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Texas State University-San Marcos has shut down a water well that provides potable water to campus after routine sampling tested positive for E. coli bacteria on the pre-treatment side of the system on May 28.
No contamination has been found on the post-treatment side of the system. The well has been disinfected according to American Water Works Association standards. University personnel have retested the well and are monitoring the situation.
Texas State is working closely with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to insure all regulatory requirements are adhered to and public health is protected at all times. Texas State will update media outlets as necessary until the situation is fully addressed.
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Texas State University-San Marcos (Public Water Supply ID# 1050003) had a water well that tested positive for E. coli.
E. coli bacteria were found in the water supply samples on May 28, 2010. These bacteria can make you sick, and are a particular concern for infants, young children and people with weakened immune systems.
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'Stingray' Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash
For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply "the Hacker." Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device—a stingray—were they able to zero in on a California home and make the arrest.
Stingrays are designed to locate a mobile phone even when it's not being used to make a call. The Federal Bureau of Investigation considers the devices to be so critical that it has a policy of deleting the data gathered in their use, mainly to keep suspects in the dark about their capabilities, an FBI official told The Wall Street Journal in response to inquiries.
A stingray's role in nabbing the alleged "Hacker"—Daniel David Rigmaiden—is shaping up as a possible test of the legal standards for using these devices in investigations. The FBI says it obtains appropriate court approval to use the device.
Stingrays are one of several new technologies used by law enforcement to track people's locations, often without a search warrant. These techniques are driving a constitutional debate about whether the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, but which was written before the digital age, is keeping pace with the times.
On Nov. 8, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether or not police need a warrant before secretly installing a GPS device on a suspect's car and tracking him for an extended period. In both the Senate and House, new bills would require a warrant before tracking a cellphone's location.
And on Thursday in U.S. District Court of Arizona, Judge David G. Campbell is set to hear a request by Mr. Rigmaiden, who is facing fraud charges, to have information about the government's secret techniques disclosed to him so he can use it in his defense. Mr. Rigmaiden maintains his innocence and says that using stingrays to locate devices in homes without a valid warrant "disregards the United States Constitution" and is illegal.
His argument has caught the judge's attention. In a February hearing, according to a transcript, Judge Campbell asked the prosecutor, "Were there warrants obtained in connection with the use of this device?"
The prosecutor, Frederick A. Battista, said the government obtained a "court order that satisfied [the] language" in the federal law on warrants. The judge then asked how an order or warrant could have been obtained without telling the judge what technology was being used. Mr. Battista said: "It was a standard practice, your honor."
Judge Campbell responded that it "can be litigated whether those orders were appropriate."
On Thursday the government will argue it should be able to withhold details about the tool used to locate Mr. Rigmaiden, according to documents filed by the prosecution. In a statement to the Journal, Sherry Sabol, Chief of the Science & Technology Office for the FBI's Office of General Counsel, says that information about stingrays and related technology is "considered Law Enforcement Sensitive, since its public release could harm law enforcement efforts by compromising future use of the equipment."
The prosecutor, Mr. Battista, told the judge that the government worries that disclosure would make the gear "subject to being defeated or avoided or detected."
A stingray works by mimicking a cellphone tower, getting a phone to connect to it and measuring signals from the phone. It lets the stingray operator "ping," or send a signal to, a phone and locate it as long as it is powered on, according to documents reviewed by the Journal. The device has various uses, including helping police locate suspects and aiding search-and-rescue teams in finding people lost in remote areas or buried in rubble after an accident.
The government says "stingray" is a generic term. In Mr. Rigmaiden's case it remains unclear which device or devices were actually used.
The best known stingray maker is Florida-based defense contractor Harris Corp. A spokesman for Harris declined to comment.
Harris holds trademarks registered between 2002 and 2008 on several devices, including the StingRay, StingRay II, AmberJack, KingFish, TriggerFish and LoggerHead. Similar devices are available from other manufacturers. According to a Harris document, its devices are sold only to law-enforcement and government agencies.
Some of the gadgets look surprisingly old-fashioned, with a smattering of switches and lights scattered across a panel roughly the size of a shoebox, according to photos of a Harris-made StingRay reviewed by the Journal. The devices can be carried by hand or mounted in cars, allowing investigators to move around quickly.
A rare public reference to this type of technology appeared this summer in the television crime drama "The Closer." In the episode, law-enforcement officers use a gadget they called a "catfish" to track cellphones without a court order.
The U.S. armed forces also use stingrays or similar devices, according to public contract notices. Local law enforcement in Minnesota, Arizona, Miami and Durham, N.C., also either possess the devices or have considered buying them, according to interviews and published requests for funding.
The sheriff's department in Maricopa County, Ariz., uses the equipment "about on a monthly basis," says Sgt. Jesse Spurgin. "This is for location only. We can't listen in on conversations," he says.
Sgt. Spurgin says officers often obtain court orders, but not necessarily search warrants, when using the device. To obtain a search warrant from a court, officers as a rule need to show "probable cause," which is generally defined as a reasonable belief, based on factual evidence, that a crime was committed. Lesser standards apply to other court orders.
A spokeswoman with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in Minnesota says officers don't need to seek search warrants in that state to use a mobile tracking device because it "does not intercept communication, so no wiretap laws would apply."
FBI and Department of Justice officials have also said that investigators don't need search warrants. Associate Deputy Attorney General James A. Baker and FBI General Counsel Valerie E. Caproni both said at a panel at the Brookings Institution in May that devices like these fall into a category of tools called "pen registers," which require a lesser order than a warrant. Pen registers gather signals from phones, such as phone numbers dialed, but don't receive the content of the communications.
To get a pen-register order, investigators don't have to show probable cause. The Supreme Court has ruled that use of a pen register doesn't require a search warrant because it doesn't involve interception of conversations.
But with cellphones, data sent includes location information, making the situation more complicated because some judges have found that location information is more intrusive than details about phone numbers dialed. Some courts have required a slightly higher standard for location information, but not a warrant, while others have held that a search warrant is necessary.
The prosecution in the Rigmaiden case says in court documents that the "decisions are made on a case-by-case basis" by magistrate and district judges. Court records in other cases indicate that decisions are mixed, and cases are only now moving through appellate courts.
The FBI advises agents to work with federal prosecutors locally to meet the requirements of their particular district or judge, the FBI's Ms. Sabol says. She also says it is FBI policy to obtain a search warrant if the FBI believes the technology "may provide information on an individual while that person is in a location where he or she would have a reasonable expectation of privacy."
Experts say lawmakers and the courts haven't yet settled under what circumstances locating a person or device constitutes a search requiring a warrant. Tracking people when they are home is particularly sensitive because the Fourth Amendment specifies that people have a right to be secure against unreasonable searches in their "houses."
"The law is uncertain," says Orin Kerr, a professor at George Washington University Law School and former computer-crime attorney at the Department of Justice. Mr. Kerr, who has argued that warrants should be required for some, but not all, types of location data, says that the legality "should depend on the technology."
In the case of Mr. Rigmaiden, the government alleges that as early as 2005, he began filing fraudulent tax returns online. Overall, investigators say, Mr. Rigmaiden electronically filed more than 1,900 fraudulent tax returns as part of a $4 million plot.
Federal investigators say they pursued Mr. Rigmaiden "through a virtual labyrinth of twists and turns." Eventually, they say they linked Mr. Rigmaiden to use of a mobile-broadband card, a device that lets a computer connect to the Internet through a cellphone network.
Investigators obtained court orders to track the broadband card. Both orders remain sealed, but portions of them have been quoted by the defense and the prosecution.
These two documents are central to the clash in the Arizona courtroom. One authorizes a "pen register" and clearly isn't a search warrant. The other document is more complex. The prosecution says it is a type of search warrant and that a finding of probable cause was made.
But the defense argues that it can't be a proper search warrant, because among other things it allowed investigators to delete all the tracking data collected, rather than reporting back to the judge.
Legal experts who spoke with the Journal say it is difficult to evaluate the order, since it remains sealed. In general, for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, the finding of probable cause is most important in determining whether a search is reasonable because that requirement is specified in the Constitution itself, rather than in legal statutes, says Mr. Kerr.
But it is "odd" for a search warrant to allow deletion of evidence before a case goes to trial, says Paul Ohm, a professor at the University of Colorado Law School and a former computer-crime attorney at the Department of Justice. The law governing search warrants specifies how the warrants are to be executed and generally requires information to be returned to the judge.
Even if the court finds the government's actions acceptable under the Fourth Amendment, deleting the data is "still something we might not want the FBI doing," Mr. Ohm says.
The government says the data from the use of the stingray has been deleted and isn't available to the defendant. In a statement, the FBI told the Journal that "our policy since the 1990s has been to purge or 'expunge' all information obtained during a location operation" when using stingray-type gear.
As a general matter, Ms. Sabol says, court orders related to stingray technology "will include a directive to expunge information at the end of the location operation."
Ms. Sabol says the FBI follows this policy because its intent isn't to use the data as evidence in court, but rather to simply find the "general location of their subject" in order to start collecting other information that can be used to justify a physical search of the premises.
In the Rigmaiden example, investigators used the stingray to narrow down the location of the broadband card. Then they went to the apartment complex's office and learned that one resident had used a false ID and a fake tax return on the renter's application, according to court documents.
Based on that evidence, they obtained a search warrant for the apartment. They found the broadband card connected to a computer.
Mr. Rigmaiden, who doesn't confirm or deny ownership of the broadband card, is arguing he should be given information about the device and about other aspects of the mission that located him.
In the February hearing, Judge Campbell said he might need to weigh the government's claim of privilege against the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights, and asked the prosecution, "How can we litigate in this case whether this technology that was used in this case violates the Fourth Amendment without knowing precisely what it can do?"
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I have a wonderful friend on the far side of the planet - seen from Sweden that is. Her name is Nicole. She lives in Hobart, Tasmania.
Her passion is knitting/weaving/taking care of the world.
She looks JUST like that Nicole on the picture! Same irresistible smile!
Great idea - knittygraffity anyhow. I am going to adopt it.
In a little Swedish town, near to where I live in southern S. we have a mushroom-knitting graffity artist.
What an outstanding initiative! Count me in!
Hi, thanks for sharing! She has got a lovely smile, doesn't she?
I assume that you are talking about Pia in Karlshamn? We are members of the same guerilla knitting team, Busy Crochet & Knitting (see link in sidebar). It was founded by my sister, Mia.
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Japp, definitely. Mushrooms are on the go.
I will think of something to match them.
Maybe bees / wasps or flags of some kind.
Of course, mushrooms don't need bees to survive.
Neither do they need flags, of course.
But something that unites them in a sort of story, that's my angle.
Or carrots. Carrots one can't have enough of, right?


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Something good came out of that dreadful NetBSD thread.
That stuff looks super cool. If they could put dual LAN and I would buy that thing in the blink of any eye even if doesn't run OpenBSD (for now). Has anyone played with that thing?
Edit: Maybe not so cool. I see that requires binary blobs in for the first stage of the boot. Why people can start selling 100% open hardware?
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My favorite OpenBSD supported SoC is the Cubieboard 2. I think armv7 might eventually include the BananaPi. The Cudie2 is pretty much the same thing spec and price wise. I wonder why neither one included gigabit ethernet? It would've made a big difference.
Edit:Guess the BananaPi does have gigabit.
The banana pi r1 is what I'm eyeing =)
I really hope that's supported someday.
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I love my beaglebone black, but the utility of it as a firewall is severely limited by two factors: limited usb and only a single NIC. If I could get another NIC on it and get the same performance as my PIII (not unlikely, given that the BBB has a 1Ghz proc vs. my current PIII's 566 MHz proc, 512 MB RAM for the BBB vs 384 MB for my PIII, and the BBB has a much newer architectural design), I'd slap two BBB's in a case and have a CARP setup that takes up a *lot* less space/power than my current firewall.
The BPi-R1 could easily do the same (minus the need for additional NICs), should it become a supported platform.
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I have seen some tinkering on the mailing-lists. I thought it ended in a successful boot. I don't know if anything else was accomplished. I've got a Bpi sitting around. Haven't done anything with it yet, too many projects.
Odroid C1
Most of the respondents to this thread probably already know this, but the Odroid C1 is now working pretty well on Linux, Android, NetBSD and NAS4Free. I've been using it on NetBSD-7 for general internet browsing, and find it usable at 1.5 GHz, but of course it's not on par with the 3 GHZ desktop, natch. But - it's not so much slower than the desktop as to be aggravating (like original pi).
You definitely need the heat sink, though. With any serious processing, it'll climb up to 60-65 deg C pretty quickly without one. The heat sink keeps it in the low fifties. I also snapped up the C1+, which comes with a heat sink (probably lot's of customer input caused that).
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Officials had enlisted the help of security
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Arch support: Custom Manolo Blahnik shoes give lift to annual fundraiser in Greenwich
When the many arrive in Greenwich later this week to "Step Out for Pink" at the Breast Cancer Alliance's 18th annual luncheon and fashion show, quite a few are expected to take the theme literally, donning custom heels created by the famed shoe designer Manolo Blahnik.
"These are beautiful, classic shoes that will serve as wonderful mementos of the event," said Andrew Mitchell-Namdar, vice president of marketing for Richards of Greenwich, of the two pairs of exclusively designed shoes being sold through Richards.
In the pantheon of pink products created to raise awareness of breast cancer, these shoes are on the high end -- elegant creations with price tags that reflect the design. The BB pump, for instance, is a pointed toe, 2 1/4-inch heel made with signature pink suede. The second is a 4-inch heel, made of pink satin adorned with a Swarovski encrusted buckle. The former retails for $595, the latter $990.
The shoes, which so far have been well-received, will be sold at Richards through November, as well as at the luncheon. Twenty percent of the sales will go to the Breast Cancer Alliance. With their stamp of "Exclusively for the BCA 2013," the heels are unique creations from a unique designer.
Area residents had a chance to meet this London-based designer when he stopped at Richards for a rare U.S. appearance in 2010. He was at the store to sign copies of his book, "Manolo's New Shoes," as well as his fair share of customers' shoes. That appearance, as well as this latest collaboration, is the result of a longstanding relationship between the designer and the Mitchell Family of Stores, which includes Mitchell of Westport, Richards of Greenwich, Marshs of Huntington, N.Y., and Wilkes Bashford in San Francisco. Blahnik, who first set up shop in London in the early 1970s, has long been a designer whose shoes are coveted by the well-heeled, but he saw his pop culture currency rise when his shoes received quality air time in the hit television show, "Sex and the City." Efforts to reach Blahnik for this article were unsuccessful.
"We try to make each year different," said Mitchell-Namdar of the upcoming fashion show, for which Mitchells/Richards has worked with the alliance for the past seven years. The event itself, which will take place on Thursday, Nov. 7, at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich, is entering its 18th year.
After learning that this year's luncheon theme was "Kick Up Your Heels, Step Out For Pink," Mitchell-Namdar said he and the event's co-chairs, Julie Johnson and Loren Taufield, came up with several ideas, including the one that eventually took shape as pairs of pumps.
"We had been thinking about how to make the event fun, exciting and unique," Taufield said.
"When we originally approached Manolo Blahnik, we had hoped they might be able to create one shoe," Mitchell-Namdar said. "Instead, they said ... `let's do two.' "
Johnson and Taufield are looking forward to seeing all manner of footwear -- pink pumps included -- on Nov. 7. Each person who attends helps the organization take another step toward improving the lives of survivors and finding better ways to prevent, detect and treat the disease, as well as find a cure, they said. Since its inception in 1996, the organization, which was founded by the late Mary Waterman, has granted more than $17 million in grants. "We are hoping for 1,000 people," said Taufield, who takes on co-chair duties this year after having spent many years as a guest at the event. This year's luncheon also will feature NBC news anchor and reporter Pat Battle, who is a breast cancer survivor.
The luncheon and fashion show is the group's major charitable event. Last year, it raised more than $1 million. That money goes to state-of-the-art breast cancer research and educational programs.
As much as the event raises awareness and funds for a serious disease, organizers said it is every bit of a "high-energy" fashion show that rivals those one could find at Fashion Week in New York City. Dozens of designers, including Michael Kors, Valentino, Armani, Rag and Bone, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen, Jason Wu, Etro, Akris, Yigal, YSL, J Brand and others are expected to be featured.
From everyday outfits to more cutting-edge and glamorous looks, Mitchell-Namdar said guests will see a "breadth of fashion."
Although there will be professional models, organizers said a highlight of the show are the dozen or so breast cancer survivors who don cocktail and evening gowns as they take to the runway.
"There is not a dry eye in the house," Johnson said.
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Google(s goog) is overhauling its flagship AdWords service in an effort to raise mobile ad sales and to simplify advertising campaigns. Some advertisers complain that the changes mean a loss of control, in part because the new "Enhanced Campaigns" mean they can no longer create search ad campaigns aimed specifically at iPad(s aapl) and other tablet users.
Google's Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora, however, indicated at the Dive into Media conference in southern California that the company has no intention of changing course. Arora brushed off a question I posed about whether Google would reinstate the more granular ad options, and emphasized that the new AdWords system meant advertisers would no longer have to run hundreds of different ad campaigns to target all demographics and devices.
The changes to AdWords are important since Google has such an out-sized footprint in online advertising and because everyone is watching how the company is responding to internet users' large-scale migration to mobile devices. So far, ads on smaller screens have proved much less lucrative than desktop ads — frustrating publishers and worrying Google investors.
Google announced its response last week in the form of a blog post describing the new "Enhanced Campaigns." The new system means mobile ad purchases will be a default option when people sign up to buy Google AdWords (though they can turn the mobile part off). Another major change is Google's decision to treat tablets and desktops as the same device for ad purposes. This goes against the philosophy of advertisers and publishers who consider the experience tablet a distinct, more immersive experience (though the distinction may be less when, as here, it concerns internet searching).
Ad industry blogs like 360i and AdExchanger have noted that Google is moving away from more granular forms of marketing while advertisers have complained about a loss of control.
On the flip side, some Google watchers have praised Enhanced Campaigns as a much-needed way to consolidate ad campaigns, and to make it easier for small ad buyers to join the mobile ad-buying landscape. At the All Things D event, Arora described how Google is also making it easier for advertisers to take advantage of distinct, new ad options associated with mobile — such as overlaying time and geographic location onto search queries.
In this context, the simplified options make sense, especially as advertisers right now confront the prospect of having to run hundreds of separate AdWords campaigns to account for all demographics and devices. And the Enhanced Campaigns will no doubt juice Google's ad prices as more people join the mobile auction market, creating more competition for local searches such as "pizza Brooklyn Park Slope."
But overall, the new system still seems to shortchange publishers and advertisers. Tablets provide a unique user experience and could be a fount of advertising innovation; Google's decision eliminates some of this potential. A better option would have been to unveil the Enhanced Campaign system but to also make the older, more granular options available to those who ask for it.
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For Madeleine Wright teaching schoolchildren health and safety skills in Ghana last year has changed her life. The 22-year-old university student, who is studying medical anthropology at the London School of Economics, taught at the Voice Preparatory School in Koforidua and quickly realized that health and safety was not a top priority.
"They had some basic health and safety laws but they didn't seem to take them very seriously, and the children had no training whatsoever," Madeleine said.
"Having gone through the British Safety Council's level one qualification before I started my gap year project, I was well-placed to give the children – and teachers - some potentially life-saving health and safety training.
The great thing for me was seeing how quickly they got into it and realized the importance of hazard awareness and carrying out even rudimentary risk assessments. They had an open fire in the grounds where they cooked, but the children hadn't thought about the associated risks until I pointed them out. We then conducted a check of the whole school and the children thought it was great fun."
Madeleine came up with elephant charts of the top three health and safety tips, and a clean hands chart to encourage the children to wash their hands before eating, which she said the children loved. "They had never done anything like it," she said.
"Local people are very appreciative of the volunteers who help with specific projects covering education, health or environmental sustainability, and we all benefit. For the volunteers it is an experience they will never forget."
Madeleine, from Newcastle, adds: "Many developing countries have a need for the skills we can bring and respect our commitment. When I saw what the British Safety Council was offering to gap year students I knew I simply had to sign up before going to Ghana and I was so pleased to pass on the skills to others. I will do so again when I go to Thailand later this year to work on further development projects."


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Intelligence head tweets badge stating "Nothing is beyond our reach"
Steve Watson
December 5, 2013
Following this year's further revelations on the NSA actively spying on Americans' communications, along with the president's promise to "reign in" the powers of US spooks, one would have expected that the government would be engaged in a damage control campaign going forward.
However, this is the criminally insane military industrial complex usurped government we're referring to, so Instead they're putting world-eating Octopus logos on the side of spy satellites and tweeting about it.
Here's a photograph of the launch of NROL-39, the latest government spy satellite being overseen by The National Reconnaissance Office, which provides signals intelligence to the NSA, among other agencies. The NRO is considered one of the "big 5" spy agencies.
Here's a photo of NROL-39 being readied for launch. Check out the full gallery: http://t.co/dHrcSxXhG0 pic.twitter.com/sEHEqPYWRB
— Office of the DNI (@ODNIgov) December 5, 2013
The program is classified, but 'what the hell, let's tweet about it' was presumably the conclusion of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the over-arching agency that the NRO reports to.
And to really rub it in Americans' faces about how we spy on them and the entire world, lets slap on a logo featuring an octopus enveloping the world with its tentacles, with the words "Nothing is beyond our reach."
Ready for launch? An Atlas 5 will blast off at just past 11PM, PST carrying an classified NRO payload (also cubesats) pic.twitter.com/ll7s0nCOPg
— Office of the DNI (@ODNIgov) December 5, 2013
Really subtle. This would be akin to the DoD sticking the grim reaper on it's unmanned drone program as a logo… oh wait it did do that.
A spokesperson for NRO issued a statement that reads:
"NROL-39 is represented by the octopus, a versatile, adaptable, and highly intelligent creature. Emblematically, enemies of the United States can be reached no matter where they choose to hide."
"'Nothing is beyond our reach' defines this mission and the value it brings to our nation and the warfighters it supports, who serve valiantly all over the globe, protecting our nation." the statement continues.
The ODNI is headed up by James Clapper, the principle advisor to President Obama on intelligence and national security, and the man who openly LIED to Congress during a March Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the NSA's spying programs, then later apologised for doing so.
Indeed, fresh calls were made in Congress this week to prosecute Clapper, a retired Air Force lieutenant general, for committing a federal offense.
"The only way laws are effective is if they're enforced," said Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the original author of the Patriot Act. "If it's a criminal offense — and I believe Mr. Clapper has committed a criminal offense — then the Justice Department ought to do its job."
So you'd think Clapper would want to be keeping a low profile right about now. But no, like some bad guy out of a James Bond movie, he's tweeting about engulfing the world like a crazy cephalopod or a crackers kraken. He's letting the world know that he's about to become a maniacal mollusc, launching a giant spy telescope into space. He's proudly announcing that he's an insane invertebrate collecting and devouring all your metadata and tracking your exact whereabouts under a 30 year old executive order.
If you're thinking that you've seen this logo somewhere before, it may be because you watched the feature-length episode of the original Batman series when The Joker, The Penguin, The Riddler, and Catwoman joined forces as the "United Underworld". Yes, it was the logo of the most vile villains in all of Gotham city. Very fitting.
"In addition its primary payload, the rocket will also carry a dozen mini satellites funded by the National Reconnaissance Office and @NASA," the ODNI twitter account also notes.
The only other thing known about the NROL-39 spy satellite launch is its trajectory, which places it into an orbit identical to existing spy satellites used for radar imaging. It is thought by some that the mission is therefore part of a series of launches in an effort to retrieve components from the failed spy satellite program known as Future Imagery Architecture. In 2007, The New York Times labeled the program "perhaps the most spectacular and expensive failure in the 50-year history of American spy satellite projects."
So much for "nothing is beyond our reach" then.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
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State of the Union addresses, for the most part, are forgotten within a few days. Political pundits and news anchors dissect them and then move on to more timely topics.
The one President Bush delivered in 2006 was no exception — except for the few lines he included about ethanol and, specifically, switchgrass.
"Switchgrass was a diamond in the rough," says Joe Bouton, senior vice president and director of the Forage Improvement Division at the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Okla.
Scientists, including some in the U.S. Department of Energy, had been looking at switchgrass as a possible ethanol source for years, but moderate gasoline prices and tepid interest in renewable fuels throughout most of the 1990s caused DOE to scale back the research.
Bouton was working at the University of Georgia at the time and switchgrass variety improvement, for fuel or forage, was part of his focus.
"We had DOE funding for renewable fuel research in the late 1990s," he says, "but in 2001 there was not much enthusiasm for switchgrass variety development, and funding ceased."
But when he moved from Georgia to South Oklahoma, he brought switchgrass research to the Noble Foundation, an independent, non-profit institution dedicated to improving farm and ranch operations in Southern Oklahoma and Northern Texas. He was working with the native grass primarily as a forage and for CPR land.
"It was a good fit for the foundation," he says, "so I kept working on it."
Then, the 2005 State of the Union address and a remark about switchgrass as a potential renewable fuel source put a surge into the foundation's switchgrass breeding, production, and management program.
"Switchgrass went from a minor crop to as big a program as we run here," Bouton says. "We were in a good position to contribute to this effort, based on our current programs and the work we had already done. We have a lot going on here now — from plant breeding and crop management to basic science and molecular genetics, all the way to actually working with area farmers and ranchers."
Foundation scientists are currently exploring best management practices to establish and grow switchgrass as a crop.
"We get a lot of requests for information," Bouton says.
The foundation also has agreed to a long-term collaboration with Ceres, Inc., a privately held plant biotechnology company at Thousand Oaks, Calif., for the development and commercialization of new, advanced biomass crops for ethanol production.
"Seed for an advanced switchgrass variety, an initial product of this relationship, is already being multiplied in preparation for commercialization," says Richard Hamilton, Ceres chief executive officer.
Switchgrass will provide raw material to produce cellulosic ethanol.
"Cellulose is the Holy Grail of the industry," Bouton says. "Ethanol yield per acre is higher from cellulosic material than from grain. We get a decent yield with grains, but if we can use the residue from a grain crop — at least some of it, since we need to keep some on the land — we can turn what's left, a waste product, into a valuable resource. We should be able to produce even more with a dedicated energy crop, like switchgrass."
High-yielding grasses such as switchgrass produce a lot of cellulose, he says. "They're easy to grow. Switchgrass is native to the area, and we can grow it on land that is less-suited to corn. It also performs on land that is not as well-suited to alfalfa or hybrid bermudagrass, and it does well on more marginal cropland."
Bouton says switchgrass uses less water than many other renewable fuel options. "It's fairly drought-tolerant and water-efficient. It also uses fertilizer efficiently. The key is, how many units of product (biomass) can we derive from each unit of input?"
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Switchgrass stands last a long time, Bouton says, with consistently high yields, comparable to bermudagrass pastures, but without the required inputs, such as nitrogen, to sustain high yields.
Farmers and ranchers interested in producing a renewable fuel source need to ask what they can grow in their area and what's viable, he says.
"Biofuel production will rely on local markets, with a primary service area for raw materials of less than a 60 mile radius. Corn is not a real option here in South Oklahoma."
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May 23, 2013
Steve Lightfoot, 512-389-4701, email@example.com
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AUSTIN – Proposed changes to the state's hunter education certification program would streamline the process for the tens of thousands of Texans who take the course annually, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials.
Anyone born after Sept. 1, 1971, must successfully complete a Hunter Education Training Course to hunt in Texas.
Under current rules, hunters can take the traditional two-day course that must be spread over a minimum of 10 hours, or they can opt to take the self-paced knowledge-based portion online home study. Students must then complete a four-hour field training class for certification.
TPWD is proposing a suite of options that could reduce the time commitment for completion of the course by half. By streamlining the curriculum, officials suggest the classroom portion of the process could be reduced to five hours. The field training class length would remain unchanged. Nothing in the proposed changes prohibits students from taking advanced workshops on hunter education topics of special interest or more extensive curriculum offered in high school and college courses.
For students 16 years of age and older, TPWD is proposing the option of an online instruction only certification that would eliminate the required field training component. Active duty military and certain veterans are already exempted by law from the live fire component of courses that involve live fire.
"Our hunter education courses serve a wide variety of students," said Nancy Herron, TPWD Outreach and Education Director. "One may be a nine-year-old with a parent in tow, another a teenager taking a class in school, and then an experienced 60-year-old preparing for big game hunting in another state. Providing additional course options will make getting hunter certification more convenient and better fit our students' needs."
To pass the current course options, students must take a 50-question written exam and get 70 percent correct if they take the traditional two-day course or 80 percent if they take the course online. TPWD is proposing to standardize the passing grade for all options to a minimum score of 75.
The certification is valid for life and is honored in all other states.
Public comment on the proposed changes can be made online at http://tpwd.texas.gov/business/feedback/public_comment/ or to Nancy Herron, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 4200 Smith School Road, Austin, Texas, 78744; (512) 389-4362 (e-mail: email@example.com). If adopted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission at its August 22 public meeting, students could begin taking advantage of the new process this fall.
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December 21, 2008
Casey At The Bat - And In The Cards
This is an amazing showcase of creativity and wit! And it's exactly what you need as the snow continues to fall.
(Thanks to Red at SG for bringing it to my attention!)
17 comments:
- Benjamin said...
Slightly more legible than rendering the poem in ass tattoos, but whatever floats their (and your) boat.
- December 21, 2008 at 7:22 PM
- laura k said...
Wow! Beautiful. And so well done.
- December 22, 2008 at 5:01 AM
- Unknown said...
That was awesome. Thanks for the link.
Perusing the archives, this looks like a great blog.
- December 22, 2008 at 11:16 AM
- andy said...
Where is the poem set? In Stockton California where I did most of my growing up the local minor league team change their name from the Stockton Ports to the Mudville Nine. They claimed the poem was set in Stockton. I called BS back then but they must have had some backup to do such a drastic thing like that. What do you know?
- December 22, 2008 at 2:21 PM
- Benjamin said...
Stockton apparently was called Mudville (among other names) prior to its incorporation.
Wikipedia suggests Holliston, MA (author grew up in Worcester) and Stockton, CA (author covered baseball for the SF Examiner) as possible Mudvilles though notes it's probably all just fiction.
- December 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM
- Benjamin said...
See also: http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=%22casey+at+the+bat%22+stockton. :)
- December 22, 2008 at 5:40 PM
- andy said...
That's all fine and good but what I wanted to know was did anybody have any other answers that are not on the internet.
- December 22, 2008 at 6:26 PM
- Benjamin said...
Answers that are not on the Internet? I don't follow.
- December 22, 2008 at 6:36 PM
- andy said...
And that let me google that for you thing makes me look like i'm an ass that can't search.
- December 22, 2008 at 6:43 PM
- Unknown said...
I've heard the Holliston answer, but I went to school pretty close to Holliston, so I can't put too much stock in it.
- December 22, 2008 at 8:16 PM
- Benjamin said...
No, it makes me look like an ass for insinuating that you can't search, which I suppose I am. (I find that thing hilarious, though.)
- December 23, 2008 at 6:50 AM
- andy said...
It is pretty funny. I wasn't mad. I would use it too.
I want to know if there is any wisdom beyond the internet that someone who is obsessed with this poem might have. Someone who may run his own blog and may have at some time posted a thing about it.
- December 23, 2008 at 7:51 AM
- laura k said...
I want to know if there is any wisdom beyond the internet that someone who is obsessed with this poem might have.
I bet a SABR Journal has it. I'm not sure how you'd search those. Public library?
- December 23, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- andy said...
Wow I guess I am too vague. Allan what do you know of this poem?
- December 23, 2008 at 10:57 AM
- laura k said...
And I am too dense. (As usual.)
Allan's not obsessed with this poem. I doubt we even have a copy in print anywhere.
- December 23, 2008 at 11:00 AM
- laura k said...
Unless it's his secret obsession. I never got the impression Allan's secret obsession would be poetry, but they say you never really know someone...
- December 23, 2008 at 11:01 AM
- andy said...
He's a baseball guy though and this is a baseball thing more than a real artsy poem thing.
- December 23, 2008 at 11:36 AM


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Updated May 17, 2005
This document is designed to prepare staff and volunteers for emergencies and interruptions of operations. It provides procedure to protect lives and critical assets, and short- and long-term contingencies to ensure continuity of operations. In the event of a crisis in the Washington area, it is essential that CFCNCA continues to operate because our communities may be even more dependent on the charities that we fund. Any one of us may be one of those needing help from our charities.
Emergencies for Fire Department, Police or Ambulance: 911Property Management: (202) 628-5599Main Security Desk: (202) 659-1387Floor Warden: Neil Glick (direct): (202) 465-7224Office Main Number: (202) 465-7231Office Voicemail: (202) 465-7272
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In the event of an emergency or unexpected disruption of our operations, one of the CFCNCA Strategy Team will contact you. If you have not heard from the team in a timely manner attempt to contact Tony De Cristofaro first, then move down the list in the order given. Please respect the privacy of the team members and use their home and personal cell phones only for emergency purposes, not routine matters.
Should an emergency situation occur overnight, the head of the Strategy Team, or another member in his absence, will contact all staff and volunteers overnight with any important instructions. All Strategy Team members will have a copy of home, cell and e-mail information available to them at all times.
If the office is inaccessible, staff and volunteers should remotely change their voice mail greetings to reflect that, and to check for messages regularly. Call 202-465-7272 to access voice mail; press the star key your extension is the last four digits of your telephone number. If the building is going to be accessible for more than a day, the main office number and Help Desk will be forwarded to Global Impact offices in Alexandria.
E-mail is accessible remotely. Your username and password is the same as the ones you use in the office. The online Manage system is accessible outside the office.
Staff and volunteers should not return to the CFCNCA offices without explicit instructions from the Strategy Team. In the event that the building is inaccessible for a significant period of time, alternate office space will be arranged. This may be space at Global Impact offices in Alexandria or space provided by GSA.
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If we are evacuated from the building, first and foremost, follow the instructions of emergency personnel and police authorities. If possible, we will meet on the sidewalk outside Au Bon Pain, located at 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. In the event that Pennsylvania Avenue is closed, Farragut Square will serve as the alternate meeting space. If neither area is accessible, proceed to a safe place and contact one of the Strategy Team.
The building fire alarm system is monitored 24-hours a day, 7 days a week. Fire Department response is minutes away. Safety systems meet or exceed all related building and fire codes.
Smoke and heat detectors, as well as overhead sprinkler systems, provide immediate response to any significant fire. An automatic alarm is initiated whenever water flows through the overhead sprinklers. There are manual pull stations located in all hallways adjacent to fire exit stairwells and smoke detectors are strategically located throughout the building. Each of these also activates the fire alarm system in the space affected, at the main electrical/main fire room, the Main Security Desk, and also the monitoring station.
On any fire alarm activation, all air handling equipment within the building shuts down completely, and the stairwell pressurization fans are activated. Key property management personnel carry two-way radios at all times, and building operations personnel are trained to assist in any emergencies.
As building occupants, we are encouraged to participate in fire drills. Drills are conducted on a periodic basis.
Floor Wardens will alert their area occupants that a fire drill is in progress and advise them to proceed to their assigned exit stairwell and await further instructions.
Once the area is searched and it is determined that all have heard and understood the evacuation directive, participants should proceed down the stairwell as directed by the Floor Warden and exit the building. There are two stairwells on our floor. The stairwell next to the women's restroom leads to the lobby; the stairwell next to the men's restroom leads to the alley.
Everyone should then be accounted for as we leave our floor. Provision should be made to assist any physically challenged persons to safety. Proceed to the predetermined meeting area unless instructed otherwise.
The exercise will be observed by the Emergency Response Team and deficiencies noted. The Emergency Response Team is made up of building personnel and tenant volunteers. This team will usually be the first response team to arrive at the scene. If a fire is small and conditions do not pose an immediate personal threat, the team will contain or extinguish the fire using extinguishers. If the fire is too intense, the team will control its spread by closing doors and await the arrival of the Fire Department.
750 17th Street is equipped with a Gamewell Fire Alarm System. Once activated, the alarm will sound throughout the building and an entire building evacuation will be necessary. During the evacuation, please remember to follow these procedures:
In the event of other emergencies, such as terrorist attacks using conventional and unconventional weapons, follow the instructions of the Floor Wardens whether to retreat to other sections of the floor of the building. If instructed to evacuate the building, after leaving follow instructions from law enforcement or other emergency personnel.
After evacuation, staff and volunteers should not return to the CFCNCA offices without explicit instructions from the Strategy Team.
Typically the Chair of the LFCC and the President of Global Impact are the media spokespersons for the organization. If needed, they could designate another individual to respond to media inquiries. If members of the news media contact us directly for comment on any emergency situation, the Executive Director will determine coordinate with Global Impact and the chair of the LFCC. In the event that the President & CEO and the LFCC Chair are not available, it will be the responsibility of the strategy team to prepare a comment, in coordination with management at Global Impact in Alexandria. All other employees are instructed not to comment.
Global Impact should be notified as soon as is practicable of any emergency or disruption of CFCNCA operations. It will be the responsibility of the Strategy Team, beginning with Tony De Cristofaro, to contact an officer at Global Impact in the following order:
Renée Acosta, President and CEO - (703) 717-5200 (Main);Steve Ristow, Chief Operating Officer - Same numbers as on first pageTom Tobin, Vice President, Development
A current listing of the LFCC and their contact information is attached should we need to inform them of a change in operating procedures or other emergency information. Renée Acosta, President and CEO of Global Impact, or Steve Ristow, Chief Operating Officer, Global Impact, will contact the LFCC in the event of an emergency or sudden disruption of CFCNCA operations. In their absence, Tony De Cristofaro will be responsible for contacting the LFCC, or in his absence a member of the CFCNCA Strategy Team in the order given.
The LFCC shall be contacted in the following order:
LFCC contact information is at the end of this document.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, all Americans should begin a process of learning about potential threats so we are better prepared to react during an attack. While there is no way to predict what will happen, or what the circumstance will be, there are simple things we can do now to prepare in the event something occurs during the work day.
In the supply room closest to the Executive Director's office ("Supply Room"), we have basic emergency supplies - a flashlight, battery-powered radio, extra batteries, toilet articles and duct tape. These items are stored on a shelf to the right when you enter the room. In the kitchen there is a first-aid kit and medicines above the sink, and heavy-duty plastic garbage bags in the cabinet below the sink. The duct tape and garbage bags can be used to seal windows and doors. We have food and bottled water to sustain us for a short period of time. One bottle of water is in the kitchen, and more bottles are stored in the alcove next to the left the conference room by the reception area. A supply of energy bars is stored in the Supply Room.
The DC government is also offering a free text messaging emergency system as part of their emergency preparedness effort. The alert system allows you to pick alerts for DC neighborhoods (including schools). The DC Text Alert system uses the Roam Secure Alert Network to provide immediate notification and update information during a major crisis or emergency. This system delivers important emergency alerts, notifications and updates to a range of devices including your:
When an incident or emergency occurs, authorized DC Emergency Management personnel can rapidly notify you using this community alert system. DC Text Alert is your personal connection to real-time updates, instructions on where to go, what to do, or what not to do, who to contact and other important information.
It is the personal responsibility of every employee to protect essential data files to ensure continuity in the event of a serious disruption of operations. All laptops are configured for the "My Documents" folder to be synchronized to a network drive, providing automatic backups. Staff and volunteers should back up any other computer data files to their personal network drives, or place important documents on the CFCNCA shared drive. In no case should essential data files reside only on a local drive or detachable media. The Global Impact MIS/IT director backs up our computer system daily and keeps the tape in a safe location outside of this office. There is also another backup that is done on a monthly basis, which is kept offsite in a lockbox.
Staff members who do not have personal computers at home are encouraged to take their laptops home with them on a daily basis to provide access to e-mail and data files in the event that the office is inaccessible.
The following are the essential functions that must be performed by staff to ensure continuity of the Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area:
These functions must be planned for and executed, regardless of location of CFCNCA offices. There are other ancillary activities and events not listed here, such as recognition events, that that could be postponed or eliminated when operating under this contingency.
To ensure rapid response to any emergency situation, if the CFCNCA Executive Director is unavailable, a deputy director will assume full responsibility for Continuity of Operations plan implementation, in this order: 1) Edith Parrish; 2) Terry Carter.
If neither deputy director is unavailable, responsibility will fall to an associate campaign director, in the following order:
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Happy Monday!
This weekend was pretty low key for me. My fiance worked Saturday so we went in Saturday night and returned back here Sunday night. So it was a hectic weekend.
I needed to take my summer clothes home and bring back some fall/winter ones. I was running out of fall-ish outfits to wear to work. Haha. Which meant a lot of repeat outfits. Oh well, the struggles of living far away and not having storage in your apartment!
I celebrated my mom's birthday this past weekend as well and I made her my first ever wreath.
All the supplies for this wreath were purchased at Wal-Mart.
I also picked up this box of cards from Joann Fabrics when they were having their 25% off Friends and Family Coupon a while back. I think it ended up being $4! I've decided I am going to be making cards for the upcoming holidays. (Hey, weddings can be expensive!) I have all these scrapbook stickers I picked up at the flea market for 50 cents each so I am going to put them to use.
I also blogged about the Lorac Mega Pro Palette over the weekend, you can see it here. Go check it out!
When I went in this weekend I got all the Christmas catalogs and was having a field day. I decided to take pictures of some of the things on my Wish List.
Formula X Paint the Town set. Here $55
Victoria Secrets Frosted Apple lotion. Has anyone tried this? Here $14
I really love this color of the Formula X Ombre Glitter collection. Here $12.50
Look how cute my mom set up her front stoop for Thanksgiving?!
Taking this little bugger for a walk, this was right before he tried going after another dog. Why do all small dogs think they're the toughest? Haha
Have a nice Monday night!
Monday Night Football in this apartment tonight!


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5 Dollar Wrestling - Death Match Dance Party DVD-R
5 Dollar Wrestling - Death Match Dance Party
The Burke County Boys have been making poor Lil Donnie's life a nightmare. Luckily, Lil Donnie's friend Mad Man Pondo has come to his aid time and time again. Well now it is time for this chaos to come to end. It's time for us at $5 Wrestling to get back to the fun of pro wrestling.
So, as promised in the title you will see a death match with the Burke County Boys with Hammer in their corner taking on Lil Donnie, Mad Man Pondo and Crazy Mary with Freight Train in their corner. Then when the smoke clears and dust settles you will see a dance party. A dance party that would make Rocco Rock & Johnny Grunge proud.
$5 Dollar Wrestling's Death Match Dance Party is the quality release of the new year just read theses reviews.
"I hope these idiots can dance better than they can wrestle" - Johnny Blazedale, Figure8.com
"I would much rather put over on twitter how awesome WIlliam Regal & Finlay are than watch this crap" - Andrew Sullivan, woopwrestling.com
"That whole Freight Train thing, It's a work right" - Well respected Indy Insider who shall remain nameless & clueless.
- Jessie the Jack Hammer vs. Bing Bong Buggalo
- Dyn-O-Mite vs. Bubbalicious
- Freight Train vs. Derek Flair
- "Mr. 7.50" Wolfman vs. Jimmy "the Snake" Roberts
- 5 Dollar Death Match: Lil Donnie, Mad Man Pondo & Crazy Marry w/ Freight Train vs. Big Donnie, Hardcore Terry Houston, Porkchop Cash Jr. w/ Hammer - Special Guest Ring Announcer: BJ Whitmer
Bonus Footage
- Jessie the Jack Hammer Interview
- Derek Flair Interview
- Wolfman Interview
Approx. Running Time: 1 hr
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Prospecting for ad revenue in the video stream
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Online video may be a conduit for reaching audiences in dynamic ways but challenges can arise when it comes to swaying advertisers to invest in the medium. Mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones offer marketers the chance to intimately target individuals who are on the go. Some viewers, however, may watch online video to reduce their exposure to product pitches. That can leave marketers and advertisers in a quandary as they try to reach this audience without turning them off.
During Wednesday's sessions of the Streaming Media East 2011 conference in New York City, a panel of professionals from the online video sector convened to discuss monetization and video advertizing. Read more of this post


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We often get questions about the revision process, what it's like, how to respond to reviewers, how significant the revisions should be, etc. While the revise and resubmit process is always idiosyncratic, we thought it would be useful to show you a few examples of papers that have been successful navigating the process, from first version and reviews all the way to the final product. These are meant to be helpful examples and are not "recipes" for getting through the process. Ultimately the success of any paper is defined by the authors, reviewers and unique challenges of the manuscript. Nonetheless, we hope you find these useful.
EXAMPLE # 1 - Human Resource Practices and Helping in Organizations
EXAMPLE # 2 - Making Sense of New Ventures: Analogical and Metaphorical Reasoning and the Discursive Creation and Justification of New Ventures
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Mercy! I like balls. I like meatballs, cheese balls and how could anyone forget those heavenly cake balls. But, I have now found a new "ball" to add to my list. Breakfast balls. These balls are low carb, gluten-free and so good! After I make a batch, I wrap them up in three's and freeze. It takes less than a minute to microwave and I have a breakfast that smells great, is fast, holds me over for a few hours and most importantly goes well with my on again, off again diet. Can't beat that right? Wrong! Not only does it make enough to freeze for a quick grab and go breakfast, but they also make for a great appetizer to take to family gatherings, work related brunches, or church functions. This recipe also has the ability to be customized to suit your tastes buds as you can add different spices, cheeses and meat such as garlic, red-hot pepper flakes, Parmesan cheese or hot sausage. This recipe yields 48.
2 lbs. pork sausage
1 lb. ground beef
3 eggs
2 tablespoons dried onion flakes
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 lb (8 ounces) sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. While your oven is preheating, mix all of the ingredients together until thoroughly blended (it is best to use your hands or an electric mixer). Next, form into 1 to 1 1/2 inch balls and place on a cookie sheet or broiler pan (I suggest lining your baking sheet with parchment paper first). Bake for approximately 25 minutes.
Once they are cool, they can be sorted into individual zip-lock bags and frozen for a quick grab and go breakfast.


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Evans Blue to kick off Tigers Pre-Game
The band Evans Blue will be kicking off the Detroit Tigers home-opening pre-game party on April 9. The Toronto based rockers will be playing at the Hockeytown Cafe accross from Comerica Park from 3:30-6:00 pm. My wife and I recently saw them in concert, and it's really a show worth going too. They were one of four bands opening for Pop Evil, but Evans Blue's performance was difficult to beat. I highly recommend see these guys as the music is heavy and intense. I know they've just scheduled some more tour dates. We were lucky enough to hang out with some of the band members after the show, and my wife got a CD signed by them. The top pics are of Evans Blue, and the below is my better half and I after the show. Yeah, I had a few…sue me…
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I've been looking for Ignorance sheets, but I haven't found them yet!
Mhm, it's not my favourite kind of music...
Sounds great, Wonderwall is great, in the guitar sounds sooooooo nice although it's very easy xD (L). If you get ignorance sheets for piano or something, let me know :) Do you like Jazz? :)Posted in on 6:00:00 a. m. by Iris Cross
I've been looking for Ignorance sheets, but I haven't found them yet!
ok, well, it's a little hard asking you about this theme, but... here i go... what are we going to do next tuesday, huhhhh?????? há! and im sure that u cant imagine who am i, lalalala (:Posted in on 5:46:00 a. m. by Iris Cross
'kay, quite late for answer this question xDD It was asked 4 days ago, sorry!
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Nilo and Shane Rennie are experts at transforming inner-city homes into something extraordinary.
"We've done 10 homes in 10 years, but this one is it," says Shane, who owns design firm Rectangle (rectangle.ca).
"This is our dream home. We are not moving until the kids are finished high school."
With its light-filled openconcept, clean lines and palette of white and walnut, the home exudes contemporary West Coast cool. But while the home's edges are clean, there is a softness to this modernism. The home features lots of rounded edges, pops of colour and intimate moments defined through luxurious, livable spaces.
"If I had had my way, the entire home would have been stark white and concrete. Nilo definitely tempered it," shares Shane, who began his foray into the design world in the mid-'90s armed with his journeyman papers in plumbing.
"That's how I became interested and then in the late '90s I went to SAIT to take architectural technology and it just grew from there."
With three children, two of them under five, this busy family leads an active life. "We really wanted to design the home for the way we live," says Shane, adding the design evolved organically from the concept of a bridge walkway on the second floor.
The couple knew they wanted a mid-century bungalow with great structural integrity that they could completely overhaul. They started looking in Elbow Park -their dream neighbourhood -but when this Marda Loop home went on the market, they knew it was right.
"We got pretty fortunate," says Shane. "We found the home in the depth of the recession, so we got it for a great price and were able to put more of our resources into the home itself."
He says the original home was extremely dated. Instead of just restyling the home to make it more hip, he wanted to incorporate it into a new design -one that created a more dynamic relationship with the site.
So he cleared most of the house, leaving some of the structural integrity intact, extended the footprint on the walkout lower level and then cantilevered the main floor 10 feet beyond that over the rear sloped lot.
"The sloped lot was challenging for sure, but you get better value when you purchase non-traditional lots," he notes.
From an architectural perspective, the back of the home has tremendous wow factor, much more than the understated streetscape.
"When my family came to see the house for the first time, I showed them the back first," says Nilo with a laugh.
Inside, the architecture creates a sense of wonder and joy. Double ceiling heights in the living room and front entrance area create a stunning sense of drama, highlighted by beautiful hanging pendant fixtures.
"That was our one splurge. We probably got carried away, but we are glad we did," says Shane.
Even the basement boasts 12foot ceilings.
"We originally thought that the basement ceilings would be eight feet, but the floor turned out to be a wood structure, so we were able to dig down and get greater ceiling height," he adds.
The main focal point, the staircase, ties the three floors together and exudes a sculptural beauty.
"The stairs are a labour of love," says Shane, who handcrafted each tread from solid slabs of walnut.
A 20-foot, floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, a planter complete with trees built into the floor, and a fabulous kitchen are just a few of the features that make this home stand out.
"The kitchen is definitely the hub of the family. We wanted it to be big, spacious and bright with loads and loads of storage. The cabinetry is a high gloss thermofoil wrapped around MDF. The look is sleek and clean," he says.
But the beauty of the home really lies in the composition. It is an approach that typifies Shane's work for private clients and he admits that being his own client was the hardest job of all.
"It took us eight months to renovate. We were so into it that it consumed our lives. We were working every weekend and every night. I wanted to do it all myself -the stair treads, the doors, the cabinetry, the curved walnut wall features."
He admits he couldn't have done it without Nilo, who sourced most of the fixtures and finishes.
"She is the perfect partner. We have built enough houses together. We know what we like."


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From an email Sarles sent to employees:
As many of you prepare to roll out our Rush Plus rail enhancements, I want to make sure everyone begins to learn about the coming service improvements.
Rush Plus, the new rush hour service that begins June 18, is designed to ease crowding and improve the commuting experience for Metrorail riders on the Orange, Blue, Green and Yellow lines. By providing additional trains every rush hour, Rush Plus adds more seats for customers and more transfer-free rides. Additionally, Orange and Yellow Line trains will be serving more destinations.
Employees will be receiving more detailed information beginning next month that will enable you to help customers better navigate through the system. To assist in clearly communicating the changes, we have redesigned the iconic Metro system map, which will be shared with employees next week before its public release.


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The picture with the grill removed shows a driver that looks a lot like the Harman-Kardon Odyssey—these were used in most of Apple's CRT iMac models, some of the company's computer speakers (notably the Soundsticks and the ones that looked like champagne flutes), iPod docks, and maybe some car audio and full-size speaker designs.
They always sounded surprisingly good in my old iMac, and had a frequency response similar to what you describe. If this is what NuForce is using, I'm not surprised it sounds great for the size.


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I'll pick up now with Sen. Ron Johnson's questioning. He's pressing John Kerry hard, probably harder than any other Senator so far.
He wants to know why, if we're going to strike Assad, we don't take him out. Is it because we don't trust the forces that would come into power? No, says Kerry. We're not willing to bear that cost, and the American people don't want us to.
Johnson asks about the nature of the opposition. Has it become increasingly more extreme? Kerry claims it has not — is has become more "inclusive."
Kerry's answer is deceptive. He's pretending that the opposition is the group with which he's been in contact and has worked. He's ignoring the radical Islamist portions of the opposition. They haven't become more inclusive.
Sen. Coons (D-Del) is asking the questions now. Coons is on board with authorizing Obama to attack Syria. He thinks the intelligence is solid. He thinks that inaction would be unacceptable. The key is striking the correct balance — making sure that our action is sufficient to "deter and degrade" and send a message to Iran and others, but doesn't lead us down the road to large-scale involvement.
Kerry and Gen. Dempsey provide the same kind of general assurances they have offered throughout the hearing. Gen. Dempsey says that the broader the resolution, the easier it will be to craft the right response.
Now Sen. Flake is up. He wonders about Obama's belated decision to go to Congress, especially given that Obama claims he doesn't need authority.
Kerry becomes quite testy. He expresses astonishment that a Senator, especially a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, would have any concerns about the U.S. president consulting with Congress. Flake obviously touched a nerve with Kerry.
The Secretary says he's glad Obama is consulting with Congress. Trying to make lemonade out of lemons, he claims that the delay is actually going to be a plus — it will give us time to win over allies, for example. And he insists that it won't hurt our prospects of military success.
Gen. Dempsey chimes in. He's more equivocal than Kerry about the military effect of delaying a strike.
Flake asks Kerry what Obama will do if Congress doesn't approve. Kerry says he doesn't know, but that our enemies will celebrate. I agree with Kerry about this.
It's now the turn of Sen. Durbin. He's engaging in a self-congratulatory review of his past votes on military intervention. Thanks, Dick.
He's on board with the administration, but wants to shape a narrow resolution. Not surprisingly, this has been a consistent theme of the Democrats on the Committee — e.g., Sens. Boxer and Cardin.
Durbin asks about Syria's ability to attack nearby countries such as Israel with chemical weapons. He cites a French analysis which rates that ability as considerable. Kerry says this is better addressed in closed session.
It's John McCain's turn now. He ridicules Kerry's claim that the delay isn't helping Assad hide weapons. It deserves to be ridiculed.
McCain cites a Wall Street Journal story saying that the administration is structuring its proposed attack so as to leave Assad in power. Kerry denies this.
Gen. Dempsey says he's been ordered to come up with a plan that degrades Assad's capacity, but not one that shifts momentum in the civil war. But Kerry says that by degrading Assad's power, there will be "downstream" affects on the civil war.
McCain tries to get Kerry to embrace the idea that the opposition is moderate, rather than extreme Islamist. Kerry agrees to some extent but, significantly, won't go as far as McCain on this point.
He's wise to hold back. McCain probably is overly influenced by his contacts with the non-Islamists. I'm pretty sure he hasn't spent quality time with the extremist forces.
Sen Tom Udall is speaking now. He's the first Democrat to express major skepticism about authorizing Obama to attack Syria. It seems that Udall will be a "no" vote. We knew that the Democrats wouldn't be unanimously behind Obama.
He cites the experience in Iraq and the lack of international support. He also argues that a limited strike will, if anything, embolden Assad.
Kerry responds that we're not just sending a message; we will degrade Assad's assets and affect his future decision-making.
Udall responds that by degrading Assad, we make extremist forces stronger. Kerry denies this, but he can't have it both ways. If our efforts hurt Assad, then they necessarily help the opposition, including the undesirable elements of it.
Kerry becomes impassioned. He says that if the U.S. doesn't act, it's "guaranteed" that Assad will continue using chemical weapons. As to the bad things that might happen if we do act, Kerry says it's all speculation, and largely unwarranted.
Udall insists that we shouldn't give up on the U.N. Kerry says we're not giving up on it. Udall disagrees.
I don't agree with Udall's argument or his position, but he's clearly a principled guy. I don't think the same can be said for all of his Democratic colleagues, and I'm not sure that it's true of all Republican members either.
Now it's the turn of Sen. Barrasso. He asks what happens if Obama doesn't get congressional approval. Kerry says they aren't contemplating that prospect because it's "too dire." I hope that President Obama contemplated the prospect before he decided to go to Congress.
Barrasso wants to know what happens if we strike Assad and he uses chemical weapons again. Does Obama go back to Congress with another resolution?
Kerry says there are follow up plans for that contingency. He adds that this can be explored in closed session.
Barrasso doesn't seem to be tipping his hand as to how he will vote, but his questioning showed no hostility towards attacking Syria.
Now Sen. Chris Murphy has the floor. He's concerned that our action may not help the situation and could make things worse. He's sounding very much like a potential "no" vote.
Like Sen. Barrasso, he's concerned about Obama taking follow up action without coming back to Congress. Kerry agrees that this could happen.
Kerry rails one more time against "doing nothing." His testimony is becoming quite repetitious.
Things may heat up now. Rand Paul has the floor.
Paul is concerned that Obama isn't going to abide by Congress' decision. Kerry says he doesn't know what Obama will do if he loses the vote. The two disagree about whether Obama has the constitutional authority to proceed without congressional authority.
Paul says that by not committing to abide by the outcome, he's making Congress into "theater." He has a point. The question is whether, in this context, Congress deserves to be more than theater.
Paul is asking a series of questions without giving Kerry the opportunity to answer. Unlike Rubio, who was very focused, Paul is all over the place. To me, he's flailing.
Kerry finally gets an opportunity to respond. He says, to answer one question, that Israel will be more secure if Assad's chemical weapons are degraded. Paul suggests that Israel may be attacked in reprisal. Kerry says he's discussed this with the Israelis and they are confident that their security won't be jeopardized.
Kerry now becomes the inquisitor. He asks Paul whether an American attack will make future chemical attacks by Assad more or less likely. Paul claims that this is "unknowable."
He's being disingenuous here. We can't know with certainty what Assad will do, but in all likelihood a punitive attack would made future use of chemical weapons by Assad less likely. The legitimate questions are: how punitive will the attack need to be and how much more unlikely will an attack make future use of chemical weapons by Assad.
The exchange becomes quite heated. In my view, Kerry is getting the better of it.
Kerry argues that the administration isn't asking to go to war in the classic sense. That's true. In the classic sense, war involves boots on the ground. What Obama wants is something less. It can be considered war but it doesn't carry all that war normally implies or all that Paul is trying to invoke when he characterizes the contemplated action as war.
A needed moment of levity, at last: Kerry asks Gen. Dempsey if he wants to weigh in. Dempsey says, "no, not really."
We're getting back to boring. Sen. Tim Kaine has the floor.
My impression is that Kaine is on board with the administration, but it's not completely clear.
The final Senator is up now — the newly elected Edward Markey.
His remarks are of the "on the one hand, on the other hand" variety. He seems to be on the fence.
He asks: Will a strike prompt the Russians to give more aid to Syria? Gen. Dempsey, the most honest of the witnesses, says this could happen, but it shouldn't cause us not to act.
Markey wants the U.S. to declassify more intelligence materials so as to help win support from the U.N. and the American public. Kerry says there's already sufficient declassified material to make the case. Declassifying more intelligence might jeopardize our sources, etc.
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