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Lea Catherine Sterner, 79, of Pewamo, Mich., passed away on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. She was born on Jan. 20, 1933 in Coopersville, Mich., the daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Bair) Reisbig.
Lea Catherine Sterner, 79, of Pewamo, Mich., passed away on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. She was born on Jan. 20, 1933 in Coopersville, Mich., the daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Bair) Reisbig.
Lea married Dr. Glenn Sterner on Sept. 23, 1951, and together they shared 52 years of marriage. Mrs. Sterner worked diligently along side her husband in his veterinary business. She enjoyed her animals, working on and visiting the farm.
Mrs. Sterner was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church and spent time as a 4-H leader in her younger years. Lea took great pride in her flower gardens and plants, especially her 100-plus year old Christmas cactus, which she freely gave away pieces of to all who asked.
She loved her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, always thought of others, and was an excellent cook and baker, famous for her sugar cookies. Lea loved to socialize, laugh, and had a great sense of humor. She also enjoyed sewing, reading and bird watching.
Preceding her in death were her parents; husband, Dr. Glenn Sterner in 2003; siblings, Helen Hammond, Nancy Addingon, Mary Martin, Alexander Reisbig Jr., James Reisbig, and William Reisbig.
Surviving are her children, Glenn (Diane) Sterner Jr. of Pewamo, Dale (Christine) Sterner of Ionia, Susan (Tom) Hogan of Muir, Robert Sterner of Pewamo, David Sterner of Pewamo, Mary (Jim) Hefron of Pewamo; 10 grandchildren; two great grandchildren; siblings, John "Pete" Reisbig, Gary (Carole) Reisbig, Judy (Don) Eighmey, and Ann Henry; many nieces and nephews.
The Funeral Service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday Dec. 14, 2012 at Lehman Funeral Homes, 220 Rich St., Ionia, with Pastor Paul Clark of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Fowler presiding. Interment will take place at Tuttle Cemetery, Ionia. The family will receive friends from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
For those desiring, memorial contributions may be made to the Pewamo Fire Department, in memory of Lea. Online condolences may be made at www.lehmanfuneralhomes.com.


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A word that describes a state of incredible stupidity brought on by being very tired or not being fully awake in the period between getting up and breakfast.
Abeey was so exhaustupid this morning that made coffee... forgot to actually boil the kettle, then when she finally made a cup of coffee she forgot about the sugar and put the kettle in the fridge.
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@ david zwirner in chelsea march 6 - april 19, 2008 Marcel Dzama's current show in ny includes a new series of drawings
pages from his notebook ("an even greater unevenness")
this sculpture
a series of dioramas (inset into the walls of a dark room, hard to photograph)
i have a few more photos in my slideshow. this is yet another art show that is best viewed in person. the dioramas were my favorites, and are worth the trip to the gallery.
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Modern English has lost its grammatical gender, but does have the three genders which are used for nouns and pronouns: generally masculine is used for concrete words, feminine for abstract words and neuter for animals.
Chris Weimer wrote:Gender is merely a way of classifying nouns in a language.
GlottalGreekGeek wrote:Modern English has lost its grammatical gender, but does have the three genders which are used for nouns and pronouns: generally masculine is used for concrete words, feminine for abstract words and neuter for animals.
That does not sound like the Modern English I know...
Sanskrit wrote:I guess I was confused with Dutch, where concrete words are often masculine and abstract words are feminine.
Bert wrote:That may very well be the general rule. I don't know. Ship is fem. in Dutch as well.
BTW Sanskrit, do you know if there is a rule concerning when to use which of the two definite articles in Dutch (de, het?)
I know which goes with which word but I don't know the rule.
Hammurabi wrote:I think that there should be a more profound explanaition for the genders in certain languages, I mean, like Plato said "the names are not only words, but a notion of the essence of the object that is named"
Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea.
Thanks. That's interesting. I've only seen abstract names or feminine names for boats.Sanskrit wrote: There are two words for ship in Dutch. The first is "(het) schip," this is a neuter word. The second is "(de) boot," which is both masculine and feminine according to my dictionary.
Sanskrit wrote:"De" is used with words that are masculine, feminine or both masculine and feminine. "Het" is used for neuter words.
Chris Weimer wrote:Plato's ideas of words stems from his philosophy, which we now call Platonism, which stated that objects on earth are merely based off of their ideals in "heaven". Not only does his philosophy suck, but his linguistic analysis sucks as well. The idea of the "essence" of words is thoroughly false and demonstrated so by historical linguistics.
Bert wrote:How about; "Het mannetje" (The little man) and "het meisje" (The (little) girl.) Maybe all singular diminutives are grammatical neuter?
Paul wrote:Have you actually read any Plato, or are your deep insights - "his philosophy sucks" - the result of a survey course in "ancient thought"?
It's too bad you weren't around during the lifetimes of Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. You could have spared them needless study.
As to the achievements of historical linguistics, even Saussure conceded that "only some signs are absolutely arbitrary".
There is also the amusing historical anecdote that he considered Esperanto, whose fledgling movement was at the time headed by his brother, to be wrong-headed.
Chris Weimer wrote:Oh, yes, do beat that strawman! Beat him hard, and beat him good, because you haven't even bothered to attack my position. Now why don't you run along and be a good boy and brush your teeth before bed. Perhaps tomorrow your school will teach you to correctly identify someone's position before sounding like an idiot.
Paul wrote:OK. I brushed my teeth and went to bed. It's a new day and, guess what, your "position", as you so bravely call it, remains a mere assertion; one that borders on the inarticulate.
Consequently, even an idiot like me has no trouble "correctly identifying your position".
Perhaps if you put forth something meatier than "his philosophy sucks", a conversation would be possible.
Rindu wrote:????
Sorry, this is still no more than assertion.
Chris Weimer wrote:First of all, I despise all metaphysics and any philosophical inquiry that has no scientific base behind it. If it is not rooted in actual facts, then it is not valid, and especially not valid if it proposes unscientific yet supernatural explanations, such as Forms (and the "Ideal Form").
Chris Weimer wrote:Were you expecting me to bring out every scientific paper that contradicts the notion of the divine?
Chris Weimer wrote:I really find it hilarious that not only did Paul and Hammurabi rip their passages out of context without any commentary, as if these philosophers should always be regarded as absolute truth (nevermind that Nietzsche ripped Plato a new one) but that they chose the passages full of blatant ad hominem. Oh yeah, real mature guys! Keep up the hard quote mining!
GlottalGreekGeek wrote:So your favorite enemy is Nietzche, eh? Why is he your enemy, and why is he your favorite
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The Kings were good, bad and indifferent Saturday afternoon at Staples Center.
They couldn't be beaten, though.
They gave away a two-goal lead but still defeated the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 in a shootout despite having one of those rare games in which they weren't at their best and almost paid for it with a defeat. They instead won their third in a row and ninth in 10 games.
"I think we're on the right track," Kings center Anze Kopitar said. "Is our game as sharp as it can be? Probably not, but we're collecting points and that's what it is this time of year. You have to collect points even though you're maybe not playing the best hockey.
"The way this Pacific Division has been going, you lose a couple you fall back in a pretty big way. So, we just want to keep on going, keep on plugging away. We gutted it out (Saturday). It shows the character of the team and the mental toughness."
Rookie goaltender Martin Jones stopped all three Avalanche shooters in a shootout, including a remarkable save after Colorado's Matt Duchene faked him to the ice. Duchene appeared to have Jones beaten, but the 23-year-old stuck out his right leg and denied the Avalanche forward.
"Pretty good move," Jones said. "Got me out of position. I just tried to throw my legs out and take away as much of the bottom of the net as I could and I got lucky there. He made a nice fake on the shot and got me to go down a little bit."
Jones handled shots from PA Parenteau and Ryan O'Reilly a good deal easier in the second and third rounds. Kopitar scored the only goal in the shootout and made Jones a winner for the eighth consecutive start to begin his NHL career, tying a league record.
Bob Froese of the Philadelphia Flyers also won his first eight starts to begin his career in 1982-83. Ray Emery of the Ottawa Senators won nine consecutive decisions spread over three seasons beginning in 2002-03, but they weren't all starts, to begin his career.
Jones said he had no idea he matched Froese's mark and seemed confused when reporters asked him about the significance of such a remarkable start to his career. After all, Jones would have been in the minor leagues if No. 1 starter Jonathan Quick hadn't suffered a groin injury Nov. 12.
"I didn't know that, to be honest," Jones said when reporters asked about matching Froese. "Honestly, I don't know what the record is, so I don't know what you guys are talking about. It's a good start, but it's something to build off and make sure I keep working here."
Jones might want to brush up on his NHL history, especially if he intends to continue to play as well as he has during his first eight games. Once again, it was nearly impossible to find fault in his game, with the Avalanche beating him only on a pair of power plays.
Kings coach Darryl Sutter went into Grinch mode when asked about the significance of Jones' superb play and grumbled when a reporter tried to get him talking about the North Vancouver, British Columbia, native.
"Talk about the team," he said. "One guy doesn't win games."
The Kings actually might have lost to the Avalanche if not for Jones' play, especially during the shootout. Jeff Carter and Justin Williams scored to give the Kings a 2-0 lead before the Avalanche rallied on power-play strikes by Erik Johnson and O'Reilly.
Sutter said he didn't like the way the Kings played in front of Jones.
"They had a rough night," Sutter said.
Someone asked, "Why was that?"
"Because we're so used to playing at a high level," Sutter said. "Why is that? We think we have, well, we do have the best goals-against in the league, so we expect to play at a high level. Why is that? We expect to be better than OK every night."


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Way, way up.
Assuming that the suspensions for BB and Sherm get filled this year and appeals go unheard, this defense is going to be giving up a lot more points. That means RW is going to have to pass a hell of a lot more for us to stay in games.
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Our genetic material is often compared to a book. However, it is not so much like a novel to be read in one piece, but rather like a cookbook. The cell reads only those recipes which are to be cooked at the moment. The recipes are the genes; 'reading' in the book of the cell means creating RNA copies of individual genes, which will then be translated into proteins.
The cell uses highly complex, sophisticated regulatory mechanisms to make sure that not all genes are read at the same time. Particular gene switches need to be activated and, in addition, there are particular chemical labels in the DNA determining which genes are transcribed into RNA and which others will be inaccessible, i.e. where the book literally remains closed. The biological term for this is epigenetic gene regulation.
Among the epigenetic mechanisms which are well studied is the silencing of genes by methyl groups. This is done by specialized enzymes called methyltransferases which attach methyl labels to particular 'letters' of a gene whereby access to the whole gene is blocked. "One of the great mysteries of modern molecular biology is: How do methyltransferases know where to attach their labels in order to selectively inactivate an individual gene?" says Professor Ingrid Grummt of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ).
Grummt has now come much closer towards unraveling this mystery. She has focused on studying those text passages in the genetic material which do not contain any recipes. Nevertheless, these texts are transcribed into RNA molecules in a controlled manner. "These so-called noncoding RNAs do not contain recipes for proteins. They are important regulators in the cell which we are just beginning to understand," says Ingrid Grummt.
In her most recent work, Grummt and her co-workers have shown for the first time that epigenetic regulation and regulation by noncoding RNAs interact. The scientists artificially introduced a noncoding RNA molecule called pRNA into cells. As a result, methyl labels are attached to a particular gene switch so that the genes behind it are not read. The trick is that pRNA exactly matches (is complementary to) the DNA sequence of this gene switch. The investigators found out that pRNA forms a kind of plait, or triple helix, with the two DNA strands in the area of this gene switch. Methyltransferases, in turn, are able to specifically dock to this 'plait' and are thus directed exactly to the place where a gene is to be blocked.
More than half of our genetic material is transcribed into noncoding RNA. This prompts Ingrid Grummt to speculate: "It is very well possible that there are exactly matching noncoding RNA molecules for all genes that are temporarily silenced. This would explain how such a large number of genes can be selectively turned on and off."
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As he toweled himself off after swimming laps at the Sun-N-Fun resort in Sarasota County, Dick Trinidad had to admit that he was in an odd position.
Like thousands of other snowbirds in Southwest Florida, Trinidad was wondering about the fate of his other home -- the one in the north -- as the nearly unprecedented superstorm Sandy bore down on a big swath of the nation.
"There is a little bit of irony here," said Trinidad, who owns a 52-year-old house that sits on a peninsula jutting into Buzzards Bay, Mass. "I'm in Florida, worried about a hurricane in the Northeast."
Seasonal residents like Trinidad and his wife, Delores, usually find themselves back home in the summer months, watching storms spin off the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico toward the peninsula where they spend their winters. Hurricane Sandy -- a late-forming storm birthed on Oct. 19 in the Caribbean Sea -- later turned north toward Jamaica, crossed Cuba, spun through the Bahamas and then bore down on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states as it moved on a collision course with a cold front moving south out of Canada.
That odd combination already was impacting millions of lives on Monday.
Lenny Besterman Sr. and his wife, Mary Ann, hold return tickets that are supposed to take them from Tampa to Pittsburgh Wednesday. But sitting in the sun and munching French fries Monday with their son, Lenny Jr., in Sarasota, they were not confident they would be returning.
"They are 7,000 flights behind as we speak," the elder Lenny Besterman said. "Not that I'm too concerned about it. We are retired."
The couple fly back and forth to Pittsburgh, parking their motor home at their son's business when they are up north. The younger Besterman, who installs brick pavers, considered the irony of his parents' situation.
"Everyone is always saying they could not handle the hurricane threat of living here," he said.
"And now there's a strong possibility of them getting hit with a hurricane."
Canada worries
This week's unlikely hurricane event is so big that even some Canadians are concerned.
Judi and Jim Bridson are renting in Siesta Key until early December, so traveling is not a concern. But the Mississauga, Ontario, residents are keeping track of the storm on an almost hourly basis, concerned about the potential for power outages and the already saturated ground and storm drains back home that could get clogged with fast-falling leaves.
"It's got 85-mile-an-hour winds," Bridson said, quoting data from the Weather Channel site he was checking regularly on his laptop.
The couple also worried about their daughter, who lives in a 100-year-old house in downtown Toronto.
"The infrastructure there is old," Judi Bridson said. "I would be more concerned for her -- basement, flooding, trees down and so on."
Cathy Baxter and her husband, Bruce Gallop -- two others from the Great North visiting Sarasota this week -- were fretting about the potential for a power outage at Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, where the couple own the Zack and Nemo Mercantile, a waterfront d�cor store that they also live above.
"If the power goes out, the sump pumps won't work and there will be water in the basement," Cathy Baxter said, completing her workout on a stationary exercise bike at Sun-N-Fun. "It's crazy."
The irony
On Monday -- a 2,128-mile drive from Mahone Bay -- the afternoon sun was heating up, and many tourists wore shorts and T-shirts as they walked around Siesta Key at lunchtime.
The irony of East Coasters coming to Florida, a state surrounded by water, to escape a hurricane was not lost on many of them.
"This is a big shock for the East Coast. We don't get this -- we get snow," said Mary Kopp, a retiree who is on vacation from Stamford, Conn., the fourth largest city in the state.
Kopp did not take any chances.
Before leaving Connecticut, she put the garbage cans inside, removed the hanging plants and took away outside ladders -- some quick hurricane-proofing.
Enjoying Siesta Key, Kopp thought of a friend living near the shore who refused to leave because she did not want her cat to get frightened at a shelter.
Then, Kopp thought of her own home, about two miles from the beach. She was nervous to go back, scared about the what-ifs, like if a tree crushed the garage.
"Literally, what can do you do?" Kopp said, standing nearly 1,100 miles away. "You prepare for the worst and hope for the best."
Jessica Slevin's friends and another cat -- a white one, her pet Cosmo -- are back in New York City, where Slevin has lived for the past 31/2 years.
The 25-year-old left the lower East Side Sunday and flew to her hometown of Sarasota for a funeral. Now she is stuck, at least until Wednesday. Her return flight to LaGuardia Airport was pushed back an extra day.
"I'm a little nervous. It's kind of scary to not be there with my friends," said Slevin, a 2005 Pine View graduate who had been following updates on Facebook and Twitter as her friends stock up on supplies and debate whether to evacuate.
She also worried about Cosmo, who is all alone.
"I'm hoping he'll sleep through it."
When to go home?
Jane Anderson, 53, a banker from the Hartford, Conn., area, spent the past few days shopping, eating and going to the beach with the two Dianes.
Those are her two girlfriends -- Diane Petersen and Diane Rudy.
Both Dianes, the trio noted, have sisters named Sandy.
If the hurricane is anything like their siblings, it could be a terror, the two Dianes said, laughing.
The three friends, who met when they worked at the same bank in the 1980s, are on their annual trek to Sarasota together. And this trip could not have come at a better time, they agreed.
Hartford was in Sandy's sights. The women already had heard of banks closing, highways shutting down and the airport grounding fights. Their families were on their minds.
"We have some guilt leaving them behind," said Anderson, whose overbooked flight from Tampa International already was pushed back a day to Thursday.
Two weeks ago, when Rick and Karen Wood flew to Florida, Hurricane Sandy did not exist: No storm warnings. No media coverage. No tweets or Facebook posts. Since then, the storm's strength only grew, leaving the Woods feeling uneasy as they finished their holiday.
"We're a little apprehensive," said Rick Woods, 62, a certified public accountant who lives near Cooperstown, N.Y. "We'll hope for the best."
He knows how powerful the storms can be: In 2011, Hurricane Irene dumped four feet of water into the building housing his accounting firm.
Like so many travelers, Woods wondered when -- and how -- he would be heading home, given the snarl in the nation's airport network.
"You don't know if you'll be stranded in the middle of Pennsylvania."
For seasonal residents, an odd reversal
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Imagine this:
The hottest persian guy just asked you out on a date. He picks you up in his black Benz (or BMW) and whisks you off to a romantic restaurant in the hilltops of the Beverly Hills mountains overlooking the city. After some wining, dining, and amazing conversation he drives you home. You feel an incredible connection and feel like you've known him "forever." You invite him in and you both just can't control yourselves. The chemistry is undeniable and then you unbutton his shirt and there it is:
The tree of life. The derakht that grows on him. ALL THAT PERSIAN HAIR. The Persian carpet or whatever you want to call it, is staring you back in the face.
Badbakht looks like he is still wearing a SWEATER.
It's a pretty awkward situation to be in, especially since you are totally not feelin' it anymore and you're just trying to find an excuse to get the HELL OUT.
Persians must be educated about their HAIR.
A long, long time ago in a faraway land…with no Persians to witness my pain (I say that with love). I was with a guy I was really into. We had hooked up before, but one time he forgot to trim…not only his chest, but his whole body.
When you are really into someone, things like that don't usually turn you off. Until one night…
We were kissing and as I begin to kiss his chest, ALL I could feel was the bristly hair against my face. This literally made my face turn red (his damn scruff scratched the crap out of me). It felt like my microdermabrasion went to waste. UGH. It was just getting in the way of everything (kind of like how dirty dishes can ruin a friendship between two roomies)!
Feeling that bristly hair on my face was not only irritating my last facial from an expensive dermo, but the tips of the hairs would graze my mouth (Ughhhhhhh). I admit it though, in the beginning I acted like I didn't care, but after a while I literally just stopped and changed the subject and actually thought about getting him a trimmer for Christmas (no you can NEVER ever get a guy a trimmer for Christmas that's just rude and insulting)
Guys have egos so women need to figure out ways to gently ease them into how much hair is appropriate.
Obviously, you can always be sneaky and pretend like you are taking him to your waxing lady or eyebrow threader because YOU need something done and then con his ass into the seat… FREE OF CHARGE.
Now if you don't want to go to sneaky extremes there are alternatives and guys know this too:
– Trim, but not to the point where you look like a bare baby. It's still part of you masculinity and is sexy to many woman.
– Clean up those eyebrows. No one wants to take pictures of someone with caterpillar brows.
– If it is soo bad that if you even trim a little, it grows back stronger than Hulk Hogan trust the laser beam (it will barely hurt after a little numbing cream).
– Invest in a trimmer (beard & body). Painless and easy.
DO NOT's:
– Shave until you look like a Mexican hairless cat.
– Copy your friends. Everyone's hair is different so do what works for you.
– Let it grow until you look like you are wearing a sweater (you might think its hairy but we don't want to have to "moomak" wax your ass before we make out with you).
Maybe some people like that coarse, dark, Persian hair on their cheeks when they're trying to cuddle (hopefully it doesn't smell like kabob). But for most people…. having a partner who takes care of themselves is way more desirable.
It's Persian Hygiene 101.
Trim a little. Your chest, arms, nose, ears, pubes, toes, palms…no one wants to hook up with someone who looks like they're wearing a sasquatch costume.
One slice of pizza… hold the hair!
You know how you (hopefully) send your food back at a restaurant if you find a hair in it? Well, I like to order my plates (and men) clean, FRESH with minimal hair. I'm not saying be bald or bare…just manscape a little (please… and we promise to do the same). Do not let your hair grow to the point where a woman wants to send it back like she just found a black hair in her nachos…GROSS.
Remember these tips and know that saving the rainforest only refers to things that grow out of the ground…not on your body ;)
FABulously yours,


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Legal systems like to think of themselves as impartial and fair, dispensing the objective morality of Justice. But, from time to time, a court of law can be as political, prejudiced, and biased as any other arm of the State. The classic instance is the story of the trials of Alfred Dreyfus.
In December 1894 a French military tribunal found Alfred Dreyfus guilty of high treason. Dreyfus was a Jew; the War Office was determined that at all costs the honour and good name of the Army must be upheld; and both left and right in the French Parliament used the convulsions of the case for what they believed to be their own advantage.
The original verdict affected the Army, the Church, the Judiciary and the State over the following twelve years. Even now the case provokes arguments of fierce intensity.
Guy Chapman's classic exposition of the long drawn-out trials has been out of print for many years and this present thorough revision incorporates the findings of recent scholarship; it is compellingly readable and unapproachably authoritative.
The questions still remain - how far were the Dreyfus Trials the product of a conscious conspiracy, how far an unconscious conspiracy of silence, and how far did 'justice' prevail?
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When Jesus said, "What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder" (Mt 19.6), presumably he meant it. Certainly the Catholic Church believes he did, and that conviction is the basis for its solemn teaching that sacramental marriages are indissoluble.
But isn't there such a thing as "Catholic divorce" — annulment, that is? Evidently not, since annulment — a declaration of nullity by a Church court — isn't the dissolution of a marriage but a judgment that in a particular case no sacramental marriage existed. (One common reason is that one or both parties didn't truly intend to enter into a sacramental marriage as the Church understands it.)
There are of course many variations on the theme of the divorced Catholic without an annulment who marries again. Some of these people were the responsible parties in the breakup of their first marriages and aren't troubled about violating the Church's teaching now.
But others were the injured parties. It's natural to feel sympathy for those in this second category, who, having entered into a new union without an annulment, find themselves in a state of estrangement from the Church that includes being cut off from receiving Communion (unless they separate from their second partners or forgo marital intimacy).
Now a well-intentioned, but not necessarily wise, proposal by some German bishops for handling this pastoral problem is causing serious concern among those who fear further erosion of the indissolubility of marriage as a likely result.
At the plenary assembly of their episcopal conference in March, the bishops of Germany will consider a set of guidelines allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to be readmitted to the sacraments in "justified individual cases." The guidelines are expected to pass. Already one German diocese, the Archdiocese of Freiburg, has drafted, and apparently adopted, guidelines of its own.
This is hardly a bolt from the blue. Prominent figures in the German hierarchy have been arguing for something like this at least since 1993. Up to now the response from Rome has been no.
Indeed, as early as 1981, in an apostolic exhortation on marriage and the family, Pope John Paul II reaffirmed the Church's practice — which, he noted, is "based on Sacred Scripture" — of not giving Communion to the divorced and remarried. John Paul cited the potential for "error and confusion regarding … indissolubility" as a secondary reason for this stand.
The argument was repeated last October in the pages of L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, by Cardinal-designate Gerhard Müeller, the German prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Publication of the article, he noted, was approved by Pope Francis.
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, apostolic administrator of Freiburg and president of the German bishops' conference, brushed off the CDF prefect's remarks. The Germans, it appears, are determined to proceed, no matter what.
This haste seems strange considering that an extraordinary assembly of the world Synod of Bishops next October and an ordinary synod assembly a year later — both of them convened by the pope — will focus on marriage and family. The pastoral problem of the divorced and remarried is certain to come up for discussion in this eminently collegial context.
For two days before the Feb. 22 consistory at which Pope Francis will elevate 19 men to the rank of cardinal, the College of Cardinals will meet and discuss the subject of marriage. That would be a good time for someone to point out that although some adjustments in the annulment process are no doubt possible, it's crucial to avoid the undermining of indissolubility.
Russell Shaw is an OSV contributing editor.
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skywarp-2 wrote:I have a couple of things I want to say about this film..I, like the majority of you, was very against this movie from the designs and leaked information i had recieved early on in this forum..over time I have become more and more open to the new movie and see it for what it will be.. I understand the script for the first movie seems mindless, but I don't view this movie as having to be too intelligent from the get go.. think of Star Wars Episode 4, it was a running action flick, with insightful touches on concepts, but really didn't go too far indepth into the whoile Jedi mystery until the later movies..
Well, I was hoping from the start for a good movie, and I still am, however, everything I've heard about this movie since the initial announcement has been bad news, at least from my perspective. My view on this movie is that it's all but hopeless. I absolutely hate mindless action movies, and I have never found them even remotely entertaining. I honestly can't understand how anyone can see making this a mindless action film as a good thing.
All in all, my expectations for this movie are so low now that I don't believe it's worth my time or money to watch. I'm hoping something will change my mind on that, which is why I'm still following the news regarding the movie, but I'm not expecting that.


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The NHL lockout left Andy Brickley teed off in more ways than one.
With no Bruins games to analyze on NESN, Brickley played golf just about every day of the lockout. His group of a dozen or so diehards played courses in Plymouth and on the Cape.
"I played my best golf in December," Brickley said. "We're junkies. It could be 20 degrees. As long as there's no wind, you're warm because you're walking and carrying your bag."
If the tee area was frozen, Brickley and his pals would pull out the tee markers and pound them back into ground to create holes for their wooden tees. Brickley, a 7 handicap, said he and Bruins radio analyst Bob Beers usually break even while playing for bragging rights in southern cities on the road.
"We miss Atlanta," Brickley said, "not because we liked going there for hockey, but we miss the golf down there."
Brickley's emotions ran the entire spectrum during the lockout.
"From hopeful and anxious and excited," he said, "to anger, frustration and rage to pick your adjective. The only feeling I didn't want to get to was indifference and I never got to that point."
Brickley, 51, had been a player rep so he understood better than most what was going on during the lockout, but he didn't know what to tell fans who asked him when he thought it might end. A couple of months into the lockout, Brickley called a friend who works for the league to get some insight.
"I wanted to know," he said, "what I was missing from the owners' side other than a money grab or unadulterated greed. He basically said, 'You're not missing anything.' "
Brickley, who played more than a decade in the NHL, sided with the players.
"I still bleed a little player blood," he said. "You knew that they were going to have to give on most things. It was just a matter of how much, and I thought they did a pretty good job."
There was fear that the second lockout in eight years would turn off fans, but the Bruins' 3-1 victory over the Rangers in their opener Saturday drew NESN's highest rating for a regular-season Bruins game, a 9.4 with a 17.4 share. The previous best was an 8.9 on Jan. 7, 2012 when the Bruins played Vancouver for the first time since beating the Canucks to win the 2011 Stanley Cup. NESN has televised Bruins games since 1984.
Brickley polled fans at the opener and found no outrage, not even with owner Jeremy Jacobs, who was in the building.
"I thought the fan base could come back as strong," Brickley said, "but I thought there would be a little bit of anger in there somewhere, but that didn't seem to be the case. They were just excited to have the Bruins back."
Like most Bruins fans, Brickley can't figure out why Tim Thomas decided to take a year off at age 38 and then try to come back to the NHL next season and play for the U.S. in the 2014 Olympics.
"You have some pretty good American goaltenders," Brickley said, "who will be in the primes of their careers and will have played over the last year plus. I think that's a pretty tall order for Tim."
In Thomas' absence, Tuukka Rask allowed only two goals in Boston's first two games before losing, 4-3, in OT Wednesday.
"I like Tuukka a lot," Brickley said. "I think he's a really good goalie. I think he benefits from playing in the Bruins' system. He knows where all the shots are coming from and the Bruins do a really good job on most nights of protecting second and third chances in front of him."
Anton Khudobin will probably play in 13 to 18 games as Rask's backup during this compressed 48-game schedule.
"I've seen him in practice, I saw him in camp — he's still a question mark to me," Brickley said.
The Bruins have five games to figure out whether to keep rookie Dougie Hamilton or send him back to junior hockey. Brickley expects the 19-year-old defenseman to stick.
"Worst-case scenario and if he was outside the top six on defense," Brickley said, "he'll be here all year just to practice with the team. Going back to juniors would stunt his growth as a player. But he looked like an NHL defenseman the first two games."
Brickley anticipates a breakout year from Tyler Seguin.
"This is a new challenge for him because that level of expectation has risen," Brickley said. "Clearly, he's the most skilled guy they have — passing, shooting, speed. Now it's just a matter of putting it together."
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When most people think of gamification in CAD, they think of slick new GUIs or maybe human interface devices beyond the mouse and keyboard. Or, they think of using building blocks for design similar to how a Minecraft player may create the Starship Enterprise. But, there are many aspects of gamification beyond playability of your work environment. In this post, I will expand on the benefits of adding physics engines to MCAD assembly environments and explain how that enhancement can improve design especially when combined with Kinetic Modeling.
The Status Quo
The current workflow of gaming engines is to create geometry (either in CAD or DCC software like Autodesk Maya) and then transfer the geometry into a physics engine, like CryEngine. I pose the question, why can't the physics engine be incorporated directly into the geometry creation software? Specifically, the assembly environment of MCAD tools? With the known benefits of moving simulation further to the left in the design cycle, integrating more simulation tools into the design software without the complexity of FEA is a winning scenario for engineering & design companies. As I mentioned in my previous post, there are many CAD users who don't require FEA. Rigid body mechanics is accurate enough for their decision-making process. No geometry prep, no meshing, no time-consuming compute analysis, and no post processing. And just as important, no special computer equipment to manage and no additional file management.
The Lingering Debate
This conversation is not new. As I was browsing the archives of SolidSmack.com, because I knew he had a great video of a physics engine I wanted to use in this post, I came across a few other posts regarding using physics engines in the design process.
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After watching that video, don't you just want to tear your eyelids?
If that video doesn't help, check out what the Tokamak open source physics engine can do.
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Just from the video examples above, I can see a huge potential of time savings in my design workflow by gamifying CAD. I don't realistically expect to imitate a first-person shooter game and launch projectiles at my assembly design, but I do see how adding gravity and friction as resolved degrees of freedom in my assembly model will make it more realistic. And maybe, just maybe, if I'm having a bad day at the office I can blow off a little steam by pummeling my model with simulated nukes.
What are your thoughts? Is there a benefit to bringing this technology into the engineering and design environment? Is the term "gamification" the part that prevents acceptance of these ideas into the workplace?


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Anime Distributors Learn That Fansubbers Are Telling Them What The Market Wants
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Matt writes in to tell us about the case of the Dattebayo fansub group, which has been doing rapid, high quality releases of certain popular anime titles. The company behind the anime has never bothered them. Rather than try to shut them down, the US licensee of the series has decided to put up its own free subtitled versions, knowing that if it tries to put significant restrictions on them, it will never work. The group is actually charging people for a week, right after the shows air in Japan (rather than the typical long wait), but then will offer it free. In response, the fansub group is going to stop creating their own versions, noting they only did so in order to watch the videos in a reasonable time frame. Once again, despite what some in the entertainment industry claim, we're seeing that you absolutely can compete with so-called "pirates."


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The 2006 comedy "She's the Man" proved to me that tween queen Amanda Bynes has got "it," however minor this quality might be. Even if "Man" wasn't a sophisticated, innovative picture, the screwball feature certainly had moxie and an eagerness to reach above its sitcom roots to locate laughs. The film also solidified Bynes as a comedienne in training; a sprightly young talent with a gift for madcap comedy and college-level hijinks. "Lovewrecked" is all the more reason to push Bynes further toward adult fare.
If there's one person in the world Jenny (Amanda Bynes) loves most, it's Jason Masters (Chris Carmack, "The O.C."), a pop singer at the top of his fame. When Jenny and her friend Ryan (Jonathan Bennett, "Mean Girls") take a summer job at a Caribbean beach resort, it's to Jenny's great surprise to find Jason staying at the same location. Through a series of unfortunate events, Jason and Jenny end up shipwrecked on a deserted island together. This ends up in Jenny's favor when she discovers the island is still connected to the resort, offering her a chance to steer Jason's love toward her in their isolation.
While shooting directly to DVD after three years in stasis (with a short detour to the ABC Family cable network last month), let's hope that "Lovewrecked" is the final nail in Bynes's tween-pleasing coffin. The picture is harmless piffle, and the target demo of slumber parties should be pleased with this routine foray into sexless romantic comedy. However, the film comes as an unexpectedly significant disappointment to those hoping "Man" was a breakthrough feature for Bynes.
Well, if you have to do a tropical location with love in the air, it's a good idea to hire Randal Kleiser to direct the film. Truth is, his instincts toward teenage delights have been ground into dust in the 27 years following the release of "The Blue Lagoon." Nothing in the world demonstrates a filmmaker completely drained of his game quite like watching "Lovewrecked" stumble through some indigestible slabs of slapstick, romantic twaddle, and editorial nonsense. Yes, my friends, there's actually a "star wipe" transition used in the film. Somewhere Homer Simpson is smiling.
Kleiser has no focal point for the comedy, instead arranging minor sequences that allow for Bynes to do her expected mugging and the rest of the film to lay there like a dead fish. The desperation is so evident that at one point the script calls for Jenny to use a fart machine to usurp the advances of a romantic rival (played by Jamie-Lynn DiScala) for Jason's affection – a twist in the script I'm too tired to even address.
Throughout the film, it's comforting to see Bynes work her behind off to make "Lovewrecked" come together. It's hardly her fault the picture fails to be funny; Bynes puts in an A effort, yet only receives C results. She's the reason the film gets the small handful of chuckles it can muster, and she's the feeble spark of electricity in the romantic comedy department, playing off two vacant pretty boys in Bennett and Carmack. Bynes has got goofball down, but she needs better material than what "Lovewrecked" has to offer her and hungers for a director who can dial her energy up and down when the movie requires it.
A dizzying amount of confusion is found with the film's rating. Branded PG for the faintest of offenses, the producers have done an embarrassing job covering up the fact that "Lovewrecked" had a little more edge to it at one point. Once a slightly more heady PG-13 endeavor, all traces of smutty dialogue have been painted over, but in noticeable ways that flagrantly do not match the actual dialog being spoken by the characters. It's hardly naughty material too, just a slightly more sexual vibe to the film that seems organic to the rest of the picture. It's a detoxification that this frayed feature didn't need to suffer through.
"Lovewrecked" is presented in anamorphic widescreen, 1.85:1 aspect ratio. The film was shot down at the Sun Village Resort & Spa Cofresi in the Dominican Republic, leaving ample room for lush tropical photography. Thankfully, the DVD doesn't screw up the visual experience, preserving the deep colors of the sand and sea.
With only a Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track to choose from, "Lovewrecked" doesn't promise much in the sound department. There's some rear channel activity in the opening concert sequences and when the action heads underwater, but this is not an overbearing DVD mix. It's perfectly serviceable for a lackluster film.
Unsurprisingly, not a single soul attached to the production was offered the opportunity to step up to the camera and examine the thought process behind "Lovewrecked." Believe me, I was ready for anyone to try and justify the fart machine sequence.
Instead of any making-of footage, the DVD only offers a short reel of deleted scenes. Two of the three cut scenes feature much more of DiScala's character, at one point in her underwear, further proving the picture would've been better off as a naughtier feature film. Running under three minutes and, oddly, in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, there's nothing here to get excited about.
A theatrical trailer is also included.
"Lovewrecked" seems like such innocent fun until it starts to grind on your nerves as the tale drains of excitement and Bynes's batteries begin to wear down. It's not a catastrophic romp, but one can easily see why the Weinstein Company held it from theatrical exhibition for two years, waiting for that right moment to slip this forgettable title in under the radar.


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The KDE project wants to use the Nepomuk semantic desktop project to publish and collect information on contexts. As an example, Seigo details how you could tag certain contacts as "workmates", and have them show up atop your buddy list in Kopete as soon as your context switches to "work". Seigo explains what needs to be done to get there:
Applications will have to be made context-aware for all of this to work, so KDE developers can expect nightly visits and scary back seat encounters (you know, you step into your car, and see Seigo sitting in the back seat) with Seigo, prodding them to implement context-awareness. "This won't make applications dependent on either Plasma or Nepomuk, they'll just work better when they are around. All that will be required is D-Bus, which is already a requirement for KDE 4 applications. But if Nepomuk is around then applications will be able to rifle through and get information on Contexts. Likewise, if Plasma is around then the user will be able to interact rather directly with the Context using their desktop shell."


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Last week, I started following a still emerging story about a drug that I had never heard of before called Makena. The medication is a synthetic form of progesterone that is used for women who have a high risk of prematurely delivering a baby based on having had a premature delivery in the past. The drug must be injected by these women weekly for 18-20 weeks of their pregnancy.
According to the Baltimore Sun, the controversy surrounding this drug began when the "…K-V Pharmaceutical Co. boosted the total cost of the drug during a pregnancy from about $400 to $30,000, igniting a firestorm of objections." This was possible because originally the medication was created by a compounding pharmacy mixing it together for patient use. Then in February, the FDA granted K-V Pharmaceutical Co. the exclusive rights to manufacture the medication for seven years.
If raising the cost of the medication 75 times its original cost (from $10-20/dose to $1,500/dose) were not enough, the Baltimore Sun reports that the company then went on to "sen[d] letters to pharmacies threatening that the FDA would punish them if they compounded their own versions of the drug." However, the FDA, amid a loud outcry of complaints, has "…declared it would do no such thing. In its statement, the FDA noted that the drug was important and K-V 'received considerable assistance from the federal government in connection with the development of Makena by relying on research funded by the National Institutes of Health to demonstrate the drug's effectiveness.'"
What has been so interesting are the implications of this story and the reactions to it. Clearly, the original decision by the pharmaceutical company to raise the cost of the drug 75 times the old cost is an attempt to make money from their exclusive rights. I can hardly imagine that there is any reason other than profit creation for this move given that they did not have costs associated with research and development or any other clearly identifiable costs. So, aside from my initial reaction of disgust that this might make it harder for women who need this medication to protect their children, I also thought about the bigger implications.
First of all, the cost issue is not so simple as it first appears. As another article from the Baltimore Sun mentioned, "[t]he burden for many will fall on insurance companies, which may have to raise rates. The increase will also affect already strapped Medicaid programs." The increased costs of drugs impact many Americans directly – those without insurance or those for whom even co-pays are a major budgetary struggle. However, the costs here also reach all of us. If the costs associated with the company's increased profit are borne by the insurance companies and Medicaid, it also means that the costs are going to be felt by all of us who pay for health insurance or whose companies pay for health insurance and yes, by all of us, who pay taxes.
Secondly, for those women who do not realize that they could still go to a compounding pharmacy for this prescription and for whom it is not covered by insurance, the increased cost may mean that some woman will go without these injections. The Baltimore Sun article reports that:
About 500,000 U.S. infants are born prematurely each year. The March of Dimes estimates that about 10,000 of those premature births could be prevented if eligible women received Makena.
The implications here deal with both the health and safety of the unborn child who is now at risk of premature birth. But, unfortunately, they also have an associated monetary cost. The cost of a baby being born prematurely is also going to weigh on the insurance companies and is, therefore, going to be shared by all in the form of potentially increased premiums.
Given the intense criticism in the news, K-V Pharmaceutical Company moderately changed course in the last few days, according to Medical News Today and said they would bring the cost of Makena down to $690 per dose from the originally announced price of $1,500 per dose. While this is lower, this is hardly a significant adjustment given that the compounded version costs between $10-20 per dose. The March of Dimes, which originally backed FDA approval of the drug and was allowing the pharmaceutical company's use of its name and logo, is apparently embarrassed by KV Pharmaceutical's decisions. According to an article on the nonprofitquarterly.org, "…the March of Dimes is backing out of a sponsorship deal with the [pharmaceutical] company that sells [Makena]. Last Friday, the nation's leading nonprofit focused on the health of pregnant women and babies said it would no longer allow St. Louis-based, KV Pharmaceutical Co. to use its name or logo in any of the drug company's promotions."
The response from the March of Dimes is not KV Pharmaceutical Co.'s only trouble as the Wall Street Journal is reporting that after the FDA announcement that it will not take action against pharmacies that compound the drug, and the company subsequently announced that it would cut the cost, the company's shares fell 5.2%. Reuter's is reporting that this represents a drop of more than 20 percent. Congress is also in an uproar about this issue. The Reuter's article says that elected officials are creating pressure for more to do be done on this issue.
What do you think should be done about KV Pharmaceutical Co.? Are they really any different from any of the other pharmaceutical companies? Is it relevant to consider that this is a so-called orphan drug and that the company has exclusive rights because of this? Do you think that allowing compounding pharmacies to create the drug for woman separate from the FDA approved drug is a sufficient solution? What about the bigger question of companies creating inflated prices for their products and having insurance (and all of us) foot the bill?


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Religious Christmas Decorations to Inspire the Season
The Christmas holiday offers us an opportunity to get in touch with the true meaning of this Christian celebration, when we all want our homes to be filled with joy and love. At The Bradford Exchange Online, you'll find a wide selection of unique religious Christmas decorations to bring home the festivity of the holidays while keeping the true meaning of Christmas at the forefront of your decor. From Christmas ornaments to grace your tree, to fully-decorated tabletop Christmas trees that vividly reflect the reason for the season, we offer many unique decorating ideas to turn your holiday home into a peaceful and joyous vision of the very first Christmas.
Christian Christmas decorations are a wonderful way to inspire your holiday home because they help retell the Christmas Story in such a poignant way. Nativity sets, religious Christmas ornaments, meaningful mantel garlands and collectible figurines and sculptures become ideal canvases to capture the essence of that starry night in Bethlehem, and you are sure to find many of these beautiful religious Christmas decorations right here. What makes our Christian Christmas decorations so unique is that they are not available in stores, meaning you are truly discovering distinctive and rare treasures of the holiday season. And no matter which religious Christmas decorations you choose to grace your home, you can be sure they will be handcrafted and held to the high standards of quality you've come to expect from us. Plus, they are all backed by the best guarantee in the business, with returns up to one full year and free return shipping.
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Over the weekend, we saw Gregory Campbell christen his Bruins career with a decent bout with Phoenix's Vernon Fiddler, Shawn Thornton do his usual amount of protecting his teammates, Milan Lucic nearly come to blows with Ed Jovanovski and plenty of physical play from Zdeno Chara and Brad Marchand.
Plus, Adam McQuaid, a guy never afraid to throw his weight around, didn't get into the lineup.
But obviously the Bruins and general manager Peter Chiarelli decided their team still needed more toughness because today they officially announced they signed Brian McGrattan to a one-year deal. The 29-year-old McGrattan, who's famous for some classic heavyweight bouts and triple-digit PIM totals, was in training camp with the Bruins as a pro tryout, and he went to Europe with the team.
While it was not announced, it was reported over the weekend that the deal is a two-way contract with an AHL salary low enough to avoid re-entry waivers. Having McGrattan around as an insurance policy against injury to Thornton or other Boston bone-crunchers is a low-cost, low-risk move. However, right now I wouldn't mess with the chemistry of Boston's starting 12 up front. Marchand, Thornton and Campbell, in particular, seemed to really click Sunday in the victory over the Coyotes.
•In a second move today, Boston waived Nolan Schaefer for the purpose of assignment to Providence (AHL). The goaltender's arrival probably can't come soon enough after the P-Bruins allowed 10 goals in two games over the weekend (one win, one loss).


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My sharp-eyed husband caught this bourbon pumpkin cheesecake recipe while I was — typically — flipping through a Gourmet magazine last year. Although it was a total hit at Thanksgiving, my fleeting recipe attention span struck again this year, but as I began hunting for a new and different fall-themed cheesecake it was made clear I'd still be welcome at the table with something else — just a little less so.
Like any good newlywed, last year I made two cakes — one for the family we would spend the afternoon with, and one for the family that had reserved our evening shift. I had intended to do the same this year until I realized that I'd left the base to one of my springform pans at my parents. Already having two batters and crumb crusts prepared, I cursed several times, refilled my wine glass and decided I'd try to make twelve cupcake-sized cheesecakes with the second batter. (Why oh WHY did I not buy these the fifteen times I have seen them at the store and fawned over them? The headaches $15 could have saved me!) While the full-sized cake looks lovely, the jury is still out on whether those cupcake cheesecakes are ever coming out of the pan, and it's not looking very promising.
The good news, however, is that is the remaining batter fit perfectly in a single 4.75-inch springform — no doubt purchased on impulse because it was sooo cuuute — I'd forgotten about which means we get both samples and pictures this year. I know it's a little late in the game to change your dessert plans to this, and how arrogant for me to suggest that you should, but if you're looking for that little something-something that will make your pumpkin cheesecake sing, that splash of bourbon (of course), crunching of ground pecans in the crust or even slightly sweetened sour cream topping could be used to juice up any recipe.
And now we make pie.
Cheesecake, previously: Chocolate Caramel Cheesecake, Key Lime Cheesecake, Nectarine, Mascarpone and Gingersnap Tart (almost no-bake!), Brownie Mosaic Cheesecake, Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Squares, Black-Bottomed Cupcakes (with a cheesecake filling) and Cream Cheese Marbled Brownies.
Update: "Deb, Help!" — I just never know when to say when, do I? I can't help but notice the onslaught of Googling for "can I put vanilla in cranberry sauce" and "how long is gravy good for," not to mention a slew of emails I've responded to this week, and, wel, well, I aim to please. If you run into a cooking question between now and oh, noon on Thanksgiving, drop me a comment and I'll do my best to either respond to it or direct you to another person or site that can. I'm no expert, but hey, that's never stopped me from mouthing off before. If you're lucky, one of my much-smarter readers will chime in, too. Ask away!
Bourbon Pumpkin Cheesecake
Adapted from Gourmet, November 2003
Serves 12 to 14
For crust
3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs (from five 4 3/4- by 2 1/4-inch crackers)
1/2 cup pecans (1 3/4 ounce), finely chopped
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
For filling
1 1/2 cups canned solid-pack pumpkin
3 large eggs
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
2 tablespoons heavy cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon bourbon liqueur or bourbon (optional)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, at room temperature
For topping
2 cups sour cream (20 ounces)
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 tablespoon bourbon liqueur or bourbon (optional)
Garnish: pecan halves
Make crust: Invert bottom of a 9-inch springform pan (to create flat bottom, which will make it easier to remove cake from pan), then lock on side and butter pan.
Stir together crumbs, pecans, sugars, and butter in a bowl until combined well. Press crumb mixture evenly onto bottom and 1/2 inch up side of pan, then chill crust, 1 hour.
Make filling and bake cheesecake: Put oven rack in middle position and Preheat oven to 350°F.
Whisk together pumpkin, eggs, brown sugar, cream, vanilla, and liqueur (if using) in a bowl until combined.
Stir together granulated sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and salt in large bowl.
Add cream cheese and beat with an electric mixer at high speed until creamy and smooth, about 3 minutes. Reduce speed to medium, then add pumpkin mixture and beat until smooth.
Pour filling into crust, smoothing top, then put springform pan in a shallow baking pan (in case springform leaks). Bake until center is just set, 50 to 60 minutes. Transfer to rack and cool 5 minutes. (Leave oven on.)
Make topping: Whisk together sour cream, sugar, and liqueur (if using) in a bowl, then spread on top of cheesecake and bake 5 additional minutes.
Cool cheesecake completely in pan on rack, about 3 hours.
Chill, covered, until cold, at least 4 hours. Remove side of pan and bring to room temperature before serving.
Do ahead: Baked cheesecake can be chilled, covered, up to 2 days.


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Renesola to Provide Solar Modules to Off-Grid Saudi Power Plant
Company participation at World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi marks ReneSola's first shipment to the Middle East
Jan 13, 2013, 04:00 ET
DUBAI, U.A.E., Jan. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ReneSola (NYSE: SOL), a leading global manufacturer of solar photovoltaic ("PV") modules and wafers, has announced that it will be showcasing its latest solar energy-based solutions at this year's World Future Energy Summit (WFES), which starts at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre on Tuesday 15 January 2013.
ReneSola's participation at WFES 2013 comes at a time when the company has been awarded its first contract in the Middle East, by Taibah University in Medina, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia, to provide 15 kilowatts of solar modules to be used in an off-grid power plant project to test off-grid solutions.
The company's solar modules are expected to arrive in the holy city of Medina, Makkah Province, early this year and will be used to charge the plant's battery.
Commenting on the contract win, Mr. Xianshou Li, founder and chief executive officer of ReneSola said, "An off-grid solution, particularly one with PV modules powering an energy storage system, can be far more cost-effective than delivering electricity to a small area by conventional means.
"At the same time, a PV solution can typically be completed faster than grid-connected projects, which provides additional incentive for developers to go with an off-grid PV alternative. We believe such off-grid solutions will find a niche in the PV market, particularly in emerging markets like Africa, South America and the Middle East, where we are already seeing demand. With our new presence in Saudi Arabia, we will continue to work to expand our business and bring innovative PV solutions to the region."
According to Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia is investing US$109 billion into solar energy, with plans to develop a solar industry that can meet up to a third of its electricity demand by 2032, of which 16,000 megawatts will be generated from photovoltaic panels. Work will commence on its first solar-powered facility this year and could take two years to complete.
Currently, Saudi Arabia has around 3 megawatts of solar installations, lagging behind the UAE, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. However, Saudi Arabia would like to free up more of its oil for the export market. With current oil prices already high and predicted to rise significantly over the coming decades, solar energy would be a cleaner and more cost-effective alternative.
Mr. Zhidong Zheng, ReneSola's senior vice president of wafer technology, added, "We believe our modules are well suited for the climates of Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East, particularly our Virtus II modules, which generate high efficiency with very low sensitivity to variations in temperature. The minimal degradation of our solar modules results in long life cycles and reliable power output. We are confident they will perform well in Medina, Makkah Province and attract other developers throughout the Middle East."
About ReneSola
Founded in 2005, ReneSola (NYSE: SOL) is a leading global manufacturer of high-efficiency solar PV modules and wafers. Leveraging its proprietary technologies, economies of scale and technical expertise, ReneSola uses in-house virgin polysilicon and a vertically integrated business model to provide customers with high-quality, cost-competitive products. ReneSola solar modules have scored top PVUSA Test Conditions (PTC) ratings with high annual kilowatt-hour output, according to the California Energy Commission (CEC). ReneSola solar PV modules can be found in projects ranging in size from a few kilowatts to multi-megawatts in markets around the world, including the United States, Germany, Italy, Belgium, China, Greece, Spain and Australia. For more information, please visit www.ReneSola.com.
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Benjamin Hubert: The Ship-Builder of Seating
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Website: benjaminhubert.co.uk
Store History
- Founded by: Benjamin Hubert
- Headquarters: London, UK
Seamus Heaney has a famous poem about a ship that appears in a monastery — its anchor dragging, it hooks into the altar rails. A crewman grapples down the rope, the monks help to free the ship, "and the man climbed back out of the marvellous as he had known it." Benjamin Hubert reminds me of that crewman, halfway between the real world and a mysterious otherworld where the regular rules of time and space don't apply, and ships can hang in the air.
Born in the UK, Hubert is a young designer — just 28 years old. He's already earned several accolades, including "Young Designer of the Year" awards from Elle Decoration UK (2010) and Elle Decoration France (2009). He's also worked with top-tier brands, from De La Espada to Magis to Casamania.
This year, his Maritime Chair debuted with Casamania. Built like a boat rather than a chair, it's made from a bowed wood skeleton that's skinned in ash plywood.
Past pieces include the smooth "pebble" line of furniture, made from polyethylene and "manufactured by a process usually reserved for outdoor furniture, making them sturdy and durable," as well as mouth-blown glass lights with cork stoppers that resemble floating buoys and paddle-shaped LED task lights made from oak and cast aluminum.
• Lighting & Furniture by Benjamin Hubert Studio: 100% Design
• Imaginative Lighting by Benjamin Hubert
• Pebble Furniture by Benjamin Hubert
Photos: Benjamin Hubert Studio


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The pelagic tunicates known as salps (Thaliacea) float singly or in cylindrical or chainlike colonies that may reach several meters in length. The incurrent and excurrent siphons of salps are positioned at opposite ends, providing thrust for locomotion. Most salps are gelatinous and transparent. Salps are known from throughout the oceans, but are especially abundant in tropical and subtropical waters. They occur from the ocean surface down to around 1500 meters.
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WordPress rolls out Twitter and Facebook comments options
WordPress has launched a three-way commenting system allowing people to use their WordPress, Twitter or Facebook account to leave a comment on a WordPress blog or news site.
Readers can decide which identity they use to leave comments and, after authenticating accounts, can toggle between the three options before posting.
Announcing the new commenting system on its blog, WordPress said:
And since you know your readers well, you can now change the text above the comment box to be whatever you like. We recommend using the default we are applying to new blogs, "What are you thinking?", as questions often encourage more comments, but you can change it to whatever you like by going to your dashboard, then Settings → Discussion.
Further Twitter and Facebook integration is also planned, the blogging platform announced.
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Beverly Ann Caracci
Ann Caracci was born peacefully to eternal
life Friday evening, March 5, 2010, after a courageous battle with
breast cancer.
grew up in Waukesha,
graduated from Waukesha South High School in 1973 and later moved to
Florida. She returned to Waukesha more than 10 years ago to be closer to
family and friends.
was predeceased by her parents, Al and Nancy (Cerroni) Caracci of
Bev is survived and will be missed by her loving sister, Mary Theresa of
Waukesha, the Caracci and Cerroni families, all of her friends and her
beloved cat, Murphy.
wanted to thank everyone for their love, support and friendship
throughout her journey in this life. May God bless you all.
Visitation will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Monday, May 22, at Church
and Chapel, 380 W. Bluemound Road, Waukesha. Her memorial service will
begin at 6 p.m.
In lieu of
flowers, Bev requested that memorial donations be made to the Humane
Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County, 701 Northview Road, Waukesha,
WI 53188, or The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for the Cure,
9200 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53226. Memorial donations will
also be accepted at the service.


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A study in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology has linked douching to vaginal infections. Women who douche at least once a month have higher rates of bacterial vaginosis infections than do women who don't douche, the researchers found in a study of 1,200 women. Two of five women who reported douching regularly suffered vaginal infections. These women were more likely to lack a specific kind of naturally occurring bacterium necessary to fight off BV-causing microbes than were women without the infections. The researchers suggest douching may disrupt the normal vaginal microbiology leading to vulnerability to infection, said Dr. Roberta Ness at the University of Pittsburgh.
A study shows home accidents account for thousands of deaths each year. The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, study shows more than 20 million visits to emergency rooms, doctors' offices and clinics annually are made due to mishaps there every year. Some 20,000 people were killed unintentionally in their homes in 1998, and at least 7 million suffered disabling injuries, according to the State of Home Safety in America report. The death toll does not take into account poisonings, which represent a significant number of fatalities, the researchers said. "Falls are by far the major problem, followed by poisonings," said study leader Dr. Carol Runyan. "We were surprised to find that poisonings occur not just in little children, but also in large numbers of adults -- even middle-aged adults -- who appear to die from mixtures of prescription drugs and in some cases illicit drugs as well." Runyan is director of UNC's Injury Prevention Research Center and professor of health behavior and health education at the School of Public Health. After falls and poisonings, the leading causes of such deaths were fires, inhalations and suffocation and drowning, she said. States with the lowest home injury death rates included Massachusetts, Utah, Maryland, Minnesota and New York. Those with the highest were New Mexico, the District of Columbia, Arizona, Mississippi and Wisconsin, followed by the Dakotas, Florida, Pennsylvania and Washington.
Doctors have found delivering pain medication to cancer patients through an implantable pump can offer such benefits as greater relief with smaller doses and fewer side effects than experienced with standard treatments alone. The delivery method of delivering powerful painkillers has a major bearing in how well cancer patients do, the investigators reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The study, sponsored by Medtronic, Inc., showed opioids delivered through an implantable infusion system provided better relief from moderate to severe cancer pain with smaller doses and fewer side effects than such standard treatments as pills, patches and shots alone, scientists said. "As an oncologist, I've seen firsthand how a patient's pain can hamper our efforts to treat the cancer itself and adversely affect the entire family," said lead author Dr. Thomas Smith, chairman of hematology and oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University's Massey Cancer Center in Richmond. "By using the pump, we can deliver medication directly into the patient's spinal fluid, where small doses can have a big impact on pain. Put simply, less medication means fewer side effects, which makes life better not only for the patient but for the patient's family, too. And with the pain under control, we can focus on treating the cancer." About one-third of people with cancer and two-thirds of people with advanced disease experience pain, according to the American Cancer Society. But up to 15 percent of patients fail to get relief from oral opioids.
A study reveals people with high cholesterol have a difficult time sticking to a heart-happy diet. The national cholesterol study shows 70 percent admit it's a real struggle for them to eat what they should. Nearly 40 percent said the hardest part of making dietary changes is giving up some of their favorite foods. Men have an even harder time than women -- 45 percent versus 31 percent -- sacrificing at the dinner table. "Even small changes in the diet can have a profound effect on heart disease risk," said study author Ruth Carey. "Many people get discouraged because they feel dietary change is only about deprivation. People should focus more on substitution, not subtraction when it comes to their diet." The survey also found that older people are more likely to know about the new government issued cholesterol guidelines, but are less likely to follow them and be concerned about the foods they eat.
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Not bad. there is really only like 1 1/3 schools there.
Kite kuda operates between 9-12 and 2-5 during which it can get crowded in parts. There is still plenty of space, it's just the prime area on the lagoon gets busy. The rest of the day though the lagoon is almost empty.
The wind is all day. Therefore, if you want to beat the crowds start before 9 or kite while kite kuda is on lunch or in evening, or even nighttime. 24 hour wind ensures that you get your fill of kiting. I still have blisters on my hand from my last trip a month ago.
I've had two collisions there myself, and seen about 20 others. These are usually beginners, or people not observing the right of way (Russians).


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Looking for the Perfect Souvenir? Buy a Traditional Tablecloth!
Some gorgeous tablecloths from around the world, as pictured up top:
- Iran: Traditional tablecloths are printed by hand right before your eyes at bazaars.
- Japan: A vintage Japanese tablecloth hand-dyed in indigo.
- Mexico: Traditional handwoven table runners in bright colors.
- Africa (Zimbabwe): Hand painted and batik cotton tablecloths in traditional patterns.
- France: This tablecloth by Tissage de Luz is cheery in 100% French cotton.
(Images: 1. Flickr user Indigoprime licensed for use under Creative Commons; 2. eBay; 3. Zinnia Folk Arts; 4. Kosmopolitan; 5. Quel Objet)


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Library Fall Hours
Formbooks Tutorial
Resource of the Week
Special Issue of Library Newsletter
Library Food and Drink Policy
Not allowed are: cans, styrofoam or paper cups, or soft drinks in bottles.
2) Food is not permitted in the Library.
3) No food or drinks of any kind are allowed in the computer labs.
Free mugs that comply with this policy are available at the Service Desk. They are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and one mug is available per person. The mugs have been donated by Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis, so there are two different styles.
Please Guard Your Valuables
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