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Selecting the "Connect more apps" option in the Create button menu lets you browse through these third-party apps for Google Drive.
Currently, there are several dozen Google Drive apps in nine broad app categories: Business Tools, Education, Entertainment, Games, Lifestyle, News & Weather, Productivity, Social & Communication, and Utilities. A 10th category collects the apps developed by Google itself. Some of these apps are the ones that have long been associated with Google Drive. Others (Drawings and Forms) are optional apps. The experimental Fusion Tables data visualization tool is also available.
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I'm planning on heading to the DR in July and have some questions about the different locations:
Las Terrenas:
This would be my top choice as it looks beautiful, less crowded, and has some nice flat water. BUT, how is the wind there in July? How does the wind compare to that of Cabarete? I know it's supposed to be a bit lighter than Cabarete, but can you still kite most everyday like Cabarete?
Does the fact that it is a La Nina year effect the wind at all for the DR?
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How's the wind compared to Cabarete? Can you kite in front of the resorts or do you have to drive to Malecon Boulevard all the time?
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One interesting problem/trend presented to our universal team was the concern that students were working so hard to earn individual incentives that teachers were spending a great deal of time handing out individual rewards, especially when a majority of a class of students were demonstrating appropriate behavior at the same time (e.g. good line basics going from one classroom to another).
Our universal team developed a Classroom Award that could be earned whenever everyone in the class was observed to be demonstrating Safe, Respectful, or Responsible behavior at the same time. When a class accumulates ten Classroom Awards, they earn a class incentive of their choice (popcorn party, extra recess, sledding, etc.). Use of incentives at the classroom level has resulted in an ever increasing number of recognitions of positive behaviors in our school. An expected outcome was a reduction in behavior infractions when students were moving as a group throughout the building. An unexpected outcome to offering a class incentive was the increase in students assisting each other. It is not unusual to see or hear students supporting each other, modeling appropriate behavior for each other, and even recognizing each other for their efforts to work as agroup.


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Some days, I feel older than I do other days. It's not the mirror that makes me feel this way, since I mostly avoid mirrors. Instead, it's the signals my body is sending me. A combination of genetics, childbearing, and martial arts has left me with aches and pains all over. None of them prevent me from doing everything I want to do (especially the martial arts), but all of them make me nervous.
Both my mom and dad reached old age almost crippled by degenerative bone problems. Indeed, my dad did that even before old age. He was almost exactly my age when he had one of the first hip replacement surgeries done in the U.S. It was a semi-success. He wasn't ever confined to a wheelchair, but he was in constant pain for the rest of his life. Had he lived longer, he would eventually have had to have the hip redone, as well as having his other hip replaced as well.
As for my mom, much of her life is defined by her joint and neuro-muscular problems. She takes medicines to function despite the pain, and then takes more medicines to help her function despite the medicines.
I know that I probably won't have my parents' problems. Unlike them, I've never suffered from malnutrition, hard labor, or tropical diseases. Nevertheless, when my sciatica or my neck problems or my knee problems accelerate, there I am, knocking on the doctor's door.
As often as not, the doctor can't do anything for me because there's not much wrong with me. The pain is real, so I get physical therapy and anti-inflammatories, but my joints are actually in very good shape. A little arthritis here, a little spinal compression there, but nothing to write home about.
Interestingly, although there's little to be done about my chronic pain, I always leave the doctor feeling happier than I was when I went in. That is, I'm not at all disheartened by the shrug of "We can't really help you." Instead, I'm always relieved that I'm not in as terrible shape as I, the child of my parents, feared I was. Escape from fear is a tonic in and of itself.
Of course, I'm still at risk because of the martial arts. So far, I've suffered nothing more than some spectacular bruises and ripped off toenails. Others, though, have sustained all types of sprains and a few breaks. Interestingly, while there have been, as I said, a few broken bones, most of the injuries at the dojo involve serious soft tissue injury. One guy ripped all the ligaments in his thumb, requiring meticulous microsurgery from a serious specialist (along these lines). Another guy separated his pectoral muscle, which had to be stapled back together, although that seemed to be in the purview of a regular orthopedist.
Still, despite the risks, I don't stop. For one thing, I'm having fun and, as extreme skiers and bungee jumpers show, we're always willing to put ourselves at risk in the name of pleasure. For another thing, I don't have any ego tied up in proving myself on the mat. If something hurts in a way that singles imminent injury, I let my partner know, rather than playing macho and avoiding my body's message. Finally, I figure that the certain benefits of bone density and aerobic fitness offset the possibility of a serious injury.
I guess the thing I really have to do is remind myself that, contrary to my neurotic worryings, I am aging gracefully.


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When we first saw the advanced press material on the Nissan Frontier Diesel Runner concept, we simultaneously thought "Awesome!" and "We told you so." Awesome because it presents the strong possibility of a third midsize diesel truck in the U.S. market, and "we told you so" because reading between the lines of comments made by Nissan and Cummins officials at last summer's Nissan 360 event, it was clear the two companies were considering collaborating on other projects beyond the officially announced Titan diesel. The Nissan Frontier Diesel Runner concept is proof that Nissan is strongly considering a Cummins diesel option for the junior member of its truck family.
Based on the current-generation Desert Runner two-wheel-drive model, the Diesel Runner employs Cummins' 2.8-liter I-4 diesel producing close to 200 hp and more than 350 lb-ft of torque. It's mated to a ZF 8HP70 eight-speed automatic transmission enabling the combination to achieve up to 35 percent better claimed fuel economy than the current V-6 Frontier, meaning highway fuel economy could be as high as 28 or 29 mpg, and payload and towing capacities comparable to the current Frontier V-6.
For the concept truck, the unique powertrain is designated by generous applications of red accents throughout the exterior and interior of the truck, with red being Cummins' signature color. The Diesel Runner gets painted a in a unique red and silver two-tone paint scheme with carbon-fiber film accents. To make sure observers know what's under the hood, a section of the hood is transparent acrylic showing the carbon fiber engine cover featuring the Cummins logo and "Cummins Turbo Diesel" front fender badges. The front wheels are silver with satin black accents, while the rears are red with black accents. The brake calipers are the inverse: red in the front, and silver in the back.
On the inside, the Diesel Runner gets carbon-print leather trimmed seats with red accents and gray stitching and "tracks" embroidery. The Diesel Runner also gets a diesel-specific three-gauge pod on the instrument panel, embroidered floormats, and shift knob and steering wheel accents.
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When it comes to selling, consistency is a virtue. Ideally you want your entire sales force to follow a consistent process through the entire sales cycle.
A consistent sales process gives the company the opportunity to apply best practices to the sales effort and it gives everyone involved in the sales process a consistent set of expectations.
CRM should play a major role in setting and implementing a sales process. Your CRM system can help you design an effective process and then help your sales force implement it consistently. It also helps managers track the sales efforts of all members of the sales force.
The first step in establishing a sales process is setting the metrics you will use to judge the results. This is a deceptively simple process that requires both thought and study to be successful.
Obviously increase in revenue is a fundamental metric, but it's a fairly crude one. It represents the outcome of the total sales process and, while it's important, it tends to conceal more than it reveals. You need a set of metrics that will give you a finer insight into your sales process.
Leather Boat 0520102 Men Shoes Men Leather Shoes Boat 0520102 Leather A good metric is relevant, easy to measure, and definite. It also needs to be highly quantitative, and preferably expressed in firm numbers. Nebulous metrics are almost as bad as no metrics at all. And irrelevant metrics can actually do damage.
The reason irrelevant metrics are dangerous is that your organization's sales force and marketing departments will work hard to maximize their metrics. If the things they are maximizing really don't matter, it will detract from the sales effort.
Be wary of metrics that measure inputs, such as the number of calls made, rather than results. Substituting effort for accomplishment gives a distorted picture of the sales process.
Be especially careful of stand-in metrics, metrics used to represent things that are difficult or impossible to measure directly. It's all too easy to have a poorly selected stand-in number that actually hurts overall effort.
CRM is valuable in setting and measuring metrics because of the amount of information it provides about your sales and marketing efforts.
Once you've picked your metrics you need to design your sales process. Typically this will be broken down into well-defined stages, each of which will be outlined in detail.
In designing this process it's important that you keep your focus on results and don't burden your sales staff with unnecessary steps. Each sub-stage should contribute directly to the sales effort and leave your people with the maximum amount of freedom on how to accomplish that sub-stage.
Again, it's important not to confuse effort with results. In most cases you want to avoid requiring irrelevant efforts and limit yourself to what is really productive.
As much as possible strive to incorporate best practices into your sales process. Take the best ideas from your most successful people, your competitors and the industry in general and work them into your process.
In finding best practices it's important to separate personal idiosyncrasies from general tactics. All sales people, especially the really good ones, develop a unique style that grows out of their personalities. Some of what they do will be genuine best practices that can be used by others. But part of it will be a natural outgrowth of their personalities and won't translate to other members of your sales force.
Following up with a prospect at certain stages of the sales process is an example of something that can transfer as a best practice. Charming the customer with your magnetic personality isn't.
Finally, once you've codified your sales process follow up and make sure it is applied consistently. Make sure everyone understands that this is the way to conduct sales at your company and don't allow significant deviation. You may well find you'll have to adjust the process as you go along. That's fine. Just make sure you make any changes consistently and for the right reasons.
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A walk ending with a pastry
Last week I took a long long walk and ended up meeting Johan for a pastry to celebrate that we'd been in Berlin for 1 year.
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- Anonymous10 January, 2012 20:11
You are wonderful at documenting your time. Such a lovely blog.ReplyDelete
Ich liebe deine Berlin Photos und jedes Gericht das du dabei festhälst. Das Erdbeertörtchen sieht so unfassbar köstlich aus!ReplyDelete
liebste Grüße
Happy one year Berlin-living anniversary!! Berlin should be so happy to have you taking such pretty photographs of it!ReplyDelete
Always lovely to view your daysReplyDelete
when I look at your pictures it's almost as if I am there too....ReplyDelete
Wow. What an incredible journey you have taken us on. I had to go back and look at some again. I love what you see. I am so keen to get back to Berlin and explore it more and with time to walk. Happy Berlin anniversary!ReplyDelete
Wow, ein Jahr ist schon vergangen! Glückwunsch!ReplyDelete
katerink konnte auch ein rumänische Slangwort "caterincă" sein, ich habe aber keine Ahnung, wie man das übersetzt (vielleicht "argument"/"fight" aber auch eine andere Bedeutung...)
the 13th (I guess) picture is from a Jewish cemetery? sorry for the switch of languages. :-)
nice ending :)ReplyDelete
well, that walk is so ispiring with so many good spotsReplyDelete
beautiful shots. i especially love the textures you always capture, along with the true-to-life colours of everything. love this set! :)ReplyDelete
I am new to your blog. Forgot how I found it, but I enjoy your pictures. I visited Berlin in 1991. I would love to go back.ReplyDelete
That cake looks delicious! Happy anniversary.ReplyDelete
One year already? Time flies!ReplyDelete
Happy new year!
- Anonymous11 January, 2012 09:52
Sehr schöne Bilder hast Du mal wieder von Deinem Spaziergang mitgebracht.ReplyDelete
Liebe Grüße allesistgut :D
Your photos are allways so delightfull!! and what to say about that little treat mmmm...ReplyDelete
You view the city around you as pattern! Stunning pictures.ReplyDelete
if all of your groupings are exceptional, then what? I love the coral in this one.ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos! I love all the dusky pinks.ReplyDelete
In your eyes Berlin looks as if it's endless and infinite and like you never take two pictures of the same place. You never repeat the view! It's amazing. Wonder what it would be like for me to live in a huge attractive city ... I'd probably lose my mind a bit ;)ReplyDelete
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Angiogenesis InhibitorsAngiogenesis Inhibitors - Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
What is angiogenesis?
Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, is a process controlled by certain chemicals produced in the body. Although this may help in normal wound healing, cancer can grow when these new blood vessels are created. New blood vessels near the cancer cells provide them with oxygen and nutrients. This allows the cancer cells to multiply, invade nearby tissue, and spread to other areas of the body (metastasize).
What are angiogenesis inhibitors and how do they work?
A chemical that interferes with the signals to form new blood vessels is referred to as an angiogenesis inhibitor. Scientists have studied the effect of angiogenesis inhibitors on certain kinds of tumors and cells.
Sometimes called antiangiogenic therapy, this treatment may prevent the growth of cancer by blocking the formation of new blood vessels. In some animal case studies, angiogenesis inhibitors have caused cancer to shrink and resolve completely. In human studies, angiogenesis inhibitor therapy may stabilize the tumor and prevent it from growing further, and in some cases the size of the tumor has been reduced, and in a few cases, the tumor has resolved and has become clinically undetectable.
Thalidomide has been identified as having mild activity as an angiogenesis inhibitor in myelodysplastic syndrome and sometimes in kidney cancer. A newer version of this medication is lenalidomide (Revlimid), which has fewer side effects than thalidomide.
Another medication, bevacizumab (Avastin?), has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to aid in the treatment of colorectal, lung, and some other cancers. Two newer additions to antiangiogenesis therapy include sunitnib (Sutent?) and sorafenib (Nexavart?). Many other angiogenesis inhibitors are now being studied as well.
Angiogenesis inhibitors have different side effects from most conventional cancer chemotherapy medications because they work very differently. Rather than killing healthy cells along with cancer cells, as many chemotherapy drugs do, angiogenesis inhibitors only prevent new blood vessels from forming. Though the side effects are generally less and milder than with conventional chemotherapy medications, some of the side effects can be serious and include high blood pressure, intestinal bleeding and poor wound healing.


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It's usually best that we don't hope for too helluva lot. Our expectations are what get to us. They sink us into despair quicker than anything. We want and hope for too much, when we only get what we're going to get. It never lives up to what we had in our head, even if we thought that we were being conservative with the estimations. We doom ourselves going in. We're just prone to it.
When Fort Frances lead singer David McMillin sings, "Everyone I know looks for love to feel young again," you wonder about just how old he thinks he is and what's happened to he and his friends that puts them in such a place where love needs to have that effect of them or it's something of an undesirable load. This is an example of the expectations being too damned high because, as anyone who has ever been in love can attest, love hits hard and there's a lot of hardening and even more aging that kicks in simultaneously. If you're just looking for a day or two, where you can slip out of those old joints and that less-taut skin, those baggy eyes and the thinning temples, love can probably help, but brief and intermittent feelings of youth does not necessarily make you feel young. All that we can hope from love is that it leaves us a little happier, despite its best efforts to screw with us and to leave us disheveled and groggy. It usually just leaves us staggered and worn out.
We hear it throughout the songs of Fort Frances, this ache and this residual effect. The song, "Hard-Earned Heart," where the line about looking for love to make one feel young again lives, is a story about "faces faded in between" and it's about getting tripped up all over the place, feeling like there have been thousands of nights lost to the stuff. It's a story of being foolhardy and believing in something that doesn't believe in you back, or will never be all that kind to you. We move on with our wounds and we have the shortest memories of any animals we can think of. McMillin, bassist Jeffrey Piper and drummer Aaron Kiser make these plights sound like the night following the run of the bulls. There's that saltiness of having done something illogical and half-minded and there's that sobering reality that you could be much worse off. The endorphins are still popping off and there are remembrances of some of the highlights from that whirlwind. There's a lot of holding on being done and there's a tenderness involved with some of the things that have passed. It's as McMillin sings on "White Roses," "Love be simple/Time be kind/Wherever you go, keep me on your mind," pointing out that this is all far from over. The memories might stay as young as ever and the expectations just as high.


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Vitamin B12 deficiency can cause a host of medical problems. Vitamin B12 deficiency is the result of inadequate diet or a failure of the body to absorb the vitamin b12.
Certain conditions are related to vitamin b12 deficiency. The most well known condition of vitamin b12 deficiency is anemia. Anemia is a condition of the blood. Vitamin b12 is vital to the production of red blood cells. There are other conditions that are not immediately diagnosed as a vitamin b12 deficiency. Vitamin b12 deficiency can sometimes present itself as nerve damage, or the early stages of dementia (Alzheimer's disease). Depression is also a condition associated with vitamin b12 deficiency. Pernicious anemia is not a condition of vitamin b12 deficiency but typically the cause of vitamin b12 deficiency when dietary causes have been ruled out. Vitamin b12 deficiency can also cause sessions of mania, psychosis and fatigue. Vitamin b12 deficiency over a long period of time can cause irreversible damage to the nervous system. Vitamin b12 deficiency is usually very difficult to diagnose and goes misdiagnosed for long periods of time. Patients are treated for a host of other ailments in the hopes that the treatments will relieve the symptoms, and still do not receive the relief they hope for. Vitamin b12 deficiency can be determined through a simple blood test but it is often overlooked as a possible problem.
Vitamin b12 deficiency is treated by increasing the delivery of vitamin b12. Vitamin b12 supplements in severe cases of vitamin b12 deficiency are delivered via injections at very high doses. In the case of pernicious anemia the vitamin b12 supplements are delivered at the rate three times of the recommended daily dosage. It is thought that at the higher levels at least some of the vitamin b12 will be absorbed. Vitamin b12 deficiency can also be treated by the use of sublingual vitamin b12 and other forms of vitamin b12 supplements. The first step in suspected vitamin b12 deficiency should be a visit to a health care provider, to determine through a blood test if there is a vitamin b12 deficiency, once that has been determined than treatment options should be discussed.
The prevention of vitamin b12 deficiency is simple enough. Taking a daily supplement of vitamin b12 and eating a proper diet that is rich in vitamin b12 will ward off any problems associated with the dietary vitamin b12 deficiency. If there is a family history of pernicious anemia it is best to get checked to be sure that the condition is not present.
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The U.S. monthly international trade deficit increased in December 2013 according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. The deficit increased from $34.6 billion in November (revised) to $38.7 billion in December as exports decreased and imports increased. The previously published November deficit was $34.3 billion. The goods deficit increased $4.6 billion from November to $58.8 billion in December; the services surplus increased $0.4 billion from November to $20.1 billion in December.
Exports of goods and services decreased $3.5 billion in December to $191.3 billion, reflecting a decrease in exports of goods. Exports of services increased.
• The decrease in exports of goods reflected decreases in industrial supplies and materials, in capital goods, in other goods, in automotive vehicles, parts, and engines, and in consumer goods.
• The increase in exports of services reflected increases in travel, in passenger fares, and in other transportation, which includes freight and port services.
Imports of goods and services increased $0.6 billion in December to $230.0 billion, reflecting increases in imports of both goods and services.
• The increase in imports of goods reflected increases in consumer goods, in industrial supplies and materials, and in other goods that were partly offset by decreases in automotive vehicles, parts, and engines, and in capital goods.
• The increase in imports of services reflected increases in travel and in passenger fares that were partly offset by a decrease in other transportation.
Goods by geographic area (not seasonally adjusted)
• The goods deficit with the European Union increased from $10.1 billion in November to $11.3 billion in December. Exports decreased $2.0 billion to $20.9 billion, and imports decreased $0.8 billion to $32.2 billion.
• The goods deficit with China decreased from $26.9 billion in November to $24.5 billion in December. Exports decreased $0.1 billion to $13.1 billion, and imports decreased $2.6 billion to $37.6 billion.
• The goods deficit with Canada increased from $1.5 billion in November to $3.4 billion in December. Exports decreased $2.4 billion to $23.3 billion, and imports decreased $0.5 billion to $26.7 billion.
To learn more about U.S. international trade in goods and services, read the full report.


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1. The temperatures will rise from -5 to a balmy 16 in the Bangor area this weekend, so take advantage of the "warm spell" and get out of the house you've been too terrified to leave since Monday. Friday night in Bangor, check out Sam Shain and the Scolded Dogs at Paddy Murphy's, folk duo Him & Her at Nocturnem Drafthaus and songwriter Samantha Lynn at the Big Easy, as well as the Flonomial EDM night at the Bear Brew in Orono, and Frayed Knot at Woodman's, also in Orono; there's also improv comedy with the Focus Group at the Next Generation Theatre in Brewer on Friday at 8 p.m. On Saturday, you can catch bluegrass band This Way (pictured) at Paddy Murphy's, pianist Kevin Bate at Nocturnem, funk master Mike Billings at the Big Easy, epic 80s cover band Rock Revelation at Hollywood Casino, and at the Next Generation Theatre there's roots ensemble Nevah. New in town is the opening of the new bar at Schooner's in Brewer, playfully dubbed "The Poop Deck." It's open for cocktails and snacks beginning Friday night.
2. Start your weekend off right at the Empire on Friday night, with an early show featuring the The Substitutes, followed by a late show featuring Coke Weed (pictured), An Evening With and Micah Blue Smaldone; on Saturday, there's a reggae night with the All Feel Good Collective, Eight Feet Tall and the Joint Chiefs. At the Big Easy Friday, there's When Particles Collide doing a cover to cover show featuring Green Day's "Dookie;" on Saturday, it's Sly-Chi. Friday has also got Greg Jamie, Lisa/Liza, Wesley Allen Hartley, Acid Smoke at Mayo Street Arts and Martin Sexton at the State Theatre. Friday at Geno's there's amazing indie rock with Miniboone, Great Western Plain, Bunny's a Swing and RSO; on Saturday at Geno's, there's a night of comedy and music with Her Majesty's Cabaret and Chamberlain from Bangor, A Severe Joy from Portland an improv supergroup from Providence. Rounding out Saturday is the Gin Blossoms with Crash Boom Bang and Worried Well at the Asylum, and at the Oak and the Ax in Biddeford there's O'Death, "Little" Timmy Findlen and His Aroostook Hillbillies.
3. It's a fun weekend, musically speaking, on Mt. Desert Island. On Friday at the Thirsty Whale in Bar Harbor there's the Trisha Mason Band, on Saturday at Sips Cafe in Southwest Harbor there's the hilariously fun party band the Larks, while at the Lompoc on Saturday in Bar Harbor there's the sweet harmonies of Portland band Forget, Forget paired with Bangor indie-poppers Temperature of the Sun. In Winter Harbor, the Last Friday Coffeehouse hosts singer-guitarist Eric Horschak at Hammond Hall. Across the bay, at Billy's Tavern in Thomason on Friday there's the 220s, while at Rock City Coffee there's Nick Dimoulas. Finally, at the Strand Theatre in Rockland on Saturday there's the intoxicating sounds of the JP Jofre Hard Tango Chamber Band (pictured).
4. There are lots of neat classical music, jazz and theater events occurring over the next three days, starting Friday night, when the TEMPO Orchestra performs live accompaniment to Charlie Chaplin's "Gold Rush," starting at 7 p.m. at the Grand Theatre in Ellsworth. In the south, Friday night also brings a performance from jazz icon Wynton Marsalis at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland. On Sunday, both the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and the Portland Symphony Orchestra perform; the PSO, with a Mozart program, at 2:30 p.m. at Merrill, and the BSO, featuring Mahler, at 3 p.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts in Orono. Finally, at the Gracie Theatre at Husson University comes the long-awaited performance of "Potted Potter," a wild ride through all the Harry Potter books in one two-man show, with performances at 3 and 8 p.m.
5. From the BDN Outdoors desk, here's some fun info for you ice anglers out there, whether you're seasoned pros or just trying it for the first time: ice fishing derbies! A short list of events happening this weekend include the 6th annual Moosehead Lake Togue Ice Fishing Derby from Jan. 25-27; the 8th annual Long Lake Ice Fishing Derby, on Long, Cross, St. Froid, Square, Eagle, Glazier and Beau lakes, from Jan. 26-27, on Jan. 26 the Men's Auxiliary of VFW Post 3108 derby, on all legal waters in Waldo County, and on Jan. 27, the Waterville Elks Lodge 905 derby, statewide. If that's not your scene, how about dog sledding? Stephen Madera and his furry friends invite the public to a dogsled adventure at 10 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, along Hirundo Wildlife Refuge trails in Alton. Make reservations by Friday, Jan. 25, by calling 944-9259.


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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- West Coast rap pioneer Too Short appeared to be too slow Wednesday morning when, police say, he tried to run from an officer in Hollywood.
Todd Anthony Shaw -- that's the 46-year-old rapper's real name -- was charged with a felony count of drug possession after police found suspected meth on him, according to a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman. He also faces a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Los Angeles Police stopped Shaw on Hollywood Boulevard at 3 a.m. -- an hour when the numerous clubs in the neighborhood are closing -- as part of a random drunken driving check.
He tried to run away after blowing into the intoxication meter, Officer Cleon Joseph told CNN. "He didn't get very far at all."
Police booked Shaw in a Los Angeles County jail, where he was being held Wednesday morning in lieu of $10,000 bond, according to the sheriff's website.
CNN efforts to get comment from a representative for Shaw were not immediately successful
The Oakland, California-based rapper has collaborated with Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G. and other major artists in the past three decades. Major songs on his resume include "The Ghetto" and "Blow the Whistle."
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A debenture is an unsecured debt. It is simply a promise by the borrower to repay the lender. A debenture will mature on a specific day and state an interest rate. This rate may be fixed, or tied to some sort of index, such as the London Interbank Offered Rate or the Federal Funds rate.
Most corporate bonds are debentures. The rate of interest a corporation will pay on its bonds is a function of the market's perceived risk of the corporation being unable to repay the debt. Debentures may also be issued by privately held corporations.
It differs from a mortgage bond because the latter had a real asset (such as a house or factory) that could be sold to pay off the debt.


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reedy needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 271 designs submitted by 69 freelance designers.
Insomnia Land
I build online communities - existing sites include JustChat.co.uk and FemaleForum.com. I also blog about online community building at CommunitySpark.com.
I have held a number of successful contests, site purchases and site sales on SitePoint/99designs. I am honest and professional and want to work with people who hold the same values.
Insomnia Land will be an online community/social network for insomniacs. The community will be a place for those with sleep problems to gather in order to seek support and find new friends.
The community will be open to those who suffer from chronic insomnia, as well as those who only struggle to sleep on the odd occasion. Think of it as more of a site for meeting and chatting with people who know what you're going through rather than a site offering medical advice. Friendship, fun and support are the keywords here.
Insomnia Land will be open to everyone over the age of 16. Insomnia can affect anyone, at any time - this community will be targeting those looking for help and support, and a friendly chat at odd hours of the night!
Insomnia can be stressful - this site needs to be a little light-hearted but respectful and professional at the same time.
As the site is brand new, I have no pre-conceived notion of how I want to logo to look. Consider that you have full artistic freedom from the start on this one - as designs are submitted, I will offer timely detailed and constructive feedback.
Please don't submit 'generic' logo designs that could work with any number of websites. I need something absolutely unique; something that looks like it was designed specifically for Insomnia Land.
The ideal logo will convey the site's purpose and message. I want the logo to appear friendly, approachable and professional.
Now a few entries have come in, let me make a few suggestions.
1) Keep away from the human eyeball. All the entries submitted using an eyeball up to now have freaked me out somewhat. It also makes the logo look like something that belongs to a security or surveillance firm. That, or an alternative 'Big Brother' show.
2) Please think fun and personality - not drab, generic and bland.
3) If you look at your logo and think it could work for another type of site, then it's not really the logo I am looking for.
4) Colours - think soft, soothing, light hearted. Maybe pastel colours. Maybe some soft, pastel blues and greens.
5) What do you associate with insomnia? For me, it's counting sheep (or sheep in general), owls, the moon, candles. I wonder if you can work any of these into a logo?
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Gerald Sensabaugh: The Jolly Jumper
Gerald Sensabaugh was born on June 13, 1983 in Oakland,California but was raised in Kingsport, Tennessee. Where he attended Dobyns-Bennett High School where he was a standout in football and track. In football, he helped lead his team to two consecutive Class 5A Semifinals, and during his senior year he also played offense recording 42 receptions for 420 yards and 7 touchdowns and was an All-Big Nine Selection. In track he won a state championship in the long jump.
Gerald started his college career at East Tennessee State University but transferred to the University of North Carolina as a senior when ETSU disbanned their football program. He finished his one-year UNC career with four interceptions, five fumble recoveries and three touchdowns. He also tied an NCAA single-game record after blocking three punts in one game.
Gerald recorded a 46″ vertical at the NFL Combine, the highest for an NFL player on record(this is also why I here-by give him the nickname The Jolly Jumper). He was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the fifth round(157th overall) of the 2005 NFL Draft.
Gerald started every game of his rookie season, one of few to do so. After perfoming well on special teams he got a chance to start the remainder of the season at Strong Safety when Pro-Bowler Donovin Darius got injured. In 2006 he continued to play well on special teams and, then halfway through the season, he yet again became a starter when Darius suffered a season ending knee injury. On March 10,2009 the Dallas Cowboys and Gerald Sensabaugh agreed to terms on a one-year contract after he had the best season of his career in 2008 recording 70 tackles 8 pass deflections and 4 interceptions.
Gerald has been invited to be a teacher almost every year at Jason Wittens football camp, which is held in Jasons home town of Elizabethon, Tennessee just a mere 30 minutes from Geralds hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee.
Gerald has had three arrest since 2007. The first being for doing a wheelie on his bike. The second for having a gun with an expired permit in his possesion. The third for driving on a suspended license.


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Ian Abernethy is a Shotokan practitioner for the UK. I've seen a lot of his stuff and can see that all good karate share some basics, regardless of style. At 10:20 of this video he quotes a Shotokan pioneer about the "completeness" of karate. it got me to thinking about how much more there is in our system that we maybe never tap into in the dojo and how group training limits our understanding of what's the potential of the art we study. And it personally drives me crazy when people, including those that study uechi ryu, dismiss karate as impractical, especially in this era of MMA, Brazilian jiu jitsu, boxing, etc.
Do we train as a "complete" system? Why not?
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In this interesting article, anthropologist McAllister attributes the greater physical abilities of our ancestors to the softness of modern society versus the tough existence of prior societies.
Respected Cornell Geneticist, John Sanford, who rejected Darwinism in his recent book: "Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome", attributes this physical decline to the actual decline in "fitness" of the human genome.
Far from the Darwinian mantra of increasing "fitness" of successive generations due to the "capture" of beneficial mutations, Sanford's research leads him to conclude that the human genome is gradually losing the fight against a growing volume of negative genetic mutations and that in fact the human race's genome is actually declining in fitness approximately 2% every generation.
If you're not so good at math you might think that this means the genome would decline to zero in 50 years. This is not what he's saying. He's saying that each human generation is 2% less fit than the prior generation. That kind of decline could be sustained for a long time but the prognosis would not be good.
Just as the universe began winding down when death came into the picture because of Adam's sin, so entropy also appears to have become a reality for biological systems as well.
An article on Sanford's book can be found by clicking here. ……..s8int.com
Modern Man a Wimp Says Anthropologist
By John Mehaffey
LONDON (Reuters) – Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions.
Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height to progress to manhood.
height to progress to manhood.
Any Neanderthal woman could have beaten former bodybuilder and current California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an arm wrestle.
These and other eye-catching claims are detailed in a book by Australian anthropologist Peter McAllister entitled "Manthropology" and provocatively sub-titled "The Science of the Inadequate Modern Male."
McAllister sets out his stall in the opening sentence of the prologue.
"If you're reading this then you — or the male you have bought it for — are the worst man in history.
"No ifs, no buts — the worst man, period…As a class we are in fact the sorriest cohort of masculine Homo sapiens to ever walk the planet."
Delving into a wide range of source material McAllister finds evidence he believes proves that modern man is inferior to his predecessors in, among other fields, the basic Olympic athletics disciplines of running and jumping.
His conclusions about the speed of Australian aboriginals 20,000 years ago are based on a set of footprints, preserved in a fossilized claypan lake bed, of six men chasing prey.
An analysis of the footsteps of one of the men, dubbed T8, shows he reached speeds of 37 kph on a soft, muddy lake edge. Bolt, by comparison, reached a top speed of 42 kph during his then world 100 meters record of 9.69 seconds at last year's Beijing Olympics.
In an interview in the English university town of Cambridge where he was temporarily resident, McAllister said that, with modern training, spiked shoes and rubberized tracks, aboriginal hunters might have reached speeds of 45 kph.
"We can assume they are running close to their maximum if they are chasing an animal," he said.
"But if they can do that speed of 37 kph on very soft ground I suspect there is a strong chance they would have outdone Usain Bolt if they had all the advantages that he does.
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Mayor Don Wesely today helped kick-off the Pennies for Lincoln campaign to raise $17,500 - 1.75 million pennies - for a new sculpture of Abraham Lincoln. "The Rail Joiner," which depicts a young Lincoln, will be placed at the entrance of the new Justice and Law Enforcement Center, 575 South 10th Street.
"This is a community that places a high value on public art, and Pennies for Lincoln gives everyone the opportunity to contribute," Mayor Wesely said. "The sculpture of young Lincoln will face east, directly toward the 'Gettysburg Lincoln' on the west side of the State Capitol. The two will create a beautiful and lasting tribute to our 16th President for whom this city is named."
American sculptor Louis Slobodkin (1903-1975) completed "The Rail Joiner" in the 1930s, and the original is now on display at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. In 1996, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln received a plaster cast of the sculpture and the right to reproduce it. The Sheldon is loaning a reproduction of the sculpture to the city for permanent public display. The statue, standing more than seven feet tall, will be cast in bronze by Omaha artist Les Bruning and is scheduled to be placed on display this spring.
Margaret Berry, Executive Director of the Lincoln Arts Council (LAC), said the estimated cost of the project is $40,000, and much of that will be covered by the Sheldon and other donors.
"Raising 1.75 million pennies sounds difficult, but it's less than nine cents per Lincoln resident," Berry said. "We've already had great community support in launching Pennies for Lincoln, and we hope individuals and groups will come to us with creative ideas on raising pennies."
Penny containers will be located at sponsoring organizations and businesses across Lincoln. The giant penny provided by Lincoln Federal Savings Bank will be on display throughout the community, beginning at JCPenney. Other partners in the project include the City of Lincoln-Lancaster County Public Building Commission, the Lincoln Journal Star, the Lincoln Public Schools and Kahoa Elementary, The Mill, Russ's Markets, U-Stop Convenience Shops, Valentino's of Lincoln and Big Kmart.
A web site has been created to keep the community informed on the progress of Pennies for Lincoln. Kahoa Elementary has information for teachers and students who want to be involved.


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Courtesy of the Orange County Register:
A group that was inclined to register Republican, if at all, veers left in a post-9/11 world.
A group that was inclined to register Republican, if at all, veers left in a post-9/11 world.
For many election cycles, the Arab American Caucus of the California Democratic Party gathered in small conference rooms at party conventions, listened to speeches, made a few endorsements and went home.
This year, something different happened. "The room was packed," said Rashad Al-Dabbagh of Anaheim, who attended the state party convention in April as a member of the Arab caucus.
Seventy people crammed into two rooms at the Sacramento Convention Center for the caucus' Saturday evening meeting on April 13, including a record 28 Muslims recently elected as state party delegates.
Women in hijabs were seen wandering the convention floor, often stopped by state party officials asking, "'How can we help you?'" recalled Hussam Ayloush, one of the recently elected delegates.
So many people wanted to become leaders of the caucus that, for the first time in memory, the election for leadership positions was contested.
And two Muslim members of the caucus, the recently elected mayor of the city of Bell and a school board member in Anaheim, held public office, another first.
The meeting, said Al-Dabbagh, was visible proof that California's Muslim community, a political sleeping giant, is beginning to awaken.
"The community is beginning ... to find its political voice," said Al-Dabbagh, an activist who has worked for several Orange County political campaigns. "It will find its place. It's just a matter of time."
Islam is America's fastest-growing faith, with the number of Muslims more than doubling since 2000, according to the 2010 U.S. Religion Census, a decennial survey conducted by an ecumenical coalition of religious statisticians. As many as 12 million Americans identify themselves as Muslim, according to different estimates.
Yet, until recently, Muslims were also the least politically active faith community. Only 65 percent of American Muslims are registered to vote, compared with 91 percent of Protestants and Jews, according to a 2011 Gallup poll.
First-generation Muslim immigrants often come from countries with autocratic governments where political participation is either discouraged or considered pointless or even dangerous.
"You're not ever going to change anything," Rohnda Ammouri, an Anaheim political consultant, recalls being told by elderly business owners in the city's Little Arabia neighborhood when she asked for political donations.
Muslims are also far younger on average than members of other faiths (almost 20 years younger than the average Protestant), and many are immigrants who have not yet become citizens.
Recently, however, an emerging generation of American-born Muslims has begun flexing its political muscle, especially in regions of the country, such as California, New York and the upper Midwest, with large Muslim populations.
In California, home to roughly 1 million Muslims, the heart of that emergence is in Orange County. Nine of the 28 recently elected delegates to the state Democratic Party are from Orange County, where the Muslim population has been estimated at around 200,000. It's not known what percentage of California Muslims is registered to vote.
Orange County's prominence among Muslim political activists is largely due to the work of Hussam Ayloush, who heads the Anaheim office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Ayloush, who lives in Corona, said he had long been troubled by what he termed his community's political "apathy." So last year he embarked on an effort to recruit local Muslims to become Democratic Party delegates.
Delegates are elected biannually in each of the state's 80 Assembly districts. They help shape party policy by endorsing candidates and ballot measures and representing local interests at state conventions.
Ayloush told recruits that becoming a delegate was a manageable first step toward greater political engagement.
"The more a community has political activists ... the better we are positioned to contribute toward the betterment of our society in ways that are important for us," he said.
"There was a lot of skepticism" at first, Ayloush added. And most of the recruits, among them two doctors, a teacher and a lawyer, were new to politics.
So Ayloush, who had already served a term as a party delegate, organized meetings and conference calls during which he explained how to raise money and garner votes in the delegate election, held in January.
"There was a buzz in the community," he said.
And there was a buzz at the April convention when all the new delegates elected in January showed up.
"We're starting to see the younger generation coming of age," said Henry Vandermeir, who this year was elected chairman of Orange County's Democratic Party. "We (Democrats) feel we have the better message for them to come over to us."
Roughly 85 percent of Muslims voted for Barack Obama in last year's election, according to post-electing polling.
However, the alliance between Muslims and Democrats is actually a recent phenomenon, the product of an unusually rapid turnaround in American politics, said Louis Desipio, a political science professor at UC Irvine.
Fifteen years ago, Muslims "identified with Republicans," Desipio said. A large majority of Muslims voted for George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election. And members of Bush's political team made efforts to cultivate a network of high-income Muslim donors.
Muslims, many of whom are socially conservative small business owners, doctors and engineers, appeared a natural fit for the GOP.
But that changed soon after Sept. 11. In the months and years after the terrorist attacks in New York and outside Washington, D.C., and as the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, American Muslims felt unfairly demonized by Republicans. Republican support of Israel and opposition to immigration overhauls further alienated voters.
Meanwhile, "Democrats realized that by being the party of inclusiveness in today's California, they win," said Desipio.
Ammouri, the Anaheim political consultant, said she grew up in Modesto as part of a Republican household of Palestinian Americans.
In 2000, when she was 13, her grandfather took her to hear vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney speak. Then the two of them went to Republican Party headquarters to volunteer at a phone bank. The local party gave her a college scholarship.
"Now I'm not a Republican at all," Ammouri said. Neither are her parents.
"It's just gotten more radically right," she said. "And I feel like they've excluded me as an Arab American, as a Muslim American and as a woman. So many Republican officials talk about Muslims in a way I couldn't agree with."
Al-Dabbagh said that even though Muslims share a common faith, their political goals vary, reflecting the community's socio-economic diversity and various national origins.
Foreign policy is one area of near-universal agreement. Muslims want greater support for Palestinians, an end to drone strikes on civilians and greater support for rebels in Syria's civil war.
But those are all long-range goals, Al-Dabbagh said. For now, it's enough that Muslims are getting involved and laying the groundwork to run for office and become a stronger presence in state politics.
"We want to make sure our voice is heard," he said.
Contact the writer: jhinch@ocregister or on Twitter @jimkhinch


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Michael Bryan is one of the most sought after artists to emerge on the West Coast in the past decade. Bryan is completely original. Action and movement are the resonant characteristics conveyed by Michael Bryan's diverse styles and subjects. Using a unique combination of painting techniques and perspectives, he captures the force and grace of sports, the soulful cadence of jazz musicians, and the vigor of crowds at play.
Bryan is an original and creative painter. Though a diversity of styles, he examines the power and energy in man's relationship with nature. Liberal use of rich colors and a variety of pictorial spaces are reinforced by unusual angles and overhead perspectives.
A resident of Southern California, Bryan's paintings radiate the quintessential
spirit of the region. His portrayals of cyclists, boaters, runners, polo
players, prize fighters, and horse racers evoke the romantic mystique attached
to athletic prowess and sporting events.
In seeking to capture a contemporary spirit, Bryan's styles are constantly evolving. Although his viewpoint is essentially American, his incisive portrayals achieve universality.
Through Mr. Bryan's unique technical experience, his hands on approach can be seen in all his limited editions. Bryan received his education at Southern Illinois University and The Chicago Art Institute. He has had numerous one-man shows throughout the country. His works have been reproduced in a variety of publications, and are in many prominent private collections. He is in the collections of major corporations throughout the country.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture raised its forecast for corn production this year, which could push prices down roughly 20% by year end, an economist at Capital Economics said on Wednesday.
The USDA upped its global corn production projection for this year by 2 million metric tons to 981 million metric tons, according to the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate report released Wednesday. It also raised its global wheat production estimate by 4.6 million metric tons to 701.6 million metric tons, but left the soybean output estimate relatively unchanged at 283.8 million metric tons.
The fall in corn prices in May was "due to better supply prospects, especially from Brazil – as well as encouraging news from the U.S. where planting has finished and the crop is rated 75% good to excellent compared to 63% last year," said Tom Pugh, commodities economist at Capital Economics.
Corn futures fell 10% in May. The most-active July corn contract last traded at $4.41 a bushel, down nearly 5 cents, or 1%, on the Chicago Board of Trade.
"Another very large global corn harvest should pull down the price for corn, although we are not expecting prices to fall as sharply as they did last year," said Pugh, in a note Wednesday. Prices fell nearly 40% for 2013.
Capital Economics expects the price of corn to finish the year at $3.50 a bushel, he said, pegging the current price at around $4.36.
He also said Capital Economics expects wheat prices to finish the year at $5 a bushel, down from around $6.60 currently and soybean prices to end the year at $10 a bushel, down from around $14.67 currently.
–Myra Saefong
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Measures taken from the neck and chest indicate low risk of injuries to these body regions in a crash of this severity. Forces on both tibias indicate that injuries to the lower legs would be possible. A high head acceleration occurred when the dummy's head hit the steering wheel through the airbag, indicating that head injuries would also be possible. Head acceleration from the window frame hit was low.
Dummy movement was reasonably well controlled. During rebound, the dummy's head leaned partway out the open side window and hit the window frame, which had bent outward.
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Driver — Measures taken from the dummy indicate that a fracture of the pelvis would be likely in a crash of this severity. The risk of significant injuries to other body regions is low.
Passenger — Measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.
Driver — The dummy's head was protected from being hit by any hard structures, including the intruding barrier, by a side airbag that deployed from the seat.
Passenger — The dummy's head was hit by the intruding barrier. This hit did not produce high head injury measures, but head impacts with intruding objects such as other vehicles, trees, and poles should be prevented.
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2012-08-22 / Obituaries
Myra Schatz, longtime Copiague resident and Copiague school secretary
When Jerome Schatz was serving in the U.S. Navy, his ship was damaged and docked in San Francisco for repairs. He went to a USO dance where he met Myra Koskipaa, who worked with the U.S. Navy Bureau of Navy Personnel.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
New Chew Toy
Oh, wow Happy! You get to play with it too?! (all smiles)
Do you like it?
Heh! What'cha doing?
The END!
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13 comments:
- corazon said...
Poor birdy......:-)))
- May 15, 2012 1:05 p.m.
- Carrie#K said...
The Short Frenetic Life of a Toy in theaters near you. At least he served his purpose well!
- May 15, 2012 2:50 p.m.
- Sara Crittenden Coppedge said...
And what a fine toy it was!
- May 15, 2012 2:59 p.m.
- CelticCastOn said...
lol Doh!
- May 15, 2012 3:13 p.m.
- Sharon V said...
It's apparently not easy being a new toy in your house! LOL
Glad the pups had a good time with it. May it now rest in pieces.
- May 15, 2012 8:03 p.m.
- monica said...
At least Denny got to hold it for a few seconds. :)
- May 15, 2012 9:25 p.m.
- Mr. Puffy said...
hahahaha I could tell where this was going from the very first picture!!!!
I have finally found toys that Simcha does not immediately destroy - made by Planet Dog here's a link:http://www.planetdog.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=TENNIS%203PK
PS that carrot cake does look wonderful ~ glad you had a yummy Mother's Day!
- May 15, 2012 10:54 p.m.
- ikki said...
NO, it was Danny`s!
- May 16, 2012 1:49 a.m.
- Freyalyn said...
Toys for my two always end up decapitated. In fact, I often find the head carefully placed in the room's centre, with the inside-out body in a bed somewhere, and fluff everywhere else.
- May 16, 2012 4:39 a.m.
- Lindsay said...
Hah! Perfect depiction of the toy dealings in my house.
- May 16, 2012 11:35 a.m.
- Linda said...
Thanks to your dogs and your photo and editing skills for the Opening Laugh of my Day!
- May 16, 2012 11:55 a.m.
- kristieinbc said...
I am laughing here as I scroll through the pictures. This is just how every toy we buy look within a few days. Sometimes a few hours!
- May 17, 2012 9:15 a.m.
- 2paw said...
Oh no, poor Denny, his new toy beheaded. No wonder Happy looks so pleased!!!
- May 22, 2012 5:23 a.m.


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William Edward Ball
ca 1938 Salem Statesman or Capitol Journal
I would love to know what prompted this promotion of Van-Tage by my great grandfather. Giving out this kind of information these days, especially very public would definitely be considered as TMI (too much information). Maybe because medical care wasn't on the level as it is now and people were trying any kind of remedy to relieve their annoying symptoms. I wonder if he really becamed "cured" or was helping out his local neighborhood pharmacy. I tried to research out this product, but was unable to locate any information on it. I stumbled onto this newspaper clipping in my mother's things and was quite amused by the exaggerating hawking of this not so glamourous product!
William Edward Ball was born in 1885 in Manton, Wexford County, Michigan. He eventually worked his way with his father and sister to Ellis County, Oklahoma to secure homesteads. He married Nora Ellen Baley there and sold their homestead where they headed with my grandmother, Zelma to Salem, Oregon in 1913. He became a wall painter hanger and painting contractor until death took him away in 1943, just 5 years after this ad came out to a heart attack.


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The Honda CR-V is a compact sport utility vehicle (SUV) that was initially introduced in the late-1990s. Honda's main intention with the CR-V was to provide a fuel-efficient alternative to the larger mid and full-size SUVs, which had already been dominating the market for years. With its affordable price and abundance of passenger and cargo room, the CR-V caught on immediately with drivers. It has remained a strong seller for more than a decade, despite increasing competition on the more compact side of the compact SUV market segment.
While there may be other models that can provide more in the way of power, performance, luxury, and off-road ability, the CR-V is still one of the most practical options when it comes to choosing a compact SUV. Reliable, fuel-efficient, and fun to drive, the CR-V has remained one of the best-selling compact crossover SUVs on the market ever since it debuted.
Like many past versions of the CR-V, the 2012 model lacks power to a certain degree. While many of Honda's competitors in the compact SUV market offer the option of a V-6 engine, the CR-V is solely available with a four-cylinder engine that is not quite up to what it might be, in terms of power and acceleration.
But what the 2012 CR-V lacks in power and acceleration, it more than makes up for in safety features. Standard safety equipment on the CR-V includes anti-lock disc brakes, traction control, stability control, active front head restraints, front side airbags, side curtain airbags, and a back-up camera.
Honda completely redesigned the CR-V for 2012. As the inaugural model of the CR-V's forth generation, the 2012 edition boasts an improved cabin, restyled sheet metal, improved fuel economy, and many other additional standard features. While still technically a compact crossover SUV, the 2012 CR-V grew in size and now verges on being reclassified as a midsize.
The 2012 CR-V is available in five trim levels: LX, EX, EX-L with Navigation, and EX-L with Rear Entertainment System. The base model LX features 16-inch steel wheels, automatic headlamps, keyless entry, power accessories, cruise control, adjustable driver seat, air-conditioning, a rearview camera, steering wheel audio controls, Bluetooth connectivity, and streaming audio. The standard sound system for the LX model comes equipped with four speakers, a CD player, Pandora interface, auxiliary audio jack, and USB/iPod interface.
The EX model features 17-inch alloy wheels, a sunroof, foglights, a retractable cargo cover, rear privacy glass, and a six-speaker sound system. The EX-L boasts additional features that include roof rails, heated side mirrors, dual-zone climate control, eight-way power driver seat, leather upholstery, front seat heating, and a seven-speaker sound system equipped with satellite radio. The EX-L with Navigation features the addition of a navigation system with voice-control capability and real-time traffic updates. The Rear Entertainment System version features the addition of a rear DVD entertainment system.
All versions of the 2012 Honda CR-V are equipped with a 2.4-liter, four-cylinder engine that's rated at 185 horsepower and produces 163 lb-ft of torque. Front-wheel drive is standard on all models but all-wheel-drive versions are also available. Transmission-wise, the 2012 CR-V comes equipped with a five-speed automatic. Gas mileage for the front-wheel-drive version of the 2012 CR-V is 23/31 mpg city/highway and 26 mpg combined. The AWD version provides 22/30 mpg city/highway and 25 combined.
The first generation of the Honda CR-V appeared in 1997 and was produced until 2001. The vehicle was an immediate hit thanks in part to its affordable price, and ample passenger and cargo space. In 1998, Honda introduced the option of a manual transmission, and in 1999, the CR-V's horsepower increased by 20. 2000 saw the introduction of the leather trimmed SE model.
The second-generation of the CR-V was produced between 2002 and 2006. Improvements to the CR-V made during this period included added power, an increase in interior room and improved safety features. The second generation of the CR-V also saw the introduction of the more upscale EX version, which included additional features such as anti-lock brakes and side airbags.
The third generation Honda CR-V was introduced in 2007 and lasted until 2011. Third-generation versions featured new liftgates, better handling, and available navigation systems. Trim levels for third generation versions of the CR-V included LX, EX, and EX-L. The EX-L version offered leather upholstery along with heated front seats. In 2008 the CR-V EX-L was equipped with additional accessories including a power driver seat, automatic climate control, and a premium stereo system.
The 2012 Honda CR-V features a quieter cabin than many recent models of the vehicle. Honda has also recalibrated the suspension of the CR-V in order to help facilitate a smoother ride. The inaugural model of the fourth generation of the CR-V also features an abundance of technological features such as Pandora and Bluetooth connectivity, a rearview camera, and an SMS text message function.
2019 Honda CR-V
SUV, Utility/Offroad
2018 Honda CR-V
2017 Honda CR-V
2016 Honda CR-V
2015 Honda CR-V
2014 Honda CR-V
2013 Honda CR-V
The 2013 Honda CR-V blends in with the crowd, but stands out in safety.
2012 Honda CR-V
2011 Honda CR-V
CR-V received a significant refresh in 2010 that included a freshened grille and bumpers, a 14-horsepower bump, and as well as increase in fuel efficiency. No major upgrades have been added to 2011 models, with the exception of a new, LX-based SE (Special Edition) trim level.
2010 Honda CR-V
2009 Honda CR-V
Honda is one of the most renowned car manufacturers for multiple reasons.
2008 Honda CR-V
Honda is one of the most well-known vehicle manufacturers in the world for many reasons.
2007 Honda CR-V
The Honda CR-V is a Japanese compact crossover SUV that arrived in 1996 and holds the honor of being the first in-house produced SUV.
2006 Honda CR-V
Built on the 2001 to 2005 Civic platform; the 2006 Honda CR-V enjoys the same level of small-car agility and reliable ride quality.
2005 Honda CR-V
The Honda CR-V is designed as an economic option for drivers that want the interior space of a sport utility vehicle (SUV) but are less interested in using it as a true off-road vehicle.
2004 Honda CR-V
2003 Honda CR-V
The Honda CR-V was introduced in 1997, becoming one of the first mini-SUV models on the market.
2002 Honda CR-V
The 2002 Honda CR-V was among the most popular compact SUVs until 2001, which only extends popularity with the yearly updates and changes.
2001 Honda CR-V
The 2001 Honda CR-V is a small SUV primarily designed for dropping the kids off at school and heading to work.
2000 Honda CR-V
The 2000 Honda CR-V is not specifically engineered to handle tough terrains.
1999 Honda CR-V
Honda goes outside of its car-making comfort zone and produces the 1999 Honda CR-V, a sport utility vehicle that only comes in two models in the same configuration.
1998 Honda CR-V
The 1998 Honda CR-V provides an economic option for drivers who want the interior space of a sport utility vehicle, but care less about using it as a true off-road vehicle.
1997 Honda CR-V


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MET Best Hair: SJP
She does a hair flower better than anyone else. I want to do a hair flower one day. But mine is so slippery the flower wouldn't stay. And I'd keep cocking my head to one said and my neck would crick. Fashion, so often, is about suffering. It really really is.
Sarah Jessica Parker wore Halston because, like, she "designs" for the line now. All that design work, and raising three children, and making silly Sex sequels must be cutting in her sleeping and eating time because goddamn she is bones right now. And she's already been choosing Body > Face for years.
Am so curious though, if for one year SJP would allow herself to be pick Face > Body, what would that look like?
Photos from Wenn.com and Larry Busacca/Stephen Lovekin/Gettyimages.com


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Got Monkey?
For long time readers of this blog (does anyone read it anymore?), you may recall my love of all things monkey. Four or five years ago, my felted monkey, Zira travelled the globe and I even developed a smaller pattern that I named the Cheeky Little Monkeys. Well for a variety of reasons, I never wrote up the pattern for the Cheekys and forgot about them. Thanks to a good bit of monkey love that several of my family and friends share with me, I dusted off the pattern, rewrote parts of it and am about to release it and several holiday versions over the next couple of weeks. Here's a preview of the newly revised Cheeky Little Monkeys
You can see more pictures on the workshop site - http://theindigomuse.ning.com . Check back for registration information since I'm planning on developing an online workshop for these little fellows since there are so very many tips and tricks that I can't adequately describe in print. Patterns will be available through the site and Ravelry. Keep your eyes peeled :)
In other news, I've been busy filming/developing online knitting workshops and writing up patterns. Not much personal knitting happening except for Knitspots beautiful Leafprints wrist warmers and I'm actually knitting them out of the recommended yarn - Great Northern Yarns Mink/Cashmere (heavenly stuff). I did have a fab weekend away from the guys last weekend with my Maryland peeps Heather, Ei and Donna. You can read more on H's blog HERE. My Grandma has been in the hospital for almost two weeks after cardiac arrest a couple of weeks ago. Please add her to your prayer list. Poor thing had to spend her 87th birthday on Saturday in the hospital :( We are blessed because this is only the second time in her life that she's been in the hospital and she's actually doing very well. She's in rehab now to get her left arm back up to full capacity so she can go home.
Here's hoping that Thanksgiving is low key and relaxing for everyone.


text: Social activist, writer, editor and lecturer Gloria Steinem was born in Ohio in 1934. Steinem helped create New York magazine in the 1960s, and in the 1970s she was among the founders of the National Women's Political Caucus and the feminist Ms magazine. Diagnosed with breast cancer in the 1980s, Steinem overcame the disease and continued to write influential books and essays. Despite her longtime opposition to marriage, she wed environmental and animal rights activist David Bale at age 66.


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A 78-year-old widow from Danbury has won more than $10 million and she has her late husband to thank.
He bought the Lotto ticket hours before he died of a heart attack.
Charlotte Peters and her husband of almost 60 years played the lottery for decades but he passed away suddenly on Nov. 1, so she hadn't bothered to check the tickets he'd bought that morning.
In fact, Peters said, when she noticed the tickets pinned up next to the calendar, she almost threw them away since the couple had never won more than a dollar or two but 'something' told her to check them out, she said. Now she's rich.
Peters cashed in her winning Classic Lotto ticket Friday morning at the CT Lottery Headquarters in Rocky Hill and said she still can't believe it.
She hasn't decided whether she'll take the lump sum payment of about $6 million or the annual payout of about half a million a year for more than 20 years.
When asked about what she'll do with the money, Peters said, "I've always wanted a Corvette!" But, in truth, she said, she'll probably buy a smaller, more practical car and put the rest in savings.
The winning ticket was purchased at a 7-Eleven in Danbury. The store will get a bonus of $10,000.


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Talk:Desktop Dungeons
Really need to get the front page protected and give some peoples special access. Xeriar 11:02, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Is the download link provided broken? It looks like it's out of bandwidth -- is there an alternate place where the game can be downloaded?
Have you tried the alternate links provided? And sorry about the slow response WRT the spammer, I've appointing some admins and blocked the necessary IP --Nandrew 00:52, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Just a note on that sentence : "Desktop Dungeons was designed as a quick 5-15 minute mini-roguelike experience". It might have been designed so, but for me an average game lasts between 30 and 45 mn. I might be very slow, or Desktop dungeon slightly moved away from its original design. Buy less than an hour is still much better than daaaays for a roguelike. --Flap 09:43, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm speaking from ignorance here, but I wonder if we could get this wiki to have the game versions at the top of each page, so that for things that changed significantly, we can maintain the older info. The Dwarf Fortress Wiki does this very well: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Stockpile
but they're the only ones that I've seen pull this off 18:43, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
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Could it be possible parser functions aren't installed in this wiki? Take a look at Template:ArchiveBanner, it seems to be capturing that there's a magic word there but doesn't actually pull the parse job off. Obviously this isn't near vital so I'm just curious as to whether I'm doing this wrong or if my assumption is correct. See here for more info on parsers. And here on how to install if possible.


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Three cheers for MDF board-member Ona McConnell and her Yale Women's Field Hockey teammates Maddy Sharp and Jessie Accurso for their awesome performance in the Tough Mudder Challenge. The May 13 event was the latest accomplishment in their ongoing mission to raise money for myotonic dystrophy research.
In true Mudder spirit, the three young women ran 12 rocky miles, endured a heart-stopping ice-water plunge, and scrambled through "way too much" barbed wire – all with the letters MDF proudly emblazoned on their bare stomachs.
"I was incredibly nervous," admits Ona, who was diagnosed with DM in 2010. "My main worry was that I wasn't going to be able to finish. I had a harder time running uphill, so Maddy and Jessie had to hold up a few times. My muscles would cramp and I'd have to take a break to let them relax." Nonetheless, the teammates maintained a steady clip throughout. "We think we were one of the first groups in our starting time to finish," Ona adds proudly.
The Tough Mudder Challenge was originally created in support of the Wounded Warrior Project that helps returning veterans. The event places high value on mental dedication, camaraderie and team effort; some of the obstacles are nearly impossible to overcome without help. "It was incredible running alongside people of all different ages and levels of fitness, especially men and women who had served in the armed forces and were amputees or had prosthetics," says Maddy. "Experiencing firsthand the level of teamwork through these events—strangers helping strangers—was awesome."
Ona, Maddy and Jessie were as relentless in their fundraising as they were in their physical training. "We raised over $1900 for MDF, which is a lot for just three people," says Ona. She adds that most of the donations came in small amounts so the total sum represents the backing of hundreds of supporters. (It's not too late to celebrate Ona, Maddy and Jessie's success with a contribution. Donate now)
Would the women do it again? You betcha! But, for now the three are focusing on their summer activities, which include jobs, summer school and field hockey coaching. Soon enough they'll be back at college preparing for the next big challenge--the Get-a-Grip campaign organized by the Yale Women's Field Hockey Team every year in support of DM awareness. Get-A-Grip homepage.


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Oil below $103 as Chinese factory activity drops
The price of oil slipped below $103 a barrel Thursday after a report indicated that manufacturing in China, the world's second-biggest economy, shrank again in February.
U.S. crude for March delivery fell 39 cents to close at $102.92 a barrel in New York on the last day of trading for the contract. Crude for April delivery fell 9 cents to close at $102.75.
Oil prices fell after a monthly survey by HSBC found that China's manufacturing, a driver of the global economy, contracted for a second straight month.
The HSBC purchasing managers' index also declined to the lowest since July, a sign of the extended slowdown in China as leaders in Beijing try to clamp down on an investment boom and refocus the economy on domestic consumption.
"Results from this private sector survey have deteriorated for four months now, which indicates an unambiguous trend of domestic growth deceleration," Societe Generale economist Wei Yao said in a report.
Uncertainty about protests in Venezuela, a major U.S. oil supplier, as well as export disruptions in Libya and South Sudan kept a floor under oil prices.
Prices were also steadied by a weekly report from the U.S. Energy Department released Thursday that revealed that oil stockpiles grew about half as fast as expected, according to analysts surveyed by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos.
Brent crude, a benchmark for international oil used by many U.S. refineries, fell 17 cents to close at $110.30 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
U.S. retail gasoline prices continued their seasonal climb as refineries cut back output to perform maintenance and prepare for a switch to more expensive summer gasoline. The average retail price rose less than a penny to $3.38 per gallon. That's the highest level of the year and 10 cents higher than last month.
The price of natural gas fell 1.4 percent to close at $6.06 per 1,000 cubic feet, retreating somewhat after Wednesday's 11 percent surge to $6.15, its highest level since December of 2008.
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— Wholesale gasoline rose 2.2 cents to close at $2.847 a gallon.
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A second suspected case of arson over the last week has left a Beaumont family without a home and has fire investigators looking for suspects.
Beaumont Fire Rescue units responded to a structure fire at 3755 Treadway. When firefighters arrived, they found the home heavily involved with fire. The family was not at home at the time of the fire and there were no injuries. The fire caused extensive damage to the home.
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Now that we've sufficiently rung in the new year, the resolution-fueled weight loss and fitness frenzy is upon us. Suddenly, if you're not doing at least one new thing to be healthier in 2013 you're probably going to feel like a slug. At the same time, you're probably thinking that being forced out of bed first thing in the morning to get to the gym and claim your treadmill or spot in Zumba class is the last possible thing you're motivated to do during this darkest, coldest time of the year.
I wouldn't blame you. But I am here to tell you that resolving to work out in the morning is completely worth it.
Yup, I used to be one of those people who would rather gouge her eyes out than have to roll out of bed with enough time to work out before work. I knew people who were like that, who were obsessive, and while they were skinny, they also seemed miserable. Why put myself through that? I'd rather get my ZZZs thankyouverymuch! But in the last month, that's all changed.
I got a Groupon for a new gym membership, which included two complimentary sessions with a personal trainer. Because I said I was available on Saturday mornings (you know, like, after 10 a.m.), I got paired up with a trainer who only works mornings (starting at 5 a.m. -- OMG). As it turns out, she's amazing. And I know she's going to help me see real results -- including, but not limited to, weight loss, more energy, and getting my body stronger so as to avoid injuries and, hopefully, a couple of years from now, a healthier pregnancy. So clearly, I'd be a fool to not make every effort to work out with her, even if that means getting my butt out of bed to be at the gym as early as 7:30 a.m.
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So, okay, sure, on one hand you could chalk up my success with becoming a morning exerciser to being accountable to a trainer. (Which I admit is a luxury I'm treating myself to as a bride-to-be.) But being accountable to her hasn't been the only thing getting me to the gym; it's just what I needed to get the ball rolling. Seriously!
Somehow, once I started working out in the morning on a regular basis, I actually started to crave working out first thing in the a.m. Every a.m. Maybe because it was starting to become -- gasp! -- habit?! Because it started to feel necessary to stretch and move and warm up my body before starting the rest of my day? Because I feel so amazing afterward, really do have so much more energy through the day, and above all, feel like I'm checking a major "to-do" off my list -- before 9 a.m.!
Still, I confess: Many mornings -- especially the ones when it's below 30 degrees, windy, and I'm snuggled up under my comforter with my warm fiance snoozing at my side -- it is a battle to get out of bed. But once I do, I am so, so glad I did. And the days I've put off going, I find myself feeling antsy and frustrated, wishing I hadn't. Sure, I love those ZZZs, but it's a sacrifice I'm thinking my body will thank me for in return.
When do you exercise? Why does that particular time work for you?