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Edgar Meyer Cullman Sr., a legendary cigar magnate who ran the General Cigar Company, manufacturer of Macanudos and a wide range of cigars, died on Sunday at the age of 93.
His Times obituary is great, and he comes from a long line of tobacconists:
Edgar Meyer Cullman was born on Jan. 7, 1918, and, as a company publicist told Business Week in 1968, was "diapered in tobacco leaf."
His great-grandfather Ferdinand Kullman was a wine and tobacco merchant from Germany who settled in the United States in the 1840s. Ferdinand's sons, Joseph and Jacob, founded Cullman Brothers, a tobacco brokerage house, in 1892.
And just one year after taking over as president and CEO of General Cigar, in 1963 the company pulled in $70 million from the sale of cigars.
I'm not sure what that is in 2011 dollars, but it was 11% of the market back then. Dang.


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Buffalo Bills running back Fred Jackson continues to recover from a concussion he sustained in the game against New England. As a result, he did not appear on his television program Monday night on WBBZ-TV.
Former Buffalo Bills player Steve Tasker joined co-host Bob Koshinski Monday night for "The Fred Jackson Show" on WBBZ-TV. Tasker was the special teams captain for the team from 1986-1997, played in all three Super Bowl games the Bills competed in, as well as several Pro Bowls. Currently, he is a broadcast analyst covering NFL games on the CBS Television Network.
"The Fred Jackson Show" will be re-broadcast Monday night at 10:30 p.m. and Tuesday at 9 a.m.
Koshinski and Tasker discussed the Bills 19-14 win against Miami, and had an update on Jackson's condition.
Koshinski and Tasker also welcomed Bills running back, wide receiver, quarterback and return specialist Brad Smith, who has been with the Buffalo Bills since September of 2011. The Bills website notes Smith is the only player in NFL history to score a touchdown on a kickoff return (three times); a reception (three times); rushing (three times); on a blocked punt; and via pass play.
For more information, visit www.wbbz.tv.

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Hot Dog! Wiener Dog Race Returns to Lubbock
Are you ready for a tail-wagging, ear-flapping good time? Then bring your wiener dog to Texas Tech University on Saturday, March 8th at the Rec Center for the annual Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals!
Come and see the race to find the fastest wiener dog in Lubbock! Registration starts at 11:00 AM at the Rec Center at Texas Tech University.
The grand prize? $250 and a trip for two to the Holiday Bowl's Wienerschnitzel Wiener National finals in San Diego! Visit any of your local Wienerschnitzel locations, and pick up your entry form today or register online at www.wwnraces.com.


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Defense Aerospace: Background
The hundreds of billions of dollars the federal government spends each year on defense are part of the reason defense aerospace firms make millions of dollars in campaign contributions, a majority of which has gone to Republicans since 1989.
Defense aerospace contractors concentrate their political donations on members of the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees that allocate federal defense money. Prime targets of defense aerospace money also include members of the Armed Services committees, who influence military policy and have the power to create demand for this industry's commodities.
The companies that win the most valuable military contracts to make fighter jets, GPS navigation systems and other defense tools also happen to be the most active lobbyists and most generous campaign contributions.
Consider the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, manufactured by Lockheed Martin. With a $397 billion price tag, ProPublica in 2013 dubbed it "the most expensive fighter jet ever built."
Lockheed Martin was the most generous donor among defense aerospace manufacturers in the 2012 election cycle, giving nearly $3 million to candidates, parties and outside groups.
Donors in defense aerospace long favored Republicans, sometimes by as much as a two-to-one margin. That trend flipped in 2008 and 2010. In 2010, the industry spent about $1 million more on Democrats, perhaps because the emergence of the tea party challenged the conservative consensus on the importance of defense spending. In 2012 the trend reverted back, and defense aerospace gave more to Republicans than ever before. In that election cycle, the industry donated more than $11 million to federal candidates, with 60 percent going to the GOP.
In 2013, the industry spent more than $57.8 million on lobbying, a slight decline from its most notable output ever in 2010. Boeing alone spent $15 million on lobbying that year, down from $17.9 million three years later.
-- Dave Levinthal and Emily Kopp
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Eddie26 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 55 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
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Mayor Don Wesely today presented the Mayor's Award of Excellence for January 2001 to Dave Tivis, a StarTran Field Supervisor. The award, which was presented at the beginning of today's City Council meeting, recognizes city employees who consistently provide exemplary service and work that demonstrates personal commitment to the city.
Tivis, who has worked for StarTran since 1990, was nominated for the award in the category of customer relations by Robert Karls, a temporary employee of the Lincoln Police Department. Karls became high centered in a snow drift the evening of December 23, and he received help from Tivis, who was checking on routes in a StarTran van.
"I'm 74 years old with high blood pressure," Karls wrote in his nomination. "In trying to extricate my vehicle, I only dug in deeper. At this time, a Good Samaritan named Dave Tivis stopped by and offered help. Unable to manually move me, he fetched a spade and freed me."
In addition to customer relations, the other categories in which employees can be nominated are loss prevention, customer relations, productivity, safety and valor. All city employees are eligible for the award except for elected officials and some managers. Individuals or teams can be nominated by supervisors, peers, subordinates and the general public.
Nomination forms are available from department heads, employee bulletin boards or the Personnel Department, which oversees the awards program. All nominations are reviewed by a committee, which includes a representative with each union and a non-union representative appointed by the Mayor. Award winners receive a $100 U.S. savings bond, a day off with pay and a plaque. Monthly winners are eligible to receive the annual award, which comes with a $500 U.S. savings bond, two days off with pay and a plaque.
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The "cloud computing" label is applied to several technologies, and is laden with vendor and industry hype. Yet underneath it all, most of us acknowledge that there's something to all this stuff about utility computing and whatever-as-a-service.
The distinction is especially important to software developers, who know that the next-big-thing is apt to have an impact on their employability. Savvy, career-minded programmers are always trying to improve their skill sets, preparing for the next must-have technology.
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What's different about cloud computing, compared to "regular" web development? If a programmer wants to equip herself to take advantage of the cloud in any of its myriad forms -- Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) -- to what technologies should she pay attention? If your company has traditionally done web development but is planning to adopt the cloud in a big way, what unique skill sets should you look for? The learning curve can be even more bewildering because the concerns of a SaaS developer may be very different from one who's using a virtual development environment, yet the industry treats "the cloud" as if it's one monolithic technology.
"Developing applications in the cloud is a little like visiting Canada from America. Most everything is the same, but there are small differences that you notice and need to accommodate."
David J. Jilk, Standing Cloud
For advice, I turned to experienced developers and vendors (the techies who lie awake at night agonizing about these issues, not the marketing people).
Here, therefore, is an overview of the things to pay attention to as you explore the cloud, including tools, scalability, security, architecture design, and expanding infrastructure knowledge.
Know Your Tools
Let's get the easy item out of the way first. Moving to the cloud probably requires you to learn new APIs, such as those for the Google App Engine, SalesForce.com, or whichever software your application will depend on. For most developers, learning a new API, poking at a new database tool, or exploring a new open source platform is a regular occurrence, though you do need to budget time for it.
And, while some development tools have extensions to permit deployment in the cloud, programmers have to learn those features. "In the case of Microsoft SQL Azure, there are technical challenges beyond a 'regular' web development environment," says Alpesh Patel, director of engineering at Ektron. You might have to come up to speed on sparse columns, extended stored procedures, Service Broker, or Common Language Runtime (CLR) and CLR User-Defined Types.


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Brief History of the Archdiocese of Bosra-Hauran
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In the Biblical account of the feast of Pentecost (Acts 2) we read of people from a multitude of nations who heard for the very first time and "everyone in his own language" (2:6) the proclamation by the Holy Apostles of the Good News. Among those people were "Arabians" (2:11) which meant people from Rome's frontier province of Arabia Petraea (the area of modern Syria south of Damascus, the Nabataean kingdom in modern Jordan, the Sinai peninsula and the northwestern tip of modern Saudi Arabia).
Much of Decapolis (Matthew 4:25), an area frequently visited by Christ and His disciples, is situated in this Arabia, as is Caesarea Philippi (modern Banyas in Syria) where the Holy Apostle Peter confessed Jesus to be "the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matthew 16:13-20). It was to this Arabia that, following his baptism in Damascus by St Ananias (9:17 & 18) and his escape over the city's wall (9:25) that the Holy Apostle Paul fled and spent three years (Galatians 1:15-18). And it was to this Arabia that St. Timon, one of the Seventy Apostles appointed by the Lord Christ (Luke 10:1) and one of the Seven Deacons chosen by the Twelve (Acts 6:5), was sent to preach and later served as first bishop of the province's capital city of Nova Trajana Bostra (modern Bosra in Syria).
The Orthodox Christians who today live in much of the territory once known as Arabia Petraea – descendants of those converted to faith in Christ Jesus by St. Timon – comprise the faithful of the Archdiocese of Bosra, Hauran, Jabal al-Arab and the Golan. The present "angel of Bosra and successor to St. Timon" is The Most Reverend Metropolitan SABA (Esper). One of the most venerable Archdioceses of our Patriarchate, the Archdiocese of Bosra now finds itself facing very difficult times. Because of the area's frequent wars, the occupation of much of its territory by a neighboring unfriendly nation, and the resultant unemployment which plagues that desert region, most of its people have become economic refugees who have relocated to Damascus or have simply left the country for the Americas, Australia, Europe or the Gulf States.
In a gesture of Christian love and support for Metropolitan SABA and his flock, the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America has committed itself to a Sister Diocese relationship with the venerable Archdiocese of Bosra, and many of our parishes and missions have come forward to be paired - or "twinned" - with congregations in Metropolitan SABA's Archdiocese in Sister Parish relationships.


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Crystal Williams and her boyfriend are typically active Vancouverites. And they would have liked to have stayed in the city, but they just couldn't find the space they wanted for the price they could afford.
And so, instead of buying in Vancouver, they move out of their one-bedroom West End apartment on Feb. 28 to take possession of a three-bedroom townhome (with three baths and a den) in Surrey.
"We were tired of having to park our skis and our bikes in our living room," Williams said. "We were looking at two bedrooms in Vancouver and we were not impressed with what we were seeing in our price range."
Williams, a Macdonald Realty agent, took her boyfriend to look at new South Surrey developments Morgan Crossing and South Point Exchange.
"We were kind of blown away," Williams said. "He's a chef … and the kitchens are just massive compared to what you can get downtown."
Surrey is booming, and one reason is its affordability compared to its pricier Vancouver neighbour.
According to December figures, a 1,200- to 1,400-square-foot three-bedroom townhouse in Surrey is available for about $312,000. That will get you a one-bedroom condo in East Van with half the floor space. The average detached house in central Surrey cost $579,000; on the Vancouver east side, a similar house is worth $1,081,700.
For many, moving to Surrey just makes sense.
"With all the new developments, the developers are offering really great incentives for young people," Williams said. "That's why I got pulled into that. I wasn't even planning on looking for something like that for myself. I was looking for a client. I couldn't believe what the incentives were."
With a population of half a million, Surrey is B.C.'s second-largest city. Anywhere from 1,000 to 1,200 people move to Surrey each month. Since 2006, its population has increased by 20 per cent, or 85,000 people. It's estimated Surrey and Vancouver will be tied, with about 750,000 each, by 2040.
"Definitely in South Surrey, I've seen a lot of growth," Williams said. "It's insane the amount of people moving to the area, and the new development. It's exciting."
In the past, she said, people from Surrey would have to go downtown or to Burnaby for shopping. "Now you don't have to do that. Everything you need is out that way now."
What a lot of people don't realize, Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts said, is how fast Surrey has grown in a relatively short amount of time.
"I don't think people realize the transition in terms of how vast it is," Watts said. "It's been evolving and changing over time, but over the past five to seven years, we've certainly seen some significant changes."
There was $1.3 billion worth of construction, including residential and commercial, in Surrey in 2012. "That's been consistent for the past seven or eight years," Watts said.
Last year, 2,100 new businesses started in Surrey. And the Real Estate Investment Network has named Surrey the Best Place to Invest each year in British Columbia for the past four years.
And Surrey has the lowest business taxes and property taxes in the Lower Mainland.
It's impossible to say how many of the recent settlers are from Vancouver proper. However, it seems like Williams and her boyfriend aren't the only ones.
"I was holding an open house in South Surrey, and a lot of people were coming from other areas, from Richmond, Burnaby, quite a few from Vancouver," Williams said. "I have noticed a lot more people coming out that way. Maybe it's the new developments, or that they can get so much more room for a more reasonable price than you can in Vancouver."
For some people, though, the physical move requires a mental shift.
Though she's now "counting the days," as she puts it, Williams admits that the decision to move out of Vancouver "wasn't the easiest thing. We really enjoy being downtown. But I think being downtown is great when you're in your twenties. When you get older, you crave a little more space."
For some, the prospect of a long commute can be intimidating.
Though Jennifer Caluza and her husband Lawrence recently bought in Surrey, that hadn't been the newlyweds' original intention.
"We really wanted to move on the other side of the bridge, because I work downtown," said Caluza, a lab technician at St. Paul's Hospital. Her husband is a cook at a Richmond hotel. "But because of prices, we went for space over location."
1They were looking in New West and south Burnaby. "We were finding very small, very old places. We didn't want somewhere we'd have to do a lot of work on, we wanted a move-in ready kind of place. And in Surrey, we found double the space."
Everything's bigger in Surrey, she said, for the same money.
"The layout of the home itself, it was something we really wanted. Just the amount of space got us. Especially since we're planning to have a family soon. We don't want to have a small place then move again. We want a place where we can live for a while."
Another barrier for some may be Surrey's less-than-savory reputation. But that's changed, too.
Bob Rempel, like Williams a Macdonald real estate agent, moved recently from Burnaby to Surrey. "When I moved out here, I wasn't quite sure what to expect," he said. "You hear all these rumours but it's not what you think. People out here are friendly. There's riff-raff sure, but there's riff-raff anywhere. East Van isn't what it used to be either. You never used to buy million-dollar homes in East Van but there are a lot of them around there now."
Katrina Amurao, an agent with ReMax, agrees. "If you look at it per capita, the crime rate in Surrey is not bad. It just seems bad because of what you see on TV and read in the paper," Amurao said.
"But Surrey is a big city. Most of the time, only one area is being featured when there are crimes. In Vancouver, you often find the same crimes."
Once she shows clients around, they appreciate the city more, Amurao said. Because she grew up there, Caluza didn't have any preconceptions about Surrey. Her husband, who was raised in Richmond, was aware of the city's reputation. But, she said, they put that aside during their search.
"When we started looking for homes, I had a feeling," Caluza said. "I bet I'm going to find a place in Surrey."


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Sinclair Skinner is a former Advisory Neighborhood Commission member, entrepreneur and activist. Since former Mayor Adrian Fenty's departure from office last year, Skinner has continued to defend Fenty's legacy. Now comes a 12-part animated biography of Fenty that was written and produced by the former mayor's friend. The series, called "Courage of Conviction," takes us through the young mayor's time in college, law school and his days in politics.
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When a company conducts interviews like Kayfabe Commentaries does, every so often there is one that will have widespread appeal; Timeline: The History of WCW - 2000 - As Told By Vince Russo definitely falls into that category.
While viewing the video, my father in the next room overheard the audio and asked me to turn it up so he could hear what Vince Russo had to say about the importance of a performer's onscreen character, and how too many of today's wrestlers are focused on having what Internet reviewers deem are four-star matches. My father is not a fan of wrestling, but the fact that he wanted to hear Russo's thoughts gives a real indication of how compelling the two and a half hour interview is.
While the interview questions are focused around Russo's time working for WCW in 2000, Russo invites the interviewer, Sean Oliver, to feel free to ask him any other questions he has because Russo indicates that this will be his last interview. Oliver takes full advantage of the opportunity and the interview veers off onto the WWE Attitude Era of which Russo was such a vital part, his time with TNA, and the state of the professional wrestling industry today.
In many ways, some of the most compelling parts of the interview are Russo's thoughts on how the neglect when it comes to the development of compelling characters and storylines has led to a stagnation in terms of interest and television ratings for both WWE and TNA; and that there doesn't seem to be any indication that will change anytime soon.
As well, Russo extensively discusses why he has become so disillusioned with the industry, which can be summarized essentially as those who he dealt with saying one thing to him directly and another thing behind his back. These portions of the interview come across completely believable in large part because Russo isn't afraid to acknowledge the mistakes he feels he has made and the level of detail he discusses it in. It is readily apparent that Russo at this point in his life seems to want to make peace with his past and with some of those who may feel negatively towards him.
The interview, also, doesn't hide from perhaps two of the most controversial title holders in the history of the WCW World Heavyweight Title -- David Arquette, and Russo himself. With regards to putting the title on Arquette, Russo indicates the idea originated with Eric Bischoff, but that he supported the idea as he felt it would help spike ratings and get people to tune in to the next WCW program. As for his winning the WCW Title, Russo again indicates that the reasoning behind it was similar to his support for the Arquette decision, and he details how much concern he had with the match because of the multiple concussions he was suffering at the time.
Russo makes it very clear that the concussions he suffered during his in-ring action played a role in his absences during his time under contract with WCW. In total Russo states that he probably only worked nine months in total for WCW and is a primary reason why he feels that the blame that some have assigned him for the downfall of the company is unjust. It's difficult to argue against him, and Russo goes on to discuss other elements that affected the success of WCW, particularly when he was brought back as part of a creative team with Eric Bischoff.
When the idea was first proposed, Russo indicates that he knew it wouldn't work due to Bischoff and him not truly knowing each other, and not having a built any trust between them. Thus, throughout this tenure Russo asserts that as much as he wanted to trust and believe Bischoff he constantly worried that later on he would be undercut by him. Russo describes this time in his life as the most difficult in his career and that he suffered enormous depression.
Other topics that are covered during the course of the interview include Tank Abbott, Bill Goldberg, Sid Vicious, Scott Steiner, Mark Madden, Bobby Heenan, Vince McMahon's reaction when he left WWE, Jeff Jarrett's laydown for Hulk Hogan, and much more. All of these are extremely interesting and Russo provides a fascinating perspective on what was going on behind the scenes, though you may not agree with him on everything. Also, while Kayfabe Commentaries have marketed this as Russo's last interview on professional wrestling, during the interview itself Oliver asks Russo if he would be open to being interviewed about the WWE of 1998 and Russo replies in the affirmative.
Kayfabe Commentaries' Timeline: The History of WCW - 2000 - As Told By Vince Russo is one of the strongest interviews in years and is worthwhile for not only fans of professional wrestling, but also non-fans who have always wanted to understand what the appeal is of the industry.


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"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Heidi, happy birthday to you!!!"...and many more!!!!
I am glad you all could not hear my singing voice, because I am no Mariah Carey!! I just wanted to show you the cake we made for Heidi on her special day!! We tried extremely hard to fit all the candles on ONE cake but ran out of room!!!!!! :) Hahahahahah Hahhha
Alright, Alright, JUST KIDDING! We didn't really make the cake and Heidi is not THAT old. :)
But all jokes aside, Heidi deserves to have the most wonderful birthday ever imaginable!! She is the most wonderful person I have ever met in my 24 years of living. She always does so much for everyone else and never asks for anything in return. She constantly goes out of her way for all of us and ALWAYS has the most cheerful attitude. She always bursts in with a big smile and her cheerful personality is so contagious, it automatically puts you in an energetic mood. I love Heidi for so many reasons and she should know how much she is loved by all of us! I can't think of anyone else I'd rather have as a friend or boss.
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Randal Rioux is our first documenter out of the gate with Snort 18.104.22.168 with an install guide for not only Slackware 13.1 but also OpenBSD 4.8! Nice Job Randal!
Be sure and check out his guides at http://snort.org/docs
We're going to send Randal out some Snort swag!
Thanks to all of our Snort community contributors on their documentation, if you'd like to contribute some documentation and have it hosted on http://snort.org/docs, please feel free to contact me at email@example.com, and if we put your guides/whitepapers up on the site, we'll send you some Snort swag!
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Snort 126.96.36.199 install guide for Slackware 13.1 and OpenBSD 4.8 posted
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Still missing the file libsf_engine.so on OpenBSD 4.8ReplyDelete
Compiled Snort application as stated on the document. When i call on the snort.conf file, it hiccups on the certain preprocessor directives e.g ftp_telnet, ftp_telnet_protocol ssh, ssl, etc. - which i had to comment out. Additional, when snort is reading the rules, it has no knowledge of what "dce_iface" is. Not sure if something is missing.ReplyDelete
The documentation is missing... no OpenBSD install guide on snort.org/docs :-(((ReplyDelete
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 18, 2013) – After putting up monstrous numbers in the series win over Penn State, junior Clinton Freeman (Jonesborough, Tenn.) was recognized for his outstanding efforts by landing Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week and Atlantic Sun Player of the Week honors on Monday.
For the weekend, Freeman hit .800 (8-10) with a double, triple, three home runs, five RBIs, seven runs scored and three walks (two intentional), along with recording an astonishing 2.000 slugging percentage and .846 on-base percentage. Meanwhile, Freeman also made a pair of relief appearances on the weekend as the left-handed hurler struck out three and earned a save in 1.1 innings of work.
Freeman hit two home runs on opening day, which marked his first multi-homer game, while following that up with a perfect 4-for-4 day at the plate on Saturday. The four-hit day set a career-high for the Jonesborough, Tenn. native. On Sunday, Freeman gave the Blue and Gold the early 2-0 lead when he belted his third round-tripper of the weekend in the first inning. From there, Freeman earned the save after getting Aaron Novak to hit into a game-ending line out to center.
The ETSU baseball team returns to the diamond on Tuesday afternoon when the Bucs host Wofford. First pitch is set for 3:05 p.m., from Thomas Stadium.
For more information on Buccaneer baseball, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the baseball page.


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So what do you get when you put an environmentalist, an oil and gas official, a farmer and a consultant for energy and agriculture in the same room?
Several things come to mind, including the possibility of fisticuffs, EMTs and bail bondsmen.
The reality, however, may be much less entertaining but significantly more productive.
David Wolfe, with the Environmental Defense Fund, says putting stakeholders together to discuss issues and look for sometimes elusive common ground sometimes pays off with solutions that produce, "positive, sustainable outcomes" that benefit wildlife, farmers and ranchers and the energy industry.
Wolfe took part in a panel discussion at the Southwest Ag Issues Summit in Oklahoma City. Joining him on the panel were Steve Manning, a consultant with Natural Resources Solutions; Jim Sipes, a Kansas farmer and representative of the Kansas Farm Bureau; and Linda McDonald, Sand Ridge Energy. Shawn Wade, Plains Cotton Growers Inc., moderated the panel, which concentrated on a habitat exchange program proposed to protect habitat for the Lesser Prairie Chicken. Across the five states—Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas— included in the Lesser Prairie Chicken range, 20 million acres are considered habitat.
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The exchange program, in a nutshell, would allow farmers, ranchers and other landowners with land in the prairie chicken's native habitat, to submit bids to set aside acreage to preserve habitat as mitigation for energy companies who disturb habitat with drilling. Energy companies would pay farmers and ranchers an annual fee per acre to set aside habitat.
"It's a way to take a liability and turn it into an opportunity," Manning said.
"It's a market-based solution," Wolfe added. Conservation programs are "most effective when they include incentive-based solutions. It's better for wildlife, private landowners and energy."
Energy companies have to find means to mitigate environmental impacts of drilling operations. This proposal provides "tools for mitigation. It has weaknesses. It doesn't provide an opportunity for mitigation offsets."
Wolfe also noted that to be successful a large number of landowners would have to cooperate to provide necessary habitat for the Lesser Prairie Chicken. "The habitat exchange program is voluntary for farmers and ranchers who would provide credits for energy companies. It will have to be financially competitive to be successful."
"If we have a five-acre (drill site), we have to get mitigation before we can drill," said McDonald. With oil and gas drilling, energy companies are affecting private land, not federal acreage, she said. "We work with private land owners to develop habitat for the prairie chicken, and we can't expect them to do that for free."
Fees paid by energy
Energy companies will bear the brunt of the cost for mitigation though any company or individual that alters Lesser Prairie Chicken habitat will be subject to mitigation. Anything that takes habitat would provide funding for mitigation. That would include wind farms or anyone who puts up a building on prairie chicken habitat. But the plan is not designed to have agriculture bear much of the cost, and agriculture offers a good place to provide credits for energy companies.
Sipes says this program "benefits stakeholders. That's the power of the plan. It's a private plan and is more readily accepted and it provides for confidentiality. It's also market driven. If it does not attract enough acres, the price goes up."
The program "has to work for agriculture or landowners will not sign up for it." It's also good for industry and the communities that rely on oil and natural gas for economic survival. "Some plans call for energy avoidance; this plan works for the energy industry."
The issue came to a head recently following a lawsuit from environmental groups claiming that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was moving too slowly in listing endangered and threatened species, as mandated by the Endangered Species Act. That lawsuit resulted in "a massive settlement," Manning said, "and put 900 species moving their way through the process of being listed as endangered or threatened." The Lesser Prairie Chicken had been of concern since 1998. "Now it's on the fast track to be listed as threatened or endangered, possibly as early as March, 2014. And it affects private land. Agricultural producers and oil and gas will be affected and this is only the beginning."
ESA changes
"Changes in how Fish and Wildlife lists endangered species has changed," Wade said, "and agriculture now is likely to be affected by the Endangered Species Act. The Lesser Prairie Chicken is an example."
Manning said the Endangered Species Act was enacted 40 years ago but until recent lawsuits did not affect private lands as much as federal holdings. That has changed.
"I've had a little experience with the Endangered Species Act," said Sipes. He cited an issue in Kansas with a shiner (small minnow) that was proposed to be protected "in a dry river bed. We got the listing removed from that area but it took an effort. The U.S. government doesn't always make sense."
He and McDonald would like to see changes made in the way the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determines what species should be listed and on what properties. "They will not consider the economic impact," he said. "They will consider a challenge to their science, but we don't have biologists to challenge their science."
Maybe industry should hire some, said McDonald. "I believe more research and science would be helpful. I think science is on our side. Currently, (Fish and Wildlife) makes decision based on 'best science available,' even if it goes back to 1930."
She says industry needs "a system in place that's sustainable over time. We need metrics to measure across the range of habitat, and we need to pull together a science committee from agriculture, oil, academia, environmental organizations and state agencies—a broad group of scientists—to work out differences and develop a product that addresses all concerns."
She said her company drills more than 100 wells a year in the habitat range. "Consultation over one well takes a month and that limits our ability to produce energy. We can't spend the huge amount of time on each new well or each new species listed. We have to develop a product that works."
Sipes said the system needs a means of "de-listing" a species after it recovers. "And we need consideration of economic impact." He said state plans failed because "they did not need our help in developing them."
The proposed system would work similar to the Conservation Reserve Program but likely will offer more per acre. "As a benchmark, we would start at about $50 per acre," Manning said. "We think we have a positive message and are creating another revenue source, but it has to be competitive."
"This is an incentive-based solution," Wolfe said. "We needed agriculture and industry at the table. The numbers of agriculture and industry stakeholders is huge. This proposal could serve as a model for other species."
Work remains to be done. "No plans have yet been approved by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service," Wade said. "Final listing decision is delayed until March 2014. State's plan has been submitted for consideration; the Stakeholder plan that was discussed at the (Summit) is being finalized and will hopefully be able to be considered in near future."
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It has long been assumed that as people develop, the nerve patterns used to control motion during infancy become suppressed, and are replaced instead by entirely new patterns of neuronal activity that allow them to move with greater purpose and precision.
Now, new research shows that this may not be the case. By examining the activity of motor neurons in newborns, toddlers, preschoolers and adults, a team of Italian researchers has revealed that basic neural patterns required for walking are, in fact, retained through development. What's more, their results suggest that human babies actually learn to walk using the same network of spinal nerve cells as rats, cats, monkeys and birds. And you thought humans were so special.
Hang on, though — let's take a step back for a moment. How do you even go about measuring the neural patterns required for walking in a newborn baby… if it can't even walk?
I'm so glad you asked.
Because it turns out even a newborn pretty much knows how to walk instinctively, provided it's given proper support. The video featured here shows a three-day-old child from the experiment plodding along with the assistance of a researcher.
See the white mesh on the baby's legs? Those are electromyographs. They're used to measure patterns of activity and communication between the baby's motor neurons. When the researchers examined the activity they found that the newborns' spinal cord neurons are activated in two distinct phases. The first directs the legs to bend and extend; the second commands the baby's legs to alternate — left, right, left, right — in order to move forward.
By the time these babies are able to walk on their own, however, their patterns of motor activity look much different. Interestingly, the original two phases of spinal cord activation are still there, but now two new neural patterns emerge, which the researchers believe are responsible for more subtle motions relating to balance, weight shifting and step timing.
But here's where things get really interesting. When the researchers compared the babies' motor commands with those observed in previous studies of various animals, they found their neural circuitry to be almost identical. The researchers describe their findings in the latest issue of Science:
We found that the two basic patterns of stepping neonates are retained through development, augmented by two new patterns first revealed in toddlers. Markedly similar patterns were observed also in the rat, cat, macaque, and guineafowl, consistent with the hypothesis that, despite substantial phylogenetic distances and morphological differences, locomotion in several animal species is built starting from common primitives, perhaps related to a common ancestral neural network.
Translation? According to neurophysioloist Francesco Lacquaniti, who led the study: "During evolutionary history, nature didn't scrap the old hardware. Instead it was modified and tuned to adapt to our needs."
Oh, nature. Sometimes you can be so resourceful.
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A day at Tenn-Ren
The kids and I went to the Tennessee Renaissance Festival on Sunday (Mother's Day.) It was a damp, dark day with temperatures in the high 50s and a very strong wind.
I spent most of my free time last week sewing costumes for this event. I made a new dress for myself and a monk's robe for Dennis (who later decided not to go.) Keely did a lot of sewing over the last month, too. She made her outfit and the kilt that Taurus wore, as well as several outfits for friends who are going to the Ren Fest on another weekend.
It was so chilly on Sunday that I was glad for my double layer of long skirts, and I wished I had brought my cloak as well! Due to the weather, the festival was not at all crowded. The merchants probably weren't happy about it, but it was nice to have no line at the lunch counter.
I recently learned that someone who dresses for Renaissance fairs is called a "playtron" (rhymes with "patron.") Here's the definition from the Double-Tongued Dictionary
n. an observer or vistor at a Renaissance fair or festival who wears a costume suited for the time period.
At Tenn-Ren, many of the playtrons dress in fantasy costumes or add fantasy elements to their Renaissance costumes. I always enjoy seeing what everyone is wearing. Here are some of the photos I took.
Taurus, helping Keely straighten out her laces
The front gate of the Fair
The wood pixies (I'll bet they were cold!)
Renaissance garb for sale
This lady was an older, but avid playtron.
Some wear their "mundane" clothing. (In SCA speak, "mundane" means "modern.")
A lady merchant who surely was shivering!
Looney Lucy, one of the Tenn-Ren professionals
Coats of arms and foam swords
Glass-working with a hot torch
A belt I admired
More garb for sale
Isaac bought a "man-in-the-moon" necklace here.
More whimsies inside -- magical mushrooms
The rag lady --another Tenn-Ren pro
Fantasy costumes are common at Tenn-Ren.
Isaac enjoyed the monk robe that I sewed for Dennis
Members of the court
The Queen of the Faire visiting the market
A troubadour serenades a lady and her husband.
A beautiful little yellow fairy
Watching this dancer spin in circles nearly made me dizzy.
The apprentice belly dancer cracked everyone up.
The final impassioned sashay of the apprentice
A falconer poses with fairgoers (as Keely and Taurus approach)
The court bows as the queen enters.
A game of human chess
The big, bad wolf
and his tail
Related Prairie Bluestem posts:
Tennessee Renaissance Festival 2007
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I am going to go out on a limb here and TESTIFY how much fun I had doing this little wrap fest of yarns for Ariann. I encourage all of you to try it – something about playing with the yarn this way, in close proximity and close comparison, makes a lot of things CLICK.
You can see many fundamental characteristics, up close and personal, as you make this little chic stick – loft, density, tensile spring, controlability – all things that make a yarn good for a project or a dudley.
It also totally reinforces, for me, the fact that the ball band on any yarn is just a starting point. For instance, I assumed Karabella Aurora 8 is best knit with a size 8 needle for a gauge of 18/24. However, this yarn and one with a similar recommended gauge, Rowan Cashsoft Aran, totally benefits with a slightly Tighter Gauge.
This is easily accomplished by using a #7 needle – making the gauge 4.75 sts per inch instead of 4.5. It helps the fabric made from yarns with a more delicate fiber content become slightly more crisp and well behaved. Just that one little adjustment can make your garment last longer and wear better.


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To many, the state of America's union is fractious. Distrust, disdain, and suspicion permeate American politics. Divisions within and between the two major parties have stymied the legislative process.
Last night in his State of the Union address, President Obama had the opportunity to rise above the partisan bickering and distrust and set a positive tone for his final term. What could have been a triumph of statesmanship was instead an all-too-common display of politics as usual.
Traditionally, presidents hope to accomplish three goals in a State of the Union address. They assess the current situation facing the country, present a political agenda for the coming year, and reaffirm underlying values. In sum, the speech should artfully connect the past, present, and future and solidify the president's role as a political leader.
Last night, Mr. Obama failed to meet these goals. In the midst of an ongoing budget crisis, he devoted most of his speech to announcements of expensive new proposals. More than 8 million Americans remain unemployed, but instead of casting a vision of a clear set of actionable priorities for the coming legislative year, he offered a laundry list of initiatives – and no answer for how to pay for them.
After promising to "lay out additional proposals that are fully paid for and fully consistent with the budget framework," the president then restated the point: "Let me repeat, nothing I'm proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime." Such assurances are welcome in these challenging fiscal times, but the promise appears hollow.
Consider just a few of the major programs Obama trumpeted in last night's speech. The United States will "reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race," help states improve energy efficiency, go "all-in" to support alternative energy, "upgrade our infrastructure," offer tax incentives to encourage job growth, "[invest] in world-class care, including mental health care, for our wounded warriors," and "make high-quality preschool available to every child in America."
And the initiatives don't end at our national borders. Obama promised to work with other countries to eliminate extreme poverty worldwide, "[save] the world's children from preventable deaths," and achieve "the promise of an AIDS-free generation."
Obama's list of proposals addresses many laudable goals. Indeed, many of these policies echo ideas and themes presidents from both parties have introduced in previous State of the Union addresses. But all of these policies come with incredibly hefty price tags.
The American people expect optimism; they applaud presidents who lay out lofty goals and cast a promising vision for the coming year. But last night's address stretched these expectations too far. Such bold domestic and global initiatives would cost trillions of dollars, yet the president was silent on how to fund them. A truly deficit-neutral approach would require significant new revenues. Can we honestly expect that this long list of bold initiatives would not increase the deficit?
The coming year offers Obama his best opportunity for legislative success. Next year, members of Congress will be more focused on the midterm election than on forging legislative compromise. By 2015, legislators will be preparing their parties and themselves for the presidential race, and Obama will be a lame duck.
Obama has a short window of time to accomplish his goals, so he needs to spend his political capital wisely. Instead of exerting significant efforts promoting a long list of programs, many of which have no hope of success in the Republican-led House, he should focus his efforts on a few policies that have a reasonable chance of gaining the bipartisan momentum necessary to become law.
After decades of impasse, lawmakers seem ready to move forward with bipartisan immigration reform. Gun-control legislation seems possible. There is even bipartisan support for many elements of tax reform. President Obama should foster such bipartisan cooperation while the political moment remains, working with Congress to build trust, bridge divides, and usher in needed reform.
Budget issues loom large, and Congress needs to act. If Congress and the president can succeed on areas where consensus is already beginning to build, such actions would offer real hope that leaders in both parties could honestly and constructively work together to find long-term solutions for compounding fiscal problems.
The current political climate calls for leaders who can release legislative logjams, rise above partisan finger pointing, convince policymakers to make hard decisions, and model a better way. Barack Obama has the opportunity to be such a leader, but last night's speech offered little evidence that the president will chart such a path in his second term.
Promising the world with no explanation of how to pay for it is irresponsible. Both parties have followed this path for too many years, and the result is massive deficits and spiraling debt. At a time of bitter partisan resentment and declining trust in government, the nation needs honest talk and genuine calls for shared sacrifice. We need statesmanship, not more politics as usual.
Amy E. Black is associate professor of political science and chair of the department of politics and international relations at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill.


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- PowerMac Snapper with bug #2448 preventing me from enjoying it…
Some useful resources:
- ALSA User Info, a good place to start
- The unofficial ALSA Wiki, a good resource for ALSA users
- Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide – now you know which GNU/Linux distro I'm using :-)
- The asoundrc configuration file
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For more than a century, the Packard family has owned land in Ogden. Judge Robert Stanley Weir, who wrote the English words to O Canada, was the first family member to settle on the site - a peninsula jutting out into the southern end of Lake Memphremagog. He bought what had been a small hotel and used it as a summer cottage, naming it Cedarhurst - one of several properties that once encompassed more than 200 hectares.
The current generation of Packards is Weir's great-grandson, Jeff, and his wife, Buffy.
They are Montrealers who recently retired from their jobs in Calgary and own just under half a hectare on this tranquil spot close to the American border. They have built a state-of-the-art eco-house, which from the outside looks as if it dates back to the mid-19th century.
"We wanted to build a truly sustainable property that would leave a small environmental footprint and which would last through several generations," Jeff explained. "At the same time, we were interested in marrying the vernacular architecture of a rural farmhouse in the 1860s with a sustainable design."
The eco-house was constructed between 2008 and 2010, but long before that, the couple made numerous forays around the Eastern Townships, looking for inspiration. One place that particularly caught their fancy was a 19th-century farmhouse with a central gable, flanked by two dormers - elements they have incorporated into their home.
"Jeff started making drawings of the styles we liked," Buffy said. "We eventually came up with our own design, but we did enlist the services of an architect - Jorg Ostrowski in Calgary - who specializes in sustainable buildings."
Ostrowski helped iron out the fine points of constructing the kind of eco-house they wanted, and in memory of Judge Weir's country retreat, the Packards named it Solarhurst. (The old hotel foundations are still visible on their lot.)
The couple's 3,100-squarefoot, three-storey waterfront home encompasses four bedrooms, three bathrooms (one ensuite), a workroom, a screened-in porch, two large balconies and a basement. The building is surrounded by stands of second-growth trees, mostly silver birch and maple.
As its name suggests, Solar-hurst runs on solar power. Eight moving panels at the edge of Lake Memphremagog (they follow the sun to capture energy) and 10 fixed panels on the roof provide electricity. A Finnish masonry heater in the centre of the house supplies heat, with auxiliary warmth coming from an old-fashioned wood stove in the kitchen. (Buffy cooks on it as well.)
"A masonry heater runs on short, hot fires of cordwood," Jeff explained. "The flue gases are routed back down the masonry before exiting the chimney, and when the masonry warms up, it radiates long wavelengths of heat throughout the house."
In the kitchen is a Sun Frost fridge ("it uses around 25 per cent of the energy of a normal fridge") and a gas stove, fuelled by propane. The three bathrooms all have composting toilets, with the waste driven down a chute into the basement. (Filled with tanks, flues and mysterious piping, the basement looks like the engine room of a ship.)
The capital expense involved in building an eco-house is "at least" 75 per cent more than a regular home, according to Jeff, but once that has been absorbed, the operating costs are "minimal." He cites his average monthly expenses as being zero (in the case of electricity and water from a well) or very modest. It costs $23 per month to hire someone to chop wood (from their own lot) for the masonry heater and $60 for propane. Apart from the stove, they need the latter to provide instant hot water and to run the clothes dryer in winter. (In the summer, the couple hang their clothes outside.)
While it is economical to run, building the eco-house was not without its challenges.
"Because this kind of building was outside the norm, it required a great deal of research, patience and experimentation," Jeff said.
"I can't say we had one major problem, but there were certainly tons of little ones."
Jeff cites municipal regulations that required them, for example, to install a septic tank and leach field, even although, due to the composting toilets, they had no "black" water. Another requirement was for the house to be at least 15 metres from the shoreline. Cognizant of the damaging effects of erosion, the Packards actually exceeded that limit, placing the footprint of the building 35 metres back from the lake.
"There are no cookie-cutter approaches to sustainable construction," Jeff said. "Municipal codes are often years and sometimes decades behind advances in science and building techniques."
Having got over the regulatory hurdles, challenges also presented themselves during the actual construction of the house. The Packard family, including the couple's three sons, did much of the donkey work and a Townships contractor - Boynton Construction - provided the hard labour.
Each entranceway had to have a vestibule or a mud room - "an airlock," in the parlance of architect Ostrowski - to prevent heat from either coming in or out of the building, a vital feature for an energy-efficient house. The construction crew had never worked on a sustainable building before, but, according to Jeff, they proved to be excellent problem solvers.
"In construction, it's so important to install things in the right sequence. In the case of the composting toilets, for example, we had to make sure that on each floor they were placed in such a way that the chutes, which carry the waste, were lined up properly. The vents that eliminate odours had to be as straight as possible, with the minimal number of bends. That took a lot of fine tuning."
Jeff freely admits he is the one most interested in the mechanics of the building, while Buffy is responsible for the esthetics. A collector of antiques ("I picked them up in North Hatley, Eastman and at Finnegan's Market in Hudson"), she has furnished the house with handsome old pieces - armoires, a large refectory-style dining table, original artwork and arti-facts (copper pots, wooden carvings, interesting light fixtures) and furniture inherited from her parents, including a wrought iron reading lamp with a cut-out lampshade handcrafted by her mother.
The decor is a soothing blend of earth tones and natural wood. Downstairs, the recycled elm floors are interlocking tongue and groove. The upstairs floors are spruce with tiny spaces in between the planks to make them look as if they have shrunk with age. The beams in the kitchen, sourced from a company in Magog, are roughly textured with the adze marks clearly visible - evidence of the workmanship of a bygone era.
According to the Packards, there are still a few things on their to-do list. They'd like to install a rainwater collection system to augment their well and perhaps a drop-down temporary covering for the screened porch, so they can use it during three seasons.
In the meantime, these avid environmentalists are content with telling one and all about the pros and cons of an eco-building, so much so that they've organized a couple of open houses to show others what they've done. Their website - www.solarhurst.ca - also contains a wealth of information.
Old homestead is ultra-new
For more than a century, the Packard family has owned land in Ogden. Judge Robert Stanley Weir, who wrote the English words to O Canada, was the first family member to settle on the site - a peninsula jutting out into the southern end of Lake Memphremagog. He bought what had been a small hotel and used it as a summer cottage, naming it Cedarhurst - one of several properties that once encompassed more than 200 hectares.


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Just scored a heap of these 70's New World Records LP comps from Mississippi Records, on the cheap. This one's sporting some prime cuts, and there's plenty more like this that are on the way.
(V/A) Let's Get Loose : Folk And Popular Blues Styles From The Beginnings To The Early 1940s (New World, 1978) *320 mp3
+ Liner notes *PDF
A1 Yank Rachell, Sonny Boy Williamson, Washboard Sam & Alfred Elkins - PeacH Tree Blues
A2 Pillie Bolling – Brownskin Woman
A3 The Johnson Boys – Violin Blues
A4 Monarch Jazz Quartet Of Norfolk – What's The Matter Now
A5 Buck Mountain Band – Yodeling Blues
A6 Hattie Hudson – Doggone My Good Luck Soul
A7 Clara Smith – Let's Get Loose
A8 George O'Connor – Nigger Blues
B1 Tyus And Tyus – Dad's Ole Mule
B2 Rufus & Ben Quillian – Keep It Clean
B3 Scrapper Blackwell - & Leroy Carr Blue Night Blues
B4 Walter Roland – House Lady Blues
B5 Harlem Hamfats – I'm Cuttin' Out
B6 Tommy McClennan – Deep Blue Sea Blues
B7 Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson, Alfred Elkins & Blind John Davis - Love Me, Baby
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GOP Lawmaker Tweets Pic Of Giant Erection, Says He Was Hacked
Republican Missouri state Rep. Mark Parkinson made his constituents and Twitter followers laugh earlier this week, but for unintentional reasons.
First, there was Rep. Parkinson's random "giant erection in the morning" joke that he tweeted Monday afternoon. Quickly after the enormous penis picture was sent to his followers, Parkinson was asked if his Twitter account had been hacked. "Yes, it was somehow compromised," he said. "I'm out walking doors and nowhere near my computer!"
Therein lies the second big laugh Parkinson awarded Twitter users: he's outside right now tweeting you guys that his account was hacked so he couldn't possibly have tweeted the erection joke moments earlier because he's outside. Tweeting.
Parkinson apologized for the random erection tweet but not for confusing everyone on his alibi and how one even walks "doors."
Obviously, I need to change my twitter password. Random pics and tweets are being sent that I have never seen before. Apologies!
— Rep. Mark Parkinson (@markparkinson) June 16, 2014
(h/t: Gawker)
i am hear to give testimony of how i got back my husband, we got married for more than 9 years and have gotten two kids. thing were going well with us and we are always happy. until one day my husband started to behave in a way i could not understand, i was very confused by the way he treat me and the kids. later that month he did not come home again and he called me that he want a divorce, i asked him what have i done wrong to deserve this from him, all he was saying is that he want a divorce that he hate me and do not want to see me again in his life, i was mad and also frustrated do not know what to do,i was sick for more than 2 weeks because of the divorce. i love him so much he was everything to me without him my life is incomplete. i told my sister and she told me to contact a spell caster, i never believe in all this spell casting of a thing. i just want to try if something will come out of it. i contacted Dr Zuma zuk for the return of my husband to me, they told me that my husband have been taken by another woman, that she cast a spell on him that is why he hate me and also want us to divorce. then they told me that they have to cast a spell on him that will make him return to me and the kids, they casted the spell and after 1 week my husband called me and he told me that i should forgive him, he started to apologize on phone and said that he still live me that he did not know what happen to him that he left me. it was the spell that he Dr Zuma zuk casted on him that make him comeback to me today,me and my family are now happy again today. thank you Dr Zuma zuk for what you have done for me i would have been nothing today if not for your great spell. i want you my friends who are passing through all this kind of love problem of getting back their husband, wife , or ex boyfriend and girlfriend to contact email@example.com. and you will see that your problem will be solved without any delay.
Just another republican hiding the truth he's a criminal and sex is behind it. I'm catching onto all the stories about these screw ups all involve politicians who's party is ultra conservative but they can't seem to keep their bigotry sex addict lying lives conservative especially when it seens most sex offenses are being done by the conservatives.


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NCPad for iPad forces banner notifications to stretch the entire length of the screen whether you're in portrait or landscape mode. This allows more information to be viewed than what iOS allows with stock banner notifications.
I've always found the way that banners were handled under stock iOS to be a bit funny. They stretch across the entire width of your iPhone so why not your iPad? NCPad for iPad solves this problem rather elegantly and with minimal effort on your part. Once you install the tweak there's virtually nothing to set up or configure. Your banner notifications will now utilize the entire width of the iPad screen regardless of what orientation you're in.
If you frequently use Twitter, Facebook, or receive iMessages on your iPad you'll notice that the extra width of the banners allows iOS to show you more information in previews than it does stock. In many cases, I can now read an entire notification on my iPad without even having to pop into that application to read it, especially when in landscape mode.
I'm personally hoping some refinements to Notification Center for the iPad will come with iOS 6 but until then NCPad can help make Notification Center feel a little less awkward on your iPad. It's free so give it a go and less us know what you think.
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Back in November, the world lost a great humanitarian, activist and artist with the death of filmmaker/photographer U. Roberto (Robin) Romano. I had the honor of working with Robin last fall on a photoessay about farmworkers in New York's Hudson Valley. He was far and away the most dedicated advocate for human rights I had ever met. He worked tirelessly to open the eyes of the world to modern slavery conditions, especially those that involved children. He traveled around the globe to document and testify about these conditions. In 2012, he spoke with Dawn Brighid about his work documenting labor abuses in the chocolate industry, resulting in the article below. If you care about child labor, we urge you to get acquainted with Robin's work, and if you wish to make a gift in his honor, please give to the Kenyan Schoolhouse, a project Robin co-founded with a fellow filmmaker.
Maybe February should be "Child Labor Month." If you read Chris Hunt's blog post "Where's the Love, Hershey? On Chocolate and Labor" last year, then you know that child labor is a reality in the chocolate industry today. And with close to 60 million pounds of chocolate sold for Valentine's Day alone, February is a great time to shine a light on child labor issues.
Last year, Chris Hunt's post, in which he professed not to care much about chocolate [gasp!], pointed out that even if you don't care for chocolate and/or Valentine's Day, you probably DO care about child labor. And it turns out that while big chocolate companies (including Hershey's) have acknowledged for years that child labor exists, and many even signed the "Protocol for the Growing and Processing of Cocoa Beans and their Derivative Products," also known as the Cocoa Protocol, there are still major labor abuses occurring.
A couple of weeks ago we watched Miki Mistrati and U. Roberto Romano's "The Dark Side of Chocolate," a scary and eye opening documentary about child labor in Africa, focusing on the Ivory Coast, which is responsible for more than 40% of cocoa production globally. The filmmakers went in with hidden cameras and exposed the denial of government officials in the Ivory Coast. They showed us how the families were tricked into thinking that their children might have a better life (many were living in terrible poverty in Mali). They filmed frightened children being smuggled across the border and they found many children working in the cocoa fields. Often these children are abused and never paid or educated. My heart ached – even though I know that child labor exists, the reality was hard for me to witness. This direct film brought clarity to the problem for me and I imagine for many others too. For a more detailed review of the film, please read Tom Philpott's Bloody Valentine: Child Slavery in Ivory Coast's Cocoa Fields in Mother Jones.
After viewing the film, I was lucky to get the passionate filmmaker U. Roberto Romano on the phone to help me understand the Cocoa Protocol. In 2001, it was signed by Hershey's, Nestle, Kraft, Cargill and many others as a voluntary commitment to become child labor-free by 2005. In reality it was a way to avoid government regulation and media scrutiny. But that 2005 date came and went and a new deadline date was set for 2008 (then to only decrease child labor by 50%). In 2008 the International Labor Rights Forum published a report called "The Cocoa Protocol: Success or Failure" showing that there had been no notable change.
"The original intent of the 'protocol' has not been achieved, and consumers today have no more assurance than they did eight years ago that trafficked or exploited child labor was not used in the production of their chocolate."
Romano postulated that companies such as Hershey were only ever concerned about their bottom line. Self-regulation isn't the answer for these companies, which never researched the depth of the problem for serious answers in the first place, he told me. The Ivory Coast is difficult territory and it will be complicated to make changes happen here. Hershey is now shooting to hit the protocol targets by 2017, but if no real change has been made so far, what makes this new date any different? In order to create major change within the cocoa fields, companies like Hershey cannot continue business as usual, usual being a model where constant growth is a goal above the social impacts of production. Increased production will only lead to the need for more labor. Moving forward in such a way will never allow room to address the child trafficking and labor issues that they supposedly agreed to stop.
The Raising the Bar campaign (created by advocate groups including Global Exchange, Green America and International Labor Rights Forum) continues to put pressure on Hershey. In fact, they were planning to run an ad during the most recent Super Bowl, highlighting Hershey's lack of transparency. But after Hershey's announced that they are donating $10 million over the next 5 years to help educate West African farmers about trade and child labor issues, Raising the Bar pulled their ad. In that announcement, Hershey also made a commitment to fully switch their Bliss line of chocolate to independently certified cocoa by the end of 2012.
Many consumers are joining in to pressure Hershey's to continue in the right direction. Pennsylvania eighth grader Jasper Perry-Anderson created a campaign on Change.org to encourage Hershey to source cocoa for more of their products ethically. "This is a great step that many of Hershey's competitors have taken, but the rest of the cocoa Hershey's buys should be responsibly sourced too." Jasper was scheduled to deliver 15,000 signatures to Milton Hershey School Trust, which owns a large part of Hershey's.
People everywhere are jumping in to tell Hershey's what they think. Last year's Hershey's s'mores photo campaign on Facebook was hacked with people posting pictures of themselves with signs telling Hershey's to change their practices. And even today, with no specific campaign happening, if you look at the Hershey's Facebook wall it is sprinkled with notes calling attention to their horrible child labor practices. As consumers we can make our voices be heard by being diligent when buying fair trade chocolate – and getting active, even just on Facebook. Here's a great example of note from a concerned chocolate lover posted on Hershey's Facebook wall:
"I love Reese's, Hershey's hugs and kisses, and other great chocolates you make. But I won't be buying any more until you address the issue of child slavery in your cocoa sourcing. Please set an example in giving cocoa farmers a fair wage and ensuring just treatment of child workers in your supply chain."
Update: As noted in the article above, in 2012, Hershey's committed to fully switching their Bliss line of chocolate to independently certified cocoa by the end of the year and they did it! Then in October 2012 Hershey's upped their commitment to 100 percent certified cocoa by 2020 – a move to reduce child labor and improve cocoa communities in West Africa. This huge step for Hershey's shows that they are responsive to consumer pressure. While third party certification will make this move truly transparent, some argue that a Fair Trade certification would do more to prevent the worst abuses than Rainforest Alliance Certified, the certifier the company has chosen to work with. But again, this is a big, big step in the right direction. You can find more information about the work they are doing with on their site.


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The bride descends the stairs of her childhood home, just a stone's throw from the school where she met Tom.
When high school soccer star Tom left his home in England to attend a Massachusetts boarding school, his mind was far from true love. He was enjoying life in a new country, with a wide circle of American friends–including Amy, a local day student. After graduation, Tom and Amy parted ways to attend college and eventually lost touch. But destiny led them back together again nearly a decade later in London. A friendly reunion led to a whirlwind relationship and, finally, a spontaneous yet intimate proposal in Tom's London flat. When it came to choosing a wedding venue, there was no question: The couple would be married at Amy's childhood home in Concord, Massachusetts, the quaint town where they first met. Although the wedding was in the States, the couple wanted to incorporate elements from both of their backgrounds. The end result was a stunning outdoor wedding that celebrated their American and British roots for an entire weekend. On a warm August evening, Amy and Tom exchanged vows beneath a lush floral arch. Bridesmaids wore coordinating red, white and blue gowns, while Tom and his groomsmen looked dapper in monogrammed Tiffany cuff links. As the sun went down, guests from both sides of the pond migrated to tents adorned with red roses, blue table linens and white accents to enjoy a steak-and-lobster supper, the perfect fusion of English and East Coast cuisines. Picnic games like a custom beanbag toss stirred up Revolutionary War-era rivalries. The happy couple danced the night away to their favorite songs, grateful that fate had brought them back to the town where it all began.
Husband and wife share a kiss after a picturesque outdoor ceremony.
Humorous touches at the reception capture the couple's playful personalities.
Two tents, each topped with a British and American flag, provided a warm ambiance.
Guests sipped Black Velvets, Amy and Tom's signature cocktail.
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A lawsuit filed by a Bluffton police officer, who claims the town retaliated against him because of his National Guard commitments, will go to trial after Oct. 31, according to federal court dockets.
Officer Mark Dorsey filed a lawsuit in March under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) alleging town officials passed him over for a bonus, threatened him with disciplinary action if he attended a required training exercise, then damaged his career by initiating a Congressional probe into his military service.
The town denies going over Dorsey's head while demanding proof that all other officers received bonuses and evidence that his commander now considers him ineligible for active duty after the alleged inquiry, according to court filings.
Jury selection is scheduled for Aug. 28 in U.S. District Court in Charleston, said Nancy Bloodgood, an attorney specializing in employment law who also represented former Lt. Katherine Sours in two successful lawsuits that cost the town $90,000 toward the $236,000 in damages awarded. She declined further comment.
Town Attorney Terry Finger could not be reached for comment.
In his suit, Dorsey said he notified the town under USERRA every time he was called to active duty, from homeland security operations in 2003 to Hurricane Katrina aid and a tour of Afghanistan.
But in a filing answering Dorsey's complaint, the town maintains Dorsey failed to provide proper advance notice of military duties, exceeded the five-year length of service requirements under law, didn't report back to work in a timely manner, that his military service "was not under honorable conditions" and that he scheduled himself for duty that was not required by his superiors.
Police Chief David McAllister said in a previous interview with Bluffton Today that the town held Dorsey's position for two years longer than bound by law.
Christian Gonzales, also a current officer, filed a lawsuit with the Beaufort County Court of Common Pleas in June charging the town or its officials with gross negligence in the handling of his complaint against McAllister and his subsequent demotion. The suit also claims defamation, whistleblower retaliation and civil battery from an alleged shoving match with McAllister.
A racial discrimination suit filed in federal court by three former officers after an unsuccessful attempt with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission could go to trial after August, according to the latest court filing.
McAllister, who has called all ongoing litigation baseless and opportunistic, leaves Wednesday for an undisclosed private security firm in Atlanta after six years of leading Bluffton's police during a period of major expansion and improvements to department practices that earned it national accreditation in 2009.


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American Foundation for Suicide Prevention sponsors National Survivors of Suicide Day - reaching out to thousands of people who have lost a loved one to suicide. This Saturday, November 17th, is the 14th year of raising awareness and providing support.
Over 200 conferences for survivors of suicide will take place throughout the U.S. and across the world. Connecting on this day allows survivors to know that they're not alone in this experience.
To find a city worldwide where a conference is being held link here. Read more on suicide outreach and about the 10 common myths about suicide here
Every 40 seconds. someone dies by suicide. Every 41 seconds, someone is left to make sense of it.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Suicide Survivor Awareness Day
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- Wanda's Wings said...
It's so hard to lose a family member to suicide. A violent way to end a young life. I'm glad we have these awareness days. It helps all see the pain of suicide.
- November 17, 2012 6:05 PM
- Dr. Deb said...
Thinking of you and sending hugs.
- November 17, 2012 6:38 PM
- Woman in Crisis said...
Really, it's a tragic way to end a life of any age, not just the young.
I wish suicide survivor awareness day was one given more attention but I have learned through experience and education why it is more frequently swept under the rug
- November 17, 2012 10:51 PM
- Dr. Deb said...
Woman in Crisis,
I agree with you
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And next time your soon-to-be-ex laughs at you, aim for the catcher's glove that's (not really) behind him.
One of the simplest ways to counter that is to trick your mind by intentionally over-shooting. In martial arts they often tell students not to punch the person, but to punch something behind them; for throwing, don't just toss it to your target, throw it through it to an imaginary object another 20' further away.
OK, so I'm not talking about the very worthy #likeagirl thing, I'm doing this here instead of PROC deliberately. I'm talking about the, lets be honest here, very real physical phenomenon that some people - and again lets be honest, mainly female - have. This came up in a post I'm writing and, well, *stands up* My name's Kythia and I throw like a girl.Ninety odd per cent of my PE lessons at school were spent pretending to be on my period so I could smoke with my friends, and now I have no idea how to throw. And my soon-to-be-ex boyfriend seems to think laughter is the appropriate response when I asked him to teach me how to do it. So I'm reaching out to you lovely and unlaughing folk of E. What the fuck am I doing wrong here? Is this something that can be explained textually? If not, does anyone know a good video source or something - everything I've googled comes up with #likeagirl stuff.On the far from 100% of occasions where the ball goes in the direction I wanted it to it has no force at all and often falls short. I go to the gym pretty much every day and have, you know, relatively toned arms from the rowing machine and cross-trainer - while I might not be olympic javelin thrower standard I don't think this is a physical strength limitation. I kind of thought it might be a boob thing, that I was moving my arm different to avoid hitting the girls, but now I don't think it is.Is anyone able to help? Am I being ridiculous here? I haven't slept for a couple of days so its possible I am.
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