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I do try mostly to find images I haven't used here before, but find it's difficult to tell stories I haven't told before. The blog is the ongoing reflection, right?, so it should seem that whether told in the course of one post or over the course of one year the stories are familiar.
I generally do start each year with crafting energy ablaze; I met Kym through a swap that was all about handmade toys. (Now that could be interesting -- keeping track of the new people I meet through the course of a year...). This bear pattern came from a Japanese craft magazine, and I'll say now that in 2010 I'd like to spend less time noodling around on the computer and more time crafting.
Hard winters make the first rays of spring sunlight so precious -- even being able to unzip a jacket feels miraculous. I tried carrying my camera with me a little more often last year and would like to put more effort this year into photographing the everyday world.
We were finally able to go out for my birthday dinner in March -- Korean bbq. We made an effort last year to avoid chain restaurants (and we're pretty sure we went McDonald's free the whole time); we're all interested in pushing ourselves further this year in the support of local businesses.
Dean's birthday is in April, and there always seem to be several opportunities to celebrate it and light candles and wonder how on earth each Dean Year passes so quickly.
He got these cones for setting up soccer practice zones in the yard but seeing as he IS my son, afterall, he figured they'd make a good hat first thing.
We had a magnificent trip to my homeland, Chicago. I wished we lived there, or at least closer. This trip was way too short but we had just a wonderful time with family and I was able to connect (hurray for Facebook!) with some of my childhood friends. There is something deep -- tangible -- about being home, about being in the place that I truly know.
Dean's class had a family camping trip to Cape Cod. We explored salt water marshes like this one, and the ocean, and all the things that can be done with marshmallows, sticks, and open flame.
A wet winter followed by a long wet spring meant spectacular things for the garden. Ken and Dean are both passionate gardeners -- Dean even successfully set up a hummingbird feeder and garden this year -- which gives us yet one more thing to enjoy doing together.
Dean's primary philanthropic activity so far has been his annual walk to raise money for Dog Orphans. I'm sure he'll do this again next May, but meanwhile he's added sponsorship of a child through ChildFund. We hoped we were raising a child who would be caring and empathetic, and it just warms our hearts (and makes a feel a little better about some of the areas we haven't done as well) to see him make these kinds of choices on his own.
This could be my favorite picture of Biscuit. I probably posted this one before, but I think he's telling me he loves me here.
We crack ourselves up. PhotoBooth fun for the one-eyed boy and his two-headed mother.
Dean always does a variety of day camps over the course of the summer and zoo camp has been a particular favorite. What's not to love about taping a net to a long stick so you can explore a swamp?
I appreciate the Massachusetts sense of humor. For those who aren't familiar, this is how the word 'smart' is pronounced by the locals.
Ken turned 50 in August, as improbable as that still sounds to me, and it was his heart's desire to spend his big day in Disney World.
Oh it's goopy touristy silly and I still love it. I still mean to post a whole slew of pictures so that I can show you the other side of Disney World -- the pictures of things you'd never expect to encounter. It's a deeply beautiful place, although you have to be willing to slow down and dig a little to see it that way.
And this was the last mini-golf game of the season. Yeah, what can I say, I love that shirt....
Gina actually gave away one of her amazing quilts in September and I was the person who actually won it. Can you see how incredible her fabric choices are? I can't imagine life, anymore, without my blogging friends. I have to think about how to honor and extend those connections.
This was Dean's Hope Banner, made on the first day of school. And he meant it.
We managed to take in one professional soccer game -- MLS just doesn't quite have the panache of the European league play but we cheered on our local boys and vowed that if the European clubs send any teams over for friendlies this year then we're definitely going. SO exciting to think that 2010 is a World Cup year....
I caught this shot of Dean as he got home from a field trip.
Dean and I went to Boston in torrential downpours to see the Harry Potter exhibit (primarily of props and sections of sets from the movies). It's almost enough to call it a bona fide curse -- if we've purchased tickets in advance for something, it seems to guarantee horrific weather, or illness, or some other calamity that often leaves us unable to use the tickets. We weren't going to get driving rain keep us from going this time, though.
From the poem Snow Day, by Billy Collins:
In a while I will put on some boots
and step out like someone walking in water,
and the dog will porpoise through the drifts,
and I will shake a laden branch,
sending a cold shower down on us both.
Biscuit does porpoise through the drifts, dragging his boy after him with both of them laughing and gasping for breath. They come in cold and utterly encrusted in snow and tired and thirsty and ready to curl up and get warm again.
A toast to the year, to the stories ahead, to you and to me.


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A Lush Garden Wedding at Nicollet Island Inn in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Julia "Connie" Milan (29 and a senior account manager) and Kent Gliadon (30 and owner of a landscape design company) knew of each other through mutual friends but didn't meet until they were on the rooftop at Stella's in Uptown Minneapolis. They hit it off, dated for six years and got engaged. When they started planning their wedding, Connie didn't know a lot about Minnesota venues. She wanted to get married outdoors, surrounded by trees, flowers and water, "but I never imagined what I would find at Nicollet Island Inn," she says. After seeing photos of the Minneapolis venue online, "I knew right then I didn't need to look any further," Connie says. The couple went with a red and pink floral theme, fitting because Kent owns a landscape design company and Connie enjoys making succulent arrangements. Some unexpected elements included a nine-foot custom-built cedar arbor for the ceremony, 11-foot columnar birch trees brought inside the venue to carry the outdoors feeling indoors and a four-by-eight-foot flower wall doubling as a photo booth backdrop. (To save costs, they decorated with zinnias and hydrangeas grown in the their garden, along with Connie's parents' and the florist's gardens.) The cake featured gold-leaf effects, along with additional succulents, and the videographer created a same-day wedding video to share with guests. "Rob Kopp is such an incredibly talented videographer," Connie says. "Artistic touches, combined with his eye for just the right angle and movement of the video, made our same-day edit better than I could have imagined." Every guest received a special keepsake to remember the day—a three-inch succulent as a place card and a favor, lovingly made by the couple. Throughout the wedding-planning process, Connie and Kent never lost sight of the big picture. "Remember, at the end of the day, this is about you two joining your lives together and everyone else coming to share in the celebration," Connie says. Try to savor it. "This day will go faster than you imagined." —Chrissy Sorenson


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A clinical study has found that electronic stimulation therapy to reduce obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is safe and effective.
The Stimulation Therapy for Apnea Reduction (The STAR Trial) evaluated an implantable electronic stimulation device called Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation (UAS) therapy designed to deliver mild stimulation to the main nerve of the tongue (hypoglossal nerve) on each breathing cycle during sleep. The stimulation is intended to restore tone to key airway muscles and prevent airway collapse.
Patients control when the Inspire therapy is turned on and off using a handheld programmer. In contrast to other surgical procedures to treat sleep apnea, Inspire therapy does not require removing or permanently altering an OSA patient's facial or airway anatomy.
"Studies have shown that sleep apnea is as prevalent as adult diabetes and asthma and the consequences of OSA range from disruptive to life-threatening," said Kingman Strohl, MD, principal investigator for the University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center site. "While many patients have found help with continuous positive air pressure through a CPAP nasal mask, for some patients it is too difficult to comply with, and thus ineffective," he said.
The primary aim of this study was to determine the safety and efficacy of the stimulation for treatment of OSA.
Results were presented on June 5 at Sleep 2013, 27th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, by Dr. Strohl, who also is professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and colleagues Patrick Strollo, MD, and Ryan Soose, MD, both of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
The multi-center study had 126 participants (21 females) who received an implanted system. At 12 months, there was a significant reduction in the Apnea Hypopnea Index (AHI) and Oxygen Desaturation Index, two scales used to indicate the severity of OSA. There also were significant improvements from pre-implant to 12 months on sleep quality scales (Epworth Sleepiness Scale, ESS, and Functional Outcome of Sleep Questionnaire, FOSQ).
More than 18 million Americans suffer from OSA, which is characterized by repeated episodes of upper airway collapse during sleep. Patients with OSA stop breathing frequently during sleep, often for a minute or longer. Daytime sleepiness, depression, weight gain, increase in industrial accidents and diminished quality of life are all commonly observed in people who suffer from OSA as a result of fragmented sleep patterns.
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Was the Internal Revenue Service criminal in layering on extra scrutiny to tea party groups seeking nonprofit status, or just bureaucratically shortsighted and "obnoxious," as the agency's former head put it Friday?
The first position was taken by Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee, which grilled Steven Miller, the IRS's former acting head, during Friday's committee hearing on the IRS scandal – the first such panel since the subject came to light a week ago.
The latter position was the counterclaim by Mr. Miller, the man who recently tendered his resignation at President Obama's request even though he took over the agency last November, after the targeting had stopped.
"I think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection," said Miller, who offered he found out about the issue in May of last year, when he was deputy commissioner for services and enforcement.
Miller's explanation for why the IRS targeted conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status and unduly delayed those applications tracked with what the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration found in a report issued earlier this week.
"The listing described in the report, while intolerable, was a mistake and not an act of partisanship," Miller said.
Agency employees thought they had found a useful heuristic for sorting a great number of groups that potentially required more research – flagging the names of organizations containing the words "tea party" or "9/12," for example. Such research can determine if the group applying for tax exemption spent more of its time and money on politics than allowed by the 501(c)(4) designation being sought.
IRS staffers had no outside political interference, the report found.
On Friday Miller, echoing points made by Democrats on the panel, asked the committee to help sharpen the relevant tax law to make it easier to enforce – and beef up the agency's budget.
"With respect to political activity, it would be a wonderful thing to get better rules, to get more clear rules," he said. "In terms of our ability to get to this work, it would be good to get a little budget to get more than the people we have to do 70,000 applications and do our job."
The panel's Republicans simply weren't buying what Miller was saying.
"On the one hand, you're arguing today that the IRS is not corrupt, but the subtext of that is you're saying, 'Look, we're just incompetent,' " said Rep. Peter Roskam (R) of Illinois. "It is a perilous pathway to go down."
House Republicans see the tendrils of malfeasance reaching into the White House, and many GOP members of the committee attempted to present the IRS scandal as evidence of an agency running amok.
"We also know that these revelations are just the tip of the iceberg," said Rep. Dave Camp (R) of Michigan, the committee's chairman. "It would be a mistake to treat this as just one scandal."
In addition to the discussion of extra scrutiny of applications, Representative Camp offered up the fact that a White House official shared details of a private company's tax status with reporters in August 2010 and that in May of the following year, the IRS asked donors to 501(c)(4) groups about whether they were paying appropriate gift taxes. Camp also said that the IRS leaked details of the donor list of a conservative organization and tax applications from other conservative groups to media organizations in 2012.
To Camp's list of complaints, conservatives would add one more: the fact that a woman who helped oversee the IRS's tax-exempt division was transferred to head IRS-related implementation of the president's health-care law.
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R) of Kentucky, a lawmaker who has frequently criticized the Obama administration for what he sees as the abuse of its power against conservative groups, called that revelation "stunning – just stunning."
Asked Rep. Pat Tiberi (R) of Ohio: "Why would you promote somebody to that position who was in charge of the exempt organization division, which certainly has had some controversy over the last couple years, under an investigation?"
"Because she's a superb civil servant, sir," Miller responded.
While neither Miller nor Republican members of the committee offered a clear timeline of when the woman, Sarah Hall Ingram, switched roles, Miller added that he "wouldn't imagine" she was involved in the tea party issue.
Overall, Republicans were furious that the IRS testimony before their committee appeared to steer away from the ongoing investigation into the extra IRS scrutiny that some of their constituents reported.
Miller argued that he had always been truthful to the committee and that at previous hearings, he and other senior staffers did not have all the facts the committee wanted because the investigation by the inspector general was still pending.
Two facts stood out as emblematic of the larger discussion over dates and times.
At the time of the inspector general's audit, some 300 applications for 501(c)(4) status were being held out for special attention by the IRS. Miller pointed out that only about 70 of those cases were for conservative groups.
At another juncture in the hearing, J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general who conducted the report, responded to questions from Rep. Adrian Smith (R) of Nebraska about the IRS requesting donor lists from various applicants. He offered that of the 27 organizations that received requests for a donor list, about half (13) were tea party groups.
In Miller's mind, these facts show that the IRS was not simply nailing conservative groups to the exclusion of all others.
But the inspector general found that all the groups with "tea party" or similar names were forwarded for special screening.
And while groups of other political persuasions got extra screening, "there were no 'progressive' or 'organizing' buzzwords that were used for targeting, is that correct?" asked Rep. Paul Ryan (R) of Wisconsin.
"That's correct," Miller said.


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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
Blake Shelton has been on Chelsea Lately almost 10 times. So you know Chelsea Handler is really, really into him. But Thursday night (March 7), her guest was another country guy: Luke Bryan . And when she asked him about Shelton, Bryan gave her a pretty fair assessment of his ACM co-host. "Blake is never serious. Like, never," he said. "He will take you down a false road of seriousness, and then he'll let it out there and freak the whole room out." And Handler decided Bryan was the better country singer. Well, sexier anyway. "This is the sexier version of Blake Shelton," she said, recalling what she thought the first time she saw Bryan. "I mean, you're younger, you're more sober, you're cooler." During their interview, Bryan also revealed how he controls his irresponsibility, how he knows when to get half as drunk and what his wife thinks when his fans have crushes on him. "She loves it. She gets it," he said. "She's like, 'Hey it pays the bills.'"


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Energy Search (Japanese: エネルギー転送 Energy Transfer) is an Item card. It was first released in the Fossil expansion as a Trainer card.
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The Expedition Base Set and Theater Limited VS Pack prints include a Dot Code strip for use with the e-Reader, and have the card ID A-28-#. The short strip contains a brief card summary. There is no long strip for this card.
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This card was included in the Fossil expansion with artwork by Keiji Kinebuchi. It was later reprinted in the Expedition Base Set, first released in the Pokémon-e Starter Deck, with new artwork by Kai Ishikawa and an updated effect. This print was used throughout the EX Series, and the first part of the Diamond & Pearl Series, up until the release of Majestic Dawn. The Majestic Dawn print, first released in the Magmortar vs Electivire Deck Kit, featured new artwork by Ryo Ueda. Energy Search was later included as an Item card in the Black & White expansion with new artwork by Ryo Ueda, first released in the Battle Strength Decks. It was reprinted again in the Boundaries Crossed expansion in English, and in the Battle Gift Set: Thundurus vs Tornadus and the Keldeo Battle Strength Deck in Japanese.
Even though the Expedition Base Set print reworded the card text slightly by adding a new clause, no reference is required when using the Fossil print of the card.
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Lyrics:First verseWay down in Lou'siana in de low lands, low, Where de swamp is dismal dark an' wet, Dar used to live a Bogie in de long ago, An' dey say dat he is down 'dar yet. So all you pickaninnies, playin' hookey from de school, Just remember 'bout de Bogie man, An' when you goes to swim, Best look out for him, For he'll surely catch you if he can.ChorusOh! Oh! I think I hear him comin', Oh! Oh! it's time we should be runnin', Oh! Oh! For he is de Devil's right-hand man. Good Lordy! Oh! Oh! Now beat it quick my brothers, Oh! Oh! Just scoot for home an' mothers, beware, Take care of de big swamp Bogie man, Of de big swamp Bogie man.
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OCC Bulletin 1996-22| April 18, 1996
Part 34 - Real Estate Lending and Appraisals Subpart B (ARMs) and Subpart E (OREO): Transmits Final Rule
Chief Executive Officers of National Banks, Department and Division Heads, Examining Personnel and Other Interested Parties
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency published the attached final rule revising various subparts of Part 34 in the Federal Register (61 FR 11294) on March 20, 1996 with an effective date of April 19, 1996. The OCC had proposed revising Part 34 under its Regulation Review Program. The goal of this program is to modernize and clarify rules, eliminate unnecessary regulatory burdens, and apply regulatory requirements only when needed to address safety and soundness concerns or statutory responsibilities of the OCC.
Significant clarifications or modifications are discussed below.
Subpart E (OREO):
The OCC significantly modified the existing regulation. National banks will now be able to negotiate non-coterminous subleases of former banking premises, including extensions, subject to safety and soundness considerations. While the disposal requirement of 12 U.S.C. 29 remains unchanged, the disposal period will be suspended (tolled) while the sublease is in effect, if a national bank enters into a non-coterminous sublease. This modification provides national banks with increased opportunities to effectively manage the disposal of former banking premises arising from industry consolidation and technological changes.
Subpart A (General): & Subpart B (ARMs):
The OCC reaffirmed it will continue to apply traditional principles of Federal preemption when determining whether a State law affecting real estate lending is preempted. Several sections were clarified, reorganized, and deleted, when deemed unnecessary.
For further information, contact Bank Activities and Structure Division, (202) 649-6994; Compliance Policy (202) 649-5470; or Legislative and Regulatory Activities, (202) 649-5490.
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City warns of utility worker imposters
The Milwaukee Department of Public Works wants to warn residents about a pair of men posing as utility workers.
Milwaukee Water Works said that on South 14th Street, a woman was approached by a man claiming to be a utility worker checking her water meter.
After talking his way inside the home, a second man came to the house, also claiming to be a water utility employee, there to give her a rebate.
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"He had a suitcase and said, 'I can give you your rebate now if you can change $50, I mean if you can change $100 out.' She in turn told the man, 'I don't have any money in my house,' and they left," said Earl Smith Jr., of Milwaukee Water Works.
The second incident happened on South 34th Street. In this case, the department said two men approached a woman and offered to replace her water meter for a fee, but she didn't let them inside.
Smith said they've seen this in the city over the years, and the imposters are bold.
"I want them also realize that if we catch them, we will prosecute them with every possible ordinance, law, statute, you name it, on the books," Smith said.
If approached, ask to see a photo ID. Water Works employees all wear one. They also drive yellow trucks with a logo.
If there's any question and you're unsure, call the utility to confirm that person is the real deal.
The utility replaces water meters at no charge. Water Works employees do not do door-to-door sales. They do not collect a past-due bill in person, and they don't deliver rebates or refunds.


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"Grease" star Jeff Conaway has reportedly been badly injured after a fall in his home on Monday.
According to TMZ, the 59-year-old's girlfriend, Vikki Lizzi, said Conaway fell down a staircase on Monday and suffered a broken hip, a broken arm, a fractured neck and a brain hemorrhage.
He was reportedly rushed to the hospital for surgery.
Conaway is best known for his role as Kenickie in 1978's "Grease." He also appeared on "Celebrity Fit Club" in 2006.
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Chew Proof Dog Bed Why They Are Important
What happens when your dog eats something he shouldn't…bad things. That's what happens.
What can you do to help your dog not eat things he (or she) should be eating? To begin with you can make sure that they have a "safe" place to sleep. Not only will it keep you from having to pick up stuffing everywhere, but it will also protect your puppy from accidentally eating the stuffing. Discover how to make the best chew proof dog bed choices by reading more…Read more


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It felt like October in May.
Randy Wolf struck out seven to help the Los Angeles Dodgers post a 2-1 win Thursday night over the Cubs. This was the first matchup between the two teams since the 2008 National League Division Series, which the Dodgers swept.
"Obviously, a playoff situation is a little bit different," Chicago's Reed Johnson said. "I felt like we did OK tonight as far as putting the ball in play. [Wolf] made it real tough on us getting that first-pitch breaking ball over, and when he's throwing his offspeed stuff for strikes and then finishing you off late with fastballs in, he's going to make it tough on you any night."
Wolf (3-1) did not start in last October's three-game series -- in fact, the Dodgers didn't use a left-handed pitcher at all against the Cubs. Wolf gave up one run on six hits and one walk over seven-plus innings as the Dodgers improved to 34-15.
"They don't have the best record in baseball for nothing," said Bobby Scales, who accounted for the Cubs' only run with a pinch-hit homer leading off the eighth. "We have to go about our business. It doesn't matter that there's a lot of guys on this team who didn't start the year with the team. We're up here because the Cubs think we can help this team win, and we're going to have to do the job, whoever's out there. It doesn't matter who it is."
The loss left Cubs manager Lou Piniella speechless. He chose not to meet with the media after the game for the first time this season.
Part of the problem Thursday was the Cubs ran out of players. After Scales homered in the eighth to chase Wolf, Jake Fox was called on to pinch-hit. He singled. Koyie Hill was in the on-deck circle to pinch-hit, but Piniella changed his mind against Ramon Troncoso and wanted to use Kosuke Fukudome. That was fine, home-plate umpire Mark Wegner said, but Hill had apparently gone far enough to be considered in the game, and since Fukudome had stepped up to the plate, Hill, who could've played third, was done for the night.
With Aramis Ramirez, Aaron Miles and now Ryan Freel on the disabled list, and Mike Fontenot and Andres Blanco both lifted for pinch-hitters, Piniella didn't have any options left for third except Fox, who took over the corner in the ninth.
Fox is a hitter. But, as the baseball gods would have it, Matt Kemp hit the ball to Fox with runners at first and second. It wasn't pretty, but he caught the ball, and threw to second for the force.
"It was nice to get the first one out of the way," Fox said of the ground ball. "My heart was pounding a little bit. Once I got that one out of the way, I felt my heart rate slow down a little bit. Hopefully, they have enough confidence to put me back out there."
Scales' story keeps getting better with each at-bat. He was optioned to Triple-A Iowa on Wednesday after Miles was put on the disabled list. Blanco was called up because the Cubs wanted a better option at shortstop. But Scales was back after Freel was placed on the disabled list on Thursday with a left hamstring injury.
Instead of getting on a flight to Des Moines on Thursday, Scales was back at Wrigley Field, still battling a cold that has forced him to miss practice for three days.
"If I'm involved, why would it be normal?" Scales said.
He could've been the hero in the ninth. The Cubs loaded the bases with one out, but Troncoso struck out both Scales and Fox to notch his third save.
"That's all you can ask for is to be in that situation," Fox said. "I got my pitch to hit, and I missed it."
Rookie Randy Wells (0-2), making his fourth start, took the loss. He wanted to keep Juan Pierre and Rafael Furcal off the bases, but he didn't, and they scored the Dodgers' runs. Pierre singled to lead off the game, stole second and then scored on Furcal's bunt single that skipped past Fontenot. Furcal walked to open the third, reached third on James Loney's single and scored when Casey Blake grounded out.
"I was able to limit the damage," Wells said, "but the damage was done."
The Cubs would like some revenge from last October's disappointment.
"It was a very frustrating game," Alfonso Soriano said. "We have to keep fighting. It's only one game -- there's three more. I hope we can put this game behind us."


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It seems like every couple of years, we cycle into a summer season that is packed full of weddings and births. There are showers to attend, appropriate dresses to buy, and a bunch of late RSVP cards stuck to the refrigerator like expectant little butterflies.
Dan and I are approaching one of those hectic summers ourselves, and in addition to all the weddings and births, we're gearing up for the culmination of three years of hard work and anticipation with the big book launch in July.
As I talk to expectant mothers and sexually frustrated couples, and as I wake up each morning worrying about book sales and reviews, one theme seems to be recurring: Waiting sucks.
And when you're waiting, it often seems like that's all you're really doing—day in and day out.
We've been waiting for the book release, waiting for Dan's business to pick up, waiting to find the right meeting place for The Mission, waiting for publishers to respond to book #2, waiting for the reconciliation of strained relationships, waiting for money to come in, waiting for direction, waiting for word.
I wrote a blog post about waiting during the season of Advent, but had no idea that all of this waiting would continue through Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and now Pentecost.
So I've finally resigned myself to the fact that God probably wants me to learn how to be patient, not just for a season, but for a lifetime. If I cannot learn to find peace in the midst of anticipation, I will never experience the joy of contentment, for "we know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies." (Romans 8:22-23)
It seems that waiting is part of what it means to be human, part of what it means to be connected to God's creation.
I'm still trying to figure out what it means to embrace waiting as a part of life, but so far the most interesting fringe benefit I've observed is a newfound capacity for absorbing the significance of the little things.
If I didn't have to wait for the next book deal, I'd be less humbled by the first. If I didn't have to wait for the next paycheck, I'd be less creative with how I spent the last. If I didn't have to wait for "success", I'd never know I didn't really need it to begin with. If I didn't have to wait for more, I'd never know I already had enough.
Maybe, in the long run, the waiting will be worth it.
So, what are you waiting for? And what have you learned in the process?
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How well do you know the Code? Think you can spot violations the original installer either ignored or couldn't identify? Here's your chance to moonlight as an electrical inspector and second-guess someone else's work from the safety of your living room or office. It's your turn to identify the violation.
Hint: Buenas notches!
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Building codes specify exactly when, where, and how big of a hole or notch can be made in studs, rafters, joists, and other wooden framing members. Where there is no weakening of the building structure — in both exposed or concealed locations, Section 300.4(A)(2)of the 2011 NECpermits"cables or raceways to be laid in notches in wood studs, joists, rafters, or other wood members."
Now I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a structural engineer, but this particular floor joist has begun to split from the huge notch that was made in it. My experience tells me this notch may be too large compared to the size of the joist. Of course, the AHJ will have to make the final call on this issue.
If the notch is permitted, then 300.4(A)(2) also requires the cables or raceways at those points to be "protected against nails or screws by a steel plate at least 1⁄16 in. thick, and of appropriate length and width, installed to cover the area of the wiring." Steel plates would not be required to protect rigid metal conduit (RMC), intermediate metal conduit (IMC), rigid PVC, rigid RTRC, or electrical metallic tubing (EMT) in accordance with Exception 1. A thinner hardened steel plate is permitted if it is "listed and marked" in accordance with Exception 2.


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The PRC-500 Series of DC/DC converters provides 500W of power in a 10.47-in. × 7.08-in. × 2.16-in. chassis mount package. Available in models that meet industrial (EN60950) or rail (EN50155) standards, the converters feature standard nominal input voltages of 24VDC, 48VDC, 72VDC, and 110VDC. According to the company, the units offer highly efficient (up to 92%) conversion to adjustable 24VDC and 48VDC outputs that are tightly regulated to 0.2% or better. An O-Ring FET option allows for efficient parallel operation of multiple units.
For more information, visit www.schaeferpower.com.
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(CNN) -- Even the most cheerless environmental activist would find it hard not to register the faintest trace of a smile seeing Christmas lights shimmering in the murk of a December evening. Any lingering sense of 'green guilt' over the environmental cost of a billion festive bulbs being switched on should quickly dissipate in the bursts of electric color festooning our streets and houses. But if that isn't enough to placate an ardent activist there is, thankfully, environmentally-friendly light at the end of the tunnel.
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There's an awful lot of information on what is wrong with our energy use and policies, but little information on how to bring change at home today. The answer could be as easy as changing a light bulb. Asad Jafari. Lucknow, India.
It will take the environmentalist in each one of us to do that! Anup Nambiar, Kochi, Kerala, India.
One. Too many hands from multiple environmentalists reaching for the bulb only promotes a physical competition. Paul Davey, West Australia. E-mail to a friend


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – Jan. 26, 2009) The United States Supreme Court today issued a unanimous decision in favor of the State in the case of State of Arizona v. Johnson. The Supreme Court held that a police officer may conduct a pat-down search of a passenger of a vehicle following a lawful traffic stop if the officer has reasonable suspicion that the passenger is armed and dangerous. The ruling reverses a 2008 Arizona Court of Appeals decision.
"This is an important decision that reaffirms the authority of police officers to take reasonable steps to protect themselves during traffic stops," Attorney General Terry Goddard said. "The Court appropriately recognized the authority of a police officer to conduct a pat-down search for weapons if the officer believes the passenger is armed and dangerous."
This case involves a valid traffic stop for a registration violation and a pat-down search of the backseat passenger. Although the police officer lacked sufficient grounds to believe that the passenger was committing or had committed a criminal offense, the officer reasonably believed that the passenger might be armed and posed a safety risk.
On April 19, 2002, police officers who were members of the state gang task force were patrolling the "Sugar Hill" area of Tucson, which was known to be a Crips street gang neighborhood. One of the officers ran the license plate number on a vehicle traveling on a major street bounding the Sugar Hill neighborhood, and the plate number came back with a mandatory insurance suspension, a civil infraction warranting a citation. The task force initiated a traffic stop of the vehicle. The vehicle had three occupants – a driver, a front-seat passenger and a back-seat passenger.
While Officer Maria Trevizo approached the vehicle on foot, she noticed Johnson, the back-seat passenger, look back at the police vehicle, say something to the people in the front seat, then continue to look back at the police vehicle. While the other detectives contacted the front-seat passengers, Officer Trevizo approached Johnson. She asked him for identification. She noticed that he had a police scanner in his jacket pocket. She also noted that he was wearing colors associated with the Crips gang. Johnson told Officer Trevizo that he was from Eloy, a town in which Officer Trevizo knew that the Trekkle Park Crips were the predominant street gang. Johnson also told Trevizo that he had done prison time for burglary and had been out of prison for about a year.
Officer Trevizo asked Johnson to exit the vehicle, intending to talk to Johnson away from the other passengers to gather intelligence about his gang. Once he got out of the vehicle, Officer Trevizo asked him to turn around so that she could pat him down. She testified that she patted him down because the information she had obtained gave her reason to believe that Johnson might have a weapon. When she conducted a pat-down search for weapons, she found a handgun. Johnson was arrested and subsequently convicted for possession of a weapon by a prohibited possessor and possession of marijuana.
The legal issue concerns whether the pat-down violated requirements of the Fourth Amendment. In a divided opinion, the Arizona Court of Appeals reversed Johnson's conviction because it concluded that the pat-down search was not permissible in the circumstances of this case. The Arizona Supreme Court declined to accept review, but the United States Supreme Court subsequently granted certiorari.
Assistant Attorneys General Joe Parkhurst and Kent Cattani represented the State at oral arguments before the Court on December 9, 2008. For additional information, please contact Anne Hilby at (602) 542-8019.


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AMERICUS – The Georgia Southwestern softball team scored a run in the seventh to force extra innings in Game 2 of its Saturday afternoon doubleheader with Francis Marion at Lady 'Canes Field, but eventually fell 6-3 in nine innings after losing Game 1, 8-1.
Southwestern falls to 4-8 overall and 0-4 in the Peach Belt. FMU improves to 8-1 overall and 2-0 in the PBC.
In the first game, GSW scored first when Katie Maddox doubled to center to score Nichole Griffin, giving the Lady 'Canes a 1-0 lead.
The Patriots erupted for five runs in the fourth inning and added three more in the sixth to get the win.
GSW starter Jessica Martin (3-2) surrendered five runs in 3 2/3 innings to take the loss. Casey Burns pitched 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief.
Cea Knox (4-0) tossed five scoreless innings of relief to earn the win.
In Game 2, Katie Wooten scored for GSW in the bottom of the seventh to tie the contest at 2-2 and force extra innings.
In the ninth, Jessica Hogan drove in one run with a fielder's choice grounder for FMU, Olivia Ferguson plated two runs with a double, and Lindsey Brown drove home their final tally with a single to left field.
Gabby Buck drove home Hayley Knight with a single in the bottom of the frame to pull GSW within three runs. With two runners on base, Murphy McConnell relieved Knox and got the final two outs to earn her second save of 2011.
GSW starter Christie Shankle pitched eight innings, allowed four runs and nine hits, while walking four and striking out two.
Knox allowed five hits and two earned runs in 8 1/3 innings in game two.
Knight was the only Lady Hurricane player to record multiple hits in the nightcap.
Destinea Schneider, Ashley Jaramillo and Taylor Luff collected two hits apiece for the Patriots.
Southwestern returns to the diamond on Sunday to host UNC Pembroke in a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.


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Learn as You Go
Issue 51 Fall 2009
Life's best lessons are outside the classroom. Here's how we can learn the skills to take on environmental and economic challenges, build resilient communities, and create good lives for ourselves and our loved ones. Fall 2009.
Grace Lee Boggs died on Monday, October 5, 2015. We hope that this article, originally published in 2009, helps readers to remember her work.
Musical inspiration while putting out the fall '09 issue.


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UConn won nine straight games against St. John's, and with hopes of a tournament birth still at-large, they had everything to play for on Tuesday but they came up a short.
The UConn men opened up, and ended, their Big East run in Madison Square Garden on Tuesday afternoon with a 73-51 beat down by the hands of St. John's.
St. John's came out of the gate strong, leading by 10 points halfway through the first half and 13 by halftime. The Huskies were able to shrink the lead to eight points in the second half, but St. John's went on a 10-0 run near the end of the second half, sealing the deal.
St. John's Sean Evans led the game with 19 points and 10 rebounds in the winning effort. Kemba Walker led the Huskies with 12 points and five rebounds. UConn was a combined 6 for 18 from the charity stripe, and committed 20 turnovers.
St. John's will play Marquette on Wednesday in the second round of the Big East Tournament.
This is the sixth straight loss in the Big East Tournament for the Huskies, a season-ending 22-point loss and the latest in a five-game losing streak.
With an at-large tourney bid for the NCAA Tournament all but gone, the Huskies are looking to the NIT tournament to continue their season.


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The holiday merrymaking was a blast while it lasted, but now we're ready to hit the reset button. Enlist a friend to join you in our fifth annual Action Plan, a 21-day, whole-body detox designed to supercharge you for the New Year.
1. Go Step By Step
We built this plan around a simple base diet of lentils, fruits and vegetables, and nuts and seeds; these (plus oils and seasonings) are the only ingredients allowed for the first week. The subsequent weeks introduce variety, including fish and gluten-free grains in Week 2 and eggs in Week 3.
2. Devise a Strategy
We realize that making all of the plan's recipes is no easy feat. So we've streamlined things this year with weekly meal-by-meal plans. To ease prep, some recipes have a make-ahead component, and most recipes make big batches, so you'll always have a selection of leftovers in the fridge.
3. Make It Your Own
While there are 45 recipes in the cleanse, you can certainly improvise meals; simply follow the ingredient guidelines for each week. You can also carry over your favorite dishes as you enter a new week. Do keep in mind that while you should keep portions modest, counting calories is not part of the program. "This is not a calorie-restricted diet," Blum says. "This is about food choices."
No, we're not talking about anything as extreme as fasting, but in these first days you'll purify with a spare diet designed to heal your digestive system so it can focus on cleansing. "Your liver is burdened every day," Blum says. "We're removing all the stressors so it can start clearing out the muck."
Keep In Mind: By midweek, you'll likely notice some unpleasant symptoms—fatigue, aches and pains, headache, bloat—as the body purges toxins. This is normal, so don't lose heart. You should start to feel better by week's end.
• Lentils
• Fruits and vegetables
• Nuts and seeds
• Oils and seasonings
Not exactly the kind of bland stuff that springs to mind when you think "detox cuisine," is it? Thank
Sarah Britton, the Copenhagen, Denmark–based holistic nutritionist behind the blog My New Roots (mynewroots.blogspot.com), whom we tapped for the second year in a row to create her always-fabulous food. Breakfasts are juices and smoothies, which are easy on digestion. For lunches and dinners, you'll see lots of liver-boosting cruciferous vegetables and lentils ("They're the legume that's most easily digested," Blum says of the latter). To ensure success this week, plan your meals and then prep whatever you can ahead of time (cook lentils, roast beets).
Day 1: Mango-Tahini Smoothie
Day 2: Cucumber-Pear Juice
Day 3: Blueberry-Mint Smoothie
Day 4: Pineapple-Spinach Juice
Day 5: Mango-Tahini Smoothie
Day 6: Green Lemonade
Day 7: Blueberry-Mint Smoothie
Day 1: French Lentil Salad
Day 2: Creamy Broccoli Soup
Day 3: French Lentil Salad
Day 4: Cauliflower "Rice" Stir Fry
Day 5: Roasted Beets on Greens
Day 6: Red Lentil and Sweet Potato Stew
Day 7: Roasted Beets on Greens
Day 1: Creamy Broccoli Soup
Day 2: Cauliflower "Rice" Stir Fry
Day 3: Creamy Broccoli Soup
Day 4: Roasted Portobellos With Kale
Day 5: Red Lentil and Sweet Potato Stew
Day 6: Roasted Portobellos With Kale
Day 7: French Lentil Salad


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From the Dolomites to the bays of Sicily, Italy's topographic makeup lends itself perfectly to wine production.As a result of her physique Italy boasts a myriad of different soils and climates.Adding to the equation a plethora of indigenous grape varieties, each harvest yields an abundance of diverse and fascinating wine styles. Italy is further blessed with many dedicated and passionate winemakers and vine growers.Their innovative approach has not only heralded a new age of creativity but has also allowed Italy to blossom into one of the most celebrated and colourful wine producing countries of our day.
We have followed Italy's journey with great enthusiasm. Gathering gems from each classic area we have strived to mirror her development with that of our own Italian collection. Our recent discoveries include a creamy mineral Soave from the volcanic soils of the Veronese hills and a succulent Gavi from the ancient clays of Piemonte. Wines from these areas now share the throne with old favourites from the length and breadth of the country, reflecting the best of its huge diversity. Fill your boots.


text: Din Bil, Sweden Audi's largest Nordic sales and service unit, located in Gothenburg, has the mechanics' tools stored in an automatic Constructor Tornado storage machine. The system keeps the tools in good order, and the space saved has allowed the creation of an additional servicing point. Din Bil's original motivation for acquiring the automatic storage system was to save floor space. Now the tools are stored in the Tornado lift system, 6.5 metres high and 4 metres wide. 'The automatic system enabled us to add a new servicing point to the workshop. Since the total capacity has increased and lead times have shortened, we are able to service 4–5 more cars per day,' workshop manager Mats Lindblad notes. All 1,300 tools in the workshop were measured and weighed before the Tornado was manufactured. 'As we knew the number, size, and weight of the items to be stored, we were able to optimise the Tornado to suit the customer's needs. The system features 48 pallets, each with a capacity of 300 kg,' says Stefan Lindh, the manager responsible for automatic storage systems at Constructor Finland. The tidiness and stylishness of the environment are significantly influenced by the fact that there are no tools on the floors or the walls, or, in fact, anywhere apart from in the mechanics' hands. A mechanic who needs a tool simply walks to the automatic system, orders the tool, and signs for it. When the work is done, the mechanic immediately returns the tool to the system. If other mechanics need the same tool, they can immediately see who has it. 'We have 15 mechanics. The automatic system saves their time, since they need not spend time looking for tools,' Lindblad says. 'This is an authorised Audi service centre. The centre must fulfil all of the criteria set by the client. The equipment, interior, and tool selection must be in accordance with Audi's instructions. Therefore, even the Tornado system is painted in Audi colours,' says brand director Håkan Bodeklint. Din Bil Sverige AB is a Volkswagen subsidiary that sells and services Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Seat, and Skoda cars. Audi's sales and servicing operations are located in a separate Audi-coloured building, in line with the brand strategy. Everything is in stylish black and silver grey, including the Tornado storage system.


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Harry Mayr
Head SCHURTER Solutions
When there is a vision I look forward to contributing to finding the path that leads to its realization. That has been and still is my passion. After my training as a toolmaker and three years working in the profession, I went into Sales. Working for a supplier of electromechanical components I was able to develop from a member of the staff to CEO in ten years. My mentor at the time encouraged me greatly, but also repeatedly gave me the opportunity to take on and implement new challenges. Numerous additional training programs, courses and studies during this period led to my completion of a Master of Business Administration in 2009. Then I changed the employer and worked for three years at a family-owned Swiss company in the field of high-voltage electrical systems for hybrid vehicles.
Through my network I had contacts with the SCHURTER Company. When I learned what the company was planning with the Solutions Division, it was clear to me: "This is it!" Now I have been at SCHURTER since 2013 and have the opportunity to be an entrepreneur within the company. With Solutions SCHURTER is acting as a provider of innovative solutions. Crucial for our project are the resources in Switzerland, but also at our branches and subsidiaries abroad, especially in Romania and Germany. I really appreciate being able to work on a project that transcends departments and national boundaries. With all this one-stop expertise we are able to respond creatively and quickly to current market trends and customer needs.
Although I travel a lot, the immediate work environment is also very important to me. It is essential for me that top management supports our work with great commitment. We are receiving a lot of strategic and operative support during the development of the new division. In addition, I am very grateful that my team consists of above-average employees, for that is the key to what we have already achieved and to future customer requirements.
The values that are personally important to me I find also in my work environment. In the team, for example, we make a lot of demands on one another but always in an absolutely respectful way. Respect and a sense of responsibility are core values for me. It is great to work with a team that takes responsibility for its actions. The cultural values at SCHURTER promote real enjoyment of the work particularly during the realization of a project such as Solutions. This way I really enjoy my challenges.
Please check our current vacancies. We are confident you will find an interesting opportunity.


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This is a new series based on a set of rules and parameters I've set for myself as an experiment to see if it helps maintain a cohesive quality throughout the collection.
Each composition was based on images from one of 4 trips, and each composition's images are unique to a specific location with no cropping or cutting and pasting done at all. All source images are kept framed as they were shot.
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Addressing the members of the Class of 2015 at the beginning their college experience, Hope College faculty member Dr. Marc Baer asked that they remember to look beyond themselves for wisdom as they spend the next four years improving the self within.
"We often have to reach outside ourselves in order to grow inwardly," said Baer, a professor of history and chairperson of the department, during the college's Opening Convocation on Sunday, Aug. 28, in the Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse. "Consider the necessity of simultaneously turning inward for strength and outward for tools."
Approximately 2,000, primarily new students and their families, attended the event, which marked the formal beginning of the college's 150th academic year and of the final school year in the presidency of Dr. James E. Bultman, who is retiring at the end of June 2012. The new students moved in on Friday and returning students began moving in on Sunday. Fall semester classes start on Tuesday.
Baer titled his address "Invictus," Latin for "Unconquered," the title of an 1875 poem by William Ernest Henley in which the narrator celebrates remaining strong despite adversity. Henley had lost a leg to tuberculosis as a teen, and endured additional hardship later in life due to the disease. Baer noted that the title is also shared by - and the poem prominent in - the 2009 film "Invictus," in which South African President Nelson Mandela hopes to have the 1995 rugby World Cup help foster racial reconciliation in the aftermath of apartheid. Portrayed by Morgan Freeman, Mandela relates how the poem inspired him to avoid bitterness even across nearly 30 years in prison.
"In his case, while in prison, Mandela turned to someone who was free, of a different race, a different time and a different country," Baer said. "In an important way he was following Solomon's advice: 'Get wisdom! Get understanding before anything else' (Proverbs 4:7). Having reached outward, Mandela was able to nurture an inward commitment to reconciliation."
The students, he said, could find such understanding in many places.
He cited the example of author Mildred Armstrong Kalish, who as she grew older came to appreciate how her grandparents had helped shape her, through sayings like "It's easier to keep up than to catch up" and "Use it up; wear it out; make it do; do without."
"Kalish absorbed these lessons about managing yourself, looking back realizing her character was being built from the day she was born - 'improving one's mind' constituting 'the essential focus of our lives,'" Baer said. "Here's the takeaway: when you return home for Thanksgiving, take your grandparents out for coffee and ask them to teach you, and then as Mildred Armstrong Kalish did, use their teaching to work on your interior."
He told of his former student "Susan," who through a strong Christian faith overcame the challenges of poverty and a broken home, and as a graduate is committed to helping others as she found her faith and faith community helped her. He also recalled "Ryan," who because of a high school injury couldn't participate in college basketball as he'd planned - and thus became a physical therapist, to help others who'd gone through what he had. "And so years later when a middle-aged college professor forgot that he wasn't a construction worker and injured his shoulder he was able to go to Ryan, who healed him," Baer said.
All of the stories, he said, "teach us not to be afraid to turn outward so as to work on our interiors."
"So during the next four years think about holding firmly to your most deeply-held values while allowing your mind to be fully open to learn new things," Baer said. "Be especially careful not to restrict that mind to the present, or, as C.S. Lewis tells us, you'll be the most provincial of people, majoring in the ephemeral and missing the eternal."


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In case you've been living under a rock for the past 12 months, the epic legal battle between Apple and Samsung has been one of the biggest tech stories of the year.
It's a bitter fued, with billions at stake, so it's sad to see poor little ol' video games dragged into the fight in the latest of Samsung's openly hostile anti-Apple commercials.
I owned an iPhone for over four years and never once had a problem with the screen brightness. And now that I own an Android phone, if I acted like that around someone with an iPhone, I'd go home and punch myself in the face.


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NEW YORK, June 5 (UPI) -- Ex-Current and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann is to serve as studio host of TBS' coverage of the Major League Baseball postseason, The Hollywood Reporter said.
Olbermann will appear on the show alongside analyst Dennis Eckersley, starting in October, the entertainment industry trade newspaper said.
"It's well known that Keith is a fan of the game and when you combine that with his studio experience, keen insight and passion for baseball and its history, he'll add a new dimension to our MLB postseason studio shows," David Levy, president of sales, distribution and sports at Turner Broadcasting, said in a statement. "We're excited to have him join Dennis in studio, and look forward to Keith sharing his in-depth knowledge of the game, MLB teams and players with our viewers for three great weeks in October."
Olbermann last year filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Current TV, accusing his former employer of firing him without cause.
Current TV co-founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt countered Olbermann was frequently absent from work at his "Countdown" show, refused to promote other Current shows and no longer reflected the values on which the network was established. The matter has since been settled, but the terms were not disclosed to the media.


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In spite of her compact size the 25 still retains the 'big' boat feel with a performance that attracts many experienced yachtsmen who are 'downsizing' from larger yachts but are still looking for quality and style.
Unlike her bigger sisters the Fisher has a transom stern (not canoe) and provides for a large and comfortable cockpit for working sails and relaxing.
Options include sloop or ketch rig and the 25 like all Fishers can be steered from the tiller or from the comfort of the wheelhouse. The 'Tardis' like interior, impressive by any standards for a 25 footer can be fitted out with up to five berths. This remarkable little yacht was first produced in 1975 and to date over 250 have been built.
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- Baghdad coffee shop blast kills 4, wounds 10
- U.S., U.N. officials condemn bombings
- Car bombs explode in Mahawil, Mahmoudiya, Kut, Basra and Aziziya
- Roadside bombs also hit busy areas in Nasriya and Basra
The United Nations and the United States condemned a wave of bombings in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities that left 15 dead and wounded dozens Sunday.
The latest blast hit a coffee shop in a Shiite Muslim district in southeastern Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 10, police said. Another 11 people were killed and at least 70 were wounded in five car bombings south of Baghdad, most of them also in the Shiite districts of Mahawil, Mahmoudiya, Kut, Basra and Aziziya, authorities said.
Sunday's attacks came six days after another rash of bombings in northern Iraq that killed nearly 60 people, from police in the northern city of Mosul to shoppers at a vegetable market in Baghdad.
Iraq has been beset with political and sectarian violence in recent months, leading to fears that the sectarian warfare that raged between Shiite and Sunni communities last decade could be rekindled.
"Nothing can justify such despicable and heinous crimes, targeting innocent people going about their daily business," Martin Kobler, the U.N. special representative for Iraq, said in a statement issued late Sunday. He called on Iraq's political leaders to sit down and address the country's problems "with good faith and determination."
Many Sunni Arabs, who dominated Iraq under longtime strongman Saddam Hussein, have felt marginalized under the Shiite-led government that took power after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Hussein in 2003.
The United States has kept an extensive diplomatic presence in Iraq since the last American military units left in December 2011. In a statement on the attacks, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said, "We mourn the loss of life and stand firmly with the Iraqi people who seek to live in peace and who reject cowardly acts of terrorism such as this."


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As Harbaughs set to meet, Serena spills on facing Venus
As Jim Harbaugh's San Francisco 49ers get set to face John Harbaugh's Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII, perhaps the most famous of sibling vs. sibling rivalries continues: in tennis.
And when it comes to the "Super Bowl" of events in tennis, grand slam finals, Serena Williams has won six of eight times against older sister Venus Williams.
Serena, now playing at the Australian Open, was asked about the experience of playing a sibling:
Question: I don't know if you've been keeping up in football.
Serena: "I have two friends that play on both teams."
Question: Who are the friends you have on the respective teams?
Serena: "I've known (49ers tight end Vernon) Davis for years and (Ravens tackle) Bryant McKinnie for years. They're just really good buddies of mine."
STORY::Harbaughs set to meet in Super Bowl
Question:The Harbaughs are going to be facing off. Siblings going against each other. Can you talk about the ups and downs of siblings competing.
Serena: "Honestly, I don't know. It's definitely hard for me when I play my sister. It's the toughest match for me. Not only is she a great player, but also she's my sister.
"I don't know if it's different when it comes to coaching because you're not physically out there, you're not physically trying to steal this person's dream. So I think it could be a little different. I'm not sure."
Question:Are the victories more muted over her than other players?
Serena: "I think for sure at times. Depends on how tough the match was, how tight it was."
Venus also had some thoughts.
Q: Can you talk about the dynamic that comes up for siblings?
Venus: They probably wish they had gotten into separate Super Bowls so they both could win one. At this point it's probably just the better team. A lot of it is not in their hands. It's up to the players as well.


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REDLANDS, Calif. – It has always been a rivalry. It has always been a competitive environment when the teams meet. It has always been a battle. Tonight was no different. No. 8 Cal Lutheran football stormed out to a 14-0 lead and never trailed en route to a 45-35 victory, claiming the inaugural Smudge Pot and defeating Redlands for the fifth consecutive meeting.
Cal Lutheran won the toss, deferred to the second half and held Redlands to a three-and-out on the first possession. It was not all that easy tonight, though.
Early jitters were apparent on both sides of the field. On the first offensive drive for CLU, a fumble, that CLU recovered, was followed by a UR interception. The Kingsmen then quickly earned the ball back on a Bulldogs fumble, recovered by Cal Lutheran.
CLU drove the ball 75 yards down the field, culminating with a 14-yard touchdown reception by Eric Rogers,who caught the ball from Kevin Ramay at the five yard line and dodged defenders to dive into the end zone for the first scoring play of the game.
After again forcing a Bulldogs punt, it took CLU just one play to score. The Kingsmen used some trickery when Frankie Jones took the handoff and proceeded to throw a 54 yard touchdown pass to Ryan Zirbel, giving the visiting squad a 14-0 lead.
The Cal Lutheran defense continued to control the Bulldogs, holding them scoreless in the first quarter. As time expired in the period, Redlands drove to the CLU one yard line, but a goal-line stand denied UR of any points on the possession when the teams swapped sides of the field to start the second.
Redlands, however, would strike first in the second stanza with a 16-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Chad Hurst to Peter Adams to cut the advantage in half.
When Ramay went down with an injury Zach Shultis stepped right in. The senior had already kicked two PATs, proving he could do a little bit of everything.
He promptly handed the ball to Rogers, who scurried 10 yards for his second TD of the game at the 6:12 mark of the second quarter. Shultis finished it off to put the Kingsmen up 21-7.
Just over two minutes later, Vincent Minor returned a punt 43 yards for a touchdown, pushing the lead to 28-7, again capped off with a Shultis kick for the extra point.
Redlands would strike one more time in the half on a three yard pass, which put the score at 28-14 entering the locker rooms.
After the break the teams exchanged field goals with David Sandler knocking down a 21-yard FG before UR's Kevin Grady connected for a 42-yarder to make it 31-17 in favor of the Kingsmen. Redlands would further close the gap on another pair of touchdowns, missing one PAT, to make it 31-29 entering the final quarter.
Just before time ran out in the third Shultis connected with a diving Rogers for a 46-yard over the shoulder catch. The CLU sideline and stands, full of fans, erupted when Shultis connected with Rogers for a three-yard TD pass, which he finished with a kick to add to the lead at 38-29.
On the ensuing Bulldogs possession, Broc Galbreth picked off Hurst at the CLU-41 yard line. The drive ended with a 52-yard completion from Shultis to Jones to put the score at 45-29.
A late UR score would pull the teams within 10 at 45-35, but a solid defensive stand at the end of the game kept the Bulldogs from making things any closer. CLU shut down UR in the red zone for the only time of the game on that drive, when it counted most.
Redlands possessed the ball slightly longer, 30:39, and racked up a few more offensive yards, 504, than Cal Lutheran (473), but it was the Kingsmen who finished on top.
Three different CLU quarterbacks threw a TD pass in the game and combined to go 17-for-30. Shultis was 13-for-20 passing for 154 yards off the bench, while converting 6-for-6 on extra point attempts. Rogers was the favorite target of the Kingsmen gunslingers catching eight passes for 107 yards, despite limited playing time in the second half.
Romello Goodman paced the Kingsmen ground attack with 35 carries for 182 yards.
The defense looked to Chris Cabrera who made 14 total stops while Rian Younker finished with 10 as the only other player in the game with double figures. Each had five solo tackles. Dontaie Ferguson posted a game-high six solo stops as he and James Emma finished with nine apiece. Emma forced a fumble and had one of four quarterback hurries in the game. Ferguson broke up a pair of plays. Steven Keezer was responsible for the only sack of the game, pushing UR back eight yards.
Sean Bellotti pinned UR deep in their own territory on kickoffs with four touchbacks in the game. Sandler punted five times for 178 yards with his longest boot a 49 yarder.
Following the game the captains of each squad met at mid field where UR Director of Athletics, Jeff Martinez, presented the Smudge Pot to the Kingsmen.
Cal Lutheran (3-1, 2-0 SCIAC) will be on the road again next weekend when they travel to Claremont, Calif. to play the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags on Saturday, Oct. 14 at 7:00 p.m.
Box Score: CLU 45, UR 35


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While the students are here at the International village they go to Claremont Senior School in Bodiam to study a variety of A-levels.
This gives them the chance to experience what school life in the UK is like, as they get accustomed to the different teaching methods, meeting new friends and just generally getting familiar with UK culture in general.
One of our students at Pestalozzi, Isaac, shares what it's like to study in a new surrounding: "As one of the many privileged students at Pestalozzi, I get to experience school life in the UK. I'm doing my A-levels in Biology, Chemistry and Math and am currently in year 12.
Claremont I would say is the best school I have ever attended in my life, from the super cool and caring teachers to the multicultural students and the study-friendly environment. It's all one great experience that is enhanced by the daily thrills and spills that inspire me to reach out for greatness.
Each and every day starts with the same unexplainable excitement. The mornings in the common room are always filled with laughter and cheer and the lessons are of astonishment and elation. School life here differs much more from that home. I feel more engaged during lessons and the teachers are more approachable on both professional and personal levels. There is also emphasis on independence in managing their study time unlike back home. I really love it here. School is much more fun and enjoyable in the UK."
Bernice, another student, shares her experience at studying at Claremont saying: "From the very moment I knew I would be attending Claremont Sixth Form, I was more than delighted. The thought of indulging in a British private school system and dressing formally with neatly pressed buttoned shirts and impeccable blazers made me feel like an important diplomat.
There are many reasons why I enjoy studying at Claremont, but the main reasons include excellent teacher and tutor support in all aspects of daily academic life, the wide range of extra- curricular activities offered, the quality of education offered and most importantly the genuine courtesy shown by its students. Whether it is during Assembly or tutor time, the phrase "Attitude is the cornerstone of success" is always echoed and I couldn't agree more as attitude is far more important than loads of knowledge.
Daily life at Claremont requires 110% joules of our energy as our classes constantly push us to explore and investigate new things. Whether it be investigating differentiation graphs technologically or creating a presentation on the History of English Language during the Tudor period, our minds are always active creating no space for boredom. Together with extra-curricular activities, our creativity and critical thinking improves day by day. I am very thankful for being granted the opportunity to study alongside the many brilliant minds at this institution that hail from all parts of the world as this was never evident in my home country. In addition, I find it very valuable to have sports incorporated within the education system as often times most schools in my country would focus on academia only rather than enhancing the overall life of a student via active exercises.
As a language lover, I enjoy running to my English Language, Spanish and German classes everyday as well as computing numerical problems in Math. I hope to study alongside diverse university students in the years to come and perhaps travel the world. I have truly been inspired at Claremont Senior School!"
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The general idea is that I have a password file with usernames + encrypted passwords. The encryption algorithm has no known decryption algorithm.
I also have a large dictionary (list of words) that users might have used as passwords. I encrypt all the words in the dictionary and compare the encrypted word to the encrypted passwords from the password files.
In my case i need to creat the boss who holds the dictionary and workers who gets a part of the dictionary and they are running in the separated threads.
Give me some good advices how to do that.
I have also attaches codes from the main class because in this case they are the moust usefull


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KDE e.V. Endorses Community Working Group, Code of Conduct
On Monday at Akademy, KDE's yearly world summit, the KDE e.V. held its general assembly, covering a wide range hot topics, regarding licensing and community scalability. While part of the meeting is dictated by intricacies of German association law, the AGM also provides a way of effectively solving issues arising in the KDE community and deciding on ways to move forward as an organisation. This year's KDE e.V. General Assembly endorsed a Code of Conduct, the Community Working Group and a Fiduciary License Agreement for KDE contributors.
Code of Conduct
The KDE e.V. has ratified a proposal for a Code of Conduct as accepted shared set of values for participating in the KDE Community. This Code of Conduct presents a summary of the shared values and "common sense" thinking in our community. The basic social ingredients that hold our project together include:
The full version of the KDE Code of Conduct is online now.
Community Working Group
Preparations in the last months have now led to the founding of KDE's first Community Working Group. The purpose of this new body endorsed by KDE e.V. is summarised as:
"The Community Working Group aims to act as a central point of contact
The initial members of KDE's Community Working Group are:
KDE e.V. Logo
As KDE e.V. is a different entity from the more comprehensive KDE Community, the spirit of this organisation is now displayed by having its own logo. The three flags on top of the logo represent the three main tasks of the KDE e.V.: supporting the KDE Community, representing the KDE Community, and governing the KDE Community. The logo has been contributed by Oxygen team member David Vignoni.
Fiduciary License Agreement
The Fiduciary License Agreement is a legal safety net to keep KDE's licensing effective in cases where a change of licensing is required (for example in the unlikely case that the GPL is void) and the contributor holding the copyright of a certain piece of code is not able to change the license of her work.
The FLA is in no way required for KDE developers, but a suggestion by the KDE e.V. to mitigate the risk of possible problems surrounding copyright assignment and licensing. It is left to each individual copyright holder whether or not to sign the agreement.
Details on all the above points will be published on the KDE e.V. website soon.
Great move!
I really really like it!
Now only one thing is missing:
Great documentation!
KDE should be as well documented as Qt.
you can clearly see that the pillars message is not coming across.
All websites should up to date and be a great marketing tools for getting new contribututors. ( not like http://plasma.kde.org/ that will be updated next month for years now or so it seems )
So why don`t you put the money in the bank to good use and pay someone to document KDE for 2 months right before each release. I think that would serve the communtiy way better than e.g. paying for a executive director that talks about open source sueing people and liking Amazons DRM and buying diapers ( sorry, I couldn't resist ).
I really think KDE has the best tech out there, but documenting it is something nobody seems to like to do. So the solution IMHO is to pay someone to do it.
Only then can you truely rival Apple and MS for developer mindshare on all platforms. ( Just look at http://linux.dell.com/files/presentations/Ottawa_Linux_Symposium_2008/st... if you don`t believe me. )
KDE4 obviously rocks and you should try to explain that to everybody.
Re: Great move!
> I think that would serve the communtiy way better than e.g. paying for a
None of the e.V. board are paid, they are all volunteers.
By Richard Moore at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: Great move!
Sorry, misunderstanding.
Does KDE even have a executive director?
Re: Great move!
By anon at Sun, 2008/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: Great move!
Good point. M$ soft is definitely better in this aspect. It's documentation is crappy and inaccurate, but it has this subtle advantage over KDE's docs in that it EXISTS.
By slacker at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: Great move!
What is wrong about techbase?
As of documentation of applications the main problem seems to be that it covers the irrelevant or obvious aspects but not the real problems you usually run into. I would like to see a link to an application specific user forum. In order to avoid a disappearence of the forum it should be a generic forward. E.g. http://kdevelop.forum-kde.org to link to the existing Kdevelop forum: http://www.kdevelop.org/phorum5/index.php and kate.kde-forum.org to link to a Kate user forum.
By andy at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: Great move!
Oh, I just read this here:
"Danimo had a quick meeting on the state of KDEs wiki. If you want to help out, please contact him. Important, as TechBase is starting to get used for everything, and might eventually wait for it .turn into another bloated chaotic wiki if we arent careful in keeping it topical. I wasnt able to attend, but it was certainly for a Good Reason (no comment possible now)."
I personally can recommend the concept of wiki farms to you. With great Affero GPL wiki farm software as the one used by Wikidot.com you can simplify the creation of dedicated and flexible wikis a lot and wikidot has a fantastic and easy permissions system. For your wiki farm you get a single sign-on mechanism and its easy to upgrade a user to an editor or admin (if it's a restricted wiki), theme the wiki, make the wiki private, get a new wiki hosted by the farm or even create de-facto "static sites".
Pitfall so far: it does not support login via Konqueror yet for whatever reasons.
By andy at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: Great move!
Hmm, techbase is OK. But it is far from _Great documentation_ and there are lots of missing pieces.
And don`t get me started on application documentation.
Try to start hacking on konqueror and you will see that there is close to nothing that will help you. Simple things like a manifest where each source file is explained briefly, an overview of how things work etc.
Simple things like that would really help new contributors. I tried and failed miserably because the solution given was: Look at the source!
That is not great documentation IMNSHO.
Starting to hack on the linux kernel is easier, although it is way more complex, because there are good books and the docs in the kernel are fairly up to date and the source is better commented.
Re: Great move!
By Juan Carlos Torres at Wed, 2008/08/13 - 5:00am
Re: Great move!
By Michael "api.kd... at Wed, 2008/08/13 - 5:00am
Re: Great move!
That is what I would call "OK documentation", but it is still far from great.
Just look around at:
and you will see a big difference. The content there is not generated by some doxygen scripts und it is indepth. It is done by humans and that is why it is so much better.
Just yesterday I saw two articles about Akademy pointing to plasma.kde.org.
By Tom at Wed, 2008/08/13 - 5:00am
Re: Great move!
Do you know about
http://techbase.kde.org/Welcome_to_KDE_TechBase ?
Also, it is good that api.kde.org is autogenerated, because each documentation-fix in the source code automatically ends up there the next day (or week, not sure how often it is being regenerated)
By Carsten Niehaus at Thu, 2008/08/14 - 5:00am
Seems like the new header that gives the KDE e.V. the authority to pick a later version of the GPL license mostly solves the license issue. But doesn't the FLA also protect the developer from being sued to some extent?
Though I (and probably most devs) have the ultimate defense from being sued: being too poor to bother suing. ;)
By Ian Monroe at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: FLA
Money is rarely a reason to sue you. They might sue to stop you from developing FOSS, or scare others away.
By Jos Poortvliet at Sat, 2008/08/23 - 5:00am
Code of Conduct
That's a step in the right direction for FOSS. Very cool.
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Captain Cook's Landing Place in Kurnell, now the Sydney suburb located on the southern headland of Botany Bay, has special historical symbolism.
Captain Cook's Landing Place in Kurnell, now the Sydney suburb located on the southern headland of Botany Bay, has special historical symbolism. On 29 April 1770 Captain James Cook and his companions, botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander stepped onto the Australian soil, right into the land of the Gweagal People. Over eight days the Europeans explored the area, eventually naming it Botany Bay because of the rich harvest of botanical specimens they collected.
The Gweagal People generally avoided direct interaction with the Europeans, but this short encounter left a significant mark on history. For Indigenous Australians it became a symbol of invasion; for others the landing place is often considered 'the birthplace of modern Australia', even though Cook symbolically annexed the east coast of Australia for Britain a few months later, on 22 August, in far north Torres Strait.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s Vincent Megaw, now Emeritus Professor at Flinders University in Adelaide, excavated the Aboriginal site at Captain Cook's Landing Place, now called amiably the Meeting Place. The site includes an extensive midden, which dates from about 2,000 years ago to the early 1800s. It contains large amounts of shell and fish-bone. Sydney cockle, turban shells, mussels and oysters, as well as bones of snapper and bream indicate the meals of the Gweagal and their ancestors. There are also remnants, in smaller quantities, of seals, dolphins, whales, sea-birds, reptiles and some mammals, including kangaroo, dingo, bandicoot and quoll. Remnants of fire places indicate that people were camping and cooking their meals there.
The site is known for the large quantity of complete and partially-finished fish hooks made from Sydney turban shell as well as numerous bone points that were used as tips on multi-prong fishing spears. Some stone artefacts include edge-ground axes used for various woodwork, among which making bark canoes was an important task for this nation of consummate fishermen and women. The archaeological evidence from this site neatly complements the Aboriginal mode of life at Botany Bay as recorded by Captain Cook, Joseph Banks and subsequent European diarists of the First Fleet 18 years later.
BB1 (Inscription Point rockshelter), BB2 and BB3 (2 trenches west of the stream where Cook procured water) were excavated in 1968. BB4 (7 trenches) to the east of the stream was excavated in 1970/1971.
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I'm curious which US airport you think is the worst – I hear lots about LaGuardia, and it certainly used to be the pits. But the new Delta terminal is actually really nice – pretty good selection of food options, the lounge is perfectly fine, nothing is too far away.
People will whine about JFK – I kinda get that a little bit, but again – Terminal 4 is quite nice (that's not true of all the terminals), and the monorail between terminals is easy enough. It's not great, but it's certainly not the worst.
But you know which airport wins the 2013 OTR Worst Airport in America Award ™? That's right, Miami. Mazel Tov.
Let's see, what do we have in Miami:
– Huge multi-terminal airport making connections miserable? Check!
– Loooong walks that include escalators, which are always a joy when schlepping bags? Check!
– Signage that suggests the monorail to the car rental is just up ahead but it is, in fact, about a mile walk? Check!
– A waiting area for the monorail that is not air conditioned, so that after you've dragged all of your worldly possessions while still in your winter clothing from when you left New York you get to sweat your ass off in the 83 degree humidity waiting for the monorail? Check!
– A very long walk to find your baggage carousel? Check!
– Brazilians pushing you onto the monorail because apparently in Brazil there are no cultural norms around queueing? Check!
– The smell of Managua wafting through the monorail? Check!
I was about to describe Miami as a Latin third-world airport, except that I would be offending San Salvador, San Jose, Panama City and Managua Airports (the last of which has the added benefit of a pharmacy that will sell you whatever drugs you want without a prescription).
I would contend that no airport comes close in awfulness to Miami. Congratulations.