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MEET: Captain's Invitational & Combined Events – Newport News, Va.
THE BASICS: The VCU Men's and Women's Track and Field team competed in the Captain's Invitational & Combined Events at the Freeman Center on the campus of Christopher Newport University this weekend. The Rams had a strong showing, with sophomore Evan Morton (pictured right) setting the school record and winning the heptathlon.
- In his first time competing in the heptathlon, Morton won the event this weekend. The Fredericksburg, Va. native set the school record with 4429 points. Morton finished in the top five of all but one event in the heptathlon.
- Fighting off a nagging hamstring injury, freshman Xavier Waller also competed in his first heptathlon. He tied for first in the high jump and placed 10th overall in the event with 3629 points.
- Senior Corey Scott placed third in the 1000m race. Scott ran a time of 2:34.46. Sophomore Berham McDowell finished fifth with a time of 2:40.68.
- In the 5000m, senior Brenden Leavitt won the event with a time of 14.38.42. Sophomore Sam Hush placed fifth with a time of 15:59.88 and classmate Matt Earman placed eighth with a time of 17:24.86.
- On the women's side, junior Nneka Ogwu placed fourth in pentathlon. She set a new a personal record with 3019 points.
- Also in the pentathlon, sophomore Amani Harper finished in eighth place. Harper also set a new personal record with 2732 points.
- Junior Justine Dutton tied her personal-best jump in the pole vault with a 3.45m jump. She finished in third place in the event.
- In the 1000m race, freshman Brianna Krumholz placed fifth with a personal-best time of 3:09.15.
- Junior Erin Geragthy placed third in the mile run with a time of 5:33.36.
- In the shot put, junior Jessica Williams placed third with a throw of 14.13m. Freshmen Precious Nwala (13.27m) and Jada Roberts (12.52m) placed seventh and ninth, respectively.
"I'm very proud of how the multi-event athletes performed this weekend. They all pushed themselves in each individual event and it shows in the final results."
-Assistant Track and Field Coach Allyson Thomas
WHAT'S AHEAD: Next weekend, the Rams will have athletes compete in both the Penn State Invitational (Jan. 25-26) and the George Mason Patriot Games (Jan. 26).


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In this first of a series of visions, Elder Brian Farley begins the prophetical section of the book of Zechariah. There is much to be gleaned in this passage as it relates to God's chosen earthly people, Israel. We hope you are greatly benefitted by this lesson.

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Look at the underside of a mushroom. Each one of those little paper-thin ribs is called a lamella (presumably, the plural is lamellae). In the world of Mercedes-Benz, this particular L-word is associated with the context of sunroofs: the kind with slats that bunch up when the roof opens.
There is, however, another application. Most of us would call it a bar, the line of bodywork that bisects the grille and houses the three-pointed star in sportier Benz models. The company itself, though, likes to call this a lamella.
This information is given to underline the old wisdom that there is always something new to learn. Here's another piece of info, which came as rather a pleasant surprise: the 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster is a load of fun to drive.
This may not be so blindingly obvious. For a start, a lack of roof renders a car's body prone to flexing, so soft-tops are usually handicapped by the added weight of extra bracing. Then there's the long nose full of V8 engine, surely that could affect the steering feel. And few Benz cars are known for their tactile steering.
Some ingenious engineering and lightweight components (such as carbon fiber, plus a roof frame featuring magnesium and aluminum) has resulted, however, in the Roadster being only 88 pounds heavier than the hard-top, gullwing-doored counterpart. And it would take an unsympathetic drive over really rough surfaces to make the body even hint at flexing. Actually, this is the original SLS. The car was developed as an open-top vehicle from the outset. The company just decided to launch the hard-top version first.
The 6.2-liter V8, in common with all AMG engines, is hand-assembled and bears a plaque with the technician's name (yes, the badge says 6.3, but the actual displacement is 6,208 cc). It is also positioned behind the front axle, which leaves the hydraulically assisted steering able to transition from one direction to another with a sharp smoothness, or even a smooth sharpness.
Weight distribution is 47 percent to the front and 53 to the rear. The chassis feels neutral and balanced, but also fairly nimble. Which makes the 563 horsepower and 479 lb-ft of torque all the more satisfying.
This is indeed a generous dollop of power and quite appropriate for a car made specially by the performance division of Mercedes-Benz, not a tuned-up version of an existing model. Here, AMG has deployed a naturally aspirated V8 that burbles and even pops sometimes on the over-run. It sounds gloriously, unapologetically old-fashioned as the car snarls from standstill to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds; the rear wheels driven by a carbon-fiber shaft. The whole package seems so romantic that all it would take to complete the picture is a be-scarfed Grace Kelly in the passenger seat.
Despite all the beauty in the cabin—such as the fine leather upholstery, instrument dials that look like jewels and sleek carbon-fiber trim—there are things the erstwhile Princess of Monaco would not recognize. Like the Airscarf warm air system coming from vents in the seat, the steering wheel-mounted shift paddles for the seven-speed dual-clutch transmission or the power-operated roof that takes only 11 seconds to complete its operation, and can do so at speeds up to 30 mph. Voice-controlled satellite navigation comes as standard, along with heated, ventilated and massaging seats; blind spot warning system; Bluetooth; iPod integration and light alloy wheels.
It would be wrong for such equipment to be on the options list, considering the SLS Roadster starts at $196,100. Although if anyone is in the mood for spending more money, there's always an adaptive suspension, Bang & Olufsen 1,000-watt audio system or carbon/ceramic brake rotors. Just to make the Roadster even more appealing, having the roof down does not impinge upon the ample 6.1 cubic feet of trunk space whatsoever.
If anything, the Roadster could be the best SLS to buy, since it has a lower center of gravity. Then again, those gullwing doors are so darned iconic. What the heck, why not buy one of each?
2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster
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What is the most important information I should know about amoxicillin?
You should not use this medicine if you are allergic to any penicillin antibiotic.
What is amoxicillin?
Amoxicillin is a penicillin antibiotic that fights bacteria.
Amoxicillin is used to treat many different types of infection caused by bacteria, such as tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, gonorrhea, and infections of the ear, nose, throat, skin, or urinary tract.
Amoxicillin is also sometimes used together with another antibiotic called clarithromycin (Biaxin) to treat stomach ulcers caused by Helicobacter pylori infection. This combination is sometimes used with a stomach acid reducer called lansoprazole (Prevacid).
There are many brands and forms of amoxicillin available and not all brands are listed on this leaflet.
Amoxicillin may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
What should I discuss with my healthcare provider before taking amoxicillin?
You should not use this medicine if you are allergic to any penicillin antibiotic, such as ampicillin, dicloxacillin, oxacillin, penicillin, or ticarcillin.
To make sure amoxicillin is safe for you, tell your doctor if you have:
- asthma;
- liver or kidney disease;
- mononucleosis (also called "mono");
- a history of diarrhea caused by taking antibiotics; or
- food or drug allergies (especially to a cephalosporin antibiotic such as Omnicef, Cefzil, Ceftin, Keflex, and others).
If you are being treated for gonorrhea, your doctor may also have you tested for syphilis, another sexually transmitted disease.
Amoxicillin is not expected to harm an unborn baby. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant during treatment.
Amoxicillin can make birth control pills less effective. Ask your doctor about using non hormonal birth control (condom, diaphragm with spermicide) to prevent pregnancy while taking amoxicillin.
Amoxicillin can pass into breast milk and may harm a nursing baby. Tell your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.
The amoxicillin chewable tablet may contain phenylalanine. Talk to your doctor before using this form of amoxicillin if you have phenylketonuria (PKU).
How should I take amoxicillin?
Follow all directions on your prescription label. Do not take this medicine in larger or smaller amounts or for longer than recommended.
Take this medicine at the same time each day.
The Moxatag brand of amoxicillin should be taken with food, or within 1 hour after eating a meal.
Some forms of amoxicillin may be taken with or without food. Check your medicine label to see if you should take your amoxicillin with food or not.
You may need to shake amoxicillin liquid well just before you measure a dose. Follow the directions on your medicine label.
Measure liquid medicine with the dosing syringe provided, or with a special dose-measuring spoon or medicine cup. If you do not have a dose-measuring device, ask your pharmacist for one. You may place the liquid directly on the tongue, or you may mix it with water, milk, baby formula, fruit juice, or ginger ale. Drink all of the mixture right away. Do not save any for later use.
The chewable tablet should be chewed before you swallow it.
Do not crush, chew, or break an extended-release tablet. Swallow it whole.
While using amoxicillin, you may need frequent blood tests. Your kidney and liver function may also need to be checked.
If you are taking amoxicillin with clarithromycin and/or lansoprazole to treat stomach ulcer, use all of your medications as directed. Read the medication guide or patient instructions provided with each medication. Do not change your doses or medication schedule without your doctor's advice.
Use this medicine for the full prescribed length of time. Your symptoms may improve before the infection is completely cleared. Skipping doses may also increase your risk of further infection that is resistant to antibiotics. Amoxicillin will not treat a viral infection such as the flu or a common cold.
Do not share this medicine with another person, even if they have the same symptoms you have.
This medicine can cause unusual results with certain medical tests. Tell any doctor who treats you that you are using amoxicillin.
Store at room temperature away from moisture, heat, and light.
You may store liquid amoxicillin in a refrigerator but do not allow it to freeze. Throw away any liquid amoxicillin that is not used within 14 days after it was mixed at the pharmacy.
What happens if I miss a dose?
Take the missed dose as soon as you remember. Skip the missed dose if it is almost time for your next scheduled dose. Do not take extra medicine to make up the missed dose.
What happens if I overdose?
Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222.
Overdose symptoms may include confusion, behavior changes, a severe skin rash, urinating less than usual, or seizure (black-out or convulsions).
What should I avoid while taking amoxicillin?
Antibiotic medicines can cause diarrhea, which may be a sign of a new infection. If you have diarrhea that is watery or bloody, stop using amoxicillin and call your doctor. Do not use anti-diarrhea medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
What are the possible side effects of amoxicillin?
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor at once if you have:
- diarrhea that is watery or bloody;
- fever, swollen gums, painful mouth sores, pain when swallowing, skin sores, cold or flu symptoms, cough, trouble breathing;
- swollen glands, rash or itching, joint pain, or general ill feeling;
- pale or yellowed skin, yellowing of the eyes, dark colored urine, fever, confusion or weakness;
- severe tingling, numbness, pain, muscle weakness;
- easy bruising, unusual bleeding (nose, mouth, vagina, or rectum), purple or red pinpoint spots under your skin; or
- severe skin reaction --fever, sore throat, swelling in your face or tongue, burning in your eyes, skin pain, followed by a red or purple skin rash that spreads (especially in the face or upper body) and causes blistering and peeling.
Common side effects may include:
- stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea;
- vaginal itching or discharge;
- headache; or
- swollen, black, or "hairy" tongue.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
What other drugs will affect amoxicillin?
Other drugs may interact with amoxicillin, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal products. Tell each of your health care providers about all medicines you use now and any medicine you start or stop using.
Remember, keep this and all other medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medication only for the indication prescribed.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided by Cerner Multum, Inc. ('Multum') is accurate, up-to-date, and complete, but no guarantee is made to that effect. Drug information contained herein may be time sensitive. Multum information has been compiled for use by healthcare practitioners and consumers in the United States and therefore Multum does not warrant that uses outside of the United States are appropriate, unless specifically indicated otherwise. Multum's drug information does not endorse drugs, diagnose patients or recommend therapy. Multum's drug information is an informational resource designed to assist licensed healthcare practitioners in caring for their patients and/or to serve consumers viewing this service as a supplement to, and not a substitute for, the expertise, skill, knowledge and judgment of healthcare practitioners. The absence of a warning for a given drug or drug combination in no way should be construed to indicate that the drug or drug combination is safe, effective or appropriate for any given patient. Multum does not assume any responsibility for any aspect of healthcare administered with the aid of information Multum provides. The information contained herein is not intended to cover all possible uses, directions, precautions, warnings, drug interactions, allergic reactions, or adverse effects. If you have questions about the drugs you are taking, check with your doctor, nurse or pharmacist.
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An 18-year-old Dallas man was arrested early Friday morning with a detached human foot.
The man, later identified as Daniel Wayne Stanley, approached officers at about 3:30 a.m. along the 2100 block of South Buckner Boulevard and told them that he had some skin and a human foot in his bag. He then showed the officers the foot and took them to the grave where he had dug up and removed the body part.
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Faith Factor | Food and shelter offered in Truckee
TRUCKEE, Calif. – In the summer of 2011, Father Mathew Blank, the pastor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Truckee, determined there was a need in our town to assist the needy and homeless. He decided to dedicate a building, the site of the former church offices, to create a facility to serve those in need. Thus was the beginning of the Food and Resources Support Center, also known as the Little House with the Big Heart.
Initially, with the help of Project MANA, they were able to keep the Center open for two or three days each week. They were also successful in enlisting the assistance of four other Truckee churches: Truckee Lutheran/Presbyterian Church, Church of the Mountains, Tahoe Forest Church and Squaw Valley Chapel. Recently, they have also been greatly helped by Dr. Thomas Streicher of Divine Spark.
The Support Center offers guests a pleasant environment in which they can have a meal, shower, wash clothes, seek counseling and have the use of the Internet and the telephone. There is no overnight capability.
The Food and Resource Support Center is open 9 a.m. until noon on Tuesdays and 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Thursdays. A light breakfast with coffee or tea is served on Tuesdays, and each of the five churches on a rotating basis serves a hot meal from noon until 2 p.m. on Thursdays. Twenty-five to 50 guests enjoy the Thursday meal each month, 40 guests take advantage of the shower facilities and at least that number use the clothes washers and dryers. The center also has a "clothes closet" with clothing, shoes, and sleeping bags for those in need.
Although Project MANA is no longer physically present in the building, they still supply guests, the needy and the homeless, with emergency food bags for individuals and families.
The coordinator for the effort is Jack Ahern, and with the cooperation of so many generous volunteers, the Food and Resource Support Center, aka the Little House with the Big Heart, will continue to serve the needy and homeless of our town.
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Students throughout the Southington school district expressed their patriotism and appreciation for military men and women through Veterans Day celebrations, welcoming family members and friends who have served in the past and present.
During a ceremony at Derynoski Elementary School, fifth graders took the stage to honor veterans through a musical ensemble, playing patriotic songs on the flute, clarinet and other instruments. Students also presented a brief history of Veterans Day as well as the history of the five branches of service, including the Navy, Army, Air Force, Coast Guard and Marines.
Keith Tomlinson, a fifth grade teacher at Derynoski, said the celebration serves as a way to make children aware of the meaning of Veterans Day.
"It is not just about someone who fights in a war—it is about anyone who serves his or her country," Tomlinson said.
During the ceremony, select students walked up the stage holding hands with a veteran they knew personally, presenting a small American flag to show their appreciation. Over a dozen veterans filled the stage of the auditorium as each name was called. Students also displayed boxes of donations for the Rocky Hill Veteran's Home, filled with toiletries and other basic necessities.
"It is a meaningful day," said Wayne White, a Vietnam era veteran who attended the celebration. "We are happy to do what we do."
After the ceremony, the fifth graders continued their program with a reading and performance of "The White Table" for their guests, each playing a different role. "The White Table," written by Margot Theis Raven, centers on a mother who explains to her children the meaning of each item placed on a white table, which symbolizes service members who went missing or died in the line of duty. Displaying a table in the center of the classroom, select fifth graders took turns setting the table with a white cloth, an empty chair, an inverted wine glass and a lemon slice with grains of salt on a plate.
Maryann Castrilli, a fifth grade teacher, said it was an honor for her to see the students learn about the true meaning of Veteran's Day through the performance.
"They are learning appreciation for a world outside their own, and a sense of citizenship," Castrilli said.
Students at Kelley Elementary School also performed a ceremony of "The White Table" during their Veterans Day celebration. As they filled the cafeteria wearing red white and blue outfits, the fourth grade chorus also sang patriotic songs, including "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and "God Bless America." Each student then presented a flag and certificate to a family member or friend who served in the military as names of veterans were called.
Fourth grader Trent Campbell played a part in the White Table ceremony and also honored his grandfather Charles Hilton who served in the Air Force, traveling all over the world.
Hilton, who served as a second lieutenant, said he felt appreciated throughout the program.
"It means a lot to be honored by the community," said Hilton, who traveled to Japan, Korea and Alaska while serving in the Air Force.
The meaning of the program also resonated with faculty members. Music teacher Julia Thomas, who has served in the National Guard for nine years, returned home from a mission trip in Afghanistan this past June. Leading the fourth grade chorus, Thomas said she felt thrilled that her students expressed their appreciation for veterans through songs.
For Principal Marilyn Kahl, the ceremony hit home for her. Both her husband and father served in the Navy, and Principal Kahl also honored her uncle, a veteran, during the program.
"I grew up understanding the importance of veterans," Kahl said. "Honoring them must be instilled in children at a young age."
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Graham Rolls
In the course of catching up with a friend I hadn't seen for well over 10 years, she requested this recipe that she had remembered me making. That's a true testament to the appeal of these rolls. Graham crackers are an unusual ingredient that add terrific taste and texture.
Total TimePrep: 30 min. + rising Bake: 20 min.
Makes4 dozen
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 cup boiling water
- 2 packages (1/4 ounce each) active dry yeast
- 1 cup warm water (110° to 115°)
- 1 egg
- 3 cups graham cracker crumbs, divided
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
- In a large bowl, combine the shortening, sugar and salt. Stir in boiling water. Cool to 110°-115°. Dissolve yeast in warm water. Add yeast mixture, egg, 1 cup cracker crumbs and whole wheat flour to shortening mixture; mix well. Stir in enough all-purpose flour to form a soft dough.
- Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide into 48 pieces. Shape each into a ball. Dip into melted butter, then roll in remaining cracker crumbs. Place in greased muffin cups. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30 minutes.
- Bake at 350° for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.


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Beat Rebmann necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 19 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a young Company based in Switzerland.
Our product:
Our clients can create a magazine in our editor or upload a PDF in the editor. The magazine can then be enriched with videos, hotspots (links), music etc.
Magazines get then published to a CDN(content distribution network) to guarantee high availablity.
The magazines can be viewed in a browser (flash version) or on a iPad (HTML5 version)
We have a Premium Product for Premium Brands but our Page is in our eyes not any more up to date.
We are looking for a new Page, which picks up the new digital publishing groove together with a touch of Social Community.
The reason we wan't to update our pagedesign is because we are heading towards more great brands and we will fullfill their expectations.
Most important is the High Quality Aspect of our MagMag Publisher©.
Sleek, High Quality, Premium, Moderne are the words which describes mostly the way we wan't to communicate.
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The history of H&H Color Lab is one of tremendous growth and change. H&H began in the basement of Wayne and Shirley Haub's residence in a sleepy suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1970. Wayne and his brother, Ted Haub, owned a portrait studio that had just landed its first high school senior contract. With a background in and love for color printing, Wayne chose to install his own color processing equipment in the basement of his home.
Business increased, and so did the need for additional employees. What began with one person (Wayne) doing all the processing, printing, "art work", invoicing, telephone, purchasing, building maintenance, etc., now took five people! The small home business no longer encompassed the basement level, but now engulfed the garage, extra bedroom, and kitchen areas. And with a growing family, it was time to move!
In 1974 a small 1,200 square foot home at 8906 East 67th Street, our present location, was purchased and renovated. Then in 1979 the first major addition to the lab was built and took most of the backyard of the property. The following decades brought growth and change and what had started as one home, now grew to 11 homes. Many were joined under one roof with a façade that made the now 60,000 square foot building appear as one unit.
In 2002, H&H University was established with the simple motto "Keeping you in touch with changing technology." Digital technology had all of us scrambling for the right answers to our countless questions. H&H University became a respected source of truth and a place where photographers knew that the only agenda was helping them succeed. Today we continue this tradition in a world-class facility where the focus goes way beyond just digital printing.
From its modest beginning, H&H has grown into one of the industry's largest single facility pro photo labs. It has grown and prospered using a combination of close customer relationships, the highest possible product quality, and an aggressive pricing strategy. Servicing nearly every photo processing need for studios ranging from startup mom and pop operations to some of the largest independent school and specialty studios, our professional lab does business across the country, servicing customers in every state of the union!
One of the most significant contributions to H&H's success has been Wayne's commitment to Lean Manufacturing production initiatives. Lean principles are taught to all employees and implemented through the lab. One-piece work flow was implemented by the formation of production cells which creates efficiency, fast turn times, minimizes errors, and encourages communication. Continuous process improvement is promoted by Kaisen events which bring employees from all areas of the lab together for a week at a time to focus on, analyze and improve specific workflows.
By design, H&H fully engages in both the high end portrait/wedding market and the high volume school/sports/events market. By leading in product development for high quality, value products of portrait and wedding, H&H has become excellent at design, fit and finish, and materials selection to compete against the leading high quality product suppliers. H&H offers a complete product catalog including photographic prints, leather bound albums, jewelry, metal prints and products, and press printed books, cards, and on-line sales.
By fully understanding the volume photography demands of data, images, and automation, H&H has built software and manufacturing systems that deliver tremendous product personalization, add-on sale delivery packaging, and multiple sale delivery without compounding the studio workload. By doing this, H&H is able to help the independent business compete with and thrive against the large corporate photo businesses in the school/sports area.
With all the changes that have occurred in our industry over the years, H&H has seen a steady growth pattern. We feel blessed and believe this growth pattern is related to our company business philosophy as stated in our mission statement:
"At H&H Color Lab, customer satisfaction is not an unrealistic goal, but a principle of our business. Our strongest interest and focus is customer service because customer satisfaction is our strong suit, our forte, and our customers realize this. We impute to them in our business dealings that the virtues of honesty and integrity are important. Thus we strive to make our relationship with our customers one built on respect, satisfaction, and trust. We succeed in achieving this end result because of our personal attention to the needs of our customers and because of our personal attention to detail as we process their orders.
We don't take chances or risks with our customers. Stability is a by-word in our company. At the same time, we are aggressive in our marketing practices and on the cutting edge of technological development. Our customers find that we put all three ideals of high quality, dependable service, and low prices into practice on a daily basis at H&H Color Lab. We relate to our customers, and we have a philosophy our customer can relate to."
Our core values are taught to every employee – truthful communication, integrity, honesty, team success before individual success, and only a right thing done in a right way is right.
With the overall stated business goal of "While exceeding customer expectations, we make an honorable profit", H&H now celebrates its 44th year in business and continues to set the industry standard in color, quality and customer service.
We invite you to experience the soul of H&H!


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cgroups (aka control groups) is a Linux kernel feature to limit, police and account the resource usage of certain processes (actually process groups). Compared to other approaches like the 'nice' command or /etc/security/limits.conf, cgroups are infinitely more flexible.
Control groups can be used in multiple ways:
- create and manage them on the fly using tools like cgcreate, cgexec, cgclassify etc
- the "rules engine daemon", to automatically move certain users/groups/commands to groups (/etc/cgrules.conf and /etc/rc.d/cgred)
- through other software such as Linux Containers (LXC) virtualization
Unfortunately this feature is often underappreciated due to lack of easy "how-to" style documentation. This is an attempt of fixing the problem. :)
Note: I'm only learning to use cgroups as I type this, so don't take everything I say here as pure gold.
First, install the utilities for managing cgroups; you need the libcgroup package from AUR. makepkg and install it as usual.
Next, you need to define where to mount the cgroup controller virtual file systems. Let's start with the 'cpu' and 'memory' controllers:
Template:File Then run the following to create these directories and mount the controller file systems:
/etc/rc.d/cgconfig start
Now when you list the controller directory, you should see some files (cgroup tunables) in it:
ls -l /mnt/cgroups/memory
You might also want to run this at boot:
Simple usage
Ad-hoc groups
One of the powers of croups is that you can create "ad-hoc" groups on the fly. In fact, you can even grant the privileges to create custom groups to regular users. Run this as root (replace $USER with your user name):
sudo cgcreate -a $USER -g memory,cpu:me
That's it! Now all the tunables in the group "me" are writable by your user:
$ ls -l /mnt/cgroups/memory/me total 0 -rwxrwxr-x 1 user root 0 Sep 25 00:39 cgroup.event_control -rwxrwxr-x 1 user root 0 Sep 25 00:39 cgroup.procs -rwxrwxr-x 1 user root 0 Sep 25 00:39 cpu.rt_period_us -rwxrwxr-x 1 user root 0 Sep 25 00:39 cpu.rt_runtime_us -rwxrwxr-x 1 user root 0 Sep 25 00:39 cpu.shares -rwxrwxr-x 1 user root 0 Sep 25 00:39 notify_on_release -rwxrwxr-x 1 user root 0 Sep 25 00:39 tasks
Cgroups are hierarchical, so you can create as many subgroups as you like. Let's say that, as a normal user, you want to run a bash shell under a new subgroup called 'foo':
cgcreate -g memory,cpu:me/foo cgexec -g memory,cpu:me/foo bash
There we go! Just to make sure:
$ cat /proc/self/cgroup 11:memory:/me/foo 6:cpu:/me/foo
A new subdirectory was created for this group. To limit the memory usage of all processes in this group to 10 MB, run the following:
$ echo 10000000 > /mnt/cgroups/memory/me/foo/memory.limit_in_bytes
Note that the memory limit applies to RAM use only -- once tasks hit this limit, they will begin to swap. But it won't affect the performance of other processes significantly.
Similarly you can change the CPU priority ("shares") of this group. By default all groups have 1024 shares. A group with 100 shares will get a ~10% portion of the CPU time:
$ echo 100 > /mnt/cgroups/cpu/me/foo/cpu.shares
You can find more tunables or statistics by listing the cgroup directory.
You can also change the cgroup of already running processes. To move all 'bash' commands to this group:
$ pidof bash 13244 13266 $ cgclassify -g memory,cpu:me/foo `pidof bash` $ cat /proc/13244/cgroup 11:memory:/me/foo 6:cpu:/me/foo
Persistent group configuration
If you want your cgroups to be created at boot, you can define them in /etc/cgconfig.conf instead. For example, the "me" and "me/foo" group definitions would look like this:
For information on controllers and what certain switches and tunables mean, refer to kernel's Documentation/cgroup (or install kernel26-docs and see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/cgroup
For commands and configuration files, see relevant man pages, e.g. man cgcreate or man cgrules.conf


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Facebook's Graph Search is in search of ads
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- Search leads to results for people%2C places%2C interests
- But there%27s mobile app for tool%2C which is being rolled out slowly
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- It lacked the sizzle of a smartphone and the gambit of a gaming play, but Facebook's foray into search on Tuesday could have far-reaching implications for its competitors, advertisers and consumers. And not all of them are good.
Facebook Graph Search -- a new tool that brings an Ask Jeeves-like function to the social-networking giant's search bar -- offers tantalizing possibilities. Want to find friends who like both Pulp Fiction and The Sound of Music? Type the question into the search bar and see the photos of your friends, as results, on the left-side of your profile.
What's their favorite Mexican restaurant in nearby Palo Alto? Results are listed by restaurant, with the "Likes" of friends listed. (The new search might enliven Likes, as friends decide to share everything with everybody, a recurring theme of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.)
Such a plethora of data isn't just salivating to advertisers and marketers who want to target their ads on Facebook, but a potential broadside to Google, Yelp, Foursquare and Match.com. Even LinkedIn faces competition: Graph Search is a good way, as Facebook demonstrated, to job recruit.
Zuckerberg insists the new feature, which is being slowly rolled out over the next few months, is not a Web search. But as Graph Search develops, it may more closely resemble Google.com, assuming Google integrates Google+ into its search service.
That's inevitable, says Larry Kim, chief technology officer at Internet marketing firm WordStream, because search is where the advertising is.
Google's share of the overall U.S. mobile ad market -- 57%, compared to Facebook's 9% -- is largely because of its dominant search business.
Facebook raked in about $4.2 billion from advertising last year -- 84% of its estimated $5 billion in total revenue, according to eMarketer.
Facebook stands to eventually elevate its advertising revenue because Graph Search opens the digital doors to potential advertisers in the markets for dating, job searches, product reviews and search.
The service offers Facebook members a "higher fidelity experience" -- one in which they "unlock the value" of so much personal data about friends and others, says Tom Stocky, director of product management at Facebook.
That's the kind of talk that marketers love to hear -- especially as Facebook adds more features to Graph Search. He says a logical candidate are posts that let Facebook members share and rank comments on events like the Golden Globes and Super Bowl.
Ultimately, it means "Facebook is setting the stage for the inevitable search war with Google, a war that advertisers and marketers want to happen so that there is more diversity and opportunity," says Chris Winfield, co-founder of BlueGlass Interactive, a search and social digital marketing agency whose clients include Disney, eBay and the NFL. "This lays the groundwork for them to roll-out their long-rumored AdWords/AdSense competitor that we should see next."
But Kim isn't convinced Graph Search's capabilities -- now relegated to people, places and photos -- are particularly useful in revealing commercial intent.
"In typical Facebook fashion, the announcement does not outline any benefit for its advertisers," he says. "There is no linkage to how you can monetize any of this. It is a conspicuous omission."
Cautions Forrester analyst Nate Elliott: "Even if they figure out how to grab all this data and plug it into the ad platform, they still haven't been able to offer it to marketers in a meaningful manner. There's so much more and richer data that could help marketers target their programs that aren't being used right now."
That could change as Facebook builds out the service with posts and develops a mobile version of Graph Search. But those developments are months away.
There also is privacy, the bugaboo that invariably comes with every new Facebook feature. Last month, Facebook had to tamp down a user uproar over a change in policy that would have made photos on its Instagram service available to advertisers.
"Even though (Graph Search) doesn't reveal information, it makes it easier to find older information you may have on Timeline and don't want to share," says Chris Conley, a technology and civil-liberties policy attorney at the ACLU.
"There's no question Graph Search does open up a number of new ways that your buried content can be discovered and used, including not only content you made publicly available years ago but even photos you intentionally hid from your timeline," Conley says.
Facebook says it's keenly aware about privacy concerns with Graph Search, and intends to make it clear to its 1 billion members what they share and tag in photos will be publicly viewable.
"In terms of the evolution of Facebook, this feels like the logical next step," says Ernest Doku, technology expert at uSwitch.com, a price-comparsion web site. "But it's only as reliable and useful as the tags people use. Most of us don't regularly update our favorite films lists on Facebook."


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About Us
NIIPP 5th Anniversary Meeting - November 19, 2015 from 8:30am-1:30pm
Morton Arboretum
Arbor Room, Thornhill Center
8:30 Welcome & Introductions – Jeff Mengler, Hey and Associates, Inc. and
Vice Chair NIIPP Steering Committee
8:40 NIIPP: Five Years in Review – Debbie Maurer, Lake County Forest Preserve District and
Chair NIIPP Steering Committee
9:20 NIIPP 2015 Projects
- Japanese Knotweed Mapping – Jim Olech
- Lake Michigan Strike Team – Mia Spaid
- Other NIIPP Outreach & Projects – Mia Spaid
10:15 Harvesting Invasive Plants for Ecological Benefits and Biomass Energy Production- Nancy Tuchman,
Ph.D., Founding Director of the Institute of Environmental Sustainability and Professor,
Loyola University Chicago.
10:45 Mapping Invasive Earthworms, Buckthorn, and Soil N Data to Estimate Woodland Degradation and
Inform Management Within Chicago Wilderness– Lauren Umek, PhD candidate, Northwestern
University, and Project Manager, Chicago Park District
11:15 NIIPP's Future
- NIIPP hosting institution
- NIIPP fiscal agent
- NIIPP Coordinator
- NIIPP Grant applications and funding
11:45 Lunch & Networking
1:30pm Adjourn
This annual meeting and lunch was generously sponsored by: The Morton Arboretum and Hey and Associates Inc.
The Northeast Illinois Invasive Plant Partnership (NIIPP) is a cooperative weed management area (CWMA), a regional organization that brings together all interested landowners, land managers (private, city, county, state, and federal), non-profits, private entities, industry, special districts, and the public in the northeastern Illinois region for the purpose of coordinating and combining their resources, expertise, and activities for more efficient and effective management of invasive plant species across jurisdictional boundaries.
Our mission is to prevent and control new plant invasions, control and manage current invasions, support informed management decisions, and raise public awareness concerning the threat posed by invasive plants. Our goal is to minimize the adverse impacts invasive plants have on our open lands and waters in northeast Illinois, especially on native habitats and their native plants and wildlife.
Our geographic range covers 18 counties in northeastern Illinois. If your organization or agency is located within this region (map link here) and you are interested in learning more about NIIPP, please take a moment to explore our website.
We are encouraging gardeners to make informed choices about what they will be planting this fall and next spring. Because many of the most dominant invasive plants in this region were once ornamental plants (e.g. common buckthorn, autumn olive, bush honeysuckle) we are working to prevent the next round of ornamental plant invasions. We also have homeowner fact sheets available in both English and Spanish. As part of the Illinois Invasive Plant Council we will be proposing and reviewing species for regulation.
During late winter through early summer we will be offering free invasive plant workshops hosted by municipalities in the Lake Michigan Watershed. Come out and learn about common and new invasive plants in the region and what you can do about them! We are busy planning for Illinois Invasive Species Awareness Month (May) and will be posting events soon. Clean Boats Crew, our collaborative effort with IL-IN Sea Grant for aquatic invasive species education and outreach, is now gearing up for its fifth season! Our site leaders will be working at regional boat launches and marinas starting Memorial Day weekend. In addition, NIIPP will be working with the Lake County Forest Preserve District to manage the Lake Michigan Strike Team that will control 400 populations of 18 target invasive species across 5,400 acres. Many of the assignments for this team come from the database of the New Invaders Watch Program, our regional early detection and rapid response program.
The original coordinator for NIIPP has left the position as of June 12, 2015. In the interim a Special Projects Manager has been appointed to continue particular projects.
There are many great opportunities to work together in northeast Illinois to stop the spread of invasive plants and we look forward to working with you. If you would like to be added to the NIIPP email list please contact us via email: email@example.com.
Northeast Illinois Invasive Plant Partnership
c/o Chicago Botanic Garden
1000 Lake Cook Road | Glencoe, IL 60022


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Marvel Heroes opens 'Founders Program'
Marvel Heroes has opened its "Founders Program," offering three packs ranging from $20 to $200 that grant early access, extra costumes, in-game currency, and more.
Captain America may have been the first Avenger, but there's no shame in being the second or third. The free-to-play MMO Marvel Heroes announced its "Founders Program" today, giving fans a chance to buy their way into early access with a few extra bells and whistles. Packs range from $20 to a whopping $200.
The Founders Program site lays out your options. The Starter Pack, at $19.99, offers one hero out of sixteen choices, a bonus costume, $10 of in-game currency and two days of early access. The Premium, for $59.99, lets you pick a team of four heroes out of seven team options, along with four bonus costumes, $30 of in-game currency, and four days of early access.
Those of you with entirely too much money to blow can get the Ultimate pack for $199.99, which includes access to all of the heroes, all launch costumes, $50 of in-game currency, a permanent 5% boost to experience and item finding, and seven days of early access. You'll also get four exclusive costumes (Maestro Hulk, Wolvering Weapon X, Symbiote Spidey, and Iron Man 3 Movie Armor).
The game is due this spring, and if you're looking at these prices and hear your wallet whimpering for mercy, you could just wait for it to be available as a free download. It will come to PC first, with a Mac version coming sometime later.
Steve Watts posted a new article, Marvel Heroes opens 'Founders Program'.
Marvel Heroes has opened its "Founders Program," offering three packs ranging from $20 to $200 that grant early access, extra costumes, in-game currency, and more.


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This section contains general information on How To do stuff with Hudson. While the Main Hudson wiki page is a good starting point, it can leave a lot to be desired at times. This section will cover specific eclipse project use cases.
- 1.1 Retrieve files from the Last Successful build and use them in the next?
- 1.2 How do I get a ZIP of all the artifacts produced during a build.
- 1.3 Is there an API?
- 1.4 What URLs provide a RESTful interface?
- 1.5 How do I get a List of Artifacts from the Last Successful Build
- 1.6 Monitor my SVN repository for changes if sub-directories have their own trunk, branches, tags?
- 1.7 benchmark a build
The purpose of this page is to provide a brief introduction on how to do various things with Hudson. With the number of plugins available and the number of different ways to configure your job for eclipse, it can get confusing. This page will provide some brief examples and links to ease the learning curve.
Retrieve files from the Last Successful build and use them in the next?
Each build has it's Last Successful Successful build available as a RESTful url. The format for this is:
Replace JOBNAME with the name of the job that you are interested. Any of the artifacts may be accessed and retrieved by giving the full path to its location. To retrieve a specific ZIP file from a Athena produced build one could use something like:
This would GET the file wst-xsl-SDK-N2000912121209.zip from the build. See Athena's option for creating SNAPSHOTS to create standardized names to make automated retrieval easier.
The following build urls can always be accessed via RESTful API:
- Last Successful
- Last Stable
- Last Build
- Last Failed Build
How do I get a ZIP of all the artifacts produced during a build.
You'll need to make sure that your job is configured to Archive your build artifacts. Once a build produces archived artifacts, you can use the All Files in Zip link to produce and retrieve a zip. The Zip file will have a name of archive.zip.
For example, to get all the artifacts produced by the XSL job for the last successful build you can visit the following link:
This works for workspaces, last successful build, last build, last stable build, and last build failure. Just make sure to access the artifact url.
Is there an API?
Yes. Hudson provides RESTFul style API for working with the system. You can use this API during your build to automated various portions. For example, retrieve a list of all the artifacts from the Last Successful Build. You may also access any of the artifacts via the URL for that artifact. This allows all a platform independent way to retrieve files from one build and reuse them in another build.
- RESTFul API - retrieve and access files via RESTful web services in XML, JSON or Python data formats.
What URLs provide a RESTful interface?
Most of the existing URLs will provide a RESTful interface by adding /api on the end of the url. By appending it with xml, json, or python you can retrieve the information in those data formats. XML RESTful also leverages the power of XPath to allow filtering of the data retrieved. See HUDSON's remote API documentation for more information. All Hudson RESTFul API's are backed by an XML Schema so data binding can be done.
Almost any of the URL's available on HUDSON can be accessed restfully. You can experiment with adding the /api method to the end of the URL name.
How do I get a List of Artifacts from the Last Successful Build
You can get a list of artifacts in XML format by accessing your JOB's last succesful build permanent URL and adding /api/xml to the end. For example.
https://hudson.eclipse.org/hudson/job/cbi-wtp-wst.xsl/lastSuccessfulBuild/api/xml will retrieve an XML formatted file that contains information about the last successful build. You can then use this file as input to a program or a build script to retrieve the artifacts from the build.
See the Linux Tools project's build job configuration or their release engineering page starting at this section step 9.
benchmark a build
Sometimes builds take a long time, and you would like to benchmark each step of the build. If using a shell script, you can do something like this for each step:
before="$(date +%s)" # build step X here echo "step X took : $(expr $(date +%s) - $before)s"


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The Pragmatics of Informational Privacy
The take-home from this morning's oral arguments in NASA v. Nelson was simple: when the conservatives don't buy into the right you're asserting and your two most likely proponents can't agree on how to agree with you, then you're in trouble.
The issue was whether the Ninth Circuit erred in granting 28 employees of the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA, an injunction, based on a right to "informational privacy," against the government's use of open-ended questions as well as queries about drug treatment histories on standard background check forms introduced in 2005.
In the early minutes of oral argument it was apparent that both Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were searching for ways to convince their colleagues to uphold the injunction. Problem was, they clashed over strategy.
Sotomayor was the first to interrupt Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal's argument with a broad, aggressive attack on the government's policy.
"Could you ask somebody, what's your genetic makeup, because we don't want people with a gene that is predisposed to cancer?" Sotomayor inquired. When Katyal tried to duck the question, she cut to the point: "So what you are saying is, there is no limit?"
Before Katyal could wriggle out of reluctantly agreeing with Sotomayor, Ginsburg jumped in. Having served with the boys on the bench much longer than Sotomayor, she thought a narrower approach necessary to win their votes.
"The only thing that's in contention there is the question about treatment or counseling. Nothing else. So why are we talking about the universe of questions that might be asked?" It was as if Ginsburg was telling Sotomayor to tone it down for fear of losing the Court's right flank.
But the conservatives weren't interested in narrowness or broadness. Not yet. They wanted to know a little more about this right of "informational privacy" thing.
Almost two decades ago, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the erstwhile savior of unenumerated privacy rights, famously wrote that "[a]t the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life." This morning, however, Kennedy found the JPL employees' asserted right to informational privacy troublingly "ill-defined or undefined."
Kennedy's comment triggered a series of queries to Katyal, who was unwilling, to the frustration of Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel A. Alito, to confirm or deny whether such a right exists.
So leave it up to Chief Justice John G. Roberts to successfully execute the bait and switch. With a friendly voice, he asked if the challenged questions about a history of drug counseling were required for the good of the employee. Katyal squarely answered in the affirmative, as if he was answering his former boss, Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who appeared this morning entirely sympathetic to such progressive paternalism. Big mistake.
"Whenever the government comes and says, 'This is for your own good,' you have to be a little suspicious," said Roberts, eliciting reflexive laughter from the entire courtroom.
And with that comment, Scalia was left behind derisively grumbling about substantive due process as Alito and Kennedy joined Roberts in attacking on pragmatic grounds half of the Ninth Circuit's injunction.
If during Katyal's argument a consensus emerged against the government's drug counseling history questions, then Pasadena lawyer Dan Stormer's argument established a majority's approval of the similarly enjoined open-ended questions.
Stormer maintained that these questions were inappropriate for low-level employees such as snack bar workers or bus drivers who perform no sensitive activities at JPL.
But what if a snack bar worker "has a big sign on his lawn that says, 'I hope the space shuttle blows up?'" asked Alito in one of his signature absurd hypotheticals. When Stormer conceded that the government should know that information, Alito shot back. If open-ended questions are forbidden, he asked, then how does the government get at that information?
"Do you have to have a specific question on the form?" wondered Alito. One that, say, specifically asks, "Does this individual have a big sign on his front lawn that says, 'I hope the space shuttle blows up?'"
Alito's point was as funny as it was devastating.
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Is Alito's hypo so problematic for the case? Twenty years ago, the Supreme Court said that "a data-entry employee in a county Constable's office, was [wrongly] discharged for remarking to a coworker, after hearing of an attempt on the President's life, "if they go for him again, I hope they get him." [Rankin v. McPherson]
It was protected opinion & not seriously a threat. Such a sign would appear to be the same thing. Why a snack worker having such a ridiculous sign is relevant is unclear and since it is a big public sign, it is different than PRIVATE information at issue here, isn't it?
I would also cite Douglas' concurrence in Doe v. Bolton that discusses a limit to the "power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen" citing pretty old cases on the point.
[…] Further reports, recaps, and analyses of the argument in NASA are available from SCOTUSblog, First One @ One First, the WSJ Law Blog, the Pasadena Star-News, and Courthouse News Service. The Los Angeles Times also […]
[…] unanimous decision in NASA v. Nelson–see here for my oral argument recap from October–held that the government has the power to conduct […]


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Summer is almost upon us, which can only mean two things: spring is almost over, and my promise to resume regular updates has not been fulfilled.
I apologise for this. Life has not slowed down at all during the last six months, and the gaps in my schedule that I'd expected to crop up by now have not materialised.
- If you've been in touch with me about contributing, I'll be emailing you in the next week or so.
- If you wish to contribute and haven't already contacted me, please do so a.s.a.p.
In the meantime, I think it's time we had a new banner for the Scottish Actors blog and Twitter account, don't you?
- Would you like to design one?
- If not, do you have any ideas for what should be included?
Please reply on the blog, on Facebook, or on Twitter
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What is Santa worth to you?
Some would say he's priceless, but Insure.com crunched some numbers to find out what Saint Nick is actually worth on the job market
The life insurance site compared pay grades for jobs like manufacturing executive (Santa's workshop), investigator (knows if you've been good or bad) and pilot based on positions and wages listed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Researchers found Santa Claus would make $137,795 a year if he received a salary. The figure represents a small raise from last year's salary of $134,944.
U.S. & World
The company also conducted a survey to see what the public thinks Santa should be paid.
Twenty-seven percent of those surveyed said he deserves $1.8 billion -- $1 for every child under the age of 15 in the world. But not everyone thinks Santa should be cashing such a big paycheck: 37 percent of those surveyed believe he should not be paid at all.


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'Rolling Jubilee' Cites Bible in Project to 'Forgive' Anonymous Debts
The Rolling Jubilee project, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, is following the Bible's example of forgiveness by offering an early Christmas present to those throughout the country who are suffering debt from medical expenses, credit card bills, or college tuition fees.
A brainchild of the Occupy Wall Street movement's subgroup, the Strike Debt committee, the Rolling Jubilee is a volunteer-run debt relief project with a simple goal: to use donated money to absolve the debt amounts held by collection agencies.
As the project's official website states, the word jubilee "comes from many faith traditions including Judaism, Christianity and Islam. A jubilee is an event in which all debts are cancelled and all those in bondage are set free. It worked in Biblical times and it can still work today."
"Rolling Jubilee is a Strike Debt project that buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, abolishes it," the group explains.
"Together we can liberate debtors at random through a campaign of mutual support, good will, and collective refusal," it adds.
After a highly successful gala event in New York City on Nov. 15, which included performances by comedian Janeane Garofalo, "Daily Show" co-creator Lizz Winstead, and a variety of musical performances by members of Sonic Youth, Neutral Milk Hotel and TV on the Radio, the project has managed to raise nearly $300,000 in donations, which, according to its official website, will absolve nearly $6 million in debt.
As event organizer Astra Taylor told New York Magazine, the project's endeavor is to buy the debts held by collection agencies, which are often sold by banks and credit card companies at discounted rates.
The project then forgives the debt instead of continuing payment.
One important aspect of the project is that it does not relieve individual debts, but rather relieves anonymous amounts from the debt collection agencies.
The grassroots campaign is reportedly using its first batch of donations to settle medical debt, and it will then move on to credit cards and school tuition.
"As we've seen on the East Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, we, the people, are the ones who are best equipped to provide the help that damaged communities need," Strike Debt stated in a recent press release.
"For years, all kinds of communities have been facing down a debt crisis that has stretched their resources and made them especially vulnerable to sudden shocks. (Seventy-six) percent of American households are in debt, and 15 percent are being pursued by a debt collector. People shouldn't have to go into debt for basic necessities like groceries, healthcare and education. Though the banks got bailed out, the people are still waiting for their turn," the press release added.
As the Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite writes in a post for The Huffington Post, the Occupy movement is "operationalizing" what Jesus taught Christians in the Lord's Prayer through Rolling Jubilee.
"Jesus starts his ministry (Luke 4:16-19) by standing up in the synagogue and reading from one of the key texts of his Hebrew scriptures on the biblical 'Jubilee.' The biblical 'Jubilee' is a time of debt forgiveness," the Rev. Brooks writes.
"Rolling Jubilee is exactly what Jesus was talking about and doing something about throughout his whole ministry," she added.
Although the endeavor behind Rolling Jubilee has been congratulated as being elegantly simple and profound, economic critics argue that the process isn't as easy as it looks.
"Technically, the project is feasible. Still, even if Occupy's moles do manage to buy a lot of distressed debt, the nation's multi-trillion dollar debt burden won't be much affected," CNN Money contends.
"And as for the industry, the two largest publicly traded credit purchasers are expected to spend nearly $1 billion in distressed debt per year," the opinion article adds, arguing that a few million dollars in donations from the Rolling Jubilee will hardly make a dent.
The Rolling Jubilee project is currently accepting donations on its website, and promises more fundraising events similar to Thursday's kickoff event in the near future.


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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Firefall: First Impressions
Firefall is a third-person shooter, done in an animated cell-shaded manner. The class system is bound up in these battleframes, which your character can equip. Example battleframes are the medic, recon, assault, etc. You can change your battleframe fairly easily. Each battleframe gains experience separately, and is upgraded separately. So it's like being every class, but you can only equip and level one class at a time.
The setting is a somewhat post-apocalyptic setting, in the lush jungles of South America. Firefall gives your character jumpjets, and the game plays a lot with this. There are large cliffs to scale, and fights often involve you jumping while shooting.
The game that immediately jumps to mind as a comparison is Defiance. But the differences are instructive. Defiance has the vehicle game, Firefall has jump jets. Defiance features dropped loot, while in Firefall you accumulate resources and then craft loot. In fact, I think Firefall takes a lot of its gear and crafting inspiration from Eve Online, more than anything else. Except you can't trade, so it's like an Eve where you had to mine and craft everything yourself.
I tried the medic for a bit, but switched to the recon after a while. The recon seemed to be a much simpler playstyle, so I decided to use that while learning the game.
The game is very open, you can go anywhere and attempt anything. In combat, when you're at an event, the game is a lot of fun.
My current issue is that I seem to be having a hard time "finding the fun" in the game. I open my map, see an event or mission I would like to try. So I jump my way to area, running into cliffs and having to backtrack and find my path to the area. Then I get there, and the mission has been finished or is almost over. Then it's time to repeat the process.
Or they have these "melding tornados" large-scale events. I've joined two of those, but they ended abruptly, and everyone disappeared, and I didn't get any rewards. I'm still confused by the everyone disappearing bit. There must have been 20 people at the event, then the tornado disappeared and there was only me and one other guy there.
I see other bloggers raving about the game, and how they moved from event to event, getting stuff done. I think that I must be missing something.
I can't help but compare it to Defiance. In Defiance, events were very dense. You couldn't swing a cat without hitting something to do. In Firefall, events seem very sparse, and I seem to spend more time traveling than actually doing something.
All in all, Firefall is a pretty good game. Its combat is fun and handles well. I like the progression with the crafted gear and the different battleframes. I just need to figure out how to "get to the fun" faster.
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There is indeed a marketplace squirelled away within the calldown menu. Near everything is sellable and the main currency form is the crystite..aka tiberium. It only went up a couple weeks ago so the prices are still fluctuating widely. It also suffers from the same menu curse as the rest of the game.. bit buggy.
An easy way to get around is by finding a high spot and using a glider. If you connect to all the sin points you should get one gifted to you. Until you get an LGV (motorcycle) that's the fastest way
If that fails just drop your own thumper, the stock thumpers are pretty easy but the get pretty crazy from then on.
This is one of those MMO's where bookmarking and using the wikis are an absolute must.ReplyDelete
I'm probably one of those raving; I've been having a lot of fun but I also primarily play with friends so we can Thump (mine for resources, basically a "defend the point" activity).ReplyDelete
I think the density of events is going to improve; they recently had a post on their forums asking for player feedback about that sort of thing. I think the Defiance comparison is fair but I also enjoy the Firefall combat more so...take from both worlds!
As for Tornados, I might be able to explain some. A tornado shows up with 4 "shards" orbiting it. The goal is to kill them, once you do the Tornado's Core opens up and you kill it. When that dies, you get a bunch of loot and xp. It also leaves a "melding portal" which takes you to a pocket deep in the melding where you basically have a few minutes to grab some resources and then escape before the walls close in. The pocket is completely optional, I don't really see it as worth the time.
To get loot and XP from Tornados you usually have to do some appreciable amount of damage to the shards/cores. Sometimes it can be finicky.


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You may have heard about it by now, but it looks like Atlanta is the secret home to a former Nazi S.S. Agent. Man, just when Hollywood seems to finally be abandoning the very, very tired Nazi-as-arch-villain plot, this happens! Seriously, does anybody else throw up their hands when the secret bad guy in a movie or a TV show turn out to be a really, really old Nazi? Are we that short on plausible villains?
But I digress. 85-year old Paul Henss is said to have been a former guard at a concentration camp, and a trainer of vicious attack/guard dogs and dog handlers. Apparently when he filled out his immigration papers back in 1955, he conveniently forgot to mention his former evil employer. (He has the memory of a politician!) In the video footage I've seen, he denies that he had any knowledge of the massacres taking place with his assistance.
The issue being debated now is whether or not to deport Henss back to Germany. It's a tough call. The guy has lived here for 52 years, and up until now has never been anything but a normal citizen. It's also possible that he really didn't do anything intentionally evil as a 19 year old guard. As Henss himself stated, the even the Pope was part of the Hitler youth. It wasn't exactly something you could avoid back in the day. And well, he's just old and his poor wife is devastated. The deportation process just might kill him, her or both.
On the other hand, he did lie on his immigration papers. And it's just as likely he's at least bending the facts a bit now when he defends what his service entailed. If he really was directly, and knowingly involved with any atrocities, he deserves no sympathy. And it's not as though he's being brought up on charges (at least not yet), he's just being sent home. What do you think?
What I really want to know is how they managed to track down Henss after all these years. As a Law and Order: Criminal Intent junkie, I really want to see the detective work. Heck, I'll even let Hollywood run with this one, last, secret Nazi story just to find out. (I promise not to throw my hands up in the hair!) Because apparently, even Frau Henss had no idea about his dubious past.
In the process of reading up on this unusual story, I came across something even crazier. And, as you know, I have a weak spot for crazy stuff. It seems that there is a swastika-shaped US Navy base in Coronado, California. Seriously! And get this, the building was built in the sixties! Yep, well after the swastika was firmly established as a symbol of evil in the western world.
Apparently because the design is only visible from the air, it wasn't deemed to be a problem when they discovered what one hopes was just an unfortunate coincidence. (You can see what it looks like from street level in this picture-happy post.) And it probably would have continued to not be a problem, if it wasn't for those pesky Google Earth/Maps kids. Now that the secret is out, there are plans in place to alter the buildings to remove the swastika resemblance.
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Sturnella neglecta (western meadowlark)
Western Meadlowlarks spend the Winter around here, as do Eastern Meadowlarks. The only reliable way to tell them apart is by their song. In fact, it was because their songs are so different that they were considered a different species! The Eastern Meadlowlark's song is composed of high pitched whistles, and sounds nothing like this gurgly guy, who was recorded in May 1999 near the Salinas River of Central California.
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En el Ski Village estan los sombreros para tour y aca tengo las respuestas:
1.Which room has a cuckoo clock?
Ski Lodge
2.Which of these rooms doesn't have music playing in the background?
Pet Shop
3.What's the name of the big fish in Ice Fishing?
4.In what room can you find old copies of the Penguin Times?
Boiler Room
5.Which puffle can catch on fire?
6.How does the pink puffle play?
Skips with a skipping rope
7.Which of these rooms does NOT have a game in it?
The Beach
8.How do you get a pin?
Walk on top of it
9.What's the name of Captain Rockhopper's ship?
The Migrator
10.What item is always hidden in a different place in the clothing catalog every month?
The Viking Helmet
11.How much does it cost to buy a player card background?
12.How many sled racing track are there?
13.What item is thrown out of the truck in level 4 of Bean Counters?
A flower Pot
14.Which of these games has a shark in it?
Ice Fishing
15.What day does the newspaper come out?
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Not a Single Story – A Collaboration between NIROX Foundation, South Africa and The Wanås Foundation, Sweden
From 12 May 2018 until the end of July, NIROX Foundation in South Africa will host Not a Single Story – The Winter Sculpture Exhibition, co-curated by Elisabeth Millqvist and Mattias Givell, the leadership duo behind the Swedish sculpture park The Wanås Foundation – Wanås Konst. The exhibition is an exchange between sculpture parks on two continents looking at individual artistic practices as overlapping dialogues and bring forward contemporary concerns and working methods related to sculpture. When we realize that there is never a single story about any place we regain a kind of paradise.


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text: Mary Hull began her teaching career during World War II. She began teaching temporarily at Locke Hill Elementary School on De Zavala in San Antonio. She was a creative and inspiring fourth grade teacher that received great enjoyment from her teaching. She found herself to be truly happy helping children to learn. She also found herself ahead of her time.


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Thursday, May 17, 2012
My Creative Space - Iced Vo Vo Brooch
I love getting new ideas. Last Friday littlest and I were having coffee with a friend. My friend noted how she loved my felt food, but how her were children were already too old for them. She then commented on how I should have a "big girl" version.
And with that little comment she got me thinking about my felt food a little differently. How could I take what I do and make it "big girl?" And it hit me, a felt brooch. So Friday night after the kids fell asleep I stayed up late making a "big girl" version of my felt Iced Vo Vo - as a brooch!
Wish all new ideas were so easy and came to fruition so quickly - I hope you are getting lots of new ideas in your creative space:) To be inspired by others this week be sure to visit My Creative Space at its new home on Village Voices on Kidspot. Cyndy Pin It
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Labels: australian, australiana, biscuits, brooch, embroidery, felt, felt food, Iced Vo Vo, my creative space
8 comments:
- Miriam said...
That is adorable and what a gorgeous idea. I might have to pin it!
- May 17, 2012 at 12:02 PM
- Claire said...
Yum that looks absolutely delicious. I ♥♥♥ Iced Vo Vos.
Great idea, who doesn't love a sweet brooch...
Claire :}
- May 17, 2012 at 12:52 PM
- CHD said...
Very cute and a great idea. Cx
- May 17, 2012 at 3:09 PM
- Fay said...
Sweet brooch. Fab idea!
- May 17, 2012 at 6:52 PM
- planettreasures said...
It's great! I see a whole range - timtams, jam drops etc : )
- May 17, 2012 at 8:11 PM
- Notchka said...
A-dorable. What other iced treats can you do - eclairs? Mummmmm eclairs. Hehe, now I'm peckish
- May 17, 2012 at 9:11 PM
- Deb (Two Cheeky Monkeys) said...
Squee!!! Love, love, love, this is a great idea.
- May 18, 2012 at 4:38 PM
- Bron said...
Clever indeed .xx
- May 20, 2012 at 12:27 AM
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Standing on an overcrowded A-Train with malfunctioning air conditioning, I read Brooks' column "Bye-Bye Bootstraps" while commuting to Manhattan from Brooklyn. Brooks had the temerity to suggest that a "Wal-Mart leisure class" was emerging in America. One wonders how my fellow passengers suffering from the heat as we commuted to our jobs would've responded to this soft minded propagandist of America's plutocracy.
The New York Times recently did a piece about how some people out of work were taking advantage of their free time. Brooks cleverly exploited quotes from these individuals to suggest that today's work ethic belongs to the hard working wealthy. Even worse, Brooks' perverts the word "dignity" to claim it as the property of elites:
"Once upon a time, middle-class men would have defined their dignity by their ability to work hard, provide for their family and live as self-reliant members of society. But these fellows, to judge by their quotations, define their dignity the same way the subjects of Thorstein Veblen's 'The Theory of the Leisure Class' defined theirs.You see what he's doing? Brooks is hijacking the egalitarian concept of dignity. Dignity is a virtue that no single economic class, race, religion or nationality can lay claim to as his or her own. Dignity belongs to all of us. As Robert Fuller has written so persuasively, dignity is a universal right. Brooks has twisted dignity into a virtue belonging to the wealthy.
They define their dignity by the loftiness of their thinking. They define their dignity not by their achievement, but by their personal enlightenment, their autonomy, by their distance from anything dishonorably menial or compulsory."
Obviously he hopes to justify the status of today's mega wealthy by implying elites possess superior dignity. The wealthy are hard working souls driven to achievement while those lazy people working at Wal-Mart just don't have the same dignity of ambition. This man is a jerk.
I immediately thought of my good friend known by some in the blogosphere as "Breaking Ranks." She is a driven person down on her luck professionally without steady work. I could think of no one more qualified to refute the garbage inside David Brooks' column.
She did not disappoint. My friend is a gentle soul but Brooks' column provoked her into posting a diary on Daily Kos entitled, "F*** YOU DAVID BROOKS AND NYT." Her title made me laugh. In nearly twenty years of friendship from our days as undergraduate classmates, I don't recall her ever dropping an F-bomb. For her to even have "F" followed by three asterisks was a big deal. Brooks may be a mediocre scribe but he managed to provoke the most gentle and civil of souls.
Her post was a tour de force and a must read. It should've made the recommended list at Daily Kos but didn't. A talented writer she got to the point quickly:
"I've been limping around in agony for three weeks. An ingrown toenail got seriously infected, and the only thing Neosporin seems to be doing is preventing it from getting worse. Why haven't I gone to a podiatrist? I don't have any health insurance. Thus this NYT article by David Brooks makes me want to scream with rage.Alas, David Brooks enjoys a veneer of respectability. The New York Times is discredited from the Judith Miller fiasco and other transgressions. However, the gray lady remains a powerful forum and Brooks is a frequent commentator on the inside the beltway talking circuit. Consequently, he has the ability to shape the terms of debate and discussion that influences political discourse. Those who control the terms of debate rule the day in politics.
I haven't worked regularly since 2003. Nothing is going into Social Security for me, and it's likely that I will be a renter (or possibly a homeless person) until the day I die. I've never held a full-time job that made use of my education and talents, much less enabled me to pursue my dreams. I haven't been to the movies in over three years, and I don't conspicuously consume at Wal-Mart or anywhere else. I handwash all my clothes, and I'm down to one pair of pants.
Yep, I'm sooo sure this is what Veblen had in mind when he described the Leisure Class. My take on the dignity of my condition diverges considerably from Brooks' mean-spirited screed as well.
So forgive the INAPPROPRIATE CAPS - I'm officially PISSED THE HELL OFF!"
Since Barry Goldwater's landslide defeat in 1964, conservatives have managed to define the social safety net as evil and taxes on wealth as immoral. With ruthless skill conservatives have promoted an ethos in America that rewards wealth over work and hyper individualism over community values.
These people realize their reign of indecency may be coming to an end if the terms of debate are not altered before November. Enter David Brooks at stage right with his mean spirited diatribe sullying the dignity and virtues of hard working people. Our corporatist policies that reward wealth over work can be justified because in Brooks' view the wealthy are the only people who are truly working.
During his weekly appearance with Mark Shields on the PBS News Hour, Brooks even criticized the attempt to raise the minimum wage because it would only help "teenagers." Mark Shields promptly corrected him and noted that minimum wage earners are the primary earners in forty percent of households.
Sadly, abstract columns by David Brooks and others that justify class warfare from the top are not effectively refuted. Media Matters is terrific at exposing disinformation and falsehoods but this sort of diatribe often survives and eventually becomes an accepted part of the lexicon. It sounds absurd yet given Republican success at manipulating language it's not hard to imagine liberals soon having to defend that regular working people have dignity too.
My friend did a beautiful job in responding to Brooks. More is needed however. I urge anyone reading this posting to write to the New York Times and demand that Brooks recant and apologize to millions of working Americans. This should be done in a respectful tone without profanity. Blogosphere etiquette will be ineffective. Instead, please utilize civil assertiveness to persuade the New York Times editorial board that David Brooks has created a firestorm with his indecency.
One aspect of the New York Times I always appreciated is the diversity of their columnists. Columnists for the Wall Street Journal are nothing but a total echo chamber for corporate fascism. At least the New York Times tries to promote a diversity of views with their columnists. Nevertheless, David Brooks' column on Friday requires a heavy volume response from the working people of this country. I can think of no better place to start then the netroots.
To submit a letter to the New York Times click here.
ADDENDUM: I'm thrilled to report this posting was linked on The Nation's website in their important articles and newsfeeds section from the afternoon of Sunday, August 6th until late afternoon on Monday, August 7th. Why this happened I don't know but I'm gratified by the recognition and hope it results in many letters to the New York Times editorial board.
Also, I cross posted this topic on Daily Kos and the comments both favorable and otherwise make for interesting reading. Click here to review them.


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In the past there have been a number of things that stopped me from taking that step. When I first started out, I had no idea of the FHL's existence. Then having discovered it, I felt a level of discomfort at the idea of using the result of someone else's religious beliefs and practices, which I don't share, in pursuit of a hobby. This is no reflection of the Family History Center in Canberra (or anywhere else for that matter) as I had heard only good things about them.
Having gotten over that feeling of timidity and even making a visit to the local Family History Center quite some years ago to check things out, I still never felt the need to order any film. I had plenty of material to be getting on with by post(!), at the National Library of Australia, and later on the internet.
More recently, a few factors have come together that have changed the situation for me:
- My loosely defined research goal is to follow the life of Elizabeth Tregonning (1858-1952). In looking for relevant sources I have found some that are most readily available to me via the Family History Library.
- I have only very recently discovered that I can have the films sent to my local genealogy society, which is ten minutes closer to home than the local Family History Center. It may not sound like much, but when negotiating with my husband about minding our two under-fives while I'm swanning about genealogising, an extra 10 minutes of travel time each way makes a big difference.
- Finally, the big one, I can order the films online. I think this is only possible in a few countries, so I feel very fortunate. It makes a huge difference because it saves me from making an extra trip in order to order the film in the first place (see point 2 above).


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Avebury & Stonehenge, Friday 14th February 2020
Our popular Avebury & Stonehenge "Mysterious Britain" Day trip visits the historic Stonehenge, Avebury and West Kennet Long Barrow in Wiltshire.
Our first stop will be the medieval village of Avebury which is ringed by the largest stone circle in the world and the product of Neolithic man. You will have free time to explore this picturesque and historic area. The Stone Circle and village of Avebury is believed to be over 2000 years older than Stonehenge and is just 3 miles in radius.
Avebury lies at the heart of England's most ancient and mysterious countryside. There have been reports of at least five different ghosts at the Red Lion Pub, located inside the stone circle, with high levels of paranormal activity being recorded.
Then a very short journey from the stone circle we walk up the hillside to West Kennet Long Barrow one of the largest Neolithic burial tombs in Britain and over 5000 years old. Your Tour Manager will take you into the burial chambers and bring it's fascinating history alive.
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Stonehenge! Entrance to Stonehenge and its visitor centre are included - along with audio guides (subject to availability on arrival) and free time to explore the site.
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- Walking Tour of Avebury
- Free Time for lunch and to explore Avebury
- A visit to West Kennet Long Barrow
- A visit to Silbury Hill
- Entrance into Stonehenge
**Please note in the event of bad weather on the day of the tour, the visit to West Kennet Long Barrow may not take place- as it is quite a walk - and would be unpleasant in heavy rain conditions... Your tour manager will advise on the day**
Spring 2018 - Due to recent adverse weather conditions parts of Avebury and West Kennet Long Barrow are currently non accessible due to water logged ground.
Tour operates every Monday, Wednesday & Friday
- Day 1 - Friday 14th February 2020
- 07:30 7.30am-9.15am London pick-ups:. London Bridge (7.30am), Kings Cross (7.55am), Victoria (8.25am), South Kensington (8.50am) Earls Court (9.00am), Hammersmith (9.15am)
- 09:15 After our pick-ups in Central London, we depart for Wiltshire!.
- 11:00 Our first stop will be West Kennet Long Barrow.. Walk up the hillside near Silbury Hill to West Kennet Long Barrow, one of the largest Neolithic burial tombs in Britain and over 5000 years old. Your tour manager will take you into the burial chambers and bring it's fascinating history alive.
**Please note; due to weather conditions, the area can be very muddy, we recommend proper footwear for safety and comfort**
- 13:30 Our next stop will be Avebury.. Enjoy the medieval village of Avebury. which is ringed by the largest stone circle in the world and the product of Neolithic man. Avebury was built and amended over many centuries from about 2850 BC to 2200 BC! You will have free time to explore this picturesque and historic area.
- 15:00 Arrival at Stonehenge (2.30pm during winter months). Fast track entrance with audio guides (subject to availability by Stonehenge) this includes to the Stonehenge site and visitor centre. You'll have free time to explore and view the site.
- 17:00 Depart Stonehenge for London.
- 19:00 Approximate arrival back to London after a magical day out.
** Avebury and West Kennet Long Barrow can be muddy in the winter/rainy conditions, we recommend sensible footwear (wellies/boots) and warm clothing for this tour**
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