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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wants producers to know that he's holding China accountable to the promises it made in exchange for membership in the World Trade Organization.
"It's time for China to abide fully by its international trade commitments," says Grassley, who serves as chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance.
"We want to make sure American farmers and factory workers get the full measure of benefits on which our trade partners agreed. And China needs to do more, especially in agriculture," he says. "China is still using unreasonable scientific standards for agricultural biotech products, is still not fulfilling its agricultural quota commitments, and is manipulating its taxes to distort international trade."
A supporter of open trade agendas, Grassley supported the development of permanent normal trade relations for China and China's accession to the World Trade Organization.
An Oct. 7 letter to China's Minister of Commerce, however, illustrates Grassley's disappointment in China's apparent lack of commitment to abiding by their trade agreements with the United States.
"I had great faith in China's commitment to the WTO and to the rule of law. I hope my faith was not misplaced," he says. "China will not reap the full economic and political benefits of WTO membership unless China faithfully and fully abides by its WTO accession agreement. At the same time, U.S. farmers and workers will not receive the full measure of benefits from our trade agreements unless a serious effort is made to ensure that our trading partners abide by their international trade commitments and free market principles."
So far, Grassley says, that hasn't been the case.
"There are multiple reports stating that China is failing to fulfill its WTO obligations. It's time to take more action," he says.
Grassley calls China's uneven implementation of its commitments regarding transparency a "disappointment." In addition, he says China is utilizing unreasonable standards for agricultural biotech products, is unfairly applying quotas and providing export subsidies, is utilizing discriminatory tax policies on imports, is failing to provide protection for U.S. intellectual property rights, and is maintaining high capital requirements for establishing service businesses.
China is also well-aware, Grassley says, that a fairly valued currency is in China's own long-term interest, and is key to moving to a market-driven economy. "The best international economic system is one based on the principles of free trade, open markets, free capital flows, and market-based exchange rates among major economies. Even the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank agree that China must address this issue," he says.
In his letter, Grassley asks China to carefully consider the importance of abiding by both the "letter and the spirit" of its WTO commitments.
"While I and many others stand ready to work with China's government to resolve these trade problems, pressure is mounting within Congress and the Administration for concrete action," Grassley says. "It is my hope that China will make good progress in the near future so that we can eliminate the need for any such measures."
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There are a few sure ways to know that summer in Italy has kicked into full gear. One, of course, is the heat. While that's kind of a no-brainer, it seems that we don't really have a spring to speak of. It just goes from cool and maybe a little damp to hot and dry in the blink of an eye. And the heat has been rather unrelenting throughout July. Having spent 20 years in the desert, I'm certainly used to it, and since the winter was long and snowy, I'm not complaining a bit. But my compaesani are lamenting endlessly and thus putting themselves into the second sure way of knowing it's summer - the beach.
Everyone seeks relief at the beach. Which means they're swarming and sweltering, especially on the weekends. If you want to snag a spot at one of the seaside lidos that lay out ordered rows of chairs and umbrellas on a Sunday, you have to call and reserve in advance. Trying to swim is a fruitless endeavor as there are too many people sitting in and floating on the water. The town sort of empties out on Saturday or Sunday morning, then the beleagered sea-goers come home hotter than when they started. Unfortunately, the Ionian coast is the closest sea to us, but its shallow water and flat plains means its hotter than other beaches. The water is like a hot spring instead of a cool plunge in the ocean. For that, we'd head to Maratea, a gorgeous town on the Mediterranean side of Basilicata. But it's just far enough away to make it logistically more difficult for a day trip. But what a world away it is from the other side!
The third sure thing in summer is that wedding season kicks in. We were invited to a wonderful wedding in July, a sort of replay of the one we attended last year, as the respective brides are sisters. The Angeli, as the couple is known because their names are Angelo and Angela, tied the knot in a traditional way with a fun festa to follow up the ceremony that lasted until midnight. We're always really touched to be included in these festivities, being the newcomers to this town.
And then there's the general busyness that happens, with people coming back for visits, hanging out in the piazza until the wee hours (le piccole ore, as they say here), and sagras and festivals and concerts and theatrical productions crowding the calendar. While it's true that August brings a work shut-down in Italy, it also brings a jam-packed line-up of events to enjoy.
I'll be missing out on some of the more merry happenings here, as I'll be traveling to the US soon. Like the predictable Italian schedule, I'm taking my vacation in August- something I never used to do. But when in Rome...
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LOVE hydrangeas! wish I could grow them as well as you have!
My favorite flower is hydrangeas!!! Yours are beautiful. Love this post.
Pam- I think that is the most beautiful soup tureen I have ever seen. It makes a perfect wide mouthed vase. I love roses and hydrangeas- xo DianaReplyDelete
Beautiful tureen and the hydrangeas are also gorgeous. Wish I could grow these in my garden.ReplyDelete
One of things I miss about so.Ca and KY is the climate to grow hydrangeas (and just about anything else). It's too dry here to grow hydrangeas without a lot of help.
Your roses, hydrangeas and soup tureen are so pretty. I don't really like to put flowers in a vase, to me it's just too structured and stiff, like to use some imagination to find other vessels for flowers. Really love how your hydrangeas look in that soup tureen. I also love tulips and lilacs in other vessels.
We had tulips growing wild in KY, so pretty. All I had to do was walk around outside to look for things in yard to bring in. We lived there 5 yrs. and only had to water the yard one summer for little bit, humidity was 100% with 100 degree temps in summer, phew.
We had a stream between our land and farm land next door and a spring in our back yard under the ground. I do miss things from KY but not the allergies, asthma and arthritis non-stop. We had to pressure spray the north side of house to get rid of mold quite often. I so miss our gorgeous big front porch and decorating it. Happy Week
Beautiful!!! The rose is beautiful... both the real and the painted one on that splendid tureen. I too dry my hydrangeas during the season and enjoy them all year long. I so enjoy your posts...
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MADRID, (Reuters) – Defending champion Petra Kvitova was upset by qualifier and Czech compatriot Lucie Hradecka 6-4 6-3 in the second round of the Madrid Open yesterday.
World number one Victoria Azarenka, who lost to Kvitova in last year's final of the premier clay event, claimed her place in the quarter-finals with a 6-4 6-4 success against Ana Ivanovic of Serbia.
Belarussian Azarenka, winner of four titles this year including her first grand slam singles at the Australian Open, needed four match points to finish off a stubborn Ivanovic and will play China's Li Na for a place in tomorrow's semi-finals.
Li, the French Open champion and eighth seed, beat 12th-seeded German Angelique Kerber 7-5 6-4.
Ivanovic, who has never been past the second round in two previous appearances in the Spanish capital, made a strong start on the blue clay of the Manolo Santana show court and conjured an early break of the Azarenka serve.
However, she tripped up at crucial moments during the remainder of the match and failed to convert three break points in the final game.
"I think she started really strong and I was a bit too slow and not aggressive enough," Azarenka, who hired another former number one, Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo, as an adviser last month, told a news conference.
"I was just trying to stay in there and execute better and get some rhythm into the match," she added.
Samantha Stosur of Australia, the fifth seed, also made it through to the last eight when she thrashed Czech Petra Cetkovska 6-3 6-2 to set up a meeting with Hradecka or Russia's Ekaterina Makarova.
Kvitova, the world number four and seeded third this year, used her 2011 success in Madrid as a springboard for a first grand slam singles title at Wimbledon and went on to triumph at the season-ending WTA championships.
The graceful left hander has yet to win a title in 2012, however, after claiming six last season, and had her serve broken five times by Hradecka, who is ranked 105th in the world and claimed a first win against a top 10 player of her career.
There were no such problems for Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, who leap-frogged Kvitova to number three in the latest rankings, in her second-round match against Sara Errani.
Radwanska snapped Errani's 16-match winning streak on clay, which netted her titles in Acapulco, Barcelona and Budapest, with a dominant performance, crushing the Italian 6-0 6-1 to set up a third-round meeting with another Italian, Roberta Vinci.
Ninth-seeded American Serena Williams, making her first appearance in Europe this year, plays her third-round match against fellow former number one Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, the sixth seed, today.


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- "I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being. If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters."
- —J. K. Rowling comparing The Casual Vacancy to the Harry Potter series.[4]
The Casual Vacancy is a novel by J. K. Rowling, released worldwide on 27 September, 2012[3]. It is Rowling's first novel targeted specifically at a grown-up audience and her first published work outside the Harry Potter series.[3][2] In December, 2012, it was announced that the novel would be adapted as a television series by the BBC.[5] The novel is slated for paperback release on 18 July, 2013 in the U.K., with two new covers available.[6]
According to details released by the publisher, The Casual Vacancy is set in the seemingly peaceful, idyllic town of Pagford, home to a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey. However, beneath its surface, Pagford is a "town at war," where rich clash with poor, teenagers with parents, wives with their husbands, and teachers with their students. After the sudden death of Barry Fairbrother shocks the town, his seat on the parish council is left open, leading to an election "fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations."[3]
The publisher describes the novel as "blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising."[2]
- "When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? "
- —The Blurb from The Casual Vacancy[src]
The Casual Vacancy was published worldwide by Little, Brown and Company on 27 September, 2012 in hardback, e-book, audio download, and CD formats.[2]
The audiobook was read by Tom Hollander.[1]
The title is being promoted with a "minimalist" approach, with few advance copies being released (similar to later Harry Potter releases) with few appearances by Rowling herself and only one appearance in the United States, well following the novel's official release. While social media ads have been purchased online, bookstore promotion for the novel is said to be "muted."[7] Those that have received advanced copies have reportedly been required to sign contracts described as "more legal documents than would typically be involved in buying a house."[8]
As of 25 September, 2012, the print copy of The Casual Vacancy had risen to #2 on Amazon.com's list of bestsellers in books, behind only No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden. It was #1 in both the Contemporary and Literature sections. By the evening of that day, it had risen to #1 in bestsellers in books.
Early reviews have been generally favourable, but also noted that the book is most certainly very different from the Harry Potter novels, including elements such as drugs, sex, and swearing.[9][10]
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "J.K. Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' book cover art released!" from Hypable.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "JK Rowling announces title of first adult novel" from BBC News
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "J.K. Rowling's next book: 'The Casual Vacancy'" from USA Today
- ↑ http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/spiegel-interview-with-author-j-k-rowling-a-857632.html SPIEGEL Interview with Author J.K. Rowling]
- ↑ J.K. Rowling's Casual Vacancy Becoming BBC TV Series
- ↑ SnitchSeeker - J. K. Rowling's Casual Vacancy Set for July 18th paperback release
- ↑ "Hey, Heard of That New Novelist J.K. Rowling?" from Ad Age
- ↑ The Casual Vacancy: Want an advance copy? Good luck.
- ↑ Christian Science Monitor - "The Casual Vacancy: Adult content shows we're not at Hogwarts anymore"
- ↑ The Guardian - J.K. Rowling: The Casual Vacancy: Review


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SAINT LOUIS (June 14, 2013) -- What do 10 of the nation's finest juniors do while waiting for pairings? They play chess, of course.
Blitz games passed the time surrounding the 2013 U.S. Junior Closed Championship opening ceremony last night, as America's best players under the age of 21 gathered at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.
There were no signs of calculated attack in the upstairs tournament hall Thursday night. Instead, fast moves and friendly banter was the theme, with group analysis around every board and waning clock. Friendly debate over the current position was common, and above all, there was laughter. As if a game was being played.
If there was any clue that war was ahead, it was during the drawing of the lots. Focus tightened as CCSCSL Executive Director Tony Rich randomly selected each player to draw numbers, determining round pairings and, more importantly, who would command the white pieces for five of the nine rounds. Mental gears began to turn with every selection.
Luke Harmon-Vellotti, Daniel Naroditsky, Atulya Shetty, Sam Sevian and Victor Shen won the white-piece advantage for the duration of the event. Round 1 begins today at 1 p.m. CT. (Click here to see the full schedule.) Pairings for the first round are as follows:


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The other night, I had a good case of The Hives! The Swedish garage/punk band The Hives was in town to promote their latest album "Lex Hives." I am happy to report that the guys were all very cool and were gracious enough to take photos as you can see above and below.
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Ten years ago, I gathered with 22 other undergraduates on the shady side of a prefab building, sheltered from the glare of a Death Valley autumn day. We were there to talk with activists from the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, who had recently won a 7,750-acre reservation, only a small fraction of it in the national park that contains their ancestral homeland. We'd spent three months exploring Western issues, and so far everyone we'd met had been gentle and generous -- sharing their opinions, even welcoming us into their homes.
This time, though, was different. One Timbisha woman leveled a penetrating gaze at us, at our earnest professor, and asked, "Why are you here?" The question felt guarded, almost hostile -- as if what she meant was, "Do you think we owe you anything?" As we struggled to explain ourselves, to ask the right questions, we became painfully aware of our privileged, mostly white, upper-middle-class backgrounds. I realized that the most important questions were the ones we were now asking ourselves: Why shouldn't they be angry?
After all, when Death Valley became a national monument in 1933, the Park Service squeezed the area's Timbisha Shoshone onto a tiny plot on the valley floor. The tribe was not even federally recognized until 1983, not granted this remnant of its former lands for a reservation until 2000. As an elder spoke, the wind whined through a gap beneath the trailer behind her; most of the few clustered buildings were still perched on blocks, rather than supported by real foundations. When the Timbisha cemented a sign a few feet into the earth in 1996, identifying this area as home, it was an act of rebellion -- a declaration of their spiritual and cultural roots in a place where they had to fight to sink physical ones.
The Timbisha's story, though unique in its particulars, is shared among all tribes marginalized by our ruthlessly ambitious new nation. That is one reason why counter-narratives like this issue's cover story, by longtime NewTowncarShare News contributor Joshua Zaffos, are so striking.
The Port Gamble S'Klallam -- who live on a small bay on Washington's Puget Sound -- and a lumber company-turned-developer are grappling over a stretch of timberland and shoreline, plus a historic town and mill on the tribe's ancestral grounds. Pope Resources wants to sell the land for conservation, with some housing development to help pay for the deal. But though the company owns the parcels outright, the tribe appears to be steering the process -- winning concessions and scaling back development plans to protect fishing rights -- by exploiting the same sorts of legal systems originally used to appropriate their lands and waters. And while what the S'Klallam have won so far hardly makes up for all they've lost, the delicate détente between tribe and timber company suggests what might be possible once the playing field is finally leveled.


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Gosh, I'm not going to be able to narrow it down to just one blog. There are so many blogs for which I am thankful, so I'm going to list my top 5 (in no particular order):
Myrtle's was the first blog I ever read ... even before it was a blog. I still have printouts of her email newsletters from the 1990s! Her blog led me to her "Beginning Blogging" webinar, and the rest is history. Now, a little over one year and 160+ posts later, I'd say that at least some of what she taught me has stuck. I'd recommend this blog to anyone even considering diving into genealogy OR blogging (or both!).
It's All Relative
I am extremely thankful for my dear friend Laura Aanenson's blog. Without her blog, we never would have made the connection to become our Success Team. And what a success it has been! Even through our "technical" failures, we continue to learn from each other, and to push each other to do more than we think we are able. I highly recommend a "Success Team" buddy for everyone (especially if you can't afford a therapist).
Genealogy Tip of the Day and Search Tip of the Day
Michael John Neill pops out these little seeds of genealogical wisdom on a (more or less) daily basis, and no matter how experienced you think you are ... there is something in there that you can use, or that will remind of something you forgot. Plus, there's also the Casefile Clues and Casefile Clues for Beginners (both subscriptions) that are great ways to pick up new places to look for clues and new ways to look at the data you already have.
Documenting the Details
Linda McCauley has been blogging for two years and researching her family history for over a decade, and knows her stuff. The reason I'm thankful for her blog is because she doesn't only tell her readers about her successes. She also isn't afraid to let us know if she goofed and why - and more importantly, how she intends to fix it. It is through her blog that many genealogists and bloggers alike, no matter their experience level, can pick up some little nugget of knowledge and be all the better for it.
52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy by Amy Coffin is a series of weekly blogging prompts (one for each week of 2012) that invite genealogists and others to discuss resources in the genealogy community including websites, applications, libraries, archives, genealogical societies and more.


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EDC tournament play-in schedules
The VCHS Girls' Basketball play-in game on Saturday, Feb. 25, in Devils Lake, has
been moved up to begin at 3 p.m. due to concerns with the weather. This is a change from the original game time of 5 p.m. that printed in Friday's Times-Record.
The Hi-Liner boys will begin their EDC play-in game at Grand Forks Central at 4 p.m. Saturday.


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Indiana is silent on the issue of concealed vs open carry as I feel it should be . I would hate to be going around checking to make sure I'm concealed carrying at all times. But, I'm glad a national standard (not abolition) of carry is being pursued
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Goi Artetxe and Elise Renwick moved to Pilsen two months ago and already they've made their mark on Chicago.
The husband-and-wife team placed second in a contest by the Chicago Architectural Club and Chicago Architecture Foundation to design shelters for upcoming express bus service in Chicago. The couple said their entry, "Enthalpy," was inspired by Lake Michigan and its ability to create energy.
The fully enclosed glass stations rely on solar panels. Inside, there are benches and vending machines to purchase bus tickets. Lights and heaters hang from the ceiling. Bikes are placed on the wall.
"Enthalpy," which the judging panel of local transit experts called an "inviting space," won $1,500. The first prize went to a team from Canada. The CTA and Chicago Department of Transportation said they may incorporate ideas from the entries when designing the shelters for bus rapid transit.
The express bus service, which typically relies on traffic signal priority and dedicated lanes for buses, is slated to arrive on Ashland Avenue and in the Loop in the next few years.
In preparing for this project, Artetxe and Renwick, who moved from New York, said they talked to CTA riders and drivers.
"Design affects every aspect of your life if you're conscious of it or not," said Renwick, 28.
The duo hasn't determined how much it would cost to create their fantasy shelter. Ideally, stainless steel would be a main material, but cheaper materials could be substituted, said Artetxe, 33.
The Architecture Foundation said they were looking to award shelters that could appear in any Chicago neighborhood.
"We were thinking each bus stop could generate its own energy literally and also socially," Renwick said.
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Why? Because you can! And pickle, and jam, or otherwise celebrate the resurgence of the domestic arts our forebears held so dear. Put on your best apron and step into our kitchen, won't you?
Homemade mustard pays great dividends -- practially effortless, it's a very popular and much appreciated gift. This year's Cranberry Rosemary Mustard recipe has double the fruit and herbs, punching up the color and flavor.


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Here is a pic of the original figure(courtesy Rebelscum.com):
Please take a moment and compare my modified/repainted Malgus to Hasbro's. The figure was a great try, and with some added work, I turned him into something much, much better! Hasbro did a great job bringing this character into toy form, it just needed to be tweaked a bit to bring out its potential.
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Darth Bane was based off this art and statue. I dont know what comic it might be from, just a very cool looking version of this Sith Lord.
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Mom and Dad may be on a tighter budget these days, but when it comes time for Christmas or Hanukkah, there will be toys for the kids.
We've scanned the hot holiday toy lists from the retailersand trade publications such as "The Toy Insider"and "Time to Play"magazine and done a little digging ourselves to bring you a collection of toys that are sure to please children of all ages.
The trends this season include lots of collectible toys such as Squinkies and Zoobles, as well as plenty of new twists on traditional favorites.
Click ahead to see those and some of the other hottest toys of the holidays.
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Dustforce Cleans Up Bad Guys on Xbox 360
The blend of platforming, music and custodial martial arts known as Dustforce is now cleaning up the Xbox 360's act.
A post on the Capcom-Unity blog reveals that Dustforce is now available for the Xbox 360. Interested parties can try their hand at sweeping up the city in style for the price of $9.99.
As a primer for newcomers, the Capcom-Unity team created this video that provides all the finer points of Dustforce, which was developed by the development duo, Hitbox Team. You'll jump, slide and slash your way through levels, defeating little dirt devils and cleaning up the general filth on the walls and floors of different structures.
The game is described as having "Capcom DNA," which is comprised of the running and jumping from Mega Man, the sliding and slashing from Strider and the sophisticated timing from Street Fighter. You can see all of these beautiful elements come together in Dustforce, which is now available for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita and now the Xbox 360.


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Reviewed by Shula H. (age 10)
This was a great book! I really enjoyed it because it has an important lesson. The other Allie Finkle books also have important lessons, but this one was about bullying and the way Meg Cabot gives it is very creative.
I would recommend this book because it is unique and funny. It is also fun because once in a while one of Allie's rules comes up, and the rules are a mix of funny, important, crazy, awesome, or weird. I would recommend this book to girls in 2nd to 4th Grade.


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lokko needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 194 designs submitted by 52 freelance designers.
A&G group
we are a new company is composed of many departments which deals with
creative, style, music, events, tourism and sport business
our audience starts from 5 to 95!
Since we deal with a range of departments as listed above our company logo can be something specific which represent us
a symbol FOR EXAMPLE like a lion which represent power
can be played in a cool way with the words of the actual name which is A & G group.
As you see we are very liberal about it and we look forward for seeing interesting ideas.
Good Luck!
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A new Animal Welfare Strategy Paper: European Commission seeks quality upgrade
Brussels, 19 January 2012 – The European Commission today adopted a new four-year strategy (2012-2015) that aims to further improve the welfare of animals in the European Union.
"The recent coming into force of the "laying hens" legislation has shown that problems persist in animal welfare in several Member States. Some efforts are being made, but many issues need to be tackled in a different way in order to achieve more sustainable results. The new strategy will permit appropriate flexibility allowing operators to attain the necessary welfare standards by different routes. Optimising policy coherence and market transparency in a comprehensive animal welfare legislative framework will minimise real or perceived tensions between welfare and economics. Animal welfare measures need to be cost-effective. The proposed dedication of resources to education and training is expected to be highly cost-effective, economically and in welfare terms." EU Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner, John Dalli, said.
The need for change
EU Animal Welfare legislation, developed in response to contingencies and political demand over the past 3 decades, is often detailed and sector specific but sporadic in its coverage. Uneven application of these rules in the member States makes for an uneven playfield in this important economic sector. Viewed against the background of the diversity of climatic, terrain and farming systems in which it must be applied, this area of European law calls for change.
The new Strategy was adopted in the form of a Commission Communication to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee.
Why problems persist
The Commission Communication identifies the lack of enforcement of EU legislation by Member States in a number of areas as one of the major issues adversely affecting animal welfare in the EU. Another brake on full and even implementation is the fact that the market does not provide sufficient economic incentives for compliance.
The Communication also notes that many of the parties involved lack sufficient knowledge about animal welfare, while it points out gaps in EU legislation which make it harder to ensure adequate welfare conditions for some categories of animals.
Suggested Actions
To address these issues and concerns, the Strategy provides for a two-pronged approach: a proposal for a comprehensive animal welfare law and a reinforcement of current actions. The legislation to be proposed is expected to promote an innovative approach focusing on actual welfare outcomes instead of mechanistic inputs, and to increase the focus on the education and professional standards of all parties concerned.
The second element proposes a reinforcement and the optimisation of current Commission actions: enhancing tools to strengthen Member State compliance with the legal requirements; boosting the already existing international co-operation on animal welfare issues; providing consumers with better information, and performing studies where animal welfare appears to encounter the most problems.
The Commission first adopted an Animal Welfare Strategy in 2006. The Community Action Plan on the Protection and Welfare of Animals 2006-2010, grouped the various aspects of EU policy on animal welfare governing the keeping of billions of animals for economic purposes.
The new Strategy builds on the old one and, in particular, on lessons learned during the five-year implementation period of the first Action Plan. The necessity of a new strategy becomes all too obvious with a glance at the importance of animals in our daily lives.
The farming sector is the largest, as far as use of animals is concerned. In farms across the EU, there are about two billion birds (chickens for meat production, laying hens, turkeys, ducks and geese) and three hundred million mammals (cows, pigs, sheep, etc.). The pet population is also quite large in the EU. It is estimated that there are about one hundred million dogs and cats in the Union. The annual value of livestock farming in the EU is estimated at approximately 150 billion euros. The Union's contribution to support animal welfare is estimated at 70 million euros a year, either directed to farmers as animal welfare payments under rural development programmes or dedicated to other activities related to animal welfare, such as research, economic studies, communication, training and education etc.
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Christinadoheny necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 41 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
I am a 30-something year old woman who sees a different way to shop. There are numerous up and coming designers out there who are looking for a place to market their designs. I see my site as being a niche to sell items from designers that people might not get to see in other parts of the US. I am originally from Los Angeles; when I moved to Raleigh, NC earlier this year, I realized I had unique items in my wardrobe that women did not have here.
I will host a blog on my philosophies regarding fashion, trends etc. I also want this site to have a "suggestion site" where people can post what they see, what they want to see etc. I feel that when you shop you have to buy what is in front of you or end up looking like the next person (just in a different color). This way people will have some new things to look at.
I have worked in corporate America, but I have always had a love of fashion. This business will be my outlet to be creative and follow my passion. A lot of what I will be selling is fun yet elegant, sophisticated and classy.
I will be selling to men and women. These cusomers are going to be looking for different or unique items to make their wardrobe stand out from the crowd. They are sophisticated and chic most likely ranging in age from 30 thru 50 (although some 60 year olds will be surfing the site).
I want my site to be elegant, chic and inviting. Some the products I will be selling already are swarkoski crystal encrusted flip flops; cocktail rings from Germany that have interchangeable pieces; fun and flirty clothes; leather belts with metal cut-outs etc. I do not have a logo yet for Flash and Splash. You can play around with how those words look on the site. Think- UNDERSTATED ELEGANCE
* Colors I love: Black, Navy, deep Purple, Green
* Simple and clean
*Fonts- easy to read (but not Times Roman).
*I want men to NOT be intimidated by the site
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* No copyright pictures or clip art nothing licensed
*No "beachy" themes just because the name is flashandsplash
*Nothing Cutsey
*For now, I am not looking for any cartoon or picture icons for the site.
This will be the homepage. I need titles and buttons on my site (i.e. home, about, men, women, blog, contact, suggestion box) - please feel free to take creative license if you want to have fun with the names of the headers
* There needs to be a search box place
I just own the domain name; I have not created any site. This is my first one.
*The pictures I uploaded are examples of what I will be selling just to give you an idea. I actually will take better ones later.
http://www.gina.com (easy to navigate, clean, sleek)
http://www.lorijack.com (slightly more colorful and interesting without being 'girly')
http://www.giltgroup.com (love the darker colors)
http://www.hautelook.com(easy to navigate)
http://www.genachandler.com (cluttered and boring; do not like)


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leisenstein needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 74 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
The Fair Housing Coalition
This is a non-profit organization aiming at waking up the building owners (mainly apartment owners in LA) and creating an effective, strong political organization that will reverse the tide of anti-landlord laws in LA. The organization is made up of a band of diverse owners, poor, rich, middle-class who are fed up with the way the city of LA has been treating them with Rent Control and want to fight back.
The audience is anyone who cares for and supports property rights. Specifically we are fighting for the rights of apartment building owners in LA. This includes anyone who owns a duplex (2-unit) and up. Property Rights are the backbone of any stable democracy. So the target audience can include renters as well as property owners who see the importance of safeguarding property ownership. This is a very diverse group, all races, all nationalities, religions, and ages.
An effective strong logo that depicts the safeguarding of property rights and its importance for a healthy and safe society. Be creative and think outside the box as well, the logo shouldn't be too complicated but not traditional obvious design.
The logo should incorporate some type of housing or building. The main color is blue but other tones can be used as well (grey, black, etc). Also incorporate symbols in the back of the One Dollar Bill like the American eagle safeguarding of liberties as well as the traditional symbol of equality and fairness, and the eye representing awareness. Please include the words "The Fair Housing Coalition" as well. The website is called: thefairhousingcoalition.com
This must be something that will get the attention of people and eventually go national!
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River Phoenix's last movie hits Berlin 20 years after death
The late River Phoenix made a haunting reappearance on the big screen Thursday as the last movie to feature the acclaimed star, who died of a drug overdose at 23, was presented at the Berlin film festival two decades after he made the picture.
(AFP) The late River Phoenix made a haunting reappearance on the big screen Thursday as the last movie to feature the acclaimed star, who died of a drug overdose at 23, was presented at the Berlin film festival two decades after he made the picture.
The contemporary Western "Dark Blood" shows what is believed to be the last footage of Phoenix, who died 10 days before he was meant to finish the shoot.
Dutch director George Sluizer, now 80, resumed work on the film in 2009 and narrates missing scenes aloud over still frames in the completed movie.
The picture, which came in at just under 90 minutes, tells the story of Boy, a grieving young widower with Native American roots who is living at a nuclear testing facility in the desert after his wife died of radiation exposure.
While waiting for the world to end, he picks up a feuding wealthy couple travelling through the same area (Jonathan Pryce and Judy Davis) when their Bentley breaks down.
Boy is drawn to the attractive wife, the former Las Vegas showgirl Buffy, and refuses to let the couple go, thinking he can convince her to join his one-man doomsday cult.
Pryce told a news conference in Berlin after a screening that drew a mixed reception that he had been impressed with Phoenix "and I love his memory".
"I found him a remarkable young man -- I can't believe now looking back that he was only 23 at the time. It's that kind of old head on young shoulders," he said.
"But he was absolutely delightful, he was wonderful to work with, he was very committed, very serious about his work."
Sluizer said he had once joked with Phoenix, whom he called a "gentle actor", about whether he minded working with a director much older than himself.
"And he said: 'George, I respect people who are older than myself because they are wiser and more experienced'," he said.
The picture, shot in Utah and New Mexico, underwent an odyssey after Phoenix's death when an insurance company took possession of the unfinished footage.
In 1999, Sluizer bought the material to rescue it days before it was slated for destruction and said that after he had a near-fatal aneurysm, he decided he had to finish the project before it was too late.
But he said that beyond the footage that he was unable to shoot due to Phoenix's death, key reels also went missing in the intervening years.
"It made it necessary to rethink the story and what could be told to eventually make it understandable for an audience and pleasurable to watch," he said.
Phoenix shot to stardom with brooding performances in hits such as Rob Reiner's "Stand By Me" and as a narcoleptic gay hustler in Gus Van Sant's "My Own Private Idaho" in which he played opposite a young Keanu Reeves.
And he was nominated for an Academy Award for the 1988 drama "Running on Empty".
His sudden death in 1993 of drug-induced heart failure outside Johnny Depp's notorious Los Angeles club, the Viper Room, made Phoenix into a kind of James Dean of his generation.
Pryce said he believed he was trying to kick drugs at the end of his life.
"In all the weeks we were together in Utah -- and I did spend every day almost all day with him -- at no time did I experience him using drugs or abusing drugs in any way, shape or form," he said.
"I'm not a drug user myself but I'd have known. He was at a point in his life that he was very committed to not using drugs and it was apparent."
River was the older brother of other actor members of the Phoenix clan including Joaquin, who is up for an Oscar this year for his work in the Scientology saga "The Master".
Sluizer said the Phoenix family did not wish to participate in the project but that he spoke with his mother who "wishes the best for the film".
"Dark Blood" is screening out of competition at the 63rd Berlinale, which will award its Golden and Silver Bear top prizes on Saturday.
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Splash a little summer on your midwinter blahs: Citrus season is in full swing. Pile oranges on the counter, squeeze lemons for warm lemonade, and grab a couple of grapefruits for this refreshingly light winter salad.
Pick firm, heavy grapefruits — more weight means more juice. The color of the skin is often (not always) an indication of the color of the flesh: Fruits with more blush on the rind will probably have more richly colored insides, too. If the skin is rough or dry, take a pass.
Fresh grapefruit is a great source of vitamin C — half a grapefruit has more than half your daily requirement. It's also very rich in vitamin A and some of the B's, plus a nice dose of folate and magnesium. Tucker Shaw
Spinach and Citrus Salad
From "Eating Well In Season," by Jessie Price and the editors of Eating Well. Serves 4.
1/2 small red onion, thinly sliced
2 small grapefruit, preferably pink or red
1 tablespoon white-wine vinegar
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 tablespoon coarse-grain mustard
1/2 teaspoon honey
1 clove garlic, very finely chopped
1/4 teaspoon salt
Freshly ground pepper to taste
8 cups torn fresh spinach leaves
1 teaspoon poppy seeds
Place onion in a small bowl, cover with cold water and soak for 10 minutes. Drain and set aside. Meanwhile, remove skin and white pith from grapefruit with a sharp knife and discard. Working over a small bowl to catch the juice, cut the grapefruit segments from their surrounding membrane; reserve the segments in a small bowl. Measure 2 tablespoons of the juice into a salad bowl.
Add vinegar, oil, mustard, honey, garlic, salt and pepper to the salad bowl, and whisk. Add the spinach and the reserved onion and fruit sections. Toss and garnish with poppy seeds.
Per serving: 91 cal, 4g fat, 0mg cholesterol, 13g carbs, 3g protein, 3g fiber, 232mg sodium, 498mg potassium


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What is copyright?
In many countries, when a person creates an original work that is fixed in a physical medium, they automatically own copyright to the work. As the copyright owner, they have the exclusive right to use the work. Most of the time, only the copyright owner can say whether someone else has permissions to use the work.Which types of work are subject to copyright?
- Audiovisual works, such as TV shows, movies, and online videos
- Sound recordings and musical compositions
- Written works, such as lectures, articles, books, and musical compositions
- Visual works, such as paintings, posters, and advertisements
- Video games and computer software
- Dramatic works, such as plays and musicals
Ideas, facts, and processes are not subject to copyright. According to copyright law, in order to be eligible for copyright protection, a work must be creative and it must be fixed in a tangible medium. Names and titles are not, by themselves, subject to copyright.
In some circumstances, it is possible to use a copyright-protected work without infringing the owner's copyright. For more about this, you may want to learn about fair use. You can also get permission to use someone else's content in your video.
If you're thinking of using someone else's music in your video, learn more about your options for using music:
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Your video can still be claimed by a copyright owner, even if you have...
- Given credit to the copyright owner
- Refrained from monetizing the infringing video
- Noticed similar videos that appear on YouTube
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- Recorded the content yourself from TV, a movie theater, or the radio
- Stated that "no copyright infringement is intended"
Some content creators choose to make their work available for reuse with certain requirements. For more about this, you may wish to learn about the Creative Commons license.
No. YouTube isn't able to mediate rights ownership disputes. When we receive a complete and valid takedown notice, we remove the content as the law requires. When we receive a valid counter notification, we forward it to the person who requested the removal. After this, it's up to the parties involved to resolve the issue in court.
Copyright is just one form of intellectual property. It's not the same as trademark, which protects brand names, mottos, logos, and other source identifiers from being used by others for certain purposes. It is also different from patent law, which protects inventions.
YouTube offers a separate removal process for videos which violate trademark or other laws.
Just because you appear in a video, image, or audio recording does not mean you own the copyright to it. For example, if your friend filmed a conversation between the two of you, she would own the copyright to that video recording. The words the two of you are speaking are not subject to copyright separately from the video itself, unless they were fixed in advance.
If your friend, or someone else, uploaded a video, image, or recording of you without your permission and you feel it violates your privacy or safety, you may wish to file a privacy complaint.


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VATICAN CITY — Celebrating the closing Mass for the Year for Priests this morning, Pope Benedict highlighted the crucial role of the priesthood in modern times and begged forgiveness for clerical sexual abuse, saying it was a call to purification.
In his homily, the pope began by underlining a point he has repeatedly stressed, that the priesthood is not just another job:
The priest is not a mere office-holder, like those which every society needs in order to carry out certain functions. Instead, he does something which no human being can do of his own power: in Christ's name he speaks the words which absolve us of our sins and in this way he changes, starting with God, our entire life.
He said the sex abuse scandal requires repentance and strict measures to prevent such sins in the future. But the scandal did not ruin the Year for Priests, he said:
Together with the whole Church we wanted to make clear once again that we have to ask God for this vocation. We have to beg for workers for God's harvest, and this petition to God is, at the same time, his own way of knocking on the hearts of young people who consider themselves able to do what God considers them able to do. It was to be expected that this new radiance of the priesthood would not be pleasing to the "enemy"; he would have rather preferred to see it disappear, so that God would ultimately be driven out of the world. And so it happened that, in this very year of joy for the sacrament of the priesthood, the sins of priests came to light – particularly the abuse of the little ones, in which the priesthood, whose task is to manifest God's concern for our good, turns into its very opposite. We too insistently beg forgiveness from God and from the persons involved, while promising to do everything possible to ensure that such abuse will never occur again; and that in admitting men to priestly ministry and in their formation we will do everything we can to weigh the authenticity of their vocation and make every effort to accompany priests along their journey, so that the Lord will protect them and watch over them in troubled situations and amid life's dangers. Had the Year for Priests been a glorification of our individual human performance, it would have been ruined by these events. But for us what happened was precisely the opposite: we grew in gratitude for God's gift, a gift concealed in "earthen vessels" which ever anew, even amid human weakness, makes his love concretely present in this world. So let us look upon all that happened as a summons to purification, as a task which we bring to the future and which makes us acknowledge and love all the more the great gift we have received from God.
The pope said priests must be aware that for many people today, God is no longer a focus of their lives:
There was still a recognition that the world presupposes a Creator. Yet this God, after making the world, had evidently withdrawn from it. The world itself had a certain set of laws by which it ran, and God did not, could not, intervene in them. God was only a remote cause. Many perhaps did not even want God to look after them. They did not want God to get in the way. But wherever God's loving concern is perceived as getting in the way, human beings go awry. It is fine and consoling to know that there is someone who loves me and looks after me. But it is far more important that there is a God who knows me, loves me and is concerned about me. "I know my own and my own know me" (Jn 10:14), the Church says before the Gospel with the Lord's words. God knows me, he is concerned about me. This thought should make us truly joyful. Let us allow it to penetrate the depths of our being. Then let us also realize what it means: God wants us, as priests, in one tiny moment of history, to share his concern about people. As priests, we want to be persons who share his concern for men and women, who take care of them and provide them with a concrete experience of God's concern. Whatever the field of activity entrusted to him, the priest, with the Lord, ought to be able to say: "I know my sheep and mine know me".
Sometimes, he said, the priest must protect his flock with "rod and staff":
"Your rod and your staff – they comfort me": the shepherd needs the rod as protection against savage beasts ready to pounce on the flock; against robbers looking for prey. Along with the rod there is the staff which gives support and helps to make difficult crossings. Both of these are likewise part of the Church's ministry, of the priest's ministry. The Church too must use the shepherd's rod, the rod with which he protects the faith against those who falsify it, against currents which lead the flock astray. The use of the rod can actually be a service of love. Today we can see that it has nothing to do with love when conduct unworthy of the priestly life is tolerated. Nor does it have to do with love if heresy is allowed to spread and the faith twisted and chipped away, as if it were something that we ourselves had invented. As if it were no longer God's gift, the precious pearl which we cannot let be taken from us. Even so, the rod must always become once again the shepherd's staff – a staff which helps men and women to tread difficult paths and to follow the Lord.
He ended by asking priests to bring waters of life to a thirsty world:
Every Christian and every priest should become, starting from Christ, a wellspring which gives life to others. We ought to be offering life-giving water to a parched and thirsty world. Lord, we thank you because for our sake you opened your heart; because in your death and in your resurrection you became the source of life. Give us life, make us live from you as our source, and grant that we too may be sources, wellsprings capable of bestowing the water of life in our time. We thank you for the grace of the priestly ministry. Lord bless us, and bless all those who in our time are thirsty and continue to seek. Amen.


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Lindenwood University has begun interviewing candidates for the vacant head coach position of its national champion shooting team.
President James D. Evans expects to name a new coach in the final two weeks of May. Lindenwood's shooting team will most definitely begin competing again in the fall, Evans said.
The team was suspended from competition after an alcohol-related incident on the team bus when the bus was returning from the national championships in San Antonio, Texas.
"Our new coach will assure adherence to all rules and regulations of the university and all the safety precautions that must be taken when firearms are being transported," said Dr. Rick Boyle, vice president for human resources. "We will hire an individual who will help a great team become even greater. He or she will be of the highest moral character, integrity, and competence in the sport."
Boyle said interest in the position has been overwhelming and that applicants are from all across the country.


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Developer NaturEner has announced that the Rim Rock Wind Farm, located near Kevin, Mont., has entered commercial operation.
The 189 MW project comprises 126 Acciona AW77 1.5 MW wind turbines. It is the third project completed by NaturEner in north central Montana.
In order to minimize the impact of the project on nearby nesting raptor habitat, NaturEner relocated 25 turbines on the east side of the project site. This effort was executed after the project design was finalized and construction had already started, and was the direct result of the well documented and supported consultation provided to NaturEner by Montana Audubon, the developer explains.
The wind farm was completed before the end of 2012 in order to ensure that it qualified for the production tax credit, as well as enable investment, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, from its tax-equity partner, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E).
The Rim Rock project will also leverage NaturEner's ability to operate and manage intermittent generation sources through the newly certified NaturEner Wind Watch Balancing Authority, the second wind-only balancing authority certified for operation in the U.S., the company explains.
The NaturEner Operations Center, based out of San Francisco, recently upgraded its operations capabilities, including those for its other wind-only certified balancing authority, NaturEner Power Watch, to facilitate the integration of the new Rim Rock project and to ensure a robust and consistent supply of power to the Western Interconnection.
The power from the Rim Rock project will be sold to Morgan Stanley Capital Group through a power purchase agreement, and the environmental attributes will be sold, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, to SDG&E so that the utility can comply with California's renewable portfolio standard.
Upon completion of construction of the transmission line, power generated by the project will be distributed by the Montana Alberta Tie Line. NaturEner has contracted on a long-term basis for the entire northbound capacity of that transmission line.


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Outdoor Idaho "Flying Idaho" To fly in Idaho is to experience a view that is constantly changing. In fact, there's nothing quite like it in the lower 48. From the first plane to fly in Idaho, the Curtiss Pusher, to the modern marvels of today, we explore what pilots call a three dimensional experience, in a state that treasures its aviators and its aviation history.G
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Yellowstone: Land to Life Filmmaker John Grabowska presents a lyrical interpretation of the geologic story of Yellowstone. Formation of glaciers, mountain ranges and the gigantic caldera of a supervolcano provide a sweeping saga. A short concluding film "Yellowstone's Cascade Corner" features the portion of the national park that lies in Idaho and is filmed and produced by Idaho Public Television.G
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Death In Paradise Angelique Morel, a local voodoo priestess, predicts her own murder by a scarred man and is found dead the next day. Richard finds it hard to understand his team's belief that her predictions must have become a reality, and wants to convince the team her death had nothing to do with voodoo spirits and everything to do with cyanide poisoning.G
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Chicago Pizzeria Offering Red Hot Chili Peppers-Themed Pie for Lollapalooza
What's hotter than the Red Hot Chili Peppers? How about the Red Hot Chili Pie, a new RHCP-themed pizza now being offered by Chicago's Pie-Eyed Pizzeria at its three restaurants in conjunction with the 2012 edition of the annual Lollapalooza festival, which is taking place this weekend in the Windy City. The Chili Peppers, of course, are one of Lollapalooza's headliners, a fact that has inspired this one-of-a-kind pie.
The Chili Pie seems ready to scorch your very soul with red-hot mix of roasted red peppers, red onions, crushed red peppers, hot cherry peppers and sun dried tomatoes. "We are serving up some unbelievable Lollapalooza pizzas starting this week in ode to one of our favorite times of the year," reads a Facebook post from the pizzeria about its latest offering (complete with a picture of the pie).
Also new to the Pie-Eyed Pizzeria menu is the Black Sabbath Pizza, another new concoction in honor of a Lollapalooza headliner. The Sabbath pie -- which celebrates of the heavy metal legends, obviously -- includes an earthy mix of earthy of black garlic pesto, black olives, applewood smoked bacon, mushrooms and arugula. Check out a picture of the Sabbath here.
Lollapalooza 2012 kicks off Friday afternoon and runs through Sunday night, with the Black Keys, Jack White and others joining the Chili Peppers and Sabbath as headliners.


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Although eit over the air is not as extensive as with Schedules Direct, it is free.
Although eit over the air is not as extensive as with Schedules Direct, it is free.
Revision as of 23:43, 8 April 2008The EIT (Event Information Table) is extra data that is broadcast with a television signal, much like Closed Caption Text in the VBI stream. EIT provides program data for the current show and future shows which can be then used to view on-screen program information, such as title, length, description and more. This can also be gathered to build a program guide for current and future shows on all your available channels. MythTV uses an Electronic Program Guide, or EPG. Most cable and satellite services do. Even many modern digital televisions can have a program guide by gathering and storing EIT.
EIT is typically available over digital television signals, either terrestrial, cable or satellite. With terrestrial signals, each channel provides it's own EIT. Information is usually only available for the upcoming 24 hours. With satellite, the EIT is broadcast on it's own stream, or an Aggregate Event Information Table (AEIT), and contains information for all the channels broadcasted, and can provide scheduling information for more than a week.
It seems that for some people EIT only works when channels have been scanned by MythTV (this has been reported to have been necessary by a DVB-T user in the UK and a DVB-C user in the Netherlands). Importing channels.conf doesn't provide enough information for MythTV to use EIT.
Howto Enable EIT Scanning
MythWeb Settings=>Channel Info
- Enable EIT Scan setting in your EPG Source (mythtvsetup)
- Tick the "useonairguide" box for each Channel you want to scan for EIT data
Note for Australian DVB-T users: Australian TV stations have recently started broadcasting upto 7 days of EIT information, (except SBS which are currently only broadcasting NOW and NEXT) therefore when using this data with MythTV and an additional EPG source is required. Often a generic title such as "SPECIAL EVENT" or "AFTERNOON MOVIE." is utilised with more infomation in the Subtitle or Description. For more information see Australian_TV_Listings.
Tip: If EIT does not appear to show in the OSD, you can try to enable EIT in MythTV 0.20 (assuming EIT is compiled in mythtv) using a channels.conf created from a program such as 'scan' (dvb-utils). Import channels.conf into mythtv-setup, then delete the channels. This will have populated MythTV with the correct transports for your transmitter/transponder (sometimes MythTV cannot find the transports on it's own). Now let MythTV do a full scan using the existing transports. You should now have EIT showing in MythTV. Users of DVB-T (Freeview) in UK will now have the next seven days of listings available (it may take some time for the listings to build up as the EIT is scanned).
Tip: In the U.S. some digital stations may not appear in the program guide even though they are broadcasting program information. This may be due to a "hidden guide" bit that is transmitted by the stations. To see if this is the case run mythbackend with the --verbose important,general,eit option. After some time passes check the output or check /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log for "is hidden in guide" output. One way to get the data to be included in the EPG is to "hack" the atscstreamdata.cpp file in libmythtv/mpeg/. Delete the code below from atscstreamdata.cpp and then reinstall mythtv from source.
if (vct->IsHiddenInGuide(i)) { VERBOSE(VB_EIT, QString("%1 chan %2-%3 is hidden in guide") .arg(vct->ModulationMode(i) == 1 ? "NTSC" : "ATSC") .arg(vct->MajorChannel(i)) .arg(vct->MinorChannel(i))); continue; }
Although eit over the air is not as extensive as with Schedules Direct, it is free.


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Big Feet Pajama Co. needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 14 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
We are Big Feet PJs, a manufacturer of fun footie pajamas for men women and children.
all ages, men, women and children
We are trying to increase our Facebook fan base and would like to send out an email to our customers encouraging them to become a Facebook fan. The email should have the look and feel of our homepage, but please add the following text --
Win FREE PJs in Our Weekly Facebook Contests
Each week, we will post a picture of a global landmark on our Facebook page. If you are the first fan to guess the location, you will win a free pair of Big Feet Pajamas! But...you have to be a Facebook fan to win. Become a fan by clicking "here."
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text: Here is another Allen & Ginter rarity currently up for auction on eBay. Below is a "1 of 1" sketch card drawn by famed sports artist Dick Perez of Manny Ramirez. You may know Perez from his artwork that was a regular feature in Donruss Baseball sets in the 80's and a collaborative postcard series created with Frank and Peggy Steele called Perez-Steele postcards. The below card has 3 days left and is already up to $635.99.


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On the Vermont Law School campus, you'll be immersed in a diverse community of risk-takers and advocates who learn and work together, inspire each other, and often become colleagues and friends for life.
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spyro needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 135 designs submitted by 46 freelance designers.
Need a logo for a hot new CRM website in the works called CRMStage.
We are looking for a great logo for CRMStage which is a website that hosts ( Customer Relationship Management ) CRM tutorials and modules.
- The color scheme that we are looking for would use blues, greys, and or white.
- I enjoy the glossy look
- The log must be able to be easily turn into a printable version that looks almost as good.
- the logo must say CRMStage. The CRM and Stage can be separated or be together as CRMStage.
- Please present all logos on both a blue and a white background.
- Nothing cartoonish
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Developer - Strategic Capabilities Office
Project Perdix
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ARGUS-IS on Wikipedia
Developer - Strategic Capabilities Office
Project Perdix
Gorgon Stare on Wikipedia
Mind's Eye on Wikipedia
ARGUS-IS on Wikipedia
Article "Watch Perdix, the secretive Pentagon program dropping tiny drones from jets"
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by Dan Lamothe
March 8, 2016
Article "Veil of secrecy lifted on Pentagon office planning 'Avatar' fighters and drone swarms"
by Dan Lamothe
March 8, 2016
Article "'Pentagon releases secret footage of swarm drones being launched from fighter jets - and is planning 'Avatar' self flying planes"
Pentagon's micro-drones can be launched from F-16 and F A/18 fighter jets
Can also be launched by hurling from ground, or with slingshot-like device
The drones gain situational awareness to find each other and create swarm
Avatar project would turn older jets into autonomous planes
by Cheyenne Macdonald
March 10,2016
Perdix swarm demo
Published on Jan 12, 2017
In one of the most significant tests of autonomous systems under development by the Department of Defense, the Strategic Capabilities Office, partnering with Naval Air Systems Command, successfully demonstrated one of the world's largest micro-drone swarms at China Lake, California. The test, conducted Oct. 26, 2016 consisted of 103 Perdix drones launched from three F/A-18 Super Hornets. The micro-drones demonstrated advanced swarm behaviors such as collective decision-making, adaptive formation flying, and self-healing.
The important step in the development of new autonomous weapon systems was made possible by improvements in artificial intelligence, holding open the possibility that groups of small robots could act together under human direction.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
P&S Becomes P&H
The studio's key artist at this time was W. Haines Hall, who had joined the firm in 1925 and continued to be active in the business through the 1960's.
Haines, along with fellow employee Alton Painter, was a founding member of the Thirteen watercolorists (founded by Maynard Dixon and Maurice Logan). He was also active in the Bohemian Club, producing posters and portraits for their various events.
Seavey's cartoons of the P&S artists often portrayed Haines as the sage arbiter amidst the turmoil and pandemonium of a bustling art studio.
So, after Sullivan left the business in 1939 (or more accurately "the business left him", Hall was J.E.'s first choice to become his new partner.
This quite naturally led to a name change: Patterson & Sullivan became Patterson & Hall.
You can find the full length version of this article in Illustration magazine #19.
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Man alive, the article on P&H was the coolest thing ever. I thought to myself this would have been the place for me, if I had only been born 30 years earlier.ReplyDelete
The variety of work and style choices the artists were able to handle definitely calls to my sensibilities.
I remember in art school they kept telling us to choose 'one style of illustration' as our own personal style. It was like saying from the buffet of life, you get to eat yams for your duration on earth.
So I gave up on becoming an illustrator and got into comics and storyboards.
Still miss doing finished art though. ;(
Nice stuff...glad this is expanded here Leif.
Shane; Hearing anecdotes from the glory days of the art studios is always fascinating... I've talked with many friends about how we would have loved to be a part of that scene.ReplyDelete
But I think you're probably mistaken about the idea that artists had the opportunity to experiment with a tremendous range of styles and subject matter. Rather the opposite: if you were a car guy, you got to do cars - somebody else did figures, someone else again did architecture and yet another artist did nothing but food.
I think we freelancers today enjoy more diversity of style and subject matter than a lot of in-house illustrators did back in the day.
Anyone out there care to confirm or deny my suspicions...?
I'm really enjoying this week's series, Leif, just as I enjoyed the article in Illustration Magazine. Thanks for your role in preserving this information.ReplyDelete
Every time when I read your interesting blog, Leif, it's like a time travel brother, you keep the old masters illustrators alive for the new generations :)ReplyDelete
Today I've been watching some Norman Rockwell "Saturday evening post" pics and other stuff, and I thank god to know that kind of art; N.Rockwell, A. Loomis and Burne Hogarth were instructed by George Brigdman.. amazing!
Regards Leif
Hey, thanks so much, Pablo - I'm very happy to hear you're enjoying the blog so much. Be sure to check out my friend, David Apatoff's amazing blog, Illustration Art, by clicking on his name just above.ReplyDelete
David has just written a couple of fantastic posts on James Montgomery Flagg that I know you will get a kick out of :-)
I don't have anything too insightful to add, but I'll just say I'm really liking these Standard Oil posters. Great article as well.ReplyDelete


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Muppets in the Ocean
by K Zach on Aug.25, 2016, under Animals, Environment, Nature
Most of us remember the Muppets of our childhood. Whether it was Sesame Street, the Muppet Show, or Yoda, we all had our favorites. We followed their adventures as they travelled around the world. And we followed them in space. There were a lot of Muppets that only appeared once or twice, but they're still memorable. Like Furline Huskie, and his hit song "Comb Your Face". But we never thought of looking in the depths of the ocean.It's not the first one sighted, but it's certainly the cutest. Leave a Comment :cephalopod, cuttlefish, furline, googly eyed, huskie, knoll, muppet, octopus, pacifica, rossia, squid, stubbie, trask more...


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