring opening session that included "artistic astronaut", Nicole Stott, the first person to paint a work of art in space! Her commitment to ensuring creative approaches are a part of scientific endeavour mirrors our aspirations.
Team member Dr Claire Bailey-Ross met another astronaut just a few days later at the UK Association for Science and Discovery Centres' 2016 national conference. She presented a Pecha Kucha about our project to c. 120 attendees, including UK astronaut Tim Peake, who was looking particularly 2D since his return from space…
Back at ASTC 2016, Linda Conlon, ASTC's board chair (and chief executive of the International Centre for Life), then discussed why science centres must engage with refugees and migrants and rethink their business models if they are to survive and meet the needs of future audiences. Her key themes included the "new divide" between those who see an open world (with globalisation and technological change) as broadly beneficial and those who see these forces as threatening and destructive. The new politics of our age will not be "left versus right" but "open versus closed." This idea links to the ASTC supported International Science Center & Science Museum Day 2016 experiment: a global citizen science observation of clouds. Science Centres and Museums all over the world are encouraging the general public to take images of clouds with their own devices between 1-22 October, then upload them via the Globe Observer app. The citizen science data will be shared with NASA to help them generate a global visualisation of cloud cover.
Back in the UK over the summer, we collected 2814 sets of data with ethical consent granted, a 79% acceptance rate from the general public to use their data for research. We are interested in how our research pod which is obviously already a popular science exhibit and research observatory, can begin to be used for/with citizen science projects. We are excited to consider how data generated and given ethical consent by the general public at the International Centre for Life can co-operate with and compliment official data, and can be shared openly.

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Even hackers face problems with hackers.
A closed underground forum that served as a hangout for known Russian cybercriminals ended up being hacked into and then its database leaked.
MAZA.la suffered a compromise in February by hackers from a rival forum called Direct Connection, according to LifeNews.ru.
Direct Connection is home to the CyberLords Team, the hacking crew of 27-year-old Eugene Anikin, one of the fraudsters who stole $10 million from RBS WorldPay.
Anikin just got a five-year suspended prison sentence in Russia for his involvement in the RBS cyberheist.
In total, MAZA.la had over 2,000 members whose information and private communications are now in the hands of law enforcement authorities.
The site went offline shortly after the hack and remained down.
Life News reports that RSA, the Anti-Money Laundering Alliance and the International Information Systems Forensics Association (IISFA) all have access to the leaked database.
Discussions on the forum ranged from the emergence of new banking trojans like SpyEye, to dealing in fake documents, trading of online casino and lottery accounts and exchanging money laundering methods.
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Teaching the Game-Patchwork
A game for 2 players from Uwe Rosenberg and published by Mayfair and Lookout Games
In Patchwork two players are competing to build the most appealing quilt on your personal 9x9 grid. In the game you are going to be purchasing patches using the buttons which serve as the currency in the game and placing them on the grid in hopes of filling the empty space as efficiently as possible. Those blank spaces will cost you in the end. The player who has the most buttons leftover at the end of the game, minus penalties will win the game and have quilted their patchwork masterpiece.
To start with, give each player their quilt board, either in green or yellow. Also give them their time token of the same color as their quilt board to be used on the Central Time board which you will set in the middle of the table and give each players five buttons to start with, while putting the rest of the buttons off to the side within easy reach. Each player will take their time token and place it on the starting space of the time board, the board is two sided, you can use either the spiral or the square, both have exactly the same number of spaces. Next take the thirty three regular patches and randomly place them in a circle around the time board, this circle will be fairly big so allow some room to spread out a bit when setting up. Next, find the smallest patch, it's a size 1x2, when you locate it, place the neutral pawn token and place it between this patch and the next patch in clockwise order. Find the special 7x7 tile and sit it off to the side, place the special 1 space patches in their designated spaces on the time board. Decide on the first player, the rules say the player who last used a needle, and you are ready to play Patchwork.
In Patchwork the player turns are not necessarily going to alternate. The player whose token is furthest back on the time track is going to be the active player, even if that player just had a turn. Sometimes that leads to multiple turns in a row for a player, which can be a pretty important strategy in the game. If ever both time tokens are on the same space the player whose token is on top goes first.
Okay, so now that that is settled, what exactly do you do on a turn?
Well, on your turn you take one of two possible actions, you can either advance your token along the time track until it is in the space directly in front of your opponent and take one button per space you have moved your time token OR You can purchase and place a patch on your player board. There are five steps to take when you purchase a patch.
First, you choose the patch, you can choose any one of the three patches that are in front of the neutral token in clockwise order.
Secondly, when you take a patch, you move the neutral token into the spot vacated by that patch.
Thirdly, you have to pay for that patch(What? You didn't think they were free did you?). The cost of the patch is the indicated on the patch itself by the number to the left of the button icon.
The fourth step of this action is to actually place the patch on your player board. There is only really one rule to remember when placing your patch on your board and that is that your patches cannot overlap. You may turn your patch however you like before placing it on your quilt board, just make sure you place it where you want it, because you aren't going to be able to move it later.
Last thing you do after purchasing a patch is that you move your time token along the time track. The number spaces moved is indicated to the left of the hourglass symbol on the patch.
The Time Board has a couple special features that you need to remember. Remember on the board where you placed those special 1 spot patches? The first person to pass over a patch takes that patch and uses it on his player board. These one spot patches are pretty important, they are the only way to fill in those one spot holes that always magically appear on your player board.
Also, you may have noticed those buttons on the Time Board. Well, when you pass by a button on the Time Board, you get paid! You receive a number of buttons equal to the number of buttons on your patches on your player board.
Lastly, remember that special tile I said to sit off to the side, that tile is worth 7 buttons at the end of the game to the first player to completely fill a 7x7 sections of squares on their player board.
The game will end after both player's Time Tokens end up on the last space of the Time Board. Your move ends on the last space on the board regardless if you still have extra time to count. Also, if you were to take the advance to receive buttons action you do only gain buttons equal to the actual number of spaces moved, you don't get that one extra to jump ahead of the person already at the end.
Now, it's time to score those masterpieces of patchwork quilting. Count up the number of buttons you have left in your supply, adding in the 7 bonus points for the special tile if you have rightfully earned that one. Then, from that score, subtract 2 points for each empty space on your quilt board.
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When Keith Emerson disbanded The Nice, Lee Jackson decided to hang up his bass guitar and go back to 'simpler' music. With this in mind he gathered together some musicians he had known for a number of years: Charlie Harcourt, Tommy Sloane and Mario Tapia. The result being the first Jackson Heights album King Progress, on which Jackson sang and played acoustic guitar. The standout tracks are 'Mr Screw' and a reworking of the old Nice song 'The Cry of Eugene'. It did not sell in any great numbers. The band started to drift apart and Jackson's next recruitment began... Read more
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The capital of the Sena always had a romantic and intimate sense. Perhaps this is considered the city of love.
The capital of the Sena always had a romantic and intimate sense. Perhaps this is considered the city of love. In the 20's and 30's, the city showed its most bohemian side. The following pictures depict Paris at night, full of scenes and daily events, but captured in analogue black and white. This further enhanced the nostalgic atmosphere.
The lights and the shadows accompany figures of all kinds. From a lonely prostitute (we assume) waiting in a corner, to transexual parties of high society. Paris has always been a very progressive city. These images bear witness to so many different uses over time compared to other countries (Spain, without going any further, then under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera). It was a time of freedom and liberalism, which sought to overcome the great war that occurred in Europe some years before. That liberalism and freedom was present in many of the leading intellectuals of the time. Thus, Hemingway, Picasso, Proust and many others, decided to establish their residence in this capital. Everything is shown from the optical analogue of the moment. Years pass, time passes, but the images always maintain that timeless essence as a witness.
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(AP) - A Northern California man has pleaded guilty to defrauding an Indian tribe for millions of dollars as part of a workers' compensation scam.
The Sacramento Bee reports that 46-year-old Gregory Chmielewski last month pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud. He is accused of taking millions of dollars from the Fort Independence Community of Paiute Indians, in Inyo County.
Chmielewski convicted the tribe to pay for a company that offered discount workers' compensation coverage by using tribal laws to avoid red tape in the state-run system.
Chmielewski says he siphoned $7.3 million from his company Independent Staffing Solutions of Roseville leaving injured workers without compensation.
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Download the authoritative guide: Cloud Computing 2019: Using the Cloud for Competitive Advantage
IBM today announced that it had completed the acquisition of Fiberlink Communications, the Blue Bell, Penn.-based maker of the cloud-based mobile device management (MDM) platform MaaS360. Financial terms have not been disclosed by the companies.
The privately held company's technology helps IBM make a push into cloud-enabled enterprise mobile management. In a statement, IBM said MaaS360 "expands IBM MobileFirst solutions with new cloud-based capabilities to deliver a comprehensive mobile management and security solution for global organizations of all sizes."
IBM kicked off its MobileFirst initiative in February. MobileFirst encompasses MDM and analytics. The tech giant is also courting mobile developers by partnering with AT&T for outreach and support programs. Robert LeBlanc, senior vice president of IBM middleware software, said during its debut that as smartphones and tablets "become ingrained in everything that we do, businesses are now in the palms of their customers' hands."
"IBM MobileFirst is designed to make the transformation to becoming a mobile enterprise a reality," said LeBlanc.
More than just opportunity to help business support BYOD initiatives by embracing smartphones and tablets like Apple's popular iPad, the move expands "vision for enterprise mobility management." That vision, according to Big Blue, could have a trust-enhancing effect on the burgeoning mobile B2B and B2C marketplaces, enabling "secure transactions between businesses, partners and customers," said IBM.
Speed is of the essence, and Fiberlink's MaaS360 cloud offerings allow businesses to quickly come to terms with managing mobile devices, suggested Deepak Advani, general manager of IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure, in press comments.
"Building on Fiberlink's rapid time to value, clients now gain additional solutions to quickly and confidently embrace mobility," stated Advani. In fact, IBM's ever-growing enterprise cloud services slate, helps clients "eliminate barriers to adoption and speed results," he asserted.
Like IBM, newly-private Dell is gearing up to provide MDM for its customers.
The Round Rock, Texas-based server and IT services provider recently revealed plans to launch an enterprise MDM platform in 2014. Called Dell Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM), the product bundles technologies from the company's acquisitions, including SonicWALL, Credant, KACE and Wyse. "The result is a comprehensive mobile enablement solution that elevates data security and mobile workforce productivity," stated the company.
MDM pure plays are also vying for a slice of enterprise IT budgets. AirWatch and MobileIron both recently announced app scanning capabilities, courtesy of Veracode, to help businesses spot apps that could potentially put their corporate data at risk.
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Cast for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Stephen Ward
Cast announced for Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical Stephen Ward, which has its world premiere at the Aldwych Theatre, opening 19 Dec 2013, following previews from 3 Dec - booking to 1 March 2014.
Alexander Hanson (Stephen Ward), Charlotte Spence (Christine Keeler), Charlotte Blackledge (Mandy Rice Davies), Anthony Calf (Lord Astor), Daniel Flynn (John Profumo), Joanna Riding (Valerie Hobson), Ian Conningham (Ivanov), Chris Howell (Murray), Ricardo Coke Thomas ( Lucky Gordon), Wayne Robinson (Johnny Edgecomp), Martin Callaghan, Kate Coyston, Jason Denton, Julian Forsyth, Amy Griffiths, Paul Kemble, Emma Kate Nelson, Carl Sanderson, Emily Squibb, John Stacey, Helen Ternent, Tim Walton..
Directed by Richard Eyre, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, book and lyrics by Christopher Hampton and Don Black. It has choreography by Stephen Mear, designed by Rob Howell, lighting by Peter Mumford , sound by Paul Groothuis. Produced by Robert Fox Limited and the Really Useful Group.
1963. The scandal that shocked society. Stephen Ward deals with the victim of the Profumo Affair - not, as is widely supposed, John Profumo himself, the disgraced Minister for War, nor even the fatally wounded Conservative government of Harold Macmillan, but the society osteopath whose private libertarian experiments blew up in his own and everyone else's face.
Alexander Hanson was last on stage as Pilate in the recent UK Arena Tour of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar. Previously he appeared as Fredrik Egerman in A Little Night Music, which after its run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, transferred to the West End and then to Broadway. Charlotte Spencer was directed by Richard Eyre as Jane Banks in the original West End production of Mary Poppins. Previously she was seen on stage in Olivier! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Charlotte Blackledge who trained at Central School of Speech and Drama is making her professional stage debut in Stephen Ward. Anthony Calf can currently be seen playing Victor Prynne in Jonathan Kent's production of Private Lives at the Gielgud Theatre. On television his credits include Restless and Upstairs Downstairs and regular roles in New Tricks and Holby City. Daniel Flynn's more recent theatre credits include Bracken Moor for the Tricycle Theatre, 55 Days for the Hampstead Theatre, Richard II and Translations for the Donmar Warehouse, Emperor and Galilean andThe White Guard for the National Theatre, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline and Camelot for Regents Park Open Air Theatre, The Weir and I Am Yours for the Royal Court. Joanna Riding theatre credits include Billy Elliot the Musical at the Victoria Palace Theatre, Lend Me A Tenor at the Gielgud Theatre, Fear and Misery for the Royal Court and The Witches of Eastwick and My Fair Lady both at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.


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NORCROSS, Ga., March 14, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Comverge, Inc., the leading provider of Intelligent Energy Management solutions for residential and commercial & industrial (C&I) customers, will conduct a presentation on demand response at the DistribuTECH Africa conference. DistribuTECH Africa brings together the entire spectrum of the power utility delivery industry to provide comprehensive coverage of the power needs, resources and issues facing the electricity generation industries across sub-Saharan Africa. The conference will take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town, South Africa from March 17-19, 2014.
Brandon Fleisher, Comverge's director of international program management, will present a session entitled "The Creation of a New Demand Response Market in South Africa: A Case Study." The presentation will be a case study detailing how Comverge worked with Eskom, the largest electricity provider in Africa, to design, implement and manage Africa's first market for demand response resources.
- What: The Creation of a New Demand Response Market in South Africa: A Case Study
- When: 2:00-3:30 p.m., Monday, March 17, 2014
- Where: Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
- Who: Brandon Fleisher, director of international program management, Comverge
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FreedomPop 'Snowden Phone': 10 Facts About This Secure Handset
FreedomPop 'Snowden Phone': 10 Facts About This Secure Handset
By Don Reisinger
Yes, It's a Galaxy S2
Customers hoping to get their hands on an exotic or advanced smartphone from FreedomPop will be quite disappointed by what they find in the "Snowden Phone." The device is a modified Samsung Galaxy S2, which effectively means it's a three-year-old device. Why FreedomPop couldn't offer something newer is unknown.
FreedomPop Is All About Security
One of the important things to understand about FreedomPop is that the company focuses almost entirely on security as its business model. Behind the "Snowden Phone" is the company's secure mobile network. It is focused entirely on customer privacy with an eye to governments around the world that it believes, are violating users' data privacy.
'Edward Snowden' Is a Rallying Cry
So, why is the handset known as the "Snowden Phone"? In one sense, it might be an attempt on FreedomPop's part to use the Snowden name as a PR ploy to attract more attention. In addition, it seems to be using the name as a rallying cry for those seeking more security and worried about unwarranted government access to their personal data. As FreedomPop pointed out in its press release announcing the device, the "Snowden Phone is a response to the growing frustrations and concerns around privacy infringement, call monitoring and Internet tracking." Those are all issues Snowden revealed in his leaks.
FreedomPop's Network Is Secured VOIP
So, what is FreedomPop's technology all about? According to the company, it's operating a secured voice over IP network that allegedly safeguards users from the prying eyes of hackers or government surveillance. That the handset will work over VOIP, however, means that users are reliant upon an Internet connection to place calls. That's an important distinction from FreedomPop's competitors.
Calls and Texts Are Encrypted
According to FreedomPop, the "Snowden Phone" takes full advantage of the company's secured network by ensuring calls and text messages are encrypted as they pass through the company's network. Whether those calls and texts can actually be intercepted and then perhaps decrypted, however, is up for debate.
It Has 128-Bit Encryption
Why is there such a debate over interception? Blame it on the type of encryption FreedomPop employs. The company says that it uses 128-bit encryption across its network and justifies that by saying that banks and government agencies are using the same. However, there are much stronger encryption methods, including those that rely on 256-bit encryption, which could make the service more appealing to privacy-seekers.
All Web Browsing Is Anonymous
Since the Galaxy S2 is designed to surf the Web, FreedomPop attempts to keep all browsing anonymous. The company claims it can achieve that by routing all of its data through a virtual private network. VPNs are highly secure and provide for more-secure browsing, but it's tough to say just how "anonymous" the Web browsing truly is over FreedomPop's network.
Pick a Number, Any Number
Here's something that sets FreedomPop apart from the vast majority of other carriers in the world: The company allows its customers to change their phone numbers at any time, no matter how often they've done it. It's an interesting option that perhaps does more to protect a person's privacy than anything else FreedomPop does.
The Phone Is Affordable
One of the nice things about the "Snowden Phone" is that it's actually quite affordable. FreedomPop customers can get their hands on the device for just $189. That deal is offered without requiring a long-term contract. Best of all, for privacy-seekers, customers can use Bitcoin to purchase the device and maintain anonymity across the buying experience.
Plan Charges Might Add Up
While the "Snowden Phone" might be cheap, the amount of data the company offers out of the box might not be enough. According to FreedomPop, it'll offer 500MB of free data for three months, plus voice and text. After that, the service costs $10 per month. But considering the market for the device, data charges could very quickly rise as people aim to surf the Web anonymously from their mobile devices. As most mobile users know, 500MB of data isn't much. So don't expect to pay $10 per month indefinitely.


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Long-Term Casualty Chart
For 5 years, before the Baghdad Prayer Patrol started, the U.S. casualty rates in Iraq were on the rise, then suddenly that trend shifted. This chart shows the prayer difference.
In Oct. 2008 after praying for Baghdad for 19 months we had our first month of NO U.S. casualties in Baghdad. Persevering Prayer works.


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Nick Offerman's Wooden Emojis To Benefit Children's Defense Fund
American actor, writer, and carpenter, Nick Offerman, recently made an appearance on Conan's late night talk show selling his hand-crafted wooden emojis (click here to view commercial).
Although the commercial started out as a joke, talking about how solid oak emojis are a more old-fashioned, more personal, more American mode of communication, it has now turned into a real thing, and one that supports a great cause.
Conan teamed up with Tilt.com, to produce a limited run of Offerman's high quality emojis, with all proceeds going to the Children's Defense Fund.
The Children's Defense Fund's Leave No Child Behind mission ensures every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life, and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
Prices for the emojis vary; for $100 you can send extremely heavy Smiley Face, Heart Eyes, The Wink, The Cat or the always popular Pile of Poo; for $300 you can send a pine-based emoji sentence.
Please click here to learn more about how you can donate!


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"Crafty" can be defined as "clever." It can also refer to a person who is skilled in creative activities. For Florida native Joanna Campbell Slan, both definitions apply. In her Kiki Lowenstein Mysteries, Slan combines her two passions – writing and crafting – to create a series of clever mysteries interspersed with creative tips. Her newest novel, Death of a Schoolgirl, casts Charlotte Bronte's classic character, Jane Eyre, in the role of amatuer sleuth. Slan describes her books as "funny like Janet Evanovich, romantic like Nora Roberts, and centered on women's friendships like Debbie Macomber." With the release of Death of a Schoolgirl, she's forced to add another comparison: "British like Rhys Bowen."
Slan has been a book lover for as long as she can remember. As the child of an alcoholic father, she escaped into the pages of her favorite books. According to Slan, "Books saved my life and gave me hope that I could escape my beginnings." They also instilled in her an intense desire to write. "Even as a child, I wanted to write something that would give people hope and possibly change their lives" she recalls.
After graduating magna cum laude from Ball State University, Slan used her journalism degree to pursue a career in public relations. In addition to print journalism, she did some corporate speechwriting, worked in television and radio, and was involved in the first Farm Aid concert in 1985. Eventually, she started her own PR firm.
Since all of her jobs involved writing, she decided to branch out into writing non-fiction. She authored 13 books including several on scrapbooking techniques. But it wasn't until her son was older that she had the time to attempt a work of fiction. In 2008, after four rewrites, Slan completed her first novel – Paper, Scissors, Death. "That book took 50 years to write," she says. "It took me that long to believe I could do it." And those 50 years paid off. Paper, Scissors, Death was named a 2008 Agatha Award finalist for Best First Novel.
Paper, Scissors, Death introduces Kiki Lowenstein, a young mom whose world centers around her daughter and scrapbooking. Kiki's comfortable little world is turned upside-down when her husband is found naked and dead in a hotel room. "Kiki is someone I like and admire," Slan says. "She gets knocked down, but you can't keep her down for long." Paper, Scissors, Death was the first of a six-book series. Slan describes herself as a believer in series fiction, saying "I love knowing that once I find something that's satisfying and enjoyable, I can go back to the bookstore and find more."
Between Book #4 and Book #5, Slan decided to write a series of short stories featuring Kiki. "My fans told me that a year between books was too long for them," she says. "They needed their 'Kiki fix.' So I did. The stories are available on Amazon, and the response to them has been simply amazing."
Slan's latest offering, Death of a Schoolgirl, is the first in a new mystery series, The Jane Eyre Chronicles. Based on Charlotte Brontë's classic Jane Eyre, Death of a Schoolgirl was released by Berkley Trade on August 7. "Jane Eyre has long been my favorite book," Slan says. "Like most readers, when they find a work they love, I hated to see it end. After the success of my Kiki Lowenstein Mystery Series, I was casting about for another project. It occurred to me that Jane Eyre had all the hallmarks of a great mystery—and better yet, Jane has all the characteristics of a great amateur sleuth."
Death of a Schoolgirl explores the responsibility we have to other people's children. Slan presented the first hot-off-the-press copy of the book to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a ceremony at the State Department."Secretary Clinton wrote that it takes a village to raise a child. Today more than ever, we need to reach out past the boundaries of our homeland and care for the children of the world," explains Slan. "In my book, Jane refuses to turn her back on a group of schoolchildren even though she herself is at risk."
Critics have warmed to Slan's message. Kirkus Reviews noted," Slan refashions a beloved heroine as a surprisingly canny detective. Her stylistic imitation of Charlotte Brontë is seasoned with a dash of social commentary and plenty of suspects to mull over." Publishers Weekly noted that Slan's new book "credibly recreates Regency London and the era of the Bow Street Runners." That compliment causes the author to laugh. "Such is the power of imagination," she says. "I wrote about bad air quality, cold rain, and murky weather while looking out the window onto the beach at Jupiter Island. In fact, I actually did wrap an oilcloth around me and walk on the beach during one storm in January to get the feel for the driving rain so common in England. Maybe it helped!"
While Slan's mysteries are fun to read, they each have a social issue at the core: class differences, deception, prejudice, domestic violence, and caring for aging parents or endangered children. Like the Kiki Lowenstein books, the Jane Eyre series will have its own social agenda. "I hope to put my readers in touch with something they may not have thought about before," Slan says. "To do something I love and maybe even help someone – can it get any better than that? I don't think so!"
For more about Joanna Campbell Slan, visit her website at www.JoannaSlan.com
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Back to the Knitter
Well, things have finally settled down enough around here to allow my creative juices to flow out into actual production instead of fermenting in my brain LOL!! I'm actually going to stop just talking about ideas and actually start knitting with my machines again.
I've been doing little bits here and there, Kris's Felted Clog slippers on the bulky for example.Kris Basta
Those were great fun and have added lots of ideas to the stew slushing around in my head. That and the fact that our weather has finally started turning warmer and sunshiny which always puts me in a better mood all together.
I'm also quite happy to see that the softer more feminine style of shrugs and lacy little bolero type sweaters and tops are still in style and I've been wanting to knit some up for my grand daughters too. Last year I obsessed on finding the right lace punchcard, I think I have it, the trouble was every thing lacy I swatched ended up having a "Hoochy Momma" look to it. Not appropriate for 10 year old girls, and I don't give a rats ass what Walmart or Hannah Montana thinks little girls should be wearing. It's too grown up and just plain "Hoochy Momma" for my precious babies, they grow up much too fast as it is!!
So, maybe this Spring I will be able to focus and get some things done! Oh, but wait a minute. It's Spring, that's my sewing time of year and I did get a new sewing machine and I really do want to get into quilting a cover for it........ oh dear!


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After the little old lady's husband passes away, she buys herself a parrot to keep her company. Being hard of hearing, she teaches it to call out "Who is it?" when someone knocks on the door. Most of her callers find this amusing until the day the plumber shows up to fix her leaky sink. Having forgotten the appointment she's out so when the plumber knocks the parrot screeches: "WHO IS IT?" The plumber replied, "It's the plumber... I'm here to fix your sink."
No reply. He knocks harder. Again the parrot screeches: " WHO IS IT?". The annoyed plumber shouts," PLUMBER! HERE TO FIX THE SINK!". Silence. He pounds on the door this time. Receiving the same reply he screamed, " IT'S THE PLUMBER! I'M HERE TO FIX THE SINK!" and his rage sent his blood pressure so high that he fainted on the porch. At that moment the old lady returned and, seeing the prostrate plumber, exclaimed, " Oh, my god... that poor man! Who is it?".
The parrot screeches: " It's the plumber... he's here to fix the sink!"
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Email clients deliver messages to M-Switch, which handles message switching and realted services such as spam filtering. M-Switch in turn delvers new messages into M-Box using LMTP (Local Message Transfer Protocol) where they can be retrieved by email clients using wither POP or IMAP. M-Box gets configuration information, including client authentication from an LDAP directory, such as M-Vault.
A more detailed example showing M-Box in the context of a full configuration is given on the Mailbox Services page. Horizontal scaling (running M-Box on multiple servers) is described later in this page. You can evaluate all the elements of Isode's Internet Messaging Solution (including M-Vault, M-Switch and M-Vault).
Key Benefits
M-Box has many functions, which are described below. Reasons why this product may be of particular interest include:
- High performance. M-Box has an optimized database design and multi-threaded architecture, which gives high performance and allows a very large number of users to be supported on a single server.
- Horizontal scaling. Multiple M-Box can robustly share a single file store, enabling straightforward service scaling for very large deployments.
- Simple database format. M-Box uses a simple format mapping directly to the underlying file store, with one message per file and one directory entry per account. This gives natural robustness, and simplifies account provisioning.
- LDAP directory based configuration. M-Box stores configuration and authentication information in the Directory, which allows sharing between multiple instances of M-Box and M-Switch, as well as enabling straightforward integration with a provisioning system.
- GUI configuration using MConsole in context of an M-Switch configuration.
- Command line control and configuration change with the msadm tool, including shared folder management.
- Web based delegated account management. The Internet Messaging Administrator allows email administrators to create and manage user email accounts.
- Mobile device support. M-Box is designed to support mobile email devices, and in particular has support for the LEMONADE specifications.
- Rock Solid. M-Box has exceptional robustness and stability, including support for fail-over clustering and Off Site Hot Standby (Disaster Recovery).
- Online backup can be performed using standard backup tools, as a consequence of the M-Box database architecture. This enables straightforward disaster recovery.
- Security. There are a variety of security features, including SASL for POP and IMAP access.
- Audit and event logging will be added in a future release, using the same mechanisms as other Isode products. The current release uses syslog for critical events.
- Flexible message processing on delivery, controlled by SIEVE.
- A back-end driver for support of IMAP archives to provide multi-user access to IMAP archives, which per-user flags maintained in a database for registered users. This includes an option to operate in read-only mode.
M-Box Architecture
An M-Box server is based around a message database, and has three multi-threaded servers that access this database; imapd (supports access using IMAP), pop3d (supports access using POP) and lmptd (supports access using LMTP).
The most important part of the M-Box architecture is the database design. M-Box uses a database abstraction layer, so that it is possible to use different database back-ends. This has been prototyped with several back-ends. Two database back-end are currently being provided, one for standard usage and one for archive access.
The underlying database is mapped onto the underlying file store using a format which we call "mdir". This uses the basic approach of the popular maildir format, which enables mailbox sharing without use of file system locks. Mdir differs from maildir primarily to enable performance improvements, particularly in support of IMAP. Key features of the mdir format:
- No locks. This is critical for high performance, and robust horizontal scaling.
- Each message in a single file. This simple approach gives inherent high robustness, as any data corruption will be constrained to a single message. It also allows standard file system backup mechanisms to be used for online backup.
- Use of file store hierarchy. Folders and mailboxes are structured using the file store hierarchy. This approach is inherently robust and allows use of standard OS tools on the database. A key benefit is that each account is represented by a single directory hierarchy, which simplifies provisioning support and in particular account deletion.
A quick analysis might suggest that this simple approach, while very robust, would not give good performance. In fact, exactly the opposite is true. Modern files systems are highly optimized for exactly the sort of operations that are performed by M-Box. In particular:
- File system directories are indexed using b-trees, and have optimized layout on disk. Use of large directories with key indexing information in the filename is therefore very efficient.
- Files are intelligently laid out on the disk, which means that use of relatively small block size (good to gain high disk utilization, as messages are generally small) does not impact performance for large files.
In essence, M-Box is working with the tuning of the underlying file system, which is one of the reasons for its excellent performance. Our tests have shown that M-Box is faster than servers that use complex approaches to optimize performance, and that the approach taken gives benefits of simplicity, robustness and high performance.
A key benefit that mdir provides is support of horizontal scaling as illustrated above. This architecture allows multiple M-Box servers to access a single file store. This architecture gives 'horizontal scaling', and enables additional M-Box servers to be added to support more users. Load balancing between the M-Box servers will usually be achieved by use of a network load balancer. The file store will be chosen with appropriate size, performance and expansion options for the deployment. It may be a file system on one of the M-Box servers, but in most cases it is likely to be a separate network file server appliance. The file access protocol will depend on performance and scaling targets for the total system. Options include:
- NFS (Network File System). The traditional protocol for this sort of functionality.
- iSCSI. A mapping of the SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface) protocol commonly used onto IP. iSCSI can be used with a clustering file system to provide a low cost, higher performance alternative to NFS.
- SAN (Storage Area Network). A more expensive, higher performance option.
Although this approach gives an elegant way to scale an M-Box deployment by adding more servers, the major advantage of this architecture is in simplified management. This architecture leads to user mailboxes being deployed on a single file store, with each account having a separate directory. Increase in storage is simply a question of increasing the size of the file server. This makes it easy to add and remove accounts.
Many mailbox servers, particularly those with complex databases, lock mailboxes to specific servers. This leads to two problems:
- In order to make mailbox location transparent to the end user, a tier of application servers will generally be introduced, so that the user gets redirected to the right server.
- When servers are added, or usage grows, there will be the requirement to migrate users between servers. This adds product and operational complexity.
M-Box's architecture avoids these problems.
M-Box is fast. Our own benchmarking indicates that M-Box is significantly faster than open source implementations and commercial competitors. Whilst license restrictions prevent us from publishing comparison figures against commercial competitors, we encourage customers to perform independent tests.
While there is much detail to consider, there are three basic questions to answer with regards to performance:
- How fast is the database? This is best tested by a single connection performing operations on a mailbox.
- What changes when you add multiple connections?
- Does it scale horizontally?
M-Box performs very well on all of the above metrics.
IMAP and POP Protocol Support
IMAP and POP are both protocols with a large number of optional extensions. M-Box has comprehensive support of these optional extensions, making it ideal for environments supporting a wide mix of email clients. Details of protocol support are listed in the Internet Mail Conformance section below.
M-Box is designed to support mobile devices, and conformance to some of the new LEMONADE specifications is included, prior to final standardization of this work. The IETF's LEMONADE (License to Enhanced Mobile Oriented And Diverse Endpoints) working group is addressing messaging standard extensions for optimized open standard mobile messaging. You can read more about LEMONADE and Mobile Messaging in our whitepaper, [Open Standards: The best approach for mobile messaging].
SIEVE Processing
SIEVE, which is a delivery time scripting language for email processing is supported by lmtpd. SIEVE enables users to manage actions such as automatic email filing, and vacation alerts. Personal sieve scripts are configured in the directory and may be managed by IMA. There is also a "global" sieve script, so that custom processing can be defined for all users.
Configuration Management
The configuration management of M-Box is integrated with the directory based configuration of the messaging infrastructure. M-Box configuration information is held in the (LDAP) directory, which enables client/server management of data and sharing of information between M-Box servers. This includes configuration information for the M-Box server, but the most important information is on users.
The core model is "one user; one account; one directory entry". While this can be managed with Isode's directory data entry tools, in many deployments account management and user option selection will be integrated with the customer provisioning system, with the directory forming a back end to this.
More details, including the LDAP attributes used to configure M-Box, can be found in the M-Box Administration Manual, available for download from this site. M-Box server configuration is done using MConsole and msadm.
Account Administration
Web-based administration if provided by the Internet Messaging Administration application.
Email administrators can use the IMA to:
- Create and manage user email accounts
- Create and manage shared email folders
- Create and manage groups of users (used in access control lists and for shared folders)
- Edit the message store configuration (including message size quotas and delivery options)
- Examine the current directory configuration.
You can find out more about the Internet Messaging Administrator on the product page.
Operational Management
M-Box specific operational control is provided by the msadm tool, which enables checking of accounts and msstat which provides connection information. Msadm provides scripted creation of accounts, and enables message expiration, so that old message can be removed. M-Box provides audit logging of key events, and uses Isode events for errors and operational information. This is described in the page on Event Handling and Audit Logging.
M-Box provides SNMP monitoring of general status and network connection. Further information is given on the page Isode's SNMP Architecture.
M-Box provides a fully automated, on-the-fly migration system, capable of migrating both message data and authentication information from an existing POP or IMAP service.
In a one-shot variant of the Gateway model, the single POP mailbox, or all the user's personal IMAP mailboxes, are migrated dynamically on login, using only standard, secured POP3 or IMAP connections. On completion, the user is automatically provisioned with an account in the directory.
In the majority of cases, this allows for a switchover from an existing system entirely transparent to the user, with no pre-population of account data required.
This reduces both the downtime and administrative load dramatically, allowing rollout to be achieved with zero-downtime.
Authentication & Security
Authentication of IMAP and POP users may be performed using SASL, built over Isode's SASL infrastructure. Data confidentiality may be provided either by SASL and/or by TLS.
M-Box supports IMAP Access Control, which can be managed by IMAP clients, for example to enable folder sharing,
Internet Mail Conformance
|Requirements for Internet hosts - application and support. R. Braden, October 1989
|POP3 Authentication command. J. Myers, December 1994
|Post Office Protocol - Version 3. J. Myers, M. Rose, May 1996
|Local Mail Transfer Protocol. J. Meyers, October 1996
|SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error Codes. N. Freed, October1996
|Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies. N. Freed, N. Borenstein, November 1996
|Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types. N. Freed, N. Borenstein, November 1996
|Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Three: Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text. K. Moore, November 1996
|Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples. N. Freed, N. Borenstein, November 1996
|IMAP4 QUOTA extension. J. Myers, January 1997
|IMAP4 non-synchronizing literals. J. Myers, January 1997
|IMAP4 IDLE command, B. Leiba, June 1997
|IMAP4 Namespace. M. Gahrns & C. Newman, May 1998
|POP3 Extension Mechanism. R. Gellens, C. Newman, L. Lundblade, November 1998
|Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP. C. Newman, June 1999
|SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining. N. Freed, September 2000
|The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages. G. Vaudreuil, January 2003
|Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4rev1. M. Crispen, March 2003
|IMAP4 Binary Content Extension,L. Nerenberg, April 2003
|Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) UNSELECT command. A. Melnikov, February 2004
|Sieve Extension: Copying Without Side Effects. J. Degener, October 2004
|ESMTP and LMTP Transmission Types Registration. C. Newman, July 2004
|IMAP4 ACL extension. A. Melnikov, December 2005
|INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - UIDPLUS extension, M Crispen, December 2005
|Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - URLAUTH extension. M. Crispin, May 2006
|Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - CATENATE extension. P. Resnick, April 2006
|Internet Email to Support Diverse Service Environments (Lemonade) Profile. S. Meas, A. Melnikov, June 2006
|IMAP Extenstion for Conditional STORE Operation of Quick Flag Changes Resyncronization. A. Melnikov, S.Hole, June 2006
|IMAP4 extension to SEARCH command for controlling what kind of information is returned, A. Melnikov, D. Cridland, November 2006
|The IMAP Extension for SASL Initial Client Response. Robert Siemborski, A. Gulbrandsen Sept 2007
|The IMAP COMPRESS Extension. Arnt Gulbandsen, August 2007
|WITHIN Search extensions to the IMAP Protocol. Eric Burger, September 2007
|IMAP URL Scheme. A. Melnikov, C Newman, November 2007
|The IMAP ENABLE Extension. A. Melnikov, A. Gulbrandsen, March 2008
|IMAP4 Extensions for Quick Mailbox Resynchronization, A. Melnikov, D. Cridland, C. Wilson, March 2008
|Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language. T. Showalter, January 2008
|Sieve Email Filtering: Vacation Extension. T. Showalter, N. Freed, January 2008
|Sieve Email Filtering: Relational Extension. W. Segmuller, B. Leiba January 2008
|Sieve Email Filtering: Subaddress Extension. K. Murchison, January 2008
|Internet Message Access Protocol - SORT and THREAD Extensions, M. Crispin, K. Murchison, June 2008
|Contexts for IMAP4, D. Cridland, C. King, July 2008
|IMAP4 LIST Command extensions, B. Leiba, A. Melnikov, June 2008
|Sieve Email Filtering: Date and Index Extensions. N. Freed, July 2008
|A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts. T. Martin, A. Melnikov, July 2010
|SMTP Service Extension for 8-bit MIME transport, J. Klensin, N. Freed, M. Rose, E. Stefferud, D. Crocker, March 2011
|IMAP LIST Extension for Special-Use Mailboxes, B. Leiba, J. Nicolson, March 2011
|Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - MOVE Extension, A. Gulbrandsen, N. Freed, Ed. Oracle, January 2013
|The IMAP SEARCH=INTHREAD and THREAD=REFS Extensions, Arnt Gulbrandsen, July 2010


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My pumpkin patch is in the front yard! They are not your typical pumpkins, but their sheer mystique offers a sort of ghost like quality.
Yes…you read the caption…they are nylon pumpkins! The nylon is wrapped around a pumpkin shaped wire and attached solidly to a stick. I cut the sticks different lengths to get a better effect.
And no…I didn't make these cute fellows. I bought them at a local nursery in my area called Esbenshades last fall. They have really held up well-being it is their second season outside!
Happy graceful living!


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Hutch Dano (TV's "Zeke and Luther") has joined Fox 2000 and Walden Media's film adaptation of the Beverly Cleary book series "Ramona and Beezus" says The Hollywood Reporter.
Dano will play Henry Huggins, a longtime classmate of Ramona's older sister Beezus, who has developed a crush on him.
Huggins kicked off the Cleary fictional universe when he appeared as the title character in her first novel, "Henry Huggins," in 1950.
Joey King, Selena Gomez, John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan and Ginnifer Goodwin have already been cast.


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Before you start pitching to sell something, it's useful to prepare. This means knowing the content of what you're pitching and practicing the delivery to increase the probability that it evokes a positive response in the recipient.
However, no matter how much preparation you do in advance of the actual pitches, you will face unexpected questions when the pitches begin. Game time always creates surprises that you didn't anticipate in practice.
The good news is that, after a few pitches (usually less than 5), you'll have been hit with nearly all of the different questions that could be asked during your pitch. After this point, the same questions that surprised you in previous pitches will no longer surprise you in future ones.
While you may have felt ready by preparing well in advance of your first actual pitch, you'll only be truly ready after giving a few actual pitches. As a result, you should schedule a few initial pitches where the stakes are low (in other words, being turned down isn't that important) so that you're truly ready when the stakes are high.
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text: Superstorm Sandy and, before that, Hurricane Katrina were just two of many dramatic reminders that millions of us are vulnerable to destructive storms that cause injuries, deaths, and property damage on a scale that is often hard to comprehend. But even a comparatively minor storm that doesn't dominate the headlines can wreak havoc with those unfortunate enough to be in its path. Here are some tips for preparing yourself and your family for dealing with a damaging storm and its aftermath.


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Food: Indian plum, jam, lamb, meat, osoberries, recipes, Rosaceae · 1 comment
... those undastardly forest fabricators had villeinously vinicultured, and... well. Comparing the trailing blackberry to its cultivated ...
11 May 2011: Car Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Trunk
Politics: bicycles, cars, lifestyles of the privileged minority, privilege · 4 comments
... or privileged/disempowered groups to the next. U.S. culture and infrastructure provide many amenities for car drivers, often at the ...
1 Apr 2009: Employed at Last
Whimsy: April fools, wingnuts · 15 comments
... fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture! My role will be to expand the Institute's existing "Teach the ... ever, it is vital that we act to preserve our car-centric culture, and I hope you will all join me in taking action to strengthen your ...
14 Jan 2009: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 1 comment
... are welcome, photographic or otherwise. Discussions of culture and politics are welcome if they're desert-related. The one ...
30 Dec 2008: Cell Phones Make You Drive More
Aimless: · 3 comments
... space caseness takes root in an already car-driven culture, it doesn't just irk some crotchety bloggers, it prevents us from ...
1 Sep 2008: The Science of Deliciousness
Aimless: · 9 comments
It might be Labor Day, but summer isn't really over until the blackberries are gone. Since it's harvest season and I'm still on leave from the workforce, I've been spending my time figuring out clever things to do with the bountiful produce of my neighbor ...
15 Jul 2008: Sizzle… fo' Shizzle?
Aimless: · 1 comment
... There are some mildly amusing jabs at Hollywood celebrity culture, delivered with all the delicate comic timing of a bulldozer. But when ...
28 Jun 2008: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 1 comment
... seismology, soil science, sustainability Speaking of agriculture blogging, I've been meaning to plug two blogs by ag scientists, both of ...
12 Jun 2008: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters
Aimless: · 11 comments
... earthquake). The other thing that happened is that car culture came into full swing, and people started designing apartment buildings ...
22 Apr 2008: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition
Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments
... the end, the root of the problem lies with culture. If we can change the culture, then we may win. If we cannot, then no amount of technology or ... in which to work on the ultimately much harder problem of culture). I've spent more time in the past few years thinking about feminist ...
6 Apr 2008: Giving the Lie: Blogs and Scientific Criticism
Aimless: · 10 comments
... modern England or speculate about what modern scientific culture might have inherited from the founders of the Royal Society (doing so ... let's not pretend we haven't inherited a certain amount of culture here) it's far more important to be original and thought-provoking than ...
11 Mar 2008: Jello Salad is a Weird Ethnic Food
Aimless: · 21 comments
... stories about Germany or Scandinavia to give myself some culture, I'm not so much critiquing the way the cultural construction of ... idea that the North European-American whitebread mishmash culture I've got either doesn't exist, or isn't "ethnic". I'm not sure what ...
12 Feb 2008: Jim Watson, My Racist Corporate Overlord
Aimless: · 32 comments
... says -isms are pervasive structural problems and Mother Culture is very sneaky with the unwanted memes.) I'm not going to explain why ...
31 Jan 2008: Moving to New Internets
Meta: · 5 comments
... you're interested in my thoughts on geology, the culture of science, or pie, though, you'll need to follow me on over to ...
10 Jan 2008: Saline Injections for Venice?
Science: ground water, subsidence, Venice · 3 comments
... do the opposite of what mid-20th century industry and agriculture did to the city, and pump water into an aquifer underlying the city. ...
29 Aug 2007: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier
Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments
... been Myanmar. Dilbert has always been ridiculing cubicle culture. Food packaging has always included nutritional labeling. I am ...
13 Jun 2007: Leaking From the Pipeline (Again)
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, grad school, life as a leak, Phi Delta Qoppa · 14 comments
... the health of my various mentor relationships, and the culture of my department. Not in public, thanks. But I've been feeling some ...
12 Oct 2006: When You Join the Teapot Tempest, You Know Your Bloggy Groove Is Returning
Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, role models · 7 comments
... being. I extend the Golden Rule to my own role in forming culture: I contribute to culture as I would have others contribute, I enforce the social norms that I ...
25 Aug 2006: Am I an Old Fart?
Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments
... Ringo Starr's status was last an important piece of pop culture in what year, again? Professional athletes have always competed in the ...
10 Jul 2006: Sunday, Day of Links
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics, Science: fascist police states, Joseph Campbell, science studies · 2 comments
... gender lines, the stories that epitomize girlhood in our culture, like girl's moral development itself, is often a mirror rather than an ...
13 Mar 2006: The Rhetoric of Patriarchy
Human Fuzzies, Politics: feminism, patriarchy, rhetorical tactics, words · no comments
... bloggers) we need to look at examples from that subculture. One of the shiniest examples of how I see "patriarchy" used by ...
14 Feb 2006: You Say Patriarchy, I Say Pahtriarchy
Politics: feminisms, patriarchy, rhetorical nit-picking · 4 comments
I won't be participating in Blog Against Sexism Day, because I need no such kicks in the pants to rail against the form of oppression that happens to affect me most. But I'm looking forward to Bitch | Lab's promised entry on why "patriarchy" is a dumb word ...
4 Feb 2006: Easy glide
Human Fuzzies: queerness, swear words · no comments
No one is allowed to stop talking about Brokeback Mountain until the Oscars. Which is fine by me, but only because this reading should score me some points in the House of Applied Queer Theory: The idealization of the Lady (or queer love/assfucking) is ...
31 Jan 2006: Procrastinating Things
Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 comments
... The Myth Of Empowerment: Women And The Therapeutic Culture In America, which draws a line straight from the Victorian domestic ...
19 Dec 2005: Happy Whatever
Politics: atheism, Christmas, holidays, religion, secularism, thanksgiving · 6 comments
... checked, the word "secular" meant "nonreligious", not "non-culture-specific". Which means that Twinkletrees can be secular, and so can ... and trees and gifts are frequently misinterpreted by the culture-at-large doesn't mean they are somehow inherently religious artefacts ...
25 Nov 2005: The Shoppingest Friday iTunes iChing of the Year
Whimsy: consumerism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests · no comments
... never managed to make an adequate entrance into consumer culture anyway, so I might as well continue in my deviant hippie ways. Except ...
23 Nov 2005: Own Your Own Conditional Penultimate Paragraphs
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 2 comments
... to claim that I could write a better essay on science culture with a monkey tied behind my back, but I won't make that claim. After ...
16 Nov 2005: On Co-ops and Community
Human Fuzzies, Politics: co-ops, consensus, intentional community · 4 comments
... we're technically run by majority rule, we maintain a culture of consensus-seeking for most house decisions. Consensus doesn't scale ...
14 Nov 2005: Eaten the First Time
Links: anti-racism, Barack Obama, blog carnivals, new holiday, pirates, student parents, women in science, work vs. family · 1 comment
... by means of bigotry one has swallowed from the culture, and subsequently coughed up without thought, always sound so whiny? ...
1 Nov 2005: Plebiscite Time Is Fun Time
Politics: abortion, California ballot propositions, co-op living, MediCal, teacher tenure · 9 comments
... broader role of ballot initiatives in California political culture, exaggerated caricatures of my actual opinions, and total nonsense. I'm ...
23 Oct 2005: Peevishness and Science
Human Fuzzies, Links: pep bands, project management · no comments
Last night I was about the crankiest I've been in a long time, largely as a result of the full-on pep band playing crap arrangements of mid-90s pop tunes outside my window. I mean, I've played in pep bands, I like a lot of pep band music, even at midnight ...
21 Oct 2005: Friday Friday Friday
Whimsy: earthquake prediction, Friday random ten, search requests · no comments
... Bay Area quake is a vital mythic element in modern culture. How aspiring geophysicists fit into the Jungian framework, I don't ...
1 Oct 2005: An Open Letter
Human Fuzzies: bluegrass, Earl Scruggs, marijuana, open letters · 6 comments
... do a better job of segregating your numerous subcultures in the ...
5 Aug 2005: Shark vs. Bear
Whimsy: bears, cultural appropriation, hipsters, sharks, yuppies · 1 comment
... in Buttfuck, Utah: so we can form an authentic wacky nerd culture, uncontaminated by aristocratic sport and Hollywood ...
3 Aug 2005: Travelogue! Days 0-3
Personal: photoblog · 5 comments
... a digression on some minor point of Icelandic history and culture, of the type you can research at home and drop in just where it will ...
30 Jun 2005: Offloading Tangential Meta-Rape Discussion Gripes
Politics: rape, rhetorical nit-picking, rhetorical tactics, the Pussy Oversoul · no comments
... feminist blogospheric discussion on rape culture endures, and it's quite good, if getting rather meta by now. The ...
3 Jun 2005: Feminist Web Notes
Links, Politics: feminism, rhetorical tactics, the Pussy Oversoul · no comments
Long (and old, but I'm cleaning out the blog folder today) but good discussion at Alas, A Blog about rape and the oh-so-tremendous power wielded by we gatekeepers to the Pussy Oversoul: parts 1, 2, and 3. But it's best encapsulated by this comment from Sam ...
1 Jun 2005: Academic Insecurity Builds Character
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, brain in a jar, impostor syndrome · 6 comments
... far more insightfully about the ways in which academic culture asks us to pretend to be dehumanized brains in jars. Suffice it to say ...
4 May 2005: Penis-Talk Redux
Politics: lifestyles of the privileged minority, masculinity · 11 comments
... a bad thing. It's good to pay attention to problems with culture and embodiedness and blah blah blah, so I still insist that men are ...
18 Apr 2005: Reading Material
Links: anger, environmentalism, gender, kittens, motherhood, pharmacists, theology · 12 comments
... and anger: Our culture has a huge problem with women who do not appear to be happy every hour ...
: For Millennia, Google Has Spoken
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: essay contests, googlefu · 3 comments
... charged with a crime. You may be a mixed blessing for agriculture. A long-term care insurance quotes from multiple lenders, even if you ...
31 Mar 2005: Today's RSS Zeitgeist: Cheapskates
Politics: classism, consumerism, eccentricity, money · 6 comments
... homemade gift? The only way to live affordably in our culture, even on incomes considerably higher than those of these two examples, ... or whatever. These bullshit incentives don't just create a culture of waste and environmental catastrophe; they help perpetuate poverty. ...
27 Feb 2005: More WordPress Babbling
Meta: quizzes · no comments
... little use for the materialism and consumerism of modern culture. You know the value of hard work and try to be self-sufficient as much ...
7 Feb 2005: Monday Links to Stuff
Links: brain drain, Iowa, nerdy jokes · no comments
... First, the phrase " for values of * that" indexes a subculture that includes programmers as well as mathematicians and others. Second, ...
20 Jan 2005: Fantasy Cabinet
Politics: fantasy politics · 9 comments
... of the Interior: Wangari Maathai Secretary of Agriculture: Eliot Coleman Secretary of Commerce: Atrios Secretary of Labor: ...
17 Jan 2005: The Daily Day: MLK Edition
Personal, Politics: colds, Larry Summers, Martin Luther King Jr., mathematics, nurturing, sexism · 4 comments
... liberal culture was more firmly entrenched, wouldn't we all recognize that the failure ...
6 Dec 2004: An N Things Post: N=2, Politics
Links, Politics: gender, US party politics, USDA · no comments
Been meaning to link to two posts as Mousewords on feminism as a frame for the Democratic party: I: bouncing off the marginalization of women in the punditry and II: a succinct followup: You cannot reply to accusations that your side doesn't have a vi ...
21 Sep 2004: Non-Marketing Non-Future
Whimsy: branding, consumer culture · no comments
... in the whole wide office fridge so unaffected by consumer culture. And anyway, yogurt is a crummy product to play this game with, it'd be ...
7 Sep 2004: Happy Arrival Day!
Politics: booze, cultural appropriation, Judaism · 4 comments
... all were Americans" - trinketized caricatures of American culture have certainly found their rightful place in campaign memorabilia but I ...
21 Jul 2004: Fortune Cookies and Essay Prompts: the Expansion of the "In Bed" Heuristic
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment
... rather should be taken as a serious effort to unite pop culture with the philosophical tradition of silly gedankenexperiments. I ... and technique. Something something popular culture used as a lens for history, stuff. 2. Sex as Ethos In the interests ...
20 Jun 2004: Squid Fan Art: Part N
Links: molluscs · 4 comments
Squid-head woman - did the squid eat her head first? ...
13 Jun 2004: Sunday Review: Things That Are Red
Human Fuzzies: cola, gardening, graphic design, pop, reviews of stuff, Solanaceae, tomatoes · 2 comments
... of escapism, rationalization, and red wagons in popular culture, and how the red wagon under scrutiny is most effective at escaping ...
11 Jun 2004: Water on Black Mesa
Politics: · 4 comments
... litterbug ways!" model of a monolithic Native American culture but don't yield much insight into the technical or political issues ...
13 May 2004: Life of the Mind
Politics: cultural criticism, intellectual elitism, intellectuals, unpaid work · 12 comments
... a discussion on the purpose of liberal arts in broader culture, and how academics and "intellectuals" might nurture or twist the ... etc.], not to disparage them, do not meet American culture's broader needs for preservation and refreshment. ...A salutary ... of students or the preferences of teachers. If American culture needs refreshment, and can't turn to those who continually create what ...
4 May 2004: Garden Post
Personal: car repair, cars, container gardening, gardening, heirloom tomatoes, tomatoes · no comments
... my garden, but that won't stop me from wonking out on horticulture. Also ruminations on tomato variety names and hipster gardening if ...
24 Feb 2004: Petty Consumer Activism
Politics: advertising, Food and Drug Administration, funny, open letters, sexism, soup · 6 comments
... don't blame food packaging for the effects of a complex culture, and I don't really want to spread evangelical feminism among the ...
22 Feb 2004: Le Tutoiement des Blogs
Human Fuzzies: french, net culture · 3 comments
... distinguished person to the (presumably) intimate bloggy-culture seems to have thrown the French for a loop. Not my problem, as I have ...
14 Feb 2004: Lutefisk and Yams
Human Fuzzies: Dr. Seuss, parody, Scandinavia, Vikings · 4 comments
Dr. Seuss meets Ole and Lena jokes: I would not eat them on a raid, I would not eat them with a maid, I would not eat them on a trip, I would not eat them on my ship. I do not like lutefisk and yams. I do not like them, Sven I am. Surely there m ...
24 Jan 2004: Ha ha
Politics: Internet activism, same-sex marriage · 2 comments
So that silly little marriage poll? It failed, miserably, to reflect a particular noxious constituency, and the AFA is disgruntled. Now, Smith says, his organization has had to abandon its goal of taking the poll to Capitol Hill. "We made the decisio ...
25 Nov 2003: Pie Is Fightin' Words
Food, Human Fuzzies: book reviews, Iowa City, pie, pie shakes · 2 comments
... before this woman bought her first-ever mixing bowl. My culture's sacraments have been carelessly mocked by an outsider, and I'm not ...
14 Nov 2003: Inherent Problems
Personal: cubicle living, domesticity, old fogeyism, quilting · 5 comments
... am partaking of a classic old person's domestic hobby in a culture that values youth and mobility! Rebellion at last! So now I'll kick ...
10 Sep 2003: Epic Immuno-Suppressing Battles
Human Fuzzies: · 6 comments
... trickier. While monkeys and robots duke it out in art and culture, in full view of society, the battle between Hipster and Nerd takes ...
25 Aug 2003: Things I've Never Done
Personal: · no comments
I have never laughed so hard and so unexpectedly that stuff spurted out of my nose. This is a problem with a) my sinuses or b) my sense of humor, but which? Tell me, I implore you. I've never been to Burning Man. I'd list that as a reason to quit my job, ...
12 Aug 2003: Erasing Time
Meta, Politics: California politics, elections · 2 comments
... There are at least eight Ph.D. theses on political culture to be written, and enough human interest stories to fuel all the high ...
24 Jun 2003: Am I an Ex-Academic?
Personal: · 3 comments
... what my academically successful friends are doing. The culture of being locked in to an academic career, because that's what smart ...
17 May 2003: If I Were A Matrix: Reloaded Focus Group
Human Fuzzies: movie reviews, sci-fi · 1 comment
... crap. But the scene was fine, it gave us insight into the culture of Zion. Why don't you put in some more drums? You could make them out ...
10 Jan 2003: Stick Up Your Etiquette
Personal: · 1 comment
... me absolutely bonkers. I start off feeling boorish and uncultured, then I realize why, take a hearty dislike to the person on the other ...
23 Sep 2002: Signs of the End Times
Links, Whimsy: Astrid Lindgren, literature · 1 comment
... must, as with the literature of any culture, take an intertextual approach to the literature of Sweden. Swedish, ...
27 Jun 2002: I'm Done! Whee!
Personal, Politics: · 1 comment
... ... (blank stare as I realize once again that pop culture feminism has somewhere gone terribly, terribly wrong) ... look, just ...
1 Mar 2002: rocks and a promise
Meta: puns · 2 comments
... fluffy posts, and pedal-powered airplanes till - agriculture ...and of course I've got waay too many categories, some content ...
21 Feb 2002: Academic Angst
Personal, Teaching: · 3 comments
... enough for my energies without trying to reform a whole subculture, and so of course I keep making little notches of defeat and bitterness ...
22 Jan 2002: hoom, hoom
Politics: · no comments
... holiday about it: we can all feel proud of ourselves as a culture for not having slavery or segregated water fountains, and we can also ...
10 Jan 2002: the cat came back
Personal: culture shock, diary, repatriating · 1 comment
... throughout the afternoon. mmm, ice cream. Homecoming culture shock is still an intermittent thwapping on the inside of my cheeks. ...
28 Dec 2001: More On Malls
Politics: capitalism sucks, malls, urban sprawl · no comments
... stores, and the malls they occupy, are inevitable in a culture that encourages lots of gallivanting around and resettling halfway ...
16 Nov 2001: gobble gobble
Human Fuzzies, Personal: cooking, thanksgiving · no comments
... without ever trying to foist Thanksgiving onto other cultures as well. It's a bit of an unbalanced view, I think. Sure, no starving ...
29 Oct 2001: HT for kunst
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: art criticism, photography, poststructuralism · no comments
... effects of our postmodern industrialized worker bee culture. It is probably* a poststructuralist reading of apophatic discursive ...
: speakin' the heathen chinee – part II
Human Fuzzies: liberal guilt, tourism · no comments
... language, or don't speak it well enough to please the Evil Culture Masters (one of these days, thugs from the académie ... I become like-it-or-not a representative of all the pop culture that by virtue of an economic bludgeon has spread round the globe and ...
19 Oct 2001: trains
Personal: · no comments
... all funny. In fact, imagining people as members of their culture's most recent barbaric regime is only funny in Scandinavia. I think ...
15 Oct 2001: No More Mr. Nipple
Whimsy: nipples, wtf · no comments
... been sexualized, commercialized and commodified in our culture, so that they exist (in a sociopolitical sense) only for the men who ...
16 Sep 2001: Salvaged Item #2: a list
Aimless: · no comments
... Blogdex is about the best look into creepy blog subculture that I've seen, and the other site just makes me want to wash my hands ...
6 Sep 2001: outside my window
Personal, Politics: · no comments
... States has a lot to do with this, as does American car culture. As does the fact that I'm sheltered as all ...
20 Aug 2001: please, please
Human Fuzzies: Danish, language quirks, manners · no comments
... with language quirks. The next one, I promise, will be a culture quirk or even a rambling introspection, even if I have to say something ...
26 Jul 2001: Red Pop and Hans Kirk's The Fishermen
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, pop · 21 comments
... people aren't nearly so puritanical, and the subsequent culture clash. It was an actual, compelling, and subtle portrayal of ...


text:
The study, "New Mexico Survey of Gambling Behavior 1996,"
produced by the New Mexico Department of Health and the University of New Mexico Center
for Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions, has presented a disturbing picture of a
major public health crisis in New Mexico. This report tells us that about 137,000 people
in New Mexico are having minor to moderate gambling problems, and about 40,000 people are
having serious gambling problems. Compulsive gambling is a disease recognized by the
American Psychiatric Association, having a distinct list of criteria that distinguish it
as a disease. If some new bacterium or virus appeared that seriously afflicted 40,000
citizens in our state, the whole force of the state would be brought to bear to
investigate it, and everything possible would be done to stop it.
When asked about the results of the survey, Governor Johnson,
revealing his ignorance about public health and addiction, as well as his indifference to
the substantial suffering he has helped to promote in New Mexico, suggested that gambling
addicts probably substitute their gambling addiction for alcoholism and were probably
better off for it. Many scientific studies around the country find a direct connection
with gambling addiction and alcohol and drug abuse--gambling addiction increases drug
dependence. Professor Henry Lesieur from the University of Illinois indicates that
pathological gamblers have alcohol and substance abuse rates of nearly 50%. If the
Governor had read his own health department's study, he would have found that on page 17
it reports a synergistic relationship between compulsive gambling and alcoholism.
Governor Johnson also seemed to be saying that addicts are sort of
interchangeable--a zero-net-gain sort of equilibrium. Many of the gambling industry's
apologists suggest that there are a fixed number of gambling addicts in society, and that
they just rotate from one venue to another. Lottery on Monday and the tracks on Tuesday.
Scientific research paints a very different picture. Relying on national field research,
Professor John Kindt, also from the University of Illinois, states "Current data
shows that when gambling activities are legalized, economies will be plagued with 100% to
550% increases in the numbers of addicted gamblers." Dr. Rachel Volberg, director of
Gemini Research, probably the most respected gambling addiction research organization in
the U.S., found that the rate of problem and pathological gambling rose from 1.7% to 5.4%
of the adult population in Iowa in an eight year period of time, during which river-boat
casinos were legalized and operating in Iowa.
Governor Johnson, responding to the Albuquerque Journal,
sarcastically said, "Every time I drive to Albuquerque and drive by San Felipe I
think about all the people that are just chained in there to the casino." He parrots
the regulation gambling industry line that "Casinos Are About Entertainment."
Most forms of gambling get substantial amounts of their revenue from the addicts, but
casinos are absolutely propelled by addicts. Professor Earl Grinols, an economist from the
University of Illinois, testifying before Congress on Sept. 29, 1995, stated: "These
two groups (problem and pathological gamblers) typically constitute about 4 percent of the
population, but provide slightly more than half of casino revenues." Of course that
means that addicts are the life-blood of casinos. Without question, there are also quite a
few people in the casinos gambling for entertainment, but they are partially there as
window-dressing, a sort of white-wash over the corruption that lies below the glitzy
On page 12 of "New Mexico Survey of Gambling Behavior
1996" there is a chart that lists gambling status by demographic subgroup that tells
a story of devastation and misery. 7.6% of Hispanics have serious gambling problems. 12.7%
of young people aged 18-20 have serious gambling problems. 8.3% of those with incomes
below $10,000 per year, and 11% of those with less than high school diplomas have serious
gambling problems. Large numbers of our citizens are having their lives ruined by casino
gambling, and our governor belittles them and treats them with contempt. We wonder how
many more public officials and casino sympathizers will ridicule the New Mexicans that
have been devastated by the casinos.
The casinos remind one of a huge factory, located in the center of a
city that spews out toxic waste. People are and will be getting injured or killed by the
effluent. The factory is disrupting other businesses, and damaging the culture of the
city, but it is making huge profits and buying support from some officials. Some public
figures discount the injury the toxins cause. Other public officials decide that the best
effort would be to provide Band-Aids to the injured. The most obvious solution is to close
down the factory or get it to stop production. Let's close down casino gambling in New
Mexico and stop the devastation that it causes.
Who can tell what the courts will do? Regardless of the courts, the
legislature has the absolute responsibility to vote against any bill that would legalize
the casinos and perpetuate and expand the damage to our state and its people.
Dr. Guy C. Clark, executive director
New Mexico Coalition Against Gambling


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text:
Robin Bini Schneider incorporates twisted female sexuality and an array of male fantasy's into her university project titled 'My Christmas Gift.' While Robin Bini Schneider may be considered an amateur in the fashion photography and photo manipulation world, her immense creativity and artistic potential can certainly be seen within these captures.
Residing in Varese, Italy, Robin Bini Schneider says her idea stems from "the perfect gift, a life-size real Barbie doll, with various outfits to inspire the fantasies of every man, even the slightly twisted ones." This is one photographic project that deserves a perfect score.
Implications - Much of the talent of today rests in the future of tomorrow, more specifically young creative individuals. Companies who consider employing talented young minds upon graduation can afford to pay these employees entry-level salaries, while capitalizing on their immense creative potential and future working years.
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