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|Nov 27, 2012
Grafoid Inc. and Hydro-Quebec's IREQ to Collaborate on Next Generation LFP-Graphene Batteries
|(Nanowerk News) Focus Graphite Inc. announced that Grafoid Inc. in which Focus Graphite holds a 40% ownership stake has executed a three-year research and development agreement with Hydro-Québecs Research Institute for the development of next generation rechargeable batteries using graphene with lithium iron phosphate materials.
|Focus Graphite President and CEO Gary Economo, who holds the same position with Grafoid, announced the signing of the joint R&D agreement with Dr. Karim Zaghib, Director Storage and Conversion of Energy at Hydro-Québecs research and development division, lInstitut de recherche dHydro-Québec (IREQ).
|The 50-50 collaborative agreement sets out terms with the objective of creating patentable inventions by combining graphene, supplied by Grafoid, with Hydro-Québecs patented lithium iron phosphate technologies.
|Two key, specific commercial target markets the rechargeable automobile battery sectors and batteries for mobile electronic devices used in smartphones, computing tablets and laptop computers were identified in the agreement.
|Hydro-Québec will study Grafoids graphene conductivity, electrochemical performance and its effects in electrode formulations, electrolyte and separator optimizations. Detailed characterizations of Grafoids supplied materials will be undertaken at IREQs cutting edge facilities using its advanced electron microscopy, spectrographic and other in-house technologies.
|Hydro-Québec will also supply lithium iron phosphate materials and its electrochemistry know how which it acquired under license from famed American inventor Dr. John Goodenough.
|Grafoid, in addition to providing graphene materials, brings knowledge acquired during its own development of functionalized graphene and its experience in proving graphenes economic scalability.
|This agreement is noteworthy for numerous reasons, said Mr. Economo.
|This is our first major graphene collaboration with a Quebec and a Canadian global giant in renewable energy research and development. And the source of our graphene is Focus Graphites Lac Knife, Quebec technology graphite deposit.
|Commercially, and ultimately, our technology development partnership with Hydro-Québec aims to produce high capacity, LFP-graphene batteries with ultra short charging times and longer recyclable lifetimes, Mr. Economo said.
|He said the parties chose to focus their collaboration on LFP-graphene batteries and materials because of their short-term-to-market potential.
|About Focus Graphite
|Focus Graphite Inc. is an emerging mid-tier junior mining development company, a technology solutions supplier and a business innovator. Focus is the owner of the Lac Knife graphite deposit located in the Côte-Nord region of northeastern Québec. The Lac Knife project hosts a NI 43-101 compliant Measured and Indicated mineral resource of 4.972 Mt grading 15.7% carbon as crystalline graphite with an additional Inferred mineral resource of 3.000 Mt grading 15.6% crystalline graphite Focus goal is to assume an industry leadership position by becoming a low-cost producer of technology-grade graphite. On October 29th, 2012 the Company released the results of a Preliminary Economic Analysis (PEA) of the Lac Knife project which demonstrates that the project has robust economics and excellent potential to become a profitable producer of graphite. As a technology-oriented enterprise with a view to building long-term, sustainable shareholder value, Focus Graphite is also investing in the development of graphene applications and patents through Grafoid Inc.
|About Grafoid Inc.
|Grafoid, Inc. is a privately held Canadian corporation investing in graphene applications and economically scalable production processes for graphene and graphene derivatives from raw, unprocessed, graphite ore. Focus Graphite Inc., holds a 40% interest in Grafoid Inc.
|About IREQ
|Hydro-Québecs research institute, IREQ, is a global leader in the development of advanced materials for battery manufacturing and creates leading edge processes from its state of the art facilities. IREQ holds more than 100 patent rights and has issued over 40 licenses for battery materials to some of the worlds most successful battery manufacturers and materials suppliers. Its areas of expertise include energy storage and IREQ is a lead partner with private sector companies in Québec to build EV and HEV charging stations in support of its technology developments. Its material development contributions are helping to develop safe, high-performance lithium ion batteries that can be charged more quickly and a greater number of times. IREQ promotes open innovation and partners with private firms, universities, government agencies and research centers in Québec and abroad. Its partnerships allow IREQ to develop, industrialize and market technologies resulting from those innovation projects.
|About Hydro-Québec
|Hydro-Québec is Canadas largest electricity producer among the worlds largest hydroelectric power producers and a public utility that generates, transmits and distributes electricity. Its sole shareholder is the Québec government. It primarily exploits renewable generating options, in particular hydropower, and supports the development of wind energy through purchases from independent power producers. Its research institute, IREQ, conducts R&D in energy efficiency, energy storage and other energy-related fields. Hydro-Québec invests more than $100 million per year in research.
|Source: Focus Graphite (press release)
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- Benedict XVI not stepping down under pressure from 'gay lobby,' Allen says
- Allen: Benedict is a man who prefers the life of the mind to the nuts and bolts of government
- However, he says, much of the pope's time has been spent putting out fires
Editor's note: John L. Allen Jr. is CNN's senior Vatican analyst and senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter.
(CNN) -- Suffice it to say that of all possible storylines to emerge, heading into the election of a new pope, sensational charges of a shadowy "gay lobby" (possibly linked to blackmail), whose occult influence may have been behind the resignation of Benedict XVI, would be right at the bottom of the Vatican's wish list.
Proof of the Vatican's irritation came with a blistering statement Saturday complaining of "unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories," even suggesting the media is trying to influence the papal election.
Two basic questions have to be asked about all this. First, is there really a secret dossier about a network of people inside the Vatican who are linked by their sexual orientation, as Italian newspaper reports have alleged? Second, is this really why Benedict XVI quit?
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The best answers, respectively, are "maybe" and "probably not."
It's a matter of record that at the peak of last year's massive Vatican leaks crisis, Benedict XVI created a commission of three cardinals to investigate the leaks. They submitted an eyes-only report to the pope in mid-December, which has not been made public.
It's impossible to confirm whether that report looked into the possibility that people protecting secrets about their sex lives were involved with the leaks, but frankly, it would be surprising if it didn't.
There are certainly compelling reasons to consider the hypothesis. In 2007, a Vatican official was caught by an Italian TV network on hidden camera arranging a date through a gay-oriented chat room, and then taking the young man back to his Vatican apartment. In 2010, a papal ceremonial officer was caught on a wiretap arranging liaisons through a Nigerian member of a Vatican choir. Both episodes played out in full public view, and gave the Vatican a black eye.
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In that context, it would be a little odd if the cardinals didn't at least consider the possibility that insiders leading a double life might be vulnerable to pressure to betray the pope's confidence. That would apply not just to sex, but also potential conflicts of other sorts too, such as financial interests.
Vatican officials have said Benedict may authorize giving the report to the 116 cardinals who will elect his successor, so they can factor it into their deliberations. The most immediate fallout is that the affair is likely to strengthen the conviction among many cardinals that the next pope has to lead a serious house-cleaning inside the Vatican's bureaucracy.
It seems a stretch, however, to suggest this is the real reason Benedict is leaving. For the most part, one should probably take the pope at his word, that old age and fatigue are the motives for his decision.
That said, it's hard not to suspect that the meltdowns and controversies that have dogged Benedict XVI for the last eight years are in the background of why he's so tired. In 2009, at the height of another frenzy surrounding the lifting of the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying traditionalist bishop, Benedict dispatched a plaintive letter to the bishops of the world, voicing hurt for the way he'd been attacked and apologizing for the Vatican's mishandling of the situation.
Even if Benedict didn't resign because of any specific crisis, including this latest one, such anguish must have taken its toll. Benedict is a teaching pope, a man who prefers the life of the mind to the nuts and bolts of government, yet an enormous share of his time and energy has been consumed trying to put out internal fires.
It's hard to know why Benedict XVI is stepping off the stage, but I doubt it is because of a "gay lobby."
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A 32-year-old Los Angeles man who describes himself as a performer at "the new frontier of broadcast journalism" was charged Tuesday with illegally recording phone calls to professional and college athletic coaches.
Watch: Who Is Kenneth Tarr?
Kenneth Edward Tarr, arrested last week, is scheduled for arraignment Dec. 30. He is charged with a felony count of eavesdropping for allegedly recording phone conversations with the coaches while assuming the identity of representatives from other teams.
California law prohibits recording people without their consent.
Tarr, posing as a team representative, gauged the coaches' interest in managing other teams and, in at least one instance, offered a coach a head coaching position, according to prosecutors. He then posted some of the conversations online, according to investigators.
The victims included coaches from the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, Major League Baseball and university football programs. Tarr contacted University of Hawaii Coach Norm Chow, Minnesota Vikings head coach Leslie Frazier and San Diego Chargers Offensive Coordinator Ken Whisenhunt, NBC News reported, citing sources familiar with the investigation.
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NBC football analyst and former NFL coach Tony Dungy also received a call from Tarr, who offered him the USC head coaching job, NBC News reported. Dungy discussed being contacted about the position during an appearance on "The Dan Patrick Show."
Former Washington head coach Steve Sarkisian accepted the job earlier this month.
In November, Tarr told NBC4's Fred Roggin he contacted Dungy several times and considered himself at "the new frontier of broadcast journalism and sports media and entertainment."
"Most people say they make prank phone calls, I do it," Tarr told Roggin. "I'm better at it than anyone else, and my career momentum is going forward."
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The Small Business Conundrum
Are we in love with the real thing or just the image?
If I were ever to run for office, I'd change my name to Small Business. It's a surefire way to soar in popularity. Everyone would be a champion, and I'd get credit for innovation, embodying the American spirit, keeping small towns alive and friendly, creating jobs and propping up the U.S. economy. I'd also get special tax breaks, government backed loans and relief from many regulations that affect other businesses. And I'd be hailed as the polar opposite of everything Americans hate -- big government, big oil and big banks.
But would I deserve all that adoration? That's a question well worth exploring as politicians -- especially candidates facing the voters next month -- fall all over themselves to prove they are champions of small business. This debate over the role of small business affects a wide range of issues, but right now, it's having a huge impact on the battle over President Obama's plan to let the Bush administration tax cuts expire on top earners -- singles making more than $200,000 a year and couples over $250,000.
The first question is how you define small business, a question muddled by the fact that most definitions have an incredibly wide range. That's why Republicans can justify claims that President Obama's plan would be a huge, job-killing tax that would affect half of small business income while Democrats can justify claims that fewer than 3% of small businesses would be affected.
Definitions can start with some measure of consensus. I think we all agree that the local independent grocer or hardware store owner or baker selling cupcakes out of his kitchen would clearly qualify. But the definition used by the government and many politicians includes much bigger companies. The Small Business Administration's research on smalls, for example, includes any company with up to 500 employees. And the IRS counts as small business income anything that is reported on a Schedule C.
In fact, though, a lot of that income is generated by very large firms that are partnerships or S corporations, which pass through their profits to owners, partners and others, who then report the income on Schedule C. Filers include physicians, lawyers, lobbyists, consultants, architects and the like who make hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. They also include hedge fund managers, who make tens of millions. Economics professor Richard Thaler pointed out in a recent New York Times column that until Goldman Sachs went public, it, too, was an S corporation.
Also part of the small business income total is the money that salaried folks make in freelance or consulting fees on the side, the income that goes to a member of a business-owning family who has no role in managing that business and any money made by people with profitable hobbies. Not many of these people are actually responsible for creating jobs or for innovation.
It's also wrong to imply that these and other high-income earners would get no tax break under Obama's plan. The president only wants to raise the marginal tax rate -- the rate applied to incomes over the $250,000 limit. There would still be a tax cut on the first $250,000 in income no matter what the total.
All of this brings us back to the basic question: Should tax rates on top earners go up if it would mean an increase for even a small number of small businesses with high profits? Would it be a job killer?
Every manager is different, with a different mindset and different priorities, and it's foolish to generalize. Certainly higher taxes may mean less spending by high incomers, but few economists believe it will lead to fewer jobs. As Leonard Burman, a professor at Syracuse University, told CQ recently, "If you can hire someone and you can make another dollar, that's worth doing, whether you get to keep 60 cents of the dollar or 65 cents."
But higher taxes could be a significant drag on business owners trying to save for investment. Those folks would clearly have a smaller share of profits to put aside for growth, and that's a real issue, especially if credit is tight. Unfortunately, few people running for Congress are talking about that or seriously trying to parse this complex issue, presumably because it's too hard to explain in a 20-second sound bite.


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A.V. Club head writer and hip-hop specialist Nathan Rabin recently decided to spend a year or two immersing himself in the canon of country music, a genre he knew little about, but was keen to explore. The result: "Nashville Or Bust," a series of essays about seminal country artists. After 52 entries, Rabin plans to travel south and explore some of country music's most hallowed landmarks and institutions.
In previous columns I have written about how country's iron songbirds of the '50s, '60s, and '70s were forced by the attitudes of the time and the conventions of the genre to adopt a series of socially acceptable personas, like the cheated-on wife, the fierce protector of the domestic front, the other woman, or the lovesick brooder pining for the one that got away. The subject matter of their songs was circumscribed by the same restrictions that governed their lives. A male country singer could do as he damn well pleased, and, as the lives of Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Gram Parsons, and countless other blazing comets of epic self-destruction illustrate, they took full advantage of that privilege. But the women of country had to behave according to the dictates of an often sexist and conservative country world.
As strong as Tammy Wynette, Kitty Wells, and Loretta Lynn were, they were defined, in their early albums at least, by their relationships with men. The same cannot be said of Patsy Cline. In a genre that all too often resembled a tinny Western on a black-and-white television, Cline sang in Technicolor. Her voice alone—a deep, rich, lustrous marvel of velvet and stardust—seemed to push her into a much bigger, bolder world than the domestic prison that trapped so many of Cline's peers and predecessors.
Cline's was the voice of experience: sensual, romantic, knowing, and wise. It demanded to be treated with respect, if not reverence. It was a voice almost too big for country. Though she never thought of herself as anything other than a country singer, Cline's seminal songs and albums have the slickness and polish of pop and the sophistication and emotional complexity of jazz. The icon's recording career was extraordinarily brief. In her lifetime she only released three albums: her self-titled 1957 debut, 1961's Patsy Cline Showcase, and 1962's Sentimentally Yours. Cline died in 1963 at age 30, yet she didn't need more than a few years to change country and pop music forever.
Cline wasn't the first female superstar but she may very well have been the first to be treated with the respect afforded a male star. Before Cline demanded big paydays, top billing, and creative input—if not quite creative control—on her albums, female country singers were accustomed to being treated like second-class citizens. They were often given condescending stage introductions like, "Here's a little filly whose husband very generously let her do her chores early so she could sing a number for you before she has to race back home and put the little ones to bed." But when Cline toured with Johnny Cash in 1962, playing venues like The Hollywood Bowl, he introduced her with the words "the one and only Patsy Cline."
Cline took country places it had never been before, but she shares the modest, hardscrabble roots of so many of her peers. She dropped out of high school and got married at 21 to a much older man who resented her success. Yet Cline had the kind of voice and talent that could not be ignored, and in 1955 she signed to Four Star Records. The singer's ascent to glory kicked off when she sang "Walkin' After Midnight" on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, a popular television talent show. Cline was used to performing in homemade cowgirl Western wear her mother made her, but for her big national television appearance she sported a cocktail dress that sent an unmistakable signal that she wasn't about to be hemmed in by the confines of country.
On "Walkin' After Midnight," Cline follows the old dictum to sing a happy song sad and a sad song happy. There isn't a lot of levity to lyrics about a woman searching desperately for a lost love in pools of mocking moonlight, but Cline delivers sorrowful lyrics about spotting a "weeping willow crying on his pillow" with a light, bemused touch. Here and elsewhere, Cline finds a paradoxical strength in conceding weakness: She'll ache and brood and bleed but she will survive. In her music, Cline always survives. In life, she became country's preeminent female martyr.
As The Simpsons taught us, there's nothing funny about a clown getting hit in the face with a pie. No, in order for the gag to work, the pie has to humiliate someone with real gravitas and dignity—think a pre-corruption Sideshow Bob. On a similar note, "Crazy" and "I Fall To Pieces," two of Cline's signature songs, derive their awesome visceral power not from Cline's weakness but from her strength, from listening to a singer in total control of her gifts sing about losing control, of giving in to sadness and despair and hopelessness.
On "I Fall To Pieces," Cline reaches beyond honky-tonk heartbreak toward an operatic effect. Cline was playing in a different league now. Her peers were less the guitar-slinging cowboys at the local club than Frank Sinatra singing a torch song in hushed tones or Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall. Cline was embraced not as a great country singer but as a great singer whose medium happened to be country.
In one of those stories that seems just a little too good to be true, Cline reportedly hated "Crazy" the first time she heard it, perhaps because of the strange, singular delivery of the up-and-coming songwriter who wrote it and sang on the demo track, a young man named Willie Nelson. Cline would have been foolish to mimic Nelson, since nobody sings like Nelson, just as nobody sang like Cline. But the singer eventually found a way to make "Crazy" her own. Nelson's version of "Crazy" is a sad, intimate lament, a low moan of world-weary lovesickness. Cline, in sharp contrast, turns it into an epic howl of heartbreak, 10 times bigger and more dramatic than life.
When Cline left Four Star Records for Decca, famed producer Owen Bradley decided to give her albums a sound as big as her voice. Bradley gave her what would become known as the Nashville Sound: big symphony, big strings, and lots of big back-up vocals from the Jordanaires. Country's reliance on the Nashville Sound—which later morphed into the equally slick, equally pop and crossover-friendly "Countrypolitan" sound—played havoc with the outlaw sensibilities of folks like Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, but it proved a godsend to artists like Eddy Arnold, Ray Charles (on Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music), and Cline.
Cline didn't just have the vocal and interpretive chops to compete in the Darwinian realm of pop music; she had the vocal chops to dominate pop. She was no mere singer; she was a crooner who knew how to make sweet love to a microphone and tenderly massage a lyric. "Walkin' After Midnight," "I Fall To Pieces," and "Crazy" dominated both the pop and country charts. With that in mind, Bradley set out to capture the pop market with Sentimentally Yours. The album begins with "She's Got You," a haunting ballad of love lost. "Heartaches," a rendition of a popular standard published in 1931, gives heartbreak a cha-cha-cha rhythm and continental swing. Cline proves equally adept covering Hank Williams ("Your Cheatin' Heart" and "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)," as well as "Half As Much," which was originally recorded by Williams) and standards like "That's My Desire" and "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)." Though it doesn't appear on Sentimentally Yours, Cline also recorded a transcendent version of "Lovesick Blues" that, at the risk of being heretical, I prefer to the original.
Sentimentally Yours offers a vivid snapshot of both where Cline was at the time of its recording and where she was headed. Alas, Cline's time was running out. After surviving two car accidents that left her keenly attuned to her own mortality, Cline died in a plane crash less than a year after Sentimentally Yours' release.
Cline was by all accounts a wonderful human being in addition to being a great artist: She was renowned for her friendliness, generosity, good humor, and loyalty. Yet dying young proved essential to the singer's ever-growing cult and legend. God only knows what Cline would have done if she were still alive today. Would she be covering Cole Porter or Roger Miller? Would she mentor obsessive fan k.d. lang (whose back-up band was called The Re-Clines in homage to her favorite singer) the way she did Loretta Lynn? Would she collaborate with outlaws and renegades, like Lynn did with Jack White on Van Lear Rose, or would she have devoted her life to Christianity and turned her back on secular music?
We will never know. Cline remains frozen in time, stuck forever in a singularly intriguing, important moment of her life and career. In 1973 she became the first woman inducted into the Country Hall Of Fame. Glamour girls like Beverley D'Angelo (in Coal Miner's Daughter) and Jessica Lange (in the 1985 biopic Sweet Dreams) have played her onscreen. The hits didn't stop coming after her death; since 1963, nine of her posthumous singles have hit the country charts, most notably "Sweet Dreams," which hit No. 5.
Cline made such a profound impact on Nashville that when it comes to the tangled, complicated, and tragic history of women in country, it makes sense to divide the 20th century into two discreet eras: pre-Cline and post-Cline. Dying a premature death made her a martyr and a legend, but it didn't make her a star; her undeniable voice and indomitable personality did.
Up next on Nashville or Bust:
Buck Owens
Johnny Paycheck
The Eagles
Shania Twain
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Wireless network connection is available in every hall. All rooms have Ethernet wall jacks (an Ethernet cord is provided to students their first year at CSB).
There are computer labs and laundry facilities in each Residence Hall. Laundry rooms include an ironing board and drying rack.
Bed lofts, televisions and small refrigerators (5 cubic feet or less) are allowed in the residence hall rooms but are not included. Bed lofts may be rented through the www.Bedloft.com.
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First things first: I realize that no matter what I say about this movie, the Twi-hards are going to go see it. So if you fall into that category, go. I'm sure you'll love it (and you already got your tickets a month ago anyway), though I did hear quite a number of not-so-young ladies at the screening I attended complaining about the distinct lack of Edward (and Robert Pattinson's hair) in this film. But I'm guessing that most Twi-hards have read the books and are aware that this is the Jacob-centric installment. However, for the rest of the world that reads on here, be warned that spoilers abound.
On the plus side, I found New Moon marginally better than Twilight, so that's something, right? I understand this whole phenomenon and why these films are popular and whatnot, but let's just say there's not a whole a lot of subtlety involved here. Everything is broadcast a mile away; every line is delivered in the most earnest and cheesy way possible. It's fine to appeal to fans that aren't looking for much complexity in their vampire-themed love triangles, but does the actual presentation have to come across as this silly?
At certain moments, it even seems like everyone involved is in on the joke, which is actually refreshing and allows the movie to occasionally work in a campy sort of way. But when it's trying to be serious? Man, it's rough. I wish I was just joking for the sake of joking, but at one point there are disembodied ghost Edwards floating around. How can we take that seriously? Even the opening credits, with big drums pounding as a moon goes through its phases to reveal the title, was laughable.
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The new film picks up shortly after the last one. Edward (Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) are trying go about their high school lives, even though she's having panicky nightmares about the fact that she's getting old and will eventually be a crinkly grandmother while he still looks 17 and beautiful. It's all tied to the fact that her 18th birthday is imminent and that Edward staunchly refuses to turn her into a vampire.
While she desperately tries to avoid the big day, people insist on showering her with gifts, which she's all ungrateful and annoying about. She even puts up a fight when the kindly Cullen family of vampires throw her a party. Admittedly, she had a right to be skeptical about that, since a paper cut tempts Jasper's (Jackson Rathbone) bloodlust and she ends up getting tossed across the room like a rag doll. Not the way most teens would choose to spend their birthday. This whole scenario (and a lot of talk about souls or lack thereof) leads Edward to ditch her. In fact, the entire family decides to pack up to leave. So naturally Bella sinks into a funk and just sits in her chair for months before finally going out with her hysterically entertaining human friend Jessica (Anna Kendrick). Bella then realizes that Edward still invades her mind when she does reckless things.
She buys some beat up old bikes and visits her friend Jacob (Taylor Lautner) down at the La Push reservation. They flirt and rebuild motorcycles as he grows from a skinny kid into a beefy muscle-bound 16-year-old, while she tries to find new ways to cheat death. After a disastrous evening at the movies, in which Jacob tries to hit on Bella and she tells him that she's broken, he disappears for a while. But when dreadlocked vamp Laurent (Edi Gathegi) tries to kill her, a wolf pack appears out of nowhere and rescues her. It turns out that the giant wolves are Jacob and his pals. They are werewolves, and their leader once got angry and clawed his girlfriend's face by accident. So Jacob's been hiding out to protect Bella from a similar fate. Wow, she just has the best taste in guys, doesn't she?
Through a series of ridiculous events, Bella ends up /attempting suicide by cliff-diving, having a run-in with her nemesis Victoria, taking an impromptu trip to Italy and snuggling with her werewolf friend before she ends up reunited with her one true undead love. I know that sounds like a massive spoiler, but 1) it is a love story, 2) this is pretty close to the books and 3) all those crazy RPattz fans need to assured that while he is missing (or a floating head) for 75 percent of the movie, he does eventually return. Have faith.
For all the talk about a new director coming on board for New Moon, I'm not sure it resulted in a vast improvement. Chris Weitz seems obsessed with shooting people from odd angles in order to force perspective: shooting down on Bella to make her look small; shooting up on Jacob to make him look bigger; shooting Edward in such a way that his jaw just looks peculiar. And the spinning. Oh, there is so much spinning. From the scene showing how Bella broods for months, in which the camera just circles her for five minutes, to the fight scenes that are just dizzying and hard to follow (especially the one between the wolves and Victoria), the camera work is shaky throughout. If I ever see the movie again, I'll have to take some Dramamine first. As for the wolves... wow, that's some truly bad CGI. They are laughably big when they first appear and so cartoonish that you start longing for Underworld. And I was hopeful that they would have found a way to make the sparkles more convincing this time around, but... that was not to be.
Granted, there are some decent elements to the film: The scene in Italy with Bella running through a town filled with red-cloaked revelers is stunning. Rachelle Lefevre (who got canned after this film) looks fabulous running through the woods with her enormous red hair flowing as she stops along the way to kick some butt. She doesn't actually have to do much acting -- I don't think she says a single word of dialogue -- but she looks fantastic. And while I still don't think that Nikki Reed is cast properly for her gorgeous vamp Rosalie, she only has maybe three lines in the film. And Elisabeth Reaser talks even less. So that's a bonus. I'd mention Dakota Fanning, in her highly hyped role, but her part amounts to little more than an extended cameo in which she looks pissed off and constipated. If that's what they were going for, she excelled.
As for the leads, while Stewart does this weird shaking thing any time she's trying to be upset (or maybe she was just cold on set), she's actually better here than she was in Twilight. She looks great, her hair is super shiny and she seems to have more of a sense of humor about things. Pattinson is... just what he is. I don't particularly get his appeal, but he's fine, though he makes some truly odd choices like not looking at people when he talks to them or staring directly at them so intensely that it's uncomfortable to watch. It might suit the character, but it comes off as weird.
Finally as for Lautner, while I admire the work he did to physically transform himself, I'd have been far more appreciative if he had taken an acting class or two between films. He's perfectly okay as the sweet puppy dog who follows Bella around, or when he's being goofy and hanging with his friends. But when he's tasked to appear intense or serious, it just doesn't work at all and that's a major issue since much of this film rests on his newly filled out shoulders.
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Police received a call about 6:30 p.m. reporting a pedestrian being struck by a motor vehicle in the area of 45 Lake Park Way. When officers arrived, they found Christine Zbikowski of 194 Dewey St., Worcester, had been struck and was in very serious condition.
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Written on the reverse side of this photo, taken about 1950, is "This is the house we lived in – Traverse City, Mich. 40 years later." The lady standing in front of the house is my grandmother, Hazlette Brubaker Phend.
This week I had the opportunity to pay a brief visit to the house...
The house at 838 State Street as it appeared on July 27, 2011. The perspective isn't exactly the same but it appears to be the same house as in the previous photo. The front porch has been removed and the roof has been extended over the side porch. And the trees have gotten bigger. And there are more houses in the neighborhood.
The side view.
The red "A" marks the location of 838 State Street, Traverse City, Michigan.
The big purple blob on the right marks the location of Traverse City State Park where I spent the night. The little blue blob is at 838 State Street. I was at a McDonald's on the corner of Front and Hope Street (a block west and north of 838 State Street) when I learned exactly where the house was located!
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Feel full on fewer calories? It might sound like another gimmick for weight loss, but it's not. The concept of energy density really can help with weight loss. In fact, well-planned weight-loss diets, such as the Mayo Clinic Diet, use the concept of energy density to help you lose weight and keep it off long term.
Weight loss with more food, fewer calories
Simply put, energy density is the number of calories (energy) in a specific amount of food. High energy density means that there are a lot of calories in a little food. Low energy density means there are few calories in a lot of food.
When you're striving for weight loss, the goal is to eat low-energy-dense foods. That is, you want to eat a greater volume of food that's lower in calories. This helps you feel fuller on fewer calories. Here's a quick example with raisins and grapes. Raisins have a high energy density -- 1 cup of raisins has about 434 calories. Grapes have a low energy density -- 1 cup of grapes has about 82 calories.
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Three main factors play a role in what makes food high or low in energy density:
- Water. Fruits and vegetables are generally high in water content, which provides volume and weight but not calories. That's why they're low-energy-dense foods. Grapefruit, for example, is about 90 percent water. Half a grapefruit has just 37 calories. Raw, fresh carrots are about 88 percent water. A medium carrot has only about 25 calories.
- Fiber. High-fiber foods not only provide volume, but also take longer to digest, making you feel full longer on fewer calories. Vegetables, fruits and whole grains all contain fiber. Popcorn is a good example of a high-volume, low-calorie whole grain. One cup of air-popped popcorn has about 30 calories.
- Fat. Fat is high in energy density. One pat of butter, for example, contains almost the same number of calories as 2 cups of raw broccoli. Foods that contain fat naturally, such as dairy products and various meats, or foods with added fats are higher in calories than are their leaner or lower fat counterparts.
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Elementary Students Manage Each Other's Conflicts
Important lessons help children deal with peer conflict, and can build a solid foundation for coping throughout life, resulting in greater happiness.
Today's child is often rife with pressures, increased responsibility, and over-scheduling. Coupled with the normal growing-up issues, even kids under the age of 10 can face their unfair share of conflict with peers, parents, and teachers. Some elementary school counselors see a growing need for conflict resolution and mediation skills, and are effectively teaching it.
The Benefits of Conflict Management are Multi-Layered
The Second Step program from the Committee of Children, a non-profit organization that develops and publishes programs and curricula about social skills and related issues for children, uses the following five steps for social problem solving:
• identify the problem and listen to each side without judgement or interruptions
• brainstorm possible solutions
• evaluate each solution
• select, plan, and try the solution
• evaluate whether the solution worked and switch to another solution if needed
When children studying mediation have demonstrated proficiency in these steps, a number of important factors are at work. Patience, understanding, communication, and problem solving skills not only mitigate the current "crisis," but take root in students who are then better at coping throughout life.
Some elementary schools prepare fourth and fifth graders as peer mediators, who, upon completion of the series, don special "Conflict Mediator" badges during recess and are the go-to people before involving an adult. Working out problems this way bolsters the confidence of the mediators while practicing skills, helps the younger students feel their cause is worthy enough to be heard by students who normally ignore them, and relieves recess teachers of dealing with time-consuming, usually petty issues.
Elementary age is the perfect time to start learning coping tools. Identifying feelings at an early age takes practice. As does knowing how to respond instead of react. By the tween or teen years, kids are better able to overcome challenges if they have had the opportunity to develop these skills. The skills are learned behaviors. Children are often relieved when they realize that how they choose to handle difficult situations is just that – a choice.
Cope and be Happy
Coping skills can summarily result in better health and greater happiness. Adults with interpersonal or professional conflicts often become depressed, color their world in that dark hue, and may (hopefully) seek therapy. But the coping skills that could have been learned as a child can pinpoint troubles. Now they are viewed as singular experiences rather than overall gloom, they are much easier to handle.
Successful coping can boost confidence and eventually extend to a rosier outlook altogether. A series of small successes sets a foundation for tackling larger issues. If begun at an early age, most people will have a strong set of tools by adulthood, in turn leading to less stress and a happier mentality.
A Young Generation of Peacemakers
Kids have a lot on their plates these days. Providing them with conflict management strategies to find peaceful solutions is a lasting tool for empowerment, relationship building, and health.
Source: Committee for Children Website. Second Step Program.
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In the mid-1990s, Kansas City was rocked by a wave of public-corruption prosecutions involving elected city officials. In response to community outrage, Mayor Emanuel Cleaver appointed a group of business and community leaders to look into contracting procedures at city hall. This group was known as "the Red Flag Commission" and I, as the city auditor, was among those appointed by the mayor to serve as its staff. Among the commission's final recommendations was one I had pushed for: establishment of "a required and annual ethics training program which focuses on realistic scenarios for all staff."
It wasn't the only time I recommended ethics training for all city employees. I had done so two years earlier, in 1995, and I did so again in 1998 in an audit following up on implementation of the Red Flag Commission's report. Finally it happened, and since I was a city employee, eventually I found myself sitting in ethics training.
I thought it was dumb. Some of the stuff was interesting, and maybe the preaching would save a few souls. But most of it seemed to trivialize ethics. There seemed to be a mismatch between the serious crimes that had occurred and the response. It was as if ordinary city employees were being admonished not to take a city-provided pen home and that showing up for work five minutes late was a theft of time. In seeking to catch sharks, it seemed to me, we had set our nets for minnows. Certainly there is a place for ethics training, but it will not do the work of a reasonable set of internal controls, and everything is off the table without good leadership.
This story about the aftermath of the scandals in Kansas City was brought to my mind by a recent article in the Washington Post reporting that the president's Office of Government Ethics had given a clean bill of health to the General Services Administration's ethics program just days after the now-infamous 2010 Las Vegas conference. The article's implication was is that the scandal occurred because GSA's ethics program was in fact no good.
Certainly the Las Vegas conference was over the top. The spending was outrageous, and GSA's inspector general subsequently issued a scathing report on waste and abuse related to the event. But did rank-and-file GSA employees who attended the conference behave unethically? Frankly, I think not. They were told or given permission to attend, and I don't see what they would have learned from an ethics-training program that would have enabled them to stop what occurred. Clearly the top administrators who planned and carried out the conference were at fault, and several have been fired or forced to resign. Would a well-designed ethics program have deterred these managers? I doubt it, and the fact that they did what they did is irrelevant to the question of whether GSA's ethics program was "effectively administered and in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies," as the Office of Government Ethics concluded.
Experienced auditors in both government and the private sector will tell you that the real ethics damage in an organization is done, as it was in Kansas City and at GSA, not by frontline workers but by high-level officials. Ambitious people in positions of power and privilege who are determined to exploit their positions are not going to be dissuaded by an ethics-training program. Regular auditing and reporting, along with effective transparency, are reasonable deterrents, but in the end the risk of abuse is always present.
The Red Flag Commission seemed to understand that, describing its recommendations as intended to at least minimize inappropriate or illegal activity and maximize the likelihood of exposure when such behavior does occur. As the commission concluded, "No system can provide a perfect defense against human cupidity."


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A few weeks ago, we ran the idea of having Zusterke (of PlusHeal fame) do a post outlining the actual math part of regen to answer all of your priesty questions. Thankfully, since the Snark Mavens do very little in the way of hardcore mathcraft, he said yes. This is the final part of his results.
Some Considerations for Holy Spirits
We've seen that the optimal ratio turns around 600 spirit for 1300 intellect. But we have also seen that we can easily take 200 spirit or intellect more and keep a fairly balanced score. This gives us some room to tailor our regen stats to our likings, without risking a severe penalty in our regen. So let us examine the factors that impact our balance:
- Lowered FSR: Some fights have phases and breaks in the healing. This can increase the value of spirit notably (say, 800 spi v 1400 int).
- Higher FSR: hard fights can be very demanding and rip away that chance on a regen break, decreasing the value of spirit and changing the ratio a few points in favor of intellect. But such fights also diminish your chance on a hymn of hope or it can make relying on Replenishment, shadowfiend etc more risky. In short: our balance favors more intellect but a healthy spirit basis becomes ever more important.
- Higher Crit: if you like a lot of crit, then you may score higher uptimes for holy concentration. This can easily up your HC time by 20% and really give spirit a push.
- Single target spam: if you spam a lot more single target heals, you will have more chance to proc holy concentration and up your spirit regen notably.
- Raid synergy: some raiding guilds really try to min max their raid groups. This means you really rely on some of your manabar based regen effects!
- Hymn of Hope + Shadowfiend: if you have the chance to use both together, do it! The 20% increase of your max mana effectively increases the performance of your shadowfiend by 20%. This tips the balance a bit in favor of intellect. But a fight that can allows such a break is likely to have a lowered FSR time.
- Shadowfiend + Bloodlust/Heroism: Bloodlust increases the haste of your fiend, giving more hits and thus more mana. This is a superb way to make your intellect count!
- Hymn of Hope + Replenishment: the increase of yout max mana increases the effect of your Replenishment. This favors stacking a bit more intellect.
- Spirit as backbone: when problems come your way, spirit will be your savior. When your group is sub optimal, your cooldowns got burned too early (or messed up!), or the guy providing replenishment bubble hearthstone's out of Patchwerk, your intellect based regen drops like a stone. Intellect gives great synergy with the group, but that makes the group its lifelink. Having a healthy base of spirit can back you up under those odd circumstances.
There are probably a dozen more considerations that could manipulate the balance between intellect and spirit but I think I summed most of them here. Feel free to comment on more ideas!
It's been a long post but I think we've reached some interesting conclusions for both the holy and discipline priest.
Discipline priests still gain the most out of intellect. In fact, it is unlikely that spirit will ever catch up with intellect as regen stat. Still, spirit beats mp5 for discipline priests with more than 1.1K intellect, which is definitely an eye opener for some!
Holy priests can still stack spirit and intellect with to a 6:13 or 8:13 ratio in favor of intellect and do just fine. Having more spirit will provide a great backbone in your regen model (and SP bonus!), but having more intellect will do great in min maxed raids. In fact, the optimal ratio has a couple of hundred points of leeway. With the current itemization in 3.1, I recommend going for intellect+spirit gear and gemming for intellect whenever you need more regen! I'm still a big fan of a healthy spirit basis, but intellect is definitely our biggest regen stat for now.
Whew! Y'all still there? Thank you all for your patience in this really awesome discussion. And again, huge thanks to Zusterke for putting it together for us. I hope this was helpful to all of you (I know I learned a lot!) And remember: if you'd like to continue discussion on this, consider heading to PlusHeal and opening it up to the community at large!


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Sequestration cuts trim funds for Sagamore Hill, Fire Island
Long Island's two National Park Service sites are cutting back on staffing, hours and services to make up for mandatory federal spending cuts.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site and Fire Island National Seashore have to cut their spending for the rest of the year to make up the 5 percent 2013 budget cut known as "sequestration."
Officials plan to keep Sagamore Hill on its winter schedule of closing buildings, but not the grounds, two days a week through the summer instead of opening seven days. The park is also slated to close on federal holidays -- including Memorial Day and July Fourth. In the past, the site has held special programs on those days.
And most special programs on the Cove Neck property are expected to be canceled, along with all off-site programs including guided tours of downtown Oyster Bay.
Fire Island National Seashore plans to reduce hiring, reduce lifeguard use, and close visitor centers two days a week.
Sagamore Hill took a $76,000 hit from its $1.5-million budget. Superintendent Thomas Ross said the reduction will mean furloughing three full-time employees in visitor and curatorial services for two weeks, not hiring three seasonal employees, and reducing work hours for all seasonal employees. The buildings are slated to open Wednesday through Sunday from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
Spending for grounds maintenance, equipment, travel and training also is to be cut.
Ross said officials foresee no impact on the $7.2-million restoration of Theodore Roosevelt's mansion that started at the end of 2011 and is to continue until at least late 2014.
"It [sequestration] will impact our ability to serve the public as we have in the past," Ross said. But he added that "our rangers will be providing tours on site. And we'll do the best we can with the funds we have to continue carrying out our core mission, which is to serve the public and preserve and protect our resources."
Ross said the park had already taken a $40,000 budget cut because the closed main house no longer collects $5 tour fees, a portion of which would have covered the cost of some of the park's permanent and seasonal staff.
That loss combined with the sequester cuts "represents 8 percent of our previous budget," Ross said. "That's a considerable amount."
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City Council chambers overflowed with largely critical citizens at the APD meeting last night.
Three APD substations were vandalized last night.
The DOJ will announce its findings about APD and patterns of excessive/lethal force tomorrow at 10:00 am.
There is a new Rail Runner stop.
Bob Geldof's hard-partying daughter, Peaches Geldof, died suddenly and inexplicably.
Do you know about "boyfriend twins"?
.... How about "nipple shields for men"?
What do you know about the old TV show ALF?
Malaysian Flight 370 is in really deep water.
Time for a Chupacabra roundup.
40 percent of Americans couldn't raise 2,000 dollars if their lives depended on it.
Since the Snowden leaks, the NSA has seen a huge increase in Freedom of Information Act requests.
Dopers in South Africa are smoking a combo of weed, rat poison, opium and an anti-retroviral drug (AKA HIV meds).
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Kid Hits Himself in the Face with YoYo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgZe6G7wGA
Sledder Towed by Bike Takes out Little Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56WpsilAoAA
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Clothes For Kids With Food Allergies
Please Don't Feed Me! 8 Accessories For Tots With Food Allergies
Please Don't Feed Me! 8 Accessories For Tots With Food Allergies
Despite Groupon's recent failed attempt at tongue-in-cheek humor concerning kids with peanut allergies, parents of tots with severe, sometimes life-threatening allergies to certain foods know there's nothing funny about a toddler's throat closing up.
According to FAAN, The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, over 15 million people in the US have food allergies. Two percent of the population is allergic to peanuts and nuts — almost all having experienced onset as toddlers. At an age when they're too young to fully understand or communicate the nature of their allergies, playgrounds, snacktimes, family picnics, and other generally fun-filled events can feel like a dangerous minefield for concerned parents.
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Kurt Nimmo
May 6, 2011
The Federal Reserve designed 2008 economic takedown is now claiming millions of victims. It is eroding the middle class and slowly turning the United States into a second rank country working its way toward third world status.
In June of 2009, the government announced the economy had entered a recovery after a historical looting by a cartel of international banksters led by the Fed and the Treasury.
It's turns out to be a McRecovery.
The Labor Department announced today the private sector has created jobs at the fastest pace since 2006. "Nonfarm payrolls rose 244,000 last month, the most in 11 months, the Labor Department said on Friday. The private sector accounted for all of the job gains last month, with payrolls rising 268,000, the largest rise since February 2006," reports CNBC.
According to the data, McDonald's was responsible for the modest gain. "McDonald's and its franchisees hired 62,000 people in the United States after receiving more than 1 million applications," the Star Tribune reports.
Employment at service-providers rose 200,000 in April after a 184,000 gain the prior month, according to Bloomberg.
Service providers like McDonald's, not decent paying factory or even office jobs. Factory jobs were long ago exported to slave labor gulags in China and Asia. India now absorbs everything from programming and engineering jobs to telemarketing and customer service.
Burger flipping represents economic growth for Bernanke and the Federal Reserve. "The labor market is improving gradually," Bernanke told reporters during the first-ever press conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting. "We would like to make sure that that is sustainable. The longer it goes on, the more confident we are."
From The Daily Ticker:
— There are 8.5 million people receiving unemployment insurance and over 40 million receiving food stamps.
— At the current pace of job creation, the economy won't return to full employment until 2018.
— Middle-income jobs are disappearing from the economy. The share of middle-income jobs in the United States has fallen from 52% in 1980 to 42% in 2010.
— Middle-income jobs have been replaced by low-income jobs, which now make up 41% of total employment.
— 17 million Americans with college degrees are doing jobs that require less than the skill levels associated with a bachelor's degree.
— Over the past year, nominal wages grew only 1.7% while all consumer prices, including food and energy, increased by 2.7%.
— Wages and salaries have fallen from 60% of personal income in 1980 to 51% in 2010. Government transfers have risen from 11.7% of personal income in 1980 to 18.4% in 2010, a post-war high.
High unemployment and the restructuring of the labor market under corporatist globalism have eroded middle-class incomes after decades of stagnation, explains the New America Foundation. Meanwhile, the cost of health care, education, and other essential middle-class goods have increased, consuming a larger share of household income and driving millions to the poor house.
None of this is a mistake or the result of government incompetence. Since its inception in 1913, the Federal Reserve has slowly but methodically destroyed the American middle class by printing money and deliberately creating inflation.
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"Since the creation of the Federal Reserve, middle and working-class Americans have been victimized by a boom-and-bust monetary policy. In addition, most Americans have suffered a steadily eroding purchasing power because of the Federal Reserve's inflationary policies. This represents a real, if hidden, tax imposed on the American people," Ron Paul notes. "The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial 'boom' followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts."
Despite the addition of McJobs reported today, the economy continued its slow decline. "The Labor Department reported the jobless rate climbed to 9.0 percent in April from 8.8 percent in March and 244,000 nonfarm jobs were added to the world's largest economy," reports AFP.
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9.0 percent, of course, is way off the mark. According to the SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate based on alternate data, the real unemployment rate is well over 20 percent and closing in on Great Depression era levels.
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News Articles
By: Angela Greiling Keane
Overshadowed by a political battle over year-end tax increases and spending cuts known as the fiscal cliff, the U.S. Postal Service could run out of money to deliver mail next year unless President Barack Obama and Congress act.
The service, whose 530,000 employees are more than at any U.S.-based publicly traded company other than Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), has exhausted its borrowing authority, defaulted on more than $11 billion of payments to the U.S. Treasury and is operating on cash it generates from selling stamps and package- delivery services.
After streamlining delivery routes and cutting work hours, it's running out of money-saving tricks it can use without congressional approval. House and Senate proposals differ on whether to let the service eliminate one day of mail delivery and on how easy it should be to shut post offices and plants.
"The bottom line is that something will be done because the Postal Service can't survive without getting some help," said Art Sackler, coordinator of the Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service, whose members include some of the country's biggest postal customers, such as Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and EBay Inc. (EBAY) "It's very near the edge financially."
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has said the service may have lost a record $15 billion during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. It's scheduled to report its annual results tomorrow. In the first three quarters, it lost $11.7 billion.
Shrinking Surplus
The service reached its $15 billion borrowing limit Sept. 28. It had said it would temporarily run out of cash in October before rebounding for an unspecified length of time. Chief Financial Officer Joseph Corbett will update projections on available cash tomorrow, David Partenheimer, a spokesman, said.
"Our liquidity remains a major concern into 2013, especially as we get into the second half of the fiscal year," Partenheimer said.
The service's outlook worsened yesterday, when the U.S. Office of Personnel Management said the service's projected surplus in a government-worker retirement account has fallen to $2.6 billion, less than one-quarter of the previous year's estimate, due to lower interest rates. The service has proposed tapping that surplus to help cover its losses.
As Congress returns for a post-election session, the post office will find it hard to get attention while the White House and lawmakers seek agreements before a Jan. 1 deadline on expiring tax cuts and the automatic spending reductions known as sequestration, said Roger Kodat, who was a Treasury official working on postal issues during President George W. Bush's administration.
Immediate Crises
"I don't see the Postal Service as the one that's going to catch" Congress's attention, Kodat, now principal at the Kodat Group LLC consulting firm, said in an interview. "I would imagine it's difficult to make it a top-burner issue. It's always been a tough slog."
The post office's challenge may take a back seat to immediate crises because it's in what's typically its best quarter of the year. Campaign mailings boosted volume before the Nov. 6 U.S. election, and the agency said last week said it expects to handle a record 365 million packages during the Christmas holiday season, a 20 percent increase from 2011.
"House and Senate leaders recognize the importance of taking action to help put the Postal Service on a solid financial path," Partenheimer said in an e-mail. "We continue to take actions to cut expenses and grow revenue but cannot return to long-term financial stability without passage of the comprehensive legislation identified in our five-year business plan."
Saturday Delivery
The Senate measure would make it more difficult for the service to close facilities or end Saturday delivery, and would install a chief innovation officer to help seek new revenue sources.
The House bill would create a commission to oversee facilities closings, on the notion that would be easier if lawmakers were removed from the process. It would create a control board to oversee operations. Both chambers would give the service more time to fund future retirees' health benefits, which would cut the amount the Postal Service must pay into that account each year.
'Dangerous Situation'
The Postal Service, without any consequences so far, skipped two payments totaling $11.2 billion due to the Treasury this year toward those benefits. While spreading those costs out would buy the Postal Service time, that wouldn't be enough by itself to make the agency profitable.
"Any adverse circumstances that would cause its volumes to drop beneath their projections and we could have a dangerous situation," Sackler said in an interview.
Representative Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has urged Obama to press for postal legislation before the year ends. The committee earlier this year backed a bill sponsored by Issa, a California Republican, and Representative Dennis Ross, a Florida Republican.
"USPS is in a severe cash crunch primarily due to its mismanaged response to the diminished demand for paper-based communication," Issa wrote in a Sept. 7 letter to Obama. "Regardless of the cause, it is unacceptable for a federal agency to be in default to the federal government."
Ali Ahmad, an Issa spokesman, said the letter was the most recent action from the congressman on the postal measure. The full House hasn't considered the bill.
The Senate, with bipartisan support from lawmakers who are leaving Congress in January, passed a postal service bill that's languished, awaiting House action.
Seeking Action
Delaware Democratic Senator Tom Carper, a sponsor of the Senate bill, "remains hopeful that, now that the elections are over, the House Republicans will pass postal reform legislation so that a final bill can be approved by Congress and signed into law by the end of the year," said Emily Spain, a spokeswoman for Carper.
Like the Postal Service, the National Association of Letter Carriers, whose members deliver mail in cities, is pushing Congress to act before mail can't be delivered and there's not enough money to pay workers.
"This can't wait forever," said Jim Sauber, chief of staff at the Washington-based union. "Once next spring or the early summer of next year when the volumes are lower, that could be a cash crisis and they could have to make operational cuts so they can pay bills. There's a lot at stake."


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If you've ever stolen your significant other's face cream, you're in good company (just think of Walter White). But it's time to step up and get your own—like this made-for-men blemish balm that evens complexion and lends skin a subtle glow, while coating it in an essential layer of SPF.
Let's just say it out loud. This is makeup for men. Don't be scared by that. You're on Birchbox because you want a better image. I came here to step up my grooming game. Believe it or not, tinted moisturizer is now part of that.
I have a full beard, and don't have a problem being seen in a flannel shirt. But my face is a man's face, full of imperfections. Lab Series Tinted Moisturizer evens out my skintone. It's hard to describe, but my face looks better, and does not have a "makeup" look to it.
You're only going to use a little bit at a time. A dot for each cheek and the nose, two to three dots for the forehead. Don't cake it on, just a little bit hear and there, and blend it in with your fingers.
This is one time when it's OK to be self-conscious. By using very little to start, no one will see any sign of the product, just the good results.
I ordered this product from Birchbox hoping it was not going to be full-on man makeup. Luckily, it is not. It smells like sun tan lotion and looks like your girlfriends foundation makeup. It goes on smooth. Use your ring finger to dab a few dots under the eyes, on the forehead, and on the cheeks and chin. I use a tiny amount at each point. Then blend in. Not greasy. No skin discolaration. Just blends into face offering a nice glow. I've used it after tanning and found no difference in it's effectiveness even though my skin tone was more golden after tanning. I really like this stuff and it should last a long time.5
I had been wondering about using a BB cream for a while. I was so excited when I first put this on! It totally evens out my skin tone and is an excellent moisturizer. And the SPF 35 is a no brainer! t doesn't get cakey looking, do you can't tell it's really that tinted! it blends totally in. But it still evens tone and subdues blemishes and uneven coloration in subdued way. Great product all around!5
I found out about this product from one of Birchbox's videos, and I was skeptical at first. Being latino and dark skinned, I wondered if it could help me. (the limited sunlight and cold of winter would make my skin blotchy , dry and lighter than usual) And indeed, it did. It's the closest thing to make-up I will EVER use, but it's definitely a permanant part of my grooming kit.5
I had heard about BB cream from a view friends and ordered this product as soon as I saw it. It blends perfectly with my skin tone and is still a great moisturizer! The only down side is the price, when I realized my friends had only paid around $15 for theirs I was a little disappointed.5
I had the pleasure of trying this product over a year ago and fell in love immediately. From the smooth texture to the way it perfectly matched my skin tone, I've been using it ever since. All guys should be using it (I know I've had a chance to introduce this to friends and they've now been converted!).
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Private Tours
Beaujolais Wine Discovery - Morning
Three rivers flow through Lyon: the Rhône, the Saône and... the Beaujolais! Go on a private half day wine tour to the Southern part of the Beaujolais region and discover behind the famous label the unknown & preserved beauty of the Golden Stones Country. Visit Oingt medieval towns built in a unique yellow stone and then make 2 stops for wine-tasting sparkling, white, rosé and red beaujolais:
Visit of Beaujolais Golden Stones region & Oingt Medieval Town:
At 9:00 am, your English speaking driver-guide picks you up at your hotel in Lyon or close suburbs and transfer you to the Southern Beaujolais region. After a 30 min drive, discover one of the prettiest wine countries in France also called the "Small French Toscany"!
Travel through beautiful rolling hills dotted with secular vineyards and cross several quaint medieval towns built in a gorgeous golden ochre stone.
Visit Oingt town listed as one of the "157 Most Beautiful Villages in France" and stroll through a warren of little streets hosting many artists and craftsmen boutiques.
Enjoy beautiful panoramic views over the Beaujolais and learn about its terroir and geography.
Wine Tasting
Stop at two wineries for wine-tasting Sparkling, white, rosé & red Beaujolais:
Follow this morning wine tour with a first winery where you will get to be introduced to the unknown sparkling white and rosé Beaujolais.
With your guide, learn the different basic steps of the subtle art of sniffing, swirling and sipping while you taste and how French wines are classified between generic, villages and crus appellations.
After a short drive, push the door of a second winery, meet a passionate wine-maker and immerse yourself in French history and tradition.
Learn about grape growing and the unique beaujolais wine making process called "semi-carbonic maceration" when grapes are all picked by hand and not crushed at all.
Finally go to the caveau (wine-tasting room) and taste several red Beaujolais in a great authentic atmosphere.
Punto de Encuentro / Lugar de Salida del Tour
Si están alojados en una casa, departamento, piso, por favor esperen a su guía privada fuera a la dirección indicada en su reserva, 10 min antes de la hora de la salida del tour. ¡Gracias!
Our Lyon Private Tours operated to Beaujolais, Cotes du Rhone, Burgundy, Macon wine regions and Perouges, Annecy cities allow you to make the most of your travels immersing yourself into the destination with absolute flexibility. With a knowledgeable English speaking guide native from Lyon region, visit the best sights at your pace, taste & interact with local wine-makers and artisan producers. You have specific requests or would like to do multiple private wine tours from Lyon, France? Please email us, we will be pleased to tailor your touring itinerary for you!


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The NMSU Astronomy Department will be holding a two-part public event for the January 20th total lunar eclipse!
Starting at 7:45 PM, Professor Kristian Finlator will give a talk on the eclipse in the Biology Annex (located here) from 7:45 PM to 8:15 PM, with a second provisional talk planned at 8:30 PM in case attendance is too high for everyone to fit into the room for the first talk.
From 8:30 pm to 10:30 PM the telescopes at Tombaugh Observatory (located here, a short walk/drive from the Biology Annex) will be opened and graduate students will be on hand to answer questions and run the telescopes. Feel free to come to one or both of these events, or to arrive to the telescopes at any time between 8:30 and 10:30. Please keep in mind, the eclipse begins around 8:30, but totality (or, when the moon turns red from fully entering Earth's shadow) doesn't begin until ~9:40 PM. The Society of Astronomy Students will also be on site with hot chocolate!
Parking is available at both locations. If there is a possibility of inclement weather, please call the Observatory Hotline (575-646-6278) to make sure that we will have the telescopes open (if there's a chance of rain, we will not open the telescopes, and we will leave a message at this number saying so).
Dr. Janna Levin
Barnard College
Info here: https://honors.nmsu.edu/news/events/speakers-series/
Our Future in Space: The Moon and Beyond
Jack Burns, University of Colorado Boulder
Why do we explore space? How do we explore
space? Where should we explore? What are
the tools for space exploration? These questions will be addressed in this talk focused on
the future of human and robotic exploration of
the solar system and beyond. Since the end of
the Apollo program, the justification for the human space program has proven elusive. We will
borrow a page from the computer and new
commercial space companies to argue for an
inspirational approach to the next phase of
exploration beyond Earth orbit. The "how" is
addressed with NASA's new Orion and Space
Launch Systems along with new launch systems being developed by private companies
such as SpaceX and Blue Origin. We will argue
that both the Moon and Mars can be explored
through a combination of governmental programs, international partnerships, and public-
private partnerships. The tools for exploration
include telerobotics where astronauts aboard
NASA's Lunar Gateway in orbit of the Moon
will operate rovers and deploy telescopes on
the lunar surface in a new synergy between
robots and humans.
Join us for the inaugural Las Cruces chapter of Astronomy on Tap! Join local astronomers from the NMSU Astronomy Department for a night of fun, accessible space-related presentations, games, and prizes.
Please RSVP on the Bosque Brewing website if you're planning on attending!