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Bill requires care for those exposed to tainted water at Lejeune
WASHINGTON — Twelve years after watching his young daughter slip away, former Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger caught a clue that the Marines might have been at fault for her death.
He's spent more than 12 years since trying to find justice. Ensminger doesn't think he's there yet, but legislation introduced this week in the House of Representatives aims to bring him closer.
From about 1957 to 1987, Marines and their loved ones living at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina drank and bathed in well water that was contaminated with trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, benzene and vinyl chloride. Some estimates are that as many as 1 million people might have been exposed.
The legislation, introduced by Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to care for Marines and their family members who might have suffered ailments stemming from their exposure.
Miller's bill is named after Janey Ensminger, who was 9 when she lost her two-year struggle with childhood leukemia in 1985. She was exposed in utero when her father was stationed at Camp Lejeune, Jerry Ensminger said.
At a news conference Tuesday about the bill, Ensminger said he discovered in 1997 that there might be a link between the water and his daughter's disease. He's worked since then to gather information, reach out to other former Marines and persuade lawmakers to find justice for affected families.
Miller's bill would require the VA and the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to establish the time period during which water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated with volatile organic compounds. Both agencies also would be required to establish which illnesses are associated with the poisons.
Miller estimates that the measure would cost $1.1 billion over 10 years.
It's identical to a bill that Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Kay Hagan, D-N.C., introduced in the Senate and that the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee rejected last week. The majority backed a bill that would put the Department of Defense in charge of the health care of family members of former Marines who were exposed to the water.
Burr and Hagan, who charge that the Defense Department has dragged its feet on the issue, say the VA would do a better job of caring for the families.
Toxins in Camp Lejeune water 30 years ago still a problem
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Never in the past have crops, cultivated by us, had to undergo such scrutiny. But the scrutiny is required especially in the case of genetically engineered [GE] or genetically modified [GM] crops.
GE crops are organisms created artificially in labs through a process known as recombinant DNA technology. The unpredictability and irreversibility of GE have raised a lot of questions about this technology. Moreover, studies have found that GE crops harm the environment and have a potential to risk human health. All this has resulted in a controversy across the world about the need to introduce this dangerous technology.
Greenpeace in India and in several other countries entered the agriculture scenario with the campaign against the environmental release of GE or GM organisms. GE crops represent everything that is wrong with our agriculture. They perpetuate the destruction of our biodiversity and the increasing control of corporations over our food and farming.
The anti GE campaign has contributed in ensuring a serious debate on the need for GE crops in the country. It has also ensured that India does not approve commercialisation of any GM food crop.
The campaign has brought together farmers, consumers, traders, scientists and other civil society organisations to put up a brave front against the entry of GM crops in our country. This resulted in the indefinite moratorium on Bt brinjal, the first GM food crop that was up for commercialisation.
While Bt brinjal has been stalled for now, 56 other crops are being genetically modified and are waiting for approval. Rice is the leader amongst these. If not stopped the entire country would become one big feeding experiment for GM seed companies.
The campaign is trying to plug the gaps in the existing regulatory system in the country to stop the release of any GM crops. We are also asking the government to come up with a bio-safety regime that will prioritise citizen's health, environmental safety and the nation's socio-economic fabric.
As the citizen is also a consumer and has a right to safe GM free food, we have been mobilizing consumers and engaging with food brands in the country to ensure that the food industry in the country remains GM free. For the first time in India there is a consumer campaign against GM food and food brands have started to notice this consumer opinion.
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Indiana Hairstylist Wins Lottery; Court Battle Follows
(INDIANAPOLIS) -- Millions of Americans dream of winning the lottery. An Indianapolis hairstylist says she did — and now she's being hauled into court by seven of her friends.
Eight stylists from Lou's Creative Styles salon in Indianapolis pitched into a pool for the Hoosier Lottery. The woman selected to purchase for the group says she also bought a number of tickets for herself. She won the $9.5 million jackpot with what she is claiming was her own ticket, separate from the pool. The odds of winning the Hoosier Lotto Jackpot are one in roughly 12.2 million.
Now, the other seven stylists are trying to get their share of the jackpot. They have filed for a restraining order to freeze the jackpot, pending proof that the woman did in fact purchase her ticket independently. This will be the responsibility of a judge for Marion County, Indiana.
Attorney Scott Montross, who is representing the seven women told the Indianapolis Star that "We are concerned that the winning ticket may have been purchased with the group's money… There's a dispute about it, but until there is something more definitive, we were trying to keep a low profile." Montross has not yet responded to an ABC News request for comment.
Jason Kurland, an attorney who has represented other lotto winners, said that issues like this should be avoidable "without question… It's so easy," he said. "It takes five minutes." He suggests making copies of all tickets, emailing them to all participants, and making absolutely clear who is eligible for the jackpot.
"When you buy a ticket you dream about winning but you never actually think that you will," he said. "You really have to treat it like, in this case, a $9.5 million transaction."
In the meantime, $9.5 million remain in the hands of the Hoosier Lotto. Spokesman Al Larsen said, "We'll just stand by and look forward to paying that prize at some moment… That's all you can do."
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A wine lover's hideaway in the New Forest, TerraVina promises much but the food is hardly vintage
Hotel TerraVina: Woodlands, Netley Marsh, New Forest, Hampshire (02380 293 784). Meal for two: £90-£120
Nobody visiting the Hotel TerraVina could ever forget where they were. They wouldn't be allowed to. The walls are plastered with cuttings about the place: bevel mounted, under glass, wooden frames. It doesn't matter how small the publication. It's all here, glowering down at you, challenging you not to be impressed. My eye flicked from restaurant review to local newspaper report to trade magazine feature. At any moment I expected to come across a certificate for swimming in your pyjamas.
I doubt this review will make it under glass. It's not that the Hotel TerraVina is without redeeming features. The staff are kind and solicitous. As the "Vina" bit of the name suggests wine-heads will love it. But there's something so self-regarding about the food, so mannered and overengineered, that it all ends up being exhausting. I arrived sprightly, I left needing a long lie down. I also arrived expecting to like it. The fact is I felt connected to the Hotel TerraVina. A decade ago I wrote a novel about a restaurant critic who decides to apologise for everything he's ever done wrong. For complicated reasons he needed to have a Francophone name that could also have an English pronunciation.
One day I stumbled across an interview with Gerard Basset, a renowned sommelier and one of the founders of the Hotel and Bistro du Vin group. I liked his small chain very much, and the name worked perfectly: it's pronounced Ba-say in French; in English, as in hound. Marc Basset was born. After a while my fictional restaurant critic expanded into the real world: Marc Basset became the name under which I booked countless restaurant tables. I did that for years, indeed until last week. Now I've told the story it's time to retire Mr Basset. He can return to being entirely fictional.
Gerard Basset won many awards, sold the hotel chain and opened this lump of bright red brick – think child's playset red brick – in the New Forest, as a hotel dedicated to wine. The list is impressive: long, yes, but well organised and with lots of choice at price points below £30. It's serious about wine without being pompous. It was its reputation for wine that had first made me consider coming.
A few weeks ago David Everitt-Matthias, chef at Le Champignon Sauvage in Cheltenham – which has just won the OFM award for outstanding contribution – sealed the deal by telling me one of his former chefs was now cooking there. Everitt-Matthias is a very good thing. His earthy approach to ambitious food, the way he makes humble ingredients sing, has always been thrilling. If one of his team was deep in the woods with Mr Basset, I had to go.
Unfortunately the whole thing is overheated, both figuratively and literally; we had to open a door by our table that led out to the garden, to let in a breeze. The decor is also odd: angular and blocky with a lot of Fanta orange-varnished wood. There's a touch of the institutional to it, as if it were a retirement home for hip older people who are not yet prepared to go the way of Laura Ashley prints. The food is equally self-conscious. A selection of hot "tapavinas" brings something called lamb bonbons, which sounds sweet and playful. They are deep-fried balls of braised, tangled and brutally dry lamb. It's a canapé in training for the Heimlich manoeuvre. Onion bhajis are just a tub of dry strands of caramelised onions, as though someone had sent us out a bowl of the garnish for another dish.
Many of the dishes seem to be constructed words first, as if they wrote what sounded like a cool description and then had to cook it. "Flamed mackerel" sounds butch and rugged. What we get are two thin strands of adequately cooked fillet. An accompanying gooseberry purée doesn't just cut through the oiliness; its acidity slashes and slashes again. A mouthful of that and your lips quickly pucker to a cat's bum. There are lumps of granola. Like I'd had for breakfast that morning. It's an ectopic ingredient, secreted into the middle of a meal it has no business being a part of. It's terribly drying.
That's a repeated theme. Too much of this food is the Tena Lady of gastronomy, drying everything in its path. A "black pudding purée" is an ugly grey smudge and nowhere near moist enough to do the business with pigeon breast, however perfectly rare it is served. I end up looking to the oiliness of fried Parma ham to get the whole dish moving, but it's stopped in its tracks by hazelnut crumb. It's the same problem with a piece of cod loin with fried basil gnocchi and a balsamic gel. The fish crumbles into the capers, and it all gets stuck in the gel.
Far better is a plate of big gamey venison faggots, clearly made with offal. This is proper ballsy cooking. And, praise be, there is even a sauce – though it is fiercely reduced to the point where it starts to stick my tongue to the roof of my mouth. Matron, pass the chisel.
The kitchen does know how to cook individual ingredients. There's technique on show. The problem lies in putting dishes together. Things are missed out. There's too much grandstanding. They attempt to send us out a freebie of a pumpkin velouté with a crisp wild mushroom arancini. (I insist it must be paid for.) I can see why they wanted us to try it; the pumpkin velouté is rich and deep and sugary, and has you whacking your tongue around your gums. The arancini is nicely done. Roasted pumpkin seeds add crunch. But even this is relentless. The velouté needs to be lighter. Like those framed cuttings, it's just overkill.
As is a white chocolate parfait with a walnut ice-cream that fades unto nothing against its brutal sweetness. A rhubarb soufflé is pert and bright and, being simplicity itself, the very best thing we eat. And unlike the wine list none of this feels like good value. Starters are from £7 to £11, mains from £14 to low 20s. For that you expect your lunch to be a pleasure rather than something to be stumbled through. You want to be fed, not lectured to. You want it all to make sense and it doesn't. Oh well, at least it saves on the framing costs.
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■ For food from a chef with an interesting pedigree, try the Red Lion Freehouse at Pewsey in Wiltshire. Guy Manning worked at London's Chez Bruce and Thomas Keller's Per Se in New York before heading back to England. They make everything in house "from the lime cordial to the ketchup". The food also has a sense of place: the menu might include a ravioli of Wiltshire truffles. There are hints of all those high-end kitchens in the cooking's finesse, but it never loses sight of the fact that it is a pub. (redlionfreehouse.com)
■ This week sees the publication of Noma chef René Redzepi's intriguing book A Work in Progress: Journals, Recipes and Snapshots. It's both a cookbook and a year in the life of one of the world's most influential cooks. It has a foreword from Lars Ulrich of Metallica. Go figure.
■ Those who think gastronomic London is too smug by half will be delighted: Tripadvisor's latest global top 10 fine-dining list doesn't include a single joint in the capital. The only British restaurant listed is Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir at number 7.


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The clients of Samantha Fraelich's financial planning practice in Chevy Chase, Md., include lawyers, business owners, union tradesmen and even a couple of professional athletes. But regardless of their age, profession or income bracket, nearly all of them are asking her the same thing these days.
"'Is 2008 going to happen again? I can't lose another 30 or 40 percent in the market.' That's the first thing out of their mouths," she said. Her clients want bulletproof stock portfolios, and she tells them that's just not possible.
Yet even after hearing that news, Ms. Fraelich's clients are still buying stocks. They want to be somewhat defensive, she says, but they have concluded that stocks beat the alternative of seeing their nest eggs go nowhere.


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Conti Girls Gone WildPosted in Girls on December 20, 2013
If you've ever been to an automotive-related trade show, you know that good lookin' ladies in the booths are a regular occurrence. They draw attention to the booth, are often knowledgeable on the products they're hawking, and more importantly, they're usually handing out free stuff and are perfectly willing to take pictures with regular folk like us! With so many spokesmodels at so many events, it's easy to lump them all together and not even bother to differentiate one from another. We met a few that definitely stand out from the rest!
Throughout this past year, we were continually running into the My Model Management crew at various events representing both General and Continental Tire companies. The core group is made up of Chelse Schipper, Danielle Souza, and Emily Roche, and not only are they easy on the eyes, they're professional and extremely friendly and "generally" fun to be around (see what we did there?).
After a long week at SEMA last month, the doors were finally closing. The ladies were all smiled out and maybe a little hopped up on gourmet coffee and, well, they began an impromptu photo shoot with some pretty hilarious results. They even dragged Hart & Huntington/Lunar Pages/General Tire Pro Lite driver Ryan Beat into the mix!
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Unseasonably colder temperatures and wet winter conditions have delayed brown shrimp recruitment and growth in inshore waters; however, samples collected by LDWF Office of Fisheries biologists have indicated the presence of significant numbers of marketable size, over-wintering white shrimp in these waters. In consideration of the potential threat to these resources posed by the proximity of an offshore oil spill, this special season should provide fishermen with added economic opportunity through the harvest and sale of over-wintering white shrimp.
It is important to stress that Louisiana seafood is safe to eat. The state continues to work closely with LDWF field biologists and DHH to ensure all seafood harvested are safe for consumer consumption.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Nothing went afoul when Colonel Sanders' handwritten recipe for fried chicken was returned from an undisclosed location to KFC's headquarters late Monday in a lockbox handcuffed to the wrist of a security consultant.
The single sheet of yellowing paper was back in its Kentucky home Tuesday after five months in hiding while KFC upgraded security around its top corporate secret.
"It was very nerve wracking," KFC President Roger Eaton said of the recipe's hiatus from a vault where it has been kept for decades. "I don't want to be the only president who's lost the recipe."
The recipe lays out a mix of 11 herbs and spices that coat the chain's Original Recipe chicken, including exact amounts for each ingredient. It is written in pencil and signed by Harland Sanders.
Sanders developed the formula in 1940 at his restaurant in southeastern Kentucky and used it to launch the KFC chain in the early 1950s. Sanders died in 1980, but his likeness is still central to KFC's marketing.
Not even Eaton knows the recipe's full contents. Only two company executives at any time have access to the recipe. KFC won't release their names or titles, and it uses multiple suppliers who produce and blend the ingredients but know only a part of the entire contents.
The iconic recipe is now protected by an array of high-tech security gadgets, including motion detectors and cameras that allow guards to monitor the vault around the clock.
"It's like an onion of security — many layers," said security expert Bo Dietl, who brought the recipe back to the building.
Thick concrete blocks encapsulate the vault, situated near office cubicles, that is connected to a backup generator to keep the security system operating in times of power outages.
Dietl said the security measures he installed replaced an "antiquated" system. For years, the recipe was kept in a filing cabinet equipped with two combination locks in the vault.
"The colonel could have used a pry bar to open that thing up," Dietl said.


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- Replace answers to "security questions" with obscure, non-personal responses. Truthfully answering security questions can put you at risk for social engineering. Use a password generator or create bogus answers that you can then store in a note in LastPass - if you do ever need to reference it, you'll have access to the bogus answer, but you'll ensure that your personal information can't be used against you.
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- Create a "security email address" for your LastPass account. Although protecting your primary email address(es) should be a high priority, you can set up an obscure email address to be used in the case of account recovery, multifactor authentication resets, and other critical changes to your LastPass account.
- Run the Security Challenge, and get proactive about your security fitness level. Located in the Tools menu of the LastPass addon, the Security Check allows you to keep an eye on weak and duplicate passwords, and reminds you of ways to improve your overall online security (such as #4 above). Take full advantage of LastPass security options, like autologoff on browser idle and restricting IP address to certain countries.
We highly recommend all LastPass users follow the above steps, and as soon as possible. We also call on your help in spreading the word about secure password management to family, friends, and coworkers who would benefit from the ability to achieve higher security standards while making their online life easier. If you want to recommend LastPass, you can do so here: https://lastpass.com/friendemail.php and receive Premium as a thank you!
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Event submission guidelines
Any member of the UC Berkeley campus community (student, staff, or faculty) may submit an event for listing in the UC Berkeley Calendar Network. Events must take place at UC Berkeley, or be sponsored by a department or recognized group at UC Berkeley.
Use this online form to submit events. When accessing the form, you will be asked for your CalNet ID and passphrase. When you fill out the event submission form, you must include a public contact phone number or email address for general information.
Events of interest primarily to students should be submitted to the Student Events calendar.
When submitting an event, you must choose a primary calendar on the network to approve and edit the event for publication. Your submission will then be routed to that calendar's organization for approval and online publication. Each organization with a calendar in the network has staff designated to administer that calendar and approve publication of events. The calendar network is not complete at this time and if you do not see a specific calendar listed on the submission form, select the "Campuswide" calendar and its staff will approve and edit your event for online publication. In addition to the primary calendar, you may recommend your event to other calendars in the network.
Usually, the Campuswide calendar will publish your event within one business day. You may edit events which you previously submitted via the online form.
Please note that your login session with the event submission form will time out after 30 minutes of inactivity. If you are interrupted or otherwise delayed in submitting your event, you will need to log in again to re-enter your event. If you are running out of time, press the "submit" button to let the system know that you are still there. Your 30 minutes will start over and you can continue to edit the event.
You may at any time edit a previously submitted event. To flag an event as "canceled", open the section "Event Status, Audience, Image Upload & Details" and select "Canceled" from the options under "Status."


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Moxiecode needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 822 designs submitted by 204 freelance designers.
We recently redesigned our website, but we need a logo and header to match the design. The logo will be used in the header, and in TinyMCE itself.
Moxiecode Systems is the developers of the popular Open Source editor called TinyMCE, used in many other systems where you need to edit content. We have just redesigned the website, but we lack a good logo for tinymce and header for the website.
The website is http://tinymce.moxiecode.com
The logo will be used in the header on our website, and within TinyMCE about popup, it will probably not be used in print.
- Matching website design/color (blueish, but not exclusively)
- Could work as black/white/grey (nice-to-have)
- Could relate to editing of content.
- Could relate to our company (Moxiecode), perhaps a variant.
- Vector based for different scaling.
- Could incorporate spirit of Open Source if possible.
- Could incorporate text, but logo should work with/without text (could be different variants used in different situations).
- Not to much different colors.
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There are times when some things in life just make sense. What might seem like a foolish and risky endeavor to one person might be a natural convergence of clarity and call to another. With that said, after nearly a year since I announced the end of my time at a church that I helped to plant over a decade ago, it's with a deep sense of call that I am again entering the world of church planting.
But wait, there's more.
For generations the idea of "church" has been bound by proximity, physical structures and time. Sure, many have been creative within these bounds, but most have nevertheless been limited by them. The past 10+ years has also seen the increased influence of social media on culture that has created profound opportunities for people to engage the breadth of the human experience and find genuine community. Many churches have found ways to integrate the use of social media into congregational life, but most are centered around the idea that the community begins at one central location and that particular experience is amplified by the use of social media. For a while now I have had an inkling that the "social media amplifies the local church" paradigm could be flipped upside-down resulting in a powerful way to be church. If this shift were to be taken seriously, some interesting questions are raised:
- What if a church decided that the discipline of following Christ and building genuine Christian community could be lived out without everyone having to actually be in one place at one time?
- What if a church unapologetically leveraged online tools to be a community no longer bound by architecture, time and physical proximity?
- What if a church that met online believed that even a historic religious tradition like the Presbyterian Church (USA) can be expressed in new ways?
- Essentially . . . can church be church when it is primarily lived and manifested online?
Well ask "What if?" no longer because the church that I am planting is going to be one that tries to answer these questions. Peering through the lens of social media, I am excited to push the bounds of traditional church formation, while maintaining all that is good about traditional church. To be clear, the online nature of this idea certainly creates great technological possibilities, but my intention is that we will build just a church like any church: one that worships, serves, studies and prays together . . . we will just happen to gather online. There will be no justifications seeking legitimacy, no quotes inferring that this is not a "real church" and no posture that we are competing for people, resources or notoriety . . . just a church.
As I dive into this, I have had some exploratory conversations with people who might be part of such a church, received some initial feedback from denominational folks and have prayed x 3 about it. but like any church plant, there is much to do in order get ready for any kind of official launch. At this early stage it is tempting to come out launching a high-functioning and slick "product," but we realize that if this is to truly be a church and not just a dispenser of religious services, the final mission, vision, form and function must be formed and owned by the community. At the same time, I know that some will need to know a little more before deciding whether or not to get involved. So to give a taste, here is a little bit of what I am thinking in terms of initial focus and tone . . .
- Spiritual and Religious – This is not just about getting together and being Christians in isolation who randomly connect online, but about developing disciplines that help us to grow into who God intends.
- Gracious and Progressive – While spirited theological and political disagreement will be welcomed, stridency and rigidity is not how we will approach difficult issues. We will be a church that will live under the constitution of the Presbyterian Church (USA): ones sexual orientation or gender are not barriers to leadership, reproductive options are important, capital punishment should be abolished, etc.
- Reformed and Presbyterian – Reformed and always reforming according to the Word of God is central to our ongoing search for God's intentions for each of us. As we seek to know the will of God and mind of Christ, we do so honoring all voices, no matter how small.
- Open and Sourced – While all people who are part of this community are ministers in their own right, we also know that some roles will require particular gifts and skills. The life of the community will move along with a collaborative spirit, but leadership will also be tasked with guiding and shaping the process in a way that moves forward. The circle will definitely widen, but the initial leadership team is currently made up of: Katie Mulligan, Teaching Elder, NJ; Stephen Salyards, Ruling Elder, CA; Mihee Kim-Kort, Teaching Elder, IN; Derrick Weston, Teaching Elder, OH; Jack Jenkins, Seminary Student, MA; Jennifer Owen Walsh, NC and myself, Teaching Elder in CA.
- Inward and Outward . . . but mostly outward – This is not about building up a crazy number of followers, friends or likes. This is about creating community that finds healing, discipline and love SO that we get the heck out into the world and do some good. From our tent-making pastoral leadership to our programs to our finances the outward nature of this community will be self-evident.
. . . and this is where we do it all through the lens of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Again I know that there are many of questions that we need to address before a full launch – "What about X?" and "How will we do X?" – but I also know that only way this new church will be able to respond well is to keep widening the circle of involvement. With this in mind our first step is to gauge the interest of folks and begin to gather people for some conversations and planning. Some of you are ready to dive right in, others will want nothing to do with this craziness and still others of you will need to lurk around the edges until the time is right. However you might see yourself connected to this church that has yet to be named, as we begin to build up a spiritual community, develop organizational strategies and start being church together, you are invited to JOIN OUR FACEBOOK PAGE and FILL OUT THIS SURVEY.
There is definitely more to come and I look forward to walking this journey with some of you. Please pass this along to any folks who you think might also be interested.


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Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game!
Strength training is shown to have a number of health benefits.
Battle Ropes work the whole body while moving weighted ropes in wave like motions with the arms.
Here in southwest Michigan people of all ages can participate in recreational soccer leagues year round.
Learn to fly, and do many other yoga poses, on the aerial yoga hammocks available at The Collective.
A fall favorite of many is finding their way through a maze of corn. Although corn mazes are often seen as a recreational activity for the whole family, it provides a great opportunity to get those extra steps in without even realizing you're working out.
Training at Crossfit Tides creates a bond among members that is authentic and real. Being held accountable, constantly improving, and growing are all things they do together.
The Economic Alliance for Michigan (EAM) awarded Lakeland Medical Center and Lakeland Hospital Niles with the Patient Safety Excellence Award.
Community members are invited to attend a free workshop, "I'm a Good Person! Isn't That Enough? How Power and Privilege Undermine Best Intentions," featuring award-winning author Debby Irving.
IBM Watson Health™ today published its 100 Top Hospitals® annual study naming Lakeland among the top 100 hospitals in the U.S.
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Since Blizzard announced yesterday that their Remote app went completely free for all extra features (including mobile armory, and guild chat), it means that those of us who had been paying up until this point (me) got a free 7 days added to their account, as well as a thank you present of a Lil' XT code. Since I already have a Lil' XT, this means that I get to do my first-ever giveaway!
Lil' XT is a valuable pet and steadfast companion. Not only does it do cute little mechanical idle animations, but it also has a very helpful mechanical wrecking feature. This means other mechanical pets as well as train sets, without needing to plunk down 200G for a Train Wrecker. And it is infinitely reusable. Talk about a bargain! Lil' XT is also a Mechanical class pet, which means when pet battles come out, it has extra damage towards Beasts. It is a very strong choice for your first Pet Battle team since most of the first fights you encounter are against Beasts!
Just leave a comment below with what your favorite pet to battle with in 5.0.4 will be and I'll pick a winner this weekend and announce it on Monday as part of my 5.0.4 post. Best of luck!


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How Luxury Comes to Life
Mercedes-Benz mbrace is a collection of services and features - available in four distinct packages - that makes your ownership experience smarter, safer, more convenient and more fun than ever before. Enjoy the base package, mbrace® Connect, standard for five years with any new Mercedes-Benz.
Remote Access
It begins with mbrace Connect, the standard mbrace package that powers many of the features of Mercedes me. This is what allows you to start your car, lock your doors, or send an address to your navigation, all from the Mercedes me app. Plus, you can easily connect with Roadside Assistance or send diagnostic data to your dealer. Services include:
- Remote access from your phone or computer with Mercedes me
- Vehicle locating and tracking
- In-vehicle apps like Yelp and local search
- Remote diagnostics for easier servicing
Standard for the first 5 years
Remote Access Services
Remote Start [1], [2]
Start your vehicle from anywhere, and if climate controls were on, they will automatically heat or cool to your last setting.
Remote Door Lock & Unlock
Lock or unlock your vehicle from virtually any location with the Mercedes me app on your iOS or Android smartphone. You can also do this with a phone call to the mbrace Response Center (operator assistance requires the mbrace® Secure package).
Remote Horn & Lights
Help locate your car in a crowded lot, or call attention to it in an emergency, by remotely sounding the horn and flashing the exterior lights for a period of five seconds. This feature is accessible through the Mercedes me app.
Send2Benz [3]
Lets you send an address from the Mercedes me app on your phone directly to the COMAND navigation system in your car. When you get to your car, you can start navigating right away, or save the address in the system's memory.
Vehicle Finder [1]
View your car's location on a map on your smartphone, if you've forgotten where you parked or want to monitor your vehicle.
Roadside Assistance Connection
If your Mercedes-Benz needs a jump start, its spare tire installed, or if you have any other vehicle trouble, one button puts you in touch with our legendary Roadside Assistance. Even before your conversation begins, the vehicle transmits its GPS-based location and information about its model and color to the Roadside agent.
Valet Protect [1]
Set up a boundary on your smartphone, and receive a text message alert if your car is turned on, off or exits the "virtual fence."
Dealer Information
Easily contact your preferred dealer, or receive assistance in finding one that's nearby, with the push of a button in your car or via the Mercedes me app. A live assistant can not only look up the dealer for you, but also place the call to connect you to the desired department.
Curfew Minder
Monitor use of your vehicle by receiving alerts when your vehicle has been started during a specified time or date.
Speed Alert
Receive text alerts if the vehicle exceeds a speed that you select and set up on the Mercedes me app.
Driving Journal
See where your Mercedes-Benz has been driven using an online map with a "breadcrumb" trail of its recent locations.
Travel Zones
Set up virtual boundaries and be alerted if the vehicle travels across them.
Infotainment Services [3]
Local Search provided by HERE
Wherever you're headed, Local Search provided by HERE can help you get there quickly and easily. You can save search results, call listed phone numbers, and start navigating with just a few clicks.
Yelp® [4]
Search actual user reviews of restaurants and businesses with Yelp, and navigate directly to the destination of your choice.
Keep up-to-date on the latest online news from around the world. You can even share news stories via email.
Point-of-Interest Download
Using the Send2Benz feature on Mercedes me, it's easy to find a Point of Interest and send its address to your vehicle's navigation system. When you're ready to go, you can start your route guidance based on your vehicle's current location with just a few clicks.
My MBFS
Courtesy of Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, you can now look up your account details, make a payment, contact a dealership and more from the driver's seat.
Morningstar® Finance [5]
Receive global market data, search among more than 400,000 investment offerings, and create a personalized Watch List for financial updates.
Gas Stations & Fuel Prices
Search for the least expensive fuel in your area and get directions to the nearest provider.
Traffic Cameras
With access to thousands of traffic cameras in more than 250 U.S. cities, you can get visual verification of traffic flow, incidents and weather-related road conditions near your current location, along a specific route or near your destination.
Vehicle Diagnostics Services
Remote Diagnostic Test
Your dealer can remotely retrieve diagnostic vehicle data in order to determine what kind of service your vehicle needs, potentially saving you an extra visit for a preliminary diagnosis and saving you time spent in the dealership when it's time to have the service done.
Safety & Security
The mbrace® Secure package uses cutting edge technology to keep you safe inside your car, and informed when you're not. So if you're ever in an accident, someone is on the way, and if your vehicle is ever stolen, you're the first to know. Services include:
- Automatic collision and alarm notifications
- SOS/Emergency call capabilities
- Safe Ride if you're ever unable to drive
- Crisis Assist in the event of a disaster
6-month free trial, $199/year thereafter
Safety, Security & Convenience Services
Automatic Collision Notification
With mbrace Secure, if an air bag or seat-belt Emergency Tensioning Device is activated, your Mercedes-Benz can automatically place a call to the mbrace Emergency Response Center, including reporting your location, even if you can't.
Stolen Vehicle Location Assistance
The GPS system that's built into your Mercedes-Benz can assist authorities with stolen vehicle recovery. Once you file a police report, a phone call to mbrace offers a safe and effective way to help the police locate and recover your car.
SOS/Emergency Call
If you ever need help, or see someone else who does, one button in your Mercedes-Benz can connect you to trained emergency response personnel who can stay on the line until help arrives.
Agent-Assisted Door Lock & Unlock
Lock or unlock your vehicle from virtually any location with a few taps on your smartphone. Or if you've locked your smartphone in the vehicle, borrow a phone to call the mbrace Response Center, and an agent can unlock it for you.
Automatic Alarm Notification
Your vehicle's factory-installed antitheft alarm system can send you an alert via email, text message or phone, whichever is your preference, if the alarm is triggered while the vehicle is parked.
Crisis Assist
In the event of a disaster, an Emergency Response Specialist is just a button away to provide you critical, real-time guidance and support with evacuation and shelter information, as well as help after the event (e.g. aid station locations, contacting family, contacting insurance carriers.)
Dealer Connect
Easily contact your preferred dealer, or receive assistance in finding one that's nearby. With the push of a button in your car, a friendly mbrace operator can not only look up the dealer for you, but also route your call directly to the desired department.
Safe Ride
If you find yourself unable to drive, mbrace can help you contact a family member or taxi company for a ride home.
Vehicle Information
From setting the clock to understanding an indicator light, you can connect to a trained product specialist with the push of a button in your car or using the Mercedes me app, anytime you have a question about your car and its features.
Travel & Assistance
At Mercedes-Benz, we know that time is the greatest luxury of all. With an mbrace® Concierge package, you have your own personal assistant who can help you with dinner reservations, event tickets, travel arrangements, and more. And you can access them anytime using the i-button or the Mercedes me app. Services include:
- Mercedes-Benz Concierge
- Location-based traffic
- Location-based weather
- Turn-by-turn route assistance
3-month free trial, $20/month thereafter [6]
Personal Assistance Services
Mercedes-Benz Concierge
Enjoy virtually unlimited assistance from a helpful agent with knowledge and resources to aid with almost any request. Contact an expert Concierge when you're on the road, or from the Mercedes me app on your smartphone. Get expert recommendations and reservations for travel and dining out, tickets to events, and answers to almost any question.
Points-of-Interest (POI) Destination Download [3]
Plan your routes on-the-go with the touch of a button. A specialist will help you select a point of interest (POI) from over 15 million POIs and then send the address to your vehicle's navigation system. Then you can access directions based on your vehicle's current location.
Location-Based Traffic
Hear up-to-date voice-delivered traffic information in your car, based on your current vicinity or along preferred routes that you set up online (up to eight routes may be programmed).
Location-Based Weather
Listen to the latest weather conditions, forecasts and alerts, based on your current location.
Turn-by-Turn Route Assistance
Enjoy operator-assisted turn-by-turn route instructions to virtually any destination, including more than 15 million Points of Interest (POIs) in our database. The assistant can also download the POI directly to your car's COMAND navigation system.
The mbrace® Entertain package makes driving your Mercedes-Benz even more enjoyable by providing a never-ending soundtrack to your ride. Choose from millions of stations, playlists, and podcasts from around the world, all searchable by location, genre, and name. Services include:
- In-vehicle WiFi hotspot
- TuneIn Radio
- iHeart Radio
3-month free trial, $18/month thereafter [6]
Internet Radio, Online Maps, & WiFi Services
TuneIn Radio
Listen to more than 100,000 radio stations and 2 million podcasts from around the world, searchable by location, genre, station type, station name and even station call sign.
iHeartRadio [7]
This all-in-one digital radio service lets you find more than 1,500 Live Stations or create commercial-free, all-music Custom Stations featuring songs from the artist you select and similar music.
WiFi [8]
Your vehicle becomes a 4G WiFi hotspot allowing you to connect up to eight devices to the Internet.
Mercedes me
Mercedes me is the ultimate ownership experience from Mercedes-Benz. Powered by mbrace, Mercedes me connect allows our drivers to utilize many of their free mbrace Connect features, including Remote Start, Lock/Unlock, Send2Benz, and Vehicle Monitoring - all from the Mercedes me app. Plus, you can log in to view your manuals, maintenance info, how-to videos, financial terms, and more. Discover more on Mercedes me, and sign up to get started.
Visit Mercedes meAvailable on iOS and Android
Frequently Asked Questions
Have a question? Ready to subscribe?
New subscribers & general questions:
(888) 581-6915
Current mbrace subscribers:
(866) 990-9007
The mbrace information above only pertains to 2016 Mercedes-Benz models and newer.mbrace for 2013-2015 models


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|A Christmas Story
|Tuesday, 26 September 2000
So it is with 'A Christmas Story,' which was actually made in 1983 but might just as easily have been made today. Based on Jean Shepherd's novel 'In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash,' 'Christmas Story' is an amusing oddity. Imagine a "Saturday Evening Post" cover as a feature comedy film, and you may get an idea of what this child's-eye view of a '50s holiday season is like.
Peter Billingsley, astoundingly precocious without being overly cute, plays Ralphie, whose greatest desire in life is to possess a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot Carbine Action Air Rifle (by the end of the movie, you'll be able to rattle off the entire spiel with him). Ralphie spends virtually all of his time dreaming up ways to persuade grown-ups that they are being silly when they spout objections like, "You'll shoot your eye out!"
'Christmas Story' is essentially a series of thematically connected vignettes. Most of these are gently funny, while others – especially Ralphie's fantasies that materialize right before our eyes, hit just the right level of outrageousness. An encounter with a department-store Santa in Chapters 23-24 captures the flavor of childhood nightmare precisely; much of its humor lies in its dead-on accuracy.
Director Bob Clark demonstrates that he's great working with kids but less skilled guiding his adult performers. Melinda Dillon and Darren McGavin have been urged to wildly overplay Ralphie's parents, although both (Dillon most notably) manage to evoke a few smiles anyway. Billingsley, who was also excellent in 'Death Valley' (why didn't this actor work more often?), is remarkable, combining profound sobriety with impeccable, mature comic timing.
The script, by Shepherd & Leigh Brown & Clark, combines with the direction to evoke the nostalgia of a '50s or '60s Disney live-action feature, period-right and sentimental without being cloying. The Christmas music comes off well on the DVD and Reuben Freed's production design deserves special commendation for its attention to atmospheric detail.
'A Christmas Story' is slight but winning in an offbeat way. Some people swear by it as their favorite Christmas comedy. Most adults will enjoy the outing and kids appear to have a hugely good time with it.


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Twitter's Data Business Proves Lucrative
Twitter Disclosed It Earned $47.5 Million From Selling Off Information It Gathers
In its IPO filing Thursday, Twitter Inc. disclosed how much the microblogging platform earned from a lesser-known side business: $47.5 million came from selling off its data to a fast-growing group of companies that analyze the data for insights into news events and trends.
Interactives: Inside Twitter's IPO
Read the annotated S-1, see who's who at Twitter and more.
That is a small amount compared with the revenue generated from advertising, but Twitter's data business has rippled across the economy. The site's constant stream of experiences, opinions and sentiments has spawned a vast commercial ecosystem, serving up putative insights to product developers, Hollywood studios, major retailers and—potentially most profitably—hedge funds and other investors. Backed by millions of dollars in venture capital, hundreds of "social listening" firms have emerged.
"The economic impact of Twitter is massively bigger than whatever lies in their [IPO] filing," says Rob Bailey, chief executive of Data Sift, a London-based social-data analytics company.
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Social-data firms spot trends that it would take a long time for humans to see on their own. The United Nations is using algorithms derived from Twitter to pinpoint hot spots of social unrest. DirecTV uses Twitter data as an early-warning system to spot power outages based on customer complaints. Human-resources departments analyze the data to evaluate job candidates.
One opportunity may be on Wall Street. Dataminr Inc., which has raised $30 million in funding this year alone, has made serving traders its core business. It uses algorithms similar to those employed by hedge funds to conduct high-speed trading. Five minutes before news of last week's Capitol Hill shooting broke on TV, Dataminr subscribers got an alert to take action—giving them a leg up on the news that led the S&P Index to drop by 20 points five minutes later.
Dataminr's algorithms spotted just a handful of early eyewitness shooting reports posted on Twitter and instantaneously deduced from their timing, along with the Tweeters' influence and physical location that something urgent was happening. Other trading algorithms use "sentiment scores" to track the mood about certain stocks, driving decisions about whether to be bullish or bearish on firms.
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These social-data companies are subsets of a burgeoning data industry that collects, disseminates and analyzes all the information that firms amass and people leave online. While estimates of the market value of the social-data industry are hard to come by, one research firm, IDC, estimates that the entire "big data" market has grown seven times as quickly as the information technology sector as a whole. It may be valued at $16.9 billion in two years.
Most of the social companies pull data from a range of sources, including Yahoo Inc. 's Tumblr, Facebook Inc. 's Instagram, and the review site Yelp Inc. But Twitter, because of its public real-time data stream, is the industry giant. Even the Library of Congress is now cataloging tweets.
Twitter's social network rival Facebook, on the other hand, has largely eschewed getting involved in the data business. In part, that is because Facebook's product isn't set up for public conversations, but rather for private sharing among friends. But with an eye toward Twitter's success in leading public conversations about real-time events, Facebook has recently partnered with the major media companies to provide aggregated information about consumer conversations on certain topics.
Each social-data firm boasts proprietary dating-mining tools that go beyond basic keyword searches. Some can zoom in on a subset of people—say, women in a certain ZIP Code—and monitor phrases that show emotion. Then they can create a heat map or a sentiment score that measures how that subset feels about a topic. They have trained natural language processing algorithms to look at slang and broken grammar and to highlight tweets that indicate urgency because of words like "BREAKING."
"We don't just count the volume of these trends. That's naïve," says Nova Spivack, CEO of the Los Angeles-based firm Bottlenose. Rather, his firm looks at the momentum of trends.
"Businesses have spent years understanding the past," says Mr. Spivack. "Twitter has found a way to measure the present."
Twitter data aren't a perfect crystal ball. The service's most active U.S. users aren't entirely representative of the American population. According to the Pew Internet Project, though three-quarters of American adults are sharing information on social-networking sites, Twitter users, in particular, skew young—30% are under the age of 30. College graduates and wealthier Americans also have higher rates of Twitter use, but that gap is small, and narrowing.
Companies say it is still too early to determine the long-term value of Twitter data. One risk that Twitter raised in its IPO prospectus is that the company's growth could be undermined by spammers and fake Twitter accounts. Another risk: Twitter accounts can be hacked and used to put out incorrect information.
A Twitter spokesman declined to comment.
Companies are still struggling to understand how the Twitter conversation relates to the real world. Most aren't yet abandoning focus groups or customer- satisfaction surveys for social media monitoring, says Darrell Jursa, of FleishmanHillard, a public-relations firm specializing in crisis management. Some "80% to 90% of conversations still take place offline," he says. "You need to put the social data in context with everything else."
Moreover, companies that tap the data are increasingly trying to figure out whether a Twitter "crisis" actually resonates with all Americans or stays in an echo chamber.
Restaurant-chain Five Guys used Washington, D.C.-based New Brand Analytics to compare hamburger-bun quality in different parts of the country, leading the company to flag issues in some areas. But the firm warned the chain not to overreact to complaints, says Five Guys spokeswoman Molly Catalano. While some individual complaints were nasty, overall Five Guys was popular among Twitter users, New Brand found.
Twitter is still figuring out how to extract the most value from its data business, which grew 53% over the past year, according to papers the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company has clamped down on the amount of data that outside firms are allowed to pull from its system free of charge.
Many smaller analytics startups are now turning to four companies that Twitter has dubbed "certified data resellers." These brokers, Gnip, Data Sift, Topsy and the Japanese firm NTT Data , account for the bulk of Twitter's data revenue. Last year, they paid Twitter monthly fees of about $35.6 million.
Twitter's exponential growth has meant its influence extends well beyond marketing and crisis PR. Nonprofits, human-resource managers and politicians have found Twitter data useful, too. The Red Cross began analyzing Twitter data during 2012's Hurricane Sandy, says spokeswoman Anne Marie Borrego, using social-media-generated heat maps to direct aid. Twitter itself analyzed the site's chatter to predict the outcome of last year's U.S. presidential election.
But as Twitter plans to go public, some smaller firms worry that Twitter could further limit access to its valuable data. "Free," says Kristin Muhlner, CEO of New Brand Analytics, "isn't interesting to investors."
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Biden to meet with NRA
Vice President Joe Biden will meet Thursday with the National Rifle Association, "one of many" gun rights groups he will meet with as part of the White House's gun task force to reduce gun violence.
"We look forward to hearing from a variety of organizations," White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday.
"We are sending a representative to hear what they have to say," Andrew Arulanandam, NRA spokesperson, told CBS News.
The NRA and the Obama administration have been at odds on its response to the latest mass shooting, which occurred in Newtown, Conn., last month. The powerful gun lobby proposed placing armed guards in schools, a proposal the president said he is "skeptical" about.
In addition to his meeting with the NRA, the vice president is meeting with gun safety advocates, victims' groups and entertainment and video game industry officials. Cabinet secretaries are also holding meetings with parents, educators and mental health experts.
The president created the task force shortly after the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., last month. He appointed Biden as the head of the task force and asked for recommendations by the end of January.
President Obama has indicated that he wants Congress to reestablish the ban on assault weapons, which expired in 2004, and limit the size of magazines and expand background checks, including closing the gun show loophole, which allows unlicensed sellers to sidestep checks.The task force is also expected to look at broader efforts that might include a national database and proposals that can be implemented without congressional approval.
Biden has also been conferring with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is a vocal advocate for gun regulation. His group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, launched a TV ad Tuesday to pressure lawmakers to "stand up to the gun lobby."
Roxanne Green, whose daughter was killed in the 2011 Tucson, Ariz., shooting that injured former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., is highlighted in the ad. "I have one question for political leaders, when will you find the courage to stand up to the gun lobby? Whose child has to die next?" Green says.
The timing of the ad is intentional, not only to keep the pressure on lawmakers to act in the aftermath of the Newtown massacre, but because it is also debuting on the second anniversary of the Tucson shooting.
Also Tuesday, Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, launched a new organization, Americans for Responsible Solutions, in favor of gun restrictions that intends to "[match] gun lobbyists in their reach and resources," the couple wrote in a USA Today op-ed.
When gun safety advocates refer to the gun lobby, there are numerous organizations that promote less gun regulation, but the most powerful is the National Rifle Association, which has spent nearly $10 million since President Obama's inauguration on lobbying activity, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That number doesn't include the more than $30 million the NRA's political action committee and the organization's affiliated political nonprofits spent to influence the 2012 presidential and congressional elections.
The NRA has proposed placing armed guards in schools to clamp down on shootings. It's a proposal the president has rejected.
Despite efforts to maintain momentum on the gun issue, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said over the weekend that Congress must prioritize its early March deadlines around spending cuts and the debt ceiling. "Clearly we will not be addressing that issue early, because spending and debt are going to dominate the first three months," McConnell said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Andy Triay contributed to this report.


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The Strengthening Prescription: Chakra Injection was a dark medical ninjutsu that Yomi's clan had spent generations to perfect just for the night of releasing Mōryō's spirit in the Land of Demons.
This technique creates dark snakes that forcibly connect with a person and inject them with medically altered chakra. This extra chakra will allow the user to utilise high level element ninjutsu. It also allows the user to use elemental techniques that they wouldn't be able to master normally. The chakra is not infinite, and must be replenished over time. Furthermore, only one type of elemental chakra can be injected into the person at a time, as Neji noted that Shizuku was seen with a completely different element from the previous encounter.
The person injected with these snakes can also force the snake out, and drink the chakra directly, vastly increasing their chakra and power, as well as inducing a body-mutating transformation (in Gitai's case, he became an Asura-like entity, with three faces, six-arms and a tail), but results in their body being highly unstable, which, if struck with sufficient force, can result in the body exploding.
The dark chakra snakes can also be used against the opponents. By injecting them with the same chakra, it can either paralyse or kill without leaving a mark.
- Yomi claimed that Kusuna is the only one amongst the Gang of Four who could control the chakra snakes.
- When first used by Yomi, the chakra snakes emerged from the ground as long, glowing tubes that simply injected the Gang of Four with chakra, and then retracted. However, when used by Kusuna afterwards, they are shown as snakes that enter the other three's bodies via the back of the neck, which gave them a sense of exhilaration upon injection, and they gain markings over their bodies and, in Shizuku's case, her elbow extends.


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Survey Analytics API - Sample Source Code
The service provides tools for creating and presenting surveys and questionnaires online, then compiling and analyzing results in compliance with the organization's data-warehousing strategy. It helps marketers and customer service operations to gather feedback from customers and others who interact with a resource. Tools for analyzing collected data contribute to marketing research and related company programs. API methods support creating a survey and deploying it to the target user community, including email address assignment and management of user groups. Methods also support retrieval of survey response data as comma-separated values (CSV) for further analysis.


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This DS19 cabriolet (or décapotable, the brilliant French word for an open-topped car) is, if anything, more stylish than the standard DS.
Citroen's seminal car is celebrated in a new book, Citroen DS - The World's Most Beautiful Car (Haynes, £40). It is available now direct from Haynes or from all good bookshops.


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Tri- Fold Straight Dough Baguettes
First success!
I was finally able to produce baguettes that I am happy about.
(didn't have the nerves to post here until I had something to show off )
Thanks to txfarmer , I flowed the formula he posted under
Straight Method Baguette - a good starter baguette to practice on
(with title alteration on the flour parts)
This is my version, and what I did:
Straight Dough Baguette
Note: makes 3 baguettes
400g bread flour
100g AP flour
375g water
salt, 10g
instant yeast, 2g
Mix everything together. No need for kneading.
Bulk ferment for three hours, flood three times at 45, 90 and 135min.
(these are an in-bowl-starch-and-fold )
After three hours pre-shape into 3 small boules. rest for 25 minutes.
Shape into Baguettes and proof at room temp for 40 minutes.
Bake at 460F(240C) for 25 min, with steam for the first couple of minutes.
Turn off oven, crack the door open, and keep baguettes inside for about 5 minutes.
Take out and cool completely before attempting to eat.
Note that I preheated my stone at 500F (260C) for an hour to make sure the oven is hot enough, only reduce the temp to 460F when the dough is loaded.
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Al Sanders spotted a group of least tern on Ormond Beach in 1990. Sanders, surprised to see the bird thought gone from the area, stopped to confirm his suspicion.
"I ran into a biologist watching them through a spotting scope," said Sanders. "She said that they've been gone from Ormond Beach for 40 years and they're making a return, but they're not going to make it."
Sanders learned from the biologist that off-road vehicles had destroyed the habitat for the bird, and that nothing had been done to protect the sensitive area. In an effort to reverse the damage done, Sanders began erecting fences and battling off-roaders who would tear down his warning signs.
Twenty-four years later, after successfully convincing the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to designate the area as protected, Sanders and the birds, including the snowy plover, are facing another issue, this time involving the western seagull attracted by an environmentally friendly operation nearby.
"It's looking pretty bad," said Sanders. "One of the reasons that they're doing so poorly is that Agromin is an attracter to western gulls."
In 2012, Agromin and E.J. Harrison & Sons began a program to accept compostable food waste that would later be turned into mulch for area growers. Since the program began, local hospitals, restaurants, schools, grocery stores and private businesses have sent their leftovers and food waste to the facility in Oxnard. Whole Foods and Marie Callender's restaurant were a few of the early adopters of the program.
Agromin CEO Bill Camarillo said he believes that the program has been successful. Agromin is permitted to operate at Ormond Beach through March 2014, but Camarillo is asking the Oxnard City Council and the county to extend the permit for an extra three years in order to install and test new equipment, specifically a demonstration-sized anaerobic digester that would eliminate the need for diesel fuel and dissuade seagulls from gathering at the nearby beach.
The digester removes oxygen from mulch and inoculates the material with a liquid bacteria that breaks the food down and produces methane gas.
"The benefit of the technology is to mitigate issues because it's all done in a closed system instead of outdoors," said Camarillo. "Part of the challenge is, we need to permit the equipment so we can mitigate the issue by putting the material inside these containers."
Currently, the food waste is placed under canopies and allowed to decompose before being blended with green waste such as lawn trimmings and landscaping debris. The finished product results in highly prized compost for farms and local growers, who use the Agromin product as an alternative to artificial chemicals and fertilizers. With the current process being outdoors and under canopies, it attracts seagulls, a fact that Camarillo says has been and is being dealt with.
"We've implemented a bunch of new strategies to deter these seagulls, but you've got to remember that we are by the beach. That's where the gulls primarily come from," said Camarillo. "We did do a biological report that we gave to the city and the county as part of our mitigation, and they're making sure that we're implementing every deterrent at our facility to keep them from migrating to us. They are becoming very effective."
With the new equipment, Agromin can capture the methane gas emitted during the process to power the facility and remove the need for outdoor decomposition. Eventually, Agromin's facility located on Limoneira Ranch in Santa Paula will receive a much larger version of the digester in order to begin accepting all food waste from western Ventura County.
Sanders, who is president of the Ormond Beach Observers and the chief strategist of Earth Alert, said that the project could be better located elsewhere.
"They missed the opportunity when they originally brought these guys in," said Sanders. "By the time we knew what was going on, they'd already gotten their permits and it was too late."
Oxnard City Councilman Bryan MacDonald said that the situation is delicate. While the program is beneficial and is much-needed for both the city and county, the location of the Agromin facility in correlation to the environmentally protected beach is an issue.
"Realistically, you have to ask if that is the best use for that type of land," said MacDonald. "I'm not sure it is."
One of the issues regarding the compost is the generation of heat, which can cause fires, resulting in runoff as the fire department extinguishes it. The California Mushroom Farm, plagued by fires that overtook the compost heap and burned for weeks, faced similar issues.
"The runoff could potentially carry stuff into the ecosystem that doesn't belong there," said MacDonald. "Probably the easiest would be to just put it in a secure facility, but then, are you able to handle the material or is it too confined?"
Agromin has been located near Ormond Beach since 2006, and is looking to expand its Santa Paula location after the implementation of the demonstration-sized digester at the Ormond Beach location. For Sanders, the balance between environmentally friendly technology and ecological preservation is a difficult issue to tackle.
"I'm not trying to put them out of business; I'm trying to find the right location for them," said Sanders. "What I'd like to see is the county and city to work together to help them find a place. Then we can all live happily ever after."


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Smørrebrød is Denmark's classic lunch dish. Although it literally means 'sandwich', in practice the Smørrebrød is so much more. The Danes take their ingredients very seriously, which results in delicious bite-size combinations.
Classic smørrebrød begins with a slice of fresh bread with a layer of butter. Next comes a varied menu of pålæg: meat, fish, cheese, all kinds of condiments and raw vegetables. The Danes vary their toppings endlessly, with liver pâté and sild, pickled herring with sauce, being especially popular. The type of bun is very important: salmon and shrimp go on white bread, while tartar is best suited for dark rye bread – preferably tastefully decorated with an egg yolk and some horseradish. There are plenty of places in Copenhagen, ranging from simple to exclusive, where you can taste these traditional open sandwiches.


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National Year of Reading
UTS Library will be hosting a series of FREE author talks throughout the month of May as part of the continuing National Year of Reading celebrations.
The first talk will be presented by Debra Adelaide author of The Household Guide to Dying, published in 2009. Debra will be reading a piece of short fiction about reading as an obsession called 'In Bed with Flaubert' and discussing the topic of reading as it relates to her novel.
About the book:
'As I resigned myself to the fact that the latest Household Guide I'd written would be my last, I conceived in a flash the best idea ever. I rang Nancy and left a message. 'Think of the title,' I said. 'How catchy does The Household Guide to Dying sound?'
Delia Bennet is the author of a series of household guides, as well as being quirky and popular domestic advice columnist. After battling unsuccessfully with cancer, sho knows it's time to get her own house in order, both literally and emotionally.
Debra Adelaide is a Sydney-based author. Her recent novel, The Household Guide to Dying, has been a worldwide success, having been published so far in Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, China, Italy and Poland.
In 2009 the novel was longlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize for fiction, along with 19 other novels by women from around the world. In Australia, it was recently shortlisted for the inaugural Randwick Literary Award.
The Household Guide to Dying will be available for sale at the talk and Debra will be signing copies of her book.
So bring your lunch and join us for what promises to be an interesting talk.
DATE: Thursday, 3 May
TIME: 12pm - 1pm
VENUE: Learning Commons, Level 3, City Campus Library
This is a free event.
All are welcome.
No RSVP or booking is required.
Bookings are required for non-UTS attendees
Upcoming Author Talks
Wednesday, 9 May
Pip Harry - I'll tell you mine and Pam Newton - The Old School
Wednesday, 16 May
Anthony Macris - When Horse Became Saw
Tuesday, 22 May
Richard James Allen - Poetry Through Media: A Shapeshifter's Journey
Lecture room 4.g, Level 4, City Campus Library
Monday, 28 May
Kirsten Tranter - A Common Loss
All talks are being held from 12pm - 1pm in the Learning Commons on Level 3 of the City Campus Library.


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GNU Radio Conference 2013
Dates and Location
- See the conference agenda
- Conference Date: Oct 1, 2013 – Oct 3, 2013
- Hackfest Date: Oct 4, 2013
- Location: 281 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210
- Attendees: Up to 80
Huge Thanks to the Sponsors
See our Sponsors Page for more details.
- Ettus Research, LLC
- Rondeau Research, LLC
- Corgan Labs
- Fairwaves
- Lime Microsystems
- OpenSDR
- Analog Devices
Travel Grant:
- National Science Foundation
Hardware Giveaway
We are pleased to announce that we have received a number of hardware donations for various SDR vendors and will be giving them away at GRCon!
Hardware will be awarded through a raffle at the end of the conference. All attendees not affiliated with the hardware manufacturers are eligible to win.
So what can you hope to win if you attend the conference?
- Ettus Research USRP B210
- Fairwaves UmTRX
- Great Scott Gadgets HackRF
- Lime Micro MyriadRF
- Loctronix A-2300
- nuand BladeRF x40 and x115
Call for Presentations
The call for presentations is over. The agenda will be announced shortly. Thank you to everyone who submitted to speak abou your GNU Radio work!
The Hackfest
We plan to hold a hackfest on Oct 4, the fourth day of the conference. Here's a list of some of the things we accomplished at last year's hackfest:
We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
Ettus Research Will Cover Student Registration
The student submission for Ettus Research sponsorship is over due to over capacity.
Student Travel Support
The student travel support application period is over. Awardees have been emailed.


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02/05/2009 (09:31PM - 10:00PM) (Thursday) : WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD: JON HAMM GUEST STARS. LIZ (TINA FEY) LEARNS ABOUT A NEW NEIGHBOR IN HER BUILDING, JACK (ALEC BALDWIN) TRIES TO WIN OVER ELISA'S (GUEST STAR SALMA HAYEK) GRANDMOTHER AND TRACY (TRACY MORGAN) IS OVERWHELMED BY THE ""TGS" INTERNS.
Liz (Fey) discovers she has a handsome and newly single neighbor, Dr. Drew Baird (Hamm), she'd like to meet after receiving his mail by mistake. However, in true Liz fashion their chance at getting to know one another doesn't begin so well. Due to Jack's (Baldwin) striking resemblance to a Spanish soap villain, Elisa's (Hayek) grandmother disapproves of their relationship. Jack is determined to do whatever it takes to win her adoration. Back at 30 Rock, the new "TGS" interns invite Tracy (Morgan) out for a night of partying; but Tracy, unwilling to admit it, cannot seem to keep up with the former Wall Street frat boys. Also starring Jane Krakowski and Jack McBrayer.


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Tim and Alicia invite you to sample the menu ranging from the more traditional to modern Italian inspired Cuisine. We have a range of Pasta's, Pizza's, Steak's & Seafood Dishes and the Al a Carte menu is also available at lunch times.
1530 The Restaurant opened on Tuesday 21st of December 2010, after undergoing an extensive development to transform the property from a bookshop. 1530 The Restaurant offers modern British & Italian influenced dining in a relaxed, comfortable and elegant setting. The name of the restaurant originates from the year the building was originally built, and retains its traditional low ceilings and stone walls.


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