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GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition announced that McDonald's USA will be the newest participant in its How2Recycle Label Program. A member of the SPC since 2005, McDonald's is the first national restaurant chain to join How2Recycle, a program dedicated to clearly and consistently communicating recyclability to the public.
McDonald's takes packaging sustainability into consideration at several steps in its supply chain, from responsible forestry and fiber sourcing to using recycled materials in production. McDonald's use of the How2Recycle Label demonstrates the company's commitment to reducing its environmental impact and promoting sustainable behaviors by clearly articulating to customers end-of-use packaging options.
"McDonald's is committed to reducing waste. Labeling our packaging with SPC's How2Recycle label provides an opportunity to extend the behind-the-counter recycling efforts at the restaurant by helping consumers to determine how to recycle some McDonald's packaging at home," says Susan Forsell, VP, sustainability for McDonald's USA.
Initially, McDonald's will label their standard paper carryout bags with the "Widely Recycled" version of the How2Recycle Label. The "Widely Recycled" label indicates that at least 60 percent of the U.S. population has access to recycle the particular packaging materials used.
The McDonald's carryout bags will include the additional message, "Recycle if Clean & Dry," since bags dirtied by a significant amount of grease or food residue are often not accepted in recycling programs. The How2Recycle Label requires that all components of a package be labeled–for consistency and transparency–and that extra messaging be used for packages that could contaminate the recycling stream due to consumer actions or additional packaging components.
McDonald's is also exploring the use of the How2Recycle Label on other packaging, including the Happy Meal box which could help educate younger consumers about proper recycling techniques.
The company has also been involved in the SPC's Foodservice Packaging Industry Leadership Committee that focuses on design and recovery opportunities to make foodservice packaging more sustainable. Additionally, the SPC and McDonald's both collaborate with the leading trade association in this field, the Foodservice Packaging Institute, FPI.
"The participation of McDonald's in the SPC's projects has been invaluable in identifying best practices, understanding design, and generating efforts for post-consumer foodservice packaging recovery," says Anne Bedarf, GreenBlue senior manager. "We're thrilled to have McDonald's lead the way for quick service restaurants in promoting packaging sustainability; their size, influence, and commitment is substantial, and we couldn't be happier to have them on board."


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In the market for a new dog? Or are you, perhaps, simply trying to better understand the one you already have? There's a great place to find valuable information – dog shows.
Whether you go to a show like the recent Canine Learning Experience at the Allentown Fairgrounds or watch the top dog show of the year, the upcoming Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York City, you can learn so much about dogs, even if your dog is a mixed breed. (The show be televised from 8-11 p.m. Monday and Tuesday on USANetwork and CNBC.)
Dogs come in a variety of sizes and shapes – some with a massive amount of fur and others with hardly any fur at all. But there's so much more. Each breed has its own set of characteristics that make it better suited for some people or some families than others.
When choosing a dog, you need to find one that will fit your lifestyle. If you're a coach potato, don't buy a breed that needs regular walks, or without that exercise, you may come home to find your dog has chewed the arm or cushion on that couch you love to lounge on.
On the other hand, if you're a runner, you'll want to find a high-energy dog that can keep up with your fitness routine.
Before you buy a dog, do your homework. Research the breed of the dog or the breeds you suspect are within a dog by reading books and magazines, watching videos, consulting with your veterinarian or talking to local breeders.
A great place to find a lot of breeders under one roof is a dog show like Canine Learning Experience. Many breeders and dog owners love teaching others about their chosen breeds, like Joan and Steve Kutoloski of Coopersburg, whose Havenese, Angus, will compete in breed competition at Westminster on Monday. "I really enjoy the questions from people trying to learn about our dogs," says Joan. She and Steve also show bearded collies. "Bearded collies are very active. I wouldn't recommend them for older people. And Havanese, although smaller, are like bearded collies in training," she says.
Both breeds have long, flowing coats, which make them a grooming challenge. To keep these dogs looking good and keep their skin healthy, they need an owner who will stick to a regular grooming schedule, like Joan, who actually enjoys grooming her dogs. "I don't like showing the dogs, but I love getting them ready," she says.
Bearded collies also fall into a group of dogs called "herding." They were bred to herd on farms, but also be family companions.
My family learned from personal experience that herding dogs are great family pets. Our last dog, Dusty Rose, was a rescue and mixed breed that was part Old English sheepdog or bearded collie. She brought us joy for 15 1/2 years. But we also learned that herding dogs can be a bit of a problem when they are around little kids who are running. Dusty Rose would run alongside of them and nip to keep them in line, just as she had been at least partially bred to do.
Knowing this, helped us better understand our mixed breed's behavior and keep her away from active little kids. It also made us a whole lot wiser about choosing our next dog, Ranger, a Labrador retriever. He's incredibly smart and patient (no wonder they make great service dogs!), he loves long fitness walks and he instinctively knows how to be gentle with children.He fits our lifestyle perfectly.
But before we bought him, we did our homework, much of it online. We found a wealth of information at the Westminster Kennel Club's website, www.westminsterkennelclub.org, including descriptions of 179 different breeds and varieties and links to the websites of breed clubs, such as bearded collies or Labrador retrievers. You also can hear those same breed descriptions by watching the club's annual dog on Monday and Tuesday nights. And for those who want a puppy, watching the show also gives you the opportunity to see what a puppy will look like when it's full-grown. Far too many puppies end up in shelters when they outgrow their cute and cuddly stage.
We also found great information on the American Kennel Club's website, www.akc.org.
When you do find the perfect dog for your lifestyle, commit to that dog for his lifetime. Love him. Care for him. Train him well. Treat him with the respect you'd give any other member of your family. In return, you'll find a friend that will never stop loving you back.


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We've all heard about smartphones. Now there are smart benches.
That is the idea behind a new Boston initiative which will bring "Soofas," solar-powered benches, to the city.
The benches, to be located in various parks, will allow residents to take a load off their feet — while plugging in and recharging their cellphones.
"Your cellphone doesn't just make phone calls, why should our benches just be seats?" Mayor Martin J. Walsh said in a statement Friday.
The high-tech benches were invented by MIT Media Lab spinoff Changing Environments, a Verizon Innovation Program.
The benches also connect wirelessly, using Verizon's network, to the Internet to upload location-based environmental information, such as air quality and noise-level data. City officials said the first units in Boston will be funded by Cisco Systems, a leader in development of smart city solutions, at no cost to the city.
Over the next week, as part of the new pilot effort, the benches will be located at several city parks, including Titus Sparrow Park in the South End, the Boston Common, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
"We are fortunate to have talented entrepreneurs and makers in Boston thinking creatively about sustainability and the next generation of amenities for our residents,'' Walsh said.
The benches made their debut last week at a meeting of innovators and entrepreneurs at the White House.
City officials are asking residents to recommend additional parks to install Soofas, by logging online to bit.ly/bosbench or tweeting the location to @newurbanmechs. Residents can also submit ideas for names of the Soofas in each park through Twitter to @mysoofa or via the website, soofa.co.
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Hussein "Sam" Awada: Shi'ite Muslim Doc w Millions in Medicare Fraud Has Hezbollah Ties, Sent $$$ to Lebanon
If you don't want your tax money going to Hezbollah, you should be happy that the feds finally caught Hussein "Sam" Awada, the the Shi'ite Muslim chief of Family Practice for St. John's Hospital in suburban Detroit's Macomb County–a position he obtained based solely on his ethnicity and religion. Dr. Awada, a drug dealer and Medicare defrauder to the tune of millions of dollars, was in federal court yesterday, where he was arraigned pursuant to a federal criminal complaint. And he sent many of the millions he scammed from you to Lebanon (stuffed inside furniture), where he has relatives who are Hezbollah terrorists. When he was questioned about his healthcare fraud crimes by a local reporter, Awada's brother used it as an opportunity to attack America and America's military, so typical of the "moderate," "patriotic" Muslim community. Read the Federal Criminal Complaint, consisting of a 40-page affidavit by DEA Special Agent Edward Moore. And watch the video below of Dr. Awada and his family attacking America in response–the same America that gave him a great job despite the fact that his medical credentials are, um, less than stellar.
Drug Dealer & Medicare Defrauder Dr. Hussein "Sam" Awada Sent Millions Stuffed in Furniture to Lebanon, Comes From a Shi'ite Muslim Family of Hezbollah Terrorists (& Yes, He Has Girlieman "GuyBrows")
Dr. Awada, a proud graduate of Ross University School of Medicine in the Commonwealth of Dominica in the Caribbean (when your doc went to med school in St. Kitts or Nevis, it's a hint that he's not among medicine's best and brightest), is the perfect example of how affirmative action for Arab Muslims results in a culture of entitlements, scams, and flat out rip-offs of the American people. Yesterday, Awada was criminally charged in federal court for scamming millions of dollars in Medicare from the federal government for "services" he billed to dead patients. He also is a drug dealer, writing thousands of prescriptions in controlled substances to anyone who needed it . . . if the price was right. Dr. Awada sent piles and piles of cash stuffed in furniture to Lebanon. More on his Hezbo relatives later on. But note that Dr. Awada got away with this for so long because of his ethnicity and religion.
I'd heard for over a year about Dr. Awada's Medicare fraud and other scams, but I didn't have enough evidence to post it here without risking a lawsuit. And, by the way, if you know of someone who is ripping off the government, whether it's Medicare or Medicaid fraud (Muslims and Arabs make up the lion's share of those who get caught doing this) or something else, please e-mail me, because you could make a lot of money filing a sealed federal Qui Tam lawsuit under the False Claims Act, which forced the feds to investigate and gives the person who reports the fraud a percentage of the recovered money (I've filed such suits before and know how to do it).
Over the last three years, Awada billed at least $3 million to Medicare and that doesn't even count the gazillions he made in drug dealing by writing illegal prescriptions. He was paid at least $50,000 a month in hundred-dollar bills for this by just one "runner" (a pusher who recruits fake patients). Incredibly, Dr. Awada, who is an obvious flight risk to Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, is out on a $10,000 unsecured bond, and while he was required to surrender his U.S. passport, my sources say he still has a Lebanese passport that he can use to get out of America. He wouldn't be the first Shi'ite Muslim with federal charges against him in Detroit to escape back to Lebanon (as Fawzi Mustapha Assi did by sneaking into Canada wearing a burqa) under the protection of the Hezbos.
Apparently, rip-offs run in the family. Awada is the brother of Turkia Awada Mullin, the woman I told you about months ago who scammed the people of Wayne County, Michigan (the home of Detroit) to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars and then got the short-lived position heading Detroit Metro Airport for which she wasn't qualified. She is now under investigation by the FBI for public corruption and lives in a multi-million dollar home in swanky Birmingham, Michigan, where she daily works out at the Birmingham Powerhouse Gym.
There are also questions about the Awada brother and sis and how a deal was brokered for Dr. Awada's medical building. Sources say that when she was a corrupt Wayne County official, Turkia Awada Mullin brokered the deal for several Wayne County government contractors to build her brother Dr. Awada's new office building at below market rates in exchange for continued and increased county business.
And, as I mentioned, Awada's family is well known not only to be supporters of Hezbollah, but he has relatives who are Hezbollah terrorists. The feds aren't saying this publicly, but privately DEA and other federal law enforcement agents who worked on the case believe that's where at least some of the money went. One of Awada's cousins, Mohamed Sleiman Awada, a Hezbollah terrorist from Zifta in South Lebanon was killed in November 1984 trying to kill Israeli soldiers. He is revered as a martyr of the Islamic resistance by Hezbollah. Other Awada relatives who live different parts of Lebanon, including Khiam, Al-Bazourieh, Al Burj Al-Shimali, and so on, are also Hezbollah supporters and members and/or members of other related Islamic terrorist groups.
Below are photos of another relative, Alhajah Intisar Awada a/k/a Wafa'e Nasrallah, who is from Harakat Amal – the Shi'ite Amal Militia, which is now essentially Hezbollah. She was involved in many terror attacks against the Israeli Defense Forces and the South Lebanese Army. All of her attacks were under the code name "Alquabda Alhussainieh," in reference to Imam Hussein. The code or logo was created by Mohamed Saad, who was killed for being a terrorist. Intisar Awada was captured once for 17 days by the South Lebanese Army General Security Services (SLA GSS) and was interrogated by Taleb Sablini, a Shi'ite member of the SLA GSS. But for some unknown reason, she was accidentally released. The boy in the photo is her son, who trained to become a terrorist and now is one.
Hussein "Sam" Awada wasn't just a drug dealer and Medicare scammer, he took his "duty" as a Shi'ite Muslim very seriously . . . even trying to drum a Christian Lebanese Middle Eastern restaurant out of business. When Alexander's Lebanese Cuisine–a Maronite Christian-owned restaurant with proprietors who were in the Lebanese Forces and support Israel–opened in the Detroit suburb of Warren, it was a success. (I recommend to all of my non-kosher friends in Detroit to patronize that establishment!) So, Dr. Awada opened a competing restaurant, Cafe Jole, down the street, to serve the same kind of food, undercut the prices, and try to put it "Alexander" out of business. Oh, and it was the perfect operation through which to launder some of his ill-gotten and illegal cash.
Another Awada sibling, a sister, is a plastic surgeon. Although most plastic surgery is cosmetic and not subject to scams, one wonders if she bills nose jobs to insurance companies–as several Arab Muslim plastic surgeons do for their fellow Arab Muslim patients–as "medically necessary" when they are not. There have been accusations that the multi-million dollar Birmingham home in her name was really a cover for Turkia Mullin and her ill-gotten cash.
Hussein "Sam" Awada–and his entire Shi'ite Muslim, Hezbollah-supporting family–got everywhere he is because of the ridiculous pro-Muslim, pro-Arab affirmative action we've put into place to repent for being victims of Islamic terrorism on 9/11 (and before and since) and briefly recognizing who the perpetrators were before apologizing and bending over endlessly.
It's the reason he was elevated to a lofty position at a prominent hospital despite graduating from Club Med-ical School. It's the reason his sister was allowed to scam for herself hundreds of thousands of dollars from Wayne County, Michigan and get a job running Metro Detroit's airport despite no qualifications. It's the reason Sam Awada was allowed to scam Medicare for years and openly operate as a drug dealer without anyone taking a look. That it took the DEA to stop his illegal activity speaks loudly. It tells me that the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, which normally would investigate and pursue such a case, declined. They're politically correct agencies and probably didn't want to go after a Shi'ite Muslim Lebanese doctor who supports Hezbollah. I'm glad the DEA made up for the other agencies' self-inflicted plague of PC.
But, while Sam Awada may finally face justice, there are plenty more Sam Awadas–from the same background and community–who are getting away with it on American soil. And laughing all the way to the bank . . . or the stuffed Lebanon-destined furniture.
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I have to make a button with some shadows using HTML/CSS and I've been provided with a PSD file, which has a shape of the button and some effects applied to it. One of the effects is an inner shadow.
And it's blending mode is Multiply. There is no such possibility to use blending modes in CSS, so I think the only way to make 100% copy of the button is to convert the colors from Multiply blending mode to Normal. I found the formula of the Multiply blending mode.
It is : Result Color = (Top Color) * (Bottom Color) /255
So maybe its possible to get the top color respectively?
(Top Color) = (Result Color) / (bottom color) / 255
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Since the Books forum is gone, I thought I'd restart this thread, albeit with a slightly less in-jokey name.
I've been reading Christopher Moore's Serpent of Venice, a sequel to Fool. It's a riff on Othello and Merchant of Venice, featuring a disreputable court jester commenting on and meddling in the action. It's fun, but a little overstuffed. Fool was just based on King Lear (the lead character in both books is Lear's Fool), but Serpent tries to pack in too much. There's even an extended Poe sequence. It's far from essential, but for a Moore fan or a Shakespeare buff, it's worth a look.
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Stacked Gift Cookies
One of the biggest changes that happens when you catch the cookie decorating bug is that you begin to see cookies everywhere. Gone are the days when a tree was a tree. Once you become a cookier, you see life in cookies.
I call this phenomenon "cookie think" and I have it in a bad way. So, when my friend Hani challenged me to find cookie inspiration in a greeting card, I didn't have to look far.
I saved this card from last year because I liked it so much.
The fun thing about the stacked gift design is that you can get pretty creative. I picked from my stash of squares and rectangles and added a few other cutters like wedding cakes and gifts.
The baking was as simple as piecing them together in ways that I liked. I found I preferred stacking smaller cutters to keep the cookies reasonably sized.
Once the cookies were baked, they will look something like this.
An important thing to remember when piecing cookies is not to move them until they are completely cool. Better yet, if you have spare sheets, don't move them at all until they are iced and dry. This will make them much less likely to break at the seams
When it's time to decorate, be sure to consider the design before outlining. Some are pretty straight forward, but for other 2you'll have to decide how you'd like the boxes to be layered in the final product.
Aside from a few stencil mishaps, I had a pretty nice time decorating these. It's hard to pick a fave. If you need help creating the colors that I used, click here. For instructions on creating a burlap texture with icing, click HERE.
Anywho, I mentioned "cookie think", right? Well apparently I'm not the only one with this affliction. There are at LEAST twenty-one more of my cookie friends with the same disease. Be sure to go check out their greeting card inspired cookies too!
- Stephanie, Ellie' s Bites Decorated Cookies
- Anne, Flour Box Bakery
- Georganne, LilaLoa
- Lorraine, Lorraine's Cookies
- Kim, The Partiologist
- Pam, Cookie Crazie
- Cathy, Cathy's Cookies
- Mariëlle, De Koekenbakkers
- Nadia, My Little Bakery
- Liz, Arty Mc Goo
- Callye, Sweet Sugarbelle
- Marlyn, Montreal Confections
- Lisa, The Bearfoot Baker
- Meaghan, The Decorated Cookie
- Paula, Vanilla Bean Baker
- Miriam & Estíbaliz, Message in a Cookie
- Ali, Ali Bee's Bakeshop
- Myriam, Chapix Cookies
- Jennifer, Not Your Momma's Cookie
- Jill, Funky Cookie Studio
- Maryann, Cookie Artisan
- Hani, Haniela's
I'm still a busy, busy little Christmas elf so keep your eyes peeled for more Christmas cookie cheer!
Happy Baking!


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Share Your Camping FAIL for Cool Gear from Washington Hardware
It's almost Memorial Day and the start of camping season. We all have them: camping FAILS. Share yours -- a story or a photo or both -- and we'll randomly choose one entry June 4 to win some camping equipment from Washington Hardware and Furniture in Kennewick: a pair of camping chairs, a lantern and an outdoor cooking pot to use on their next camping trip -- which will hopefully be a more positive experience.
I think my own biggest fail is when I tried to stoke the fire (which was lit in a snowbank) with gasoline straight from the gas can. The fire leaped up the pouring gas and ignited the liquid around the nozzle. I immediately dropped the can, only to see the nozzle continue to burn... to my horror. I thought the can would explode like a plastic explosive blowing us all sky high. Screaming I grabbed the can, spun hard, and threw it as far as I could. The owner of the gas can rolled his eyes and told me to go get it before I started another snow bank on fire.
I guess there's also the time when I was 10 on a 7-mile hike I decided
to bring the book I was reading at the time, which was a large volume of over 2,000 pages (it was a compilation of several books). I complained to my dad that my pack was too heavy, so he volunteered to move items from my pack to his... until he found my book. "What is this!?"
OK, those weren't that good. You can beat that. Send a photo, tell a story or both. Let's hear it!


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The Olympic games are a celebration of excellence and athleticism. Whether we are cheering the Williams sisters in their gold medal-winning doubles match, Serena with her gold, the graceful Gabby Douglas in flight, or some of the many others, we are cheering their excellence, their indomitable spirits, and their drive.
We are also acknowledging the tens of thousands of hours that they must have put into practice.
Even as we cheer, there are lessons for each of us, both individually and in a social policy context.
We've all heard, time and time again, "get out there and do it" or "just do it" or "I worked hard for this." Often the difference between a gold and silver winner is, the one was hungrier, wanted the gold more intensely, and worked harder than the other. To be sure, some Olympians have good days, and others have days that are less than good. But there is no such thing as "luck" in the Olympics. Luck is the collision of preparation and opportunity.
Was Gabby Douglas lucky to have been taken on by Liang Chow, the coach who trained her to earn the gold? No, she was prepared to shine in a way that made Chow see her potential. And she sacrificed, moving from Virginia to Iowa, missing her family and moving in with a generous White family who, for all their goodwill, were culturally out of synch with Gabby's Black experience. She worked hard; she sacrificed; and she won the gold medal.
There is a parallel between Olympics wins and the state of United States education. Even as the Congress considers sequestration when they come back from their month-long break, educators are concerned that education dollars may be cut. Douglas worked hard, she sacrificed. For all the effort on education, sometimes it seems as if we are spinning our wheels. We know what some of the problems are, but we won't act on these problems. The achievement gap can be addressed, and it is in some school systems. In others, little is being done.
Gabby Douglas made sacrifices, so much so that the redundant use of the word in this column does not even begin to speak to her investment in herself. Our nation has made few contemporary sacrifices, and an insufficient investment, for the cause of education. Instead, teachers are being laid off, school hours are being cut, and essentials like civics, art and sports are being cut or augmented by parents who contribute so that their sons and daughters can have these classes. Meanwhile, the children of those who don't have the dollars to contribute to public education find their achievement gap growing each year.
As a nation, we will get that in which we invest. If we invest in the Department of Defense, we will get war. If we invest in the Department of Education, along with state and local school systems, we will end up with a better-educated population. If we choose, instead, to invest in correctional facilities, we'll end up with incarcerated people. If past trends are any indication, most often these folks will be African American. If we invest in inner city schools, we close the achievement gap. If we behave as if the world is race-neutral (or post-racial), when the data say differently, then we end up broadening, not narrowing, the achievement gap.
Our Olympians, especially the medalists, are dedicated, hard-working athletes who have committed themselves to achieving excellence. While we give a lot of lip service to educational excellence, the fact is that we are not as dedicated and hard working to that end as we might be.
Who feels so passionately about education that they will flood board of education meetings and insist on necessary changes? How many are willing to fight for after-school and summer programs, or tutoring.
More importantly, how many are willing to change the policy lens through which we view educational issues, insisting that our legislators address (the needs) issues of education.
There is an anti-tax lobby, led by Grover Norquist of the Americans for Tax Reform, that will not endorse candidates unless they pledge not to raise taxes, and the Tea Party that is so effective that they are unseating Republican stalwarts.
Might a group of education advocates come together to develop power as formidable as that of the Tea Party? Might that group decide that any legislator that cannot support a robust educational agenda is unworthy of reelection. Might we have the will to assert that all children can learn, and then make their learning a priority? We will get what we invest in and, unfortunately, we aren't investing enough in education.
Julianne Malveaux is a D.C.-based economist and author.
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SanDisk Ultra Backup USB drive & redesigned Cruzers show up at CES
SanDisk have announced their latest USB flash memory stick, the Ultra Backup USB, which features both the company's sliding retractable USB plug and a dedicated backup button. Available in capacities up to 64GB, a press of the backup button triggers an automatic sweep of specified folders for new files, which are also encrypted with password-protected access control and ultra-secure AES hardware-based encryption.
SanDisk have also updated their Cruzer USB drive, with new fog design patterns and up to 32GB storage. They also have U3 application compatibility, for running programs direct from the drive. Finally, there's an update to the SanDisk Extreme Contour, with new stronger encryption.
The SanDisk Ultra Backup USB will be available in April, priced between $39.99 and $199.99. Meanwhile the new SanDisk Cruzer drives will also be available in April, priced between $24.99 and $99.99.
Press Release:
SANDISK LAUNCHES WORLD'S FIRST BUTTON BACKUP USB FLASH DRIVEDrives Allow Consumers to Easily Store Critical Files with the Touch of a Button
CES 2009, South Hall, Booth # 30659, LAS VEGAS, January 6, 2009 – SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today introduced an innovative new family of SanDisk® USB flash drives, including the world's first backup USB flash drive with simple backup software activation at the touch of a button. The SanDisk Ultra® Backup USB portable flash drive is the first offering of the company's new SanDisk Ultra USB product line. With capacities up to 64 gigabytes (1)(GB), the SanDisk Ultra Backup USB flash drive is designed to protect computer users' photos, music, videos, personal and business documents, and other types of digital files, with the simple touch of a button. No software installation is needed. The drive protects onboard digital content with a dual layer of security, including password-protected access control and ultra-secure AES hardware-based encryption.(2)
The new SanDisk USB product family includes three different product lines:
1) The popular SanDisk® Cruzer® USB flash drive which provides simple, reliable and portable storage, plus access to a variety of U3™ applications.
2) The SanDisk Ultra Backup USB flash drive offers the added protection and peace of mind consumers expect from the minds behind flash memory.
3) The SanDisk Extreme® Contour™ provides increased security protection and higher performance levels, enclosed in a sleek industrial design
SanDisk Ultra Backup USB Flash Drive:
Back up critical files with the simple touch of a button
With no cables required, or any complicated software to install, the new SanDisk Ultra Backup USB flash drive is a complete backup solution that provides an incredibly easy way to protect digital files. It uses patent-pending backup technology with capacities up to 64GB, large enough to back up average consumer requirements, as well as critical small business files and documents. In addition to one's digital personal life, these products protect critical work files with a dual layer of both password protection and AES hardware encryption. This ensures content stays private and secure (via data scrambling at the flash controller level) when the drives are either physically removed for portability, or stored away for safe keeping.
The explosion in global sales of laptops and mobile devices has exponentially increased the vulnerability of digital files. Computer users can quickly lose precious photos, music, videos and professional work files due to drops, spills, theft, viruses and other incidents. PC Magazine (www.pcmag.com) conducted a research study on annualized notebook failure rates published in July 2008 which found that more than 24 percent of business notebooks need repair each year due to failures.
"Like flossing our teeth or balancing our checkbooks, when it comes to backing up our digital files, even though people know they should do it, they simply don't – and that behavior is putting many consumers' precious digital content at serious risk," said Kent Perry, director of USB product marketing, SanDisk. "We're delivering incredibly simple backup to protect people's most valuable digital content at Main Street prices. With our wide array of capacities and price points, consumers can even choose to store particular file types like digital music or photos on different USB flash drives."
A 2008 Consumer Electronics Association market research report, titled "Amassing Digital Fortunes: A Digital Storage Study," found the average U.S. online adult has nearly 1,800 files stored, and plans to store another 1,060 digital files during the next year. This amounts to approximately 30GB3 of content that needs to be backed up. The study found that digital photos are considered to be the most valuable because of their irreplaceable natures.
SanDisk Cruzer USB Flash Drive:
Reliable storage with a new contemporary look
The SanDisk Cruzer has been redesigned with a contemporary look as part of the new SanDisk USB family of flash drives. These portable, reliable drives are designed to share consumers' digital world with ease, with up to 32GB of storage for simple sharing of photos, videos and other files.
The entire new SanDisk USB family introduces an iconic new design language developed by global innovation firm frog design. Signature design elements include juxtaposed L shapes that create a dynamic, yet balanced, composition, a bright red USB connector and a simple cap-less design, which exposes the USB connector for use via a dynamic sliding mechanism. When plugged in to a host device, a glowing, amber-colored LED light alerts users that the drives are ready for reading or writing data.
The new SanDisk USB family will continue to have U3™ Smart technology, developed by SanDisk, which allows applications to run from a SanDisk USB flash drive without having to be installed on a computer. (4) PC-users can download a variety of both free and paid software, games and content by visiting www.u3.com, or by accessing the SanDisk USB Program Wizard in the U3 Launchpad. Among other bonus applications available for download is the Veoh™ Web Player for SanDisk, which enables users to watch, download and share Internet video content.
The various product lines of SanDisk USB flash drives will continue to include the sleek and high-performance SanDisk Extreme Contour as its high-end storage solution for maximum security and speed. This showpiece of innovative design sports super-fast data transfer speeds at 25MB/second read and 18MB/second write.(5) It also includes superior security with 256-bit AES USB hardware encryption and password-protected access control.
Pricing and Availability
The new SanDisk USB flash drives will first become available in April 2009.(6) The SanDisk Cruzer drive will be available in capacities of 4GB-32GB with MSRP's ranging between $24.99 and $99.99. The SanDisk Ultra Backup drive will be available in capacities of 8GB-64GB with MSRP's ranging between $39.99 and $199.99. The SanDisk Extreme Contour USB flash drive is available in major retailers today.
The SanDisk Cruzer drive includes a two-year limited warranty, (7) the SanDisk Ultra Backup drive includes a five-year limited warranty, (8) and the SanDisk Extreme Contour includes a lifetime limited warranty.(9)
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation, the inventor and world's largest supplier of flash storage cards, is a global leader in flash memory – from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk (www.sandisk.com/corporate) is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States.


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Last night I posted a tweet that drew some interesting responses. Beside the text "the back of a $640 phone," I posted an image of the Galaxy S4's case-back as I contorted the flexible paper-thin cover in my hand. I made no further comment. As I covered briefly for the umpteenth time in an article on Wednesday, the Galaxy S4 feels cheap. It feels flimsy. The fact of the matter is that the phone is neither cheap nor flimsy — at $237, the combined value of its parts is actually 10% higher than the aluminum iPhone 5's bill of materials (BOM). But however expensive and durable the materials Samsung used in the Galaxy S4 may be, it still doesn't feel like a high-end smartphone.
My tweet got mixed replies. Most people just laughed and a few people retweeted it. A couple of people commented that the phone's cheap feel is the reason they will not be purchasing it. Of course, this is not the case for the tens of millions of consumers that will buy the phone — they simply don't care. As I wrote on Wednesday, Samsung doesn't really have an urgent need to switch to different materials for its phone casings. Such a move would likely require an investment of many millions of dollars in research and development, manufacturing equipment and other expenses.
As the saying goes: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But are we sure it ain't broke?
While the phone doesn't feel like an expensive high-end device, Samsung certainly didn't skimp on materials. As Samsung's technical marketing manager Philip Berne noted in response to my tweet, the Galaxy S4 case uses "the same polycarbonate material used in Formula 1 cars and helmets." This is not a cheap, flimsy material. This is a durable polycarbonate with plenty of science and R&D money behind it.
But it still feels cheap.
Compared to rival handsets, the Galaxy S4 doesn't feel like a premium phone. And it certainly doesn't feel like a $640 phone. Not even close. I personally believe Samsung has more pressing issues to attend to, but the plasticky feel of Samsung's phones is still an issue that many consumers find off-putting. Many millions of consumers don't mind it, of course, but this could change over time.
As smartphones from Apple, HTC, Nokia, LG and other vendors continue to raise the bar where materials and premium feel are concerned, Samsung may soon have no choice but to follow suit. Regardless of how durable the Galaxy S4's race car plastic is and regardless of how much R&D went into developing it, it still looks like cheap plastic and it still feels flimsy.
Other vendors have realized this and they have found cost-effective ways to mass produce phones that look better and feel stronger. Apple's all aluminum and glass iPhone 5 has an estimated BOM totaling $217 for the 32GB model, $20 less than the plastic Galaxy S4. Samsung has a massive team of talented designers and engineers, and it has billions of dollars at its disposal. I'm confident that it can build a smartphone that doesn't feel like a free toy pulled out of a box of Cracker Jacks.
Here is the tweet and the image I posted last night (click the image to enlarge):
The back of a $640 phone. twitpic.com/cp96lh
— Zach Epstein (@zacharye) May 9, 2013


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This is the Linux CD-ROM HOWTO. It is intended as a quick reference covering everything you need to know to install and configure CD-ROM hardware under Linux. Frequently asked questions related to CD-ROM are answered, and references are given to other sources of information related to CD-ROM applications and technology.
Much of this information came from the documentation and source files provided with the Linux kernel, the Internet alt.cdrom newsgroup FAQ, and input from Linux users.
Thanks to the DocBook tools, this HOWTO is available in several formats, all generated from a common source file.
New versions of this document will be periodically posted to the comp.os.linux.answers newsgroup. Hypertext versions of this and other Linux HOWTOs are available on many world-wide web sites, including http://www.linuxdoc.org. Most Linux CD-ROM distributions include the HOWTOs, often under the /usr/doc directory, and you can also buy printed copies from several vendors. Sometimes the HOWTOs available from CD-ROM vendors, ftp sites, and printed format are out of date. If the date on this HOWTO is more than six months in the past, then a newer copy is probably available on the Internet.
Please note that, due to the dynamic nature of the Internet, all web and ftp links listed in this document are subject to change.
Translations of this document are available in several languages:
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Most translations of this and other Linux HOWTOs can also be found at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations/. If you make a translation of this document into another language, let me know and I'll include a reference to it here.
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I am also willing to answer general questions on CD-ROM under Linux, as best I can. Before doing so, please read all of the information in this HOWTO, and then send me detailed information about the problem. Please do not ask me about using CD-ROM drives under operating systems other than Linux.
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Shopping in Georgetown What is Clustered Affair
As in many downtowns like the capital of our country, shopping usually means an environment rather than a store. If Georgetown happens to be that neighborhood, there are several choices in the neighborhood to find the best shopping in Georgetown. Explore some of these possibilities and you certainly will not be disappointed. Three areas, in particular, come to mind clustered near major commercial and retail areas at the intersections of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street: Wisconsin Avenue to the north of M Street, The Shops in Georgetown Park, and M Street east of Wisconsin Avenue.
Wisconsin Avenue
Shopping in Georgetown What is Clustered Affair
One of the major commercial corridors in Georgetown is located at the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street, where visitors will find many upscale shops, bars and restaurants on Wisconsin Avenue just north of M Street. Following Wisconsin Avenue north more than half a mile to Book Hill Park on Reservoir Road, many high-end brand retailers, as well as local merchant associations, can be found along the way. Major retailers such as Abercrombie and Fitch, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Apple Store are close to M Street while many local retailers and restaurants reach block by block down to Waduk Road.
Shops at Georgetown Park
Part of the present structure of this shopping center has a long and interesting history, beginning in 1838 when used as a tobacco warehouse, following the 1850s when it was converted into a horse cage for the first horsecar line, Washington and Georgetown Railway, then converted into machine shop for tram. In 1975, the historic site was acquired to be developed into a shopping and residential complex, which now exists. The Canal House opened in 1980 as the first phase of the project; However, in subsequent years, the site became the subject of numerous lawsuits and the eventual seizure. It was purchased from foreclosures in 2010 and a major renovation took place, which gave the mall a classic and top-class appearance. Leading high-end retailers, such as Banana Republic, Anthropologie, Dean & DeLuca, H & M, HomeGoods, and J. Crew along with discount retailers like T.J. Maxx, and DSW are located at The Shops in Georgetown Park. Then, after a day of shopping, one can relax in the real Georgetown Waterfront Park, just a block away along the beautiful Potomac River.
M Street Shopping in Georgetown What is Clustered Affair
There are also some great local shops that walk a few blocks off the trail, so to speak, along M Street, east of Wisconsin Avenue, where one can find Barneys New York, Nike Georgetown, and Kate Spade New York as well as a wonderful collection of local retailers and restaurants. From there one can wander just a few meters south of M Street along Wisconsin Avenue to the Spice and Tea Exchange, where people can certainly raise their appetite. After that, one's hunger can be satisfied by heading to Blues Alley, which stretches parallel to and just south of M Street, and where one can end the day at the famous Blues Alley Jazz and Supper Club. The Georgetown Institution features music and delicious food. The club is open every night and offers the best in music including jazz as well as Nancy Wilson, Tony Bennett, Lou Rawls, and Wynton Marsalis.
Although not mentioned here, people will be neglected not to stop by Washington Harbor and the wonderful restaurants that lie above this beautiful seaside complex that runs along Potomac just south of the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street. After a day of shopping, this should be on anyone's list, but especially if it's already in the neighborhood. As you can see, some of the best shopping spots in Georgetown are found in groups.


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Cloud, everybody wants it, some actually use it. So what's my take away from AWS' recent outtage?
So first off, we had two pieces of our infrastructure failing (three if we include our Multi-AV RDS) — both of which involve EBS.
Numero uno
One of those pieces in my immediate reach was a MySQL server, which we use to keep sessions. And to say the least about AWS and in their defense, the instance had run for almost 550 days and had never given us much or any reason to let us down.
In almost two years with AWS I did not magically lose a single instance. I had to reboot two or three once because the host had issues and Amazon sent us an email and asked us to make sure the instance survive a reboot, but that's about it.
Recovering the service, or at least launching a replacement in a different region would have been possible if not by coincidence we would have hit several limits on our AWS account (instances, IPs and EBS volumes), which apparently take multiple days to lift. We contacted AWS immediately and the autoresponder told us to email back if it was urgent, but I guess they had their hands full and apparently we are not high up the chain enough to express how urgent it really was.
I also tried to reach out to some of the AWS evangelists on Twitter which didn't work since they went silent almost all the way through this outtage.
All in all, it took roughly five hours to get the volume back and another 4-5 to recover the database. As far as I can tell, nothing was lost.
And in our defense — we were well aware of this SPOF and had already plans to move on a more redundant approach — I have another blog post in draft about evaluating alternatives (Membase).
Numero due
The second critical piece of infrastructure which failed for us is our hosted BigCouch cluster with Cloudant.
We managed to (manually) failover to their cluster in us-west1
later in the day and brought the service back up. We would have done this earlier, but AWS suggested it would be only a few hours which is why we wanted to avoid the hassle of having to sync up clusters later on.
Sidenote: Cloudant is still (day three of the downtime) trying to get all pieces back online. Kudos to everyone from Cloudant for their hard work and patience with us.
Lesson learned for myself: When things fail which are not within your reach, it's pretty hard to do anything and stay calm. A good thing is to keep everyone busy so our team tried to reach out to all customers (we average about 200,000 users per day) via Twitter and Facebook and it looks like we've tackled that well.
Un trio!
Well, I don't have much to say about Amazon RDS (hosted MySQL in the cloud). Except that it didn't live up to our expectations: it costs a lot of money, but we learned that apparently that doesn't buy us anything.
Looking at the CloudWatch statistics associated with our RDS setup (or EBS in general), I'm rather weary and don't even know if they can be trusted. In the end, I can't really say for how long RDS was down or failed to failover, but it must have been back before I got a handle on our own MySQL server.
The rest?
The rest of our infrastructure seems fine on AWS — most of the servers are stateless (Shared nothing, anyone?) and no EBS is involved.
And with the absense of EBS, there are no issues to begin with. Everything continued to work just as expected.
Design for failure.
This is not really a take away, but a no-brainer. It's also not limited to AWS or cloud computing in general.
You should design for failure when you build any type of applications.
In terms of cloud computing it's really not as bad as ZOMG MY INSTANCE IS GONE!!!11, but it certainly can happen. I've heard people claim that EC2 instances constantly disappear and with my background of almost two years on AWS, I know that's just not true.
Designing for failure should take the following into account:
Services become unavailable
These services don't have to run in the cloud, they can become unavailable on bare metal too. For example, a service could crash, there could be a network partition or maintenance involved. The bottom line: How does your application deal with it?
Services run degraded
For example, higher latency between the services, slower response time from disk — you name it.
The unexpected
Sometimes, everything is green, but your application still chokes.
While testing for the unexpected is of course impossible, validating what comes in is not.
I'm not sure if a fire drill is necessary, but it helps to have a plan on how to troubleshoot issues to be able to recover from an outtage.
In our case, we log almost anything and everything to syslog and utilize loggly to centralize logs. loggly's nifty console provides us with great input about the state of our application at any time.
Add to the centralized logging, that we have a lot of monitoring using ganglia and munin in place. Monitoring is an ongoing project for us since it seems like once you start, you just can't stop. ;-)
And last but not least: We can launch a new configured EC2 instance with a couple mouse clicks using Scalarium.
I value all these things equally — without them, troubleshooting and recovery would be impossible or at least a royal PITA.
Don't buy hype
So to get to the bottom of this (still ongoing) event, I'm not particulary pissed that there was downtime. Of course I can live without it, but what I mean is: Things are bound to fail.
The truth is though, that Amazon's product description is not exactly honest, or at the very least provides everyone with a lot of room for interpretation. You're asking for how much interpretation? I'm sure you could put ten cloud experts into one room and come away with 15 different opinions.
For example the use of attributes to a service such as highly available may cause different expectations for different people.
Let me break it down for you: highly available in AWS speak, means, "it works most of the time".
What about an SLA?
Highly available is not an SLA with those infamous nine Erlang nines.
On paper a multi-az deployment of Amazon RDS gets pretty close to what generally people expect from highly available: MySQL master-master replication, backups — in multiple datacenters. As of today we all know: even these things can fail.
And speaking of SLAs: It looks like none of the services failing are covered by it: AWS' track record remains clean. This is because EBS is not explicitely named in it and by the way neither is RDS. Amazon's SLA — as far as EC2 is concerned — covers some but not all network outtages. Since I was able to access the instance the entire time none of this applies here.
On Twitter people are quick to suggest that everyone who complaines now should have had a setup in multiple availability zones setup.
Here's what I think about it:
I find it rather amusing that apparently everyone on bare metal runs in multiple datacenters.
When people suggest multi-zone (or multi-az in Amazon-speak), I think they really mean multi-region. Because a zone is effectively us-east-1a, us-east-1b, us-east-1c and us-east-1d. Since all datacenters (= availability zones) in the us-east1 region failed on 2011/04/21, your multi-zone setup would not have covered your butt. Even Amazon's multi-az RDS failed.
Little do people know, but the zone identifiers — e.g. us-east-1a, us-east-1b — are tied to customer accounts. So for example, Cloudant's version of us-east-1a may be my us-east-1c, it may or may not be the same. This is why in many cases AWS never calls out explicit zones in outtages. This also makes it somewhat hard to plan ahead in a single region.
AWS sells customers on the idea that an actual multi-az setup is plenty. I don't know too many companies who do multi-region (maybe SimpleGeo?). Not even NetFlix does multi-region, but I guess they managed to sail around this disaster because they don't use EBS.
In the end it shouldn't be necessary to do a multi-region setup (and deal with its caveats) since according to AWS the different zones inside a region are different physical locations (let's call them datacenters) to begin with. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the description says different physical location, this is not just another rack in the same building or another port on the core switch.
Which brings me to the most important point of my blong entry.
In a nutshell, when you build for the AWS platform, you're building for a blackbox. There are a couple papers and blog posts where people try to reverse engineer the platform and write about its behavior. The problem with these things is that most people are guessing, though often (of course depending on the person writing) it seems to be a very well educated guess.
Roman Stanek blogged about communication between AWS and its customers, so head on over, I pretty much agree with everything he has to say:
So what exactly is my take away? In terms of technical details and as far as redundancy is concerned: not so much.
Whatever you do to run redundant on AWS, applies to setups in your local colocation or POP as well. And in theory, AWS makes it easier though to leverage multiple datacenters (availability zones) and even achieve somewhat of a global footprint by distributing in different regions.
The real question for anyone to ask is, Is AWS fit to host anything which requires permanent storage? (I'm inclined to say no.)
That's all.


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Rio 2 Runs Dry Too Soon
- Christian Hamaker Contributing Film and Culture Writer
- Updated Jul 11, 2014
DVD Release Date: July 15, 2014
Theatrical Release Date: April 11, 2014
Rating: G
Genre: Family
Run Time: 101 min.
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Cast: Voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jemaine Clement, Kristin Chenoweth, Andy Garcia, Leslie Mann, Bruno Mars, Rodrigo Santoro
Family movies based on existing properties had a strong first quarter in 2014. The Lego Movie, the first film based on the popular toys, delighted animation fans and viewers of all ages with its witty screenplay and a touching father/son dynamic. Muppets Most Wanted didn't rise to the level of The Lego Movie, but it was a solid family film that made good use of Ricky Gervais and Tina Fey while leaving plenty of space for the Muppets themselves. While not the box-office success of The Muppets (2011), Muppets Most Wanted was an enjoyable entry in the franchise—one that didn't leave its fans greatly disappointed. Even Mr. Peabody and Sherman, with roots in the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show cartoons of the 1960s, found a new generation of fans with an updated visual look that appealed to kids who had no familiarity with the original cartoons.
Now comes Rio 2, a much easier proposition for today's Hollywood—a sequel to the worldwide hit Rio, which brought in nearly half a billion dollars worldwide in 2011, with returning voice talent for its main characters. Would it expand on the earlier success and be a building block for future Rios?
Rio 2 will be an interesting test case for family audiences. If the earlier 2014 family films have raised the bar in terms of what those viewers expect, Rio 2 won't fare well. It's afflicted with a "why risk anything?" mentality and a stitched together story that makes it difficult to create - not to mention build - any sense of narrative momentum.
The movie starts pleasantly enough. Blu (voice of Jesse Eisenberg) and Jewel (Anne Hathaway) are blue macaws that have settled into a comfortable life—maybe too comfortable—with their offspring in Rio. Jewel, less fond of the family's many indulgences, questions whether they needs a vacation from their pampered life of iPods, TV and pancakes. So off they go, despite some reluctance from Blu, to the heart of the Amazon—with GPS in hand (or claw, as the case may be).
Already in the Amazon are the adventurous ornithologist Tulio (Rodrigo Santoro) and his wife, Linda (Leslie Mann), who are searching for more blue macaws. Instead, they're about to stumble onto something much uglier: an illegal logging operation that is endangering the macaws. But human villains aren't the only adversaries in Rio 2. Also gunning for Blu and his family are the flightless cockatoo Nigel (Jemaine Clement, Muppets Most Wanted) and his devoted frog follower Gabi (Kristin Chenoweth, Space Chimps).
Blu, unaware of these antagonists, finds himself more threatened by two other nemeses: the father-in-law (Andy Garcia) he's just met and Roberto (Bruno Mars), a childhood friend of Jewel's who may have designs on her. ("If anything ever happens to you, I'll take care of your family," Roberto tells Blu, who takes the comment as a threat.) All the while, Blu tries, however reluctantly, to do whatever he thinks will please Jewel, embracing the mantra: "Happy wife, happy life."
Rio 2 chugs along for about half an hour as it reintroduces its characters and their amusing tics, but the flimsiness of the story becomes all too apparent. While the interplay of cockatoo Nigel and the love-struck frog Gabi is the film's highlight, there's nothing much to sustain interest in the other characters or in the story's outcome. Writer/director Carlos Saldanha seems to understand this, choosing to insert several musical numbers in the place of character development. By the time Nigel launches into a rendition of I Will Survive, viewers may be wondering how much more of Rio 2 they'll be able to endure. Like Jewel, they'll be more than ready for a change of venue as they make a beeline for the exits.
CAUTIONS (may contain spoilers):
- Language/Profanity: "Pooping"
- Drinking/Smoking: A champagne toast
- Sex/Nudity: None; parrots kiss; a character is described as "hot"
- Violence/Crime: Bird children torment a babysitter; a macaw is plastered by a pancake; a few moments where animals eat other animals are not particularly violent but may startle some viewers; villainous behavior from characters who receive their comeuppance; a mention of mosquitos that suck your blood, and flesh-eating piranhas; a plot to poison people; an illegal logging operation; a prank involving a tarantula may frighten younger viewers; humans battle bulldozers; a slap fight; a snake is shown to have clearly eaten one of the characters
- Religion/Morals/Marriage: The Jesus statue in Rio is briefly seen; Blu and others repeat the belief, "Happy wife, happy life"; the midnight hour is said to be "more evil" than other times
Publication date: April 11, 2014


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On Capitol Hill, the ship of state is so bereft of rudder and sail that the crew is jumping overboard. The latest to abandon ship is Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, who minced no words about the dysfunctional Congress he is choosing to leave.
On Capitol Hill, the ship of state is so bereft of rudder and sail that the crew is jumping overboard. The latest to abandon ship is Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, who minced no words about the dysfunctional Congress he is choosing to leave.
Forget for a moment about health care and financial reform. On national energy and environmental issues, which have been stalled in the congressional queue, we have a critical national security threat, a danger to public health and welfare, and national policy that encourages American families to inadvertently fund terrorists.
Those are among the reasons the paralyzing partisanship on Capitol Hill is so serious a dereliction of duty.
So what can the President of the United States do? Quite a lot if he's willing to use the executive powers he's been given by the Constitution, the courts and past Congresses.
That's what President Obama is planning now, according to the New York Times. "With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress," the Times reports, "President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities."
"We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues," White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told the Times.
Let's hope this is more than a shot across Congress's bow. We've fallen to a point at which the relationship between the Executive and Legislative branches is not so much checks and balances as mutual assured gridlock. For several years now, much to the discomfort of leaders as philosophically diverse as George W. Bush and Carol Browner, more environmental policy seems to be made by the Judicial Branch than by the other two.
Before elaborating on the president's powers, let's recall why energy and environment are so much more important to Main Street than gas molecules accumulating in the atmosphere. There's American competitiveness and jobs in the emerging global green economy, of course.
But amidst the ridiculous arguments about leaked e-mails and whether blizzards on the East Coast prove that climate change isn't real, America's military and intelligence communities have been trying to tell us something for the past several years: If you believe in a strong and secure America, if you support our troops, if you don't want part of every gasoline dollar to end up financing terrorism, you need to support our transition away from carbon-intensive fuels, to the type of "clean energy economy" that President Obama advocates.
I've quoted often in the past from the important work of the Military Advisory Panel at the Center for Naval Analysis, whose conclusions have been embraced by other flag officers and intelligence agencies, but three quotes deserve repeating:
- U.S. dependence on fossil fuels undermines economic stability, which is critical to national security;
- The U.S. should not pursue energy options inconsistent with the national response to climate change. Diversifying energy sources and moving away from fossil fuels where possible is critical to future energy security;
- Some of the attacks on our troops and on American civilians have been supported by funds from the sale of oil. Our nation's energy choices have saved lives; they have also cost lives.
I'm among the bloggers who've been sharply critical of the White House for not wanting to "get out ahead of Congress" on these issues. For example, although the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate greenhouse gases, President Obama has embraced the very low goal established in the House-approved Waxman-Markey bill, and he's made even that goal contingent upon Congress passing a final climate bill.
In many other instances during his first year in office, however, Obama has made good use of his presidential powers to advance U.S. leadership on energy and the environment. It's important that he expand on that record. He has no lack of ideas or authority. Dozens of organizations and initiatives, including the Presidential Climate Action Project, have submitted scores of recommendations to the Obama team since the 2008 election on energy policy and climate change.
Before Obama took office, the Center for Energy and Environmental Security at the University of Colorado Law School analyzed executive authority as it relates to energy and climate policy. The Center reviewed 96 provisions in current U.S. law where climate change, global warming or greenhouse gases are mentioned explicitly; it also reviewed 370 executive orders going back to 1937.
It identified and created a searchable database of 112 relevant statutory delegations of authority for presidents to address energy and climate. The Center's overall conclusion is that "Congress has delegated to the President substantial authority to develop climate change policy and organize and manage federal operations to address the issue."
The President will have to walk a careful line to avoid the impression he wants to lead like the Bush-Cheney White House where national laws, international treaties and the U.S. Constitution itself were regarded as subservient to executive whims. But grounded in the public interest and the president's legitimate powers, it's a line Obama can walk and defend.
If President Obama fully uses his authority, the United States can continue making progress toward a clean energy economy. Meantime, the November election is an opportunity to begin fixing our broken Congress by removing the Members who are putting their petulant partisanship ahead of the nation's welfare.
Article by Bill Becker appearing courtesy Sustainlane.
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Robin Thicke's Wild & Raunchy Night
Robin Thicke isn't singing "Lost Without You" anymore. The blue-eyed soul singer has apparently begun his healing process with the assistance of a few lovely ladies. Thicke hosted a wild and raunchy "no pants" party where he was spotted kissed multiple women on the lips. Robin reportedly brought the women home at the end of the night.
According to reports, "He made it clear he wanted to have sex with everyone there. He was drunk and clearly enjoying himself." Some women left the bottomless soirée and some bold women stayed behind to watch the show.
Robin and his estranged wife, actress Paula Patton, split earlier this year after rumors of Thicke's infidelities. It was recently reported that Robin and Paula had a consensual threesome partner who he eventually carried on an affair with. His raunchy twerk with Miley Cyrus at the 2013 VMA's was allegedly the turning point in their relationship.
Well if that was the case he definitely isn't getting Paula back now…
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ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A mass in remembrance of journalist James Foley has been scheduled for Sunday in Rochester, New Hampshire.
The Foley family said a Holy Mass of ''Healing, Hope and for Peace'' is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary on 189 North Main St.
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The Ramban and Rashi disagree when the Mishkan was commanded to be built. Either before or after the Egel HaZahav respectively. Can you provide SOURCES that are able to reconcile their differences?
Ramban: Shemos 25:2 - (My understanding) The Mikshkan was the first commandment to the Jewish people after Har Sinai.
Ramban orders the process as follows
(A)Har Sinahi Parshas Yisro/Mishpatim 19-24 (B)Commandment to Build Mishkan Teruman/Tetzaveh/Ki-Sisa 25-31 (C)Chet Ha'Egel Ki Sisa 32-34 (D) Building of the Mishkan Vayakhel/Pekudei 35-40
Rashi: Shemos 31:18 - (Translation) Not before but after. The making of the Egel was before the commandment to build the mishkan
Rashi switches B & C