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The Vermont Procurement Technical Assistance Center (VT PTAC) invites small business owners to three upcoming workshops:
Selling to the Government:
This 2-hour workshop is designed to help Vermont small business owners understand the processes used by Federal, state and local governments to procure products and services. In this introductory workshop you will learn the basic fundamentals of government contracting. VT PTAC's trained and knowledgeable counselors help you determine if there are opportunities for your small business, clarify the requirements, and simplify the process of government contracting and subcontracting. Topics include marketing your small business to the government, how to locate bid opportunities, understanding the registration process, and how to successfully compete for government contracts. Wednesday, August 21, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Manchester Town Hall in Manchester Ctr.
Women-Owned Small Businesses Contracting Program:
Kathy Andrus of the Vermont Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration and the VT PTAC team will outline the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) designations and how companies can compete for government contracts. The VT PTAC team will focus on the requirements of government contracting and how women-owned small businesses can become qualified vendors. Topics include information on eligibility requirements, steps to a WOSB or EDWOSB certification, marketing your company as a WOSB or EDWOSB. Friday, August 23, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation in Burlington.
Understanding the System for Award Management:
The System for Award Management (SAM) is the primary database for vendors doing business with the Federal government. The SAM streamlines processes, eliminating the need to enter the same data multiple times, which enables process efficiency. This hands-on workshop is designed to help new and existing companies understand the SAM registration and account creation process. VT PTAC will provide individual assistance to migrate former Central Contractor Registration (CCR) to SAM account activation and updates. Laptop required. Wednesday, August 28, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in Newport.
Register for these free workshops and review a complete listing of workshops available at http://vtptac.ecenterdirect.com or contact VT PTAC Procurement Counselor: email@example.com; (802) 652-2134.
About the Vermont Procurement Technical Assistance Center: The purpose of the VT PTAC is to help Vermont businesses succeed in obtaining government contracts. The center offers free counseling services to Vermont businesses and provides assistance on how to bid on government contracts at the Federal, state and local levels.
VT PTAC Program Headquarters: 1 National Life Drive, 6th Floor, Montpelier, VT 05602; (802) 828-5237; http://accd.vermont.gov/business/start/vtptac
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Nokia Music saves my cross-country flight
- On two recent cross-county flights I had the opportunity to experience the best and the worst of two music services on my Windows 8 phone.The experience has changed how I will prepare for travel in the future.
Up until the first flight, I had been a fan of the XboxMusic service in Windows Phone 8. I loved how my collection of music on my home PC had been shared to the cloud and then populated my Lumia 920 without needing to do a thing. Actually, I am still a fan of this service. As many others do, I believe the Xbox Music user interface on the PC needs improvement and the musicmatching process needs fine tuning. I still like the service overall, it is just after my airborne experience I view the service with a bit more jaundice.
I usually drive through the large urban area I live in withmy Lumia plugged into my car audio system and have had no issues whatsoever with Xbox Music playing either just random songs from my collection, playlists Ive created or Smart DJ playlists. Because of the success of this experience I had only placed about a dozen current favorite songs directly into the phone memory. I felt a sense of pride that I hadnt had to stuff my phones memory with my music collection as I had with earlier devices.
Then I got on the plane.
The crucial flaw in my experience was the fact that the inflight Wi-Fi service was not functioning on the particular plane I was stuck on for nearly 5 hours. (I know inflight Wi-Fi is relatively new and is notuniversal and is way too expensive, but I have certainly grown to expect it tobe there.) It was when I started Xbox Music and watched as it reported it couldnt play song after song after song that a music application that relied on some type of broadcast signal was not a complete solution. It was certainly able to play the handful of songs stored on the phone, but I wished there was a filter setting in the app that would allow me to choose the source of music tobe played back: on device, cloud only, or mixture.
I listened to the handful of songs a couple of times, looked at the handful of pictures Id stored on the phone, and then played a couple of games that werent cloud based (sorry Wordament) and then put the phone away for the rest of the flight. My companion travelling device just wasnt much of a companion for much of that day.
Preparing for the return flight I wasnt about to rely onthe inflight Wi-Fi being available. I had read a thing or two about Nokia Music and decided to give it a try. I installed the app and immediately liked the look and feel of it. I prowled through the mix section and found a couple of playlists that looked promising. This is where Nokia Music really shines. The option to download these playlists for off line use is brilliant. I did so. It took just a few minutes and I was already feeling better that I had at least acouple of hours of music now available to me instead of just a few minutes.
When my return flight was in the air I attempted to connectto the inflight Wi-Fi. It worked. I certainly wanted to listen to the playlistsI downloaded but I also wanted to experiment with the cloud-based Nokia Musicand Xbox Music now that I could. I set Nokia Music to playback a mix that I hadnt downloaded. It performed flawlessly. The sound quality (given the airplane noise and the average quality of my earphones) was acceptable and I particularly liked the fact that there is an equalizer available. I boosted the bass a bit. I switched playback between my downloaded songs and the cloud and back again and the program never fumbled or even stuttered.
While playing cloud based songs, there were two that I hadnt heard before but really liked. I selected the purchase option and downloaded these tunes. I was curious about how Nokia Music treated thesedownloads. Would they be available only to Nokia Music? I switched to Xbox Music and was delighted to find these two songs were available for playback onthat app as well. If youve been collecting digital music long enough you will know why this was a concern. Ive had too many songs in too many proprietary music formats to trust that my music is there without checking.
At this point I decided to give Xbox Music an in-flight test. I set it to just start playback of my entire collection, without using myown or Smart DJ playlists. The app worked very well but not flawlessly. Therewere some hesitations here. There were some gaps of several seconds betweensongs at times and one song experienced several pauses during playback. I was not able to determine if this was due to some problem with Xbox Music or if itwas a problem with the Wi-Fi service. At the time this happened, the plane wasover the Rocky Mountains. It may not have been a fair comparison because ofoutside factors, but Nokia Music did not have long pauses between tunes or anypauses during playback.
I will need to fly long distances a few more times thisyear. I certainly want my Lumia 920 with me. I still like not stuffing all ofmy music into the phone, so I will certainly prepare for the flights bydownloading some mixes from Nokia Music. If the inflight Wi-Fi is available Iwill give Xbox Music another try as well. At least now I know I dont need torely on that expensive and not always available inflight Wi-Fi to keep meentertained.01-27-2013 01:31 PM
I haven't yet tried Nokia Music so I can't comment on comparison, but I agree that you should continue using both in varying circumstances to ensure that what you have observed so far remains consistent and to your liking.01-27-2013 06:00 PM
- Thank you for the tip. Not exactly the most intuitive setting to locate, but it is nice to know it is there.01-27-2013 06:34 PM
- Great read!!!
Quick question, I'm trying to understand how to get my 810 to play my Xbox music cloud collection. Am I required to have the Xbox music pass. If so does it not defeat the purpose since it allows free streaming of their 30 million song library.01-28-2013 03:07 AM
- Thanks, but had that done already. I'm unable to get to see it on my mobile device01-28-2013 04:42 AM
- I've played with that option, but no change. For the moment I'm going to leave it switched on an see what happens. Thanks for the advice.01-28-2013 05:00 AM
- AFAIK, from things I've read in forum posts, cloud matching actually does require an Xbox music subscription. While it is true that you have access to all songs for streaming with a subscription, any songs in your cloud matched library would be automatically available on your phone's library (as well as your other devices).
That's the idea anyway: don't have to worry about syncing or transferring files, or using your phone to manually search for the entire library of songs on your PC. Your library just "shows up" on the devices you own. To me, requiring a subscription for cloud matching doesn't "defeat the purpose"01-28-2013 01:45 PM
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A winner was selected from 111 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
LVS (http://www.lvs.co.uk)
We're a London/Gibraltar based company developing a gaming/betting platform with a backend in Java and web layer in Ruby on Rails (2.3). Our current website doesn't reflect the Rails side of the business and looks too full of text rather than modern. We'd like the website to reflect the modern development tools and processes we use.
We're targeting Gaming/Betting companies that have or want sports betting websites. We have a number of active and in process projects that we'd like to highlight and sell the benefits of our software/platform and expertise. The target audience is executives in small/medium/large gaming companies, in particular the Technical Directors.
We'd like a Web 2.0 look and feel, but not cartoony. The logo is to remain the same (and a high resolution is available at http://www.lvs.co.uk/Assets/Downloa…15151.jpg) and there should be some form of the exploding balls artwork integrated somehow (http://files.getdropbox.com/u/47829…%20JPG.JPG). We like subtley rounded corners and the horizontal banding/section styles of Web 2.0.
The competition is for the homepage design, but obviously we're going to be taking the design across the whole site, so it should be obvious which sections repeat across each page.
We'd like to promote on the homepage: Random testimonial/recommendation, Screenshot(s) of the apps, features, technology choices and a random cast study.
The navigation items/structure should be as per the current main navigation on http://www.lvs.co.uk/
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Osteoporosis is a bone degenerating disease that leads to potentially dangerous (even deadly) bone fractures. Commonly discussed as a risk area for aging women, if you're thinking that this problem is just for the girls, think again! Recent research at the University of Wisconsin shows, that while "While a 50-year-old woman faces a lifetime risk of 50% for an osteoporotic fracture, anywhere from one in eight to one in four 50-year-old men face that risk."
Further, the complication and death rates for men are higher than for women.
But wouldn't you know it ... one of the best ways to avoid osteoporosis is to maintain a regular resistance program! If you're not regularly exercising, we can certainly help you with that. Additionally, now that we're basking in 15+ hours of daylight, your long slow cardio event can help there too!
Because if you're following our prescribed cardiovascular programmingrecommendations your weekly cardio efforts will include:
- One short duration, high intensity event (SDHI)
- Two moderate duration, moderate intensity events (MDMD)
- One long duration, low intensity event (LDLI)
But just what, exactly, is Long Duration? And Low Intensity?
Generally, you'll want the long duration, low exercise event to be measured in hours,preferably closer to 2 or 3. But it shouldn't feel exhausting.
You'll want to pick up your heart rate just a bit, but not so much that you're really challenging your circulatory or respiratory systems. The increased blood flow provides much needed nutrient rich blood to your muscles, bones, and joints.
Under the stress of more intense exercise (resistance or cardio), muscle fibers, tendons, and ligaments all get damaged a bit. This is by design, as the rebuilding/recovery that follows makes them stronger, longer, or leaner. It also increases bone density, which is why it's particularly effective in avoiding osteoporosis.
Additionally, conversion of energy sources to energy produces a toxic waste product called lactic acid during exercise. The more intense you exercise, the more lactic acid you produce. This waste product is the primary reason why you may feel sore afterresistance exercise: your body doesn't like the lactic acid hanging around muscle groups. Stretching can help help eliminate lactic acid buildup, but we mostly depend on the circulatorysystem to flush it out.
Your LDLI then, provides an important niche role in assisting with your recovery: upside nutrition for your recovering tissues, and increased blood flowto remove lactic acid waste product.
Or ...
- You can enroll in our Targeted Cardio Program and get one for free!;
- You can use the perceived exertion scale;
- You can use this handy minute rule tip from RealAge.com.
Walk. The lakes, the rivers, and the bridges all have excellent separation from traffic. And the intensity of a brisk walk is exactly in the right range for LDLI exercise. Again, check this handy tip from RealAge to gauge intensity.
Nordic Walk. If you want to do even than better than just walking, start nordicwalking. Long popular with the skiers for summertime training, nordic walking has a leg up on just plain walking in that with the use of hiking poles you:
- Engage your entire body in the exercise
- Improve Core Strength and Stability (lower back and abdominals)
- Increase Shoulder and Arm muscular endurance
- Improve the safety and stability of your walk, especially for geriatrics
You can stick to the urban trails, or get onto the many city and county park hiking trails (Hennepin County Parks, Ramsey County Parks). You can get your hiking poles at REI, or one of the many area cross county shops: Finn Sisu in St. Paul, or Gear West in Long Lake.
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Dr. Godfrey has taught church history at Westminster Seminary California since 1981. He taught previously at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Stanford University, and Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He is the third president of Westminster Seminary California and is a minister in the United Reformed Churches in North America. He has spoken at many conferences including those sponsored by the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology, and Ligonier Ministries.
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With the Bears' season just a fading memory, Sunday's Super Bowl represents little for Chicago fans beyond an excuse to party. A successful game day involves just the right ratio of plasma TVs to nachos to pints, making choice of venue of utmost importance.
So, is it better to watch the Super Bowl at home or at a bar?
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Ernest Wilkins email@example.com @ernestwilkins
You know what's really fun, cool and exciting? Watching the big game while getting a beer spilled on you, eating lukewarm guacamole, and listening to the soft whimpers of the guy next to you because he bet the farm on the coin toss being "tails." Like New Year's Eve and Halloween, the Super Bowl is a holiday best spent among people you actually like in the comforts of your own abode. You get to control the food, the atmosphere, and you can belt out your stirring version of "Bootylicious" right alongside Beyonce at halftime and no one can ask you to leave!
Head to a bar
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Last year, my G-Men made it to—and freakin' won—the Super Bowl. Desperate to make my Chicago friends care about this achievement, I volunteered to host a party. Big mistake. I spent the morning of the game baking homemade pretzels—time that I could have spent painting my face or devising clever anti-Patriots cheers ("Bahston Smells!" was kinda lame). Then, during the game itself, I had to tear myself from the TV to replenish the chips, find bottle openers and restock T.P. in the bathroom. Next time the Giants make it to the big game, y'all are meeting me at the bar.
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MLB Notebook: Machado a double threat
When the Mariners reached the 1996 All-Star break, Seattle had played 85 games. The club boasted a seriously potent offense in that first half, having five players carrying an OPS of at least .900 with enough plate appearances to qualify on the rate-stat leaderboards.
The team leader in that category was designated hitter Edgar Martinez, who entered the break with a 1.172 mark. As part of his superb resume, Martinez had collected 42 doubles by the break. Since 1933 (the first year to feature an All-Star Game) no player has had more two-base hits at the time of the Midsummer Classic.
When the Mariners reached the 1996 All-Star break, Seattle had played 85 games. The club boasted a seriously potent offense in that first half, having five players carrying an OPS of at least .900 with enough plate appearances to qualify on the rate-stat leaderboards.
The team leader in that category was designated hitter Edgar Martinez, who entered the break with a 1.172 mark. As part of his superb resume, Martinez had collected 42 doubles by the break. Since 1933 (the first year to feature an All-Star Game) no player has had more two-base hits at the time of the Midsummer Classic.
Martinez had 37 doubles through Seattle's first 72 games that season, putting him a bit ahead of the pace currently being enjoyed by Orioles third baseman Manny Machado, who went 2-for-5 with a double and a run scored Tuesday in a 5-2 win over the Tigers.
Machado leads the Majors with 33 doubles. Those 33 tie him with four others for the 13th most in a first half of a season since 1933. Among the others with 33: Brian Roberts, who had that many for Baltimore in 2008. No Orioles player has had more.
Machado also leads the Majors with 101 hits. He is the fourth player since 1933 to be in his age-20-or-younger season and have that many before the All-Star break, joining Al Kaline (122 in 1955), Ken Griffey Jr. (107 in '90) and Claudell Washington (104 in '75).
Machado leads the Majors in multihit games this season, with 30. Since debuting last Aug. 9, he's had 47 multihit games through his first 123 games in the Majors -- the most for any player through 123 games since 1916. Buddy Lewis and Vada Pinson each had 46.
Young Mets arms shine
In the first game of a doubleheader vs. the Braves, the Mets' Matt Harvey fanned a career-high 13 batters and picked up his first win since May 17.
Harvey has six career double-digit-strikeout games in 25 appearances, which ties him with Bob Feller for the seventh most since 1916. Hideo Nomo and Dwight Gooden each had 10, while Kerry Wood and Yu Darvish each had eight. With seven, Al Downing and Mark Prior are tied for the fifth most.
At 24 years and 83 days old, Harvey was the youngest Mets pitcher with a 13-strikeout game since Sid Fernandez (23 years, 324 days) fanned 14 Giants on Sept. 1, 1986.
In the second game of the doubleheader sweep, Mets right-hander Zack Wheeler made his Major League debut and picked up the win, allowing four hits and five walks in six scoreless innings while striking out seven.
Wheeler is the 14th Mets pitcher to start and win his Major League debut, and the first to do it since Harvey last July 26. Wheeler is one of four Mets pitchers -- along with Dick Rustek (1966), Masato Yoshii ('98) and Harvey -- to start and win his debut and not allow any runs.
Putting all of those good elements together, Wheeler was the 21st pitcher since 1916 to start and win his debut and have that start feature no runs and at least seven strikeouts. Before Wheeler, Harvey had been the most recent to do it.
Buccos firing blanks
Charlie Morton (5 1/3 innings, three hits) and three Pirates relievers combined on a four-hit shutout, and Pittsburgh defeated Cincinnati, 4-0.
The game marked the Major League-leading 12th team shutout of the season for the Pirates. Those 12 through 71 games tie this Pirates team with three other clubs for the third most in the past 40 seasons. The 1981 Dodgers had 14 through 71 games, and the '88 Mets had 13. In '80, both the Dodgers and Astros had 12, and in '81, the Astros again had that many.
The Pirates have posted eight shutouts on four hits or fewer allowed. Those eight through 71 games tie this Bucs club for the third most in the past 50 seasons. In 1968, the Indians had 12, and in '69, the Orioles had 11. The '71 Athletics, '80 Dodgers and 2012 Angels each had eight through 71 games.
The Pirates got the victory Tuesday despite striking out 17 times. It was the 25th time since 1916 a winning team's offense had fanned that many times in a nine-inning game. It had most recently happened on Aug. 14, 2011, when the Cubs defeated the Braves, 6-5, while striking out 18 times.
Pittsburgh had one other appearance on the list -- a 3-2 win with 17 strikeouts against the Phillies on July 21, 1997. Tuesday's game also marked the second appearance on the list for Reds pitchers, who fanned 17 Cubs in a 5-4 loss on May 16, 1998.
Here and there
• Oakland's Jarrod Parker allowed three hits and two runs with no home runs in seven innings of work and improved to 5-1 with a 2.43 ERA in his past eight games. During this eight-game stretch, Parker has allowed five home runs in 55 2/3 innings. In his first seven starts of the season -- when he was 1-5 with a 7.34 ERA -- Parker allowed eight homers in 34 1/3 innings. In 2012, when he was fifth in American League Rookie of the Year Award voting, Parker posted the AL's second-lowest homer rate.
• Houston's Jordan Lyles allowed a run in seven innings and picked up the win, as the Astros cruised by the Brewers, 10-1. With the line, Lyle has had seven straight starts in which he's allowed two runs or fewer. During this stretch, the 22-year-old right-hander has gone 3-0 with a 1.61 ERA and has averaged more than three strikeouts for every walk.
• Baltimore's Jim Johnson picked up his Major League-leading 26th save, getting Miguel Cabrera to ground into a game-ending double play. Since the beginning of the 2012 season, Johnson is one of 100 full-time relief pitchers to have thrown at least 75 innings. Among this group, Johnson is 95th in strikeouts per nine, and tied for second most in ground-ball double plays induced.
• The Blue Jays won their seventh straight, defeating the Rockies, 8-3. The streak is the longest for the team since winning 10 in a row in August-September 2008. During the current run, Toronto has posted a 1.27 ERA and has averaged 5.9 runs per game.
Roger Schlueter is senior researcher for MLB Productions.


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I read Jack Corbett's blog entry,No Training Budget Still No Excuse, last week and thought it was excellent. In fact, I plan on putting it out again on Twitter again today.It was that good to me, and I thought it was short, to the point and had good suggestions. And not just because he mentioned SQL Server Central.
There is no excuse for you not to be able to improve your skills and career.
I hear lots of times from people that they work too much, don't have a training budget, and how are they supposed to improve their skills. The short answer is that you work at it. On a regular basis, and using the resources you have. Jack gives some great ones, but the reality is that there are plenty more, in any field, on the Internet that will help you improve. They don't take a lot of time, but I'm sure some of you can find an hour or two a few times a week to learn something new about your profession.
Doctors do it, lawyers do it, even engineers often spend some time out of work studying and reading about their field. There's no reason that other professions can't do it as well. It doesn't have to be every day, but it should be every week. Spend a few minutes learning something new.
Some of the resources are free, some aren't. However don't let price scare you. You ought to invest a little in your career yourself, even if your employer won't. You might not be able to afford a $2,000 class or conference, but I'm sure you can buy a book, or get a subscription to some service that helps you.
My current career is dedicated to providing free (cost) learning resources for IT professionals. I also have a business that looks to provide pay services. I think they both fit needs, and we try to ensure that we are providing more value for the paid services, but that doesn't mean the free ones won't help you. They might take more time, and more work on your side, but that's the tradeoff.
No matter how you choose to do it, there isn't an excuse to not improve your career.


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Over the years his skills and expertise have been retained by such well known firms as Myer Stores, Novotel, Telstra, IBM and Federation University. As a Global Marketing Manager of an award winning Australian software company Craig was responsible for developing strategies to expand into several key markets, including North America, Europe and Asia; resulting in a four-fold increase in sales over a 3 year period.
An intimate knowledge of eBusiness, Internet marketing and marketing strategy has been attained from industry experience and also graduating from tertiary study with a Bachelor of Information Technology and also a Bachelor of Business (eBusiness) (Honours) from one of Australia's leading regional institutions, Federation University.
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Ok, without any expectations and just to put a bit of reading for anyone who's interested / up for discussion, here's an informed textwall on gold. Escpecially related to the arguments about the locker/veto slots and the current (unintended) implementation of the "infinite locker" based on time investment as opposed to a gold based one. This always got shut down without discussion by a "then people would be scumming for gold" fallacy and I feel deserves a bit of discussion with a cool head. Not saying I'm capable of that, but I don't mind trying...
1) My own experience with scumming for gold
Start with what you know... I've scummed for gold in this game in various ways an at various points. The reason I felt like I needed to was because failed runs with too many preps were taking a toll, and I was paying for kingdom upgrades. The existance of the PQI and the flaming dungeon arrangement, coupled with me getting better at playing with low preps (an picking my runs) resulted in the gold starting to pile up. The "tweak the randomness" elements like god preps and veto slots reduced the need to restart runs for more favorable setups in the hardest dungeons - and that was a huge drain. I was never a fan of "scumming" but at times it looked like the only way to get the job done and it resuted in a need to stockpile a bunch of gold before a serious VGT campaign.
My "scumming for gold" usually consisted of prepping TT or milking a found TT altar for all it's worth after having delt with the dungeon in another way. That's pretty much the most gold scumming I've ever done, and the further the game development progressed the points where I felt "darnit, need some quick cash" dissapeared entirely. However...
2) How the current "extra locker slots / bank level" system influenced my overall gameplay
Well, having completed the kingdom development and having unlocked the PQI and the Flaming dungeon, I faced the daunting task of grinding ridiculous ammounts of gold. This was not a problem, because it just ment I had to play PQI and Flaming runs, which was just a way of mixing up my random run distribution and giving me incentives to play a different run every time. (Barring kinks with the PQI which resulted with streaks because of other things).
I was motivated to do this because of the "locker = vicious reward repository" situation which affects anyone who doesn't feel like doing a particular run when he wants to have an item handy, and is pretty much what happens with most people I know off (except they prioritize different stuff). I wanted all the vicious rewards handy so I could play with them on a whim (who else is experimenting with the Naga Cauldron? ). This ment that if I wanted a rotating locker slot for other stuff that are easier to fish for I had to have as many locker slots as possible.
This then resulted in me playing pretty much nothing but Flaming and PQI runs in order to get as much gold as possible. I didn't optimize the procedure because playing Falming and PQI runs is actually playing a different mix of DD runs and that is pretty much = the point of playing the game. The gold, enough for a bunch of ludicrously priced post-game upgrades, was incidental.
I didn't feel to pressured by Flaming, PQI and simple Bet on Boss runs because - well, what else is there to do? It's enough - it's desktop dungeons. Maybe there needs to be a gold sink, maybe not - but as long as the fuel for the gold sink is earned by opening the map an pretty much hitting "random run" with a few trickshots or not, it's all fine. If I didn't like either the flaming or the PQI run, I'd restart the game which would change the PQI - this was mostly due to streaks.
3) Waldo's method
Waldo pretty much went and perfected this method on his own - he took the "what's the most efficent way to grind up max locker/veto slots" and turned it into a science. How he felt about it - I don't know, and it's none of my business. What I think about it? I don't. Man was having fun. Would I feel pressured into turning it into a race? Not really, because it would detract me from playing whichever run I fancy, and that was my main motivation for getting the gold in the first place. If I wanted a rotating "free" locker slot which wasn't saddled with a hard to relocker vicious reward, I simply didn't do a vicious dungeon before I had an extra slot to locker the reward.
4) Gold investment vs. Realtime investment vs. the intended method
Simple fact - the easiest way of getting gold in this game is getting better at the game. While I was not as good - I had gold problems. Once I got better I had gold coming out of my ears. Flaming runs and PQI are pretty much a part of the "deal with what the game throws at you" part of DD which I enjoy (and it's something Dislekcia is embarrassingly wrong about concerning his perception of me and my playstyle). Barring missclicks and sinking gold into trying to get the right shop/god spawns without preps - the better you get the more gold you have. You don't even have to focus or think about it - you're just hitting the "random quest" runs, bringing the VT into your runs and habitually prepping Bet on Boss, and as long as you keep improving you notice you have a bunch of gold. There's no need to ever scumm for it, and no way to scumm for it more efective than simply playing the game.
The only 2 ways to not have a bunch of gold if you're indeed improving, once you're bought all the basic kingdom upgrades and are playing "extra gold random runs" because you've ran out of the quests is to not have an interest in the game at all, or avoid the "extra gold runs" on purpose...
Real time investment method, the one which allows for the "effective infinite locker" system right now, on the other hand, requires no "actual gamplay" or experience. It takes a spreadsheet or two and a list of which item belongs to which tier category (quest/elite/basic), and takes fishing with a class well suited for it (transmuter, tinker), until you find whichever item/s you want to locker/veto and a locker slot to put it in. It's pretty egalitarian in this way - the most hardcore of pro's and the most humble of noobs, can have any non-vicious-reward item in their locker or veto slots for the price of not playing DD for 5 to X minutes depending on luck. It also excludes the vicious rewards, but that is usually handled by turning the locker into a "vicious rewards repository", which happens naturally. On the other hand, no matter how good you get - the requirements are still the same, and no matter what you had in mind when you fired up the game, if you don't have the item you wanted to try out lockered you have to spend time going through the motions to collect it.
The intended method (which I can only speculate and gather from what the devs disclosed, but would never occur to me personaly) is that items can be relockered through repeating class challenges, and by taking items out of regular runs with forward thinking. The pro's of this method are... well, none, really. If a challenge can be completed for a particular item faster than you could fish for it then it's just a non-standard way of fishing for a particular item. The cons are that it doesn't work for basic and elite items (you still have to use the transmuter method if you wan't to try somethign out right away), that it doesn't work on quest items with non-repeatable quests (non-puzzle, adventure map quest rewards), that it requires you to have gold at the end of a run, it clashes with "kitchen sink" runs where everything gets converted and that for a lot of consumable/conversion-friendly items you'd have to treat them as if you were on a fishing run instead of a regular one.
5) Oppinions disclaimer:
It doesn't matter what anyone thinks about any of the methods. I'm listing them as they are.
6) TLDR Pro's and cons
Gold investment method (assuming it's implemented alongside the other two, and for non-vicious rewards)
- Rewards skill, because the better you get at the game the more gold you have at your disposal
- Takes no time investment, because the most efficcent way of earning gold is playing DD runs, which is what you play the game for anyway.
- Flexible - you can turn any success into something you want, when you want
- Diminishes the percieved reward status of items. (As does any method, except the intended one)
- Can turn the locker into a vicious reward repository (But this can/will happen with any method)
- It takes equal effort to relocker any item as opposed to the current method (you can't change your entire locker for the price of doing 3 PQI's)
- It works for any shop item
Real Time investment method (the current one)
- Works as an infnite locker or an easy to use veto slot manipulation mech for anyone regardless of skill level.
- It's success independent, so there can't be a situation where you can't do it once you unlock the tinker or the transmuter
- It's incredibly efficcent at completely rigging the RNG, since it's easier to haul 3-4 items out of a dungeon than with any other method
- It works for any shop item
- It requires not mental effort while it's going on
- It requires you to spend real life time doing something that isn't a DD run in order to play a DD run you want
- It requires partaking in a practice (scumming) which isn't required anywhere else
- Diminishes the percieved reward status of items. (But since it's currently effective, once you're aware of it and willing to partake in it - there IS no reward.)
- Can turn the locker into a vicious reward repository (Again, this happens naturally)
The intended method: (or so I've been told, I've never seen it in effect, really)
- Retains a sense of effort in item acquisition?
- Pads out potential playtime defficciencies?
- Makes it look like...
I don't know. Really. They're all subjective/opinion/taste arguments, which never managed to overcome the:
- It doesn't work for basic and elite items (you still have to use the Realtime method)
- It doesn't work on quest items with non-repeatable quests (non-puzzle, adventure map quest rewards)
- It requires you to have gold at the end of a run
- It clashes with "kitchen sink" runs where everything gets converted
- It forces you to treat consumable/conversion-friendly items as if you were on a fishing run instead of a regular one
- It requires you to asses the value of an item you haven't had a chance to experiment with against ones you already have lockered which cements the locker (this is why the realtime method gets discovered in the first place)
- Relockering through class chalenges is pretty much the same as fishing with the transmuter, but with more effort
- Inflexible - you can't try out what you want when you want
- Etc...
7) I'm tired. I can give a conclusion if anyone's interested but not right now...


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The following commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of AgWeb or Farm Journal Media. The opinions expressed below are the author's own.
Marc Schober is the editor of Farmland Forecast an educational blog devoted to investments in agriculture and farmland.
The world's gross agricultural output needs to increase by 3.4% to meet the growing demand primarily driven by emerging markets across the globe. The two primary ways to increase agricultural production are to either increase the amount of acres planted or increase productivity with technology.
Crop yields have been slowly increasing over time, with the largest increases due to the green revolution and the advancement of hybrid seed technology. Even with the past seed technology, crop yield increases are near 1.0% per year in the U.S while a considerable amount of farmland is being lost to development. Crop production must increase via either new technology or by expanding the amount of cropped land by bringing idle arable land into production.
Land to be Brought into Production
The ability to expand arable acres over the next 40 years will be difficult. The best areas for farming have already been identified and are being used for production. The incremental arable acres to be put into production will be on the periphery, with marginal growing conditions and transportation issues.
Presently, the growth of arable farmland has been flat as development of farmland in North America and Europe is offset by expansion in Africa and South America
There are roughly 1.5 billion hectares that are currently being farmed in the world. The FAO estimates that the world has a total of 2.5 billion hectares of "very suitable" or "suitable" for cultivation. 80% of the reserve land is located in Africa and South America.
Investment bank Credit Suisse estimates that only about 300,000 hectares of additional potential acreage, with the majority in Brazil and Indonesia. The table below summarizes the current and potential global arable hectares.
The primary expansion opportunity lies in Brazil, where the government organization Conab estimates there is an additional 106 million hectares available for agricultural development. The majority of this land is located in Brazil's cerrado or high plains, a vast savannah in the central-western area of the country. The cerrado comprises of roughly a quarter of Brazil's land.
Historically the soil was thought of as unfarmable due to the high acidity levels and lack of nutrients. New technologies that allowed farmers to improve soil fertility and a new type of soybean developed to grow in tropical climates allowed farmers to start producing crops in the early 1980s.
Today, the cerrado is Brazil's most important soybean producing region and accounts for nearly all its growth in soybean production since 1980. Roughly half of the country's corn and 90% of its cotton is also produced in the cerrado.
The primary issue expanding acreage in the cerrado is infrastructure as the majority of additional acres are located in Brazil's cerrado, which is 1,500 kilometers from the nearest ports. Prices will need to rise substantially before the cerrado will be able add to global production.
Indonesia has substantial ability to expand acreage for palm oil cultivation. The Indonesian government estimates that it only using half of its land available for cultivation. In January, 2011, Indonesia targeted expanding the county's agricultural land by two million hectares in the medium and long-term, although this plan his received much criticism as this would result in the removal of tropical forests.
Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan saw a substantial decline is arable hectares and crop yields following the decline in communism. The FAO estimates that arable hectares declined 11% between 2005 and 1992. Credit Suisse estimates that if arable hectares return to 1992 levels, this would add 1.9% to the total global arable acres.
Farmland set aside under the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), could add to the amount of U.S. arable acres. At the end of 2010, 31.3 million acres were enrolled in the CRP in nearly 738,000 contracts according to the USDA. As the CRP contracts expire, much of this land may be put back into production, but a majority of this land is marginable at best, which is the primary reason it was put into the program in the first place.
Biotechnology Expansion
Although the amount of farmland is limited in the U.S. and in the world, farmland that is able to produce corn is expanding in the Midwest primarily due to biotech seeds. Several large seed and agrichemical companies such as Monsanto, Dupont (Pioneer), Dow Chemical, Syngenta, Bayer Crop Science, among others, have focused years of research and product development on higher performing varieties and hybrids of important food and feed crops.
While Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are not without controversy and are essentially banned in Europe and Japan, in the U.S. better drought and cold tolerance has expanded the land area that can be used for cold sensitive crops. For instance, the land planted to both corn and soybeans over the past 15 years has expanded North (colder) and West (drier). The acreage allotted to corn and soybean production is expanding northwest to regions where growing degree days are in less numbers.
Biotech seed manufactures are currently developing the next generation of biotech traits that focus on greater productivity, improved nutrient use, disease resistance, plant density, and continued drought and cold tolerance.
All farmland that is planted with GMO corn requires a set percentage of the field to be planted with non-GMO corn, called refuge acres. The theory is to prevent pests and disease from becoming immune to the GMO traits that were developed to deter the pests and disease in the first place. Historically refuge acres must make up 20% of planted corn in the Corn Belt, but Monsanto's Genuity SmartStax (DeKalb Brand) and VT Double Pro Corn seed allows for only 5% of the acreage to be planted as refuge, according to Monsanto.
On average, GMO corn will have higher yields than refuge corn thus any decrease in refuge acres should increase yields and boost the total production. It is the goal of seed manufacturers to continue to decrease the amount of mandatory refuge acres as well as supply refuge seed alongside GMO seed inside the same bag. Refuge in a bag seed corn may become the new staple for the American farmer very soon.
Nitrogen fertilizer is the largest fertilizer expense for corn farmers. Roughly $8 billion is spent on nitrogen by corn farmers each year in order to obtain maximum yields. Seed manufacturers Monsanto and DuPont are working on developing seed traits that are much more efficient with nitrogen use. The theory of efficient nitrogen use among corn would substantially cut down on the need for nitrogen and also maximize corn yields with less input costs.
Precision Farming
Precision farming is drastically changing the efficiency of the entire farming operation through new technology in machinery. Through information technologies, farmers are able to use variable fertilizer and nutrient applications, variable-rate seed populations, minimal tillage methods, and the time saving auto steer capabilities in new tractors.
Real Time Kinematic (RTK) Global Positioning Systems (GPS) are being used in many farm operations across the world. When paired with information technology, RTK GPS allows farmers to save on fertilizer costs, and most importantly, time. Farmers can take on information such as Cat Ion Exchange (CEC) levels from the soil and apply variable amount of fertilizer to accommodate the soil.
Precision farming has made way for strip tillage methods. Strip tilling is when a farmer using RTK GPS and computers tracks their progress within an inch of accuracy. Each year the rows of corn are shifted to the left or right by a few inches to make use of a new area of soil. This new designated strip will then receive the fertilizer and house the feed furrows for the next crop. Auto steer technology must be used with strip tilling for farmers to stay on the narrow strips each year. RTK GPS auto steers the tractor while tilling, fertilizing, planting, and harvesting.
Farmers are able to now use satellite imagery to map out their farmland while matching up grid soil samples and combine yield data within one-inch accuracy to determine the precise amount of fertilizer needed to replenish the soil for the next crop. The calculations can be done within the on board computer system inside the tractor. Varied amounts of fertilizer can be applied to save on money and time while maximizing yields.
Farmland lighter, sandier, soils can greatly benefit from variable seeding rates. The goal of farmers is to maximize yields from the available nutrient base while keeping input costs down. By cutting seed populations down from 35,000 seeds per acre to 15,000 seeds per acre on lighter soils, these plants will make use of the nutrients more efficiently by having less competition from each other which will create larger yields. Too high of a seed population will hurt yields. When using variable-rate seeding, the end result is less seed cost and higher yields.
The U.N estimates that global agriculture will need to produce more food in the next 50 years than what was produced during the previous 10,000 years, putting more and more pressure on future farmers and the land they use to produce our food.
Traditional farming methods cannot keep up with growing food demand, but increased planted acres, biotech development, and precision farming will ease some of the demand. Rising commodity prices and growing demand for food will continue to drive innovation and new technologies, but farmers have an uphill battle to solve the world's food supply.
Please visit http://farmlandforecast.colvin-co.com for daily articles on farmland and agriculture.
All of these aritlces have saved me a lot of headaches.


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Speaking to The Daily Beast, director Ridley Scott has opened up a bit about his plans for Blade Runner 2. Most intriguingly, the beloved auteur flat out states that the film will feature a female protagonist.
The majority of the interview focuses on Scott's past films and the prominence of strong female leads therein, so right at the end of the piece the interviewer drops all coy pretense and straight up asks the man about his plans for Blade Runner 2, presumably expecting to be stonewalled. Surprisingly, Scott is forthcoming and direct. "Funny enough, I started my first meetings on the Blade Runner sequel last week. We have a very good take on it. And we'll definitely be featuring a female protagonist," Scott said.
Sadly, that was all Scott said of the film, but the reasoning for his choice is quite well thought out. Scott, he claims, has always been drawn to strong women. "I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time," he said. "My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo. I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem."
Though Scott may not have anything else to offer on the film, the other interesting bit of Blade Runner 2 news unearthed today does. Sort of. In a press release, Alcon Entertainment announced that actor/writer Hampton Fancher has been tapped to write the script for the film. Fancher's name may not be familiar to most of you, but rest assured that he knows what he's doing; the man wrote the screenplay for the original Blade Runner, after all.
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Hallo everyone,
Today I found these two cute little pigs,
They are on the cover of this book,
I couldn't resist buying this book
and now I almost spend my whole day reading in the sun.
The other thing I did was going to the thrifth store
and found these beauty's
A Dutch windmill
And this bird with flowers.
Now I feel a little guilty doing no washing, no ironing, no cleaning,
no coocking.
Ok I will prepare a meal..
after that back to the book!
Groetjes Heleen


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Happy Earth Day! (or screw earth day, depending on your point of view) This Earth Day, we're feeling conflicted about the mixed meanings that Earth Day has for the environmental movement and environmental progress. Since Earth Day is meant to be a day about finding a global perspective on the state of our environment, we thought we'd take a poll of our contributors to see what Earth Day means to each of them. As we turn the page on the 39th annual celebration of the planet that we all call home, we asked our writers to share their plans on how they plan to spend April 22, 2009. From Australia and Sweden to San Francisco and New York City, here's a look at what Earth Day means to different Inhabitat writers. We'd love to hear from you. How do you plan to spend YOUR Earth Day, and what does this holiday mean to you? Make sure you respond, because our favorite response wins an Inhabitat T-shirt!
JILL FEHRENBACHER, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, New York, NY
Earth Day always riles up mixed feelings for me every year. People look at me as an environmentalist and think that I must live for Earth Day, but the truth of the matter is that I find Earth Day more and more frustrating every year, as it just seems to be a handy marketing gimmick for non-eco-friendly companies to announce 'green' products and initiatives. If you only knew how many 'Earth Day' press releases I received this morning announcing various useless new green products and services! If people truly took our environmental situation seriously we wouldn't need one single day per year to think about the environment. We should be thinking about our environment every day, every hour.
So Earth Day for me is like every other day this year. I will blog from home while eating vegan, organic food. I will take a walk with my baby in Seward Park (NYC's oldest municipal playground) in the afternoon. If the weather is nice in the evening, I will meet up with some friends to walk around NoLita and go to an eco-fashion sample sale, then perhaps an organic, vegan dinner at a local restaurant. And the next day, I will get up and do pretty much the same thing.
Here at Inhabitat, every day is earth day – and we hope we'll inspire you to feel the same way.
MIKE CHINO, Managing Editor, San Francisco, CA
For me, Earth Day is not so much a day that warrants specific actions as it is a call to reflect upon the past year, strengthen our present resolve, and cast projections and resolutions that stand to shape the future. In the same way that New Year's Day marks a time for personal reflection and renewal, the annual revolution of our earth towards April 22nd offers a chance to take stock of where our world stands and where it is going. Over the past year of tracking developments in green design I've come to a striking realization: although the earth's problems are dire, we have the tools to make positive changes right now, and they're getting better every day. So long as we keep the conversation going, inspire each other to action, and share in the exuberance of a brighter tomorrow we'll give the green future a chance to grow. In the meanwhile, I'll continue to recycle, ride my bike, support local food, and spread the world about the greatest green developments around.
JESSICA MISHNER, Senior Editor, New York, NY
For anyone who tries to live a sustainable life everyday, the idea of Earth Day can be more than a little frustrating. But, I've come to really appreciate this day of celebration, much in the same way religious groups celebrate their holidays and individual mark each birthday. Earth Day is truly a special occasion and one worth commemorating. On April 22, 1970, people across the country decided they had had enough, that TODAY was the day they were going to change the world. Has it happened? Not fully. Do I feel better knowing that for one day each year, everyone is forced to reflect on the way they live and treat the planet? Sure. Do I know that by incorporating Earth Day into our collective holiday vocabulary, we can, in fact, bring about real, lasting change that might just save this planet from ruin? You bet your ass I do.
I do live mindfully each and every day. I think about the provenance of the food I buy and how much waste I generate on a daily basis. In fact, I obsess about it. But I also recognize that any daily task, no matter how noble, becomes a habit over time and is easy to do robotically, without reflection. That's why, on Earth Day, I consciously consider all of my actions and think about WHY I do the things I do—the good and the bad. I think about big picture issues, like water scarcity and overpopulation, as well as more immediate eco concerns, like reducing my paper use and figuring out how to fly less. I don't pretend it's easy to live like it's Earth Day everyday, but I do believe it's enlightening, which is why I make an effort to both walk the walk and remain conscious of my feet moving. Until living naturally feels, well, natural, Earth Day is a necessary reminder of our shared responsibility to celebrate and protect this planet we call home.
BETH SHEA, Managing Editor of Inhabitots, Portland, Oregon
I think it's wonderful that we celebrate Earth Day on an annual basis, but I think it's more vital to think of everyday as Earth Day. We no longer have the luxury of Earth Day amounting to 24 hours of reflection and honor. We need to observe the notion of preserving the earth every single day we're alive. We take such pride in and care of our individual homes, but we need to focus that same attention on our planet as the collective home of humanity and all creatures. We should be taking measures every day to clean-up and maintain the earth. Proactively teaching our children by practicing what we preach, we can never lose hope that we may improve the current state of the world… through measures great and small.
ABIGAIL DOAN, Senior Editor, Inhabitat and Inhabitots, New York, NY
Earth Day this year comes at a time when my household is literally buzzing with activity. The twins are now walking and every day is an adventure – full of exploration. As a mother of twins I am always looking for ways to reduce our family footprint, as we aim to be increasingly aware of and resourceful about what enters and leaves our home. I will begin Earth Day by trying to steal some quiet time in the morning to work on an organic fiber installation project that involves freeform crochet and knotting techniques as means to diagram interconnectivity in the world that we inhabit. Once the babies are awake, I will take them out for a morning run and breakfast picnic near Turtle Pond in Central Park. Later that day we hope to attend some great Earth Day eco art and design-focused events here in NYC. Sustainable NYC has partnered with Solar One to created a solar powered window installation that I really want to see. While downtown we will also swing by the New York Foundation for the Arts opening in Brooklyn's restored waterfront neighborhood, DUMBO. I also want to try to take a peak at Anthropologie's window displays that currently feature the life cycle and plight of honey bees. Just like any other day, we will most likely wrap up by cooking a hearty locally-sourced meal with organic wine for the parents, and organic juice for the babies.
OLIVIA CHEN, New York Editor
If anything, I think I would call myself an accidental environmentalist. Being a proponet of improving all aspects of ordinary living for city folk through design, it always just seemed to make more sense to support environmentally responsible building. Besides, I am and always have been a self-proclaimed tree hugger. Which is why I work at a non-profit that restores and creates green space in New York City, so I'll be spending my Earth Day in an office being on the think-tank end of green space coordination. I like to think that by integrating greenery right into the urban fabric, we don't have to rely on individual behavior — not to say that we shouldn't change our daily habits! In that spirit, I will be taking the advice of senior writer, Bridgette Steffen, to make a new green resolution today — drinking my daily coffee out of a mug, and not a paper cup!
JORGE CHAPA, Down Under Editor, Brisbane, Australia
For this year's Earth Day, I will be doing what I do every weekday. I will get up, grab my bike, get to the office, take a shower (timed), work as usual in my day job, have a nice salad for lunch, take a long leisurely bike ride back home accross the sydney harbour. Why not do something special? Why should we! Earth Day was created to "raise awareness, responsibility and action towards a clean, healthy future for all living things" do you really need a special day to remind you of that?
The point of Earth Day was to make you aware of your footprint. If you aren't aware by now of what it is, what are you waiting for? Take this Earth Day to find out. Keep a log of all your regular activities, find out where and what are you wasting, and see how you can improve for next year. And if you have already done this, well then do it again, you may be surprised to find out that you can improve your life just a little bit more. And more importantly, get a friend to do it too.
BRIDGETTE STEFFEN, Senior Writer, Park City, Utah
I'm not trying to be all high and mighty – sometimes I don't recycle because I'm lazy and I still use new plastic produce bags at the grocery store. I try to reuse them, but every time I need one they seem to be in one of my other reusable bags. My biggest impact is by far my 4WD vehicle – I won't make excuses for it, but do know that it is regularly put into 4WD out of necessity and not just for fun. I don't worry about the baby seals or the polar bears, but I do really care about the air and water quality where I live here in Park City. Not to mention I am deeply concerned about the fate of our snow pack in future years as the our local economy almost wholly depends on a good snow season.
I would definitely call myself an environmentalist – I infuse environmentally friendly choices into my life every day. Sure I work in the industry, so I'm constantly around, but my fiance, who doesn't, has the same commitment. But we don't really celebrate Earth Day. To me, celebrating the Earth on one day seems hypocritical, because you can't make up for all of your negative impacts in one day of environmental goodness – it's not like confession. Don't get me wrong, over the last 40 years, Earth Day has definitely helped bring awareness to environmental issues, but I feel like we need to move past the token tree planting, trash pick-ups, and blackout hours.
YUKA YONEDA, Fashion Editor, New York, NY
We all know that Earth Day is to environmentalism what Valentine's Day is to love. In other words, one day of chocolates and roses isn't gonna make up for years of cheating – and neither will planting a tree. So, while I want to be able to say that I will ignore this holiday completely and just focus on living each day as eco-sensibly as I can, there is a part of me that feels like Earth Day just isn't getting a fair shot. Maybe Earth Day is more like a birthday or Thanksgiving than the more commercial holidays it is often compared to. It is a day to remind ourselves of the small gifts that the earth presents to us each day. Instead of just commenting that it is sunny or rainy, I hope to marvel at the fact that these occurences even happen. That trees and animals and human beings even exist and how awful it would feel to let any of those things slip away just because we take them for granted. Then, after reflecting quite seriously on the steps that I can continue to take each day to preserve the things I love about our planet, I plan to party (responsibly) at Project Earth Day. Hey, it wouldn't be a birthday without a party!
PIPER KUJAC, Contributing Writer, San Francisco, CA
This time last year, I took a good look at my own lifestyle and made a few changes. I stopped driving my car for 8 months (partly because my old Saab needed a new part of comparable $ value to the car itself), and meanwhile discovered that I do not need or miss my car at all! During this time I mysteriously dropped a pants size. Then I got our landlord to adopt 'the green bin' in our building. This particular landlord agreed as long as no cost was involved, so grudgingly, each of us tenants in the building now drags the damn green bin out to the street for weekly pick-ups, thus avoiding the 'key fee' for a garbage collector to enter the building. I was at first perturbed that composting has actually made a place in my google calendar, but I also have to admit a funny thing that happened within our building. We started to talk to one another. Our own waste actually brought us together as we became aware of how each of us manages the 'garbage' of our daily lives- recycling, compost, and the inevitable 'black bin' items, and I got to know the kind individuals who are my neighbors. (Maybe this year I'll talk to them about things other than garbage). Then I did another thing that took even less effort. I put a small note on our front door that reads "Paper = Trees. No Solicitors Please!" and voila, we no longer have countless ads and food delivery menus that used to litter the front stoop. Every day in my professional life, I put a lot of effort into green building tactics, through my work with the USGBC NCC Residential Green Building Committee, the classes I teach at UC Berkeley Sustainable Design Program, and my own design projects.. but what I suggest to anyone reading is- take a good look at your own carbon footprint, waste produced, and daily habits and impacts on the environment. Then see what changes you can make. And- find people who inspire you and carbon copy what they do.. or at least the next best thing! For me, it's Dr. Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. This Earth Day she will be honored by Shaklee Corporation for her extraordinary efforts for the environment, democracy, and peace. Since I'm still working on my plan for world peace, and planting a tree in an urban environment can also prove challenging, my local imitation attempts have led me to Friends of the Urban Forest, where I can plant a tree close to home. I encourage you to do the same! If you are rural, you know what to do, and if you are urban, go find an organization, such as Arbor Day Foundation, and plant a tree everybody!
It's a great thing to do with kids, and I can't tell you how cool it is (or how old I feel) when I visit the now mature apple trees my family planted as seedlings when I was a small child.
ALEXANDRA KAIN, Contributing Writer At Large
I've spent the last many years floating from metropolis to metropolis sitting on my laptop in different little apartments. And for the last year as an Inhabitat contributor, I've been researching and writing about the environmental impacts of our everyday choices. The months surrounding my move from Los Angeles to Saint Petersburg, were particularly draining and smoggy. The former, a sprawling hot mess and the latter, a crumbling Dostoevsky novel covered in black sludge. They both, of course, have their merits but I was more than ready for some time on my own Walden Pond getting to actually see the things I hope to preserve. So I decided to try WWOOF, a global network connecting organic farmers and willing workers.
This Earth Day I'm on a small farm in central Sweden, where long harsh winters make the coming of spring an amazing event About two weeks ago the snow melted away and the ground began to thaw. Since then I've seen little purple flowers sprout up everywhere, which I'm told are a protected plant species here. Animals are helping themselves to the compost pile at night, the sheep next door are nearly ready to give birth, the moose are hollering at each other in the woods, and deer have broken into the greenhouse to eat the tulips.
For the day I'll probably be doing any number of tasks, from planting tomato seedlings, to rock dusting the flower beds to turning the compost heap. I'll start the evening by making a a fresh, 'ekologist' meal for a growing family of nine. Cooking for two vegans, one vegetarian, three pescatarians, and three organic-only meat eaters always makes dinner time an exciting challenge. After dinner we'll watch the sunset over the lake and probably pop open a bottle of wine.
ARIEL SCHWARTZ, Contributing Writer, San Francisco, CA
I won't be doing anything out of the ordinary on Earth Day. For me, that means I'll wake up around 8:30 and walk over to a local coffee shop to write blog posts about anything and everything related to sustainability. During the early evening, I'll go for a short walk to Dolores Park and eat dinner outside. During this weekend (April 17-19), though, I plan to volunteer my time with the Green Apple Festival to help clean up San Francisco. Afterwards, you can find me rocking out at Bassnectar's thank you concert for volunteers. Hope to see you there!
TREY FARMER, Contributing Writer, Berkeley, CA
Earth Day is to me, spending a day with the earth and really contemplating what goes on outside of my house and personal bubble. I plan on getting up early to spend some time with my chickens and sitting in the garden listening to the birds in Wildcat Canyon go about their morning loudly and playfully. Then I will be biking to work to spend a good part of the day in CAD space before heading into Oakland for the Planetshifter.com launch party with it's music and sustainable munchies. Earth Day represents a lot of mixed feelings about marketing and consumerism, but I think that as longs as we all take a minute to realize how small and connected the whole earth organism is, and try and do a tiny bit to respect and help in some way, then Earth Day is a success.
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After making public nearly three weeks ago that he moved his equity exposure to zero after a bad day on the markets, Dennis Gartman says he\'s back to being \"pleasantly bullish\" on stocks.
In The Gartman Letter that published on Monday, he recounts how his position was neutral on U.S. stocks from several weeks ago until early last week. That changed when the market got \"seriously oversold\" early last week as many investors tossed their long positions overboard in \"exasperation.\" That was his signal to shift back to a \"pleasantly bullish posture\" — a full step back from neutral and a \"very, very long way removed from being bearish and hence short.\"
Gartman says if he changes his position on stocks anytime soon it will be to lift stock exposure rather than cut back, saying, there\'s no point in fighting \"the tape nor the Fed.\" As he told MarketWatch, even after that recent selloff, the bull market that\'s been in place since the summer of 2009 is still going. And if stocks move sideways for a week or two — growth stocks excepted because he doesn\'t understand them. He\'s famous for saying he only buys things that would hurt if he dropped them on his foot.
\"I buy simple things like railroads, ships, coal, aluminum. They are the only things I\'m capable of understanding,\" says Gartman.
As for that \'scared\' call in early April, Gartman says he took a tremendous amount of heat from bloggers and the like, by the \"bulls for not being bearish and the bears for not being short. He says they were correct to go neutral three weeks ago, just as they were correct to move to buying again now:
\"I\'ve been at this 40 years, and the one thing that makes sense in a bull market is that really long, pleasantly long and neutral are the only three positions you can have,\" he told MarketWatch in an interview.
He says he completely understands the criticism that was lobbed at him, but he just can\'t write a newsletter in absolute real time in every moment everyday. And the only fund he runs is in Canada, where he can make changes just once a month. \"Sometimes it looks like I\'m a day late…but I\'ve done well.\" Gartman declined to publicly reveal how his investments have performed.
Heat or no, the month has indeed seen some ugly days that scared a lot of investors away, though Gartman says he wishes it had been a \"good solid washout where the public just puked.\" The Friday session that pushed him to the sidelines on stocks was April 4, which ended with a 1.2% decline for the S&P 500. The following Monday, the index fell another 1%, then on April 10, the S&P 500 fell 2.1%, and the Nasdaq slumped 3.1%, as investors fled high-growth technology stocks, such as big Internet names and biotechs. The S&P 500 is back above its closing levels of April 4 and 7, though, so anyone who bailed out then and is getting back in now has missed out on some gains and also will be set back by their transaction costs from jumping out and back in.
One criticism is that Gartman seems to dart so fast in and out of the market and is so public with it, which can be maddening for average investors trying to get a grip, though he maintains that he\'s not changing his calls on a daily basis, but rather tries to stick to them for a few weeks. What is he sure about? It\'s not whether this selling spree is done, but rather that he\'ll miss the end by about six months. \"I\'m not smart enough to get out ahead of it,\" he says.
In a separate interview with CNBC, Gartmansaid he likes gold miners and it\'s worth owning \"whatever comes out of the Barrick and Newmont \" consolidation. As he notes, the tie-up would have a better beta than gold itself. (He expects a mining deal next week sometime, even though talks have broken down.)
Gartman added that he\'s \"pleasantly long\" gold , but not in dollar terms. He says investors have lost much more over the last couple of years against being long gold in other currencies, such as the yen, where the loss is 1% or 2% over that period of time.
\"I just went to North Carolina State, I didn\'t go to Harvard, but I think being down 1% or 2% is better than being down 30% or 35%, which if you own gold in dollar terms, that\'s what you\'re down,\" he told CNBC.
— Barbara Kollmeyer writes for MarketWatch. Follow her @bkollmeyer
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San Clemente, CA. (October 18, 2010) – POWDER Magazine today announced the date and location for the 2011 POWDER Video Awards and Reader Poll (PVA's) presented by Samsung and Verizon Wireless. Taking over one of Aspen's most prestigious theaters for the first time, 2011 promises to rock!
Votes are now being accepted for your favorite 10 male skiers and 5 female skiers. Feverish water cooler conversations have already begun about Seth Morrison and if he'll take his 5th consecutive award. Seth and Shane McConkey are the only two men to ever win the POWDER Reader Poll. In addition Reader Poll, the Video Awards will recognize 15 unique categories including "Breakthrough Performance" and "Full Throttle."
Since 2000, the PVA's are recognized by the industry, athletes and skiing community as the premiere ski awards. Continuing to be the most sought-after party during Winter X Games in Aspen, those lucky enough to get in the door experience one of the most intimate parties of the year.
Additionally, for the first time ever, Denver, Colorado, home to the SIA Snow Show, will host an exclusive satellite viewing party at a secret location.
Attendees will include the industry's most recognized athletes, top ski industry executives, pro ski icons, national media, and guest celebrities. For those opting to enjoy the show from the comfort of their own home, a live webcast will be made available to be accessed by viewers from around the globe.
Tune in! The 2011 POWDER Video Awards and Reader Poll Presented by Samsung and Verizon Wireless will take place January 28th, 2011, at the historic Wheeler Opera House, in Aspen, Colorado. Attendance is by invitation only, but watch/catch the live webcast, right here, at www.powderawards.com beginning at 7:30 p.m. (MST) with live red carpet arrivals immediately followed by the live Awards show beginning at 8:00 p.m. (MST).
Special thanks to the sponsors of the 2011 POWDER Video Awards and Reader Poll: Samsung and Verizon Wireless, Aspen/Snowmass, Red Bull and The North Face.
About The Powder Video Awards and Reader Poll:
The POWDER Video Awards were born as the first show of its kind to acknowledge the artistry and athleticism in ski film and photography. A year later we added to this format and established the first-ever Reader Poll to recognize the seasonal feats of skiing heroes. This year the event enters its 11th year of recognizing those that continue to progress the sport and change the perception of skiing.
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Powder, The Skier's Magazine, is produced by and for those who embrace skiing like no other, and is developed through a collective love of two things: good skiing and good magazines. Since it's inception in 1972, the strength of the Powder title has been based on authenticity, experience, and respect for its readers-the most passionate, dedicated, and loyal in the sport. Powder is part of Source Interlink Media's Action Sports Group (ASG) that reaches more than 2 million active sports enthusiasts through an integrated network of magazines, online properties, events and television programming. For more information, please visit www.powdermag.com
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WASHINGTON — The ambitious U.S.-Russian deal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough just days ago, hit its first delay Wednesday with indications that the Syrian government will not submit an inventory of its toxic stockpiles and facilities to international inspectors by this weekend's deadline.
The State Department signaled that it would not insist that Syrian President Bashar Assad produce the list Saturday, the end of a seven-day period spelled out in the framework deal that Washington and Moscow announced last weekend in Geneva.
Marie Harf, a State Department spokeswoman, said Wednesday that "our goal is to see forward momentum" by Saturday, not the full list. "We've never said it was a hard and fast deadline."
It wasn't clear whether Syrian officials needed more time to complete a formal declaration of their chemical arms, or whether the disarmament deal itself was in trouble.
Secretary of State John F. Kerry had described the date as the first of several "specific timelines" that would indicate whether Syria is committed to the deal that he and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had worked out.
"We agreed that Syria must submit within a week — not in 30 days, but in one week — a comprehensive listing," Kerry said Saturday. He said the U.S. would allow "no games, no room for avoidance, or anything less than full compliance."
Senior Obama administration officials had praised Russia for persuading Assad's government to relinquish its lethal chemical arsenal, one of the world's largest, by mid-2014 in a deal to avoid U.S. missile strikes in retaliation for the Aug. 21 poison gas attack that the U.S. says killed more than 1,000 people.
But Moscow's ability or willingness to push its ally in Damascus to meet the first deadline in the deal now is being questioned.
Kerry and Lavrov sought last weekend to portray the two powers as united. The gap between them, however, has become more apparent and is threatening to snarl efforts to craft a United Nations Security Council resolution that lays out how Syria is to meet its obligations.
The resolution needs to be complete before the first steps can be taken to impound and either remove or destroy Syria's arsenal. Diplomats said Western countries split with Russia in a meeting Tuesday over Western demands for tough enforcement of the agreement.
Diplomats hope to complete the resolution by Friday, but if they fall short the work may be delayed further next week because of the meeting of the U.N. General Assembly.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, an international body based in The Hague, is expected to take several days to complete its analysis of the Syrian "initial declaration," and then will submit its report to the United Nations.
Gary Samore, who was President Obama's top arms control advisor until February, said the declaration is key because "it will provide an early test of whether this process is ever going to get off the ground."
Samore, now research chief for the Belfer Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, said he believes Russia is pushing Syria to comply. He also said, "Assad is going to try to hide some portion — maybe 10%, maybe 30% — whatever he thinks he can get away with."
Western diplomats close to the deliberations at the U.N. are wary that the Syrians may try to "cheat and retreat," as Saddam Hussein's government did for years in Iraq, to stymie U.N. weapons inspections.
"We're not going to lose a lot of faith in the Syrians, because we're not starting out with a lot," said one diplomat, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue.
Western diplomats said they wanted to avoid a mistake of the U.N.'s battle with Hussein by starting out with an enforcement mechanism strong enough to prevent the Syrians from avoiding their obligations.
The Russians and Americans are sharply split over the use of the U.N.'s Chapter 7, which authorizes punitive actions, in any resolution. Russia has argued that it should be included only as a possible avenue for future action, while the United States, Britain and France want it conveyed automatically if there is noncompliance.
Russia also amplified its claims that rebels seeking to overthrow Assad, not the Syrian government, fired rockets filled with deadly sarin gas Aug. 21, and described a U.N. report on the incident as "politicized" and "one-sided."
U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky defended the report Wednesday, calling it "indisputable" and "thoroughly objective." Independent groups have analyzed data in the report and concluded that the rockets were fired from government-controlled areas into territory held or contested by rebels.
U.S. officials say they have seen no evidence that chemical weapons are stored or being used in areas held by the opposition.
Some experts argued that the one-week timeline was too generous. Robert M. Gates, former Defense secretary under George W. Bush and Obama, said this week that Assad should have been given a 48-hour ultimatum.
"It should be an easier task on the part of the Syrians compared to the Iraqis," said Charles Duelfer, who led the U.S. search for weapons of mass destruction after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.


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NSA & FBI Spied On All Emails In Salt Lake City Before & After The Olympics
from the minimization? deptWe've already written about the latest NSA bombshell, which came via an article in the Wall Street Journal (which they stupidly put behind their paywall) by reporters Siobhan Gorman and Jennifer Valentino-Devries. But I wanted to focus in on one aspect that hasn't received very much attention -- the revelation that the NSA and the FBI teamed up to read every email and text communication in the Salt Lake City area before and after the Olympics there in 2002:
For the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, officials say, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and NSA arranged with Qwest Communications International Inc. to use intercept equipment for a period of less than six months around the time of the event. It monitored the content of all email and text communications in the Salt Lake City area.At the time, Michael Hayden was in charge of the NSA, and today he remains one of the staunchest supporters of the NSA's surveillance, calling its opponents losers who can't get laid for daring to question the level of unconstitutional surveillance of our communications. Perhaps -- just perhaps -- he'd like to explain the legal rationale for spying on every digital communication. Sure, sure, this happened soon after September 11th, and I'm sure US officials were worried about the possibility of a terrorist attack on the winter Olympics. But, I don't recall us turning off the Constitution or ripping out the 4th Amendment just for the Olympics. Perhaps General Hayden, rather than random name calling, could share with us how such a project was possibly anywhere in the vicinity of legal at the time?
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