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There are a lot of tried-and-true strategies for increasing your wealth: capitalizing on compound interest, spending less than we make and investing wisely. But there's one ingredient that's often left out of most personal finance lessons — and its effects can be profound and immediate.
Read on for ways that gratitude, a surprisingly powerful tool, can benefit your financial life and your overall well-being — and how to put it into practice so you can start reaping the rewards.
The Secret Ingredient
There are a lot of tried-and-true strategies for increasing your wealth: capitalizing on compound interest, spending less than we make and investing wisely. But there's one ingredient that's often left out of most personal finance lessons — and its effects can be profound and immediate.
Read on for ways that gratitude, a surprisingly powerful tool, can benefit your financial life and your overall well-being — and how to put it into practice so you can start reaping the rewards.
Start by Acknowledging What You're Grateful For Each Day
No activity you only do once in a while will make a worthwhile difference in your life. So how can you start practicing gratitude in your daily routine without it feeling like a chore? Make it a point each day to pick three things you're grateful for and write them down, then share it with your family around the dinner table or in bed with your partner before you turn out the lights. These activities only take a few minutes and can quickly become habit. Before you know it, you'll start reaping the rewards.
Everything Around You Will Begin to Feel Different
Our lives are simply an amalgamation of what we choose to notice, and there are an infinite number of things in our immediate environment, between real life and technology, that we could choose to pay attention to. What we choose to train our attention on is what we consciously think about.
So if we choose to focus on what we're grateful for, our overall feeling of well-being improves. We find the world to be a kinder place. You'll start to notice more things to appreciate. Your feeling of abundance just keeps growing and growing.
It Pays Off
A recent study showed that a daily gratitude practice enhances alertness, enthusiasm, determination, attentiveness and energy. And guess what? People who have those qualities are going to be more likely to get a raise, be chosen for a job, be chosen by customers and be paid what they're worth. (And conversely, an Allianz study actually found that lack of attentiveness can make you more likely to lose money.) People who possess these positive qualities add tremendous value to the world, so they will be more likely to have higher earnings.
Non-Material Wealth Counts, Too
Wealth takes many forms. Part of it is the amount in your bank account, sure. But part of it is also your health, your relationships, your enjoyment of life and your feeling of fulfillment. When you're taking a look around your life for signs of abundance to be grateful for, don't leave out your physical well-being, your amazing friends, your loving family and other forms of abundance that are non-material. When we put our attention on the ways we're wealthy outside our bank account (while not ignoring our material wealth), it's a lot easier to feel satisfied.
You Won't Need to Overspend
When we practice daily gratitude, we feel more abundant automatically. There's a fundamental feeling of fullness and satisfaction that colors all of our days. The practice of gratitude fills us up on a deeper level and our impulsive spending decreases. For example, we no longer feel the need to go shoe shopping to fill an emotional chasm. Instead, we spend money only on what we need and what we value. Living in daily gratitude reminds us of how rich our lives already are so that we're not trying to fill an emptiness by spending beyond our means.
You Can Enjoy the Journey
I'm a big believer in setting financial goals and thinking big. However, when we're always chasing the next financial marker of success, we sometimes forget to enjoy what happens along the way. Having a daily gratitude practice helps us stay present along the way to our incredible achievements. We've all had a moment when we reached a big goal and it didn't feel as good as we'd imagined because we forgot to enjoy getting there. Make your money goals count emotionally and financially by practicing being grateful for small success and daily enjoyments along the way.
Your Self-Worth Will Increase
Leading gratitude researcher Robert Emmons says that gratitude may increase our sense of self-worth. He suggests that people who have a regular habit of noticing how the world is actually working for them instead of against them tend to have higher self-worth. Why is this? Well, if you train yourself to notice the good things that happen to you on a regular basis, you'll begin to wire in the belief that you're a person worthy of good things. And you know what's awesome about having higher self-worth? Usually those with higher self-worth make more money and are better stewards of the money they already have.


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Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2013 Lookbook by Hedi Slimane
Following our look into the stand out products from the Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2013 collection we now have a peek into their debut lookbook. At this point almost as well known for his photography as his fashion design, Hedi Slimane played camera man for his own collection, shooting the lookbook himself.
Peruse the images for an idea of how the new Saint Laurent pieces are meant to be worn. In general, they're slim clothes designed with a boyish frame in mind. Again we're seeing many similarities to the iconic Dior Homme look. Which isn't a bad thing at all.
Look for these pieces the hit retail for January.

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When contacting the museum please have a note of any serial numbers from the mower and/or its engine. Patent numbers can also be useful. Motor mowers can generally be dated more accurately than hand machines because the production records compiled by Ransomes (and now retained by MERL) are more specific.
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Archive for October 16th, 2008
Music from my Synth – Jazz/Rock
Page Contents
Songs – History – Influences – Equipment – Friends – Spot
Clicking on the titles listed below will play them for you.
"Revelation on the Road to Ely" – It happened on the road of discovery for the Bard of Ely. A revelation…..
"Bluer Than Blue" – You know what "blue" is? Well, this is bluer than that. Floydian.
"Ice and Fire" – Ice interacting with fire – as a fanjet turbine cutting through the stratosphere, or maybe as a Southern Comfort plus ice.
"Kingfisher" – Here's our band "Totem3" in all its glory. Steve Andrews (the mad greenbeard) sings his own composition while accompanied by Alan Mansfield's harmonica and my "rhythm-and-blues band".
"Imogen May" – Schmoozy fifties easy swing jazz, a slow foxtrot to celebrate my younger daughter's marriage to Frank. Her name is Imogen May.
"Stadium Time" – You are walking into a stadium where the band "JazzRoc" is playing. You step through the backstage corridors until you arrive at the stage door. You enter…
"Another Day" – A plaintive reggae blues song co-composed and sung by Alan Mansfield. This theme is familiar to all, and perhaps reflective on the consequences of boredom and drink…
"Dancing As One" – Paul Jones plays his co-composition to my "small rock-and-roll dance band". It's a "Last Waltz", and couples shuffle softly over the darkened floor, dancing so close that you can't see any gaps…
"Hanging in the Air" – My "jazz quintet" (piano, sax, organ, bass, drums) gets down to play a natty twelve-time number which represents the freedom of hang-gliding, soaring like a bird, expanses of land laid out before one's eyes, and solitude…
"My Mind's Made Up" – Totem3 closes this performance with a wickedly onbeat song composed, sung, and accompanied on the harmonica by Alan (The Harp) Mansfield. He's definitely leaving this town…
My Band History:
1959-'65 – Bass guitarist and pianist in a dozen rock bands in South England.
1989-95 – Studio technician, sampler and composer, London.
1996 to date – Composer, works: "Voyage" and "World-of-Wisdom" CDs. Technician for "Twelve" and "Out There" by Michael Cartwright. "Crazy Paving", "Jazzroc" , "JazzRoc's World", "My Joanna", co-composed with Paul Jones, and "Totemized" with the singing composers Alan (The Harp) Mansfield and Steve (Bard of Ely) Andrews.
This is a difficult gap to fill from a remote island early on, so-to-speak, because of the relative rarity of recording equipment – especially in the sixties. The incredible change of the present day from the past is still difficult for me to comprehend.
Well. Here's one: Pete Downes whom I've known and admired for about fifteen years now. He has a website at Petedowns.com. Here's his "Street Scene":
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Article – Why there are no Red Cross shelters in New York City
Posted on November 21, 2012
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But that shelter operation never came to pass, and volunteers were told that the Red Cross would not be needing shelter workers. In the meantime, images of New York City's many devastated neighborhoods filled nightly newscasts; and the housing situation for many New Yorkers grew increasingly dire. The city has estimated that between 20,000 and 40,000 residents could be homeless or forced to live in unheated homes with no running water or power. The conditions are particularly deplorable in the high rises that dot the landscape near the waterfront in Brooklyn and Queens. About 5,200 Staten Islanders have applied for FEMA housing, but according to the New York Post only 24 or so have been placed.
Criticism has rained down on the Red Cross for not providing places for this mass of displaced people to live, but it seems that the aid organization is not permitted to set up shelters in the city due to a snarl of red tape.
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Moral of the story is, even if there are groups predicated on disaster services, and they get to the scene, and local governemnt has plans as well, there's no guarantee anything is going to get done. You're far better off preparing on your own.
Which, really, brings me to something I've been curious about. Everyone is related to everyone in NYC. Big Catholic, Jewish, Italian, Irish families with relatives spread all over the place….why are these people not staying with relatives?
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I'm not fan of "Big Charity" — Red Cross, United Way, any of the institutional charities — but I don't fault them for not being able to get anything done
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February 13: Enjoy Dessert and Hear Kim Stafford Speak
Thursday, February 13 at Lake Oswego High School Cafeteria and Auditorium, 2501 Country Club Road. Dessert - 6:00 pm, Kim Stafford - 7:00 pm. Following a complimentary community dessert buffet hosted by Lake Oswego Women's Club in the Lake Oswego High School Cafeteria, William Stafford's son Kim will be speaking in the high school's auditorium. Kim will discuss his father's daily writing practice, and how this led to a life of compassion and witness. Kim is an award-winning essayist and poet. He has taught writing at Lewis and Clark College and other colleges and workshops locally and abroad for over 30 years. In 2013 he won an Independent Publisher Book Award for his autobiography chronicling the death of his brother, 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared. Kim is the author of the selected text Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford.
This event is for high school age and older. Admission is free, but a ticket is required. Tickets are still available at the Lake Oswego Public Library.
Tualatin Valley Community Television taped the program.
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Jenise wrote:You're speed reading again! Nobody said you get to pick a couple of catgegories. You have to pick ONE. So what is it?
Speed reading, hell! I'm senile!
Okay. I'm with John T. This is cruel and unfair. But if I really, really, really have to take just one pasta to the desert island it's ... ummm ... errrrr ... okay, dammit! It's standard spaghetti. You can't go wrong with the fundamental Roman tradition, and for recipes where long pasta just won't do, you could at least break it into short spoon-size lengths and have something.


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Sega's Yakuza: Dead Souls hit store shelves just two days ago, so while it's unlikely that most people out there have completed the game, I suppose it's possible. If you want a preview (not really a spoiler) of what to expect from the game's ending sequence, we've managed to get our hands on the ending theme music which comes as a dreamy electronic remix of one of the game's main themes exclusive to regions outside of Japan. It's titled "Start OF THE END (83key ReMix)" by Mitsuharu Fukuyama.
I'm really digging the choral elements and the brass section towards the end. Feel free to hit up our review of the game while you listen after the jump, and let us know if you think the theme really fits in with the Yakuza image.
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Halloween treats & drinks
These spooky treats are perfect for adding a touch of fun to a Halloween party
Nutrition and extra info
- Freaky fingers can be frozen
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Freaky fingers
- 100g caster sugar
- 100g butter
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 1 egg yolk
- 200g plain flour
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 20 blanched almonds
Almondarr-mund or al-mund
Sweet almonds have a subtle fragrance that lends itself well to baking and also works well with…
- red food colouring, paste is best (optional)
- 85g popping corn
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil, plus extra for shaping
- 25g butter
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 85g marshmallows
Bloodthirsty squash
For the freaky fingers, place the first five ingredients and a pinch of salt in a food processor and whizz just until a ball of dough forms. Tear off a golfball-size piece of dough and use your hands to roll into finger-size cylinders – you should get about 20. Place on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment – a little apart as they will spread during baking. Use a knife to make a few cuts, close together, for the knuckles. Place an almond at the end of each finger and trim away excess pastry around the edge to neaten. Place in the fridge for 30 mins, heat oven to 180C/ 160C fan/ gas 4, then bake for 10-12 mins just until firm. Leave to cool a little, then paint the almond with food colouring, if you like. Makes 20.
For the brainballs, place the popping corn and vegetable oil in a large pan set over a medium heat. Stir the kernels around the pan to coat in the oil. When the kernels starts to pop, place a lid firmly on top and turn the heat down to low. Cook, shaking the pan often to stop the popcorn burning or sticking, until the corn has stopped popping, about 5 mins. Tip into a bowl, discarding any unopened kernels. Heat butter and marshmallows over a low heat until melted. Pour over popcorn and mix well until coated. Lightly rub oil over your hands and shape the popcorn into small balls. Set aside on a tray lined with baking parchment and leave to set. Makes 10.
For the bloodthirsty squash, fill up a kitchen glove with water, secure the end with a freezer clip or rubber band and place in the freezer overnight. When ready to serve, stir together 1 litre each lemonade and cranberry juice with the juice 3-4 limes. Pour into a punch bowl. Remove the hand from the freezer and use scissors to carefully take off the glove. Place in the punch bowl and serve. Serves 10.


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NCAA Regional Diary From San AntonioPosted by rtmsf on March 29th, 2011
After another weekend of scintillating and shocking NCAA Tournament results, it's time to check back in with our various correspondents who were in Anaheim, San Antonio, New Orleans and Newark reporting on the games this weekend.
Location: San Antonio, TX
Round: Regional Final
Teams: VCU, Kansas
Date: 27 March 2011
To read all the diaries throughout the NCAA Tournament, click here.
- This is the second time in this Tournament that I've personally witnessed this happen (Gonzaga vs. St. John's being the other). Kansas' strategy from the opening tip was to get the ball inside early and often to their big men, Marcus and Markieff Morris. It worked in the beginning as the twins got KU off to a 6-2 start, but VCU started to figure out the entry passes, and before long the Kansas guards were trying to throw the ball into a quadruple-team underneath. The perimeter players weren't looking to score at all, and I sometimes wonder if a focused strategy to take advantage of a strength (as here) actually backfires in the sense that the perimeter players don't have an opportunity to play offensively. In the Richmond game, as a contrasting example, the KU perimeter players got going early and UR as a result was out of the game by the second television timeout.
- I love Shaka Smart for many reasons, not least of which is his bulldog mentality of taking on all comers, but watching him get down into a defensive crouch on the sidelines as his players guard the ball on that side of the floor is phenomenal. He moves his feet very well for his advanced age of all of 33 years old. With Brad Stevens Lambeau Leap into the team circle after beating #1 Pitt last week, and Smart acting as a sixth defender for the Rams, youth in the coaching ranks is most definitely served.
- Whew, Markieff Morris (eight turnovers) and Tyrel Reed (1-9 FGs) would like to have this game back. Through the first twelve minutes of action, Markieff had already turned the ball over six times to VCU, including a ridiculous Ewing-step-through travel that he damn well knows better than to do in the college game. Reed suffered a miserable game, and he never looked less comfortable than when Kansas was in desperate need of someone — anyone — to hit some threes down the stretch, but he was badly off on all of them. It was pretty clear to me from my vantage point that both of these guys were feeling the pressure of expectations, and they were generally crushed by it.
- I liked Self's decision to try to get Josh Selby into the game early to combat the scoring woes of his team on the perimeter. Other than Selby, none of the KU guards are elite talents capable of scoring on demand. It didn't work out today, as Selby went 1-5 for two points and clearly wasn't feeling it, but it was still worth the gamble. He couldn't have done much worse than the pair of Reed and Brady Morningstar (2-16 FGs).
Speaking of Selby, has any freshman in America been a bigger disappointment this season? Hailed as the possible missing piece to a dominant KU team, he looked good in December before tailing off completely the rest of the way to become nearly a late-season afterthought. It's not very often that high school players good enough to rate #1 in the nation by at least one scouting service will suffer such a weird diminishment of his playing time and influence. Yet, had he been akin to a John Wall or even a Brandon Knight, Kansas might still be playing. The perimeter absolutely killed the Jayhawks today.


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The invitation was courtesy of this trendy holiday magazine, called HOLIDAY.
A pretty cool travel magazine, which succeeded in making even Taiping look exotic. Then again, I guess Taiping is kinda ...exotic. Editor Vanitha and colleague, Asha (who had been our contact point) are the kind of people you'd love to have at a dinner party. Great company, and very gregarious.
Looking at the pic of this building, I really felt I was in America a bit. Actually, it's on the First Floor of THE STREET, at the CURVE.
Okay, the name, as film afficianados might surmise, is based on Tom Hank's FORREST GUMP. The theme of the restaurant is based on the movie, and you have this replica below of Mrs Gump's resthouse, a room that contrasts dramatically with the rest of the rustic woody interior. Of course, the youth of today, like Jackson Kah, had never watched the movie.
Lousiana Lemonade RM22.90
Asha's Run Forrest Run, I think it was
Jackson's Mango Sparkler RM9.90
And Vanitha's Peach Love Rock and Roll, which looked really good and thirst quenching. RM22.90 as well.
Cajun Shrimp, with lovely garlic bread, toasted to perfection with a hint of some cheese...probably parmesan. The cajun sauce flavour, seeped into the prawns from sauteeing, was divine.
Net catch of the day. A generous platter (and this is the small portion) of prawns, with a bucket of cajun sauce poured over. You're supposed to use the bucket for your used shells. Lots of buckets around. These prawns are boiled and the sauce incorporated later, unlike the first one, which is sauteed in the cajun sauce. It's a large generous serving.
Bourbon Street Barramundi, charbroiled cajun spiced barramundi in the bourbon street sauce, a creamy seafood bisque-y kind of sauce, that I found overpoweringly rich, and could feel my arteries seizing up. Maybe it was because we were approaching fullness faster that you could say Bubba, so this dish didn't really appeal to me. However, if you like rich sauces, do try it, as the quality of the fish is great, and its a substantial meal. Loved the fried nachos which embellished the fish.
Ah, my favourite. Dumb Luck Coconut Shrimp. Strips of coconut line the batter in which these prawns were fried, and it is accompanied by the most GORGEOUSSSSSS cajun marmalade. Absolutely yummy. Crunchy on the outside, moist plump prawn on the inside.
Tossed Chicken Cob Salad, lots of leafy greans, avocado, beef bacon, (poor Jackson), and chicken breast. Like Nigella Lawson, I prefer thigh meat to breast, (I'm talking about chicken, not her), and can't fathom how anyone can choose breast meat over thigh meat. The vinaigrette dressing was sweet and tangy all at once, and very refreshing. The only bummer for me was the chicken breast meat. I'd have ordered it without. But if you are a breast-avore, you'd be jiggling with delight.
The chocolate chip cookie sundae was good. A large chocolate chip cookie at the base of the pan, smothered with vanilla ice cream and whipped cream. I felt for this quality of dessert, they should have also increased the quality of the ice cream, and not use our generic ice cream. But that's me, always feel that if we're going to ingest calories, they should be quality calories.
Finally, the flourless chocolate cake with ice cream. The cake was lovely and moist, and very chocolatey, (they use good quality, Calibut). By this time, I was like Mt Vesuvius waiting to erupt.... could barely waddle out of the place.
We ended the session with a tour round the very well equipped and well laid out kitchen. A special thanks to Vanitha and Asha from Holiday Magazine for organising this, and to Rizal, the manager of the place. Great food, great company. And alcohol at midday....perfect.
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Lethbridge professor to be reinstated
Congratulations to Psych Prof Gregory Bird for winning his legal challenge against Lethbridge College. A Canadian court judge has ordered that Bird to be reinstated as a psych prof at Lethbridge. Lethbridge had suspended Bird on the grounds that he had sex with three female students. No harassment charges had been filed against Bird, and Lethbridge College had no policy banning student prof sexual relationships. Based on my knowledge of the situation, the relationships were consensual and two of the relationships were established prior to the women becoming students at Lethbridge. Prior to the Court decision, an arbitration board had ruled that Lethbridge must reinstate Bird. The Court ruling in effect affirmed the arbitration board's decision.
Rick Buis, vice-president of corporate and international services for the college, stated "We're disappointed it didn't go the way we wanted it to, but obviously we have to comply with the justice's decision."
However, the court's and the arbitration board's decisions put constraints on Bird's affairs. His return is conditional on him not having sex with any student of the college.
But Lethbridge is apparently committed to implementing the court decision while at the same time undermining it since the college does not see his reinstatement as necessarily including a teaching component. According to Buis, "Our requirement is to assign a workload that is appropriate for a faculty member, that can include teaching, research, curriculum development and distance education."
So Lethbridge is apparently going to implement their version of sexual morality by barring him from classroom teaching. So they are reinstating a teacher but at the same time may not allow him to teach. If Lethbridge bars Bird from teaching, it becomes incumbent upon Lethbridge to indicate that the reason for barring him from teaching is based on something more than the application of their sexual moral judgments.
In the Canadian press story, the writer goes beyond Lethbridge to understand the basis of barring him from the classroom by interviewing a sexual harassment adviser for the University of Calgary, Voyna Wilson. Choosing to interview Wilson seems to the dankprofessor to be a poor choice since Wilson's area is sexual harassment, not consensual relationships. My speculation is that they interviewed Wilson since she gives the same old puritanical feminist cant as she told the press that the imbalance of power between student and professor entering a relationship can lead to disastrous results. Of course, such relationships may also lead to good results. In the Lethbridge case, there were no disastrous results for students but the results were disastrous for the anti-sexual zealots at Lethbridge.
Voyna Wilson then went on to state that faculty members are also risking permanent damage to their reputation by such behavior.
I suggest to Ms. Wilson that she not worry about the the reputation of faculty members such as Bird. Wilson apparently sees herself as a sort of mother figure, albeit an authoritarian mother figure, who should warn faculty about the reputational effects of their behavior. Then Voyna Wilson warned all faculty to steer clear of sexual relations with students.
Clearly Voyna Wilson unabashedly embraces an authoritarian agenda as she attempts to put her faculty (children) in their place. But there are still some faculty who believe that as adults they have autonomy, specifically sexual autonomy, and that they will resist authoritarian policies which attempt to recreate them as children.
In addition, when you have university administrators warning faculty about their sexual behavior, obviously, in Wilson's terms, this also represents an imbalance of power. But she is not concerned with this imbalance since she is the one on top with the power to engage in institutionally legitimatized abuse. It is persons of the genre of Voyna Wilson that faculty should be warned about and to speak out against their abuses of power.
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Prototypes: Experiments in Microgravity
Four students took the ride of a lifetime in June aboard a NASA plane flying parabolic maneuvers over the Gulf of Mexico to achieve 30-second bursts of zero-gravity conditions.
"As the plane rose to the top of the parabola, the cabin went from experiencing 2 Gs of force to zero Gs. All of a sudden I just felt my body floating up in the air," says Broghan Cully '11. "At first it is an uneasy feeling because your brain just has no sense of orientation. However, after the initial shock, it was absolutely incredible to be floating around."
Cully and fellow fliers Sean Currey '11, Max Fagin Th'11, and Michael Kellar Th'11 were participating in NASA's Microgravity University, which offers students the chance to conduct experiments in a space-like environment. The team tried out a project they completed for ENGS 89/90 (previously 190/290), Thayer's capstone undergraduate design course sequence: a dehumidification system for spacecraft cabins.
"The challenge in spacecraft is that when you exhale, exercise, and perspire you put humidity into the cabin air and there's nowhere for it to go. The only thing you can do is recondense it and recycle it. But condensing water in microgravity is really hard," explains Fagin. "A commercial condensing unit you use in your house cools the airstream and then lets the water rain out into a collection dish. But in space there's no gravity and there's no such thing as rain, so we have to come up with some other way to grab the water and pull it out of the airstream. On the space shuttle and international space station they have a system for that, but it's heavy and clunky and has a large centrifuge to simulate the effects of gravity. Our project, which was inspired by our sponsor at the Glenn Research Center, does away with all moving components. It uses a block of specially treated porous graphite that works like a sponge, sucking the moisture out of the air without the need for a centrifuge."
Designed for use in zero gravity, the dehumidification system worked as intended. "We collected great data from our prototype. We were able to show that our porous media condensing heat exchanger functions well under a variety of gravitational environments," says Currey, who interned at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland in 2010.
The team is moving on but hopes that NASA will take over the project. "We are going to pass all of our data from the flight on to Glenn Research Center," says Currey. "There are still a few challenges that need to be overcome. While in Houston, our team had a chance to speak with members of mission control charged with overseeing the current water system and dehumidifier, the Common Cabin Air Assembly, aboard the space station. They were interested in our idea but concerned about how they could keep it clean. This problem had crossed our minds during ENGS 89/90 but was placed on the back burner. Once this issue is resolved, I think the porous media condensing heat exchanger could be put to great use in orbit."
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Brevity's welcome. But how else can a winner (at the Oscars or beyond) use the acceptance speech to make a positive impact? Here's what I recommend any winner do--and you can remember them because they spell out O-S-C-A-R-S:
- Open well. It might be funny, humble or touching, but just like a great speech or presentation, a short award acceptance needs to begin well to have impact.
- Say thank you to the awarding group. Awards don't fall from heaven. Make sure you thank the group bestowing honor upon you, first and foremost.
- Categorize, rather than specify. This is one time when it's best to thank "every single person whose heart and mind and work went into this wonderful film," rather than attempt a laundry list.
- Avoid the obvious. "There are too many people to thank," "I'm sure I'll forget someone," and similar time-buyers (time-wasters, in the audience's mind) just use up precious seconds.
- Rehearse. If you don't like speaking and there's a good chance you'll win, practice is your friend. Remember: Practice can help you deliver great words even when you're emotional and surprised, as many types of winners are.
- Specify something we won't hear elsewhere. Whether it's how you got started or what that teacher said that spurred you on, give us something specific about you and this award that will make us remember you and your speech. Briefly, please!
- Odumo Tari reminded "Everybody should be prepared. In case you're called, you already know what to say. Don't be caught off guard.
- Hannah Stewart said, "Just smile and say 'Thank you very much!'"
- Lahna LadiBug Bronston warned, "Keep it Classy!"
- Emily Culbertson offered "Two things: go ahead and prepare some notes, and concentrate your thanks on a very, very small number of people. Maybe 5 at the most? Thanking a lot of people is good for in-person audience, but your audience is really the however-many millions who watch at home. This is your chance to speak to millions of people, in your own words. What do you want them to know? If you want to inspire, to make people laugh, etc. tell a story, don't list a group of names."
- Five was a number that also worked for Deborah Barber Adams, who suggested "Come up with an acronym for the names of the five people you most need to thank. Lots easier to remember a word or a sentence than five individual names!"
- On Twitter, Jeff Levy added: "The same acceptance speech everyone should give every time: 'Thank you so much, I'm humbled by the honor. Good night.' :)"
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Salt Rising Bread Starter
I think I have found why there are many failures in culturing salt rising bread starters. I believe it is the materials that may be added to prevent potatoes from sprouting. The main sprout inhibitors registered for use on potatoes are 1-methylethyl-3-chlorophenylcarbamate (CIPC), maleic hydrazide (MH), 1,4 dimethylnaphthalene (DMN) and 2,6 diisopropylnaphthalene (DIPN).
The bacterial species that generates the gas for leavening salt rising bread is Clostridium perfringens. This bacterium depends, in part, on ferrous iron to aid in its metabolism. I seems to me that CIPC and/or MH may be responsible for tying up this iron and thus reducing the activity of C. perfringens.
There is a simple solution to this problem. Use the so-called "organic" potatoes and "organic" cornmeal, and "organic" flour in beginning the culture for the starter. So far, this has worked for me. After the culture has demonstrated its viability, I use unbleached, non-brominated bread flour (King Arthur) in the recipe.
I would like anyone with ideas on this problem, solution, and/or opportunity to give me their thoughts. I shall be happy to give my recipe for salt rising bread to anyone who desires it.


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Fourth of July Parade in Annapolis, fireworks display
6/28/2013, midnight
ANNAPOLIS Annapolis Mayor Joshua J. Cohen invites all residents to the Annapolis 4th of July Parade on Thursday, July 4, 2013. The parade will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Amos Garrett Blvd. and proceed down West Street, around Church Circle, and down Main Street.
The fireworks show will begin at approximately 9:15 p.m. The fireworks display will be launched from a barge in the Annapolis Harbor and can be viewed from many water locations. For questions about boat restrictions during the fireworks, contact the City Harbormaster's Office at 410-263-7973.
For those viewing the fireworks from land, Susan Campbell Park has a fantastic view, but it is also the most crowded. Views from Main Street and the Harbormaster's Building area will be partially obstructed. Suggested viewing areas are public spaces northeast of the Severn River or any of the street-end parks facing Spa Creek.
Spa Creek Bridge will be closed to traffic at 9 p.m. to create a spectator pier overlook offering an unobstructed view of the fireworks.
The closer you get to downtown the harder it will be to park and get out after the celebration. Park in the Park Place Garage or the Knighton Garage for a maximum of only $10 a day, or $2 an hour and take the FREE Circulator trolley down to Church Circle, a short walk to City Dock. An added bonus is both garages are on the parade route! For additional information go to http://bit.ly/xYYLmO
There will be no Circulator service to the Navy-Marine Crop Memorial Stadium.
Parking Restrictions
Parking on Prince George St. from the water to College Ave. will be resident only parking from noon to 11 p.m. Beginning at 4 p.m. and extending until about 10:30 p.m., parking will be prohibited and violators may be towed from the following areas:
City Dock
Main Street
Randall Street
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Both sides of Severn Avenue between First and Burnside Streets
East side of First, Second and Third streets between Severn and Chester Avenues
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In Eastport, vehicular traffic into the north side of the Eastport Peninsula will be restricted between 5 and 10:30 p.m. Pedestrian traffic will be permitted. Roadblocks will be set up at 9 p.m. at Sixth St. and Severn Ave. denying access to downtown via the Spa Creek Bridge.
In downtown Annapolis, Col10lege Ave. and Compromise St. will be closed to all but area residents. Prince George St. will be posted "Resident Only Parking" from the water to College Ave. from 2 p.m. to midnight. Vehicular traffic will be denied access to the downtown area beginning at 5 p.m. until approximately 10:30 p.m. Road blocks will also be set up in the following locations:
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Clickbooth, a web-marketing company based in Sarasota, agreed to a $2 million settlement with federal regulators over allegations the company knowingly supported false and unsubstantiated products and claims.
Clickbooth co-founder and CEO John Lemp was personally named in court filings, in which the Federal Trade Commission contends Clickbooth and a subsidiary, IntegraClick, engaged in "unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce." The FTC filings, documented on a Clickbooth blog, http://blog.clickbooth.com/, detail the company's involvement with deceitfully promoting dozens of weight loss and "colon cleanse" products. Those practices, documents show, allegedly go back to 2008.
Officials at the FTC couldn't be reached for immediate comment Wednesday.
But the court filings include contentions that Clickbooth consciously supported fake news websites with false reports, including one titled "1 Trick of a Tiny Belly: Reporter Loses Her 'Belly' Using 1 Easy Tip."
"The sites often include the names and logos of major broadcast and cable television networks, falsely representing that the reports on the sites have been seen on these networks," the FTC states. "(Clickbooth) designs some of these websites for its affiliates to use."
Clickbooth, moreover, supported the sites, the FTC alleges, though its network of affiliate publishers who earn fees when consumers buy the products. Clickbooth makes money off those purchases, through its pay-per-action model.
But the FTC, in court filings in the Northern District of Illinois, says Clickbooth should be doing more to protect consumers.
"Defendants, through their affiliate marketers, have failed to disclose in a clear and conspicuous manner that they are not objectively evaluating the advertised products and, in fact, are being paid to promote the products," the filings state. "The websites of Defendants' affiliate marketers either fail entirely to disclose these facts, or fail to do so adequately. The relevant information, if disclosed at all, typically appears in small type at the bottom of the web page, following the fake consumer comments, well below the links to the products being sold."
Lemp, through a Clickbooth spokeswoman, declined to comment Wednesday. But on a Nov. 13 blog post, Lemp wrote that the FTC allegations revolve around "just a handful of weight loss advertisers" and affiliates from three years ago.
Added Lemp: "These were advertisers and publishers in many cases that our compliance team had proactively shutdown from our network. This handful of advertisers and affiliates accounted for a very small percentage of our traffic over the years, and even though we had never been an advertiser or publisher ourselves like other 'networks,' (the FTC) wanted to hold us responsible."
Lemp, nonetheless, wrote that a settlement was the best decision for Clickbooth, partially because it avoids protracted litigation to fight "how an ad network should be regulated."
Clickbooth, a web-marketing company based in Sarasota, agreed to a $2 million settlement with federal regulators over allegations the company knowingly supported false and unsubstantiated products and claims.


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WASHINGTON (CNN) - Four prominent Democratic Senators spoke out Saturday in support of former Sen. Tom Daschle, whose tax records have come under scrutiny as he pursues a Cabinet position in the administration of President Barack Obama.
Obama nominated the 61-year-old South Dakotan to be secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Senate Finance committee - which will vote on the nomination before the full Senate votes on whether to confirm him - is scheduled to meet Monday to discuss the nomination.
A committee memo obtained Friday by CNN indicates committee members want to discuss the use of a car and driver that Daschle didn't disclose on his income taxes, and nonpayment of taxes on more than $80,000 he earned in consulting fees after leaving the Senate.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, the senior member of the finance committee, released a statement Saturday saying, "Months ago, Tom personally and proactively addressed the taxes issue and took all necessary steps to correct his innocent error."
Michelle Obama's now-famous Jason Wu gown isn't the only piece of Inaugural fashion that is headed for the Smithsonian. The museum is also requesting the now-iconic hat that Aretha Franklin wore while singing at the swearing-in.
Aretha, however, is still undecided about parting with her Luke Song-designed hat. "I am considering it. It would be hard to part with my chapeau since it was such a crowning moment in history," says the Queen of Soul.
WASHINGTON (CNN) - The new chairman of the Republican National Committee praised House Republicans Saturday for their universal opposition to President Obama's stimulus bill and used his family's own life experiences to justify voting against it.
Click here to listen to Steele remarks Saturday.
"I know we're living in the era of bipartisanship," Steele joked to the House GOP congressmen who gathered this weekend to discuss policy and politics. "I thought it was very important to send a signal, and you sent it loudly, very clearly, that this party, the leadership of this caucus, would stand first and foremost with the American people. You made it very clear that in order to grow through this recession that you not redistribute the wealth of the people of this nation."
WASHINGTON (CNN)- In a statement issued Saturday, President Obama congratulated Iraqis for holding provincial elections.
Obama also called the elections an "important step forward" in "the process of Iraqis taking responsibility for their future."
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WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama pledged to bring change to Washington.
Now that he's moved to town, local restaurant owners are hoping he'll keep his campaign promise.
After eight years of largely being ignored by a homebody president, Washington restaurateurs are throwing open their doors to the new first family - dreaming of a presidential visit that would undoubtedly spark buzz at a time when some restaurants are struggling.
"I think the Obama family brings back this kind of Kennedy-era style of having a youthful family in the White House," said Sheldon Scott, general manager of Marvin restaurant, in the trendy U-Street corridor. "People actually plan on living in the city, not just necessarily living at the city."
WASHINGTON (CNN) -Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire is the leading candidate to become commerce secretary and a decision could come as soon as Monday, an Obama administration official told CNN Saturday.
Gregg said in a statement Friday that he was among those being considered for the post, but White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday that "a final decision had not been made."
"I know that's something that he [President Obama] hopes to make a decision on and announce shortly. But until the President tells me to make a personnel announcement from this podium, I'll refrain from getting into individual names on that," Gibbs said at Friday's press briefing.
The administration official Saturday spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss administration deliberations.
WASHINGTON (CNN) - President Barack Obama ended last year with $15.5 million left over in his 2008 campaign war chest, according to a disclosure report filed Friday with the Federal Election Commission.
Obama could transfer the bulk of this amount to a re-election bid in 2012.
By comparison, former President George W. Bush had only $292,809 in his campaign account at the end of the 2000 campaign year. Former President Bill Clinton ended his successful 1992 bid with $2.7 million in the bank.
On CNN's "State of the Union," CNN host and chief national correspondent John King goes outside the Beltway to report on the issues affecting communities across the country. This week, King traveled to Peoria, Illinois, to explore how the recession is hitting the blue-collar town hard.
PEORIA, Illinois (CNN) - Suddenly, this city's motto rings hollow: "It's Better Here" doesn't match the mood in a place where the recession hit late but is now hitting hard.
"I just felt, I thought I couldn't lose with this company" is how Chris Guynn described his motivation for moving his wife and two children to Peoria from Las Vegas, Nevada.
Watch Economic pain in Peoria
There was a job waiting at Caterpillar, the 80-year-old heavy equipment giant, and "It was a company that you could just retire with, great pension, retirement, 401 and so on."
WASHINGTON (CNN) - After initially vowing to unveil a new financial rescue package this coming week, senior Obama administration officials are now pushing the rollout date back an extra week in a sign of just how difficult it may be to craft such a massive plan - especially while the White House is simultaneously trying to sell a separate $819 economic stimulus plan.
Two senior administration officials told CNN that the full rescue plan, which is being put together by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and other top economic advisers, is now expected to be unveiled the second week of February. But the officials held out the possibility that Geithner could start teasing out some aspects of the rescue plan this coming week.
(CNN) - President Obama said Saturday his aides are crafting a new plan to revive the country's financial system - and to make sure CEOs don't misuse bailout funds.
"We'll ensure that CEOs are not draining funds that should be advancing our recovery," Obama said, in his weekly radio/YouTube address airing Saturday morning. "And we will insist on unprecedented transparency, rigorous oversight and clear accountability, so taxpayers know how their money is being spent and whether it is achieving results."
News that corporate executives had handed out $20 billion in bonuses last year spurred tough words from Obama this week. The president blasted those bonuses as "the height of irresponsibility," and seemed to say there could be consequences for those decisions.
"While I'm committed to doing what it takes to maintain the flow of credit, the American people will not excuse or tolerate such arrogance and greed," President Obama told listeners Saturday morning. "The road to recovery demands that we all act responsibly, from Main Street to Washington to Wall Street."
He also said that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is preparing a strategy to lower mortgage costs and increase the flow of credit.


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I have not been blogging for the past few weeks. I have been working on a particular project that has taken up a lot of time and there are only 24 hours in the day! However I am now back again blogging and want to pick up on an article in the Irish News today. It is another example of the poor standard of journalism in Ulster.
Irish News journalist Connla Young started his report on the Tour of the North with this paragraph:
Nationalist residents have reacted angrily after claims that bands taking part in the Tour of the North parade broke a Parades Commission ruling not to play music while passing St Patrick's Church last night.
In fact the determination by the Parades Commission was that the bands should play hymns while passing St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, not that they should play no music. The determination was that they should play hymns and indeed that is exactly what all the bands did.
A single paragraph, the first paragraph in the report and yet Connla Young got it totally wrong!
Responsible journalism should be accurate journalism.