text:
- Home
- News
- Sports
- Opinion
- Obituaries
- Features
- Special Sections
- Classifieds
- Public Notices
DENVER — The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management made history Tuesday by bringing together the leaders of eight Tribal Nations to discuss progress in the nuclear cleanup and build partnerships to better shape the future of DOE sites.
The first-ever Tribal Leader Dialogue marked the largest gathering of leaders of Tribal Nations located near EM cleanup sites with senior DOE officials for a high-level discussion. Their meeting focused on enhancing the involvement of the Tribal Nations in decisions regarding EM's cleanup mission and future initiatives at EM sites. In all, nine Tribal Nations were represented.
"We want to listen to you today to hear what opportunities you think there are within the DOE complex and we'll try our best to meet your needs," said Senior Advisor for Environmental Management David Huizenga, who spoke about the importance of the Tribal Nations' involvement at DOE sites, including the exploration and growth of economic opportunities.
"What you have from me and the site managers is a commitment to try to understand your issues," Huizenga said.
The Tribal Nations in attendance at the gathering are located near the Hanford and Idaho sites, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Nevada National Security Site and West Valley Demonstration Project. Senior EM site managers provided overviews of site cleanup, Tribal involvement and potential economic development opportunities, such as long-term surveillance and monitoring, protection of cultural resources and asset revitalization initiatives.
"I'm thankful that we're all here and able to come together as one to confront the problems that faces our tribes and DOE," said Todd Gates, councilor of the Seneca Nation of Indians.
The Tribal Leader Dialogue participants discussed ways to improve consultation, communication and collaboration between DOE and the Tribal Nations to better develop mutual visions for economic development while addressing immediate issues related to EM's cleanup. One of the possible economic opportunities they discussed involved establishing contracts with the tribal nations to monitor EM's cleanup work to ensure protection of Tribal rights and resources.
"This conversation is important to better identify opportunities for DOE to do contracting with tribes," said Aaron Hines, chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation are interested in supplying natural gas to the Hanford site, and the Pueblo of Jemez is interested in selling solar power to Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Other tribal nations present at the event included Pueblo de San Ildefonso, Pahrump Paiute Tribe, Pueblo of Jemez, Nez Perce Tribe, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Santa Clara Pueblo and Yakama Nation.
On the cleanup front, the leaders discussed cleanup funding, compliance with regulatory agreements, adherence to tribal treaties and natural resource damage assessment and restoration. The leaders of the tribal nations also talked about their roles at the sites in the future.
DOE Office of Indian Energy Director Tracey A. LeBeau, David Conrad, DOE Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs Director for Tribal and Intergovernmental Affairs, and DOE Office of Economic Impact and Diversity Director Dot Harris were among the speakers at the event. Harris spoke about tribal economic development opportunities and planning for success in federal contracting.
The inspiration for Tuesday's EM Tribal Leader Dialogue grew out of a Tribal Summit hosted by DOE Secretary Chu in May 2011. That event provided an opportunity for tribal leaders and senior DOE officials to discuss a broad range of critical energy and environmental issues.
EM intended the Tribal Leader Dialogue to build on the success of the 2011 summit and continued collaborations.
EM's longstanding work with Tribal Nations dates back to 1989, when EM was created.
Add new comment
Read and share your thoughts on this story


text:
Eton Shirts White Shirt with contrasting red buttons. The contrast on this shirt makes it stand out. A classic cut garment from Eton Shirts that's sure to be a hit this season.
FREE Next Day U.K. Delivery over £100.
UK Mainland Order will be dispatched via Interlink Express and Standard delivery will be with you within 1-3 working days after you complete your order.
Next Day Service is available to all UK Mainland Customers.
Any orders after 3pm on a Friday will not be with you until Tuesday.
For Full details and info on all International orders please click here > DELIVERY INFO
Please contact us for more information.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
We certainly enjoyed CTM's parallel exhibition "Esemplasticism: The Truth is a Compromise".
A bunch of young International artists
shaping disparate things into a unified whole
Recognition, Emotions, Desire –>
A color-, play- and tasteful reflection on the suggested superficiality of our hyper-technological world that tends to fancy technology over artistic vision and where we engage in *a* future discourse that externalizes imagination and idolizes gadgets with our heads turned towards the past.
"When art no longer functions on an emotional or philosophic level, when it is unreflective and contributes nothing to our experiences of constructing meaning, what truth are we compromising?"


text:
This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
Freshness Warning This article is over 8 years old. It's possible that the information you read below isn't current.
3 Apr 2010
Very cool. Barcamp Orlando is partially outside. Open Space indeed. http://twitpic.com/1cwfnp Apr 3, 2010 7 :41 via Twitter
See also:
Open Source profits
Open Source Content Management still sucks
Donations and open source teams
Open Source CMS List
Your comments:
Text only, no HTML. URLs will automatically be converted to links. Your email address is required, but it will not be displayed on the site.
Name:Not your company or your SEO link. Comments without a real name will be deleted as spam.
Email: (not displayed)If you don't feel comfortable giving me your real email address, don't expect me to feel comfortable publishing your comment.
Website (optional):
Subscribe | Archives
Adam Kalsey
Mobile: 916.600.2497
Email: adam AT kalsey.com
Twitter, etc: akalsey
PGP Key
©1999-2019 Adam Kalsey.


text:
It has come to our attention that State Agencies using the Purchasing Card to acquire airline tickets and other services through travel agencies may lose credit for some minority purchases. This is due to the travel agency processing the charge using the name of the airline or other merchant instead of the travel agency's name.
We agree that state agencies should receive appropriate credit for these types of purchases. In order to accurately record these transactions, state agencies should enter the travel agency's vendor ID on the purchasing card transaction instead of the airline, rental agency, or hotel when processing the transaction through the Purchasing Card System. This will result in FLAIR recording the transaction with the new Vendor and any associated minority code.
Should you have any questions, please contact Bill DuBose or Crystal Read at 410-9307 / SC 210-9307 or 410-9308 or 210-9308, respectively.


text:
Piercarlo Valdesolo, assistant professor of psychology and head of the Moral Emotions and Trust Lab (MEATlab) at CMC, discussed scientific findings he and his research team have uncovered that shed light on the psychological triggers and behavioral consequences of compassion, with an eye toward better understanding and combating the rising phenomenon of cyberbullying.
Valdesolo's participation came as part of Facebook's 2nd Annual Compassion Research Day held July 11 at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook's anti-cyberbullying push was launched soon after Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old student at Rutgers University, committed suicide in an early instance of cyberbullying that brought international attention to the issue.
Facebook, however, says the idea for Compassion Research Day wasn't inspired by a single event.
We asked Valdesolo, who co-authored the 2011 book, Out of Character: Surprising Truths about the Liar, Cheater, Sinner (and Saint) lurking in all of us, about his participation in Facebook's event, whether cyberbullying is on the rise and, if so, how best to fight it.
CMC: How did you come to be part of this event in Menlo Park? Piercarlo: Arturo Bejar in the Facebook Engineering Department has been leading an effort to use social science research as a means of resolving conflicts that unfold online, but that also have serious consequences offline. This pursuit led him to the science of compassion, and inspired the first Facebook Compassion Research Day last year. Because of that event's success, and the promise that applying emotion research to online conflict demonstrated, the project has expanded. Presenters at the first event directed Facebook Engineering towards work that I have conducted in collaboration with David DeSteno at Northeastern University, looking at the psychological triggers and behavioral consequences of compassion.
CMC: What kind of talk did you give? Piercarlo: The talk was intended to introduce the Facebook community to the basic science on compassion that our research team conducts, with an eye towards ultimately finding ways that these ideas can be used to either resolve online disputes, or prevent their emergence. In particular, my research has identified feelings of similarity and shared identity with others as a key towards eliciting greater compassion. We are currently working with Facebook and the other researchers invited to the event to test whether changes to the interface can create greater feelings of connection amongst potential disputants. We believe that even subtle tweaks will be able to quell conflicts before they reach the point of bullying, as well as more effectively direct victims of online abuse to the appropriate support.
CMC: What kind of social science did you primarily draw on? Piercarlo: My lab studies the structure and function of "moral emotions." Things like compassion, gratitude, pride and awe. For a long time these kinds of feelings were considered to be obstacles to good decision-making. But my lab's perspective is that these emotions motivate judgments and behaviors that are absolutely essential to social success. The online environment strips interaction of its emotional richness and we're trying to find ways to reintroduce that complexity into the technology.
CMC: Is there any big (perhaps more ominous) difference between cyber-bullying and the regular bullying kids often confront growing up?
Piercarlo: Because of the lack of nonverbal and emotional communication, online interactions are more susceptible to misinterpretations that can spiral into serious confrontations. They also deny potential wrongdoers from the cues of distress and suffering that can oftentimes stop conflict before it becomes abusive. For example, we have a suite of nonverbal responses that communicate distress: crying, flushed cheeks, submissive postures. In offline interactions these
cues would communicate to potential abusers that they are causing harm and, potentially, cause them to reflect on their actions. But there's no compelling emoticon for tears. One of the big challenges of this work is to figure out how users can more easily see and understand how they are making others feel, and to give them that feedback as soon as possible.
CMC: In your view, is bullying more pervasive now in society or are we just more attuned to it vis-?-vis possible media over-hyping? Piercarlo: I can't speak to any changes in the frequency of bullying over time. But it is clear that the means through which individuals can be bullied is evolving, so efforts to address such abuse need to evolve as well.
CMC: What is the best defense against becoming a victim of cyber-bullying? Piercarlo: Though there are techniques we are trying to employ that address the frequency of cyberbullying, the top priority is to fill the needs of victims after they've been attacked. There will always be bullies. The most important work we can do is to make sure that victims feel empowered and are easily able to reach out to supportive people in their online network, or to the appropriate sources of offline help.


text:
Readers and writers filled the large theater at the Arvada Center on Jan. 27 for "Western Reboot: Authors of the Modern West," where they listened to a panel of accomplished authors and featured …
This item is available in full to subscribers.
If you're a print subscriber, but do not yet have an online account, click here to create one.
Click here to see your options for becoming a subscriber.
If you made a voluntary contribution of $25 or more in Nov. 2018-2019, but do not yet have an online account, click here to create one at no additional charge. VIP Digital Access Includes access to all websites
Readers and writers filled the large theater at the Arvada Center on Jan. 27 for "Western Reboot: Authors of the Modern West," where they listened to a panel of accomplished authors and featured speaker Craig Johnson, author of the "Longmire" series, popular on television as well.
The sellout crowd heard about six unique ways to tell stories about the West — with these articulate people, each of whom has developed a style and in many cases a particular central character(s) who carries more than one tale across a particular Western landscape. Since the event sold out early, Jeffco Library livestreamed to a wider audience and took questions from afar, as well as from the audience onsite. (It's available on the library website at jeffcolibrary.org/western-reboot-livestream.)
Emcee Chris Vanderveen, a 9News reporter, commented that he "does Western storytelling daily." It's a long tradition — only now the sheriff drives a truck instead of galloping in on horseback. Vanderveen "herded" these talkative folks into a really well-paced conversation about the power of place and characters with Margaret Coel, Barbara Nickless, Manuel Ramos, Mark Stevens and Kevin Wolf — and after a supper break, the genial Craig Johnson, who ranches in Ucross, Wyoming, pop. 25.
Kevin Wolf, who lives in Littleton, won the 2015 Tony Hillerman Award for Best Debut Western for his "Homeplace." His second title, "Brokeheart," was published last fall. "Homeplace" is set in eastern Colorado and Wolf exhibits real skill in describing the land — its grass and trees, sounds and smells — and a cast of characters one could really picture as they interacted in response to the murder of a young basketball player in the early pages. His next book is about a newsman who arrives in the Colorado mining town of Brokeheart to find sinister goings-on. "I really wanted to show the beauty of the plains," he said, adding the area is not growing — "Kit Carson High School has four graduates this year — but the old-timers are hanging on."
"What motivates you?" Vanderveen began…
Award-winner Coel is well known for her series of mysteries set on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming among the Arapaho people. She comes from a pioneer Colorado family and said she is motivated by the openness and spaciousness of the West, where one can leave structure behind and find independence.
Stevens grew up in Massachusetts, came west in 1980 and was immediately attracted to the vistas. "I love to take a drive and see what's changing." Has the genre changed? "Yes, in terms of how the West has changed — you used to always have a guy with a cowboy hat."
Nickless commented "you walk down the street and people smile back — you're not in Boston. In the West, people need to support their neighbors … there's an element of naturalism in Wyoming — nothing's fake. Are we all who we are because of how we live?"
"There's a tension between the myth of the West and reality," Coel added. "I think we are structured by the landscape — a new character has to get used to that landscape …"
About people in that landscape: Coel, as well as audience members, has become very fond of her lead characters, the Arapaho woman lawyer and the priest who lives on the reservation.
Ramos said his first books were about a Chicano lawyer in Denver and "lately about Gus Coral, who was born on Denver's north side. He was raised on the streets and stories reflect noir-darker aspects, people I know in LoHi, where I live." Stevens, who commented that there are many woman hunters, writes about a resourceful female hunting guide, who knows her way around in the mountains and is a great puzzle-solver. "She could drink us all under the table." Nickless' character is a Marine veteran who "is already used to Western values." She is a woman in a man's world.
To Vanderveen's inquiry about getting going: Coel started with: "What absolutely not to do is plant yourself in the seat of a chair. There are ideas everywhere. Open your mind and ideas will come in …" Stevens suggested "adding a personal note, start to tell stories, finish something and show it to someone else." Wolf said "a writer's organization helps. Network. There's an appeal to closing yourself off, but you can't do that." Nickless said "write the best book you can, then shove through an open door." Ramos observed "a good writer is a good reader — read all kinds of stuff, steal from other good writers — in a good kind of way. Learn from others." Coel laughed. "It sort of ruins reading pleasure-one is always ready to see how it's done …"
What about research?
Coel warned against getting carried away, as you read what's on the page, mark if there's something missing and follow up. Stevens says he functions like the old reporter he once was when out with wildlife, police officers, etc., then looks for what else needs to be filled in.
Johnson began his segment of the program by celebrating the "Western resurgence in popular culture." He has written 13 novels and two novellas, which have been adapted for the TV series. "When in my 20s, I fell in love with Ucross, Wyoming," he said. "I set out to write about a sheriff in the least-populated county in the least-populated state. You really depend on your neighbors. The Western culture means bonding together." Audience members asked how it is to see your books on television. "It's like having a house plan and going down one morning and it starts talking to you!" Usually, Hollywood wants to get rid of authors as soon as possible, but producers kept Johnson in the loop, including actors' auditions for the parts in the series.
They shot the first part in a courthouse in Las Vegas, New Mexico, then built a reproduction for the subsequent films. "The West is about exteriors, not interiors," he said. "You cannot escape the landscape — always there, always having an effect."
More than 500 happy readers went home with new ideas for winter entertainment.
Other items that may interest you
We have noticed you are using an ad blocking plugin in your browser.
The revenue we receive from our advertisers helps make this site possible. We request you whitelist our site.


text:
Opinion: The Obama-Boehner Showdown
Editorial board member Joe Rago and assistant editorial page editor James Freeman discuss Speaker John Boehner's remarks on the fiscal cliff negotiations. Photos: Associated Press
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... the ... the ... welcome to Opinion Journal I'd mind Dan Henninger ... well we are waiting for President Obama to speak line from the White House this afternoon on he's going to address the fiscal cliff ... on John Binner House Speaker John Binner spoke about it himself this morning on the expectation is that the of the White House ... and the House Republicans are clearly are going to start going into negotiations over the fiscal cliff ... and I suspect perhaps of the urgency ... has been thrust upon them in a few days at the election by the fact that the stock market ... dropped ... about two percent ... in reaction to ... perhaps the election craps the impending of fiscal twenty but the other seems to be some ... consensus that of the cliff is indeed what this are cause the stock market to ... buy awful so lot like this ... and so the president of salt is going to talk about it ... of while we wait for the president to appear I am and joined here by my colleague Sarah James Freeman and Joe rego ... and we're going to talk a little bit about Daw House Speaker of the nurse remarks this morning ... he has been a guest ... on Wednesday spoke again yesterday and again this morning ... so this debater in some senses try to get out in front of the president ... on this issue and I was just take a quick look ... for a chat about the what somewhat dark Mr. Bader said ... in a statement this morning ... Wednesday ... I outlined irresponsible path forward ... to avert ... the fiscal cliff without ... raising tax rates ... about twenty four hours after I spoke to the Congressional budget office released a report ... showing that the most harmful consequences of the fiscal cliff ... come from increasing tax rates ... this is an opportunity for the president to lead ... this is his moment to reduce the Congress of workforce solutions ... that can pass both came ... though speaker Bayer all ... so the water ... lauding that he seems so grown in the sand James is that he doesn't want to increase ... tax rates ... is correct and one that we are so few other lines of the size it might be able to cross the aisle ... it's good that he's focuses the should be really the problem is that expletive ... of the economy isn't in a separate government spending that has lead declines the yet the problem is this five hundred billion dollar tax increase ... scheduled for twenty thirteen ... and that what he's saying there is that he understands that Mr Obama won the election ... Mr Brown wants to ... bring more revenue when the government take more of it from taxpayers and that's Mr banner saying ok we'll do some of that ... but let's do it by eliminating deductions simplifying the code a little bit instead of raising rates ... down but isn't there are kind of a contradiction show the center of this ... yes I'm the one hand we have to reduce spending to reduce the deficit ... but the Democrats have been saying for the past four years that they also want to increase ... revenues to pay for the levels of spending that they would like to maintain ... the tax cliff ... does indeed increased tax revenue ... that's ... their problem is that they want to spend another KDB is true that ... the problem is that the tax cliff increases taxes on the wrong people they wanna ... increase taxes on people earning over two and fifty thousand dollars ... this is essentially the only thing President ... Obama campaign on aside from ... Och aspersions on on Mitt Romney's character and impulsive ... so ... I think were were to see it that that I think the question now is is just what shape the second intake unit Chuck Schumer coming out and saying ... well you know free clean out the deductions that the high and maybe we can live ... with that operate it stays that thirty five percent of course ... we are at an ... all kinds of other stuff that ... Obama first term increase their ... of that saying you know maybe that operate with the forty percent instead of forty four point eight ... yell ... well you know opera was built around these ... kinds of points for a long time there was the famous expression about the budgetary politics with this smoke and mirrors ... the ... it has asked me what we're going back into the valley of smoke and mirrors I mean ... the CBO report that the speaker Bayer refer to ... it mainly talks about ... the overall budget deficit and and several commitments over the long term and I know but on page two of the CBO report the layout versus likely ... that the entitlement commitments are absolutely unsustainable on last day or need are those ... of benefits are cut ... or taxes are increased ... Beery significantly to pay for it ... and what gives the impression listening to these people like Chuck Schumer a million dollars exemptions ... that they're basically certain moving the shells are on display in their numbers look good ... well this one still winter and ... then you wouldn't think a best case scenario you would say now that President Obama has been reelected ... maybe he'll acknowledge that his goal of the Buffett tax actually doesn't ... collect much revenue of a deal acknowledge that you actually have to reform ... the growth of spending as opposed to simply trying to to tax people for ... there's not a whole lot of first term to secure this that's where egos here but I think that would be a ... signal here that he is serious to be reaches out to the speaker banner with that with a plan that says lets her ... mom ... recent sentiment programs but Joe in the first term what was the substance of President Obama is commitment to the title for the social security ... I mean if you're member said ... on entitlement reform is health care reform ... so what we got was you entitlement of the Affordable Care Act ... was supposed to solve this problem of these of these problems have been building up for so long ... I he would not I don't think organist see ... any kind of serious change entitlements this aside from maybe ... tinkering at the high and you know means testing Sosa Security more ... increasing


text:
Well nice to see you having to reduce to mocking me, hypocrite.
yeah man, i'm sorry i don't know you're reputation as the world's best debater. i never got the memo.
not popular or highly active? according to my calculations, it has 2201.64 PPD, compared to TLN's 906.5. hmmm. and i can provide you plenty more evidence if you like? that was the first one i thought of.
what you wrre qucik to dismiss as 'crap evidence' is actually the truth. ask RD, because i know he feels the same about this as i do. he even brings up the same points as me "Ask the RSZ members how groans work over there. You can go into some topics and see people "groaning" others' posts for no reason at all, only because they have done the same to others...and it got out of hand QUICKLY." why don't you take himseriously... or is he not worthy of the WORLD'S GREATEST DEBATER'S patience either?
Did I say TLN was a large forum community? I know Insidehoops is. Go have fun comparing that.
I'm waiting for the evidence sir. That's why I'm here. The thing you posted was really stupid.
Truth? It's an opinionated post. Do you know what that means? You can't argue with just opinions. Can you have a 10 page argumentative debate of me liking apples and you liking grapes and at the same time be serious?
I'd take RD's opinion over yours that's for sure. He runs this forum and had another one I believe. His and other major forum owners, admins and mods will definitely get more of my attention than yours. No offense.
How about you actually reply to one of my arguments instead of just hiding away or just replying with witty repetitive lingo?


text:
11 Best Oily Hair Remedies
Your personal Exxon Valdez situation is no match for these shampoos, hairsprays and more
Why: Readers say this hair powder will "add more of a matte look" to shiny, oily hair while also giving your roots "great, non-greasy" fullness. Rub it into your roots to "reduce oiliness," "add body and texture" and "define layers with ease," they say. "Once I put a small amount in my hair, it automatically becomes thick and voluminous," claims one reader. "When your hair goes limp in the middle of the day" or "your bangs are hanging in your eyes and need some lift," you can "easily work the volume back up without having to add more," says another reader.
Agree? Disagree? Write your review here.
*At time of publication
SEE NEXT PAGE: No 10: Bumble and bumble Sumowax, $27
Older comments
I enjoy Neutrogena Anti-Residue and Biolage.
by GigiSD Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 09:58AM Report as inappropriate
good to know
by LittleBunny Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 10:20AM Report as inappropriate
Love Aveda products for the hair. Might have to try this one.
by Ydabney Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 01:09PM Report as inappropriate
I have really oily hair, i havent tried most of these! excited to look for these at the drug store :D
by rayshaviolet Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 04:13PM Report as inappropriate
Awesome tips, thanks!
by yestfl Monday, October 15, 2012 at 11:37AM Report as inappropriate
My best friend has thin, oily hair! I really like this article because now I can share some excellent tips! :)
by bestrong13 Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 02:25PM Report as inappropriate
I love to use clarifying shampoo when I have oily scalp and roots.
by TBjunkie Monday, April 30, 2012 at 01:10AM Report as inappropriate
not for me, but maybe helpful for some
by olkrav319 Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 02:21AM Report as inappropriate
Didn't really see anything that could benefit me..
by watsername23 Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 11:44AM Report as inappropriate
Very helpful! Thank you!
by powerwoman033 Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 11:57PM Report as inappropriate


text:
Here's my not-so-festive look I worn today.
I just wanted to wear this coat I purchased lately. Looks like a vintage though,
it's a brand-new one, this suede coat is simply magical!
The shade of color that reflects winter sunshine, the soft texture and the
silhouette, I thought it's such a perfect choice rather than picking up a
festive dress (which I'm still in love).
Hope your holidays shine with joy and laughter!!


text:
18 Kt. Yellow Gold and Amethyst Cufflinks.
2 Natural Amethyst Wt. 12.51 cts.
Product Category:Cufflinks
Only 1 left in stockCompare
Shipping & Return policy
- We offer complimentary shipping on all orders, inside Cairo please allow 3 working days for delivery. for The orders outside Cairo it depends to each Governorate
- We hope you are delighted with your purchase, but should you wish to return it, you can do so within 30 days of receiving your order. We kindly ask that items are returned to us in their original and unused condition.
- After 30 Days Antwerpen pays 85 % of the value, providing the merchandise is in the same condition when it was purchased.
- For upgrading, Antwerpen credits full value of the piece returned.
- To return back an upgraded piece, Antwerpen pays 85 % of value, Providing the merchandise is in the same condition when it was purchased.
- Customer Designs, Orders and silver products do not returned back.
- We write down a check with the value, valid after 60 days of returned date.


text:
Please welcome Wiffy of Noob Cook to Rasa Malaysia today.
She is sharing with us a Chinese New Year recipe called 花开富贵, or stir-fried broccoli and scallops, which means richness and abundance. Noob Cook is a great Singaporean food blog with many delicious home-cooked recipes, I have to say that Wiffy is certainly no noob in the kitchen as she constantly whips up droolworthy, delicious, and homey dishes.
Hop over to Noob Cook and check it out yourself. This broccoli and scallop dish pairs perfectly well with other Chinese New Year recipes that I have recently posted.
Broccoli and Scallop is one of my favourite dishes to order when I eat out at our local zi-char stalls or Chinese restaurants.
However, it's usually not cheap presumably because of the fresh scallops. That's why I like to make this at home. Being a noob cook, I am unabashed about my non-purist way of cooking, and hence I would like to share my short-cut way of remaking this dish at home.
The method is super easy – simply blanching the vegetables in boiling water for just a few minutes, and then creating a fast and simple cheater's sauce using instant vegetable stock and corn starch solution to drizzle over the vegetables & seafood. While this dish is small in effort, it is big in taste and also easy on the wallet.
With Chinese New Year coming around the corner, this is an auspicious and colourful dish to serve to your family. The broccoli florets and carrots sliced to flower shapes symbolise richness and abundance (花开富贵).
Latest Recipes:
SUBSCRIBE TO RASA MALAYSIA NEWSLETTER AND GET EASY AND DELICIOUS RECIPES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX. If you try my recipe, please use hashtag #rasamalaysia on social media so I can see your creations! Follow me on Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter for new recipes, giveaways and more.


text:
Library mission statements are pablum intended to placate everyone and offend no one. It could be different, as I recently found out because of a tweet and a blog from Lorcan Dempsey, which led me to the personal mission statement of Dan Chudnov:
How refreshing!
Chudnov blogged this in 2006, the year in which Time Magazine's person of the year was "You." Youtube had just exploded into our consciousness. Social networking was hot. This was the end of broadcasting and the beginning of narrowcasting. Time Magazine realized then that new web technologies would center around the individual and his or her personal needs and wants. The world embraced this idea.
Libraries could have aligned with this fundamental shift. But seven years later, libraries remain rooted in the concept of providing services for the average user of a particular community. Chudnov's mission is a radical departure from this model and an ambitious goal. Give to the masses what not so long ago was a rare commodity of only the most privileged: a personal library that archives all the information one has created, has consumed, is consuming, and intends to consume.
In 2013, parts of this vision have been realized. Unfortunately, libraries were largely on the sidelines. A slew of commercial enterprises provide aspects of personal digital libraries, either free of charge or at relatively low cost. Google is organizing the world's information, but its personalized services put the individual front and center. Browsers keep track of the information we have consumed, and they let us bookmark the information we intend to consume. Netflix keeps track of our movies, the Kindle store of our books, iTunes of our music, and Gamefly of our games. We archive our writings, our observations, our pictures, our videos in social networks, cloud-based storage, and blogs. Amazon, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Microsoft, Tumblr, Twitter, Yahoo, and many others would love to provide as many services as possible to each of us as part of their corporate strategy. The current situation is chaotic and messy. Yet, the last thing we should strive for is an orderly, easy, convenient information landscape dominated by a few commercial entities and governments. We should wish for more chaos and more providers competing with one another.
We take it increasingly for granted that we can experience our entertainment on our terms. We want to watch our movies and TV shows when the time is right for us, not when a network decides we should watch it. Unlike DVD rentals, streaming services never sell out no matter how many of our neighbors rent the same video. Yet, when it comes to academic libraries and professional information needs, researchers still accept that their individual requirements are subject to community compromises. Researchers whose information needs are much different from those of average library users are effectively relegated to second-class status.
How can a community-based library adapt? What is its role in an environment increasingly dominated by commercial enterprises? What are the specific steps it can take to help its users develop a personal library? What kind of help do its users need? Should the community library provide alternatives for commercial services? Or, should it merely supplement them? How do these new services fit with institutional traditions and commitments? Should the library help its users regain control of the information they ceded to for-profit companies in a Faustian bargain? If yes, what are the concrete steps that can accomplish this? Should the library help its users regain control of search engines dominated by commercial priorities? If yes, how?
Chudnov's mission statement leaves considerable freedom for interpretation. Like all good mission statements, it sets a direction. It provides a long-distance view. It crystallizes what is important in a time of information overload: focus on the real information needs of individuals. Libraries ignore this at their peril.


text:
Motel 6 Pontiac hotels are listed below. Search for cheap and discount Motel 6 hotel rooms in Pontiac, MI for your group or personal travels. We list the best Motel 6 Pontiac hotels/properties so you can review the Pontiac Motel 6 hotel list below to find the perfect place.
Our search will list Pontiac, MI lodging properties that have similar star quality of Motel 6.Need 5+ Rooms? Lock in a group rate for Pontiac MI
How should we direct your call?


text:
How to Fight Carb Cravings by Boosting Brain Serotonin
By Michael A. Smith, MDSerotonin is known as the "feel good" neurotransmitter. It plays a central role in mood stability and helps promote feelings of security, relaxation, and confidence.
There's evidence now that serotonin may even play a role in carbohydrate cravings. As a matter of fact, low brain serotonin has been linked to carb binging and overeating that contributes to excessive body fat.1
So if you're looking for more ammunition in your battle against carb binges, you should probably keep on reading.
Tryptophan Enhances Serotonin ProductionTryptophan is the precursor to serotonin, and supplementing with tryptophan enhances the production and function of serotonin in the brain.
In fact, human studies suggest that obese patients have diminished plasma tryptophan levels that remain low, independent of weight loss or diet.2,3 This altered tryptophan metabolism reduces serotonin production and contributes to carb cravings and binge eating.
At this point, tryptophan probably sounds like an easy solution for carb bingers, right? Not so fast — there's a problem to consider: Unfortunately, tryptophan is easily degraded and most of it will never even get the chance to convert into serotonin.
There's good news though — we've actually figured out a way to protect tryptophan in an oral supplement. How? By combining it with lysine and nicotinamide. As it turns out, the presence of these two additional nutrients helps get tryptophan to the brain to readily convert into serotonin.
Saffron Helps Naturally Maintain Serotonin LevelsIf you can't help reaching for that extra cookie or you're having a hard time with between-meal snacks, you might also want to look at saffron. Saffron was actually used in ancient Persia as a way to enhance mood, relieve stress, and curb appetite.
Two compounds in saffron, safranal and crocin, have been shown to modulate serotonin activity in the brain.4-6In more recent studies, women taking a patented saffron extract reported the following results:7
- Reduced desire to snack
- Fewer instances of carb binging between meals
- Less hunger
- Moderate weight loss
- More energy
- Improved mood
The Influence of Exercise on Serotonin LevelsAccording to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence of the United Kingdom, exercise actually increases brain serotonin function in humans. An unrelated 1996 animal study revealed that there are two mechanisms by which physical activity increases brain serotonin.
First, exercise increases the rate and frequency at which serotonin is "fired" within the brain, resulting in an increase in both serotonin production and release. Second, regular exercise increases the level of tryptophan in the brain.8
Although the exact mechanism is not completely understood yet, one thing is clear: Exercise improves serotonin activity in the brain. As if you needed another reason to exercise!
Eat Less & Feel BetterIf you're trying to lose weight but binge eating is holding you back, you may want to try optimizing your brain serotonin levels as an additional approach. Who knows, maybe you'll end up feeling better and eating less.
Want more information on managing serotonin? Check out this Life Extension article for additional insight: Why Serotonin Levels Decline With Age.
Have anything to ask or add? Please join the discussion in the comments!
- Eating Disorders: A Reference Sourcebook. Lemberg R. Ed., Oryx Press; 1998:51.
- Am J Clin Nutr. 2003 May;77(5):1112-8.
- Curr Drug Metab. 2007 Apr;8(3):289-95.
- BMC Complement Altern Med. 2004 Sep 2;4:12.
- J Ethnopharmacol. 2005 Feb 28;97(2):281-4.
- Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2007 Mar 30;31(2):439-42.
- Nutraveris; 2006. Unpublished study.
- Behav Pharmacol. 1996 Jan;7(1):101-104.


text:
Rhode Island speaker's work, home raided in probe
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Law enforcement officials raided the office and home of House Speaker Gordon Fox on Friday as part of a criminal investigation by the U.S. attorney's office, FBI, IRS and state police.
Officials would not say who or what was being investigated, but authorities worked for hours inside the Democratic House speaker's Statehouse office while state troopers stood outside.
Authorities entered the office carrying an evidence bag and empty cardboard boxes Friday morning. Fox's spokesman, Larry Berman, said state police had asked everyone working in the office to leave but he didn't know why.
A Rhode Island state trooper stands outside the office of House Speaker Gordon Fox Friday, March 21, 2014 at the Statehouse in Providence, R.I. A U.S. attorney's office spokesman said his office, the FBI, IRS and state police are engaged in a law enforcement action, but would not comment whether the Democratic House speaker was being investigated. (AP Photo/Erika Niedowski)
Around 4 p.m., a dozen authorities exited Fox's office carrying boxes and other items.
Several news outlets reported that Fox returned to his home on the East Side of Providence on Friday afternoon, shortly after FBI agents removed boxes from it. He did not comment.
A U.S. attorney's office spokesman, Jim Martin, wouldn't comment when asked whether the House speaker was being investigated. He said two federal search warrants had been executed, but he wouldn't say whether they were connected to Fox.
Fox is just the latest politician to be wrapped up in a criminal investigation in Rhode Island, a state with a long history of elected officials getting into trouble with the law. Former Independent Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci, one of the longest-serving mayors in U.S. history, went to prison in 2002 for racketeering conspiracy after a federal probe found he presided over widespread corruption in office. Former Republican Gov. Edward DiPrete went to prison in the 1990s after admitting he took bribes while in office.
Fox has represented Providence for more than two decades in the state's part-time General Assembly, and he became the nation's first openly gay House speaker in 2010. He has a private law practice.
A spokeswoman for Democratic Gov. Lincoln Chafee said he wasn't commenting on the investigation.
"He has been briefed on the situation, and he continues to be updated by R.I. State Police Colonel Steven O'Donnell," Faye Zuckerman wrote in an email.
Lawmakers were already maneuvering Friday to replace Fox. House Majority Leader Nick Mattiello said he was among those who hoped to become the next House speaker. He was camped out in a restaurant in the city's Federal Hill neighborhood Friday afternoon making calls to fellow Democrats and called an "informational caucus" for Friday evening to talk about "the future of the House."
He said the news of the raids was "unsettling," but he stopped short of calling for Fox to relinquish his leadership position.
"Clearly this is a distraction," Mattiello said following the caucus, which was attended by about two dozen lawmakers. "I've got a lot of support. ... I am confident I have the votes to be the next speaker."
He said he had tried to call Fox but his voice mail was full.
Rep. James McLaughlin, a Cumberland Democrat, attended Friday night's meeting after hearing the news about the raid on the television news.
"This is all we need, what with all the problems that we already have," he said before the meeting. After it, speaking of the House of Representatives, he said, "We're in turmoil."
Asked at the Statehouse on Friday afternoon if Fox had plans to resign, Berman said, "Not that I'm aware of."
"I'm sure he's talking to advisers about his future," he added.
Berman said he wasn't aware that any other lawmakers were questioned as part of the investigation.
He said that Fox has had many great accomplishments as speaker and that whatever this investigation is about, "I don't think it reflects on his legislative" achievements.
In January, Fox agreed to a settlement with the state ethics commission for failing to disclose he had done more than $40,000 in legal work for a Providence economic development agency. Fox acknowledged breaking a law that requires elected officials to annually report whether they received more than $250 in income from a government agency and agreed to pay a $1,500 civil fine.
Lawyer Albin Moser, who represented Fox in the recent complaint before the state ethics commission, wouldn't comment on Friday's events or say whether he is still representing Fox.
Jason Grammitt, of the state ethics commission, said the office wasn't involved in the investigation but wouldn't comment on whether its staff had referred anything from its earlier investigation to federal or state authorities.
Rhode Island state police officers stand outside the office of House Speaker Gordon Fox Friday, March 21, 2014 at the Statehouse in Providence, R.I. A U.S. attorney's office spokesman said his office, the FBI, IRS and state police are engaged in a law enforcement action, but would not comment whether the Democratic House speaker was being investigated. (AP Photo/Erika Niedowski)
Rhode Island state police officers stand guard outside the office of the House Speaker Gordon Fox at the Statehouse in Providence, R.I., Friday, March 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
A Rhode Island state police officer stands guard outside the office of the House Speaker Gordon Fox at the Statehouse in Providence, R.I., Friday, March 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.


text:
AndThanks2U.comGRATITUDE | FAITH | TEAMWORK | STRATEGY | SUCCESS
The 4x4 Industry has just
made a MILLION DOLLAR PARADIGM SHIFT. Our
members are experiencing a Staggering Cash windfall in record time, all from a tiny $2.50
faith and gratitude seed.
Over two years in the making and miles
apart from what you've seen before. Built for the long haul. This is
The BIG ONE . .
copyright 2014 AndThanks2U.com | All rights reserved


text:
EDF Energy Renewables has appointed marine engineering company SeaRoc as the principal contractor to oversee the completion of the construction of the Teesside Offshore Wind Farm.
The offshore wind project, located 1.5 km off the northeast coast at Redcar, will be EDF Energy Renewables' first offshore development.
SeaRoc will undertake the remaining planning, management and coordination of work on the project, including the installation of the 27 wind turbines and towers, cable terminations, marine coordination, scour protection and array commissioning.
The SeaRoc team will be assisted by staff from its sister company, Natural Power, for the site management works. Working closely with Natural Power, SeaRoc has completed the installation of the tower, nacelle and rotor blades of the first of the 62 MW project's 27 2.3 MW wind turbines.
Commissioning tests on the new installation will be carried out ahead of electricity generation. Installation of the turbines is being undertaken with the MPI Adventure, a six-leg jack-up vessel owned by MPI Offshore.
Installation work on the remaining wind turbines continues and is expected to be completed this spring.


text:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama thinks Michigan State will win the NCAA men's basketball college championship.
The problem? As president, Obama has correctly predicted the winner only once, when North Carolina won in 2009.
As announced on ESPN, Obama's Final Four picks for the NCAA tournament, which starts this week, are: Michigan State, Arizona, Florida and Louisville.
Obama picked Michigan State to knock off top-ranked Florida to advance to the final against Louisville, which he predicted would beat Arizona.
To advance in the first round, Obama has Michigan State defeating Delaware, the university in Vice President Joe Biden's home state.
"I think going against Michigan State is pretty tough," Obama told ESPN in outlining his tournament bracket. "I'll let Biden fill out his own bracket. If he wants to pick Delaware over Michigan State, I'll let him do it."
The president's bracket: here
Reporting by Steve Holland; Editing by Paul Simao


text:
From MeritBadgeDotOrg
(Difference between revisions)
|Line 1:
|Line 1:
|caption=Stalking Merit Badge
|caption=Stalking Merit Badge
|subject= Discontinued Merit Badges
|subject= Discontinued Merit Badges
Revision as of 18:48, August 10, 2009
|Stalking merit badge
|BSA Advancement ID:
|Replaced by:
[[Category:Discontinued {{{group}}} merit badges]]
|Stalking is a discontinued merit badge. It was originally name "Stalker" in the 1910 Handbook for Boys and then renamed in the 1911 Handbook. It was discontinued in 1952.
Merit badge requirements
- 1. Demonstrate by means of a stalking game or otherwise, ability to stalk skillfully in shelter and wind, etc., when occasion demands.
- 2. Know and recognize the tracks of ten different kinds of animals or birds in his vicinity, three of which may be domestic.
- 3. Submit satisfactory evidence that he has trailed two different kinds of wild animals or birds on ordinary ground far enough to determine the direction in which they were going, and their gait or speed. Give names of aminals or birds trailed, their direction of travel, and describe gait and speed; or submit satisfactory evidence that he has trailed six different kinds of wild animal or birds in snow, sand, dust or mud, far enough to determine the direction in which they were going, and their gait or speed. Give names of aminals or birds trailed, their direction of travel, and describe gait and speed.
- 4. Submit satisfactory evidence the he has tracked a human being and deduced from the trail whether it was a man or woman, young or old, the gait or speed,and also give any other information deduced.
- 5. Submit evidence the he has scored at least 30 points from the following groups: [Group (f) and 4 of the 5 groups (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) must be represented in the score of 30 and at least 7 points must be scored from (a), (b), or (c)].
- Make a clear photograph of:
- (a) Live bird away from nest...................4 points
- (b) Live woodchuck or smaller wild animal .....3 points
- (c) Live wild animal larger than woodchuck ....4 points
- (d) Live bird on nest .........................3 points
- (e) Tracks of live wild animal or bird ........2 points
- (f) Make satisfactory plaster cast of wild animal or bird tracks with identification imprint on back or each....................... 2 points
- Make a clear photograph of:
| The official source for the information shown in this article or section is:
Handbook for Boys, 1948 Edition
The original design of the Stalking Merit Badge contained a leaf rather than an animal.


text:
Raytheon has won a $35 million option from the Navy to continue to provide design agent engineering services for the MK-31 Rolling Airframe Missile Guided Missile Weapon System.
The weapon system is part of a cooperative development and production program conducted jointly by the United States and Germany, the Defense Department said in a release.
Under the contract, Raytheon will provide program support, guided-missile round pack support and guided missile launching system support.
The RAM missiles are surface to air weapons used to defend against attack, particularly by anti-ship cruise missiles.
This support will help maintain current weapon system capability, and will resolve issues through design, systems, software, maintenance, reliability, maintainability, quality assurance and logistics engineering services, the Defense Department said.
Work will be completed in Tucson, Ariz., and is expected to be completed by September 2014.
Funding in the amount of $8.2 million is obligated at the time of the award, and will expire at the end of fiscal 2014.
About the Author
Mark Hoover is a senior staff writer with Washington Technology. You can contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com, or connect with him on Twitter at @mhooverWT.
Printable Format
E-Mail this page
Advanced Search
In an exclusive for WT Insider members, we are collecting all of the contract awards we cover into a database that you can sort by contractor, agency, value and other parameters. You can also download it into a spreadsheet. Our databases track awards back to 2013.
Read More
In our latest WT Insider Report, we pull together our best advice, insights and reporting on the trends and issues that will shape the market in 2016 and beyond.
Read More
Sign up for our newsletter.
I agree to this site's Privacy Policy.


text:
Get 15% OFF Your Next Order
The best deals come to your inbox. Sign up for GEMPLER'S emails to get exclusive offers and first dibs on hot new products!
Glow-In-The Dark Projecting Wall Sign alerts responders to safety shower location
See safety shower location signage clearly in power outages or low-light conditions. This 6"H x 5"W sign is charged by any light source and will stay illuminated up to 10 hr. Sign projects at a 45° angle 3" from the wall and is visible from up to 100' away. Made of tough, 0.100" thick high-impact plastic. Sign has pre-drilled mounting holes, self-adhesive pads, mounting screws and washers for easy installation.
Need more options? See all Safety and Hazard Warning Signs and Labels
2018 Reference Guide: Page 105


text:
03.16.13: The No. 10 seed Lady Knights will be playing in the first game of the NJCAA Division II Women's Basketball National Championship Tournament vs. the No. 7 seed Express of Owens Community College from Toledo, OH Tuesday March 19th at 9:00am CST (10:00am EST).
You can follow all the action vie the NJCAA TV webcast brought to you by iHigh by following this link: https://www.ihigh.com/icccougars/broadcast_289494.html?silverlight=1 In addition, you can follow utilizing social media by following on Facebook by liking NJCAA Div. II Women's Basketball Championship and CCRI Women's Basketball Coach Lynch. You can follow on Twitter by following: @CCRIathletics and @NJCAATourneyICC. While following on Twitter, utilize this hashtag on all tweets to join in on the national discussion: #D2WChamp.
The Express is ranked No. 9 by the NJCAA Division II poll as District I Champion with a 25-7 record. They have four players averaging in double-figures led by Emma-Jean Ricketts with 16.8 points per game, followed by Karahn Scott 11.9 points and 10.1 rebounds, Uniqua Mitchell 11 points and Mackenzie Heacock with 10.7 points per game. In addition, the Express are riding a nine-game winning streak as they enter the Nationals.
The Lady Knights look to counter the Express with their all-time leading scorer, assists, and steals leader: Jahira Smith (Brooklyn, NY) who comes into the Nationals with 1,021 career points, 305 assists and 254 steals. This year averaging 18 points, 4.4 assists, and 4.5 steals per game. Smith will be helped by Nyjah Porcher (New Britain, CT) the single season rebound leader with 323 rebounds this year who averages 15.6 points and 11.2 rebounds per game. The two sophomores will be helped by the freshman guard tandem of Lexi Barros (New Bedford, MA) averaging 16 points per game with 3.6 assists and 3.7 steals and Ahnyyah Jackson (Hackensack, NJ) averaging 12 points per game.
Should the Lady Knights win their first match-up they would face the winner of the 2 vs. 15 match-up of Louisburg College (NC) and Erie Community College (NY) Wednesday at 8:00pm CST. Should CCRI lose they would play the loser of that game Thursday at 9:00am CST.
You can follow all the action on Facebook liking NJCAA Div. II Women's Basketball Championship or on Twitter by following: @CCRIathletics and @NJCAATourneyICC.
The Community College of Rhode Island, New England's largest comprehensive community college, enrolls nearly 18,000 students in credit courses and thousands more in non-credit and job training classes. Its athletic program boasts 12 varsity programs and an academic support program for all student-athletes.
This page developed and maintained by CCRI Athletics. Send comments and suggestions to firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Mr. Abbasi will also present a corporate overview at 8:15 a.m. MDT, on the same day. A live Web cast and replay of both presentations will be available at www.informatica.com/investor.
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the world's number one independent provider of data integration software. Organizations around the world gain a competitive advantage in today's global information economy with timely, relevant and trustworthy data for their top business imperatives. Worldwide, more than 4,440 enterprises rely on Informatica to access, integrate and trust their information assets held in the traditional enterprise, off premise and in the Cloud. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com .
Note: Informatica is a registered trademark of Informatica Corporation in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.


text:
Parent Directory | Revision Log
|Links to HEAD:
|(view) (download) (annotate)
|Links to MAIN:
|(view) (download) (annotate)
Commit new gstreamer eclasses as reviewed on gentoo-dev mailing list with a few more fixes, most notably EAPI=1 support fixes. For a more detailed changelog, please see gnome overlay git log.
naive bump of all EAPI-specific checks in eclasses to permit EAPI=5 where EAPI=4 was previously allowed
Fix building with newer eapis wrt bug#385841. Noticed by triggered rebuild to -ocr.
inherit multilib for get_libdir
dev-util/pkgconfig -> virtual/pkgconfig
Update copyright years in headers
Tweak plugins versioned list a bit more for 0.10.22 to avoid useless QA warnings - exif option gone again in 0.10.22 for testing purposes, automagic now for just a test
Prepare for gst-plugins-bad-0.10.22
All older than -bad-0.10.19 versions are gone from tree, so remove now unnecessary econf and patching support for these
Finish gst-plugins-0.10.21 changes
Prepare for gst-plugins-bad-0.10.21 - changes from 0.10.20; new rtmp, gsettings and shm configure options for splits; move away from liboil
Prepare for gst-plugins-bad-0.10.21 - jack moved away to -good
The minimum required liboil version has been 0.3.8 for a while now (not 0.3), update
Add missing dc1394 to the list to avoid automagic enabling if user has the libraries from somewhere
More preparation for gst-plugins-bad-0.10.19 - oss4 moved away, dvdnav configure option renamed to resindvd
gst-plugins10 inherit needs to be last to get the generic DESCRIPTION from it, instead of from eutils.eclass via versionator.eclass
Do not filter out the plugins being built from the list in src_configure before creating the --disable-* configure options. ./configure should guarantee us they get enabled nevertheless, as the --enable-* options are appended to it, overriding the --disable for the to be built plugins. This avoids problems in the filtering, e.g "ivorbis vorbis" getting filtered to "i" when building gst-plugins-vorbis. Fixes bug 325613
Prepare for gst-plugins-bad-0.10.19 (added vp8 ext plugin), fix some QA warnings about missing configure options by conditional by version appending to my_gst_plugins_bad variable
Also remove x and opengl from the plugin list. None of the in-tree -bad package versions have these either. There are X plugins in -base and -good, and a separate opengl related tarball in existence for these things by now.
Remove old plugin entries that are not present in any -bad packages remaining in tree anymore. These are safe to remove, as this list is only used during package compilation, never during unmerge. This reduces the amount of QA warnings from unrecognized configure options and just cleans up the list for maintainability. Update comments accordingly.
Prepare for gst-plugins-bad-0.10.18 - has new flite split plugin and ivorbis removed
Fix the plugins list: stop automagically building zbar, cog and rsvg split plugins as part of the non-split package due to them being forgotten to be added here before (add them now), cog/zbar is not packaged in-tree so not a big problem, but rsvg is; it will be a separate split package. Add missing Windows/OSX sys plugins to the list to avoid useless header/linkage checks that waste configure time for all -bad splits too - directsound, directdraw, osx_video, wininet, acm. Order the list per ./configure --help output. Add comments to old plugins that are not shipped by -bad anymore, for when they were removed, to remove them from the list once safe. Have not tracked down opengl and x removal yet though.
Add kate back to the plugin list while fixing compilation with --disable-kate for split plugins
Temporarily remove kate from the list again, as it is causing build errors due to bad configure.ac
Add missing kate plugin to the list, so that it will not be built unintentionally when media-libs/libkate is present. Alphabetize the plugin listing.
Add new plugins in gst-plugins-bad 0.10.14 and gst-plugins-ugly 0.10.12
Add assrender to the external plugin list, to avoid automagic enabling of it in the presence of libass by all gst-plugins-bad packages and the ensuing potential file collissions from all of them trying to install the assrender plugin
Fix gst-plugins-bad eclass, missing vcd. Permitted by Tester.
Restrict tests for gstreamer external plugins, they don't work with the split ebuilds
gst-plugins-bad: Remove vcd from list of plugins with deps
Add missing dep on pkgconfig
Add a few new plugins, generate all makefiles, shave wrappers need to be built
Update gst-plugins-bad eclass.
insert oss4 mplex and ofa to gst-plugins-bad plugins
changes for 0.10.6
Fix remaining dodoc warnings of gstreamer.
Version bump gst-plugins-bad to 0.10.5.
Updated external plugin names to gst-plugins-bad-0.10.4 and gst-plugins-good-0.10.5
Apply whitespace checks from repoman to eclasses.
Set package origin and name
new version with lots of new plugins
fix 2 typos (#126796)
fix eclass and add new plugins
Fixes circular dep bug #121714
Adding gst-plugins-bad.eclass for missing gst 0.10 plugins
This form allows you to request diffs between any two revisions of this file. For each of the two "sides" of the diff, select a symbolic revision name using the selection box, or choose 'Use Text Field' and enter a numeric revision.
|ViewVC Help
|Powered by ViewVC 1.1.20


text:
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
Is that your patron saint, Gebre? It's a great icon.
You can either attach them, or use the img tags with brackets when making a post. Hit the quote button on my post to see the img tags I used.
Tried uploading a 39Kb photo from my computer with negative results. I got the following:"The upload folder is full. Please try a smaller file and/or contact an administrator."So, how....err.......?
I recommend Wordpress not just for blogging but also for image-storing purposes. Each blog registered gets a free 3GB media storage allowance and a guarantee that the host won't arbitrarily delete stuff. (If you ever run out of space, just register another blog on the same account, and lo and behold, another 3GB! Repeat as necessary.)
Page created in 0.112 seconds with 24 queries.


text:
Find schools and get information on the program that's right for you.
Powered by Campus Explorer
Joseph Mallord William TurnerBiography
Turner's life was devoted to painting, as evidenced by a vast body of work, consisting of over twenty thousand paintings, drawings, and watercolours. Subjects that lent themselves to dramatic effect particularly fascinated Turner. Like Caspar David Friedrich, he loved Gothic cathedrals, and he painted numerous watercolours of them early in his career. Travelling through mountains, he recorded the chasms and waterfalls that were both beautiful and dangerous. He had a lifelong passion for the sea and for rivers. It is not surprising that his favourite foreign city was Venice, the ultimate fusion of water and civilisation, where he made countless sketches and watercolours on his visits in 1819 and again in 1828. During the 1830s and 1840s Turner developed his mature vision, in which the forces of nature and history were given grandiose expression.
His handling of paint by 1844 had become purely personal and intuitive. Scraped, brushed, and smeared, its purpose was to create sweeping movements and general atmospheres; to imply, rather than describe, both setting and details. Specific forms occasionally loom out of the organic, pulsing stretches of paint, giving context and reference points to the overall blots of colour. As he matured, Turner's approach to painting became increasingly idiosyncratic. Though John Ruskin, the great English theorist, championed him, Turner's late works were often ridiculed. To modern eyes, however, looking back over the last hundred years, when painters removed all subject except the paint, Turner's work is not only great but also prescient.
Turner infused landscape with passion, energy, power, interpreting his subject on its most epic and elemental levels. Turner's work, with its strident emotionalism, has been called the culmination of the Romantic landscape.
contributed by Gifford, Katya


text:
Jonah Hill, the slimmed-down star of "The Sitter," is dating Ali Hoffman, daughter of Dustin Hoffman. Sources say both are from LA and "were friends when they were growing up. Jonah is good friends with Ali's brother, Jake. Dustin discovered Jonah when they were in high school." Jonah got his break in "I Heart Huckabees," which starred Dustin. The source added, "Jonah was in Hawaii over the holidays with the Hoffman clan." Reps didn't get back to us.
New LA couple
By PageSix.com Staff
January 4, 2012 | 5:00am


text:
A national television news magazine is researching a story idea about the rise in the non-religious population in America. We are looking to connect with people who have left religion and are interested in sharing their conversion stories. Particularly, we are interested in speaking with people who have been ostracized or outcast by family and/or friends as a result of their decision. We hope to be able to speak with family members as well about this experience.
If you or someone you know is interested in being interviewed for this story, please e-mail your name, a few sentences detailing your story and contact information to nbcnonbelieversproduction [at] gmail [dot] com. Thank you!
Views: 85
© 2019 Atheist Nexus. All rights reserved. Admin: The Nexus Group. Powered by


text:
Political Campaign / Election
NOTE: The most obvious candidate for this chart, The Candidate, fell outside the 1978-Present parameters, but we'll try to find a gross for it and fold it in later. ""Campaign"" is used in the broadest sense here to include movies about the political games played, not just elections. If there are any movies that you think should be on this list, e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Spiderlap needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 37 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
We are the market leader in safe, legal, homeopathic HGH supplements. We are a pharmaceutical company (Not a marketing company!) that sources, inspects, and manufactures exclusively in the USA in US-FDA certified laboratories. We are launching our first Affiliate program and our Affiliates are going to need compelling marketing tools. Innovative "animated" "selling" banners in multiple shapes and sizes, for our Affiliates to use to stimulate interested visitor click-through to our website, are a must for us. This is just a first step, as we will require banners for different promotions and products to keep our marketing tools fresh and exciting for our Affiliates.
Any man or woman over 18 yrs to include seniors, that are interested in health and fitness.
We want you to be innovative! The animated banners should create viewer interest and curiosity so that they click through to our website and thereby give us the chance to sell the visitor.
While there are no consumer focus group studies, we belive from thousands of customer emails and phone calls that the following are the hot buttons! Safe - Legal without a doctor's prescription - More HGH than other brands!
We want a design theme that can be applied to the following size banners:
Standard - 468X60
Leaderboad - 728X90
Skyscraper - 120X600
Button - 120X90
PopUp - 250X250
We have attached our logo file and an image of our 2 most popular HGH supplements. We have also included some other images. but feel free to use any images you feel convey the best message. We will consider paying for inexpensive public images. It may be helpful for you to visit our website at: http://www.ageforce.com
We hope you will be inovative and show us some compelling banner designs. The winner of our contest can look forward to a good deal of ongoing work together with us.
Good Luck!


text:
Featured post
What can photography do? Famine and the photograph...
Grain destined for export stacked on Madras beaches (February 1877) I've started writing a series of posts on photography on World...
Thursday, 2 April 2009
How Not to Photograph; The Playing Possum Portrait
picture: Colin Pantall - Playing Possum #1 (from a series of 1)
These posts have an order, so after dawn of the dead and deadpan comes death. There is a great tradition of portraying death in photography from Victorian vernacular memento mori to the great work of Wisconsin Death Trip, Jeffrey Silverthorne or Walter Schels and many, many more.
Death features large in war, disaster and famine photography and for all the complaints (including the ones in this series of posts) made about its use in photography, the best portrayals of death punch through our fatigued retina to find their way into that tiny, tiny part of our lizard brains that tells us something that really matters is being shown to us.
That's why people come up with all kinds of reasons not to allow death to be shown in pictures, to censor images of death; because we don't like death, we know it's a bad thing and there's nothing like seeing it in pictures to tell us it is happening and showing us directly that it's a bad thing. And if we see it happening we can't pretend that it's not happening, especially when it happens to people who are close to us or people we have sympathy for. Surprisingly, most of us have sympathy for most everyone if we are allowed to - sympathy for people of all nationalities, religions, ages and all backgrounds. So when we see these people suffering, or dead, we feel sympathy for them and want to stop their suffering and death in some way. Which you think would be a good thing.
Mmm. That's one kind of death. The other kind of death is the staged death, the playing possum death. This also has a long, long tradition going back to 1840 when Hippolyte Bayard portrayed his own suicide by drowning. People were playing dead in photography before they photographed the pyramids, empty beds or shipbreaker's in Bangladesh. It is the oldest cliche in the book in other words.
Bayard's suicide by drowning is a classy picture, but he made it 169 years ago, with a 12 minute exposure, to express his grievance at not having his photographic process recognised as the bee's knees. Nowadays, it seems, playing dead has become a theme in photography designed to show.. to show... to show, I'm thinking hard here, but nothing's coming.
To show what?
Ok, the photographer's decided to have people in the picture, that's an advance at least on pictures of empty beds. Perhaps they've even tried a few poses where they tell the subject "to think of nothing" (see previous post). Maybe that doesn't quite work, or the subject is still a bit too unempty, so what comes next. Make them sick a little, tell them to imagine they have a sore belly, that they've had a donut too many. That's a strategy that seems to work for some photographers - making pictures where the subject stares into the very near distance with a pained expression that seems to mourn the fact that they had that extra donut, golonka, or tub of Ben and Jerry's for breakfast that morning - it's called the indigestion portrait and you see it everywhere.
But perhaps this isn't enough, perhaps a little gas pain doesn't satisfy the photographer's cravings to strip their subject of their last whisp of humanity. Then what happens? What happens then is the playing possum portrait. William Eggleston's woman on the grass picture is the supreme example of this, but this being Eggleston (deadpan in every way) you're never quite sure if she's not really dead after all.
Aside from stripping the subject of their humanity, what does the possum playing portrait achieve? It keeps the subject still, making them inanimate and so easier to photograph, especially if they close their eyes because everybody knows that the best corpses have closed eyes, unless it's Cindy Sherman playing dead. The dead person becomes an inanimate empty bed in other words. Photograph them in a real-life empty bed and it's like two empty beds in one. Emptiness abounds!
At the same time, playing dead is great fun, especially if you have kids because there's nothing kids like better than playing dead and it's one of the great ways of getting a bit of peace and quiet for a while. The game, Trappist Monk, does this as well (the winner is whoever stays quiet the longest), but you never get good pictures out of Trappist Monk.
You can extend the play acting if you stick a knife or blunt object near the body and pretend that your subject has been killed. Splash a bit of ketchup around and it adds to the effect.The danger if you do this too much is to find the right line between making something light and amusing and just becoming deranged and psychopathic. A whole line up of beautifully clad female victims, lying with their legs at right angles might seem a good idea as you like awake in the middle of the night thinking of your next big thing, but in the cold light of day when it's been photographed and titled (Ripper Victim #1, Son of Sam #2, and so on) you do just end up looking like a bit odd and we've all seen Peeping Tom and know where this kind of thing leads.
So there is a time and place for play dead pictures and that time and place is here - play dead pictures.
Send them there and save us all the trouble.
13 comments:
- Veba said...
Interesting post...
"That's why people come up with all kinds of reasons not to allow death to be shown in pictures, to censor images of death"... Well, that seems to be a lost battle, death is in every picture.
I've been reading Sebald again lately. He uses photographs, and any photograph will do, to shows that the boundaries between the world of the dead and the world of the living is blurred, somehow misty.
- 2 April 2009 at 20:10
- colin pantall said...
Hi Veba - it depends where you come from? Here in the UK, there's a great reluctance to show pictures of anyone who has died in wars Britain is involved in overseas. There's a huge absence of death in pictures here.
I like the ideas of the boundaries of the two worlds being blurred and the idea of a unified time, but, but, but...
Love your pictures by the way. Be sure to check them out, readers.
- 2 April 2009 at 20:36
Anonymous #2 here. Please don't forget the "Ophelia" theme too. I always think that is a variety of the death pose as well. Floaters with their eyes closed kinda thing. What's next, Tableau? More please. You have created quite a nice little antithesis to Charlotte Cotton's book and I recommend both your blog and her book as simultaneous reading for my BFA students. You have been able to articulate exactly what I have been unable to very precisely.I would love to buy you a beer sometime.
- 2 April 2009 at 23:18
How not to photography; pictures of your daughter over and over
- 3 April 2009 at 03:10
- Veba said...
Colin... thanks.
I come from Sarajevo, Bosnia. Lived there through the siege and the dead were all we could see at the time.
1:0 for the dead over the living.
I've been in Montreal for the past 10 years. Now I have a better chance seeing dead person walking on the street than seeing him/her in a picture... unless I count people that are dead already but they do not know it yet.
hm... and FC Liverpool takes the title! YES!
- 3 April 2009 at 03:33
yeah im with the other anonymous guy, 'how not to photograph'-taking the same picture of your daughter over and over again...
your work tells me the following about you
-your boring
-you use words instead of a camera to give meaning to your photographs
-your an elitist
-your a hypocrit
-you probably havent had sex in a while
the only thing more ridiculous than you claiming not to have the 'time, or money' to do whatever it was you were talking about is that other fool J. Colberg's blog Concientous which is what brought me to your 'how not to' nonsense..
there are no pillars or gods in contemporary art. thats what makes it contemporary. it takes time to figure out just which artists were closest to what can be considered as 'purity'. for you to say the work of Alec Soth, or robert frank, or stephen shore, or dead pan, or peopleless pictures are tired and all used up is, as a conversation, tired and all used up.
your work is boring.
- 3 April 2009 at 06:08
- colin pantall said...
Thanks Anonymous #2 - sure you can buy me a beer sometimes. I'm glad it hits the spot for some people at least.
Anonymous #3 - that is at least part of the point of the posts, how to reduce my own work so it's not the same old pictures over and over.
Anonymous #4 - er, not too sure about you because the posts are saying that Soth, Frank, Shore etc are very good, but that there are no Gods in photography - and that if we try to copy these people (which we do), if we just regurgitate other people's ideas, then we just end up producing stale, repetitive, tedious work in vast quantities over and over again.
- 3 April 2009 at 08:49
- colin pantall said...
Anonymous #2 - I like the Charlotte Cotton book but it can definitely be used as a kind of handbook. So tableau are coming up sometime, found photographs, the archive, the incidental archive, night time, freak shows, noble savages and so on.
Cheers Veba!
- 3 April 2009 at 09:22
Hooray the anonymous assholes have arrived. I was wondering if there were any photographers reading these posts because no anonymous douchebags had bothered to tell you how badly you suck so obviously there are no photographers reading but now all is right in the photography world because the anonymous asshole, douchebag, bitter photographers have arrived.
- 3 April 2009 at 21:27
- simon anstey said...
Hi Colin,
AWESOME! Some lovely comments here from various Mr. Anons. Still, at least they only called you boring and not a paedophile, so thats something I guess.
Who is the BFA anonymous?
I wonder if you have ever read Secret knowledge by David Hockney? Great book. There is a double page spread with two images facing each other, the first is a Byzantine mosaic portrait of a man, facing him is a portrait by Van Gogh. And the main difference between the two images? A couple of thousand years..........
Anyway, it's too early on a hungover saturday mornign to comment on the various anonymous and derisory comments, but could they not just fuck off if they don't like what they read?
- 4 April 2009 at 06:57
- J. Wesley Brown said...
I wholeheartedly agree with Tom.
As for the post, asleep vs. dead perhaps?
Melanie Pullen's High Fashion Crime Scenes came immediately to mind when I was reading this.
- 6 April 2009 at 20:23
- colin pantall said...
On the money with Melanie Pullen, but then I wonder if I don't take all that stuff a bit too seriously - it is fashion after all and those scenes appear all over the place in film or television or novels. The picture that kills me in the crime scenes series is one that recalls a Philip Jones Griffiths picture of a napalm victim in Vietnam. As Baloo the bear would say, That's going to far!
- 16 April 2009 at 16:46
- colin pantall said...
Anonymous #2
More on the Ophelia theme at this exhibition in Arnhem, the Netherlands
Ophelia: Desire, Meloncholy, the Death Wish
Hamlet's famous soliloquy To be, or not to be was directed to his tragic beloved Ophelia. Many writers, philosophers, cultural scholars and visual artists since that time have found inspiration in the mystery of Ophelia's death. It is therefore an opportune moment for a cultural event which updates this idea of Ophelia as a romantic muse.
- 17 April 2009 at 11:23


text:
Featured News - Current News - Archived News - News Categories
The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association has filed a motion for preliminary injunction in federal court in Buffalo seeking to stop enforcement of various provisions of the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act of 2013. At the same time, the association also filed a motion for expedited hearing on its motion for a preliminary injunction.
NYSRPA said the so-called SAFE Act prohibits citizens from exercising their specifically enumerated civil rights under the Second Amendment. NYSRPA said it believes the challenged portions of the act will fail any applicable standard of review for constitutional rights, and that enjoining enforcement is in the public interest.


text:
You are hereHome ›
Narrow Search
Now showing results 1-2 of 2
This is a lesson plan for an activity that explores time zone math. Learners will translate their local time to times in other zones around the world and work with the concept of Universal Time, specifically in reference to the reporting,... (View More) description and analysis of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. This is activity 10 from Exploring Magnetism Guide 3: Magnetic Mysteries of the Aurora educator guide. (View Less)
This is an activity about the properties and characteristics of Earth's magnetic field as shown through magnetometer data and its 3D vector nature. This resource builds understanding of conceptual tools such as the addition of vectors and... (View More) interpreting contour maps displaying magnetic signature data. Learners will make several paper 3D vector addition models, watch podcasts on how to analyze magnetometer data, and employ 3D vector plots to create a model of the 3D magnetic field in the location of the magnetometer closest to their town. This is a multi-step activity with corresponding worksheets for each step. The activity uses data from the THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) GEONS magnetometer, and requires the use of a computer with internet access and speakers, 2-inch polystyrene balls and bamboo skewers. This is activity 16 from Exploring Magnetism: Earth's Magnetic Personality. (View Less)


text:
Blacklight Retribution $1,000 Giveaway A Day
The Blacklight Retribution team is excited to announce that it will be giving away $1,000 US dollars a day during the upcoming '30 Days of Fight' event. From Thursday, August 16 through Friday, September 14, one player will be selected to win $1,000 dollars each and every day.
During the '30 Days of Fight' event, players who complete a match in the critically acclaimed, free-to-play, FPS Blacklight Retribution , will receive one ticket. Those who win a match will receive two tickets. At the end of each day, a random drawing will be held to determine who will walk home $1,000 dollars richer. More tickets mean more chances to win. Blacklight Retribution players are encouraged to complete and win as many matches as possible to increase their chances of winning.
"We can't wait to see the competition heat up once we start upping the stakes with a grand prize of $1,000 dollars on the line every day for 30 days," said Product Manager Clifton Chu. "Following the recent launch of Blacklight Retribution on Steam, we think the '30 Days of Fight' will be an amazing and fun challenge to players. Everyone better get ready to skip work and start training right now."
Watch the '30 Days of Fight' trailer by clicking here or on the image below and get psyched!
For more information about the Blacklight Retribution '30 Days of Fight' event, including rules and details regarding eligibility, head to http://blacklight.perfectworld.com/30days
To download and play Blacklight Retribution for free, head to official sites.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN: Promotion begins at 12:00:00 a.m. PDT (UTC/GMT -07:00 hours) on 8/16/2012 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. PDT on 9/14/2012; open only to legal residents of: the 50 United States of America, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada (excluding residents of Québec), and the United Kingdom who are thirteen (13) years old or older; see Official Rules at http://www.perfectworld.com/blog/?p=628701 for additional eligibility restrictions, methods of entry, prize descriptions/restrictions/values, odds, and complete details; void where prohibited; Sponsor: Perfect World Entertainment Inc., 101 Redwood Shores Parkway, Suite 400, Redwood City, CA 94065.


text:
Quality Inns Lewes properties are listed below. Search for cheap and discount Quality Inns hotel rates in Lewes, DE for your business gathering or personal travels. We list the best Quality Inns Lewes hotels/motels so you can review the Lewes Quality Inns hotel list below to find the perfect place.
This technology will show you discounted Lewes, DE hotels/motels that have similar star rating to Quality Inns.Booking a group or meeting? Get bids from hotels in Lewes DE
How should we direct your call?


text:
|NAVI Bit
|Biographical information
|Physical description
|White octahedron
|Other information
|Navigation aid
|Out of universe information
|TRON: Evolution
The NAVI Bit (Navigational Assist Vector Information Bit) was introduced by Kevin Flynn by the insistence of Clu in TC29. The sudden emergence of the ISOs flooded Tron City with undirected programs who wandered aimlessly, often into secured sectors in search of shelter and provisions.
A Bit variant was created to mark a simply binary A to B path node. As part of each ISOs registration, the NAVI Bit was added to each disc to guide ISOs through the massive metropolis to keep them away from secured sectors while helping them find a direct path to their daily needs.
As the NAVI Bit was designed to function only within limits of Tron City, it would go offline outside the city's boundaries.


text:
Poodle with Bow Tie Short-Sleeve Unisex T-Shirt - This t-shirt is everything you've dreamed of and more. It feels soft and lightweight, with the right amount of stretch. It's comfortable and flattering for both men and women. It also makes the perfect gift for any Poodle lover.
Want to personalize the text? No problem, just add your Personal Message or Pet Name in "a note to FancyHuLi" at checkout. Personalizing text has no extra charge. If there is no special note for the text, we will just make it as it is shown.
Want to make this super special? Custom design is AVAILABLE Here.
• Color: deeper heather gray
• 100% combed and ring-spun cotton (heather colors contain polyester)
• Fabric weight: 4.2 oz (142 g/m2)
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
• Side-seamed
• Made to order
• Printed in the U.S.A.
• Ship worldwide
Model is wearing a size M. He's 6.2 feet (190 cm) tall, chest circumference 37.7" (96 cm), waist circumference 33.4" (85 cm).
Get Matching Poodle with Bow Tie Mug: https://www.etsy.com/listing/578136652/personalized-poodle-mug-poodle-coffee?ga_search_query=poodle&ref=shop_items_search_3
2-7 business days
I'll do my best to meet these shipping estimates, but can't guarantee them. Actual delivery time will depend on the shipping method you choose.
Buyers are responsible for any customs and import taxes that may apply. I'm not responsible for delays due to customs.
Just contact me within: 7 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 14 days of delivery
Request a cancellation within: 12 hours of purchase
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
Buyers are responsible for return shipping costs. If the item is not returned in its original condition, the buyer is responsible for any loss in value.
Product updates and special deals
We ship worldwide.
+ Non-custom design items: ships within 2-5 business days
+ Custom design items: normally ships 3-8 business days, but also depending on the design approval time.
If you need something sooner, just contact us to see if that's a possibility.
Yes! All orders shipped to a US address have an option for USPS Priority (2-3 Days) Mail when checking out. For International orders, please contact us for time and cost on any shipping upgrades.
Please note: when you choose an expedited shipping method, it only speeds up your order's time in transit, not how quickly it will be processed. Again, please contact us if you need something at a specific date before you purchase and we will do our best to meet your needs.
Only non-custom and non-personalized items can be returned. Returns are accepted as long as the item is in its original condition in which it was received. Customer is responsible for return shipping. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions.


text:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (325 degrees F in a convection oven). Line cupcake pans with cupcake liners (24 regular size or 48 mini size).
Using a standing mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix the sour cream, baking soda, salt and eggs until combined. Scrape out the insides of the vanilla bean. Add the vanilla and granulated sugar to the egg mixture. Mix until combined.
In a small bowl, mix the melted butter with 1 cup water. With mixer set to a low speed, alternate adding the water and butter, with the flour. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and continue mixing until well combined.
Fill the cupcake liners two-thirds full with the batter. Bake until golden brown and baked through, 22 minutes for regular size and 16 minutes for mini size. Cool the cupcakes completely. Frost with the Caramel Buttercream Frosting. Garnish if desired.
Using a standing mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, add the butter and beat until smooth, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the cream cheese and beat until fully incorporated and smooth. Reduce the speed and add the powdered sugar a little at a time. Mix until fully incorporated. Add the caramel sauce to the buttercream mixture.
This recipe was created by a contestant during a cooking competition. It has not been tested for home use.


text:
(Kevin took some extra time to compile some photos to go with his answers and I have included them with the appropriate questions below.)
1) Do you ride a bike, and if so, describe it?
Yes, a 1977 Miyata Liberty bought new at Helen's Cycles. This was back when the Miyata was made with 1024 high-tensile steel tubing, and while it's not a light bike, you can't argue with 33 years of durability! Here it is about a year old, (picture1) and more recently (picture2) just after I rode it in the Ocean Park Association's Main Street Fourth of July parade.
2) If you ride, what kinds of trips do you make by bike, how often, and do you ever ride with friends or family?
There have been times when I rode daily as basic local transportation. I've also taken my bike on the back of my car on a number of road trips, riding everything from the rim of the Grand Canyon, to the bike path along the edge of Manhattan and across the Brooklyn Bridge. I now sometimes ride with my wife Genise, a less experienced rider who makes me aware of how challenging some of our local streets can be.
3) On the Council, what will you do to ensure the goals set by the LUCE plan for various bicycling improvements, are seen through to completion in a timely and accountable fashion as we move forward. Additionally for incumbents, what are any notable actions you've done on the council in the past to improve the environment for bicycling in Santa Monica?
I'm one vote of seven on the City Council, but I'm always a vote for bicycles. I've insisted on bike lanes when streets were reconfigured. In the new neighborhoods to be created from old industrial areas of Santa Monica, I plan to push for complete separation of cars and bikes, as is commonly done in Europe. I took this photo (picture3) a few years ago in Helsinki. Even where that proves cost-prohibitive, I want clearly painted bike crossings like this one (picture4) I saw last winter in Barcelona.
4) $20,000 was recently budgeted by the council specifically for bicycling education. How do you think that money would be best spent?
On educating motorists as well as bicyclists. The lack of understanding that bicycles have a right to be on the road is appalling.
5) How would you work to improve the safety of our streets for all users?
We need to learn to demand and design complete streets. I've studied how successful cities integrate bicycles with cars (and often light rail or trams as well!). Sometimes this means separation (picture5), but other times all it takes is a cheap coat of paint (picture6) to make it abundantly clear that bicycles have a place on the road, even in areas of demanding traffic maneuvers. At intersections, we need to make our traffic signals aware of bicyclists, or at least install crossing buttons where cyclists can reach them (picture7), like in the Netherlands.
6) In the interest of improving multi-modal connectivity, would you support upgrading Big Blue Bus racks to ones that can house 3 bikes? As some bus stops in the city are being upgraded, would you ensure bike parking considerations are made at important bus stops in addition to the coming expo-rail station stops?
I was the Councilmember who seven years ago successfully pushed for the current 2-bike racks on all Big Blue Buses (picture8). Now that upgrades are available, we should phase them in. I've already been adamant about bicycle access at future Expo stops, including the ability to get bikes onto Expo trains, and have been pushing for more bike parking throughout the city. We're still a ways from the facilities at this shopping center in Copenhagen (picture9), but we should insist on getting there.
7) What will you do to ensure that resources for bicycling are distributed equitably through out the city?
Encourage bicycling throughout the city. We will naturally need to place the resources where the need is greatest, and growing ridership will justify amenities.
8) What would you do to ensure it be common knowledge that bicycles belong on the street, and that everyone, including drivers, understand the various rights, rules and regulations as they pertain to cycling?
I wouldn't mind in the least being as forthright about the matter as the Irish (picture10). We've made a start with sharrows, and I've already suggested painted (not just striped) lanes. The city funding for "bicycle education" has to be used for drivers as well as bicyclists. For our part, we have to stay off the sidewalks. As justifiable as it may seem for safety reasons when confronted with heavy traffic, riding on the sidewalk generates immense ill will towards cyclists, and is, in effect, a capitulation to the
canard that we don't have a right to the streets themselves.
9) How would you propose improving bicycling connectivity to the beach bike path, to promote more synergy with beach riders and local business, as well reduce driving trips to the beach by residents who live close enough to ride there?
I recently drew this map (picture11) to show city planners how pathetic our current connection from the city proper down to the bike path really is. That convoluted red line is the route I have been following for 34 years. I will insist that the new Pier bridge not only accommodate cyclists, but
encourage them. Likewise, I am working with engineers on the California Incline reconstruction to include safe ways for bicycles to access the spiral-ramped cycle/pedestrian bridge across PCH.
Bonus) Finally, you can also include any comment you'd like to say to my readers on any topic you'd like.
All we have to do is make bicycling attractive enough (picture12), and the world will follow us.
If you agree with what I've done and what I plan to do for bicycling in Santa Monica, please help me get re-elected:
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Candidate Questionnaire: Kevin McKeown (4 year Santa Monica city council seat)
at 9:14 AM Posted by Gary
Labels: election, Local Politics
No comments:
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Only hotels in Seabrook are listed below. Explore our guide for inexpensive and discount hotel/motel rates in or near Seabrook, SC for your personal leisure or group travel. We list the best Seabrook South Carolina hotel/motel rooms. Review the Seabrook hotel list below to find the perfect lodging. We also have a map of the Seabrook hotels. Group booking? Search Seabrook Group Hotel Discounts
The Seabrook center point is around 7 miles northwest of Jean Ribaut Square Shopping Center and 7 miles north of Beaufort Memorial Gardens.
How should we direct your call?