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USA are into the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Final™ with two late goals eventually subduing a brave France 3-1 in Monchengladbach.
The Americans, who will compete in their first decider since winning on home soil in 1999, will face the winner of tonight's second semi-final between Japan and Sweden.
The action-packed match was locked 1-1 until Abby Wambach and substitute Alex Morgan scored twice in the space of three minutes in the latter stages to end France's dreams of a first Final appearance.
Both teams came out of the blocks fast in wet conditions at the Stadion im Borussia-Park seemingly determined to take the game to their opponents. However it was USA who took the early advantage with Lauren Cheney deftly deflecting the ball home at the near post on nine minutes, following Heather O'Reilly's powerful run and cross down the left flank.
Approaching the half hour mark Louisa Necib fired on target from the edge of the penalty area with Hope Solo forced to react quickly and tip over the crossbar. Almost immediately France struck the crossbar through a well-hit Sonia Bompastor effort from the corner of the penalty area, after Necib laid off a free-kick.
Les Bleues were enjoying a strong period peppering the USA goal with a number of efforts from distance.
Then it was USA's opportunity to attack with Abby Wambach twice coming close in a matter of minutes before the interval. A lightning raid saw Shannon Boxx deliver a perfect cross to Wambach at the back post but the American striker could only direct her header across the face of goal from an awkward angle. Wambach could then have scored at the near post in a move reminiscent of Cheney's goal, only for the No20 to stab her shot wide.
The second period continued in a similar vein to the first, with high tempo and end-to-end action.
France restored parity ten minutes after the interval with a somewhat lucky goal, although one that proved reward for their persistent attacking endeavour. Bompastor played a searching cross into the penalty area which snuck in off the far post, with the ball having eluding Solo who was distracted by Gaetane Thiney's presence.
French goalkeeper Berangere Sapowicz made a crucial stop at the feet of Morgan as the substitute seemed certain to score from a rebound.
The Americans got the breakthrough with 11 minutes remaining as the physically imposing Wambach scored with a towering header at the back post from a perfect Cheney corner. The goal saw Wambach draw level with Michelle Akers on 12 goals as the leading USA goalscorer in the FIFA Women's World Cup. Three minutes later the contest was effectively over as Morgan concluded a swift counter-attack with a smart finish past the exposed Sapowicz.
Player of the match: Abby Wambach (USA)


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W.H.: Sequester 'deeply destructive'
President Barack Obama on Friday detailed how roughly $120 billion in cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs will be applied if Congress doesn't shut off a planned "sequester" before the end of the year, renewing an election-year political brawl over who is to blame for the nation's budget woes.
POLITICO obtained an advance copy of the 394-page White House report, which shed little new light on the sword of Damocles hanging over Washington's head but sharpened its political point.
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The report confirms in painstaking detail which budget accounts are subject to cuts — down to the congressional visitors center — and which are exempt. And it is likely to add new urgency to efforts to stop the cuts from taking effect.
"No amount of planning can mitigate the effect of these cuts. Sequestration is a blunt and indiscriminate instrument. It is not the responsible way for our nation to achieve deficit reduction," the Office of Management and Budget wrote. ""The report leaves no question that the sequestration would be deeply destructive to national security, domestic investments and core government functions."
The fight over spending cuts will be unavoidable on the campaign trail. Obama faces the specter of deep reductions to Pentagon accounts — and the layoffs that defense firms say will accompany them — and Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is the GOP's top budget negotiator in the House. If things fall apart, both will be blamed by their political opponents.
Republicans agreed with the president that the automatic cuts could have a devastating effect on the nation but accused him of failing to put forward a workable plan to avoid them.
"The release today of a report detailing across-the-board budget cuts—including the cuts to national security that the President demanded during last year's budget negotiations—highlights the crippling effect these reductions will have on our nation's security and underscores the urgent need for the President to work with congressional Republicans to replace these destructive cuts," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said. "[W]hile the report claims that the president has offered 'balanced and comprehensive deficit reduction' solutions, his plan was so unserious that it was rejected by every single member of Congress."
The overview: There would be a 9.4 percent cut to most defense programs — except those exempted in the sequestration law — and a 10 percent cut to a handful of other Pentagon accounts that are not subject to annual congressional appropriations. Medicare would get hit with a 2 percent cut, while domestic discretionary programs — such as scientific grants and Education Department programs — would be subject to 8.2 percent cuts. Most mandatory domestic programs — those that are funded based on eligibility — would be slashed by 7.6 percent.
The president and his Democratic allies say that Republicans have put at risk the nation's defenses — and important domestic programs — in the name of preserving Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. Republicans counter that Obama and congressional Democrats insisted on including the Pentagon in the automatic cuts as part of a landmark 2011 debt-limit deal.
"While the Department of Defense would be able to shift funds to ensure war fighting and critical military readiness capabilities were not degraded, sequestration would result in a reduction in readiness of many non-deployed units, delays in investments in new equipment and facilities, cutbacks in equipment repairs, declines in military research and development efforts, and reductions in base services for military families," the president's aides wrote.


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The Supreme Court didn't exactly shock the world on Monday. But, by imposing stricter standards on how courts review affirmative action plans, the court did send another small signal that the era of explicitly race-based affirmative action is coming to an end.
During their heyday, affirmative action programs produced some lasting good. It would have been immoral in the civil rights era to have an archipelago of white colleges and universities dotting the land. Affirmative action plans prevented that. As William Bowen and Derek Bok wrote in their classic work, "The Shape of the River," in 1960, only 5.4 percent of blacks between 25 and 29 had graduated from college, while, by 1995, that share had risen to 15.4 percent. The share of black medical school students climbed from 2.2 percent to 8.1 percent.
But affirmative action programs also perpetrated some noteworthy wrongs. They reinforced crude racial categorizations, which repelled many Americans. They discriminated against Asian-Americans. Thomas Espenshade of Princeton reviewed admissions data from 1997 and found that Asian applicants had to outscore African-Americans by 450 points on their S.A.T.'s to have an equal chance of getting into a college. The programs also produced a mismatch between minority students and the schools they attended, which sometimes ended up hurting the students they were designed to help.
The evidence on this is hotly disputed, but Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr. make a compelling case in their book "Mismatch." Because some minority applicants get drafted into schools where they wouldn't otherwise be accepted, they are more likely to be stuck in the bottom of their classes and more likely to flee from difficult science and engineering majors. Black law school students are four times more likely to fail bar exams, with mismatch, according to Sander and Taylor, explaining half this gap.
So affirmative action gave us some wildly good and unfortunately negative outcomes, and it stirred up fierce debates. But that's not why these racial preferences are going away. They are going away because underlying realities have changed.
First, economic inequality now trumps racial inequality as the chief source of disadvantage. Sean Reardon of Stanford has looked at a range of studies over 50 years and found whereas the black/white test score gap used to be nearly twice as large as the rich/poor gap, now the income gap is nearly twice as large as the race gap. Given this, explicitly race-based affirmative action just doesn't respond to the needs of the moment.
Second, the ethnic makeup of the country has become more complex. At the dawn of the affirmative action era, it was easy to see the chief racial divide as between whites and blacks, but the ethnic mosaic is much more complicated now, with an explosion of different groups from all over the world, at various levels of disadvantage.
Third, we're living in an age of data. Once, it may have seemed reasonable to measure a person by a few crude metrics: S.A.T., G.P.A., race. But now colleges and universities, especially with financial aid forms, have access to a wide array of data on all applicants and can potentially get a much more personalized look at the disadvantages each individual has overcome.
The result is that race-based affirmative action, while not being rejected, is being subsumed within class-based affirmative action. It's being subsumed within more detailed measures of exactly which challenges each applicant faced.
In his Century Foundation report, "A Better Affirmative Action," Richard Kahlenberg shows how state university systems in places like Texas and Colorado and at places like the U.C.L.A. Law School are devising class-based preference systems, which ameliorate economic disadvantage while still producing racially diverse campuses.
What often happens is this: Voters or courts in a state will strike down race-based affirmative action. Minority enrollments initially plummet. Then administrations devise class-based systems that look at the specific obstacles that applicants have overcome: growing up in a neighborhood with concentrated poverty, with a single parent or in a home with few financial assets. Minority enrollments recover, at least to a significant degree, and the new system is fairer than the old.
What are we looking for when we admit a student into a university? We're looking for speed of ascent, not academic attainment at one moment in time. A student who's risen from an economic catastrophe to achieve a B-plus average has more speed of ascent than the child of law professors who has an A average. The first student may be more expensive to teach. She may not write as many big alumni checks. But she'll reflect more credit on her school and society.
We now have the means to measure speed of ascent in a fairer and better way. Explicit, raced-based affirmative action programs weren't wrong for their time, but they are being replaced.


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The Gambia has an image problem: Dubbed the "Smiling Coast of Africa," it is a tourist destination, but its government has one of the region's worst records of human rights abuses. On Tuesday, at an African tourism promotion event in New York City, Gambian Vice-President Isatou Njie-Saidy headed a delegation working toward improving the negative perceptions of the country.
In a discussion with Njie-Saidy after the event, I mentioned to her that an Internet search of the Gambia yields many results about its human right abuses. In response, she shifted the topic to the United States: "Do they tell you about Guantánamo Bay? Seems like a human rights issue," she said. "And, you know, in the Internet, you have a lot of garbage. ... Don't believe everything you read: You have to look in between." She later accused social media of peddling untruths: "Social media is the problem," she said.
Accordingly, I brought up to the vice-president the well-documented case of a journalist whose detention in government custody for more than five years has left his family, friends, and colleagues in anguish. The case of Ebrimah "Chief" Manneh, a reporter whose whereabouts, legal status, and health have been unknown since Gambian state security agents arrested him in 2006 at his office at the pro-government Daily Observer, was not unfamiliar to the vice-president. In fact, six U.S. senators, UNESCO, and a West African human rights court have called on the Gambia to end its illegal detention of the journalist.
Despite this, the vice-president told me, "The government didn't arrest him. At the same time, people make up stories. Who knows what happened to Manneh? We don't know--I cannot answer, because I don't know." She then suggested that the journalist may have gone missing while attempting to immigrate to Europe. "There are people who die in the desert--anything can happen to anybody," she said.
Njie-Saidy's government has deprived Manneh of his freedom and, more recently, referred to the journalist's death. Still, the vice-president denied any responsibility in accounting for his fate. "That incident, as far I know--I don't know anything about it," she told me.
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Conroy 'doesn't understand the internet'
The proposed great Australian firewall is bad law and bad policy on every level, according to Professor Catharine Lumby speaking at the first conference of new international academic network Onscenity in London on Monday.
Professor Lumby, Director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, reckons the implementation of the firewall places Australia at the very limits of western democracies. Among the serious criticisms she levelled at the project were the lack of transparency in respect of the list of blocked URLs, and the lack of any administrative appeals procedure to remove a URL once it had been added.
She told the conference: "The proposed route is arbitrary, since it relies heavily on notification of URLs.
"This is a very bad way to operate a block, since it will prove a gift to well-organised campaign groups who are going to bombard the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) with complaints about URLs and sites that they dislike.
"Websites providing advice on abortion are likely to come under attack. Even more seriously, groups such as teenagers who are most in need of familiar and confidential routes to assistance will find it increasingly difficult to obtain help. Discussion of sex by or with young people on the internet is already fraught with danger – and the internet filter will go a long way to shutting down spaces where young people can go to debate matters of direct concern to them."
A large part of the problem, Professor Lumby believes, is that the Communications Minister Stephen Conroy really does not understand the internet. According to her: "He has gone on record claiming that the internet is a medium little different from books, and has quite failed to recognise that it represents a totally new environment".
Prof Lumby is co-author, along with academics Lelia Green and John Hartley of Untangling The Net: The Scope of Content Caught By Mandatory Internet Filtering (pdf).
The report was published in December 2009 and warned that as well as putting Australia at odds with most other Western liberal democracies, plans for mandatory internet filtering could well see a wide range of material disappearing from Australian computer screens.
The authors argue that it is time to review Australia's complex and inconsistent media content regulation system to take account of the online era. ®
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Obama's second-term Cabinet
President Barack Obama plans an extensive shuffle of his West Wing and Cabinet, with White House chief of staff Jack Lew most likely headed to Treasury and former Sen. Chuck Hagel, a moderate Republican, under consideration for secretary of defense, administration insiders said.
Planning for a second term has been under way for months, with Lew and Pete Rouse, the counselor to the president and Obama's internal management guru, preparing lists of possible promotions and nominations. The staff process has been gossiped about by the staff, but details have been kept secret, even from insiders.
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"They haven't even made calls. People haven't been asked," said a Democrat familiar with the situation. "They're more targets than they are potential nominees."
Now, officials will start to cement their departure dates, and aides will sound out colleagues about possible new roles. Among the top current officials expected to go: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Lisa Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Attorney General Eric Holder and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood might not be far behind — or may even beat them out the door.
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There's also a growing list of people the administration is looking to find spots for: Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick most of all, as well as former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and outgoing North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad.
Obama has overseen one of the most stable cabinets in history — the only departures have been Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Gary Locke and John Bryson from Commerce. But what's about to happen amounts to an almost full-scale second transition:
If not for the upcoming fiscal cliff negotiations, Geithner might have been ready to hand Obama his resignation letter as the president walked off stage at the McCormick Place Tuesday night. But once the negotiations are done — or done enough — he's still expected to be the first to go.
The post is going to be crucial for Obama's second-term challenges — job growth, a massive restructuring of the budget and, of course, the teetering of the eurozone. There's a comfort that Obama feels with Geithner, a security just from having the treasury secretary swing through the Oval Office. That's going to be hard to replicate, and a big part of why discussions are focused increasingly around one person: Lew.
"Increasingly in the last week, it's his name and only his name," said one Democratic insider who's in touch with the Obama circle. "They like Jack, they can get Jack. Jack can do the job. I'd be shocked if it were anyone other than Jack."
There's some chatter about Erskine Bowles, but he's not trusted by the inner circle and hasn't helped his cause since the end of the Bowles-Simpson Commission. Roger Altman, who was a deputy at Treasury under Clinton, is also seen as a possibility.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama's win: 12 takeaways)
Much of Rouse's attention has been focused on trying to find a Fortune 500 CEO to recruit, such as Larry Fink of BlackRock, Tony James of the Blackstone Group and David Cote of Honeywell or even Eric Schmidt of Google. Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg's name comes up — Obama clearly likes her, and she served as chief of staff at the department under Larry Summers. She would also be the first woman to run Treasury after an election in which middle-class women provided a crucial margin for the president. But despite the recent uptick in the stock price, her company still has a lot of work ahead.
There's also the possibility that one of them lands at commerce, which has been run by an acting secretary since Bryson resigned, but Wall Street tends to see that as a second-string prize that might not be enough to lure titans from their big compensation packages. Other possibilities here include U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Export-Import Bank President Fred Hochberg, who would be the first openly gay Cabinet secretary.


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When the Chicago Bulls drafted Marquis Teague out of Kentucky with the 29th overall pick in June, it was largely sight unseen. Teague had talked to the Bulls during the draft combine process several weeks prior, but Chicago wasn't one of the teams the Indianapolis native had worked out for.
After the draft selection, it was initially thought he could step right into the backup point guard role which would soon be vacated by the departure of C.J. Watson. But a miserable summer league performance proved otherwise and served as a rude awakening of sorts for the young point guard: Marquis Teague had a lot to learn about the NBA, and he had a lot of work to do.
So after a summer of working out physically, the 19-year-old now finds himself receiving a crash course on the mental aspects of basketball in training camp and learning the biggest key to what makes a point guard successful on this level.
"Just communicating. You've got to know where everybody is on the floor," said Teague in an interview with CSN Chicago on Thursday. "You're the point guard, coach on the floor, so just know where you're supposed to be and know where everybody else is supposed to be."
During summer league, Teague looked as if he were trying to find a balance between utilizing his natural talent and proving that he could be a floor general. But he seemed to be doing way too much thinking on the court in Las Vegas and it showed in the mistakes he made on the floor. Teague averaged 10.6 points and 3.0 assists, but he also shot 29.4 percent from the field and averaged a whopping 3.8 turnovers per game.
Tom Thibodeau isn't sure whether or not his rookie will see any significant time this season. For now, he's more focused on the teaching aspect and wants Teague to learn as much as he can.
"Well, he's a lot better now than he was in the summer. He's 19 years old, he's learning the league, learning a new system, learning his teammates. I just want him to concentrate on his improvement each and every day, learn how to be a pro, and we'll see where we go from there."
During Monday's media day session, Teague had a clear understanding of what he needs to do in order to improve and he certainly has the positive mindset that will serve him well in the long run.
"I've just gotta be patient and continue to work hard," Teague told NBC Chicago. "I need to continue to learn and grow as a player and stay in the gym and keep working hard."


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Y La Bamba has been many things, but at the heart of it is singer-songwriter Luz Elena Mendoza's inquisitive sense of self. Their fifth record, Mujeres, carries on the Portland-based band's affinity for spiritual contemplation, but goes a step further in telling a story with a full emotional spectrum. Coming off Ojos Del Sol, one of NPR's Top 50 Albums of 2016, Mujeres exhibits the scope of Mendoza's artistic voice like never before. "Soy como soy," Mendoza says, and that declaration is the bold— even political— statement that positions Mujeres to be Y La Bamba's most unbridled offering yet.
The record exists in the post-2016 landscape of a national identity crisis, and Mendoza explores what it means to be a Mexican American woman by leading us through places we are afraid to go. Mujeres ventures in to the discomfort of the stories we tell ourselves. Those of our past, our futures. We all have these stories somewhere inside of us, but with Y La Bamba, Mendoza forges new narratives from old stories of heritage and family, tracing history while forging modern chicana feminism.
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ol south pancake house are one of a lot of popular morning meal items in the Usa and in some other nations worldwide. We especially take pleasure in having pancakes with maple syrup, and coffee. Often we tend to consume them as treats. Why do we love consuming them a lot, what is so unique about pancakes? Some people commonly take pancakes for granted, and do not really know their background. What is the past behind pancakes and why are they so popular?
Pancakes have actually generally been consumed on shrove Tuesday, this usage to be back in days, around a 1000 years ago.
Pancakes can be found in lots of societies worldwide, although they might not use the same substances as pancakes, they are normally comparable in preference and structure.
Maple syrup, which goes excellent with pancakes, is actually a tree sap, that originates from the maple tree, which is found mostly in the Canadian area.
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Jan 29 2014
HTTP Proxy Per Git Repository
I've finally made the switch to using Git instead of Subversion as the source control system at work. I've been using it for a while with a couple of personal projects that I've got hosted on BitBucket using the wonderful SourceTree, created by my friend Steve Streeting, and I've come to prefer it to Subversion. At work, I set up a Stash server and have been syncing our Subversion repository into it for a while but never quite made the jump to Git until now.
The first hurdle I've hit is with proxy settings. On my development machine I've got cloned BitBucket repositories and to be able to use those I need to connect through a proxy. Thankfully SourceTree makes it easy to configure Proxy settings for Git. However, these are system wide settings. Now that I want to work with our internal Stash server I need Git to use the proxy for some repositories but not for the internal one.
Given that I've got lots of external repositories but only one internal repository I've left the Git default settings to use the Proxy server. Unfortunately SourceTree doesn't help with specifying a proxy for a single repository but it's not hard.
- Open the local repository in Explorer and head into the .git directory (you may need to show hidden files & folders)
- Open up the config file in your favourite text editor
- At the bottom of the [core] section of settings add the following:
[http] proxy =
- Save the config file.
That's all there is to it. You don't even need to restart SourceTree for it to pick up the change. This change is basically telling Git not to use a Proxy for this repository. Alternatively, on the "proxy =" line you could specify a proxy to use, e.g. if you have lots of internal repositories and only one external then it would be easier to default the global settings to no proxy and only specify a proxy for just one repository.
Hope this helps!


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The revival of Robert Wilson's signature production of Madama Butterfly, which originated at the National Opera Paris in 1993, features exquisite costumes by Frida Parmeggiani and choreography by the late Japanese artist and long-time collaborator of Wilson, Suzushi Hanayagi. Robert Wilson aimed at directing a refined version, outside of the all the "fake Japanese, cherry blossom and all of the traditional clichés on Japanese culture". The aesthetics of this production and the acting are largely inspired by Butoh, a Japanese form of dance characterized by slow motion, poetry and minimalism.
The production has been shown at The Netherlands Opera Amsterdam, The Bolshoi Theater Moscow, Los Angeles Opera and others, and remains in the Paris Opera's repertoire.
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I found this really great recipe on MarthaStewart.com. My husband really, really loves carrot cake so I knew as soon as I saw the recipe I would have to make him some carrot cake cookies.
I often feel free to take liberties with recipes. I have been successful and also have regretted it. Sometimes I make the recipe first and then adjust it to my liking. With this one, I took liberties right away to make a few changes and thankfully, it worked out fine.
The original recipe called for raisins and that would have been good, but I knew my husband would like cranberries, rather than raisins in this recipe. It also called for ginger and I substituted cinnamon. I also didn't care too much for the original filling recipe. It called for too much butter and cream cheese and not quite enough confectioners' sugar. I also knew he would not like it if the filling was flavored with lemon juice. He really doesn't like lemony desserts very well.
If you want to see the original recipe, go to the website. I just think my cookies are the southern version of that recipe. I took them to a family gathering and they all seemed to appreciate them and I like the idea of the filling in the center. It made this a really special dessert.
I baked the cookies on a stoneware baking sheet -- otherwise, I would suggest parchment paper, as is called for by the original recipe. This cookie would have a tendency to stick if not baked on stoneware or parchment paper.
I baked them a little longer than it said on the recipe. They reminded me of Little Debbie Oatmeal cakes -- but from scratch. I cooled them on a rack and then put the frosting in the center. I will make this recipe again. See the recipe, below.
Carrot Cake Cookies
1 cup butter
1 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups rolled oats
1-1/2 cups finely grated, peeled carrots
1 cup dried cranberries
1/2 package (3 oz.) cream cheese
1/4 stick of butter
2 or more cups confectioners' sugar (add until frosting is creamy)
1/2 vanilla flavoring
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
To make the cookies: cream butter and sugar, add the eggs and cream. Add the flour, cinnamon and salt. Stir in the oats, carrots and cranberries. Refrigerate for half an hour for a better consistency before baking. Drop by tablespoons onto baking sheet (stoneware or on parchment paper) and shape with a spoon until they are flat and round. Bake for about 18 to 20 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool and spread a heaping teaspoon of the filling in between two cookies.
For the filling: cream the butter and cream cheese and flavoring, slowly add confectioners' sugar until it is creamy and firm.
This will be fine at room temperature for a day but after that, store them in the refrigerator.


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Where hard drives are headed
Bigger used to be better, but get ready for smaller, faster.
The first hard drive roared to life in 1956. Designed and built by IBM, it was as big as a refrigerator and loaded with 50 two-foot aluminum platters, each coated with an iron oxide paint that served as the magnetic storage medium. The 1200rpm drive - dubbed the 305 RAMAC - was accessed by a pneumatic read/write mechanism and provided a whopping 5MB of storage space.
Flash to 2002, and the more things change, the more they stay the same. Millions of transistors have been added - the device itself has shrunk as dramatically as the hero of a grade-B science fiction movie - but the basic mechanics remain the same. Look ahead three to five years, and perhaps even more surprising is that no immediate successor for this amazingly durable technology seems close to realization. "I spent my early career looking for replacements for magnetic recording, and I think 10 years ago those replacements were closer than they are today," says Vic Jipson, an executive vice president for Maxtor, Milpitas, CA.
"Call me skeptical, but I've been hearing about [hard drive] replacement technologies for a long time and they haven't happened," says Mark Geenen, president of the research firm TrendFocus, Los Altos, CA. "I just don't see there being any significant competing technology in PCs and servers for a long time."
What accounts for this amazing longevity? Continuous improvement, mainly. Most impressive has been the increase in areal density - the number of bits per square inch of storage space - which rose by 60% per year from 1991 through 1996 and a stunning 100% per year from 1997 to 2002. Hard drive performance increases have been less spectacular, but new caching techniques and plummeting costs per gigabyte have neutralized competition from ultra-fast solid state disks, which continue to cost hundreds of times more than conventional drives.
Peer far enough down the road, of course, and the outlines of the hard drive's successors begin to emerge, including new storage schemes involving lasers or plastic disks. But over the next three to five years, the hard drive almost certainly will stand alone as the workhorse of computer storage. The general consensus is starting next year, areal density increases will slip back to 60% year over year, but that will still result in terabyte drives by 2005. For mainstream servers and desktops, however, the most important hard drive improvements will derive from smarter interfaces and new breed of high-performance 2 1/2-inch drives.
Drowning in gigabytes
Server and desktop hard drives have different requirements, but their immediate futures hinge on similar market forces. On the desktop, hard drives' capacity have already far outstripped necessity, according to TrendFocus' Geenen. "The disk drive industry has for years been deluding itself that, oh God, people need 40, 60, 80, 100GB of storage," he says. "That's beyond the lunatic fringe. I don't know what subspecies of the race would demand 120GB on their desktop."
As most storage professionals know, there's even less motivation to buy large-capacity drives for servers. The higher the areal density, the more data a platter can hold - and the more a platter's read/write head must skip around to access that data. Today, wide interfaces, low CPU utilization and high rotational speeds have largely made transfer rates a moot point - the average ATA hard drive can stream half a dozen MPEG2 videos simultaneously without choking. Instead, the number I/Os per second (I/Ops) is the main constraint on server hard drive performance - which drops as the number of gigabytes per read/write head increases.
That makes I/Ops - not capacity - the real frontier for future server drives. Currie Munce, advanced hard disk drive technology director for IBM, says that fact is reflected in a pattern prevalent today: "People willing to trade dollars per gigabyte in exchange for I/Ops per gigabyte," so they connect smaller-capacity drives to RAID controllers that stripe data for fast access.
|Road map for hard drive technology
The road to higher I/Ops rates is paved with fast-spinning drives working in parallel. Instead of areal density barriers, the main obstacles are rotational speed, physical space, cooling concerns and power consumption. As an example, Munce recounts the anecdote about a server farm once planned for the Seattle suburbs, which would have sucked 1/8 the watts of Seattle's total capacity. Watts per gigabyte, he says, is an underrated metric. That's one reason why hard drive technologists agree that lower-power drives with form factors 2-1/2 inches or smaller represent the next major step in hard drive evolution. "The normal response in the disk drive industry over the last 45 years has been: 'When the mechanics get tough, the tough get smaller'," says Maxtor's Jipson.
|New magnetic technology
Extending the life of the magnetic hard drive requires battling a phenomenon known as superparamagnetism, the spontaneous reversal of magnetic polarity. The problem is this: Hard drive write heads turn tiny particles on the platter into little magnets - and when magnets get small enough, ambient thermal energy can cause them to flip polarity and scramble data. Last year, IBM introduced antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media, which uses a sub-layer of magnetic particles to stabilize polarity. The company has demonstrated AFC drives with areal densities of 100GB per square inch - and that number could go higher.
When AFC runs out of gas - perhaps at 150GB - perpendicular recording will kick in. Also called vertical recording, this scheme requires a special write head that magnetizes particles perpendicularly to the plane of the platter instead of flat against it, as in current drives. In perpendicular orientation, particles are less likely to destabilize others' polarity, combating superparamagnetism in ultra-high-density media. According to Dr. Mark Kryder, senior vice president at Seagate Research, perpendicular recording could take us to one terabit per square inch, resulting in terabyte drives. Products could appear as soon as three years from now.
One successor to perpendicular recording will likely be Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR). HAMR, under development by researchers at Seagate, uses a laser to heat the recording media and lower its coercivity - the amount of magnetism required to change a recording bit's polarity. When the media cools, its coercivity rises, reducing the possibility of superparamagnetic reversal. This technique could enable researchers to break the one-terabit-per-square-inch barrier.
The incredible shrinking drive
But hasn't the hard drive already gotten smaller? Laptops typically use 2 1/2-inch models, while IBM's Microdrive for consumer devices sports a tiny, 1-inch platter. Munce says, "Mobile drives today are optimized for high shock and minimum power operation for longer battery life." Not to mention that mobile drives spend most of their time idle - as opposed to server drives that must run flawlessly 24x7. To be viable in server applications, Munce believes that mini drives must be "re-optimized" for reliability and performance, something that IBM is "certainly looking at."
A clear leader in this area is Seagate, Scotts Valley, CA, which already uses 2 1/2-inch platters in its 15,000rpm SCSI drives. "The principal reason for going to smaller discs in enterprise 15K devices is to hold power consumption at a practical level - and also to improve time to data by reducing the physical distances that need to be covered," says Nigel Macleod, senior vice president for Seagate's Advanced Concepts Labs. But Macleod believes Seagate may have already reached the practical limit for rotational speed, noting that pushing drives faster than 15,000rpm produces "diminishing returns" in improved access times. And he offers no road map for drives with platters smaller than 2 1/2 inches.
The path to miniaturization has several obstacles, the immediate one being the finely-etched photolithography required for read/write heads. "Previously, the disk drive industry lagged the semiconductor industry relative to line-width requirements in photolithography by two to three years," says Geenen. "Right now, we're pushing the envelope as to what they can do. And hitting the next generation of recording heads will require tolerances smaller than anything the semiconductor industry can currently provide."
Thanks to IBM, the areal density of magnetic media itself shouldn't be a gating factor in miniaturization for some time. In 2001, the company unveiled its antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media, a multilayer scheme currently used in mainstream drives that will result in drives with areal densities of 100 gigabits per square inch - or desktop drives topping 400GB - by 2003. Technologists speculate that AFC will be pushed even further to 150Gb. Beyond this, perpendicular recording will be required.
ATA meets the back office
While mini server drives may take awhile to reach the mainstream, Serial ATA II - a new drive interface spec that should be finalized in the second half of this year - may have a big impact on server-based storage as early as next year. An extension to the Serial ATA spec - which stipulates higher transfer rates and easier device installation for desktop IDE drives - Serial ATA II will pose a direct challenge to today's parallel SCSI by adding server and networked storage features to ATA drives.
Serial ATA, just like plain old ATA, is a one-to-one controller-to-drive architecture rather than a full-fledged, parallel storage bus like SCSI or Fibre Channel (FC). But Serial ATA reduces the number of leads in the controller-to-drive connection, enabling manufacturers to consolidate perhaps as many as eight ATA controllers on a single die. More to the point, Serial ATA II will at last provide enhanced IDE (EIDE) drives with a switched architecture, enabling multiple servers to be connected together at ATA interface speeds.
The Serial ATA II spec isn't complete yet, but observers believe that chipsets will be priced well below equivalent SCSI chipsets. In part, that's because Serial ATA II in its initial version won't attempt to emulate the sophistication of the SCSI command set. But a second version of the Serial ATA II spec - slated for development in 2003 - may well include command queuing and reordering for routing simultaneous requests among multiple drives - the key SCSI advantage in server I/Ops today. According to the non-profit Serial ATA Working Group, devices compliant with the second version of the Serial ATA II spec should appear on the market by 2004.
But can ATA drives match the reliability of SCSI models? Absolutely, says Maxtor's Jipson, who observes that Network Appliance already employs ATA drives in its NearStore line of storage solutions. "We believe that ATA drives - when properly done - can take reliability off of the table as a concern," Jipson says. However, he says I/Ops-intensive applications will continue to demand high-rpm SCSI drives. TrendFocus' Geenen agrees that Serial ATA II drives won't knock high-end SCSI or FC off the top of the stack, but he thinks the effect on the server drive market as a whole could be earthshaking. "If the Serial ATA promise holds," he says, "a lot of companies will choose to walk away either partially or fully from SCSI."
New life for SCSI
Seagate's Macleod disagrees, arguing that Serial ATA "simply does not have the functionality and reliability levels needed for mission-critical class data storage." Macleod acknowledges that Serial ATA could make sense for near-line storage and tape replacement, "but, in general, Serial ATA is a poor choice for truly mission-critical applications."
|Flashing lasers and burning wires
Alternatives to magnetic storage are already on the market, of course: optical drives and solid state disks (SSDs). But no one can seem to figure out how to boost the performance of optical to anywhere near hard drive levels - and although the price of RAM keeps dropping, SSDs remain prohibitively expensive for all but a few high-transaction applications. It remains to be seen whether the whizzy alternatives proposed for the future will have better luck.
Holographic storage is the most frequently mentioned of these. The theory has been around since the 1960s: What if you used two lasers to etch data in a translucent material instead of images? Where the lasers intersect, an interference pattern is created, which can be later read by exposing it to a single beam. The promise of holographic storage is that you could potentially store terabytes in a tiny space. Unfortunately, no one has yet discovered a material displaying the appropriate longevity, speed or photosensitivity characteristics.
Atomic-force microscopy (AFM) stands the best chance of any storage scheme employing a microelectromechanical system (MEMS), which simply refers to a semiconductor integrated with miniscule mechanisms. It actually sounds more primitive than a magnetic drive: First, you heat a microscopic filament so it makes a pit in a plastic disk; later, the filament reads the disk as if it were a teeny phonograph stylus. Recently, IBM demonstrated its AFC technology, code-named Millipede, using a prototype device that stores a terabit per square inch. Though access times are slow, AFM holds the potential to create cheap devices with plastic platters smaller than one inch in diameter - the practical limit for magnetic drives. IBM predicts Millipede could find its way into portable consumer devices as soon as late 2005.
Instead, Macleod believes that the forthcoming Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) specification - which he sees as a "natural evolution" of current parallel SCSI technology - will have a better chance at succeeding parallel SCSI as the enterprise-class interface of choice. Championed by Compaq, Seagate, IBM, and Maxtor, SAS will exploit some of the development done on Serial ATA, including smaller connectors and a lower command-set overhead. According to the Serial Attached SCSI Working Group, the ultimate goal is to create a universal connector for hard drives, so a single server or storage appliance could accommodate Serial ATA and SAS devices.
The first SAS products are expected to appear in 2004. The new specification will enable 128 devices to be attached to one SCSI bus, a giant step up from the current 16-device limit. And while the fastest current SCSI interface tops out at 320MB/s, top-end SAS devices will sport 600MB/s interfaces by 2005 - twice the top speed proposed for Serial ATA II devices.
Of course, faster interfaces simply raise the ceiling on throughput; it's up to the drive itself to fill that capacity. In fact, today's parallel SCSI drives rarely bump up against the prevalent 160MB/s interface limit. But as Macleod says, "Interface performance is critical in accessing cached data." Over the next few years, he anticipates that Seagate and others will be likely to add larger, smarter buffers to hard drives to increase performance. Already, the incremental performance benefits incurred by the large 8MB buffer in Western Digital's Caviar Special Edition drives have attracted industry attention.
A near future of McDrives?
IBM's Munce notes that new hard drive standards always present multiple opportunities for innovation. For example, future Serial ATA II specs might piggyback support for the development of intelligent drives that understand more about the data they store. We could then see drives that write to disk intelligently - with, say, large media files on the outer tracks for faster transfer rates and small, frequently-accessed files on the inner tracks where everything is packed closer together.
Enterprise drives already use Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) to alert IT to potential problems before they occur. "We see SMART's role expanding to provide our engineers and quality technologists with information to enable ever-more-reliable storage devices," says Macleod.
But added intelligence of this kind, which would require substantial R&D, has no specific time frame. IBM's Almaden research facility is packed with all sorts of great ideas - some of which have made it to market and some which never will. According to Geenen, even miniaturization may take awhile to progress further. "There are a lot of issues that may slow it down, not the least of which is that it will take a significant level of investment and risk-taking to push form-factor downsizing," he says. "And there are very few companies today that are equipped to fund or to take that risk." As Geenen points out, IBM's recent decision to spin off its hard drive operation into a joint venture with Hitachi speaks volumes about the commoditization of mass storage.
True, areal density will continue to increase dramatically. But high-performance server hard drives will be unlikely to exploit those advances, because more bits per square inch means fewer I/Ops per gigabyte - unless high-speed drives get a whole lot smaller in a hurry, which no one anticipates. But that doesn't mean huge-capacity drives will be left out of the data center, says Seagate's Macleod. "For insanely high I/Ops systems, 15K drives are the answer - and in the future, even faster drives or parallel arrays of tiny drives will be the direction. For less I/O-intensive applications like backup storage larger, high-capacity, slower drives provide a much more cost effective answer."
Storage technologists agree that the magnetic hard drive will endure at least until the end of the decade. By that time, new storage schemes - involving lasers or plastic discs - may replace magnetic drives in many applications. Remember, though, rumors of the hard drive's demise have been greatly exaggerated before.
The trend, says Macleod, will be toward drives with ever more application-specific performance and cost characteristics. And for mainstream storage systems, the immediate future appears to lie in cheaper, incrementally faster drives that use redundancy and better monitoring to provide fault tolerance at lower cost. New storage technology just doesn't appear to be right around the corner, astonishing increases in capacity notwithstanding. But cheaper, smaller and slightly faster hardware? You can always count on the computer industry for that.


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Looking back to 121 days ago, PDC Energy (PDCE - Get Report) priced a 4,500,000 share secondary stock offering at $54 per share. Buyers in that offering made a considerable investment into the company, expecting that their investment would go up over the course of time and based on early trading on Thursday, the stock is now 9.4% higher than the offering price.Investors who did not participate in the offering but would be a buyer of PDCE at a cheaper price, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the July 2014 put at the $45 strike, which has a bid at the time of this writing of $2.05. That would result in a cost basis of $42.95 per share before broker commissions in the scenario where the contract is exercised. If the contract is never exercised, the put seller would still keep the premium, which represents a 4.6% return against the $45.00 purchase commitment, or a 7.4% annualized rate of return (at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost).
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Looking at the chart above, PDCE's low point in its 52 week range is $31.31 per share, with $73.93 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $60.57. According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, PDCE makes up 4.67% of the S&P SmallCap Energy Portfolio ETF ( PSCE) which is trading lower by about 0.7% on the day Thursday.


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CHINA: Businesses help China's government abuse rights
Following the onset of reform in 1978, China has become the world's factory. By late February, its foreign exchange reserves had reached a total of US$853.7 billion, surpassing Japan's US$831.6 billion to become the largest in the world.
Meanwhile, the human rights of the Chinese people remain severely restricted -- as can be seen from a widely reported letter to the State Council by Li Changping (???), former party secretary of a rural district of Jianli County, Hubei Province, in which he talks about the exploitation of farmers, or in Chen Guidi's (???) and Wu Chuntao's (???) extensive A Survey of Chinese Peasants, which describes the plight of farmers.
In step with the times, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is now "globalizing" its clampdown on human rights, a process that can be roughly divided into three parts.
First, the CCP is capitalizing on the enormous business opportunities that have followed on China's internationalization to entice the international community to help it suppress human rights. Companies such as Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Skype have agreed to install keyword software to enable the filtering out of unwanted information from their networks.
The second part consists of a clampdown on human rights by multinational companies themselves. In 2003, the US cosmetics firm Mary Kay and German carmaker Volkswagen gave in to the CCP's demands that they fire anyone practicing Falun Gong in the work place.
The Chinese government has also taken advantage of its system of labor reformation camps and prisons and laid down preferential treatment policies aimed at encouraging and attracting joint ventures. Products from these joint ventures are exported to 13 countries and regions, including the US, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
The third part consists of the CCP "exporting" its suppression of human rights. This includes using hard cash to gain control of Chinese-language media around the world and turn them into CCP mouthpieces.
China even resorts to violent persecution of Falun Gong followers around the world. Some examples are the shooting of a Falun Gong practitioner in South Africa, the attack on Li Yuan (??), the Epoch Times' technical supervisor, in his Atlanta, Georgia, home, and break-ins in Epoch Times offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places.
A review of China's global clampdown on human rights turns up an endless list of such incidents.
The international community has long stood by silently and ignored China's actions, in effect providing indirect encouragement. One example is how the UN's Human Rights Commission was unable to add China's human-rights abuses to its agenda. The commission was recently abolished and replaced by a Human Rights Council, but the problem remains equally serious, as many countries with deplorable human-rights records are members of the new council.
There are, of course, improvements, as China's human-rights problems are receiving more attention. One example is how the US recently called Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems to a congressional hearing to answer to suspicions that they are assisting China's human-rights abuses.
US President George W. Bush has also met with three Chinese Christians in the White House, and during a recent visit to China, German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Chen and three other people in the German embassy in Beijing to find out more about China's agricultural problems.
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Friday, January 14, 2011
The 13th Zodiac Sign
I was watching CNN this morning and found out about this 13th zodiac sign. So I did some search online.
The name of the new sign is called Opiuchus also known as Serpentarius.
My sign is originally a Leo, so from this order, I think my sign will become Cancer. Its always the sign before yours if you go in order.
here is the list of the regular standard or old zodiac sign in order:
The New List:
Capricorn: Jan. 20 - Feb. 16
Aquarius: Feb. 16 - March 11
Pisces: March 11- April 18
Aries: April 18 - May 13
Taurus: May 13 - June 21
Gemini: June 21 - July 20
Cancer: July 20 - Aug. 10
Leo: Aug. 10 - Sept. 16
Virgo: Sept. 16 - Oct. 30
Libra: Oct. 30 - Nov. 23
Scorpio: Nov. 23 - Nov. 29
Ophiuchus: Nov. 29 - Dec. 17
Sagittarius: Dec. 17 - Jan. 20
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Protein Shakes
I am currently drinking MYOFusion protein shake. Been drinking it for a month. I like it so far, and the taste is great unlike other protein shakes where i have to somewhat force myself to drink it like a medicine...lol
I use to drink Freak Fix when I started which helps me gain the weight a lot quicker. It kind of scared me a little bit coz I felt somewhat fat. I guess its really effective if your very serious of gaining weight. you must work-out a lot for it because it will turn into fat quick..lol
I did not have a good work-out plan back then compare to now where I have everything scheduled, so mostly likely that's what caused me to gain the unnecessary weight that I don't want.
So I turned back to this popular muscle milk that everybody knows and its actually a lot cheaper. I didn't really felt any difference in my body while drinking this unlike the freak fix that even parents noticed that I had gained weight in such a short time. I do recommend it for people who are serious to gain muscle and heavy workout.
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Talent Development
Constantly on the lookout for new ways to support young and emerging talent in the world of contemporary photography, Unseen has established a number of talent development programmes in the last five years in collaboration with a variety of institutions and organisations. Click on the links below to read more about the awards taking place this year at Unseen Amsterdam.
ING Unseen Talent Award
The ING Unseen Talent Award is an exclusive photography award created by ING and Unseen, focused on new photography talent. The award provides an international platform for emerging European photography talent to present their work on a global scale. The final work created by the five finalists for the ING Collection will be exhibited at Unseen Amsterdam. Read more here.
Unseen Dummy Award
The Unseen Dummy Award is a collaboration between Unseen and Lecturis to showcase the work of exceptional artists and designers from around the world and to give them a chance to realise and publish their photobook dummy. The Unseen Dummy Award gives the winning artist an entry into the international photography industry. Find out more about the award here.
Meijburg Art Commission
The Meijburg Art Commission aims to discover talented artists whose multimedia work focuses on photography. The commission supports emerging artists in their career and offers them the opportunity to excel in their chosen discipline. This prestigious prize, initiated by tax advisory firm Meijburg & Co, is part of Unseen Amsterdam. Find out more here.
Fujifilm Faculty
The Fujifilm Faculty offers an artist collective the opportunity to develop new work based on research into the nature of Fujifilm through an exploration of process and people. The collective will generate work with the focus on Fujifilm Original Photo Paper. The final work will be presented at Unseen Amsterdam, including daily workshops led by the collective, Fujifilm specialists and guest collectives. Find out more here.
Outset Unseen Exhibition Fund
The Outset Unseen Exhibition Fund is a unique partnership between Unseen and Outset Netherlands, providing a new institutional platform for emerging talent. Every year an international curatorial committee (of the youngest generation) selects one outstanding artist exhibiting at Unseen who will be given a solo exhibition at an international institution. Read more here.
Grolsch Unseen Residency
The Grolsch Unseen Residency is a two-month scholarship given annually to one of the premiering artists of Unseen. The winning artist will be housed in a European city and will create a new body of work whilst looking at the urban space in alternative and uncommon ways. The end result of the residency will be launched at the following edition of Unseen Amsterdam. Find out more here.


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|Sibiloi National Park
Lake Turkana is one the largest alkaline lake in the world.
Sibiloi National Park, in Northern Kenya, is certainly one of East Africa's best-kept secrets. Mostly arid semi desert, commiphora woodland is prevalent. Euphorbia and stunning pink flowers of the desert rose stand out amongst the dark sandstone outcrops. Dry sand rivers lined with shady thorn trees intersect the landscape. Lake Turkana is undoubtedly the most striking feature of this region; algae-inspired shades of green give the lake its name "The Jade Sea".
Sibiloi was declared a National Park by the government of Kenya in 1973. This was undertaken primarily to ensure the long-term protection of the many important fossil sites in the area but also to conserve the rare fauna and flora endemic important to the area. This wildlife includes rare dry country large mammals such as grevy zebra, gerenuk and oryx.
Sibiloi National Park and Lake Turkana lies at an approximate altitude of 375 meters (1246 feet) above sea level.
The lakeshore provides important refuge to increasingly threatened crocodile and soft-shelled turtle populations, and serves as an important breeding ground for crocodiles, many different fish species and water birds. The combination of wildlife and prehistory makes Sibiloi National Park unique in East Africa and has been recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The National Park is administered under Kenya Wildlife Service, which falls under the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources.


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For succulents, start with sand. Pour an inch into the terrarium as a foundation. For a hint of color, add a contrasting shade of sand that picks up the accent tones in leaves. For plants (like ferns) that need more water, skip the sand and begin with an inch of river rocks for drainage, then add a thin layer of charcoal to keep the ground fresh.
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For wet terrariums, re-pot ferns using Terrarium Soil Mix, made from natural coconut fiber (coir), which keeps in moisture and resists mold. With succulents, keep it simple and leave plants in their containers. Using a gardening glove to avoid prickly leaves, lower them into the glass, then twist pots to nestle them in the sand.
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Medicines that damage the ear and cause hearing loss are known as ototoxic medicines. They are a common cause of hearing loss, especially in older adults who have to take medicine on a regular basis. In most cases, hearing loss occurs because the medicine damages the cochlea in the inner ear.
Hearing loss caused by an ototoxic medicine tends to develop quickly. The first symptoms usually are ringing in the ears (tinnitus) and vertigo. Hearing usually returns to normal after you stop taking the medicine. But some medicines can cause permanent damage to the inner ear. This results in permanent hearing loss even if you stop taking the medicine.
Commonly used medicines that may cause hearing loss include:
Hearing-related side effects are more likely when you take two or more of these medicines at the same time. If you are using more than one of these medicines, be alert to any new hearing problems. And report hearing changes to your doctor.
Current as of: October 21, 2018
Author: Healthwise StaffMedical Review: William H. Blahd, Jr., MD, FACEP - Emergency MedicineKathleen Romito, MD - Family MedicineCharles M. Myer III, MD - Pediatrics, Otolaryngology
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nuclear medicine scan
Pronunciation: (NOO-klee-er MEH-dih-sin skan)
A method that uses radioactive substances to make pictures of areas inside the body. The radioactive substance is injected into the body, and locates and binds to specific cells or tissues, including cancer cells. Images are made using a special machine that detects the radioactive substance. Also called radioimaging.
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Reef Check and REEFSearch
Our guests now have the opportunity to become 'Citizen Scientists'. Lady Elliot Island is the first Great Barrier Reef tourism operator to adopt a visitor monitoring and research program that provides guests with a meaningful experience. Reef Check and REEFSearch programs allow visitors to become involved in reef education and conservation, providing invaluable research to scientists and the international monitoring programs. In early 2013, Reef Check Australia (RCA) established four (4) new monitoring sites at Lady Elliot Island with a team of trained volunteers. We now have a total of five (5) RCA sites on the Island. You can see information collected by their teams on the online RCA Reef Health Database.
The team also launched their new REEFSearch program in February 2013. REEFSearch is a casual reef identification and observation that offers snorkellers, reef walkers or SCUBA divers the chance to dive in and learn the basics of Reef Check concepts, then share their findings. Students and teachers from the University on the Sunshine Coast, in addition to Lady Elliot Island staff and visitors joined the Reef Check team to conduct the first ever group REEFSearch using the LEI branded REEFSearch slate.
Since the launch, guests have been encouraged to participate non-guided REEFSearch snorkels or reef walks. Slates are available in the Education Centre for guests to use at their leisure and guests can upload their survey findings and photos into the REEFSearch Hub by using the new laptop in the Education Centre or once they return home.
This new observation program has proven to be extremely popular for education groups and passionate guests eager to learn more about the marine environment and assist scientists with understanding the health of our reef.
Lady Elliot Island continues to support another research and monitoring program and regularly hosts the University of Queensland's Project Manta research team. Project Manta relies on the help of the diving community to report manta ray sightings along the east Australia seaboard and monitor individual occurrences, mass aggregations and seasonal migrations. Guests on LEI are also encouraged to use the new laptop in the Education Centre to upload and send their photos of manta rays to the Project Manta Team for identification.
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The IHeat S-7 electric tankless water heater is the perfect product for point of use applications. The S-7 has been manufactured in to handle 2 hand sinks in the warmer climates. FL, GA, TX, LA and AZ. Its small enough to be installed underneath a kitchen sink, or bathroom vanity, and since its electric you do not need to install costly exhaust pipes. The M series comes equipped with a digital display allowing you to choose a range of temperatures from 80 degree F to 140 degree F, (DOE recommends setting heaters at 120 degree F).
202 4.0 GPM 85,000 BTU Propane Gas Portable Tankless Water Heater
EZ Tankless
The EZ 202 is a portable propane powered tankless water heater that allows for quick and easy hot water anywhere. With its ability to heat a continuous water flow, RV and camp site users rave about the ability to take shower, after shower, after shower. No longer will RVers be plagued by the short shower times permitted when using a small tank type water heater. Featuring easy to use dials on the front of the heater, most users can have the unit up and running in less than 15 minutes. This unit is designed for outdoor installations, but if installed indoors, it must be installed in a room containing at least 4000 cu. ft. of combustion air. When installed outdoors a vent pipe is not needed nor required unless otherwise specified by local codes.
Tempra 20 Plus 19.2 kW 2.91 GPM Whole House Tankless Electric Water Heater
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Stiebel Eltron developed tankless electric water heating technology 90 years ago and continues as the industry pioneer and world leader. Our engineering and manufacturing tradition of excellence means you can depend on the performance and reliability of our products. Our Tempra models are whole house tankless electric water heaters, never wasting energy storing hot water, but delivering it as you need it, for as long as you need it. The compact design needs no venting, allowing installation close to your draw off points, making your wait for hot water as short as possible and maximizing your energy savings. Tempra tankless water heaters are sized based on the number of bathrooms and your climate. Refer to the Tempra Sizing Guide under More Views to determine which model you need. Call Stiebel Eltron at 800.582.8423 if you have high flow showers, or any sizing questions. Tempra water heaters supply water at a constant temperature from 86 to 140 degrees F that is settable on the front panel. We recommend setting the actual highest temperature you use, typically 107 degrees for a shower. Tempra Plus models incorporate an Advanced Flow Control that automatically reduces flow to deliver water at the set point if demand exceeds capacity. Regular Tempra models do not have this feature and should be considered if this is not of concern. Tempra 20 models provide hot water for 1 or 2 bathrooms in warm climates, or 1 bathroom in cool climates.
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Ricky Gervais will once again step back into the spotlight when he takes the stage to host the 2016 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 10.
It's been four years since Gervais hosted the event—hat tip to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler for taking on the gig and nailing it from 2013 to 2015—and the break is sure to have allowed the "Derek" actor time to come up with enough biting, of-the-moment zingers to skewer Hollywood throughout the roughly three-hour live telecast.
It's a practice he honed over his fist three stints as Globes' host. Here, some of the comedian's best gags and one-liners from his former stints shepherding Hollywood's big night:
1. "Actors aren't just loved here in Hollywood, they are loved the world over. You could be in the third world and get a glimpse of a Hollywood star and it could make you feel a little bit better. You could be a little Asian child with no possessions and no money. But you could see a picture of Angelina Jolie and you'd think, 'Mummy!'" (2010)
2. "This next category is a bit of a downer. It's for writing. We all know writers get too much credit in Hollywood, when actors mention them. I don't mean to keep going on about actors, but they're the most important ones, OK? It's not the words you say, it's how good you look when you're saying them." (2010)
3. "I hope I haven't offended anyone. It's not my fault [points at his drink]. I like a drink as much as the next man. Unless the next man is Mel Gibson. (2010)
4. "It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking – or as Charlie Sheen calls it: breakfast." (2011)
5. "Next up, Eva Longoria has the daunting task of introducing the President of the Hollywood Foreign Press. That's nothing, I just had to help him off the toilet and pop his teeth in." (2011)
6. "For any of you who don't know, the Golden Globes are just like the Oscars, but without all that esteem. The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. A bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker, and more easily bought. Allegedly. Nothing's been proved." (2012)
7. "Last year, our next presenter won both the Golden Globe and the Oscar for her work in 'Black Swan.' This year, she took some time out to have a baby. Consequently, she's been nominated for nothing. Really pathetic. But she learned that valuable lesson you all already knew – never put family first. Please welcome the very foolish Natalie Portman." (2012)
8. "Who needs the Oscars? Not me, and not Eddie Murphy. He walked out on 'em, and good for him. But when the man who said yes to 'Norbit,' says no, you know you're in trouble." (2012)
9. "There were a lot of big films that didn't get nominated. Nothing for 'Sex and the City 2.' I was sure the Golden Globes for special effects would go to the team that airbrushed that poster." (2011)
10. When introducing Tom Hanks and Tim Allen: "What can I say about our next two presenters? The first is an actor, producer, writer and director whose movies have grossed over $3.5 billion at the box office. He's won two Academy Awards and three Golden Globes for his powerful and varied performances starring in such films as 'Philadelphia,' 'Forrest Gump,' 'Castaway,' 'Apollo 13' and 'Saving Private Ryan.' The other is Tim Allen." (2011)
The 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards will air live on Sunday, January 10, 2016, from 8:00 p.m. (ET)/5:00-8:00 p.m. (PT) on NBC.


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This course is designed for CAPPA members who wish to become a CAPPA-certified Postpartum Doula, but are unable to attend a training with a CAPPA Faculty Instructor.
Students purchasing this course will be registered to CAPPA Academy — an online learning platform — where they will gain access to the details and forms necessary for completing the Course Requirements.
Students will also receive (by U.S. Mail):
- The Postpartum Doula Training Manual
- The Healthy Mom, Happy Family DVD
- The Baby's First Months DVD
- (3) Postpartum Doula Scope of Practice Cards
More details about the course can be found here at cappa.net/postpartum-doula.
Along with the course, students should consider purchasing:
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Small-Business Delay Is Latest Blow for Health Law
Small Companies Have One More Year to Sign Up for Insurance Using HealthCare.gov
The Obama administration's announcement of a one-year delay for small businesses to sign up for insurance policies using the troubled HealthCare.gov website comes as a blow for the administration, which had counted on the new online exchanges to create a competitive, transparent market for coverage.
Small firms, for their part, say they had figured they wouldn't be using the new exchange this year. Many of them are already making other plans for insuring their workers in 2014, often by renewing existing policies or working...


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Kerry back to the Middle East as region roils
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is returning to the Middle East this week amid rising tensions in Egypt and deteriorating conditions in Syria that threaten to put his signature effort to re-launch Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on the back burner.
Kerry departed Washington on Monday evening for Jordan where he will see Arab League officials to discuss developments in Egypt since the military's ouster of President Mohammed Morsi. They are also expected to discuss the crisis in Syria as President Bashar Assad's regime appears to have gained the upper hand against the western- and Gulf Arab-backed opposition, the State Department said.
Neither Israel nor the Palestinian territories are on Kerry's itinerary although U.S. officials said Kerry hopes to see Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Amman and wouldn't rule out an impromptu stop in Jerusalem.
The trip is Kerry's sixth to the region as secretary of state and most of his previous visits have focused on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Kerry does intend to brief the Arab foreign ministers on the status of U.S. attempts to bring the two sides together, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
There has been widespread speculation among Israelis and Palestinians that Kerry may have gained enough traction during his earlier trips to announce a resumption in the stalled talks this week. U.S. officials tamped down expectations for any imminent breakthrough, but they said Kerry would not be making the trip unless he believed he could make progress.
Kerry will arrive in Jordan a day after Deputy Secretary of State William Burns held talks in Cairo with officials in Egypt's transitional government and members of civil society aimed at pressing them to be as transparent and inclusive as possible as they work toward amending the country's constitution and restoring a democratically elected civilian government. Kerry will update his Arab counterparts on Burns' visit, officials said.
His meetings in Jordan also follow the Syrian opposition's election of new leaders. Kerry plans to discuss with his Arab counterparts how to work with the new opposition leadership at a time when the Assad regime has launched new offensives to retake ground lost earlier to rebel fighters.
The secretary plans to return to Washington on Thursday.
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