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First Book Chest
I remember when my parents bought their first TV set. It was a Dumont. Long after the TV was no more, they kept the cabinet, as my Mother thought it was great furniture. This Book chest reminds me all in the world of our Dumont TV set. It was built for books - not a TV; the elm is simply beautiful with a delightfully carved base. Rarely does one find original hinges in Chinese furniture. As a result, the doors are actually removable. This case originated in Shandong province during the first quarter of the 20th century, and has a replaced shelf. My Mother would have loved it.
Wood: Elm
Province: Shangdong
Dimensions: 36" x 36" x 16"
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The Century was welcomed to the fleet with a maiden voyage of Chicken & Sausage Stew.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
BS&R Century 10 inch Deep Camp Oven
The Century was welcomed to the fleet with a maiden voyage of Chicken & Sausage Stew.
15 comments:
- Chilebrown said...
Most Awesome, Did you have to do any repair?
I like your guard pig
- November 7, 2010 at 6:00 PM
- Greg said...
It was cleaned and had a base of seasoning before I bought it.
I've added more seasoning. Soon it will as black as the Lodges you see in the photos.
The pig makes sure I don't forget the wonders of pork.
- November 8, 2010 at 7:13 AM
- kkryno said...
A wonderful addition to your coffers! I'm going to have to sneak one home, if I can get it past K. ;)
- November 8, 2010 at 12:11 PM
- Brett said...
Nice score. Could you tell me what seasoning you added and did you add the water that the potatoes and carrots are in? Just getting into dutch oven cooking.
- November 8, 2010 at 1:25 PM
- Greg said...
kkryno - Diversions are best way to sneak things in my experience.
Brett - Salt, pepper, thyme, red chile flakes, 4 cloves of garlic and the sausage was andouille. Plenty of flavor.
I used some of that water but not all.
- November 8, 2010 at 8:55 PM
Hey Greg , Love your blog , been into cast iron for about 2 years , I'm 66 , been making no/knead bread , didn't have any DO , and now have 3 , an #8 Piqua , #8 Griswold and the latest a #9 Griswold that I got from a neighbor for $10.00 . Love reading what ever you have to say , very informative .
Big L
- November 10, 2010 at 4:41 AM
- Greg said...
BigL - Thanks!
I have a Griswold #9 DO in my project pile so you may see it here in the future.
No knead rules! All credit to Jim Lahey.
- November 13, 2010 at 2:20 PM
- David said...
Where did you pick up the CO? It's so hard to find good vintage CI sources.
- November 14, 2010 at 10:56 PM
- homegrown countrygirl said...
Hi, Greg! Love your updates whenever they are. You can't get rid of me... I'll always keep checking back, no matter how often you post. Enjoyed seeing that awesome pig-pig. Have good travels!
- November 15, 2010 at 5:57 AM
- Chilebrown said...
Happy Thanksgiving Eve, May your pots be black and iron
- November 24, 2010 at 8:25 PM
DST ended...we are now on regular time. I think you mean you want DST all the time! Nice pot. Nice blog...I bet that sh*t cooked up nice even if we cant see it.
- December 2, 2010 at 9:21 AM
- JW said...
I recently read in Cook's Illustrated a method for seasoning with flaxseed oil. Have you tried this?
- February 8, 2011 at 10:59 PM
- Greg said...
Life is too short to read Cook's Illustrated.
I have not tried it but I hope they didn't claim credit for it.
Sheryl Canter was the first to advocate this as far as I know.
- February 9, 2011 at 8:42 AM
- Mark Dutch Oven said...
Those dutch ovens look really nice and well-seasoned. I mostly use 12" ovens when I cook. I like to have a few leftovers for lunch, even though sometimes, there aren't any.
- August 2, 2011 at 2:22 PM
- Wrought Iron Pittsburgh said...
That is so vintage cooking equipment! Now I really know what makes food really so delectable. It's simply because of how it is made and the materials employed.
- October 9, 2011 at 8:24 AM

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They came to say good-bye to the Orange Bowl, but as it stands now, Hurricanes fans might as well say good-bye to the current season. UM has saved the worst for last.
Normally, I'd sit here and take in the final game ever at the Orange Bowl until the 7 minute mark -- when I head down to the field to grab quotes. But seeing how bad things are, I figured I'd let this become a forum for bigger issues you might want to tackle.
For starters, is this the most embarrasing moment for you as a Hurricanes fan?
Are we taking things for granted? I mean that in the sense that Randy Shannon is going to be able to turn this around. I know UM has some talented recruits waiting to come in, but can this program really climb back to the moutaintop? What makes you still have that faith today?
You digest that. I've got the dreadful play-by-play below.
By the way, I was on the field before the game, gathering thoughts from some of the greats -- Bennie Blades, Gino Torretta, Ottis Anderson and Darin Smith. I'll post the audio later tonight.
- Virginia wins the toss and defers to the second half. UM will receive.
UM 1st Drive (1st and 10 at UM 33, 14:53)
- Ryan Hill returns the opening kickoff out to the 33-yard line.
- After a 4-yard run by Javarris James and a 2-yard scramble by Kyle Wright, Darnell Jenkins comes through with the first big play for Miami, hauling a 5-yard catch for a first down to the UM 44.
- On the next set of downs, Wright goes to Lance Leggett on third and 6, but for only 3 yards. UM punts and Matt Bosher gets off a 45-yarder downed by Colin McCarthy at the Virginia 4.
VA 1st Drive (1st and 10 at the UVA 4, 11:33)
- After Kenny Phillips make a nice play in the backfield for a 1-yard loss, Virginia QB Jameel Sewell finds his tight end Tom Santi for a 25-yard gain upfield before he Santi steps out of bounds. On the next play, Virginia runs a screen play to running back Mikell Simpson, who picks up 11 yards and another first down to the UM 38.
- On the next play, Simpson sweeps wide and rumbles all the way down to the UM 34, picking up 38 yards on the play after getting away twice from Tavares Gooden.
- On the very next play, UM has a chance to sack Sewell back for a big loss, but he escapes the grasp of Darryl Sharpton and Vegas Franklin and scrambles forward for a 5-yard gain.
- With 8:35 left Virginia faces 3rd and 5 at the UM 29 and picks up a first down when Sewell moves left and finds receiver Maurice Covington wide open in the middle of the field. And he waltzes past Willie Cooper for a with 8:26 left. Drive: 7 plays, 96 yards, 3:07. UVA 7, UM 0.
- And the Orange Bowl is stunned.
UM 2nd Drive (1st and 10 at UM 25, 8:18)
- On the ensuing kickoff, Shawnbrey McNeal goes down awkwardly after fielding the kick and limps off the field.
- On first down, Darnell Jenkins lines up at quarterback and takes a direct snap forward for short yardage. UM gets flagged for holding. Kyle Wright returns to the game.
- On first and 20, Dajleon Farr gets open over the middle for an 11-yard gain. On second and 9, fullback Jerrell Mabry picks up 3 yards, bringing up a 3rd and 6. On the next play, Virginia brings the safety blitz and Wright's pass to Jerrell Mabry bounces off his hands and into the hands of Virginia cornerback Vic Hall who intercepts the ball at the UM 36.
UV 2nd Drive (1st and 10 at UM 36)
- On the first play, Sewell tries to go deep down the center of the field and is intercepted by Randy Phillips, who returns the ball to the UM 27. The Canes catch a break.
UM 3rd Drive (1st and 10 at UM 27)
- After a 1-yard run by Graig Cooper and incomplete pass by Kyle Wright, he gets picked off again -- this time by linebacker Jon Copper who sits back in zone coverage and catches the ball at the UM 36.
UV 3rd Drive (1st and 10 at UM 36, 5:13 left)
- On first down, after a short run, UM defensive tackle Antonio Dixon limps off the field. Not good news. On third and 11 at the UM 37, UM brings the blitz and sacks Sewell, forcing a fumble that Colin McCarthy scoops up and returns for a touchdown. But the play is called back because Vegas Franklin jumped offsides.
- On the next play, Franklin makes up for his goof -- somewhat -- by sacking Sewell at the UM 35.
- Virginia punter Chris Gould tries to pooch the ball, but it bounces into the end zone.
UM 4th Drive (1st and 10 at UM 20, 2:51 left)
- Despite all the troubles early on, the Canes should feel lucky to only be down 7-0. If I'm Randy Shannon, I'm letting Cooper and James run the football.
- UM goes three and out after Darnell Jenkins and Jarell Mabry drop what would have been first down catches.
- Things get worse when Matt Bosher's punt gets blocked by Josh Zidenberg and it rolls out of bounds at the UM 5.
UV 4th Drive (1st and 10 at UM 4)
- Two plays later, tailback Keith Payne follows his blockers into the end zone to make it 14-0 with 1:08 to play. Drive: 2 plays, 4 yards, :44. UVA 14, UM 0.
UM 5th Drive (1st and 10 at UM 22)
- With all the big-time recruits on the sidelines, you'd think Randy Shannon would get some of them to put on uniforms at halftime.
- Javarris James picks up UM's 2nd first down afer back-to-back runs net 11 yards... END OF THE FIRST QUARTER.
UM 5th Drive (1st and 10 at UM 22)
- UM picks up action here in the second quarter with a 1st and 10 at the UM 33. On first down, Wright fakes a handoff and has Darnell Jenkins open despit double-coverage and the pass falls incomplete.
- UM's drive goes south two plays later when Lance Leggett finds himself open in the middle of the field, falls to the ground and Kyl Wright's pass bounces off his chest and hands and up into the hands off a Virginia safety who returns it to the UM 21.
UV 5th Drive (1st and 10 at UM 21)
- UM's defense is getting pressure on Sewell, but that offsides penalty right now on Vegas Franklin looms large.
- Virginia ends up scoring on a 33-yard field goal by Gould with 13:29 left.
UM 6th Drive (1st and 10 at UM 3)
- The comedy of erros continues. Ryan Hill fields a bouncing ball that would have gone out of bounds. Instead, he steps out of bounds at the 3 yardline giving UM horrible field position. Miami ends up punting.
UV 6th Drive (1st and 10 at UM 38)
- Sewell caps a quick drive with a one-yard plunge into the end zone, making the score 23-0 with 10:02 to play. Do the fans start hitting the exits now? UVA 24, UM 0.
UM 7th Drive (1st and 10 at UM 28)
- On first down, Nate Collins sacks Kyle Wright at the UM 23. On second and 15, Shannon calls time out. On the next play, Graig Cooper explodes for a 25-yard gain upfield to the UM 48.
- UM punts four plays later.
UV 7th Drive (1st and 10 at UV 28, 7:35)
- I'm just going to stop doing play by play. This is amazing. Virginia is just killing UM. Virginia scores again. 31-0.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Members of the Oak Creek Sikh (seek) temple were among the guests at a White House event honoring the founder of Sikhism.
The temple president and five relatives of the dead and injured visited Washington on Tuesday. First lady Mitchell Obama offered consoling words and hugged family members, just as she did in Oak Creek following the August massacre.
Rajwant Singh chairs the Sikh Council on Religion and Education. He also attended and thanked Obama for her support of the Sikh community.
A white supremacist killed six Sikh worshippers at the temple and injured four other people before taking his own life.
Among those killed was the former temple president. His son couldn't go to Washington because he's preparing to take his father's ashes to India next week.
OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) -- The Oak Creek police officer who survived 14 gunshots from the gunman who went on a fatal rampage at the Sikh temple says he thought of his training as the assailant kept shooting him -- "in a high-risk incident, I will survive."
Lt. Brian Murphy says he thought to himself as he lay wounded in the temple's parking lot Aug. 5, "I'm not going out like this. I'm not going out in a parking lot."
Three gunshots struck his protective vest. Eleven more hit his arms, hands, legs and the back of his head. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says Murphy had three operations and faces three more.
Six Sikh worshippers were killed and three were wounded by a white supremacist who killed himself after he was shot by Officer Sam Lenda.


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The 4th annual Alumni and Friends Event was held May 8, 2010 at the Rome Braves Stadium. The event is sponsored by the GHC Alumni Association, GHC Foundation and Liberty Mutual Insurance. Over 120 people attended the event, the largest crowd yet. There were alumni in from Jasper and Marietta. We had faculty and staff and their families in attendance. Amy Astin, Board President welcomed the crowd and door prizes were drawn for bag chairs, hats and water bottles.
GHC Mascot, Bolt The Charger, made an appearance to say hello to everyone and posed for photo opportunities with Romey and Roxey, the Braves Mascot. Though the wind was blowing, the sun was shining and everyone had a great time reconnecting. Unfortunately the Braves lost 0-6.
For more information about the GHC Alumi Association go to: www.gahighlandsalumni.com


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SPRINGFIELD --- The Illinois House today sent Gov. Pat Quinn legislation that would crack down on a fugitive's family members who help him flee.
The measure would make it a felony for a family member to help prevent a fugitive's arrest or aid in his escape from a jurisdiction to avoid prosecution.
A family member would have to be at least age 18 to be charged under the proposal, which passed 114-0. It sailed out of the Senate last month on a 52-0 vote.
Illinois is one of only 14 states that exempt close relatives from criminal charges, a point underscored in the Tribune series "Fugitives From Justice," which recently was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting. Currently, Illinois law exempts from prosecution spouses, parents, children and siblings who aid and assist a fugitive.
The Tribune documented the case of Muaz Haffar, who fled to Syria in 2005 after being charged with killing student Tombol Malik, 23, according to law enforcement sources. Haffar's father, Dr. Nabil Haffar, bought a plane ticket to help his son escape, according to the sources. His father denies buying the ticket. Records and interviews indicate authorities believe that Muaz Haffar is still at large in Syria.


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Wrapping up its fourth year, the UC Hastings Challenge raised almost $200,000 in 2012. Twenty-five team captains inspired their UC Hastings colleagues to participate in this annual fundraising campaign. Seven firms achieved the 100 percent goal, and five firms reached 50 percent.
Alyce Rubinfeld Fox '82 has served as chair of the Challenge for two years. "This was a momentous year for the Challenge," Rubinfeld Fox says. "It is gratifying to work with so many enthusiastic alumni alumni volunteers and donors, and I am looking forward to achieving even better results in 2013."
Funds raised are used to support scholarships, clinical programs, career services, and many other areas that benefit from the generosity of alumni. For information about the 2013 Challenge, contact Robin Drysdale, annual giving manager, at 415.565.4852 or firstname.lastname@example.com
PLATINUM LEVEL (100 Percent Participation)
Allen Matkins, Sandi Nichols '81 and Mark Seifert '01
Duane Morris, Philip Matthews '77
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Gordon & Rees, Skip McCowan '74 and Mike Lucey '81
Haynes Boone, William O'Neill '07
Keker & Van Nest, Simona Agnolucci '06
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Bartko Zankel, Griff Towle '89
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Farella Braun + Martel, Kelly Woodruff '92
Pillsbury, Gerry Hinkley '75 and Jim Young '69
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Actually, according to Wikipedia the number has tripled in the last six months.
Feet vs armpits. Should be a vast difference.
The article doesn't say whether these chips are cheaper to make than the current technology.
I thought this sounded familiar. [slashdot.org]
That depends on youe definition of 'the mainstream market'. This technology may never appear in desktop/laptop PCs, but become popular in handheld devices where power consumption is a major issue. There is a limited amount of power saving economically feasible in PCs as long as the displays and other peripherals continue to be major power hogs.
Another interesting market might be in server farms. But I wouldn't count on this driving the market. CPU architectures specific to servers haven't sold well, so this isn't an economically viable niche.
Microcontrollers are a large enough market segment to justify the R&D. I forget where I read this, but if you take the total percentage of the uP and uCs installed in PCs and round it to the nearest whole percent, that number is zero.
This seems to be a complete other kind of advancement than regular chip evolution we've seen so far.
They seem to have departed from standard practice in two ways. First, they use an on-chip DC-DC converter to dynamically scale the voltage down to the minimum required to meet whatever performance metric is specified.
That's not really new by itself. Just for an obvious example, most Flash ROM chips need a relatively high voltage for writing. Early Flash ROM chips used dual power supplies to support that, but most current Flash ROM chips use a single external power supply and an on-board DC-DC convert
For the most part, you get a trade-off between voltage and speed -- with a higher voltage, you can charge up a more reactive load more quickly, giving faster rise and fall times. That translates directly to higher bus speed.
I've been out of it for awhile, but yeah, that's what I was thinking. Unless they've really pulled out some whizbangery, they've just made a really slow processor that doesn't take much power. Meh. How much different is this, really from making a CMOS processor with a low-voltage ext
I was about to post something witty about these guys having to run and hide from the Moore's Police...Commercial applications could become available "in five years, maybe even sooner, in a number of exciting areas," Chandrakasan says.
Anyway, I didn't find an explanation in the article. So what is a theoretical 100% efficiency with respect to logic circuits? Every electron turned into a bit of information? Every pair of electrons? It seems
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2002-03 Men's Basketball
bc 93, at tu 83
Bluffton's hot shooting produces 93-83 HCAC win at TransylvaniaBy Tim Stried
January 18, 2003
[ Live webcast at CyberSportUSA ]
Bluffton College shot a season-high 75% from 3-point range, hitting 12-of-16 shots from beyond the arc, to collect their first Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference victory of the season Saturday afternoon 93-83 at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky.
Bluffton finished the game with a 63.3% effort for total field goals, also a season-high, and held off a second-half Transy rally to improve to 7-9 overall this season and 1-5 in the HCAC. TU falls to 6-9 overall and 0-6 in the HCAC.
The win was head coach Guy Neal's 142nd at Bluffton, which moves him into sole possession of second place on the BC all-time wins list. Glenn Snyder is tops on that list with 150 wins.
Senior Mike Leimeister scored a game-high 29 points and freshman Scott Bergman, in his first collegiate start, scored a career-high 20 points as that duo combined to hit 6-of-8 three-pointers in the game.
Seniors Marcus Bixler and Derek DeNero were both 2-for-2 from trey land and finished with 12 and 10 points, respectively. Freshman Darren Clark added a career-high nine points.
Bluffton snaps a three game losing skid with the victory and will host Defiance College Wednesday night at 7:30 in Founders Hall.
Bluffton led by as many as 17 points in the first half at 32-15 with 5:25 remaining before halftime but the Pioneers went on a 13-0 run at that point to cut the lead to four points with 1:31 left. BC led 38-29 at the intermission and pushed their lead back up to 18 points with 11:55 remaining in the game.
Transylvania clawed their way back into the game, however, to again trail by just four points with under six minutes to go, but the Pioneers got no closer as Leimeister scored Bluffton's next 11 points to keep Bluffton ahead.


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Ryan M. Raynor, 40, of 246 Buffalo Street died unexpectedly Sunday, June 9, 2013, in his home.
A native of Jamestown, he was born Sept. 4, 1972, a son of Janie Pognant Raynor and the late Michael Raynor.
He was a 1990 graduate of Mayville Central School.
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He was employed by Bay Valley, North East, Pa., as second shift production supervisor. He earlier had worked for Petri Baking in Silver Creek.
He was an outdoorsman who enjoyed gardening and riding mountain bike. He was an avid fan of NASCAR.
Surviving besides his mother of Mayville are his wife, Jennifer Newberry Raynor, whom he married Aug. 12, 2006; two sons, Alec Newberry and Dakotah Raynor; a brother, Randy (Mary) Raynor of Fredonia; nephew, Brady Raynor of Fredonia; mother-in-law, Lori Newberry of Lakewood; and brother-in-law, Shane Newberry of Jamestown.
Besides his father, he was preceded in death by his father-in-law, Tom Newberry.
No funeral service will be observed. Friends were received from 5 to 8 p.m., Monday, June 17 in the Lind Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to American Diabetes Association, 315 Alberta Dr Ste 102, Amherst, N.Y. 14226 or a charity of choice.
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The Bobcats host their second tournament of the season this weekend, competing in the six-team Little Feet Invitational. They start off with Lincoln Memorial University (2-1-1) Friday, Sept. 11 at 8:30 p.m. and finish with their first ranked opponent of 2009, No. 11 Carson-Newman College (4-0) Sunday, Sept. 13 at 3:30 p.m. Lynn University, Southern New Hampshire University and Tusculum College also join in the fray.


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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of server acceleration technology vendor Fusion-IO (FIO) are up $1.72, or 10%, at $18.31, after the company this afternoon reported fiscal Q3 revenue and earnings per share that exceeded analysts' expectations,
Revenue in the three months ended in March fell 7%, year over year, to $87.7 million, yielding a 3-cent net loss per share.
Analysts had been modeling $80.4 million and a 7-cent loss.
Gross margin in the quarter, on an adjusted basis, was 59.9%.
The company announced separately that it purchased startup NexGen Storage for $114 million in cash and $5 million in stock. Said CEO David Flynn,
With the acquisition of NexGen Storage, Fusion-io is aggressively expanding into the small to medium enterprise market with a hybrid solution that cost-effectively achieves the performance of an all-flash array. NexGen's hybrid storage system creates growth opportunity in an important market segment and strongly complements our portfolio of software defined, open systems."
For the current quarter, the company sees revenue of $110 million, above the consensus $107.7 million estimate, and an operating loss of $5 million, on an adjusted basis, which is better than the $14.8 million currently being modeled by the Street, according to FactSet.
That would bring full-year 2013 revenue to about $435 million, above the consensus $427 million.
Fusion-IO executives will host a conference call with analysts at 5 pm, Eastern time, and you can catch the webcast of it on the company's investor Web site.


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I'm a kind of beginner with XML. Recently, I've downloaded a software (a sort of calendar), which enables to organize my everyday life. And you can customize it. All the codes must be opened with XML. Therefore, I use a very simple tool: Notepad. But I've been trying to change a specific thing for a while, but no results yet.
So, what I'd like to reach is to see my daily task appear in a specific color and when it is done, this very task has to be stricken through by itself.
But the problem is that by default this software or system gives me only either the color for my daily task and when it's completed, impossible to strike through, or one basic color for my task (white), and when it's completed, it is automatically stricken through.
I have either this: 1) http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2489/qbkm.png or this: 2) http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/5434/t7pq.png
That's why I'd like to find out how to combine it to choose one specific color for each category and simultaneously to have it crossed out when the task is completed. Here is what I'd like to have: http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/2819/kfk5.png
And this, for the same category.
Here is the code for 1):
<category id="Holidays">
<appearance target="2" layer="0" priority="0" element="font.normal" color="color.holiday" effect="NORMAL" align="TOP-LEFT" indent="-10" />
<appearance target="4" layer="0" priority="0" element="font.normal" color="color.holiday" effect="NORMAL" align="TOP-LEFT" padding="10,0,0,0" />
<appearance target="16" layer="0" priority="0" element="font.bold" color="color.holiday" effect="NORMAL" align="TOP-LEFT" />
<appearance target="8" layer="0" priority="0" element="font.medium" color="color.holiday" effect="NORMAL" align="TOP-LEFT" padding="15,0,0,0" />
<appearance target="1" layer="5" priority="2" element="bitmap.icon.small.holiday" align="TOP-LEFT" showalways="1" ignoredefault="1" />
<appearance target="30" layer="0" priority="1" element="bitmap.icon.holiday" showalways="1" />
<appearance target="32" layer="0" priority="1" element="bitmap.icon.small.holiday" showalways="1" />
<appearance target="64" priority="1" element="bitmap.schedule.event.yellow" />
Here is the code for 2):
<category id="Health">
<appearance target="1" layer="5" priority="2" element="bitmap.icon.small.health" align="TOP-LEFT" showalways="1" ignoredefault="1" />
<appearance target="30" layer="0" priority="1" element="bitmap.icon.health" showalways="1" />
<appearance target="32" layer="0" priority="1" element="bitmap.icon.small.health" showalways="1" />
So, my question is: How to combine these two above codes in order to get on the one hand the color wanted for a specific category and on the other hand to have the task stricken through when it's completed.
Hope I'm at the right place to ask


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - AARP and the AARP Bulletin recently released the most comprehensive survey yet examining how boomers and their parents' generation are managing the current economic downturn, from paying for everyday necessities to changing their investment strategies.According to the survey, 81 percent of all Americans ages 45 and older say the economy is in fairly bad or very bad condition, and almost three-in-four (74 percent) say their elected officials are not doing enough to help people caught in the economic squeeze.
"The current economic downturn is forcing millions of Americans to make very difficult decisions on their immediate survival and long-term financial security," said Tom Nelson, AARP's Chief Operating Officer. "They are looking for help, and they want more action from our elected leaders."
Baby boomers, workers feeling biggest impact
Baby boomers are feeling a relatively greater impact of the economic downturn, and some of their reactions – like compromising their retirement savings and even cutting back on medications – have negative implications for the future.
More than one out of four middle-aged and older workers (27 percent) say they postponed plans to retire due to the recent economic downturn.
Almost 25 percent of people ages 45-64 are prematurely taking money out of their 401(k)s and other investments. Younger boomers (ages 45-54), in particular, are doing things like postponing paying bills (27 percent) and even cutting back on medications (17 percent).
"It may be years before we realize the full scope of the current economic crisis," added Nelson. "Taking money out of your retirement savings has a compounding effect because that money is not allowed to grow at a time when you have fewer working years to replace the losses. Even more troubling, shortchanging your health care can lead to higher health care costs down the road."
Retirees, 65+ more accustomed to economic pressure
Retirees and 65+ Americans are more likely to depend on fixed incomes, which means they have less room to make spending changes and may be bearing the biggest burden of rising prices.
Almost six-out-of-ten (59 percent) of people 65+ in this group are having a harder time paying for food, gas and medicine, and more than a third (34 percent) of all retirees have had to help a child pay bills in the last year. More than one-in-ten (11 percent) of retirees have had to seek help from loved ones or charity organizations in the last year.
"Retirees and older Americans have had to deal with skyrocketing health care costs on fixed incomes for years," said Nelson. "For them, the current economic slump means more of the same."
Shared impact and common concerns
Overall, the poll shows that there is a sense of shared pain and common concerns among boomers and older generations - both among retirees and those looking to retire in the foreseeable future. Eighty-one percent of all respondents say the economy is in fairly bad or very bad condition and 75 percent think it's getting worse.
Almost two-thirds (63 percent) of those asked own stocks individually or through retirement plans like 401(k)'s or IRAs. More than 7 in 10 (72 percent) of these investors lost money on their portfolio in the last year.
While most of all respondents (58 percent) are not concerned about the impact of mortgage foreclosures on their personal well-being, almost 9 in 10 are concerned about the effect of foreclosures on the larger economy and 64 percent are concerned about the impact on their communities.
AARP and the AARP Bulletin commissioned the survey, titled "The Economic Slowdown's Impact on Middle-Aged and Older Americans." The national telephone survey of 1,002 people ages 45 and older, was conducted April 12 - 23, 2008 by Woelfel Research, Inc.
For more information visit AARP Bulletin Today or view the the complete survey here: http://www.aarp.org/research/economy/trends/economy_survey.html.


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The U.N. Security Council has canceled a meeting on a resolution aimed at securing and destroying Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles.
The closed consultations had been scheduled for 4 p.m. EDT Tuesday. Australian Ambassador Gary Guinlan says in a Twitter message that the meeting was canceled "following withdrawal of the request for consultations."
Council diplomats said Russia asked for the meeting and then withdrew its request. There were no other details.
The Syrian government has accepted a proposal from Russia, its most powerful ally, to give up its chemical weapons stockpile. France has announced that it plans to introduce a Security Council resolution to ensure international verification of the disarmament.
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Syria says it has accepted Russia's proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Tuesday after meeting with Russian parliament speaker that his government quickly agreed to the Russian initiative to "derail the U.S. aggression."
Meanwhile, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia is now working with Syria to prepare a detailed plan of action, which will be presented shortly.
Lavrov said that Russia will then be ready to finalize the plan together with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
President Barack Obama said Monday the Russian proposal could be "potentially a significant breakthrough," but he remained skeptical that Syria would follow through.
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text: Weekly meeting of the Rochelle Kiwanis Golden K. All meetings are held at the Paddock Room, Hickory Grove in Rochelle, IL. The first meeting of each month is abbreviated due to a board meeting which follows. All other weekly meetings include a guest speaker, announced in advance. Breakfast is included, and guests are welcome (breakfast on us).


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Tiny House in a Landscape
I was hiking up this mountain to reach a paragliding launch in order to fly back down when I came across this interesting tiny house in a landscape.
The little house, well camouflaged among the rocks, was built from local materials and is in Croatia.
Biokovo is the second-highest mountain range in Croatia, located along the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea, between the rivers of Cetina and Neretva. You can learn more about the area here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biokovo.
Thanks Peter Jennings for sharing this photograph with us.


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In an article on HardBallTimes the author has a short section about using projected stats and some complicated analysis to create the optimal lineup. Assuming the projections are right of course, here's what it put out for the Reds (it doesn't have pitchers and requires 9 players so I used Womack as a proxy for our pitcher).
1. Freel
2. Kearns
3. Dunn
4. Griffey
5. Pena
6. Encarnacion
7. Lopez
8. Larue
9. Womack
I like it! If you take Freel out and add in another "pitcher" Lopez moves to 1, LaRue to 7, and the new "pitcher" moves to 8. In other words, it likes Kearns batting 2nd (as do I) and Womack is the worst hitter in baseball.


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In aortic insufficiency the situation is somewhat different.
Low diastolic pressure is frequently pathognomonic of aortic insufficiency.
aortic insufficiency also may be accompanied by a high systolic or by a normal systolic pressure.
It is characteristic of all cases of aortic insufficiency that the diastolic pressure is low, even as low as 30 mm.
In cases of aortic insufficiency, the reaction is present in almost every case.
aortic insufficiency n.
Valvular insufficiency involving the aortic valve.


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Been using Expression Web 4 and tried this for its ease. Took a couple of minutes to learn. Haven't attempted CSS yet. But it's a pretty slick. Thank yo Source Forge.
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Theresa - biege spotted
Added Apr 2, 2013
by reneerossini
Brisbane, Australia
I had been waiting a while to get around to this one, and it was a simple and rewarding pattern. I got it done in a day, so even though there are details its super easy to follow and execute.
Favourite: The princess line bodice and ruffles are very sweet, add detail that makes it that little bit nicer, and give a lot of room for fine-tuning the shape for the perfect fit.
Tips: I feel like this dress is all about the neck-line, so put the time into the interface binding and getting it straight. I would have preferred it to be a bit longer to get the most out of this amazing skirt, so if I did it again I'de be a bit more generous on the length.
Alterations: Im pretty bottom-heavy so I took the pockets out as they made my hips look wider. I kept the zigzag on the ruffle exposed and put a couple of extra runs of stitches on the inner panel for added detail.
Material Notes
Cotton-poly blend – $2 from the opshop
45cm invisible zipper
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Apr 14, 2013, 06.44 PMby Vanessa Velasquez
lovely dress…and i had to say it, while watching your photos i heard in my head : pretty woman¨s picture music, haha!!
Apr 3, 2013, 02.58 PMby turtlegirl00
this is timeless and adorable!! fab job!!!
Apr 2, 2013, 05.07 PMby Mary Athey
fab dress and what a bargain for the fabric. its lovely on you as well x
Apr 2, 2013, 04.28 PMby ariation
Very nice…….The pattern looks good in polka dot!
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AMHERST — The counterculture comedy troupe Firesign Theatre called its second album "How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?" What makes the title funny is that the question needs no answer. Much of the fascination of the empty spaces seen in "Lynne Cohen: False Clues" has to do with the unanswerability of the questions those spaces pose — and how those spaces, even though they really do exist, seem like nowhere at all. These locations create a sense of dislocation.
The show runs through March 9 at the University Museum of Contemporary Art, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The 38 images by the Canadian photographer could be mistaken for accidental installations. These spaces have the heightened, uncanny look of settings arranged and altered for artistic effect. Yet they are all actual rooms or spaces she happened upon: offices, laboratories, classrooms, storage facilities, shooting ranges. "I don't search for something weird," Cohen has said. "What I want is something just a step from the everyday."
She photographs these spaces with a view camera. View cameras offer a precision of detail beyond what the human eye normally takes in. This lends the images a sense of hyper-reality. "It looks faker than if it were fake," Cohen says in a video interview accompanying the show. That's exactly right. Everything is almost spooky, so uninflected as to seem one big inflection. The results are transfixing. There's a sense of nearly demented calm. Architecture is said to be frozen music. These spaces are frozen silence. They have the appearance of drained aquariums or terrariums with all the air pumped out. No people are visible. To populate would be to violate. The rooms feel that complete, that self-contained.
As if to compensate for the lack of people, there are odd objects aplenty: targets, microphones, silhouettes of submarines, a chandelier, balloons, pillows, photographs of many fez-wearing men. They all contribute to the sense of serene dislocation.
Why does that room have an artificial tree in it, with Astroturf on the floor and not one but two shades of green on the walls? What is that small cross doing on that curving white wall with two light fixtures? There are no answers. Open in appearance yet hermetic in meaning, these spaces give a sense of having secrets that they refuse to reveal.
The pictures are big. Most are about 4 feet by 5 feet. Some are as big as 8 feet by 9 feet. The scale adds a great deal to the impact of the photographs. So does Cohen's use of color. She's described herself as "a reluctant convert to color," and a few of the images are in black and white. But color somehow adds to the feeling of unnaturalness. The additional information that color imparts increases the tension between specificity and unreality.
The exhibition space at the UMCA is not, it must be said, the most hospitable. So it speaks very well for work capable of standing out there. That's the case with Cohen's photographs. Perfect for this non-space, they more than hold their own on its walls.
The images are discrete, yet seen in the gallery they feel serial. They could be rooms in the same vast, vastly variegated house. "In my Father's house are many mansions," the Bible says. Some of these mansions are very peculiar indeed. They're not sacred spaces, but they convey a quality of evacuated immanence. The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once described Romanticism as "spilled religion." Looking at how cool, clean, and blandly ungiving these images are, one wonders if minimalism might be best understood as evaporated religion. Is this how things will look after the Rapture?
. . .
A very different sort of dislocation figures in Barbara Norfleet's "DRINK: The Pleasures and Perils of Alcohol." It runs at Hampshire College's Jerome Liebling Center for Film, Photography, and Video through Feb. 28. Where the absence of people is crucial for Cohen's photograph, their presence is no less so for Norfleet.
The title sounds like a 19th-century temperance lecture. The technique Norfleet uses is early 20th-century, photographic collages, in the manner pioneered by John Heartfield and Hannah Hoch. Though the two dozen collages in "DRINK" look not at all like Heartfield's or Hoch's, the visual effects Norfleet gets are similarly surreal and absurd.
Norfleet, still active at 88, has had a remarkable, and remarkably varied, career. Teaching social relations at Harvard, she got interested in photography. That interest took two, highly fruitful forms. Norfleet was founding director of Harvard's Carpenter Center photography collection, becoming an early and influential advocate for the artistic merits of vernacular photography. Norfleet also began undertaking a series of striking photographic projects, ranging from upper-crust families to US military installations.
For "DRINK," Norfleet uses photographs she's taken in the past and superimposes faces and bottles and glasses from mail-order catalogs and ads in glossy magazines. The background photographs are in black and white. The cutouts are color. "I do not know Photoshop," Norfleet writes in an artist's statement. These are literal cut and paste. "Collage gives the faces and liquor a super reality."
It does, and the resulting images are funny and sad and unashamedly didactic. In one, a pair of revelers stand in front of Max Beckmann's great painting "Self-Portrait in Tuxedo." In another, a partygoer wears a collaged bandolier over her stylish satin blouse. There are nips in the belt holders and a liquor bottle in the holster. The images themselves look a bit drunk, which is part of the point.
In their condemnation of alcohol, the collages display the wisdom — and a tad of the sententiousness — of someone soon to enter her tenth decade. No less do they display a sass and spunk worthy of an artist just starting out and with many places still to go.
More information:
The Pleasures and Perils of Alcohol
At: Jerome Liebling Center for Film, Photography, and Video,
Hampshire College, 893 West St., Amherst, through Feb. 28,
www.hampshire.edu/offices/14033.htmMark Feeney can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


text: Alumni Association Lifetime Service Award Dr. Mervyn "Bud" Goldstein is a member of Einstein's second graduating class and a past president and director of the Einstein Alumni Association. He is associate clinical professor of medicine (hematology) at Einstein, where he has participated in the College of Medicine's Clinical Pathology/Hematology course as a lecturer and lab instructor. Since 1966, he has run a weekly session in hematologic morphology at Montefiore Medical Center, educating countless hematology fellows, medical and pathology residents, and Einstein medical students who select this elective. Dr. Goldstein is an attending physician emeritus at Montefiore, where he was formerly director of education in hematology. Among his memorable accomplishments was his treatment, in 1968, of a then 12-year-old girl with acute leukemia -- who today is a grandmother. His numerous honors include the President's Award for Patient Care at Montefiore, voted on by non-physicians; the Montefiore Staff and Alumni Award, recognizing excellence as a consultant and teacher; and the Scarsdale/Edgemont Family Open Door Award, given for community service. Dr. Goldstein received his bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from New York University.


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Informing someone about the forums is fine. Implying that you represent the forums is not. In other words, don't use your participation on HF to back-up what are your personal beliefs when posting on other sites.
Informing someone about the forums is fine. Implying that you represent the forums is not. In other words, don't use your participation on HF to back-up what are your personal beliefs when posting on other sites.
Trust nobody!
The reason for much of my hammocking success is due to the kindness and usefull information I have found on this forum. As always thank you mod's and to all the people who make this forum special.
Sometimes I like to hike and think, And sometimes I just like to hike.
Hiking is'ent about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to hike in the rain.
Possibly an example.. "Hammockforums.net condemns the use of rope only suspensions." This would be putting words into the mouths of the forum suggesting official policy.
"I have come to the conclusion from research I have done on hammockforums.net that I will avoid the use of rope only suspensions." This is a personal opinion statement giving the source for the information but not putting words into the mouths of the owners and moderators of the forums.
At least that is my take on the statement that only the mods can speak for the forum officially.
edit: another example is as the pastor of a church I have the right to write a letter to the editor signed by my name and my name alone. As soon as I add the church's name to the signature I have crossed the line and can be seen as speaking on behalf of all members of the church. Unless the governing body of the church has expressly requested me to do so I can not ethically sign a letter that way.
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I may be slow... But I sure am gimpy.
"Bless you child, when you set out to thread a needle don't hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; that's the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t'other way."
Mrs. Loftus to Huck Finn
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Take for example the now active thread about using webbing vs cord around trees to support the hammock.
If someone would go to another website & confront someone for using cord & say "HF says DON'T USE CORD ON TREES", that would not be the best way to get the other person to consider the possible damage of using cord, whether the tree damage be physical damage or perceived as damage. We here at HF (staff or members) don't go about it that way.
Not only would it probably not be taken as welcome advice on hammock supports, it would also leave a bad impression of HF for that person & others reading there. And they wouldn't be as likely to come check us out to learn about hammocks.
don`t leave the CREATOR out of the creation!
Rev, slowhike - that makes better sense to me, now.
Thanks for the explanation.
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. ~Judge Joseph Story
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Thank you all for your patience and respect over the past few years I've been around. This forum truly is special, and I'd hate to see it become something less than it's been.
Thank you especially to our moderators. You all do a wonderful job.
I really appreciate this great forum and I appreciate the moderators who put in the hours making it great.
HEY! I just noticed I'm not a Junior Member any more!!
(Imagine sounds of Muttly marching around house to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance)
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Thanks guys for all you do. This is truly a great community and site.
If God had meant for us to sleep on the ground,
He wouldn't have created trees....
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul. - John Muir
Great Job. Cheers all 'round!
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I write in praise of the ugly golf shirt.
Oh, I've got a beauty. It's not loud, no. It would be better if it were loud. It is, rather, a mottled mix of black and gray specks — inexplicably or inadvertently designed by someone in the employ of Bert Pulitzer to look like the ghostly nothingness of an old antenna television after the programming ends and the final bars of the national anthem fade.
The white noise of the fabric is broken up only by some piping's attempt at sportiness at collar's edge and sleeves' end. The shirt was made in Pakistan, back before their coddling of bin Laden. On the plus side, the thing's got a pocket, always useful; it's adorned, in the sole nice touch, with a tiny tag showing a tan duck in flight against a green background.
I wear it all the time, to clockwork-like groans from my wife.
Golf shirts, particularly sin-ugly ones, are perfect for the office-casual world we live in. They can have all the style and sex appeal of a convention of insurance agents in Scranton — just as long as there's a collar. I mentioned to a colleague once that the field of static adorning my torso had been my late grandfather's and saw her gaze lose focus and her mouth go slack as she imagined that it had actually touched his decaying flesh.
It hadn't, but it had been one of many shirts he won or was given by various golf clubs he belonged to or visited. (He was good, could shoot his age in his late 70s.) A handful of these were handed down to me. Not bequeathed, mind you, more like they were left lying around. One is from L.L. Bean, which bespeaks quality. But then it's pale yellow, which bespeaks the toilet. Another, all white, is still in its packaging in my garage — stiff too-big collar, regal flourish of an insignia on its breast signifying . . . something regal.
At my grandfather's funeral, 10 years ago in Panama City Beach, Fla., my father wore one of the old man's suits in a combination of tribute and practicality. It fit pretty well, just a little big. There's something unforgettable about that, so I didn't need to be reminded of it, yet was nonetheless when I heard on NPR one day how Andre Dubus III built his father's coffin, climbing inside it himself to get the dimensions right. (They say Dubus fils is a good writer, but pere's stories have meant so much to me I can't bear to read anything by his offspring.)
What I wore to the funeral that hot May day in Florida, after bombing across the Panhandle in a rented Ford Escort past scenery remarkably similar to eastern Long Island's — sandy soil, scrub oak, shrimpy pine — was my only sport coat (Latham House, wool), my only dress pants (also wool), and my only dress shoes (pebbled leather by Nunn Bush, scavenged at the Bellingham, Wash., Salvation Army a year before).
In the wake of the momentous passing of a generation, even a decade on, what have you got? Besides my golf shirts, I've got my grandfather's Springfield College diploma and a miniature keychain football. He was the football coach at Suffern High upstate, and then the athletic director at Rockland County Community College. He apparently did a lot to get the college a new field house, way back when, and felt robbed when it wasn't named after him.
His was a classic American story of upward mobility — son of an Erie Railroad signalman, later a salesman for a drug company, later still retiring to a beach house in Florida. That world and those possibilities seem a thing of the past, as does all the leisure time he and his peers seem to have had.
But I don't think about that when I put on my golf shirt. I don't even think about all the visits I failed to make. Instead I think about that one-story house on a white-sand beach near the end of an undeveloped Panhandle in the 1970s, its views out sliding glass doors onto the Gulf of Mexico, watching for dolphins in the morning as my grandfather and I ate corn flakes and sliced bananas.
That part isn't so ugly.
Baylis Greene is an associate editor at The Star.


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...or ability to harness solar energy
TFA has a video that explains quite a bit about the species and one of the interesting things about it is that the dragonfly cruses at an altitude of 1-2 km over the surface. They migrate in order to catch the rainy season of East Africa and India. The winds at this altitude move toward the rainy areas due to meteorological effects so they do make use of air currents.
Maybe the dragonfly can feed on other insects along the way. Also I wondered if it is light enough to sit on the water using surface tension.
When you are small and light it is not actually required that you expel energy to float, the turbulence in the air can keep you going to a very long time for example water can stay in a cloud long enough to become softball sized hail and a glider can stay in the air all day, the energy is technically wind energy derived from solar and it is not coming from the object flying.
True but at least in the case of the sailplane (or albatross) you need control authority to steer out of sink and into lift which does take energy. In the case of an insect I can't see it having sufficiently low drag to take advantage of lift. To do that you need to be able to put your nose down and fly out of sink sometimes.
Well... they are insects, so their strategy is usually based in numbers. Maybe only 1 in 5 dragonflies (warning, numbers made up) get to end the travel safely; that would be unacceptable for men or other animals that take years to mature but for insects could be reasonable.
Maybe only 1 in 5 dragonflies (warning, numbers made up) get to end the travel safely;
"Bug bomb malfunction, Thodin."
Too obscure?
In the case of an insect I can't see it having sufficiently low drag to take advantage of lift.
I don't follow you here. What makes you think a dragonfly has too much drag to be able to gain enough speed to generate lift? Between the lift and the air currents, I can see how it could conserve quite a lot of energy if it knows how to ride the currents.
In the case of an insect I can't see it having sufficiently low drag to take advantage of lift.
I don't follow you here. What makes you think a dragonfly has too much drag to be able to gain enough speed to generate lift? Between the lift and the air currents, I can see how it could conserve quite a lot of energy if it knows how to ride the currents.
I mean if it finds itself in a body of sink (air going down) it won't be able to fly out into air which is rising (lift) while an albatross would be able to do that because it can fly faster.
I seem to remember dragonflies semi-regularly keep one pair of their wings stationary during flight. Perhaps they also sometimes fly with both not-flapping? Certainly there's an airfoil.
Generally they are highly agile, capable of incredible feats for such simple nervous system - for example, during pursuit of their pray, they supposedly follow a "camouflaging" flightpath; first one which makes them stationary in relation to the scenery, from the point of view of the pray! Afterwards, when closer, they becom
Now here is a science story makes me say "wow".
Chasing the rain seasons... wonder if they make use of the same seasonal trade wind that kept the ancient maritime trade going around the Indian Ocean?
Just wondering - how many dragonflies it would take to carry a one pound coconut?
It depends on how many dragonflies it takes to feed those birds who tag along.
Man, you are really *working hard* for that +5 Funny aren't you?
Experiment [xkcd.com]
What I want to know is, when we say "Ocean-crossing" here, does he just mean they're flying from India to the Maldives (about 500 miles offshore)? Because the word "crossing" normally implies "from one side to the other", which, when it comes to oceans, would generally be a rather greater distance (multiple thousands of miles).
TFA (extremely interesting video) shows that the dragonflies migrate from India to South East Africa (via the Maldives and Seychelles). In four generations, they chase the rains across the Indian Ocean and back. About 16000km.
And several species of birds follow them, including the Amur Falcon [wikipedia.org], which annually migrates from Siberia to Southern Africa.
What I want to know is, when we say "Ocean-crossing" here...
But we didn't say "ocean-crossing dragonflies" here, we said "ocean crossing dragonflies".
How do you get an ocean to cross a dragonfly? And how do you get the dragonfly to hold still while it does it?
It's like that movie about eight freaks with legs [imdb.com].
(Hint: tags aren't working for everyone.)
... before HIS discovery...
As in the discovery that it flew so far.
Yeah, sounds like Captain Obvious better start turning things up a notch.
He apparently has some serious competition living in Maldives.
According to the wikipedia:
Pantala flavescens, the Globe Skimmer or Wandering Glider, is a wide-ranging dragonfly of the family Libellulidae. This species and Pantala hymenaea, the "Spot-winged Glider", are the only members of the genus Pantala from the subfamily Pantalinae. It was first described by Fabricius in 1798.[1] It is considered to be the most widespread dragonfly on the planet.
The English common names "Wandering Glider" and "Globe Skimmer" refer to its migratory behaviour.[3] The German name Wanderlibelle mean "migrant dragonfly". In Hong Kong, its name translates as Typhoon Dragonfly as it arrives with or shortly before the seasonal rain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe_Skimmer [wikipedia.org]
It seems to me that it has been known that it just seems to "show up" at specific times of the year and does migrate, but nobody knew just how far it really did migrate.
How many would it take to carry a coconut?
How many would it take to carry a coconut?
How many dragonflies to get the coconut away from the octopus?
One thing is certain: there's no stopping them. The dragonflies will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.
That depends Is it african or indian?
Does it blend?
Well listen, someday
You'll hear a rush of wings
So distant, a sound of secret things
There, look there, up in that rusty sky
Yonder, sweeps the dragonfly
So awesome, he blocks the setting sun
He'll come to collect the souls of everyone
Come dragon, come
In from the sun
He floats with an eerie grace
A giant blue green sentinal
From some distant time and space
And because he'll come, he'll have no regrets
Surely he'll come to lay this birth to rest
I know one day you'll see him
But please don't ask me why
He will be a secre
If we're going to do dragonfly songs, how about this one [youtube.com] from DDR.
I read that to the tune of "The Ballad of Jed Clampett". Amazingly it fits!
"Months ago"? That's pretty quick for Slashdot, actually.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/30/it_pricing_inquiry_means_game_of_thrones_for_rightsholders/
IT pricing inquiry sparks Game of Thrones for rights-holders
It's time to revisit Australia's siphoning laws
Posted in Policy, 30th July 2013 20:19 GMT
Australia's recently-released report resulting from an inquiry into IT pricing has opened a can of worms beyond its intended target that should spark renewed debate on Australia's anti-siphoning laws.
The anti-siphoning laws mean pay television operators can't buy rights to broadcast certain sports until free-to-air television decides if it wants them first. Mass-market sports like Cricket, both Rugby codes and the Australian Football League are therefore likely to remain on free to air television for as long as broadcasters' businesses can sustain the colossal rights payments sports organisations demand.
The laws are seen as a win for Australian consumers, because it means Foxtel (the only pay TV operator with any clout) can't hoard sport as a way to herd sport-loving punters towards subscriptions, as has happened in other nations.
Just why the free-to-air broadcasters and the spontaneous athletic competition branch of the entertainment industry deserve that protection is a debate for another day.
For now, consider that Foxtel has recently proven adept at hoarding other content by locking up the rights to the next season of fantasy series Game of Thrones with a contract that prohibits paid downloads of the show during its first broadcast run. That leaves Australians with only one way to watch the show before spoilers emerge: a for $AUD59 a month, 889 a year, Foxtel subscription.
Vulture South doesn't know if there was a bidding war between Foxtel and Apple, but if the pay TV outfit won the rights without having to trump another bid, it has effectively siphoned Game of Thrones from all other media. That's just the kind of thing the anti-siphoning laws suggest aren't tolerated 'round here.
Which brings us to the Inquiry's recommendation that geoblocking be done away with in Australia, as a way of letting locals access hardware, software and content at lower prices in order to increase choice and stop local companies locking up the market with globally uncompetitive pricing.
Those who sign up for Foxtel to get Game of Thrones as early as possible will get a lot more than just that show for their $59 a month. They'll also consume the show in a mode used widely around the world. But they'll also pay more, if GoT is the main reason they sign up, than the $2.99 per episode Apple charged for the show's last season.
Yet the pricing inquiry seems, in spirit at least, to advocate more choice. If local provider are charging too much for software or content, the inquiry's report recommended, Australians should be allowed to shop elsewhere by circumventing technological controls.
Does that logic apply to Game of Thrones? The inquiry's report is silent on arrangements like the one Foxtel has secured for the show, but it's not hard to imagine that Australians looking for a legal alternative to Foxte might think the report gives them licence to use a service like the UK's Blinkbox if they want to watch the program legally without a subscription.
Were they to do so, it could be painted as a win for Game of Thrones' producer HBO, as Australians steal the show and others at extraordinary rates. The more of us that watch the show legally, the better.
Foxtel would doubtless hate it if the inquiry's recommendations mean Australian gain a newly-legal means of watching the show without a subscription.
How to sort out this contradiction?
A revisit of Australia's anti-siphoning rules seems in order. The relevant statutes set a precedent for locking content away, but were conceived and drafted before TV shows were available in multiple channels. Bringing them up to date is therefore apposite.
Rent-seekers will oppose reforms that apply the spirit of the inquiry's report to Game of Thrones and its ilk. But with colossal piracy rates speaking eloquently about how well sticking to old business models is working, a game of thrones over just how content like Game of Thrones is made available seems inevitable.
Bring it on, we say, before season four of Game of Thrones if possible. ®


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Join us in welcoming our newest contributor to CanucksCorner.com, Jason Kurylo. Jason is a sports fan who has a writing background and a passion for the Canucks. We put out a call for writers on Twitter, and Jason answered. In his first blog for the site, Jason looks at the successful Olympics for Pavol Demitra and wonders what the Canucks options should be in dealing with the veteran Slovak and NHLer going forward.
We were treated to some pretty outstanding hockey in the Olympic tournament, of course, topped nicely by Captain Roberto Luongo preserving Canadian pride against Ryan Kesler's second period goal and second intermission trash talk. Gold north of 49, thank you very much, and silver for our American brethren to the south.
In fact, Canucks figured in each of the top five teams in the tournament. (Sorry, Christian Ehrhoff fans, but your boy's German team finished a distant 11th. The man can't do it alone.)
Sami Salo helped Finland pick up its fifth men's ice hockey medal since 1988 — his second, as he took home a silver in Torino in 2006. Side note: the Finns have more medals in men's ice hockey in that time than any other nation. That's right, the Finns.
They won't be happy about it, but Henrik and Daniel Sedin didn't get a sniff at medals this time round, despite taking gold outright last time round. They were knocked out by… the Slovaks?
The biggest surprise of the tournament wasn't Canada taking gold, Crosby scoring in OT or even Marty stumbling to allow Luongo into the big show. It was the play of the Slovakian team, led by — get those questions marks ready again — Pavol Demitra?
Demitra's performance since returning from off-season shoulder surgery has been mediocre at best. His slow feet and stone hands have brought to mind Mats Sundin's slow mid-season re-entry to the NHL just a year ago. Sure, Demo tipped a shot home and scored in the shootout against the Bruins a week before the tournament. But other than that game, his spot on the roster has been largely wasted. After missing a couple of games to attend to a family illness, the 35-year-old Demitra, he of the $4 million annual salary, came back on Valentine's Day to find himself on the fourth line.
So who predicted Pavol Demitra would not only lead his country to its best-ever Olympic showing, but that he would lead the Olympic tournament in scoring?
Cynics in Vancouver, myself included, pointed at his last-second miss against the Canadians in the semis: "There's the Demitra we're used to." Luongo's amazing glove save aside, Pavol's inspired play for the Slovaks included a shootout winner over the Russians and a goal and two assists in what Demitra called "the biggest win in my country's history" over the defending champs from Sweden. The ten points are six more than he's put up with the Canucks this year, against much tougher competition. Then again, he was also playing with guys like Marian Hossa, Marian Gaborik and Zdeno Chara.
The argument, then, is either for moving Demo back on to one of the top two lines — would the Sedins have him after that quarter final game? — or move him off the squad altogether. Don't be surprised if this is one salary dump that gets done before the March 3 deadline. Either that, or Mike Gillis needs to get a Slovak flag hung in the rafters, STAT.


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Hi there
Just got an EVO 75 2007 and have been using it a few times already in all kinds of conditions - but had to put on a larger fin to go higher into the wind and make jumps/takeoff easier.
I am approx 85kg and Id like to know what kind of 2nd larger fin You recommend for the board.
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RE: Bigger 2nd fin for 2007 EVO
You're right, the original Drake Natural 22 is kind of small for most. It might be a good all round choice considering the whole sail spectrum of the board and it works great from 3.5 to 5.0, but for what most people use the board for most of the time, the 22 is small.
There are two ways to go. Either you opt for a similar sized (depth) fin in a stiffer version or you go with a larger Drake Natural. I personally prefer a bigger Drake Natural. I love these fins and one of the great things with them is that they sail so good also in bigger sizes. How big you want to go depends on which sails you use. As a next step up from the 22 I would recomend the 24. In the E75 is handles 4.5-5.5 or something like that (bigger sails in sideshore etc etc as usual). If you really want to maximise light wind performance in the waves, the Natural 25 is the way to go. There is a 26 too, but I think that one is a big big on the 75. With these fins, I tend to choose size a lot according to the type and wave and wind direction, more thean actually having one fin for a given sail size. You can trim the feel of the EVO a lot by doing this and it makes lots of sense to have a quiver.
If you use the board for kind and B&J sailing you might want to look at a more crossover type fin. Then you need not go up so much in size. In the Drake range, the Crossover 22 pretty much handles as much sail as the Natural 24 and gives the board a more directional feel but you will have to give up some feel in the turns.
Hopefully you can get the Drake fins from your Starboard supplier in Norway, otherwise you should be able to get them from onwater.se on Sweden.
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Thanks Ola
Ill try to get a Drake Natural 24 and or 25 from the Norwegian supplier ZPA.
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There is some evidence to suggest that citizens monitoring their communities can reduce crime. But the Trayvon Martin shooting focused new attention on neighborhood watch programs. Many neighborhoods have them, but the Martin case has brought questions about what they can and can't do to the fore.
What Makes Neighborhood Watches Work
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SAN DIEGO—During a Wednesday keynote address, Research In Motion CIO Robin Bienfait spelled out why BlackBerry still deserves a place in the enterprise after falling behind iOS and Android.
A long-time staple for business users, RIM is fighting to maintain its hold on the market as an increasing number of workers have turned to iOS and Android instead of BlackBerry.
Bienfait pitched the new enterprise-friendly features for its forthcoming BlackBerry 10 platform, slated to come out early next year.
Bienfait was joined on stage by BlackBerry marketing executive Jeff Gadway, who demonstrated some of BlackBerry 10's key features.
The platform is designed so that there is complete separation between the personal side of the device and work-related applications and data.
"IT can manage, secure and control sensitive enterprise data without compromising the end-user experience," Gadway said.
Using a prototype device, he demonstrated BlackBerry Balance, which quarantines enterprise data in a password-protected space that is completely separate from personal applications.
"Information that lives in the workspace can't be cut, pasted or shared with the personal workspace," he said.
But that divide can be awkward in applications where personal and business information need to intersect, such as calendars and email. BlackBerry 10 integrates both sets of information in calendars and email when users are logged in, but when they're logged out, access to enterprise data on those apps is locked down.
The separation between the two halves of the device is so complete "you can let your kid use the device when you're logged out of Balance. This is something other platforms just don't do," Gadway said.
BlackBerry's current user interface has fallen far behind rivals iOS and Android, something RIM is looking to reverse with BlackBerry 10. Gadway showed off BlackBerry 10's multitasking capabilities, saying the new platform would allow users to flow smoothly from one application to another.
Many BlackBerry users have stuck with the brand for its physical keyboards, and Gadway set out to show the audience that the BlackBerry 10's virtual keyboard would be just as good as the physical standby thanks to its predictive text feature.
"This is the best typing experience on glass, period," Gadway said, adding that BlackBerry users have told him the new platform could get them to switch over from physical QWERTY keyboards. "I can type just as fast, if not faster, than I can on my Bold 9900."
Applications have also been a weak point for BlackBerry, which has lagged behind its competitors in terms of the variety of apps available on its platform.
Gadway announced that developers can now begin submitting BlackBerry 10 apps to BlackBerry App World, indicating that RIM is looking to get a jump on app development for its new platform.
RIM's turnaround effort hinges in large part on the success of BlackBerry 10, but the launch of the platform has been repeatedly delayed, dampening investor confidence in the smartphone maker's attempted about-face.
BlackBerry 10 is now set to go before consumers during the first quarter of next year, missing the critical holiday shopping season.
The most recent numbers from comScore put BlackBerry's share of the U.S. smartphone market at 8 percent. Two years ago, that number stood at about 38 percent.
Those numbers weren't the focus of Bienfait's talk. Instead, she chose to present a forward-looking view of a company aiming to re-enter the market as a stronger competitor.
Bienfait encouraged CIOs to take charge of the BYOD trend.
"Employees want choice and freedom," she said. "This may not always be easy for us that are CIOs… but this is what employees need to be successful and it's our job to find the balance."
That doesn't mean letting employee-owned devices flood the marketplace, Bienfait said, touting RIM's BlackBerry Mobile Fusion mobile device management platform. The platform, set to be renamed BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 supports both RIM's own platform, as well as iOS and Android – a telling indicator of RIM's weakened competitive position.


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Lauren Cecil will be remembered for being a bright and kind girl who died doing what she loved to do: swimming.
Lauren Cecil will be remembered for being a bright and kind girl who died doing what she loved to do: swimming.
The 11-year-old was electrocuted after an incident at Brookside Swim Club at 210 Queens Road on Tuesday evening. She was the only child of Lori and Keith Cecil of Lorven Drive.
In a written statement, family members said she was a child who was loved as much as any child in this world could be loved.
"Lauren was sunshine to her family and had a unique love for her family and friends. She loved anything to do with water, including fishing at the lake and her pet dog, CC," the statement read.
Marina Moore, girls' coach of the Brookside swim team, said everyone was still in shock and didn't want to accept the fact that Lauren was gone. Moore said that she remembers Lauren as a bubbly girl who always wanted to improve.
"She was always excited about practice," Moore said. "She took in everything you had to say and was very accepting of new things. She was really friendly and always had a smile on her face."
Moore said that Lauren's favorite events were freestyle and the breaststroke.
Members of the Brookside swim team will participate in the countywide swim meet in Denton this weekend. Julie Rhodes, president of the swim club, said that Lauren's parents requested that the team compete in the meet.
"They said it is what Lauren would have wanted because she loved being on the swim team," Rhodes said. "We just wanted to do whatever they wished."
The Brookside team has decided to have LC, Lauren's initials, put on the side of their swim caps in honor of their missing member. Clay Vickers, the coach for the boys' team at Brookside, said Chad Hench, swimming coach at Central Davidson High School and father of one of the lifeguards who attempted to resuscitate Lauren, suggested the team wear her initials. Other swim teams throughout Davidson County have also discussed wearing the initials as well to show their support for the Brookside team.
Lauren was attending swim practice around 8 p.m. Tuesday when an electric line adjacent to the area snapped and sent a high voltage current into the water of the pool.
Rhodes said the team was finishing up swim practice when they heard a loud pop, and the electric wire on a utility pole, approximately 60 feet from the gate surrounding the pool, fell into the parking lot.
"I sent the boys to check on the line and had told the three girls to get out of the pool," Rhodes said. "They mentioned that the water felt weird. Two of them jumped out of the side of the pool, but Lauren grabbed the ladder."
Eyewitnesses said attempts to rescue her were hampered because the electricity continued to shock lifeguards who were trying to pull her from the water. They used a kick-board to safely pull her out of the water and immediately began performing CPR. They continued life-saving procedures until the Davidson County Emergency Medical Services arrived. Paramedics continued CPR while transporting Lauren to Wake Forest Baptist Health — Lexington Medical Center. She was pronounced dead on arrival.
Three teenage lifeguards were on duty at the time of the accident and pulled Lauren from the pool. They were Lucas Rhodes, 15, Julie Rhodes' son; Caroline Burkhart, 17; and Jonathan Hench, 16. Lauren's mother was among the parents who were at the pool. The two other girls got out of the pool safely.
Lauren was a rising sixth-grader who was to attend Central Davidson Middle School in the fall. Her fifth-grade teacher at Davis-Townsend Elementary School, Tanya McCarn, recalled Lauren as a very quiet and loving child who was very thoughtful of others.
"She was a sweet soul who was always trying to help the other kids," McCarn said. "Lauren was a very well-rounded student who enjoyed writing imaginative stories. This is a terrible loss for this community."
Steve Reynolds, principal at Davis-Townsend, said the entire staff sends its deepest sympathy to the family for their loss and joins in mourning the death of this young girl.
"She was a sweet, wonderful child," he said. "We enjoyed having her at our school, and she will be greatly missed."
The Davidson County Sheriff's Office, Davidson County Fire Marshall and the Davidson County Inspections Office are in the process of attempting to make a determination of what occurred. Davidson County Fire Marshall Brad Needham said that they are still investigating how the electric current got diverted into the water after the power line snapped.
"The investigation is still in its preliminary stage," Needham said. "We don't have a lot of information at this time."
Rhodes said that she was told the current from the fallen wire was somehow conducted through the cement to the water.
Ron Triplette, inspections director for Davidson County, said that the electrical surge destroyed the pump motor, and the pool will be delayed reopening until the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Public Pool Division can inspect the pump and determine it is running properly under the public pools guidelines.
Sharon Myers can be reached at 249-3981, ext, 228 or at email@example.com.


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Companies owned by fundamentalist christians, mormans or even muslims may decide to do this.
The discovery of late Stone Age beer jugs has established the fact that intentionally fermented beverages existed at least as early as the Neolithic period (cir. 10,000 BC), and it has been suggested that beer may have preceded bread as a staple; wine clearly appeared as a finished product in Egyptian pictographs around 4,000 BC[1]
Brewing dates from the beginning of civilization in ancient Egypt and alcoholic beverages were very important in that country. Symbolic of this is the fact that while many gods were local or familial, Osiris, was worshiped throughout the entire country. The Egyptians believed that this important god invented beer, a beverage that was considered a necessity of life; it was brewed in the home "on an everyday basis."[1]
Both beer and wine were deified and offered to gods. Cellars and winepresses even had a god whose hieroglyph was a winepress. The ancient Egyptians made at least seventeen varieties of beer and at least 24 varieties of wine. Alcoholic beverages were used for pleasure, nutrition, medicine, ritual, remuneration and funerary purposes. The latter involved storing the beverages in tombs of the deceased for their use in the after-life.[1]
As far as I know drunks and underage drinkers are not a protected class. Several companies will not hire you if you are a smoker, and it's legal for them to do so.
It's legal, yes, but it shouldn't be. I completely support a company's right to ban smoking on their premises, but it's unacceptable for them to dictate what you do in your own time when not at work.
Just read this article [orlandosentinel.com] from the paper a few weeks ago:
Maltby's bigger concern is the total smoking ban, which he views as a fundamental civil-rights issue, since it extends beyond the workplace into an individual's home. He notes that 29 states and the District of Columbia have so-called lifestyle-rights laws that protect employees' rights to smoke when they're not at work.
But not Florida. "When I found out it was legal to discriminate against smokers [in 2002], those were my marching orders," said Westgate's chief executive, David Siegel, who gave his tobacco-using employees a year's notice before the total ban went into effect.
Siegel, who says his brief flirtation with cigarettes ended in 1959, is so strongly opposed to the habit that he would like to see smoking banned completely. Short of that, he hopes his company's smoking ban -- effective in Florida and every other Westgate location where it's allowed by state law -- becomes a model for other employers.
So? What's wrong with that? Why shouldn't a company be able to decide such a thing? Should "Bob's Morman Supply" not be able to say something like that? Would about "Bob's Office Supply"?
It may be illegal now (the ACLU would certainly argue for that), but I don't see why a company shouldn't be able to do that.
This is all fine with me. I can understand why many people wouldn't want this, and I wouldn't push it. But if we keep records to make it easier to convict drunk drivers or people who aren't supposed
Allowing corporations to control your lifestyle while away from work is very dangerous. Regarding alcohol, the only legitimate concern of a company I work for is that I am sober when I show up for work and remain sober while I am on the clock. This is the time that they pay for, and they have a right (within limits of course) to determine what I do or don't do during that time. What I do in my private, off-time that they are not paying for is absolutely none of their business. Trying to monitor what I do during my private time away from work is nothing but an invasion of privacy that should never be tolerated for any reason. I honestly can't understand why there is even a discussion about this; it's patently obvious.So? What's wrong with that? Why shouldn't a company be able to decide such a thing? Should "Bob's Morman Supply" not be able to say something like that? Would about "Bob's Office Supply"?
It may be illegal now (the ACLU would certainly argue for that), but I don't see why a company shouldn't be able to do that.
This is all fine with me. I can understand why many people wouldn't want this, and I wouldn't push it. But if we keep records to make it easier to convict drunk drivers or people who aren't supposed to be drinking (like perhaps because of some prior conviction where that was made a condition of probation). Those are both fine for me.
Additionally, insurance companies could drop you if they found out, for exaple, you were out drinking 3 nights a week.
If this info gets out it could have a huge impact on people."
I've been worried for years that they can do the same...even MORE damage with the grocery store courtesy cards.
I'm of legal drinking age already and I haven't yet seen one of these machines in my area. But if I ever do, I'd like to have a false bar graph taped on the back of my license. Who will be the first to make a web site to generate these at will? And how long until that web site is labeled a terrorist act?
We get graphs here in Wisconsin (used to be magnetic strips). Incedently, an official change-of-address sticker covers the entire back of my license, so you couldn't read the graph, anyway.
In California they use magstripe readers.
What happens if it gets demagnetized?
I don't follow your logic: not only do you not get your Manhattan, you get your ass tossed in jail for as long as it takes them to figure out that you really do have a valid ID. And they're liable to charge you for tampering anyway.
Yeah, that's really sticking it to Dick Cheney! Fight The Power!
When they started scanning your drivers licence when you drank. A little bit of vigilance could've seen this coming a mile away. Any time an institution has a new way to access personal data they will abuse it.
This is probably going to be coming over to the UK soon as well. They have become more tight on ID for clubs and bars to the point where only a specifically manufactured ID card, a drivers licence or a passport will do. Standardising ID is a precursor to this step.
That turned me off. I don't recall buying alcohol myself at that mart. What I think is stupid is swiping the ID of someone who obviously is well above 25 or 30, and doesn't appear to be wearing spy or makeup-artist appliances.
You wouldn't think it was stupid if you were the owner of the convenience store....
That store now has a nice record saying they carefully verified the age of ever customer purchasing alcohol or tobacco. So when some 13 year old gets caught smoking and some "I'm a perfect parent" moth
...but this 'drinking record' could also create problems for people in civil and criminal lawsuits as proof of alcohol purchases in DUI cases or evidence of alcoholism in divorce lawsuits." I live in a certain town in Texas which is in a dry County. Any of the restaurants (Chilli's, Applebees etc... ) want to swipe your license when you order alcohol to ensure you are a 'member' of the private club (the way they get around the dry county bit.). It was made pretty clear to me by the locals when i arrived (
Oh, wait you meant identification tech. Stupid title got me confused...
Could someone please explain why restricting the sale of alcohol to those under 21 is worth all of the costs/consequences that follow.
Why can't we simply allow anyone who wants alcohol to buy it? Vendors can choose not to sell to certain people (ie. young children) and the public can choose whether or not to frequent businesses that sell alcohol. If a store is selling booze to eight year olds, then the public can simply boycott the business.
Sure some people become addicted to alcohol, but why should I be punished for their problems? Sure kids might obtain liquor, but surely parents are capable of addressing such a situation. Sure some people choose to drive drunk and get in a car accident that maybe kills someone, so arrest them for doing so.
By creating a system of laws around the consumption of liquor, we've simply given those in positions of authority new tools to oppress the masses. Liquor stores can be harassed by police sending in underage people. Motorists can be harassed with things like drunk-driving checkpoints. Businesses can be harassed by politicians on liquor control boards who demand bribes, kick-backs or "favors" in exchange for approving an application for a liquor license. Patrons can be harassed by establishments that resell the information on their identity cards.
I say eliminate the whole damn system. I find it doubtful that keeping it in place is less costly than doing away with it entirely.
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Local telecom provider Gorge Networks is planning the installation of an expansive new fiber optic network it hopes will be in place to deliver blistering-fast internet to customers in the Hood River area by next year.
Gorge Networks President Dan Bubb was in attendance at a recent Port of Hood River meeting to inform commissioners about the scope of the project, which would begin at the port.
"Our goal is to deliver high-capacity internet access," he told commissioners. "We're talking 100 megs or higher. We want to deliver that throughout the port and the city, clear out through the Heights and the county."
Gorge Networks has been doing planning work on the fiber optic network for the past year and is pursuing the project in order to upgrade its telecommunications network and "provide the best internet access possible to our customers," according to Bubb, who said his company serves "several thousand customers." The network will be comprised of 6-8 miles of fiber optic cable that will be installed at the port east of the pedestrian bridge and run from downtown, up past Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital, and through the Heights before terminating near Nobi's Gas & Drive Thru Deli on Tucker Road. Bubb also said the network could stretch as far west as the Rockford Grange.
In addition to higher internet speeds, which are needed for performing more bandwidth-intensive activities such as downloading music or streaming video, Bubb told commissioners that fiber optic internet provides other advantages over cable, satellite, and DSL internet services.
"Fiber is symmetric, so, if you get a 100-meg fiber connection, it's 100 megs up(load) and 100 megs down(load)," he explained. "DSL and cable are asymmetrical. So, when they say you have a 20-meg DSL or a 20-meg cable connection, it's 20-megs download, but usually the upload is about a tenth of the download."
Bubb added that having a fiber connection could help attract tenants to port buildings.
"Fiber does attract new businesses," he said. "Having a wealth of connections is a differentiator for businesses when they're trying to decide where to locate."
Bubb estimated it would take "less than three months" to lay the fiber optic cable, which Bubb said had a diameter "at most, the size of a penny." Cable would be strung across existing utility poles as well as undergrounded using a minimally-invasive boring machine that would require no road or sidewalk closures.
"The boring machine, it just bores a hole underground, there's no backfill, there's no nothing," he explained to commissioners. "All we're pushing through there is enough space to push some conduit."
Bubb said on Thursday he expected project construction — which will be contracted out to a Heppner company called WindWave Communications — would start by Nov. 1 and would hopefully be completed "by the end of the first quarter of next year." He explained he is waiting on a decision from the port to grant a right-of-way for the boring as well as the resolution of a franchise agreement with the city that Gorge Networks has "been working on the past few weeks."
Bubb noted that Gorge Networks is particularly interested in offering service to "high-density" neighborhoods such as Pacific Heights and the Avalon developments, but a decision still needs to be made about how homes will be connected to the network — either directly, called "fiber-to-home," or over the air.
As to when Gorge Networks customers could see fiber optic internet service switched on in their homes and businesses, Bubb didn't have an exact date, but said customers could "theoretically" have access to the network "within the second quarter of next year."
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