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Ultimate Gratin Dauphinois
An utterly irresistable creamy potato side dish with very few ingredients but oozing with flavour
Nutrition and extra info
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal384
- fat28g
- saturates18g
- carbs27g
- sugars0g
- fibre2g
- protein7g
- salt0.27g
- 1kg Desirée potatoes
The world's favourite root vegetable, the potato comes in innumerable varieties. A member of…
- 300ml full fat milk
One of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a 'complete' food…
- 284ml carton double cream
- 1 garlic clove, peeled and halved
- 2 sprigs of fresh thyme, plus extra for sprinkling
This popular herb grows in Europe, especially the Mediterranean, and is a member of the mint…
- 1 shallot, roughly chopped (optional)
Related to the onion (as opposed to being a younger version of it), shallots grow in clusters at…
- pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
One of the most useful of spices for both sweet and savoury…
- 25g parmesan (or vegetarian alternative), freshly grated
Parmesan is a straw-coloured hard cheese with a natural yellow rind and rich, fruity flavour. It…
Preheat the oven to 160C/Gas 4/fan oven 140C. Rub the butter all over the surface of a gratin dish, about 18x28cm/7x11in. Peel and slice the potatoes to a width of 3mm/1⁄8in. Lay the slices on a clean tea towel and pat dry. Keep them covered with the tea towel while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
Pour the milk and cream into a saucepan. Add the garlic, thyme and shallot (if using). Slowly heat the milk and, just as it is about to reach boiling point and you see bubbles appearing around the edge of the pan, remove it from the heat. Strain the liquid into a large jug, sprinkle in the nutmeg and keep warm.
Layer half the potato slices in the dish, slightly overlapping the slices and sprinkling with a little salt and freshly ground pepper between each layer. You don't have to be too neat with the lower layers, but keep some of your best slices for later, so the top looks good.
Pour half the hot milk and cream over the potatoes, then finish off layering the rest of the potatoes (arranging them a bit more carefully this time). Pour over the rest of the hot milk and cream. Scatter the cheese over the top and bake for about one hour, until golden and tender. Leave the dish to stand for about 5 minutes, then serve sprinkled with a few fresh thyme leaves.


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In the escalating Mythic War between the United States and North Korea, the latter country has struck back.
As you may recall, about one week ago, the American forces launched a major offensive by claiming DNA evidence of a Bigfoot in North America. Of course the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea could not tolerate such a provocation.
That's because the Yeti myth originated in Nepal, just a couple thousand miles from Pyongyang. Yeti/Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Abominible Snowman and all other forms of apelike animal cryptids are the province of Asian forces in the Mythic War.
And so North Korea has struck back in a big way, by discovering a lair of unicorns.
According to the Korean News Agency:
Archaeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have recently reconfirmed a lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong, founder of the Koguryo Kingdom (B.C. 277-A.D. 668).
The lair is located 200 meters from the Yongmyong Temple in Moran Hill in Pyongyang City. A rectangular rock carved with words "Unicorn Lair" stands in front of the lair. The carved words are believed to date back to the period of Koryo Kingdom (918-1392).
It will be interesting to see whether this find triggers an escalation from DEFCON 3 to DEFCON 2 in the Mythic War. Let us hope not, because the next step would be for America's heroes in the Mythic War to unleash perhaps their greatest weapon — a secret cache of Chupacabras.
I don't think anyone wants that.

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Route your cables on these lacing bars to reduce cable tension in your rack
Product ID: CMLB10
- Reduce the cable strain that's put on your rack-mount equipment's ports, protecting your equipment from damage
- 10 lacing bars included to lower the cost of shipping
- Constructed of solid steel with a round design for maximum weight capacity
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These lacing bars install horizontally on the front or back of your rack to provide a secure mounting point for you to run cables. You can attach your cables to the lacing bars using cable ties to reduce the tension on your cables and prevent damage to the ports on your rack-mount equipment.
Protect your equipment
Cable lacing bars protect your equipment by offloading the weight of the cables in your rack, which reduces the constant strain that can be put on the ports of your rack equipment. The lacing bars also provide a route for cables, which enhances passive cooling within your rack. This helps to ensure your rack remains at an optimal temperature, to extend the life of your equipment and minimize or eliminate downtime.
Discreet and sturdy design
These cable lacing bars are constructed of solid steel and occupy just one-third of a rack U at each install point. The round solid-steel design ensures a high weight capacity, unlike flat lacing bars that can bend easily.
Save on shipping costs
This package includes 10 cable lacing bars, enabling you to buy multiple bars packaged together. This is ideal for large-scale implementations, because it significantly reduces the packaging, and in turn, shipping costs.
The CMLB10 is backed by a 2-year StarTech.com warranty and free lifetime technical support.
- Reduce the cable strain that's put on your rack-mount equipment's ports, protecting your equipment from damage
- 10 lacing bars included to lower the cost of shipping
- Constructed of solid steel with a round design for maximum weight capacity
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|2 Years
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|Product Height
|0.4 in [1.1 cm]
|Product Length
|19.1 in [48.5 cm]
|Product Width
|4.1 in [10.4 cm]
|Weight of Product
|2.8 lb [1.3 kg]
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|Package Height
|3.1 in [78 mm]
|Package Length
|20.1 in [51 cm]
|Package Width
|4.9 in [12.5 cm]
|Shipping (Package) Weight
|3.5 lb [1.6 kg]
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|Included in Package
|10 - cable lacing bars
|20 - M5 screws
|20 - M5 cage nuts
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There's a wide variety of accessories for server racks and today the various options will be explored. Here are the accessories that will be discussed.
- Shelves
- Rack rails and DIN rails
- Casters and leveling feet
- Cable management
- Rack blank panels
- Power Distribution Units (PDUs)
Server rack shelves come in a variety of sizes and styles. We will be covering six different types of server rack shelves.
Server rack shelves have both a U size and depth. The U size describes the height of the shelf in rack units, and one U is equal to 1.74 inches. Shelves might also list a maximum suggested weight and some shelves are available in a vented design for greater airflow.
Fixed shelves have a fixed depth. If you use a server rack with fixed shelves, make sure your rack equipment fits within the mounting depth of the shelf you are purchasing.
Unlike fixed shelves, you can adjust the depth of adjustable shelves. The minimum and maximum mounting depths for adjustable shelves are listed on the product page, under the Technical Specifications tab.
Sliding shelves can be slid in or out of a server rack. These shelves have a lock feature that locks the shelf and prevents it from accidentally falling out or sliding back into the server rack. The minimum and maximum mounting depths for sliding shelves are listed on the product page, under the Technical Specifications tab.
Similar to sliding shelves, drawer shelves feature a sliding storage drawer that is perfect for storing tools, small hardware or other accessories.
Cantilever shelves do not attach to the server rack on all 4 corners; instead, they only attach on one side of the server rack. These shelves generally have lower weight thresholds.
Heavy duty shelves are designed to hold more weight. They are a more durable solution for storing large pieces of equipment that can't be mounted in a server rack.
Startech.com offers both rack rails and DIN rail kits.
Rack Rails are available in several different U sizes and are often adjustable, allowing you to customize the depth of your server equipment.
DIN Rails are an industry standard for server rack equipment, and StarTech.com offers a DIN Rail kit which fits all standard 19" racks. This kit features adjustable depth and the entire kit occupies 2 U's of rack space. As with other server rack accessories, check on the product page under the Technical Specifications tab to make sure your equipment will fit within the product's measurements.
Casters and levelling feet are two of the commonly used methods of mounting a rack on the floor. To determine whether your rack includes casters or levelling feet, on the product page, check the Technical Specifications tab, under the heading What's in the Box.
Cable management accessories include cable management hooks, panels, and conduits or ducts. More information will be shared on them below.
Cable management hooks are designed to hold cabling to avoid cable knotting or crimping. They are also sometimes referred to as D-Ring hooks and can be found in a variety of sizes.
Cable management ducts or conduits are used to route cables through a covered cable duct. These ducts feature a removable top cover so that you can easily add or remove cables.
A cable management panel consists of several cable management hooks and/or ducts, combining these products for an all-in-one cabling solution.
Rack blanking panels are sometimes called filler panels as they are designed to fill the openings in server racks that are not in use. This provides security as well as physical protection for the equipment in the server rack. Rack blanking panels can be vented or solid and come with or without hinges.
Power distribution units or PDU's add additional power outlets to your server rack. They are available in U based sizes, such as 1U and some of the more advanced units include power switching, which you can use to power on and off the connected devices over an IP network.
Confirm the number of outlets and the U size you need in your server rack PDU before you make a purchase.
There are a few ways you can find information about server rack accessories on www.StarTech.com.
- To view the different families of server rack accessories, go to the StarTech.com website. Under Server Management, click Server Rack Accessories. This opens a page with each family of server rack accessories.
- On individual product pages, you can view an image gallery which includes detailed pictures of the product.
- The Technical Specifications tab includes the product's dimensions, and what comes with the product.
- The Accessories tab lists other products that are confirmed to work with the product you are viewing.
If you have questions about any StarTech.com server rack accessories, contact our technical support team for further assistance.
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When you install your rack equipment, it's important to put the heaviest equipment on the bottom of the rack, first. This provides a strong base and is especially important if you are installing a lot of equipment on a tall rack. This also prevents the server rack from becoming top heavy and falling over.
If your equipment is long, heavy, unbalanced or otherwise difficult to handle, ask someone to help you install the equipment so you don't injure yourself or damage the equipment.
Finally, when you tighten down your screws make sure you don't strip or damage the screws. This is especially important to be aware of when using electric tools which can generate more torque.
The patch panel will be mounted using cage nuts, so the first step is to install them.
Once installed, the cage nuts can be used to mount our patch panel.
To install your server rack equipment, fasten the mounting screws into the cage nuts. After you tighten your screws, check to make sure your rack equipment is securely installed.
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Survivor is coming back to CBS this week for its 26th season and its bringing back a few familiar faces.
Survivor: Caramoan – Fans vs. Favorites airs Wednesday, Feb. 13.
Ten ultimate Survivor fans will have the chance to prove they have what it takes when they take on 10 of their favorite players from the past.
Dropped on the exotic Caramoan Islands, the 20 castaways will be divided into two tribes of 10: "The Bikal Tribe," made up of former players deemed favorites, and "The Gota Tribe," comprised of ultimate fans of the game.
One of the "favorite" players didn't have much time between shows.
Malcolm Freberg headed back to the wilderness for this edition of the show, just three weeks after returning from Survivor: Philippines.
Freberg, 25, was a force in challenges and a charismatic player on Philippines, where he placed fourth.
He'll face off against returning players like Brandon Hantz, the nephew of super-villain uncle Russell Hantz.
Brandon played on Survivor: South Pacific and will be reunited with his South Pacific castmates Dawn Meehan and John Cochran.
They'll be joined by Phillip Sheppard, the "former federal agent" from Survivor: Redemption Island. He was notorious for wearing a feather in his headband, his pink underwear and his abrasive antics.
Sheppard will be joined by his former Redemption Island tribemates Andrea Boehlke and Francesca Hogi.
Also joining the tribe of Favorites will be Gabon's Corrine Kaplan, Micronesia's Erik Reichenbach, and Nicaragua's Brenda Lowe.
The Favorites may have an edge because of their experience, but they also have a big target on their backs.
Meanwhile, the Fans, although inexperienced, can draw on their extensive knowledge of the game to give them an advantage.
The 10 new players include Miss Missouri 2011, a firefighter/EMT, a female racecar driver, and former United States Marine Corps Sgt. Shamar Thomas, who gained a measure of Internet fame after a video posted of him berating New York City police officers for excessive force during an Occupy Wall Street demonstration.
So who will prevail when these tribes collide and the castaways vie to outwit, outplay and outlast one another for the title of Sole Survivor and the one million dollar prize?
The Emmy Award-winning series returns with a 90-minute premiere on Wednesday, Feb. 13th at 8:00 p.m. on CBS.


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Join the weekly Classic Castle set review discussion. Please post your opinions on the set play ability, piece selection, design, etc. Which sets stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!
This week's set is 7040 Dwarves' Mine Defender.
Dwarves' Mine Defender was released in 2008 for the Dwarves. This rolling catapult with sawblades ensures a strong mine defense against two invading trolls.
Various accessories such as a banner, pike, and troll sword are included.


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The Flying Bee and Angelique, of Six In One Hand . . . . at least I think that's me!Hi everyone - I'm back, and I'm full of it - "IT" being up to your own personal interpretation.
After a long antique show like this fall's Antiques Week, a couple of quotes by Lily Tomlin always spring to mind. One goes something like this: "I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific." And the other goes like this: "Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination."
When I get the opportunity to be immersed in my business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the better part of a month while preparing for, setting up for, and selling for this twice-a-year event, I always feel that I have a clearer, more specific grasp on the direction that I would like to take my business. As I visit with friends and customers about what they are searching for or brainstorm with fellow dealers about the state of the vintage/antiques business in our present economy, or iron a dozen vintage napkins or polish a pile of silver flatware, my mind tumbles around with idea after idea of ways to expand, grow, and refine my business.
My posts for the rest of the week will consist of ideas and specifics about how The Vintage Laundry will be changing, growing, and expanding our scope and offerings. I'm really excited and I can't wait to share - So, stay tuned!!
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Canon Powershot S410 Digital ELPH Digital Camera Review
The Canon Powershot S410 Digital ELPH is the second from the top in Canon's "S" line, under the S500. The S410 has a 4 megapixel CCD, 3x optical zoom, and a 1.5 inch LCD. The image quality is excellent, as should be expected from Canon and the form factor is the same familiar Digital ELPH size. The only downside of this camera is that it doesn't enjoy the speed of the "SD" series with their DIGIC II imaging processors.
In the Box
In the box, you will find the camera, documentation, a 32 MB Compact Flash, the NB-1LH battery, the A/V cable to connect to your computer or a TV, the battery charger and software.
Specifications Highlights
4 megapixel CCD
3x optical zoom
Color LCD: 1.5″ 118K Pixel LCD Screen
Focus: 9-point AiAF (Automatic Focus Point Selection)/1-point AF (Fixed to center)
Minimum Focus Distance (non-macro): 1.5 ft
Macro Mode: 2″
ISO: Auto, 50, 100, 200, 400
Shutter Speed: 15 – 1/2,000 sec.
Self-Timer: Yes, 2 seconds, 10 seconds
MPEG Movie Modes: 320 x 240, 160 x 120
The camera features a 4 megapixel, 1/1.8 CCD sensor and an all glass 3x optical zoom lens. The camera offers an additional 3.6x digital zoom (for a total of 11x). The 1.5 inch LCD, while not large by the standards of the latest cameras, fits the Digital ELPH body just fine. If you want to keep the LCD off while shooting, the S410 does include a real image optical viewfinder.
The lens has a focal length of 36 — 108 mm (35 mm equivalent). In normal shooting mode, the range starts at 1.5 feet and goes to infinity (and beyond). In Macro mode, you can shoot at subjects between 2 inches and 1.5 ft at wide angle and 1 – 1.5 feet at full zoom. The S410 autofocus system uses either the 9 point AiAF (where the focus points are chosen by the camera) or a 1 point AF, fixed on center.
The S410 has your usual point-and-shoot feature set with several shooting modes and picture effects. The camera has 4 shooting modes: Auto, Manual, Stitch Assist, and Movie. For fun effects you can try Vivid, Neutral, Low Sharpening, Sepia and Black & White. Images can be captured at 2,272 x 1,704 (Large), 1,600 x 1,200 (Medium1), 1,024 x 768 (Medium2), 640 x 480 (Small) and then stored at compressions of Superfine, Fine, or Normal.
The exposure control options are pretty standard. While in Auto shooting mode, the ISO sensitivity is chosen for you. If you head over to manual land you get your pick of ISO 50, 100, 200 and 400. Once you decide on a sensitivity level, you have some metering options. The one used by most people is Evaluative, where the camera evaluates the light in the entire frame to determine proper exposure. The other two light metering options are Center-weighted Average and Spot. These two give you some more control to be creative with lighting as you can "bracket", or lock your exposure, in one spot. Also, in Manual shooting mode, you can modify the exposure compensation from -2 to +2 stops at 1/3 stop increments. The above features, along with aperture settings between f/2.8 and f/4.9 and shutter speeds from 15 – 1/2,000 seconds give you a wide range of exposure control.
The white balance options are pretty typical as well. Digital cameras have to be told what counts as white in a image. Depending on what your light source is, the values of light that the camera's sensor picks up are different — so by using a white balance setting the camera can adjust the colors in an image accordingly. When shooting in Auto mode, the S410 adjusts the white balance on its own. When you switch to manual mode, you can choose between the following: Pre-set (Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H), or Custom White Balance.
The built-in flash has a range of 1.5-11 feet when taking wide angle shots; 1.5-6.6 feet at full telephoto; and 1 in –1.5 feet when shooting in Macro mode. The flash modes are Auto, Red-Eye Reducing and Slow-Sync and you can adjust the flash exposure from -2 to +2 stops in 1/3 stop increments.
The images and movies that you shoot with the S410 are stored on a Compact Flash card. Movies are limited to 3 minutes long. They can be captured at a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels (15 frames per second) or 160 x 120 pixels.
The S410 uses a rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery (the NB-1LH or NB-1L models). According to Canon, the battery is good for 190 shots with the LCD on and 440 shots with the LCD off.
Form & Design
This S410 body is the familiar Digital ELPH body. Solid, metal construction that is heavy enough to feel significant in your hand, but light enough to be comfortable in a pocket. As far as dimensions, the S410 is 3.4 inches wide x 2.2 inches high x 1.1 inches deep.
On the front of the camera, you'll find the lens (whew!), viewfinder window, focus-assist light and flash. On the left side of the camera (if you're looking at the front) there is another little piece for attaching a lanyard.
The top of the camera has the power button with a little ridge around it to protect it a bit. There is a green LED that indicates the power status. Finally, the shutter release and the zoom control (the collar around the shutter) can be seen.
The back of the camera gets a bit more interesting. The 1.5 inch LCD takes up most of the space. Above the LCD, we have the shooting mode selector to let you select the 4 modes (you did read above, right?). The viewfinder is self-explanatory. To the right of the viewfinder is a slider switch to toggle between capture mode and playback mode. Below that slider is another slider to open the Compact Flash/battery compartment. Below (and to the right) of the LCD are the usual control buttons and the "directional" pad that allows navigation through the menu system and other camera functions (like macro mode).
The bottom of the camera allows access to the Compact Flash card and the battery. There is also a tripod mount, and in case you don't notice in the picture, it's not aligned with the lens.
The left side of the camera (when viewing the back) has a little rubber cover that covers the A/V jack and AC adapter jack.
Finally, here's a shot of the camera on and the lens extended.
Image Quality
Since everyone has different tastes in image quality, I think it's more effective to show samples images under different conditions and let the reader decide for themselves. That said, the S410 possesses the Canon high-quality images with good exposure, good colors and good detail. When I compare some S410 shots with some SD500 shots, I found slightly different color casts and the SD500 images were a lot sharper. However, some people might find the SD500 shots too sharp (and the SD500 is at least $150 more expensive).
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Ease of Use
The camera is very easy to use. If you've used other Canons there will be virtually no learning curve as all the buttons are pretty standard. As with the rest of the Digital ELPH line, the S410 feels solid in your hand, the buttons aren't "squishy" — the build is always top notch.
The controls are laid out well. A feature that I like is the zoom control that is laid out for use by the shutter finger (as opposed to zoom controls on the back of the camera for use by your thumb. There is a slider switch on the top right to toggle between image capture and playback mode. The shooting mode dial is on the left, in the same plane as the back of the camera. After owning the A95, where the shooting mode dial is on the top, I prefer the top mounted dial since I can just reach up with my thumb and spin the wheel.
The menu system is easy to use and navigate. The "Menu" button access many of the set up items (like start up sounds, volume, disabling/enabling digital zoom, red eye reduction, etc.). The "Set" button is used as the Enter or Return key. Left and right on the directional pad either navigates between tabs across the top or chooses options on the menu items (navigated by the up and down buttons). The "Func." button allows you to access a menu that lets you set options about image captures (like resolution, timer options, ISO sensitivity, and shutter speed). The options available in the Func menu depend on the shooting mode.
Battery Life
Battery life was excellent. I shot close to 300 pictures with the LCD and flash on the entire time.
The Canon S410 is a great little camera, although it's a little "behind the times". Newer models have eclipsed this model as far as quickness and image processing. Canon continues to keep quality as a high priority in all of their camera models. At a current price around $250, it's still not cheap, but Canon knows that people are willing to pay for the compactness and solidness of this camera (and the Canon brand).
Excellent build quality
Compact, solid camera
Excellent image quality
Battery life
Smaller LCD
A bit sluggish compared to some newer cameras
No scene modes
Recommended For: People looking for a compact (but not ultra-thin) camera for snapshots and everyday use. Good camera as a graduation gift for a non-photographer.


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South Korea launches first satellite
South Korea has thrust a satellite into orbit for the first time.
SEOUL: South Korea on Wednesday succeeded in thrusting a satellite into orbit for the first time, achieving its ambition of joining an elite club of space technology leaders, seven weeks after the successful launching of a satellite by rival North Korea.
South Korea has attached an intense national pride to the 140-ton, 108-feet tall Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, or KSLV-1, which was built with the help of Russian technology. Feeling besieged by China and Japan, both of which have successful space programs, South Korea has sought a technological prowess of its own.
That task gained more urgency after North Korean successfully placed a rocket into orbit on Dec. 12. Only a handful of countries have succeeded in independently launching satellites into orbit, with Iran also recently joining the club. After studying the debris of the North Korean rocket that splashed into South Korean waters, officials here determined that North Korea, despite its backward economy, has locally built key components of its rocket.
With all major South Korean television stations broadcasting the countdown live, the two-stage rocket blasted off from the newly built Naro Space Center in Goheung, 200 miles south of Seoul.
"After analyzing the data, we determined that our satellite entered its intended orbit," said Lee Ju-ho, the government's minister of education, science and technology, during a nationally televised news conference. "Today, we took a leap toward becoming a power in space technology. This is a success for all the people."
Although part of the two-stage rocket was built by the Russians, South Korea considered the successful launching Wednesday an important toehold in the space technology, the latest high-tech market where the country has decided to become a player. By 2021, it says, it will launch a completely indigenous three-stage, liquid-fueled rocket capable of carrying a 1.5-ton payload into orbit.
KSLV-1 was the first space rocket to take off from South Korea. The country bought its liquid-fueled first booster stage from the Russian company Khrunichev in a deal that included a transfer of technology to South Korean engineers. South Korea has built the rocket's solid-fueled second stage that carried a small, 100-kilogram "Naro" Science and Technology Satellite-2C, built by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
The satellite, which has a one-year operational lifespan, will mainly collect data on space radiation. Officials said they needed until early Thursday to conclude whether the satellite was functioning properly.
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St. John Fisher ended last season on a roll to the Elite 8. The Cardinals start with a Top 25 opponent in Thomas More.
Are you ready to take in more than 1,200 college football games this season? We sure are!
The Division III community is embarking on a fall during which 239 teams will take the field, most playing nine or 10 games in the regular season. D-III is the largest division in college, and D3football.com will give you insight across the board into the good, the bad, and the potential breakouts.
That all started with Kickoff 2012, our preseason publication, which has a slew of feature stories as well as rankings and interviews with coaches from every team in the nation. (There's still lots of valuable info there if you haven't purchased yet.)
D3football.com also brings you regional and national columns throughout the season, and every Friday morning, you'll be able to dive into the column you're reading right now, called Triple Take.
In Triple Take, Executive Editor and Publisher Pat Coleman, Managing Editor and National Columnist Keith McMillan and Senior Editor and longtime Mid-Atlantic Columnist Ryan Tipps break down some of the week's biggest games, sleeper teams and those who we're keeping an especially close eye on. From now until the Stagg Bowl, we'll take you well beyond the Top 25.
We open up Triple Take to comments in the section below, or feel free to take the conversation to Twitter using the hashtag #3take. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter: Pat (@d3football), Keith (@D3Keith) and Ryan (@D3MidAtlantic).
Game of the week.
Ryan's take: No. 20 Thomas More at No. 11 St. John Fisher. Fisher blasted through the first two rounds of the 2011 playoffs, proving to the selection committee and the D-III community that 8-2 teams deserve at-large bids. Their Empire 8 conference is one of the absolute toughest in the land, and getting the ball rolling against the PAC's standard-bearer will be an exciting test. Both teams return the bulk of their starters and match up amazingly well on the field. A win for momentum's sake could be crucial, too, as each team faces its top conference opponent the first week of October.
Pat's take: St. Norbert vs. John Carroll. It's in Ireland, for goodness sakes. I'm not sure I need to write anything else.
Keith's take: No. 20 Thomas More at No. 11 St. John Fisher. Usually we try not to duplicate picks, but this was my standout game before I saw Ryan's, and I'm sticking with it. There's some other intrigue, like Willamette at Hardin-Simmons and Monmouth at Coe, but this is the biggest toss-up involving at least one top 25 team. Luke Magness became Thomas More's starting quarterback right at the end of the season last year; We'll be watching to see how much better he is with an offseason to prepare for the job. Likewise, St. John Fisher's Ryan Kramer was a running back-turned-QB in a pinch last season; He's had a full go-round to train as a signal-caller.
Surprisingly close game.
Ryan's take: Case Western Reserve at Marietta. Case has ushered in some teams with top-notch records recently, not losing more than two games a season over the past five years. But the Spartans are rarely dynamic out of the gate. Chalk that up to reasons we may never know. But with some changes happening up front for Case, an OAC team (even a lower-tier one) isn't how I'd prefer to start my season.
Pat's take: No. 9 Delaware Valley at Rowan. The Profs look to be coming into this season undermanned when compared to their cross-river rivals. And even though Rowan is far removed from the program which beat Delaware Valley in back-to-back years for the East Region title in 2004 and 2005, there's still a little pride in Glassboro. Enough to give them a fighting chance.
Keith's take: Augustana at Dubuque. On the surface, it's a 2-8 team vs. a playoff team. Beneath it, though, the Vikings have usually been good for about seven wins a season, and come from the always-tough CCIW. Last season, the Spartans won, 18-13, on the road. They're a more confident team now, coming off an IIAC championship, but they're also without Gagliardi Trophy winner Michael Zweifel, who accounted for an enormous amount of their offense last season. Even if Dubuque wins again, it'll be by a not-pretty score like last season.
Most likely Top 25 team to get upset.
Ryan's take: No. 8 St. Thomas. Can a team really lose its best players at its three prime skill positions — the quarterback and All-Americans at running back and wide receiver — and still deserve a spot in the Top 10? Not unless your name is Mount Union or UW-Whitewater. The Tommies' opening opponent, UW-Eau Claire, is a solid mid-pack WIAC team, which stands for a lot coming from that conference. St. Thomas might make the playoffs again (they might even go 10-0), but there's a lot more trepidation about the team's potency now than there was at this time in 2011.
Pat's take: No. 20 Thomas More. St. John Fisher performed better in the playoffs last season without Ryan Kramer than it did with him. But it's good to remember that Kramer was not expected to be the quarterback in 2011 when the season started, and worked out in the offseason and preseason as a running back before the presumed starter got hurt. With a full offseason to prepare, Kramer should be much more polished under center.
Keith's take: No. 14 Kean. I don't think any of the ranked teams are really likely to be upset; If I thought so, I wouldn't have put these teams in the preseason top 25. And I mean actual upsets (*glares at Pat*). Kean though, is replacing nearly its entire offense (four starters back; 13 overall) while its opponent, Albright, brings back the group almost intact (nine offensive starters, 16 overall). The game is under the lights in Union, N.J. though, which means this is about as weak an upset pick as I could possibly make. Other viable choices were No. 6 North Central, hosting UW-LaCrosse or No. 7 Salisbury, at Christopher Newport.
They'll be on your radar.
Ryan's take: No. 24. Birmingham-Southern. Any team that has a rusher like Shawn Morris has one less position it needs to worry about come Saturday. As the No. 2 rusher in country last fall, Morris was instrumental in helping B-SC reach further for its gold ring than ever before. The Panthers have turned things around in recent years, and barring any major stumbles, they should be on everyone's radar for the next several weeks, starting with their game against LaGrange.
Pat's take: Buffalo State. The Empire 8 coaches' poll snubbed the Bengals and despite my best efforts, I think Kickoff did too. I agree with what Ryan said above, about the Empire 8 being among the toughest conferences in Division III football, but Buffalo State will be able to hold its own. Whether that translates into a win against Cortland State remains to be seen but the Bengals should be on your radar, for sure.
Keith's take: William Paterson and Wisconsin Lutheran. Yeah I'm not sure I understood Pat's obssession with Buffalo State during our Kickoff meetings, but then he could probably say the same about my Wisconsin Lutheran pick in the Beyond the Top 25 piece. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, buy Kickoff. … It won't affect the Northern Athletics Conference race, but Wisconsin Lutheran's opener at Ripon is a chance for them to take a step toward the postseason. Meanwhile, the real intrigue is in the NJAC, a race that could be up for grabs, especially if my upset pick is correct. That means William Paterson needs to start the season with an attention-grabbing victory against King's. Other potential picks here included North Park at Hope and Illinois College, hosting Hanover.
Which 2011 playoff team is going to end up wishing it had a Week 1 bye?
Ryan's take: Johns Hopkins. The Blue Jays have said more than once in recent seasons that quarterback Hewitt Tomlin was the face of the franchise, the player on whom success and defeat often rested. Tomlin has graduated, and with him the more than 2,600 yards he threw for last year. That doesn't leave a settling thought for a team that has to go up against Randolph-Macon, with its penchant for replacing top-notch running backs with even more top-notch backs. Macon is stingy with points, too. A team might be able to air the ball out and make some big plays to put up points, but most opponents won't win the war in the trenches with Macon. JHU won't have the leverage going into Saturday to outlift R-MC.
Pat's take: St. Scholastica. It isn't a rebuilding season for the Saints, to be sure, but they won't be 10-0 dominant like they were last year. And you can consult the Kickoff rankings to see the difference between last year's non-conference opener (Lawrence) and this year's (Whitworth).
Keith's take: Franklin. Look, we salute the Grizzlies for playing Mount Union. It'll be a meeting of some of D-III's best fans, at least in the pre-game tailgate. For years we've seen teams take this Week 1 game to get a taste of the Purple Raiders, and they end up with a mouthful. Franklin, which has designs on being a perennial contender, took a game with UW-Whitewater last season and lost 45-0. The playoff rematch was 41-14. I know Franklin doesn't really wish it had a bye, because they're playing these games to figure out what it takes to get to the purple powers' level, but the final score may leave a bit to be desired. Mount Union has been vulnerable in recent seasons, but we're talking December vulnerable, not beginning of September. Other candidates: Bendictine at No. 15 Wheaton, Monmouth at Coe.
Which conference will have the most impressive non-conference win?
Ryan's take: The MIAA. It's not every day that a team from Michigan can get a leg up on the CCIW, but that's exactly what could happen when Adrian hosts Carthage. The Bulldogs are a team on the rise, and they're certainly hoping to bite into a piece of the playoff pie. Should they lose a conference game, wins against teams like Carthage could factor in nicely for at-large consideration.
Pat's take: The MAC. There are a couple of possible matchups here that could give me that result, but the one I'm thinking of is Lebanon Valley at Montclair State. Montclair State just lost too much on offense and defense … and special teams … and while Lebanon Valley doesn't exactly return intact either, it should have the upper hand.
Keith's take: The ECFC. A few teams scheduled aggressively, opening up opportunities for upsets. Gallaudet at Otterbein, Norwich against Western New England and Husson at Hartwick are the three games that would catch my attention, should the ECFC team prevail.
Which long losing streak is likely to end?
Ryan's take: Greensboro, at Guilford. If you're going to end a losing streak, nothing's sweeter than doing it against a cross-town rival. The Pride has a new coach, one who is familiar with the inner workings of the team. That means there's new perspectives but without the learning curve. To most teams, Guilford wouldn't be a chest-thumping win, but Greensboro has won just one game since September 2010. And last year's matchup against Guilford was a lopsided affair. A win by Greensboro isn't going to be a sign of a great resurgence afoot, but it will be a step in the right direction for a program looking to rebuild.
Pat's take: Knox, vs. Eureka. The Prairie Fire have been put out 14 consecutive times, but it's better to open against Eureka than against Wash U. Knox is playing at home and should have 18 starters back. Eureka has some pretty good talent as well, but if the win doesn't come here for Knox, in the inaugural Lincoln Bowl, it will be more than a month before there's another similar opportunity.
Keith's take: Thiel, vs. Juniata. The Tomcats won 11 games in 2005, but now are coming off consecutive 0-10 seasons and 22 consecutive losses. Juniata, meanwhile, is 6-54 since that 2005 season, so if there was ever an opportunity for Theil to break the streak, now is the time. Hamline (16 consecutive losses) at Minnesota-Morris is another candidate.


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In the service: Sgt. 1st Class Chris Emerson, of Colchester, was deployed with the United States Army in 2003-04 in Baghdad, during the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Emerson enlisted in the Army Reserve in 1988 and transferred into the National Guard a year later. He was born and raised in Norwalk. He was a supply sergeant in the early 1990s, and was transferred to units in Meriden, Westbrook, Putnam and then Norwich in 1995, where he became a platoon sergeant for an artillery unit. During his deployment to Iraq, Emerson was a military police platoon sergeant, in charge of 33 people stationed in central Baghdad, about a half-mile outside the Green Zone. He conducted presence patrols and worked with Iraqis to build up the nation�s police forces. The platoon also was the quick reaction force and police for their unit. �We were on the road for 24 hours a day, seven days a week for almost nine months,� Emerson said. �It was at the very beginning� of the war, �right after the first push-through.� He was deployed a total of 14 months, 12 in Iraq. He was responsible for three squads that performed daily eight-hour patrols. �It was a lot of 18-hour days,� he said. �We did a bunch of house searches, and working with the Iraqi police. But the typical day was just driving around, showing our presence.�
Life at home: Emerson, now 45, returned to the states in 2004 to a National Guard unit in East Lyme, and then, in 2006, was transferred to his current unit, the 85th Troop Command in Niantic, where he is a military police officer. As an Army serviceman, Emerson said he�s been activated for every major storm in Connecticut since the early 1990s. He�s had to evacuate people from beaches, take part in tree removal and other relief efforts. �If they call us, I�m there,� Emerson said. He is commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Colchester, and is a member of the American Legion in town. He�s commanded the VFW post since June 2012. He lives in Colchester with his two children, daughter Taylor, 18, and son Cameron, 13. He said he has tentative plans to retire in about four years, when his youngest is out of high school. He�s attending Three Rivers Community College and taking online classes, working toward a degree in criminal justice, concentrating in therapy. He earned a combat action badge, a Bronze Star, and an Army commendation medal for his service, he said.
Quotable: �When we got (to Iraq), there was no electricity, no running water, no infrastructure at all. When we left there, it wasn�t 100 percent, but we were up to 70 or 80 percent. Electricity was running, water was running. They had garbage services. The infrastructure started coming back around. I�d say it had improved considerably.�


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In the 1960s, many people learned that "acid" (the drug LSD) made them behave quite strangely. Our emissions of CO2 are causing marine life to experience the effects of a much different kind of acid, but research is showing that it may also affect the behavior of fish (the vertebrate group, not the homophonic jam band).
The thinking used to be that the effects of ocean acidification were mostly limited to plankton and coral, which build their shells and skeletons of CaCO3. Impacts on these groups would then ripple up the food chain. However, it's becoming apparent that fish can be directly harmed, as was shown in a pair of papers last month. Those studies demonstrated that increasing acidification caused increased mortality and abnormal growth of inland silverside and Atlantic cod larvae.
A new study in Nature Climate Change shows that acidification can cause detrimental behavioral changes in fish, and uncovers the mechanism by which acidification affects the brain.
The paper describes two experiments. In the first, clownfish larvae were hatched and raised in one of two tanks: one corresponding to an atmospheric CO2 concentration of 450 ppm and one to 900 ppm. (The current atmospheric concentration is about 390 ppm, but the degree of acidification in the ocean today varies regionally and temporally.) The larvae were then tested to see how they responded to the odor of a predator—they had the option of swimming down two flumes, one of which contained the odor.
The low CO2 group clearly avoided the water containing the predator's odor, but the high CO2 group was oblivious. That's obviously a problematic change in behavior that could have consequences for survival. But the researchers didn't stop there. They hypothesized that this abnormal behavior occurred because of interference with a key neurotransmitter receptor in the brain, known as GABA-A. This receptor acts as a sort of gate, controlling the flow of Cl- and HCO3- anions into neurons. In high CO2 conditions, fish regulate their pH by taking up HCO3- and releasing Cl- and H+. The researchers suspected this could interfere with the GABA-A receptor.
To test this, they introduced a compound (gabazine) that effectively blocks the GABA-A gates. While the gabazine had no effect on the larvae in the low CO2 water, it almost entirely negated the effect of the high CO2 on the clownfish's behavior.
For the second experiment, damselfish larvae (captured in the wild, this time) were exposed to those same high and low CO2 environments for several days. They were then put into a T-shaped maze of sorts, in which the researchers could record the number of times they turned left or right. They were looking for signs of lateralization, or what we commonly think of as "handedness" (maybe "fin-edness," as it were). A significant number of the larvae in the low CO2 water showed a preference for right (or left) turns, but the larvae in the high CO2 water turned completely at random.
A tendency for left turns is not, in itself, an important behavior. (Damselfish have yet to break into the ranks of NASCAR drivers, after all.) Rather, it's a consequence of brain development that's been shown to correlate with critical behaviors like schooling and escape reactions. As such, it's another indicator that ocean acidification interferes with fundamental neural functions. The researchers again tested the GABA-A receptor by adding gabazine. As before, it completely restored the lateralization behavior seen in the low CO2 group.
The authors point out that the GABA-A receptor is "phylogenetically old," meaning it's shared by a great many species, which is reason to suspect that the impact of acidification will extend far beyond clownfish and damselfish. Because the effect involves the way in which species compensate for acidic conditions, they write, "Ironically, it could be that aquatic animals with the best-developed acid-base regulation will also be most susceptible to disruption of GABA-A receptor function by rising CO2."
The researchers say their work shows that fish cannot simply acclimate to high CO2 conditions. They did see some variability in behavior at intermediate CO2 levels, which suggests that populations could potentially adapt via natural selection, but it's not known whether this tolerance involves a behavioral adjustment or a genetic tendency that could be passed on to subsequent generations. Regardless, the recent work with fish clearly shows that ocean acidification isn't just a problem for creatures that build calcium-based shells and skeletons.
Nature Climate Change, 2012. DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1352 (About DOIs).


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Stoned: The setlist
Start: 8:48pm
1. Start Me Up - "Welcome, Charlottesville," Mick yelled out after this standard but classic concert opener. He then ticked off a list of places concert-goers had come from: Richmond, Virginia Beach, Midlothian. Midlothian?!
2. It's Only Rock 'n Roll
3. Shattered - "That was fantastic," Mick said of the lit-up stadium during the third number. "I saw everyone in the audience." In a gentle dig at Virginia Tech, he added, "They asked us to play in Lane [Stadium], but we thought it would be cooler here."
4. Tumbling Dice
5. Rough Justice - Although it has struggled for radio airplay, this single from the new album made the Charlottesville crowd go wild. The jumbotron going stark B&W may have helped.
6. Ruby Tuesday - Mick donned a burgundy jacket for this one.
7. Sweet Virginia - "We don't get to do this one very often," Mick said before the opening chords of this number. When the chorus came around, the crowd– suddenly realizing that this was not Anytown's show– screamed out. They got another chance to scream when Mick implored, "Now you all sing," and they dutifully sang the chorus. "Something sweet for a sultry night in the South," he noted.
8. All Down the Line - As with Sweet Virginia, this comes from the classic 1972 album, Exile on Main Street.
9. Night Time is the Right Time - The only cover of the evening, this one was penned by the late Ray Charles. Lisa Fisher, singing backup for much of the show, turned this into a duet.
Then Mick introduced the backup singers and players. He reached "Ronnie Rembrandt Wood," who had just settled in at a keyboard when Mick apparently got a message. Accounts differ on his exact words, but his 9:40 statement went something like this: "We've been informed we have a technical problem and have to take a 10-minute break. The local authorities say we have to take an intermission. Sorry, it's not our fault." Rembrandt held up his hands and shrugged.
The bomb-sniffing dogs came out within a minute or two, 20-30 front rows of the floor and lower decks were cleared. Despite an announcer's claim around 10:15 that the show would resume in "ten minutes," it didn't happen until 10:39pm– after about 59 minutes of down time. Mick returned and repeatedly thanked the crowd for its patience. "The police," he explained, "said we had to do it, so off we go."
10. Miss You - Partway through this song, the mobile stage began trekking toward the endzone.
11. Oh No, Not You Again - Another from the new album.
12. Get Off My Cloud
13. Honky Tonk Women - The moving stage began moving back (toward a giant inflatable tongue on the main stage).
14. Sympathy for the Devil Red stage, red video, flames. And raindrops.
15. Midnight Rambler
16. Paint it Black
17. Brown Sugar
18. Jumping Jack Flash - More pyrotechnics and higher volume bring the main show to a close.
19. You Can't Always Get What You Want - True Stones fans made the stadium sparkle as they held up lighters, begging for an encore. As the band took the stage again, fans joined in the chorus as Mick, in his last of countless costume changes, led the classic.
20. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The second encore performance
End: 11:48pm - After multiple bows (and many enthusiastic high fives from Rembrandt), the band exits their latest-running (but still full-length) show of the tour. Fireworks explode, and the house lights begin to rise.
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At last, Will Ferrell met his nemesis face to face.
For weeks, the comedian has taken to his Funny or Die web site to declare war on Conan O'Brien's facial hair. Even going so far as to demonstrate his precise razor technique.
Well, last night, Ferrell and the crumb-catcher finally had it out. It might not have been the smoothest procedure, but we're calling this one a big win for Ferrell.
U.S. & World
Look out Zach Galifianakis. And that one guy with the beard on "Mad Men." You know...that one guy.
Selected Reading: FunnyOrDie, New York Daily News, Washington Post


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Welcome to the third edition of Editor's Pick of the Week. This week, our editor, Simon, tells us about a very nifty DLNA/UPnP app for Android – Skifta.
With the recent trend of shipping devices with less and less local storage, in a very transparent attempt and pushing users towards the cloud, users are left with either giving up "owning" their media, or picking and choosing what to store directly on their devices. If you're inclined enough to have set up a DLNA or UPnP media store in your home network, then you might want to take a look at Skifta for Android.
Skifta is much more than a DLNA/UPnP app. It is developed by Qualcomm Atheros, and if you're unfamiliar with them, they make the chips that are likely powering the mobile device you're reading this on. Skifta is DLNA certified (it was actually the first Android application to be DLNA certified), fully supports the UPnP standard, and if QCT has their way, will be pre-packaged in a wide range of devices.
Most DLNA/UPnP applications support client and server mode. That is, you can either host media and push it to a device in server mode, or you can use client mode, and pull media to your device. Skifta does both, but also has the addition of local storage support for when you're offline or not within range of your home network.
Skifta is very straight forward to use, as you basically have 3 options before you start listening to music or watching movies. Firstly, where do you want to get this content from? Local or remote. Second, where are you playing it to? Local or remote. Third, what do you want to play? If you're smart enough to answer those 3 simple questions, you'll be enjoying your media wherever you want, in no time flat.
Upon selecting a file to play, Skifta will immediately attempt to buffer the entire song over whichever connection you have available to the media server. If you're using an 802.11n network, this happens very quickly. Almost instantly. It would be nice if the application would load the next few songs in the album in order to reduce "seek" time when moving to, or skipping, a track. The lower blue indicator line indicates buffer status.
While Skifta does display embedded album art, this is only shown on the "now playing" screen. Instead of thumbnails when selecting tracks, a small placeholder icon is used to denote a folder, audio track, video file, or picture. While it doesn't detract at all from usage, it would be a nice bit of polish to have.
Skifta also doesn't seem to do any caching of any sort, even if the network was remembered. This means your entire library is polled every time you reconnect. This isn't a large issue with the proliferation of fast wireless networks, but if you're offloading media storage to a dedicated machine because your device doesn't have enough local space, you're going to be adding up the seconds that it takes to load a large library.
Like most 3rd party audio players, Skifta sticks itself into the notification drawer, but 2 icons are present. One indicates the network you are connected to, the other shows your media information about the media being played. Unfortunately there are no media controls, but tapping will bring you to the according screen.
All in all, Skifta might not be jam-packed with features and fluff, but it does a perfect job at pulling or pushing media around from a DLNA/UPnP server. If you're looking for a fast and stable media player, Skifta by Qualcomm Atheros is a great app.


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Feds Release Cost Estimates for Missouri Health Plans
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The federal government is providing a glimpse of what Missouri residents could pay for health insurance when enrollment opens next week for a new online marketplace.
Estimates released by the Department of Health and Human Services show a family of four with a $50,000 income could face average monthly premiums of $798 for a benchmark policy known as the "second-lowest-cost silver plan." But that cost could decline to $282 a month after federal subsidies.
A similar plan for a 27-year-old individual earning $25,000 could carry an average monthly premium of $220, which could be reduced to $145 with subsidies.
Missouri is one of 36 states that are letting the federal government run their health insurance exchanges. Federal figures show Missourians could have fewer policy choices than residents in most states.


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Unveiling Idioms: A Game of Concentration
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|1 hour to design game (with additional time for play and optional writing/drawing activities; fewer than 4 players may take longer due to more drawing time).
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Portland, Oregon
Activity Description
Idioms are sayings that play with the actual meaning of the words, such as He's pulling your leg, or It's raining cats and dogs. We regularly hear idioms in daily life, sometimes funny, generally peculiar, but we don't often know what they mean or how they entered into common usage. Get children thinking about the meanings behind these common phrases by examining them through the creation and play of a homemade memory game. Children collect idioms from friends and family as well as inventing their own, then design playing cards depicting the idioms. The game is as expandable as the children's imaginations.
Why This Is Helpful
In day to day interaction, we often use idioms without giving much thought to their literal meanings. These are common expressions we inherit from our friends and elders, and are generally metaphorical, meant to illustrate a point or idea more effectively than might otherwise be accomplished with direct speech. This activity is designed to draw childrens attention to the elasticity of language by showing them how silly or absurd many of our familiar sayings are if taken literally. By examining idioms and describing them in both literal and metaphorical terms, children see that what gives words their useful meanings depends on our ways of thinking about them.
This activity was modified from the ReadWriteThink lesson plan "Figurative Language: Teaching Idioms."


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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Can you copyright an old photograph or journal?
Sometimes the claim to copyright is ambiguous, where the online entity includes a blanket copyright notice at the botton of every page of their website, without discrimination for the content shown on the site. Sometimes, digging into the Policies and Procedures of the entity discloses a disclaimer that they really aren't claiming a copyright interest in any of the old documents but the determination of which documents they do claim are covered by copyright is left up to the user.
Individuals who have old photographs or documents in their possession, sometimes feel possessive and claim ownership of the copyright when it is clear that they did not take the photographs or write the documents and have no legal claim to the ownership of the copyright.
The issue is what is meant by the term "old" and how old does a work have to be to be totally free of any copyright claims? Are there any other claims to ownership that lie outside of the realm of copyright? Although theoretically, there may be such claims, I have yet to encounter such an argument although I am aware that contract, privacy and other issues have been raised concerning old documents.
Once again, I have to make the same observation I have made in the past. Every country has its own version of copyright protection. You have to examine the laws of your own country carefully, to determine whether or not any particular work can be considered to be in the public domain and free of copyright claims. In case you wonder, yes, as an attorney, I have fielded demands made by copyright holders against my clients in years past. It is not a commonly made claim against individuals but has happened. In one prominent case, my client contested the claim but had to concede when the cost of the litigation became unbearable. As a side note, if you become involved in an intellectual property dispute (a euphemism for lawsuits over trademark and copyright) be sure and find an attorney who has actually litigated a case or two rather than one who simply purports to take intellectual property cases.
OK back to claims of copyright on old works. In the U.S. any possible claim of copyright cannot exist for a work created in the 1800s. The cut off year, as a rule of thumb, is presently often considered to be about 1923, but there are arguments for extending some types of claims further back for works that were written but not discovered or published before that date. Be aware that copyrights in other countries may extend much further back in time and that current law in the U.S. may honor those foreign claims even when the work might be considered in the public domain in the U.S.
As I have said previously, you cannot obtain a copyright in a work, not your own, by simply putting a copyright claim on the work in the form of a notice of claim or copyright symbol. In addition facts and ideas cannot be copyrighted. What is and what is not covered by copyright law is really determined on a case by case basis, so most claims, as I experienced with my clients, are resolved without litigation because of the huge expense in taking a copyright case to court. The balance of power in these negotiations is definitely on the side of the institution with resources, rather than the individual.
Many genealogists and certainly those involved in blogging, become obsessively possessive of their writing and research. Copyright was originally intended to protect original authors from economic loss due to unauthorized copying of their work. This is still the thrust of copyright, but extensions of the law have ventured into areas that bear little relationship to economics. To some extent, copyright claims have become a burden on society in general, preventing practical and reasonable copying when the author or originator had absolutely no expectation of profit or gain from ownership of the work. Genealogy is a very minor battlefield in these types of issues.
Copyright laws date from a time when writing and publishing were expensive and labor intensive. By and large, the laws have not kept up with technology where anything I publish on the Web can be almost instantly copied around the world and where determination of the originality of a work can be nearly impossible.
Can you claim a copyright to an old photograph or document? I repeat the question in the title and answer, it depends. Of course anyone can make such a claim, but the likelihood of ultimately prevailing, if the document was produced in the United States before 1900, is very close to zero.
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- AnonymousApril 3, 2013 at 3:12 PM
As a lawyer you have made a fundamental mistake in this blog piece that really needs rectifying. As the US like the UK signed the Berne Convention on copyright which extended the original length of copyright of 50 years after the authors death to 75 years therefore the cut off period is not 1923 as you stated. This is also a common misheld belief by lawyers who have no experience of copyright laws. For example if a photographer took a picture when he was 10 years old in 1890 and died at 80 which would make 1960 then the copyright would last until 2035.ReplyDelete
The second error you make is in the mentioning of blanket copyright on websites and the likes. Whilst the suthor may not hold copyright of the works within their website they do hold a copyright based on the layout so therefore you couldnt lift my website and put it on your site without being in breach of copyright.
I await your response


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If you're a pop music fan, this one's a no brainer. For others it might be a little more challenging...
Welcome to Morning Would, where we present you with some of the most desirable, controversial cars ever built and ask what you would do to drive one.
Perhaps you haven't heard the news, but T-Swizzle has moved into the hip-hop game. That's right, in one of her latest singles, she "dropped" a "ref" to "Maser." The first line of "Red" is, "Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street." We'll allow you to drive it down any streets you want, but you'll only have one choice of music. And that choice is Tay Swift.
Now some among us might have a guilty pleasure for pop music. Others aren't even ashamed to say they like it (nor should they be). To others it sounds like nails on a chalkboard. It's all about preference, man. Regardless of your preference, listening to a single artist every time you drive isn't going to be much fun. On the other hand….it's a Maserati.
So which will it be? Can you put up with non-stop T-Swizzle for a T-Rident on the front your car? Be sure to tell us in the comments.
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Did you know that heart disease is the number one killer of American women? In order to raise awareness for heart disease and prevention, today has been deemed National Wear Red Day. Along with the American Heart Association, companies and individuals across the United States will be showing off their red. Here at Filters Fast, many of us came into work ready to paint the town red in our coordinated outfits.
Meet some of the members of the Filters Fast Marketing, Accounting, Purchasing and HR departments:
Some of our awesome customer service team also participated:
Finally, Jennifer represented the Filters Fast Local Service team:
So get out there and don your favorite red sweater, shirt, or dress today and raise awareness about heart disease!


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By DAVID GREEN
Morenci mayor Keith Pennington knew the city put together a good application package in its bid to win funding for a major parking lot project. He just wasn't sure if it was good enough.
He learned Thursday that it was just right.
The Michigan Strategic Fund approved last week the city's Notice of Intent for an Infrastructure Capacity Enhancement (ICE) Grant. Approval will bring nearly $600,000 of Community Development Block Grant funds for a parking lot improvement project that includes the demolition of three buildings.
The city agrees to spend nearly $160,000 on the project. The Downtown Development Authority will kick in an additional $4,000 and the Morenci Area Chamber of Commerce will give $2,000.
"The completed project will address an expensive maintenance issue that Morenci has been staring at for several years," Mayor Pennington said. "It should meet the needs of the south commercial district for decades to come while greatly improving the safety and aesthetics of the area."
The project will rebuild the city's two parking areas south of Main Street and widen the adjacent Baker Street to meet a standard width.
Orchard Street from LaGrange to city hall will also be widened from the existing narrow width. To accomplish this, the house on the northeast corner of Orchard and LaGrange plus the old community center building will be demolished.
The proposal also calls for acquisition, but not demolition, of the car wash property for parking, although the business is now in the process of being repaired for re-opening.
On North Street, the proposal would bring parking and two-way traffic in the alley north of Johnson's Hardware through the demolition of the Dunbar Auction House.
Morenci's share of the project would be paid with money from the sewer and water and street funds. The project would involve curbing and gutters on the widened roads and a new water line.
Concern was expressed last month about the city's expenditure of funds, but Pennington pointed out the project would bring a return of more than 400 percent for every dollar invested. City administrator/clerk Renée Schroeder told council that it's very rare to see state funds available for parking lot projects.
The mayor has hopes of future development in areas that will be served by the new parking surfaces. In the initial planning for the grant application, he spoke of his desire to protect Main Street frontage for commercial purposes.
Pennington thanked city council members last month for working quickly to meet the application deadline—a process that required extra work beyond the normal roles of council.
"I appreciate the work of a forward thinking council that is not satisfied with maintaining what Morenci has been, but is actively pursuing what Morenci could become," the mayor said.
He thanked staff members for the work accomplished and noted that a lot of effort remains for a successful completion of the project.
"Assuming all the paperwork is completed successfully," he said, "we hope to be ready to award bids for construction in July."
A tentative schedule calls for the survey work to begin in the next two weeks and the preparation for property acquisition within the month.
Demolition bids would be advertised in early May and details of the renovation plan would be made final within six weeks.
Final grant approval is expected within 60 days, followed by the acceptance of demolition bids and the advertisement for the construction work.


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From Doreen:
The charge for this team is to design and restructure the main LIS website, which serves the entire Midd community and non-community members with information about our services and resources. The new site will enable the user to easily locate the information they need, be directed to the various service points and resources LIS can provide, and be easily updated and maintained.
Vision Statement Ideas: Doreen
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From Openbox
Welcome to the community maintained documentation for Openbox! Please help out and add your own articles or improve the ones that are already here.
Getting started
The compiling guide details what you need to build the latest version of Openbox, and how to install it correctly.
The upgrading to 3.4 guide walks through all the changes made since version 3.3, and there is a lot of them. Some of them mean new configuration options and features available to you, that you need to update your configuration to access.
This guide to using Openbox in GNOME has instructions for running Openbox in the GNOME desktop environment and getting things to work how you want.
This guide to using Openbox in KDE has instructions for running Openbox in K Desktop Environment.
This guide to using Openbox in XFCE has instructions for running Openbox in the XFCE desktop enviroment.
The details of the default configuration page lists all the default key bindings.
A list of some features found in Openbox.
This guide to using Git shows how to get the latest and greatest Openbox code for testing or developing with.
The Configuration Guide has details on the various options you can set in rc.xml.
ObConf provides a simple interface to configuring much of Openbox.
The autostart guide gives instructions on how to launch programs with Openbox at startup (when not running Openbox inside KDE or GNOME).
The key and mouse bindings guide shows how to bind actions to keys and mouse buttons.
The actions documentation lists all of the actions available for key and mouse bindings and the options which can affect their behavior.
Per-app settings let you set properties such as borderless or omnipresent on specific apps.
A configuration file for focus-follows-mouse. This configuration is similar to the default configuration, but has more suitable mouse bindings for focus-follows-mouse that won't interfere with your windows' stacking order.
A configuration file for vi-styled bindings (by Clay Barnes).
How to use Irssi-style window switching.
The complete theme specification details all of the elements found in an Openbox theme.
Theme file changes in Openbox 3.4.
A tool to help with converting blackbox/fluxbox themes to Openbox themes. (For non-xpm-based themes.)
The menu documentation decribes how to set up your own menus in Openbox.
The actions documentation lists all of the actions available for use in Openbox menus.
Pipe menus are menus that are generated dynamically when you open them. There are a number of pipe menus available for download through here.
Generating an Applications Menu
There are a number of pipe menus that can generate your applications menu from what packages are installed on the system. See this section for a complete list.
Other resources
Many Openbox questions have been answered in forums around the internet. Trying a search may be fruitful.
See Openbox:Community portal for other community resources and related projects.
Cool programs to run with Openbox
Menu Generation
Pipe menus are applications that dynamically generate your Openbox menu. They can provide a dynamic applications menu, system information, amongst other fun things. See here for more information, and to download them.
Panels, Widgets, Desktops, Pagers, etc..
Besides the programs included in GNOME and KDE...
- Avant Window Navigator "(AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list."
- BBDock "BBDock is an application launcher for Blackbox (and others) that allows you to create application buttons in the slit/dock. It works with PNG files rather than XPM images. It supports alpha blending at 16, 24 and 32 bits color-depth. Also, the raise-window function is available to window managers which implement the EWMH specification." (untested. EWMH capable) Tested by CrossWind, Fully operational!
- bbtools "BB-tools are a number of simple X-Window programs to display the status of different resources. The style and part of the code is copied from Blackbox a small and extremely fast X11-Windowmanager."
- bmpanel2 "Nice NETWM-compatible panel for X11."
- conky "Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD."
- fbpanel "fbpanel is a lightweight, NETWM compliant desktop panel. It works with any NETWM compliant window manager (e.g. xfwm4, sawfish, openbox, metacity, kde wm)"
- feh An image viewer with many features.
- flauncher "The project is intendent to replace the common panels (top panel and bottom panel in Gnome). It gives speedup of application management reducing the distance of mouse movements." (An attempt to get the panel functionality into a separate window.)
- gDesklets "gDesklets is a system for bringing mini programs (desklets), such as weather forecasts, news tickers, system information displays, or music player controls, onto your desktop, where they are sitting there in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness. The possibilities are really endless and they are always there to serve you whenever you need them, just one key-press away. The system is not restricted to one desktop environment, but currently works on most of the modern Unix desktops (including GNOME, KDE, Xfce)."
- iDesk "iDesk gives users of minimal wm's (fluxbox, blackbox, openbox, windowmaker...) icons on their desktop. The icon graphics are either from a png or svg (vector) file and support some eyecandy effects like transparency. Each icon can be confgured to run one or more shell commands and the actions which run those commands are completely configurable. In a nutshell if you want icons on your desktop and you don't have or dont't want KDE or gnome doing it, you can use iDesk."
- kooldock "A kool dock for KDE. It attemps to resemble the Mac OSX dock."
- nitrogen "Nitrogen is a background browser and setter for X windows. It is written in C++ using the gtkmm toolkit. It can be used in two modes: browser and recall. Nitrogen has been in development for over 2 years, due to real life and laziness. For more info, check out the features section."
- Oboinus "X11 background previewer and setter."
- ObPager "OBPager is a lightweight pager designed to be used with NetWM-compliant window managers like OpenBox. Unlike many other pagers out there, OBPager has very few dependencies, requiring only Xlib and glibc++ (no Gnome or KDE necessary)."
- perlpanel "PerlPanel is an attempt to build a useable, lean panel program (like Gnome's gnome-panel and KDE's Kicker) in Perl, using GTK 2. It has an object-oriented design for easy customisation and extension, and an applet architecture that means that you can create an applet in a matter of minutes."
- pypanel "PyPanel is a lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C for X11 window managers. It can be easily customized to match any desktop theme or taste. PyPanel works with EWMH compliant WMs (Openbox, PekWM, FVWM, etc.) and is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2."
- PyTyle "PyTyle is a manual tiling manager that can slide into any EWMH compliant window manager, inspired by XMonad. It will allow you to enable/disable tiling on a per screen per workspace basis, and continually tile your windows."
- ROX Desktop "ROX is a fast, user friendly desktop which makes extensive use of drag-and-drop. The interface revolves around the file manager, or filer, following the traditional Unix view that `everything is a file' rather than trying to hide the filesystem beneath start menus, wizards, or druids. The aim is to make a system that is well designed and clearly presented. The ROX style favours using several small programs together instead of creating all-in-one mega-applications."
- Screenlets "Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as "the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk". Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, ... the possibilities are endless."
- Screenpager "Screenpager is a screenwise pager for X workstations running Xinerama. It works like a desktop pager, but acts at the level of screens. Instead of paging the desktop as a whole, it can page each screen independently, or move pages from screen to screen."
- Set Layout A small program to set your desktops into a grid if you do not use a pager.
- stalonetray "Stalonetray is a stand-alone freedesktop.org and KDE system tray (notification area) for X Window System/X11 (e.g. X.Org or XFree86). It has full XEMBED support and minimal dependencies: an X11 lib only. Stalonetray works with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager."
- Super Karamba "SuperKaramba is, in simple terms, a tool that allows you to easily create interactive eye-candy on your KDE desktop."
- SuperSwitcher "SuperSwitcher is a (more feature-ful) replacement for the Alt-Tab window switching behavior and Ctrl-Alt-Left/Right/Up/Down workspace switching behavior that is currently provided by Metacity."
- tint2 panel/taskbar "tint2 is a simple panel/taskbar unintrusive and light (memory / cpu / aestetic)."
- visibility-python "gtk2 x11 pager / window list." (click snapshot to download a .tar.gz)
- wbar "wbar is a quick launch bar. It's developed with speed in mind and is highly tweakable."
- xfce4-panel "The Xfce Panel supports multiple panels, with many options for their position, appearance, transparency and behavior. There are many items available by default to customize your panels, like application launchers with detachable menus, a graphical pager, a tasklist, a clock, a system tray, a show/hide desktop switcher, and even more."
You can find lots of dockapps at dockapps.org. Some nice ones are wmCalClock, wmnd, wmix and wmpinboard.
There are other programs of interest in the Community portal.
Installing Openbox on Foresight Linux
To install the latest version of Openbox on Foresight Linux, from the command line, execute:
sudo conary update openbox obconf obmenu
Here's a nice user-contributed tutorial, which includes advice on setting up your Openbox desktop: Installing Openbox in Foresight Linux
Installing Openbox on PCLinuxOS
To install the latest version of Openbox on PCLinuxOS, from the command line, execute:
apt-get install openbox


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Somewhere in France
May 26, 1918
Dear Mother and Father:
We are finally landed on French soil. After getting into the harbor we stayed on board a couple of days while the other boats were being unloaded. We came off yesterday afternoon and hiked up here to a camp outside of the town. We didn't go through the city itself but went around the edge of it. The boys were delighted with the pretty country and the quaint houses. The houses and trees and flowers are all different from what they have been used to in the States and everything is new and interesting to them. Almost every second house has a sign on it "Commerce de Vins". The soldiers are allowed to have light wines and beer so the stores do a good business. Prices have gone up a great deal since the American soldiers came. The French Soldier makes five cents a day and of course can't spend much out of that. The Yankees are willing to pay any price for what they want so prices go up. That makes it hard on the people who live here.
We are only temporarily located at this camp. The men come here from the ships and stay three or four days and then go on to other destinations. After you are here two or three days you have your turn at taking a bath. The last week on the boat we kept our clothes on all the time so we are about ready for a little scrub. The camp is very old. I doubt whether it has been much in use by the French of late. The barracks are of stone and the whole camp has a high stone wall around it. It is reported that it was built in Napoleon's time and I suspect that is true. There are no lights in the barracks and the water system is crude and inadequate.
There are no French men of military age to be seen, just boys and older men. Even the young women seem to be scarce. Perhaps they go to the cities to work in factories and business houses. The women seem to run the farms and the taverns. The farms are not big, just a little patch and a cow or two.
The people out here in the country have odd costumes. Nearly everybody wears black, those who wear colors look to be fairly well to do. The men wear real broad brimmed hats, seemingly of plush. They have silk ribbon bands on them which dangle down several inches over the ends of the hat. Their pants are big and roomy and their coats very short and tight. The women's dresses are very plain, rather full skirts and close fitting above the waist. Today being Sunday they all had on little white caps. The people here are Bretons, related by race more to the Welsh and Irish than to the French. They seem rugged, perhaps the people in town are different. The soldiers are common to them around here so they don't pay much attention to them.
The first letter I wrote wasn't sent away for some time so I put the second one in with it. I don't expect that I will receive any mail for a long time. We will probably be on the move for some time and it may be hard for mail to find us.
We are all well and in the best of spirits and I hope the same is true of you.
Love from
© Copyright 2014 by Alice Kitchin Enichen, All Rights Reserved. No reproduction without permission.


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Census Resources
How to Order
Use Form Number NATF 82 to order individual pages of Federal population census schedules, 1790-1930, used for genealogical research or as evidence of age and place of birth for employment, social security benefits, insurance, passports and other reasons.
Census Records
What Census information can I get on this web site?
We do not have census records online on the National Archives web site. However, we do have the microfilm catalogs online, which can help prepare you for your visit to the National Archives.
Ancestry.com and Heritagequest.com have digitized many of the Federal Census records. These web sites are subscription-based, but access is free-of-charge and unlimited from any National Archives facility.
An index to current articles, biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline on a variety of topics,
Ancestry Institution is also available at any National Archives facility. Many references include the complete article (full-text). Of particular interest will be the following databases:
Start Your Research of Census Records
Introduction to Census Records
The name of your relative or ancestor, and the state he or she resided in, is enough to get you started searching Census records.
The first Federal Population Census was taken in 1790, and has been taken every ten years since. However, data from recent censuses are not available after 1930 because of a 72-year restriction on access to the Census. Most researchers find it most helpful to begin with the 1930 Census and work backwards to locate people in earlier generations.
The National Archives has the census schedules on microfilm available from 1790 to 1930. (Note: Most of the 1890 Census was destroyed in a Department of Commerce fire, though partial records are available for some states.)
What can the Census tell me?
Census records can provide the building blocks of your research, allowing you to both confirm information, and to learn more.
From 1850 to 1930, details are provided for all individuals in each household, such as:
- names of family members
- their ages at a certain point in time
- their state or country of birth
- their parent's birthplaces
- year of immigration
- street address
- marriage status and years of marriage
- occupation(s)
- value of their home and personal belongings
- the crops that they grew (in agricultural schedules), etc.
Not all of this kind of information is available in every census. Before the 1850 Census, few of these details were recorded. From 1790-1840, only the head of household is listed and the number of household members in selected age groups.
For specifics on what information was collected in each census year, see Availability of Census Records About Individuals
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