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Hello, there!
I hope your week is going well.
Hope you have lots of fun today. Don't eat too much candy! :)
Been really busy around here trying to finish some projects and still keep up with every day life.
One of those projects is to remake my outdoor curtains.
As soon as the back porch got a new coat of paint, the old curtains didn't look so good anymore.
It has been over five years since I made them, so I guess I got my money's worth.
Once again I purchased all the drop cloth I will need for eight panels, but this time around I am making them a little different. I decided to use grommets.
I bought the grommets in bronze finish since the rods we already had up there are that same color.
When I first made them I used rings to hang them and although I really like the way they look,
it proved to be a real pain.
You see, we live in a corner lot with not many buildings around us, so when that wind gets to blowing, it kept pulling the clip rings right off the curtains.
Not fun!
So I did a little research and found some great inspiration pictures from Pottery Barn.
So I have all my supplies ready and I am going to give it a try.
Never installed grommets in my life, so I hope this works. Wish me luck! :) I will keep you posted.
I will be back tomorrow with the most viewed links of this week Tuesdays at Our Home.
Enjoy your day!


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If using a typeface with a low x-height at a large point size, wouldn't it have the same result as using a medium or large x-height at a smaller point size? So does that mean x-height is only useful when setting very small (like 6pt) point sizes?
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x-height is the height of the lowercase letter x. how many characters fit on a line, and depending on how the type is set, how easily your text can be read. At very small point sizes, a font with a larger x-height is easier to read, everything else being equal.
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Does x-height really matter when choosing fonts in using for readability and legibility?
Yes - fonts with a tall x-height are going to look closer to all-caps, which are not as easy to read, generally speaking. You can get away with a tall x-height in a heading or the like, but readability will start to suffer when using them in large blocks of text.
Small fonts tend to be more difficult to read any way. Combining 6pt type AND tall x-height is kind of a 'double whammy'.
Actually, all three metrics are important to readability and legibility: x-height, type size, and leading. A fourth could also be added: the design of the typeface itself. Some are intentionally hard-to-read, but perfect for specific uses (I'm thinking decorative headlines).
A large x-height font is sometimes harder to read than a smaller x-height font, if set small with the leading (space between lines of type) set 100% (same as type size).
So, add leading to keep large x-height fonts easy to read, and use smaller point-size (or smaller em-size or smaller %).
Small x-height fonts can be set with less leading in larger sizes to make them easier to read.
other metrics can be added as well: line length, tracking, word spacing, display medium, etc.– DA01Mar 28, 2011 at 21:31


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Elite E2 Catch Cans - E2CATCHCAN
Elite e2catchcan
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- Part Number:
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- E2CatchCan
- Availability:
- Special Ordered - Not In Stock
- This item is Special Ordered - product is subject to the return and cancellation policy as seen in our terms and conditions.
Purpose of your Stock PCV System:
The PCV (Positive Crankcase Ventilation) system is designed to regulate and remove fumes from the engine crankcase, and to alleviate crankcase pressure which could cause oil leaks or seal damage. The PCV system routes crankcase fumes into the intake manifold where they can be burned to eliminate harmful emissions into the atmosphere. The PCV valve controls the amount of crankcase flow volume depending on the engine's load. With large throttle openings (high engine loads), the more blow-by gases are produced, and the more the PCV system flows oil vapor in to the intake manifold. A small amount of that ignited mixture leaks past the piston rings and ends up in the crakcase. This leakage is often reffered to a "blow-by" or leakage past the pistons. Some of the oil mist and other products settle along the engine intake and over time form a "gunk". Our oil catch can collects the oil mist and condensed the fuel vapors while allowing "cleaner" gasses to pass back into the intake manifold.
Negative Effects of your Stock PCV System:
Many Corvette, Camaro, Firebird and GTO owners can testify to the amount of oil residue that can accumulate inside the intake manifold, throttle body, intake track and even the air filter during aggressive driving conditions.
There are various negative effects when excess oil vapor contaminates the intake system from the stock PCV system - such as:
- Throttle body and/or MAFS (Mass Air Flow Sensor) malfunction or failure.
- Air filter, intercooler (if equipped) and intake ducting contamination if oil pools and run back out the intake system after engine shutdown
- Reduced octane of the air/fuel mixture, which can cause detonation and the ECM (Engine Control Module) to retard timing, thereby reducing engine power.
- Excessive carbon build-up on valves, piston crowns, combustion chambers and spark plugs. This also increases the chance of detonation and power loss.
- Increased emissions & possible contamination of catalytic converters and oxygen sensors.
Bottom line: Excessive amounts of oil vapor in the intake manifold is detrimental to your engine!
Solution: Install theElite Engineering PCV Oil Catch Can!
Ultimate Function:
Elite Engineering's PCV Oil Catch Can has a unique 3-chamber design to effectively separate oil from the crankcase vapors, thereby eliminating all negative effects of excessive intake system oil contamination. Oil vapor from the crankcase enters the 1st - Inlet/Filtration chamber where it is slowed down and caught in the stainless steel mesh, it then moves onto the 2nd - Transition/Diffusion chamber. The Diffusion chamber has a very specific set of holes to remove the oil and only let clean air vapor pass. Lastly, the vapor passes into the 3rd - Exit Chamber before it exits the Catch Can.
Not all Catch Cans are created equally! Often imitated, never duplicated. Most Catch Cans on the market are just comprised of an empty container with 2 ports. While that simple design may trap a few oil droplets, our Catch Can is designed to condense the oil vapor and trap the oil inside the container.
Our test proven design incorporates a stainless steel mesh and screening mechanism that acts like a maze to collect and condense the oil vapor. Once the oil vapors condense into liquid droplets, it falls to the bottom of the can. In addition, the top assembly is specially designed to keep any liquid from climbing out the exit hole during aggressive driving conditions. Stored oil volume is approximately 8 ounces. You will be amazed by how much oil our Catch Can will catch! Don't settle for an inferior competitor's product. Insist on Elite Engineering's Catch Can!
Premium Construction:
The E2 PCV Oil Catch Can is constructed of the finest materials inside and out. High performance car owners insist on the best products that offer unsurpassed function as well as impressive visual enhancement. Our Catch Can does both! Our exclusive design incorporates optimum function and the finest materials, construction and finish for maximum dependability.
Machined from billet 6061-T6 aluminum alloy, and then anodized in a variety of colors for a striking look. The internal condensing/filteration screen is stainless steel encased inside an aluminum alloy housing designed for low flow restriction. The housing can be disassembled for screen inspection, cleaning or replacement if needed. The inlet and outlet hose fittings are brass, and threaded into the body and sealed with Teflon tape. Supplied hoses are fuel and oil vapor compatible (SAE 30R7 rated). The bottom catch can reservoir screws onto the top of the unit, and is sealed with a built in O-ring. Inspection and cleaning is easy by simply removing the bottom of the unit without disturbing the mounting system or hoses.
In keeping with our high quality standards, all supplied mounting hardware and screws are stainless steel. The supplied custom machined mounting bracket is black anodized 6061-T6 aluminum, and is attached to your specific vehicle with the hardware supplied.
Each Catch Can kit includes everything you need to install the system. Basic mechanical skills and common hand tools are the only things required.
Standard Kit Includes:
- Catch Can assembly beautifully anodized in BLACK, complete with 3/8" barbed inlet/outlet hose fittings.
- Custom machined mounting bracket to fit your specific vehicle and application
- All Stainless steel mounting hardware.
- 3/8" ID fuel and oil vapor compatible hose.
- PCV adaptor hardware.
- Black zinc plated hose clamps.
- Brass Hose Barb fittings are standard, upgrade to Nickel Plated or Black AN Fittings for that custom look


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Guaranteed Improved Skin After Following These Simple Skin Care Tips!
Making sure that you keep skin care in mind is something of great importance. The best thing is that it's simple! With a little time and effort each day, your skin will be healthy and vibrant in no time! You will see results by using the tips from this article. Remove your makeup before you go to bed. Your skin needs rest in order to repair itself. When you sleep with makeup, a thick layer is preventing your skin from breathing. Always remember to remove your makeup prior to retiring for the night. Consuming watercress regularly can actually make your skin appear less puffy, reduce inflammation and shrink pore size. Adding watercress to a meal or eating it as a snack can bring many positive health effects and give your skin a sun-kissed glow. Improve the health of your skin by eating watercress, which is full of iron and antioxidants. Don't wear clothes that are wet, and take them off as soon as possible if they become damp. Your skin may be irritated and you may even suffer ec


text: [Apologies for crossposting] LPAR-13 Phnom Penh, Cambodia http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~hermann/LPAR2006/ 13th-17th November 2006 2nd Call For Papers The 13th International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR-13) will be held 13th-17th November 2006, at the Hotel Cambodiana, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Submission of papers for presentation at the conference is now invited. Topics of interest include: + automated reasoning + propositional reasoning + interactive theorem proving + description logics + software verification + hardware verification + software testing + logic and ontologies + proof assistants + network and protocol verification + proof planning + nonmonotonic reasoning + proof checking + constructive logic and type theory + rewriting and unification + lambda and combinatory calculi + logic programming + knowledge representation and reasoning + modal and temporal logics + constraint programming + systems specification and synthesis + logical foundations of programming + model checking + computational interpretations of logic + proof-carrying code + logic and computational complexity + logic and databases + logic in artificial intelligence + reasoning for the semantic web + reasoning about actions Full and short papers are welcome. Full papers may be either regular papers containing new results, or experimental papers describing implementations or evaluations of systems. Short papers may describe work in progress or provide system descriptions. Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. The full paper proceedings of LPAR-13 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI series. Authors of accepted full papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. The short paper proceedings of LPAR-13 will be published by the conference. Program Committee ----------------- María Alpuente Technical University of Valencia Franz Baader Technische Universität Dresden Matthias Baaz Vienna University of Technology Christoph Benzmüller Universität des Saarlandes Koen Claessen Chalmers University of Technology Javier Esparza University of Stuttgart Berndt Fischer NASA Ames Research Center Jürgen Giesl RWTH Aachen Jean Goubault-Larrecq ENS Cachan Erich Grädel Aachen University of Technology Ziyad Hanna Intel Pascal van Hentenryck Brown University Miki Hermann CNRS and École Polytechnique Brahim Hnich University College Cork Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester Viktor Kuncak MIT Orna Kupferman Hebrew University Christopher Lynch Clarkson University Dale Miller INRIA Futurs and École Polytechnique George Necula UC Berkeley Joachim Niehren LIFL and INRIA Futurs Luke Ong Oxford University Catuscia Palamidessi LIX and INRIA Futurs Michel Parigot PPS and CNRS Frank Pfenning Carnegie Mellon University Reinhard Pichler Vienna University of Technology Michael Rusinowitch LORIA and INRIA-Lorraine Mooly Sagiv Tel-Aviv University Gernot Salzer Vienna University of Technology Christelle Scharff Pace University Sopheap Seng ITC Phnom Penh Geoff Sutcliffe University of Miami Sophie Tison LIFL and Université de Lille Margus Veanes Microsoft Research Andrei Voronkov University of Manchester Submission Instructions ----------------------- Papers must be prepared using the Springer-Verlag instructions for authors (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers may be up to 15 pages. If proofs do not fit in 15 pages, an appendix with proofs may be added. Short papers may be up to 5 pages. Papers must be submitted in plain postscript or PDF format, through the online submission system (http://www.easychair.org/LPAR-06/submit/). Dates and Deadlines: + Submission of full paper abstracts 2nd May + Submission of full papers 9th May + Notification of acceptance of full papers 10th July + Camera ready versions of full papers due 5th September + Submission of short papers 28th August + Notification of acceptance of short papers 11th September + Camera ready versions of short papers due 25th September Questions related to submission may be sent to the program chairs, Miki Hermann and Andrei Voronkov. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cambodia ... Land of LPAR and Pagodas --------------------------------------------------------------------------


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Whoever came up with the made-to-order DVD service at WarnerArchive.com is a genius. All studios have quite a number of titles in the vaults that for one reason or another the decision-makers don't think warrant the financial investment required for a mass-market home-video release. In the past, these titles used to sit and collect dust, but now the technology is both available and affordable for the studios to create DVDs upon a consumer's request and have opened up new revenue streams.
Pretty Maids All in a Row is now available to order, and I understand why no one had faith in it: it's a terrible movie. Star Trek's Gene Roddenberry produced and adapted Francis Pollini's novel for this combination sex comedy/crime story, which is director Roger Vadim's first American movie. Neither aspect is well executed and the movie is just an excuse to showcase very attractive women. It likely had an appeal to young boys and shy men at the time who couldn't see naked women on their own, but now seems rather quaint.
Ponce de Leon Harper (John David Carson) is a sexually obsessed, high school virgin. He leaves his classroom because the presence of his sexy substitute teacher Miss Betty Smith (Angie Dickinson) gives him an erection. He goes to the bathroom to relax and finds a dead female student with a note pinned to her in the stall next to him. Captain Sam Surcher (Telly Savalas) arrives on scene to lead the investigation.
Michael McDrew (Rock Hudson) is the football coach, school psychologist, and co-principal. His nickname is Tiger and he sleeps with a number of the female students. Apparently that sort of thing was all right in 1971. And he's not the only one. Tiger schemes to get Miss Smith to sleep with Ponce and because she wants to sleep with Tiger she goes along with it. Apparently I went to high school in the wrong decade.
After the second dead body, it's obvious who the killer is to the audience. When two more bodies show up, it adds to the unbelievably of the story's conclusion because not only does the killer escape but is assisted.
The end of the movie is even odder because after bedding Miss Smith, who appears destined to hook up with another student, Ponce has become a stud. He is seen making plans to have sex with three different women after school. Of course, they are at different times otherwise it may appear ridiculous.
Pretty Maids All in a Row is a male fantasy filled with beautiful women who are eager and willing to have sex. It plays out like a softcore porno with all the sex cut out and doesn't have much to laugh at, neither intentionally nor unintentionally. The print is damaged and contains some of the worst ADR I have ever heard. The one positive the film has to offer is how nice it is see women not altered through plastic surgery.


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According to the most recent U.S. Census, some 2 million men function as the primary caregivers in their families, and that number is substantially on the rise in light of the current "mancession." But what the stay-at-home dad lacks in earning power he may make up for in sexiness.
There's no research on the subject, but single ladies and married moms alike seem to find stay-at-home dads hot. Are stay-at-home-dads simply sexier than their at-work counterparts? Or does their relative rarity just confer upon them a certain je ne sais quoi?
"Personally I prefer a scruffy, relaxed dad to a clean-shaven, stressed-out one," says Heidi Raykeil, author of "Confessions of a Naughty Mommy."
"This is why the dads at the park are often so attractive! Plus, they are engaged and active with their kids, which warms our hearts -- and other areas."
Apparently, there's just something about a guy and his kid(s) that sets women aflutter. There's even research to support this phenomenon.
For a 2006 study, researchers asked a group of men which photo they preferred: a picture of an adult or a picture of an infant. They then photographed the men's faces and showed them to a group of women.
The results? Women found the men who liked babies more attractive, especially as potential long-term partners.
"Women like to see a gentle, caring side and to know that all the work of marriage is worth it," says Raykeil. "When dads are engaged, it engages us to watch them and feel good about our choice of life partner."
And this sentiment doesn't seem to be limited to heterosexual couples.
"The things I find attractive in my husband of 20 years are a certain strength and ambition, a sense of humor, and now -- being fathers for seven years -- that nurturing quality that I hadn't seen before we had kids," says Dan Bucatinsky, author of "Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight? Confessions of a Gay Dad."
There may be at least partly a biochemical explanation for the attractiveness of dads, and of stay-at-home dads in particular. According to biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, the latter are likely to have lower levels of the "male" sex hormone testosterone and more circulating estrogen, a "female" sex hormone.
As a result, these men tend to be more interested in children, calmer, more patient, more verbally skilled, better at reading posture, gesture and tone of voice, more compassionate and more apt to have other traits necessary for parenting young children.
While some women find high-testosterone men more attractive, others are drawn to guys with a softer side, says Fisher. And studies have shown that the less testosterone a man has, the less likely he is to cheat, the more supportive he is and the better he is at providing for his family.
"All women want the father of their children to be interested in their kids," she says. "This makes a woman confident that he will participate in parenting and help their mutual DNA survive."
And like a guy with a wedding ring, a man with a child in tow advertises "unavailability," which may make it easier for some women to find attractive what they know they can't have.
I also suspect that thinking about having a man around to help care for the kids and manage household chores can help reduce stress for a lot of women. Research shows that women are more likely to experience orgasm if they feel relaxed and free of distractions, while other studies suggest that women report more relationship and sexual satisfaction when their partners help out around the house. And a stay-at-home dad can be the ultimate helper.
Still, some women may find stay-at-home dads not at all sexy ... for good reason.
"Even with men staying home more, women still tend to do more housework," said Raykeil. "It can be frustrating to come home after a long day of bringing home the bacon, and then have to scrape this morning bacon off the unwashed dishes."
And, as with any stay-at-home partner, there's the potential for risk. A husband who stays home with the kids may start to seem dull -- or at least symbolic of the dullness that punctuates parenting sometimes, says Raykeil.
"Whenever one partner is working outside the home, he or she has more opportunities to meet other interesting people that may represent excitement and exploration outside of home life," she says.
Logan Levkoff, sexologist and author of "How to Get Your Wife to Have Sex With You," adds: "Our perceptions of stay-at-home dads vary based upon our understanding or acceptance of traditional gender roles. As more women enter the work force (and feel fulfilled by our out-of-home jobs), we like partners who are willing to pick up the slack. That being said, it is a double-edged sword. Sadly, if a man feels emasculated by his SAH status, it is very difficult to have a fulfilling sex life."
In the end, though, parenting is about a lot more than just who, if anybody, stays home with the children.
"The role of a 'dad' is changing, both in straight and gay relationships," says Bucatinsky. "People look for partners now with far more complex and varied qualities rather than just one."
Raykeil agrees. "I think we're in the course of redefining masculinity and fatherhood and 'providing,' " she says. "After all, what better way to provide for your family than providing a loving and engaging relationship with your kids?"


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Palestinian schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip have been denied the opportunity to learn about human rights after the Hamas government determined that such a subject "dangerously contravenes Palestinian and Islamic culture."
Hamas's announcement came in response to an attempt by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to include a course on human rights in schools run by the agency in the Gaza Strip.
The UNRWA bid drew strong condemnations from the Hamas government, whose representatives accused the international agency of seeking to "brainwash" Palestinian children.
Mutasame al-Minawi, a senior official with the Hamas-run Ministry of Education, explained that the main reason why his government was opposed to the human rights subject being taught in Palestinian schools is because it "ignores the nakba [catastrophe] of the Palestinian people, seeks to scrap the right of return for Palestinian refugees [to Israel] and promotes the culture of peaceful resistance and submission as a way of restoring our rights."
Al-Minawi said that UNRWA proposed two years ago to include in its school curriculum the subject of human rights. UNRWA was hoping, he added, that the subject would be taught to children from Grades 7-9.
According to the Hamas official, his government back then expressed reservations about some of the contents of the subject, prompting UNRWA to amend about 40% of the material.
But recently, UNRWA decided to go ahead with its plan to teach human rights in its schools in the Gaza Strip, ignoring warnings from the Hamas government, al-Minawi claimed. "UNRWA is acting as a state-within-a-state," he charged. "They need to know the limits of their power and that they are committed to the curriculum taught in areas under UNRWA's jurisdiction."
The Hamas official said that UNRWA's human rights course was aimed at making Palestinian children develop "negative sentiments towards the armed resistance although it is legitimate for a people under occupation."
What is also worrying Hamas is that UNRWA is seeking to teach Palestinian children about the disastrous repercussions of wars and violence by depicting a child burning a military uniform. "This does not serve the cause of human rights," the Hamas official said. "They want to raise children on calmness."
The Hamas protests forced UNRWA to suspend its plan to teach the subject of human rights in its schools. Some Palestinians criticized UNRWA for "succumbing" to threats, while others said they were aware that the international agency had no choice but to comply.
In an attempt to calm Hamas, UNRWA denied that its school curriculum contravened Palestinian tradition and culture.
A spokesman for UNRWA said that his agency consults with "all components of Palestinian society" about its human rights courses.
Hamas's real problem with the UNRWA curriculum is that it could spoil the Islamist movement's ongoing efforts to stir the hearts and minds of Palestinian children to wage jihad against the "enemies" of Islam.
Hamas wants Palestinian children to be taught how to become suicide bombers and seek the death of Jews and "infidels."
Hamas does not want Palestinian children to learn about civil rights heroes such as Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. These people were opposed to violence and therefore their ideology, according to Hamas, is in violation of Palestinian and Islamic culture.
Hamas wants Palestinian children to glorify suicide bombers and terrorists who mercilessly kill innocent people, including many Muslims, on a daily basis. Hamas's summer camps are all about training children in the use of weapons and injecting them with more hatred towards Israel and the US.
Palestinian children at a Hamas summer camp in June 2013. (Image source: IDF YouTube video) |
"Hamas is behaving in the Gaza Strip as if it were an independent state," wrote Palestinian columnist Hassan Khader.
Khader also criticized the Palestinian public and political factions for failing to pay enough attention to the controversy between Hamas and UNRWA over the school curriculum.
For now, Hamas appears to have succeeded in preventing UNRWA from teaching Palestinian children about human rights. The two parties are now negotiating an end to the crisis, which does not seem likely unless UNRWA officially joins Hamas's ideology and starts preaching for jihad and anti-semitism.


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How George Bush Won the 2004 Presidential Election
How George W. Bush Won the 2004 Presidential
By Sandeep AtwalInfernalPress.com
Purging voter lists is just the beginning: the U.S. has embraced a form of electronic voting that is unreliable, unverifiable and funded by the radical Christian right.
ES&S, Diebold and Sequoia may not be household names like Enron or Arthur Andersen, but these three companies will decide America's next president. In the 2004 presidential election, the full effect of electronic voting will be felt for the first time and these are the companies that will report the majority of the results.
Despite assurances from the corporations that own these machines, the reliability of electronic voting is under intense criticism. One of the most comprehensive examinations of electronic voting fraud came from brothers James and Kenneth Collier. In their 1992 book Votescam: The Stealing of America, the brothers detailed the long history of voting fraud over the past twenty-five years with a special focus on voting machines. American politicians and large media outlets have ignored their book, and their charges remain unanswered.
Now, their concerns are being echoed by a new group of writers, journalists and activists who have raised alarming and explosive details about electronic voting in America. While academics such as Professors Rebecca Mercuri and David Dill and organizations like the Association for Computing Machinery have carefully documented how voting systems are vulnerable to fraudulent manipulation, journalists Lynn Landes, Jerry Bowles and Bev Harris are alerting Americans to an electronic coup d'etat in the making. If their charges are true, and there is little evidence to contradict their claims, George W. Bush has already won the 2004 election.
Florida's Folly Goes National
"Given the outcome of our work in Florida and with a new president in place, we think our services will expand across the country."
-- Martin L. Fagan, ChoicePoint Vice-President
To understand how George W. Bush will win the next presidential election, it helps to understand how he won the last one. While all public attention rested on hanging chads, butterfly ballots and a skewed recount in the wake of the 2000 Presidential election, the root of the problem has been overlooked. As investigative reporter Greg Palast uncovered, the state of Florida purged over 90,000 people from their list of eligible voters under the guise that they were felons. In fact, almost none of the disenfranchised voters were felons...but almost all were blacks or democrats.
Palast's investigation revealed that at the heart of this ethnic cleansing of voter lists was the creation of a new centralized database for the state of Florida. In 1999, the state fired the company they were paying to compile their "scrub" lists and gave the job to Database Technologies (DBT, now ChoicePoint). DBT, a private firm known to have strong Republican ties was paid $2.3 million to do the same job that had previously been done for $5,700.
The first list of felons from DBT included 8,000 names of felons from Texas supplied by George Bush's state officials. The state government said they were all felons, and thus barred from voting under federal law. Local officials complained about the list and DBT issued a new one, this time naming 58,000 felons. Palast discovered that the one county that went through the process of checking the new list name by name found it was 95% wrong.
Because of the way DBT compiled its erroneous list, Florida voters whose names were similar to out-of-state felons were barred from voting. An Illinois felon named John Michaels could knock off Florida voters John, Johnny, Jonathan or Jon R. Michaels.
DBT didn't get names, birthdays or social security numbers right, but they were matched for race, so a felon named Joe Green only knocked off a black Joe Green, but not a white person with the same name. There was no need to guess about the race of the disenfranchised: a voter's race is listed next to his or her name in many Southern states including Florida because racial ID is required by the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
DBT's fee of $2.3 million was supposed to include verification that the individuals on their list were actually felons, but Palast's investigation showed that DBT could not provide any evidence that they made a single phone call to verify the identity of the names scrubbed prior to the 2000 Presidential Election.
Unfortunately, nothing is preventing this purge from taking place again on a national scale. Due in large part to the attention paid to butterfly ballots and hanging chads in the fall of 2000, the new Help America Vote Act (HAVA) demands that every state replicate Florida's system of centralized, computerized voter files before the 2004 election, presumably to avoid the paper-ballot confusion of the Florida recount. Martin Luther King III and Greg Palast recently co-authored a piece on the dangers of such databases, recalling the Florida debacle. Their conclusion: "Jim Crow has moved into cyberspace -- harder to detect, craftier in operation, shifting shape into the electronic guardian of a new electoral segregation."
ChoicePoint already has contracts with numerous states to provide electronic voter lists purged of supposed felons. They are a natural choice as one of the U.S.'s largest database companies. ChoicePoint provides information on federal criminal records by district for 43 states and also provides online access to more than 63 million criminal records for all fifty states. Who better to provide HAVA-mandated voter lists to state governments?
You Voted Republican, Trust Us
"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."
-- Tom Stoppard, 1972
Purged voter lists are only one method of pre-determining the outcome of an election. An even more serious problem lies inside the voting machines themselves. While representatives of Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia herald the benefits of their systems, not everyone shares their enthusiasm. Dr. Rebecca Mercuri is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Bryn Mawr College and has been referred to as "the leading independent expert on electronic voting technology." Shortly before the 2000 Presidential election, Mercuri defended her Ph.D. dissertation on the subject of "Electronic Vote Tabulation: Checks and Balances" at the Engineering School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mercuri's website is an astonishing checklist of the lack of safeguards and other failings that plague the current crop of electronic voting systems. One of Mercuri's primary concerns is that electronic systems provide no way for a voter, or election officials, to verify that a cast ballot corresponds to the vote being recorded. As Mercuri notes on her site, "Any programmer can write code that displays one thing on a screen, records something else, and prints yet another result." There is no known way to ensure that this is not happening inside of a voting system. Companies such as Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia, which manufacture the machines and provide the code that runs them, simply take a "trust us" approach.
Mercuri also reports that no electronic voting system has been certified to even the lowest level of the U.S. government or international computer security standards such as the ISO Common Criteria, nor are they required to comply with such standards. Thus, no current electronic voting system is secure by the U.S. government's own standards.
Electronic voting systems without individual printouts for examination by voters do not provide an independent audit trail. All voting systems can make mistakes and the ability to perform manual hand-counts of ballots is the only way to verify results. Computer glitches are already cropping up all across the United States. Numerous irregularities with electronic voting machines have already been reported:
- In Georgia, which recently purchased
22,000 Diebold touch screens, some voters touched one
candidate's name on the screen and saw another candidate's
name appear
- A former news reporter in Florida
discovered that votes were being tabulated in 644 Palm Beach
precincts: but Palm Beach only has 643 precincts. An earlier
court case in Florida found the same discrepancy. A reporter
in New Jersey observed 104 precincts with votes in an area
that has only 102 precincts.
- Baldwin County results
showed that Democrat Don Siegelman won the state of Alabama.
However, the next morning, 6,300 of Siegelman's votes
disappeared and the election was handed to Republican Bob
Riley. A recount was requested and denied.
- In North
Carolina, a software programming error caused vote-counting
machines to skip over several thousand votes, both
Republican and Democratic. Fixing the error turned up 5,500
more votes and reversed the election.
- In Comal County
Texas, an uncanny coincidence resulted in three Republican
candidates winning by exactly 18,181 votes each. Two other
Republican candidates outside Texas also won by exactly
18,181 votes.
- In October, election officials in
Raleigh, N.C., discovered that early voters had to make
several attempts to record their votes on ES&S systems.
Officials compared the number of voters to the number of
votes counted and realized that 294 votes had been
- A report from the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project states that an estimated 1.5 million presidential votes were not recorded in 2000 because of difficulties using voting equipment and that electronic machines have the second highest rate of unmarked, uncounted and spoiled ballots in presidential, Senate, and governor elections over the last 12 years.
Federally mandated voting machines, almost exclusively manufactured by ES&S, Diebold and Sequoia are being constructed and tested under obsolete FEC recommendations. The US has authorized spending of over four billion dollars on new voting equipment, but as Mercuri notes, "failed to require or enforce adequate security, usability, reliability, and auditability controls over the products being purchased." The numerous flaws cited above ably demonstrate Mercuri's point.
Her concerns are echoed by Professor David Dill from Stanford University. He has created a resolution warning of the dangers of electronic voting machines. "Do not be seduced by the apparent convenience of "touch-screen voting" machines, or the "gee whiz" factor that accompanies flashy new technology," he writes. "Using these machines is tantamount to handing complete control of vote counting to a private company, with no independent checks or audits. These machines represent a serious threat to democracy."
Chuck Hagel and Nebraska's Upset
"If you want to win the election, just control the machines."
- Charlie Matulka, Nebraska Senatorial Candidate
Chuck Hagel first ran for the U.S. Senate in Nebraska in 1996. Electronic voting machines owned by Election Systems & Software (ES&S) reported that he had won both the primaries and the general election in unprecedented victories. His 1996 victory was considered one of the biggest upsets of that election. He was the first Republican to win a Nebraska senatorial campaign in 24 years and won virtually every demographic group, including many largely black communities that had never before voted Republican.
Six years later Hagel ran again against Democrat Charlie Matulka in 2002, and won in a landslide. He was re-elected to his second term with 83% of the vote: the biggest political victory in the history of Nebraska. Again, the votes were counted by ES&S, now the largest voting machine company in America.
While these victories could be dismissed simply as a Republican upset, a January 2003 article in the independent Washington paper The Hill revealed interesting details about Hagel's business investments and casts a different light on his election successes. Chuck Hagel was CEO of ES&S (then AIS) until 1995 and he is still a major stockholder of the parent company of ES&S, McCarthy & Company. Hagel resigned as CEO of ES&S to run for the Senate and resigned as president of the parent company McCarthy & Company following his election (where he remains a major investor).
Today, the McCarthy Group is run by Michael McCarthy, who happens to be Chuck Hagel's treasurer. Hagel's financials still list the McCarthy Group as an asset, with his investment valued at $1-$5 million. Campaign finance reports show that Michael McCarthy also served as treasurer for Hagel until December of 2002.
ES&S also has a connection to the Bush family. Jeb Bush's first choice as running mate in 1998 was Sandra Mortham who was a paid lobbyist for ES&S and received a commission for every county that bought its touch-screen machines.
The Hill's revelations of Hagel's conflict of interest was disturbing enough to cause Jan Baran, one of the most powerful Republican lawyers in Washington D.C., and Lou Ann Linehan, Senator Chuck Hagel's Chief of Staff, to walk into The Hill's offices to "discuss" the story. According to the author of the article, Alex Bolton, nothing similar had happened in the three-and-a-half years he's worked for the paper. It was, no doubt, a story Hagel would rather see go unreported.
Helping America Vote Right
"The Christian worldview is the answer. We need Christian statesmen who press for the Crown Rights of Jesus Christ in all areas of life. This isn't political salvation or an overnight fix. It will take decades of mobilization and confrontation to undo a century of godless socialism. It must be a grassroots movement that starts in individual families and churches and then moves outward to take dominion. It must encompass every area of life and not just the political arena. Finally, it must start soon, for there isn't much time left. The Florida elections have taught us that the Democrats with their liberal/socialistic worldview will stop at nothing to seize control of the government."
-- Dr. Val Finnell, published by the Chalcedon Institute
If the connections between Hagel and ES&S seem suspect, the origins of America's largest electronic voting machine companies may be just as distressing, especially for those who venerate the separation of church and state. The convoluted system of renaming and buyouts of America's voting system companies is a complicated story. However, once the various corporate trails have been followed, a disturbing picture comes into focus.
Brothers Bob and Todd Urosevich founded American Information Systems. Bob is currently president of Diebold and Todd Urosevich is Vice President, Aftermarket Sales of ES&S. (In 1999, American Information Systems, purchased Business Records Corp to become ES&S.)
American Information Systems (AIS) was primarily funded with money from Ahmanson brothers, William and Robert, of the Howard F. Ahmanson Co. The majority stake in ES&S is still owned by Howard F. Ahmanson and the Ahmanson Foundation
Howard Ahmanson belongs to Council for National Policy, a hard right wing organization and also helps finance The Chalcedon Institute. As the institute's own site reports, Chalcedon is a "Christian educational organization devoted to research, publishing, and promoting Christian reconstruction in all areas of life... Our emphasis on the Cultural or Dominion Mandate (Genesis 1:28) and the necessity of a return to Biblical Law has been a crucial factor in the challenge to Humanism by Christians in this country and elsewhere..." Chalcedon promotes Christian Reconstructionism, which mandates Christ's dominion over the entire world. The organization's purpose is to establish Old Testament Biblical law as the standard for society.
Solutions and Alternatives
Few individuals who are trying to alert citizens to the dangers of electronic voting are against computer voting unequivocally. Rather, the complaints focus on the lack of a verifiable paper trail and the inability of the public to examine the code that runs the machines. Professor Mercuri's October 2002 article, "A Better Ballot Box?" provides a solution to these concerns. She also poses a series of questions that she believes must be answered in order to allay security concerns. Mercuri's work is partly an attempt to design a machine in line with minimum standards set by the U.S. federal government, unlike the voting machines currently being installed across America.
The New York State Assembly recently passed legislation that specifically requires that machines "produce and retain a voter verified permanent paper record with a manual audit capacity" (but fails to mention the code that runs the machines). Rep. Rush Holt has introduced federal legislation, The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003 with similar aims. The measure would require all voting machines to produce an actual paper record by 2004 that voters can view to check the accuracy of their votes and that election officials can use to verify votes in the event of a computer malfunction, hacking, or other irregularity.
Other solutions exist to ensure the integrity of voting machines and address the concerns of people like Professor Mercuri. Jason Kitcat is the author of the Free e-democracy project, an open source project that builds Internet voting software. Likewise, Australia makes the code for their machines available online whereas American companies jealously guard the code that runs their machines. It seems a fair question, considering the list of problems that currently plague voting equipment: why are none of these alternatives being investigated?
The 2004 election will be the first to use nation-wide electronic voting. With the purging of voter lists, secrecy surrounding voting machines, the lack of a verifiable paper trail combined with voting machine companies with strong Republican ties and funding from the radical right, a Bush victory is all but inevitable. Welcome to the machines.
Update: Scoop.co.nz has the latest on an investigation by Bev Harris, revealing glaring holes in the U.S. election system. Her detailed account is a must-read.


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Hi there! Camilla has let me pick my own assignment. I chose a flower. I would have done more flowers but Camilla said to choose only one flower. So I chose carnation.
The single flowers of the Carnations species, Dianthus caryophyllus (that's the scientific name) has 5 petals and they can vary from white to pink to purple in colors. Border Carnation cultivars may have double flowers with 1 to 40 petals. When they grow in gardens, Carnations grow to between 6 and 8.5 cm in diameter. Petals on Carnations are generally clawed or serrated.
Carnations are bisexual flowers and bloom simply or in a branched or forked cluster. The stamens on Carnations can occur in one or two whorls, in equal number or twice the number of the petals. The Carnation leaves are narrow and stalk less and their color varies from green to grey-blue or purple. Carnations grow big, full blooms on strong, straight stems. The carnation's history dates back to ancient Greek and Roman times, when it was used in art and decor.
Christians or some spirituals believe that the first carnation bloomed on earth when Mary wept for Jesus as he carried his cross. Carnations in these early times were predominantly found in shades of pale pink and peach, but over the years the palette of available colors has grown to include red, yellow, white, purple, and even green. Throughout so many centuries of change, the popularity of the carnation has remained undiminished. The fact that the carnation continues to endure is a testament to its vast appeal.
The meanings of carnations include fascination, distinction, and love. Like many other flowers, different messages can also be expressed with the flower's different color varieties. Light red carnations, for example, are often used to convey admiration, whereas the dark red version expresses deeper sentiments of love and affection. White carnations are associated with purity and luck, and pink carnations are often given as a sign of gratitude.
In the early part of the 20th century, carnations became the official flower of Mother's Day in addition finding particular significance in many other cultures worldwide. To this day, carnations remain a favorite flower choice for many different occasions. They are immediately recognizable flowers, and they possess a charm and allure that continues to captivate people around the globe. In fact, in many parts of the world, the popularity of carnations surpasses that of any other flower including roses.
The powerful sentiments these flowers can express are a perfect complement to their classic beauty and long-lasting freshness. Carnation is a flowering plant that belongs to the family Caryophyllaceae. There are over 300 varieties of carnations that can be found throughout the world. These plants originate from Europe and Asia.
Carnations are cultivated at least 2000 years because of their beautiful flowers and intense fragrance. Carnations require well drained soil, enough moisture and direct sunlight for successful growth. These flowers are symbol of labor movement and mother's love in the most countries of the world. Some people in France believe that carnations symbolize bad luck, where they are used mostly for the preparation of funeral bouquets. Carnation is a herbaceous plant that can reach 31 inches in height.
Carnation has 6 inches long slender leaves. They are usually grayish or bluish green in color and covered with waxy substance. White carnations will change its color after adding food coloring to the water. The flower will change its color after 24 hours.
Dianthus is Latin which for "flower of the gods". White carnations are inevitable part of wedding bouquets and bouquets prepared for the first wedding anniversary. Carnations are birth flowers for all people that are born in January. These flowers are often used as decoration for tuxedoes.
Bouquets made of pink carnations are traditionally prepared for Mother's day. Colombia is the greatest producer of carnations in the world. Carnations are national flowers of countries such as Monaco, Spain, Slovenia and Ohio. They are also used as a symbol of different fraternities and sororities.
Carnations can propagate via seeds and plant cuttings. Carnations are perennial plants, which mean that they can live more than 2 years. Carnations also have long lifespan in the vase – they can remain fresh up to 14 days after removal from the ground.
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1/4 teaspoon sugar
1 package active dry yeast
2 3/4 cups to 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
1 teaspoon salt
Coarse-grain cornmeal, for dusting
3 1/2 teaspoons olive oil, plus more for bowl
Pizza Sauce
12 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced
Heat the oven to 500 degrees, with a 16-inch diameter pizza stone placed on lowest shelf position, for at least 30 minutes.
Pour warm water into a small bowl. Add sugar, and sprinkle in yeast. Using a fork, stir the mixture until yeast is dissolved and water has turned a tan color. Let yeast stand until foamy, about 10 minutes. In a food processor, use blade to combine the 2 3/4 cups flour and salt, and pulse three to four times. Add yeast mixture and 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil. Pulse until the dough comes together, adding more flour as needed until dough is smooth, not tacky, when squeezed. Transfer to clean surface; knead four or five turns into a ball.
Brush the inside of a medium bowl with olive oil, and place the dough in the bowl, smooth side up. Cover tightly with plastic wrap, and place in a warm spot until doubled in size, about 40 minutes. Remove plastic wrap, and press your fist into the center of the dough to punch it down. Fold the dough back onto itself four or five times. Turn dough over, folded-side down, cover with plastic wrap, and return to the warm spot to rise again until the dough has doubled in size, about 30 minutes.
Punch down the dough, and transfer to a clean surface. Using a bench scraper or a sharp knife, divide the dough in half, and knead each half four or five turns into a ball. Place one of the dough balls back in the oiled bowl, and cover with plastic wrap. Lightly flour a clean surface, place the remaining dough ball on top, pat into a flattened circle, cover lightly with plastic wrap, and let rest 5 minutes. Using your fingers, begin to flatten and push the dough evenly out from the center until it measures about 7 to 8 inches in diameter. Do not press the dough all the way to the edges. Leave a slightly raised border, about a half-inch wide, around entire circumference of pizza dough.
Sprinkle cornmeal all over the surface of a pizza peel, and set aside. Lift the dough off the surface, and center it on top of your fists. Hold your fists about 1 to 2 inches apart. Begin to rotate and stretch the dough, moving your fists until they are 6 to 8 inches apart and the dough is several inches larger. Then place your fists under the inside of the outer edge, and continue to stretch the dough a little at a time until it reaches about 12 inches in diameter. The dough will drape down over your forearms. At this stage, it is important to keep your fists along the inside of the outer edge and watch that the dough does not get too thin or tear in the center. At the same time, make sure to maintain the slightly raised border on the edges. The dough is surprisingly resilient and will not tear if this step is done carefully and slowly.
Arrange the pizza dough into a circle on top of the cornmeal-dusted peel. Leaving the raised edge uncovered, pour 9 tablespoons of the pizza sauce onto the dough. Using the back of a tablespoon, evenly spread the sauce leaving a half-inch border of dough uncovered. Arrange half of the mozzarella slices on top of the sauce.
Lift the pizza peel and, using a slight jerking motion, slide the pizza about one inch back and forth on the peel to loosen it. Slightly tilt the peel, and place the front tip of peel on the back side of the stone. Slide the pizza off the peel, centering it on the stone. Bake until the crust is golden brown and crisp on the edges and the bottom, 10 to 12 minutes, turning the pizza halfway through baking. While first pizza is baking, shape and assemble a second pizza using remaining dough. Using tongs, lift the edge of the first pizza, and slide the peel all the way under to remove it from the oven. Using a pizza wheel, slice the pizza into eight pieces, and serve immediately.


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Google Earth 7 brings tour guide feature, more 3D imagery
An updated version of the popular desktop app brings over features recently added to the mobile version.
Google Earth 7 for the desktop landed today with features familiar to anyone who has used the mobile version recently, including new 3D imagery and a virtual tour guide designed to highlight interesting places around the world.
Google said its virtual tours are available for more than 11,000 sites around the world, including popular attractions like the Grand Canyon, Eiffel Tower, and St. Peter's Basilica. The tours, which show up as thumbnail images underneath the map view, suggest nearby places worth exploring and offer relevant information.
Meanwhile, the new version includes 3D imagery for a bunch of places that until now have been available only on Android and iOS: Boulder, Colo.; Boston; Charlotte, N.C.; Denver; Lawrence, Kan.; Long Beach, Calif.; Los Angeles; Portland, Ore.; San Antonio, Texas; San Diego; Santa Cruz, Calif.; Seattle, Tampa, Fla.; Tucson, Ariz.; Rome, and the San Francisco Bay Area (including the Peninsula and East Bay). As of today, you can now also see 3D imagery for Avignon, France; Austin, Texas; Munich; Phoenix, Ariz.; and Mannheim, Germany.
"The experience of flying through these areas and seeing the buildings, terrain, and even the trees rendered in 3D is now consistent across both mobile and desktop devices -- making all of your virtual travels more realistic than ever," Google's Peter Birch said in a blog post.
You can download the new version for Mac, PC, or Linux here.


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Op-Ed: They're praying for the worst. Is that wrong?
Portugal's soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is suffering from tendinitis in his knee, which kept him out of a recent match against Greece. And a Ghanaian traditional priest named Nana Kwaku Bonsam has claimed credit for the injury.
Bonsam recently announced on Ghanaian radio that for four months he had been "working on" Ronaldo, in hopes of sidelining the world's top soccer player before Ghana and Portugal met in the World Cup. "They can never see what is causing the injury, because it is spiritual," he said.
Isn't it against the rules of religion to pray against a person?
Hardly. Negative prayer is actually quite common. And praying for harm to befall another — called "imprecatory prayer" — is by no means the exclusive domain of tribal religions in the developing world. Some American evangelicals also have participated in high-profile prayer campaigns aimed at bringing adversity to others.
For the last five years, for example, one such campaign has urged Americans to "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109.8." People who see the slogan on bumper stickers and T-shirts may not realize that Psalm 109.8 is a negative prayer that reads, "May his days be few; may another take his office." The next line is chilling: "May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."
It is unclear who started the prayer campaign, but a scandal broke in 2012 with the leaking of an email from Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal. O'Neal sent the Psalm citation to fellow House members, saying: "At last — I can honestly voice a Biblical prayer for our president! Look it up — it is word for word! Let us all bow our heads and pray."
The Secret Service has taken note of the threat inherent in the prayer campaign. But without direct evidence that people were actually advocating acts of violence, the ACLU and the Anti-Defamation League have concluded that the campaign to "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109.8" is a legal form of political speech.
In a way, though, that conclusion relies on secular logic. The ACLU and the ADL assume prayer to be ineffectual in causing harm. But many evangelicals believe negative forms of prayer can actually be efficacious weapons. This is why they use the term "spiritual warfare," and why they think it is best left to the experienced "prayer warrior."
Believers act as intercessors to "pray down" the forces of "the enemy," who is always the devil. The material targets of "warfare prayer" include meth labs, abortion clinics, strip clubs and other places of "spiritual wickedness." If such places are closed down or busted by law enforcement, then the warriors claim credit.
Negative prayer also "works" in the worldview of many in Haiti, where I research what I call "aggressive prayer" in both the evangelical and vodou sectors. Many people in Haiti consider incidents of sickness, layoffs, theft, accidents and death to be the result of a spiritual attack. But it is hard to find traditional priests who are willing to claim credit for these negative tactics. The vast majority of priests say they work defensively to counter imagined attacks by unknown spiritual assailants.
Nana Kwaku Bonsam is unusual in his brazen announcement that he prayed against Ronaldo. Western media have described him as a traditionalist who embraces media and technology to present his religion with a modern, globalized face and to demonstrate its relevance to this generation's youth.
It's easy to dismiss the Ghanaian priest's claims as a bid for publicity combined with sheer coincidence. But don't many Americans believe in the power of positive prayer and positive thought? And in cases of winning and losing, isn't positive prayer for one side the equivalent of negative prayer for another?
It would seem that both the sports world and the religious establishment understand this principle.
Recently, in a Spanish newspaper, the pope himself, who is Argentine, promised not to pray for Argentina in the World Cup.
Elizabeth McAlister is a professor of religion at Wesleyan University.
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I could see us making tonight's dinner, Grilled Turkey Burgers with Goat Cheese Spread, quite a few times throughout the summer for different cookouts or picnics! I know some may not like turkey burgers all that much as they can tend to dry out, but this recipe may change your mind. Let's jump right in and see why you should give them a try!
I've told you before about how we like to grind our own chicken (and often beef) using the food processor and we did the same here with the turkey so we could control what goes in it. While you could certainly use extra-lean ground turkey (which is simply ground turkey breast) in this recipe and most likely end up fine, you may want to cut that with an equal amount of regular lean ground turkey to impart a bit more moisture and depth.
To man-handle plenty of zip into these burgers, we mixed into the meat minced garlic, lemon zest, lots of (thawed from it's frozen state) spinach and an egg white to help hold everything together, along with the obligatory pinches of salt and fresh ground black pepper. Keep in mind that you want to work with this as little as possible to keep the burgers light, but don't drive yourself crazy - just get the ingredients distributed (especially the spinach) as evenly as you can. Formed into four hefty patties, we set them on the grill and left them be while I got working on the tangy spread.
To give the spread some staying power, we used luscious Greek yogurt as the base, then stirred in crumbled goat cheese, parsley, fresh oregano and to keep your tongue entertained, a bit of fresh mint. Assembled by anointing each toasted English muffin with the spread (that is just what we used, any type of bun is fine), we added a leaf of crisp romaine onto the bottom of each muffin, followed by the cooked burgers and a ring or two of zesty red onion. Raw red onion can be a little much for Jeff, so I often soak his pieces in icy water to mellow them out.
Using the duo of dark and light meat did give them an advantage to stay juicy, but the real secret was adding that spinach into the mix, which ended up being an ingenious way to keep these burgers moist. We don't usually put a sauce on our burgers, but we may have to start rethinking that as this one definitely tempted our taste buds! We made this into four portions, but you could certainly stretch this out to make 6 servings and still have it be plenty filling - just note that you may only have enough of the delicious spread to coat one side of each English muffin (or bun if you so choose).
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The Graphing Calculator Story
| -UncategorizedThe power of skunkworks – how an unofficial team of developers got a
really cool application together.
My skunkworks project was beginning to look real with help from these professionals as well as others in graphic design, documentation, programming, mathematics, and user interface. The secret to programming is not intelligence, though of course that helps. It is not hard work or experience, though they help, too. The secret to programming is having smart friends.
I view the events as an experiment in subverting power structures. I had none of the traditional power over others that is inherent to the structure of corporations and bureaucracies. I had neither budget nor headcount. I answered to no one, and no one had to do anything I asked. Dozens of people collaborated spontaneously, motivated by loyalty, friendship, or the love of craftsmanship. We were hackers, creating something for the sheer joy of making it work.


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Following on from the most recent local scene report and gig guide from the city in March, here's the fourth installment from DiS' man in the East Midlands...
From being the Midlands most underachieving city musically a year ago, Nottingham has seemingly become a real hive of activity these past few months. Not only have we seen the likes of Dog Is Dead recently sign a deal with Atlantic Records, but also the likes of shoegaze sextet Spotlight Kid, local singer/songwriter and Swimming drummer-cum-human beatboxer The PETEbox added to this year's Glastonbury line-up. Not that we're short of festivals in this part of the world either, having hosted Dot To Dot in May, and with the likes of Splendour, Headstocks and the I'm Not From London curated Waterfront events all set to take place in the coming months, is buzzing with anticipation once more.
Sunday July 24th welcomes the fourth Splendour festival. Organised as a joint venture by City Council and DHP, Splendour is held in the picturesque settings of Wollaton Park. This year's line-up is arguably its best one yet, with the likes of Blondie, Feeder, The Bluetones and The Scissor Sisters set to take the stage alongside several of the city's most promising new artists.
The Canalhouse plays host to the Waterfront Festival on Saturday 20th August. Devised by local promoters I'm Not From London and featuring around fifty local artists in total, all proceeds will be donated to charity (last year's event raised £1000 for PASIC). Among those confirmed so far this year are Pilgrim Fathers, Fixit Kid, Hot Japanese Girl and Bad For Lazarus.
Moving further afield to the west of the city along the A60 to Newstead Abbey Country Park, this year's Headstocks line-up is starting to take shape, with Echo & The Bunnymen, Tunng, The High Llamas and Royal Gala among those scheduled to appear during the second weekend in September (9th-11th).
It's also been a busy time for new releases this summer, as the aforementioned Dog Is Dead and Spotlight Kid both have records out as we speak. The former's Your Childhood EP compiles all of their three singles to date, and is available here as well as in all good record stores for the measly sum of just £1.99. The latter meanwhile release 'Plan Comes Apart' ahead of their as-yet untitled forthcoming album, which is due out in the Autumn. While not meaning to get too carried away, we're pretty excited about this here in DiS land, as the excellent video for the single below ably illustrates:-
Back to the people from I'm Not From London, they've just started up their own label and the first release will be 'Forgive Us We're British' by Captain Dangerous on Monday 4th July.
The next release looks set to be Baby Godzilla's Danny Clarke-produced 'Powerboat Disaster' with Hot Japanese Girl's Bear Shark Tiger Laser Fight EP not far behind.
We're also becoming quite excited by atmospheric four-piece Atticus Anthem, who've been treading the boards around the city for a while now. Sounding like a less self-absorbed Verve before they started taking too many drugs and believing their own hype, the slightly schizophrenic but engagingly addictive 'Southside' looks set to be their first single, having recently shot the video with London-based director Simon Hilton of Chainsaw Films.
Another local artist that's been making his mark in recent months is Jack Peachey, aka Gallery 47. Combining the stripped down, soul baring lyrical asides of an adolescent Conor Oberst with the carefully orchestrated dynamics of OK Computer era Radiohead, this one-man symphony belies his youthful demeanour with consummate ease. Already confirmed for Splendour and Summer Sundae festivals and with a host of other dates to boot, we strongly recommend the excellent 11th October Routine EP, which is available upon request here. His debut album should be ready imminently, but in the meantime here's the excellent 'Otherwise'.
Another of our favourite labels, the excellent Denizen Recordings, will putting out Shakkei, the second album from Origamibiro, the brainchild of former Wauvenfold musician Tom Hill. They're also in the process of putting together the debut long player from Nottingham's Injured Birds, and from what we've heard so far this could be the dream collaboration of George Formby and Riuchi Sakamoto were one to exist.
Finally, we couldn't finish without mentioning the excellent Ronika. Her awesome Wiyoo EP came out last week on Recordshop Records and the Madonna-centric lead track 'Forget Yourself' has been creating a storm all over BBC Radio 6 ever since. Listen and see for yourself why below...
21st June - Great British Weather + Selma Thurman - The Maze
22nd June - Spotlight Kid + Frontiers + I Am Lono + Jake Bugg - Bodega Social
24th June - Joan Of Arc + Hot Club De Paris + Fists - Bodega Social
25th June - Anvil - Rock City
27th June - This Will Destroy You - Rock City
5th July - Death Cab For Cutie - Rock City
5th July - Evans The Death + August Actually + I Am In Love - Chameleon
7th July - The PETEbox - Bodega Social
8th July - UK Subs + Girlfixer - The Maze
9th July - Ronika - Stealth
13th July - Avi Buffalo + Admiral Fallow - Bodega Social
15th July - Pilgrim Fathers + Ocean Bottom Nightmare + Alright The Captain - Chameleon
21st July - Two Gallants - Bodega Social
24th July - Scissor Sisters + Blondie + Feeder + Dog Is Dead + many more - Splendour Festival @ Wollaton Park
27th July - Iron Maiden + Airborne - Capital FM Arena
28th July - MathAnd Physics Club + Very Truly Yours + The Sweet Nothings + Pocketbooks Chameleon
4th August - The Dogbones + The Smears - The Maze
Finally, here's a further sample of some of the artists we've been banging on about...


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BERLIN — Former U.S. Congressman Frank Kratovil, who served a single term representing Maryland's First District, which includes the entire Eastern Shore, was appointed last week to a District Court judgeship in Queen Anne's County.
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley announced the appointment of Kratovil to fill the Queen Anne's County District Court bench, a vacancy created by the retirement of the Honorable John T. Clark III.
"I am honored to appoint Frank Kratovil to the Queen Anne's County District Court," said O'Malley. "His strong work ethic, dedication to justice, and years of experience will make him an excellent judge."
Kratovil served as State's Attorney in Queen Anne's County from 2002 to 2009 when left his post after he was elected to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Earlier in his career, Kratovil served as an Assistant State's Attorney in both Queen Anne's and Prince George's Counties and as Deputy State's Attorney in Kent County.
His diverse legal background also includes experience in private practice, as a criminal justice advisor in the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, and as a law clerk in the Public Defender's Office for Prince George's County and for the Honorable Darlene G. Perry on the Circuit Court for Prince George's County.


text: Tens of thousands of applications worldwide inspect billions of products each day, many products that simply could not be manufactured without machine vision technology. Whether verifying the fill levels of soda bottles traveling on a conveyer, reading oil-stained DPM codes on automotive parts or positioning touch screens on smart phones to micron-level accuracy, machine vision technology performs highly-detailed tasks on high-speed production lines. Cognex machine vision systems and vision sensors help companies improve manufacturing quality and performance by eliminating defects, verifying assembly and tracking information at every stage of the production process.