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How to Adjust Your Mac Keyboard
No one uses the keyboard and mouse in the same way. The Keyboard System Preferences pane in Mac OS X Mountain Lion offers several tabs to enable you to modify the behavior of your keyboard in a myriad of ways. So the first thing to do is open the Keyboard preferences pane by choosing Apple→System Preferences and clicking the Keyboard icon.
The Keyboard System Preferences pane has two tabs: Keyboard and Keyboard Shortcuts.
Keyboard tab
On the Keyboard tab, you can adjust your settings in the following ways:
Drag the Key Repeat Rate slider to set how fast a key repeats when you hold it down. This feature comes into play when (for example) you hold down the hyphen (-) key to make a line or the asterisk (*) key to make a divider.
Drag the Delay until Repeat slider to set how long you have to hold down a key before it starts repeating.
You can type in the box that says Type Here to Test Settings to test your settings before exiting this tab.
If you have a notebook Mac (such as a MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air), you also see one or more of these additional features:
Use all F1, F2 Keys as Standard Function Keys: If this check box is selected, the F keys at the top of your keyboard control the active software application.
To use the special hardware features printed on each F key (display brightness, screen mirroring, sound volume, mute, and so on), you have to press the Fn (Function) key before pressing the F key. If the check box is left deselected, you have to press the Fn key if you want to use the F keys with a software application. Got it? Good.
Finally, these keys may not work if you use a third-party keyboard (one not manufactured by Apple).
Adjust Keyboard Brightness in Low Light: This check box turns your laptop's ambient keyboard lighting on and off.
Turn Off When Computer Is Not Used For: This slide control lets you determine how long the ambient keyboard lighting remains on when your computer isn't in use.
Of course, if your notebook computer doesn't have ambient keyboard lighting, as many don't, you don't see the last two items.
Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in the Menu Bar: This check box adds a new menu for opening either of these useful windows.
Click Emoji in list on the left of the Character Viewer window to insert whimsical smiley faces and hundreds of other cute images into your documents.
Input Sources button: Switches to the Language & Text System Preferences pane's Input Sources tab, where you can display one or more foreign language keyboards in the Input menu.
The Input menu and the Keyboard and Character Viewer menu are one and the same. If you select one or more foreign keyboards, it changes from the rather tame icon shown to the flag of the selected keyboard (it's the Lithuanian flag, by the way).
Modifier Keys button: Lets you change the action performed by the Caps Lock, Control, Option, and Command keys. It's particularly useful if you use a non-Apple keyboard, although it works just fine on Apple keyboards too.
Keyboard Shortcuts tab
Not only can you add, delete, or change keyboard shortcuts for many operating-system functions (such as taking a picture of the screen or using the keyboard to choose menu and Dock items), but you can also add, delete, or change keyboard shortcuts for your applications.
To begin, choose the Keyboard Shortcuts tab in the Keyboard System Preferences pane. Now you can do any or all of the following:
To change a shortcut, first click the appropriate application, preference, or feature in the left column. Next, double-click the shortcut you want to change on the right side of the right column (for example, F3 or cmd+G). The old shortcut becomes highlighted; when it does, press the new shortcut keys you wish to use.
To add a new shortcut, click the + button. Choose the appropriate application from the Application pop-up menu, type the exact name of the menu command you want to add in the Menu Title field, and then press the shortcut you want to assign to that command into the Keyboard Shortcut field.
If the shortcut you press is in use by another application or preference, a yellow triangular caution symbol appears next to it. It really is that simple.
To delete a shortcut, choose it and then click the – button.


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BitBake (user)
From Openembedded.org
BitBake is, at its simplest, a tool for executing tasks and managing metadata. As such, its similarities to GNU make and other build tools are readily apparent. It was inspired by Portage, the package management system used by the Gentoo Linux distribution.
BitBake is the basis of the OpenEmbedded project, which is being used to build and maintain a number of embedded Linux distributions, including OpenZaurus and Familiar.
- Homepage with manual: http://bitbake.berlios.de/
- Project page at Berlios: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/bitbake/
Subversion repository: http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/bitbake/
- GIT repository: http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/bitbake/
Version information
OpenEmbedded require BitBake 1.8.10 or newer. Some features can require SVN HEAD.
BitBake "trunk" contain experimental code - use at your own risk.


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Deceptive Practices Lives On: Your agent best tell you this is an REO/Foreclosure or he is in big doo doo. They owe you honesty. Sue their asses big time if you are being deceived.
Just because they are told to do this, the agent must disclose to you any facts.
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Looking to buy a home, but not sure you want one that fell into foreclosure?
Good luck finding out before you tour the property.
It's a little-known fact that Wells Fargo Bank's Premier Asset Services division, which sells bank-owned homes, instructs agents who sell these houses to list the owner as "Owner of Record," and not Wells Fargo. Premier Asset Services also sells homes owned by other banks.
The Multiple Listing Service, which is used by real estate agents to list properties, includes a category for bank-owned property. But here again, agents are told by many banks not to disclose the fact that the property is, in fact, owned by a bank.
A number of agents who sell bank-owned properties privately say most banks have the same requirement. They say banks want their homes to be considered equally with non-distressed homes.


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Was Bob Strauss the Last of a Dying Breed?
The Washington insider could cut a deal with just about anyone. Is he the last of a dying breed?
Editors' note: Robert Strauss—the onetime Democratic National Committee chair, presidential adviser, ambassador and Washington "super-lawyer"—died Wednesday at age 95. A native Texan who rose to become a one-of-a-kind Beltway insider, Strauss hired a journalist in the 1990s to help him write an autobiography. They never ended up writing the book, but Strauss's great-niece Kathryn McGarr took on the project years later, conducting extensive interviews and archival research for her political biography of Strauss,The Whole Damn Deal , which was published in 2011. Below is an excerpt from the book's introduction.
Washington knew Bob Strauss, one of the town's most colorful and beloved figures since the 1970s, as the consummate power broker and ultimate insider. Strauss had a giant's reputation. He was "the most powerful Democrat," according to PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer, and "the capital's leading wise man," as the New York Times put it in 1987. Republican strategist Mary Matalin wrote in a note to him in the 1990s: "I'm in awe of your history and larger-than-lifeness. … I love your stories. I love how you play the game."
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Strauss has become a symbol of a bygone era of civilized politics when Republicans and Democrats worked together to get things done, when they could do so without fear of retribution by their constituents and when politicians had close friendships with the press. "I don't think they make them like that anymore," Tom Brokaw said. "In part because he at once loved the game of politics—he knew how to make money in Washington, which is not unimportant, by representing lots of different interests—but he was never not a citizen. He really cared about the country, and cared about getting the right things done."
He embodied a type—"a Bob Strauss," as journalists still put it to this day. With the national Republican Party in turmoil in April 2010, Chris Matthews asked on Hardball, "Is there a big deal in the Republican Party, a male or female boss from the old school, a Bob Strauss, for example, from the Democratic Party?" On Imus in the Morning a few weeks earlier, one-term Republican congressman John Leboutillier, referring to President Barack Obama, said, "He doesn't have a senior statesman, like a Bob Strauss, who would be down the hall and Friday afternoon at the end of the week could walk in and say, 'I've been around this town a long time, Mr. President.'" And while talking on Good Morning America about the internal rift between Obama and Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries, host Diane Sawyer commented: "Insiders have said maybe a Bob Strauss, if he were still head of the Democratic Party, would have moved in and stopped this long ago."
Strauss's ability to pull people together, regardless of their politics, would have made him an important asset at any time in the nation's history. But he did it at a time when the country was being torn apart by unprecedented cultural upheavals. Strauss first gained prominence in Washington as DNC chairman just as the Democratic Party seemed to be disintegrating. He unified the Democrats after Richard Nixon's landslide victory over Sen. George McGovern in 1972, enabling Jimmy Carter to occupy the Oval Office four years later. It's easy to forget that Nixon was ever popular enough to win 49 states in the Electoral College, or that the DNC could barely pay to keep its phone lines open. At the time, however, Democrats were in such bad shape, both financially and ideologically, that commentators were predicting the end of the two-party system. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Democrats were split between the conservative base and the liberal, McGovernite wing of the party—much as the Tea Party today has splintered off from the mainstream GOP. Strauss held the Democrats together long enough to produce their first successful convention after Chicago's 1968 disaster, the tightly run 1976 convention in New York, where Carter won the nomination. Through compromise, Strauss created a coalition of old-guard conservatives, minorities, youth and representatives of both labor and big business that resembled the patchwork Democratic Party we still have today. "The party was really torn apart," said another former DNC chairman, Donald Fowler, years later. "It needed a special treatment. It needed a special leader, and Bob fit the times."
During the Carter administration, Strauss's playing field expanded internationally as he operated as America's chief trade negotiator and ubiquitous presidential adviser. In 1979, when Congress was fiercely protectionist, Strauss—as Carter's special trade representative, a Cabinet-level post—lobbied the Hill so intensely that his bill implementing the Tokyo Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations passed 90–4 in the Senate and 395–7 in the House. In fact, whenever the Carter White House faced an insoluble problem, it sent in Strauss, its pinch hitter for everything from disputes within Washington to difficult domestic matters to far-flung international conflicts. Strauss helped gain passage of the Panama Canal Treaty, was a key actor in settling a major coal strike, served as "inflation czar" and represented the president in Middle East peace negotiations. For his service to the country, Carter awarded Strauss the highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1981.
With his unmatched popularity on the Hill, Strauss epitomized the ability to make things happen in the political arena with little of the rancor and ideological cheesiness dominating today's politics. Although the press often called Strauss "Mr. Democrat," he was famous for his friendships with Republicans. "I think that is part of what made him unique," Brokaw said. "There was an enormous reservoir of affection for him across party lines." First Lady Barbara Bush wrote about Strauss in her memoir: "He is absolutely the most amazing politician. He is everybody's friend and, if he chooses, could sell you the paper off your own wall."


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Easiest Apple Sauce
I must admit that when it comes to apple desserts, I always find that the longer process is to peel the apples. So when my friend showed me how she made apple sauce, no peeling and no coring (no waste!), I knew I would always make apple sauce this way!
The advantages of this apple sauce: less time coring and peeling, almost no waste and much more nutritive (include the skin)!
What you need:
- Apples
- Optional: Brown sugar, spices of your choice (cinnamon etc.)
Preparation, Baking & Blending:
- Preheat oven to 300°F.
- Wash the apples and remove the stem. Optional: cut the apples in half or in quarters (speed the cooking).**
- Place the apples in a baking dish. Sprinkle with cinnamon and brown sugar, if desired.
- Bake for about 1 hour or until the flesh of the apples begin to come out of the skin.
- Once baked, place a couple of apples in the food processor (depending of the capacity of you food processor). Blend until smooth. Sieve the apple sauce to remove excess seeds and skin.
**If you worry about the apple seeds (it's seems like the little quantity we ingest is too small to cause any problem) cut the apples in quarters and core them.


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AWS Amplify makes it easy to create, configure, and implement scalable mobile and web apps powered by AWS. Amplify seamlessly provisions and manages your mobile backend and provides a simple framework to easily integrate your backend with your iOS, Android, Web, and React Native frontends. Amplify also automates the application release process of both your frontend and backend allowing you to deliver features faster.
Mobile applications require cloud services for actions that can't be done directly on the device, such as offline data synchronization, storage, or data sharing across multiple users. You often have to configure, set up, and manage multiple services to power the backend. You also have to integrate each of those services into your application by writing multiple lines of code. However, as the number of application features grow, your code and release process becomes more complex and managing the backend requires more time.
Amplify provisions and manages backends for your mobile applications. You just select the capabilities you need such as authentication, analytics, or offline data sync and Amplify will automatically provision and manage the AWS service that powers each of the capabilities. You can then integrate those capabilities into your application through the Amplify libraries and UI components.
AWS Amplify leverages fully managed services like AWS AppSync, AWS Lambda, and others so you don't need to provision or manage any infrastructure. Your application backend services scale as needed, and you only pay for
what you use.
AWS Amplify allows you to easily build engaging and interactive experiences for your customers. You can create voice and text interfaces powered by Amazon Lex, add virtual reality scenes created with Amazon Sumerian, or target your users with push notifications with just a few lines of code.
Amplify Framework
The Amplify Framework provides a set of libraries, UI components, and a command line interface to build a mobile backend and integrate with your iOS, Android, Web, and React Native apps. The Amplify CLI allows you to configure all the services needed to power your backend through a simple command line interface. The Amplify library makes it easy to integrate your code with your backend using declarative interfaces and simple UI components.
Cloud Services
Amplify leverages a core set of AWS services organized into categories—including offline data, authentication, analytics, push notifications, bots, and AR/VR.
Query, store, and sync application data in real-time with features such as online and offline data access, data manipulation across multiple data sources, and GraphQL support.
Add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to mobile and web applications.
Drop-in analytics to track user sessions, attributes, and in-app metrics
Integrate tailored push notifications with analytics and targeting built-in.
Create conversational interfaces using voice and text powered by deep learning.
Manage user content securely in the cloud or on the device.
Make HTTP requests using REST and GraphQL easily and securely.
Integrate virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and 3D scenes easily.
Developer Tools
AWS Amplify fully automates mobile application tests. You can also streamline the deployments for your web app and backend resources using the Amplify Console. This allows you to quickly and easily test each code change and catch bugs while they are small and simple to fix. With Amplify, you can quickly iterate on feedback and get new features to your users faster.
Amplify Console
The AWS Amplify Console is a continuous delivery and hosting service for mobile web applications. Modern mobile web applications are constructed as single page web applications which package all application components into static files. The AWS Amplify Console makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during application deployment, and handles the complexity of simultaneously updating the frontend and backend of your applications.
Device Farm
AWS Device Farm is a full managed testing service for your iOS and Android applications. You can perform automated tests against a large collection of physical devices in the AWS Cloud. Or, you can perform manual tests by interacting with devices in real time, directly from your web browser.


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Bonneli and Trinterio Group have entered into a partnership
BONNELI AND TRINTERIO GROUP HAVE ENTERED INTO A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP CONCERNING COMMERCIALIZATION OF A FOLD DOWN SYSTEM, BEING KNOWN AND MARKETED AS "PressXpress" or "PXP®".
Bonneli have the sole and exclusive right to offer and prepare for execution non-exclusive licenses, on behalf of Trinterio Group to third parties all over the world, for the manufacturing and sale of PXP® [PressXpress] products.
Years of research and development within Trinterio combined with the daily experiences and wishes of its customers resulted in the development of a new system called PXP® [PressXpress]. The clip inside the plank ensures a firm locking of the short sides resulting in a seamless and strong joint.
PXP® [PressXpress] is an innovative fold down system for flooring panels, exclusively owned by Trinterio, that is out of the scope of existing third party patents. It is already protected in Germany by a registered utility model DE 21 2010 000 195 U1, and corresponding patent applications such as the European patent application EP 2 558 658 A1 are pending. PXP® [PressXpress] has the following advantages compared to other fold down systems which in combination make it unique:
- One single locking action of 2 panels both horizontally and vertically
- Ease of installation as the folding angle for installation is not important
- No friction force during installation
"I am very pleased to announce the new partnership with Trinterio Group. They are an innovative company with great knowledge and interest in intellectual property and I am confident that the PXP® [PressXpress] system will be a strong competitor within the market for fold down technology for flooring panels." says Bobby Markovski, CEO of Bonneli.
"We are looking forward to this cooperation. Together with Bonneli we now are offering manufacturers an innovative fold down system for panels which adds tremendous ease of installation." says Peter Le Roy, Managing Director of Trinterio Group.
Trinterio Group is an important Belgian group of companies that produces high quality laminate floorings marketed under the Balterio brand and high quality MDF fibre board panels marketed under the Spanolux brand. Trinterio group was founded in 2001 and has a consolidated turnover of 178 million € with 375 motivated employees. Since May 2013 Trinterio Group has been part of International Flooring Solutions (IFS)-Holding, the parent company of IVC-Group, worldwide the 3rd largest manufacturer of vinyl floorcoverings.
Bonneli is an IP company focusing on Patent Licensing, Patent Enforcement and Strategic Management. The company is privately held and based in Helsingborg, in southern Sweden, with only about one hour's drive away from Copenhagen.
Bonneli helps intellectual property owners generate revenue from their patents by combining business, technical and legal expertise. Under our partnership model the client only pays us a fee if they actually earn money from the deal. The clients maintain ownership of their patents and are free to focus on their core business while Bonneli manages the licensing program.
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DEPUTATSKOYE, Russia — Ever since the meteor exploded somewhere over this impoverished Siberian town, Larisa V. Briyukova wondered what to do with the fist-size stone she found under a hole in the roof tiles of her woodshed.
On Monday, a stranger knocked on her door, offering about $60, Ms. Briyukova said. After some haggling, they settled on a price of $230. A few hours later, another man pulled up, looked at the hole in the roof and offered $1,300.
"Now I regret selling it," said Ms. Briyukova, a 43-year-old homemaker. "But then, who knows? The police might have come and taken it away anyway."
On Friday, terror rained from the skies, blowing out windows and scaring people over an enormous swath of Siberia. But by Monday, for many people what fell from the sky had turned to pure gold, and it touched off a rush to retrieve the fragments, many buried in deep February snows.
Many of those out prospecting looked a lot like Sasha Zarezina, 8, who happily plunged into a snowbank here in this village of a thousand, laughing, kicking and throwing up plumes of powdery snow.
Then she stopped, bent over and started to dig. "I found one!" she yelled.
A warm breath and a rub on her pants later, a small black pebble, oval like a river rock, charred and smooth, was freed of ice.
While trade in material from meteorites is largely illegal, there is a flourishing global market, with fragments widely available for sale on the Internet, usually at modest prices. At least one from the recent meteor was available on eBay on Monday for $32, and there is a Web site called Star-bits.com devoted to the trade — much to the displeasure of scientists and the countries where the objects were found.
Early on, NASA reported that the meteor, the largest known celestial body to enter Earth's atmosphere in 100 years, was an airburst fireball type that would shower untold thousands of fragments onto the surface.
In the scramble now under way to find them, residents of towns like this one — founded in the 1920s around a collective dairy farm that is now defunct — are looking for small holes in the snow that hold the promise of yielding up polished black rocks encased in tiny clumps of ice, formed from the last expiring heat of their long journey.
"All it takes is looking carefully," said Sasha, who was out searching after school on Monday. "The stones are in the snowdrifts. To find a stone you find a hole. And then you dig."
Villagers here have plastic bags, matchboxes and jars filled with dozens of stones. One even tore a hole in the coat one woman was wearing outside Friday morning.
But this is Russia, so the excitement became tinged with anxiety on Monday as unknown cars appeared, cruising the streets and bearing men who refused to answer questions but offered stacks of rubles worth hundreds, then thousands, of dollars for the fragments. Strangely, no authorities were anywhere in sight.
M3-Media, a financial news site, reported that under Russian law a person can gain legal title to a meteorite, but only if it is reported to the authorities and submitted to a laboratory for tests. The laboratory will charge 20 percent of the estimated value of the object for certification, the site reported, citing the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In practice, though, the search for remnants of the meteor has become a haphazard, unregulated scramble, wholly lacking coordinated effort or scientific oversight in the collection of specimens from one of the most significant events in years for the community of scientists who study such things.
"We don't have a mechanism to prevent this from happening," said Viktor Grokhovsky, an assistant professor of metallurgy at Southern Ural Federal University, one of the scientists who made the positive identification of meteorites on Monday.
Law enforcement agencies actually blocked scientists from visiting a suspected impact site on Lake Chebarkul over the weekend, Professor Grokhovsky said. Yet here at Deputatskoye, where the first scientific expedition is planned for Tuesday, not a police officer was in sight.
"We send up spaceships to asteroids to obtain this material, at great expense, and here it flew right to us," he said. "It would be nice if the government coordinated with us, the scientists. When we want to be somewhere, they won't let us near. When we want them to be somewhere, they are nowhere to be found."
Out on the streets a man reeking of alcohol sidled up to a foreigner. Shifting his cigarette from his right hand to his left, he fished from a pocket a rock the size of a goose egg, its surface as smooth, dark and mysterious as onyx. It was for sale, he said. He did not give a price.
The fragments landed in a social landscape of distrust of the authorities, where police corruption is widespread.
With word of the rising prices rippling through the village, some women, looking with piercing, paranoid eyes at strangers, refused to speak about what their children might have found. Others expressed fear that the police would confiscate the stones — and in turn sell them.
"Nobody knows anything; nobody says anything," one said.
Another said, unconvincingly, "We threw our stones away."
The intact meteor, estimated by NASA to weigh about 7,000 tons, bore immense energy as it entered the atmosphere over Alaska. It was the largest source of infrasound waves — low-frequency waves of pressure — ever recorded by a system set up globally to monitor compliance with the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. But after the meteor exploded, the small bits of debris slowed to terminal velocity, about the speed of a piece of gravel dropped from a skyscraper. Such remnants would not create craters on touchdown.
All about, tracks meander through the deep snow, ending at tiny excavations two or three feet deep.
"They fell everywhere in the village," Alfia N. Zharkova, a mother of two, who has a plastic bag filled with black stones, said in an interview in her kitchen. "The children find them. Everybody who has children has piles of these."
She found one Friday. "I went out to feed the cow and I see a hole in the ice," Ms. Zharkova said. "And there's a stone in the hole. So I just reach down and pick it up."
A neighbor, Aleksandra Gerasimova, a 61-year-old retired milkmaid, said a meteorite tore a hole in her coat, which she displayed Monday. She was wearing it Friday when she stepped outside to investigate the flash in the sky.
"I was standing with my husband, and some of it fell on us," Ms. Gerasimova said. "This rock fell down and into my jacket. I felt it hit me. I looked up, and there was nothing above me, not a bird, nothing. Imagine how frightened I was."
On Monday, two men, apparently speculators, showed up at her house and offered to buy her stone. "I didn't open the door," she said. "Why should I sell it? I have a grandson I will give it to."
When the school bus pulled up Monday afternoon, children shot out and scattered over the snowy fields.
After Sasha, a boisterous girl in a maroon jacket and tan checkered pants, found the small pebble in the snow, she said she intended to "save it for my own children," but quickly reconsidered. "I will sell it for 100 million euros."
"Now I have snow in my boot," the little Russian girl confessed, but added: "I'm used to the cold. I like the cold. I grew up in the cold.
"I don't mind it at all."


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Documents filed on the Texas comptroller's website show the plan for the renovation of Kyle Field at Texas A&M, which includes football games remaining at the stadium during construction.
The request for proposals from the A&M System has a deadline of December 7 at 2:00 p.m. for companies to bid on the project.
When asked about the report, A&M spokesperson Jason Cook said, "The RFP is based on the current conceptual plan, but is subject to modification as the process continues and the schematic design is developed."
The plan cites "multiple phases" for the project, each with a potential value of up to $225 million, each needing to be completed in eight-month windows.
"The phasing must be scheduled such that Kyle Field can continue to host home football games during the regular collegiate football season(s)," the RFP reads. "Supporting work can continue during the football season so long as it does not materially affect home football games."
Also discussed are "significant structural modifications and additions to the west, south and east side."
As had been previously noted, the west stands would be completely demolished and rebuilt to include suites, boxes, chair-back seating, an open area on the ground level for large gatherings and premium tailgating, and a new press area.
The lower level of the south end of Kyle would have new facilities for the press and the university's 12th Man Productions, along with a locker room and recruiting room, plus some seating. The upper level on the south side would house 12,000 seats, with the potential for 7,000 more in the future.
On the east side, as had been previously noted, the Read Building and G. Rollie White Coliseum would be demolished. The plan calls for the lower seating bowl to be replaced. Twenty suites would also be added.
In addition, the playing field itself would be lowered seven feet and moved 18 feet south.
"The relocation of the field will also improve sightline issues for the north end zone seats and allow for the addition of six rows of seating to be added on the east and north sides of the stadium," the RFP reads.
The completion of the project must take place by August 1, 2016, according to the request.
"The plan must be capable of allowing regular season home football games to be played in the stadium during the 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons," reads the request.
Recently, the A&M System Board of Regents voted to move up Phase 1 of the renovation project to the current fiscal year, which ends August 31, 2013. That phase includes the demolition of the Read Building, G. Rollie and the Steed training facility on the southwest side of the stadium, along with the demolition of the west stands. The latter would likely take place after the 2013 season concludes.
A source with knowledge of the discussions between local government leaders and the university system have told News 3 that all talks had been on the premise that games would remain in the area instead of moving to another venue while renovations were done. The business community had feared tens of millions of dollars in losses if games were moved.
News 3 was also first to report a discussed price tag for the project: around $425 million, according to a source, who also stated that the cities of College Station and Bryan and Brazos County had been asked if they could chip in a combined $38 million.
In addition, multiple sources have told News 3 a drawing of the redesign of Kyle Field is in the hands of the System Regents and has been shown to leaders in the university community, but has yet to be released. Populous had been hired by A&M for the design study.
The RFP has a tentative announcement of the short list of firms for the project as December 13, with interviews slated for December 19 and a final selection on January 11.


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Boilers are containers that hold and heat water that is then used for power as steam. A boilermaker is a person who makes or repairs boilers.
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The Very Reverend Gordon Thomas Walker is Pastor Emeritus of St. Ignatius Orthodox Church, of Franklin, TN. After fourteen years of study with the group who had become known as the Evangelical Orthodox Church, Fr. Gordon was received into the canonical Orthodox Church. He is a popular Bible teacher and led this Bible study on the book of Romans in his home in 2010. More episodes will be available as they are produced.
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Typhhon Ondoy flooded the entire city in Philippines...(Metro Manila)..and may other deep places in the country.
I don't really keep up as much with the Latest news in the Philippines but when I heard the news from my dad, I actually tuned in to the Filipino Stations on tv to see what's goin on. It was really shocking what happened there. I heard that it was a lot stronger than that Hurricane Katrina. This happened like 5 or 6 days ago...and I heard that a new typhoon is about to hit again in a few days.
I used to lived in Valenzuela city in Manila, I wonder how the situation is over there.
As far as I know, Philippines is somewhat accustomed to big storms, but I think this has to be the biggest one and the worst in the history of the country.
They're not even close to moving on from the damage left by Ondoy and they're about to get hit by another one.
My prayers to all the victims.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Prayers for the Victims of Typhoon Ondoy
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Staten Island residents sift belongings in Sandy's wake
STATEN ISLAND — For Liliya and Felix Faktorovich, their elegant three-story peach and off-white stone house was a dream home. Even though it was a struggle to pay their mortgage ever since they moved here from Brooklyn nearly a decade ago, it was worth it.
But the couple — he a city employee and she a computer programmer — are wearing grim faces as they now empty out their waterlogged belongings here in Staten Island's Midland Beach neighborhood. This area is among the hardest hit by superstorm Sandy and epitomizes the struggles of many New Yorkers whose homes are in ruin.
The Faktoroviches picked through what was left: a bent turquoise binder, a chair, a soggy box that contained a power tool, all on the curb in front of their home, along with soaked piles of shelves, photo albums and clothes.
"We all work hard to make the mortgage," said Felix Faktorovich, 61, waving his hand over his street off Seaview Avenue.
His wave encompassed a street full of neighbors taking on the same grim task at their own identical homes. Across the street from the Faktoroviches lay a pile of limp, soggy pieces of walls pulled out from one of the homes.
Everyone was pulling out lumps of wall from their homes, Liliya Faktorovich said. "When we pull out the walls, everything is exposed to the air," Faktorovich, 57, said with disgust.
"My only question: How are they going to help us with money to pay?" Felix Faktorovich asked, referring to federal officials.
The area is already attracting increased attention from the government. U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano toured Staten Island on Friday afternoon with Federal Emergency Management Agency officials. The New York City Marathon, which traditionally starts in Staten Island, was canceled Friday among growing worry by city officials that residents would be angry if the race were run amid the massive recovery effort.
The Faktoroviches' experience was taking place at home after home in this section of Staten Island, one of New York City's most isolated boroughs, accessible only by ferry or bridge. The borough struggled to recover as ferry service resumed at a limited schedule this weekend and as spotty bus service carted passengers with shell-shocked looks in their eyes across the island.
Residents were working hard to come back from a storm many described as biblical, as they relayed stories of 4-foot deep water, cars floating down the street and firefighters bringing residents by boat to Staten Island University Hospital, which sits on higher ground.
Two doors up from the Faktoroviches, Irina Poludnenko and Edward Volchok picked through belongings and sorted, each occasionally holding out a salvaged item to the other to get an opinion about whether it could be saved.
"It's a lot of stuff — books, furniture," Volchok said.
When the couple returned home Tuesday from a friend's home on higher ground, they found the water had reached the second floor of their house.
Poludnenko, holding a miscellaneous item she pulled from the home, hesitated as she tried to explain how this felt. Her voice lurched and then she shook her head as if to say "no" while tears rolled from behind her dark glasses.
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A New Zealand school is considering its options after a High Court judge ruled its suspension of a student for having his hair too long just didn't cut it legally.
Justice David Collins ruled that the Hastings school was wrong to suspend St John's College student Lucan Battison, saying his disobedience wasn't serious enough to warrant a suspension and that the school's hair rule was unclear anyway.
St John's College principal Paul Melloy says the school and its board would review the ruling, and consider its impact on it and other schools.
"Naturally we are disappointed of the decision," he said in a statement on Friday.
"It is not about the individual student but being able to manage our school in a positive equitable environment. This includes compliance with our rules."
Lucan, a Year 12 student, said he kept his hair at a similar length in previous years and was never questioned about it until this year, the year in which Mr Melloy became the principal.
Lucan was suspended after refusing to cut his hair and the school refused his offer to tie his hair back.
Justice Collins said the school's hair rule, which says hair must be short, tidy, of natural colour, off the collar and out of the eyes, was uncertain and therefore breaches the law.
"In the present case there is scope for considerable uncertainty about whether or not Lucan's hair is in fact short," he said, especially given Lucan's agreement to tie his hair back.
Justice Collins said the law stated schools must ensure penalties minimised the disruption to a student, and that suspensions are only allowed to protect other students from behaviour that constituted a harmful or dangerous example.
He said Mr Melloy was obliged to use suspension only as a last resort, and that there was little evidence Lucan's behaviour set a harmful or dangerous example.
Lucan returned to the school earlier this week pending the High Court ruling and Mr Melloy said the school was continuing to manage that.
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Love Brooklyn ice cream parlor Ample Hills but scared off by the long line? Good news everyone: the company shared news today that they're opening a second brick and mortar scoop shop in Gowanus at 305 Nevins Street this spring.
The 3,600 square foot store will include another manufacturing facility, counter and table seating, and a floor with patio for private parties. The team expects the new shop will quadruple their production capability, which finally opens the door to selling pints retail and wholesaling their ice cream to restaurants.
Ample Hills also runs an ice cream counter and ice cream carts out of Pier 5 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Their cookbook, Ample Hills Creamery: Secrets and Stories from Brooklyn's Favorite Ice Cream Shop, comes out this April.
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Bullit Custom Cycles unpolished stainless fastener kits for your vintage motorcycle are available! The kits are sorted, labeled and include instructions. They're not just a random assortment of bolts! These are perfect for your basket case, restoration or what have you. These kits are all Allen socket for ease of use and specifically designed to fit the models listed below! *Product not exactly as shown* HONDA CB450/CB500T kit includes: a:intake 4 pieces b:exhaust 16 pieces c:cylinder head covers 24 pieces d:left crankcase cover 15 pieces e:points/tach cover 11 pieces f:right crankcase cover 13 pieces g: camchain adjuster cover 8 pieces 92 pieces total
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U.S. to Hit Debt Ceiling on Monday
The Treasury Department says the U.S. is on track to hit the debt ceiling by Monday, setting in motion steps that might buy the government time before it faces a debt crisis. WSJ's Damien Paletta has the latest. Photo: AP.
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... just breaking watches ... her secretary Tim Geitner sent a letter to ... Harry Reid saying the U S government will reach the sixteen point three nine trillion dollar debt ceiling ... on Monday ... joining us now from our Washington bureau is Damien plateau ... so this developing story is just that the tape ... this letter says that would only have the debt ceiling ... Monday a wonderful New Year's present for all of us ... what is this mean ... really kind of scribbles the of ... the political anger bitterness these fiscal cliff talks because my neighborhood today Joe Ross so ... 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For clients with long hair, we use two lights behind the subject. Each is placed at a 45-degree angle to the subject. These lights are set to meter at the same reading as the main light for blond hair or lighter clothing, or to one stop more than the main light reading for black hair and clothing. These accent lights are also fitted with barndoors to keep the light from hitting an area of the subject we don't want to illuminate.
The idea is that you don't want to see a perfect outline of the body in a problem area. For very heavy people, you don't want to see an outline of the body at all. With the background light low and the subject standing in dark clothes against a dark background, you separate the hips and thighs (the same hips and thighs you know your client will worry about looking large). Raising the background light to waist height will separate the waistline and chest, making them more noticeable. Elevate the separation light to the height of the shoulders, and only the head and shoulders will be separated, leaving the body to blend with the background.
The greater the intensity of the background light, the more attention it draws to whatever part of the body it is separating—unless the subject is wearing lighter-colored clothing. Often a client will select a dark background and want to wear lighter-colored clothing with it. In this situation, by increasing the background light to match the brighter tone of the outfit, you will actually lessen the attention drawn to this area. By coordinating the tone of the clothes and the background (whether dark on dark or light on light), you can bring the focus of the portrait away from the person's body and to his or her face. If, on the other hand, you create contrast between the clothing and background, you will attract attention to the subject's body.
By coordinating the tone of the clothes and the background, you can bring the focus of the portrait away from the person's body and to his or her face.
When the client's clothes contrast with the background, it calls attention to the shape of the body.
Whenever weight is an issue and the subject has long hair, we leave the background as dark as possible and put a light directly behind the subject, facing toward the camera, to give the hair an intense rim light all around the edges. This draws the attention directly to the facial area and keeps the viewer's eye away from the shoulders, arms, and upper body.
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2014-15: Made his way to the finals of the 50 freestyle at the CCSA Championships in Athens, Ga. this spring... In the event, he placed seventh with a time of 20.85 after he set a season best time of 20.76 in the preliminaries... Earned a spot in the B finals of the 100 butterfly at the championships, touching the wall in 51.55 placing fifth in the heat... Posted a time of 45.35 in the 100 freestyle, good enough for the bronze medal in the event.
2013-14: Advanced to the finals of the 100-yd. freestyle at the 2014 CCSA Championships after swimming a career-best time of 45.60 in the event prelims… Placed eighth overall in the nighttime finals… Helped the Retrievers' 200-yd. free relay win a silver medal and break the school record at the conference meet with a time of 1:20.57… Also placed 14th in the 100 fly (51.29) and 12th in the 50 free (20.93) at the CCSA meet… Set season-best times in both events during the event prelims… Earned his first career dual meet win by taking the top spot in the 100 free against Howard on Jan. 11 at the UMBC Aquatic Complex.
2012-13: Earned his best-ever dual meet finish while taking second in the 100-yd. freestyle against local rival Loyola (Md.) on Jan. 19… Swam his fastest 50 free (21.77) against the Greyhounds… Recorded his top 100 free (46.75) time while competing in the prelims at the ECAC Championships.
2011-12: Swam season-bests in the 50 (22.11), 100 (48.77) and 200-yd free (1:49.95) at the Patriot Invitational at George Mason... Top dual meet finish was fourth in the 100 fly at Howard.
Background: Was the state champion in the 50- and 100-freestyle in 2010 and 2011… An IB student.
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- Arthur: "But the things our lot has taking to enchanting, you wouldn't believe..."
- Molly: "LIKE CARS, FOR INSTANCE?"
- Arthur: "C-Cars, Molly dear?"
- Molly: "Yes, Arthur, cars. Imagine a wizard buying a rusty old car and telling his wife all he wanted to do with it was take it apart to see how it worked, while really he was enchanting it to make it fly."
- — Exchange between Arthur and Molly Weasley[src]
The Flying Ford Anglia was a light blue Ford Anglia 105E Deluxe that was modified by Arthur Weasley to be able to fly, as well as become invisible, via the use of a specially installed device called an Invisibility Booster. It was also modified so that it could fit eight people, six trunks, two owls, and a rat comfortably. It also either doesn't run on petrol, or it can never run out of petrol, as it was still running after being in the Forbidden Forest on its own for several months.
Flight between Little Whinging and the BurrowEdit
The Flying Ford Anglia was used in the summer of 1992 by Fred, George, and Ron Weasley to rescue Harry Potter, who was locked up in his room at the Dursleys' and had been unable to receive any mail from the Wizarding community as a result of Dobby's attempts to protect him. When they arrived at 4 Privet Drive, the Weasley boys pulled the car up to Harry's window, alerting him to their presence, after which they proceeded to pull off the bars on Harry's window and help him retrieve his things. As they were returning to The Burrow, Harry was worried that his friends would get in trouble for using the car due to the Reasonable Restriction for Underage Magic, but as they did not place the spell upon the car and were "only borrowing it, "it "[didn't] count." Upon their Return to the Burrow, Mrs. Weasley was furious with her sons for taking the car but placed no blame on Harry. The next morning, at breakfast, Mrs Weasley told Mr. Weasley what the boys had done, and, startled, he began to ask how it went before hastily switching to a reprimand at a look from his wife. He tried to excuse the car by referring to a loophole in the law regarding ownership of charmed objects, but Molly noted that he was the one who had written that law.
Last FlightEdit
At the start of their second year, Harry and Ron used the enchanted car to get to Hogwarts when the entrance to Platform 9¾ was sealed by Dobby, in another attempt to protect Harry by preventing his return to school. Ron was worried that his parents might not be able to get back through, so they used the car to fly to Hogwarts. Just as they arrived on school grounds, the car began to break down and they ended up crashing into the Whomping Willow. Professor Snape informed them that their journey was "seen by no less than seven Muggles" and that if it had been up to him he would have had them on the train back to London the very same night. The car, after having unloaded everything and everyone in it, drove off into the Forbidden Forest, where it later saved Harry, Ron, and Hagrid's dog, Fang, from Aragog's family. Considering it did all of this on its own, the enchantment placed on the car apparently gave it some level of sentience. Arthur was fined 50 Galleons for bewitching the car illegally.
Behind the scenesEdit
- J. K. Rowling said in 1999 that it was supposed to reappear in a future book,[1] but eventually discarded the idea.
- In a deleted scene from the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ron says that the Forbidden Forest has turned the car wild.
- The vehicle used in the film was stolen from South West Film Studios in Cornwall, in 2005.[2]
- Also, in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the car's registration plate is 7990 TD. However, on the cover of one edition of the book, the plate can be seen to start with "H". On other publicity material the registration was shown as HOW 777. In Pottermore, however, the Ford Anglia's license plate number is COS 207. This last one may be a reference to the book Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, as the car rescues Harry and Ron on page 207 in the UK edition.
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Harry used a flying light-blue scooter to travel alongside while Ron flew the car.
- A car of same colour and model appeared in the background of the motorcycle chase scene in 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This makes it an anachronism, as the movie is set in 1957 and the Anglia 105E was released two years later.
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter sells a battery operated toy version of the car.
- Before the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows there had been strong rumours that it would return in it, however, these proved false.
- Despite being referred to as a "1959" model, the Anglia 105E was not launched until October of that year and would be considered a 1960 model under most standards, except the UK where it would be known as a 1959 Model. Details on the Weasleys' car peg it as 1963 or earlier.
- The car was Rupert Grint's favourite prop from the series.[3]
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, in the level "Fiendfyre Frenzy", the car is upside-down on the first part when you are escaping from the flames, and you have to lift it up and use it as a bridge. It is presumably destroyed along with the other artefacts in the Room of Hidden Things.[4]
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- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book (Mentioned on prop of Howler included as an extra)
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A trip to Palm Springs, California, means endless days of lounging on beaches, shopping for clothes, dining in restaurants, and playing in the water. You'll find Palm Springs rentals with a hot tub, which can help you relax after a long day of sightseeing, as well as budget-friendly accommodations and rentals that allow pets.
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Palm Springs experiences little rainfall each year, so you can anticipate plenty of sunny days during your vacation. The hot, dry climate necessitates plenty of water and sunscreen, so don't leave your Palm Springs rental with a hot tub unless you're duly prepared. A lightweight, long-sleeved shirt will serve you well if you plan to spend several hours outdoors.
If you visit Palm Springs during January or June, don't miss the annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. You can view hundreds of full-length features in local theaters in January or screen short films during the summer. Alternatively, visit the city during February to sample delicious Greek cuisine during the Palm Desert Greek Fest, or push your visit to March for the La Quinta Arts Festival. Other must-see events in Palm Springs include the Swing'n Dixie Jazz Festival, the Film Noir Festival in June, the Mall Walks in September, and the Rancho Mirage Restaurant Roundup in November. If you're visiting during the holidays, don't miss the Holiday Concert at the Palm Springs Convention Center early in December.
You're never far from sumptuous cuisine, no matter where your Palm Springs rental with a hot tub is located. Trio Restaurant on Palm Canyon Drive is the perfect choice if you're seeking comfort food, while the Lulu California Bistro offers a romantic setting and hearty but casual fare. Plus, you can take advantage of the evening Happy Hour.
Your fun in Palm Springs doesn't have to stop when the sun goes down. The Village Pub, for instance, is the perfect place to order a longneck and watch the game. However, if you're in the mood for live music, don't miss Melvyn's Restaurant & Lounge at the historic Ingleside Inn. Alternatively, Bardot Palm Springs offers music, drinks, and a vibrant atmosphere.
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Title: The Princess Bride: S. Morgensterns's classic tale of true love and high adventure
Author: S. Morgenstern (Abridged by William Goldman)
Pages: 317 (without Buttercup's Baby") 399 (with Buttercup's Baby)
Time took to Read: 3 days
Cover Rating: 5/5
Character Rating: 5/5
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I don't know how to stress how much I love this book.... It is defiantly my favorite work of Fiction ever... The characters are timeless and perfect.... in the way that they all of major flaws.... The book is defiantly not a happy go lucky book. That I can say. If you read my quote from the book in the post bellow, it basically is the theme of the book. Life is not fair. If you watched the movie, and are thinking "Everything seamed to go just great for them, what are you talking about?" My simple answer is READ THE BOOK!!!!! It is wonderful, even though the characters are flawed, which makes it even more perfect... All in all, it is wonderful sublime and just perfect....
(the back of the book only gives this much information, so if you want more, just go to my second post on this blog, for a full summary.)
Westley, the handsome farm boy who risks death (and much worse) for the woman he loves; Inigo, the Spanish swordsman who lives only to avenge his father's death; Fezzik, the gentlest giant ever to have uprooted a tree with his bare hands; Vizzini, the evil Sicilian, whith a mind so keen he's foiled by his own perfect logic; Prince Humperdinck, the eviler ruler of Florin, who has an equally insatiable thirst for war and the beauteous Buttercup; Count Rugen, teh evilest man of all, who thrives on the excruciationg pain of others; Miracle Max, the King's ex-Miracle Man, who can raise the dead (kind of); and of course, Buttercup . . . the princess bride, the most perfect beautiful woman in the history of the world!


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Latino Outreach Could Bolster Support for Healthcare Overhaul
(WASHINGTON) -- Latinos are very interested in the Affordable Care Act, but a new survey shows they don't know much about it yet.
Targeted outreach to the Hispanic community might go a long way, however, in increasing public support for the law.
The Obama administration is battling fierce opposition to implementation of the law from the Republican Party and looking to gain as much support as possible from allies. President Obama even spoke last week at a Planned Parenthood conference, becoming the first sitting president to address the group in person. The women's health advocacy organization has been a staunch supporter of the law and Obama said he will need help from it and other groups with implementation.
Latinos could fall into that category, but they don't yet. Hispanics generally support the law and they stand to be hugely impacted by it -- some studies indicate more than five million uninsured Latinos are likely to gain coverage -- but a new Latino Decisions survey indicates they find it confusing and are wary about how it will impact them.
More than half of Latinos surveyed said they were "not that informed" or "not at all informed" about President Obama's healthcare overhaul. More than two-thirds said the healthcare plan is confusing and less than 15 percent said public officials in Washington, D.C. took the health needs of the Latino community into account as the bill was developed and passed.
But the community is eager to know more -- nearly 90 percent said they want to learn more about the law.
Here's the interesting part: After they were provided some basic information about the law, three-quarters said it was a good thing for Latinos.
Those numbers indicate a couple of things. One, that more outreach specifically targeted at Latinos is needed. And two, that Latino support for the law increases after that outreach. In other words, there's untapped support for the law in the Latino community. A little targeted outreach could harness it.
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Since the beginning of the year I have been keeping track of the number of corked bottles of wine I have come across. Again, for my purposes here I am just considering 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA).
TCA typically comes from cork but may also come from barrels and other sources. A number of people have asked me what a wine affected by TCA smells/tastes like. The most frequent descriptions are 'musty' or 'moldy newspaper' or 'damp basement.' Looking for TCA is part of the purpose of checking a wine when it is presented at a restaurant (where at least you have the good fortune of being able to send it back). Unfortunately in many cases consumers don't know what to look for and just think that the wine is of bad quality.
To try to make the count as accurate as possible I have: only included wines that I have personally checked (meaning that they hadn't already been screened); and only included wines that used cork as a closure (excluding synthetic corks, glass stoppers, and screw caps).
Since the start of the year I've sampled 274 wines that fit these criteria. Eight of these wines have been corked, making the percentage currently about 3%.
One interesting question is, what constitutes an acceptable level?
I'll continue to give periodic updates throughout the year and will also continue to increment the 'Corked Counter' along the side of the blog. Feel free to share your stories and thoughts.
Corked Counter - April Update
Since the beginning of the year I have been keeping track of the number of corked bottles of wine I have come across. Again, for my purposes here I am just considering 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA).
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I am very sensitive to corked wine and can pick it out in a group of experienced tasters when no one else does until I mention it and they really stop and pay attention. Even then, sometimes others will say "I don't get it." I don't think any level is acceptable. It isn't just the addition of one taste or aroma. It impacts the whole profile of the wine. I understand that cork taint can actually affect the profile and finish of the wine at levels that are not perceptible by taste or aroma. I told someone about bottle of wine from a good producer that had a front end but absolutely no middle or finish. He said this can be the product of otherwise undetectable cork taint. I went to my trusty Google and found an article in a technical industry publication; the kind with chemistry and stuff that is over my head. It confirmed what I had been told and discussed the effect of cork taint on wine independent of taste or aroma and mentioned how it can result in a wine like the one I described. Sorry, I can't give you the chemical discussion.
Anon, I agree that I have seen a certain flavor stripping and change in the mouthfeel of corked wines. Even if the aroma can be difficult, sometimes or for some, to notice, the effect on the perception of the wine might not be. Thanks for the comment.
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I've noticed that most of the time a tainted wine carries multiple faults some of which are more prominent then others. A faulty cork leading to a TCA taint can lend itself to some oxidized characteristics.
Also an interesting thing to note is the threshold for fault perception varies from person to person. Someone who may drink only primarily wine under screwcap may be more sensitive to wine under cork. For example, I have a friend who spent a couple years in Australia where he drank wine almost exclusively under a screwcap enclosure. When he got back to the states he was so sensitive to the cork influence on wine that he found himself hypersensitive to corktaint and because of that had trouble drinking wine in the states.
All very interesting things to think about.
TylerH, interesting story. Thanks for sharing it.
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So TastingRoom.com started a business in which they repackage wine into 50ml bottles. Originally this was make it more convenient to send samples to reviewers, but now they sell sampling packages to the public. In moving the wine from the original 750ml bottles to the 50ml bottles they use a machine that detects TCA and rejects the bottle if it is found.
Should bigger producers of wine subject their bottles to this type of testing before it ships from the winery? Would the process catch some, if not most of the contaminated corks? I wonder if TCA is detectable before the cork is inserted into the bottle.
Wineries I have talked to vary greatly in terms of how seriously they take the issue of cork taint. One winery I spoke with declorinates all of the water coming in to the winery to decrease the risk of TCA in the barrel. They also used only batches of cork that had been tested three times for TCA. Finally, they kept track of all of the corked wines that were opened in the tasting room to track the percentage of taint.
So there are numerous steps that can be taken. Of course all of these steps come at a cost. It should also be noted that the quality of cork can vary greatly, so paying for higher quality cork can produce far less contamination. Again, this comes at a cost. Of course this begs the question, what is the cost of a corked bottle of wine?


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A Business Roundtable
Social Security
Can Survive
The nation's Social Security system is in a dilemma. Its retirement fund
is paying out more in benefits than it is collecting in taxes, and that has
a lot of people worried—not just the one in six Americans who
currently receives some form of Social Security benefit (retirement, survivor, or
disability) but also the nine out of ten workers in the nation's labor force who
are being taxed by the system and who are counting on receiving Social
Security benefits when they retire. They're concerned that their benefits will
be drastically cut, or that the system will go bankrupt and they will lose their
benefits completely.
Since 1975, the annual benefits paid by the Social Security pension fund
have exceeded the annual Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes collected
and earmarked for that fund. The program managed to pay its bills through
early November with its reserves, which now are exhausted. Congress has
staved off bankruptcy through June by permitting the retirement fund to
borrow from Social Security's separate Medicare and disability insurance
programs. But if that borrowing stops, or if the problems causing this shortfall
are not corrected by July of this year, certain government officials predict that
the system will indeed be bankrupt.
The administration and some congressional members wanted the Congress
to address Social Security's deficits in the '81 and '82 sessions; but due to its
political sensitivity, the issue was assigned instead to the 15-member bipartisan
National Commission on Social Security Reform, established by President
Reagan in 1981. In January of this year, the commission reached agreement on
a $169 billion proposal that Congress will consider in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, we thought it an appropriate time for the nation's commercial
sector to express its opinion on this timely and important topic, and to
examine the issue from a business perspective. With that in mind, we invited
a group of knowledgeable and influential business leaders from varied
backgrounds to an informal and open discussion of the Social Security issue.
What follows is an abbreviated version of that discussion.


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Preface This anthology is a brief, balanced collection of primary materials organized chronologically and focused on global themes. In preparing this collection, we had three concerns in mind. First, any informed understanding of the world at the opening of the third millennium when the world is rapidly becoming one must begin with history. We believe the most useful mode of historical study--particularly for college students--is world history. Because men and women make history, the documents we have depict the variety of their experiences over time on a global scale. To help students study and appreciate these experiences, we have included excerpts both from classic texts and from less familiar but equally illustrative material. The resulting selection of readings illustrates patterns of global change and exchange, as well as the distinct features of the major civilizations. Second, to encourage the comparative study of world history and to reinforce the underlying links between civilizations, we have organized the readings into chronological sections. By doing so, we hope to underscore global patterns of development and, at the same time, give our readers access to documents of special interest. Third, to help with the understanding and retention of our reading selections, particularly those likely to be unfamiliar to students, we have included introductory comments as well as questions to consider. We hope this material will help students gain a better understanding of the text and connect their historical study to contemporary problems and issues. Our students, particularly in their questions and criticisms, have shaped our work from the outset more than they know. Many of our colleagues at James Madison University have also helped immeasurably. They provided insights and suggestions to make this a better book. Michael J. Galgano, Head, Department of History, has assisted us at every turn: He enthusiastically found for us the means and time to complete this project. Mary Louise Loe not only contributed the selections on Russia and Soviet history but helped us throughout our work. Nicholas Miller of Boise State University; John A. Murphy of University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland; and John O. Hunwick of Northwestern University kindly advised us on Serbian, Irish, and African selections. The fourth edition ofThe Global Experience: Readings in World Historycontains new sections, new selections, and new translations, as well as some changes in the selections published in our third edition. In Volume I, approximately twenty-five percent of the selections are new. Among the new selections in Volume I are The Egyptian Creation Story: "The Creation According to Ra"; The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi; Homer,The Iliad;Pure Land Scripture,Sukhavativyuha;Thucydides on the Plague andPeloponnesian War;Plutarch, "Lycurgus," on the Spartan Way of Life; St: Augustine of Hippo, The Just War; Paulus Orosius,History Against the Pagans;Procopius,History of the WarsandThe Secret History;Law Codes of the Salian Franks; Ibn Fadlan, Impressions of Vikings in Early Russia; Michael Psellus,Chronographia,"Empress Zoe"; Murasaki Shikibu,The Tale of Genji; Charles Borromeo, Instructions to Confessors;Bernardino de Sahagun, Aztec Festival and the Conquest; An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico:The Broken Spears;Pope Paul III,"Indians are Men,"1537; Sepulveda, Just War Against Barbarians, 1550. Among the new additions to Volume II are An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico:The Broken Spears;James Harrington, "The Commonwealth of Oceana"; Sir William Petty,PoliticalArithmetic; Enfumadesin French Algeria: Three Reports; Arthur de Gobineau,The Inequality of Human Races;U.S. Congress, The Chinese Exclusion Acts, 1882, 1892; Russo-Japanese War, 19041905,Imperial Rescript;JoRiley, Philip F. is the author of 'Global Experience Readings in World History Since 1550', published 2001 under ISBN 9780130195692 and ISBN 0130195693.[read more]
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European Central Bank leaves benchmark rate unchanged
(AP) FRANKFURT, Germany - The European Central Bank has left its benchmark interest rate unchanged as it increases the pressure on eurozone governments to tackle the debt crisis that threatens the global economy.
The decision Wednesday by the bank's 23-member governing council left the refinancing rate at a record low 1 percent.
The bank is under pressure to stimulate a weakening eurozone economy with a rate cut. But bank President Mario Draghi has said the central bank cannot make up for inaction by governments.
Draghi told European politicians in Brussels last week that the euro's basic setup is "unsustainable" and urged them to sketch out a long-term vision for strengthening the framework of the shared currency.
While it tries to squeeze more effort from government, the ECB is facing a weakening economy in the 17 countries that use the euro. Surveys of economic activity and business confidence have pointed sharply down, suggesting that the mild contraction of 0.3 percent predicted by the European Commission will turn out to be worse. That would argue for lower interest rates that would in theory make borrowing cheaper for businesses so they could expand and hire.
The ECB has already taken strong action to stimulate credit and borrowing by cutting rates to record lows and loaning 1 trillion euro in emergency credit to banks. Yet borrowing has not picked up, the banks says, because businesses see no prospect of growth and profit.
European leaders including Draghi are working on proposals ahead of a crucial June 28-29 summit where leaders from across Europe will be under pressure to stop the 17-country eurozone from falling apart.
Eurozone leaders face trouble on several fronts. Spain is struggling to bail out banks that made reckless loans during a real estate boom and are now suffering mounting losses. Greece, already rescued by expensive bailout loans from the other countries, faces elections June 17 that could result in rejection of the strict cutbacks demanded under its bailout. That could lead to a chaotic exit from the euro.
Trouble in one place could spread to other countries in the form of investors selling assets and bank customers withdrawing deposits for fear banks will collapse or their savings will be redenominated in a new currency after euro exit. Finance ministers from the Western industrial countries held a conference call Tuesday to discuss the eurozone crisis.
A renewed financial crisis in Europe could hurt growth in the United States and Asia by creating losses and fear among banks, which are key to the functioning of the global economy, and by hurting trade.
The measures to be discussed at the summit at the end of June could include: a Europe-wide bank regulator and bailout fund with powers to take over and restructure banks, further steps to increase growth, moves toward more control over national government's spending and some form of shared borrowing to reduce the chance that one country would default.
Most of those steps would take years to implement and several are highly controversial. Germany has resisted common borrowing through so-called eurobonds, afraid spendthrift countries would overborrow using its stronger credit rating. A plan for stronger control of countries finances might ease that objection, however.
Officials from the European Union's executive, the commission, unveiled their legislative proposals earlier Wednesday designed to strengthen the eurozone's ability to restructure troubled banks. However Wednesday's proposals, not expected to come into power until 2018, fall short of the full banking union pushed for by some European officials.


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