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Yesterday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R–WI) unveiled his budget proposal for fiscal year 2012. The transformative proposal would reverse the current trajectory of out-of-control federal spending largely due to the inclusion of a bold proposal to reform the currently unsustainable Medicare program.
Ryan's approach would change the way the federal government provides for the medical needs of seniors by moving the program to a "premium support" system. Rather than paying directly for medical services, premium support would enable the government to make contributions to the cost of a health plan chosen by the individual themselves from a selection of plans.
Already, mudslinging from the left is in overdrive. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D–MI) said Ryan's proposal was "pulling the rug out from under seniors," while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) called it "a path to poverty for American's seniors and children."
But support for the status quo is a recipe for failure, especially for future generations of seniors. Currently, most beneficiaries must obtain supplemental policies to receive comprehensive coverage under Medicare. Moreover, uncertainties regarding provider reimbursement rates make it difficult to ensure that seniors will have continued access to physicians. And as the population ages and health care costs continue their rapid climb, spending on the program is projected to more than double by 2040. Clearly, change is inevitable.
A recent article from Kaiser Health News (KHN) lays out the details of the Ryan plan, which creates for seniors a system akin to the popular Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), through which Members of Congress and all federal employees receive coverage. KHN explains that under such a system, "Employees and retirees have a variety of options, from catastrophic coverage plans with high deductibles to health maintenance organizations to high-end plans with many choices of doctors. Everyone has a choice of at least 10 fee-for-service plans, but the exact number varies by where an enrollee lives."
Premium support puts individuals, not government, in charge. Market competition would drive costs down, as insurers would face pressure from the consumer to offer higher value plans that best meet their needs. Moreover, premium support is not a partisan proposal, nor is it a new concept. It has received substantial bipartisan support over the last few decades. Legislation co-sponsored by former Senators John Breaux (D–LA) and Bill Frist (R–TN) in 2001 and based on the work of the 1999 National Bipartisan Commission would have established a premium-support system modeled after the FEHBP. Advocates for this general direction for reform also include leaders at the left-leaning Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution.
Critics of the FEHBP and a premium-support model claim that traditional Medicare has lower administrative costs. However, research by Heritage health economist Robert Book shows that this isn't the case. Rather, he explains that "on a per-person basis Medicare's administrative costs are actually higher than those of private insurance—this despite the fact that private insurance companies do incur several categories of costs that do not apply to Medicare." Moreover, health care economist Walton Francis writes that "the FEHBP has outperformed original Medicare in every dimension of its performance. It has better benefits, better service, catastrophic limits on what enrollees must pay, and far better premium cost control."
The Heritage Foundation has long advocated using market-based solutions to improve seniors' health care choices and put Medicare on sound fiscal footing. In their description of how to move forward with a premium-support system, experts Robert Moffit and James Capretta write:
A better Medicare program … will give Medicare patients control over the flow of dollars and freedom to make decisions about how they access medical services. This will stimulate intense market competition among plans and providers, control costs, and promote rapid innovation and higher productivity through the efficient delivery of quality care, thus guaranteeing value in return for retiree premiums and taxpayer dollars.


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I discovered this little promotional video on Dave Lankes blog. In an excellent example of branding, the Edmonton Public Library demonstrates how it sells what it does best.
Can we do one of these for school libraries? I want all parents, teachers, administrators, stakeholders to know who we are, what we do, how we can help! Great work, Edmonton!

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The only thing that's changed is everything.
The moment you use iPhone 6s, you know you've never felt anything like it. With just a single press, 3D Touch lets you do more than ever before. Live Photos bring your memories to life in a powerfully vivid way. And that's just the beginning. Take a deeper look at iPhone 6s, and you'll find innovation on every level.
3D Touch
The next generation of Multi‑Touch.
The original iPhone introduced the world to Multi-Touch, forever changing the way people experience technology. With 3D Touch, you can do things that were never possible before. It senses how deeply you press the display, letting you do all kinds of essential things more quickly and simply. And it gives you real-time feedback in the form of subtle taps from the all-new Taptic Engine.
12MP pictures. 4K videos. Live Photos. Lasting memories.
The world's most popular camera is more advanced than ever. The 12-megapixel iSight camera captures sharp, detailed photos. It takes brilliant 4K video, up to four times the resolution of 1080p HD video. iPhone 6s also takes selfies worthy of a self-portrait with the new 5-megapixel FaceTime HD camera. And it introduces Live Photos, a new way to relive your favourite memories. It captures the moments just before and after your picture and sets it in motion with just the press of a finger.
A9. The most advanced chip ever in iPhone.
iPhone 6s is powered by the custom-designed 64-bit A9 chip. It delivers performance once found only in desktop computers. You'll experience up to 70 per cent faster CPU performance, and up to 90 per cent faster GPU performance for all your favourite graphics-intensive games and apps.
A breakthrough design. Pushed even further.
Innovation isn't always obvious to the eye, but look a little closer at iPhone 6s and you'll find it's been fundamentally improved. The enclosure is made from a new alloy of 7000 Series aluminium - the same grade used in the aerospace industry. The cover glass is the strongest, most durable glass used in any smartphone. And a new rose gold finish joins space grey, silver and gold.
Touch ID
Advanced security. Right at your fingertip.
Using a highly advanced fingerprint sensor that's now faster and better than ever, Touch ID makes unlocking your phone easy and secure. And it lets you use Apple Pay at hundreds of thousands of shops and within participating apps.
Faster 4G LTE. Faster Wi‑Fi.
iPhone 6s features 4G LTE Advanced with speeds up to twice as fast as the previous generation. It supports more LTE bands than any other smartphone. And when you're connected to Wi‑Fi, iPhone 6s lets you do things like browse the web and download apps at speeds up to twice as fast too.
iOS 9
An experience unlike any other. On a phone unlike any other.
iOS 9 is our most advanced, intelligent and secure mobile operating system yet. Powerful new built-in apps, advanced features in Siri and enhancements throughout the system make it smarter and more essential than ever. Deep integration with Apple hardware makes everything work together beautifully. And the App Store is full of incredible apps that have been tailored to take advantage of what iPhone is capable of.
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|International Space Station Imagery
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|STS101-720-58 (26 May 2000) --- The International Space Station is photographed just after separation from the Space Shuttle Atlantis over Mongolia. Featured in the 70mm frame is the Lake Hovsgol rift valley. A long, straight transform fault zone connects the Hovsgol and Baykal rift valleys. Lake Baykal is 200 kilmeters east of Lake Volsgol.
Curator: JSC PAO Web Team | Responsible NASA Official: Amiko Kauderer | Updated: 11/01/2012


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Pan and Nymph Tray by Zsolnay
Hungary, circa 1903
Raised and round five steeples mark
11.5 inches long
What is Pan whispering to her across the stream? One of the famous myths of Pan involves the origin of his pan flute, fashioned from lengths of hollow reed. Syrinx was a lovely water-nymph of Arcadia, daughter of Landon, the river-god. As she was returning from the hunt one day Pan met her. To escape from his importunities, the fair nymph ran away and didn't stop to hear his compliments. He pursued from Mount Lycaeum until she came to her sisters who immediately changed her into a reed. When the air blew through the reeds, it produced a plaintive melody. The god, still infatuated, took some of the reeds, because he could not identify which reed she became, and cut seven pieces (or according to some versions, nine), joined them side by side in gradually decreasing lengths, and formed the musical instrument bearing the name of his beloved Syrinx. Henceforth Pan was seldom seen without it.


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|Board Email:
|Board Phone:
|(803) 896-4580
|Molly Price
|Board Staff:
|Sherri Moorer
|Advice Counsel:
|Hardwick Stuart   **
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**The Office of Advice Counsel is responsible for
providing legal advice to all Boards, Commissions
and Panels. These attorneys do not provide legal
advice to parties outside LLR.
The SC Board of Landscape Architectural Examiners requires that all individuals must complete 20 hours of continuing education activities for each renewal period.
The Board does not pre-approve continuing education activities or courses.
It is the responsibility of the licensee to maintain documentation of continuing education activities for a period of 4 years.
Do not send continuing education documentation to the Board unless you are selected for a random audit.
Failure to comply with a continuing education audit will be considered a violation of the Landscape Architectural Law and will be subject to disciplinary action.
15 hours minimum in health/safety/welfare topics;   5 hours allowed for practice related topics.
12 hours minimum in structured educational activities;   8 hours allowed for self-directed study.
10 hour maximum.
Hours cannot be applied toward the requirements for the prior renewal period.
Hours used to clear a continuing education deficiency for the prior renewal period cannot be reapplied toward the current renewal period.
January 31st of odd years
Individuals will certify that they have the hours on the individual license renewal. Documentation should not be submitted to the Board unless the individual is selected for a random audit. If selected, the licensee will be contacted by U.S. Mail with a CE Reporting Form, instructions on submitting documentation to the Board, and a deadline date to respond to the audit request. The Board will confirm receipt of the materials by email. The Board has final authority with respect to approval of courses, and will notify the licensee of the audit results by U.S. Mail.
Structured Activities:   The Board accepts an unlimited number of structured activities that cover health/safety/welfare topics such as technical presentations, workshops, or seminars on landscape architectural subjects provided by independent sponsors or held in conjunction with colleges, universities, conventions, or seminars. Examples of these types of activities include events or courses by:
University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education (example: Landscape Planning Short Course)
Self Directed Activities:   The Board allows a maximum of 8 hours of self directed activities. Examples of self directed activities include:
Public service that draws on landscape architectural expertise, such as design review boards, planning commissions, building code advisory boards, urban renewal boards, or code study committees.
Authoring papers, articles, or books.
Individualized seminars, tutorials, video courses, or webinars that are pre-recorded and do not allow interaction with an instructor.
Double credit is issued for teaching landscape architectural courses or seminars. Credit can only be claimed once, and does not apply to full time faculty.
Practice Related Topics:   The Board allows a maximum of 5 hours of practice related topics. Examples of practice related topics include business courses, product demonstrations, or instructional courses that demonstrate utilizing technology into practice.
Documentation submitted to the Board in response to a continuing education audit must include the course title, date, number of hours, instructor, and a brief description of the course content. Acceptable examples of appropriate documentation are:
Certificates of Completion
Sign in sheets (that provide the required details)
Meeting minutes (to confirm public service activities)
A copy of articles or papers published. For books, a synopsis and a link to a retailer should be provided.
The Board has final authority with respect to approval of courses, credit, continuing education hour value of courses, and other value of content. If a course is disallowed, the licensee will have 180 calendar days after the date of notification to substantiate the original claim or to earn other continuing education credit to fulfill the minimum requirement. Courses taken to fulfill a deficiency will toward the previous renewal period and cannot be resubmitted for the current license renewal period.
A new licensee is exempt for their first reporting period (not to exceed 2 years).
A licensee serving on temporary active duty in the armed forces of the United States for a period of time exceeding 120 days in a year. Documentation to substantiate this exemption must be submitted to the Board by January 1 of odd numbered years.
A licensee experiencing physical disability, illness, or other extenuating circumstances as reviewed and approved by the Board. Documentation to substantiate this exemption must be submitted to the Board by January 1 of odd numbered years.
Licensees approved for Emeritus Status.
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The fleet line-up for the 2012 Top of the Gulf Regatta, held 4-8 May off Ocean Marina Yacht Club in Jomtien, Pattaya, is set to be one of the most competitive yet.
Over 600 participants in 300+ sailing craft, from more than 30 countries will compete in 12 classes over four days of racing at Asia's largest multi-class regatta – the Top of the Gulf Regatta (TOG Regatta).
Wan Marang will be one of the local challengers at the 2012 Top of the Gulf Regatta being raced of Ocean Marina, May 4-8. (Photo/Martin Bilsborrow)
A record fleet is expected on the keelboat and multihull courses this year. Growing year-on-year, the highly competitive fleet includes boats from Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Thailand and beyond, and will be managed by experienced Principal Race Officer Jerry Rollin.
"We expect over 70 boats on the keelboat and multihull course this year, with an increase in interest from Singapore, Hong Kong and Manila, particularly in the 40 foot keelboat range," said William Gasson, Founder and Chairman of the Regatta Organising Committee.
Asia's 40-foot fleet continues to grow and top boats from around the region are heading to Pattaya to test their skills against one of Asia's most competitive fleets, at the TOG Regatta. 2011 Phuket King's Cup Regatta winner, Japanese-entry Karasu, skippered by Yasuo Nanamori, will be competing for the first time this year and will be up against KukuKERchu, the Kerr 40 from Singapore, Walalwala 2, a Sydney GTS 43 from Singapore, and the Mills 40 EFG Bank Mandrake from Hong Kong – all newcomers to the Regatta this year. They will be up against Thailand teams Wan Marang (GP42) and Katsu (Swan 42), amongst others.
Add to the 40-footers the Singapore Kerr 32 Foxy Lady IV, skippered by Asian regatta veteran Bill Bremner, and the all-new, never-before-raced Soto 30, which will be making its worldwide debut at the Regatta, and the Class is wide open.
The pedigree of sailors at the 2012 TOG Regatta is exceptional, with winners of all the major Asian Regattas in the last 12 months, taking part, as well as national and regional champions competing in the Optimist, dinghies and beach catamaran classes.
The Racing Class will again be competitive with Neil Pryde and his HiFi crew returning to try again for the elusive class title – one of the few in the region he has yet to win.
The Sports Boats Class is set to grow with two new Shaw 6.5's launched recently and expected to join the fleet, together with Hong Kong newcomer the 25-foot Brace Brace.
The Prestigious Coronation Cup, competed for by the one-design Platu fleet, continues to attract attention from sailors in Asia and beyond. With 15 Platus already confirmed and more crews wanting to take part, the Class looks to be one of the biggest yet in the Regatta's eight-year history. Crews from Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and Thailand have currently signed-up.
"The standard of competition looks set to be very high at this year's Top of the Gulf Regatta. We're expecting one of the most competitive line-ups of any regatta in Asia and are looking forward to some exciting racing," added Gasson.
The 2012 Top of the Gulf Regatta will take place 4th to 8th May. Hosted at Ocean Marina Yacht Club, racing will take place in the waters off the marina, Jomtien Beach, on the Gulf coast of Thailand.
For more information, visit www.topofthegulfregatta.com.


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Summer Nights
August 11, 2010
Ah, Summer Nights in Rio Rancho... The sweltering heat of the day is finally dissipating, the sun has just set and the sky is gleaming in eldritch blue. The skies in New Mexico are easily some of the most beautiful in the country, and it pays to have a great view of them. In our courtyard, here at the Inn, we have a stunning atmosphere to relax and enjoy the end of the day. Whether poolside with Aha Toro margarita in-hand, relaxing in our gazebo over a glass of red wine, or simply enjoying the lush grass in our lawns, the courtyard is a wonderful place to be as the sun sinks gracefully below the horizon and the stars begin their winking debut in the silky firmament of New Mexico night. This is a gorgeous shot from near one of our Business Plus rooms on the south side of our property facing the pool. The night is a great time to try and spy some of the interesting fauna we have in our courtyard, from bunnies and ground squirrels to the occasional owl and our Cooper's Hawks (our courtyard is a protected habitat for the Cooper's Hawk, in case you hadn't heard). Summer in New Mexico is a magical time and in those hours between day and night, in twilight's silent glow, where better than the Inn at Rio Rancho to enjoy the fading light as a gentle wind whispers low?
Labels: Aha Toro Tequilla, Inn at Rio Rancho, Night, Relax, Summer


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|University of Ostrava
|Interdisciplinary Studies
2013-14: Competed in six indoor meets ... turned in collegiate bests in the high jump (1.77 meters - 1st place - A-Sun Indoor Championships), pole vault (3.80 meters - 1st place - Hilton Garden Innvitational) and long jump (6.13 meters - 1st place - Sewanee Invitational) ... won the long jump event at the A-Sun Indoor Championships with a mark of 6.01 meters.
2012-13: Competed in three indoor meets and five outdoor meets ... took the top spot in the high jump at the Hilton Garden Invitational with a leap of 1.62 meters ... placed first in the pentathlon at the A-Sun Indoor Championships with a 3466 point total including top-three performances in four of the five events ... in the outdoor season, took first in three events including the long jump at the Sea Relays (5.91 meters), long jump at the Lenny Lyles - Clark Wood Invitational (5.84 meters) and in the long jump at the Radford Invitational (5.92 meters) ... recorded a collegiate best in the javelin throw at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships with a toss of 38.14 meters to finish second overall.
2011-12: A multi-event student-athlete, Vodova competed and set pesronal bests in the pentathlon (3,707) and heptathlon (5,208), while establishing collegiate bests along the way in the 200m (26.38), 600m (1:43.31), 800m (2:21.39), 100m hurdles (15.06), high jump (1.72m), long jump (5.79m), shot put (12.39m), discus throw (33.95m) and javelin throw (35.47m)... named A-Sun Field Athlete of the Week once during the indoor season (Jan. 25) and twice during the outdoor season (May 9, May 16)... made her ETSU debut at the VT Invitational, competing in the shot put (Jan. 13-14)... won gold in the long jump at the CNU Captain's Invitational and Multis (Jan. 20-21)... took silver in the long jump at the 34th annual Niswonger Invitational (Jan. 27-28)... bronze in her first collegiate pentathlon, earning 3,698 points at the Penn State Sykes & Sabock Challenge Cup (Feb. 4)... took third in the long jump and second in the pentathlon at the A-Sun Indoor Championships, being named Third Team All-Conference in the long jump and Second Team All-Conference in the Pentathlon (Feb. 17-18)... silver in the long jump during the outdoor season at the Georgia Relays (March 23-24)... top five in the high jump at the Tennessee Challenge (April 7)... won gold in the heptathlon at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships, being named First Team All-Atlantic Sun in the event (April 20-21)... took bronze in the heptathlon at the Lynchburg College meet, setting her personal best in the event (May 7-8)... won gold in the long jump at the Clemson Tiger Qualifier and bronze in the high jump (May 11-12).
Personal: Born April 16, 1991... daughter of Zita and Frantisek Vodova... majoring in interdisciplinary studies.


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Source: National Bureau of Economic Research
Release: NBER Macrohistory Database
100%- Unemployed % The Quarters Are Ending On March 31St, June 30Th, September 30Th, And December 31St. Source: Computed By NBER From Unemployment Data In Massachusetts Department Of Labor And Industries, Annual Report On The Statistics Of Labor, 1923, Part Iii, Pp.20-21 (The 1923 Data Are In A Letter).
This NBER data series q08009 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 8 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter08.html.
NBER Indicator: q08009
National Bureau of Economic Research, Employment Trade Union Members, Building Trades for Massachusetts [Q08009US000MAQ519NNBR], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/Q08009US000MAQ519NNBR, March 24, 2019.


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324 x 88 x 98 cm seat: 42 cm
Collection of seats with varying back heights ideal for unique lounges. Its elegant presence and meticulous attention to comfort with the multiple combinations of finishes and bases make Platform an iconic product. The backs can be ordered separately to create different options; the sides however are only supplied with the backs, because they are joined together. Solid wood structure covered by expanded polyurethane foam in different densities and polyester fiber. Legs in calibrated steel tube powder coated in thermoreinforced polyester in black, white and fluorescent orange. Fixed upholstery.
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Thinkquote of the day: The problem with the fossil record
Of course, if the fossil record does not fit the theory, it is always possible to adjust the theory to fit the record. In science, an enterprising theoretician has several degrees of freedom within which to maneuver before the referee reaches ten and the final bell comes to clang. Steven [sic] Jay Gould, who was trained as a paleontologist, surveyed the fossil evidence early in the 1970s and came to the obvious conclusion that either the theory or the evidence must go. What went, on his scheme of things, was the neo Darwinian orthodoxy by which species change into different species by means of an endless series of infinitesimal changes, continuously, like the flow of syrup. Instead, Gould argued, biological change must have been discontinuous, with vast changes taking place at once. Such was his model of punctuated equilibria. It fits the fossil record far better (if it makes sense, even, to talk of scientific fit here), but the model achieves faithfulness to the facts only by chucking out the chief concepts of the Darwinian theory itself, and while paleontologists have been glad to have had Gould's company, evolutionary theorists have looked over what he has written with the cool, slitted, appraising glance of a butcher eyeing a sheep. (David Berlinski, "The Evidence for Evolution," in Black Mischief: Language, Life, Logic, Luck , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: Boston MA, Second Edition, 1988, pp.30-302)
In By Design or by Chance?, I address Gould's attempt to dissent from Darwinism based on the fossil evidence and the resulting posthumous attacks on him. There was also a curious incident last fall when a friend of Gould's came forward to say that he had never been a Darwinist. I think the friend was likely right, but denying the creation story of materialism was and is a risky business in the society in which Gould lived.
If you like this blog, check out my book on the intelligent design controversy, By Design or by Chance?. You can read excerpts as well.
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O'Leary's intro to non-Darwinian agnostic philosopher David Stove's "critique of Darwinism.
An ID Timeline: The ID folk seem always to win when they lose.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
What's on your nightstand?
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- MFAMB said...
not that. so pretty.
mine consists of a lamp, a baby monitor, a book, a glass of water and my blood sugar checker.
all i need i guess.
- February 15, 2012 at 8:33 AM
- mb said...
Nothing nearly as pretty.
- February 15, 2012 at 10:18 AM
- Michelle said...
Wow, great inspiration. Mine has a water glass, a lamp, some lotion and a bunch of dust...books, a bouncy ball in a sock for to work out kinks in my back...lets see, some wilting flowers...
- February 15, 2012 at 11:14 AM
- Erin said...
Mine is covered in snotty tissues, afrin, breathe right strips, and my kindle.
I need to up my game.
- February 15, 2012 at 11:19 AM
- ticklishfromadistance said...
So pretty. Books, pictures of kids, scrap paper, lamp. IPAD. And I am too tired each night to look at any of it!
- February 16, 2012 at 9:12 AM
I really like your blog..Great pics and so much inspiration:) I wish you a lovely weekend.
LOVE Maria at inredningsvis.se
- February 16, 2012 at 11:35 AM
- Naomi@DesignManifest said...
Nice indeed. This one is gorgeous and entirely more realistic than my shot! ;)
Getting trunk pains just looking at it.
- February 16, 2012 at 7:51 PM
- My Interior Life said...
Love this inspiration! So funny, I just found some nightstands yesterday that I'm so tempted to get. And I got Asian screens to hang behind my bedside. If I try really hard maybe I can achieve something even remotely similar. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can! Pinning this now!
- February 17, 2012 at 9:59 AM
- annie said...
I wish that is what mine looked like...gorgeous. Everything from the trunk, the lamp, the books, the green...
- February 18, 2012 at 10:20 AM
- Becca - (extra)ordinary wonders said...
Wow! I love this nightstand.
- February 18, 2012 at 11:42 AM
- nkp said...
Thanks, Maria and welcome!
- February 21, 2012 at 10:24 PM
- nkp said...
Hello Annie and Becca! Thanks for stopping by and welcome!
- February 21, 2012 at 10:25 PM
- Jerry said...
Your nightstand turned out lovely! Looks perfect next to the headboard :)
- August 29, 2012 at 10:18 PM


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Don't upgrade your Ubuntu to 8.10 if you want to use a dual head setup. There second screen will reguarly turn off for a second while there is an edid ddc scan shown in the Xorg.log. (The bug is not really fixed or fix not in main repository yet. Or I've found a different one. -> It's still not working!)
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Hi HG, There's so much conflicting info about low-carb diets -- I'm totally confused. Do carbs cause weight gain? Is a low-carb or no-carb diet the way to go? Carb Curious
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I broke the leads on my original thermistor when changing the nozzle. I tried to solder it, but had no luck.
I bought a three pack of thermistors from IAP last week, and plugged a new one and was good to go. One 12 hour print later, my thermistor is not reading any temps. I jiggled the wires a bit to see if I could reconnect a broken wire, but never had success. I plugged another thermistor in and instantly got a room temp reading, so it's just the thermistor.
I reassembled the extruder with the new thermistor, but now I'm wondering how long will that one last...
What temp is too high for the thermistors? I've been running my hotend at ~240 which seems like it's within normal range for the extruder.
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My apologies to the OP and those that were participating in the thread. I accidently deleted it. Meant to move it to the mod room and clean it up and get rid of some of the personal attacks then move it back, but accidently made it dissapear.
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August 02, 2016
Long-running student loan dispute settled
The Education Department on October 7, 2010 stipulated that Robert Lepelletier, Jr. had fully discharged a disputed student loan debt incurred in the late 1970s. The discharge covered "all of the debt, including interest, penalties and collection costs," according to a filing in U.S. District Court.
The stipulation brought to an end a lawsuit filed by Lepelletier the year before. Lepelletier says he repaid the loan in the early 1980s. The Education Department, though, had been demanding payment, through the use of a collection agency.
In October 2010, Suits & Sentences reported that U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that sovereign immunity blocked him from issuing an injunction that would stop the Education Department from employing a collection agency. Leon's interim ruling dealt with a technical issue and did not represent a judgment on the merits of the claim; McClatchy apologizes for any ambiguity.
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September 30, 2013
Court dismisses Foreign Policy libel suit
A $10 million #libel suit against Foreign Policy magazine has been dismissed by a federal judge.
In a 37-page decision, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan tossed the suit filed by Yasser Abbas against Foreign Policy Group and Jonathan Schanzer, the author of an article that appeared in Foreign Policy Magazine in June 2012.
Sullivan dismissed the suit using D.C.'s anti-SLAPP measure, which amounts to an early victory for Foreign Policy.
Abbas is the son of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, and, as Sullivan notes, "he owns and operates many businesses throughout the Middle East."
"Over the last few years," Sullivan noted, "many questions have been raised about whether his business success and political ties are linked, though he has systematically denied any such allegations."
As public scrutiny over his business and political activity has increased, Sullivan added, "Mr. Abbas has used the threat of defamation litigation to counter bad press."
The Foreign Policy article in question was entitled "The Brothers Abbas: Are the sons of the Palestinian President growing rich off their father's system?"
The full decision merits close reading, but Sullivan sums up:
"The defendants have made a prima facie showing that Mr. Abbas's defamation claim arises from an act in furtherance of the right of advocacy on issues of the public interest, and that Mr. Abbas has failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on the merits of his defamation claim because the contested statements are either not capable of defamatory meaning or are protected statements of opinion."
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September 27, 2013
Like a page from Breaking Bad or Tom Clancy ...
Here's one straight from AMC's thriller #BreakingBad, about a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher who became a big-time meth amphetamine cook, or one of Clancy's international techno crime and spy novels.
Five former soldiers from three countries, including a contract killer alleged to have murdered several people, all tangled in a plot to smuggle 11 pounds of cocaine into the United States. To provide security for supposed Columbian narcotics traffickers, three of them agreed to take out a Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a DEA informant, a federal indictment unveiled in New York on Friday, Sept. 27th says.
The DEA and U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York announced the arrests of three of those men -- former U.S. Army soldiers Joseph Hunter and Timothy Vamvakias, and former German soldier Dennis Gogel, all being flown to New York to appear before a federal magistrate.
"The bone-chilling allegations in today's Indictment read like they were ripped from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel," said Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District. "The charges tell a tale of an international band of mercenary marksmen who enlisted their elite military training to serve as hired guns for evil ends. Three of the defendants were ready, willing and eager to take cold hard cash to commit the cold-blooded murders of a DEA agent and an informant. Thanks to the determined, skillful and intrepid efforts of the DEA's Special Operations Division, an international hit team has been neutralized by agents working on four continents."
Alleged contract assassin Hunter -- also known as "Frank Robinson" (apologies to the ex-Baltimore Oriole superstar) and "Rambo," (apologies to you, too, Sylvester S.) and his cronies held meetings in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean beginning last January with two confidential DEA sources purporting to be Colombia drug traffickers, prosecutors said. Ultimately, the trio arrested Friday agreed to assassinate a DEA agent and an agency informant in Liberia for about $700,000, with Hunter collecting a $100,000 bonus for running the show. They allegedly acquired a sub-machine gun, two .22 caliber pistols and latex facemasks so they'd each look like they had a different racial origin.
They were seized after arriving in Liberia. DEA agents around the world, Royal Thai police and law enforcement agents from Liberia, Estonia, the Bahamas and Romania assisted in smashing the plot.
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September 26, 2013
Arrest of Madoff accountant shines new light on Ponzi maneuverings
The FBI's arrest on Thursday, Sept. 26th of 77-year-old Paul Konigsberg, the accountant who was the only person outside Bernie Madoff's family to hold shares in Madoff Securities International Limited, peels back more layers of the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history.
"Paul Konigsberg threw aside his ethical duties as an aaccountant in favor of his role as a false bookkeeper, which included allegedly participating in a scheme of back-dating client account statements to show fictitious trades and conjuring profits and losses of millions of dollars," said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York.
Konigsberg was charged with two counts of conspiracy, one count of making a false statement and with falsifying the books and records of a broker-dealer and an investment advisor. He faces up to 40 years in prison.
Here's a snippet of the Justice Department's summary of a superseding indictment unsealed in federal court in Manhattan, describing how he allegedly compromised his role as an attorney and certified public account, the senior tax partner of Konigsberg Wolf & Co., P.C.
"Beginning in at least the early 1990s, Madoff began to steer many of his investors towards Konigsberg's accounting practice, particularly certain long-time investors in whose accounts Madoff executed the most glaringly fraudulent transactions. By December 2008, when Madoff's scheme collapsed, Konigsberg Wolf provided accounting services in connection with more than approximately 300 Madoff Securities accounts. As their accountant, Konigsberg typically received duplicate copies of his client's Madoff Securities account statements, and sometimes the only copy.
"After the death of one long-time Madoff client – who had recruited investors and had been promised by Madoff corresponding annual commission payments in the form of guaranteed returns – Madoff encouraged the client's widow to use Konigsberg as her accountant. Konigsberg, Madoff, and Frank DiPascali, Jr. – who pleaded guilty for his role in the fraud and is cooperating with the government – agreed on an investment "strategy" for the widow's account. Under the "strategy," the widow's money would be "invested" in U.S. Treasury bonds and cash equivalents for the first 11 months of each year, and then in December, DiPascali would fabricate back-dated options trades in order to generate the promised returns. For instance, one of the widow's accounts was invested in Treasuries and money market funds in January through November of 2003, resulting in net equity at the end of November 2003 of approximately $860,000. In January 2004, however, DiPascali back-dated fake options trades purportedly executed in December 2003 to generate an additional approximately $825,000, nearly doubling the value of the account. Each December, over the course of several years, Konigsberg spoke with DiPascali to ensure that DiPascali arranged for the back-dated trades necessary to ensure the widow's promised returns."Now nearly five years after Madoff pleaded guilty to bilking his investment clients out of $17 billion, as well as $64 billion in paper profits, more details of the giant scam keep spilling out. Nine people have pleaded guilty to date. Prosecutors have only weeks to decide who else to charge before the statute of limitations expires.
Madoff is serving a 150-year prison term.
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FBI and cops set drones aloft without updating privacy guidelines
The FBI and numerous other local and federal law enforcement agencies are #exploring the use of drones – unmanned aircraft -- to conduct surveillance and crime scene examinations without risking the lives of pilots.
But in an interim, partially classified audit report released on Thursday, September 26th, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is raising a big caution flag. His audit team asked, in essence, "Did anyone think about Americans' privacy rights?"
The drones weigh less than 55 pounds, and they can buzz over homes and businesses with cameras trained on activity below. They cost just 25 bucks an hour to operate – a tiny fraction of the $625 hourly cost of choppers and other manned aircraft. Some agencies are experimenting with infrared cameras for nighttime use.
Between 2004, when the Justice Department acquired its first drone, and May of this year, the FBI and three other department components spent $3.7 million buying the drones, 80 percent of the money coming from the bureau, which already has them in use.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms plans to deploy drones soon, while the Drug Enforcement Administration and United States Marshals Service acquired them for testing, but haven't yet decided to use them domestically, the IG says.
Officials of the FBI and ATF told the auditors they see no need to develop specialized privacy protocols, and they don't see any practical difference in using the drones for surveillance versus manned aircraft.
But the agency watchdogs concluded that a consistent department policy may be needed for the use of small drones, which can hover covertly in areas where people might expect privacy and remain there far longer than a traditional aircraft could.
The IG's report also found that the department's Office of Justice Programs and its Office of Community-Oriented Policing Services failed to coordinate awards of $1.2 million so that seven local law enforcement agencies and non-profit groups could purchase small drones. Recipients include police departments in Miami, Gadsden, Ala., and North Little Rock, Ark., the sheriff's office in San Mateo County, Ca., the Sheriffs' Association of Texas and two Kentucky research groups.
The watchdog unit said that such grants should be coordinated so those who send the drones buzzing around don't mess up ongoing investigations.
One good thing: Justice Department officials say that, unlike the military's drones, their newest surveillance tools are unarmed.
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Humane Society loses pork program challenge
The federal #pork program has survived another challenge, as a federal judge has rejected a multi-pronged lawsuit filed by the Humane Society of the United States and allies.
Among other things, the Humane Society had challenged the Agriculture Department's approval of the National Pork Board's purchase of the slogan "Pork: The Other White Meat" from the National Pork Producers Council.
In a 34-page decision, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded the Humane Society and an Iowa-based group and farmer lacked legal standing to pursue the case. The decision also shed light on how the pork program works.
Like similar programs for the milk and beef industries, among others, the pork program is funded by industry assessments.
As Jackson recounts, the Agriculture Department in 2006 approved the Pork Board's acquisition of the various "Other White Meat trademarks" for $34.587 million. The Board agreed to pay the Council $3 million a year for 20 years. In 2011, the Board got approval to shift marketing gears and adopt the slogan "Pork: Be Inspired."
The Humane Society contended the use of the pork industry check-off assessments to purchase the trademarks was improper for several reasons, including the fact that the Council would be using check-off money to lobby. Jackson, though, reasoned in part that no actual damage could be shown from lobbying.
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September 25, 2013
Senators seek to reform spying
Four high-profile senators announced plans to reform the nation's domestic surveillance practices Wednesday, signaling a renewed focus on the issue after Syria eclipsed its place on the legislative agenda.
Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Mark Udall, D-Colo., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced joint legislation that would require extensive reforms in Foreign Intelligence law.
The legislation, which Wyden called the "most comprehensive, bipartisan intelligence reform proposal since the disclosures of last June", would outlaw dragnet collection of email and telephone metadata, close the hotly-contested "backdoor search" provision of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and add a constitutional advocate to the secret FISA court.
The bill would also open avenues for American citizens to independently challenge the constitutionality of the nation's intelligence programs, a provision that Wyden said Paul was instrumental in crafting.
Wyden and Blumenthal had previously teamed up on joint legislation to reform the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in August. Wednesday's announcement included Wyden's colleague on the Senate Intelligence Committee and fellow outspoken critic of the National Security Agency Mark Udall. Tea-Party member Paul's presence is the latest example in how the issue bridges party lines.
The announcement comes the day before Wyden and Udall will hear from Intelligence community heavy-hitters at a rare open hearing held by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander, and Deputy Attorney General James Cole will testify before Committee members on congressional reforms to the agencies' domestic surveillance tactics.
-- Reported by Ali Watkins.
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Judge slaps CIA on document secrecy
A federal judge has chastised the CIA for "inappropriately" withholding routine documents.
In a recent decision, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell denounced several of the CIA's legal arguments. At one point, she accused the CIA of a "shameless twisting of the factual record." Other assertions by the agency, she called "dead wrong" and "implausible."
A non-profit law firm that specializes in national security cases sued the CIA and five other federal agencies over documents concerning compliance with open records laws.
Sounds straightforward. But the firm, known as National Security Counselors, said the CIA dodged its responsibilities under the Freedom of Information Act and mounted "an extended campaign of misrepresentation" related to information it holds.
At one point, an "unidentified third party" handed the firm two classified documents related to the lawsuit, prompting the FBI to confiscate them. Eventually, the CIA provided redacted versions.
The CIA, meanwhile, asserted it could keep secret the records being sought by the firm under a Cold War-era law that created the spy agency and allowed it to withhold personnel information such as salaries and the number of employees.
Howell, who is a federal judge in Washington, D.C., dismissed that argument.
"The CIA has been reading that provision too broadly," the judge wrote in her August 15 decision, adding, "as a result, the CIA has inappropriately withheld information."
Kel McClanahan, the executive director of the firm, described the lawsuit as a public service because "virtually nothing is known" about how the CIA handles such requests."It's laughable that the Agency thought that the training and guidance materials its FOIA analysts use when deciding how to comply with the law are so secret that nobody can know them," he said, adding "agencies like the CIA just play a numbers game, ignoring setbacks in court with full knowledge that for every aggressive litigant, there are hundreds of requesters who won't know any better and will just roll over."
So far, the six agencies have released thousands of pages of documents to the firm. However, many of the documents are others' requests for documents. More than 400 documents are still being sought.
In keeping with the agency's secretive ways, a CIA spokesman refused to comment on the ruling. A court filing said "defendant Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA") continues to review that opinion and is still determining how to proceed."
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Auditors blast ATF undercover tobacco business
#ATF undercover business operations suffer from a "serious lack of oversight," according to a critical new audit by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General.
The highly critical report issued Wednesday examined so-called "churning" operations, in which Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigators use proceeds generated from undercover operations to offset expenses related to the same operations.
This is big business for the ATF; the OIG auditors examined 20 of the 36 churning investigations conducted by ATF between February 2006 and June 2011 that generated total reported revenues of nearly $162 million. All of the operations involved tobacco sales.
"We found that ATF proceeded with churning investigations without proper approval, misused the proceeds from churning investigations, and failed to account properly for cigarettes and assets purchased during churning investigations," the OIG audit states.
One of the cases, a particularly big one, was never authorized by headquarters. Problems ensured, auditors found.
"The unauthorized churning investigation sold approximately $15 million of cigarettes in an 18-month period," auditors noted, adding that "the confidential informant was allowed to keep more than $4.9 million of the $5.2 million of gross profit generated from sales of tobacco to criminal targets."
Auditors further found they were "unable to reconcile the disposition of 2.1 million of the more than 9.9 million cartons of cigarettes purchased for those 20 investigations."
In the wake of the scathing audit, ATF officials have revised policies and procedures for administering churning investigations.
"Under current policy, income-generating undercover operations are subject to detailed and rigorous application, review, approval. and oversight mechanisms," ATF officials stated in their official audit response.
The ATF officials added that "readers of the report may inaccurately conclude that these historical problems continue to the current day. They do not."
During these undercover investigations, auditors recounted, ATF purchased cigarettes from manufacturers, and agents or informants then sold them to criminal targets at or below wholesale cost. The targets allegedly would transport the contraband cigarettes to a high-tax state, where they would be sold without collecting the proper state and local taxes.
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September 24, 2013
Senate intelligence committee holds NSA spy hearing
The Senate Intelligence Committee will hold its first public hearing Thursday related to NSA's once secret collection of telephone and internet data since the existence of the program was disclosed last June.
The committee previously discussed the matter behind closed doors after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked details about the agency's programs to the media. This time, committee members will talk publicly about proposed reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that are meant to quell criticism about the data collection.
Since Snowden's leaks to the media, the Obama administration has declassified documents that detailed NSA violations, including the collection of tens of thousands of emails of Americans in a program designed to target foreigners.
In response, the secret court that oversees NSA surveillance programs, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, ruled the program unconstitutional, forcing the NSA to change its practices.
Administration officials have downplayed the violations although some members of Congress have said they demonstrate NSA has needs more aggressive oversight.
So far, Senate Judiciary Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein has defended the NSA, saying her "committee has never identified an instance in which the NSA has intentionally abused its authority to conduct surveillance for inappropriate purposes."
In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Feinstein also pointed to the NSA's disclosure that 54 terrorist "events" had been prevented as a result of the program. The agency, however, has provided scant details on the instances.
Despite her support for the program, she said her committee would consider reforms that would require NSA to publish a wide range of information about its activities.
Meanwhile, intelligence committee members Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., have introduced legislation that would require the FISA court to hear evidence from a public interest legal advocate "whose client would be the Constitution."
-- Reported by Marisa Taylor
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