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Uses of campaign posters, bookmarks, pencils, stickers, items bought from ALA Graphics
Contents 1. Using the Bookmark to Illustrate a Blog 2. Puppy Chow
1. Using the Bookmark to Illustate a Blog
I was surfing the Internet recently and found a clever use of the artwork for the bookmark. Paul Nyhan, a columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, used Michael P. White's bookmark illustration for a newspaper blog entry he wrote about researching the best books and reading resources for kids. It was both eye-catching and the perfect shape, drawing the eye up and down the blog entry. Here's the link to it: "Libraries Staying Hip and Winning My Prize" Working Dad Blog, Posted January 19, 2007, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA)
Stephanie Bange, Chair, Kids! @ your library Task Force
2. Puppy Chow
My branch recently hosted a Pet Shower. As a part of the program, we asked patrons to bring in supplies for pets. In exchange, we served Puppy Chow to all who attended. The Puppy Chow was served in Zip-Lock-type bags, decorated with the "So Much to See. So Much to Do" die-cut stickers we purchased from ALA Graphics. They were colorful and a nice finishing touch!
Carol Miller, Children's Librarian, E.C. Doren Branch, Dayton Metro Library (OH)


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I met up with a lady, Anna last week. Anna runs an interior design business in Joondalup. I asked Anna if she has Terms of Trade in place. She replied â€yes, 7 days†(on her invoices). I explained to her that proper Terms of Trade are the small-print that goes onto Credit Account Application Forms or Quotes.
Terms of Trade are the most important document in a business as they give the business owner peace of mind that their client will pay their account and more importantly that they will pay on time. All too often people say, as Anna did, that clients do eventually pay. That is not good enough, as with the diminishing value of debt, the debt is only worth 100% of its value if the client pays on time.
EC Credit Control are able to customise Terms of Trade for any business which extends credit.

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rmgmbh needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 59 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
we are a small it-company based in germany.
our main focus is on ecommerce, mainly based on magento-commerce.
we have very good skills regarding the technical part of running e-shops and would be happy to find talented designers who want to contribute their expertise and talent to make our shops look excellent.
our shop sells silver jewelry to our main audience, women in the age between 15 to 50 years in the area of germany and europe.
they are looking for affordable jewelry for themselves and for the kids or their husband.
our shop design needs to express a personal touch and should give our customers an impression, that they get not too sophisticated but decend quality jewelry to a fair price.
The shopname "SchmuckBringer" is a new word combination, and means something like "jewelry-bringer", someone who brings or delivers jewelry.
We need a Logo for the shop and i was thinking of something like a bird or a pigeon, that has a symbolized piece of jewelry in it´s mouth, like a ring or a necklace. But this is just one idea. So if you have other creative ideas, feel free to show them.
The grafic needs to be combined with the shopname "SchmuckBringer" for the header banner of the website. But it should also be possible to use the grafic standalone.
The Logo will be used in the following places and has to work there:
- website header (see attachment for working design)
- invoice header (the invoice is in PDF and will be printed in black and white)
- browser favicon (maybe the logo can be altered in order to make send in that size)
- business card (color)
- PayPal header (this is 750x90)
- Favicon-File
- multilayered PSD
We haven't made a final decision regarding the shop design yet, because we want to wait for the logo first. This will be a second job to do. Maybe the winner of the logo contest can help us with this as well.
But look at attachment "design proposal.jpg" to get an idea of what we are looking for regarding the shop design. The logo should fit in there.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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"Save your breath."
My mother used to say this to me when I was desperately trying to explain my way out of a situation. In her view, the more I tried to explain, the more worked up I got, the less she was interested in my argument because she knew it was flimsy.
I believe the same philosophy holds true in business — and in relationships too, for that matter.
Maurice Saatchi, cofounder of the famed New York ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi used to say, "If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument."
My mother would have agreed with him.
Save time by honing your thoughts and streamlining your written words in all situations. Not only is this a worthy trait — but you will be heard. You'll save time too.
The power of "no"
Should you learn to say "No?"
"No" is so very easy to say. With that simple syllable, you can safely obstruct change, thwart action, seize power, and slow things down.
No isn't rebellion. It's a status quo power grab, and it comes from fear.
"Yes" is the real rebellion. It's harder to say because it involves innovation, responsibility, creativity, achievement and thought. Yes is ingenuous, strident, candid, open.
Say yes as much as you can.
But the word "why" is always valid.
Asking why is always appropriate. And it isn't asked enough.
Why gets to the heart of any decision you or your organization makes. It's too easy to assume the answer. And too simple to believe that "because we've always done it that way" is the right reason this time around. It isn't, because the game changes every day.
Ask why this is the way we operate. Ask why we need to meet. Why did you decide no? Why is this our goal, our forecast, our policy, our plan?
Always ask why and wait for the real, not the flip or the most convenient answer. Do it because the real answer matters.
Have the goal of fewer meetings
That means dealing with the fact that the modern office is an interruption factory.
In the age of centralized files and costly office equipment, it made sense for people to work and collaborate in centralized workplaces. Today, that logic no longer applies. We actually need fewer meetings and interruptions to get more work done. That means, more work done remotely.
According to The New York Times, for example, an average office demands 5.6 hours per week in meetings — of which 71 percent of us report as being unproductive. Why do this to ourselves?
The truth is, the most fundamental reason we have not shifted away from the office is because we are stuck on the appearance of an office culture.
Who do you spend your time with? Take a closer look at those who surround you, personally and professionally. Choose your peers, mentors, friends, and advocates carefully — especially in the workplace.
It really is all about your energy. Once energy is added to any situation, it has to continue. You learned this natural law in high school physics class. But this law is just as true in our dealings with others.
When you get cut off in traffic and get angry, negative energy increases. When you provide encouraging words to someone, positive energy expands.
Communicate negative energy and very likely, you will receive even more negativity back. Only rarely will negative energy be calmly acknowledged and the situation neutralized. (When this happens, aren't you impressed — and feel calmer yourself?)
Being aware of the energy you express. Add to the positive. Work to diffuse the negative without escalating.
Your energy can dramatically shift the outcome of your communications.
David Harding is president and CEO of HardingPoorman Group, a locally owned and operated graphic communications firm in Indianapolis consisting of several integrated companies all under one roof. The company has been voted as one of the "Best Places to Work" in Indiana by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. Harding can be reached at [email protected] For more information, go to www.hardingpoorman.com


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Colada Drinks Recipes
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03.27.10 by Jackie
Piña colada is a sweet cocktail made with coconut and pineapple juice. I made it kid-friendly, but the authentic version requires a few shots of rum.
Les beaux jours sont de retour! "Sunny days are back" and I thought it would be a well-deserved drink to bring to my husband after a long day at work. When Lulu came home, I told him to lie down in a long chair outside on the deck and wait for me. I whipped up the cocktail for him (and for the girls as well) and brought a tray full of the piña colada drinks. His reaction was: "Oh, you read my mind, sweetie. This drink reminds me so much of our anniversary trip to Cancun!"
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Published at Tuesday, 28 August 2018. Sectional Sofa. By Josie Dodson.
Okay, you can see there is a huge gap when you purchase recliners make sure that when it is opened there is no tight. There is no huge gap. Okay, a puppy could fall through here, okay, and when you sit on it, your pressure. Now this one we have never sat on when you sit on it, your pressure comes down and you are hitting this now look carefully. That is actually a piece of wood, and this wood is not padded.
So that's exactly what your back is feeling right there look at. This is barely any pressure. It's actually not much stuffing in this either so you're purchasing a recliner make sure that this gap, when it is opened, is very tight. Now, on some recliner sofas that I've seen there is no gap here, this is actually attached the recliner sofa. Now I realize that they need to have this separate, miss in the bottom separate so that they can deliver it, but some of them come together.
I this set actually comes with three recliners Wow we were excited and then it was we were able to modulate it so that and organized it. So that it could be actually a laying couch as well, so we were pretty excited about cushy comfy movie nights, but this is what I did not know with recliners. You need to make sure that when the recliner is opened and I didn't sit in it in the store just have my son recline in it - he said it was nice. Now this is a month and a half after we purchased it and actually by two weeks. I said something's up so I peeked inside and actually you can see when I have it opened and reclined.
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Why Treasury Is Destroying Wine
A statement today from Australia's Treasury Wine Estates, owner of major labels like Beringer, Lindemans and Penfolds, suggests that tens of millions of dollars worth of wine is in the process of being destroyed. Tom Gara has more details on The News Hub.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Maya of Zinacantan
For centuries, the Tzotzil Maya of Zinacantan have controlled the only source of salt in the Chiapas Highlands. Before the Spanish Conquest, Zinacanteco merchants traded the salt for amber, cacao, and quetzal feathers from the Chiapas lowlands, which they then sold to the Aztec traders who came from central Mexico. This link between the Zinacantecos and the Aztecs explains why the Zinacantecan weavers create Aztec-style garments, particularly the spectacular feathered wedding
. The art of weaving feathers into cloth was practiced throughout Middle America, but now only survives in Zinacantan. The Zinacanteco men's costume was strongly influenced by the coming of the Spanish. The black tunic and felt hat worn by religious officials today are similar to 16th century Spanish clothing. The scarf with tassles on the four corners was used before the Conquest. The long ribbons on the man's everyday palm hat appear to be an imitation of bird feathers.
(top right) Zinacantec salt seller at market.
(bottom right) Xunka Tulan of Nabenchauc, Zinacantan stretching thread on a warping board.
Maya of Highland Chiapas
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By end-2013, Brazil could end up with a total of 5.9GW of installed wind power capacity. However, according to Brazilian wind power association Abeeolica, lack of a grid connection will mean that more than a sixth of this will not come online.
Abeeolica said the government has agreed to include in its planning process regions and locations with high wind power potential.
Also, developers can build short transmission connections themselves or they can seek permission to install shared substations and connections known as ICGs.
Abeeolica is still in talks with government planners to develop transmission lines more closely linked to the time it takes to build a wind power project in Brazil, around 18 months.
Brazil is expanding its transmission grid — currently at around 104,000 kilometres — at a rate of some 2,000 kilometres a year through auctions of lines that are determined by the a central government energy planning agency, EPE.
At the end of the March, Abeeolica said the country's wind installed capacity reached 2.7GW.


text: Lifesize CEO Sees 'Wonderful Opportunity' For Video Channel Growth Mar 1, 2012 CRN | Chad Berndtson "We believe we're at a terrific junction in the growth of video communications," Buechler said in a recent interview with CRN. "The industry has moved toward that vision of immersive communications. If there's voice, there should be video, and in order to do that, you have to make it easy to use and cost effective to grow and scale."


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I have not seen a reeyess or yaface, but they are putting out a new weequay, lumat, and 2 more rotj rebels. Both have been made before in POTF time. One has had his brother made in the BAF line. He had 2 eyes though.Id say the EU figure they will show today is the Female bounty hunter from the new game as she was coming this year.
Dressel Rebel just pooped his pants.
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Researchers will use Curiosity in an intriguing area of Mars to search for modern or ancient habitable environments, including any that may have also been favorable for preserving clues about life and environment.
The team assembling and testing Curiosity at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., fastened the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument inside the rover body on June 15. CheMin will identify the minerals in samples of powdered rock or soil that the rover's robotic arm will deliver to an input funnel.
"Minerals give us a record of what the environment was like at the time they were formed," said the principal investigator for CheMin, David Blake of NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Temperature, pressure, and the chemical ingredients present -- including water -- determine what minerals form and how they are altered.
The instrument uses X-ray diffraction, a first for a mission to Mars and a more definitive method for identifying minerals than any instrument on previous missions. It supplements the diffraction measurements with X-ray fluorescence capability to garner further details of composition.
X-ray diffraction works by directing an X-ray beam at a sample and recording how the X-rays are scattered by the sample's atoms. All minerals are crystalline, and in crystalline materials, atoms are arranged in an orderly, periodic structure, causing the X-rays to be scattered at predictable angles. From those angles, researchers can deduce the spacing between planes of atoms in the crystal.
"You get a series of spacings and intensities for each mineral," Blake said. "It's more than a fingerprint because it not only provides definitive identification, but we know the reason for each pattern, right down to the atomic level."
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission will send Curiosity to a place on Mars where water-related minerals have been detected by Mars orbiters. The rover's 10 science instruments will examine the site's modern environment and geological clues to its past environments. NASA's multi-step strategy might include potential future missions for bringing Mars samples to Earth for detailed analysis. One key goal for the Mars Science Laboratory mission is to identify a good hunting ground for rocks that could hold biosignatures -- evidence of life -- though this mission itself will not seek evidence of life.
On Earth, life has thrived for more than 3 billion years, but preserving evidence of life from the geologically distant past requires specific, unusual conditions.
Fossil insects encased in amber or mastodon skeletons immersed in tar pits are examples of how specific environments can store a record of ancient life by isolating it from normal decomposition. But Mars won't have insects or mastodons; if Mars has had any life forms at all, they were likely microbes. Understanding what types of environments may have preserved evidence of microbial life from billions of years ago, even on Earth, is still an emerging field of study. Some factors good for life are bad for preserving biosignatures. For example, life needs water, but organic compounds, the carbon-chemical ingredients of life, generally oxidize to carbon dioxide gas if not protected from water.
Some minerals detectable by CheMin, such as phosphates, carbonates, sulfates and silica, can help preserve biosignatures. Clay minerals trap and preserve organic compounds under some conditions. Some minerals that form when salty water evaporates can encase and protect organics, too. Other minerals that CheMin could detect might also have implications about past conditions favorable to life and to preservation of biosignatures.
"We'll finally have the ability to conduct a wide-ranging inventory of the minerals for one part of Mars," said John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, chief scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory. "This will be a big step forward. Whatever we learn about conditions for life, we'll also get a great benefit in learning about the early evolution of a planet."
Curiosity's 10 science instruments, with about 15 times more mass than the five-instrument science payload on either of the Mars rovers Spirit or Opportunity, provide complementary capabilities for meeting the mission's goals. Some will provide quicker evaluations of rocks when the rover drives to a new location, helping the science team choose which rocks to examine more thoroughly with CheMin and the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) experiment. SAM can identify organic compounds. Imaging information about the context and textures of rocks will augment information about the rocks' composition.
"CheMin will tell us the major minerals there without a lot of debate," said Jack Farmer of Arizona State University, Tempe, a member of the instrument's science team. "It won't necessarily reveal anything definitive about biosignatures, but it will help us select the rocks to check for organics. X-ray diffraction is the gold standard for mineralogy. Anyone who wants to determine the minerals in a rock on Earth takes it to an X-ray diffraction lab."
Blake began working 21 years ago on a compact X-ray diffraction instrument for use in planetary missions. His work with colleagues has resulted in commercial portable instruments for use in geological field work on Earth, as well as the CheMin instrument. The spinoff instruments have found innovative applications in screening for counterfeit pharmaceuticals in developing nations and analyzing archaeological finds.
CheMin is roughly a cube 25 centimeters (10 inches) on each side, weighing about 10 kilograms (22 pounds). It generates X-rays by aiming high-energy electrons at a target of cobalt, then directing the X-rays into a narrow beam. The detector is a charge-coupled device like the ones in electronic cameras, but sensitive to X-ray wavelengths and cooled to minus 60 degrees Celsius (minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit).
A sample wheel mounted between the X-ray source and detector holds 32 disc-shaped sample cells, each about the diameter of a shirt button and thickness of a business card, with transparent plastic walls. Rotating the wheel can position any cell into the X-ray beam. Five cells hold reference samples from Earth to help calibrate the instrument. The other 27 are reusable holders for Martian samples. Samples of gritty powder delivered by the robotic arm to CheMin's inlet funnel will each contain about as much material as in a baby aspirin.
Each CheMin analysis of a sample requires up to 10 hours of accumulating data while X-rays are hitting the sample. The time may be split into two or more nights of operation.
Besides X-ray diffraction, CheMin records X-ray fluorescence data from the analyzed material. X-ray fluorescence works by recording the secondary X-rays generated when the atoms in the sample are excited by the primary X-ray source. Different elements, when excited, emit fluorescent X-rays at different and characteristic energies, so this information indicates which elements are present. This compositional information will supplement similar data collected by the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer on Curiosity's arm.
CheMin's team of scientists combines expertise in mineralogy, petrology, materials science, astrobiology and soil science, with experience studying terrestrial, lunar and Martian rocks.
The launch period for the Mars Science Laboratory will begin on Nov. 25, 2011, for a landing on Mars in August 2012. Blake's wish for results from the Martian rock data he's already been anticipating for more than two decades: "I hope we find something unexpected, something surprising."
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Decades of work preparing a miniaturized laboratory for identifying minerals on Mars have also yielded spinoff versions with diverse applications on Earth and, possibly, the moon.
This image shows one of the spinoffs, in the orange case, in use during a November 2008 expedition to the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii.
NASA's Curiosity rover will carry the Chemical and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument during the Mars Science Laboratory mission to be launched in late 2011 and investigate an intriguing area on Mars for two years. CheMin uses X-ray diffraction, a first for a mission to Mars and a more definitive method for identifying minerals than any instrument on a previous Mars mission. It supplements the diffraction measurements with X-ray fluorescence capability to gain further details about the composition of powdered rock and soil samples delivered by the rover's robotic arm.
CheMin Principal Investigator David Blake, of the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., is seen here collecting data from a CheMin cousin called Terra. The scene is from a NASA field test of technology for producing water and oxygen from soil, using the Hawaiian site as an analog for the moon. In such an application, Terra could analyze the starting soils as well as products from the extraction process.
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Members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory team carefully steer the hoisted Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument during its June 15, 2010, installation into the mission's Mars rover, Curiosity. The main body of the rover, upside down, is in the left half of the image, behind the installers.
CheMin, provided by the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., will enable Curiosity to provide definitive mineral identifications from powdered rock and soil samples delivered to the instrument by the rover's robotic arm. The inlet funnel for the samples is visible at the bottom of the instrument in this scene where CheMin is hanging upside down for installation.
The rover's components and 10 science instruments are coming together in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The team members' special garb (commonly referred to as bunny suits) is part of the care taken to keep the spacecraft clean.
NASA will launch Curiosity from Florida in late 2011 on a mission to study whether an intriguing area of Mars has offered conditions that favored development of microbial life and preservation of evidence in the rock record.


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It's a letter of complaint for a concert.
Would you please correct my mistakes?
Dear Mr Wilden,
I am writing to complain about the Fairplay concert which was organized on Saturday night. I went to the concert and I consider it to have been a major failure.
First of all, when we arrived there the people in the front rows stood up and blocked our view, wich meant we couldn`t see the band very well. The concert started one hour later than advertised so we have bored an hour looking how the sound system was installed who during the interval it was very bad. Moreover ,the air-conditioning system was not working and because of smoke effects five of the people standing on the front rows have/had? needed medical care.
Secondly, looking at your ad and buying tickets which were really very expensive , we expected seating, wich for our suprise has not happened .Finally ,to make matters whorse,the concert finished half an hour early and because to the support act who we had to listen about thirty minutes , the Fairplay were only on stage for an hour. I can`t believe something like this was happened.
It`s obvious that the seats were overpriced and you have not followed the concert program like in your ad. Because of these things, wich really have disappointed me, I would expect to a refund in full or at least send me a voucher for a free ticket to the next concert you promote.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Your sincerely, Tods
I can't find a listing for a concert by a band called Fairplay which took place in Romania. In fact, I can't find a listing for a band called Fairplay at all. Is this a real letter about a real concert? Or was it homework?
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text: NMPF and IDFA Urge Wisconsin Lawmakers to Reject State Legislation Allowing Sales of Unpasteurized Milk September 11, 2013 05:10 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By MILK Editors Email The two groups say the risks inherent in raw dairy products are not worth any purported benefits to either consumers or producers. Source: IDFA/NMPF For the second time in three years, organizations representing the nation's dairy farmers and dairy companies jointly urged state lawmakers in Wisconsin to reject efforts allowing raw milk sales directly to consumers in the nation's second-largest dairy state. In a letter sent Tuesday to Wisconsin state senators, the National Milk Producers Federation and the International Dairy Foods Association said that the risks inherent in raw dairy products are not worth any purported benefits to either consumers or producers of unpasteurized milk products. The two associations urged lawmakers to reject Wisconsin State Senate bill 236, which would allow the state-wide direct sale of raw milk. The measure is the subject of a hearing today in Madison. "Consumption of raw milk has been opposed by every major health organization in the United States, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics. The link between raw milk and foodborne illness has been well-documented in the scientific literature, with evidence spanning nearly 100 years. Raw milk is a key vehicle in the transmission of human pathogens, including E. coli O157:H7, Campylobacter, Listeria monocytogenes, and Salmonella," the organizations wrote. Federal law prohibits the interstate sale of raw milk, but allows states individual discretion to regulate raw milk sales within their borders. Several states in recent years have considered legislation expanding the sales of raw milk, even as the product has been repeatedly linked to serious illnesses from coast to coast. At a school event in Wisconsin in 2011, 16 individuals, including fourth-grade students and adults, drank raw milk donated by a parent and later suffered from diarrhea, abdominal cramping, nausea, and vomiting from Campylobacter infections. IDFA and NMPF wrote that "it is the responsibility of Wisconsin's leaders to make decisions to protect the health of the public, most especially those who are minors and are unable to make fully informed decisions that could have profound consequences for the rest of their lives." The two dairy groups mentioned in the letter that "the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has reported that nearly 75% of raw milk-associated outbreaks have occurred in states where sale of raw milk was legal. Legalizing the state-wide sale of raw milk in Wisconsin increases the risk to public health, opening up the state's consumers to the inevitable consequence of falling victim to a foodborne illness. No matter how carefully it is produced, raw milk is inherently dangerous. Americans have become ill after consuming raw milk obtained from farms of varying sizes, from cow-share programs, and from licensed, permitted, or certified raw milk producers." "Nationally, our dairy industry benefits from a very high degree of consumer confidence – confidence built in large part due to the excellent food safety record of milk and dairy products. In fact, current statistics estimate only 1-2% of reported foodborne outbreaks are attributed to dairy products. However, of those, over 70% have been attributed to raw milk and inappropriately-aged raw milk cheeses. A single case of illness – even one caused by a well-intentioned dairy farmer – that is attributed to raw milk or raw dairy products in Wisconsin would likely have an adverse effect on consumer confidence in and consumption of all healthful, nutrient-rich dairy foods like milk, yogurt, and cheese." "While choice is an important value, it should not pre-empt consumers' well-being. Legalizing the state-wide sale of raw milk is an unnecessary risk to consumer safety. Therefore, we strongly urge you to oppose Senate Bill 236," the letter said. The two organizations made a similar plea against liberalizing raw milk sales in 2010, when former Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle was presented with a bill that he ultimately vetoed. Back to news


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Review: PopCap Games Zuma
Company: PopCap Games
Website: www.Popcap.com
Title: Zuma
Players: One
Price: $5
Compatible: iPod 5G
It's known by many names - Atari calls it Ballistic, Mitchell calls it Puzzloop, and Nintendo calls it Magnetica - but PopCap Games and developer Astraware call it Zuma ($5), a game that reiterates the same color-matching theme we saw in the iPod game Cubis 2, only this time in 2-D, and with bubbles and spirals rather than a grid full of cubes. If you like to point at things and match colors, Zuma might interest you - it's a good if simple game - but if you're like us, you'll quickly tire of the repetitive matching action after only a short period of time.
A decade ago, Taito released a post-Tetris puzzle game variously called Puzzle Bobble or Bust-a-Move, flipping the "well full of blocks" upside down and letting you shoot things up into it. Baby dinosaurs at the bottom of the screen fired colored bubbles at the well's existing collection of bubbles, trying to match three or more of the same bubble color and eliminate everything already inside the well. The idea proved popular, spawning numerous sequels and a few knock-offs.
Like Ballistic, Puzzloop, and Magnetica, Zuma is a slightly remixed knock-off of Bust-a-Move, minus the cutesy dinosaur and bubble art. PopCap's selected audiovisual theme is "ancient Indian," with a stone frog face firing colored stone balls against less colorful stony backdrops. This time you fire from the center of the well rather than its bottom, rotating by sweeping your finger around the Click Wheel, and firing with a single button press. Just like Cubis 2, a beam of light points in your chosen direction, and a match of three or more pieces removes items from the screen.
The only literal twist here is that the colored balls are lined up in a single continuous line, which wraps around itself in a spiral shape, inching closer and closer to your cannon as the number of balls increases. If the closest ball in the line touches a golden skull next to your cannon, the game ends, so you need to constantly match colors to keep yourself alive - any match of three or more balls will shorten the line. Several icons are mixed in with the regular balls, letting you slow down or back up the line, aim more precisely, or blow up a bunch of balls near the bomb ball you hit.
Like several of the other recent iPod games, Zuma is a "pretty good" title, just engaging enough to occupy you briefly inbetween other activities. It has previously passed unremarkably from console to console under different names without earning any great respect or attention; though the iPod version benefits from a slightly nicer set of ball and background graphics than the odder-looking Nintendo DS title Magnetica, and its controls are naturally suited to the iPod's rotary-style Click Wheel, it's still not a standout visually, and doesn't do much with the iPod's 3-D hardware. Like Bejeweled, Zuma is a game that's best-suited to super-casual gamers with low expectations - not a bad title, but not one we'd go out of our way to recommend.
Editors' Note: iLounge only reviews products in "final" form, but many companies now change their offerings - sometimes several times - after our reviews have been published. This iLounge article provides more information on this practice, known as revving.


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I know, I know my recipe crush on the Lahey-Bittman no-knead bread is glaringly obvious. Hell, I've even gone as far as making a stop-motion video homage to it. But, this obsession goes beyond an appreciation for the concept that great bread can be made with very little effort; it's something that I actually do two or three times a week.
A detailed description of the method probably isn't necessary since: a.) the original youtube video has been played about 1.75 million views, so I'm guessing it's fairly widely known; and b.) I've gone into some detail in previous posts. Today's post has a special focus so let's say that a sufficient summary of the recipe is: mix dough, ferment overnight, allow a second countertop rise while the over heats with a Dutch oven inside, bake inside the closed Dutch oven for 30 minutes, and then remove the lid and bake for 15 to 20 minutes more. (more…)


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THE MOUSETRAP to Open at Las Cruces Community Theatre, 2/1
The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie will be directed for LCCT by Ceil Herman, running February 1 through 17, 2013.Author Agatha Christie is well known as the foremost mystery writer of her time. In this play, a group of strangers are stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, a spinster with a curious background, an architect, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has been overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. As soon as he arrives, the jurist is killed. Enjoyable plot twists follow as the backgrounds of everyone present are probed and surprising truths are revealed.Show Dates and Times:Fridays: February 1, February 8 and February 15 at 8:00 PM
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Sundays: February 3, February 10 and February 17 at 2:00 PM Gala Night is Friday, February 1. A light supper and refreshments with the cast and your fellow theatregoers, included in the price of your ticket.Ticket Prices: Adults $10; Students/Seniors/Military $9; Groups of ten or more $8/seat; Children six and under $7. Credit cards now accepted. Reservations.


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Legends of Pegasus - PC
In the 23rd century, mankind made tremendous progress colonizing the vast extents of space. Man built huge spaceships, colonized new planets and even used terraforming to transform uninhabitable worlds. Soon, new races were also discovered. The first contact was friendly and peaceful. But peace can be deceptive.
Legends Of Pegasus takes you on an epic journey into space and mixes real-time and turn-based strategy. Players will expand their civilization in the galaxy by colonizing new planets, building factories, laboratories and shipyards, researching new technologies and designing new spacecrafts to keep on exploring new galaxies. Battles are played real-time and decided not only by your tactical skills, but also by your strategic decisions and the design and equipment of your ships.
Legends Of Pegasus offers a massive single player campaign, during which the player will discover three very different races. Multiplayer features Internet or LAN gameplay, against Human or AI opponents. If you like designing your own game yourself, numerous modding options will certainly make you all the more happy. The spectacular 3D graphics don/t just bring life to marvelous planets, but also to the stunning spaceships you can freely design thanks to an intuitive building system.
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- Tactical space combat - featuring a unique mix of turn-based and real-time strategy gameplay.
- A realistic, immersive universe - three races and 12 playable factions exist in a living-breathing universe populated by a huge variety of non-player civilizations.
- Play alone or dominate with friends - an extensive single-player campaign coupled with a strong multiplayer focus ensure an engaging experience.
- Massive customization options - design, build and deploy ships created from research into hundreds of technologies based on an extensive tech tree.
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Deal-making is back in style in Silicon Valley. Driven by powerful trends in mobile devices, digital media and "cloud computing," tech companies are acting on the urge to merge — a sign, many say, of an improving economy.
SAP's pending $5.8 billion purchase of Sybase and Hewlett-Packard's pending $1.2 billion takeover of Palm are the latest headliners among 255 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) with a total value of $17.1 billion that have involved Bay Area companies so far this year. That's a big improvement over the same period last year, when there were 192 deals in the region with a value of $12.9 billion.
"We see this as a return to a more normal pattern of deal-making," said Rob Fisher, a leader of M&A operation of the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. The stock market, while recently shaken by Greece's financial crisis, has strengthened over the past year, unleashing pent-up demand for mergers and acquisitions, Fisher said.
For the shrinking venture capital industry, the surge is providing welcome return on investments at a time when the recovery in initial public stock offerings (IPOs) remains spotty.
"We're seeing more companies go public, but the M&A activity outpaces the IPOs," said Promod Haque, managing director of Norwest Venture Partners.
Healthy M&A and IPO markets are considered vital to the valley's economy. Both provide venture firms with so-called "exits" that enable them to deliver returns to limited partners, which in turn encourages new investments that fund new startups.
While the pace of mergers and acquisitions surpasses pre-recession levels, the average value of deals is down sharply from that same period, according to Brenon Daly, an analyst with the 451 Group, a San Francisco firm that tracks the tech industry. He likened it to a rebound in the volume of home sales, with prices remaining depressed.
With the region's unemployment rate at around 11 percent, the question is whether all the deal-making will put more people to work.
Some megadeals, such as HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS in 2008, trigger large layoffs as managers eliminate overlapping jobs and promote efficiencies. Other deals may have a marginal impact on overall jobs. But several of the valley's recent deals, executives and venture investors say, are geared to accelerate new market opportunities and should generate jobs.
"We already had an aggressive hiring plan — and Salesforce is going to throw rocket fuel on that," said Jim Fowler, founder of JigSaw, a business database company with about 140 employees that Salesforce.com recently purchased for $142 million.
Cast Iron Systems, a Mountain View company that helps businesses adapt to Web-based cloud computing, was focused on the U.S. market — until IBM recently acquired it to bring its technology to a global market. "I believe you will see tremendous growth in that Cast Iron subsidiary now," said Haque, a former Cast Iron director.
HP is banking on Palm's technology and engineers to help it take on Apple, Google and others in the booming smartphone and mobile computing market. That could create jobs if it succeeds. Meanwhile, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison insists that his company's much-delayed acquisition of struggling Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, which closed earlier this year, will over time generate more jobs as Oracle branches into new opportunities.
The surge in deal-making revives a broad pattern of consolidation in the tech industry that some date to Oracle's high-profile, hostile $10.3 billion takeover of PeopleSoft in late 2004. That trend turned sluggish with the recession and all but ground to a halt in the depths of the financial crisis, said Fisher of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
A confluence of three factors, business leaders say, has made mergers and acquisitions a more vital force in the Silicon Valley economy: regulatory changes, growing corporate clout and evolving technologies.
The dot-com boom was driven by IPOs and a giddy atmosphere of stock market speculation. In the aftermath of the dot-com collapse and scandals surrounding Enron and other companies, Congress adopted reforms that turned the sprint to Wall Street into a steeplechase.
Most private companies pondering IPOs today require more time and revenues approaching $100 million, said Norwest's Haque. Given such hurdles, the M&A option becomes more attractive for startup founders, executives and venture investors.
Many promising startups wind up on the shopping list of corporate giants. Cisco Systems, Oracle, HP and Google — as well as non-valley giants Microsoft, IBM and EMC — are known for their acquisition strategies. The nation's 10 largest tech companies, one analyst points out, collectively have about $200 billion in cash on hand.
Technology trends often drive the deal-making by providing "synergies." SAP, the German company that is Oracle's chief rival, is counting on Sybase's expertise in mobile computing to help it adapt to the changing business market.
IBM's acquisition of Cast Iron is designed to help it prosper amid the growing importance of cloud computing. Executives at Harmonic and Omneon, video infrastructure companies with complementary technologies, say the recent marriage of their companies will position them within an accelerating revolution of video, ranging from 3-D and high-definition production to the delivery of video on mobile devices such as the iPad.
Mergers and acquisitions can reshape the competitive landscape. Proofpoint, a Sunnyvale-based provider of Web-based e-mail security systems, found itself competing against giants after Cisco Systems acquired Iron Port, Google bought Postini and Symantec purchased Message Labs. In sales pitches, Proofpoint tries to use its rivals' size against them, emphasizing that it is more of a specialist in its field, CEO Gary Steele said.
Proofpoint, which has made three acquisitions in the last two years, could itself become a target for acquisition. The company's preference, Steele said, is to pursue an IPO.
"We definitely believe in managing our own destiny, and the public markets offer interesting advantages," he said. Among those advantages: the ability to use stock as currency to make more acquisitions.
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The pace of mergers and acquisitions in the Greater Silicon Valley has picked up dramatically in 2010, but the average value of the deals is down since the recession. Here"s a year-to-date comparison of deals involving Bay Area companies as either a buyer or seller over the past four years. Included deals were announced between Jan. 1 and May 17 of the respective year.
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2008: 214 deals, total value $36.5 billion
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Most of state's congressional delegation will forgo pay during shutdown
Washington — As the list of congressmen who have decided not to keep their salaries during the federal government shutdown grows, a majority of Connecticut's delegation has decided to join in.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., last week announced via Twitter that he would donate his pay to the Wounded Warrior Project, an organization that provides services to severely injured military veterans.
At least three other members of the state's House delegation — Democratic Reps. Rosa DeLauro, Elizabeth Esty and Jim Himes — also plan to donate their salaries to charity. And a spokeswoman for Rep. Joseph Courtney, D-2nd District, said Thursday that he will donate an unspecified "portion" of his salary to an unspecified charity if federal workers do not receive retroactive pay at the end of the shutdown.
However, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said he would continue to accept his salary during the shutdown.
"Every senator is making a different decision here," Murphy said. "Everybody has different reasons and is making their own decisions about how to treat their pay and their staffs' pay."
Federal workers — both those who are furloughed and those who remain on the job because they have been deemed essential — are not receiving paychecks for the duration of the shutdown. But a constitutional mandate requires that members of Congress continue to be paid.
Members of the House and Senate currently each receive an annual salary of $174,000. While many members of Congress are independently wealthy and can afford to forgo their salaries during the shutdown, other legislators are in a situation similar to the thousands of furloughed federal workers who may be unable to pay their bills without a regular paycheck.
Murphy appears to be among the latter group.
According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics' most recent analysis of financial disclosure forms filed by members of Congress, Murphy's assets as of 2011 rank him 96th among the 100 senators in terms of wealth. Murphy reported a net worth of somewhere between $80,000 and $95,000.
His disclosure forms indicate that he is still paying his student loans, a fact that he also noted at a recent Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing. His wife also has student loan debt.
In contrast, Blumenthal is among the wealthiest senators: The Center for Responsive Politics in 2011 ranked him third among his peers in terms of wealth, with a net worth between just under $80 million and just above $120 million.
Of his decision to donate his salary to the Wounded Warrior Project during the shutdown, Blumenthal said: "It's a great cause. I felt personally that it was the right thing to do."
Courtney's wealth ranks him in the middle of the House in the 2011 analysis, 291st in the 435-member House. He reported net worth in a range of $127,000 to $680,000.
DeLauro, Esty and Himes are each millionaires, according to the 2011 filings analysis. The wealthiest of the three, DeLauro, ranked 35th in the House with a net worth between $5.38 million and $26.49 million. Esty ranked 69th among House members in wealth, with Himes in 111th place.
As of Wednesday, about 200 members of Congress had decided either not to take their salaries or to donate them to charity. While most appear to be taking the charitable donation route, others have placed their compensation in escrow pending a decision on whether federal workers will receive back pay once the shutdown ends.
The trend has been bipartisan: Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Susan Collins of Maine, the only two Republicans in the New England congressional delegation, have decided to forgo their salaries during the shutdown.
"Any days that federal workers do not get paid, Sen. Ayotte will donate her salary to a New Hampshire charity," an Ayotte aide said.
Collins said, "Members of Congress should lose pay if federal employees who also work during the shutdown are not compensated." Collins said she will donate her pay to charities if federal workers do not receive back pay.
Last weekend, the House unanimously approved legislation to ensure back pay for furloughed government workers once the shutdown ends; Courtney was a co-sponsor of the bill. The legislation, which President Obama has indicated he would sign, has yet to be brought to the Senate floor for a vote.
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Elderly David Marsh has gone to the Nevada desert on a whim to hunt for gold and dies there. His daughter, an Easterner, must travel to the desert to collect his things and make arrangements for his burial. There, she becomes stranded and at the mercy of Lane Pilgrim, a more-than-sexy desert rat. Her attempts to escape are more fun that a pack of burros and steamier than the desert itself....


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A few months ago there were rumors about the Islanders staying in Nassau, but moving to Belmont as part of a casino development. Those plans seemed all but dead when Governor Cuomo proposed his plan for the largest convention center in the country to build just down the road at Aqueduct. The convention center was going to be built by Genting who in return wanted a class three casino with a 25 mile non compete on the site. It seems like those plans have fallen through, which opens open the door for a Belmont deal again.
Plans for a casino at Belmont Park , once considered dead and buried, may have received a breath of new life Friday when Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that a proposal to build a convention center at nearby Aqueduct Racetrack has been scrapped.
State officials said plans for the convention center and casino would be shelved until voters decide the fate of legalized gambling in New York , likely by no earlier than fall 2013.http://mobile.newsday.com/inf/infomo;JSESSIONID=2A97669B870DA50C27217E82D5A09A07?site=newsday&view=politics_item&feed:a=newsday_1min&feed:c=politics&feed:i=1.3757441&part=1
If successful, the state would accept bids for a "casino-convention center complex" somewhere in the New York metro area, although not necessarily at Aqueduct, said Cuomo spokesman Joshua Vlasto.
In the interim, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano urged Cuomo to restart conversations with the Shinnecock Indian Nation for a Belmont casino.
"The Shinnecock Nation needs state and federal authorization to build a casino," Mangano said. "Once achieved, it has the potential to create thousands of jobs, increase tourism, slow dollars going to other states and help subsidize the cost of government so that we can hold the line on property taxes."
With or without the Shinnecock Belmont could be the saving grace to keep the Islanders in Nassau County. Later this month RFPS will be gathered that include retail, residential and a sports arena. This may be the best chance for the county to keep their only professional team and Wang to get the development he wants in the county he wants.
Next month, the Empire State Development Corporation will release a request for proposals to develop 36 acres of state land at Belmont. Those plans could include retail development and a sports venue, such as a professional soccer stadium, said Sen. Jack Martins (R- Mineola ).
Although the article does mention such as a soccer stadium, I'm sure that could easily become a hcokey arena, since Nassau has a professional hockey team already.
(Aqueduct currently has a racino with only slot machines. Gentings was in talks with the state to open up a full scale casino with table games.)


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Uruguay, country located on the southeastern coast of South America. The second smallest country on the continent, Uruguay has long been overshadowed politically and economically by the adjacent republics of Brazil and Argentina, with both of which it shares many cultural and historical similarities. "On the map, surrounded by its large neighbors, Uruguay seems tiny," writes contemporary Uruguayan historian and novelist Eduardo Galeano. "But not really. We have five times more land than Holland and five times fewer inhabitants. We have more cultivable land than Japan, and a population forty times smaller."
This combination of open space and low population density has afforded Uruguay many opportunities for economic development. An independent country since 1828, with strong ties to the United Kingdom, France, and Italy, Uruguay developed throughout much of the 20th century as one of Latin America's more progressive societies, notable for its political stability, advanced social legislation, and a relatively large middle class. A period of repressive military rule (1973–85) has cast a long shadow over national life, and, like other countries in the region, Uruguay has been troubled by economic decline and factional struggles in the decades since civilian democratic rule was restored. Such adversities have caused many Uruguayans to emigrate to Europe and North America; as Galeano has remarked, "We export our young."
Almost half the people are concentrated in the metropolitan area of Montevideo, the capital; the second and third largest cities, Salto and Paysandú, are small by comparison. Facing a deep bay at the mouth of the Río de la Plata, Montevideo blends historic areas with tall office towers and well-appointed shopping centres. The old city, with its many museums, open-air markets, and restaurants, remains the heart of Montevideo and sees thousands of international visitors each year. Popular as tourist destinations, too, are beach resorts such as Piriápolis and Punta del Este, as well as the colonial masterpiece Colonia del Sacramento.


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1. How can I send my comments or questions to the Sunday School general presidency?
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2. What instructions are available to a newly called ward or stake Sunday School president?
Chapter 12 in Handbook 2: Administering the Church, contains information about the Sunday School. Additional information is available in the Sunday School section of www.lds.org
3. How do I know what will be taught in the various Sunday School classes each year?
Before the beginning of each year prieshood leaders throughout the church are sent a summary of what should be taught in each class in each organization. This information should be discussed by the Sunday School president with the members of the ward council well before January 1st so that additional manuals can be ordered if needed. A copy of these instructions are available on the church's website and can be found by clicking here.
4. Why are attendance rolls taken in Sunday School if attendance is not reported to Church headquarters?
Class rolls should be taken to determine who is not attending. As noted in Handbook 2, section 12.3.2, members of the ward Sunday School presidency are to "Review attendance records. Plan ways to encourage increased participation in Sunday School." As a part of this work, the Sunday School president, who is a member of the ward council, should discuss with the members of the ward council ways that these non-attending members may be fellowshipped and invited to return to full activity and which person or group should take the lead in initiating contact.
5. Is there still a calling for a Teacher Improvement Coordinator?
The responsibilities of the teacher improvement coordinator have now been assumed by the Sunday School Presidencies. As noted in letter from the First Presidency letter dated November 17, 2006, "The positions of stake teacher improvement coordinator and ward teacher improvement coordinator have been discontinued. Quarterly teacher improvement meetings have also been discontinued." The letter goes on to state that, "Ward Sunday School presidencies should:
- Assume the responsibilities previously held by ward teacher improvement coordinators.
- Assist priesthood and auxiliary leaders in orienting, instructing, and providing ongoing support for teachers."
6. Can the Teacher Improvement Course still be taught?
The course is now called the Teaching the Gospel course and it should be taught regularly in each unit. The Bishop and the ward council decide how often it is taught. Generally, the Bishop will assign the Sunday School presidency to teach the course using material from Part G of Teaching, No Greater Call. Working together with the Bishopric and Ward Council the Sunday School Presidency will decide when to hold the course, who to invite to take it, and whether to teach it over 12 weeks as outlined in the manual or to use a different schedule. It is important to adapt the schedule, location and timing of the course to meet the needs of participants. Everyone who is called as a teacher should take this course.
7. Can a sister serve as a member of a Sunday School presidency?
No. Only brethren may serve as a Sunday School President, Counselor, or Secretary (see Handbook 2, section 12.2)
8. Can a Marriage and Family Relations class be taught during Sunday School?
Yes. The current curriculum includes a Marriage and Family Relations course. While this class may be taught during Sunday School, it is under the direction of the bishopric. The Sunday School presidency should provide the initial teacher orientation and ongoing support for the teacher of this class
9. Can a Family History class be taught during Sunday School?
Yes. The class uses the Temple and Family History manual and may be taught during Sunday School, as determined by local priesthood leaders. This class is under the direction of the bishopric. The Sunday School presidency should provide the initial teacher orientation and ongoing support for the teacher of this class.
10. May anyone attend the Gospel Principles class?
Yes. This course is offered for investigators and others who want basic gospel instruction. It uses the Gospel Principles manual.
11. Is it necessary for 12-year-olds to stay with their Primary class until the end of the year, even though they have advanced from Primary?
Handbook 2, section 11.4.3 states, "During Primary class time, new 12-year-olds normally attend their Valiant 11 Primary class until the end of the year. However, the bishop and the presidents of the Primary, Young Men, Young Women, and Sunday School may counsel together to determine if these 12-year-olds would benefit more from attending the Sunday School class for 12- and 13-year-olds. As these leaders counsel together, they consider the needs of the children and the times of the year when individual children will reach age 12. Their decision applies to all young men and women who reach age 12 that year."
12. When a youth turns 14, does he or she advance immediately to the 14-year-old class?
No. According to Handbook 2, section 12.4.1, "The Sunday School presidency generally organizes youth ages 12 to 18 into classes according to their age on January 1. For example, the presidency may organize a class for all young men and women who are 14 or 15 years old on January 1. The youth stay in that same class until the next year."
13. What can I do as a leader or teacher to help someone who has a disability?
You can find suggestions about how to teach children, youth, and adults who have disabilities at www.lds.org. This site includes information for leaders, teachers, and others who want to learn more about specific disabilities, tips on helping those who have them, and links to other sites for more information.
14. What resources will I be given to help me teach?
The following official Church resources can help you teach the gospel. As part of your orientation as a newly called teacher, you should discuss these resources and request other assistance as needed.
- The scriptures. You should have a copy of the scriptures. If not, arrange to borrow a copy from the meetinghouse library until you can acquire your own copy.
- Teacher's manual. Each Sunday School course has an official teacher's manual. Links to the manuals are found on the Sunday School website.
- Class member study guide. The class member study guide for the course, if available, should be given to each class member. Links to the study guides are found on the Sunday School website.
- Teaching, No Greater Call. A resource book called Teaching, No Greater Call contains guidelines and suggestions relating to teaching. The book is broken into numerous small segments. You may wish to study one or two segments each week to become familiar with these additional learning and teaching resources. Review "How to Use This Resource Guide" at the beginning of the manual for a very helpful orientation.
- Class attendance roll. Your leaders will help you obtain a copy of the class attendance roll listing the names of all Church members who should attend your class, regardless of whether they attend or not.
- Meetinghouse library. Contact your ward librarian, visit your meetinghouse library, and discuss with the librarian what resource materials are available in the library or online to assist you in learning and teaching the gospel.
- Sunday School Web site. The Church's website (www.lds.org) has a section for the Sunday School that includes many resources for teachers and leaders. You should also visit the Teaching the Gospel section of the website.
15. Should I be set apart for my new calling?
Yes. A member of the bishopric calls and sets apart Sunday School teachers (see Handbook 2, section 12.2.1. A member of the ward Sunday School presidency or the secretary is encouraged to keep a list of all Sunday School teachers and the date when they are set apart by a member of the bishopric.
16. What training will I receive as a teacher?
As part of your training to teach Sunday School, you will want to participate in the following activities:
- Receive orientation as a newly called teacher. The ward Sunday School presidency has the responsibility to meet individually with each newly called teacher, preferably before the teacher's first class, to provide an orientation.
- Counsel with leaders. You are encouraged to contact the member of the Sunday School presidency who has been assigned as your leader. At least once every three months, you should meet to counsel together about your calling.
- Complete the Teaching the Gospel course. This course provides a foundation that will help you teach the gospel more effectively. It includes lessons on teaching the doctrine, teaching by the Spirit, loving those you teach, inviting diligent learning, creating a learning atmosphere, using effective methods, and preparing lessons. It also includes guidelines to help you continually improve as a teacher.
17. Who is responsible for the Meetinghouse Library?
According to Handbook 2, section 12.6.1, "Each meetinghouse should have a library with resources to help members learn and teach the gospel. The ward Sunday School presidency oversees the meetinghouse library." Meetinghouse libraries vary according to the available space and needs of members. Members of the Sunday School presidency orient newly called librarians, provide ongoing support and training, and recommend an annual budget after consulting with the ward librarian.


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Linux Interrupts
If you followed the previous steps, most likely you will see kernel hanging at the BogusMIPS calibration step. The reason is simple: The interrupt code is not there and jiffies are never updated. Therefore the calibration can never be done.
Before you start writing interrupt code, it really pays to study the hardware first. Pay particular attention to identify all interrupt sources, their corresponding controllers and how they are routed.
Then you need to come up with a strategy, which typically includes:
- a static interrupt routing map
- a list of interrupt sources
- a list of their corresponding controllers
- how interrupt controllers cascade from each other
Interrupt code overview
To completely service an interrupt, four different pieces of code work together:
- IRQ detection/dispatching
- This is typically assembly code in a file called 'int_handler.S'. Sometimes there is also secondary-level dispatching code written in C for complicated IRQ detection. The end result is that we identify and select a single IRQ source, represented by an integer, and then pass it to function 'do_IRQ()'.
- do_IRQ()
- do_IRQ() is provided in the 'arch/mips/kernel/irq.c' file. It provides a common framework for IRQ handling. It invokes the individual IRQ controller code to enable/disable a particular interrupt. It calls the driver supplied interrupt handling routine that does the real processing.
- hw_irq_handler
- It is a structure associated with each IRQ source. The structure is a collection of function pointers, which tells do_IRQ() how it should deal with this particular IRQ.
- driver interrupt handling code
- The code that does the real job.
Obviously for our porting purposes we need to write IRQ detection/disptaching code and the hw_irq_handler code for any new IRQ controller used in the system. In addition, there is also IRQ setup and initialization code.
CPU as an IRQ controller
MIPS processors include a simple interrupt controller. In it's simplest case as implemented in the R2000 it implements two software interrupts. These are interrupts that can only be raised by software setting the bit in the cause register and needs to be cleared by the interrupt handler. Otherwise they will behave just like hardware interrupts.
In case of the R4000 and most newer processors newer than the R4000 the IP7 bit in the cp0 status and cause registers doubles to serve the timer interrupt also. That is the IP7 interrupt will be raised whenever the cop0 count and compare registers have the same value. The exact mode of operation of the count register and the timer interrupt are often configurable by the CPU's mode bits. Using IP7 as the timer interrupt typically also means this interrupt cannot sensibly used for any other purpose.
So here's how to initialize the timer interrupt in a typical system. First define "CONFIG_IRQ_CPU" for your machine to enable compile the support code into the kernel. Then in your
arch_init_irq() just call
mips_cpu_irq_init(x) where for
x you put the first of the 8 interrupt numbers you're going to assign to the CPU's interrupt controller.
Set up cascading interrupts
More than likely you will have more interrupt sources than those that can directly connect to the CPU interrupt pins. A second or even third-level interrupt controller may connect to one or more of those CPU pins. In that case, you have cascading interrupts.
There are plenty of examples of how cascading interrupt works, such as the DDB5477. Here is a short summary:
- Assign blocks of IRQ numbers to various interrupt controllers in the whole system. For example, in the case of Vr4181 systems, CPU interrupts occupy IRQ 0 to 7. Vr4181 system interrupts occupy IRQ 8 to 39, and GPIO interrupts occupy 40 to 56. In most cases, the actual IRQ numbers do not matter, as long as the driver knows which IRQ number it should use. However, if you have an i8259 interrupt controller and an ISA bus, you should try to assign IRQ number 0 to 16 for the i8259 interrupts because it will make the legacy PC drivers happy. (Please note before ~12/08/2001 in version 2.4.16 of the Linux kernel, the 'i8259.c' file set the base vector to be 0x20. If you use the IRQ acknowledgement cycle to obtain the interrupt vector, you will get an IRQ number from 0x20 to 0x2f. You will then need to substract 0x20 from the return value to get the correct IRQ number.)
- Write the 'hw_irq_controller' member functinos for your specific controllers. Note that CPU and i8259 already have their code written. You just need to define appropriate CONFIG options for your board. See the next sub-section for more details about writing 'hw_irq_controller' member functions.
- In your IRQ setup routine, initialize all the controllers, usually by calling 'interrupt_controller_XXX_init()' functions.
- In your IRQ setup routine, setup the cascading IRQs. This setup will enable interrupts for the upper interrupt controller so that the lower-level interrupts can cascade through once they are enabled. A typical way of doing this is to have a dummy 'irqaction struct' and setup as follows:
static struct irqaction cascade = { no_action, SA_INTERRUPT, 0, "cascade", NULL, NULL }; extern int setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *irqaction); void __init <my>_irq_init(void) { .... setup_irq(CPU_IP3, &cascade); }
- You need to expand your interrupt dispatching code properly to identify the added interrupt sources. If the code is simple enough, you can do it in the same int_handler.S file. If it is more complicated, you may do it in a separate C function (such as in the DDB5476 board).
The hw_irq_controller struct
The 'hw_irq_controller structure' is a defined in the 'include/linux/irq.h' file as an alias for the 'hw_interrupt_type' structure.
struct hw_interrupt_type { const char * typename; unsigned int (*startup)(unsigned int irq); void (*shutdown)(unsigned int irq); void (*enable)(unsigned int irq); void (*disable)(unsigned int irq); void (*ack)(unsigned int irq); void (*end)(unsigned int irq); void (*set_affinity)(unsigned int irq, unsigned long mask); };
The 'arch/mips/kernel/irq_cpu.c' is a good sample code to write 'hw_irq_controller' member functions. Here are some more programming notes for each of these functions:
const char * typename; Controller name. Will be displayed under /proc/interrupts. unsigned int (*startup)(unsigned int irq); Invoked when request_irq() or setup_irq are called. You need to enable this interrupt here. Other than that you may also want to do some IRQ-specific initialization (such as turning on power for this interrupt, perhaps). void (*shutdown)(unsigned int irq); Invoked when free_irq() is called. You need to disable this interrupt and perhaps some other IRQ-specific cleanup. void (*enable)(unsigned int irq) and void (*disable)(unsigned int irq) They are used to implement enable_irq(), disable_irq() and disable_irq_nosync(), which in turn are used by driver code. void (*ack)(unsigned int irq) ack() is invoked at the beginning of do_IRQ() when we want to acknoledge an interrupt. I think you need also to disable this interrupt here so that you don't get recursive interrupts on the same interrupt source. [HELP: can someone confirm?] void (*end)(unsigned int irq) This is called by do_IRQ() after it has handled this interrupt. If you disabled interrupt in ack() function, you should enable it here. [HELP: generally what else we should do here?] void (*set_affinity)(unsigned int irq, unsigned long mask) This is used in SMP machines to set up interrupt handling affinity with certain CPUs. [TODO] [HELP]
The IRQ initialization code
The IRQ initialization is done in 'init_IRQ()'. Currently it is supplied by each individual board. In the future, it will probably be a MIPS common routine, which will further invoke a board-specific function, board_irq_init(). board_irq_init will be a function pointer that <my_board>_setup() function needs to assign propoer value.
In any case, the following is a skeleton code for a normal init_IRQ() routine.
extern asmlinkage void vr4181_handle_irq(void); extern void breakpoint(void); extern int setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *irqaction); extern void mips_cpu_irq_init(u32 irq_base); extern void init_generic_irq(void); static struct irqaction cascade = { no_action, SA_INTERRUPT, 0, "cascade", NULL, NULL }; static struct irqaction reserved = { no_action, SA_INTERRUPT, 0, "reserved", NULL, NULL }; static struct irqaction error_irq = { error_action, SA_INTERRUPT, 0, "error", NULL, NULL }; void __init init_IRQ(void) { int i; extern irq_desc_t irq_desc[]; /* hardware initialization code */ .... /* this is the routine defined in int_handler.S file */ set_except_vector(0, my_irq_dispatcher); /* setup the default irq descriptor */ init_generic_irq(); /* init all interrupt controllers */ mips_cpu_irq_init(CPU_IRQ_BASE); .... /* set up cascading IRQ */ setup_irq(CPU_IRQ_IP3, &cascade); /* set up reserved IRQ so that others can not mistakingly request * it later. */ setup_irq(CPU_IRQ_IP4, &reserved); #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG /* setup debug IRQ so that if that interrupt happens, we can * capture it. */ setup_irq(CPU_IRQ_IP4, &error_irq); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_REMOTE_DEBUG printk("Setting debug traps - please connect the remote debugger.\n"); set_debug_traps(); breakpoint(); #endif }
Final notes
What is described in this chapter is what is so-called new style interrupt handling. We used to have three different ways to handle interrupts: new style (CONFIG_NEW_IRQ), the old style (CONFIG_ROTTEN_IRQ) and board-private ad hoc routines. New style is now the only valid method since October-2002.
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