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Classic Trickster: Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp by Mercer Mayer
Here's a classic literary folktale that is as nearly perfect as a picture book can be.
Mercer Mayer's Liza Lou And The Yeller Belly Swamp (Aladdin Picture Books), in print and going strong after 32 years, still has the power to knock the socks off the story circle crowd and delight the individual reader.
Mayer carefully crafts this tale, with its sassy, smart heroine and its outlandish but gullible bad guys, using the traditional trickster tale format, by masterfully intertwining snippets from world folklore into a piece which, like Robert San Souci's The Talking Eggs, emerges as a delightful bit of Americana.
Liza Lou's mama keeps her hoppin', poling her skiff all over the Yeller Belly Swamp in a variety of errands for family and neighbors, despite the undisputed fact that that swamp is the lair of all kinds of nasty characters--a swamp haunt in an abandoned shed, a swamp witch lurking in the reeds, a gobblygook under the Yeller Belly Swamp Bridge, and worst of all, a mean ole' swamp devil at the bottom of an old well. But Liza Lou is a girl who's full of "fancy thinking" and "bold as brass" to boot, and she's got some tricks in her little calico dress pocket to outsmart these characters everyone.
Mining European and African folklore, Mayer equips Liza Lou with some of literature's best ploys, beginning with a well-known one of that tricky little guy, B'rer Rabbit. Here's Liza Lou meeting up with the swamp witch as she totes Auntie Jane's soiled Sunday-go-to-meeting finery home to boil and scrub up for her by Friday:
"Liza Lou," that swamp witch cackled. "I'm gonna boil you in a big pot of water, and then I'm gonna chew on your bones."
"Oh, Miss Swamp Witch," cried Liza Lou. "Boil me in your big pot of water if you must, and chew on my bones as much as you like. But please, oh please, don't boil this precious little child I've got cradled in my arms."
Now everybody knows that a swamp witch is meaner than a stomped on polecat, but not everybody knows that she is blinder than a cave bat.
Of course, that old swamp witch just has to snatch Liza Lou's bundle and toss it into her big black boiling pot just for pure meanness, but when she complains that she can't smell anything cooking in the pot, Liza Lou uses the old Hansel and Gretel trick and coaxes her closer and closer to the pot until she can push her right in. The old witch skedaddles with a hoot and a holler, and Liza Lou calmly fishes her Auntie's now-clean laundry out of the pot and collects the promised payment--one of Auntie's pecan pies all her own--on Friday.
In similar fashion Liza Lou, drawing on the Red Riding Hood motif, lures the swamp haunt right into the clutches of her iron skillet-wielding granny when she begs him NOT to take her tote full of sweet potatoes to granny's house and cook them up in a pan. Borrowing a trick from the Goats Gruff, when Liza Lou trucks a wagon load of junk across the swamp bridge, she cons the gobblygook underneath who threatens to eat her into gobbling her precious "treasure" instead, causing the bridge and the now grossly overweight bad guy to sink into the mucky goo where they belong.
Borrowing from Ananse's capture of the hornets-who-sting-like-fire in Gail Haley's A Story, a Story, Liza Lou pulls off her best trick when, carrying a jug of molasses over to the Parson's for breakfast, she pretends to be happy that a mean old swamp devil is planning on stealing her soul rather than the precious parson's soul she's keeping safe inside her jug. Now Liza Lou knows that no swamp devil can resist transforming himself into a fly to take a look down inside, and when he does, Liza Lou slaps the cork back into the jug and traps that devil fly, whom the Parson's wife proceeds to swat into oblivion when she pours him out atop her morning hotcakes.
As for Liza Lou, she skipped all the way back home to her mother. And from that day to this, no one has ever seen hide nor hair of devils, gobblygooks, witches, or haunts in the Yeller Belly Swamp.
And no one misses them neither.
Liza Lou And The Yeller Belly Swamp (Aladdin Picture Books), lavishly overflowing with some of Mercer Mayer's finest illustrations, is filled with details of swamp life--Liza Lou's pet 'possum, partially hidden cottonmouth snakes, alligators, and bobcats--a menagerie of critters that listening children will enjoy spotting on every page. Meanwhile, Liza, with her freshly-ironed little print dresses and spirited body language, is as charming and in-control a trickster as ever strutted her way through a story. As one of Liza Lou's little rhymes puts it,
"One, two, three, four,
Five on the double.
If you mess around with me
It's a mess of trouble."
It's also a beautifully designed and lovingly crafted book, a thing of beauty which is indeed a joy forever!


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text: 01 Aug 2013 10:00 The national airline of Serbia now has a new name – Air Serbia – and a new corporate logo and colour scheme, as part of the largest transformation of its 86-year history. The change signals not only a rebranding of the former Jat Airways, but a whole new identity, affirming that Air Serbia will be a completely different airline.Driving the change is Etihad Airways, the national carrier of United Arab Emirates, which has secured regulatory approval to acquire 49 per cent of Air Serbia and been awarded a five year management contract.Announcing the groundbreaking deal today, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Etihad Airways, James Hogan, said the rebranding signalled the arrival of an all-new airline and exciting new opportunities for Serbia."This is not just a change in strategy," said Mr. Hogan. "It is a package of changes so significant that the airline requires a change of identity and appearance."The Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said a strong national carrier was essential not only for the Serbian economy but for national pride."The people of Serbia value their heritage and their national identity," Mr.Vučić said."This change signals a break with the national airline's past practice but not with its strong ethnic roots."The name Air Serbia will carry the national identity into other markets, and clearly establish the Serbian brand in a way that Jat Airways could not."The newly-installed Chief Executive Officer of Air Serbia, Dane Kondic, said the rebranding ultimately would cover every part of the airline, from aircraft exteriors to cabin crew uniforms, ticket offices, boarding passes and advertising."The new brand will take the Serbian name and its red, white and blue colour scheme from Belgrade to the world," Mr Kondic said.He also revealed that a key figure in the rebranding of the national airline was 25-year-old graphic design student Tamara Maksimovicfrom the Serbian city of Novi Sad.At the end of her course, Tamara was required to develop a portfolio of branding designs for an organisation of her choice. "I wanted a big project, something with a lot of detail and a lot of applications," she explained. "It came to my mind to choose an airline. I chose Jat Airways."The airline discovered Tamara's portfolio on a graphic design website, and engaged her to design the new branding for Air Serbia."Branding is what I love the most,' Tamara said. "The Jat Airways design came from the former Yugoslavia. I wanted to refresh it and make it Serbian. This is very exciting. Seeing the design now I'm super proud of it." Επικοινωνήστε μαζί μας Ως πραγματικά διεθνής αεροπορική εταιρία, η Etihad Airways διαθέτει παγκόσμια παρουσία. Μάθετε πώς μπορείτε να επικοινωνήσετε με το πλησιέστερο σε σας γραφείο της Etihad Airways. Προβολή στοιχείων επικοινωνίας Παρατηρήσεις Αν θέλετε να μας στείλετε κάποιο θετικό ή αρνητικό σχόλιο να διατυπώσετε κάποιο παράπονο ή να κάνετε μια ερώτηση, παρακαλούμε κάντε κλικ εδώ Δείτε μας Επισκεφθείτε το κανάλι μας στο YouTube! Κάντε μας like Επισκεφθείτε τη σελίδα μας στο Facebook! Ακολουθήστε μας Etihad Airways | Προσφορές Etihad | Βοήθεια με την Etihad | Επιβραβεύσεις Etihad


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Disney Driven Week In Review 6-7-15
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Preseason First Team All-America choice ... national player and attackman of the year candidate ... nation's active leader in goals scored with 141 in 48 career games, good for a per game average of 2.94 goals ... career goals per game average ranks 13th on the NCAA's all-time chart ... tabbed the fifth-best attackman in the country by Inside Lacrosse magazine ... voted team captain along with Matt Danowski and Brad Ross ... begins the year needing four goals to move into a tie for 25th place on the NCAA's all-time chart ... owns the third and 15th all-time single-season goal totals in NCAA history with 57 in 2005 and 67 in 2007 .... led the nation in goals scored in both 2005 and 2007 ... one of two players in NCAA history to register multiple single-season goal-scoring totals of 55+, joining Cornell's Mike French, who accomplished the feat three times in 1974, 1975 and 1976 ... returning two-time All-America, two-time All-ACC, two-time ACC All-Tournament and two-time NCAA All-Tournament selection ... owns the Duke and ACC single-season standard for goals in a season with 67 in 2007 ... owns the NCAA record for goals scored by a freshman with 57 in 2005 ... on Duke's all-time charts, ranks tied for eighth in total points and fourth in goals ... ranks ninth on the ACC's all-time goals scored list ... sits 52 goals shy of the ACC all-time goals scored record of 193 held by N.C. State's Stan Cockerton ... owns career per game averages of 2.94 goals, 1.02 assists and 3.96 points ... has scored at least one goal in 43-of-48 games with Duke compiling a 39-4 ledger in games when Greer scores ... has scored three or more goals in 27 contests, with the Blue Devils posting a 27-0 ledger in those games ... in NCAA Tournament action, holds Duke records for goals in a game (7 vs. North Carolina, 2007), goals in a tournament (16 in 2007), goals in a career (26), career games with two or more goals (6) and career games with three or more goals (6) ... has helped Duke to a three-year record of 40-8 with 22 wins over opponents ranked in the top 20 and an 11-2 ledger against ACC opponents ... begins final season with a career shooting percentage of .490 (141-of-288) ... combines with Matt Danowski to form the nation's most prolific goal-scoring tandem with a career combined average of 5.06 goals per contest ... ACC Academic Honor Roll selection.
2007: USILA First Team All-America selection ... All-ACC pick ... ACC All-Tournament choice ... NCAA All-Tournament honoree ... paced the country in goals with an ACC single-season record 67 tallies, marking the third-highest single-season total in NCAA history behind only Jon Reese of Yale (82 in 1990) and Gary Gait of Syracuse (70 in 1988) ... registered 94 total points to post the third-highest single-season total in league history and the 17th-best single-season total in NCAA history ... became just the second player in ACC history to record two seasons with 50+ goals, joining Doug Knight of Virginia ... in the ACC, ranked first in goals scored, first in goals per game (3.35), first in game-winning goals (6), second in points, second in points per game (4.70), second in assists (27) and sixth in assists per game (1.35) ... nationally, ranked first in goals, first in goals per game, tied for eighth in assists and 31st in assists per game ... led Duke in goals scored for the third consecutive campaign ... compiled 20 points in four NCAA Tournament games to match the seventh-best single-tournament total in NCAA history ... paired with Matt Danowski to register 44 combined points in the NCAA Tournament to establish a new tournament record, eclipsing the previous mark of 43 set by Gary Gait (23) and Tom Marechek (20) of Syracuse in 1990 ... with Danowski and Ned Crotty (12), combined for the second-highest single-tournament scoring trio with 56 points, trailing only the group of Gait, Marechek and Greg Burns (16) of Syracuse in 1990 ... paired with Danowski to form the nation's most prolific scoring tandem with a combined 190 points ... the 190 combined points established a new ACC record, surpassing the previous mark held by Michael Watson and Doug Knight of Virginia (161 in 1996), and ranks second in NCAA history behind the record of 193 points set by Cornell's Mike French and Eamon McEneaney in 1975 ... scored at least one goal in 18-of-20 games ... carded at least three goals in 12 contests ... tossed in five or more goals in eight tilts ... named the ACC Player of the Week after guiding Duke to season-opening wins over Dartmouth (2/24) and Denver (2/25) with a two-game total of eight goals and five assists ... logged game-winning goals in both ACC Tournament wins versus North Carolina (4/27) and Virginia (4/29) ... matched career-high of seven goals versus both St. Joseph's (3/6) and North Carolina (5/20) ... seven-goal performance against the Tar Heels helped Duke overcome a 6-1 deficit en route to a 19-11 victory in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals ... six days later, capped off a four-goal outing with the game-winning tally with just three seconds remaining in the fourth quarter as the Blue Devils defeated top-ranked and previously undefeated Cornell (5/26) in the national semifinals ... credited with 59 ground balls.
2006: Started all eight games while leading Duke in goals scored for the second straight season with 17 ... was tied for second on the squad with 24 total points ... scored a season-best four goals against Villanova (2/25) ... posted three goals against both Butler (2/18) and Holy Cross (3/7) ... credited with the game-winning goal in Duke's victory over Bellarmine (2/28) ... had at least two total points in all eight games ... picked up 25 ground balls - fourth-most on the squad.
2005: USILA Third Team All-America pick after establishing an NCAA freshman record with 57 goals ... led the nation in goals scored ... National Rookie of the Year choice by Inside Lacrosse magazine ... unanimous pick for the ACC Rookie of the Year honors as selected by the league's head coaches ... joined Virginia's Joe Yevoli (2002) as the only players in ACC history to lead the conference in goals scored while winning the Rookie of the Year award ... lone freshman chosen to the All-ACC unit ... earned a spot on the ACC All-Tournament Team ... goal total of 57 established school and ACC single-season records and stands as the 11th highest total in NCAA history ... the 57 goals also marked the most in a season since Yale's Jon Reese set the national record of 82 during the 1990 campaign, and is the highest total by a freshman in NCAA history ... paired with Matt Danowski (50) to become the second pair of teammates in NCAA history to score 50 or more goals in the same season, joining Mike French (63) and Jon Levine (50) of Cornell (1975) ... together with Danowski (92) and Dan Flannery (72) became just the second group of three teammates in NCAA history to register 70 or more points in a season, joining Virginia's 1996 trio of Doug Knight (86), Michael Watson (75) and Tim Whiteley (73) ... with 236 points, the Danowski-Flannery-Greer combination recorded the fourth highest total among three teammates in NCAA history ... closed the year with 72 total points on 57 goals and 15 assists ... ranked tied for third nationally in total points ... in the ACC, ranked first in goals per game (2.85) and fourth in points per game (3.60) ... had 57 goals on just 116 shots for an impressive .491 shooting percentage ... started all 20 games ... scored a career-high seven goals in just his third game, a Duke win over VMI (3/1) ... had a five-goal performance versus Penn State (3/8) ... enjoyed the NCAA Tournament with 10 goals and four assists including a four-goal outing against Maryland (5/28) in the national semifinals ... other four-goal games came against Butler (2/19), Ohio State (4/2) and Virginia (4/16) ... helped produce the third most prolific scoring trio in NCAA Tournament play, combining with Danowski (21) and Flannery (19) to amass 54 points, a total that ranks behind Syracuse's 1990 group of Gary Gait (23), Tom Marechek (20) and Greg Burns (16) that posted 59 points ... helped a Duke offense that paced the country in scoring by averaging 13.4 goals per game while setting a new NCAA Tournament scoring record with 60 goals ... had 12 games with three or more goals ... produced game-winning goals in wins over VMI, Maryland (3/5), North Carolina (4/29) and Cornell (5/22) ... carded 44 ground balls.
2003 ILF U-19 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: In the summer of 2003, led Canada to the championship game at the International Lacrosse Federation Under-19 World Championships in Baltimore ... scored three goals in the finals ... in six games, scored 16 goals and added one assist and earned a spot on the ILF All-World Team.
Prep: In 40 games with the Whitby Warriors of the Ontario Lacrosse Association, scored 72 goals with 72 assists ... named team MVP ... also earned the league's playoff MVP honor ... drafted by the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League.
Personal: Son of Irene and the late Dan Greer ... brother, Bill, is in his second season playing with the Rochester Knighthawks of the National Lacrosse League after spending time with the Anaheim, Arizona and Columbus organizations ... Bill helped Rochester capture the NLL Championship on May 12, 2007 ... sister, Kalley, played hockey and lacrosse at Hamilton College ... born February 12, 1986.


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How Oldboy inspired Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate for Vita and 3DS
While all eyes may be on Batman: Arkham Origins, there's plenty reason to be excited about the 3DS/Vita spin-off game, Blackgate. Set after the events of Origins, the handheld game is being developed by Armature, a studio made up of veterans from Metroid Prime dev Retro Studios. Unlike the console game, Blackgate is a 2D Metroidvania game, which has Batman investigating the titular prison.
Perhaps one of the biggest challenges of adapting the Arkham games to the second dimension is adjusting the well-received "FreeFlow" combat of Rocksteady's original games. Game director Mark Pacini says that Blackgate's combat needed to be built "from the ground up," and takes large inspiration from the 2003 Korean movie Oldboy.
"We made it so that Batman is still moving right to left, but the enemies have depth to them; they can be in the foreground or the background. So all of the free-flow system will still apply, but itâs just scoped for the handheld," Pacini told Game Informer. "What we wanted to do is make sure it felt more like Oldboy the movie than like Old School the game. That it wasn't just enemies lined up behind each other--that you still felt like that you were encompassed by enemies that were around you but you still have the limitations of right and left."
For those unfamiliar with the cult film, this is the scene that Pacini is talking about:
While Armature is working on their own take on the "FreeFlow" system, Rocksteady already proved that their battle system can work in a side-scrolling game. The "Freight Train Escape" map included in Arkham City's Robin DLC has players running through a classic beat-em-up inspired train level. See how it looks here:
It's clear that the Arkham combat system works in 2D. But hey, maybe Armature can sneak in a hammer in Blackgate to appease Oldboy fans.


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CLEVELAND (Reuters) - After more than 50 years, loyal fans have one last chance to visit the Easter bunny and other Easter-themed mosaics made of thousands of brightly colored eggs on a lawn in an eastern suburb of Cleveland.
The displays have drawn thousands of visitors each year to the sprawling lawn of Betty and Ron Manolio in Lyndhurst, Ohio, but the 55th annual event this year will be the last.
Eggshelland was created by Ron Manolio, 80, who died in August. This final display is dominated by a 16-foot by 15-foot portrait of the man who each year spent months hollowing out and hand-painting anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 eggs. A message below the picture reads "thank you all, and goodbye."
This year, Manolio's children and grandchildren set up the 21,630 eggs in 24 colors in a display entitled "A Labor of Love" in tribute to their grandfather. The egg mosaics depict a 45-foot cross, an Easter bunny and an EGGSHELLAND sign propped up in front of the couple's house.
"Our children did this their entire lives. They thought everyone does this," Betty Manolio told Reuters. But the months it takes to design and two to three weekends for installation are too much for the family to keep up.
Egg mosaics in past years have depicted characters from Sesame Street, Winnie-the-Pooh, and Harry Potter and spring scenes.
Manolio said that because her husband was the creative force behind project, it would be too difficult to continue Eggshelland without him.
"Actually, I was amazed we were doing it for 55 years," she said. "If he (Ron) was still around I think we would do it until we both died. I'm going to miss it next year."
Others will miss Eggshelland too. On a typical day, cars line up on their street and around the corner to catch a glimpse the display that began with a mere 750 eggs saved over the course of a year in 1957. At Eggshelland's peak in the 1970s local police were called to direct traffic.
Local and national media have described Eggshelland as a childhood fantasy land but in truth the phenomena has quite an adult following including a website dedicated to its 55-year history and its creators (eggshellandeaster.tripod.com), and a 2004 award-winning documentary on their efforts.
Eggshelland will be up until April 5th. After that, Manolio hasn't yet decided what will happen to the eggs. Previously, they stored the eggs for the year and replaced those that had broken.
"We haven't decided what to do with them. We've gotten some calls," Manolio said. "My grandchildren, of course, told me to put them on eBay."
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Today's data scientist shortage won't go away soon, yet companies need them more than ever to leverage the value of big data. The solution is to build teams of data scientists instead of seeking soloists.
What is a data scientist?
As computer scientists and programmers, they design the intricate models, algorithms and visualizations that can help companies distil insights from huge volumes of chaotic data. Data scientists also do the work of engineers. They acquire external data sets to supplement internal data, and often manage the data they use and maintain the systems which host it. And as their companies' top experts on generating analytical insights, they guide, train and sometimes manage other quantitative professionals, and help general managers understand what they need to know about big data-era analytics.
Data scientists are in high demand, but research by the Accenture Institute for High Performance has found the world is facing a severe shortage. There is simply not enough PhD talent to fill the jobs. The shortage is especially severe in the U.S. where 80 percent of new data scientist jobs created between 2010 and 2011 have not been filled, according to our analysis. And the shortage is getting worse. One reason is that data scientists require a scarce combination of skills. They must master advanced statistical and quantitative methods and tools, along with the new computing environments, languages and techniques for managing and integrating large data sets. Data scientists must also possess industry knowledge and business acumen to create models and solve real-world problems. And they need excellent communication and data visualization abilities in order to explain their models and findings to others. That combination is hard to find.


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Quilt designer: Allison Jane Smith of Plaids and Prints
From: Quilts and More, Spring 2006
Designer Allison Smith enjoys the challenge of combining old with new. "I love this quilt because it has a fresh, simple design, but the colors and textures of the fabrics create a vintage feel," she says. "I always strive to create quilt patterns that combine a fresh style with old-fashioned flair."
When selecting fabrics for the quilt, Allison didn't limit herself to traditional quilting fabrics. For the outer border, she took advantage of the interesting textures and weaves found in the Wuthering Heights fabric line by 3 Sisters for Moda (including velvets, twills, and plaids).Materials
14 -- 18x22" pieces (fat quarters) assorted pink, ivory, and tan prints (blocks)
14 -- 18x22" pieces (fat quarters) assorted green, red, dark pink, and dark tan prints (blocks)
5/8 yard cream print (inner border)
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7/8 yard red print (binding)
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Kennedy Graham gave a great speech in response to the annual Prime Minister's statement. This is the full speech
"Lord Nicholas Stern acknowledged just days ago that he had "got it wrong". Climate change is already far worse than he thought it would be only 6 years ago when he released his report."
"We are no longer likely to achieve the 2 degrees Celsius limit that the international community set for itself only 2 years ago. We are now on target for 3.5 degrees to 6 degrees. That takes us beyond the dangerous dimension of climate change, which the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change sought to prevent, and into what the World Bank calls "cataclysmic" climate change."
"What to say to a Government that in face of these developments guts its domestic climate legislation and refuses to enter a second binding international commitment period?"
"What to say to a Prime Minister who, in his annual statement to Parliament, omits climate change on the grounds that he touched on it last year?"
"What to say to a Minister for Climate Change Issues who says that New Zealand is ahead of the curve, that it is time to move beyond the Kyoto Protocol and join the largest polluters of the world, and who derides the global civil society when it criticises New Zealand for being one of the chief obstacles to progress at the UN conference in Doha?"
"We say this to John Key and Tim Groser. We say this: you are on the wrong side of history, both of you, in your respective ways."
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I have just logged for the first time, thanks to some help from one of your wonderful Mods.
I am here for two reasons. One is, I am researching a work of fiction that I have been itching to write for a long time. As part of this, I have been researching the Vandals, and their alliance with the Alans, and Suieve. There just does not seem to be much out there in documentation form in the way of evidence that has not been tainted by the Romans and their descendants.
And secondly, the debates here are fantastic. So I am hoping to spark one that will not only help me, but enlighten others. I suspect that the Vandals are no where near the criminals that the Romans make them out to be.
I have recently watched a documentary narrated by Terry Jones
(yes the one from Monty Python) regarding "Barbarians". I was able to see on google videos, but it seems that it is no longer there. I suspect the recent copywrite issues had them removed.
One of the episodes covers Geiseric and Attila, but they spend so little time on the Vandals that it is difficult to make any conclusions. He did do an interview with an archaeologist that is working in Tunisia on the Carthage dig. So far the dig has uncovered evidence of Arian/Vandal poetry, not in Aribic or latin but Vandal. Unfortunately, I do not recall the scientist's name. (Arian is a Christian denomination NOT A RACE btw)
I am interested in the Vandals and their allies for several reasons other then what I am working on as well. I suspect that they are decedents of peoples displaced by the Baltic flood, hence their constant migration until conquaring North Africa. I also suspect that they were very much like the Celts of mainland Europe (pre-genocide) which would explain their enmity with Rome, and the Goths.
I have also seen the five part series done by the "history" channel. Talk about a Roman spin, my goodness those folks need to change the name of that station to the Spun history Channel.
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Chicago Pension Funds to Divest Gun Makers
(CHICAGO) -- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Monday that he would ask the city pension funds to divest any investments in companies that manufacture guns and will "lead a charge" among all mayors to tackle the issue.
"I've ordered all the Chicago pension funds to check any of their investments, and if they have it, we're going to divest of any investments they have in any gun manufacturer," Emanuel said at the Center for American Progress Monday morning. "I'm going to lead a charge also among mayors, all mayors to head that effort."
Chicago Comptroller Amer Ahmad will review the five major pension funds, which contain more than $13.5 billion in assets, to determine if there are any connections to gun manufacturers, the mayor's office said in a statement.
Emanuel, who was joined by Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task force, called for a comprehensive approach to gun control, and suggested that the initiatives should begin in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
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September 2011
Dr. Subra Suresh Director National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22230
Re: Draft Scientific Integrity Policy
Dear Dr. Suresh,
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the National Science Foundation's (NSF) draft scientific integrity policy.
The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is a nonprofit scientific association dedicated to advancing biological research and education for the welfare of society. Founded in 1947 as a part of the National Academy of Sciences, AIBS became an independent, member-governed organization in the 1950s. AIBS is sustained by a robust membership of individual biologists and nearly 200 professional societies and scientific organizations with a combined individual membership exceeding 250,000.
As is noted in the draft policy, NSF already has in place a number of policies to ensure the integrity of the merit review process and other agency actions. While it is commendable that NSF has been a leader in implementing a conflict of interest policy for investigators, this and other past actions are not sufficient to implement the guidance issued by the Office of Science and Technology Policy. NSF should make several changes to the policy in order to fully ensure the integrity of science.
Applicability to Employees
We strongly encourage NSF to state that the policy applies to all NSF employees, appointees, and contractors who engage in, supervise, or manage scientific activities; analyze or communicate scientific information; or use such information to make decisions. Universal coverage is essential to ensuring that the policy is effective. It is vital that decision-makers are subject to the policy, otherwise the potential exists for decision-makers to misrepresent, alter, or suppress scientific information, as has happened at other science agencies in recent years. The inclusion of communications staff is key to sustaining the public trust in NSF and the information the agency communicates to the public.
Code of Scientific Conduct
Several federal agencies have elected to include in their draft scientific integrity policies a code of conduct to guide the behavior of agency scientists. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) went one step farther and devised a code of ethics for science supervisors and managers.
We recognize that NSF is a very different type of science agency, since it does not employ large numbers of government scientists to conduct intramural research. NSF, however, does employ statisticians, social scientists, and researchers in its National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES). According to the NSF website: "As one of 13 federal statistical agencies, NCSES designs, supports, and directs periodic national surveys and performs a variety of other data collections and research." In addition, many staff throughout the agency analyze and communicate scientific results.
It is therefore necessary for NSF to develop a code of scientific conduct to guide employee actions. The codes of conduct included in NOAA's draft scientific integrity policy (sections 6 and 7) could serve as a good model for NSF.
Principles of Scientific Integrity
As currently written, the draft policy highlights many actions that NSF has already completed to address scientific integrity, such as an investigator conflict of interest policy. While these actions are an important part of agency's ability to ensure the integrity of science, they are not comprehensive.
NSF's policy would be much stronger if it included a set of guiding principles on scientific integrity. Other science agencies, such as the Department of the Interior and NOAA included principles of scientific integrity in their draft policies. Examples of principles that are not currently addressed in NSF's policy include:
The selection and retention of employees in scientific positions or in positions that rely on the results of scientific activities shall be based on the candidate's integrity, knowledge, credentials, and experience relevant to the responsibility of the position.
In no circumstance may any agency official ask or direct federal scientists to suppress or alter scientific findings.
The agency will make every effort to establish a culture of transparency, integrity, and ethical behavior among its employees through a combination of policy, opportunities for training, and open communications, both internally and with the public.
We encourage NSF to include these and other principles in their final policy.
Scientific Societies
The draft policy states that NSF staff can "participate in any research or educational institution, scientific society, professional association or editorial board, provided written permission is obtained from the scientist's or engineer's supervisor or ethics counselor." This standard is significantly more restrictive than other science agencies. For instance, NOAA encourages employees to join scientific and professional societies and does not require employees to seek permission beforehand. We strongly encourage NSF to revise their policy to allow employees to freely join scientific and professional societies.
We also urge you to clarify the policy to address the rule recently issued by the Office of Government Ethics that allows federal employees to serve on the board of directors and as officers of non-profit organizations, including scientific societies.
Thank you for your thoughtful consideration of these comments. If AIBS may be of further assistance to you on this or any other matter, please contact Dr. Robert Gropp, AIBS Director of Public Policy at 202-628-1500.
Richard O'Grady, Ph.D. Executive Director


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A coalition of co-op and condo owners in northeast Queens had one message for its elected officials after arguments erupted over whose bill was best: no more lip service.
"What you see is the dysfunction in Albany. This isn't a Republican-Democrat issue. It's about homeowners who don't want to be pushed out of their homes," said Bob Friedrich, president of Glen Oaks Village Owners, Inc. and cofounder of the President's Co-op Council.
The Council — which represents about 100,000 co-op shareholders — joined close to one dozen elected officials and more than 900 concerned Queens residents at North Shore Towers on April 12 to rally for action against the city for another year of property tax spikes.
While Friedrich said a solution could not be reached without the cooperation of state lawmakers, some electeds — with pointed fingers — turned the meeting into a heated political debate.
"There's been a little too much lip service tonight. I sat here and got madder and madder as I listened to every speaker," said Senator Tony Avella. "We had an opportunity last year, and we blew it because of politics on both sides of the aisle."
Currently, there are three bills on the table in Albany on how to address the issue, which Avella said is a clear sign of disconnect between state leaders who he said may each be pushing for their own legislation to pass.
"It's not that the Republicans don't want to move the bill to address this — it's which bill should they support? Which one gets passed? This has to stop. I don't care if it's my bill or somebody else's bill, but this has got to stop. We're not working together," he said.
Avella's own bill, which he called the "best solution," would create a new property tax class — called Class 1A — for co-op and condo owners. He said the bill would provide the same protections that exist for Class 1 properties, capping any single yearly tax increase at 6 percent and 20 percent over a five year period.
An earlier law put forth by Assemblymember David Weprin would propose similar provisions, classifying co-ops as Class 1 and capping increases at the same percentage, while other legislation by Senator Toby Ann Stavisky and Assemblymember Ed Braunstein would see co-ops paying only 75 percent of their legal fees in a successful certiorari suit. They said the law would also stabilize assessments for two years following a successful challenge, capping spikes at 3 percent to prevent the necessity of an additional proceeding.
Councilmember Mark Weprin fired back, saying each elected official was in fact "working hard" together to create a solution by this year.
"With all due respect, you're the one who hasn't been to most of the meetings," Weprin said. "This is a very delicate situation, but to say that people here are just giving lip service is just nonsense. This is not about whose bill we're going to sponsor. We're all trying to solve a problem here, and I think we're all open to whatever solution we can get adopted that will save co-op owners. That's the goal here, and that's why I took a lot of offense."
Senate and Assembly officials have only until the end of June this year to agree on one single bill and have it passed by both Houses, Weprin said. While the City Council is not directly involved in the legislation process, Weprin said councilmembers have an upper hand in trying to get the mayor on board.
"I've seen bills drafted, signed and passed in 12 hours. We just have to work together," Weprin said. "I thought [the meeting] was a good case of democracy in action."


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Hiram Berry is one of Rachel's fathers, along with his husband LeRoy. His name is first revealed in the book Glee: The Beginning, and his first appearance was in Heart, the thirteenth episode of Season Three.
He is portrayed by actor Jeff Goldblum.
He and LeRoy screened potential surrogates based on IQ and beauty, finally choosing Shelby Corcoran, then mixed their sperm together and used a turkey baster to create a child (as described by Rachel). He and LeRoy both spoiled their daughter with whatever lessons she asked for.
Hiram is mentioned by Rachel and is seen in photographs inside her locker.
He is once again mentioned by Rachel.
He is mentioned along with his partner by Rachel.
He is mentioned when Jesse wants to "do it" with Rachel. Rachel agrees to do it on the day that her dads are at the opera.
It is revealed that he and LeRoy won't let Shelby see Rachel until she is 18.
Neither he nor LeRoy can sow, so the Lady Gaga dress Rachel wears had the dolls and bears stapled on. Earlier, after Rachel informed both him and Hiram that she found out the truth about Shelby, they moved the therapist to the guest bedroom. Also, one of them used to come and give Rachel water whenever she was sad.
He and LeRoy Berry make their first official appearance in Heart. They find out about their daughter's engagement, and host a family dinner with the Hudson-Hummels in the hopes that Rachel will rethink marriage while pretending to be supportive. They also sing You're the Top with Rachel.
Hiram and LeRoy are in the audience to support Rachel as the New Directions compete at Regionals. They both appear very proud and tearful at their daughter's performance. They are very ecstatic when the New Directions take home first place.
Hiram, LeRoy, Burt, and Carole try to decide how to deal with the imminent wedding plans of Rachel and Finn since none of them really approve of their marriage at such a young age. Hiram suggests that when the Justice of the Peace asks if there are any objections, they will all say "We do" with feeling. He suggests that Burt should run interference with Finn, Carole can distract the JP with her feminine wiles, and Hiram and LeRoy will drive Rachel straight to Broadway. As the event draws near, Hiram says his new plan is to fake an epileptic seizure.
Finn tells Joe that Hiram and LeRoy are trying to build Rachel up again after her NYADA audition by doing something called "Sitting Shiva."
Although unseen, it's certain both he and LeRoy were at the graduation ceremony to cheer on Rachel. Later on, Rachel mentions that both of her parents were acting quiet when she talked about the wedding. The real reason behind their silence was because they had already arranged with Finn to meet Rachel in New York which she did not know about.
Rachel mentions that while she loves New York, she misses both Hiram and LeRoy.
Once again, remaining unseen, Rachel mentions that she misses spending Christmas with her two dads as she converses with Kurt in their apartment.
Santana briefly mentions he and LeRoy saying that she is just as good as Rachel, even with all her singing and dancing lessons and her gay Broadway dads.
Hiram was mentioned by LeRoy to Rachel that they are getting a divorce.
LeRoy Berry
The details about how and why LeRoy and Hiram met and fell in love, are revealed in Heart. They met while performing in a play together. According to Rachel, their relationship is one of true love, and that she is the result of it. The two appear to be very different from one another, but they have both proven to be loving and supportive parents to Rachel, aiding her in her ambitions to become a star.
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- Hiram wanted to fake an epileptic seizure during Finn and Rachel's wedding to stop them from getting married, even though he is not epileptic.
- As shown in Heart, he can play piano.
- In On My Way, Hiram stated that he doesn't drive.
- According to the original Pilot script, Hiram's name was originally Joe.
- Hiram G. Berry was an American general during the civil war. However, it is unknown whether this had an influence on the naming of Hiram.
- He is a Friends fan and his portrayer, Jeff Goldblum, guest starred on Friends in episode "The One with the Mugging" playing Leonard Hayes.
Hiram: New plan. I'm gonna fake an epileptic seizure.
—Hiram Berry and LeRoy Berry to Burt
Hiram: Here's what we're gonna do: When the Justice of the Peace says "does anybody here object?", we will all say "we do", with feeling. Burt, you will run interference with Finn. Carol, you will distract the Justice of the Peace with your feminine wiles. I will hustle Rachel out the side door and into our waiting car, where you, LeRoy, will drive (I don't drive) straight to Broadway. And if that doesn't start to get our baby girl back on her career track, I don't know what will.


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Either iPad 2 will have a standard 1024x768 display or a doubled 2048x1538 Retina Display, or developers and users will be in for the type of frustration usually ascribed to Android. That's because, if Apple leaves iPad 2 at 1024x768, existing iPad apps will look just fine. If Apple pixel-doubles iPad 2 to a 2048×1536, existing apps will just use 4 new pixels for each 1 old pixel but remain the same physical size and still look just fine. Anything else and a bit of a mess ensues.
Let's say Apple goes for 1280x960 (so it hits the horizontal dimension of 720p). Apple then has 2 choices when it comes to existing iPad apps:
- Shrink them physically so they still occupy 1024x768 pixels on a higher density display.
- Stretch them so that they occupy the full 1280x960 but at the same 9.7-inch physical size as before.
The shrink approach will maintain pixel-perfect rendering. Everything will be sharp and crisp. But because the physical size will be smaller the touch targets in the UI will be smaller -- buttons, menu bars, everything -- and that will cause problems for users. Capacitive touch screens favor big, easy to hit targets. Shrunken apps don't work as well.
The stretch approach has the opposite problem. UI elements stay the same size so are as easy to hit as before but because the change in pixels isn't exactly double the art needs to be interpolated and so edges blur and you lose the crispness. For fast moving games or videos it won't matter. For anything with line work, grids, borders, etc. it will matter a great deal. Stretched apps don't look as good.
Neither option seems ideal and Apple seldom settles for less than ideal options. Historically they just wait until they can do it properly. So while I'd dearly love a Retina Display on iPad 2, my guess is if we don't get it Apple will stick with 1024x768... for now.


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URGENT: Help Keep College of Visual Arts Open
This is a call for your help. As a reader of Beast Pieces you may have wondered where a crazy letterpress shop like Studio On Fire began. Here is a little background story from company principal, Ben Levitz: I went to College of Visual Arts (CVA) as a kid right out of high school. I choose it because of the small campus size and the fine arts focused BFA degree. I wasn't sure what on earth I wanted to do with an "art" degree, but I knew I loved making things. And I liked that CVA wasn't the slickest or fanciest campus. It seemed like a place for focused art exploration with an amazing faculty. I enrolled with my mother still skeptical. ( I think she was just nervous about sending her son off to do nude figure drawing. ) I embarked on a four year arts journey that taught me fancy words like chiaroscuro and gestalt. I learned about everyone from Hieronymus Bosch to Paul Rand. I even did my nerdy typography-based senior thesis on a fellow named William Dwiggins who designed typefaces for letterpress printing. I graduated with a BFA in Communication Design and a passion for visual culture.
I struggled during my schooling choosing between a design major and a sculpture major. I ultimately chose a design major because I wanted to eat. But after graduating CVA in 1998, I quickly found in my first design job a very different experience than the one I had as a CVA student. Most of my work day was locked into the glowing screens of design, not making stuff with my hands. And most of the stuff I did make, ended up in trash cans of clients. I sought change. I wanted to make stuff that people would love and keep. I wanted some outlet for craft that related back to my college experience. So, in the fall of 1999, my and evenings and weekend were spent beginning a letterpress printing space in my home basement. I called it Studio On Fire, named for the Typographer Frederick Goudy who twice lost his lifes work to studio blazes. Fast forward 14 years - the company Studio On Fire is a best-in-class letterpress shop with a dozen employees and clients all over the world. Gestalten even published a recent book of projects that were printed in our studio.
Learning at CVA was one of those amazing life experiences that was so formative to my valuation and passion for craft and design. As Studio On Fire grows as a business, this is what we value. Craft. Design. It was that simple framework of learning that provided a chance for me to focus my passions and ultimately build a unique business that reflects the things I love.
The sudden announcement in January of CVA's closure was a bombshell. In addition to running Studio On Fire, I'm now busy as President of a group called CVA Action making the case to our creative community that CVA deserves a chance to stay open. Yes, it is going to take some big changes. It is going to require vision beyond what the current Administration and Board of Trustees could offer. This change is big and we have an amazing team of people stepping in to surround this effort. I believe those changes can be made and I am stepping up to play my part. This is vital to the Saint Paul community, vital to Minnesota, and vital to creativity. But we need your help.
I'm going to the mat and asking you to consider a gift of money to this vital part of our creative community. If you love what we do at Studio On Fire, you already recognize the value a creative education brings to business. I am hoping you care enough about this cause to contribute.
For more details about our fundraising campaign, visit our website CVA Action. Time is of the essence. This is our last, best hope to save our beloved school and make the needed changes so we can put CVA back on the path to a successful and sustainable future. Please make a donation in any amount today. (UPDATE: no longer taking donations, thanks to all who donated)
You can make this happen, and we are so grateful for your support.
Thank You.
Ben Levitz, Principal, Studio On Fire


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Deadly Monopolies: New Book Explores How Patenting Genes Has Made Us Less Healthy
from the stop-the-scourge deptA few yeas ago, David Koepsell, came out with the excellent book, Who Owns You?, with the subtitle, "The corporate gold rush to patent your genes." It looks like there's now a new book out exploring the same subject, by medical ethicist Harriet Washington. The book is called Deadly Monopolies, subtitled: "The shocking corporate takeover of life itself--and the consequences for your health and our medical future." A mouthful in the subtitle, but it would seem these two books belong next to each other on the bookshelf.
NPR has an excellent overview of this new book, highlighting the key point: that patenting genes is making us less healthy:
Restrictive patents on genes prevent competition that can keep the medical cost of treatment down, says Washington. In addition to genes, she also points to tissue samples, which are also being patented — sometimes without patients' detailed knowledge and consent. Washington details one landmark case in California in which medically valuable tissue samples from a patient's spleen were patented by a physician overseeing his treatment for hairy-cell leukemia. The physician then established a laboratory to determine whether tissue samples could be used to create various drugs without informing the patient.And, of course, the book pins many of the problems on a familiar culprit that we've spoken about many times before here: the Bayh-Dole Act, which pushed Universities to start locking up research, rather than sharing it with the world:
"[The patient] was told that he had to come to [the physician's] lab for tests ... in the name of vigilance to treat his cancer and keep him healthy," says Washington.
The patient, a man named John Moore, was never told that his discarded body parts could be used in other ways. He sued his doctor and the University of California, where the procedure took place, for lying to him about his tissue — and because he did not want to be the subject of a patent. The case went all the way to the California Supreme Court, where Moore lost. In the decision, the court noted that Moore had no right to any share of the profits obtained from anything developed from his discarded body parts.
But since the 1980s, researchers at universities and the pharmaceutical industry have become collaborators in ways that they weren't before, says Washington. The 1980 Bayh-Dole Act gave universities and small businesses control of their intellectual property — which allowed them to sell their patents.We've been reporting on this stuff for years, and it's good to see it getting more publicity through books like this. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely to change in any significant way in the near future... unless, perhaps, the Supreme Court actually comes through and wipes out gene patents.
"Before the 1980s ... most researchers worked within a university culture which encouraged free discourse without necessarily a potential product in mind," she says. "It encouraged collaboration and data-sharing, and the values held by medical researchers were values of academic excellence, medical achievement, altruism ... these were the motivations. Now that the patent is based upon the value of exclusivity, the corporation discouraged very strongly and prohibited data sharing. ... This culture of the corporation has overtaken the medical research culture."
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There is a chance to provide some feedback to MRT about their current prospecting regulations. Apart from this, they do read this forum, and some comments I made recently have apparently stirred up some - potentially welcome - internal debate. If you have issues with current prospecting regulations, perhaps you think some are confusing, or unfair, there is now a good chance to have them heard.
Prospecting is a traditional, Heritage activity, and our ancestors have been looking for the shiny stuff for thousands of years. Much of Australia's prosperity derives from its mining industry, kicked off and spurred on by the humble prospector. That said, respect for the environment is paramount. We are currently allowed to prospect on some reserve types, and they have been nominated as reserves for a reason. Needless to say, filling up your holes and minimising your impact are both important parts of this activity. I need not tell you that many of the places we go to are beautiful, and should remain so, and their beauty is one of the big drawcards of doing this in the first place.
I would start the ball rolling with three issues:
1: Equipment
- What is the guiding principle behind what we are and are not allowed to use?
- It appears that hand-digging of material only is the main thing. No mechanical or motorised extraction is allowed.
- Once we've dug this material by hand, how are we allowed to process it?
- Presumably allowed: Sieves, panning dishes, snuffer bottles. Recent change seems to indicate river sluices are ok.
- Unknown: Yabby pumps, highbankers. One could be construed to be outside of the realm of hand-digging (but then so's a shovel), the other uses a pump to elevate water, but all the material put through is hand-dug.
- Outright forbidden: Suction dredges, mechanised digging equipment.
- The main tools people around Australia are currently using to prospect for gold and minerals are: Sieves, panning dishes, river sluices, highbankers (Can we add other mainstream pieces of equipment here?).
- Can MRT please clarify which of these are ok?
- Currently prospecting licences don't allow us to prospect in any Wildlife Sanctuaries, Forest Reserves, Conservation Areas or Nature Recreation Areas.
- However, Conservation Areas or Nature Recreation Areas are usually set up over highly prospective land, and unless administratively exempted (such as through their management plans), are available for mining under the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995.
- Conversely, and adding to the confusion, Wildlife Sanctuaries and Forest Reserves no longer exist. State Reserves and Game Reserves, which do NOT allow mining under the Act, are not excluded by condition #5 on the prospecting licence, and condition #4 explicitly allows prospecting in Regional Reserves, in spite of the fact that some Regional Reserves, such as part of the Lake Pieman Regional Reserve, are unavailable for mining according to the MRDA.
- You can use the "Unavailable Areas" layer in MRTMap to see where mining is and isn't allowed. The wording in the prospecting licence should reflect this information, and instructions on how to access this information should be provided with a prospecting licence.
- We currently must obtain permission from tenement holders before accessing parts of their tenement. This is as it should, but much prospective land in Tasmania is covered by tenement, and the issue of access has cropped up for me several times in the past.
- Some tenement holders will simply ignore requests for access to their tenement, hoping we will go away.
- Section 112 of the MRDA 1995 states that "A holder of a mineral tenement who refuses to give consent for the holder of a licence to prospect on land which is subject to the mineral tenement must give that person written reasons for the refusal" (my emphasis).
- In cases when we get ignored altogether, at what point in time after requesting permission, in writing, can the lack of any answer or acknowledgement be deemed to imply consent to access the tenement?


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When Designers Wed
Local Mpls designers Ross Bruggink and Jessica Keintz were married last year and we were pumped to print their invites that utilized beautiful eclectic typography. An arrow theme, which we have a hunch is based on the bride's wrapping arrow engagement ring, runs throughout this two color suite. Printed on Crane Lettra Fluorescent White 110C stock, the cards custom duplexed after printing, allowing us to run a heavy impression on the flood of pattern without completely killing the delicate type on the opposite side of the card.
Can't get enough? They also created one of the coolest wedding websites we've seen.
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By law, every resident, business and school in Brooome County is required to recycle. Multi- family residences including apartment complexes, condominimums, multi-family units, hotels and motels are required to comply with our local law!
Garbage & Recycling Collection: If you do not have municipal collection the facility manager/landlord is responsible to contract with a private hauler for service.
Recycling Bins: To obtain or replace your 22 gallon yellow curbside recycling bin please contact your private hauler. If you would like to trade in your usable yellow bin for a larger 32 gallon blue bin you must bring it to the Broome County Landfill. There is a limit of one 32 gallon bin per household; additional 32 gallon bins can be purchased for a nominal fee. Develop a collection system: Designate locations where recyclables and garbage will be collected. Make these locations well-known, convenient and efficient. Find out how your hauler would like materials sorted and prepared.Costs: It is possible to lower your costs by recycling!
Educate: Provide recycling education to new residents when they first move in.
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Blue Earth's Giant gets some print
September 30, 2012 - Chuck Hunt
The "From the Editor's Notebook in the printed Faribault County Register and on this website tells about a story in the Wall Street Journal concerning the Green Giant statue in Blue Earth. That story also tells about Bucky Legried's huge hat collection - and an idea to have both on display for tourists passing through town to see and be amazed by. The WSJ story, is, of course, not the first time the big green guy in Blue Earth has gained some notoriety in print and electronic media over the years. Plus we shudder to even think about many photos have been taken by people of their families and friends standing in the shadow of the Giant. Or at his feet. Recently he appeared in two publications - for two very different reasons. First, a columnist in the Twin Cities Star Tribune wrote about a new advertising campaign featuring the Green Giant urging kids to eat their veggies. Humorist James Lilecks says it won't work, unless the giant gets threatening. But, later he calls the Green Giant the best of the Minnesota original giant people, like Paul Bunyan. However, he also refers to the Giant statue in Blue Earth, but only to hint that it keeps people from going to Iowa. Lilecks uses a lot of exaggeration to make a humorous point at times. Once, he poked fun at the town I once lived in - Tyler. The Danish heritage community celebrates Aebleskiver Days as their summer celebration. Lilecks once referred to them as "Evil-skivers." Something to do with the Danish treats causing people to gain weight. I responded with a column defending the aebleskiver, which caused him to respond yet again, claiming he meant no offense. Yeah, right. You can read his whole column for yourself by going to the Star Tribune website and searching for his column entitled "Jolly Green Giant is best as an intimidator. The other mention of the Giant came from John Fischer in Medford, Oregon. Seems John and his family, which includes Todd and Amber Fischer, did the photo thing in front of the Green Giant while visiting here. But, they also held a copy of the "Applegater" newspaper from Applegate, Oregon. They sent it in to the paper and the paper printed it. You can see the photo for yourself if you follow this link to the "Gator:" http://www.applegater.org/pdf/2012/v05n03/v05n03p24.pdf My guess is this is not the first time the Giant has appeared in a newspaper because one of the paper's readers sent it in - just like this John Fischer did. Let's face it. The big green guy gets around. He is well known around the globe, and his statue in Blue Earth is pretty famous as well. And that was the idea, wasn't it?
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One of my classic car litter pups...almost one year old...Gremlin is headed to the ER for surgery tonight. Not been eating for a few days, throwing up. Didn't think it was a blockage, but the vet changed their mind...so he's heading in for surgery.
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Sacramento's latest budget product may be the worst ever -- and the very best possible given the reality of California politics.
Liberal interests are crying about painful spending cuts and no new taxes, not even on big oil or smelly tobacco. Republican legislators are fretting over the potential early release from prison of nonviolent inmates. Reformers carp about gimmicky accounting.
But Rick Simpson, a longtime Capitol hand and senior policy advisor for Assembly Democrats, puts it all in perspective: "I always distinguish between the best possible solution and the best solution possible. This is the best solution possible."
The negotiated solution to the state's projected $26-billion budget deficit -- roughly $15 billion in spending cuts, and the rest mostly in raids on local government, problematic revenue and accounting tricks -- was preordained by the May 19 special election.
The electorate soundly rejected the plan by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature to create a modest spending cap, raise nearly $6 billion in general fund revenue immediately and generate $16 billion in future tax hikes. Liberal groups adamantly opposed the spending cap. Conservatives hated the taxes. And the $6 billion in immediate revenue went down with the rest of it.
After that, any new tax increase was politically impossible. To think otherwise was fantasy, especially since taxes already had been hiked by a hefty $12.5 billion in February.
Liberal interests demanded higher taxes, but Democrats only went through the motions of seeking them in the Legislature. With a two-thirds majority vote required and Republicans strongly opposed, state tax increases have become a rarity in California.
Right-wingers rooting for state government to collapse and be rebuilt on the cheap under bankruptcy laws also were hallucinating. Under the U.S. Constitution, states cannot declare bankruptcy. And even if they could, there are enough sane people left in Sacramento to have headed it off.
Opponents of the ballot measures -- including many of the Democrats' traditional labor, education and welfare allies -- "left us holding the bag the day after the election," Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) complained in an interview. "We could have cut $6 billion less."
Bass also is irked that the budget wasn't settled in late June before the state was forced to pay bills with expensive IOUs. The scrip not only costs the state interest, but every day without a balanced budget adds $25 million to the projected deficit.
"Ninety percent" of the budget-balancing package that the Legislature will finally vote on today or Friday, Bass asserts, could have been passed before July 1. The state then could have avoided embarrassing IOUs, she says, while legislators and the governor continued to negotiate more cuts.
Schwarzenegger didn't trust Democrats to agree to previously unthinkable whacks in education and the poor people's safety net unless the state faced imminent insolvency. He wanted to fix the "crazy deficit spending" once and for all.
This budget hardly does that. It "kicks the can down the alley," which the governor for weeks had vowed he wouldn't do.
"What are the odds we're going to be back at this in the fall?" Bass asks, answering her own question. "Pretty high." The economy shows little sign of rebounding.
Declared Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento): "I don't like the idea of kicking the can down the alley, but doing a little of that is better than kicking a lot of people out into the street."
The governor did obtain some long-sought anti-fraud reforms in home care services for the aged, blind and disabled. Providers will undergo background checks and be fingerprinted. Beneficiaries also will be fingerprinted to make sure they actually exist and aren't merely some scam artist's creation.
Democrats -- subtly ridiculing Republicans -- inserted an amendment exempting hand amputees from being fingerprinted.
Schwarzenegger also won some "reforms" -- cutbacks -- in CalWorks. "For too long, our state's welfare program has been too lenient and too generous," asserted the governor's office. Work requirements will be tightened.
Another significant budget change the governor fought for and obtained was elimination of automatic annual cost-of-living adjustments for virtually all programs, from welfare to universities to the courts.
Everybody has been claiming -- particularly the governor and fellow Republicans -- that the $84-billion general fund budget will be balanced without raising taxes. Don't believe it.
It's a matter of semantics.
At Schwarzenegger's recommendation, the negotiators agreed to accelerate income tax withholding and estimated quarterly payments to generate a one-time revenue windfall of $2.3 billion. That windfall will never be returned; the payment acceleration never rescinded. There'll be the usual rebates for tax overpayments, but the state will always be ahead that bonus $2.3 billion.
If the government takes extra tax money and keeps it, that's a one-time tax hike.
Just as when Sacramento seizes money from cities and counties, it is not "living within its means," as Schwarzenegger pledged the state would.
But that's OK. Right now, the most important thing is to slap on a tourniquet and stop the bleeding that is flowing mainly from the worst recession since the Great Depression. Get the cash flowing. Revive the credit ratings.
There's a classic quote from the German politician Otto von Bismarck: "Politics is the art of the possible." Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders finally boned up on Bismarck.


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MasterCard and mFoundry Partner To Offer Banks and Credit Unions More Mobile Payment Options
Pressmeddelande • Dec 01, 2011 14:20 CET
Stockholm, 1 December, 2011
MasterCard (NYSE:MA) and mFoundry announced today an international collaboration that will take mobile banking another step forward by enabling more banks and credit unions to give their customers the option to pay for items with their mobile phones. In addition to the partnership, MasterCard announced that it has made a strategic investment in mFoundry, further strengthening their collaboration in the emerging field of mobile payments.
The collaboration and investment will combine MasterCard's Tap & Go ™ PayPass technology with mFoundry's mobile financial services platform to make mobile contactless payments accessible to more consumers. Mobile PayPass®, which uses Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, enables people to make fast, convenient and highly secure payments by simply tapping their NFC phone on any PayPass-enabled terminal at a merchant check-out.
Mobile phones provide the most promising tool for NFC payments, as consumers increasingly use their smartphones for a host of functions, including managing their finances. In the second quarter of 2011, comScore, a research and analysis firm, reported that 32.5 million Americans accessed mobile banking information on their mobile devices, a 21 percent increase from the fourth quarter of 2010. Almost 14 percent of all U.S. mobile subscribers now access banking information through their devices, according to comScore. mFoundry already provides mobile banking solutions for more than 560 banks and credit unions.
MasterCard and mFoundry also will collaborate to provide mobile phone operators an application that supports Mobile PayPass, allowing them to offer mobile contactless payments to their customers and providing an even greater opportunity to put mobile payments in the hands of consumers.
The collaboration will help open up more options for MasterCard cardholders to take advantage of Mobile PayPass, giving them greater flexibility in choosing how they use their mobile phones for payments. It also will encourage MasterCard's leadership in contactless payments by expanding the technology to more payment providers.
"This collaboration with mFoundry is going to allow more banks, credit unions and mobile phone operators around the world to offer their customers the convenience and security of Mobile PayPass," said Ed McLaughlin, chief emerging payments officer, MasterCard. "By using the power of a smartphone, consumers can simply tap and pay for goods and services."
"By working with MasterCard, mFoundry will be able to evolve and expand its financial services platforms to reach more consumers through new and existing clients," said Drew Sievers, CEO and Co-Founder of mFoundry. "MasterCard shares our philosophy on how to
enable its clients with mobile payments and we are thrilled to be working hand-in-hand with them to bring their PayPass solution to our clients."
About MasterCard
MasterCard (NYSE: MA) is a global payments and technology company. It operates the world's fastest payments processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. MasterCard's products and solutions make everyday commerce activities – such as shopping, traveling, running a business and managing finances – easier, more secure and more efficient for everyone. Learn more at www.mastercard.com, follow us on Twitter @mastercardnews or join the conversation on The Heart of Commerce Blog.
About mFoundry
mFoundry is the most popular mobile banking solution in the U.S., currently the choice of more than 560 banks and credit unions nationwide. mFoundry's mBanking product is the leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) based mobile banking solution in the market today. mFoundry's mobile banking customers include leading financial institutions, such as Bank of America, PNC Bank and Zions Bank.
In addition to its mobile banking experience, mFoundry has established itself as a leader in mobile payments, through its work with retailers like Starbucks Coffee Company. mFoundry developed and manages Starbucks Card Mobile program, the most successful mobile payments program to date, currently used in more than 6,800 stores nationwide.
mFoundry was founded in 2004 by Drew Sievers and Rodney Aiglstorfer. The company is headquartered in Larkspur, California, with additional offices in downtown San Francisco. For more information on mFoundry, please visit http://www.mfoundry.com.
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The Enterprise Mobility Ecosystem Map
The Enterprise Mobility Ecosystem Map published by Kinvey attempts to make sense of the ownership and acquisitions rapidly taking place within the mobile backend providers. Platforms for authorization, payments, location services and software development kits (SDKs).
Enterprise mobility is a classic IT disruptor. It's the kind of disruptor that companies like IBM, Oracle and VMware, SAP, Salesforce, etc. were built on. It may look like a peripheral part of IT infrastructure now, but since mobile will be the primary access point to apps and data for many enterprises, many — if not most — new apps are going to be "mobile first." Thus, the entire IT infrastructure is going to have to become very mobile friendly, very quickly, or else risk becoming a legacy platform.
As a consequence, major IT vendors are partnering with or acquiring companies throughout the mobile stack. Market consolidation and investments have taken place in MDM, API Management, cloud and handset markets. To visualize this activity, we've produced the Enterprise Mobile Ecosystem map below.
A network map visualization like this can help companies figure out where their business plays, and how other company acquisitions around them may impact their business. I like that the design is purely informational, and doesn't add a lot of extra data or information to the design. The message is all about the connections, and doesn't include things like the size of the companies or the value of the acquisitions. This keeps the infographic focused on telling one story really well.
I would recommend using the company logos in the subway map style design to make it faster and easier for the audience to recognize the companies involved. It's much harder for the readers to read all of the company names in text to find the companies they recognize.
The Pac-man icons are a nice touch to indicate the direction of ownership or acquisition.


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UBS Outlook Switzerland: Upbeat into 2013 despite downside risks
The Swiss economy will grow by about one percent this year. This is the forecast of economists from the Chief Investment Office (CIO) at UBS in the latest issue of UBS Outlook Switzerland. The UBS publication describes the baseline scenario as well as the upside and downside risks for the international and national economy as well as the real estate, foreign exchange and bond markets.
Zurich/Basel, 31 January 2013 – The UBS baseline scenario forecasts growth of around one percent for the Swiss economy in the year that has just begun. UBS economists also describe the upside and downside risks for the economy. Inflation is likely to remain low for the time being – UBS expects an average annual inflation rate of only 0.2 percent this year. Starting in 2014, however, there is high potential for prices to rise.
With regard to exchange rate development, UBS analysts expect that EURCHF will again stabilize between 1.21 and 1.23 following the latest revaluation of the euro against the Swiss franc. The euro would only become stronger if the economy were to make a strong global recovery (10 percent probability). In contrast, the probability of the downside scenario with an increase in total debt is 15 percent.
In their baseline scenario, UBS economists consider the real estate market to be already overvalued, at least in certain regions; the price cycle is likely to end in 2014. If long-term interest rates were to rise, however, prices could slump as early as this year.
UBS Outlook Switzerland also includes the sector panorama with evaluations of the quarterly survey among industrial and service companies. According to the survey, the economic situation in the service sectors has cooled somewhat. UBS economists nevertheless expect that this slowdown in the third sector was largely compensated by the improved economic position of industrial companies.
The supplement Investing in Switzerland is also included, with assessments by analysts from CIO WM Research on the equity market and bonds in Switzerland.
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"A" is related to "B" and "C". How do I show that "B" and "C" might, by this context, be related as well?
Here are a few headlines about a recent Broadway play:
- David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, Starring Al Pacino, Opens on Broadway
- Al Pacino in 'Glengarry Glen Ross': What did the critics think?
- Al Pacino earns lackluster reviews for Broadway turn
- Theater Review: Glengarry Glen Ross Is Selling Its Stars Hard
- Glengarry Glen Ross; Hey, Who Killed the Klieg Lights?
Running a fuzzy-string match over these records will establish some relationships, but not others, even though a human reader could pick them out from context in much larger datasets.
How do I find the relationship that suggests #3 is related to #4? Both of them can be easily connected to #1, but not to each other.
Is there a (Googlable) name for this kind of data or structure? What kind of algorithm am I looking for?
Given 1,000 headlines, a system that automatically suggests that these 5 items are all probably about the same thing.
To be honest, it's been so long since I've programmed I'm at a loss how to properly articulate this problem. (I don't know what I don't know, if that makes sense).
This is a personal project and I'm writing it in Python. Thanks in advance for any help, advice, and pointers!