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5 Simple Projects from Valspar Paint
Inside Man program with Valspar Paint, where we used color to transform one room in the homes of five guys across the country.
Jim Franco
Dresser UpgradeIn David's Brooklyn browstone, we created a stylish nook by upgrading a thrift store dresser and mirror with a couple coats of paint.
- Valspar Paint Modest Silver 4002-1A
- Valspar Paint Dove White 7002-07
- Valspar Paint Primer
- Drop cloth, sandpaper, screwdriver, roller, and brushes
- Thrift store dresser
- New drawer pulls (optional)
- Give the dresser a quick once-over with sandpaper.
- Clean and prep the dresser.
- Remove the drawers.
- Use a screwdriver to remove the drawer pulls.
- Use a dropcloth to protect your floors.
- Cover the dresser and drawers with one coat of primer.
- Leave the sides of drawers and inside of the dresser unpainted.
- Allow primer to dry.
- Using the roller and/or brush, coat the body of the dresser with Dove White.
- Using the roller and/or brush, coat the face of the drawers with Modest Silver.
- Allow paint to dry, and then repeat with a second coat.
- Allow second coat to dry.
- Use a screwdriver to install new drawer pulls.
- Finished!
Inspiration BoardMichael in Dallas is an avid collector, and he had a lot of clippings that inspired this super simple project.
- Valspar Spraypaint Gloss Gray 64010
- "Ung Drill" frame from IKEA
- Newspaper, mask to cover your nose and mouth
- Matte medium and brush from an art supply store
- Inspirational paper clippings
- Take the frame back off and remove the glass.
- Lightly sand the frame, then clean it.
- Work outside in a well ventilated area.
- Lay down newspaper and put on the mask.
- Coat the frame and its backboard in a thin layer of spraypaint.
- Allow the first coat to dry, then repeat until you have an even, solid coating.
- Allow frame and backboard to fully dry.
- Use the spraypainted backboard as a "canvas" for your collage.
- Using a brush, apply a thin layer of matte medium to the back of a paper clipping.
- Adhere the clipping to the board.
- Repeat this step until you're satisfied with your collage.
- Reassemble the frame, backboard, and glass.
- Hang your finished artwork!
Spectrum ShelvesBarney's loft in Los Angeles needed some bookshelves, so we dressed up a pair of basic IKEA shelves with a few stripes of paint.
- Valspar Paint Gilded Pesto - 6007-6B
- Valspar Paint Holmes Cream - 3004-10B
- Valspar Paint Cliveden Grey Morning - 6001-1B
- Valspar Primer
- Lack wall shelf from IKEA
- Painters tape, sandpaper, and brush
- Lightly sand the front-facing edges of the Lack shelf.
- Clean and prep the shelf.
- Use painters tape to cover everything except for the front-facing edges of the shelf.
- Using a brush, give each shelf edge a coat of primer and allow to dry.
- Apply a thin coat of paint to each shelf egde.
- You can mix colors up, with a different tone on each shelf, or paint all edges the same.
- Allow your first coat to dry, then paint a second coat on each shelf edge.
- Once it's dry, you're done!
Trophy CaseJarrett's basement bar came with an amazing built-in trophy case that we filled with spraypainted thrift store finds.
- Valspar Spraypaint Orange Gloss
- Valspar Spraypaint Salsa Orange Gloss
- Newspaper, mask to cover your nose and mouth
- Thrift store trophies
- Clean and prep the trophies.
- Work outside in a well ventilated area.
- Lay down newspaper and put on the mask.
- Select half of your trophy collection and lay it out on the newspaper.
- Coat the trophies in a thin layer of your first color spraypaint.
- Allow the first coat to dry, then repeat until you have an even, solid coating.
- Now select the second half of your trophy collection and lay it out on the newspaper.
- Coat the trophies in a thin layer of your second color spraypaint.
- Allow the first coat to dry, then repeat until you have an even, solid coating.
- Arrange the trophies on a shelf or mantel, and you've got a bold focal point!
Painted HeadboardThis project comes from James' home in Atlanta, where we were going for a restful, calm aesthetic in the bedroom.
- Valspar Paint Evening Lilac 1002-5B
- Valspar Paint Gossamer Curtain 1002-6C
- Valspar Paint Primer
- Pencil, drop cloth, sandpaper, painters tape, brushes, and roller
- Clean and prep the wall.
- Lay down a drop cloth to protect your floors.
- Paint a coat of primer and allow to dry.
- Paint the wall white with two coats. Allow to dry overnight.
- Measure the width of your bed and add 6 inches.
- With a pencil, mark two lines of measurements on your wall.
- Use a level to draw the lines in pencil.
- Adhere painter's tape along the pencil line and press firmly.
- Along the tape line, use a very lightly coated roller to paint the walls lilac.
- Fill in the rest of the walls on either side of your "headboard" with lilac.
- Use two coats of lilac, but don't pull up the tape until the paint is dry.
- Once dry, remove tape and use a brush to correct any bleeding along the edges.
- Finished!
Jim Franco


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April marks the nation's "Month of the Military Child," a time to honor youth impacted by deployment. In celebration, South Carolina Operation: Military Kids (OMK) invites the public to "Purple Up! For Military Kids."
Operation: Military Kids is encouraging people across the state of South Carolina to wear purple on Friday, April 13, as a visible way to show support and thank military children for their strength and sacrifices. Purple is the color that symbolizes all branches of the military, as it is the combination of Army green, Coast Guard blue, Air Force blue, Marine red and Navy blue. OMK hopes everyone will take this opportunity to appreciate and celebrate these young heroes.


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Learning Math: Patterns, Functions & Algebra "Linear Functions and Slope" Explore linear relationships by looking at lines and slopes. Using computer spreadsheets, examine dynamic dependence and linear relationships and learn to recognize linear relationships expressed in tables, equations, and graphs. Also, explore the role of slope and dependent and independent variables in graphs of linear relationships, and the relationship of rates to slopes and equations.G
12:30 pm
Learning Math: Patterns, Functions & Algebra "Solving Equations" Look at different strategies for solving equations. Topics include the different meanings attributed to the equal sign and the strengths and limitations of different models for solving equations. Explore the connection between equality and balance, and practice solving equations by balancing, working backwards, and inverting operations.G
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Science In Focus: Force and Motion "Keep On Rolling" Roller coasters are filled with twists and turns, as changes in height and direction supply a variety of push and pull forces. In this workshop, first-grade students build on their prior experience with rolling objects. By designing and constructing their own roller coaster made from ramps, cardboard tubes, and flexible tubes, the students experiment with ways to get a marble from the top of a table into a bucket on the floor, some distance away.G
2:00 pm
Teaching Channel Presents "The New Teacher Experience" The New Teacher Experience: Follow two teachers in Los Angeles, CA for an intimate look at what the experience is really like. Many beginning teachers in America are given keys to their classroom and left to sink or swim in isolation, but, with the support of mentors, these teachers persevere through the trials and tribulations of their first year of teaching. D
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Looking at Learning....Again Part 2 "Learning to Listen" With Dr. Wynne Harlen. Formative assessment is a term that has gained prominence as teachers recognize the value of uncovering students. D
4:00 pm
Crafting at the Spotted Canary "Things That Are Lacey" We all like to feel pretty and lace is one of those designs that makes everything beautiful. Stamps and punches are great tools for adding lace to everyday items. Pillows for the couch can be stamped with lace, you can stamp a piece of fabric for a new-look to a chair, and paper can be punched to make a delicate wreath for the door to welcome your friends. D
4:30 pm
Crafting at the Spotted Canary "Things That Make The Perfect Party" Hostessing a party is an honor. It presents an opportunity to gather with your friends and share some time together. Planning the perfect party starts with a theme and your guest list. D
5:00 pm
Katie Brown Workshop "A Cabin Feel" Curl up and get cozy with Katie's ideas for keeping warm on a cold winter night. Recipes squash soup, caramel apples and cranberry apple cider. Projects: a cozy slip cover and twig candles. D
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The Jazzy Vegetarian "Neighborly Supper" Host Laura Theodore prepares a casual meal featuring delectable "Walnut Stuffed Mushrooms." "Roasted Butternut Squash with Garlic" is served on the side, along with mouthwatering "Spinach with Garbanzo Beans and Caramelized Onion." Scrumptious "Light and Lovely Lemon Cake" rounds out this simple supper menu. D
6:00 pm
Chefs A' Field: Culinary Adventures That Begin On The Farm "Washington, Virginia - Apples" Chef Patrick O'Connell is the winner of every major food award and is considered America's greatest chef. His secret? A bit of whimsy, and impeccable ingredients gathered from the countryside that surrounds his famous Inn at Little Washington. Apples from neighboring Sunnyside Organic Farms meet flames in the kitchen of Chef O'Connell-and chef and farmer make a bid for the comeback of the long-forgotten rutabaga. D
6:30 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Harvest Time" Inspired by freshly picked vegetables, Joanne prepares a vegetarian feast. She begins by making a luscious butternut squash soup. And then for a twist with her student Sasha she cooks up some Gnocchi with Brown Butter using semolina instead of potatoes along with Kale with Garlic and White Balsamic. D
7:00 pm
Katie Brown Workshop "Halloween" Trick or treat! Katie shares some "spooky" Halloween ideas. In the kitchen: candy pumpkin apples, chocolate-covered marshmallows and white chocolate candy corns. Get into the "spirit" of things with a painted bucket and gourd-face pumpkins. D
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Cooking with Nick Stellino "Luscious Soups" A soup can be a form of art! Chef Stellino shares his secrets for the perfect soups, smooth, luscious and elegant. Nick visits the green grocer and prepares Butternut Squash Soup topped with Peppers, Arugula & Spicy Sausage and a Pea Soup topped with Peppers & Shrimp. D
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Katie Brown Workshop "Apples" Katie and the Workshop crew use apples to create autumnal decorations and delicious treats. Recipes: apple popovers, apple brownies and apple chutney. Projects: a wooden welcome sign and an apple centerpiece. D
8:30 pm
P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table "Harvest Festival" P. Allen Smith celebrates fall with friends at the farm. He shares recipes like pumpkin creme brulee and roasted chicken and pumpkin stew. Chef Ashley Christenson makes a sweet potato dish.G
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Spicy Fall Sweets" Test cook Julia Collin Davison shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the best Pumpkin Bread. Then, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of molasses. Next, science expert Guy Crosby explains the science of baking soda. D
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Simply Ming "Samson Chan & Shellfish" On this episode of SIMPLY MING, Ming meets up with Chef Samson Chan, the mastermind behind one of Singapore's favorite restaurants, Barnacles. Together they shop for some great living treasures from the South China Sea at Grand Atlantic Fishery. Bringing back the freshest seafood to Chef Samson's restaurant for an afternoon of cooking on the fly, they'll show us how easy it is too cook with the shell on!. D
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Taste This! "Nyc Upper East Side" Chef Joe travels to the upper east side of New York City to learn more about this cozy restaurant that has been in business for the past 33 years. A staple in this neighborhood, this intimate restaurant offers an overall, great dining experience. Back in the test kitchen, using Sun dried Tomato Pesto, Chef Joe creates a chicken dish stuffed with the pesto and potato flakes plus a pasta dish using Gnocchi and the pesto as the garnish!. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Norway's West: Fjords, Mountains and Bergen" Rick sails under towering fjord cliffs, hikes on glaciers and finds surviving traditions in remote farm hamlets. He delves into Hanseatic heritage and takes in the salty hospitality of Norway's historic capitol, Bergen.G
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The Latest Tattoo Statistics
Photo by Edgar Hoill aka OSOKILL
Any time I read the word "tattoo poll" -- or even worse "tat stats" -- I shake my curly red head and wonder how a passion for art can be quantified and put into nice info boxes for media consumption. But damn the media loves those statistics. They cite the same old tattoo polls from 2003 and 2008 by Harris Interactive in news pieces on the "tattoo trend." But now they no longer have to.
Today, Harris released their latest tattoo poll, which surveyed 2,016 American adults online between January 16 and 23, 2012. Here are some of the highlights from that survey (most are direct quotes):
* One in five U.S. adults has at least one tattoo (21%), which is up from 16% & 14% surveyed in 2003 and 2008, respectively.
* Those living on the West Coast have more tattoos (26%) than those on the East Coast (21%), the Midwest (21%) and the South (18%).
* Adults aged 30-39 are most likely to have a tattoo (38%) compared to both those younger (30% of those 25-29 and 22% of those 18-24) and older (27% of those 40-49, 11% of those 50-64 and just 5% of those 65 and older).
*Women are slightly more likely than men, for the first time since this question was first asked, to have a tattoo (now 23% versus 19%).
And here's where it gets sexy:
*Among those with a tattoo, most have never regretted getting a tattoo (86%) and three in ten say it makes them feel more sexy (30%). [Woohoo!] One-quarter say having a tattoo makes them feel rebellious (25%), 21% say both it makes them feel attractive or strong, 16% say it makes them feel spiritual and fewer say it makes them feel more healthy (9%), intelligent (8%) or athletic (5%).
And here's where it gets nasty:
While so many of us feel beautiful and sexy in our tattoos, it seems that many polled don't share this feeling. At least two in five say that people with tattoos are less attractive (45%) or sexy (39%). Not that we care really, but there are some numbers worth mentioning, particularly because certain stereotypes that still exist could potentially affect things like employment or admission to the country club.
* One-quarter say that people with tattoos are less intelligent (27%), healthy (25%) or spiritual (25%).
* Half of those without a tattoo say people with tattoos are more rebellious (50%).
I'm so rebellious, I'm writing this post pantsless.
See all the stats and charts here. There's also a PDF download of the survey.
I would have loved it if they asked poll takers whether the Ink shows, celebrities, merch and other elements of tattoos in pop culture affected their choices. Also curious about how people describe their collections; for example, whether they consider themselves "heavily" tattooed.
Feel free to post your thoughts on the survey in the Needles & Sins Facebook group.
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Bart Starr and Vince Lombardi. Terry Bradshaw and Chuck Noll. Joe Montana and Bill Walsh.
Great quarterbacks make great coaches.
Or maybe it's the other way around.
Regardless, stroll through the busts in Canton and, with few exceptions, the NFL's Hall of Fame coaches had quarterbacks who were similarly enshrined.
So with this recognition of top-10 coaching performances of the 2014 regular season is the acknowledgment that an outstanding quarterback can make the guy holding the laminated play card look like a genius.
That said, some of the following coaches found a way to win games despite a revolving door of quarterbacks, or with good quarterbacks who went...


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Many people feel the calling to follow a religious career in their local churches or abroad, but qualified candidates are hard to find. For instance, some of these positions require a strong commitment from the interested party, as is the case with deacons. In fact, the word derives from the ancient Greek and it means servant. A deacon in the Catholic Church serves in three different areas, namely the word (proclaiming the gospel, preaching and teaching), the liturgy (both being a minister of Holy Communion and the proper minister of the Chalice) and charity (service to the poor). Deacons may also perform an active, but limited, role in the sacraments of baptism and matrimony, as well as funeral rites not involving Mass.
However, people who take up a religious occupation are not confined within the limits of a religious building, and may perform their duties in a secular institution. This is the case of chaplains, which can be found at hospitals, prisons, military units, police departments, and universities. A previous background on different disciplines may aid the person looking to become a chaplain to find a position. For example, an army trained soldier who also has theological training may find it easier to become a military chaplain. Other types of chaplains may have to pull double duty, such as those working at law enforcement agencies and fire departments.
The most famous religious occupation in the world is probably that of missionary, but it may also be one of the hardest. Not only should missionaries be prepared to live in a foreign country for extended periods of time, but are also expected to offer services in different fields, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development. As opposed to what many people may believe, missions are not sent by religious groups in an attempt to convert as many people as possible, but to economically and socially impaired countries that are in need of much help.
Ushers are a very good example of an often overlooked yet important position. Ushers are the very first church official representative that people see when entering a church. This is usually a voluntary position, but it may also be regarded as an honor within the community. The duties of church ushers usually include greeting people when entering, seat attendees, collecting the tithes and offering, keeping order at the entrance, cleaning and preparing the church, counting people in service, distributing pamphlets, bulletins and service programmes and preparing the altar for service.


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Amazon Asks FAA for Permission to Test Drones
Retailer Expects Prime Air to Be Able to Deliver Packages Under 30 Minutes
Amazon.com Inc. formally requested permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to start testing drones, an important step toward the online retail giant's goal to use the devices to deliver packages.
Amazon first unveiled the plans in December, dubbing the proposed service Amazon Prime Air and saying drones would eventually be able to deliver small packages to customers in less than 30 minutes. In its petition to the FAA, posted Thursday, Amazon said it is now on its eighth- and ninth-generation drone prototypes,...


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RFP Announcement: Jackson Heart Study Renewal - Field Center, Community Outreach Center, Training and Education Center, and Coordinating Center
Release Date: August 22, 2012
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
As part of the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) renewal, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), plans to solicit proposals from qualified organizations to establish:
* one (1) Field Center
* one (1) Community Outreach Center
* up to two (2) Training and Education Centers
* one (1) Coordinating Center
The RFPs can be accessed through the FedBizOpps (URL: https://www.fbo.gov/) or through the NHLBI website at the following address: URL: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/funding/inits/index.htm#rfp. The electronic RFPs contain all information needed to submit a proposal.
Research Initiative Details
The JHS is a multi-center investigation of predictors of
cardiovascular disease (CVD) in 5,301 African-Americans living in Hinds,
Madison, and Rankin Counties surrounding the Jackson, MS metropolitan area. The
JHS was initiated in 1998 as a collaborative effort among three Jackson-area
academic institutions. At the close of the current contracts in May 2013, the
JHS will have completed three back-to-back cohort examinations that have
produced extensive longitudinal data on traditional and putative CVD risk
factors, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors and biochemical analyses;
measures of subclinical disease from echocardiography, cardiac magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) scans of the heart, aorta and
abdomen; and stored biological samples. Eighty-two percent of the surviving JHS
participants (N = 4,203) completed Exam 2; projected retention for Exam 3 is
80% (N = 4,082). In addition, the JHS has conducted annual cohort follow-up
contacts for incident clinical events of interest, a variety of community
education and outreach activities to promote healthy lifestyles to reduce
disease risk burden, and level-appropriate academic training programs to
promote and support public health research.
The objectives of the renewal of the JHS program are to:
1) Support dedicated time for JHS investigators to conduct data analysis and prepare manuscripts using the wealth of data collected.
2) Facilitate access to study resources and expertise in order to:
3) Conduct annual phone interviews with participants to
identify interim hospitalizations and outpatient medical visits, convey
information about the JHS, and serve as a vehicle to recruit for ancillary
4) Continue clinical events identification, investigation,
and validation to improve statistical power for risk prediction and hypothesis
5) Perform community health education activities to disseminate health promotion and prevention messages in the Jackson community.
Potential offerors are responsible for downloading the RFP and any attachments. It is also the offerors' responsibility to monitor the FedBizOpps web page for the release of any amendments to the RFP. Interested parties must respond to the solicitation in order to be considered for award of any resultant contract. This acquisition has been designated as a full and open competition under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 541712. Subcontracting opportunities are anticipated during the course of this contract award.
Awards for the JHS are anticipated to be made on or about June 1, 2013.
Please direct all Community Outreach Center and Training and
Education Center inquiries to:
Catherine VanCise, Contracting Officer
National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute
Please direct all Coordinating Center and Field Center inquiries to:
Austin Sachs, Contract Specialist
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Weekly TOC for this Announcement
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices
Office of Extramural
Research (OER)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS)
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As some of you may recall, way back in the day, Steve Jobs said Google's use of the word "open" was disingenuous, and that Google's use of the term in relation to Android was just smokes and mirrors. While the dripping, almost gelatinous irony of Steve Jobs accusing another company of abusing a term for marketing purposes certainly wasn't lost on me, I personally wasn't particularly happy with the lack of a public source code release for Honeycomb either; in the end, however, it didn't change anything about the openness of Android - technically speaking, that is. No licenses were violated, and all the source code that had to be released was properly released (all GPL code, for instance, was readily available).
Still, Andy Rubin, Google's Android chief, felt the need to address Steve Jobs' comments, and opened a Twitter account. His first tweet gave the definition of open - a definition as rock-solid now as it was back then. As most of us will realise, this is the sequence of commands that downloads and compiles the Android source code.
A few days ago, Rubin posted a tweet about how on December 24 and 25, 3.7 million Android devices were activated. A pretty impressive number, especially since unlike, say, Apple's numbers, this covers devices actually bought and activated by customers, but excludes devices which aren't Android certified, like the Kindle Fire or many Chinese products running Android derivatives (Apple's numbers, on the other hand, only cover shipped devices - not sold devices, like many erroneously believe. Apple uses "sold" rather... Disingenuously by redefining "shipped" to "sold" in its SEC filings).
In any case, Siegler noticed that Rubin's first tweet had been deleted - conspiracy! Proof Android isn't open! Man the trebuchets! "Where did the initial tweet go? Who knows. But it sure looks like he deleted it. Deleted it in an 'open' way, I'm sure," Siegler writes, "Luckily for us all, I saved Rubin's real first tweet from October 19, 2010." Can you imagine if he hadn't saved it for us all? What a relief!
There's no conspiracy here, of course. The simple fact of the matter is that the instructions for downloading and building Android which were given in Rubin's first tweet were outdated. After the kernel.org root server was compromised, many code repositories, including Android's, were moved away from kernel.org. In other words, Rubin's commands simply don't work any more, and as such, the tweet was deleted. Again, the irony of Siegler making a fuss about this isn't lost on me.
In case you were wondering, the new definition of open:
All this is remarkably uninteresting, but there's one upside to all this. In a comment posted on Google+ (the tenth one; how do you link to Google+ comments?), Clinton DeWitt explains the importance of open source in mobile, and the effect Android will have (and already is having) on the mobile industry in places other than the rich west. For the first time, a smartphone operating system is going to impact more than rich people in the US and Europe, and that is pretty darn revolutionary.
"I believe what Android is accomplishing is truly revolutionary. Mobile is the way that billions of people will one day access the Internet. And through that access, we will soon start to narrow the massive knowledge gap that currently divides the richest from the poorest populations," DeWitt explains, "That there's now an eminently capable open source mobile operating system, one that is free to use and free to fork, means that the knowledge advantage can be better and more evenly distributed across the planet than ever before."
"For some pundits, it's all about which companies are building the fanciest and most feature-rich handheld computers. Which, if we're being honest about it, are devices for those that already have everything. When you're at the top, it's great to see the tech giants going head-to-head and competing for our dollars like this. Having a few dollars, I benefit from that, too," he adds, "And yet in spite of that, I'm even more excited about seeing a $25 mobile device that has access to a killer web browser and endless mobile apps, and watching that device appear in the hands of a billion school children over the next 10 years."
The iPhone is heralded as the most revolutionary mobile phone in human history, but the cold and harsh truth is that for all the cheering and punditry, the iPhone's impact on the world is negligible. Sure, it had a huge impact on the smartphone market in rich countries - but it didn't have such an impact on the world.
For all the bad jokes directed at the company during its trying times, Nokia is the technology company that truly changed the world. Nokia put a mobile phone within every person's reach. Even people in some of the poorest places on earth were given the ability to communicate wirelessly, thanks to Nokia making the mobile phone affordable to everyone. Personally, I see this as one of the greatest achievements of the technology world, but sadly, it's often overlooked because "ooh Apple has pinch-to-zoom!!!1!"
What Nokia did for the mobile phone, Android is doing for the smartphone. It's not Apple that's going to put a smartphone in every corner of the globe - it's not Microsoft; heck, not even Google, but Android. In ten to fifteen years' time, we will look back and regard Android as the technology that enabled even the poorest people in this world to have access to the web (and thus, knowledge), just like we regard Nokia as the company that put the mobile phone in every corner of the globe.
Of all the features, of all the first world problem whining, of all the lawsuits, of all the lacking updates, of all the antennagates, of all the pentile matrix nonsense, of all the large displays, of all the design patents, of all the everything - that is what makes Android revolutionary.
And that's worth ten billion bullshit bounce-back scrolling software patents.


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BERLIN (AP) — A Berlin court has ordered Germany to pay the heirs of Jewish owners of a department store chain an additional 50 million euros ($68 million) in compensation for property seized by the Nazis.
The Berlin administrative court said Thursday that the Schocken family lost its chain of stores, primarily in Saxony, during the Nazis' so-called "Aryanization" of businesses in the 1930s.
The family was paid about 15 million euros for one building in the 1990s, but said the others were undervalued. In the ruling, the court ordered the heirs, who live in Israel and the U.S., receive an additional 50 million euros.
The best known building involved was built in the eastern city of Chemnitz by architect Erich Mendelsohn in 1930. It now houses the State Museum of Archaeology.
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Legendary musician Neil Young will be honored as the 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year at its 20th anniversary gala, it was announced today by Neil Portnow, President/CEO of the MusiCares Foundation and The Recording Academy, and Paul Caine, Chair of the MusiCares Foundation Board.
Proceeds from the annual GRAMMY Week gala dinner and concert honoring Young — to be held in Los Angeles on Jan. 29, 2010, two days prior to the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards — will provide essential support for MusiCares, which ensures that music people have a place to turn to in times of financial, medical and personal need.
The singer, songwriter and performer is being honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year in recognition of his influential artistic accomplishments as well as his philanthropic work, which has included many generous charitable activities over the years.
"It is an honor to celebrate the extraordinary legacy of Neil Young at our 20th Annual MusiCares Person of the Year tribute," said Portnow. "Neil has set a standard of artistic integrity and iconoclastic creativity for more than four decades, and his achievements have been matched by his unwavering humanitarianism. He is a shining example of how music people offer their creative gifts to the world, and how they also give back through their commitments to charitable endeavors."
"Throughout his career, Neil has stood out as an exceptionally talented performer, and he has stood for causes that are both noble and close to his heart." said Caine. "We look forward to paying tribute to him at this signature GRAMMY Week gala."
The 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year gala will begin with a reception and silent auction offering an exclusive and unparalleled selection of luxury items, VIP experiences and one-of-a-kind celebrity memorabilia for bidding guests. The reception and silent auction will be followed by a dinner, the award presentation and a star-studded tribute concert. The MusiCares Person of the Year tribute ceremony, co-chaired by Warner Bros. Records Chairman Emeritus Mo Ostin, Lookout Management President and Founder Elliot Roberts and Warner Bros. Records Chairman/CEO Tom Whalley, is one of the most prestigious events held during GRAMMY Week. The celebration culminates with the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards on Jan. 31, 2010, at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The telecast will be broadcast live on the CBS Television Network at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Young's career began with his earliest recordings as a member of the Squires in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1963. He rose to prominence with classic albums such as 1970's After The Gold Rush and 1972's Harvest, and through work with bands such as Buffalo Springfield (Buffalo Springfield, Buffalo Springfield Again); Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (American Dream, Déjà Vu); and Neil Young With Crazy Horse (Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere).
He has directed films and released them through his production company Shakey Pictures, including Rust Never Sleeps (1979) and the documentary CSNY/Déjà Vu (2008). Young continues to push artistic boundaries and has recently released Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 1963–1972 in a variety of formats including Blu-ray, allowing fans to continue to receive new Neil Young archival content as it becomes available.
He has received numerous awards and accolades throughout his career including an Oscar nomination in 1993 for his song "Philadelphia" from the film Philadelphia. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1982, and has twice been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — in 1995 for his solo work, and in 1997 as a member of Buffalo Springfield.
Young's philanthropic work is as renowned as his musical legacy. He was one of the original founders of Farm Aid in 1985, and continues to be an active member on the organization's board of directors. Each October, he and his wife Pegi organize and host the Bridge School Concerts, a benefit for the Bridge School that he and Pegi helped found. The school ensures that children with severe speech and physical impairments achieve full participation in their communities through the use of assistive technology and the development, implementation and dissemination of innovative educational strategies. These weekend concerts have drawn an international array of musical artists and have raised significant resources for the school.
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|February 1, 2013, 03:38 PM
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I am also one of the get a .22. Outstanding range pistol, fun to shoot, and lower cost.(both ammunition and most often pistol prices as well) If you like the S&W 686 then look at the S&W 617, if you want a semi-auto. there are a number of good 1911's made in the .22 rimfire as well. Just get as many in your hand as you can at your shops of choice and decide what fits your hand and feels best in your hand. That will probably be your best way to pick one if you can not get to shoot one before buying.
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Since stopping power is not a need for you the .45 ACP can be ruled out until later. For a novice shooter, my vote goes to the 9mm. I started on a Springfield XDm 9mm. It was alright, till I found a Browning Hi-Power 9mm. I prefer a steel frame pistol.
|February 1, 2013, 05:17 PM
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I'm with SGMS. Lean toward what feels most natural and comfortable in your hand.
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I like the idea of getting the .45 ACP and getting a .22 conversion kit for it too.
Be just a little careful if you do that though. I had a genuine Colt 1911 and a genuine Colt .22 conversion unit and it did not work at all well. Poor accuracy and many jams-it was very finicky about ammo. A good friend of mine had a different .22 conversion unit on his 1911 .45 and it was VERY accurate and reliable. YMMV. Also, and this is heresy in the gun world, IMhO if you are going to do concealed carry a Glock or a double action revolver would be a better choice than a 1911 for a new shooter.
For you in NY an overriding concern might be to get what's hot while the gettings good before the world of restrictions closes in on you. (Note: it is 2/2/2013 and that might already have happened.)
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|February 6, 2013, 10:26 AM
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As per a lot of the advice in this thread I've been looking into a .22 for my fist handgun, the Sig Sauer Mosquito is drawing my attention and doens't look like it'll break the bank, especially if I can find it used. I'll take any suggestions people might have for alternatives.
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Like many here, I would say start with a 22lR and then move on to a 9mm. It's cheaper ammo and both guns will do what you want. The 45acp is a great gun but for a novice, you will a want a full size heavier gun to feel comfortable and then it will be too big to carry. A good mid size 9mm like a Glock19 or if you want to go more high end, look at a Sig Sauer P229 in 9mm.
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|February 6, 2013, 10:53 AM
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The 686 revolver is a wonderful piece of art. It was my first and until last year only pistol. Whatever you choose, I recommend putting one of these on your list as an addition to the stable.
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|February 6, 2013, 11:16 AM
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My first pistol was1911 (.45) and it is awesome but I gave it to my dad when I bought a glock (.40) and hated it sold it after 5 ranges . I now have a Browning hi power 9mm. It's the best pistol for me . Key words there. FOR ME. Please try a browning. It's not The most popular these days and if you ask the cool guy at the gun store he probably sell you a sig. Which is an awesome weapon as well. But ask the old guy about browning hi power. Keep an open mind. Felt recoil on the browning is low. It's a heavy frame.
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Good point...don't overlook a good S&W revolver like the 686. They are a masterful piece and if you are in NY with a round limitation, a 4" isn't a bad idea.
I have a lot of guns and find myself carrying my S&W Governor a lot in and out of the woods. A beautiful revolver is very gratifying.
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a .45 shouldn't be too much for you. im a string bean at 5'10" 135lbs and size small hands and .45 is my favorite caliber to shoot...well maybe besides .22lr because of the price
as far as recoil between 9mm and .45 the later has more recoil...but its a different feeling, the 9 feels a little more like a sharp crack where the .45 is more of a heavy thud or push
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In this situation, I would lean towards a revolver because of the magazine limit.
The big reason I would get a semi-automatic is because of capacity. In my opinion anyone can shoot a 38 special. Couple that with the potential ability to move up to .357 after practice.
The OP mentioned that firing a .45/higher recoil round was far more fun. Since this will be a plinking/range gun, we need think about the OP having fun and wanting to go back to the range above all else.
He can get the best of practice (38) and fun (357), while not worrying about NY capacity limitations.
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I suppose if you live in New York where they are now lowering the magazine capacity to 7 rounds it is rather pointless to argue for the greater capacity a 9mm would give you. You might as well have a revolver.
I would still like to push you towards a semi-auto just because they are faster to reload (which would help deal with the ludicrously small magazine capacity), easier to shoot (no DA trigger to help pull your front sight off-target and less recoil), and the ammo is normally easier to come by and cheaper than .38 special or .357 magnum.
But, you said the gun won't be for defense. So, I say get a .357 magnum 4" or 6". It will be fun to shoot and you can save money by shooting .38 special and only shooting .357 magnum when you want to have maximum fun. Again, this gun isn't for defense so any .357 magnum 4" or 6" revolver will do.
Just to get something different you could get the Chiappa Rhino 4" revolver. Its ugly, but the chamber that fires is the bottom chamber instead of the top chamber which directs more of the recoil into your arm and gives you less muzzle flip. It will make shooting .38 special really really fun, easy, and fast. Unfortunately it will probably direct more of the .357 magnum recoil into your hand/wrist/arm. But that is why you are shooting the .357m right? Because its fun to feel the boom?
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Forget toxic waste dumps, the Environmental Protection Agency apparently has a more immediate cleanup problem in its own backyard: An employee defecating in the hallway.
GovernmentExecutive.com, the government's business news daily and key website for federal managers and executives, reported Wednesday that the EPA management for Region 8 in Denver sent an e-mail earlier this month to staff pleading to stop inappropriate bathroom behavior, including defecating in the hallway.
In the e-mail, obtained by Government Executive, Deputy Regional Administrator Howard Cantor noted "several incidents" in the building, including clogging the toilets with paper towels and "an individual placing feces in the hallway" outside the restroom.
"Management is taking this situation very seriously and will take whatever actions are necessary to identify and prosecute these individuals," Cantor wrote.
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The Boy Scouts of America will accept openly gay youths starting on New Year's Day, a change that has prompted the BSA to ponder a host of potential complications - including policies on tent mates and showers and whether Scouts can march in gay-pride parades.
The Boy Scouts of America will accept openly gay youths starting on New Year's Day, a change that has prompted the BSA to ponder a host of potential complications - including policies on tent mates and showers and whether Scouts can march in gay-pride parades.
The group's leaders are rooting for the change to be a nonevent, comparable to another New Year's Day in 2000 when widespread fears of digital-clock chaos to start the new millennium proved unfounded.
"My hope is there will be the same effect this Jan. 1 as the Y2K scare," said Brad Haddock, a BSA national executive-board member who chairs the policy-implementation committee. "It's business as usual, nothing happens and we move forward."
Some churches are dropping their sponsorship of Scout units because of the new policy, and some families are switching to a new conservative alternative called Trail Life USA. But massive defections haven't materialized and most major sponsors, including the Roman Catholic and Mormon churches, are maintaining ties.
"There hasn't been a whole lot of fallout," said Haddock, a lawyer from Wichita, Kan. "If a church said they wouldn't work with us, we'd have a church right down the street say, 'We'll take the troop.'??"
The new policy was approved in May, with support from
60 percent of the 1,400 voting members of the BSA's National Council. The vote followed bitter nationwide debate and was accompanied by an announcement that the BSA would continue to exclude openly gay adults from leadership positions.
Under the new membership policy, youths no longer can be barred from the Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts or the coed Venturers program solely on the basis of sexual orientation. However, gay Scouts will face some limitations.
"Any sexual conduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Scouting age is contrary to the virtues of Scouting," says one BSA document. "No member may use Scouting to promote or advance any social or political position or agenda, including on the matter of sexual orientation."
Trying to anticipate potential friction, the BSA has distributed extensive explanations and question-and-answer documents related to the policy.
Some examples:
• Could a Scout march in uniform in a gay-pride parade? No, says the BSA. "Each youth member is free as an individual to express his or her thoughts or take action on political or social issues but must not use Scouting's official uniforms and insignia when doing so."
• How publicly active could a gay Scout be, in terms of gay-rights advocacy? The BSA's reply: "While a youth member may acknowledge his or her sexual preference, that acknowledgment may not reach the level of distraction, which may include advocacy, promotion, or the distribution of information of a sexual nature."
A frequently-asked-questions document anticipates that some objections might surface from parents - or Scouts themselves - in cases where a unit includes an openly gay boy.
Regarding shower and toilet facilities, the BSA says it is encouraging units to provide greater individual privacy, including moving away from the tradition of group showers.
"The adult leaders have the discretion to arrange private showering times and locations," the BSA says.
Sleeping arrangements also are addressed, with specific decisions left to unit leaders.
"If a Scout or parent of a Scout makes a request to not tent with another Scout, their wishes should be honored," says the BSA.
Haddock says "isolated pockets" of problems are likely to surface, but overall he expects adult leaders will have the skills to defuse potential conflicts.
There are about 1 million adult leaders and 2.6 million youth members in Scouting in the United States. Of the roughly 110,000 Scout units, 70 percent are sponsored by religious organizations, including several conservative denominations that had long supported the BSA's exclusion of gay youth and gay adults.
Among the major sponsors, the Southern Baptist Convention made clear its disappointment with the new youth policy, but left the decision on whether to cut ties up to local churches. An SBC spokesman, Sing Oldham, said it was not known how many churches have done so.
The biggest sponsor of Scout units - the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - commended the BSA for a "thoughtful, good-faith effort" to address a challenging issue, and said it would stay engaged in Scouting.
Like the Mormons, the Roman Catholic Church has generally accepted the new policy. Many parishes will continue to sponsor Scout units, though a few have considered cutting ties.
The new youth policy was approved during a BSA meeting in May in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Grapevine, near the Scouts' national headquarters in Irving, Texas.
Texas has a long heritage of Scouting, with tens of thousands of youth members and many families claiming generations of Eagle Scouts. Among them is Gov. Rick Perry, who achieved Scouting's highest rank growing up in the small town of Paint Creek.
Bill Helfand, scoutmaster of Troop 55 in Houston, said membership in his troop has remained steady at about 225 boys.
"We never considered sexual orientation, and I don't think many troops really did," Helfand said. "I don't know whether we had Scouts who are homosexual. I don't inquire. … It's not a matter of concern."
However, some Texas parents and leaders have decided to switch to Trail Life USA, an alternative that declares itself "a Christian adventure, character, and leadership program for young men." Among them is Ron Orr, a business consultant from the Fort Worth area who is signing up local units for the group.
So far, he said he has 25 groups "pre-chartered" for a Jan. 1 launch date in the territory covered by the BSA.


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So my question is, how early is too early to start posting leveling guides for the new talent trees? I know we still have patch notes coming out and all, so there's no telling when something might change, but at the same time…do I dare wait?
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Dear readers, do you want me to start working on the leveling guides now, or do you consider even the class changes to be too much of a spoiler for me to show you before they go live?


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Open to the public just a few weeks, owner Roberto Maquilon said customers have been finding his tiny shop that once housed the Feed Bag Deli a half-dozen years ago.
It's still dark at 5:30 in the morning; daylight is maybe another hour away.
Nevertheless, Roberto Maquilon is in the kitchen already, getting a jump on the day.
It's time to make the empanadas.
And it's likely going to be another long day; Maquilon said he frequently doesn't get home until 8 or 8:30 p.m.
"I want to keep my clients satisfied," he said.
An hour before noon, he'll open his Empanada Factory at 1516 SW Third Ave., across from the Munroe hospital complex. And they'll stay open until 6 p.m.
"The other day, the final sale of the day was at 5:58," he said.
Open to the public just a few weeks, Maquilon said customers have been finding his tiny shop that once housed the Feed Bag Deli a half-dozen years ago.
Since it opened, there have been lines in the store, and a LOT of Facebook chatter about the Empanada Factory, particularly in the Word of Mouth Ocala group.
For instance, Maria Luisa Garcia wrote: "I just tried the empanadas from Empanada Factory, and they are to die for! So delicious. This will be one of my favorite places in town!"
Added Jenny Padden: "We ate lunch there last week and really enjoyed it! They always say in business to stick with what you are good at, and you guys rock at fresh, tasty empanadas!"
The raves go on. Yet there's been no actual promotion beyond Maquilon going door-to-door in the area weeks ago to drop off some coupons.
"I believe in my product, but I wanted to make sure I had it right before I did anything," he said.
He's no newcomer to empanadas.
Maquilon said he's been making them for about three years, though mostly on a contractor-vendor basis for hospitals in Ocala and Gainesville.
"But they started reviewing their contracts and reducing the number of their vendors," he said. "People kept telling me we ought to open our own place, so we finally decided to open."
Moreover, he's Peruvian — and his empanadas are in the Peruvian style, meaning they are baked rather than fried.
"People like the idea that they're baked," added his wife, Carmen Morales.
But what, exactly, is this comestible Maquilon, 44, is so willing to devote 15-hour days, five days a week to make? According to the Essential Kitchen Dictionary, the empanada is "a very elaborate Spanish or Mexican turnover filled with chopped meat, vegetables and sometimes cooked egg, olives and currants. It also can be filled with fruit for a dessert.
"The dish takes its name from 'empanar,' meaning 'to surround with a crust of dough.' "
Maquilon said he "went through a ton of dough" before he came up with the right mixture. Fillings range from chicken to beef to pepperoni to spinach and cheese, and pulled pork. They also offer dessert empanadas filled with apple, blueberry, cherry or peach and dusted with powdered sugar.
According to most culinary sources, every Latin culture has its own variety. And not just in Latin lands: India has its gujias, karjikayi and karanjis; England's Cornwall has pasties; in Japan they're gyoza; stromboli in Italy; they're called scovardi in Transylvania.
We even have a home-grown variety here in the United States. We call 'em Hot Pockets.
They're a favorite for food trucks, as empanadas are easy to eat.
The food even has its own national day on the calendar: April 8. Just how many other foods have a national day? OK, most of them nowadays, but National Empanada Day came up repeatedly in the 7.7 million hits for "empanada" in a Google search.
The point is, they're pretty popular — and tasty. A couple of them make a satisfying meal.
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Healthful Ingredients Dominate 2005 IFT Show
More healthful ingredients dominated IFTs steamy New Orleans show.
Comparable numbers for last year's Las Vegas show were 19,536 attendees and 926 exhibits, but this year's expo floor was open only three full days, instead of the 3½ days in the past. This year's IFT show was one of the 10 largest in the event's 65-year history, according to IFT; its 1,821 technical presentations was a record.
Keynote speaker Malcolm Gladwell, a science writer and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, based his presentation on his best-selling books "The Tipping Point" and "Blink." The books are about the workings of the human mind, respectively focusing on change and "rapid cognition," the latter being the kind of thinking and decision-making accomplished in the blink of an eye. Some quotable quotes from his speech:
- "We must be careful about how we construct the environment in which insight is expressed."
- "The gift that brings innovation — that brings new ideas — is enormously fragile…and we need to do whatever it takes to keep this quality alive."
- "We must not disable the ability of people to make a successful instantaneous judgment."
- "Experts only have confidence when they're in cultures that empower them."
An exciting development announced at IFT was the winner of the 2005 World Food Prize. Indian scientist Modadugu V. Gupta won the annual Nobel of food by teaching microaquaculture to the poorest of the world's poor in South and Southeast Asia. As explained on the World Food Prize web site (www.worldfoodprize.org), "Dr. Gupta's pioneering breeding of carp and other pond fish adaptable to a variety of different environments in rural areas — from Bangladesh to the Mekong Basin countries — combined with his tenacious efforts to help millions of small-holder farmers gain access to innovative aquaculture techniques to produce a vital supply of nutritious food brought a Blue Revolution to Southeast Asia and beyond."
The annual expo portion seems to add more equipment and service vendors every year, but this remains primarily an ingredient showcase. Following are some of the most innovative new products our editors found at the show; notice that most of them are focused on health and diet:
Organic Erythritol is a zero-calorie, zero-glycemic index bulk sweetener, increasing options for weight-conscious and diabetic consumers who seek out all-natural products. With 70 percent of the sweetness of sugar, Erythritol is clean tasting and enhances the flavor, texture and quality of organic, reduced-calorie foods including beverages and bakery items. Compared to sugar in baked goods, it exhibits different melting behavior, more compact dough, better moisture control and softer baked products. Other applications include dairy products such as flavored milk and confectionery including sugar-free chocolate.
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Teavigo green tea extract is a colorless, flavorless powder of the compound epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). Numerous studies show EGCG is one of the components in green tea believed to protect against a number of diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, gastrointestinal disorders — even gum disease and dental cavities.
DSM Nutritional Products Inc.; Parsippany, N.J.
800-526-0189; www.nutraaccess.com.
Ultragrain White Whole-Wheat Flour incorporates the goodness of whole grain with the flavor and sweetness of white flour. A patent-pending milling technology helps Ultragrain retain whole-grain nutrients, while at the same time delivering the fine texture of popular while flours. It has a lighter, more golden flour color, and according to the vendor, it's is the first time a whole grain wheat has been ground to the consistency of white flour. It's suitable for foods that generally use refined flour – breads, crackers, cookies, pasta and pastries.
ConAgra Food Ingredients; Omaha, Neb.
800-851-9618; www.conagrafoodingredients
While not an ingredient, Digital Food Imaging was a fun feature in this booth. The vendor's colors were used in a Spectra Technology inkjet system to provide four-color images on food products. The colors are FDA-approved and Kosher-certified, and the resulting food products are highly differentiated. This is the technology behind the trivia questions on Pringles Prints potato crisps.
Sensient Colors; St. Louis
800-325-8110; www.sensient-tech.com
Hi-Maize 5-in-1 Fiber is a high-amylose maize starch — an enriched source of dietary fiber and resistant starch. To show off the product, the vendor's chef prepared multigrain bread, its 5 g fiber per serving perfectly integrated into the recipe so as to have no detectable texture or taste difference.
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Details are beginning to emerge about the resignation of one of Camdenton school district's top officials, sources close to the situation are raising concerns about the actions and motives of some members of the board.
Details are beginning to emerge about the resignation of one of Camdenton school district's top officials, sources close to the situation are raising concerns about the actions and motives of some members of the board.
According to those sources, there are worries that the resignation of Dr. Brian Henry may be the first of other top administrators and teachers who are finding themselves exasperated with the actions of three of the seven members of the Camdenton Board of Education.
Sources described the district as being at a crossroads and at risk for losing other talented educators who have played a role in the district's growth and its recognition as one of the top schools in the state.
At the root of the problem are allegations that three of the school board members, Laura Martin, John Beckett and Jim Besancenez, have formed an alliance that has become counter-productive. Allegations of "micro-managing" administrators through frequent emails and meetings came from multiple sources. The time spent responding to these correspondence is allegedly interfering with the day to day operations of running the district.
When the Lake Sun inquired, school officials declined to comment on the number of emails they receive in a typical week from board members. However, one source said that administrators and board members typically received dozens of emails from Martin in the week prior to a board meeting, some totaled over ten pages long filled with questions and comments. The Lake Sun will be filing a Missouri Sunshine Law request for correspondence with school board members.
Martin, Beckett and Besancenez voted against renewing Henry's contract earlier this year.
Henry is in charge of academic services. Martin, Beckett and Besancenez do not support many of the district's initiatives, including the Core Curriculum and the use of federal grant money for some local programs. The most recent opposition by the three was the Race to the Top grant the district applied for earlier this fall.
Martin has been the most outspoken of the three members, describing herself as the "Sunshine Seeker" Martin could not be reached by phone for comment. The number listed in the phone book for Steve and Laura Martin had been disconnected. In an email, Martin said "I do not wish to offer any comment on Dr. Henry's resignation. Should I change my mind, I have your number."
School Board President Nancy Masterson and Besancenez's seats on the board are up for election in April. Masterson and Besancenez have filed for re-election. Darin Keim has also filed to run for the Camdenton School Board.
School board members are elected at large.
The remaining school board members are vice president Chris McElyea, treasurer Selynn Barbour and Jackie Schulte.
The Camdenton school district is the largest in the three counties surrounding the Lake of the Ozarks. Their current enrollment is approximately 4,000 students.


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Drat. Another prehistoric predator loses the vicious duende required to inspire a Syfy Original monster movie.
Pictured is Anomolacaris canadensis, the "unusual Canadian shrimp," one of the more memorable Cambrian critters fossilized in the Burgess Shale and beloved to many of us who came to learn about it through Stephen Jay Gould's book Wonderful Life. This proto-arthropodal creature undulated through shallow seas more than a half-billion years ago, and at nearly a meter in length was a giant of its time. It has sometimes been called the "first super predator" because Anomalocaris was commonly imagined to swoop in on trilobites crawling across the seabed, sweeping them up with that front pair of limbs and stuffing them into its circular jaws on the bottom, where its plated esophagus would crunch the prey's shells bits. (Visit The Anomalocaris Homepage, now out of date, for more.)
Unfortunately, the latest analysis pokes a serious hole in this picture: it turns out that Anomalocaris lacked mouthparts hard enough to chew up trilobites or other arthropods. James Hagadorn of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science examined the fossilized mouthparts of more than 400 specimens of Anomalocaris and noticed that none of them showed any signs of wear, which was odd because a lifetime of grinding through trilobites should have left plenty of scratches, chips and abrasions. Moreover, unlike trilobite shells, the Anomalocaris mouthparts were not mineralized, suggesting that they were relatively soft and flexible, and not at all up to the job of helping the animal eat such hard prey. (Imagine trying to gum your way through a live lobster.)
A clincher was that when Hagadorn created a 3-D computer model of Anomalocaris's sphincter-like mouth, he found that although it was capable of generating a suction force, the mouth couldn't even fully close. Hagadorn notes that Anomalocaris might have been able to suck and consume some very small trilobites whole, or to eat freshly molted trilobites whose cuticle had not yet hardened, but for the most part, this supposed super predator would have been unable to chew its food.
Hagadorn presents his work today at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting. (GSA press release here; abstract for Hagadorn's presentation here.)
So… feh. There go my dreams of convincing monster-movie schlockmeister Roger Corman, the man behind Sharktopus, to make a movie about giant predatory anomalocarids. Naturally, we would have needed to call them something different in the title. I was leaning toward Roger Corman's Trilobiter! But maybe I can still salvage something. If they were shiny and sucked at their prey, like romantic Cambrian vampires, and if a mopey teenage paleontologist fell in love with one… hmm….


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In November, 1996, a stakeholders' meeting was held at Syracuse University to frame the development of a common gateway to lesson plans on the Internet. In the months following the stakeholders' meeting, the group of participants served as a Working Group to develop and refine the work begun at Syracuse. The plan was for the Working Group to develop the foundation for GEM through Phase 1 of the project. In Phase 2, a broader constituency in the form of the GEM Consortium will be engaged in the full-scale deployment of the GEM standard through its application to educational resources across the Internet.
The project's initial goal was to develop a common gateway to lesson plans. However, one of the early Working Group decisions was to broaden the scope of the project to include not only the description of lesson plans but all Internet-based educational materials.
The five major tasks addressed by the GEM project are to
In the following paragraphs, we will discuss the first three of these tasks.
GEM Profile and Controlled Vocabularies
From the outset, the Working Group wanted to develop the various aspects of GEM around emerging standards for networked information discovery and retrieval (NIDR). The working group decided that the GEM profile would assume as its base referent the Dublin Core element set (DC) and the Warwick Framework due to their growing national and international recognition, acceptance and support.
The general goals of GEM and DC are similar; however, in many ways, they are not congruent. DC is designed to serve NIDR through a fielded surrogate supposedly simple enough to be applied to resources by authors and Internet providers untrained in the complexities of cataloging necessary to the creation of more richly structured surrogates (e.g., the MARC record). While its simplicity serves coarse-grained NIDR across a broad range of networked information, DC is ill-equipped for more fine-grained NIDR of resources necessary to particular discourse or practice communities such as the nation's K-12 teachers. GEM is intended to serve NIDR needs of this constituency along a continuum that begins with what is achievable with a simple, unqualified, fielded surrogate as set out by the DC "minimalists" to a surrogate coming closer to (but never reaching) the richly structured surrogate. In addition, GEM assumes that the profile will be applied by a range of organizations with a higher level of commitment and expertise than that assumed by DC.
Recognizing that the 15 base elements of DC would not serve all purposes, one of the underlying assumptions of its founders was that it would be extensible in two fundamental ways: (1) additional elements could be added to meet the needs of specific domains and (2) its elements could be enriched through the use of qualifying "schemes" and "types." GEM pursues an enriched structure through both of these mechanisms. To the 15-element DC base package, the GEM Working Group added an 8-element, domain-specific GEM package which makes it possible to capture the following domain-specific information about the resource being cataloged: (1) whether the target audience for the resource has special needs or forms a discrete demographic group (Audience), (2) the nature of any identified pedagogical methods employed (Pedagogy), (3) indicators or resource quality (Quality and Quality Indicator), (4) academic standards mapped to the resource (Standards) and (5) other resources necessary to the successful use of the resource by a teacher (Resource Needed). Also, information regarding grade or educational level of the target audience of the resource is captured (Master).
GEM Syntax
To deploy GEM metadata, a cataloging module was developed by the Working Group's project team that gathers GEM profile information for a resource through a simple graphical interface with pull down menus for accessing controlled vocabularies. As the metadata for the resource is gathered, it is prepared to be written out as HTML meta tags in a content-overload syntax of the form
Extensions to the module are under development that will make it syntax-independent, allowing GEM metadata to be written out in other forms including PICS. These meta tags may then be embedded directly into the HTML-tagged resource being described or they may reside separately in cases where embedding is either not desired or not possible (e.g., where the resource is being cataloged by an agency other than the one that created the resource or if the resource is a graphic, audio or video file).
Prototype Interfaces
While it is assumed that any number of existing and yet-to-be-developed programs will be able to collect and manipulate GEM metadata, the Working Group has developed a harvesting application for building a Union Catalog. The syntax of the Union Catalog is based loosely on the templates developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Working Group on Internet Anonymous FTP Archives (IAFA). In the project's Phase 1, two prototype interfaces to this Union Catalog of GEM metadata have been developed. At Syracuse, a search and browse environment has been built using PLWeb, a full-text search engine by Personal Library Software. At the University of Washington, a relational database driven interface has been developed. Since the database work at the University of Washington will be the basis of the Union Catalog's future development and deployment, the remainder of this article will focus on its theoretical foundations and its current use as a database-driven prototype interface to GEM.
Conceptual Schema
The conceptual data modeling approach is taken in implementing the GEM database because it helps us identify important entities and understand relationships among entities. It can also improve communications among various people (e.g., users, managers and system designers). Among many conceptual data models, the Entity-Relationship (ER) model has been used as a standard for the conceptual modeling of industry databases. (See Figure 1.)
A brief explanation of the ER model is in order. An entity is denoted by a rectangular box with its name written inside. The relationship type can be specified either above or below the line linking the two entities. For example, a resource (MASTER) can "be based on" more than one SOURCE. The phrase "be based on" is a description of the relationship type and would appear either above or below the connecting line. We omit relationship type specifications here in order to keep the diagram as simple as possible. The arrows (specifying many) and the straight lines (specifying one) describe the cardinality which expresses the specific number of entity occurrences associated with one occurrence of the related entity. For example, a resource (MASTER) can have minimally one (straight line) and maximally many (arrow) subjects (SUBJECT). Also a related site (RELATION) belongs to minimally one (straight line) and maximally one (straight line) resource (MASTER) which means that a related site belongs to only one particular resource (MASTER).
In addition to basic descriptive data such as the title of the resource and its Web location (MASTER), a wide range of other information deemed useful for NIDR are defined in DC. When cataloging the educational resources at a Web site, a number of relevant dates can be associated with that resource (Date). Information about other resources that bear some significant relationship to the resource being described can be recorded (Relation). Also the resource being cataloged can be derived from one or more sources (Source) and a particular source can be the basis for more than one resource. The resource can also be written in more than one language (Language) and a particular language can be used in many resources. A cataloger can assign many subjects to a resource in the form of keywords or as postings from a controlled subject vocabulary (Subject and Keywords) and either a subject or a keyword can be assigned more than one resource. The resource may have either, or both, a spatial or temporal aspect (Coverage). Lastly, there can be a number of people or organizations involved in the creation and publication of a particular resource (Responsibility) and a particular person or an organization may create more than one resource.
The logical schema on the next page corresponds to the conceptual schema presented above and describes the attributes defined for each entity. When there are many-to-many relationships (e.g., Master and Responsibility; Master and Keyword; Master and Language, etc.) between two entities, a bridge table is necessary to keep track of activities between them. For example, a particular keyword in the "Keyword" table can be used to describe many different resources, so it has to be linked to the particular resource. The "MasterKeyword" table provides this bridging. Attribute names are defined in the context of the table. The attribute "type" in the "source" table should be understood as SourceType.
Based on the above conceptual and logical schemas, a prototype system was developed at the University of Washington. Microsoft active server page (asp) technology was employed in developing the system. The asp technology lets one work with any Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) compliant database (e.g., Oracle, Sybase, Access, etc.).
The search interface of the prototype system has a provision for browsing an alphabetized listing of assigned keywords or subjects. The prototype currently allows users to search by title, broad and narrow subject terms, keywords, quality level and grade, but other search criteria can be easily added as needed. It also allows users to browse by keywords (and subjects) using the right side of the window. The keyword and subject lists are created dynamically from the back-end relational database.
If a user submits a query or browses, output screens show titles and keywords that are instantly clickable. If the user clicks on one of the keywords listed for a resource, he or she is taken to the short display of all titles to which the clicked keyword has been assigned. If a user clicks a title, the system displays more detailed information on the resource. A carefully cataloged resource will provide the user with sufficient information to determine whether or not to visit the actual resource on the remote server. If a user chooses to visit the resource, all he or she needs to do is click on the title in the full display.
The use of metadata to enhance NIDR is an area of growing interest as the World Wide Web grows exponentially and resource discovery and retrieval grow more problematic. At the same time, as President Clinton's policy focus on education exemplifies, the need for access to Web-based materials by the nation's teachers is also growing at a rapid pace. Two primary roles of GEM seek to meet the needs of educators through (1) the development and wide deployment of the GEM standard in the form of a metadata profile, an accompanying set of controlled vocabularies and a well-defined set of practices in their application to Internet-based educational materials and (2) the development of a GEM-based union catalog of educational materials on the Internet. The development of the profile, preliminary vocabularies and the definition of practices were the work of the project's Phase 1. The project is perched on the edge of wide deployment through the GEM Consortium in the coming Phase 2.
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St. Isaac of Nineveh?
Jacob the Persian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_IntercisusAnd, well, also-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Persian_Roman_Catholic_saints
I just need to find out how to say it in Slavonic!
A Persian Catholic? That's random. I didn't know such people exist.
If you spend long enough on this forum, you'll come away with all sorts of weird, untrue ideas of Orthodox Christianity.
I would suggest most persons in general avoid any question beginning with why.
Quick, unrelated question; how many of those saints are recognised by our Church as well.
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The 29-year-old royal, who will race with a team of injured British servicemen and women against groups from the United States and the Commonwealth, spent around 20 hours in a cold chamber where he was subjected to temperatures of -35 Celsius (-31 Fahrenheit), with wind speeds of 45 miles per hour.
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