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New Orleans Armstrong International has received federal approval for its preliminary application to become a private airport, a move that could bring the city a sudden cash windfall but strip it of its oversight and operational rights.
Airport officials submitted the application last month to the Federal Aviation Administration, which is overseeing a trial program to privatize up to five U.S. airports.
New Orleans Armstrong officials can now begin to look for private investors who are willing to pay a large sum of money to own the airport in a long-term lease. The investor-owner would keep the profits from running the airport. The airport says it will select the bidder with the highest and best bid.
"The airport, the board and the staff are looking at all possible avenues," airport spokeswoman Michelle Wilcut says.
Once the airport selects a private operator, it'll submit its final application to the FAA. To complete the process, it will also require approval from the city council and 65% of its airline tenants. The airport hopes to submit its final application by the fall of 2010. The FAA's attempt to privatize airports has been slow to get off the ground. Chicago Midway is the only other airport that has been given approval for privatization, but it has had difficulty finding a private investor with enough money.
San Francsico International has installed kiosks that allow travelers to buy carbon offsets designed to mitigate the environmental impact of their air travel.
The city says the proceeds will go to fund projects that result in "real, quantifiable, permanent greenhouse gas emission reductions."
Look for the kiosks post-security in the international terminal and Terminal 3. An offset for a 2,000-mile trip will cost about $11.50.
Boston Logan is giving a $3 million loan to Delta to buy battery-powered baggage cart tugs and conveyor belt vehicles, part of the airport's efforts to decrease dependence on gasoline and reduce emissions.
Delta will buy 50 electric baggage cart tugs, 25 electric baggage conveyor belt vehicles and charging stations for each vehicle. Boston Logan is providing the loan because of the "lack of access to capital markets" for Delta.
Thirteen more aiports are adopting a federal program designed to allow "trusted travelers" to quickly clear Customs.
To enroll in the so-called Global Entry program, travelers must submit an application and undergo an interview and a background check. The fee is $100 for five years.
Once applicants are cleared, they can use the automated kiosks at Customs, run by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, that allow travelers to input their fingerprints, take digital photos and answer questions.
The program began last year and has been deployed at several large airports, including New YorkJohn F. Kennedy, Los Angeles, Chicago O'Hare and Atlanta. Other entrants in the program include Boston, Newark, Dallas, Las Vegas and Detroit.
Midwest Arlines says it will launch non-stop service between Milwaukee and St. Louis beginning March 1. The airline will offer three daily round-trip flights on 37-seat Embraer 135 aircraft.
Frontier Airlines on Nov. 21 will add non-stop service between Denver and Fort Myers, Fla., with four weekly round-trip flights. On Dec. 19, Frontier also will add non-stop Saturday-only service between Cancun and both Indianapolis and St. Louis.
Porter Airlines began providing three daily round-trip flights between Boston Logan and Toronto's downtown City Centre Airport. It's the Canadian airline's third U.S. destination, following Newark Liberty and Chicago Midway. The airline will use Bombardier Q400 aircraft.


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No, his best shot is to be placed on the practice squad and develop for a year
I really like the way he throws the ball ... at least from the little I saw during two days @ TC this year. Does he have any shot at beating out MacElroy ?
No, his best shot is to be placed on the practice squad and develop for a year
Tonight will probably play a big role in simms future. If he plays well, there could be a spot on the practice squad for him. if he flops, he might just get cut.
I think he gets cut and we bring him back again next year. I do not think the jets are worried that another team is going to take him.
when Tebow is listed as a running back on the Jets roster to start the season, the team will carry three QB's: Sanchez Mac and Simms
you heard it here first.
This dude has a good arm. Wish there were some way to retain him and continue his development.
I think he got the try out as a favor but he has made it through TC on his own so who knows. If he goes on PS it would be a major success for him considering his collegiate career.

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The video that shows destruction and the news that two elementary schools lay in the path of the tornado that hit parts of Oklahoma also hit home for the Mid-Michigan education community.
"I fear for my own kids every day," said Pam Ackerls, who has a daughter and granddaughter at Leonard Elementary School in Ovid.
"You know whenever something like that happens, any kind of school disaster, it hits home. Your first instincts are are we doing the right things, are we protecting our staff and our kids," said Ovid-Elsie Area Schools Superintendent Ryan Cunningham.
On Tuesday, Cunningham showed News 10 what they have in place for emergencies, including a procedures handbook in each classroom, maps of fire and tornado routes and a radio with an alarm system. Students from two third grade classes also demonstrated what they would do if there's a tornado. They filed into the hallway, got close to the wall and kept their heads down.
"We try to keep them away from any exterior windows, high points of the building. The emergency drills that we do if they're practiced, are more instinctual," said Cunningham.
Each year, Ovid-Elsie schools conduct a minimum of six fire drills, two tornado drills and two lockdown drills as mandated by the state. The superintendent says that's what keeps students prepared in case of an emergency.


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Bill of attainder
- It has been proposed that this page, Bill of attainder, be titled, "Bill of Attainder".
A bill of attainder is a legislative act that harms the life or property of specifically identified persons or groups.
In the common law of England before the American Revolution, bills of attainder condemned specific persons to death. The Framers of the Constitution wanted to end that, and prohibited both the federal government (Article I, Section 9, Clause 3) and the states (Article I, Section 10, Clause 1) from passing bills of attainder. The Founders felt so strongly about this that bills of attainder and ex post facto laws are the only laws that the original Constitution prohibits both the federal government and states from ever passing.
Chief Justice John Marshall expanded the prohibition against bills of attainder beyond protection of life to protection of property also in Fletcher v. Peck (1810). However, the Supreme Court has not invalidated any bills of attainder since 1965. The Court will invalidate such law only if the legislation identifies the affected persons and punishes them without a judicial trial.
The Supreme Court viewed the ban on bills of attainder as essential to preserve the separation of powers. The judiciary protects its branch of government by ensuring that only a court can determine the guilt or innocence of an accused. In Cummings v. Missouri (1867), the Supreme Court held that the Congress may not "exercise the power and office of judge." In United States v. Brown (1965), the Court prohibited "legislative punishment, of any form or severity, of specifically designated persons or groups."
Further reading
- Berger, Raoul. "Bills of Attainder: A Study of Amendment by the Court," 63 Cornell L. Rev. 355 (1977-78) outline
- Strasser, Mark. "Ex Post Facto Laws, Bills of Attainder, and the Definition of Punishment: On DOMA, the Hawaii Amendment, and Federal Constitutional Constraints," 48 Syracuse L. Rev. 227 (1998) outline DOMA is the Defense of Marriage Act
- Kenneth R. Thomas, Congressional Research Service. "The Proposed "Defund ACORN Act": Is it a "Bill of Attainder?""


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If you like Gershwin and classics like "Someone to Watch Over Me" and "I got Rhythm," you'll love the North Fort Myers High School Spring Musical "Crazy for You."
"Crazy for You" won Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Choreography and Best Costume in 1992.
"The music is timeless," said Director and NFM High drama instructor Michele Whitener. "You start humming it, tapping your feet to it. The students are really enjoying it, even though these songs were written in the 1920s."
Two Cape Coral area students will play the leads. Trevor Schmidt will portray Bobby Child and Lisa Hammon plays Polly Baker.
It is the story of the Zangler Follies in New York with the action then moving to Deadrock, Nevada, in this spirited song and dance extravaganza.
"There will be 55 onstage performers, 27 in the orchestra and 25 students in the tech/crew," said Whitener. "Whether you are 6 or 60, there is something for everyone in this musical comedy."
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Who: NFM High School
What: Spring musical
Crazy for You
When: Thursday, April 12, Friday, April 13, and Saturday April 14, at 7 p.m.; Sunday, April 15, matinee at 2 p.m.
Where: North Fort Myers High School
5000 Orange Grove Blvd.
Details: Cost, students $5; adults $8, Call 995-2117 for more info
Besides the music, there is intricate choreography in the play.
"The sets are phenomenal, and so much of the choreography depends on the sets," said choreographer Robin Dawn. "This is my 18th show at North. I really love this show."
Famed choreographer Susan Stroman did the original choreography. Dawn adapted it for the school.
"The students adapted to it very well," she said. "Every single dance is a big production number, there is no small dance routine. It's tap, jazz, a little lyrical and some ballroom dancing. Lots of numbers and lots of props."
When she found out they were doing this musical, she even came in to teach tap once a week.
"The students were overly enthusiastic about taking on this huge musical."
A lot of North Fort Myers High School students want to pursue musical theater as a career, which requires dance and sometimes tap and this musical is full of both, she said.
The musical director is Gwen Gregg.
"The music in this production is very very difficult but these students have risen to the occasion and have worked very hard. Gershwin is probably some of the hardest music to play. This particular score is hard because everything is fast.
"Concerning the orchestra, when we first started rehearsing I told them a real musician is able to follow along with the musical without a director like me coming in directing them, and they really have started to feel that. They slow down, speed up; they are starting to become one with the singers," he said.
The dates for the show are Thursday, April 12, Friday, April 13, and Saturday, April 14, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 15, with a matinee at 2 p.m.
The cost is adults $8, students $5. Tickets are available at the door. Doors open at 6 p.m.
North Fort Myers High School is at 5000 Orange Grove Blvd. For information, call 995-2117.


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December 03, 2012 08:45 ET
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Dec. 3, 2012) - Edge Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:EDE)(AIM:EDG) ("Edge" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed shooting and processing a 3D seismic program in Primate, Saskatchewan one month ahead of schedule. The Company's initial analysis of the seismic, which incorporated the recently discovered oil pool in what the Company calls Asset East, is that two additional new oil pools and several potential drilling locations have been identified.
Resulting from the discovery well drilled in Asset East earlier this year, the Company shot and evaluated 9.6 square kilometers (3.6 square miles) of 3D seismic (see announcement October 17, 2012), with the expectation of characterizing the newly discovered oil pool and identifying up to six additional potential drilling locations.
The Company's geological and geophysical team has identified more than 20 potential drilling locations within the three pools, based on 40 acre spacing. With additional spacing applications the potential drilling locations could increase fourfold.
The Company has a 100% working interest in the lands covered by the 3D seismic and the newly identified oil pools.
The seismic also suggests that future locations would likely benefit from structurally higher locations than the discovery well, which was originally drilled based on limited 2D seismic lines. As a result of the erratic CHOPS ("Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand") producing regime, the discovery well realized 60-day estimated production rates ranging from 5 boe/day to 85 boe/day, with an average of 30 boe/day over that time period, while being restricted by surface facilities. The Company is currently evaluating the surface facilities that would be required to incorporate the scale of the potential future drilling locations.
Brad Nichol, President & CEO of Edge, commented, "The 3D seismic results have put us in a position to delineate the scale of a much larger-than-anticipated resource at Asset East. Our geoscience team has already identified drilling locations far in excess of their initial (pre-3D seismic) estimates, which were initially based only on the 2D seismic data. With this new 3D seismic knowledge, we can see several possible drilling locations that offer either a thicker zone, higher geological structure or both. Our next step is to weigh these locations up against the other locations we have in inventory and make the decisions on where to best allocate capital going forward so as to minimize operational, geological, reservoir and capital risks and maximize shareholder returns."
The Company is currently going through all available data to design, evaluate and implement a drilling program that incorporates these new discoveries and the other corporate drilling opportunities currently in inventory.
For more information, visit the company website: www.edgeres.com.
About Edge Resources Inc.
Edge Resources is focused on developing a balanced portfolio of oil and natural gas assets from properties in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. Management has consistently focused on:
The management team's very high drilling success rate is based on the safe, efficient deployment of capital and a proven ability to efficiently execute in shallow formations, which gives Edge Resources a sustainable, low-cost, competitive advantage.
This release includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements". All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts, that address future production, reserve potential, exploration drilling, exploitation activities and events or developments that the Company expects are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include market prices, exploitation and exploration successes, continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions. Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performance and those actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. For more information on the Company, Investors should review the Company's registered filings which are available at www.sedar.com.
Barrel ("bbl") of oil equivalent ("boe") amounts may be misleading particularly if used in isolation. All boe conversions in this report are calculated using a conversion of six thousand cubic feet of natural gas to one equivalent barrel of oil (6 mcf=1 bbl) and is based on an energy conversion method primarily applicable at the burner tip and does not represent a value equivalency at the well head.
This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of any offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The securities offered have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.
Trading in the securities of Edge Resources Inc. should be considered highly speculative. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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..it was like making him send his final emails using Windows
The problem is twofold. First of all, sending an email using Windows is actually better than using a Mac, which treats email like some archaic throwback to the dark ages.
The second is that Jobs hatred of Windows was as much a blessing as it was a curse. There was nothing wrong with giving people a decent car to drive. So what if it is not god's gift to mankind. It is amazing that Steve did what he did but it was driven by his perception of what is better. Ultimately both were businessmen who did well. One left to focus on something else. Both will be dead. Both will be remembered. And it's unlikely that either will fade.
The article is right, though... 50 years from now, Steve Jobs' chief contribution will have been the creation of a design company that hasn't actually come up with a new idea since a couple of years before Jobs' death. I would be surprised if Apple is still in existence in 50 years. Jobs will end up as a footnote in history. I would be equally surprised if Microsoft is still in existence in 50 years, but they do have a better chance because they're ruled by committee. How many people remember what Douglas Engelbart did for computing? This place is populated by geeks, and I'd lay odds that several people reading this don't know what he did, even though modern computers couldn't work the way they do without his contributions. 50 years from now, Jobs will be in the same category.
Here's the thing... the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is set up as a self-perpetuating trust. They are spending gobs of cash, but they're only spending the interest and are actually profitable despite the amount of money they're spending on charity work. Barring some kind of global economic meltdown orders of magnitude worse than the one in 2008, 50 years from now the Gates Foundation will still be around, and will still be doing charitable work. For that reason alone, Bill Gates will be better remembered by history.
I was just discussing this on G+ where it was claimed that Billy boy has wiped out Polio in the third world. To which I said, Uh, No.
Bill Gates has temporarily suppressed Polio in certain parts of the third world and helped sell it out in the process. In order to get vaccinations you have to provide strong IP protection to Big Pharma. So strong that if your people are dying and you make the medication to save them instead of buying it because you can't afford it that the WTO will end up owning your asshole. Meanwhile, they're not going to get into every nation, which is what it actually takes to eradicate a disease. Instead they are lending a false sense of security while creating a ticking time bomb.
Meanwhile, the foundation makes for-profit investments in industries literally killing the people they are vaccinating. When caught in this they first announced that they would review their investments for ethics; the next day they took down that press release and put up another one saying that they would not be reviewing their investments' ethical nature because it would be difficult and expensive.
The Gates Foundation is not and never has been about improving the world. The money that went into its foundation belongs, by rights, to the American people, because Microsoft was found to have illegally abused its monopoly position by the USDoJ, which had a profound effect on essentially every player in the computing industry. However, Bush's dog Ashcroft announced that there would be zero repercussions, and the Gates foundation was founded, and now does the work of Big Pharma and the WTO.
And of course, let us not forget that Gates is personally, massively invested in pharma; the operation of a nonprofit which was created with illicitly-gained money and which exists to spread the laws desired by Big Pharma is therefore a clear conflict of interest. You may start with the LA Times article "Dark Cloud over Good Works of Gates Foundation" and perform your research from there. Bill Gates has never done anything for the benefit of mankind. If you fell for the Gates Foundation, you need a course in critical thinking in the worst way.
Anyone who believes that Bill Gates is trying to save the world probably also believed that Larry Ellison just wanted to reduce crime in the USA when he was backing that unified national ID program, too.ï
(quick comment since I was JUST talking about this and just had to do a bit of edit and reformat, not an appropriated copypasta.)
Unfortunately, history is written by the winners, and dead people don't win. Plus these days, history is written by the rich.
I have to wonder about Gladwell. He started out writing interesting science articles, descended into cherry-picking data to support odd claims, and now this? If it weren't for Jobs, we'd still be running our PCs off the DOS control line (or maybe IBM OS-2.x).
If I were the type to drink during the day I'd take a shot every time someone said Big Pharma. Because usually what follows would lead me to drink anyway.
You do know that there's a generic polio vaccine right?
I was just discussing this on G+ where it was claimed that Billy boy has wiped out Polio in the third world. To which I said, Uh, No.
Bill Gates has temporarily suppressed Polio in certain parts of the third world and helped sell it out in the process. In order to get vaccinations you have to provide strong IP protection to Big Pharma. So strong that if your people are dying and you make the medication to save them instead of buying it because you can't afford it that the WTO will end up owning your asshole. Meanwhile, they're not going to get into every nation, which is what it actually takes to eradicate a disease. Instead they are lending a false sense of security while creating a ticking time bomb.
The drive to eradicate polio around the world is sponsored by the WTO, the CDC and Rotary International (oops, I just checked and now Unicef has been added). The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a big donor, contributing at least $1 billion, but they do not call the shots. Further, polio vaccines are not protected by IP laws, you might want to google Salk and Sabin, or even just visit the polio eradication web site. [polioeradication.org] How you got so misinformed I have no idea, but you really should at least conduct a simple fact search on the internet before putting your online name against such poppycock.
In the same way that everyone remember Columbus, but no one remembers his financial supporters, I don't think Gates will be remembered for curing malaria or whatever else he gives money too.
Leading a successful company just isn't interesting enough for you to be remembered for hundreds of years.
Not in the DRC. A friend of mine is a producer for National Geographic, and they've just finished filming a documentary there. Those mosquito nets that Gates is paying to have distributed? Most people use them...as nets to catch fish. This is one of the big problems with non-profit groups. They often seem to be more focused on how hard they are trying than about how effective their actions really are.
Congo is, of course, a complete mess. You're taking the worst, most difficult example and trying to extrapolate from there. The situation would be far better in Zambia, Rwanda, Uganda or other surrounding countries. Even in the Congo, I doubt that the numbers are that over 50% of the mosquito nets are used for fishing as you claim.
People do study the effectiveness of different approaches. It doesn't take a genius level intelligence to go through a year later and check that there were fewer reported case
He's right - Gates probably will be remembered fondly in time. Gates is using his vast fortune to do a lot of good things now and it will make an already-memorable man more so.
He is, however, entirely wrong that Jobs will be forgotten. Jobs is, simply put, the most successful CEO in history. I don't think that can even vaguely be debated (at least not intelligently). Some could even argue that his success as a CEO makes him also the most successful _leader_ of all time. Of course, some will argue against that theory. Regardless of your thoughts on it, however, you will be discussing him and thus he will not be forgotten, at least not for many, many generations.
And, no, I didn't read the article - I refuse to read any article that so obviously utilizes inane controversy to generate page views and bump of ad revenue.
...the chinese say the number 13 as "three and ten", building the number out of simpler, more fundamental numbers, whereas in the US children must learn an entirely new word: "thirteen".
The etymology of -teen : combining form meaning "ten more than," from O.E. -tene, -tiene, from P.Gmc. *tekhuniz (cf. O.S. -tein, Du. -tien, O.H.G. -zehan, Ger. -zehn, Goth. -taihun), an inflected form of the root of ten
So thirteen is a stylized form of three and ten, which makes Gladwell's claim even weirder.
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To simplify the data management process for business, Verizon Wireless will become the first carrier to offer shared data plans for business with the Jan. 24 debut of Share Everything Plan for Small Business, and the Nationwide for Business Data Packages and Plans.
The Share Everything Plan for Small Business gives companies up to 25 lines of unlimited minutes, texts, picture and video messages with a shareable allowance of 30 GB ($225), 40 GB ($300) and 50 GB ($375), plus the monthly per line access cost based on the type of device activated. Additional options for the business customer include data-only plans, and a calling plan with minutes to Canada and Mexico.
New and existing customers can choose to move to these plans and add any 4G LTE smartphone, tablet, Jetpacks, netbooks, laptops, 4G LTE USBs, basic/feature phones, Home Phone Connect and other 3G or 4G LTE enabled devices to share the data allowance on their account.
Additional benefits of Share Everything for Small Business include Mobile Hotspot/Mobile Broadband Connect included at no additional charge on all capable devices. Users can connect their devices and share the connections with others through Wi-Fi, with that data counting towards the monthly allowance. With communications a high priority, personal and corporate email, using Exchange ActiveSync and Lotus Notes Traveler, are included on all capable devices.
Verizon offers free usage alerts which are sent at 50 percent, 75 percent, 90 percent, and 100 percent of monthly shared data allowance to ensure a company does not exceed its selected allotment.
For companies with more than 25 lines, Verizon Wireless introduces shareable data packages and plans that are compatible with their existing Nationwide for Business Talk and Talk & Text share plans. For larger business customers with more complex data needs, this solution offers customizable voice and data allowances with each line contributing minutes and data to a pool shared by all lines and devices, with no limit on the number of devices.
The Nationwide for Business Data Packages and Plans also includes Mobile Hotspot and Mobile Broadband Connect and Corporate email via Exchange ActiveSync at no additional cost.
Nationwide for Business offers shareable data starting at $30 for 2 GB per smartphone or tablet and $50 for 5 GB per Jetpack or USB modem. A larger $80 for 10 GB package is also available for heavy data users. Basic phones can share data starting at $20 for 300 MB per device. Nationwide for Business Data Packages and Plans allow a business of any size to create their own shareable data allowance with the simplicity of managing a single account.
Existing business customers who are comfortable with their current price plans do not need to change to the new shared data options.


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Atlantic Sun Wrap & Tourney PreviewPosted by Brian Goodman on March 2nd, 2011
Bucky Dent is the RTC correspondent for the Atlantic Sun. The A-Sun is among the first of the conference tournaments to tip off, with action set to begin Wednesday.
Tournament Preview and Prediction
The top two seeds play Wednesday, giving them a day off before playing in semifinal matchups Friday night. While weird stuff happens in March, there's nothing to suggest that Belmont or ETSU should lose against Kennesaw State or Campbell, respectively.
On the other hand, a North Florida upset of Jacksonville or a Mercer victory over Lipscomb wouldn't come as a surprise. The Ospreys' season would be made by beating their crosstown rivals and the Bears are as hot as anyone not named Belmont in this league.
Regardless of who wins those games, though, it would be a real surprise if Belmont and ETSU didn't play for the championship as they were clearly the league's best teams. Strangely enough, the one fly in the ointment might be if Lipscomb survives Mercer on the Bears' floor and gets a third crack at its Nashville rivals in the semifinals. All bets might be off at that point, but there's a reason Belmont was 19-1 in the league this year. It had the best team and could win any type of game – fast, slow or moderately-paced. Look for the Bruins to win the A-Sun tourney and perhaps win an NCAA Tournament game with the right draw.
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The potential for shortages of key IT components including memory chips and LCDs resulting from Friday's earthquake and tsunami in Japan is very real, but the actual impact to prices and availability of those components in the long term has yet to be seen, according to several system builders and analsysts.
Japan, a major source of the components used in a wide swath of the IT industry, on Friday suffered a massive 9.0 earthquake off its eastern coast followed by a tsunami which combined to cause thousands of deaths and is threatening the country's nuclear power industry.
While several Japanese IT factories were either directly damaged by the earthquake and tsunami or were purposely shut down as a result of power outages, the impact on IT component prices so far appears to be limited.
Post-earthquake component price increases are just as likely to have been caused by increased IT demand resulting from this year's economic recovery, as well as by price speculation in the supply chain, industry observers said.
Much of Japan's IT manufacturing industry is concentrated in the western and southern parts of Japan, which were not directly affected impacted by the earthquake and tsunami.
Also, many of the factories in the impacted produced older generations of IT components, and so they can be supplemented by production elsewhere.
Even more important to the supply chain is the fact that inventories of some of those components, especially DRAM memory and LCD panels, are healthy, which helps mitigate potential problems caused by factory slowdowns or shutdowns.
System builders on Tuesday said that they have seen little or no increase in DRAM prices resulting from the earthquake and tsunami, and that any increases appear to be more the result of speculation than of any production issues.
Todd Swank, vice president of marketing at Northern Computer Technologies, a Burnsville, Minn.-based system builder, said that prices for DRAM chips from memory vendor Kingston Technologies dropped to their lowest price on Friday, and have since risen slightly.
However, Swank said, the rise in price seems to be more related to an increase in demand caused by the economic recovery than to the tragedy in Japan. "It seems like demand has been spiking lately," he said. "Everybody has been focusing on growth."
The current situation is nothing like 1999, when a massive earthquake struck Taiwan and caused DRAM prices to spike by six times to eight times, Swank said. "Since then, there have been over 50 times when people say the price is spiking, only to see no such thing," he said.
Even so, Swank said Nor-Tech is taking no chances.
"I don't think anything will happen yet on spot pricing," he said. "My guess is, we'll see some pricing upticks. But we are seriously considering taking a stocking situation with DRAM, just in case."
Joe Toste, vice president of marketing at Minneapolis-based system builder Equus Computer Systems, said that DDR-3 memory has recently been at an all-time low, and that prices were expected to rise with a recent increase in demand.
"For the long-term, you better be prepared for prices to go up because of demand," Toste said. "The guidance we've been getting is that demand is up. But supply is still greater than demand. It's all part of the regular supply-demand cycle."
Toste said that LCD prices have already been rising from their recent lows even before the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan.
Other system builders said they have seen an impact.
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The Ultimate Umami Burger
For the longest time, we've been making the best darn hamburger on the face of this earth (insert personal bias.) We've never had a specific name for the recipe until someone tagged it as the "magic meat", but not as in "mystery meat" or "I can't tell if this is chicken or beef." Rather, it was to describe the magical flavor sensations that everyone experienced when they bit into one of our patties. That "magic meat" term described the juicy, flavorful and savory burger patty that everyone fought over. Sometimes the buns were tossed to the side or forgotten because the meat was just so darn tasty.
It wasn't until recently, with all the discussion on Umami (the rich, savory taste in foods)that our burger recipe was re-named as the hamburger loaded with Umami. Our hungry friends were always stumped to figure out the secret ingredient and could never, ever pinpoint that "magic" flavor that made our patties so unique. It's the ultimate burger that is so satisfying and savory, no one can eat just one. Make it a double, please.
But this umami rich burger recipe isn't a new invention, nor is it a trendy recipe to keep up with the popularity of umami rich foods. It's a family recipe that started from a Vietnamese family back in the early 80's, in a 2-bedroom apartment, in the middle of Southern California.
That family is obviously mine. Growing up in a Vietnamese family of 6 kids who were always hungry and thirsty for more American foods, my parent had to figure out a way to feed their hungry pack of kids. Back then, hamburgers were the "American's food", "that sandwich with that big piece of meat in it, with the red and yellow sauces and the sour cucumber slices." My siblings and I wanted to eat "Ham-buh-guh" all day long and we wanted it NOW.
My parents figured out that it was much more economical to make burgers at home and did exactly that by created their own recipe for the patties. Of course, being Vietnamese, they marinated the beef in the only way they knew how—splash fish sauce to it. Fish sauce is the golden elixir to us Vietnamese, take it away and you drain the blood out of our cuisine. Fish sauce is the fermented salvation from the food gods above, and it's pure umami brings out the savory depth in all foods.
With their batch of beef, my parents splashed fish sauce as the one and only marinade into the burger recipe. With the addition of a little sugar for balance, garlic for more aromatic love and black pepper for bite, their simple recipe has evolved into what our friends call today as "The Ultimate Umami Burger."
This recipe isn't unique by any means, especially in a Vietnamese household. I'm certain there are many Vietnamese-American families who splashed their burger meat with fish sauce!
I know what a lot of you white people are thinking, "Fish sauce? Um, hell no." But wait, my dear skeptics, and listen to my confessional. For many years when I first joined up with this beautiful, crazy Asian, I avoided fish sauce. Let's face it, it stinks like something most of us are not used to. It is, after all, fermented anchovies. Mmmm, tasty! Not. At least so I thought, but man, was I ever wrong.
One fine meal while dining on a grilled shrimp ball, I dipped it into the Vietnamese classic Nuoc Cham (Viet Fish Sauce Dip) and I suddenly saw the umami. There was no nasty wired fishiness, instead the fish sauce's own flavor virtually disappeared and many of the other flavors within the grilled shrimp ball became heightened. Everything was good before, but after the addition of the the fish sauce everything was incredible. I was instantly converted.
Ever since I've never hesitated in grabbing for the bottle of fish sauce. It was my brother-in-law, a classic mid-west guy who isn't normally overly adventurous in his culinary choices, who dubbed the fish sauce laden ground beef as the "Magic Meat." It was that damn tasty. And now we had another believer in the umami.
Sure everything will be tasty without the umami adding fish sauce. However, it will be even better with the magic sauce.
The Ultimate Umami Burger Recipe
Don't be afraid of the fish sauce. Understand the crucial umami factor that fish sauce brings to food and it will become your best pantry friend. So often, the powerful, pungent punch of fish sauce can be intimidating to cooks who aren't familiar with it's marinading magic.
Fish sauce is essentially the salty liquid from the fermentation of small fish and salt. But when used in small quantities, fish sauce brings fabulous umami savoriness to the burgers. It won't taste like a "fish sauce burger." It just tastes like a darn great burger! You'll be a fish sauce marinade convert very quickly.
2 lbs Ground Beef
1 1/2 Tablespoons Fish Sauce (for more daring, savory depth, use 2 tablespoons)
2 cloves Garlic, crushed
1/2 teaspoon Sugar
1 teaspoon fresh ground Black Pepper
Hamburger buns
condiments of your choice
1. In bowl, combine all ingredients together.
2. Allow to marinade for about 20 minutes.
3. Gently form meat into a balls, then flatten into a patties. Cook on a skillet or grill. (1/2 patties on a med./high grill take about 3 min. per side for med. rare burger. Heat temp., thickness, etc. all affect cooking times)


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Page 1: Effects of Nuclear Weapon Testing by the Soviet Union
Shortly after the end of World War II, the steppes of Kazakhstan became the scene of nuclear weapon testing by the Soviet Union. Tests were later conducted in one of most remote places on Earth – the mountainous Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, as well as in the Urals and at the Missile Test Range area in Kazakhstan.
Semipalatinsk Test Site
Between 1949 and 1989, 456 atomic and thermonuclear devices were exploded at the Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS) under conditions of tight confidentiality. Explosions were conducted on the surface and in the atmosphere. Five of the surface tests were unsuccessful and resulted in the dispersion of plutonium into the environment, with the first test on 29 August 1949 unexpectedly contaminating villages to the northeast of the STS.
The approximate cumulative explosive yield of the tests conducted before 1963, when the Soviet Union signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT), was 6.4 Mt. This was about six times greater than the explosive yield of the above ground tests at the Nevada Test Site and about six percent of the yield of the tests conducted in the Marshall Islands.
More than 300 test explosions were conducted underground after 1961. Semipalatinsk's Degelen Mountain nuclear test facility was the largest underground nuclear test site in the world, consisting of 181 separate tunnels. Between October 1961 and October 1989, 224 tests were conducted there.
The last test took place on 12 February 1989 and resulted in a leakage of large amounts of the radioactive noble gases xenon and krypton, according to Gusev et al. in The Semipalatinsk nuclear test site: a first assessment of the radiological situation and the test-related radiation doses in the surrounding territories. Peterson et al. describe how the radionuclides emanating from these tests resulted in atmospheric and environmental contamination in Diagnosis of benign and malignant thyroid disease in the east Kazakhstan region of the Republic of Kazakhstan: a case review of pathological findings for 2525 patients.
Exposure to radiation
Officially, the only inhabitants in the immediate vicinity during the testing programme were in the nearby town of Kurchatov, whose purpose was to service the site, and in two small settlements along the northern edge of the site. However, local officials maintain that hundreds of thousands of people lived within an 80 km radius of the STS.
In the September 2002 issue of National Review, Robert Elegant describes how residents of the village of Sarjal were evacuated before one extremely powerful blast but were returned after ten days. They were normally told to refrain from lighting their iron cooking stoves when testing was taking place in case the fire flared back into the house. They were also warned to stay outside when an explosion was scheduled, since it might topple their house. Historical accounts of residents who were schoolchildren before 1962 indicate that windows were blown out of their schools and that their bodies convulsed when testing occurred.


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Zhang Yuan 张元
Artwork description
At Moleskine's invitation, Zhang used his little notebook to keep record of the people and objects around him. He hopes that the single-lined sketches can bring a sense of beauty to his art-loving friends.
Film director Zhang Yuan got his start studying painting during his childhood. After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy with a bachelor's degree in 1989, He became an independent producer and a prime mover in the field of contemporary Chinese film. Zhang was selected as one of the Young World Leaders of the 21st Century (Times Weekly), one of the 100 Young People Who Will Influence the Next Century (China Youth), and one of Top 10 National Young People (New Weekly and Sina, China). In 1999, his work Seventeen Years won the Best Director at Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia. Zhang was awarded the Culture and Peace Prize (United Nations, 2001), and Robert Bresson Prize (Vatican, 2006). Since 1989, he has directed or produced 14 films and many short movies and music videos. Meanwhile, Zhang is also engaged in stage operas and has held personal photography exhibitions in 2008 and 2010.


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It just wouldn't seem like Christmas in Chester County without the Kennett Symphony of Chester County's Holiday Concert. This year's concert, "Visions of Sugarplums", is scheduled for December 1 at 8 p.m. at the Kennett High School Auditorium.
The evening performance will feature the symphony's 2012 Voice Competition winner Kimberly Christie and the Kennett Symphony Children's Chorus in the first half with a lively array of traditional holiday favorites.
After intermission, the symphony will take the audience to the "Kingdom of Sweets" where the handsome prince and Clara are entertained by the Sugar Plum Fairy in Tchaikovsky's classic ballet "The Nutcracker."
The concert will also feature such holiday classics as Morton Gould's "Serenade of Carols", Edward Elgar's "The Snow", Gaetono Donizetti "Regnava nel silenzio" from the opera "Lucia di Lammermoor", Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria" and Leonard Bernstein's "Glitter and Be Gay" from "Candide."
What: The Kennett Symphony of Chester County's "Visions of Sugarplums"
When: Dec. 1, 8 p.m.
Where: Kennett High School Auditorium, Kennett High, Kennett Square
Tickets: $40 - $5 for students
Information: 610-444-6363 or www.kennettsymphony.org


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December 10, 2005
Lisa Kosglow recently purchased a house in upper Hood River, where she plans to settle down, plant a garden in the spring and focus her attention on continuing her education at Portland State University, where she is most interested in a career in sustainable development.
Before Kosglow can settle, however, she has one final task on her forefront: the 2006 Winter Olympics.
As a member of the U.S. Women's Snowboard Team, Kosglow, 32, from Boise, Idaho, has traveled the world as a competitive Alpine snowboarder.
Her list of accomplishments includes being a two-time Olympian, a two-time ISF World silver medalist, a five-time World Cup podium finisher, an eight-time U.S. Grand Prix top three finisher and the reigning U.S. National Alpine Champion. In the 2002 winter Olympics she finished eight in the Giant Slalom.
Kosglow leaves town on Sunday to Quebec, where she will start her quest to qualify for the upcoming 2006 Winter Olympics with back-to-back qualifier races. After Canada, she will travel to World Cup races in Italy and Austria, where she will have to finish in the top four overall to make the cut. The 2005 Olympic team will be announced on Jan. 25, with the Alpine team consisting of only one to two women.
"My chances are always good," Kosglow said about qualifying. "But anything can happen in 12 runs so it's always a bit of a toss-up."
To get ready for the races, Kosglow's training consists of weight lifting, intervals, yoga and mountain biking.
"My training has changed over the years," she said. "It's definitely a lot more mellow now. But it's still effective in keeping me strong, competitive and healthy."
A third Olympic appearance would be going out in style, as Kosglow plans to hang up her competitive boots and board after this winter.
"This will absolutely be my last shot at the Olympics," Kosglow said. "I love to travel but I'm looking forward to spending some time in one place. I'm excited to get busy with other things in my life, like getting involved with environmental causes."
If Lisa had a custom bumper-sticker on her race board, it might read: "My other ride is a vegetarian."
On the road, she cruises in a Volkswagen Golf, modified to run on used vegetable oil she finagles from a few local sources.
"This area is ripe for sustainable ideas," Kosglow commented, "I want to start a co-op for people who want to run their cars on veggie oil. I'm also interested in developing affordable green housing."
Those ideas are just a few of the defending National Champion's many goals and ambitions. Olympic athletes are often excellent examples of people with dreams in action.
Kosglo offered the following insight about the subject: "So many awesome things have come from this lifestyle. I get to travel and see the world. The whole lifestyle of eating well, being healthy and being conscious of the outer limits of the body has been an eye-opening experience … It's been an amazing ride.
"My advice for others is to just follow your dreams, even if you don't know how to make them happen. Don't let uncertainty hold you back … For me, my parents and trust in myself have been the biggest influence I've had in terms of following my dreams."
The Home Depot Program:
Kosglow is currently part of The Home Depot's Olympic Job Opportunities Program, which helps Olympic athletes, Olympic hopefuls and Paralympians by offering flexible part-time work schedules for full-time wages.
Off the slopes, Kosglow's passion for gardening comes in handy, as she works in the gardening department of the Home Depot in The Dalles.
"It's an amazing program, and it's how I fund my career these days," said Kosglow, who estimates she works there about 20 hours a week when she's in town. "They pay my salary and let me travel. The Industry doesn't really support alpine snowboarding so the program is really important for me."
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The Gaithersburg, Md., priest who refused to give Communion to a lesbian parishioner during a funeral mass for the woman's mother has been has been placed on leave, according to NBC Channel 4 news.
A letter from an archdiocese official says that Rev. Marcel Guarnizo was placed on leave for engaging in intimidating behavior. The archdiocese had previously apologized for Guarnizo's behavior.
Guarnizo said he could not administer the sacrament to Barbara Johnson because she was a sinner.
"He put his hand over the body of Christ and looked at me and said, 'I can't give you Communion because you live with a woman, and in the eyes of the church, that is a sin,' " Johnson recalled in a story last month published by The Washington Post.
Johnson had asked for the priest to be removed.
In the letter of apology to Johnson from the archdiocese, Rev. Barry Knestout, a high ranking church administrator, said the lack of "kindness" that Johson endured at the service "is a cause of great concern and personal regret."
According to NBC 4:
The archdiocese also issued a statement after the funeral saying that any action against the priest will remain confidential because it is a personnel issue.
Johnson's family has said it hopes the action against Guarnizo will ensure that others don't endure the same treatment.


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You have invested the last month with us, though the expert interviews to the two weeks of group breakdowns, and now – the day before the 2010 World Cup starts – Laurence McKenna, Kartik Krishnaiyer and myself make out final predictions: the Round of 16 to the July 11 final. Join us in this final preparatory step for South Africa 2010 as we tell you who we think will be the next world champions.
On behalf of Kartik, Laurence and the Gaffer, thank you for joining us for the last month as we've prepared ourselves for the quadrennial celebration of the game we love. Starting with Friday's matches, we will be bringing you daily, post-match podcasts in the style of our EPL Talk Weekend Review shows: looking at the day's action and previewing the next day's fixtures.
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TAMARAC, FL– Coker finished the Fall portion of its season with an eleventh-place finish at the Nova Southeastern/UNICCO Fall Invitational in men's golf. The Cobras never really found their groove over the three-round event and finished with a score of 296-297-305-898 in the 17-team event.
Sophomore Louis-Pierre Godin/Champlain, Quebec led Coker with a total score of 218 to place 20th overall. Jeffery Johnson/Hartsville tied for 56th with a score of 227 and sophomore Brad Wissmueller/Wausau, WI overcame a tough first round 81 to tie for 64th with a 229 score. Sophomore Vincent Dumouchel/Candiac, Quebec and classmate Blaine Morgan/Simpsonville, SC both shot 232 to tie for 70th overall
It was an all-Florida top-five with Lynn taking the championship, followed by West Florida, Nova Southeastern, Barry and Eckerd. The Cobras did finish ahead of their only CVAC rival, Queens University of Charlotte, who placed tied for 12th with a 905 total.


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Talk:Sri Lanka
For future reference the Wikitravel:CIA World Factbook 2002 import can be found at Talk:Sri Lanka/CIA World Factbook 2002 import.
Please note that according to wikitravel policy, there should be a maximum of 9 of the cities of most interest to travelers listed on a page. Other, less important places, should be listed under their regional sections. Thanks. WindHorse 20 Feb 06
Department Stores
I have deleted the details of ODEL department store, as it sounded more like an advertisement of the same. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 22.214.171.124 (talk • contribs)
summary in South Asia
What is the most descriptive summary we can give for Sri Lanka in South Asia article? Right now it's
> Sri Lanka - pearl of the Orient
and it says nothing about the place, not to mention it's boring.
How does the country stands out among its neighbors? What is the main thing making it different and unique? --DenisYurkin 13:54, 8 January 2008 (EST)
what applies to Sri Lanka from India article
As Sri Lanka have some history of connection with India, I thought it is important to know what from India article can be applied to Sri Lanka as well.
I am not very knowledgeable on both, so this is an amateur hypothesis of what in India looks to be applicable to Sri Lanka:
Please correct me where I'm wrong.
The reason for this is to have a reliable source of info we can easily copyedit from. --DenisYurkin 16:12, 14 January 2008 (EST)
Wikitravel does not have a "towns" section: we list only major cities and major points of interest. Please move these to the appropriate region articles. Jpatokal 08:55, 9 February 2009 (EST)
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Here's what I saw during the Eagles' 34-7 win over the Cowboys:
* The Cowboys had allowed one run of 20+ yards in six games coming into today. LeSean McCoy had three of them tonight - a 21-yarder, a 34-yarder and a 22-yarder.
* McCoy delivered a nice stiff-arm on linebacker Sean Lee on an 11-yard run in the first. He finished with 185 yards on 30 carries - both career highs.
* In the first half, Michael Vick was 13-for-17 for 187 yards and two touchdowns. That translates to a QB rating of 150.9. He also ran six times for 45 yards. Overall, he was 21-for-28 for 279 yards, a pair of touchdowns and no interceptions (129.9 QB rating).
* The Eagles scored on their first six offensive possessions (four touchdowns and two field goals). Their first punt did not come until the fourth quarter.
* Brent Celek was the Eagles' most-targeted receiver for the second week in a row. He caught seven balls for 94 yards on nine targets, including a 9-yard touchdown.
* Vick hit Jeremy Maclin on a slant that went for 24 yards in the first quarter. Later on the drive, he found him for a 12-yard touchdown. The Cowboys blitzed two defensive backs on a third down in the red zone, but Maclin showed good patience and raced to the end zone.
* On the Eagles' first offensive play, McCoy had trouble picking up Gerald Sensabaugh, and DeMarcus Ware sacked Vick. McCoy later delivered a nice block on Vick's 15-yard run during the same drive. Ware had all four of the Cowboys' sacks.
* Vick made a couple beautiful throws on the third touchdown drive. He found Jason Avant for 20 yards on third down and then hit Celek in the back of the end zone.
* Perhaps the loudest ovation from the crowd came when the official explained that Andy Reid ahd gotten not one, but two, challenges correct in the third quarter.
* Jason Babin got to Tony Romo, notching the Eagles' first sack on Dallas' first possession. Trent Cole met him at the quarterback. The Eagles only rushed four on the play. Later in the series, Trevor Laws sacked Romo. In the second quarter, Cole had the Eagles' third sack. And Babin got to Romo again on 4th-and-goal in the fourth.
* Sometimes, the ball just bounces your way. Romo looked for Martellus Bennett on a first-quarter throw, but Moise Fokou broke it up. The ball bounced off of Bennett's knee, and Nnamdi Asomugha intercepted it.
* Asomugha was used in a variety of ways. He lined up man-to-man on Bryant and Jason Witten at times. But he also roamed like a linebacker/safety on certain downs. He did not play strict man-to-man/press coverage all game.
* Laurent Robinson almost made an unbelievable catch in the second, but he stepped out of bounds. Romo tried to get the next play off quickly, but Andy Reid threw the red challenge flag in time.
* Not only were Miles Austin and Dez Bryant shut out in the first half, neither was even targeted. Austin finished with three catches for 27 yards. Bryant finished with three catches for 28 yards. And Witten had four catches for 28 yards. None of Romo's three biggest weapons was a factor.
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Moon and Regulus [1]
Modern depictions of Greek and Roman mythology tend to sanitize things a bit — less blood and gore, more ear-catching tunes. A prime example is Hercules, the Roman version of Heracles. In the Disney telling of the story, he fights a bunch of monsters, then earns immortality by being willing to sacrifice himself to save his true love. But in the original version of the story, he has to fight the monsters because he killed his own wife and children.
The story says that he killed them after he was driven mad by his stepmother, Hera, the queen of the gods of Olympus. As atonement, Hercules must complete 12 herculean feats of strength and courage.
The first of these labors was to kill a lion that was terrorizing the people of Nemea, and take its skin to the king. But the lion's skin couldn't be pierced, so Hercules's arrows just bounced off it. So the strongman followed the lion to its lair. He blocked one of its two entrances, then entered the cave. When Hercules found the lion, he grabbed it in a mighty choke-hold, eventually strangling it. He then used the lion's own claws to skin it.
Afterwards, Zeus, the king of the gods, placed the lion in the heavens, as the constellation Leo.
And Leo is in great view tonight, spreading out near the Moon. The lion's bright heart, the star Regulus, is not far to the lower left of the Moon as they climb into good view around 8 or 9 o'clock, and remains close as they spring across the sky during the night.
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Even though I currently only write markup languages (starting to learn Perl lawlz), most of this makes good sense to me. I'm not a big fan of stuffing everything on one line just to do it, but if I can use shorthands for values I do. It's true, if someone can't read shorthands (esp if they are in the specs) then they shouldn't be reading it at all.
The "wider vocaulary" part works too. It's part of "use the right tool for the job" as usually this means less hammering around to get the ill-fitting piece to do the job someone else should've been doing, and if you don't know what's possible, you'll find yourself using a screwdriver to hammer in nails more often.
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Accrualsdeferrals/User Guide
Abstract and Justification
"Accruals & Deferrals" is a new OB ERP feature which is intended to correct periodization of Expense or Income. There is a requirement to distribute a cost which occurs over more than 1 year.
This feature is required in Germany, but is also generically useful in other countries.
User Goals
Accruals and Deferrals feature on ERP system is used to create the Purchase & Sales invoice specific to Accruals and Deferrals.
New Definitions and Acronyms
Installation of the *.obx file for Accruals & Deferrals feature:
- Openbravo application should be installed in your environment.
- Login as Openbravo/Openbravo
- Change the role to "System Admin" by clicking the button "User Info".
- Go to General Setup -> Application -> Module Management. Click the tab Add Modules -> Browse File System.
- Install Module pop-up window will be opened. Browse the obx file and click continue.
- Accruals & Deferrals will be available in "Add Modules" with Install Now button.
- Click Install Now. This will do all the process and finally it will add the Accruals & Deferrals feature in our application.
- To Verify this go to "Installed Modules" tab in Module Management and check whether the newly added module appears there.
Now your application is set up with the Accruals & Deferrals feature.
Master data test cases execution
To make this "Accruals and Deferral" feature to work you need to setup the master data. For example you need to import the products, business partners and taxes.
New Client Vs Existing Client
For the "New Client" the Accruals and Deferrals feature will be installed automatically when we install the obx file on the system and the Accounting schema table for Accruals & Deferrals will be added by system in the below mentioned application path.
Financial Management || Accounting || Setup || Accounting Schema || Accounting Schema >> Account Schema Tables
For the "Existing Client", In-order to the Accruals and Deferrals feature needs to be ported, The new Accounting schema table for Accruals and Deferrals needs to be added which is subject to posting.
The Accounting schema table for Accruals and Deferrals can be added in the below application path after installing the "Accruals and Deferrals" feature on the ERP System.
Financial Management || Accounting || Setup || Accounting Schema || Accounting Schema >> Account Schema Tables
Accounting Schema tables to be activated for the Transactions to get posted
The new table for Accruals and Deferral(AccDef_Plan) is subject to posting into GL. So, this table needs to be added in the below Application path for existing client.
Financial Management || Accounting || Setup || Accounting Schema || Accounting Schema >> Account Schema Tables and should in Active mode.
This table will be automatically added and activated at the time of "Initial Client Setup" for new client.
This table needs to be added manually for existing client in the below Application path.
Financial Management || Accounting || Setup || Accounting Schema || Accounting Schema >> Account Schema Tables
Default Accounts for Accruals and Deferrals Plan Posting
The Default Account information for posting the Accruals and Deferrals plan are needed as below.
Accruals and Deferral plan requires the 4 Account for posting the plan lines as below.
- Prepaid Expenses.
- Other Liabilities
- Deferred Income.
- Other Receivables.
The Defaults account for Accruals and Deferrals should be set in the below Application Path.
Financial Management || Accounting || Setup || Accounting Schema || Accounting Schema >> Defaults
Note:- Without setting the Default Account for Accruals and Deferrals, Plan line can not be posted.
User interface Changes
User Tasks
John is an accountant who needs to create the Invoice( Sales & Purchase Invoices ) for Accruals and Deferrals plan. In-order to enter the data into system John follow the steps below.
- Log into Openbravo ERP as Organization Administrator.
- From the Application menu, select Procurement Management-> Transactions->Purchase invoice.
- Click New.
- From the Transaction Document list, select the corresponding document type, AP invoice.
- By clicking the Business Partner icon, select the business partner
- Click the Lines tab
- Click New.
- By clicking the Product icon, select the product.
- In the Invoiced Quantity field, type the quantity of the product to be invoiced.
- Go back to header tab and Click "Complete".
The same steps to be followed for creating the Sales Invoices.
After successful completion of the invoice, the Accruals & Deferrals plan line will be generated and can be found in the below application path.
Purchase Invoice
Procurement Management || Transactions || Purchase Invoice || Header >> Accruals and Deferrals Plan
Sales Invoice
Sales Management || Transactions || Sales Invoice || Header >> Accruals and Deferrals Plan
After posting John can able to see the corresponding journal entry and he can verify the values in the Debit and credit voucher.
He can also click the Journal entry link, by doing that he will be redirected to the original document that is the purchase invoice.
John can inquiry the "Accruals and Deferrals Plan" tab in the Purchase invoice || Header. There he will be able to see the details of the newly created Accruals and Deferrals plan lines for purchase invoice when Invoice is completed. The following information will be available in the Accruals and Deferrals Plan tab. All fields are editable here.
- Currency
- Client
- Invoice number
- Line No.
- Accounting Date
- Amount


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WOODRIDGE – Rental property owners and managing agents around Woodridge are invited to a Crime Free Housing Seminar at the park district.
Woodridge Park District is hosting the free class from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Aug. 24 at the Community Resource Center, 8247 Janes Ave. The Crime Free Housing Seminar will discuss topics such as evictions, background checks, code enforcement and more.
For more information, contact Allen Fennell at 630-719-2493 or visit: www.vil.woodridge.il.us


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Elton John Wants Zachary to Have a Sibling
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It may be time for Zachary Furnish-John to get used to the idea of having a sibling.
His fathers, Elton John and David Furnish, are hoping to increase the size of their family because, the rock legend tells The Guardian, he remembers the disadvantages of being an only child.
Of his own youth, John, 65, says, "I spent it in my room, listening to music if my parents were [arguing]." Of Zachary's childhood, he says, "I think it's difficult to be an only child, and to be an only child of someone famous."
As a result, "I want him to have a sibling so he has someone to be with."
The musician also acknowledges that a brother or sister may help smooth over an uncomfortable situation that may arise from other children, given that his 17-month-old son has two dads.
"I know when he goes to school there's going to be an awful lot of pressure, and I know he's going to have people saying, 'You don't have a mummy,'" says John, who married longtime partner Furnish in 2005. "It's going to happen. We talked about it before we had him. I want someone to be at his side and back him up. We shall see."
In the meantime, John has noticed about his son (born via surrogate mother), "He's so straight" — kissing the housekeeper's daughter and playing football.
He does express one bit of concern — that Zachary may be spoiled, not by him and Furnish, but by John's legion of fans.
"At Christmas we bought him a swing for the garden and a little slide, and this was his Christmas present and his birthday present from us," said John. "But he had so many presents from other people throughout the world, which is touching, but we actually found it obscene."
The solution? When nine baby strollers showed up at their door, John and Furnish sent them to charity.
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Barbara Walters made it official on "The View" on Monday morning: after the summer of 2014, she won't be appearing on TV anymore.
During lengthy remarks at the top of Monday's program, Walters addressed the issue, which has been following her for months. Yes, she is retiring next year. But she was quick to clarify: "I'm not walking into the sunset."
She will continue to serve as co-executive producer of "The View," the program she helped launch, and she will return for special occasions. But she won't be a regular on-camera presence on that show, or any show.
PHOTOS: Barbara Walters' celebrity interviews
Walters, who was hospitalized earlier this year with a rare case of adult chicken pox and underwent open-heart surgery in 2010, says she made the decision to retire on her own and was in fine shape, healthwise. The 83-year-old newswoman says she isn't interested in appearing on any more programs. "I want instead to sit in a sunny field and admire the very gifted women -- and OK, some men too -- who will be taking my place."
Walters made the announcement in front of a VIP audience, including Ben Sherwood, president of ABC News; Vicki Dummer, executive vice president of ABC Media Group; ABC Television President Anne Sweeney; ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee; and Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger.
Iger recalled his early days with the company as a production assistant, when he had to deliver a package to Walters' dressing room and met her for the first time. When Walters mentioned that he was set to retire from Disney in 2015, she asked what the two of them were going to do.
"The two of us love to dance, I say we go on 'Dancing With the Stars!'" Iger responded.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg also made a surprise appearance on the show to praise Walters.
Reports surfaced in March that she would be stepping down from "The View," but Walters denied them. Now the countdown is officially on for Walters fans to get their last looks in.
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BELVIDERE (WIFR)-- 33-year-old, Felix Perez, of Belvidere Illinois was charged with one count of unlawful delivery of cannabis (Class 4 Felony) and one count of unlawful delivery of cannabis over 30 grams (Class 3 Felony). Perez remains in custody at the Boone County Jail on a $100,000.00 (10%) bond.
On November 27, 2012, Perez was arrested after his vehicle was stopped by police in the 3100 block of Chrysler Drive, Belvidere.
The arrest of Perez concluded a two month investigation by the Belvidere police narcotic unit. The investigation continues and additional arrests are possible.
A Class 3 Felony is punishable by two (2) to five (5) years in the department of corrections. A class 4 felony is punishable by one (1) to three (3) years in the department of corrections.
The Belvidere police department encourages anyone having information on a crime, suspicious activity or narcotic trafficking to call the Belvidere police department at 544-2135 or crime stoppers at 547-7867.


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VALMALENCO, Italy (March 31) - USSA TEAM Academy and rookie team member Alexi Micinski (Meridian, ID) took slopestyle skiing silver at the FIS Junior World Champs on Sunday. Lisa Zimmerman of Germany won gold for the ladies. In the men's junior slopestyle competition, Brent Whipple (Stateline, NV) also took home the silver medal. Norway's Felix Stridsberg-Usterud won for the men. After Sunday's slopestyle event, the Marc Hadler trophy was awarded to the USA for earning the highest combined score of any other nation.
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Welcome to the board, although that's not much of an introduction.
Posted 10 April 2005 - 07:59 PM
Sorry, Let me start over. I'm a Computer Technician, that is a part-time mechanic, full-time husband, and a full-time daddy of a two yr old, and an amature astronomer. So as y'all can see, my life is pretty much dull.
Welcome to the board, although that's not much of an introduction.
Posted 10 April 2005 - 09:57 PM
Sounds pretty full to me. Take a trip around the functions on the board and see what it has to offer. It is a wonderful source of info and good people. Stick around and you'll see.
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so i assume you have a Subaru?
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Word just came in of a new BlackBerry Traffic Beta opening up in the BlackBerry Beta Zone. Since the beginning of the BlackBerry Beta Zone it has been obvious that RIM cares about our opinions in the development of native apps. From the Beta Zone have come out some super solid apps like BlackBerry Protect, BlackBerry Travel, and finally BlackBerry Traffic as well as many improvements to BBM, Twitter for BlackBerry and Facebook for BlackBerry.
In this latest version of BlackBerry Traffic (22.214.171.124) we see certain upgrades like:
Updated Maps
Obviously in GPS program having the latest map data is essential. The BlackBerry Beta Development team has also used all the testers feedback to account for new roads, better route selection and improve the accuracy of ETA and traffic data.
- Over a million new searchable addresses
- Thousands of miles of new back roads
- Dozens of new highway construction projects
- Over a 130,000 miles of verified speed limits
Added Exit option to the BlackBerry menu screen
An "Exit" option has been added to quickly close the program instead of having to back out of each individual screen one by one like in previous versions.
App not responding issues on BlackBerry Storm 2 devices has been fixed
Possibly the most annoying part of this program for many Storm 2 users has finally been fixed. No more sudden interruptions in the service of the application and hopefully it stays like this for good.
Minor UI updates and improvements
Any avid user of BlackBerry Traffic, like myself, will notice some minor UI tweaks in this latest release.
This update doesn't contain anything too crazy but it is great to see them constantly work to improve an already awesome application. If you haven't already join the BlackBerry Beta Zone and let your voice be heard.


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Blackburn Rovers are 'a laughing stock', says club legend Simon Garner
Simon Garner has urged Blackburn fans to back new boss Michael Appleton but believes the club are "a laughing stock".
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Appleton leads Rovers for the first time when they host Charlton in the npower Championship on Saturday - the fifth man to do so in a chaotic campaign following the departures of Steve Kean and Henning Berg, and caretaker spells under Eric Black and Gary Bowyer.
Garner, who scored 194 goals in 570 appearances for Rovers between 1978 and 1992, is now a non-executive director of the Rovers Trust - a supporters' organisation committed to fan-ownership and vocally opposed to the Venky's regime - and he believes the Indian owner's tenure is hugely undermining any hopes of progress at Ewood Park.
"The situation is getting ridiculous and Rovers have become a laughing stock," he said. "We need to sort out what's going on behind the scenes to give the new manager, the coaching staff and the team a chance.
"I wish Michael Appleton well and let's hope he's allowed to do his job properly. We should all give him our full support - and that includes the owners and the board of directors and other people with influence at Ewood Park.
"The way things are in the boardroom, the mixed messages from different people at the club, the terrible public relations and lack of communication with supporters - it's no way to operate a football club.
"Very fundamental things are wrong with the club and the way it is being run at the moment. The silence from the Venky's is deafening."
He added: "At the moment, there is no clear leadership and without that I can't see Rovers moving forward.
"We're not in a healthy position on or off the pitch and it is heart-breaking to see. These are very worrying times to be a supporter.
"The only positive way forward for all Rovers fans is to join the Rovers Trust, like I have done, and let's all try to get our club back."


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The Advocate: The World According to Nancy Pelosi
By Andrew Harmon
In her first speech on the House floor, Nancy Pelosi spoke out on AIDS. Many of her colleagues thought she was crazy for doing so. Twenty-five years later, she's not finished pushing the LGBT envelope in Washington.
There was something slightly off in Nancy Pelosi's usual stride as she walked across the beige marble lobby of the Regency Hotel on New York's Upper East Side. Her determined pace is familiar to those who've seen her approach a scrum of microphones with Senate majority leader Harry Reid or House minority whip Steny Hoyer to announce a victory, rail against an impasse, or lob a charge at her Republican successor who now holds the Speaker's gavel. The broad grin that so irritates her detractors was gone, too. With her was Drew Hammill, her deputy communications director, and her youngest daughter, Alexandra, a documentary filmmaker. Pelosi was wearing a light gray pantsuit and a multicolored Tahitian cultured pearl necklace so closely identified with her that countless online jewelers now simply dub it 'The Nancy Pelosi.'
Pelosi looked hurried and unnerved, as though the House minority leader, one of the nation's top congressional Democrats, had just dealt with something clearly not on her agenda. She had.
It was June 2011, and a few blocks away, at the Sheraton on 53rd Street, Rep. Anthony Weiner was giving a press conference about his tweeted indiscretions, which would ultimately give him plenty of extra time to play pickup hockey games at Chelsea Piers' Sky Rink. Weiner had called Pelosi at the Regency, where she was meeting with donors, to come clean. Meanwhile, Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger who broke the story, had become the impromptu warm-up act for waiting reporters in a drab navy blue conference room. Weiner had initially assured Pelosi that the allegations were false, but a few days later she and her staff were quickly digesting the news coverage in a Regency hotel room with Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Steve Israel and crafting a short statement calling for an ethics investigation before shuffling with Secret Service agents out to an idling black Suburban, bound for downtown. In the dozen or so steps from the front door to the SUV, Pelosi ran into Larry King, who asked if he could take a photo with her – for his Twitter page.
'Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise,' Pelosi said later, as the vehicle headed down Park Avenue. Of Weiner, she said, 'I'm really overcome by personal sadness and disappointment for him. But frankly, he has to deal with all of that.' Though clearly pained, she moved on, rapidly. 'And I was thinking of something that I told friends at lunch today…'
'But you were surprised by this,' said Alexandra in the backseat, not ready to move on. Alexandra is well versed in documenting sex scandals, notably in The Trials of Ted Haggard, about the disgraced pastor, and an upcoming film on former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey, who stepped down following a gay affair. 'You told us you thought it was Photoshopped, remember?' she continued, goading her mother. 'You said you couldn't believe that anything like that would ever happen.'
'I didn't think so. I can't answer for personal behavior. You just don't know,' Pelosi said.
'You always assume the best of everyone,' Alexandra said. 'You never think anything ill of anyone. Even when they don't deserve such charity.'
Pelosi looked out the window as the Suburban veered around a curve at Grand Central Station. 'I think that serves me well. Generally.'
The rest of the afternoon found Pelosi back on message. After a 33-minute trip downtown in moderate traffic, she glided past a few curious onlookers on her way into a minimalist lobby and an elevator leading up to a SoHo apartment filled with gay and lesbian Democratic donors. Immaculate and precise, the airy loft belongs to Chris Hughes, a cofounder of Facebook with an estimated net worth of $850 million, and his fiancé, Sean Eldridge, who is the political director of Freedom to Marry. Milling among the servers who held trays of champagne were Hoyer, former National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director Urvashi Vaid, Freedom to Marry founder Evan Wolfson, and Jerry Nadler, a rabidly pro-LGBT New York congressman expected by some to replace retiring U.S. representative Barney Frank as lead sponsor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a long-pending federal bill that would ban antigay and antitransgender discrimination in private, nonreligious workplaces. Eventual passage of a marriage equality bill in New York State was still weeks away. And though victory was anything but a certainty, Pelosi was confident that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg would deliver.
As Weinergate reached a fever pitch uptown that afternoon, Pelosi was back to doing what she does better than anyone else in Congress: working a room with a maestro's command, alighting from each handshake as though she were meeting a long-lost childhood friend every minute and a half. The event would be one of 367 events Pelosi has headlined upon her party's return to the minority in the House following the 2010 midterm election. It's a grueling but lucrative schedule that has netted more than $28.7 million for House Democrats in the current cycle.
'All of us are carrying the baton of freedom as we fight this fight for freedom to marry. And all of you who are working on this are making America more American,' Pelosi told the rapt audience. It's a meta-moment as far as political talking points go, the 'American' pronouncement borrowed from closing arguments in the Proposition 8 trial made by former George W. Bush solicitor general Ted Olson; he in turn had cribbed the statement from an antigay defense witness who inadvertently made the case in favor of equal marriage rights during cross-examination.
'It's all about time,' Pelosi said, 'and to those who mock me on this subject, I say to them, 'The inconceivable to you is the inevitable to us."
Nancy Pelosi arrived in Washington, D.C., at age 47. As a freshman from California's eighth congressional district, she made her first House floor speech on the AIDS crisis crippling her constituency. Her oratorical debut on June 9, 1987 came weeks after President Ronald Reagan finally uttered the acronym, as she commended her district's legacy of 'for peace, for environmental protection, for equal rights, for rights of individual freedom. And now we must take the leadership of course in the crisis of AIDS. And I look forward to working with you on that.'
'Here was this proper, Catholic mother of five who was standing up and talking about a disease that at the time people were really uncomfortable talking about at all,' says Carolyn Bartholomew, a former legislative director and chief of staff for Pelosi. 'It was her engagement on HIV/AIDS as well as her energy on the issue that helped to move it forward.'
In June, Pelosi will mark 25 years in the U.S. Congress. Pelosi's Capitol office is now on the second floor and was once Tip O'Neill's, when he was speaker. In the months since Pelosi attended the SoHo event, House Republican leadership has continued to rail against that which she said was inevitable. After the Obama administration decided last year to no longer defend the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act in multiple lawsuits – a milestone for LGBT rights by any measure – Speaker John Boehner convened the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, composed of three Republicans and two Democrats including Pelosi, to consider legal defense of the law, which it authorized in a party-line vote. 'I didn't even know what the BLAG was,' Pelosi says with a smirk. 'Now I'm a member of it.'
But we've also seen some progressive movement on marriage equality within the GOP. The marriage bill in New York passed in a Republican-controlled Senate. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida congresswoman with a transgender son and a record of favoring LGBT rights, became the first GOP cosponsor of a bill introduced to repeal DOMA. Even some Republican congressional arguments against marriage equality have gone from full-throated to perfunctory, if a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last fall on DOMA was any indication.
And yet the raft of rhetoric during the presidential primary campaign slog — the anti-gay marriage pledges, the 'strengthening the family' talking points — is the real window into the soul of the GOP, Pelosi says. And no surprise, she's not surprised by what she sees. 'It's pretty self-evident. This is who they are,' she says of Republicans. 'Are they so bankrupt of ideas that they have to continue the DOMA cases?'
Criticism of Barney Frank from gay Republicans especially sets her off. 'Oh, but what about them?' she snaps. 'He chooses a party that supports his values. They've chosen a party that supports their income — a party that denigrates them and treats them with disrespect.'
The legislative victories during the first two years of the Obama administration, when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, were not as numerous as many advocates had hoped and deserved. Looking back, just how full is the glass? How is it that gay people can now serve openly in the military, risking death in combat, yet can be fired in the private sector for no other reason than for being out? Can one put full faith and trust in any politician to protect against such abhorrence, or will any further remedy be the domain of the courts, as the president himself has predicted regarding DOMA?
Many who want to see Nancy Pelosi return to the speakership believe that loyalty to the party must remain absolute, that the gains in the last three years that Pelosi can list reflexively – a transgender-inclusive hate-crimes bill, 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal, a contingent of openly LGBT administration officials approaching too-many-to-count territory – are so extraordinary as to soft-pedal any disconnect. Such Democratic exceptionalism is practically biblical truth to some, including Frank, who said as much during a November news conference.
'The only way you can get any law passed that fights discrimination based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity is if you have a Democratic president, House, and Senate,' Frank said regarding ENDA, the nonpassage of which weighs heavily on many advocates. 'People don't realize how rarely we have had that.'
Those who disagree with Frank see unresponsiveness to the message voters have been sending about the party. R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, believes that Democrats ignored the lesson of the midterm election and that reinstalling Pelosi and Hoyer as their leaders cost them 56 previously blue seats. Approval ratings for the 112th Congress are the lowest ever recorded, at 9% according to a recent poll. 'As evidenced by [her] failure to move ENDA when she led a Democratic Congress, we will not see advancement of the bill without reaching out to Republicans,' Cooper says of Pelosi. 'If Pelosi wants to continue her focus on fund-raising, she can run the DCCC and abandon being a congressional 'leader."
Pelosi's multimillion-dollar haul for the DCCC in the current cycle would likely assure her return to the speakership if Dems retake the House, though Frank's exit at the end of the current session has been seen by some political observers as a bad omen. 'In a bell curve of House probabilities, the best-case scenario for Republicans would be no net change. The best case for Democrats would be a gain of about 15 seats,' 10 fewer than the 25 needed to regain the majority, Charlie Cook of The Cook Political Report wrote in November.
If those odds are bested, Pelosi is ready to return to her role as the nation's third most powerful politician, though she insists she has no sense of gavel entitlement. 'It's never been about my being speaker,' Pelosi says. 'I was just doing a job. But for the American people, I think it's absolutely essential that the Democrats win the House.'
Regardless of what happens, two things are certain for the House: Neither Barney Frank nor lesbian representative Tammy Baldwin, who is running for retiring Wisconsin senator Herb Kohl's seat, will be with Pelosi in the next session – and both departures clearly weigh on her. Congressman Frank sees future speakership promise in Democratic members such as Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, the current chair of the Democratic National Committee. But in the short term, he's firm: 'Nancy should be speaker,' he says.
The two have a political relationship based on mutual respect-supplemented with idiosyncratic communication. 'My first call to him – this was about 24 years ago – when he said I was taking up his time, I learned to just say, 'Barney: Subject… Problem… Timing… Action needed…," Pelosi says. 'And I find, to tell you the truth, that in talking to him that way, I wish people would talk to me that way.' Pelosi seems wistful about his retirement.
'The IQ will go down here, as will the humor factor,' she says. 'This is a man who brought such values and commitment to a progressive agenda in the Congress, and whether you agreed with him when he spoke or not, everyone listened to him and learned.'
Frank and others, in turn, seem eager to remind historians of Pelosi's role in recent LGBT victories as well as her political prowess to help secure funding for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs. Chris Collins, director of public policy for amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, and a former Pelosi staffer, calls her 'the greatest AIDS advocate I've ever known in my life.'
During a pivotal week for "don't ask, don't tell" repeal in December 2010, when some pundits had all but declared the effort to be dead on arrival, senators Susan Collins of Maine and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut removed the DADT repeal from the defense authorization bill and set it up as a stand-alone measure to improve its chance of passing. Senate leadership asked Pelosi to pass and send them both bills in concert. But Frank had his concerns, he says. Likening the situation to a Cold War-style U.S.-Russian spy swap situation, he had little faith in some Senate Republicans, who he feared could jeopardize what gay advocates had been fighting for, and did not want to send the Senate the defense bill until senators passed the DADT repeal.
Frank called Pelosi two days before the eventual House vote and asked that she stand her ground. 'Then Nancy gets on the phone with Harry Reid and said, 'Harry, I won't send you the military bill until you've done 'don't ask, don't tell.' A few minutes later he calls up and says, 'All right, Nancy, I just filed the cloture petition on 'don't ask, don't tell," Frank says. 'We knew then that we were OK.' A few days later, at a press conference following the vote, Mike Almy, an Air Force major discharged under DADT in 2006, was invited to introduce Pelosi. 'She held both of my hands and said, 'I'm so sorry about what happened to you," Almy says. 'It was just so motherly. After the press conference we just walked out arm in arm.'
In public, Pelosi is usually in lockstep with the president, but, true to form, she declines to discuss what conversations she may have had with Obama on same-sex marriage. But she's pushing the DNC to help fund the fight against anti-marriage equality ballot measures in Minnesota and North Carolina as well as a campaign in Maine that aims to overturn a 2009 ballot measure that rescinded marriage rights for same-sex couples in the state. 'There are more ways to get your voice heard than just speaking…. But I hope the president would just say he supports equality in marriage,' she says.
Should that day become a reality, Pelosi is delighted when asked if she'd ever perform a same-sex wedding. It may be becoming increasingly de rigueur for some pols who enjoy support from LGBT constituents, including New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who presided over the July wedding of his chief policy adviser, John Feinblatt, to Jonathan Mintz. Pelosi had called Bloomberg to congratulate him the following Monday, as Feinblatt's father once served as attorney for Pelosi's father, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., the Democratic mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959.
"I'm not a big officiator, though," Pelosi says, and follows with a mischievous laugh. "I did it one time, and the people I married are divorced now. So I don't think I'll be called on again. I think that was probably it."


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The Third Annual Art of Place presentation series founded by UAS Assistant Professor Ernestine Hayes continues this week with "Edible Art of Place: Traditional and Contemporary Gathering and Use of Native Plants" by Libby Watanabe. The presentation will take place in the UAS Glacier View Room in the Egan Library wing at UAS, from 10 a.m. to noon, with refreshments and conversation following.
Watanabe teaches Survey of Alaska Native Nutrition for UAA and is one of only three Alaska Native registered and licensed dieticians in Alaska. She will discuss gathering and preparation of Devils Club, examples of which will be available for hands-on participation, and will offer a presentation on gathering, drying, and preparing Hudson Bay tea in infusions and in home-made jelly.
Attendees should feel free to bring their own examples, stories, and questions on local plants to this event, the second in this season's series. The first lecture, "Traditional and Contemporary Preservation of Salmon and Halibut" on Jan. 25, was presented by Ed and Percy Kunz.
Two more lectures will follow in March and April.


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Last week I explained to you that the prototype player is important to the Dolphins.
I told you the Dolphins have certain specific size and speed and other requirements they don't deviate from very much. And I know you like it when I tell you things like this because then you get to argue with me about it.
But then someone with serious credibility says the same thing I said and then you come around because suddenly Salguero's not on the island all by himself anymore.
Well, Tony Sparano explained the idea behind drafting for the prototype, signing prototype free agents, and being careful about not making too many exceptions on the prototype during the NFL annual meeting a couple of days ago.
Here are his thoughts:
"If you continue to turn your cheek to prototype, to size, to speed, to those types of things, to the mental part of it, to the prototype players, to the position specific skills, then all of a sudden you turn around and two years later you look at your football team and you have a team full of non-prototype players," Sparano said. "So you have a lot of non-prototype players and you're a small team, you're not a big team. You're a slow team, you're not a fast team because you like this kid and you like his qualities and he's a good football player.
"So I think in some situations you've got to be cautious about the prototype thing and that you might be passing on a good player, so we try not to do that. We try to take all of those things into consideration and we do, that's a fact. But I also do believe that you don't want to look back later on and see a team full of non-prototype players. That's not good in this league, to be a small team or to be a slow team or to be one of those types of things. It's not a good thing. The thing I keep hearing from people that play us is, 'Wow, they're physical. Wow, they're physical. They're big, they're physical.' That I think is because of the type of people that we bring in."
And so that is the reason that despite my appreciation for Brandon Graham, for example, I see little to no chance the Dolphins would draft the Michigan star to be their OLB because he's 6-1 and not 6-3 or 6-4. It is a shame because, clearly, the adherence to prototype forces the Dolphins to pass on certain guys.
Dwight Freeney would have no place on the Miami roster. A Zach Thomas, even in his prime, probably wouldn't be a fit, either. Neither would Darrell Green, who I would rank as the best cornerback of all time. He was only 5-9 and 180 pounds.
But the Dolphins have a philosophy and it has succeeded in the past in a number of different places so who's to argue. I'm just here to 'splain stuff ... and hope coach Sparano backs me up on it as he does this time.
By the way, tell me who you believe to be the best cornerback of all time. And tell me other non-prototypes that were among the game's greatest players.
[And come back later this afternoon. I'm going to wash the Vette this morning, but I'll update the blog in the afternoon or earlier if there's any news.]


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If you've been wondering how Facebook's snazzy new Timeline feature would look like on the iPhone, wonder no more. It's supah snazzy (or as snazzy as its mobile web and Android counterparts)! The latest iOS Facebook app update includes Timeline so you can catch up with your friend's entire history while on the go. Convenient? [iTunes]
If you haven't been drooling with introspective ecstasy and rubbing your face all over your monitor enough yet, now you can get in on the Timeline orgy via mobile. Facebook's rolled the new format onto its web and Android versions.
In The Social Network, Movie Mark Zuckerberg describes his project as the entire college social scene, put online. In a sense, he completely pulled it off. Now Real Zuck's lept beyond boat races: your entire existence, Facebook-ified. It's terrifyingly amazing.