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- Name: John R. Hogerhuis
- Project Title: Inline C++/CLI
- Synopsis: Write Perl subroutines and classes in C++/CLI
John R. Hogerhuis
Project Title
Inline C++/CLI
Write Perl subroutines and classes in C++/CLI
Benefits to the Perl Community
The benefit of this project is that it opens up access to .Net APIs to Perl programmers. This prevents Perl from being marginalized on the Windows platform. It allows the Perl community to continue to use its favorite tool to solve problems on the Windows platform without giving up access to any of the platforms facilities.
Build bleadperl with Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition Modify Inline::CPP (if necessary) to support CPP/CLI Host a website for distributing binary form of Perl compiled with VS2008 Publish an article about how to write CPP/CLI modules
Project Details
The goal of this project is to create a distribution of Perl based on the free beer C++/CLI compiler distributed by Microsoft, and a new Inline-CPPCLI to make creating mixed-code binding DLLs as simple as possible.
This will give create a bridge to all .Net functionality while keeping Perl as fast, native code.
Project Schedule
It isn't clear what issues there will be. But I think the project could be completed within about 3 calendar months with me working 1/4 time on it.
I am a contract embedded systems programmer (CS major). I authored the LTK-Perl (LLRP Toolkit) for communicating with RFID readers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/llrp-toolkit/ I use Perl in my daily work writing test infrastructure and automated test scripts. I have 13 years experience as a professional programmer. Recently I have been struggling with testing BizTalk RFID. I would like to continue to leverage my investment in our Perl test scripts and framework while exercising .Net assemblies. In addition to being fluent in Perl, I am a competent C and C# programmer. I am currently learning C++/CLI.
Amount Requested
$3000. But I understand that resources are always limited and other projects need funding as well


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How to Clean Up a Messy Desktop in Windows 8
When icons cover your desktop like a year's worth of sticky notes, Windows 8 offers several ways to clean up the mess. If you simply want your desktop clutter to look more organized — lined up straight or in organized piles, for example — then do this: Right-click the desktop and choose Sort By from the pop-up menu.
The submenu offers these choices:
Name: Arrange all icons in alphabetical order using neat, vertical rows.
Size: Arrange icons according to their size, placing the smallest ones at the top of the rows.
Item Type: This lines up icons by their type. All photographs are grouped together, for example, as are all links to websites.
Date Modified: Arrange icons by the date you or your PC last changed them.
Right-clicking the desktop and choosing the View option lets you change the desktop icons' size, as well as play with these desk-organizing options:
Auto Arrange Icons: Automatically arrange everything in vertical rows — even newly positioned icons are swept into tidy rows.
Align Icons to Grid: Turned on by default, this option places an invisible grid on the screen and aligns all icons within the grid's borders to keep them nice and tidy — no matter how hard you try to mess them up.
Show Desktop Icons: Always keep this option turned on. When turned off, Windows hides every icon on your desktop. If you can remember in your frustration, click this option again to toggle your icons back on.
Most View options are also available within any of your folders. To find them, click any folder's View tab that lives along its top edge.
For more information about Windows 8, explore Windows 8 For Dummies, available online.

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Making your tech sparkle means more than just grabbing whatever is in the cleaning closet
It's been a long winter of eating soup and crackers over keyboards and rubbing phone screens on dirty corduroys.
But spring cleaning for gadgets isn't about breaking out the Windex and other under-sink supplies. While our mobile devices and computers endure plenty, their screens and exteriors can be damaged by the abrasives and ammonia in many cleaners, and, according to most electronics makers, even the fluffiest of paper towels....


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March 3, 2005
Recap | Box Score | Photo Gallery
Santa Clara Head Coach Michelle Bento-Jackson on the victory
"I thought that the team did an excellent job of coming out to start the game and setting the tone. We put out focus on our half court defense and that's what gets us going. It creates our offense and again that's what we concentrated on. "
SCU freshman guard Chandice Cronk on team's hot shooting
"I think it was everything started to go together. We came out really strong. And everyone started hitting shots and it just took off from there."
SCU senior guard Quinn Thomas on Cronk's shooting
"That's just Chan. Shooters get in a groove. You just start feeding them the ball and you know they are feeling it."
Coach Bento-Jackson on controlling USF and Toni Russell
"This is the third time around we've played USF. We were extremely familiar with their personnel. It wasn't so much that we were concentrating on their execution in the half court, but what their personnel is. We really wanted to take them out of their strengths. I thought we executed that throughout the entire game very well."
"I think Toni is a huge part of their success. We can be a major factor in a game both offensively and defensively. She is a challenge for us. Not only Toni, but Dominique Carter and Mary Jane Krueger, they have great balance. She is the head of their team and what makes them go."
Cronk on playing at home
"Definitely, this is the only time that we're going to have it here. It definitely is something special. You don't want people to come in and beat you in your own court. "
Thomas on SCU's confidence
"This is a huge win. I definitely excited for Saturday. It helps us with out confidence I think we really excited to have the tournament here. It seems like we've been waiting forever.
San Francisco Head Coach Heidi VanDerveer on the loss
"Santa Clara played on cylinders. The shooting percentages of the first half are pretty indicative of the game. Give Santa Clara credit. They were primed and ready go. We tried to establish an inside game and could never do so. We got down early and from there it was a long night. To our team's credit we battled. I thought Toni really competed. She has been our energy during the whole season and unfortunately she didn't get the help she needed."
USF senior guard Toni Russell on the hard foul
"I went for a lay-up, I got fouled, I came down on my lower back. I just need ice. I'll be okay. "
Russell on SCU's defense
"I know they're going to pick me up early on defense. This is the third time we've played them. We were prepared for the pressure. We practiced for that all week. Offense gives everybody energy. And for us, defense has given us energy and we were unable to do that today."
VanDerveer on SCU's shooting
"We've had people to come in and step up and give us energy. We got hit by a steam roller. We tried different combinations. We tried to go zone. It's tough when you play against a team that's shooting so well."


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Happy Labor Day!
I'd like to wish you all a very happy Labor Day in true Cake Wrecks fashion.
(So, you know, you might want to put that coffee down.)
Can I get a virtual drum roll, please?
Bonus Pun: Say, do you suppose this bakery delivers? (Booyah!)
- Related Wreckage: Hey Everybody, Thish Cake ish from Holland. Ishn't that Vierd?


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Recommendations Seek to Foster Gender Parity in Financial Planning
Washington, D.C., April 22, 2014 – Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) and its Women's Initiative (WIN) today released a comprehensive research study on the "feminine famine" in the financial planning profession. The research examines the attitudes and perceptions of key groups with a stake in the gender composition of the financial planning profession, including CFP® professionals and other financial advisors, students, educators and representatives of financial services firms.
WIN's mission is three-fold: to identify why relatively few women choose to become part of the financial planning profession; to make recommendations for encouraging and supporting women to pursue careers in financial planning; and to undertake efforts and campaigns to address the gender gap in financial planning.
At the heart of WIN is its Advisory Panel – comprising leaders in the area of women in financial services – which drew upon the research findings to develop recommendations to help attract more women to the profession. The WIN Advisory Panel also identified specific efforts CFP Board can undertake to address the problem.
"The need to attract more women to financial planning and to make this career path more attractive to women is more than just a challenge. It also presents a huge opportunity – for women and for business," said Nancy Kistner, CFP®, chair of the WIN Advisory Panel and chair emerita of CFP Board's Board of Directors. "CFP Board will next begin the real work of making more room for women in financial planning, including within the CFP® professional community."
The research findings are derived from comprehensive qualitative and quantitative research conducted by CFP Board in partnership with Fondulas Strategic Research; they are outlined in a new white paper from CFP Board's WIN Advisory Panel released today at an event in New York City. TD Ameritrade Institutional and Ameriprise Financial serve as sponsors of WIN, including the research study.
The research findings can be summarized by four overarching observations:
"We need the talents and skills of young women to advance the financial planning profession and to ensure the longevity of our industry," said Tom Nally, President of TD Ameritrade Institutional. "TD Ameritrade Institutional is proud to support CFP Board in its efforts to change the way women see the financial planning profession and the way we as an industry foster and encourage women."
Informed by the research findings, the WIN Advisory Panel developed recommendations aimed at attracting more women to the financial planning profession and to make the financial planning profession and CFP® certification more appealing, including:
CFP Board recognizes that simply making recommendations for increasing the number of women in financial planning, including those with CFP® certification, will not alone get the job done. Accordingly, CFP Board has committed to a number of initiatives based on the WIN Advisory Panel's recommendations, including:
"It's critical that more women have a full understanding of the value and benefits of choosing a career as a financial professional," said Elda Macias, Vice President, Retirement and Segment Marketing, Ameriprise Financial. "Ameriprise has a strong history of welcoming women as advisors, employees and clients and we are proud to be supporting CFP Board's important efforts to improve the way the industry engages and supports women advisors."
The white paper detailing CFP Board's research findings and recommendations, as well as further details on WIN, is available at CFP.net/WIN. A fact sheet on the white paper is available here.
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But it's not just a study of the works, themselves. We do discuss the books, but we're also discussing the books within the context of what's happening in the world at large and how do (or not) world events support the concerns these authors raise regarding where we're going as a species.
These kids, my students (and I use the term lightly, because I really do believe there might be some overlap in the student/teacher relationship), are incredibly smart and intuitive, and they have some amazing insights. We should never dismiss out-of-hand what our children are saying, because they see the world differently than we do, and while their innocence and/or lack of experience may inhibit how well they are able to interpret those things they see, if we hear what they're saying, perhaps their vision coupled with our experience will help us see more clearly where we need to go.
Over the past two sessions, we've been discussing population. It's pretty clear that the world is overpopulated. The estimated carrying capacity of the Earth - without inputs from fossil fuels - is about one billion people. We're six times that now.
We've talked a lot about population control mechanisms - in particular how they don't work, and both the real-life examples of legislation to limit population growth and the fictitious examples we are reading seem to prove pretty clearly that no amount of government control over the number of people born will slow the human population overshoot.
The other thing we've discussed is how populations have been migrating away from rural areas and into urban areas - in search of ways to make money.
The irony is that fewer people in the rural areas means there are fewer people who are growing food, and as one person quipped, "A lot of tightly packed, very hungry people is not going to be a good thing." Very astute.
It continually amazes me to have these conversations - especially with kids, whom our society has deemed as having little or no ability to logically piece together events and see the real inside the illusion. They know, without really knowing, what's happening.
I was watching a YouTube video yesterday entitled Growing Up in the First Great Depression. It was an interview with Rowena Donaldson on PeakMomentTV. Rowena is host Janaia Donaldson's mother. Rowena was six years old when the Stock Market crashed in 1929. I loved her commentary. It was very enligthening, and as Janaia said more than once, her mother's experiences are what a lot of people today will be living in the next decade. We'll all get poorer. We'll all need to know how to do things.
That's another thing one of my students said about the characters in the most recent book we read. He said, "They can't do anything", and his point was that their lives have been so controlled and so dictated that they are unable to make any decisions for themselves. They haven't had to, and so they don't.
I'm concerned that our lives have been similarly controlled. There is so much we simply don't know, and there are so many of us that are all too willing to allow someone else to make those decisions for us. It's easier to sit back, flip on the television and escape for a while, and let someone else do the work of
In the interview, Rowena talks about the food they ate, and it was a combination of what they could afford to buy (bread and butter) and what they could find. She describes eating watercress and butter sandwiches, because her mother was able to find watercress growing wild.
How many of us, today, know what's out there for food?
This morning Deus Ex Machina was packing his lunch for the day. He made a couple of wraps, and then ran outside to pick some greens ... not from the garden, because we don't have any growing, yet, but from the "wild." Dandelion greens, plantain,chives, and violet leaves and flowers are in his lunch box for today.
Most people I know would be aghast that he is eating what basically amounts to weeds, but they're edible. People back in the early day knew those things could be eaten. Seems a little arrogant and short-sighted not to accept the gifts nature is offering us.
In the books we're reading, all of the protagonists are faced with difficult decisions. They can choose to support the status quo through their thoughts and actions, or they can buck the system and do what they believe is right. Very few of the main characters in these books are heroes. In fact, in one of the novels we talked about the blatant human-ness of the main character - that is, how fallible he was and how very much like every man were most of his actions. He wasn't making any grandiose gestures or seeking a moral high-ground. That he found himself in his particular situation was more a matter of chance than of his own doing, but he was trying to fix what he had not broken.
I think a lot of us, these days, find ourselves in exactly that situation. I have no desire to be a heroine or a martyr. I just want to live my life, quietly, peacefully and fully.
But neither can I sit back and pretend that I don't see what I see, and I can't pretend not to hear what my students are saying and not work to make things better for them.
Arguably, we are making some of these dystopian futures a reality. Orwell warned us, and rather than alter our course, we headed straight for the cliff he was warning us against, and here we are, today, with the Patriot's Act and surveillance cameras on every corner and a news media that pretends it's giving us news.
One of the lessons in the books we've been reading (and it's not one that we've highlighted quite enough, yet) is that we, humans, are driven by our needs. In particular, when food is in question, there are a lot of things we are willing to do that are perhaps not great choices. In the first novel we read, for instance, the government successfully destroyed the family unit by teaching the children that parents were unable to provide for the family unit, but kids could make sure the family, at least, had enough food (not good food, but food to fill an empty belly).
In the interview on PeakMomentTV, Rowena Donaldson echoes this need for food. In fact, she says food is, pretty much, "the" thing that her family most needed during those hard times. She says shelter is good, but for her, the issue was food - and not having enough of the kinds of foods they wanted to eat.
In my class, we're reading some pretty stark future scenarios. Any one, or all, of them could happen. Something is defintely happening. We can't stop it, but we can stop is our pretending that we have no control.
At very least, perhaps knowing what watercress is and where it grows, is a step in the right direction.


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USC, Hollywood talent agency UTA and prominent venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers have partnered to launch Viterbi Startup Garage, a technology accelerator that will provide financial and strategic support to promising entrepreneurs.
Any USC undergraduate, graduate student or recent alumni can apply for the program as long as one member of the team is enrolled at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering or is a Viterbi alumnus. A handful of companies will receive financial grants and mentorship for 12 weeks, working out of the program's facility in Marina del Rey.
Viterbi has some 1,800 undergraduate and 3,800 graduate students. Weinstein, Soni, KPCB general partner Mike Abbott and Yannis C. Yortsos, dean of the school, will formally introduce the program April 2 at USC.
According to Ashish Soni, executive director of Digital innovation for USC's Viterbi School of Engineering, this is the first Los Angeles accelerator backed by a major university. Its goals are to identify local entrepreneurs and keep their skills (and companies) in Southern California, bolstering an burgeoning tech scene.
"We have been proudly advising technology startups for many years, and the Startup Garage will give us an opportunity to be even more hands-on with inspiring entrepreneurs who are working on groundbreaking ideas," Brent Weinstein, head of digital media at UTA, said in a statement. "So many early-stage companies are media focused or media adjacent, that we feel Los Angeles is the ideal place to launch an accelerator in partnership with world class partners like USC and KPCB."
UTA has been one of the most forward-thinking agencies in the technology space, launching a digital division in 2006 and attempting to launch an independent studio for online entertainment. It remains the lone agency with a social-media agent.
Kleiner Perkins is one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, having invested in everything from Amazon to Electronic Arts to AOL.
"Talent is global, and we are very impressed by the quality of engineers emerging from USC's Viterbi School," Abbot said in a statement. "The partnership with USC and UTA is an example of our intensifying efforts to identify and nurture the next-generation of technology leaders wherever they are in the world, adding to our strong track record of organizing and supporting pioneering development programs to build scalable successful businesses."


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Dog Cancer Diagnosis
Veterinarian Reviewed on March 29, 2014 by Dr. Janice Huntingford
Dog Cancer Diagnosis
Signs and Symptoms
• Swelling that continues to increase
• The appearance of sores the take a long time to heal
• Discharge or bleeding from any part of the body
• Odor that is offensive
• Problems swallowing or eating
• Some stiffness or lameness that does not go away
• Problems urinating
While these symptoms are prevalent in Dog Cancer, some are also symptoms of other diseases. The basic caution for your treatment of your dog is a trip to the veterinarian for a diagnosis.
The diagnosis of cancer can be a horrible shock to an owner. There are however, steps you can take that will help both you and your dog. Your aim should be to give your dog a fighting chance and a good quality of life.
Steps you can take
First of all, do not panic. Cancer is one of the words everyone hates to hear. Regardless of the age of your beloved dog you do not want to hear that word as a diagnosis. Feelings of anger, fear, confusion and a bit of guilt are common and you should give yourself the opportunity to deal with all of these emotions. Your dog will need your strength for the battle.
Education helps. If you educate yourself as to the type of cancer your dog has, you will empower yourself to help your dog. There are many different types of this disease and by educating yourself you will relieve some of the mystery as well as being able to have some realistic goals as to the outcome. There are many decisions that you will be forced to make as treatment begins. Educating yourself will help you to make the right ones. You will know the potential prognosis for the type of cancer. You will also know what signs to look for to judge improvement or decline in your dogs condition. This is all empowering.
Friends and family will be a great resource for help and encouragement. It is important to gather your team together to accomplish the task. Your primary veterinarian is your first team member. They are familiar with your dogs history and can recommend the consultation with an oncologist who is current on all the treatments that may be available. Holistic veterinarians also have a place. They will deal with all aspects of your dog's life and your own life to come to a desirable treatment plan. Surround yourself with people you trust.
Some dietary changes are in order
Studies show that a diet that is high in Dog Omega Fatty Acids such as Omega 3 acids and low carbohydrates accompanied by moderate protein is best. Often you will seek out the possibility of raw diets or even home cooked meals. This will depend on what your own beliefs are and what your veterinarian recommends. You may receive dietary supplements prescribed by your vet.
A dog that has been diagnosed with cancer will need to be protected from harmful chemicals. There are studies that show a link between the exposure to Dog Lawn Chemicals and household chemicals and cancer. You may also want to consider filtered water for additional protection.
Don't give up. Take advantage of every day and share those days with your dog.
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Here in Canada we LOVE our red and white and especially love using this colour combo "Down on the Farm." When I saw these beautiful reds, tans and cream tones I just knew what type of design to focus on – a good ole' barn raising and images from my Past, Present, and Future. I hope everyone has as much fun with this quilt as I did . . . remember to customize it however you like to make it a "one-of-a-kind" quilt that creates memories for you.
1 – "Midwinter Reds" layer cake by Minick and Simpson
First and Third borders: 3/4 yard
Second border: 1/3 yard
Inserted Flap (Flange) border: 1/4 yard (optional)
1/2 yard background fabric for paper-pieced blocks
1/2 yard for centre squares and binding fabric
1 1/2 yards of backing fabric
46" x 54" batting
Scraps of embroidery thread to stitch your hometown name on the elevator
|Line up the left hand edges of your stack as close to perfect as possible. Measure 1 5/8" from the left raw edge and make your first cut.
Step One:
Place a center square and a light strip right sides together and join with a 1/4" seam, using the machine's presser foot as a guide. Now line up your ruler against the straight edge of Print #1, and using your rotary cutter trim away the excess of Print #2 (refer to the block legend on Page 1 for reference). Open squares and press seam allowance away from the center square.
NOTE: Remember that the last strip you added is always on top under the needle. Sew with the wrong side of the finished work facing you, the new strip will always be underneath so that you can see the seam allowances and guide them away from the center of the block as you stitch.
Step Two:
Lay this unit on top of another light strip – right sides together. Stitch this seam as shown in the photo. Ensure that you push the seam allowance up as you sew over it. Trim off piece #3 evenly with piece #1. Press seam allowance away from the center square.
Step Three:
Turn the unit so that piece #3 is at the top and lay this section over a dark strip (#4). Align the raw edges and stitch, ensuring that the previous seam allowance is pushed upwards. Trim unit evenly with piece #1 and #2. Press seam allowance away from the center square.
Step Four:
Now lay this partial block on top of another dark strip (#5). Stitch and trim strip #5 even with the edge of unit #2 and #3. Open up and press.
Continue adding and trimming strips in this manner, always turning the block counter-clockwise as you add strips, until you have a block 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" square that looks like the block above. Assembly line piecing works very well with this type of block if a planned colour placement is used. As in the samples shown here, the prints are randomly placed which makes it a bit more difficult to use the assembly line method – a modified version does work, but not quite as efficiently.
Give all of your blocks a final pressing and get them stacked and ready to lay out into a quilt. Refer to the photo at the beginning of the blog post or play around with different layouts to find one that appeals to you.
Cutting Strips for Paper Piecing
There are many methods for paper piecing – please feel free to use whatever method works best for you and that you are comfortable with.
Leftovers from the Log Cabin Blocks (1 1/2") can be used for: House Roof; House Door; Chimney; Barn Windows; Fence Posts; and Tree Trunk.
Cut wider strips from remaining 10"x10" fabrics:
House Window: 2" strip
Barn Door: 2 1/2" strip
Barn Roof: 2" strip
Barn: 1 1/2" and 2" strips
Lean-to: 3" strip
Lean-to Roof: 1"
Elevator – Light Color: 3 3/4" strip
Elevator – Dark Color: 2" strip
Background Strips (all 42" long) – Cut a variety and then use as needed. I cut a 5", 2" and 1" strip – the 5" works best for the backgrounds on the Lean-to, the Fence block and for the angled pieces in the Tree block. The 1" strips work best for the Fence block and the sides of the House. If you want a different size for a certain area, just cut it from the 5" strip as needed.
The tree has a lot of different angles going on and sometimes those can be quite a challenge. The trick is to always use a wide enough strip to allow for coverage of the area that you are wanting to cover. The other important thing to remember is to always do a bit of a mock-sewing, by either using a couple of pins or by holding the piece of fabric in place along the seam line and flipping it over to make sure that the shape you are wanting to cover is covered. Sometimes it doesn't seem to matter how carefully you plan, something still doesn't work out in the end. Always keep your seam ripper handy and take comfort in knowing that you're not the first who has needed to re-work an angle!
The tree block is the "adjusting block" that I talked about at the beginning. Once the tree is paper pieced you can add the top background strip (1 1/2"). Then add 2 1/2" strips of background fabric to each side. These 2 1/2" strips are wider than you need and will allow you to custom fit your entire barn scene to fit your finished log cabin bottom unit. Measure your log cabin unit, including seam allowance – mark that number down. Sew as many of your farm scene blocks together as you can . . . remember they don't need to be in the order that I have sewn them in – create your own barn scene. Measure your pieced blocks including only the one set of seam allowances. Calculate the measurement you need to fill the available space and add 1/2" inch to that measurement. Trim your tree block to that measurement and sew it into the sequence you have chosen. Now you can sew the farm scene unit to the log cabin unit to complete your quilt center.
Adding the First Border
1. Measure through the middle row of blocks on the quilt top.
2. Cut 2 – 1 1/2" x 42" strips of this measurement from your first border print.
3. Find the center of the quilt top and the center of the top border strip by folding them in half. Mark the halfway point with a pin or fabric marker. With right sides together, pin the center of the border to the center of the top. Pin the ends of the border strip to the ends of the quilt top and then pin every two or three inches, easing in any fullness.
4. Using ¼ inch seam, stitch the top borders in place, being careful to ease in any fullness. As you are sewing your borders into place, be careful to keep the seams on your blocks laying in the direction they were pressed in. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for the bottom border.
5. Press the seams.
6. Measure the quilt top from top to bottom across the center, including the borders just sewn on. Repeat steps 3 to 5.
Note: For longer borders:
If your measurement is longer than one length of the 42" strip, the borders will need to be pieced – just straight seam border strips together to make a longer length and then cut to the length needed.
Adding the Second Border:
Repeat steps 1 to 6 for the 2 1/2" second border.
Preparing and Applying the Flap (Flange) Border – (Optional)
1. Using 5 1¼" inner border strips, straight seam them together end-to-end to create one long strip.
2. Press the entire strip in half, wrong sides together.
3. Measure the quilt top from top to bottom and side to side across the center, including the borders just sewn on and cut four lengths of the flap border strip to those measurements.
4. Using a 1/8" seam allowance, and with the right side of the quilt facing you, start stitching the strip to the first border, matching centers and ends as per step 3 above.
5. Repeat for the other side and top and bottom of the quilt.
Adding the Third Border:
Repeat steps 1 to 6 for adding the first border using the 3 1/2" third border print strips.
Embroider the name of your hometown on the front of the elevator and any other special touches that you want to make to your quilt. The quilt top is now complete and ready for one final pressing before being layered and basted for quilting. This quilt was quilted by Terry Whitman in Estevan, Saskatchewan and she made swirly wind stitching around the buildings and diagonal quilting across the body of the quilt. The border has been quilted with a diamond/zig zag pattern. Terry added sunflowers and other flowers on top of the barn and cabin, as well as a wheat sheaf on the elevator.
Binding: Measure the top, bottom and sides of your quilt and divide this number by 42" (width of fabric) and using the number you get, round up to the nearest whole number. This is the number of 2 1/4" strips you need to cut for binding strips. Using a diagonal seam, stitch these strips into a long continuous unit. Press strip in half with wrong sides together. Stitch to the right side of the quilt aligning raw edges as you go and mitering corners as you come to them. Turn edge over to the back side of the quilt and hand stitch in place. Make a log cabin label and attach with pride!
I hope you enjoyed your time "Down on the Farm" with me.
Finished Quilt: 40″ x 48″
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Men?s Golfer of the Week ? No. 1
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Nathan Anderson of Texas Wesleyan has been named the first NAIA National Men's Golfer of the Week for the 2013 season, the national office announced Wednesday. Anderson was selected based on his performance from March 11 – 17 and was chosen out of a poll of conference/independent/unaffiliated group golfer of the week selections.
Anderson claimed his first individual title of the 2013 spring season with a crown at the UST Mamiya Texas Intercollegiate at Hawks Creek Golf Club in Fort Worth, Texas, on March 12. The senior native of Burleson, Texas, carded a 69-70 – 139 at the two day event to top a field of 76 individuals from 13 teams. Anderson's 5-under-par placed him one stroke ahead of the second place finisher and helped Texas Wesleyan to a team championship.
Anderson, who finished second at the 2012 NAIA Men's Golf National Championships, also received the National Golfer of the Week award on April 18, 2012.
The next Men's Golfer of the Week will be announced on March 27. For the complete 2013 Golfer of the Week schedule, click here.
Nominees: Travis Ross, Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.); Chris Douglas, Ottawa (Kan.); Joey Smart, Indiana East; Chien Hau Tan, Ashford (Iowa); Brodie Hinkle, Oklahoma City; Ben Johnson, Bethany (Kan.); Jonathan Goswitz, William Jessup (Calif.); Daniel Bova, Warner (Fla.); Jakob Good, St. Thomas (Fla.); Kristofer Karlsson, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Brian Langley, South Carolina Beaufort; Ryan Connolly, Wayland Baptist (Texas); Hagen Barmasse, Rogers State (Okla.).
2013 Composite Award Winners
Week 1 (March 28): Nathan Anderson, Texas Wesleyan


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Entrepreneur Leadership Series is Hosting Weekly Speakers
February 2013
By Allie Jeppson
Many people dream of launching their own business. Getting a new venture off the ground, however, is not easy.
This year's Entrepreneur Leadership Series, hosted by the Center For Entrepreneurial Excellence, is designed to help. Each lecture this year focuses on different aspects of building a business.
The presentations are being held on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. in Room 215 of the George S. Eccles Business Building. Each presentation in the series addresses a particular theme of business building, such as e-commerce, social media or manufacturing, said Mike Glauser, director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence at the Huntsman School.
"We want people to learn from the experiences, mistakes and triumphs of real entrepreneurs," Mr. Glauser said. "We want to help them discover some keys to success that they can use in their own endeavors."
The series, which is free and open to the public, features entrepreneurial leaders such as Dan Clark, the founder of Clark Success Systems who has been named one of the top ten speakers in the world; Scott Watterson, co-founder of Icon Health and Fitness; Cydni Tetro, entrepreneur in residence for the Walt Disney Company, and Charles Sorenson, CEO of Intermountain Healthcare. The weekly events are free and open to the public. For more information about the speakers, visit the Entrepreneur Leadership Series Website.
"It is the quality speakers that make this year's Entrepreneur Leadership Series lineup the best we've ever had," Mr. Glauser said.
The scheduled speakers are as follows:
Feb. 20 — Building the World's Largest Fitness Company
Scott Watterson: co-founder, chairman and CEO of Icon Health and Fitness
Scott Watterson is an expert in product development, manufacturing, importing, marketing, sales, and distribution of consumer products. He was the recipient of INC. Magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Intermountain Region in 1996.
Feb. 27 — Building Businesses as a Family Affair
Larry and Caryl Abdo: social entrepreneurs and founders of the Abdo Markethouse
From transforming an old soup kitchen into a boutique hotel, to starting a chain of vintage hamburger restaurants, the Abdos have made business a family affair. Each of their four children works for a different Abdo enterprise.
March 6 — Building an International Speaking Business
Dan Clark: founder of Clark Success Systems
Dan Clark has been named one of the top ten speakers in the world by Achievers North America and Achievers Europe. He is a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning athlete and president/CEO of Clark Success Systems, an international communications and high performance consulting firm. Clark is leading an international movement to teach leaders and organizations how to transform themselves from successful to significant.
March 27 — Innovation in the Health Care Industry
Charles Sorenson: CEO of Intermountain Healthcare
Under Charles Sorenson's leadership, Intermountain Healthcare has applied a disciplined and system-wide focus on the implementation of best clinical practices aimed at producing measurably better outcomes for patients. He began his practice at LDS Hospital in 1982.
April 3 — Building a Premier Ski Company While in College
Daniel Nebeker, Adam Hepworth, and Jared Richards: founders of Bluehouse Skis
Bluehouse is a Salt Lake City-based snow ski manufacturer now in its fifth season. As manager of Bluehouse Ski Company, Daniel Nebeker built his company's manufacturing facility and designed several of its machines. Jared Richards is an attorney and entrepreneur striving to have a net positive effect on the community, and Adam Hepworth is CEO and lead product engineer of the company.
April 10 — Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Disney
Cydni Tetro: entrepreneur in residence for the Walt Disney Company
As an Entrepreneur in Residence for the Walt Disney Company, Cydni Tetro helps take Disney technologies to market. Her expertise is in sales, marketing, and customer acquisition.


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This 2011 fire in the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge was fueled in part by red cedars.
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This 2011 fire in the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge was fueled in part by red cedars.
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Eastern Red Cedar trees are bad for Oklahoma. The volatile oils they contain can cause the trees to explode during wildfires, spreading embers over hundreds of yards. They crowd out other plants, force wildlife off their habitats, and hoard rainfall — which is bad news during a drought.
As The Journal Record's Brian Brus reports, it's been said each red cedar can guzzle dozens of gallons of water each day:
Last year, for example, a county Republican Party organization warned in an email that the invasive tree could consume an overwhelming 50 to 60 gallons of water a day, making drought even worse.
But he red cedar's gluttony for water has been greatly exaggerated, according to researchers at Oklahoma State University, the paper reports. The real number is a seemingly meager six gallons per day:
That['s] not really good news, however… That daily average is bad enough to ruin land for other agricultural uses, said Rod Will, silviculture professor in the OSU Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management.
The paper talked with Brent Kisling, executive director of the Aromatic Cedar Association, who says the trees use all the water they can get, and whether it's six gallons — or 30 — the effect is still reductions in runoff water for streams.
Addressing the growing issue isn't easy. Kisling says some association members cut down red cedars for lumber, but that there's little money to be made doing that. The Oklahoma legislature has gotten involved, too:
Legislators have responded to rural residents' concerns with proposals that include prisoner-driven eradication programs and market development for cedar products, usually low-value items such as mulch and shingles.
… "We're going to have to find a high-margin product to generate enough interest in the market to bring this problem under control," [Kisling] said. "We've got to keep looking."
Red Cedars are native to the northeastern U.S., though they were also commonly planted to serve as windbreaks during the 20th century. Historically, seasonal wildfires helped keep the trees from spreading, but as firefighting techniques improved, red cedars flourished.


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Multi-switch Detection Interface (MSDI) for automotive and industrial applications
In this training, the audience will learn about the unique challenges faced by automotive system designers today to implement circuitry to detect external switches in a vehicle. The audience will understand the unique features offered by the MSDI and how they help solve these challenges. The audience will also learn about some of the more advanced features offered by the MSDI and how a system designer can take advantage of them in their design. The application of using the MSDI in an industrial system will also be briefly discussed.


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St. Joseph, MO If ever there was a year to use pre-breeding vaccinations, 2013 is likely to be it. Stressed cattle weakened by heat, drought and poor nutrition in 2012 face a heightened threat of infectious reproductive disease, according to Dr. Jerry Woodruff, Professional Services Veterinarian with Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc.
With all those additional challenges, getting on track with a strong vaccination program can help protect the health of the herd and reduce the potential for lost revenue from open cows in 2013.
"The animals have certainly suffered from some heat stress and drought stress this past year, and under those sorts of conditions, the animals" immune systems are compromised, leading them to be more vulnerable to infectious reproductive diseases," Dr. Woodruff explains. "Boosting immunity with a strong vaccination program including Express® FP becomes a very critical element to include in the herd health program."
Many key reproductive diseases affect cows (and in some cases, the fetus) early in gestation. Because of that, it's important to vaccinate pre-breeding with vaccines like EXPRESS FP and TrichGuard® or TRICHGUARD V5L to help protect against viral pathogens (bovine viral diarrhea [BVD] and infectious bovine rhinotracheitis [IBR]), bacterial diseases (vibrio and leptospirosis) and protozoal diseases like trichomoniasis.
Critical Factors for Vaccination Success
A cow's ability to mount an immune response to disease challenges goes beyond simply administering a vaccine. Dr. Woodruff encourages producers to consider nutrition, including energy, protein and trace mineral supplementation. He also emphasizes correct timing of pre-breeding vaccinations to maximize protection before disease challenges occur.
"For a lot of those diseases, the animals are very vulnerable during the early part of the gestation period, so it's very important for them to have protection prior to exposure to the bull," he says. "That's why the pre-breeding vaccination say, 30 to 60 days before bull turnout is the ideal time to get the protection into those cows prior to when they are likely to see exposure."
While producers can vaccinate spring-calving cows in the fall at preg-check time, Dr. Woodruff says they miss the critical time to protect the herd.
"Persistently infected [PI] BVD calves are formed early in the pregnancy. The venereal diseases – vibrio, trichomoniasis – those are diseases you want protection against approximately 30 days ahead of the breeding season. By vaccinating at preg-check time, you've lost some of the importance and value of those vaccinations because the time when exposure happens has already passed," Dr. Woodruff says.
Seeing the Return
Vaccination is just one part of getting cows bred on the first heat cycle, but it has a big impact. In years like this, avoiding disease challenges that could affect reproductive efficiency should be high priority.
"The earlier the cows are bred and calve, the more pounds they will have to sell," he explains. "It's simple math that, if a cow calves 21 days earlier than her herd mate, 21 days multiplied by a 1.75- or even 2-pound-a-day gain on those calves can equal a large sum of pounds, which then corresponds to a bigger value when producers sell those calves."
Putting a pre-breeding vaccination protocol in place that utilizes modified-live virus (MLV) vaccines that have a fetal-protection label claim, like the Express® FP vaccine family, can help protect the cow and her fetus throughout pregnancy.
Dr. Woodruff recommends talking to your veterinarian about establishing a pre-breeding vaccination protocol. You can also visit with your Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. representative or go to BI-Vetmedica.com/Cattle to learn about available reproductive vaccines.
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (St. Joseph, MO) is a subsidiary of Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation, based in Ridgefield, CT, and a member of the Boehringer Ingelheim group of companies.


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2. The downloaded file will be saved in the specified place in the self-extracting form ( .exe format ).
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Lifetime Resin Storage Building - 8' x 7.5'
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- Built with the highest-quality steel and polyethylene parts
- Powder coated, high-impact polyethylene plastic
- Made in the USA
- 10-year warranty
- Site prep and foundation are required but not included: see details below
Like all Lifetime products, you can be assured that the quality of your Lifetime Outdoor Storage Shed is the best in the world. All of our sheds are made in the USA, something that is very important to us and our customers. And, we back that quality up by offering the best warranty in the business – a 10-year warranty that covers everything on the shed... top to bottom!
All of our sheds are built with the highest-quality steel and polyethylene parts. The design and construction of our steel-reinforced double-wall panels is second to none. All of our exposed steel parts and trusses are powder coated and we only use high-impact polyethylene plastic.
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text: View-Masters were a part of just about everyone's childhood. For those trying to relive those days, Minnesota artist Debra Dressler has come up with these handmade clocks made with genuine vintage View-Masters. As you might suspect, "handmade" and "vintage" are usually codewords for "expensive," and at $145, that is pretty much the case here. However, if that is a little more money than you want to spend on a clock, you could probably build one using a newer View-Master fairly easily. [Uncommon Goods]


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I have two Seaward 350 test sets with assigned Test n Tag Elite Printers,
One unit requests the "print" as soon as the details are entered and saved, ie the Bluetooth to the printer is established.
the other unit always has to re-establish the bluetooth link to the printer after the data has been saved, this takes about ten seconds every time after each test, which is very frustrating.
I have looked at the settings of both 350's and can not see any differences in the setting, I have also connected the "good" printer and it behaves the same ie it drops the bluetooth link and will not re-establish until the data is "saved", therefore suggesting its the setting in the 350.
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong, as both 350's work fine in all other respects.


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Film fails as lesson in history or love
'J. Edgar'
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,
Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts
Director: Clinet Eastwood
Rated: PG-13
If you're going to make a movie about J. Edgar Hoover, then tell me something I don't know about him. That the lifelong F.B.I. chief was a power hungry, paranoid, self-aggrandizing egomaniac who was most likely a closeted gay is well known. So it is unfortunate that Clint Eastwood and writer Dustin Lance Black ("Milk") don't bring anything new to this ponderous biopic that spans the director's lengthy career.
From Eastwood's languid direction to Black's plodding script, there are no revelations, just a loosely told life story using flashbacks to detail Hoover's career and personal life. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the iconic Hoover, the film begins in his last days as Nixon is taking office. Feeling the need to get an autobiography on paper, he begins dictating his life story to a series of fresh-faced junior agents who come and go as they peck away at a typewriter set up in the director's inner sanctum.
In a muddled non-linear fashion, the film jumps from present day to milestones in Hoover's long career, including how he became director of the F.B.I. From his obsession with communist subversives, which is how he gained unprecedented power to wiretap anyone he deemed a threat to national security, to his early-on realization that knowledge is power and information was the most important currency inside the Beltway, Eastwood lopes through the story at a snail's pace. The Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the organized crime era, his rocky relationship with John and Bobby Kennedy, his foiled attempt to discredit Martin Luther King, the infamous secret files he kept on politicians and celebrities — these abuses of power are well documented points in Hoover's reign. But Eastwood covers them anyway, without delivering anything revelatory. And inexplicably, there are decades of his career that are not covered, while too much time is spent on the Lindbergh case.
Turning to Hoover's personal life, Eastwood introduces us to his mother Annie (Judi Dench), a helicopter parent if ever there was one and a religious kook to boot. More titillating, although no more revealing, is the introduction of Hoover's life pal (if not partner), Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer). Although Eastwood chooses to leave the true nature of the relationship to our imagination, there are uncomfortably mawkish scenes that clumsily try to show how devoted the two were to one another.
One in particular has the two tussling around on the floor in a sexually-charged fistfight ignited when Hoover reveals he has been on a couple of dates with, of all starlets, Dorothy Lamour, and hold on for this — they have been intimate. Tolson crumples and then unleashes his anger on the stunned Hoover, who then literally begs him not to go. It's not so much an awkward moment for Hoover and Tolson as it must have been for DiCaprio and Hammer to have to recite the trite dialog drawn from Black's overactive imagination.
To cover the span of Hoover's life requires DiCaprio to spend over half the film under layers of facial prosthetics that are distracting and not very realistic. Hammer looks equally as bad under mounds of facial padding and poor Naomi Watts, who is wasted in the role of Helen Gandy, Hoover's devoted secretary, must also undergo the unflattering transformation into middle and advanced age for the part.
DiCaprio gives an earnest performance capturing the pugnacious demeanor and distinctive speech of Hoover, but talk of Oscar nominations may be premature. Eastwood's trademark style — the washed out cinematography, his self-composed piano tinklings that underscore key scenes, the unhurried pace — is not the right fit for this film that can't decide if it's a history lesson or a love story. One thing's for sure. As much as he loved the limelight, ol' J. Edgar is probably turning over in his grave right now.


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'Berg Hosts Latin American Film FestivalThe department of languages, literatures and cultures at Muhlenberg College will host a Latin American Film Festival from Sunday, February 10 through Sunday, February 17, 2013.
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All screenings are free and open to the public, however, some of the films may have themes that are inappropriate for younger audiences.
"Marimbas from Hell," directed by Julio Hernández Cordón, will be screened on Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Baker Center for the Arts. In the 2012 Guatemalan film, the character of Don Alfonso plays the marimba (xylophone) for a living but as his traditional music is seen as increasingly old-fashioned, he finds himself without a job. When he is introduced to Blacko, an old heavy-metal legend of the Guatemalan underground, they decide to do something radical and fuse the sounds of the marimba with heavy metal, sparking the beginning of an unexpected collaboration.
"The Man Next Door," directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, will be screened on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in Trumbower Hall, Room 130. The 2010 Argentinean black comedy tells the story of Leonardo, a prestigious designer who lives with his family in a famous house designed by Le Corbusier. Life is seemingly ideal until Leonardo's boorish neighbor Victor breaks through a common wall to make a window. Victor's new window looks directly into Leonardo's living space, and as the tension mounts between the two men, complex relationships between class differences, social barriers and right and wrong are explored.
"Chico & Rita," directed by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando, will be screened on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. at the Red Door in Seegers Union. The 2012 Cuban and Spanish film is an animated love story starring the music, culture and people of Cuba. Chico is a dashing piano player and Rita is an enchanting Havana nightclub singer. When they meet, sparks fly and they fall madly in love. An epic romance unfolds as the pair travels the glamorous stages of 1940s and 1950s Havana, New York City, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris.
The documentary "From the Land to the Table" will be screened on Friday, February 15, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the Event Space in Seegers Union. This documentary is the first of its kind in that it shows the perspectives of seven majorly talented filmmakers and directors from all over Latin America as they capture the conditions and cultural diversity of popular produce markets in their individual countries. The seven directors are Alejo Hoijman, Marcos Loayza, Josué Méndez, Carolina Navas, Paola Vieira, Alejandra Szeplaki and Jorge Coira.
The Nicaraguan film "La Yuma," directed by Florence Jaugey, will be screened on Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Baker Center for the Arts. This is Nicaragua's first full-length feature in 20 years and is the story of a young woman who dreams of transcending her bleak life in the slums of Managua by becoming a boxer. Looking beyond the meager possibilities that seem available to her, she finds solace and hope in her training and falls in love with a middle-class journalism student.
The Latin American Film Festival is brought to Muhlenberg through Spanish Film Club (SFC), an initiative by PRAGDA. SFC supports and facilitates the organization of Spanish and Latin American Film Festivals in universities and cultural institutions across North America. The goal of the SFC is to introduce students and other audiences to the cultures of these territories and to establish a stable exhibition platform for Spanish and Portuguese language cinema in the U.S. and Canada. The SFC series was made possible with the support of PRAGDA, the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain and its Program for Cultural Cooperation with United States' Universities.
The Latin American Film Festival at Muhlenberg is being hosted in collaboration with the Office of the Provost, the Trexler Library, the Latin American and Caribbean studies program, the music department and the Lectures and Forums Committee.
For more information on the festival, contact Mirna Trauger at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.muhlenberg.edu/main/academics/llc.


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The president won't present a jobs plan until September (as Ed says, he'll be working on that while on "vacation" in Martha's Vineyard), but he today issued an executive order to tackle another top national priority: increasing diversity in the federal workforce.
Like all EOs, the order out-and-out accomplishes little: It merely establishes a "coordinated government-wide initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce."
The details of the initiative have yet to be worked out. Instead of creating a new administrative body, as did Obama's 2009 executive order on veterans' employment, the diversity initiative will lean on a council of deputy agency chiefs, along with the Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
That group will be responsible for creating a government-wide plan within 90 days. According to the order, after the government-wide plan is released, each agency must present its own specific plan for diversity within 120 days. The plans must reflect initiatives on a number of issues, including recruitment, training and promotion.
In other words, the EO demands plans — first a government-wide plan from the council of deputy agency chiefs, then agency-specific plans. Funny how Obama would like to see ideas to increase diversity on paper, but seems to think a speech will suffice for ideas to address the debt, deficit and job creation.
This order represents the highest-profile response to concerns about a lack of diversity in the federal workforce — and, as such, tells us something about Obama's priorities at the moment. In fact, that seems to be the entire point of the order — to demonstrate that Obama has not forgotten his commitment to this all-important cause (sarcmark) (interesting, given the Congressional Black Caucus' disappointment with the president's lack of attention to the fact that unemployment has hit some minorities particularly hard). John Berry, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, said the order ensures efforts to increase diversity won't fall by the wayside.
The emphasis on diversity-for-diversity's-sake has always perplexed me. The EO repeatedly states the new diversity-improvement plans must be "consistent with merit-based principles," but a system to explicitly increase diversity cannot possibly be a system to reward merit and only merit, unless it's true that various markers of diversity add to an individual's ability to perform a given job well. Based on the executive order, the president seems to think this.
"Our Nation derives strength from the diversity of its population and from its commitment to equal opportunity for all. We are at our best when we draw on the talents of all parts of our society, and our greatest accomplishments are achieved when diverse perspectives are brought to bear to overcome our greatest challenges," the executive order states. "To realize more fully the goal of using the talents of all segments of society, the Federal Government must continue to challenge itself to enhance its ability to recruit, hire, promote, and retain a more diverse workforce."
Certainly, I can think of any number of tasks that would be best tackled with a team made up of people from all different backgrounds — but I can also think of tasks in which it doesn't matter whether the person who performs it hails from one part of the country or another, comes from one race or another, operates from one political ideology or another, etc., etc., etc. Mail delivery, for example, requires only that the carrier be efficient.
This order is extraneous and distracting from what should be the government's role: providing certain basic services that cannot otherwise be provided (like national defense!) as efficiently and effectively as possible.


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Farniente brauchte ein neues Print oder Verpackung Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 127 Designs von 31 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Fractal Energy Drink
We are a young company developing a new concept implying charity & business. We are sharing 50% of our benefits with several charity organizations, selected by our customers via our websites.
Part of our business branded with Farniente represents the relax, farniente way of life also natural, ecofriendly, wellness, organic, etc.
The black/night range is branded FRACTAL. A brand a little bit more provocative and agressive but still keeping the 50% Charity Contribution aspect.
Without changing anything in his consumption habits, you, the consumer will, in an easy 2 steps act (1. consume our products, 2. Speak "Farniente" around you) simply and fast, make 2 good actions:
Act for our mother earth by buying environment friendly products
Act for humankind condition by allowing and helping us to share the profit generated by your acquisition « 50% charity contribution »
The Energy Drink range in 5 flavours:
♦ Fractal/Energy Drink Classic (like red bull)
♦ Fractal / Energy Drink Orange
♦ Fractal / Energy Drink Lemon
♦ Fractal / Energy Drink Cola
♦ Fractal / Energy Drink Guarana (without taurine)
♦ Ingredients: Taurin (400mg/100ml), Glucuronolactone (240mg/100ml), Caffeine (32mg/100ml), Vitamins: B6 and B12…
♦ Fractal Energy Drink is a powerful drink thanks to its high level of Caffeine and Taurin. It's stimulating, it erases tiredness, improves concentration, provides you a boost of energy anytime you feel like sleeping.
Compete with the bigger brands.
♦ It's the usual 250ml aluminium can
♦ Work in CMYK colours
♦ Label size - width: 16,8 cm heigth: 12 cm
The Front:
♦ The name Fractal
choose the font that you want but try to use the "f" of Farniente logo.
♦ Energy Drink/ Classic/ Orange/ Lemon/ Cola/ Guarana
♦ Artwork (read the whole briefing please to see what kind of design we are expecting from you)
♦ A Baseline: ideas are welcome
♦ For the Guarana Energy Drink, please add the mention: "Sans taurine – without Taurine"
The Back:
Nothing to add. Just plan a 5 x 11,5 cm area for the ingredients
Artwork wants/inspiration:
We would like to have a design directly inspired from the definition of Fractal with the idea of energy, party, fun ect.
Definition of Fractal: A fractal is generally "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole" .
Please, google "Fractal" to find out what it looks like and what we are expecting from you.


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Friedensfelder Mennonite Church (Gnadenthal, Manitoba, Canada)
The Friedensfelder Mennoniten Gemeinde met near Gnadenthal, Manitoba. The congregation has not been affiliated with any Mennonite conference. The language of worship is German.
The congregation began services in 1984. The first building was occupied in 1980s. David Buhler is considered the founding leader of the group. The congregation originated through division from the Reinland Mennonite Church in Manitoba.
The split with the Reinländer occurred in 1984 when the Altona branch decided to build a new meeting place with a basement and electricity, which was considered too modern by David Buhler and others. The Friedensfelder had several ministers and initially met in three different locations: Gnadenthal where they built a meetingplace, and Austin and Grunthal where they met in homes. The total membership in the three centers was 30-50 adults in 1989. By 2008 the only meetingplace was at Gnadenthal, with a membership of about 25.
See letter from John Friesen in Mennonite Historical Society of Canada collection, Mennonite Archives of Ontario.
Reimer, Margaret Loewen. One Quilt, Many Pieces: a Guide to Mennonite Groups in Canada. 4th ed. Waterloo, Ontario: Herald Press, 2008: 73.
|Marlene Epp
|Sam Steiner
|Date Published
|December 2013
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Epp, Marlene and Sam Steiner. "Friedensfelder Mennonite Church (Gnadenthal, Manitoba, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. December 2013. Web. 21 Sep 2019. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Friedensfelder_Mennonite_Church_(Gnadenthal,_Manitoba,_Canada)&oldid=105051.
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Epp, Marlene and Sam Steiner. (December 2013). Friedensfelder Mennonite Church (Gnadenthal, Manitoba, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 September 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Friedensfelder_Mennonite_Church_(Gnadenthal,_Manitoba,_Canada)&oldid=105051.
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My Microsoft Surface Commercial!
This is sort of strange for me. I've never done anything like an actual commercial before. I mean, I've drawn comics for companies which are essentially commercials, but I've never appeared in one myself. Everyone knows I'm a huge fan of the Surface though, and I really like all the folks over on the Surface team at MS. When they asked me to appear in a video, I said hell yeah.
You can head over to the Surface blog and see it right now. I basically laid out why I think the device is so incredible for artists. I saw a few people asking about the stylus I'm using and it's the Bamboo Feel from Wacom. It's a great little pen and works like a charm on the Surface Pro.
Thanks to the Surface folks for giving me the opportunity to share my take on their device. I know I use it in sort of a non-standard way. Also I'd like to thank them for not making me breakdance.
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Seems like the main effects of the update to Monks is to replace Human with Orc as the race of choice, and make them even more likely to equip weapons and armor... If balanced, barehanded warriors who don't have a strong race preference is the goal, my suggestion would be -20% base attack, -1 base damage per level, and impose a penalty for using weapons and armor; say, equipping a weapon adds -50% attack bonus and equipping armor reduces health regeneration by 50% (i.e. to vanilla rates).
I liked the idea of the Trisword as an occasionally useful joke item. If Monks got an equipment nerf I'm not sure if restoring the old version just as it was would have any significant problems, but even adding another penalty like slow strike or reduced health regeneration would be more interesting than the current generic per level increase.


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From the basic Swords and Sorcery fantasy up through the Weird West/Wild West eras of fantasy, the noble steed is a constant companion. He is not abandoned until Modern, and futuristic settings, and even then the horse finds ways to sneak back into the game. There is a certain mystique to the image of a knight riding astride his destrier with lance lowered, or the man at arms swinging his sword in a killing arc.
So what would you world be like without horses?
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The horse has played a role in the history of Falhath, though the role of the cavalry and the knight are overshadowed by the heavy infantry that dominate Falhathian warfare. While the loss of the horse would be a moderate blow to the Falhathians, it would be a severe blow to the Ankarans and the other inhabitants of the central plains. Where Falhathians tend goats and other relatively small domestic animals, the plainsfolk are hunters of highland antelope and bison, and would have never founded their semi-nomadic civilizations.
Their efforts in war would be doubly wounded as the cavalry forms the core of the army. The northern and western parts of the continent would be more overrun with goblins and other fell races as humanity would like the speed of the horse and it sinnate advantage in melee battles, and Falhath would have spent its time faced not with barbarians and border raiders, but facing hordes of genocidal orcs, goblins, and other monsters who would have been held in check by the plains folk.
In this vein, the Via Mortuus would have been supplanted by the Old Faith, and the roots of the Trinity would have been cut long before they rooted.
The Horse is one of the most important domestications a culture could have.
Domesticated in central Asia around five thousand years ago, the horse was instrumental to the development of Eurasian civilization. Unlike most other large mammals, it was not farmed for its meat, milk or hides. Instead, the horse was harnessed solely for its incredible strength – to pull plows, vehicles, and most significantly, to carry humans themselves.
European civilization ascended to power on the backs of horses. Without horses, the evolution of complex European economies and trading networks would have been unthinkable. Most significantly, the horse transformed the art of war. From the earliest horse-drawn chariots of the Hittite empire, to the bareback cavalrymen of Attila the Hun, the warhorse has become synonymous with Eurasian military success. Those who had horse warriors "won" until the comming of age of the firearm.
Spanish horses were instrumental in the conquest of the New World. Neither the Aztec nor the Inca had ever seen humans riding animals before; the psychological impact of mounted troops was tremendous. The indigenous people simple froze in response to the rider and horse. It was so alien to their experience that they did not understand it or its implications. The invaders were able to cover tremendous distances and fighting techniques that were useful against a warrior were pointless against a mounted one. Sure foot warriors could have good success against cavalry if they stood their ground and grouped appropriately. But since the Horse had been extinct in the new world for 8000 years, they had no experience to draw upon. (Interesting history note: The "modern horse" actually came from genetic stock that had migrated back again from the new world to the old across the Bering Straights.)
On Arth the horse has a strange history.
The Elventi, the first culture, never domesticated any animals. Animals were more enculturated to Elventi presence, so predators seldom attacked them and other creatures ignored them.. those that feared or responded negatively to Elventi were quickly culled. So while the animals were "open range" they were impacted by the Elventi.
The Elventi are able to magically enhance their endurance, so moderate distance trips are not that much of a burden. The Elventi used magical gateways for long distance travel. It was faster by far than any means of travel. Never having experienced a riding beast, or even having that idea, simply hiking about was "the natural order of things".
The Humanti managed to domesticate a few animals before they were forced from SecondLand. Dog, Bovine (The Arthian "Cow" is more Buffalo like), and Horse, were all domesticated before the exodius. Only a few samples were brought with them to FirstLand. Since FirstLand did not have a good bovine or equestrine substitute, they Humanti did not domesticate anything locally. Eventually a small handful of creatures were important to FirstLand for their culture. The art of the horse was diminished, if not practically lost, over the Time of the Visitation.
Note: The Humanti gave this idea to the Elventi. Now the Elventi actively cull and modify the behavior of the animals in their areas... before it was kind of haphazard. The Cat is the only domesticated animal they have truly embraced.
Horse, while powerful in warfare, became a liability when fighting the Telepathically Controlling Wapti. Humantis had been fighting on horseback and chariot for quite a while before thier comming. The Wapti ability to control all lesser minds in an areas made combat on horseback more of a danger to the riders than the Wapti. (Note: The Wapti have a harder time controlling "dulled" domestic animals, though they can influence their actions. The same was said of Humanti.)
The art of fighting from horseback was nearly lost in the Exodius. Stangely enough it saved as an art, limitedly, by the remaining HighLanders. (Given their terrain, horses were and are problamatic). The speed the horse provided.. and its power.. was quickly rediscovered by the Returners (who really relearned the arts from HighLanders). The speed of transport freed Elventi power from being used simply for transportation and allowed it to be used for active combat. As long as horse minds were shielded, they were valuable tools. In fact, horses in SecondLand today still wear a crystal suspended over their forehead as part of their harnesses, mimicing the shields of old.
In ThirdLand, horse equipped Humanti were the primary colonists. Humanti fighting Humanti often used horse to their own adavantages (thus the Knights of the Villages). However, horses are mostly used for travel as Gates are only used for "Official Imperial Business" on ThirdLand.
Indigenous ThirdLanders on the Plains of ThirdLand already had the horse (or were centaurs), so they were adept at such combat. They do not have the innovations of the Stirrup or saddlehorn. They only use a Hackmore for control of the beast. However, generations upon generations of riding has given them great skill with their beasts.
MaskLanders came to the KnownWorld with the horse. They are not great riders, but they have long engrained experience with riding.
Coastal ForthLanders have the horse, though their local horses are poor specimens and not very advantagous. The N'geti find animals as equals rather than things to be ruled.
So, now that the summary is done... If horses went away? Since you can't have diseases on Arth, it would have to be some catostrophic failure of the bionet maintained by the pylons. Horses are an intergral part of the biome in the Plains of Antioch. Someone or thing would have to rewrite the reality matrix for those places for horses to go away. So the places would quickly become some place new and different.
Now if the biomes were altered in other places, there would be minimal impact. There are other burden beasts, including any number of furry folk, so they could be easily pulled out. Medium Distance travel is really all that they are regularly used for. Short distances are best covered by foot and Long distances are either by ship or gate. Loss of the horse would be an inconvience to people, but the world would go on.
On Kerren there are a limited number of surviving Terran Horses. Luckily for the colonists, dragons existed. Note: there are some Southers attempting to breed Runners into a riding beast. They are having more success with that than they are to breed a proper Kerrenese "Chicken". Of course, that is not a "lot".
One of the hard science components of Traveller was their rules that state: combustion functioning engines must be specially tuned to each world they are used on, as differences in O2 and inert gas levels as well as pressure make standard settings pointless. Add to this the limit of someworlds preventing fusion and atomic power plants, and the heinous limits Traveller put on electrical vehicles, there was no real useful vehicle you could take from world to world reliably. The design consideration was that you were always supposed to either just fly OR pick up local transport.
Many traveller players solved this problem with low berths and Horses. And these were not normal horses either, but TECH 10 horses with genetic enhancements which includes increased intelligence, strength of muscle and bone, increased endurance, superior immunity and healing systems, and a genetic advantage when placed in cold sleep. These horses could go anywhere right off the ship. Sure they were not "as fast" as some high tech items, but they could go places and be counted on for things that no standard vehicle can go. The best part, they were never limited by local law because they were "organic" and of a standard breed, so no special licensing was needed. With a low berth (cold sleep) you could keep a herd of them without having to carry too much in the way of feed and supplies.
So the world would not change without them, but it would be more inconvient.


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Some time back, China Mobile agreed to buy 20% of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank for 39.8 billion renminbi (US$5.8 billion) to expand its electronic payment business.
The reason for the telco to buy such a big stake in a bank: China Mobile and Pudong Bank will form a strategic alliance to offer wireless finance services including mobile bank cards and payment services, according to a statement filed with the HKSx.
Wonder if the corporate communications departments of TLCs, M1, SingTel and Starhub have filed away this excuse. Their company might need to adapt it if it ever has to buy a stake in a bank in the Temasek stable.
In late March according to a Reuters report, Bank of China, China's fourth largest bank, said it was in talks with Temasek, to set up a rural business bank in China. The bank under discussion would have 40-60 branches, President Li Lihui told reporters at a media briefing to discuss Bank of China's 2009 results
Now wouldn't such a bank need wireless expertise and don't StarHub and SingTel love to do dumb things? Fooie fans still don't know if we will get World Cup coverage.


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Share This Chart With Anyone That Believes The U.S. Economy Is Not Going To Crash
By Michael Snyder
July 21st, 2013
Anyone that thinks that the U.S. economy can keep going along like this is absolutely crazy. We are in the terminal phase of an unprecedented debt spiral which has allowed us to live far, far beyond our means for the last several decades. Unfortunately, all debt spirals eventually end, and they usually do so in a very disorderly manner. The chart that you are about to see is one of my favorite economic charts. It compares the growth of U.S. GDP to the growth of total debt in the United States. Yes, U.S. GDP has certainly grown at a decent pace over the years, but our total debt has absolutely exploded. 40 years ago, the total amount of debt in our system (government debt + corporate debt + consumer debt, etc.) was about 2 trillion dollars. Today it has grown to more than 56 trillion dollars. Our debt has grown at a much, much faster rate than our economy has, and there is no way in the world that we will be able to continue to do that for long.
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Quick and Easy Vegetarian Lasagna Recipe
Here's a quick, simple and easy recipe for vegetarian lasagna. I substituted lavash pizza bread for the regular lasagna pasta sheets. Lavash bread can be easily cut, so it's fun to make different shaped lasagna, but perhaps most important, it doesn't need to be precooked! The texture is slightly more firm on the top layer, but as ooey-gooey as one would expect on the inside. It's familiar but at the same time refreshing and new.
I made this dish with my friends from California Lavash. They came to my houseand we cooked up a storm, took pictures, and generally had a blast. Love the product, ladies!
Yields: 6 servings1 yellow onion, finely chopped
4 sheets pizza lavash bread, see tips
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon dried thyme, rosemary, oregano medley
½ teaspoon red chili powder
6 cups spinach leaves
1 (25.5-ounce) jar basil and tomato sauce
4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
¼ cup Provolone cheese, shredded
2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese, ground into a fine powder
1 tablespoon salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
Preheat the oven to 375°F.
For the bread crumbs: Drizzle half a sheet of lavash bread with olive oil. Sprinkle with salt and herbs. Place in a toaster, on the highest setting. Coarsely break the hardened bread, place into a food processor and pulse several times into a fine powder. Add Parmesan cheese. Set aside.
Caramelizing the onion: Heat about 1 tablespoon of oil in a large pan. Add the chopped onions. Cook over medium-low heat for about 10-15 minutes, stirring frequently to prevent the onions from burning, until the color is evenly golden brown. Transfer to a plate, leaving as much oil as possible in the pan.
For the Spinach: Wash the spinach thoroughly in a large bowl of water. Drain, then remove the excess water using a salad spinner. Roughly chop the spinach leaves. In the same pan, add more oil. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant. Keep the temperature at a high heat. Add ⅓ of the amount of spinach to the pan. Sauté and constantly lift the spinach leaves using a slotted spoon on each side of the pan. The leaves will start to wilt after 30 seconds or so. Add about ¼ to ½ cup of water, then add the next ⅓ of the spinach and repeat the same procedure for 30 seconds. Season with a little salt (this will prevent the spinach from changing color). Repeat one more time with the rest of the spinach, then transfer the contents of the pan onto a large platter. Reserve the excess spinach liquid in a separate bowl. You can use the liquid to thin the tomato sauce later.
For the sauce: In the pan, add about half the amount of the caramelized onions and ⅔ the amount of tomato sauce, cream cheese and the reserved spinach liquid. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat to medium-low. Cook for about 10 minutes until thickened. Season with salt and pepper.
Assembly time: In a deep rectangular pan lined with aluminum foil and sprayed with oil (for easy clean up), spread a layer of the reserved caramelized onions. Cover with the rest of the tomato sauce. Add a layer lavash bread. Spread a layer of cream cheese tomato sauce evenly. Sprinkle with Provolone cheese. Add another layer of lavash bread. Cover with the sautéed spinach. Repeat until all the ingredients are used up. Add a last layer of lavash bread. Finish with the rest of the cream cheese tomato sauce sauce. It should cover the entire pan. Cover with more Provolone cheese and sprinkle with the bread crumbs.
Place in the oven for 25-30 minutes at 375°F (until golden brown).
When it's cooked, remove the pan from the oven and let it rest for at least 20 minutes.
Bon appétit!
I used California pizza lavash bread; it's also known as lahvash and cracker bread. It's a huge time saver for making quick and easy meals. You could also replace it with tortilla wraps.
And if you're a pasta lover, check out my other pasta dishes.Published By: on April 10, 2012.


text: We spied the Logitech G13 Gamepad when it was announced earlier today, and now Engadget Chinese has caught wind of something else that may be in store for us. The keyboard pictured above is apparently the G18, and we while we have almost no solid info on it, we can glean a few things, such as the apparent groupings of fast function keys on the left side of the board (some which seem to be numbered G11-G15), not to mention that tiny display at the center. We don't know when we can expect this beast to arrive, but the G13 Gamepad is expected in January so fingers crossed.


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The silent partner in Apple's ongoing dispute with Google is finally speaking up.
AT&T filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission Friday accusing Google of violating federal call-blocking rules with its Google Voice service. While the filing does not mention Apple's controversial blocking of Google voice from its popular iPhone app store, it comes a week after the FCC released private communications between the tech giants. Apple and AT&T have both insisted the telecomunications company plays no role in determining what apps make it into Apple's virtual store.
AT&T's letter alleges that Google is violating federal standards by blocking some calls to rural areas to cut down on costs.
The company says the practice ammounts to a violation of telecomunication laws that requires phone operators to provide unrestrictated access. On Google Voice's Web site, users have posted messages complaining about calls being blocked to rural areas such as the northern parts of Minnesota.
"By openly flouting the call blocking prohibition that applies to its competitors, Google is acting in a manner inconsistent with the spirit, if not the letter, of the FCC's fourth prinicple contained in its Internet Policy Statement," AT&T Senior Vice President Robert Quinn said.
The search giant said the allegations are misdirected because the company is not a telecomunications provider.
"Google Voice is not intended to be a replacement for traditional phone service -- in fact, you need an existing land or wireless line in order to use it," Google's Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Richard Whitt wrote in response to AT&T.
Google says AT&T's open Intenet argument is off base as well because "the FCC's open Internet principles apply only to the behavior of broadband carriers" and not the developers of a web-based application such as Google Voice.
AT&T's complaint stems from the practice of local telephone providers in rural areas charging long-distance companies for originating and terminating calls on their networks. Federal standards currently require telecomunication companies to connect their users to the local network. Google suggested instead of fighting, the two companies work together to reform a "badly flawed" system.