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It is easy to donate: When filling out 2012 Oregon State tax Form 40, write Charity Code # 19 in the designated Charitable Checkoff donations box and the amount you wish to donate. (A full list of charities is included in the Form 40 instruction booklet.)
"Donations to the Nongame Fund allow us to implement habitat restoration and conservation projects that benefit all species," said Andrea Hanson. "Many Oregonians are not aware that we manage all wildlife, including songbirds, frogs, fish, lizards, bats, owls and foxes."
It is a donation that makes good economic and environmental sense—healthy wildlife populations live in healthy habitats. By voluntarily conserving species and habitats, biologists can address at-risk wildlife by using a non-regulatory approach to conservation and helping species before they become endangered or threatened and more costly to protect.
Contributions have the potential to be matched 3-to-1 by federal grants and funds, increasing your donation.
All habitat work is done within the blueprint of the Oregon Conservation Strategy. For more information, visit the ODFW website.
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Faisalabad (March 31, 2014):: Punjab Education Commission PEC Faisalabad is going to announce 5th class result on 31th of March 2014. Punjab Education Commission PEC Faisalabad 8th class result will also be announced on 31 March 2014.
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ACE of Cisco, SharePoint 2010 and the Alternate Access Mapping
If you are talking Microsoft SharePoint 2010, then chances are you have discussed load balancing at some point. Well, let's just start with the basics. If we have more than one WFE (Web Front End) server, we are going to need a way to balance requests.
In its most simplistic form, load balancing is a methodology to distribute workload across multiple compute, network or storage resources. We recently published a SharePoint 2010 on FlexPod for VMware Cisco Validated Design which includes a hardware load balancer, the Application Control Engine ACE 30.
There are a few different ways to achieve load balancing with SharePoint depending on deployment scale and application requirements. Hardware load balancing is the most effective for SSL offloading and large scale environments. Cisco has introduced Application Network Manager (ANM) to help us implement, monitor and manage application load balancing using ACE.
A VIP (Virtual IP Address) is used to represent the Server Farm comprising of the WFE server (They are often referred to as Real Servers). The topology map below was taken from ANM to help illustrate the logical configuration.
SharePoint 2010 has a mechanism for mapping the correct web site to web application requests. It's called (AAM) Alternate Access Mappings.
There are two websites that have great information on this feature.
What Every SharePoint Administrator needs to know about AAM and A SharePoint Site by any other name.
Reading this information will help you to avoid the many pitfalls when implementing load balancing with SharePoint 2010. We are using AAM for default, internet and SSL (HTTPS) mapping.
A few basic definitions to help start the configuration discussion:
- Zone – There are 5 zones available, with all providing the exact same functionality. (Exception is the default zone will carrys additional messaging traffic for site collection owners.
- Publc URL for ZONE – Address Users Browse (DNS resolves to VIP for load balancing)
- Internal URL – Maybe the same as the Public URL or maybe different.
So, for a basic HTTP user request, the process is fairly simple. Create a new site and add an AAM for you desired zone. In our case we used Internet Zone for the address.
But how are the clients going to get to that address? A DNS entry will be needed to map the address to the VIP on the load balancer. Initially you could have a DNS entry for every Public URL, but that wouldn't scale very well and would be tied to a single WFE instance.
For SSL, things get a little more complex. First, we need to edit the AAM to accommodate the HTTPS requests.
Take note that this HTTPS internal URL must be created and map to itself first. Only then can HTTP request be redirected by AAM. At first this may seem intuitive, but if you follow standard implementation and test HTTP first, you will need to remove that Intranet Zone mapping to create the internal mapping for HTTPS.
So, how does this all relate to you the SharePoint and ACE administrator?
Well, you will need to understand how these components fit together to achieve your goal of a harmonious SharePoint deployment, that provides a positive user experience. Hopefully this post will help highlight some of the integration points of Cisco ACE and SharePoint 2010. We welcome your feedback. Please feel free to post any comments or questions.
I'll be at TechEd next week. Please stop by the Cisco booth #1614 and we'll be glad to talk about our joint solutions with Microsoft that can more efficiently solve your business challenges.
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Seasonal delights
Tamie Fraser in her garden flanked by two 'Tamie' camellias.OPEN Gardens Australia is the second-largest scheme of its kind after Britain's National Garden Scheme, which also opens gardens to the public.
Like the NGS, which this year celebrates its 85th anniversary, its Australian contemporary is in celebratory mood, having reached a 25-year milestone.
The 2012-13 season of the Victorian division of Open Gardens Australia will be launched on Tuesday by the scheme's president, Tamie Fraser, at Rippon Lea Estate. The first garden to open tomorrow week will be Dame Elisabeth Murdoch's Cruden Farm, with its magnificent fields of daffodils.
Fraser, who has opened her Merricks garden a number of times and will open it for the last time in February, says owners who share their gardens with the public are very generous.
''It's such a privilege for people to go into someone else's private space and see what they have,'' she says. ''You do bare your soul when you open your garden to the public but you do get tremendous knowledge from people coming in to see your garden.''
The Frasers' hillside garden affords stunning views from the house and includes a section devoted to native trees, rose beds, hedges and perennials, including Malcolm Fraser's pride and joy, the camellia walk, which has been floriferous this year.
Other special events include the opening on September 16 of seven cottages at Bickleigh Vale Village in Mooroolbark, which were created by Edna Walling.
The annual plant fair will be held in March at Sir Roderick Carnegie's Woodend property Flint Hill, which features a large woodland garden with specimen trees underplanted with rhododendrons and azaleas, formal lawns and shrubberies.
Fraser says the plant fair is a popular event on the Open Gardens calendar, attracting 10,000 visitors when it was held at Thurulgoona, her property in Merricks.
In a first for the scheme, two twilight openings will be held on Australia Day: Bagnols, a French-inspired garden designed by Paul Bangay at Shoreham; and Rick Eckersley's Musk Cottage at Flinders, which will include musicians, wine and food.
Usually, the season ends on the Mother's Day weekend but this time it will continue through winter and include Gunyah, a large vegetable garden in Pascoe Vale, and Attila Kapitany's stunning display of architectural agaves, aloes and yuccas.
There will also be an Australian plants workshop and a ''conversation'' on Gardens and Gardening Today: Sustainability, Direction, Design, which will feature eight experts, including Carolyn Blackman, Phillip Johnson, Michael McCoy and Sharon Harris.
A tour of nine significant gardens in the Western District will be hosted by the organisation's chief executive, Richard Barley, and there is an opportunity to learn about palms from Jo Wilkins, a self-confessed ''palm-aholic''.
Open Gardens Australia grew from Victoria's open-garden scheme, established in 1987, to a national scheme in 2000. It was renamed last year to better reflect its role for the public.
Garden owners charge nominal fees to visit their gardens (the standard fee is $6), with 35 per cent returned to them or to a charity of their choice and 65 per cent to Open Gardens Australia, which receives no government money.
Each season, surplus funds are distributed to community garden projects under its Community Garden Grants Awards scheme. The recipients in the 2011-12 season were Buda house and garden at Castlemaine, to help with its garden restoration, and renewal works at the late Margot Knox's mosaic garden in Hawthorn.
■The new guide lists 500 gardens across the country and is available for $19 from opengarden南京夜网.au.
Going green
Greenlink indigenous plant nursery is holding its open day today from 9am-noon. 41 Wimmera Street, Box Hill North.
Karma camellias
Camellias Victoria is holding a display of camellias, including plant sales, today (1-5pm) and tomorrow (10am-4.30pm). Mount Waverley Community Centre, 47 Miller Crescent. $5. Also this weekend at the centre is the Waverley Garden Club's 50th anniversary of its floral art group.
Yellow hosts
The 56th annual Leongatha Daffodil and Floral Show runs from Thursday to Saturday at Leongatha Memorial Hall, McCartin Street, with flowers, plants and refreshments. $5. Phone 5668 6334.
Orchid spectacular
Thousands of orchids will be on display from Friday to Sunday at Springers Leisure Centre, 400 Cheltenham Road, Keysborough. 9am-5pm (Sunday until 4pm). Adults $6, concession $4. Phone 9786 1938.
Sexy spiders
On Tuesday, the Friends of Burnley Gardens will present a talk by Professor Mark Elgar about the sex lives of spiders and other interesting arachnid facts. Members $3, non-members $10. Quad 6, Burnley Gardens, 500 Yarra Boulevard, Richmond. 7pm for 7.30pm. Bookings essential, phone 9035 6861.
Japanese floral art (ikebana) will be exhibited from Wednesday to Saturday (10am-5pm) at Kazari Collector, 450 Malvern Road, Prahran.
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Center for Spiritual Capital hosts conservative philosopher Roger Scruton
September 20, 2013
Conservative English philosopher and author Roger Scruton, Ph.D., will give a free lecture, "Our Church," at Loyola University New Orleans Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. in Miller 114. The lecture is co-sponsored by the College of Business and Center for Spiritual Capital.
"Our Church," which is also the name of Scruton's latest book, will cover how the church in England is often dismissed as just a footnote in the lives of Europeans. "It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church as its true spiritual guardian," Scruton said in the book.
Scruton has written more than 30 books, including "Art and Imagination," "The Meaning of Conservatism," "Sexual Desire," "The Philosopher on Dover Beach," "The Aesthetics of Music" and "Beauty." He has also written two novels and composed two operas.
Scruton studied law at the Inns of Court (1974-1976) and was called to the bar in 1978. He helped establish underground universities in Soviet-controlled central Europe during the Cold War, and in 1998 he was awarded the Czech Republic's Medal of Merit by president Václav Havel.
Scruton first embraced conservatism during the student protests of May 1968 in France when he saw students overturn cars to erect barricades and tear up cobblestones to throw at the police.
"I suddenly realized I was on the other side. What I saw was an unruly mob of self-indulgent middle-class hooligans. When I asked my friends what they wanted, what were they trying to achieve, all I got back was this ludicrous Marxist gobbledygook," Scruton said. "I was disgusted by it and thought there must be a way back to the defense of western civilization. That's when I became a conservative. I knew I wanted to conserve things rather than pull them down."
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Computers are for productivity and work.
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Posted 17 December 2010 - 09:37 AM
I don't want to start a PC/Console war. There's plenty of PC Elitism over at GAF, but I want to point out fact from fiction.
So, Drew, please explain how the PC is a viable gaming platform?
The same thing happens on 360, since it's also 4 year old hardware now. The 360 and PS3 have a graphics card equivalent to an Nvidia 7800 (it'll run a better than a PC equivalent due to hardware specific programming, and Cell makes the PS3 run even better if the programmers are good). PC gaming is easily a generation ahead of consoles right now, so anything that's built to run on modern video cards has to be scaled back a lot to run on 360 and PS3.
I can't play anything more advanced than Command and Conquer 3 on my PC that I built myself 4.5 years ago for $850 in parts at cost to my employer without scaling down the settings.
EDIT: Previously, this paragraph made no sense.
Why would I drop $500 on a new graphics card
There's only a handful of graphics cards that run $500, and those are top of the line cards. You can run just about anything except the high end games at max settings with a card worth $120 like the ATI 5770. For example, ME2 will run at 1080p, 8x AF, Max Quality, 60+ FPS on that card. To compare, the 360 doesn't output anything higher than 720p (we don't know what ME2 actually runs at, but I suspect it's this, and the 360 upscales to 1080p from 720p) and runs ME2 at a locked 30 fps. I don't know for certain the AF or Quality settings of ME2 on 360, but I highly doubt they're maxed.
MW2 runs at something like 540p at 60 fps during low loads on the 360. On average, it's more like 45-50. A decent PC could easily hit 1080p with 60 fps.
I just bought my GTX 460 for $200, and that'll run anything on the market at max settings except the really demanding stuff like Metro 2033, Crysis, and Bad Company 2. Haven't worked with Crysis and Bad Company 2 too much, but I only have to scale back Metro 2033 slightly.
ATI just released their high end 6000 series cards, and those are only in the $300 range.
There was a switch from AGP to PCI-e about the timeframe you built your computer, so you could be on either depending on the motherboard. Anything you buy new today will be PCI-e. Modern video card, even in SLI/CF, don't come anywhere close to the 16x speed modern PCI-e channels are built with unless you're sporting something like 4 separate video cards, so it's not going away for a while.
if its compatible with my mobo, which if it's not, then there's another couple hundred... Then I have to reinstall my OS...
when I can buy a new console for half that price (if I need a new mobo) every 5 years?
It's a hobbyist thing. If you like building computer hardware like me, PC gaming is but one step away. Heck, I had my 9800 GT in my computer for over a year and didn't play anything besides Guild Wars. If you don't care about bolstering graphics, mods, dedicated servers on FPS's, the exclusives, or the control scheme, then there's no reason to put up with PC gaming's headaches and pocketbook drain.
The only, and I do mean ONLY, advantage that PC games have is their pricing and distribution model. Which doesn't make a lick of difference if you don't have the latest and greatest hardware to run everything.
The whole pricing model argument is a joke. Sure, launch games cheaper and the Steam sales are absurdly awesome, but PC gaming hardware is inherently more expensive. You're expected to spend no less than $500 for a modern machine, but those will struggle with high end games.
Xbox Live: Niterider2004
PS3: Not used
Wii: Lol wut?
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Xbox Live: Niterider2004
PS3: Not used
Wii: Lol wut?
Posted 23 December 2010 - 03:17 PM
Edited by Drew, 23 December 2010 - 03:18 PM.
Posted 23 December 2010 - 04:43 PM
You had to push that button, didn't you? Where did I put my .44?
Dedicated servers = less lag.
As long as the game doesn't have terrible netcode, it is always better than using P2P. Not only that, but it removes host advantage from the equation and places everyone on an even playing field. Network exploiters can no longer exploit when playing on a dedicated server, because then the only people they hurt are themselves.
In theory, all that is true. Only in theory, the end result (due to user stupidity for the most part), is that games are just as laggy or worse.
Xbox Live: Niterider2004
PS3: Not used
Wii: Lol wut?
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Xbox Live: Niterider2004
PS3: Not used
Wii: Lol wut?
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Posted 26 November 2011 - 02:57 AM
Finally went ahead and made the purchase. Specs changed slightly.
Asus socket 1155 motherboard
Nvidia GeForce GTX560Ti (1.25GB)
2x 500GB SATA drvies (might setup RAID 0)
700W Power Supply
I also bought a new 20in LED monitor. Stoked.
When you install Steam post your ID.
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Posted 26 November 2011 - 06:22 AM
Xbox Live: Niterider2004
PS3: Not used
Wii: Lol wut?
Posted 26 November 2011 - 09:40 AM
Nvidia GeForce GTX560Ti (1.25GB)
Posted 26 November 2011 - 04:04 PM
When you install Steam post your ID.
Already have an account, though it's been so long since I've actually used it. I'm fairly sure my ID is defsoldout.
Posted 28 November 2011 - 01:17 PM
Looks like it was before community pages even existed.
Already have an account, though it's been so long since I've actually used it. I'm fairly sure my ID is defsoldout.
Posted 28 November 2011 - 10:27 PM
Looks like it was before community pages even existed.
Done and done.
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Wish Google Maps' photographs of the world's most stunning places were better composed than what you see on Street View? Sightsmap lets you take virtual trips of the parts of the world that people love to photograph.
As an infographic, Sightsmap is far from a perfect representation of the most photographed places on Earth. Created by Estonian computer scientist Tanel Tammet, Sightsmap uses data and photographs from Panoramio, and so it's obviously biased toward the demographic of people who use Panoramio. But it does give you a sense of where people go when they want to photograph something famous or culturally interesting or visually spectacular. And the map is a work in progress, changing and shifting with each new upload.
You can click on the map to see the photographs themselves. Take a virtual tour of the world, or plan your next sightseeing vacation.
There are also region-specific heat maps. Here is the New York map:
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During the summer, there's not much more that can make me happier than sitting outside with a chilled cocktail in my hand while the entire dinner cooks on the grill – this is a recipe that allow you to do just that.
Using a cedar plank to grill salmon has a few bonuses: It adds a distinctive smoky flavor, it's an easier way to cook fragile salmon fillets on the grill, and it makes a great presentation on the table.
Grilling corn for the accompanying relish pulls everything together with the salmon, along with an Indian-inspired spice butter and cooling yogurt raita on the side.
Tandoori Salmon & Corn Relish
By Karen
Serves 4
4 ears corn, shucked
1 serrano chile pepper
2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 teaspoons tandoori spice mix *
¼ cup butter, softened
1 ½ pounds skin-on salmon filet
1 cup Greek yogurt
¼ cup chopped seedless cucumber
3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
Soak a cedar grilling plank in a shallow pan of water (a roasting pan works well) until saturated, at least 2 hours ahead of cooking.
Prepare a charcoal grill for indirect grilling or heat a gas grill to medium high. Roast the corn on the grill until browned on all sides, turning every few minutes. Cool, then slice the kernels off the cobs with a sharp knife. Combine the corn, chile, lime juice, salt and pepper to taste in a bowl. Set aside.
Put the cedar plank on the grill rack and heat until it begins to brown, about 5 minutes.
Mash together the spice mix and butter until blended. Lay the salmon on the cedar plank and season with salt and pepper. Smear the butter over the salmon and place the plank back on the grill. Cover the grill and cook 12 – 15 minutes, or until the salmon is translucent and begins to flake.
Stir together the yogurt, cucumber and cilantro.
Cut the salmon into 4 portions, but not through the skin. Slide each portion off the skin with a spatula. Serve the salmon with some corn relish and raita on the side.
* To make your own tandoori spice blend stir together ¼ teaspoon each ground cumin, turmeric, ginger, coriander, paprika and cayenne pepper.


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Emerging Artists Theatre's New Works Festival -- is finally in view. So what's it about? Here it is in a nutshell:
Nero's dead, right? Or maybe his fans won't let Rome's cruel but entertaining emperor exit the stage just yet. Nero/Pseudo is a play where ancient Rome collides with glam rock and the politics of celebrity.
It's happening on Thursday, March 7 at 9 PM at Tada! Youth Theatre (15 West 28th Street, New York, New York 10001 -- right between Broadway and 5th Avenue).
Tickets are $10 and available online -- and there should also be some available at the door on Thursday night.
My musical collaborators Jon Langford (Mekons, Three Johns, Waco Brothers) and James Elkington (the Zincs, Horse's Ha) will be winging in from Chicago to play the glam rock tunes they wrote for the play -- and they'll be making a weekend of it with a special appearance as Skull Orchard at The Bell House in Brooklyn on Friday night (March 8). And when I say "special," I mean it. Jon and Jim will be backed by a legends of rock rhythm section: drummer Steve Goulding (Mekons) and bassist Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu). Tickets for that show available right here.
I made a quick jaunt up to New York a couple days ago to meet Emerging Artists Theatre's artistic director Paul Adams and participate in a read-through of the script, and my amazing director Melisa Annis has assembled a delightful cast for this reading -- including Nesha Ward, David Omar Davila, Shad Olsen, Allyson Pace, Christianne Greiert, Ashley Grombol, Deanna Henson and Michael Cortez.
I know we will rock you on Thursday night. I hope those of you in the New York area can come see it -- and see Jon and Jim the next night as well.
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Dr. Saad is currently writing monographs dealing with Iraq and Arab unity, 1941-1958 and Iraq and the Palestine question, 1941-1958. He is also researching and writing essays on the Anglo-Iraqui war of 1941 and Iraq and the creation of the Arab League. He has give numerous scholarly and public presentations on contemporary Middle Eastern political issues, Jordanian domestic politics, and North African culture, society, and politics. Most recently, Dr. Saad has been in demand as an authority on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the Israeli/Palestinian conflicts in the Middle East.


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I had been meaning to update this recipe for a while. Whenever I teach Intro to Sichuan cooking classes, we focus on simple and easy-to-love stir-fry dishes such as Kung Pao Chicken, Mapo Tofu, and Dan Dan Noodles. But anyone who has spent enough time in good Sichuan restaurants is bound to eventually try a dish listed as Chongqing chicken, Sichuan chicken with chilis, wok-fried chicken, or a number of similar names. (Lazi jiding is the name in Mandarin.) And inevitably in every class, when I go around the room during the intro ice-breaker and have students list their favorite Sichuan dish of all time, at least one or two will mention this dish.
When a student in a private class I recently taught requested we work on this dish, it reminded me of how long it has been since I made it at home. And so I decided to update this, making it extra crunchy with the method I developed for dishes like General Tso's Chicken and Chinese Lemon Chicken in my cookbook.
Lazi jiding (辣子鸡丁) is like a more sophisticated version of kung pao chicken. It's smokier, spicier (a lot spicier if you chop up the chilis), and only a bit more complex in its preparation. (The way I make it is more like shallow-frying. I use about 3 cups of oil, and dredge the chicken in a cornstarch-salt-pepper mixture beforehand.) Few fried chicken entrees are enveloped by such a succulent tongue-tingling sauce.Read More


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BOSTON, Mass. – Even through rain and a muddy course, the cross-country team managed to place 10th out of 16 teams (212 pts) at the 2011 Emmanuel College Saints Invitational, Friday afternoon. Leading the Beacons was Xhulio Uruci (Newton, MA) who crossed the finish line in 17th place with a final time of 28:56.
Winning the 7,955 meter race was Johnson and Wales (RI) who earned a combined time of 2:18:38.00 and a total of 35 points. The individual title went to Alex Gomes of Salem State University. Gomes finished the meet with a final time of 26:14, defeating his closest competitor by 17 hundredths of a second.
Crossing the finish line next for the Beacons was Jake Kerin (Quincy, MA), who posted a 27th place finish and a time of 29:27. After him it was Tad Delaney (Halifax, MA) in 49th place with his final time of 30:48. Recording a 72nd place finish was Grant Shackelford (Manteca, CA) with his time of 32:08. Hamza Abdul (Chelsea, MA) was right behind him in 79th place with his final mark of 32:29.
Ming Wang (Ying Kou, China) went on to finish the meet with a time of 33:33 (93rd), while Andrew Preda and Jeff Laurore (Malden, MA) closed out the meet in 102nd (34:04) and 108th (35:06) place respectively. Henry Morales (Chelsea, MA) and Norbert Simmons (Chelsea, MA) finished with the same time of 42:25 closing out Friday's meet for UMass Boston.
Cross-country returns to action on October 29 when they take part in the Little East Conference/New England Alliance championship meet. This year's championship will be held at UMass Dartmouth, with the meet scheduled to begin at 11 a.m.


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Today we got back on track with Cocktails and Crafts. It has been forever because people were busy having babies! Now that all the new people are here we are ready to craft and drink.
The drink today was a classic mojito. Here is Food Network's recipe.
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- 6 ounces light rum
- 12 mint sprigs, or spearmint, 8 roughly broken apart
- 6 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- Club soda
- 4 slices lime
Today's craft was button monograms. We saw some great ones on Pinterest and knew we had to give it a shot.


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Transform can change many features of the Pokémon temporarily. The features are as follows;
As the Pokémon's catch rate changes, if you wish to capture a Ditto or a Mew (Level 30 in Emerald will know Transform, although it isn't too likely to use it) with greater ease, then send in a Pokémon with a high capture rate such as Magikarp in battle first and then it should be very simple to capture. Its EXP Yield also changes so the EXP gained from beating a Ditto depends upon the Pokémon it has transformed into.
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The Christmas Night Market will feature more than 20 stalls run by members of the E17 Designers, a collective of designer makers based in Walthamstow. Products available on the night will include:
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*Would like to see help to rural libraries to get connected to MORENET
*Would like to see help to rural libraries to get connected to MORENET
*In other states, he would recommend encouraging collaboration between libaries and other stakeholders within a state to form an action plan @ the state level to help entities get connected
*In other states, he would recommend encouraging collaboration between libaries and other stakeholders within a state to form an action plan @ the state level to help entities get connected
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Exec Summary
- There are many champions within MO that made this happen (not just one)
- Collaboration between various state agencies (in MO case Higher Ed, Library, K12, Budget Office and Governor's Office) is very important in his mind for success
- One thing we haven't talked about before is collaborating with the state budget office. Had Mark not intervened in 2002, K12 may have pulled out of MORENET, which would have pulled some funding.
Mark worked for the state budget office from 1993-2003. While there, he saw a need to bring information technology to state government as a way of reducing costs (to which he encountered reisistance from the state data processing people. Basically, Mark is a budge analyst at heart and enjoys figuring out how to pay for things and the politics involved to ensure that the money makes it through to the legislators.
Here is Mark's take on the creation and continuation of MORENET
- A group of individuals got together to discuss how to get Missouri connected
- Bill Mitchell from the Higher Ed Community
- Elden Wallace (also of higher ed community, but used to work at state governor's office
- Mike Hartsmann from the Governor's Office
- State Librarian (Anne ?) (
- Additional note Mark is married to one of the employees of the state library
- Mark (at the state budget office)
- They wanted to figure out how to connect the higher ed, K12 and libraries using a common network platform
- The group worked collaboratively to establish MORENET and ensure that MORENET continued to exist
- Received some seed money from State Budget's office
- Approrpriation originally appeared in 3 separate budget requests
- Office of administration (for libs) and then was transferred to state library
- Higher Ed
- During 2002 budget crunch, K12 was looking to cut funding to MORENET
- But Mark (working as the de facto budget director for the state) removed appropriation from K12 budget and placed it into the higher ed approps (which would prevent Ed. Dept. from slashing funding
- Presently, MORENET is funded by 2 appropriations
- One to state library for last mile to libs and databases
- One to higher ed to pay for backbone and last mile to k12 and higher ed
- The group collaborated to make educational/maketing literature and to determine bandwidth requirements for entities (we'l
- Thinks MORENET helped spur broadband deployment (eg. Anchor/tenant)
- Upcoming
- Barriers @ formation
- Not many; they made their communication to leg. clear as to their intents and the group seemed to be good @ policticing
- MORENET was created during a time of fiscal health, so lots money was available, they had the right group at the right time
- Future Barriers
- Republican leg and governor who don't see MORENET as essential and would like to cut funding
- Indirectly, the term limits affect their ability to inform legislatures on the importance of MORENET
- Attempt to fold MORENET into something it's not e.g. connecting additional state agencies or foregoing MORENET in favor of complete state-wide network w/ all gov't agencies on it
Here are his suggestions for B&MG Foundation
- Would like to see help to rural libraries to get connected to MORENET
- In other states, he would recommend encouraging collaboration between libaries and other stakeholders within a state to form an action plan @ the state level to help entities get connected
Follow ups
Don Walsch OARNET
The key factor was the State of Ohio's decision to establish a strategic plan for networking which established at T1 as the desired standard for connectivity, and then the state need to create an environment where this level of service would be affordable statewide for all State Agencies including libraries, K-12 schools and higher education. As a result of issuing an RFP, which include all state entities, the state received favorable pricing due to the volume of the contract and the term which was 10 years. This approach is currently being considered in the next generation broadband where a T1 is no longer an adequate standard and we are looking to set a new goal to provide a range of ethernet connectivity (10 megabits to 1 gigabit) as the new standard. With the integration of voice, data, video and internet services using IP there will be rapidly increasing broadband requirements. As with the previous approach the key is to establish the standard and set that as the state goal and then to develop an RFP for the private sector to compete for the best price and options to deliver this service. We are also looking at expanding the scope to include all state, local and federal governments in the state as well as research faciities, education and education related and healthcare. The theory is by further expanding the eligibility entities the pricing may be more favorable in the RFP.


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Microsoft has announced extra controllers for the Xbox One will come at $59.99 each, according to new listings on the Microsoft Store website. A controller that comes with a play-and-charge kit will cost $15 more.
Microsoft has slowly rolled out information about the new controller and its rumbling impulse triggers, new d-pad, and redesigned analog sticks. As is the custom for most gaming consoles, only one controller will be included in the box with the $499 Xbox One (along with two AA batteries and a USB port for external power).
For comparison, the Xbox 360 wireless controllers were priced at $49.99 back in 2005, while the wired controllers cost $39.99. The 360 play-and-charge kits were $20 standalone packages, while a standalone Xbox One play-and-charge kit will cost $24.99.
Microsoft also announced the pricing of Xbox One headsets, which will not be included in the box. They will debut at $24.99 (some models of the Xbox 360 are packaged with a headset).


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Bethesda games always have hilarious glitches.
Rubberband man is always great.
In Sonic Battle Adventure , if you go to the Grind race as metal sonic and jump off the rail onto the right side of the pyramid; you need to face him toward the point of the pyramid and keep going up. Eventually you'll end up going straight up into the sky. And you'll stay there. Like you're floating. You can do this as Shadow but it's a bit harder.
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Normally the horses in Read Dead Redemption are pretty smart when you whistle for them right? One, I had just finished a bounty mission; i was at the bottom of the cliff and the horse was at the top. I whistled, expecting the horse to go down the very obvious path to the left. Bloody thing charged right off the cliff and flew a good 20 feet through the air before falling.
On Oblivion, after i killed an imperial guard, he actually MELTED and started spreading around.. parts of him even started going down and pooling at the bottom (keep in mind that all the parts were still attacked to each other). Bizarre.
I am sure there were other glithes I have seen, but this is the funniest I can remember.
Edit: The funniest glitch I have ever seen on YouTube by someone else is this (also Oblivion):
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Who says a fool can't tell another how not to be one?
in street fighter online,if one character is going to use a super,then the one who using the super will be in the air or somewhere behind the other character.this may occur sometimer.
The Skate series has some of the funniest glitches ever....and theres always hundreds of them
In Dead Island on PS3 I once saw one of those big puking zombies puking on a regular small zombie :P I think they were both making puking noices xD
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Hah thats great! laughed out loud at these posts!! and i was in skyrim and was walking toward a mammoth and proceeded to attack it for "self defense" purposes only and it shot straight up into the air lol and teleported all over the visible sky and dissappeared right as a dragon showed up..... lolol
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Cant forget the Shaun Glitch
i just love this pic lol
Hmmm... Been a while
Not for the faint-hearted...
AMY for Xbox 360 is generally buggy and wonky, but this glitch burned it into my mind.
I had just sent Amy into an infected room by herself. I needed to get into the room through a back door by edging around a pit down the hall. But as I was making my way around, Lana started slowly sinking INTO the pit instead of around it. I tried moving backwards to hopefully glitch up to the ground level, but by that point I was so deep into the floor that I couldn't escape; I just edged around the bottom of the pit fruitlessly.
Eventually some monsters came by and started sucking out Amy's life, and I was just stuck to slide along the gap for eternity until the monsters killed her and I restarted from a checkpoint.
Ride to Hell: Retribution is also a great game for hilarious glitches. Supposedly the PC version is the worst of them all:
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i was playing army of two earler today and there was this guy who was killed by the railing of the ship that had the nuke on it and he was hanging in the air with his leg holding him up and his leg was geting longer and going back to normal
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I love this video. xD
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This title introuduces students to the basic concept of sounds. How sounds can be heard but not seen. How sound is a form of energy that is transmitted through sound waves which travel through your eardrum to be heard. How sound travels through air and at what rate of speed. Useful examples are given throughout to help students understand the concept.
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The Royal British Legion welcomes you to a special performance to commemorate those who have lost their lives in conflicts. 100 years to the very day since the end of World War One, join us for an evening of music, song, poetry and special memories. Performed by a 300 strong cast of choirs, military drums and the professional Showcase Philharmagic Orchestra, who are all
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Shrimp Parmigiana Hero, Lightened Up
Breaded shrimp topped with pomodoro sauce and melted mozzarella cheese on French bread. One bite of this sandwich and your significant other may ask you to marry them!
As the weather starts to cool, hot sandwiches make a fabulous meal, and shrimp parm heroes are one of my favorite sandwiches, however ordering this from my favorite Italian restaurant would be well over 25 points with all it's deep fried shrimp and masses of cheese and sauce. This lightened version uses my Healthy Breaded Shrimp recipe, part-skim mozzarella cheese and I serve it with extra sauce on the side to dip.
For the bread, I used my skinny tip to scoop out some of the bread to make larger sandwiches for less calories. This would make a great addition to to your game-day menu for all you football fans out there!
Shrimp Parmigiana Hero, Lightened Up
For the shrimp:
- 16 oz jumbo shrimp, peeled and deveined (weight after peeling 12.5 oz)
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup egg substitute, egg beaters
- 6 tbsp whole wheat Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
- 2 tbsp panko
- 2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
- cooking spray, I used Smart Balance
For the sandwich:
- 1/2 cup your favorite tomato sauce
- 1 cup 4 oz shredded part skim mozzarella cheese
- 12 oz French bread, sliced into 4 pieces (see tip)
- Follow cooking directions for the baked shrimp recipe.
- Preheat oven to 425° or set your broiler to low.
- When shrimp is cooked, divide shrimp equally between 4 pieces of bread. (see tip)
- Top each sandwich with 2 tbsp of sauce and shredded mozzarella cheese.
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Monday, September 7, 2009
Pulse working well for me
It's been a bit of a rocky transition to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. I know some users are still having issues in Karmic, but it's been working really well for me since about September 1. The week before my audio was a wreck, crashing in fast cycles, not working with firefox, etc...
However, about Sept 1. I did a dist-upgrade. This brought an updated kernel and other changes. Whatever happened, all the promises of pulseaudio seem to be flowing to me. In the screenshot above you can see that I am playing a flash file on and an audio file, and am controlling the volume of each application seperately.
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Very interesting, but...
A third (34 per cent) of discarded hard disk drives still contain confidential data, according to a new study which unearthed copies of hospital records and sensitive military information on eBayed kit. The study, sponsored by BT and Sims Lifecycle Services and run by the computer science labs at University of Glamorgan in …
I used to be embarassed at being so anal as to actually have a shredder that also shredded discs. Excessively focused on the security of my perosnal data and my clients' data. But if Very Large Organisations can dump private data so unsecurely that it ends up being punted on eBay, why do I go to the trouble? These institutions don't seem to suffer nor does anyone seem to lose their jobs. Accountability-free world, and I want to join it!
All we need is a new law making it an offence for anyone who acquires a used storage device to act upon any information received therefrom without appropriate authorisation. (Beside which, if you don't do a full bad block scan -- which necessarily requires writing to every sector on the surface, and there's no good reason to put back whatever used to have been there when you're done -- on a used HDD, you're an idiot.)
It's already an offence to act upon information received by listening to radio transmissions you shouldn't have been (including, as far as I read it, slowing down when you detect a speed trap).
to cleanse data from surplus disk drives. A loving tap with a lump hammer works for me (though this may reduce its resale value on eBay). Alternatively there are plenty of firms willing to put drives through an industrial shredder for you (on site, if you're that paranoid).
Serious security operations have always done this - companies used to love having the maintenance contract for GCHQ, because every time a disk failed they had to provide a new replacement. The second-hand value of a used disk can't possibly compare to the value of data that may (inadvertently) be left exposed on it.
That seems like an odd idea for a law to me. How can I fail to act upon something once I know it, and how can the prosecution ever prove that I wouldn't have acted in that way regardless?
It's like your speed trap example. If I'm nicked for speeding, can I use this in my defence? "Sorry m'lud, it would have been illegal for me to act upon the information I had received, so I had no choice but to continue travelling at 90MPH for the remainder of the journey."
No HDD used by the gov should ever get to ebay, or anyone else. Is it really that hard to make sure every drive removed from anything even remotely gov related gets a drill through it once its done with. Hell, I do that with my old drives and theres nothing on them other than general email crap that the gov now has copies of and will no doubt lose at some point.
It's simple, once used, DESTROYED afterwards.
Re speed camera detectors...
IIRC that was tested in court, and failed... The camera detector doesn't allow you to listen to the transmission, or decode any content from it, it simply tells you there is one... A subtle difference, but enough.
Although I'm sure that 2 weeks after that they made it illegal to own, see or even hear about such devices on pain of death.
If you want to erase a disk and don't care that a national intelligence agency might be able to recover a fraction of the data, just download Darik's boot and nuke (www.dban.org). Free. Does exactly what it says to the data. After it finishes, E-bay the disk.
If the disk is faulty or if the data is REALLY sensitive, destroy the disk. A hammer is very satisfying, crushing it in a vice is safer, dissolving it in an acid bath is the ultimate secure erase.
Quote from the BBC News version of this story [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8036324.stm]:
Professor Andrew Blyth said: "It's not rocket science - we used standard tools to analyse the data".
But, at least in the case of the air defence system launch codes ... it IS rocket science...
Actually, a national intelligence agency probably could recover data from a disk that had been dissolved in an acid bath -- apart from, it would reveal stuff.
Once magnetic data has been overwritten, even just once, it is unrecoverable by *any* technique -- except asking someone who knows what it used to say.
Once upon a time, *all* computer storage was magnetic; and if it was really possible to recover overwritten data, someone would certainly have exploited it as a way of increasing storage density.
i use to work for a computer recycling scheme (government scheme obviously) and we use to strip donated computers and rebuild them to sell cheaply to low income familys in the area. The donated computers were from universities, schools, hospitals, banks and small businesses and although most of the machines were fairly old none of them ever had the hard drives wiped before we collected them. Volunteers who worked with us use to take these hard drives home to use in there own computers and i will admit even i did too, infact we were told to take them if we wanted them because it was easier than paying to have them destroyed. I did nosey on loads of hard drives just out of pure curiosity. its like if one of your mates leaves there phone laying around you just have to pick it up and have a look. On the hard drives i saw photos, personal letters, database information (from a bank no less!) and student passwords, grade information i mean you name it. I think i still have the drives gathering dust in the back of my wardrobe but i never use them, this was like 8 years ago and the drives are no good in todays machines. it just goes to show though that not even a charitable scheme run by the government itself can protect users data and it is worrying. best way for a non computer savvy person to render a drive unreadable is to take an ordinary household drill and drill a hole into it shattering the data disc inside.
So, an NHS trust pays a private sector contractor to destroy its hard drives, rather than doing so in-house, then squeals "but we didn't know" when the private sector parasites do what private sector parasites are wont to do - whatever it takes to make a bit more money. There are so many times when the 'private sector delivers better value' argument sounds so very, very thin.
Paris; smarter than the average NHS manager
The solution is obvious. Arrest the people buying these disks, charge them with something vague like "terrorism", lock them up and throw away the key. If nobody publishes that they've found leaked data, then obviously there is no data being leaked. How dare these so-called researchers find fault with our government and corporate masters?
Crikey !
Silly people , but I believe that since the evil 2% of netizins now easily exert total control tens of millions of virus and trojan infected machines in a similar almost identical manner to the popular "SETI Screensaver" distributed computer processing power for signal analysis . It can thus be summed up as one old veteran once said "There are so very few secure operators in the computer industry that it has become almost a pointless exercise in futility to stop the same dumb user to infect his or her computer in the same identical manner times 1000X ! They are that dumb and stupid it beggars belief and yet these self same idiots will lock their front door when they leave for work but put them in front of any computer what ever brain cell they had in regard to security is switched off at the same time they switch the computer on" .
I remember buying cone shaped bags of deep fried and salted shrimp made from 12x14 inch sheets of computer printout paper from street vendors on 'The Hill' in Seoul. After a closer look at the paper we discovered the paper came from the trash of the personnel shop on post and contained Names, SSNs, and other identity information, etc. We thought it was pretty funny at the time, then decided to stuff a few empties in the suggestion box on base with the SSN of a high ranking individuals highlighted. It took them a while but eventually you couldn't find any of those bags on the hill a year later.
I also remember throwing out the computer printout listing of the entire membership in AUSA while on a brief stint as their janitor, pre-dumpster diving days. When I needed a replacement hard drive; I purchased a used hard drive to replace my crashed drive in my AST laptop. It turned out the drive previously belonged to a Marine Officer from Quantico, before I wiped the disk and reformatted. By the way it doesn't matter how many times you overwrite a disc some forensic lab somewhere will be able to extract each layer of data from the beginning format, unless you remove the magnetic material completely (sanding, ammonia, melting, etc.) the data there forever.
Information owners (that means you) need to take responsibility for its disposition; personally or regulatory via agency, get hot, ask them and demand the correct answer. Only those needing to know, need to know.
Love Gus – getting of my soap box now.


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|UltraPower of Ultralink/XLO Products Releases New Line Of Power Management Gear
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a division of Ultralink/XLO Products, Incorporated announces the
introduction of a new line of AC power management and conditioning
components called PowerGrid. The three PowerGrid models are the
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Attractive industrial design and metalwork along with their advanced
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Developed from the ground up, UltraPower's engineering staff approached the task of power management quite differently than other power management manufacturers. The PowerGrid uses a dedicated microprocessor based Active Surge Processor (ASP) to monitor the incoming line voltage, board level power status, and outgoing power conditions to eliminate wide voltage fluctuations (i.e. brownouts, sags, over-voltages) as a source of A/V signal degradation. The front panel LCD readout actively monitors and displays line voltage in all models as well as amperage in the PGX 400 and PGX 500.
When the UltraPower PowerGrid is turned on, it keeps connected components offline until the microprocessor does a thorough diagnostic to verify that all power conditions - voltage, polarity, and ground - are "in the green" before closing the circuit to allow power to the protected components. By placing the PowerGrid in a natural state of an open circuit, power never flows to the connected components until the microprocessor determines it is safe to do so. Because of this innovative design, an UltraPower PGX unit will continue to protect even after a catastrophic power failure by keeping protected components disconnected from AC power. Shockingly - most competitive units simply become extension cords following a massive spike - like those caused by lightning - and continue to pass power to the now completely unprotected components.
Each of the UltraPower PGX's AC banks is performance optimized and clearly labeled for its recommended usage: high current (i.e. amplifier, subwoofer), video, digital or analog sources. Banks are isolated to prevent noise from polluting other connected devices. Protection for incoming signals is also provided with gold plated coax connections for satellite, cable boxes and terrestrial antennas plus phone and Ethernet jacks. A 12-volt trigger is offered for use in custom installation applications requiring remote turn-on/off.
The PGX-500, with Level 4 Filtration, features a total of twelve surge-protected and filtered outlets in six banks to ensure complete protection for all connected components. Two outlets feature programmable delay to sequence power up and prevent annoying and damaging turn-on transients. Four outlets are switched and triggered, while the remaining six are always on. The PGX-400, with Level 3 Filtration, has eight outlets in four banks - one with turn-on delay. The PGX 300, with Level 2 Filtration, also has eight outlets in four banks.
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Athletes always need motivation to achieve their best performances. For some, that push comes in the form of their own indomitable inner competitiveness. For others, it may be a perceived slight by an opponent or the press.
None of those motivations can come close to what drives newly minted bronze medal-winning Paralympic swimmer Achmat Hassiem every time he steps into a pool. The South African star is motivated by pure fear and adrenaline, imagining that he is being chased by the shark that bit off his right leg.
As reported by the Associated Press, Hassiem's rather unique motivational tool comes as the result of direct experience, with Hassiem suffering the lost leg in a 2006 shark attack off the beach in Cape Town. At the time Hassiem was an able-bodied athlete who competed in a number of sports. He was also a lifeguard, and was participating in lifeguarding exercise with his brother, Taariq, when he saw a shark nearly 15-feet long. Unable to alert his brother, Hassiem yelled at other lifeguards nearby to pull his brother from the water while he distracted the shark.
That decision probably saved his brother's life, but it also permanently affected Hassiem's as well. The shark attacked the lifeguard as he slapped the water to gain its attention, then dragged him between 150 and 200 feet. Eventually the South African broke free by sacrificing his leg, forever giving up his appendage with, in his words, "one last enormous push and [I] heard a great snapping sound."
Hassiem walks you through the full terror of that attack in the video you see below.
While the loss of one of Hassiem's legs may have been a traumatic experience — though nowhere near as horrendous as the loss of a sibling, as Hassiem is quick to counter — the 30-year-old has made the most of it. An emerging Paralympic star, Hassiem reinvented himself as a one-legged swimmer, eventually becoming one of the best at his craft. After finishing in ninth place at the Beijing Paralympics in 2008, he won the bronze in the 100-meter butterfly on Saturday in London.
And through it all, Hassiem has reflected on that terrifying moment in South Africa to frighten him into a mad dash for the wall during his tough races.
"My little secret is obviously that I just try and imagine I'm in the ocean and I've got a 4 ½-meter great white shark at my feet," Hassiem told the AP. "It's definitely good motivation to swim fast.
"That shark turned my life around for a reason, and I've got to make the best of all my opportunities now."
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BRENTWOOD, N.Y., May 29, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medical Action Industries Inc. (Nasdaq:MDCI), announced today that it will hold a conference call on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. (ET) to present its financial results for the quarter and year ended March 31, 2013.
The conference call will be conducted by Mr. Paul D. Meringolo, Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Paul Chapman, President and Chief Operating Officer, Mr. John Sheffield, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Mr. Brian Baker, Corporate Controller. Medical Action announced that the results of operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2013 will be released on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 before the market opens.
The conference call will be simultaneously webcast on our website: www.medical-action.com. The dial-in number for the conference call is (888) 868-9080 (domestic) or (973) 935-8511 (international); conference ID #87609835. The complete call and discussion will be available for replay on our website beginning at 1:00 p.m. (ET) on June 11, 2013.
Medical Action is a diversified manufacturer and distributor of disposable medical devices and a leader in many of the markets where it competes. Its products are marketed primarily to acute care facilities in domestic and certain international markets. The Company has expanded its target market to include physician, dental and veterinary office, out-patient surgery centers, long-term care facilities and laboratories. Medical Action's products are marketed nationally by its direct sales personnel and extensive network of healthcare distributors. The Company has preferred vendor agreements with national and regional distributors, as well as sole and multi-source agreements with group purchasing organizations. Medical Action's common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol MDCI and is included in the Russell Microcap® Index.
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- This penny toy of a horse-drawn trotter was bought by Ernest King on 17 December 1906. In London, street vendors were a good source for penny toys, and Ernest King bought his collection of over 1,700 items from them. Interested in the plight of the 'gutter merchants', he compiled a scrapbook of newscuttings reporting attempts by the authorities to remove them from the congested thoroughfare around Ludgate Hill.
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To mark National Small Business Week, Congressman Chris Collins (NY-27) is asking small business owners in his district to complete an online survey about the economy and other issues impacting the small business sector. Starting today, Collins will be e-mailing the survey to small business owners across the eight counties of New York's 27th Congressional District. Small business owners not a part of the Congressman's e-mail list are encouraged to complete the survey on the Congressman's Web site.
The survey asks local small business owners to weigh in on such topics as federal regulations, taxes, and the new employer mandate which is part of the President's healthcare law. Collins is also asking small business owners to report on recent hiring activity, reasons why owners are or are not hiring, and what programs they would like to see the federal government pursue to spur small business growth and development.
"As a small business owner myself, I understand firsthand the challenges and hurdles business owners face on a day-to-day basis," Collins said. "As a member of Congress, one of my top goals is to continue to push hard for common-sense polices that create the right kind of economic environment for small business entrepreneurs to expand their company or start a new business, and hire more people. While I will continue to visit directly with small business owners all across NY-27, this survey is a great opportunity to hear from a wide array of small business owners so I can best represent their interests in Washington."
Collins is a member of the House Small Business Committee and chairman of its Subcommittee on Health and Technology. National Small Business Week runs from June 17 through June 21. On June 21, Collins will host a roundtable meeting, talking with small business owners directly about the issues addressed in the survey.
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Sugar growers in this country, long protected from global competition, have had a great run at the expense of just about everyone else -- refineries, candy manufacturers, other food companies, individual consumers and farmers in the developing world. But now the nation's sugar program, which guarantees a domestic price for raw sugar that can be as much as three times the world price, needs to be terminated. It has become far too costly to America's global economic and strategic interests.
The less defensible a federal policy is on its merits, the greater the likelihood that it generates (or originates from) a great deal of cash in Washington, in the form of campaign contributions. Sugar is a sweet case in point. The Fanjul brothers, Florida's Cuban-American reigning sugar barons who preside over Palm Beach's yacht-owning society, were alone responsible for generating nearly $1 million in soft-money donations during the 2000 election cycle. Alfonso Fanjul, the chief executive of the family-controlled Flo-Sun company, served as Bill Clinton's Florida co-chairman in 1992 -- and even merited a mention in the impeachment-scandal Starr report, when Monica Lewinsky testified that the president received a call from him during one of their trysts. Meanwhile, brother Pepe is equally energetic in backing Republicans, so all bases are covered.
The Fanjuls harvest 180,000 acres in South Florida that send polluted water into the Everglades. (A crucial part of their business over the years has been to lobby not just against liberalization of the sugar trade, but against plans to have the sugar industry pay its fair share of the ambitious $8 billion Everglades restoration project.) The Fanjuls had been Cuba's leading sugar family for decades before Fidel Castro's takeover. Crossing the Straits of Florida, they bought land in the vicinity of Lake Okeechobee, which feeds the Everglades, and imported platoons of poorly paid Caribbean migrant workers. Their business was aided by the embargo on Cuban sugar. The crop is protected from other competition by an intricate system of import quotas that dates back to 1981.
The government does not pay sugar producers income supports as it does many other kinds of farmers. Instead, it guarantees growers like the Fanjuls an inflated price by restricting supply. Only about 15 percent of American sugar is imported under the quota rules, and while the world price is about 7 cents a pound, American businesses that need sugar to make their products must pay close to 21 cents. Preserving this spread between domestic and world sugar prices costs consumers an estimated $2 billion a year, and nets the Fanjuls -- who have been called the first family of corporate welfare -- tens of millions annually. The sugar exporters who are able to sell to the United States also benefit from those astronomical prices. The Dominican Republic is the largest quota holder, and one of the big plantation owners there is -- surprise -- the Fanjul family.
The sugar situation hurts American businesses and consumers, but its worst impact is on the poor countries that try to compete in the global agricultural markets. Their farmers might never be able to compete with corn or wheat farmers in the United States, even if the playing field were leveled. But they can grow cotton and sugar at lower prices than we can, no matter how advanced our technology. Our poorer trading partners bitterly resent the way this country feels entitled to suspend market-driven rules whenever it appears they will place American producers at a disadvantage.
In fairness, the United States is not alone in distorting the sugar trade, and the European Union's massively subsidized exports of beet sugar make it the biggest culprit. The American sugar lobby uses that fact as a shield, arguing that the crop not be included in any regional trade deals until distortions are addressed by all countries at the World Trade Organization. But quotas are set between trading partners, not on a global level. Right now the United States is negotiating the creation of a hemispheric free trade area that would benefit many United States industries, including other agricultural sectors. It is ridiculous for the sugar lobby to argue -- as it does vociferously -- that sugar should not be included in the agreement even though it is one of the few products that some Latin American republics can hope to ship to the American market.
So far the Bush administration has rightly rejected the sugar lobby's push to keep the commodity off the table. The danger, however, is that American trade negotiators might still prove far too deferential to sugar industries when hammering out the trade deals' specifics. For instance, any move to phase in elimination of sugar quotas over a period longer than a decade (as was done in the North American Free Trade Agreement) would undermine any promise a trade deal might hold for poor farmers in Latin America. The strength of the protectionist sugar lobby in Washington -- which unites Southeastern cane growers and Midwestern beet farmers -- was apparent in the success of Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana last year in bashing Nafta's modest sugar provision during her re-election bid.
If the sugar trade were liberalized, world prices would start creeping up and domestic prices would fall, which would benefit both the developing world and the American economy. The industry itself cites ''alarming'' studies that if the United States imported an additional two million metric tons -- roughly the amount Central America exports -- domestic prices would be cut in half. But that is no argument for opposing trade liberalization. That is an argument for the handful of individuals who control the sugar business in this country to start thinking about a new line of work, and be grateful for the long run they had.
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