text: Lady Gaga Wants to Buy Back Neverland Ranch for the Little JacksonsAnna Breslaw1/16/13 9:00amFiled to: Dirt Baglady gagaLatoya JacksonMichael JacksonKatherine jacksonMegan FoxPrince HarryBradley CooperTaylor SwiftJennifer LawrenceDrop dead divaGeorge ClooneyThe CanyonsLindsay LohanAnne HathawayClaire DanesTamera MowryBeyonceCharlie SheenElton JohnDavid FurnishElijah furnish-johnJason trawickBritney SpearsNiall horanKate BosworthJenna dewan-tatumEmanuelle ChriquiSelena GomezJustin bieber194EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink For Lady Gaga's next trick, she will buy Neverland Ranch and cover it with black vinyl and spikes. Gaga, who has previously purchased 55 pieces of costly Jacko memorabilia, befriended LaToya Jackson and wants to help a "desperate" Paris, Prince and Blanket keep their 3,000-acre childhood home, which was sold to an investment group in 2008. The kids and Katherine Jackson still have shares. 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'Pint Night' supports county United Way
November 30, 2012
Smiley Guys SmokeHouse will host a Pint Night Thursday with Anderson Valley Brewing Company in support of the United Way of Nevada County.
From 5 to 9 p.m. Smiley Guys will donate 10 percent of the food sales — take-out orders are included — that night to the United Way of Nevada County and its 20 local partner agencies. In addition, Anderson Valley Brewing Co. will donate $1 for every pint purchased.
This year's United Way community impact areas are education, income and health.
In the impact area of education, the United Way volunteers are helping children and adults achieve their potential through education and mentoring programs. In the impact area of income, it is helping families and seniors become financially stable and independent by supporting basic needs. Through the impact area of health, it is improving people's health by increasing access to critical health care services and reducing substance abuse, child abuse and domestic violence. United Way is creating opportunities by focusing on these three building blocks for a good life.
The United Way of Nevada County is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2012.
Smiley Guys SmokeHouse is located at 131 Joerschke Drive in Grass Valley. Call (530) 274-2933 for information or to order your take-out meal. Visit http://www.smileyguyssmokehouse.com or for information visit http://www.uwnc.org or call the United Way at (530) 274-8111.

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I like everything with cinnamon. The typical Tazo licorice flavour is also present.
TAZO tea
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great fragrance
delicious tea
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tastes great with brown sugar and cream/ very relaxing too
Sweet Cinnamon Spice - a delightfully spicy tea
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I was first introduced to this tea at a Hotel in Puerto Rico and began my search for it upon my return home. I could only find it in Whole Foods. The last time I looked, they were no longer carrying it. I was fortunate to find it at iHerb.
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I am a big fan of all Tazo tea. It has the most full flavored teas I have ever put in my mouth. I am so glad iherb has this tea
unforgettable unique strong cinnamon
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This tisane is wonderful! I've been looking for this strong deep Xmas-type cinnamon tea and none of the Yogi teas ever comes close to this TAZO. I use each tea bag for for 2-3 infusions because the flavor is so strong and lasting.
Sweet Cinnamon Spice filled with taste
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Would do this one again along with Chai.
I like everything with cinnamon. The typical Tazo licorice flavour is also present.
nice sweet tea
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Smooth spiced tea and if you like liquorice, you will like this..
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Love the sweetness, love the strong flavours... will buy again
Too sweet
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Have never imagined that it will be really so sweet. Great spice blend, but the overwhelming sweetness spoils this tea for my taste.
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By Brendan Conway
Investors just enjoyed a knockout year for asset-management stocks. In the new year, the stock market is moving in place when it's not falling, and fund flows in 2014 are notably weaker.
Citigroup analysts William R. Katz, Neil Stratton and Steven J. Fullerton warn asset-management stocks could be vulnerable to a correction if investors can't come to grips with how unusual were the last six to 12 months.
From the firm's Tuesday note reviewing December disclosures by managers AllianceBernstein (AB), Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), Franklin Resources (BEN), Invesco (IVZ) and Legg Mason (LM):
Asset Managers enjoyed a significant re-rating over the last 6-12 months on the hopes of: 1) rising organic growth prospects; and 2) mix shift toward equities. However, we believe such thesis may begin to break down – and Traditionals may be vulnerable to correction – as underlying organic growth dynamics appear mixed overall and by asset, client, and geographical breakdowns. Furthermore, lead indicators are muddled as market dynamics are less favorable thus far in 2014 and industry data are choppy.
So where should you hide? Citi's analysts bang the drum for alternative asset managers on the theory that this is where the investor cash is headed:
We are most bullish on Alternative Managers reflecting highest upside to targets, strong(er) flow dynamics, leverage to realization cycle, and expectation for 4Q ENI beats to consensus. In contrast, we remain broadly price sensitive on Traditionals, Broker Dealers, and Exchanges following sizeable upswings in 2013 and into year end. We believe investors are discounting an uptick in organic growth trends but incoming data are mixed and Traditionals could be subject to a correction given elevated multiples and prices moving beyond our estimate of fair value.


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Skip to comments.Bombed cities invite Obama to visit (Hiroshima / Nagasaki) (New stop for apology tour?)
Posted on 10/27/2009 8:13:46 AM PDT by markomalley
The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki invited President Barack Obama on Tuesday to visit the two cities hit by American nuclear weapons ...
... during the Second World War, AP reports.
AP: "The two cities' mayors formally invited Obama on Tuesday to visit sometime before next May, but U.S. officials say it is highly unlikely he will travel to either city during his Nov. 12-13 visit to Tokyo.
"An April speech Obama gave in Prague calling for a world free of nuclear weapons raised expectations, and winning the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month heightened them further.
"'Many of the past Nobel Peace laureates have visited ground zero,' the Hiroshima-based Chugoku newspaper said in an editorial. 'We urge him to go and see the place himself and renew his commitment to a nuclear-free world.'"
"I'm sorry that the Communists did not get to play a role in the shaping of post-war Japan"
It's a twofer: apology opportunity and excuse to avoid making a decision of AfPak.
No doubt he will ask the Japanese to apologize for bombing Pearl Harbor. Yeah, sure.....
for the record, they weren't nuclear weapons, but atomic weapons.
Yes, of course, he'd say that if only we'd had a nuclear-free world back in 1945, the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would never have had to happen.
Will "The Head" apologize to ex-girlfriends?
Have these two Japanese gentlemen ever been to Pearl Harbor?
Well *that* ain't the way *I* heeeeeeeeeered it!
The way *I* heeeeard it:
One terrorist fella said to another terrorist sniper: "Saaaaay! Why don't we get him to come to Tripoli to apologize for the U.S. Marines?"!
A four year term has approximately 1,460 days so I would say at least 1,000 times.
However, as you might expect, for the life of them, they dont want to get it out, so they are keeping it under wraps until the last minute--one will know when one gets wind of the State Dept. and White House advance men when they hit town, if they start poking around Hiroshima or Nagasaki, we will know they are serious about adding it to "Obama's Great Worldwide Apology Tour 2009". The scoundrels are, the political section of the US Embassy in Tokyo (with particular input and pressure by our current ambassador here), and on the other side of the town, the Democratic Party of Japan (new, ruling party). In between are various liberal/leftist disarmament groups, the mayors of Hiro and Naga, the governors as well from those two prefectures (probably). Everyone is keeping rather hush hush about it, for they fear a huge PR explosion in the USA from "extremist hawk-types" back in their face, such as they got with the revisionist Enola Gay exhibition at the Air/Space Museum in D.C. some years ago.
This one indeed merits watching. Some well placed Republican Senators, if they had the b*lls, on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee could get to the bottom of this one REAL quick, if you ask me.
Be careful what you wish for. We would of probably had a real World War III if not for atomic/nuclear weapons. As WW II showed, even without atomic weapons man has pretty good at killing each other. The Japs should now that considering what happened to Tokyo where more people dies in a single raid using incendiaries than at Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
It was MAD then but given the present Administration I'm not surprised!
Terrific. Now he can emulate Jon Stewart and call Harry Truman a war criminal.
Wrong. There is no distinction in meaning between "nuclear" weapons and "atomic" weapons.
Now, if you were to talk about thermonuclear weapons, that would be something else.
Tell him to review this before he goes:
My original commentary was tongue-in-cheek.
Thanks a lot.
What the POTUS should say, "This is what happens when you mess with the US."
Even IF Japan apologized for their
Attack on the Chinese and the rape and murder of over a million
The Attack on Pearl Harbor,
The Slaughter of men, women and children in the Philippines,
Their merciless actions at Bataan,
and the many other atrocities visited upon innocent people all over the Pacific I WILL NEVER APOLOGIZE for ENDING their ATROCITIES with a nuclear device.
While Ubama is over there, maybe he could visit Nanking.
A Japanese Civil War, would have made the Korean War look like a walk in the park.
That's right, I forgot about that.
I hope someone told lil' Johnny Leibowitz (his real last name) that if not for 'war criminals' like Eisenhower, Truman, Patton, etc., his lame little sarcastic ass would be a bar of soap right now.
If we had not had atomic weapons, we would have invaded the Home Islands. It would have been like Okinawa, but worse. Our boys would have had to kill just about everybody to secure those islands.
Leave aside, for a moment, the American losses, which would have been huge. The loss of life on the Japanese side would have been in the Tens of Millions.
Those atomic bombs were the best thing that ever happened to Japan, because of what they prevented. It is an ugly truth, but war is an ugly business.
Not to mention the likelihood of calling in the Soviets to help and ultimately partitioning the country as with Germany and Korea.
"How often can this man embarrass the US in his presidency ?"
He's only embarrassing us. The millions of idiots in this country are delighted by all this.
I sense another apology tour on the way.
My very existence is owed to Harry S Truman.
Grandpa would have been shipped to the far east to participate in the invasion of Japan.
Nuking those cities SAVED US lives.
Obama can go put a skirt on and pound sand.
Neither should Obama.
I would bet that your assessment is true.
The thing is, the next one to pop will be on his watch and undoubtedly be his fault.
For all the crap Imperial Japan pulled in Asia in the 30's and 40's I would say Hiroshima and Nagasaki made us "Even Stevens".
Re-building their country after the war means they, in fact, owe us.
Brilliant observation: mine too, as my dad was a sailor aboard the USS New Jersey, which would have without a doubt played a role in an invasion of Japan proper.
Although Truman's later bungling of the Korean War and firing of Gen. MacArthur left a black mark on his overall record, he showed immense courage in making the decisions regarding Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In that respect, HST was a statesman: an unfortunately vanishing breed in politics today.
I thought Richard Hampster Gere did the appology thing on some move PAID FOR by the Japanese.
Perhaps Obama will appologize for campaign donations.
follow the money.
Truman was one of the very VERY few great democrat presidents.
Obama will apologize for the US dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and imply that somehow the Republicans were responsible.
If the Germans had gotten the bomb first they would have shared it with the Japanese.
The Germans might have invaded the East Coast and the Japanese would have invaded the West Coast. Would they in turn battle it out for control of the entire country or leave it divided? Grist for a novel?
One wonders if Obama will bow before the emporer of Japan?
Now Zero?
Nawwwwww... he's a Chicago product through and through.
I would love to see someone smack him down like that!!
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Fractal geometry transcends the Euclidean dimensions in mind-blowing ways. Quantify your knowledge of fractals with this brain-bending quiz!
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Question 1 of 20
When was the term "fractal" first used?
Though the pattern was noticed by artists early on in human history, and the mathematical core began to be formed in the 19th century, the term itself was not used until 1975.
Question 2 of 20
When a fractal produces the same shape at smaller and smaller scales, it demonstrates what?
Fractals are definitely redundant, and more than complex, but the property of self-similarity is their most defining characteristic.
Question 3 of 20
Which fractal helped to calculate the length of the coastline of England?
Menger Sponge
Koch Snowflake
The Sponge and the Sausage would be useful if they could work as a yardstick, but the Koch Snowflake, with its progressively smaller "yardsticks," redefined the practice of measuring coastlines. Because of this, it's now generally acknowledged that any given coastline length needs to give the length of its yardstick in order to have real meaning.
London Sausage
Question 4 of 20
The Mandelbrot Set is sums up the work of which mathematician?
Lewis Richardson
Georg Cantor
Gaston Julia
Gaston Julia developed the idea of the feedback loop, where the value produced by each iteration of a formula was recycled and used as the input value for the next iteration. Benoit Mandelbrot built on Julia's work and summed it up nicely with his Mandelbrot Set.
Question 5 of 20
According to fractal geometry, the coastline of the United Kingdom is how long?
7,723 miles (12,429 kilometers)
The CIA World Factbook gives the coastline's length as around 7,723 miles, but Lewis Richardson, using the Koch Snowflake, realized that if you use a small enough ruler the coastline becomes infinite.
6,944 miles (11,175 kilometers)
Question 6 of 20
If you wanted to simulate a mountain range using fractal geometry, what basic Euclidean shape would you want to use?
Mountain shape
If only mountain shapes were part of Euclidean geometry. Triangles work well in a pinch though, as Loren Carpenter found out working for Boeing in the late 1970s. He created an amazingly (for the time) realistic mountain range using computers a lot less powerful than the one in your cell phone.
Question 7 of 20
In the fractal equation z = z2 + c, the variable c stands for what?
A real number
A complex number
In fact, it stands for two real numbers, as the variable c is what's called a "complex number." In this case, this number is a coordinate on the Cartesian Grid. By the way, Einstein also used this variable in his famous formula explaining the relationship of mass to energy, where c was the speed of light.
The speed of light
Question 8 of 20
Mandelbrot coined the word "fractal" to explain what?
That fractal shapes can have non-integer dimensions
The term came about as a way to describe the fractional aspect of the dimension the shapes that became fractals were taking, since they defied description by traditional Euclidean terminology. Luckily for him, the artistic quality of fractals did wonders to help promote his efforts.
The fractured nature of fractal geometry
The fractious and chaotic aspect of fractals
Question 9 of 20
Fractal dimension is a measure of what?
How many iterations it takes to create a shape
How far your mind has to bend to understand these things
How rough the surface of a shape is
For those brought up in traditional geometry it takes a little mind bending to reach outside of it. But fractal dimension provides a mathematical way to describe just how rough the surface of a shape is. The rougher the surface, the higher the dimension.
Question 10 of 20
The Hausdorff-Besicovitch Dimension of a fractal is always:
Hard to say after a glass of wine
Less than its topological dimension
Greater than its topological dimension
One of the most important and mathematically rigorous ways to measure fractal dimension, the Hausdorff-Besicovitch Dimension is always greater than its correlated topological, or Euclidean, dimension. Mandelbrot once claimed that if Hausdorff is the father of non-standard dimension (which he is), then Besicovitch must be the mother. You get half credit if you answered A.
Question 11 of 20
In a colorful version of a Mandelbrot Set, what do the colors represent?
Whatever the artist is trying to tell you
The value of z / log N
The speed at which the equation escapes towards infinity
Some artists definitely like fractals, but the colors are in fact representative of how fast the equation escapes the Mandelbrot Set to infinity. Each color represents one iteration, so the simplest Mandelbrot illustrations aren't very colorful. Throw in more and more and pretty soon you have a work of art.
Question 12 of 20
What kind of fractal has been effectively used in telecommunications devices?
Julia Set
Dragon Curve
Menger Sponge
Telecommunications rely on the physical properties of radio waves, which like their name suggests travels in a wave-like way (think of a sine curve). This means that any antenna designed to pick up these waves should include wires that are equidistant from each other. The Menger Sponge achieves this property in a way that actually allows it to receive multiple wavelengths, making it ideal for for modern mobile devices.
Question 13 of 20
What's the highest dimension a fractal can have?
Like real mountains and trees, fractals too have a limit of three dimensions. After that, you're off into a whole new world of space-time stuff.
Question 14 of 20
What Japanese artist depicted fractal waves in his work "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa"?
Tawaraya Sotatsu
Katsushika Hokusai
Most people couldn't name the artist, but they recognize the iconic work of Katsushika Hokusai, created in 1820. And you can even see Mount Fuji in the background.
Question 15 of 20
What meteorologist first discovered the Butterfly Effect in 1960?
David Letterman
Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby
Edward Lorenz
Letterman was still studying algebra in junior high in 1960, but probably thinking more about television. Edward Lorenz wanted to re-run a weather prediction calculation, but shortened his input variable by a fraction of a percent, and was shocked when the end result was vastly different than before.
Question 16 of 20
Why didn't Gaston Julia pursue his work with the Julia Set further?
He couldn't get funding.
He died before he could complete his work.
He didn't have a supercomputer.
You have to wonder how many great ideas suffered in the past umpteen thousand years for want of a good computer. In fact, the traditional meaning of "computer" was "one who computes." No wonder they didn't get very far.
Question 17 of 20
Helge von Koche is best known for creating the Koch Snowflake, a fractal that illustrates what paradox?
An infinite perimeter with a dimension of zero
An infinite space surrounded by a finite perimeter
An infinite perimeter surrounding a finite space
It doesn't seem to make any sense when you say something has an infinite perimeter surrounding finite space, but you can't escape it. The weird thing is that it doesn't even converge toward a specific number. It's a true paradox. So next time something blurts out how long a coastline is (don't hold your breath), one-up them and ask them how long their yardstick is.
Question 18 of 20
Which measure of fractal dimension utilizes the box counting method?
Hausdorff Dimension
Rényi Dimension
Minkowski-Bouligand Dimension
Some really hard-core mathematicians might cringe, but the Minkowski-Bouligand Dimension didn't bother Mandelbrot one bit. It's a fantastic and relatively simple way to get an idea of the fractal dimension of something, and it can be as accurate as you need. What more could you ask? Really hard-core mathematicians need not reply.
Question 19 of 20
The Lorentz Butterfly is an example of what type of fractal?
Julia Set
Mandelbrot Set
Strange Attractor
This fractal and others like it get their beauty by flying around Strange Attractors, like a moon around its planet in some loopy orbit. Even the Julia and Mandelbrot sets are "attracted" to infinity to a certain degree, but apparently this is less strange to those naming these things.
Question 20 of 20
Benoit Mandelbrot was born in what European country?
At last, a little geography/history question. Although he spent most of his formative years in France, including a few years evading German occupiers on the prowl for Jews, he was born in Poland in 1924. Eventually, not finding his unconventional theories welcome among French academia, he joined IBM in America and discovered the wonderful abilities of computers.


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The presidential foot race has been off and running for a number of months now. Barack, Hillary, Mitt, Rudy, McCain, and some I've probably missed. One thing I've missed is the information on any of the candidates religion. Anyone but Mitt Romney that is.
I know the Kennedy's are Catholics, but I don't know specifically which religion the Bush family is. I've seen them outside churches many times but I've never focused specifically on their religion.
I am glad they are a reverent church going family. I suspect many of our presidents have all been God loving, God fearing men. Being a president seems like such a daunting task and getting more formidable all the time.
Without the help of God, the job would no doubt be even harder. Even if you don't specifically believe in God, He helps you anyway, and at some point in your life, He has been there beside you, even pushes you in the right direction when you need it. Especially when you think you don't need it.
Back to Mitt. Mitt is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This doesn't bother me. The slang term for Mitt's church is Mormon. This Mormon moniker is more common that the proper name of the Church.
The LDS Church is still not widely known and if someone has heard of the LDS Church, then often times the information is false, misconceived and down right irrational.
One of the most common misconceptions is the practice of polygamy. The LDS Church hasn't practiced polygamy since the late 1880s. More than 100 years ago this practice was eliminated.
Of course all of those men, I would guess, fulfilled their obligation to these polygamous wives and their families under much persecution, if what I have read about those days is correct.
Another misconception about the LDS Church is that the LDS people have horns. I've yet to see any of these horns growing on Utah Mormons, or Mormons anywhere else for that matter.
Another item I've heard of is that Mormons don't believe in God. I received a video one day at the office from an LDS film company that interviews people across the USA and these people, selected at random off the street, answered questions about the Mormon Church.
The results were often comical and certainly enlightening. They discussed all of the misconceptions I mentioned earlier and others I didn't mention. One underlying theme throughout the video was the emotion of the people as they spoke about Mormon people.
They described them as health conscious, very religious, church going, good moral standards, people who stood out in a crowd, people willing to help out, clean cut and well dressed. One man from Michigan said these Mormon missionaries always want to mow my lawn.
I didn't hear any negative remarks but there are many people with negative opinions of Mormons. No doubt these negative images are caused, too, by church members doing things they shouldn't. Just like the positive comments were caused by church members who have done something right.
I think Mitt Romney did a good job on the Olympics 2002 in Utah. But pulling off the Olympics and running a country are two different things.
I do think Mitt Romney deserves fair consideration for this office. The fact that he is a Mormon shouldn't count against him. In fact, I think it should work in his favor. If Mr. Romney is truly a faithful church member, I doubt the escapades of the Clinton era would ever take place in a Romney administration. At least I would hope it would never take place.
Whatever our religious preferences are shouldn't come into play when we are seeking a public office. The government has spent so much time, effort and money in trying to remove God from government, why does a candidate's religious preference even matter?
I hope Mitt Romney is given a fair shake, as fair as all other candidates. Mormons aren't cult members. Theirs is a very viable, worldwide organization that seeks to do good in this world. This church and its members should be treated with the same dignity and respect afforded other religions.
I'd like to call attention to a pressing issue directly impacting our children's health. Ten years ago, the health and welfare of our nation's children took a major leap forward with the enactment of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. This legislation, which passed with strong bipartisan support, has provided a vital source of health care coverage to children whose parents work but cannot afford or are not offered health insurance. SCHIP has effectively reduced the number of children living without health insurance by more than one third. While the program covers 6 million individuals, another 9 million children remain uninsured, three-quarters of whom are currently eligible, but unenrolled for either SCHIP or Medicaid.
On Sept. 30, the SCHIP program will expire. As such Congress must pass reauthorizing legislation within the next several months to ensure the program continues to thrive and that no child loses coverage. In Utah, SCHIP covers an average of 47,000 children, yet more than 90,000 remain uninsured.
It is a priority of our state chapter and the national American Academy of Pediatrics to ensure all children have access to quality health care. Uninsured children are far less likely to receive timely care for childhood illnesses, such as sore throats, earaches and asthma, they often end up in the emergency room or hospital due to delays in seeking treatment, and may not have access to well-child visits and needed prescription medications.
Isn't it time for every child in Utah to have coverage? Help ensure our children get the best start in life by urging Congress to properly fund and renew SCHIP as soon as possible.
For quite some time former Vice President Al Gore has been shouting the warning cry of "global warming," and praising the writings of Rachel Carson who wrote "Silent Spring" and "Courage of Earth." One of the most difficult aspects of life is watching the radical extreme environmentalists standing at the foot of the altar of Rachel Carson looking up and praising and worshiping her.
It is mind boggling to find such incredible misguided admiration for a woman whose opposition to DDT and other synthetic pesticides that has led to the suffering and death of millions of people around the world. The final phase of her writings shows that Rachel Carson cared greatly for nature's wildlife and little if at all for mankind. Yet all these animals she claimed were dying because of the use of DDT have been proven wrong by the late G. Gordon Edwards.
Carson's "Silent Spring" resulted in the passage of the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Through her actions of making it illegal to use DDT led to the increase in mosquitoes and bed bugs 10-fold.
In the 1950s, bed bugs and mosquitoes were virtually eliminated in the US. At the removal of DDT, both bed bugs and mosquitoes have increased a 1,000 percent. Bed bugs are now coming in by moving vans, storage units, airplanes, ships, and bus cushions. We now read of popular hotels and motels asking for help in controlling bed bugs.
The number of complaints of these two bug infestations has more than doubled in San Francisco from 2004-2006. Since the year 2000, we have had several deaths caused by West Nile virus brought into Utah by the mosquito. Up to that period of time, we had never heard of the West Nile virus.
Some third world countries are now considering using DDT to control the malaria that is causing the deaths of thousands of lives in their countries. Many furniture stores have in the past, sprayed all mattresses they sold with DDT to control the spreading of the bed bug. Now they do nothing.
I was truly saddened recently to learn of the passing away of Joe Kastanek of Schuyler, Neb. I had the honor of working with in the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command in the early 1960's in our capacity as Titan- II Missile Propellant Transfer System Maintenance Technicians. Our job was keeping our Titan - II Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles combat ready for America's nuclear defense during the darkest days of the Cold War. I feel that his story is, like many other unsung Veterans and Americans, the story of the true heroes of our time and Country who stayed at their posts serving God, country, and family until relieved of their earthly duty.
I recall his competent, deliberate and quick action saving equipment and lives including my own in the dangerous work of handling hypergolic (self-igniting) missile propellants. Although reserved and unassuming himself, he left behind a true life legacy light-years greater than the modern ersatz heroes manufactured daily by our self-promoting media and politicians in today's world.
His legacy is his successful life of courage and dedication to his God, country, and noble family he had to leave behind to carry on until he sees them again someday. He is proof of the old truism: "There is no failure except in giving up"... and he never gave up.
We needed men like him back then and we need them now - they are the greatness of America. We should learn from his example of hard work, courage and dedication to his family and revere his memory, and the real monument he left behind: his family.
As Americans we must do no less than carry on such a legacy and that of countless others who have faded in the mists of time falling on the obscure battlefields of war and life while building our great country. The soldiers, the fathers, the mothers, the families, who stayed true to their duty, even though they may have faltered,- they are the true heroes of America and we must carry the torch of their sacrifices to the summit of their dreams of a safe and preserved America for all the ages.
For the last 24 years, I have been a teacher at Huntington Elementary School. The school is full of adults who really care about the success and well being of each child.
It has been a great experience for me to learn from and laugh with them each day. I love them and hope the people in the area respect them for the fine work they do.
I appreciate all the parents who shared their children with me-it was an honor, a pleasure, a challenge, and always an interesting experience.
I am not good at saying goodbye, but I want you all to know I will miss you, one and all. You have all left handprints on my heart.


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Sam Liu is vice president of marketing and business development at Partnerpedia. He is responsible for the company's marketing and strategic business initiatives worldwide.
Sam Liu of Partnerpedia suggests why the world of mobile and cloud apps will converge with desktop apps.
Interview conducted by Vinod Baya and Bo Parker
PwC: Sam, can you tell us a bit about Partnerpedia and what problem you are solving for your customers?
SL: Sure. Partnerpedia is a mobile app management vendor. We offer a software-as-a-service [SaaS] solution to help enterprises build and manage their app stores as part of their mobile, BYOD [bring your own device], or consumerization of IT [CoIT] efforts. We enable private internal app stores as well as the creation of a private-label external-facing app store.
With the rising requests for mobile apps, a common concern in IT is the control and protection of a company's assets. It's not much different from the days when the Internet first became popular and there were concerns about opening up the corporate network. There's a lot of focus around security and how to lock things down. That is where we started.
The difference today is that we see a shift in attitude—from just controlling security to determining how to make the users much more productive and in a way that increases the company's top line or reduces operating costs. The mindset has shifted a lot in just the past 12 months.
PwC: What is the future of app store solutions?
SL: Going forward, the app store paradigm should not be limited to just mobile apps. An app store is an excellent way for users to find and access an app, whether it's a mobile or a desktop or a cloud application. I think there will be a convergence, where the app stores of today will evolve into a converged system to manage apps on all devices.
We see such convergence today, especially with large enterprises. They distribute applications to users either through an intranet portal that doesn't work on a mobile device, or through FTP or some kind of heavy IT involvement such as CMDB [configuration management database] systems. That is a big hit on productivity. For example, one of our customers says app distribution could take about eight hours total turnaround time. With an enterprise app store approach, that turnaround is down to minutes.
PwC: So what do you feel is the future of enterprise applications?
SL: The definition of the app has morphed from the traditional definition of being a native app on the device. Today we see the term app applied to much broader entities; it could be content, a document, or a service request. What is common is that they are represented by that app icon we're all familiar with: an action that needs to get done. This is good, because what users care about is getting something done.
The other change we are seeing is the use of devices. Whereas earlier you started and ended an app on the same device, today you might start a task on your mobile device and finish on your desktop, or vice versa.
PwC: If apps are evolving in the manner you describe, what is the future of app stores?
SL: Ultimately I think the enterprise app store will replace traditional intranets and portals. Intranets and portals were a way for users to discover and access content and apps. As intranets grew, they became pretty cumbersome, so they have had limited impact. App stores are evolving to become the window into all work, thereby replacing traditional intranets, which have largely remained static.
The other aspect of the future is the centralized tracking and management of licenses. If your app is procured through a third party, you likely have a licensing arrangement. Our system helps track the licenses of mobile apps and consolidates the auditing and reporting of licenses to a point where an enterprise can reclaim it. If somebody leaves the company, an enterprise can pull back the license and reassign it. Companies want these capabilities across the board—mobile and desktop environments. Many companies have a hard time tracking reclaimed licenses in the desktop world. The app store management environment will evolve to the centralized tracking and reporting of licenses.
PwC: How are mobile apps different from desktop applications?
SL: Most traditional enterprise applications are monolithic. They are applications that can do all sorts of things, just like a Swiss army knife. With mobile apps, you rescope and redesign into smaller, bite-sized functions. There's a transformation of the app itself to be designed in a way so it will be much more productive for the users.
PwC: In narrowing the scope of individual apps, you have a lot of apps. Are you seeing challenges with fragmentation?
SL: For now, not yet. The volume of mobile apps in the enterprise is not large enough to be an issue yet. Over time, it will be an issue, and we are focused on including features in our product to alleviate that pain. It comes down to the app store design—the most popular apps will bubble to the top.
PwC: Most enterprises deliver a standard PC image with the applications you as an employee are expected to use and an implicit sense that you wouldn't need anything else. App stores surely challenge that assumption. What is the impact on IT operations?
SL: Indeed, the role of IT is impacted. The past has been much more of a top-down model of application selection and distribution. Interaction with users was limited to surveys or the collection of user feedback that IT would interpret when it was ready.
A new paradigm is emerging that is much more collaborative. IT should understand that users may know—better than IT does—what app is best for them. Or, users often will learn about a new app before IT does. So there needs to be a feedback loop to let IT know, "Here are some new apps that users think are better." Indeed there will be a qualification process to make sure the new apps meet whatever corporate standards there are.
PwC: Do you think the tablet form factor is having a disruptive influence on the interest in enterprise app stores?
SL: I think so. When we first started with the consumerization of IT, businesses thought they would do apps designed just for their mobile workforce, such as people in sales, the field force, and others. That's definitely a no-brainer. But now with other computing devices such as tablets, so much more can be done more efficiently just on that form factor—even if there is a corresponding application sitting on the desktop.
Tablets are definitely a disruptor. There is literally the potential to replace a lot of the desktop-based applications and make work more efficient—even for non-mobile workers.
PwC: What advice do you give your customers?
SL: We advise customers: Don't get too fancy too quick. Don't worry about trying to put too many apps in a store too quick. Rather, focus on things that will be truly useful to a set of users. Also, when you roll out, you don't need to roll out enterprise-wide. Roll it out to a finite group of people, do a pilot, collect feedback, fix any issues, and then distribute broadly.


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Former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford said Wednesday he's moving on and is reading to work with his fellow Republicans who didn't support his political comeback bid.
"Yesterday is yesterday and today is today, and I look forward to working with them," Sanford said in an interview on CBS' This Morning program.
Sanford defeated Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a special election for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District on Tuesday night by about 9 percentage points. Colbert Busch, a businesswoman and sister of comedian Stephen Colbert, kept the race competitive despite the Republican tilt of the district.
STORY: S.C. election not the end of Sanford drama
Sanford was seeking political redemption after an extramarital affair in 2010 ended his marriage and once-promising political career. He won without the financial support of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), which elects Republicans to Congress.
It was only toward the end of the race that Sanford was endorsed by top Republicans such as Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and both of South Carolina's GOP senators, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott.
While Sanford did not make mention of the House GOP campaign committee, his former chief of staff could not resist getting in a dig after the race was called. "Sorry, NRCC. We won anyway," tweeted state Sen. Tom Davis, R-S.C.
In the CBS interview, Sanford said South Carolina's voters did not make a judgment that character counts less than policy positions. He tied Colbert Busch to unions and liberals such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., even as his personal life once again grabbed headlines.
Character and policy are "equally important," he said. "I think we have a tradition in the South, in South Carolina, of foregiveness." Sanford recalled meeting a voter who said to him, "I'm not going to judge you based on your worst day any more than I'll judge you on your best day. I'm going to look at the totality of your 20 years in politics ... and I'm going to make my judgment accordingly."
Sanford posted a note to his supporters Wednesday on his campaign website offering his "profound thanks" for getting him elected, despite being outspent by Colbert Busch and her Democratic allies.
Sanford's personal life will be on public view once again Thursday. He is set to appear in Charleston County Family Court to respond to his ex-wife's complaint that he was trespassing at her home in violation of their divorce agreement. Cameras will be allowed in the courtroom.
Ex-South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford won his bid for redemption, defeating Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch for his old seat in Congress. VPC


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Never ones to shy away from a challenge…Prois has officially accepted the Bedazzle Challenge of the century from Jen Cordaro and Angie Wilson. It's on like Donkey Kong.
What is at stake? Well, just the esteemed title of Bedazzle Off Champion of the World. Not a big deal you say? Gasp… It is only akin to the Heavy Weight title in boxing. Stanley cup in hockey. Triple Crown in horse racing. Yeah. It's ALL that and more.
It is THAT important.
So…stay tuned. May 31st is the day to mark on your calendars. We will have the Prois Posse weigh in to determine the Bedazzle Off Champion of the WORLD!
While Angie and Jen may have an inside edge in the Bedazzling world given Jen's Bedazzling photo shoots and Angie's desire to have a bedazzled car, Kirstie Pike and Katherine Grand are not ones to be outdone. Their creativity (typically enhanced with coffee and/or wine) is unsurpassed. It's true…Angie and Jen don't really even stand a chance but we will humor them anyway.
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Feel bad for them. Can you imagine the stress of trying to win one of the top spots, amongst so many other talented determined girls, some with better backing than others...
Does somebody know Gubanova, Tsurskaya a Naugumova date(or year at least)when they were born?
I for 1 am so glad Russia got 3 spots back for the ladies, they are probably the deepest country in ladies right now. But it's really going to be interesting (and a little scary probably for the skaters) about who is at the top each season and if they stay at the top after puberty hits.
Anna P is the most robotic skater I've ever seen. Yulia is of course impressive as always but Anna cranking jump and element after element without a single emotional and mental connection to what she was executing.


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Japan 1937
United States from 1940
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
on canvas
inscribed on stretcher, verso, c.c., black felt-tipped pen, "Mover 1972 L. Poons"
canvas 173.0 (h) x 271.0 (w) cm
Frame 176.0 (h) x 274.0 (w) x 4.0 (d) cm Gift of Jon Plapp and Richard McMillan 2005 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
NGA 2005.364 © Larry Poons. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia
- the artist;
- with David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1972;
- by whom bought by Jon Plapp and Richard McMillan, Sydney;
- given to the National Gallery of Australia, August 2005
- Abstract Expressionism: the National Gallery of Australia celebrates the centenaries of Jackson Pollock and Morris Louis
- 14 Jul 2012 – 24 Feb 2013
- Bronwyn Campbell, 'Larry Poons: Mover' artonview 44, summer 2005, p. 34
Mover is painted on unprimed canvas: a flat wash background is soaked with a brilliant diagonal spray of orange to form the basis for the central motif. The sense of spontaneity is derived from the artist's original splash of paint, yet the apparent impulsive freedom of execution in the finished work is in fact the result of painstaking layering and overpainting. In the juxtaposition between impulsiveness and attention to detail, Mover hovers on the cusp of Poons' transition from the studied illusion of his Op works to the abandonment of deliberation that later he pursued.
Poons' Op paintings of the 1960s are characterised by a flat wash of monochromatic acrylic, overlaid with dots or ellipses in oil paint. The contrast between the two paint types creates a sense of movement: the differences in texture and richness gives the illusion of the dots floating over the surface of the canvas. Still in his 20s, Poons was heralded as one of the great new artists of the New York scene. Then, suddenly, he renounced his signature style. Feeling his work was too timid, he attempted to form a freer relationship with the paint itself. In 1969 he began to pour paint onto canvases on the floor. These works were known as his 'elephant skin' paintings, due to the thick pooling of the medium, which as it dried would wrinkle and crack. On discovering that he could achieve the effect of layering and banding by tacking his canvases to the wall and throwing paint at them, Poons allowed paint and gravity to work together to create a cascade motif, as seen in Mover. He began to make and exhibit his 'drip' paintings in 1972. These exhibitions comprised two main groups—works like Mover, with an isolated cascade motif, and those he made on a whole roll of canvas that was then cut into pieces.
At first glance, Mover has little in common with Poons' earlier work. His apparent rejection of the Op aesthetic in fact represents a very clear link between the Op paintings and his later career practice. The tension between spontaneity and care links the painting to the Op works: the impression that the central motif hovers above the canvas. This is emphasised by the different textures and colour intensities of the paint—just as the oil spots seemed to hover the acrylic background in the Op works, so the brightness of the cascade separates from the surface of the canvas by the contrast with the flatness of the background. As a result, Mover conveys a greater impression of movement than in other, more developed, works in this style.[1] Bridging the gap between his Op painting and his Lyrical Abstraction, Mover represents a key phase in Poons' oeuvre.
Bronwyn Campbell
[1] Elsewhere the spread of paint across the whole canvas ties the dissected compositions down; there is little to latch onto, and the eye slides over the surface of the work, just as the paint slid down the canvas when it was first applied.
The Gallery also holds an untitled screenprint by the artist, from the Wadsworth Atheneum portfolio Ten prints by ten painters 1964


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Associate Professor Lindsay Grace joins the Film & Media Arts Division from Miami University's School of Creative Arts, where he taught Game Design, Interaction Design, Digital Prototyping, and the Design of Play. He founded and directed the Persuasive Play Lab and A-Game Production Studio, and was director of the AIMS Games Center. Grace will be director of the Public Purpose Game Initiative and executive director of the Public Purpose Game Studio, part of American University's 2030 Initiative. He has exhibited his work at various universities and international festivals. He received an M.F.A. in electronic visualization at the School of Art and Design of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Michael McCluskey joins the Public Communication Division from Ohio State University's School of Communication as a senior professorial lecturer. His articles have been published in many peer-reviewed journals, including Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, the Journal of Communication, Communication Research, and Mass Communication & Society. His research concentrates on two main themes: the interrelationship among journalism, strategic communication, activism and politics; and media effects, especially media multitasking and terror-management theory. He has extensive print-journalism experience, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
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