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Every veteran conducting the program was wearing their old military uniforms.
The Gilmer High School Jr. ROTC raised the flag, while trumpeteer Lynn Alexander played To the Color and the National Anthem.
The event this year was sponsored by the Gilmer post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Rev. Huey Jones, USN (retired), gave the invocation and welcome.
The traditional placing of the wreath at the monument to Upshur County's war dead was by Anna Miller, a 92-year-old World War II veteran who served as an Army nurse.
She was assisted by Rev. Jones and VFW Commander Gary Adams.
Rev. Jones then sang America the Beautiful.
As his resonant voice rang out, first a few in the audience joined in, and then the whole crowd began sanging.
Lt. Col. Larry Tefteller, U.S. Army Airborne (retired), was the keynote speaker.
"My fellow Americans," he said, "America's Memorial Day is a day of ceremonies and speeches and picnics. Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We remember they gave their lives so others might live."
He described the meaning of Memorial Day.
". . . From these honored dead we take increased devotion, that we may highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain," he said, quoting Lincoln's Gettysburg address.
"Memorial Day is a sacred day to all war vetrans. None need to be reminded of the reason Memorial Day must be commemorated," he said. "But what about the general public, and more importantly, future generations? Do most non-veterans really recognize the importance of May 30?
"Judging from what Memorial Day has become—simply another day off from work—the answer is a resounding NO! So perhaps a reminder is due then. And it is the duty of each and every veteran to relay the message.
"Why remember? Sacrifice is meaningless without remembrance. America's collective consciousness demands that all citizens be aware of and recall on special occasions the deaths fo their fellow countrymen during wartime."
Tefteller said that far too often, the nation as a whole takes for granted the freedoms all Americans enjoy.
"Those freedoms were paid for with the lives of others few of us actually knew," the retired colonel said. "That is why they are collectively remembered on one special day. This should be regarded as a civic obligation, for this is a national debt that can only be truly repaid by individual Americans. By honoring the nation's ward dead, we preserved their memory and this their service and sacrifice.
"Who are we remembering?" Tefteller asked. "The nation mourns the loss of all Americans who died defending their country throughout the world since 1775. These are men and women who have remained mostly anonymous except to the families who loved them.
"They came from all walks of life and regions of the country," he said. "But they all had one thing in common—love of and loyalty to country. This cemented ties between them in times of trials, allowing a diverse lot of Americans to achieve monumental ends.
"Who were they? They were relatives, friends and neighbors molded together to performa service for an entire society—from junior high dropouts to PhDs—they were the nation's defenders.
"What are we remembering?" he asked. "We remember the loss of defenders, a sense of loss that takes group form. In essence, America is commemorating those who made the greatest sacrifice possible—giving one's own life selflessly.
"This remembrance is all inclusive, spanning 239 years and some 62 military actions that claimed 1.2 million lives (and counting).
"Most Americans are familion with the major wars—Revolutionary War, Ward of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, WW I, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan—but few think of those killed in 'minor' frays," Tefteller said.
"Examples of lesser-known actions are the Panama and Grenada invasions, the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the USS Cole in 2000," he said. "But no American death is too insignificant to remember when that life was lost at the behest of society.
"GIs do not choose where they serve for what foreign policy they must enforce. The death of a sailor in the Persian Gulf is every bit as important as one killed in the Pacific during World War II. Such distinctions are irrelevant," he said.
"How do we remember?" he asked. "Means of paying tribute vary. Pausing for a few moments of personal silence is an option for everyone. Attending commemorative ceremonies is the most visible way of demonstrating remembrance, placing flags at grave sites, marching in parades, sponsoring patriotic programs and dedicating memorials are a few examples.
"Whether done individually or collectively, it is the though that counts. Personal as well as public acts of remembrance are the ideal. Public displays of patriotism are essential in the notion of remembering ward dead is to be instilled in the young," he said.
"As America's war vets fast disappear from society's notice, there are fewer and fewer standard bearers left to carry the torch of remembrance," the retired colonel said. "Such traditions will live on only if there is a vibrant movement to which that torch can be passed.
"When do we remember?" he asked. "Until the National Holiday Act of 1971, Memorial Day was celebrated each May 30. That custom became a tradition with the Grand Army of the Republic, the Union veterans organization that made honoring Civil War dead a civic duty for all citizens.
"Until 1882, the practice of placing flowers at grave sites was known as Decoration Day. And then later on, all states legalized May 3c0 as Memorial Day. Changing the date merely to create 3-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed greatly to the general public's nonchalant observance of Memorial Day.
"Perhaps the most profound tributed of all was made on the first national memorial observanc in May, 1868, by then Gen. James A. Garfield when he said, 'they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolve all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and virtue.'
He gave a personal anecdote about attending a military funeral in Wyoming, in which the cemetery of a young soldier killed in Afghanistan was 100 miles from the location of the funeral service. He said he didn't know there were that many American flags in Wyoming. The entire route was lined with flags of all sizes.
"As we go about the remainder of our day, let us remember we have young men and women on the line in Afghanistan this very moment, willing to make the supreme sacrifice for us.
"These 1.2 million men and women gave up their tomorrows so we could have ours and are speaking English instead of German or Japanese or some other language," he concluded. "Let's make the best of them. Thank you all for being here."
The service concluded with a closing prayer by Miles, and Taps and the lowering of the flag to half staff.


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I'm going through my relatively small nail polish collection and photographing my favourite shades.
This week is YELLOWS & GOLDS!
This Shu Uemura Nail Enamel is supposed to have minerals in it, thus caring for you nail at the same time.
I've had this LE shade for a while and I have to say it has kept beautifully, still having a great texture and consistency. It is a very canary yellow infused with micro sparkle. Quite lovely, but I wish it was a bit cooler – it's a bit too egg yolky in certain lights for me.
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Magazine reports David Eger, former official, called in on Tiger Woods' drop at Masters
NEW YORK – The television viewer who reported the illegal drop Tiger Woods took during the Masters was more than just a golf fan. Sports Illustrated reports it was David Eger, a rules expert who has worked for the USGA and the PGA Tour.
Eger says he was watching the Masters when he replayed the 15th hole to see how Woods made bogey. Woods hit the pin with his third shot and it caromed back into the water. He dropped from the same area, hit to 4 feet and made bogey.
Eger told the magazine he noticed a divot, and that Woods took his drop behind it. The Champions Tour player says he contacted a PGA Tour rules official at the Masters, who relayed it to Fred Ridley, chair of the Masters competition committees.


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The relationship between wall Street and Washington is like a bad marriage. They fight, promise to change, try to believe each other and go back to their old ways. The government shutdown is only the latest of these tiffs. Stocks were down before the shutdown, up after, and they are likely to be volatile if politicians continue to duke it out over spending limits and the debt ceiling. None of it has been surprising. After all, we've seen this movie several times over the past three years. Congress squabbles, markets fall; Congress makes up, stocks rise. Even if this particular remake ends happily, one thing is for sure--the endless cycle of Beltway shenanigans is damaging our economy.
You can see it in the divide between the S&P 500 and Gallup's consumer-confidence numbers. As behavioral economist Peter Atwater recently pointed out to me, these two numbers have historically almost always moved in step with each other. But while markets are higher today than they were in their precrisis peak in 2007, confidence, which reflects perceptions about the strength of the real economy, is lower.
No wonder both consumer and business spending are down. Government could be doing so many things to help the economy, from properly reregulating the banking sector to revamping education to funding the R&D that fuels job creation. But instead of leading the way to growth, some politicians remain obsessed with defunding Obamacare. While they complain that the law has created punishing uncertainty for businesses, their brinkmanship creates far worse uncertainty about bigger things--like whether we'll have jobs. With or without shutdowns that shave 0.2 percentage points off GDP growth per week, we'll be lucky to maintain 2% growth, let alone achieve the 3% we need for true economic health.
The divide between stocks and the real economy tells us some important things. For starters, the foundations of our recovery are weak. Equities have remained relatively strong because the Federal Reserve is artificially propping them up with $85 billion a month of asset buying. The tactic is understandable--the Fed has kept the money spigots open, risking market bubbles, in part because of "fiscal headwinds"--that is, growth-destroying partisan politics. Ben Bernanke can't make Congress agree to fund the government or raise the debt ceiling, but he figures he can at least shore up stock and home prices.
The problem is that this monetary cycle is breaking down. People simply aren't buying into the sugar high of this kind of policy anymore. For proof, look at how the Fed's decision a couple of weeks ago not to taper off its massive spending spree boosted stocks for only a day. Each new round of quantitative easing does less to goose the market than the round before. "It all shows what a weak and narrow recovery we are in," says Atwater.


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PacRep Theatre"s SoDAonStage program presents "Legally Blonde: The Musical." Two discount previews at 7:30p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, and Friday, Feb. 1; opens at 7:30p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2; continues at 7:30p.m. Fri-Sat and 2p.m. Sundays through March 3 at the Golden Bough Theatre, Monte Verde Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues, Carmel. Features Sydney Duncheon as Elle Woods, 40 performers, two canine performers and a live rock band under the direction of guitarist Don Dally. Directed by Stephen Moorer, choreography by Lara Wheeler Devlin. General admission tickets from $7.50 to $28; discounts for seniors over 65, students, children, teachers and active military, available at 622-0100, www.PacRep.org or at the PacRep Box Office 11a.m.-4p.m. Tue-Sat. Two-for-one discount on general admission available for Thursday night performances.
Paper Wing Theatre presents Jason Robert Brown"s "The Last Five Years." Continues at 8p.m. Fri-Sat through Feb. 9 in the intimate Gallerie Theatre at Paper Wing Theatre, 320 Hoffman Ave., Monterey. The play explores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, and Cathy Hyatt, a struggling actress. Cathy"s story is told in reverse chronological order (beginning the show at the end of the marriage) and Jamie"s is told in chronological order. Features Nicholas Kelly and Devon Moody- McSherry, direction and musical direction by Eric N. Johnson. Ticket reservations at 905-5684. www.PaperWing.com.
Stardust Playhouse presents "Parallel Lives" by Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney. Continues at 8p.m. Fri-Sat through Feb. 16, at Stardust Playhouse, 2115 N. Fremont St., Suite C, Monterey. Directed by Judie Swartz and featuring Carolyn Janis and Renee Ladle Infelise. With boundless humor, "Parallel Lives" re-examines the ongoing quest to find parity and love in a contest handicapped by capricious gods — or in this case, goddesses. For mature audiences. $15, available at stardustplayouse.com and 402-8940.
Stevenson School Performing Arts presents "Little Shop of Horrors." 7:30p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, Fridays, Feb. 8 and 15, Saturdays, Feb. 9 and 16, and 2p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, at Keck Auditorium, Stevenson School, Pebble Beach Campus, 3152 Forest Lake Road, Pebble Beach. Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken, based on the film by Roger Corman. $12.50 general online, $15 at the door; students, seniors and military $6.50 online, $10 at the door. www.stevensonschool.org/boxoffice, 625-8389 for information and tickets.
Pacific Grove Middle School presents "The Music Man." Opens at 7p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, at 3 and 7p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, and 2p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, at the Pacific Grove Performing Arts Center, P.G. Middle School, 835 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove. Under co-directors Michelle and Sean Boulware, more than 30 Pacific Grove students perform this famous Broadway musical with such hits as "76 Trombones," "Trouble," "Marian the Librarian" and more. $7 general, $5 for students at the door. Info: Pamela Cain at 641-0340 or school office at 646-6568.
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The Listening Place, Readers" Theatre presents William Luce"s "The Belle of Amherst." At 1:30p.m. Sundays, Feb. 24 and March 3, at the Monterey Museum of Art-La Mirada, 720 Via Mirada, Monterey. Directed by Linda Hancock, starring Marlie Avant, Luce wrote the 1976 Broadway stage success for actor Julie Harris, who won a Tony for her portrayal of Emily Dickinson. Free for Monterey Museum of Art Members, free for non-members with museum admission. Donations welcome for Listening Place, Readers" Theatre. Linda Hancock at 424-6645.
Monterey Public Library presents Howard Burnham"s "Dearest Jane." At 7p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the Monterey Public Library Community Room, 625 Pacific St., Monterey. A one-man show written and performed by Howard Burnham celebrating the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen"s enduring classic "Pride and Prejudice." For ages 16 and up. Free, but reservations required at 646-3949 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Pacific Repertory Theatre open auditions. Seeking community actors, singers and dancers for PacRep"s 2013 professional theater season: "An Iliad," "The Glass Menagerie," "The Imaginary Invalid," "A Midsummer Night"s Dream" and PacRep"s annual Forest Theater Family Musical, "Peter Pan." Auditions will be held 10a.m.-4p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9; 9a.m.-noon and 5-8p.m. Sunday, Feb 10; and 4-6p.m. Monday, Feb 11, at the Golden Bough Playhouse, Monte Verde Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues, Carmel. Auditions will be limited to three minutes, consisting of either two contrasting monologues or, if auditioning for "Peter Pan," one song excerpt and one monologue. Accompaniment will be provided on Feb 9-10 only. If auditioning for "Peter Pan," please bring sheet music in appropriate key. Rehearsals for "An Iliad," directed by Kenneth Kelleher, begin in mid-April with performances from May 2-June 2 at the Circle Theatre. Rehearsals for "The Glass Menagerie," directed by Kenneth Kelleher begin in mid-May with performances from June 7-June 30 at the Golden Bough Theatre. Rehearsals for "The Imaginary Invalid," directed by Kenneth Kelleher, begin in early August with performances from Sept. 5-29 at the Circle Theatre. Rehearsals for "Peter Pan," directed by Walter DeFaria, begin in early July with performances from Aug. 22-Sept. 29 at the Outdoor Forest Theater. Rehearsals for "Midsummer," directed by Stephen Moorer, begin in early-September with performances from Oct. 3-20 at the Outdoor Forest Theater. Auditions by appointment only. Call Cindy at 622-0100 ext.100 to schedule an appointment. Pictures and resumes can be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com or mailed to PacRep Theatre, P.O. Box 222035, Carmel, CA 93922.
Auditions for Magic Circle Theatre"s production of "I"m Not Rappaport." Audition 2-5p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, by appointment only (schedule at 659-7500) at Magic Circle Theatre, 8 El Caminito, Carmel Valley Village. Other times can be arranged by appointment. Run dates Aug. 16-Sept. 15. Rehearsals start early July. Actors needed: one male, Danforth, ages 35-50, overeducated and arrogant; one male, "The Cowboy," age 25- 40, drug dealer, must be able to have Southern drawl; one male, Gilley, age 16- 25, young punk, street smarts; one female, Clara, age 35- late 40s, stylish, intelligent, warm; one female, Laurie, age 18- 25, pretty, graceful and confused. The two leads, Midge and Nat, have been cast. All actors will be paid. Actor stipends have been increased significantly. 659-7500.
Registration for the 2013 Spring Conservatory open. Programs within each conservatory vary by minimum age for participation and complexity of material. "Charlotte"s Web," with performance opportunities for those 6-17, begins March 19. Registration is open through the first scheduled rehearsal or until programs are full. Rehearsals take place at the Karen Wilson Children"s Theatre, 320 Main St., Oldtown Salinas. For more information call ARIEL Theatrical at 775-0976 or www.arieltheatrical.org.
Monterey Recreation Dept.Theater for Kids 3-3:45p.m. Fridays for two six-week sessions, Jan. 11-Feb. 15 and April 5-May 10, for ages 5-7, at the Hilltop Park Center, 871 Jessie St., Monterey. Instructor Maria Dawson. $78, $60 for Monterey residents. Pre-register at the Monterey Recreation Office, 546 Dutra St., Monterey. 646-3866, www.monterey.org/rec.
The Western Stage seeks volunteers in its technical and front-of-house departments. Call 755-6988 or 755-6981, or see wwww.westernstage.com.
PacRep"s School of Dramatic Arts (SoDA) after-school theater classes. For ages 4 through high school, offering acting, singing, dance and performance opportunities. Classes held at the Indoor Forest Theater in Carmel. www.SchoolOfDramaticArts.org. Gracie Poletti, SoDA program director, 622-9175.
MPC Theatre Company is seeking volunteers. Needed: ushers, ticket-takers and concessionaires. In addition to performance-night volunteers, the company is seeking people to distribute fliers and promotional materials throughout the Peninsula. All volunteers receive complimentary tickets to MPC Theatre Company productions. 646-4213 or firstname.lastname@example.com. · ONGOING
Paper Wing Theatre looking for actors interested in auditioning. The Paper Wing Theatre Company, located at 320 Hoffman Ave. at Lighthouse in New Monterey, is looking for actors interested in auditioning, with no experience necessary. Call 521-4512 to make an appointment (leave a message if there is no answer). PaperWingTheatreCo.com.
Hartnell College Theatre Arts Department is accepting students for its series of workshops and classes. Whether you are new to theater or a seasoned performer, there are opportunities to develop skills under the guidance of professional actors and directors. For ages 9-13. 755-6987, 755-6988, www.westernstage.org.
ETC Playhouse, 705 Fourth St., San Juan Bautista. www.elteatrocampesino.com.
Hartnell College Performing Arts Building, 411 Central Ave., Salinas. Tickets available at TWS box office 755-6816 or online at westernstage.com; season plans available.
Staged reading of Steve Hauk"s play "Fortune"s Way, or Notes on Art for Catholics (and Others)." at 7p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at St. Angela"s Merci Church, 146 8th St., Pacific Grove. The church is the site of California impressionist E. Charlton Fortune"s first liturgical commission more than 80 years ago. The play looks back over the career of Fortune, considered one of California"s greatest artists. Monterey Peninsula actress Teresa Del Piero plays Fortune. $10 donation, available at the church office at 146 8th St., Pacific Grove, or by calling 655-4160. The doors open at 6:30p.m. Info: Bobbie Morrison, 394-1924 or email@example.com.
Hartnell College Studio Theater in the Performing Arts Building, 411 Central Ave., Salinas. xxxxxx 755-6984, www.westernstage.com.
Monterey High School Theater presents "The Odd Couple," the female version. 7:30p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 25 and 26 and 2p.m. Sunday, May 27 at at Monterey High Campus Theater, 101 Herrmann Drive, Monterey. Up Madison Street from Pacific Street to five-way stop. Take upper left road (Herrmann Drive) to parking and theater on left. Student-directed and featuring the seasoned actors from the cadre of performers at Monterey High. $10 general, $5 students, $7 seniors, available at the box office. 277-8658. www.montereyhighdrama.com.
Auditions for The Wharf Theater"s "Broadway — A Musical." 4p.m. Saturday, March 17 at the Bruce Ariss Wharf Theater, Fisherman"s Wharf, Montery. Production dates Aug. 16-Sept. 16, 2012. For information, call 649-2332 or 659-2550.


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Ignore your familiar superheroes this week; the Comics We Crave are all about unfamiliar faces (or unfamiliar takes on familiar faces), the stories we never saw on television and even an alternate history of the 21st Century. Who could resist?
Let's get the familiar names out of the way first, shall we? Marvel have the first issue of Ultimate Comics: Armor Wars, which places Planetary and Transmetropolitan writer Warren Ellis in charge of Iron Man again, freed of too many continuity woes and watches what happens. Also out of continuity, Spider-Man Noir reimagines Peter Parker in 1920s New York, while the in-continuity (and non-Sam Jackson-esque) Nick Fury realizes the futility of existence in Secret Warriors Volume 1: Nick Fury, Agent of Nothing. Less existential pondering and more ass-kicking can be found in Hulk: Planet Skaar and Hercules: Prince of Power, both of which explain the finer points of "smashing," I believe.
Smashing may help the political state of the Romulan empire, which is somewhat shaky in IDW's Star Trek Romulans: Schism, while Dynamite add their voice to the licensed choir with what may turn out to be the surprise of the week: The first issue of Galactica 1980, resurrecting (and promising to improve) Lorne Greene's far-from-finest hour as the original Battlestar Galactica finds Earth in the middle of disco.
DC Comics have a couple of interesting collections to consider this week: Showcase Presents Warlord Vol. 1 reprints the beginnings of DC's premiere sword and sorcery comic - with some great art by Mike Grell - while Tom Strong Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 does the same for the first year of Alan Moore's retro "science hero" series which lurches from semi-parody to sincere tribute to stories gone by, with amazing art by people like Chris Sprouse, Art Adams and Dave Gibbons.
If you're looking for more Gibbons, this is definitely your week; he pops up (again working with his Watchmen collaborator Moore) alongside many other creators in the enjoyable The Spirit Archives: The New Adventures hardcover collection of a short-lived 1990s attempt to revive Will Eisner's classic character, but the motherlode for Gibbons fans - or Frank Miller fans, for that matter - is the deluxe collection The Life and Times of Martha Washington In the 21st Century, which brings together all of Miller and Gibbons' alternate future political satire, from Give Me Liberty all the way to last year's The Death of Martha Washington. Individual, powerful and weirdly compelling, it'd be the book of the week, if it wasn't for two other Dark Horse releases.
Those would be Beasts of Burden, a new series by Space Ghost (and Milk & Cheese) writer Evan Dorkin and artist Jill Thompson about the pet protectors of a particularly supernatural neighborhood (Look here for a sample of what to expect and fall in love), and Super Spy creator Matt Kindt's new graphic novel, 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man, which takes a serious and beautiful look at the old cliche of the man who was as tall as a building. Both are highly recommended.
Whether you're looking to buy all of Dark Horse's impressive slate this week or something else, the Diamond Shipping List can help you decide what you should be spending money on, and the Comic Shop Locator Service will make sure you know where to spend it. Just remember to pick up something new and unusual this week; it's a good week to go outside your norm.


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Financial Foundations Initiative
It is imperative that the attached research files be reviewed. They will help guide your work. (I am not affiliated with those projects, just benefiting from them.) My work is to identify and implement ways that low and moderate income families can increase their financial assets and improve their financial conditions. Recently a change in United States tax law has resulted in the opportunity for any tax filer who is receiving a tax refund to purchase U.S. Series i Savings Bonds directly from the government with their tax refund. They can purchase in increments of $50. My research goal is to identify effective methods to increase tax filers utilization of these savings opportunities. The strategies that I am seeking to identify are ideally scalable so that they can be used around the country at volunteer income tax assistance sites. These sites have volunteers available to help individuals complete and file their income tax returns for free. My interventions target tax filing time and the opportunity that low and moderate income filers have to save when they receive their tax refund, which can be several thousand dollars for some households.
The goal of this specific project is to emotionally move people to save. The pictures and banners should be something that motivates them on a fundamental basis. The pictures, or savings metaphors, should connect with tax filers.
I am primarily targeting mothers, working or single, who will be coming into receive assistance with filing their tax returns. The target audience is low and moderate income tax filers in the U.S. who are receiving free tax assistance from volunteers. Previous research has identified mothers has having strong basic desires to save in behalf of their children. The images produced for this project should tap into these basic emotions and desires. The audience that I am appealing to is low to moderate income mothers in the Southeastern United States. Images should be culturally aware of this audience, but not limited to any one race, ethnicity, or gender. However, a strong focus is placed on mothers.
Images should be modest and respectful and the metaphors that they relate to should generally be positive.
I would like two images for each of the following nine selected savings metaphors. Images should generate a positive emotional arousal in the target audience. Please review the research files below for more information. The metaphors are:
1. Aspiration / Attainment: This includes 1.a. physical closeness, 1. b. clam and control, and 1. c. future education
2. Connection to others
3. Food and Drink / Providing the family's necessities
4. Protection (perhaps include water, such as "Fill your canteen."
5. Parenting and child rearing
6. Mother metaphors
7. Journey and or Growth
The images and text should focus on eliciting an emotional response from the viewer and that what they see in the picture / metaphor motivates them to save. In addition to the image, there should be a simple short message conveying the savings thought, i.e. "Give them what they need," or "Grow their savings as they do." At the middle or bottom of the banner, there should be a common message on all banners, such as "You can. Ask your tax preparer about U.S. savings bonds."
The size of the vertical banners will be approximately 2 feet wide by 6 feet tall, or other similar dimension for standard banner printing. If stock photos are used in the design, they will be paid for by the contest sponsor (me), but I do ask that they not be over $50 per photo. Desktop versions of the banners will also be created.


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I purchased my incubator with the automatic turner during a special sale Jeffers offered during the Christmas season. When the incubator arrived, I was impressed by the electronic thermostat, the reference thermometer and hygrometer and a few other features I would expect to find only in more expensive models. I set aside the incubator until spring. I have since completed three incubations and hatches of chicken eggs, each producing a lower percentage hatch than I would expect, less than 25% in all cases. I have five other table-top, styrofoam incubators of other brands and consistently acheive higher, more acceptable hatch percentages. I have calibrated and recalibrated incubation temperatures but have yet to achieve a satisfactory hatch. A couple of observations: location of the water wells is awkward. They are located in the center of the incubator, making them difficult to visualize and access with the automatic turner with eggs in place. I have not found the reference thermometer to be useful; its temperature reading is significantly different from readings of two or three thermometers that I place inside the incubator. I intend to continue to work with the incubator, adjusting as I can for improved hatch percentages, but I intend to use only my less-valuable eggs.


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The MacBook Pro was judged to be the "best performing" Windows laptop, according to a new study by PC services company Soluto. Soluto used "frustration analytics" to make the determination, according to Brooke Crothers at CNet.
"Frustration analytics," in this case, tracks the crapware that PC makers put on machines fresh from the factory. Apple doesn't make new MacBook owners jump through hoops to have a useable machine, so the MacBook Pro wins.
Soluto feels their comparison is valid because it looks at computers used in the field, as opposed to how they can optimally be set up to run. Other "frustration metrics" measured by Soluto include crashes per week, hangs per week, average boot time, and frequency of "Blue Screens of Death."
Getting Windows working on the Mac takes some extra steps, though - installing Boot Camp or virtualization software and a fresh copy of Windows, for example. Soluto also dings Apple for possible driver issues.
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Stackhouse on hiatus
I will be happy to see Jacek when I get home tomorrow. More happy to see Marcus. And the first thing I'll do is watch True Blood. That is if Jacek is willing to give up the tv.
This a glorious time of year for us. EA Sports NHL 2010 has just been released. This means he will play it obsessively for two weeks and we won't have to talk to each other. You cannot imagine how wonderful that is after almost 8 years of marriage.
Oh you MiniVan Twi-Hards with your idealized notions of true love and fairy tale relationships will no doubt be judging, but others will understand: there are times in life, no matter how important that person is to you, that you just don't need to be around them.
Mid September is always, annually, our time to ignore each other.
The problem though is that we have one tv. I need it to catch up on Glee and True Blood and The Office and The Daily Show.
He will have to find something else to do for a few hours.
True Blood is currently on hiatus. Will not be back until June. F-ck.
This is Ryan Kwanten, enjoying his time off in New York for fashion week, spotted at the G-Star show the other day and at VH1 Divas last night. Sam Trammell joined him onstage to present. Awesome True Blood fix for a nice Friday surprise although I'm not sure why Ryan's face looks so waxy and am also not feeling that douchebag anchor he has around his neck.
Men need to be careful about their accessories. That sh-t to me screams bachelor party musclehead in Vegas. Almost a dealbreaker.
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Baby Elephant Rescued from Hole in the Ground [VIDEO]
Here is a video that is sure to make you go, "Awwwwww." It's a video of three people successfully rescuing a baby elephant from a hole in the ground. I don't want to give too much of the video away, but the ending is very touching. It's a tearjerker.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
The Forest Service is truly an extraordinary institution. A lot of people, seeing the word 'forest' in the title, assume it has something charming to do with looking after trees.
In fact, mostly what the Forest Service does is build roads. I am not kidding. There are 378,000 miles of roads in America's national forests. That may seem a meaningless figure, but look at it this way - it is eight times the total mileage of America's interstate highway system. It is the largest road system in the world in control of a single body. The Forest Service has the second highest number of road engineers of any government institution on the planet. To say that these guys like to build roads barely hints at their level of dedication. Show them a stand of trees anywhere and they will regard it thoughtfully for a long while, and say at last, "You know, we could put a road here." It is the avowed aim of the U.S. Forest Service to construct 580,000 miles of additional forest road by the middle of the next century.
This week; illustrations selected to accompany short passages from A Walk in the Woods © Bill Bryson 1997.
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2011 Science CalendarActivity by Dan Hutton | added on Aug 06, 2010 | Australia
A 2011 calendar listing upcoming science events at the University of Western Australia. The calendar will be sent to all Western Australian high schools in order to promote science at the University of Western Australia.
The University of Western Australia science calendar has been produced for the past 3 years now and aims to promote science at UWA. Each year the calendar adopts a new theme - and this year the theme is the International year of Chemistry and the International year of Forests. The calendar will be sent to all secondary schools throughout Western Australia.
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As a growing number of the world's wealthiest are looking for safe places to store their millions, many are turning to "investments of passion," including famous works of art, rare collectibles and even wine.
Earlier this year, the sale of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" for $120 million broke the record for the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. In 2011, the super-rich spent more than $11 billion on art and more than $5 billion on wine.
But where there's big money being spent, there is also a big opportunity to rob the wealthy.
"The criminals follow the market and they follow the dollar. And as it moves around the world, that's where they go," said former FBI agent Robert Wittman.
(SLIDESHOW: The World's Biggest Art Heists)
Wittman was one of the first FBI agents to specialize in art crime. The FBI now has 14 special agents that are trained to recover high-value stolen cultural property.
Bonnie Magness Gardnier runs the unit and the National Stolen Art File, an online database of missing items with values ranging from $2,000 to tens of millions.
"We have about 7,600 items in the file right now," Gardnier said. "We do have fine art, but we also have memorabilia things like Elvis's school ring, documents, letters, pottery, sculptures, jewelry."
Once stolen, the items move into the black market quickly. However, they do not often stay there.
"The person who stole that artwork knows it's stolen. He goes to a dealer, antique shop, pawn shop, and turns it into cash," Gardnier explains. "We don't require here in the United States that the sale of a work of art have a title document to go with it."
There are also plenty of buyers around the world who do not care where the collectibles come from. CNBC wealth reporter Robert Frank believes one reason for that could be the wealth being created in China, Russia and Brazil.
"I was talking to a wealth manager that went to the home of a billionaire oligarch who had all of these Picassos: beautiful, classic pieces of art. He said, 'Where did you get them?' and the Russian said, 'I'd rather not say,'" Frank recalled.
Wittman said some art heists are well thought-out plans reminiscent of the "Thomas Crown Affair", while others are crimes of opportunity, carried out by an insider with access to the collection.
Richard Weisman has one of the most respected pop art collections in the country. In September 2009, while he was at his home in Seattle, Weisman said, a thief broke into his Los Angeles home and walked out with a set of Andy Warhol paintings insured for $25 million.
Roxane West inherited hundreds of paintings and thousands of drawings created by her aunt, abstract expressionist painter Shirley Alameda West. Roxane West never expected that the building super, whom she trusted and treated like family, would steal her aunt's entire collection.
According to the FBI, the losses from elaborate cons and brazen thefts number in the billions every year. That, however, does not seem to be slowing down investors.
"There are now 11 million millionaires in the world and growing, but there are only so many bottles of 1945 Mouton Rothschild that they've made," said Frank. "So you have a growing number of buyers, a shrinking number of collectibles, prices are going to keep going up."


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by Brian DeCandia, sports information graduate assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Jeremy Mayweather former student-athlete at Georgia College & State University has been hired as the assistant men's basketball coach at Central Georgia Technical College (CGTC). CGTC will kick off intercollegiate athletics this fall with the addition of men's and women's basketball. The men's team recently announced the signing of 13 student athletes to letters of intent.
"Jeremy Mayweather is a great guy and was a great player," said Mark Gainous. "He went from a part-time player his junior year to a full-time starter his senior year leading the team in points and rebounds. I think he is going to do a great job at CGTC. His personality is going to help recruit stellar athletes to the Central Georgia basketball program."
Mayweather graduated from Georgia College in 2006 with a bachelor's in criminal justice. He played basketball for two seasons leading the team in scoring his senior year. After a spectacular senior season helping the Bobcats to the Division II Sweet-16, Mayweather was named Player of the Year for the Peach Belt Conference, he was an honorable mention All-American and was selected to play on the NABC Division II All-Star Team. He finished his career with 646 points, 69 blocks, 400 rebounds and 41 assists.
A native of Statham, Ga., Jeremy signed with Kauhajoki (Spoon River Bears) of Finland's 1st Division Basketball League for the 2006-07 season.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/GCSUBobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Feds close Arpaio investigation
PHOENIX — Federal authorities say they're closing their abuse-of-power investigation into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona without filing charges against him.
Authorities were investigating America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff for his part in failed public corruption cases against officials who were odds with him. Arpaio brought cases against a judge and two county officials in 2009.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Ann Birmingham Scheel released a statement Friday saying her office "is closing its investigation into allegations of criminal conduct" by current and former members of the sheriff's and county attorney's offices.
Scheel didn't elaborate, saying only that county Attorney Bill Montgomery was advised of the decision "not to pursue state criminal charges related to the investigation."
A federal judge has yet to rule in a civil trial brought by a group of Latino plaintiffs that Arpaio or any of his deputies engaged in racial profiling.


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The following code samples illustrate how to use cryptography in C# and VisualBasic.NET
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Illustrates how to generate a persistent (i.e. non-random) symmetric key and
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This sample is intended to help novice users get a grasp on encryption and decryption.
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President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers. Director: Timur Bekmambetov Writers: Seth Grahame-Smith (screenplay), Simon Kinberg (screenplay) Stars: Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell and Dominic Cooper In theatres: June 22, 2012
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Sigma Xi cites Oswego for advancing 'informed science leadership'
LAST YEAR'S SCIENCE TODAY LECTURE series on women in the science, technology, engineering and math professions, organized by Webe Kadima of Oswego's chemistry faculty, has won recognition from Sigma Xi, the scientific research society. Kadima was vice president of the college's Sigma Xi chapter last year. She was also principal investigator for a recent study, funded


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Okay, I've had two beers and am dehydrated from Karate, so my critical thinking skills are not at their best, and I am still sharp enough to be skeptical of anything Mitt Romney is associated with, but . . .
Mass. Bill Requires Health Coverage
This is the sort of thing the nation needs, BADLY. Now it has a number of flaws on the face of it. It's not single payor. It works via coercion and the enforcement is fuzzy at best. The adverse selection incentive will still drive the poorest/sickest into the worst plans. It's not automatic universal coverage. So it's not perfect. But what's the saying? "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
This has some good features. It appears to create affordable insurance plans even for otherwise uninsurable folks. It subsidizes low income folks in a rational manner. It maintains co-pays even for low-income folks (keeping an element of personal responsibility in the system). I wonder where it fits in with Medicaid?
I'll need more details, I think, before I sign on as an enthusiast. But it's a great start, it's innovative, and if nothing else, should add fuel to the fire for a national solution.
45 million uninsured. A national disgrace.
04 April 2006
This F*cking Rocks
Okay, I've had two beers and am dehydrated from Karate, so my critical thinking skills are not at their best, and I am still sharp enough to be skeptical of anything Mitt Romney is associated with, but . . .
Posted by shadowfax at 11:21 PM
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- Dr. Dagny T.4/05/2006 9:07 AM
Shadowfax, I agree completely with you. I would like to see a multi-tiered type of health care coverage with a catch-all universal health care. I see to many patients who can no longer work at their factory jobs from age 55 and then develop diabetes, hypertension, and worse yet - cancer - and have no coverage. These people have worked all their lives and it is a crime that just because they can no longer work in a back-breaking job, they are no longer entitled to health insurance. Yes, there has to be some moral responsibility in our society to ensure that everyone has heatlh care coverage. Now, my concern is: how far to we cover? To spend millions of dollars on an 82 y/o male with COPD, end-stage heart failure and diabetes, because his wife cannot say good-bye and won't? Or on the other end of the spectrum, to spend millions of dollars in the 30 week old preemie with already known brain damage? Who will judge?ReplyDelete


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- Saute the ginger and onion in butter or olive oil in a large pan until soft.
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- Add the stock and simmer until the vegetables are softened.
- Add the pumpkin puree, coconut milk and simmer for five minutes.
- Puree until smooth. Season to taste.
November 11, 2011
Quick Pumpkin Soup
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That's a fine big casserole of pumpkin soup; I like to think that there would be some left by the time I made it down to Cork if I were to set off right now.ReplyDelete
Looks delicious - love the ginger in there!ReplyDelete
Just love the book, fabulous recipes oh well the diet is out the window again, always wanted to use tinned pumpkin puree will start a hunt in Galway for it,ReplyDelete
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I love pumpkin soup, making it with coconut milk is such a good idea! Yum!ReplyDelete


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Informing for the CNC
For the posting and discussion of Access Issues and Closures for Areas around South Africa.
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Informing for the CNC
I see the new CNC climbing management plan has been accepted by the CNC. An aspect of big concern to me is the part that requires climbers to notify the CNC of any unauthorised bolting or else face closure of the area. I do not want to climb in CNC areas on condition that I inform for them on my fellow climbers. They must do their own policing. What is even worse is that the MCSA has volutarily imposed this status on climbers. This has left a very sour taste and to my mind brings the whole plan into question. I'd rather not have a plan on this basis. I sincerely hope I have misunderstood the situation.
The CNC does not have the budget or inclination to 'do their own policing'. If climbers become a hassle to them, it will be easier for them to simply close the area. If, on the other hand, climbers show themselves to be actively co-operative, our access should be secured. Any climber who is breaching regulations is acting selfishly and does not deserve your misguided loyalty.
Dear fruit - I am a little irritated as the MCSA is accused of doing nothing, but when we do, we have to deal with what can only be described as stupid comments like these. We have put a lot of effort into this manplan and we are lucky that CapeNature has accepted it. Currently we cannot bolt a single line, while the new manplan allows us to open a limited number of routes. Cape Nature cannot perform effective policing - we all know that night time bolting and look outs can stop you getting caught. However if Cape Nature does an audit ie follows the well worn path to the steep cliff and looks up and finds a bunch of illegal routes, they will close it down - to bouldering also. Individuals who bolt illegally are going to ruin a carefully negotiated process which will result in us not being able enjoy this beautiful area. Please think very carefully what you have written and rather support us with this initiative.
Dear Andy. Kudu's and congrats on getting the CNC to finally accept climbing in their area's. That is a great service to climbing. However, I voiced my concerns in this forum because I thought the matter warranted it. I think this is a very serious matter which could have a very negative impact on climbing dynamics. Climbers must now accept that they climb in CNC area's on condition that they act as the CNC's policemen. This is a vastly different to climbers monitering themselves and climbers dealing with unauthorised usage.
Dear fruits old sport, if you don't like it don't climb there. I take my hate off to the efforts the club, and its representatives, are puting into securing climbing in very sensitive areas, no matter what the conditions, we can climb there and lo and behold bolt, bloody amazing !!!! who would have thought this would ever happen. Maybe fruits would be happy moving to Hueco where he can only climb with a guide or if the area was closed completly and all bolts chopped, which is where it was heading. Negative and selfish remarks don't motivate those who are trying to do something for the broader climbing community, those with a vision for the future of climbing in this country. I hope it works.
Hi Fruits Be happy that you have the privelage of climbing in an area that is a Wilderness Area and World Heritage Site..... there are not many places in the world you can do this! Personally, it pisses me off when people think they are a law unto themselves and selfishly jeopardise access for everyone.
1. Clearly there needs to be policing of compliance. Sure the CNC does not have the resources to do the policing and they need help. However we have opted for policing for them instead of self-policing. The problem I have is that the CNC has the power to lay criminal charges. A far better option would have been for climbers to have been able to moniter and deal with it themselves. Sure climbers who consistently refuse to comply can and should be reported to the CNC. 2. The premise of this option is that climbers as a whole are untrustworthy and cannot be relied upon to deal with the situation themselves. 3. I recall the MCSA having a mandate to negotiate a management plan. I do not recall a mandate to make us CNC policeman. I am personally going to adopt the following behaviour. Ask somebody who has rogue bolted to remove the bolts and point out to them that they could face criminal charges. If they refuse I will notify the management committee. They can then deal with the CNC
Look fruits, no one is asking you to put a sherif badge on and drop all your gear and run off to tell on any breakers of the new rules. If you feel more comfortable calling someone like Andy and mentioning the problem and have him take it further. It is about time that the climbers start taking responsiblity for the areas they use, I don't think they can and you are a good example of that, but for the sake of climbing I hope we can pull our fingers out and be responsable. And those who have a problem with the rule should just stop climbing in these areas, because that would be the case if the MCSA didn't do what they have done.
Hi. Note that the plan calls for a liaison committee to interact with CNC and incidents of abuse will be reported to CNC by them. In other words, individual climbers should not be acting as policemen for CNC. This gives us the opportunity to deal with problems *before* CNC get involved; ie. to be self-policing. If we can report problems and simultaneously tell CNC that they have been dealt with I'm sure CNC will be only too happy. Only in the cases where climbers refuse to act reasonably would it have to go further. It also gives us the opportunity to report problems beyond our control (hypothetical example: 4x4 crowd trashing Truitjieskraal) for which we could end up being blamed and losing access.
So, we seem to be getting somewhere ... again. The proof of the pudding is in the eating though. Years ago, when rogue climbers first made their appearance we discussed this whole \"policing\" issue. It was shot down then, and resulted in pretty much a free for all, with climbers bolting through paintings, on walls in full view of gapers etc etc. It was clear that the only way we were going to prove to CNC etc. that we were trustworthy was to report trangressors and let the law run its course. Talking nicely to renegades doesn't work. I applaud the decision committing us to being serious about protecting our access privileges. By the way, is it true that we have to firstly remove all the illegal bolts from the Wolfberg Cracks ? Including all the shiny new Swiss ones ??
Derek I doubt the line would be chopped, but the offender would be in very hot water with CapeNature, the MCSA and his climbing friends. We need to prevent this kind of thing happening by taking action(not only threatening)against offenders. Richard - Wolfberg Cracks is on private land, so has nothing to do with CapeNature. Climbers themselves decided many years ago to keep the Wolfberg cracks as a bolt free zone as it is a geographical landmark that is visited by many people who would not like to see a Legoland up there.
When I go to Rocklands i always see so many wonderful lines that could produce awesome climbing and if it were ever opened to bolting i would be the first to fire up my drill. But it makes me shiver to think of Rocklands after overzealous bolters are finished with it. Just look at Lower Silvermine to see the results. I hope people realize it's a special place to many and not to be exploited.
My two cents: As climbers we need to look after the crags to ensure access, whether it be on private land or in a reserve. At the moment climbers appear incapable of doing just that as a result we have rules, permits, policing and uncooprative landowners. The MCSA is at least trying to give the climbing commumity some integrity.
A golden opportunity has been given to us here, and I think we should acknowledge that. If anyone is aware of the new rules and still screws this up with arrogant bolting, harsh action should be taken. i was one of those that said we'll never get to bolt there in our lifetimes, so let's just do it anyway. but with the reasonable new terms there is no reason we shouldn't do this by the book.
I know Wolfberg is private but surely it should fall under a \"Cederberg Climbing Management Plan\" ? I heard from a usually very reliable source that this was a pre-condition. Knowing that the land was private prompted me to ask the question. An holistic plan would be better than all the fragmented ones, surely ? On the subject of the Wolfberg bolts specifically, as recently as last week the Niewoudts of Dwarsrivier were VERY unhappy and expressed a desire to ban CLIMBERS! Fortunately they were persuaded that there are 2 types of climbers going there and that not all climbers were placing bolts up there !
With regards to the DRAFT Cederberg Rockclimbing Management Plan, climbers must please note that under no circumstances can any bolting take place at this moment. We need to get acceptance of this plan from climbers and then final signature from CapeNature. The Cederberg New Routes Subcom will then review new routes applications and issue the authorised permits for equipping a new route. A rather disturbing rumour is that some climbers think they can go out and book a whole bunch of new routes. If climbers are going to act like children and squabble over who gets to do what route, then this whole process will fall apart. So please, when it comes to this process, behave responsibly so that there will be minimal environmental damage and so that we can all make use of this great oppurtunity. I was hoping that instead of climbers rushing out to book new routes, they would rather come and offer to help manage this process.
Ok so Im Schyzo! Derek Im not bored of others comments in fact they are always interesting and educational, I am however bored of sitting on my hands to stop them from grabbing the drill and making something happen for once. This whole process has dragged on for, what?- 8-9years? I took a five year break from climbing and came back to find nothing had changed! At last there seems to be some progress thanks to the untiring efforts of guys like Andy and Brent. So the big question is how soon will bolting be approved at other Cape Nature areas? You see we want to bolt crags not just routes! The idea of only two routes a month by prior booking is just stupid, Why not twenty or thirty (provided they are of the highest caliber)?
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'The Vampire Diaries' Recap: 'Dead Man on Campus'
Previously on 'The Vampire Diaries,' Silas, Katsia and Amara died, Bonnie came back to life and Katherine started going gray. Now that the Silas drama has officially come to a close, it's only a matter of time before our supernatural friends find a whole new web of secrets to get themselves entangled in.
First, we check back in with Jesse, who is currently suffering at the hands of Dr. Maxfield (for the second week in a row, so unfair!). Dr. Maxfield has turned Jesse into his own personal vamp to experiment on. The problem with turning someone into a vampire, of course, is the super-strength that they acquire once they turn. Jesse breaks out of his shackles, attacks Dr. Maxfield and heads out the door. A rogue vampire on a college campus? Yeah, this can't end well.
Now that Bonnie is no longer dead, she's ready to take life by the horns. That means a new haircut (thumbs up!) and finally getting around to Skyping all of the people that she couldn't when she was hanging out on the other side. She's even ditching course registration (which apparently is still happening weeks into the semester?) in order to make out with Jeremy in the quad.
But not everything is sunshine and rainbows for Bonnie. She's no longer a witch, but she is the anchor to the other side. And that means that when an old lady is ready to cross over, she has to cross over through Bonnie... which really, really hurts. Sigh. At least her besties are throwing her a "welcome-back-from-the-dead" party to dull the pain.
Elena runs into her new friend Aaron (aka Dr. Maxfield's legal son) and invites him to Bonnie's party. Aaron's not so into it, but thank God Elena has that whole "power of compulsion" thing going on because she coerces him into accepting her invite (apparently the free beer wasn't enough of a pull). But it's not just Aaron that Elena wants at the party -- she wants Damon to invite Stefan, too. Too bad that Stefan is kind of depressed due to the fact that he finally remembers just how much his life sucks.
Caroline is thrilled when Jesse calls her cell (he's gorgeous, so I don't blame her), but unfortunately it's not a booty call he's after. He needs Caroline to intervene before he eats his roommate. (Ah, vampire problems.) Jesse fills Caroline and Elena in on all of Dr. Maxfield's crazy experiments, and the vampire gal pals tell him that the first rule of being a vampire is realizing how "awesome you are". (Uh, does Elena not remember any of her first few months as a vampire?)
Katherine heads to the Mystic Grill to drink with the only person sadder than her: Stefan. Stefan confides in Katherine about his PTSD -- he thought that killing Silas would be the end of his pain, but it's only the beginning.
Caroline and Elena may have had Jesse heal Dr. Maxfield, but Dr. Maxfield isn't out of the woods yet. Damon heads to Dr. Maxfield's lab to torture him until he reveals all there is to know about Whitmore College and its connection the vampires. It turns out that Dr. Maxfield wanted to create a vampire that wouldn't be a threat to humans. How? By creating vampires that have a taste for the blood of other vampires.
Back at the Mystic Grill, Katherine, her daughter Nadia, Matt and Stefan gather to finally cleanse Matt of the traveler, Gregor, living inside his head. Katherine draws Gregor out of Matt. He admits that after Silas died, he was told by the travelers to kill Katherine. Katherine stabs Gregor (in Matt's body, but "Matt will be fine," because reasons) and releases his spirit. Katherine has the only knife that can kill a passenger, and Gregor wanted it. Unfortunately, Katherine also happened to kill her only daughter's true love, and Nadia is super pissed about it.
Bonnie is getting used to life as the anchor. She has a lovely chat with the witch who passed through her to the other side. She tells Bonnie that the pain is gone now, and that being dead isn't so bad.
While Bonnie is chatting with the dead, Caroline is dancing super close with Jesse. As vampires, their emotions are all the more heightened. Caroline pulls Jesse in for a kiss. It's great, until Jesse gets a little too rough with Caroline and bites her. Jesse, realizing that it's actually vampire blood that he craves, bolts out of the party.
Meanwhile, Elena bonds with Aaron over their mutual tragic pasts. Aaron has a particularly dark sob story. A camping trip turned really, really dark when vampires (or "a bear," the way Aaron tells it) attacked his parents. We have a feeling that there is a deeper connection between Aaron and Elena... let's just hope that it wasn't Damon who murdered Aaron's parents.
Jesse heads to Dr. Maxfield's lab, where he sees Damon mid-torture. Jesse is sad because Dr. Maxfield made him want to drink from the one girl that he actually likes. (Aww!) But as much as Damon dislikes Dr. Maxfield, Damon promised Elena that he would keep Dr. Maxfield alive. He attacks Jesse in order to stop Jesse from ripping off Maxfield's head.
Unfortunately, Jesse is way stronger than even Damon realized. Because of Dr. Maxfield's experiments, Jesse has become a super vampire. He attacks Damon, nearly killing him... until Elena spots them fighting in the hall. She grabs a stake and stabs Jesse, killing him. (Seriously, show?!)
Caroline sees them and rushes over to Jesse. She watches as Jesse turns gray. Caroline stares at Elena in horror. Elena tells Caroline that Jesse would have killed Damon, but it doesn't matter to her. "The Elena I used to know would have given Jesse a chance." says Caroline. Major burn, but not totally untrue.
Meanwhile, at the Mystic Grill, Stefan spots a note left by Katherine to Nadia. It turns out that Katherine is done running from the travelers... and she's going to jump off the clock tower to her death. Luckily for her, Stefan is always down to play the hero. Just before Katherine hits the pavement, Stefan sweeps her up.
Poor Bonnie. All she wants to do is get it on with Jeremy (finally!). Sadly, Bonnie's lovefest with Jeremy is interrupted by Jesse, crossing over to the other side. How many times will this happen to them? (This is way worse than a roommate walking in on them... you can't put a sock on the door to warn the dead.)
Next week, we learn that Damon has history with the Augustine society... and that Dr. Maxfield gets him on the table. How will Damon fare with being the subject of the experiment?


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Ahh, WrestleMania. The showcase of the immortals. The granddaddy of them all. The Super Bowl of sports entertainment.
Ask any wrestler, and they'll tell you that there's something special about having a match at WrestleMania. While it can be argued that such a statement might just be hyperbole from WWF higher-ups, there is a certain aura surrounding the event, and for the 200-plus wrestlers who have fought on the biggest stage of them all, there are certainly a lot of memories.
In honour of these 200-plus 'rasslers who have graced the biggest stage of them all, we at SLAM! proudly present the WrestleMania Stat Sheet. Below you will find the full record of each wrestler's matches, broken down into wins, losses and draws.
First, however, a couple notes:
Now after breaking down the records of wrestlers, here are some of the highlights:
Match(es) of a lifetime
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Yesterday I made a few more upcycled reusable Christmas cards to post to family members.
I used a pair of old jeans I got from the charity shop for $1 and fabric scraps I already had, plus cereal boxes I've been collecting for a few weeks!
I stuck to very simple designs this year, making use of Christmas fabric I had.
If you haven't seen my reusable Christmas cards before - they have this message sewn on the back so the recipient knows the idea behind the card!
They have a clear plastic pocket inside where you can slip in a piece of paper with a greeting on.
I sent my first batch of these cards last Christmas, and I'm curious to see if this year anyone reuses them and perhaps returns one to me !?
To see the cards I made last year and a tutorial showing how to make these cards - go here.
And two more I made this year - you can see here.
Do you make your Christmas cards each year?
What materials do you use to make yours from?
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DETROIT — One more loss and the A's can kiss their season goodbye. As far as the Oakland players are concerned, Tigers' reliever Al Alburquerque can kiss their A's.
The upstart A's talked bravely yesterday about winning three straight ALDS games in Oakland, especially after the antics of Alburquerque. After getting Yeonis Cespedes to hit a comebacker with runners on first and third with two outs in the ninth inning of a tie game at Comerica Park, Alburquerque incredibly kissed the baseball before recording the final out.
The Tigers won the battle in the bottom of the ninth on Don Kelly's sacrifice fly, 5-4 to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series. The loss left the youthful and proud A's steaming in their clubhouse.
Losing pitching Grant Balfour, a bulldog, came through and slammed a chair against a table as he cursed the loss.
The A's play with attitude and they will have no trouble getting ready for tomorrow's Game 3 in Oakland, not only because of the frustrating way they lost, owning a 4-3 lead going into the bottom of the eighth, but because they were not happy with Alburquerque's antics.
Cespedes, who plays with a lot of flair, said through a translator he was not a fan of Alburquerque's act.
"We're not finished yet," he said. "When I get back to Oakland I am going to hit the ball hard against him and I can kiss my bat. I'm going to kiss my bat.''
That will be something to see. The ALDS suddenly has turned into Major League II.
Josh Reddick, who homered in the eighth to put the A's up one, was upset with Alburquerque, who picked up the win.
"I didn't appreciate it,'' Reddick said. "I think that is immature and not very professional. That got under my skin, that was very unprofessional. I didn't appreciate that one bit.''
Reddick said Alburquerque was showing up the entire Oakland team by his baseball smooch, no matter the excitement of the moment.
"That's exactly what he is doing, and I don't think anybody from one day of experience in the big leagues to 15 years in the big leagues should do that,'' Reddick said. "Everybody knows this is a professional game and you've got to keep within yourself and you can do all that kinds of stuff in the dugout when nobody is looking, but you have to keep that stuff out of the game.''
Alburquerque said he was just caught up in the emotion of the out. He gloved the ball and then as he transferred to toss to first baseman Prince Fielder he offered up the baseball kiss.
"I was filled with emotion,'' he said. "It just happened. I don't know why I did it. I did it because I did something good and felt happy. It was the emotion for me.''
The A's don't buy that a bit.
"He must not believe in the baseball gods,'' A's outfielder Jonny Gomes said, "because the baseball gods take care of stuff like that.''
Alburquerque will be on all the highlight shows with the play. The A's will not forget.
"Don't give up on us just yet,'' Reddick said.
You can be sure the Tigers will talk to Alburquerque about the kiss, no matter what they are saying in public. There is no need to add fuel to the fire in these games.
There is too much on the line and because the Tigers bullpen is much too thin. They are going to need the right-hander to help finish this series and, if they do that, to have success in the next round.
Relievers have gotten more theatrical, that's the nature of the new game. The Yankees have had Joba Chamberlain doing his fist-pumping for a long time and ex-Yankee and Alburquerque's teammate Phil Coke did a pretty good Chamberlain imitation when he recorded the first out in the eighth.
Rafael Soriano pulls out his shirt after wins, but not until the game is over. The A's will not forget. They are in the deepest of holes, but believe they can climb out.
Don't kiss them goodbye just yet.


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When farmers began planting Bt cotton for the first time in 1996, many were surprised to learn they couldn't plant their whole farm in the new technology.
Growers were told they had to devote a percentage of their acres to non-Bt varieties so they could provide a "refuge" for susceptible tobacco budworm and bollworm moths that could mate with potentially resistant moths.
To most producers, the idea of coddling insects you had been spending hundreds of dollars an acre to kill seemed convoluted, to say the least. Why not just plant every acre in Bt varieties and eliminate the problem once and for all?
What may have seemed counter-intuitive to growers made sense to entomologists and to producers who had been dealing with pyrethroid-resistant tobacco budworms. Many had seen first-hand what insecticide-resistant insects could do to a cotton crop in Alabama and Mississippi the previous year.
For researchers like Mike Caprio, professor of entomology at Mississippi State University, the idea of insects developing resistance to the Bacillus thuringiensis gene in Bollgard cotton was more than scientific conjecture.
Caprio was completing his Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii in the late 1980s when scientists in the laboratory where he was working found the first field resistance to a foliar-applied Bt toxin in diamondback moths.
"DiPel is the foliar Bt product that sticks in my mind, although there was a whole slew of those products back then," said Caprio. (Few foliar Bts were sprayed in cotton much after the introduction of varieties containing the Bacillus thuringiensis gene.)
Caprio began doing computer modeling to try to determine what was happening with resistance to pyrethroids and to foliar Bt products.
"I was doing population genetics," he said. "I was looking at genetic variation between populations, and I used the modeling as a way to understand how those differences could arise, and how they would impact resistance."
After receiving his Ph.D. at Hawaii, Caprio did post-doctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley, working with Marjorie Hoy on deploying natural enemies of pests such as the walnut aphid in bio-control strategies.
"She was taking bio-control agents and selecting them for resistance so that if you had to go in and spray a pest you wouldn't necessarily wipe out your natural enemies," he said. "She had quite a bit of luck with a mite predator. I did laboratory work and some modeling on a parasitoid of the walnut aphid."
He arrived at Mississippi State in 1993 as university researchers and Monsanto representatives were preparing for the introduction of Bollgard, the name Monsanto gave to cotton containing the Cry 1A(c) Bt gene that had proved effective in controlling tobacco budworm and bollworm.
"Things were already in gear with research leading up to the release of Bollgard cotton," said Caprio, who immediately began working with different aspects of the technology, including the development of resistance management approaches for it.
"Originally, the hope was that some sort of seed mixture would be appropriate because then you could just sort of package it in the bag," he said. "My predecessor, Jim Mallette, published a paper with Pat Porter, a student here, that suggested a seed mixture was not a good thing.
"Well, it was not a good thing if there was larval movement, and a lot of the research demonstrated there was larval movement in cotton pests. At that point, people switched to a refuge concept."
Much of the initial research on Bt cotton and resistant management strategies was done at Mississippi State. "Randy Luttrell (now with the University of Arkansas) and his students, including Don Parker, who's now with the National Cotton Council, worked with insect movement," he said.
"Theo Watson in Arizona, John Benedict in Texas, Fred Gould in North Carolina all did research in this area. There were a lot of people who worked with Monsanto to try to develop appropriate refuge requirements."
From the beginning of the registration process for the new technology, EPA was adamant about requiring a resistance management plan for Bt cotton, in part, due to pressure from organic food producers who relied on foliar Bt products. (The latter were concerned resistance could eliminate one of their primary insect control tools.)
"EPA talked about a period of between 10 and 15 years as a minimal requirement for the longevity of the product," said Caprio. "I think Monsanto was looking at a minimum of 10 years and researchers a minimum of 15 years. But that's just one part of resistance risk assessment. The other part would be to ask how much that costs and is it worth it?"
Because Bt toxins can have substantial sub-lethal effects that could hasten the development of resistance in tobacco budworms and bollworms, resistance management plans for those toxins has focused on a high dose-refuge strategy, according to Caprio. This strategy relies on plans expressing a sufficiently high dose of the toxin to kill greater than 95 percent of susceptible and resistant heterozygous insects, while refuges of non-transformed crops allow large numbers of susceptible insects to survive.
"The 1998 scientific advisory panel to EPA suggested that a refuge should produce 500 susceptible insects for each insect expected to survive in the transgenic crop," he said. "The emphasis has been on the size of the refuge needed to meet this or equivalent goals."
Under the initial resistance management plan, farmers planting Bollgard cotton were required to plant 1) 96 percent of their total acres in Bt varieties and 4 percent in non-Bt or 2) 80 percent Bt varieties and 20 percent non-Bt varieties. The 20-percent refuge option could be sprayed with foliar insecticides while the 4 percent could not.
Subsequently, EPA allowed growers to plant a 5-percent "embedded" refuge option in non-Bt cotton while planting 95 percent of their acres in Bollgard and, later, Bollgard II or the Widestrike varieties developed by Dow AgroSciences' Phytogen Brand Cottonseed.
The change allowed growers to treat the 5-percent embedded block whenever the associated Bollgard, Bollgard II or Widestrike-planted field was sprayed with an insecticide, except for a foliar Bt product.
Growers were also permitted to adopt a "community" approach that allowed them to band together to set aside a block of non-Bt cotton to serve as the refuge acres for more than one field or farm.
Still, some producers and their organizations felt the requirement to plant from 5 to 20 percent of their acreage in lower-yielding, non-Bt cotton varieties placed too great an economic burden on them. They asked EPA to reduce the refuge requirements for Bollgard cotton, but the agency declined.
Caprio, meanwhile, continued to research different resistance management strategies, how they might impact resistance evolution and, more recently, to assess the risk of resistance. One area involved the size of the refuge; that is, how big can a refuge be before it begins to yield less than the desirable number of susceptible moths.
The study found that varying the number of rows in non-Bt refuges embedded in Bt cotton had an impact on the growth rate of populations of Heliothis virescens or tobacco budworms in those refuges.
Other researchers such as John Adamczyk and Doug Sumerford, research scientists with the USDA-ARS' Southern Insect Management Research Unit at Stoneville, Miss., have studied other aspects of the issues, including the efficacy of the expression of the Bt gene in different cotton varieties.
Over time, some of the perceptions regarding refuges and varieties have changed, says Caprio, who is based on the main campus of Mississippi State.
"Rather than saying this technology will last 10 years what we're more likely to do is say we're uncertain about all these different things, but, given those uncertainties, we think there's X probability that it will last 15 years," he notes.
"We try to incorporate some of that uncertainty into our evaluation of our assessment of the risk of resistance. And from the standpoint of the academic community, I think that's pretty much where we should limit ourselves."
Last spring, EPA announced it was approving a natural refuge option for Bollgard II and later for Widestrike. That ruling meant growers would not have to plant a non-Bt refuge along with cotton containing the Bt gene.
Caprio says his assessment of continuing the non-Bt refuge requirements vs. an alternative or natural refuges shows there was some increased risk in simply using the natural refuge. "But is that a reason for not approving the natural refuge?" he asked. "That's up to the EPA, which is responsible to all those stakeholders."


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As time moves on, it is an unfortunate reality that the oldest, most incredible members of our society pass on leaving the younger generation to continue their stories. It is also true that as The Queen has remained a constant through 62 years, less and less people are able to remember those who came before her.
62 years later, however, there is little sign of The Queen passing on the baton.
With the news this morning that Her Majesty and The Duke of Edinburgh will visit France, we are seeing yet another factor that has remained constant through her reign – her dedication to her troops. Though she was not on the throne when allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, the men involved in the missions – some not much older than the young Princess – have always held a special place in her heart.
Visiting Normandy at the beginning of June is sure to be an emotional moment for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, and her former Naval husband, but it is an engagement that they will both carry out with the upmost respect.
Respect is a value treasured most by this elderly stateswoman, and one that has earned her a remarkable amount of reverence around the world. From Asia to the Americas, her long reign has attracted praise from many notable figures. In 2012, President Obama labelled her "a living witness to the power of our alliance and a chief source of its resilience."
But The Queen is not somebody that takes kindly to praise and compliments. To her, the office she holds, and the work that she does, is cemented in the vows that she made all those years ago. From the moment she gave that momentous speech in South Africa, aged 21, promising her devotion to the "challenges" and "opportunities" that she faced, people knew that to her this was more than just a job.
That devotion has remained throughout.
Although the number of foreign visits is decreasing, and the younger royals are taking up those more arduous itineraries, an invitation to Normandy was one that The Queen would never turn down.
It is striking also, that on the day the official announcement was made, Her Majesty was set to visit a Royal Air Force base in Norfolk. Such visits prove that her unwavering support is not just for those that have gone before, but those men and women that continue to dedicate their lives in the name of the United Kingdom.
As the number of survivors of the D-Day landings begins to dwindle, it is likely that 2014 will be the last time the world gathers to commemorate those Normandy veterans. Similarly it is possible that it will be the last time The Queen travels abroad representing her nation. But it is fitting that this final foreign visit be dedicated to those she has continued to encounter over her reign.
Standing on the beaches of Normandy alongside Heads of State and government, her last trip abroad is set to be the crowning moment in a remarkable reign.
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