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Michelle Obama Drops By "The Tonight Show"
While things are heating up in the Republican Party's primary season, First Lady Michelle Obama paid a visit to "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" last night (January 31).
Mrs. Obama chatted with Leno on her husband President Barack Obama's upcoming re-election campaign, and the stresses that come with it.
"There's really no way to prepare for it. You know, you just take each day as it comes. I think, Barack and I, our motto is, you try to do the best job we can do every single day and the hope is that will speak for itself. So, you know, we wake up everyday, we think about what this country needs."
Michelle also shared that her daughters Sasha and Malia have adjusted to life in the White House quite nicely. "They're doing really well and I think that's been one of the most surprising things about living in the White House and probably one of the things I've worried most about was whether we could have a normal life."
"The people at the White House are amazing, the girls are good, they're normal, we always check in, they have a regular life. They've got friends and sleepovers, and to them its home. It's been truly a blessing for us."
Enjoy the pictures of Michelle Obama making an appearance on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (January 31).
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|Family Christian finds 'likeminded ownership' in buyout
|Written by Christine D. Johnson
|Friday, 16 November 2012 12:17 PM EST
Family Christian Stores plans to give 100% of its profits to benefit Christian causes, mainly ministries serving widows and orphans, under the chain's new ownership announced yesterday. The 280-store chain that employs about 4,000 people will continue its operations in a largely "seamless" way, said CEO Cliff Bartow.
In the buyout, Family's management team partnered with a group of Atlanta-based Christian businessmen to acquire the company from its private equity owners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Family Christian reported that while its ownership structure and financial purpose has changed, there will be no impact on core operations, stores or staff.
While the investors live in the Atlanta area, the chain will continue operating out of its Grand Rapids, Mich., base. The investment group includes Richard L. Jackson, founder and CEO of Jackson Healthcare, the nation's third-largest health-care staffing company; Larry Powell, president of Powell Family Enterprises, a private equity investment company; and Michael Kendrick, founder of Blueprint for Life and Ministry Ventures, a nonprofit organization dedicated to launching new ministries.
"Each of these men have been blessed with professional success and share a mutual calling to give back to help those in need," Bartow said. "This alignment of business acumen and Christian calling led them to the collective decision to join with us to acquire Family Christian and move it from an organization that contributes 10% of its profits to one that contributes 100% of its profits to faith-based charities and ministries."
Private equity-owned since 1994, the company was founded in 1932. Family was "interested in getting off the private equity treadmill," Bartow told Christian Retailing, so when he met the investors through his work with orphans, the option came to the fore. "We were looking for likeminded ownership," he said.
Profits will be coursed through Family's nonprofit James Fund.
"It's really important that the associates of Family Christian that are involved in these nonprofits to have the ability to direct and have a voice in where the money goes because it's really important that money goes where you have some interest and activity," said Jackson, now sole member of James Fund.
"Literally we've touched millions of orphans' lives over the last eight years," Bartow added, "and we've given away about $7 million since its inception in 2004."
Donating 100% of profits means that management still will be focused on how business is going.
"Since we're giving 100% of our profits away, we want to invest our capital in ways that maximizes our ability to give in the future, and if that means spending capital on new stores, we'll do that," Bartow said. "If it means spending it on other things that can grow our revenues in better ways, then we would invest it in that fashion."
Family continues to be committed to its brick-and-mortar "lifestyle stores," Bartow said, though e-commerce is also excelling. Customers will also find four new digital devices in its stores starting next week in time for the Christmas season. The company has partnered with Kobo to utilize its technology as a digital leader and has chosen to drop its recently introduced Edifi e-reader.
Family is opening two new stores today, one in the Philadelphia area, its first in that market, and another in St. Joseph, Mo. Another location will open in Tuscon, Ariz., in January.
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Business Reins In Its Debt
Much ink has been spilled on the issue of U.S. indebtedness, both in terms of the rising debt of households and the government and the increasing reliance on foreign capital to fund borrowing. What sometimes gets lost is the strong position of corporations.
Strong profits and low interest rates have allowed nonfinancial corporations to reduce leverage ratios. Only in the last three quarters of 2005 did the financing gap slip into negative territory, requiring net borrowing by nonfinancial companies.
The result is that debt has dropped sharply relative to equity. The ratio of debt to net worth (at replacement value) dropped to 42.5% in the fourth quarter of 2005, its lowest ratio since the third quarter of 1986. Corporate cash flow reached 22.8% of debt outstanding, its highest level since the first quarter of 1985.
At the same time, companies have been building up record cash balances. The net cash holdings of the nonfinancial companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index hit a record $647 billion in the fourth quarter, or 43% (also a record) of outstanding long-term debt.
Companies with high cash balances are likely to use them on acquisitions or investment, certainly good news for mergers and acquisitions.
Companies have not been eager to use the high cash balances to pay down debt for two reasons. First, most have locked in relatively low interest rates, and they are reluctant to pay a penalty to get out of long-term bonds at bargain rates.
Second, the low debt-to-net-worth ratio suggests little reason to reduce debt. This is especially true since credit-quality spreads are still near record lows, giving companies little incentive to improve their ratings.
The low level of debt is surprising for many observers, but is a natural consequence of record profits combined with sluggish investment growth. The record earnings reflect both strong recent productivity growth and low interest rates, which have reduced debt-service costs.
Profits before tax are at a record 12.1% of gross national product (GNP), far above their historical (1959-2005) average of 8.6%. However, this has not come at the expense of labor. Labor income (including proprietors' income) is at 61.0% of gross domestic product, compared to an average 61.5%. Most of the decline has come at the expense of other capital income, primarily rent and interest payments.
There are some problems, however. The first is that debt does not include the shortfall in retirement programs. S&P estimates that the S&P 500 pension funds are underfunded by 12%, or $150 billion.
The shortage in the other post-employment benefits (mainly retirement health care) is even greater, although unlike pensions, these programs are not generally guaranteed forever. This combined underfunding would virtually wipe out the cash balances of the S&P 500, although, unfortunately for retirees, the companies with big cash balances are not typically the ones with underfunded pensions.
Another worry is that despite the improving debt position, the average credit rating of new bonds issued has been declining. In 1980, 78% of the corporations S&P rated were investment grade. Today, only 38% are.
This mostly reflects the increase in the number of companies rated. Back in 1980 no one would pay us to rate them B, but with the growth of the high-yield bond market, even a B rating is useful to a borrower.
In addition, it is the lower-rated companies that are borrowing. The larger investment-grade companies are sitting on lots of cash and don't need new money.
The bonds being issued come from newer, smaller outfits. The low spread between speculative-grade bond yields and investment-grade yields is encouraging these companies to tap the bond market for funds.


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The last thing the White House needed was another TV preacher questioning the sincerity of President Barack Obama's Christian faith.But there was a twist. This time it was HBO's Bill Maher -- sermonizing against religion has become his life's work -- who claimed that Obama is hiding a deep, dark secret. During the Feb. 11 episode of his "Real Time" talk show, Maher said he knows an unbeliever when he sees one and that Obama is probably an agnostic.This came a week after the president made … [Read more...]
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" Reebok Stadium, Burnden Way, Lostock, Bolton, BL6 6JW. Tel: 01204 673750 or 01204 673673 "
I'm going through a bit of a phase reviewing all the grounds I've been to over the last 20 years of watching Grimsby Town, I've done Grimsby, Sheff United and Barnsely so far but thought I'd give a review on a new stadium.
I've actually been to both stadiums in Bolton, I went to the old Burnden park in 1990 to watch a fairly turgid 0-0 draw between the teams. The old ground was well to be honest old and needed a lot of updating. Anyway moving onto the new stadium and I returned in 2001 to watch a very entertaining 2-2 which we led then fell behind before equalising late on. It makes me sad to think that only 10 years ago we were giving a now established premiership team a decent game of football at their own ground, now we are heading for the conference and probably oblivion - sob.
The new ground is well to be fair new, its very futuristic looking with its open structure and thick beams supporting the stands. The old ground was well classic old school, low roofs on the stand right next to the pitch, holes in the concrete and roof and a feeling of needing a bit of TLC.
Not the new, I think its the most visually impressive ground I've been to (I've not been to the new Wembley or the Emirates), it dominates the surrounding area and you are in no doubt that this is a stadium built for the clubs future.
The ground is a strange one in some ways because it has four seperate stands with the corners filled with video screens, one of the pluses of building a new stadium is that the ad hoc nature of the old grounds goes away so the stands are the same, the entrances are the same, the views are the same. This is of course a plus and a minus, some of us love the old grounds with their queer architecture and odd angled views but the concept of being able to sit in comfort and watch an unimpeeded view is I think worth losing the nostalgia.
The Reebok is a superb new stadium, it does feels a little like Huddersfields MacAlpine but thats just a consequence of being built at around the same time. The corporate facilities are of course well catered for and the catering for the fans is fine as you'd expect in a modern stadium.
Well it only holds 28000 so is one of the smaller grounds in the premiership but I'm guessing they only sell out for the big games with united and liverpool. Also it is out of town so the chance to have a drink in the town centre is much more difficult, it also waters down the atmosphere before the game a little. However, it makes getting there a lot easier.
The name as well I guess, Reebok is a bit dull, corporate and bland but it seems to be the way grounds are going at the moment with the Emirates, MacAlpine and Britannia. Shame they couldn't have called it after one of their famous ex-players or manager.
So inconclusion this is a very modern feeling stadium with superb views of the pitch but perhaps a little impersonal for some fans.
Although I am not a Bolton supporter, I have visited both the old stadium and this, their new one, and even a traditionalist such as myself could not possibly argue that the Burnden Park experience was anywhere near as good as that to be had at the Reebok Stadium!
Of course it is a shame that space could not be found to build the ground and the surrounding infrastructure nearer the centre of Bolton, and it does not feel at all like the pilar of the local community which no doubt its predecessor was able to offer simply by its location. However the modern football fan who often wants to do a bit of shopping, maybe make a weekend of it and stay cheaply nearby, take in a film after the game on a Saturday night etc, has all this at their fingertips, as long as you bring some gloves if you are visiting between October and March and wish still to have your finger tips free of frostbite when you return home!
Once you have found your destination (not a difficult task, given its location just off the M61), the shopping is catered for by a retail park with all the usual favourites, and there are two Premier Inns nearby, one literally opposite the stadium. There is even an Asda if you need to do your shopping!
However hopefully your principal reason for heading to the area is to watch some football, and again you cannot really argue with what is on offer, although many Bolton fans might have quibbled with that statement in the days of recently departed manager Gary Megson! The tickets are priced sensibly, bearing in mind the competition for fans in the north west, although obviosuly they rise when the Big Four come to town. The sight lines are excellent througout, and when there is a full house the place certainly generates some atmosphere. If one reluctant accepts that grounds with 'character' (often a synonym for discomfort and shabbiness) are on their way out, then this is an above average effort at embracing the new order. Definitely worth a visit.
The state of the art Reebok Stadium is home to Bolton Wanderers football club in the English Premiership. The club moved to the all-seater Reebok Stadium on the outskirts of Bolton in 1997 from Burnden Park in Bolton town centre which was a controvertial move amongst fans but has turned out to be a success. The stadium has a capacity of approximately 28,000 fans although recent attendences have been much lower, around 22,000 average. The stadium is impressive to look at and is located just off Junction 6 of the M61 and can be accessed with a 2 minute walk from Horwich Parkway train station so the location could not be better. It is located next to Tesco and the Middlebrook Retail Park which is a pretty standard retail park including Asda. Pubs for fans in the area include Scotts Bar near the train station and the Beehive Pub which is a 10 minute walk away. In terms of football, the stadium offers grest unrestricted views from all seats although I would recommend the lower tier as it is cheaper, the astmosphere is usually better there and you get much closer to the action. The stadium offers great facilities such as a hotel (De Vere Whites), function rooms (including the location for boxing matches and darts tournaments) and a club shop (located next to the stadium). Tickets to watch the football can be bought for generally £18-£35 depending on who is playing - the cost increases for the visit of larger teams. The downside of the Reebok Stadium is that the atmosphere can sometimes be poor compared to the old stadium at Burnden Park which had traditional terraces. Apart from that, the Reebok is well worth a visit to watch a game in the new season.
The Reebok Stadium is the home of The Barlcays Premiership football team Bolton Wanderers Football Club and was first used in the 1997/98 season, it is situated next to Middlebrook retail park in Horwich. The stadium is an 28,723 all seater with 4 stands (both with upper and lower tiers) one of which is named after the Wanderers' great Nat Lofthouse. Its quite an improvement on their previous home, Burnden Park, to say the least and boasts some of the best facilities in the country including a fan-zone where you can enjoy food and drink before the game (this has only just been introduced this season), 2 large car parks (both priced at around £5/£6) and several pubs/resturants within walking distance, although the 2 closest to the ground are for home fans only. Access to the ground on match day is fairly easy due to the location, just next to Junction 6 on the M61 and also a train station (horwich parkway) situated within a couple of minute walk, trains from Manchester Victoria Station. Prices this season range from £15-£35 for home fans (adult) and i beleive upto £38 for away fans depending on the catergory of fixture, Children and concessions are considerably cheaper. Anyone visiting The Reebok should expect to have a good day out.
The Reebok Stadium is the home ground of Bolton Wanderers who play their football in the English Premier League. The stadium opened in 1997 and was a direct replacement for their old Burnden Park ground. It's an extremely modern looking arena and has a capacity of 28,723, not actually that large for a Premier League stadium; I think they should have made it bigger personally. Unfortunately, the move to the Reebok Stadium initially was quite unpopular with a number of the Bolton fans who felt a strong attachment to their old stadium and didn't like the fact the club was moving 'out of town' as many new stadiums are these days. These fans have gradually been won over though as you cannot help but admit that The Reebok Stadium is a fantastic sporting venue.
The stadium is like no other really, although made up of four individual stands, the ground is fully enclosed and the corners have been filled in with large video screens. All stands are the same design, but obviously the two behind the goals are smaller versions of the touchline ones. The design is similar to that of Huddersfield Town's stadium, but on a larger scale. The lower tiers are the standard rectangular shape, but the upper tiers are semi-circular, giving it a really interesting look. Above each stand there is a mass of white painted metalwork which can be seen from miles around. It truly is a great looking ground, but as I said earlier I just wish they had made it bigger.
This is one of the best grounds in the country for away supporters I feel. You are housed in the South Stand behind the goal and there is room for up to 5000 supporters, a considerable allocation. The upper tier is for away fans completely, while some of the lower tier is shared with the home supporters. The view of the pitch and leg room of seating is more than adequate, which is not always the case when travelling away from home. I was very impressed with the stadium and will definitely return if the opportunity ever arises again.
Thanks for reading, feel free to comment
The Reebok Stadium, home of Bolton Wanderers, is a vast improvement on the old Burnden Park. Primarily, there are once more four sides to the ground! The first thing that impressed me was the easy access from the motorway and the plentiful parking for visiting supporters. This is something of a rarity I find these days. The cost of the parking is £5 but for peace of mind it is well worth paying to know your car is being watched over. Admission was £20 for an adult and £15 for pensioners and children. In these days of prohibitive prices, this is quite reasonable. Going into the stadium, the turnstile operators were efficient and friendly. The concourse was roomy and offered the usual facilities of refreshments (including alcohol), toilets and programme sellers (£2 for a well presented programme). Instead of being seated tucked away in a corner with a poor view we were positioned just to one side of the goal. The seat offered a good view and also plenty of leg room. The stewards within the stadium were pleasant and helpful. None of the gestapo training that you find in some grounds. The atmosphere within the stadium was comparable with any of the new stadium that I have visited. My only gripe was the result! For those of you with money to burn, there is also the hotel offering rooms with views of the pitch. For the less abled bodied people there was easy access for wheelchair users - for both home and away fans.
The Reebok Stadium is the home stadium of English Premier League football club Bolton Wanderers, and is located on the Middlebrook retail park in Horwich, near Bolton. It is commonly known as 'The Reebok'.


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Water Main Break Shuts Off Water To Elementary School
A Bellevue neighborhood and elementary school are without water Thursday morning due to a water main break.
Officials at Bellevue Public Schools say the Birchcrest Elementary school near Birchcrest and Wilroy roads, will be without water until MUD is able to fix the problem.
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If you stay in the hotel zone you don't really have to leave the area but you will miss out on a lot of other fun activities. you should at least go to isla mujeres and eat seafood, its delicious, you can also visit the locals downtown area buy cheap t-shirts and whatever.
The beach is the best I've seen the sand is almost white and water looks aqua blue and you can even see the fish swimming in it.
The hotels are all nice but Live Aqua Luxury? I particularly don't recommend the 5 star unless you like to be surrounded by senior citizens that hate noise, I like the 4 star instead.
Cool, thanks for the information, I think we will check some of that stuff out. As for the hotel, It's actually already been booked, I'm going with my family as we haven't gone on a vacation for a while so I'm ok with the 5 star. I figure there has to be stuff for my brothers and I to do at night, we'll find stuff I'm sure.
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Update on Release of Advisory Base Flood Elevation Information
FEMA held a series of conference calls last week providing information and answering questions about the upcoming release of Advisory Base Flood Elevation (ABFE) information. If you were not able to participate, we invite you to a briefing tomorrow, Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 11:00 a.m. This briefing is identical to those provided last week.
Given the urgency and level of reconstruction anticipated along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey, FEMA's Mitigation team is working with state and local counterparts to provide the best available data for reconstruction purposes in the form of Advisory Base Flood Elevations for those communities most affected.
The information depicts a more current picture of flood risk to communities. By delivering revised flood risk information, FEMA can empower communities and property owners to make more informed decisions about rebuilding and recovery that will increase resiliency to future disasters and provide potential cost savings on flood insurance premiums.
FEMA will be working closely with state and community officials to release this improved flood hazard data within the coming weeks for 10 counties in New Jersey to help them make informed decisions about rebuilding their homes and businesses. Use of this information will be required for certain FEMA funded recovery and mitigation activities after release and is highly encouraged for use in other rebuilding efforts.
Ahead of this data becoming available, FEMA has been holding briefings for local officials via conference call. We invite you to participate in tomorrow's call to learn more about how these ABFEs will affect your community's long term recovery. The briefing deck to be covered during the session is attached for your reference.
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TGIF presents...Svet: the Hip-Hop Violinist & Glo-Dance Party!
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Doors at 7:30 p.m.; Show begins at 8:00 p.m.
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You won't want to miss this extremely talented performer! Svet: the Hip-Hop Violinist has been a contestant on America's Got Talent and has headlined as some of the most popular venues around the country. Immediately following Svet's set will be a Glo-Dance Party!
"At the age of 26, SVET has appeared on major networks such as ABC, BET, MTV, and recently SVET was featured on NBC's premier TV show America's Got Talent. SVET is currently working on his debut album as well as touring College Campuses all around the country. SVET was also the first ever half time performance act for the Brooklyn Nets franchise at Barclay Center in Brooklyn NY." From http://www.svetmusic.com/#!about/cwog
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Afghan opium output hit by disease but Myanmar's up: U.N.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Global production of opium fell 38 percent in 2010 as plant disease hit crops in top producer Afghanistan, but output in second-largest producer Myanmar jumped after a big increase in land under cultivation, the United Nations said on Thursday.
In its annual World Drug Report, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said heroin consumption has stabilized in Europe while cocaine consumption has declined in North America, which it described as "the most lucrative markets" for those drugs.
But there were worrying trends: a big increase in cocaine use in Europe and South America over the past decade, the recent expansion of heroin use in Africa and the increased abuse of synthetic "designer drugs" and prescription drugs in places.
Yury Fedotov, UNODC's executive director, noted in the report some progress in the prevention of drug use and said more should be done to facilitate "healthy and fulfilling alternatives" so that drug use was not accepted as a way of life.
"On the demand side, there is growing recognition that we must draw a line between criminals (drug traffickers) and their victims (drug users), and that treatment for drug use offers a far more effective cure than punishment," he added.
Various plant diseases combined to cut Afghanistan's opium production in half last year and UNODC said production could fall a little further in 2011.
The country accounted for 74 percent of global opium production in 2010, down from 88 percent in 2009.
Myanmar's share of global production reached 12 percent, up from 5 percent in 2007. The area under cultivation there fell by 21 percent to 185,900 hectares (459,400 acres) between 2007 and 2009 but it rose to 195,700 hectares last year, UNODC said. Continued...


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New Fishinars continue to be added, and upcoming sessions include common butterflyfishes of Hawaii, a California Invertebrate series, plus several on Caribbean fish families (including those pesky Damsels)! Check out the Webinar Training page (www.REEF.org/resources/webinars) for the most up-to-date listing. These popular online training sessions provide fishie fun in the comfort of your own home. Fishinars are free, and open to all REEF members. You need to register for each session you want to attend. No special software is required, just a web browser. Upcoming sessions include:
Those Darn Damsels! Top 12 of the Greater Caribbean - Jan 17
California Invertebrate ID Part One and Two - Feb 6, Feb 7
Hamlets: To Be or Not to Be (Counted, that is) - Feb 12
Bodiacious Butterflies of Hawaii - Feb 21
Triggers and Files: The ID Tools of the Trade - Mar 21
Check out the Fishinar page for more details and to register for each session.
New Fishinars continue to be added. Check out the Webinar Training page (www.REEF.org/fishinars) for the most up-to-date listing. These popular online training sessions provide fishie fun in the comfort of your own home. Fishinars are free, and open to all REEF members. You need to register for each session you want to attend. No special software is required, just a web browser. Upcoming sessions include:
Safety Stop Survey: the Top 12 Caribbean Fish You May See at 15 Feet in 3 Minutes - July 11
Perplexing Parrotfish of the Caribbean - September 10
Lesser Known Fish of Cozumel - October 17
You do WHAT for a living? Illustrating Fishes - with special guest Val Kells, Scientific Illustrator - November 13
Check out the Fishinar page for more details and to register for each session.
We are excited to welcome the newest member of the REEF Team - Elizabeth Underwood, who joined our staff this month as Lionfish Program Coordinator. Elizabeth has been an active REEF member, avid fish counter, dedicated lionfish hunter, and all-round marine science enthusiast for quite some time. Elizabeth was first introduced to REEF in the Spring 2011 when she studied abroad in the Turks and Caicos Islands and conducted her first of many REEF fish surveys and lionfish studies. After graduating from Davidson College in 2012 with a BS in Biology, Elizabeth joined Lad Akins and Peter Hughes on REEF's Belize Lionfish Survey. After a week full of lionfish spearing, dissecting, and filleting she was hooked. Becoming a REEF Marine Conservation Intern in the Fall of 2012 was a no-brainer for her!
After her internship with REEF, Elizabeth took a 5 month position at the Cape Eleuthera Institute in the Bahamas as their Lionfish Research and Education intern. But as great as the Bahamas were, Elizabeth was ready to move back to Key Largo to continue her work with REEF's Invasive Lionfish Program. Elizabeth's work at REEF will focus on coordinating REEF's various lionfish research projects, organizing derbies, conducting public talks and workshops, and developing teaching tools. She'll also be managing REEF's lionfish social media and working with other staff on ongoing organizational duties.
We are very happy to have Elizabeth on board. This month, we also want to extend our thanks and best of luck wishes to Keri Kenning, who will be starting dental school later this year. Keri served as REEF's Communications and Affiliate Program Coordinator for the last year. She was a valued member of our team and a great REEF ambassador.
Restoration of a unique historic water cistern was recently completed at REEF Headquarters in Key Largo, FL. REEF's Headquarters is located in the building that was originally the home of William Beauregart Albury, one of the earliest settlers of the Florida Keys. In August 2012, the Historical Preservation Society of the Upper Keys designating the building as a Key Largo historic site and "the oldest Key Largo home in its original location built in 1913." As its original tenant, Mr. Albury lived in the residence for forty-two years. The building has subsequently undergone various commercial proprietary changes before it was purchased by REEF in 2001.
Adjacent to the former residence were the remains of a wooden cistern built around the time of the home's construction. This one-time functioning cistern was used to collect and store rainwater which then was used to supply freshwater to the home's inhabitants. Prior to 1942, Florida Keys early settlers would often use cisterns alongside their homes before freshwater could be transported to the Keys via Flagler's Railroad or through a pipeline from the mainland.
Over the past nine months, REEF volunteers and partners have restored the water cistern. All of the original lumber was salvaged, restored and used in the reconstructed cistern. The cistern holds important cultural and historical significance as a unique architectural structure used by early Key Largo settlers. Later this year REEF will create interpretive signage detailing the history of cistern use in the Upper Keys in the early twentieth century by area residents and plans a ribbon cutting event when the restoration is completed. Special thanks to the Historic Florida Keys Foundation's for funding materials in the restoration project and Jerry Wilkinson of the Historical Preservation Society of the Upper Keys and James Scurlock of Mother Ocean Custom Woodworks for their leadership and the hundreds of hours of hard work volunteering their time for this project.
REEF members are at the heart of our grassroots marine conservation programs. Over 50,000 divers, snorkelers, students, and armchair naturalists stand behind our mission.
This month we highlight Roger and Tricia Grimes. They have been REEF members since 2012, shortly after moving to the Florida Keys. They are active with REEF's lionfish research efforts, and they also lend their technology talents around REEF Headquarters. Roger is eligible to have his volunteer hours matched by his employer (Microsoft), resulting in generous financial support to REEF. Here's what they had to say about REEF:
When and how did you first volunteer with REEF?
We first heard about REEF when we were taking one of the first lionfish harvesting classes in Morehead City, NC. We liked REEF so much it was partially responsible for us moving to Key Largo a few years ago.
What ways are you involved with REEF?
Our main participation with REEF is with the Lionfish project. We also work to keep the REEF office computers up and running. Our highlights are all the lionfish dives we've done with REEF interns, Lad Akins, and the many great volunteers. Really great people! We haven't done an official REEF survey dive yet. We've taken a few of the online REEF Fishinars, and they have really improved our ability to identify fish. Every new fish we see gets recorded in our copy of Reef Fish Identification. One of our life goals is to see every fish in the book!
What is your favorite part about being a REEF member? If you had to explain REEF to a friend in a couple of sentences, what would you tell them?
REEF is a special group of people with big hearts and scientific minds who dedicate a big part of their lives protecting parts of the ocean. REEF makes a big impact through its educational outreach, sharing science, and identifying ways to make the oceans better for everyone. Everything we do for REEF makes us feel like a more complete one human family!
Do you dive close to where you live? What is the best part about diving there?
We moved to Key Largo three years ago and purposely bought a house on an ocean canal and bought a boat. We go diving every chance we get.
Do you have any fishwatching tips for REEF members?
We've noticed that wary fish watch your eyes. If you want to get close to a wary fish, be patient, don't chase them directly, and advert your eyes until the last possible second.
What is your most memorable fish find?
Seeing a mola mola out in the clear bluewater. I (Roger) was a relatively new diver and I thought I was seeing the closest thing to a dinosaur. I thought I was bent. How could a fish be shaped like a hand? And I've never seen one since then, so I now know what a special treat it was.
Join us in Key Largo this fall for REEF Fest 2015, September 24 - 27. Celebrate the success and impact of REEF's marine conservation programs and education initiatives with diving, learning, and parties. Festivities begin Thursday with afternoon seminars and then a welcome party at the Caribbean Club. Friday and Saturday are full days, with diving in the mornings, seminars in the afternoons, and social events in the evenings (Friday Open House at REEFHQ and Saturday Celebration Dinner Party). The fun wraps up on Sunday with more organized dives. All REEF Fest events are open to the public. Complete details on the schedule, including the lineup of seminars, diving opportunities, and social gatherings, as well as travel logistics and hotel arrangements, are available online at www.REEF.org/REEFFest2015.
REEF Fest: Explore. Discover. Make a Difference. Celebrating Marine Conservation in the Florida Keys!
We are pleased to welcome two REEF surveyors to the Golden Hamlet Club in 2015 – Georgia Arrow and Janna Nichols. What is the Golden Hamlet Club? No, it is not a club of Shakespearean enthusiasts, but rather a club of citizen scientist superstars - those REEF members who have conducted 1,000+ surveys in the REEF Volunteer Fish Survey Project. Georgia was the first member to complete almost all of the 1,000 surveys in the chilly waters of the Pacific Northwest. Although many of Janna's surveys were also conducted in the Pacific Northwest, as REEF's Outreach Coordinator, Janna has conducted surveys in almost all of REEF's project regions. She recently did her 1,000th on the Cozumel REEF Field Survey.
The very first Golden Hamlet member was Linda Baker, achieving the status in 2005. Today, there are eighteen members of the Golden Hamlet Club. A plaque hangs at REEF HQ in Key Largo, with the names of our honored volunteer surveyors -- Lad Akins, Georgia Arrow, Linda Baker, Judie Clee, Janet Eyre, Dave Grenda, Doug Harder, Lillian Kenney, Peter Leahy, Rob McCall, Franklin Neal, Janna Nichols, Mike Phelan, Bruce Purdy, Linda Ridley, Dee Scarr, Linda Schillinger, and Sheryl Shea. Congratulations to you all. To see pictures and profiles of these surveyors, visit the Golden Hamlet Club webpage. Thanks to their dedication, and those of the 16,000 other volunteers who have participated in the Survey Project since its inception in 1993, we have generated the largest marine fish sightings database in the world. Who's going to be the next Golden Hamlet surveyor?
On June 22, SCUBA divers, marine conservation enthusiasts, and foodies gathered at Piccolo Ristorante in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to attend the second annual Lionfish Tasting Dinner. During the event, patrons learned about effects of the lionfish invasion while sampling the tasty invader's light, white meat. At the end of the evening, DiveBar, one of the night's sponsors, presented REEF with a check for $1,500 to support our Invasive Lionfish Program.
The night's menu featured invasive lionfish, known for their voracious appetites and rapid reproduction. Each lionfish dish incorporated unique ingredients and creative preparations, beginning with a smoked fish dip appetizer, followed by four tapas-style courses, including a lionfish corn dog, surf and turf lionfish yucca croquette with marinated skirt steak, blackened lionfish taco with tropical salsa, and finally, an IPA beer-battered lionfish over rice. Each course was paired with a wine to complement the individual dish's distinctive flavors.
Between courses, REEF Trips Program Manager Amy Lee gave a presentation to educate attendees about the lionfish invasion and the importance of lionfish removals. At the end of the night, Andres Avayú, chef at Piccolo Ristorante, demonstrated how to safely handle and fillet a lionfish. REEF's second edition of "The Lionfish Cookbook", published in February, features Chef Andres' own unique recipe, lionfish with zucchini potato pancake and roasted red pepper coulis, as well as more than 60 lionfish recipes from many other chefs throughout the invaded region.
Red Lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific and Red Sea, have invaded the Western Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico. Lionfish diets are very broad and include both fish and crustaceans. They have been documented to consume more than 120 species of prey, including commercially, recreationally, and ecologically important species. "It's exciting to see such strong public and commercial interest in consuming lionfish," says Lad Akins, REEF Director of Special Projects. "Developing a market for lionfish is a great way to provide incentive for increased removals. Even non-divers can make a real impact, by ordering the fish at their local restaurants, helping to decrease lionfish populations and minimize their impacts."
Sponsors of the Lionfish Tasting Dinner include DiveBar, Miami Wine Buzz Club, Jack Scalisi Wholesale Fruit and Produce, and 8 Shades of Blue. All lionfish fillets used at the event were donated by Sean Meadows of World of Scuba, who recently hosted a REEF Sanctioned Lionfish Derby in Boynton Beach, Florida. Thanks to the joint efforts of these supporters and Piccolo Ristorante, the Lionfish Tasting Dinner raised $1,500 to support REEF's marine conservation programs!
REEF hopes to organize more Lionfish Dinners to continue spreading awareness of the lionfish invasion and encouraging the public to consume this malicious yet delicious invader. For more information on REEF's Invasive Lionfish Program, visit www.REEF.org/lionfish. For more information on collecting, handling, and cooking lionfish, check out the second edition of "The Lionfish Cookbook", available on the REEF Store at www.REEF.org/store/lionfishcookbook.
This past Tuesday, REEF launched our Winter Fundraising campaign. Thank you to all who have already donated. If you haven' yet given, we are asking for your help today! By giving a gift, you are ensuring that REEF can continue to inspire people around the world to cherish and protect our marine resources.
You can give securely online at www.REEF.org/donate, mail your donation to REEF at PO Box 370246, Key Largo, FL 33037, or call us at 305-852-0030.
Inspiring individuals to protect our marine resources is critical because our oceans are under constant threat. These threats include coral bleaching, temperature fluctuations, increased risk of invasive species, and overall declines in fish populations worldwide. Your financial support is essential to ensure REEF can provide education and research to assist in managing these impacts.
One fish that is sensitive to these threats is the vibrant and charismatic Mandarinfish. This year's limited-edition print is a scene I photographed while in the Indonesia. The image captures the species' amazing spawning ritual, truly spectacular to witness. By making a donation today of $250 or more, you will receive a beautiful 11" X 14" signed print, showcasing the astounding colors of the Mandarinfish and highlighting the importance of protecting our oceans. Donors giving $500 or more will be included on the Giving REEF, located at our headquarters.
Thanks again for your support and Happy Holidays!
Summer is just around the corner and that means the annual REEF Lionfish Derby Series is almost here! Whether you just want to watch the festivities and taste some delicious lionfish bites, or you want to join the derby and compete with other lionfish hunters for over $3,500 in cash prizes, we have something fun for you. This year, REEF will be hosting four lionfish derbies throughout Florida: Sarasota, Fort Lauderdale, Key Largo, and Juno Beach. REEF Derbies are hugely popular events that remove hundreds to thousands of invasive lionfish from local reefs over a single weekend. The derbies significantly reduce the numbers of lionfish and help native fishes maintain healthy populations. Find out all the details on REEF's 2017 Lionfish Derby Series here: www.REEF.org/lionfish/derbies.
This year, at the Palm Beach County Derby, in partnership with Loggerhead Marinelife Center and the NUISANCE Group, we are turning the derby into a festival! There will be a kids' craft area, live music, a lionfish culinary competition, and Lagunitas Brewing Company will be providing the adult refreshments. In order to taste the delicious lionfish dishes that our competing chefs will be cooking up, be sure to purchase a VIP Pass on our website!
If you can't make it to the Palm Beach County Derby, don't worry, every derby has fun and educational activities for the whole family to enjoy, including cornhole, lionfish dissection demonstrations, and a raffle.
2017 REEF Lionfish Derby Dates:
Check out the REEF Derby webpage for more information. The 2017 REEF Lionfish Derby Series is sponsored in part by the Ocean Reef Conservation Commission, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, Whole Foods, ZooKeeper LLC and hosted in partnership with Mote Marine Laboratory, 15th Street Fisheries, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park and Loggerhead Marinelife Center.


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Miranda Lambert's "Platinum" Landing
An emergency landing for Miranda made light for the CMT Awards
Sure, Miranda Lambert looked amazing on the CMT Music Awards last night – but it probably wasn't too easy. Why? Miranda and her traveling group were forced to make an emergency landing in West Virginia on Tuesday night.
In true Miranda, style, she even managed to keep her sense of humor about it. She posted a picture of herself with her friends all decked out in silver fire suits on Instagram and included the light-hearted caption, "Don't worry, we found platinum fire suits."
Apparently, the plane lost pressure after leaving Smyrna Airport near Nashville forcing the pilot to land in Clarksburg, West Virginia where the plane was grounded for two hours until they fixed the problem.
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Are you one of the "thousands of workers throughout the Big Sky state forced to fund violent organizing drives and a limousine lifestyle for union bigwigs"?
Are you willing to "join in the fight to end the tyranny of compulsory unionism"?
Look no further than recent efforts from state Rep. Jack Wells, R-Bozeman, and the Montana Right to Work Committee, which have launched another in a series of campaigns to pass a state right-to-work law. A January letter Wells sent out to businesses around the state, which contained the above quotes, came off as particularly virulent with its invocation of union "czars," "bosses" and "brass" that would put Jimmy Hoffa to shame.
Twenty-two states, including those bordering Montana, have right-to-work laws, which prohibit making union membership a condition of employment in businesses or government agencies organized by unions. Wells has spearheaded past legislative attempts to pass such a law—most recently during the Legislature's 2005 session—though his efforts have gone unrewarded. Gov. Brian Schweitzer opposes the notion and promises he would veto it should he have the chance, saying: "It has the effect of lowering wages. Montana is pro-business and pro-family and this idea is neither." Rejection of the idea crosses party lines, though, as seen by past opposition from Govs. Judy Martz and Marc Racicot.
Nevertheless, Wells repeatedly asserts in his letter that nearly 80 percent of Montanans support a right-to-work law, though no source is offered for that information, and neither Wells nor a representative of the Montana Right to Work Committee responded by press time to elucidate.
Jim McGarvey, executive secretary of the Montana AFL-CIO, says the push for right-to-work laws is nothing but a thinly veiled effort to weaken unions' ability to secure worker rights and a distraction from the real issues workers face.
"Montana is in a position to move forward, and this is just jargon from the past that's a distraction from building good economic development," McGarvey says.


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BI In The Cloud? Yes, And On The Ground, Too
Posted by Boris Evelson on January 26, 2010
Slowly but surely, with lots of criticism and skepticism, the business intelligence (BI) software-as-a-service (SaaS) market is gaining ground. It's a road full of peril — at least two BI SaaS startups have failed this year — but what software market segment has not seen its share of failures? Although I do not see a stampede to replace traditional BI applications with SaaS alternatives in the near future, BI SaaS does have a few legitimate use cases even today, such as complementary BI, in coexistence with traditional BI, BI workspaces, and BI for small and some midsize businesses.
In our latest BI SaaS research report we recommend the following structured approach to see if BI SaaS is right for you and if you are ready for BI SaaS:
- Map your BI requirements and IT culture to one of five BI SaaS use cases
- Evaluate and consider scenarios where BI SaaS may be a right or wrong fit for you
- Select the BI SaaS vendor that fits your business, technical, and operational requirements, including your tolerance for risk
First we identified 5 following BI SaaS use cases.
- Coexistence case: on-premises BI complemented with SaaS BI in enterprises
- SaaS-centric case in enterprises: main BI application in enterprises committed to SaaS
- SaaS-centric case in midmarket: main BI application in midsized businesses
- Elasticity case: BI for companies with strong variations in activity from season to season
- Power user flexibility case: BI workspaces are often considered necessary by power analysts
Then we analyzed the types of criteria which determine whether BI SaaS is a right or a wrong fit in your specific situation:
- The customization level of your data sources
- Where a BI project is on internal IT priority list
- Security, risk, regulatory, and privacy considerations
- Your application and organizational growth
Now on to vendor selection. You have two basic choices: your traditional BI vendors that are adopting their current product offerings to work in the cloud (not an easy task), or new specialized vendors offering BI products natively architected and built to operation in the cloud. The first sensible step for anyone seeking a BI SaaS solution is to check with their enterprise BI vendor on their SaaS offering. With a few exceptions, however, you may be quite disappointed. Most of the leading BI vendors are still playing mainly in the hosting (equivalent to Forrester SaaS maturitylevel 2) rather than in a true SaaS field. Specifically:
- Early in 2010, SAP plans to lead the large vendor pack with self-service BI SaaS offerings, comparable to native BI SaaS products
- IBM extends BI into private clouds based on its strength in app outsourcing
- Oracle is mostly in the business of providing BI SaaS platform for ISVs
- Microsoft is slowly but surely moving its BI platform into the cloud, piece by piece (SQL Azure)
- SAS Institute is building its own cloud (in $70M, 38K sq foot hosting facility)
- The rest of BI vendors concentrate on hosting domain specific BI SaaS solutions
- Salesforce.com offers a respectable, though still-CRM centric BI SaaS solution
If these BI SaaS options from large vendors seem skimpy, your impression is correct. That's precisely why there's a plethora of small BI vendors addressing the need and the opportunity in the market left largely unaddressed by the mainstream BI vendors. The list is long and changes every few months based on newcomers and — yes, indeed — failures. Forrester compiled a long list that includes 1010data, Acsellerate Solutions, Analytix On Demand, Bime, Birst, Cloud9 Analytics, FusionOps, GoodData, Indicee, In2Clouds, Kognitio, myDIALS, Oco, Panorama Software, PivotLink, Rosslyn Analytics, SpatialKey, SRC, youcalc, and ZOHO.
Considering such a long and, as we mentioned, constantly changing list, how do you zero in on a winner? We offer a 3 step approach:
- First and foremost, it's all about business requirements. After all, even if the vendor has everything else right (e.g., reputation, stability, financial backing, strong management team, etc.) but does not support specific business requirements that you have, you're looking in the wrong place.
- Once a vendor passes business functionality check, we recommend bringing in an IT subject matter expert to help you understand the technical architecture under the covers
- The last, but not least, set of questions should be about the viability of the vendor. After all, most of these vendors are small startups, and some actually stopped operating this year
Please check out one of my recent blogs for the detailed criteria and the actual BI SaaS research report for detailed BI SaaS vendor scorecards.
Yes, the appeal of a BI SaaS application may be irresistible: You can subscribe and deploy it today, you don't need to go through the capital expenditure approval process, and you can even sometimes bypass cumbersome internal IT standards and protocols. Additionally, BI SaaS applications provide the instant BI workspace so desperately needed by power users and power analysts. But, unquestionably, there are risks, so we strongly recommend the following risk mitigation steps and strategies:
- Perform due diligence for security, backup and disaster recovery
- Do not overlook BI SaaS pricing and contract matters
- Evaluate true long term cost of ownership
- Double-check whether you may require additional source data licenses
- Plan for the worst
I predict that BI SaaS adoption and market size will continue to grow for two main reasons. First, the lightning speed with which business, regulatory, and globalization requirements change can no longer be supported by traditional, often less-than-agile BI architectures. Forrester believes that BI SaaS coexistence case fits very well to support such requirement. Second, the availability of relational DBMS in public clouds will make it easier for vendors, IT architects, and application designers to move their own BI apps into the cloud.
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Comment from Wayne Eckerson (not verified) on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 10:51
Great analysis, Boris. Very practical set of recommendations. To me, BI SaaS is where e-commerce was in the late 1990s: everyone thought the security risks were too great for it to ever catch on. Phooey then, phooey now! The only real obstacle is transferring large data volumes over a thin internet wire and unamortized investments in existing private data centers and premises-based applications.
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We are very happy to announce that on Monday April 15th, SC 469, 5-7 pm, we will have a special event, co-sponsored by the Science Religion and Culture Program at the Divinity School and the History of Medicine Working Group: Gianna Pomata, Professor at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University will present her current work in a talk titled "The Medical Case Across Cultures: Comparing the European Observatio and the Chinese Yi' an"
Gianna Pomata was educated and trained in Italy, but for the last twenty-five years she divided her professional life as a historian between Europe and the United States. Before joining Johns Hopkins University in 2007, she taught for many years at the Universities of Bologna and Minnesota. Her research interests include early modern European social and cultural history, with a main focus on the history of medicine. Most recently, she has worked on the history of scientific observation, with particular attention to medical case narratives and their role in the rise of scientific empiricism. She has written on the early modern genre of historia and its significance in medicine and anatomy. She has also studied concepts and rules of evidence as they developed at the intersection of early modern medicine and religion (the role of physicians in assessing miraculous evidence in canonization proceedings). She has contributed to the history of the healer/patient relationship by reconstructing the long-forgotten custom of contractual agreements between practitioners and patients.
Professor Pomata has also a strong interest in women's history, gender history, and the history of the body, to which she has contributed with various essays on women healers and women patients, the history of menstruation and lactation, concepts of sexual difference in early modern medicine, the cult of holy bodies and relics.
Her books include: Contracting a Cure: Patients, Healers, and the Law in Early Modern Bologna (Baltimore, 1998); The Faces of Nature in Enlightenment Europe ( Berlin, 2003, co-edited with Lorraine Daston); Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, Mass., 2005, co-edited with Nancy G. Siraisi); Oliva Sabuco: The True Medicine (Toronto, 2010).
She is currently at work on a book project, A Science of Individuals: the Case History in Pre-Modern European Medicine. She studies the development of the medical case history in a long-term perspective by tracing its antecedents in ancient Greek, medieval European and medieval Arabic medicine. In a cross-cultural perspective, she compares the early-modern European collections of case narratives with the case collections that developed in early modern Chinese medicine. This project combines her long-standing engagement with the history of the doctor/patient relationship with a more recent interest in individualized medicine.


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After 135 missions by 69 of Europe s Top Nature Photographers to 48 European countries and more than 1,100 days in the field, you can now enjoy the crown jewels of Europe's shared natural heritage in a wonderful indoor exhibition!
From May 2010 and beyond the Wild Wonders of Europe Indoor Exhibition will be on tour throughout Europe, China and North America. See the exhibition tour dates here.
48 images from the Wild Wonders of Europe were showcased at the 4 day festival where we were also International guests of honour.
Last year over 40 000 visitors and 4 300 school children visited. We hope that 2010 will surpass those figures!
It was a joy to watch the primary school children with teachers in tow enthralled by the photos the boys favourite, Mount Stromboli exploding in a show of firepower, whilst the girls chose the wild horses from Oostvardesplassen.
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A period of history which really interests me is the latter half of the 15th century in England – the Wars of the Roses. The climate of thought in Europe was reaching the fever pitch that was to become the Renaissance. Dynastic struggles were taking place in England which would have a huge impact on the political thinkers – precursors to the thinkers who influenced the middle-class uprising of the Commonwealth, who were the precursors of the thinkers who founded America.
Take really sophisticated political theory, advanced theology, hauntingly beautiful music, achingly sentimental romance literature, people looking at a damp horizon and saying to themselves "I wonder what's over there?", armour that makes you look like a frackin' toaster, and really awesome-looking clothes. Stir. Place in Bob's brain. Wait a few seconds for the sparks to die down.
Okay, that's pretty complicated. That's how my brain works, okay?
I want to look like these guys (click on any image to enlarge):
Of course, with any sewing project, it's necessary to choose some nice fabric. For this doublet, I chose a soft, forest-green twill wool. I'm lining it with a mid-weight natural (unbleached) linen.
Since I'm using RH003 – 15th century Doublet & Hosen – and live with the pattern's creator, I don't need to worry overmuch about getting it right the first time, even though I'm a beginner. I just cut my size from the pattern paper, laid it over the fabric, and started cutting (according to the instructions, of course; shown at right).
There's really only one choice I needed to make – plain sleeves or those goofy "balloon-top" sleeves you sometimes see on upper-class doublets. Since the plan is to make a nice man's gown (RH005) to go over this, and the only way you can make the required enormous shoulders for a stylin' man's gown, I decided on the balloon tops to the sleeves.
I cut sleeves (shown left) and puff-ball parts (shown right) out of wool and lining.
And a collar.
But before I started on anything else, I had to decide how exactly I was going to do this. Like before, I wanted to use ALL RH ALL THE TIME – so I pulled out some of our Bockens linen sewing thread, made myself a new needle, and grabbed a block of beeswax (to wax the linen thread).
Because I assiduously follow all of Kass's instructions – and she wrote the Instructions in RH003 – I sewed the Doublet Body Lining together and got her to teach me how to fit it (shown left).
That done, it was "lather, rinse, repeat" for the outer material. Of course, I was SO on a roll I completely forgot to take a picture of it.
The next step is to assemble the collar by sewing the lining to the outer material along the top and sides (shown right), affixing that to the outer material (shown left), then tacking down the lining on the inside of the Doublet's body (also left).
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Where was I? Oh, yeah. Tabs.
So I sewed four dice bags, er, Tabs, and turned them right-side-out. Then they get attached exactly like the Collar.
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Barack Obama got his pick for Commerce Secretary on the third try. That would be former Washington Gov. Gary Locke, who was confirmed today.
He's doing not quite so well on his picks for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, where he's picked 33 out of the 48 games thus far. If you've done better, feel free to gloat.
But it would seem that Coach K's suggestion that the president has better ways to spend his time than filling out his brackets might have been misdirected...it seems as though Obama didn't spend that much time, after all.
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Fire extinguisher Bracket.
Is there a part no for a fire extinguisher bracket to locate a fire extinguisher in the WK,and a reccommended location in the WK? I know this is more an offroad orientated question but all my previous vehicles have had Extinguishers fitted.
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Make sure your getting the right type of extinguisher when you get these, you want a dry chem. can for vehicle fires
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I put an extinguisher is the right reaar webbing indent holder. I used a bungie cord to give it added security. This is not the best place to put it but until I figure a better non destructive mounting bracket location it will do.
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this may sound stupid but, what do you need a extinguisher in your vehicle for?!
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You need the extinguisher in your vehicle for the poor driver who's vehicle caught fire on the side of the highway. Hopefully you will never need it to put out a fire in your own rig. As an ex boy scout many years ago I sill remember the motto, "Be Prepared". :)
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i was gonna say, the probability of my jeep catching fire seems very slim! but as to help someone on side of road! who knows! thats true
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You can easily use a couple of quickfist clamps to mount one. I have a maglite mounted on the panel that sits right below the left rear window, very clean looking and secure. I plan on adding a fire extinguisher to the right side at some point using some quickfists as well.
Truck came with extinguisher installed by dealer, underneath passenger seat. They mounted a bracket that uses the seat bolts there ...
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You said "truck" came from dealer. Do you mean a Grand Cherokee or some other truck. If its a jeep G.C. does it get in the way of the passenger's feet ? Thanks in advance.
"Truck" as in JGC Overland WK 2009. Its kinda tucked in beneath the seat but if you move the passenger seat back then the extinguisher becomes 'exposed' bracket brace does sometimes catch on wife's heels :/ . My qife is shorter than me so moves seat forwards:)
Having said that its not a large extinguisher Worth the inconvenience knowing extra safety measures. I think by law here in the UAE all new cars must be fitted with them as standard.
Can take some pics for you tomorrow if required.
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Wow, I wonder how hard it is to get parts, service, etc. in the UAE. What do you do for a living there. Some time ago I had an invitation to work for an oil company in Saudi Arabia. After looking in to the living restrictions I opted to not go.
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The Best Business Books Of 1996By
From Hollywood scams to Russian booms, from superficial talk-show chatter to deep thoughts about the nature of organization, this year's top 10 business books cover a host of intriguing topics.
Americans have long been known for their optimism. Lately, though, many citizens seem worried that the country--and their standard of living--is on a downhill slide. One attempt to make sense of that concern is Robert J. Samuelson's The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement, 1945-1995 (Times Books). As Newsweek columnist Samuelson sees it, the country is richer, stronger, and more competitive than ever. But Americans feel they're losing ground because they were promised an unrealistic future by government and private enterprise.
"Something is now ending--the period in our history that began at the end of the Second World War and gave rise to a distinct vision of the American Dream," he writes. What's needed today, says Samuelson, is for true leaders to take up the task of lowering the public's expectations. Reviewer Robert J. Dowling, a BUSINESS WEEK assistant managing editor, found the book to be "a smart, balanced epitaph for an era--with a few clues for what's ahead."
Among the things that worry Americans are relations with other countries--notably Japan and Russia. R. Taggart Murphy's The Weight of the Yen: How Denial Imperils America's Future and Ruins an Alliance (Norton) tackles the question of how the U.S. became dependent on Japanese cash and whether it still matters. Murphy's verdict: It certainly does. The author, a veteran Tokyo-based investment banker, provides readers with a historical review of the U.S. policy blunders that led to record U.S. trade deficits.
"Americans have paid a high price for choosing to borrow money rather than face up to the need for far-reaching debate on the hard decisions that are the genuine stuff of honest politics," concludes Murphy. Reviewer William Glasgall observed that "Murphy writes with an authority that can come only from having watched the growth of a phenomenon from within."
Equally astute, albeit contrarian, are the co-authors of The Coming Russian Boom: A Guide to New Markets and Politics (Free Press)--Richard Layard, a professor at the London School of Economics, and John Parker, former Moscow correspondent for The Economist. Often seen as a basket case, Russia's economy, they contend, "will grow faster over the next 20 years than that of most OECD countries, and probably faster than most emerging markets (outside the Far East)." They predict growth rates of 5% a year by decade's end.
How could that be, you ask? Capitalism, the authors assert, has taken hold, and 70% of the economy is in private hands. Reviewer Rose Brady noted that, despite its underestimation of the ongoing political crisis, the book provides "a solid guide to the new Russian capitalism."
A crisis is also ongoing for the subject of Philip J. Hilts's Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-up (Addison-Wesley). Hilts, a New York Times health and science reporter, portrays Big Tobacco as involved in a conspiracy perpetuated through political funding, half-truths, outright lies, and slick marketing. But, he notes, the industry's act has been unraveling as the public has been exposed to the convincing testimony of numerous whistle-blowers and a trove of damning corporate documents.
Still, the author is no prohibitionist. "Cigarettes must be legal," he says, calling for more effective regulation. With its dramatic detail, the book is "accessible and exciting," said reviewer David Greising.
Smoke, as in smoke and mirrors, was instrumental as well to the efforts of two other empire-builders. Peter Guber and Jon Peters became co-chairmen of Sony Pictures in 1989 on the basis of Guber's hyperkinetic gab and mixed Hollywood track record. And as former Premiere writer Nancy Griffin and Time reporter Kim Masters describe in Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood (Simon & Schuster), the duo proceeded to give Sony a lesson it won't forget.
The company paid each of them annual salaries of $2.7 million, purchased their film production company for $200 million, and provided each with a corporate jet. In exchange, it got a series of turkeys such as Bruce Willis' Hudson Hawk, a movie that single-handedly lost $42 million. In the end, Guber pushed Peters out, then Guber was forced out--but not before winning an additional $200 million package to make films for the company. Such lunacy is skillfully described in the account, said reviewer Ron Grover, who commended the cautionary tale to "any investor seeking Tinseltown riches."
So on with the show--uh, news. The pundits, commentators, hucksters, and provocateurs who make up the "talkathon culture" of the airwaves are the subject of Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz's Hot Air: All Talk, All the Time (Times Books). "The national conversation has been coarsened, cheapened, reduced to name-calling...and bumper-sticker sloganeering" as a result of these programs, contends the author.
Kurtz admits that not all talk shows are bad--Nightline and Larry King Live are outposts of sanity, he says, particularly when compared with daytime TV's parade of transsexuals and male strippers. But the problem isn't simply sensationalism: The author faults such commentators as George Will and former U.S. News & World Report Editor David Gergen for their superficial "drive-by journalism." Reviewer Douglas Harbrecht, BUSINESS WEEK's Washington news editor, found Kurtz's effort "delicious to read."
The media spotlight was the last thing General Motors Corp. planners wanted as they focused on the nuts and bolts of a revolutionary product: an electric car, known as the Impact. The engineers faced huge hurdles, particularly the task of squeezing 100 miles of driving range out of an 850-pound battery pack. Many also worried that their careers could be damaged if GM decided to shelve the project. And even as the planners labored in secrecy, GM lobbyists were working to kill the California law that mandated the sale of such cars.
The story is the subject of Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson's The Car That Could: The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle (Random House). Reviewer David Woodruff called it "a masterful account, richly spiced with tales of clashing egos, GM's brush with financial disaster, and its ensuing boardroom coup." And it could hardly be more topical: Detroit's first all-new electric car in three-quarters of a century, the EV1--a renamed Impact--has recently gone on sale in California and Arizona.
It's an innovation that could have competitors sweating, if there is any such thing as a competitor. Challenging "the presumption that there are distinct, immutable businesses within which players scramble for supremacy," James F. Moore's The Death of Competition: Leadership & Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems (HarperBusiness) offers an interpretation of today's more fluid corporate relationships. Increasingly, says the author, a management consultant who has worked for AT&T and Hewlett-Packard Co., companies compete and cooperate across a variety of industries--which make up their "ecosystems."
Consider the experience of Microsoft Corp. Its ecosystem cuts across several businesses--personal computers, consumer electronics, corporate-information systems, and communications. But, according to Moore, it is dominant in only one area: the market for desktop-computer operating systems. The author offers lots more tangible examples and weighty concepts in what reviewer Ira Sager found to be "essential reading for managers who want to put today's business climate into a larger, albeit ecological, context."
One barometer of discontent in the office is the number of Dilbert cartoon strips on an office wall. Now managers can tune in by turning the pages of Scott Adams' The Dilbert Principle (HarperBusiness). More than a collection of strips, the book offers withering commentary on such phenomena as mission statements, management jargon, dress codes, performance reviews, and office furniture. "The best kind of communication...conveys the message `I am worthy of promotion' without accidentally transferring any other information," instructs Adams, a former Pacific Telesis Group cubicle-dweller. And, making a bid to be the Ambrose Bierce of our times, he lists 13 "great lies of management," including "employees are our most valuable asset" and "we reward risk-takers."
Amusing but not useful, you say? Well, what about Adams' "tips for gaining wealth and personal power at the expense of people who are studying to be team players"? With a comic strip on nearly every page--some have four--and dozens of E-mailed, true-life anecdotes on management miscues, The Dilbert Principle has only one obvious failing: no stickum to make it easy to post on cubicle walls.
Finally, there is Peter L. Bernstein's ambitious Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (Wiley). The effort to measure and cope with risk in fields ranging from engineering, science, and medicine to insurance and the stock market is basic to modern life, says Bernstein. Rather than leaving the future to the gods or fate as the ancients did, modern men and women, from Blaise Pascal to Florence Nightingale, have attempted to predict and assign probabilities to outcomes.
Bernstein, a working Wall Street economist who consults for institutional investors and companies, has produced a lively, panoramic book with a cast of characters ranging from poet-mathematician Omar Khayyam to game theorist and computer designer John von Neumann. What's more, the author works in tidbits of economic research and stories from his own 40-year career. Altogether, wrote reviewer Peter Coy, a BUSINESS WEEK technology editor, "the book is an enchanting blend of history and investment advice." The conclusion? By selecting it or any other of this year's top 10, you'll run little risk of a less-than-engrossing read.


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By Andrea Chalfin News Dir. On August 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture/Ranching, Andrea Chalfin, Business, KRCC News, Mise en Place, Slideshow
Welcome to Mise en Place, a journey of culinary delight where anything can happen. Based on the Colorado Department of Agriculture's list of food by month, KRCC takes a look at farmers, chefs, and fodder, all with a Centennial State bent.
Each month, the state's agriculture department highlights a commodity and provides a recipe using that product. We take it a step further.
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Right now is the prime picking season for cantaloupe, and the prime place to find the melon is certainly Rocky Ford. KRCC's Andrea Chalfin went down to visit with melon farmer Greg Smith and his son Adam of Smith Farms, and also spoke with Rocky Ford entrepreneur Shirley Ann Cathey of Shirley Ann's Field Fresh Produce, who sells Rocky Ford cantaloupe preserves.
Click below for the recipe from the Colorado Department of Agriculture for Sweet Chile Chicken and Grilled Cantaloupe Panini.
Sweet Chile Chicken and Grilled Cantaloupe Panini
Chef Jason K. Morse, C.E.C., Valley Country Club, Aurora, Colo.
2 slices Panini Bread
1 ea. 5oz. Chicken Breast, marinated in olive oil, red wine vinegar, herbs, salt and pepper
1 Tbsp. Sweet Chile Sauce
1/4 ea. Cantaloupe, peeled, seeded and sliced
2 Tbsp. Rondele or Boursin Cheese Spread
1 ball Fresh Mozzarella, sliced
1 cup Mixed Greens
2 Tbsp. Balsamic Vinaigrette
Grill the marinated chicken until fully cooked, then glaze with the sweet chile sauce and remove from heat. Slightly season the sliced cantaloupe and grill until nicely marked.
Spread cheese on both slices of bread. Place the grilled cantaloupe on top of the cheese spread on one piece of bread. Slice the chicken on a bias and place on top of the cantaloupe. Place three slices of mozzarella on top of the chicken and then add the other slice of bread on top. Lightly butter both sides of the bread and place into a Panini press. Cook until the cheese has started to melt and the bread is golden brown.
Toss mixed greens with balsamic vinaigrette. Separate the chicken from the bread, insert the mixed greens and reassemble the sandwich. Slice and serve.
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i have a stock 41 chevy project car that i plan on doing a frame off resto. this will be my first complete build. i would like to get rid of the original 216 inline 6 and go with a 305 or 350. what do i need to do to the front end to support this change?
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Several companies make bolt on kits for using a mustang II front suspension and bolt in motor mounts. . the old chevy used a torque tube enclosed drive shaft. you can also buy the bolt in parts to up grade to a newer rear end. that is the nice thing about old chevies and fords. a lot of stuff is available.
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