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How do I obtain a rollout recycling cart?
Each single family household is allowed one 96-gallon recycling cart for all its recyclables, no sorting needed. Call City Link by dialing 311 or 727-8000. You can also request a cart online via the Citizen Service Desk or the Recycle Today home page.
How can I get a replacement for my cart that is missing or damaged?
Call CityLink 311.
My recycling was missed. How do I report a missed pickup?
First, check to see if you were left a red non-collection courtesy notice explaining why the materials were not collected. If you did not find a notice, call the Recycling Hotline at 72-EARTH (723-2784) between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays. Please allow 24 hours for pickup.
How do I know what week to put out my cart?
A collection map and calendar for Red Week and Blue Week collections is posted online. You can also look up your rollout recycling and garbage collection days by address online. Residents without access to a computer can call CityLink at 311 and a CityLink agent will provide their collection information.
What if I have more recyclable materials than will fit in my recycling cart?
You have several options:
(1) Flatten your recyclables to create more space in the cart. (2) Retain you excess recyclables for the next collection. (3) Take your additional materials to the free recycling drop-off center at the Hanes Mill Road Landfill. NOTE: Recycling carts are serviced with automated collection trucks. Recyclables left beside the cart cannot be collected.
The recycling truck usually comes by my house late in the day. Why do I have to have my cart at the curb by 6a.m.?
Route schedules may change due to employee changes, weather conditions, or other factors. Late set-outs may delay your pickup until your next collection day.
Should I put my recycling cart out when it's raining?
What if I cannot roll my cart to the curb?
Households where no one is physically able to roll out the cart, but want to participate in rollout recycling, can call City Link 311 and make arrangements for a crew to service their cart. These households will have to compete a form certifying that no one in the home is physically able to roll out the cart. Rollout recycling exemption form - print and mail in [pdf/1p]
I'm moving. What should I do with my recycling cart?
Each cart is assigned to a particular address and the city retains ownership of the cart. If you move, leave the cart for the next resident to use. If there isn't a cart at your new residence, call City Link at 311 or 727-8000.
I live in a multifamily complex with a recycling station. Will I receive an individual cart for my unit?
No. Residents in a multifamily with a recycling station must take their recycling to the station. If your multifamily complex does not have a recycling station, the complex manager should e-mail Derek Owens, the city's recycling coordinator, to arrange for a station.
What do I do with my old green recycling bin?
You may keep the bin and use it for something else. If you want, you may recycle your bin by putting it in your cart once rollout recycling starts.
What if I want to turn my green bin in?
Call CityLink 311 and request a pickup.
I understand that there is a computer chip in the cart. What is it for?
The carts come with unique radio frequency identification (RFID) chips. The chips may eventually be used with short-range scanners mounted on the collection trucks to keep track of the carts and provide collection data. However, this is not currently part of the program.
What is NOT accepted for recycling?
Antifreeze containers, books, binders, ceramics, deli containers, dishes, drinking glasses, hazardous waste containers, light bulbs, mirrors, motor oil containers, paint cans, pesticide containers, pizza boxes or other cardboard boxes that are contaminated with grease or food residue, plastic bags, plastic newspaper bags, plastic wrap, Pyrex containers, spiral notebooks, Styrofoam, wide-mouth containers (margarine tubs, ice cream pails, etc.) or window glass. If in doubt, please call 72-EARTH.
Why should I recycle?
Recycling has both environmental and economic benefits. Recycling reduces the amount of waste generated by your household, saves landfill space, and reduces the costs for landfill disposal. Also, recycling saves energy and natural resources (i.e., water, minerals, trees), reduces air and water pollution, and creates markets for recyclable materials.
What else can I do?
Encourage others to reduce waste and recycle. Don't forget to "close the loop" by purchasing recycled content products and packaging.
Can bottle caps and lids be recycled?
Yes, metal caps/lids; Yes, plastic caps/lids
Can I recycle....
... envelopes with the plastic windows? What about staples? Glossy advertisements? Post-its? Can I recycle paper with tape on it?
... spiral notebooks?
... batteries?
No, Batteries can not be recycled through the curbside program.
... cereal boxes?
Yes, they are chipboard (paperboard with a gray inside).
... plastic bags?
Not in your recycling cart.
Most grocery stores provide recycling bins for plastic bags.
… toys and household objects made of plastic?
... my computer and printer?
Computers and printers can be recycled at Goodwill Attended Donation Centers through Reconnect, a Dell/Goodwill partnership.
Why can't I recycle pizza boxes?
They generally contain grease and/or food residue.
What do the little numbers on the bottom of plastic containers represent or stand for?
The numbers on the bottom of plastic containers are resin identification codes and they indicate the type of plastic a container is made from. The codes are not intended to mean that a particular product is recyclable, which is why recycling programs identify what plastic products are acceptable and are not acceptable.
Can I recycle ANY plastic that has a recycling sign and number on it?
No, it must be a plastic bottle with a neck that is smaller than the base or widest part.
If plastic doesn't have a recycling logo on it, can it still be recycled?
Per Terry Feeney of Recycle America, a recycler would have to see such a bottle before accepting it. There has to be a market for it in order to be accepted. Most bottles are coded 1-7.
Do I have to separate glass, plastic, aluminum, and steel?
No. Place all you recyclables in your blue rollout cart.
How clean do containers need to be before I toss them into the recycling cart?
Simply rinse; no need to wash.
Do I need to take the labels off jars and cans?
No, labels are OK.
Should I step on plastic bottles and crush cans before recycling?
Only if you need more capacity in your cart.
What are the basic procedures for recycling aluminum cans?
Empty and rinse. You do not need to crush unless you need more space in your cart..
Is recycling required by law in Winston Salem?
No, it is a voluntary program. But a new state law, effective on Oct. 1, 2009, makes it illegal to dispose of plastic bottles in the trash; they must be recycled. Aluminum cans are also banned from the landfill from a prior law. (Read news article about plastic bottles banned in landfill.)
What about recycling yard waste? Is it required by law?
It is not required by law, but N.C. State Law prohibits the disposal of yard wastes (e.g., leaves, grass clippings, tree limbs, etc.) in sanitary landfills. Therefore, the Sanitation Division operates two permanent leaf drop-off sites: Reynolds Park Road, which only accept leaves from city Sanitation crews during the leaf season; and Overdale Yard Waste Facility, which accepts leaves from the general public as well as the city Sanitation crews throughout the year.
If something is made from recycled paper or plastic, can it be recycled again?
What can I do with packing peanuts?
Save them for personal use or check with packaging service stores to see if they will accept them.
What is being done to help Winston-Salem schools recycle?
School recycling information.
Where do Winston-Salem's recyclables go?
Recyclable materials are taken to a materials recovery facility(MRF), where they are separated, baled, and prepared for market. Ultimately, those recyclables will come back in the form of new products.
Does stuff put in recycling carts ever get thrown away?
Yes, unacceptable items, known as contamination, are taken to the landfill.
What are the top three simple steps I can take to reduce landfill waste and improve recycling in Winston-Salem?
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Learn what is accepted in the program and then recycle everything that you can. Encourage others to recycle, whether at home, school, work, and on the go.
What would happen if everyone in Winston-Salem stopped recycling?
If everyone stopped recycling, there would be increased environmental problems, an increase in waste in the landfills, and the life of landfills would be reduced.
What are the benefits of recycling?
Recycling saves natural resources and landfill space, reduces the need for new landfills, conserves energy, reduces pollution and litter, and creates jobs.
Can some things be recycled more easily than others?
Paper is the easiest material to recycle into new products..
Is paper worth any money when you recycle it?
Notes: Terry Feeney, District Manager - Recycle America Materials Processing Facility contributed to answering these questions. He may be contacted at 631-9439. Effective Oct. 1, 2009, it is illegal to dispose in landfills any rigid plastic containers (bottles) that have a neck smaller than the body of the container. More info can be found at www.p2pays.org
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As we consider the return of the House of Clinton, we may be witnessing the start of the House of Obama.
According to a survey in November, first lady Michelle Obama would beat incumbent Republican Mark Kirk, 51 percent to 40 percent, in a hypothetical matchup for U.S. senator from Illinois in 2016. The first lady has an approval rating of 60 percent in the state.
Not that Kirk has anything to worry about. When asked last spring if she would ever run for president, Obama laughed and said, "Absolutely not." One reason might be to avoid stupid reporter tricks. Another might be that she has shown no disposition toward the dark arts other than to support — reluctantly at first, as she worried aloud about exposing her young daughters to Washington — her husband's chosen profession.
True, Obama is a lawyer like her Democratic predecessor in the White House, and like Hillary Clinton she doesn't stay home and bake cookies. She gave a rip-snorting speech at the Democratic convention in September. But she has stuck to traditional first lady activities. No health-care initiatives or Cabinet meetings for her. She is planting a garden, slimming down our children and helping military families.
The very question, however, shows just how dynastic our politics have become. The British royal family, and the breathless response to the pregnancy of Kate Middleton, has nothing on us. We talk about the pernicious influence of money in politics. But when it comes to pre-emptively shutting out the competition, a family name may be more valuable than money.
Dynastic duopoly
Who is going to take a good look at Joe Schmoe from Delaware when state Attorney General Beau Biden decides to run for the Senate? We survived only one session without a Kennedy in Congress: Joe Kennedy III, the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy and the son of former Rep. Joe Kennedy II, will take office in January.
Yet polls find the public largely indifferent to having the same family pass high office from one to another. If former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush weren't so sensible, and had his brother George W. not been such an extraordinarily bad president, Jeb would probably have run in 2008. Then we could have faced the prospect of a Clinton (Hillary) or a Bush (Jeb) succeeding a Bush (George W.) who'd succeeded a Clinton (Bill) who'd succeeded a Bush (George H.W.).
Obama (Barack) may be the only break we get from this dynastic do-si-do. In all likelihood, there is a Clinton or a Bush on the horizon. The 2016 campaign is frozen until Hillary announces her intentions, and Jeb's lock on everyone's attention is almost as strong. There are lots of governors and senators who should be on the short list for the presidency in 2016, but I'm afraid I can't quite remember their names right now.
We're used to sons and brothers entering politics more than wives. Hillary would be the first American to follow in the shoes of Imelda Marcos. And Jeb would make history as well, the second of two sons and the first brother to be elected president. The Bushes would be the first family to have three presidents.
Is all this evidence of our lack of imagination? Or the strength of good branding, in politics as elsewhere? Chelsea Clinton grew up in the White House, a searing experience that she seems to be over. She shunned public life at first, but she has gradually emerged as a TV reporter and a board member of her father's foundation and of the Clinton Global Initiative. She married the son of two former members of Congress.
And we are already talking about the fourth generation. On the Republican side, there's George P. Bush, son of Jeb, nephew of George, grandson of George H.W. and great-grandson of Prescott Bush, the senator from Connecticut who started this political dynasty in the 1950s. George P. grew up in Florida but went to college in Texas, where he has just filed papers to run for state office.
Marital monopoly
Hillary Clinton was unthinkable as a senator until the Monica Lewinsky scandal: She was generally an unpopular first lady until she stood by her man. As she basked in the thanks of a nation grateful for getting it through impeachment, her popularity shot up, and she left the White House a year early to run for senator from New York, a state she'd only visited as a tourist. Hillary may be the only woman in history to be rewarded for a sexual favor she did not dispense.
Of course, the Obama White House is not the Clinton White House, and Michelle Obama is not a likely candidate for office. Hillary Clinton is, however, and everything that helped her 12 years ago could hurt her four years from now. As a former senator and secretary of state, she is a global figure in her own right. No more reflected power, or pity, for her.
Now Secretary Clinton will go back to the future, with her international life disappearing and her domestic one returning as she moves to be home alone with Bill. There will be no more throwing back shots with reporters, dancing till the wee hours, letting herself go because she's a rock star. She will be in competition for attention with, and once again responsible for, the actions of her husband — as he will be with her.
The Big Dog brought her to the dance. She may not be able to live with him, but she can't win without him. That's the downside of a dynasty: As quickly as it can build you up, it can just as easily bring you down.
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Gunmen desecrate Ahmadi graves in Lahore
[Dawn] Gunmen on Monday desecrated graves of Ahmadis in Lahore, members of the minority community said, in the latest act of intimidation and religious hatred against the beleaguered group.
More than a dozen masked men broke into an Ahmadi graveyard in the Model Town area of Lahore before dawn and after tying up the security guard and caretaker vandalised graves, community
front man
Salimud Din said.
The attackers shattered the tomb stones of about 120 graves and left, he said.
Din said police took no action after similar incidents a few months ago in the eastern city of
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
and the central town of Lodhran.
The government has failed to protect our
human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
and Ahmadis life and property is not safe in Pakistain, Din said.
Shahid Ataullah, a local Ahmadi elder, said the attackers came around 2:00am (2100 GMT) and threatened the guard and caretaker with dire consequences and said that they were annoyed because Islamic verses were engraved on the tombstones.
Ataullah told AFP that the attackers told the guards they were from
Army of the Pure,
an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
and the Taliban, though there was no claim of responsibility.
Members of the community were discussing whether or not to lodge a formal complaint with police, he said.
We are under lots of pressure and the objective seems to be to harass us,Ataullah said.
Police said that they were not aware of the incident.
There is no such thing in our knowledge. We will take action when someone files a report about the incident, local
cop shoppe
chief Idrees Qureshi told AFP.
In May 2010, nearly 100 people were killed in Lahore after
Death Eaters
stormed two Ahmadi places of worship launching gun and grenade attacks.
Gunmen later raided the hospital where victims were being treated, killing four people in a shoot out.
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Rain Cancels Qualifying in Talladega; Hornish to Start 27th
October 31, 2009
TALLADEGA , Ala. (October 31, 2009) – Sam Hornish Jr., driver of the Penske Racing No. 77 Mobil 1 Dodge Charger, will line up to start the AMP Energy 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in the 27th position on Sunday after Saturday's qualifying session was cancelled due to rain.
With the cancellation of qualifying, the field was set by 2009 owner points per the NASCAR rule book. Currently 27th in the standings, the No. 77 team will line up in the 27th starting position on Sunday.
"It's unfortunate that we didn't get to qualify today," said Hornish. "Even though we were forced to go to a backup car after being bumped in practice yesterday, I am confident that the Mobil 1 Dodge would've qualified well today. We were strong here earlier this year but we got caught up in an accident near the end of the race. This Mobil 1 team has some unfinished business here at Talladega and we are ready to race tomorrow."
Coverage of the AMP Energy 500 will air live on the ABC television network on Sunday, November 1, 2009 beginning at Noon EST and will be broadcast live on MRN at 12:15 p.m.
Driver: Sam Hornish Jr.
Position: 27
Pole: Jimmie Johnson
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Before you sit down for breakfast with your family tomorrow, make sure you read this. Bagels under the brands Thomas', Weight Watchers, Publix and Sara Lee are being voluntarily recalled for – ew – the possible presence of metal fragments. The problem is believed to have been caused by a faulty manufacturing part at parent company Bimbo Bakeries USA. Metal fragments were discovered in two products, which prompted the recall. No injuries have been reported.
The affected bagels have a "Best Buy" date between January 18 and January 27, and were sold in eight Southern states. Click here to see if your bagels are part of the recall.
If you've purchased the affected product, you can return it at the point of purchase for a full refund, or call (800) 984-0989.
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As we reported a few days ago, LinkedIn was looking to refresh its design and just yesterday released a redesigned LinkedIn Today page that included much-needed social features. Today, LinkedIn has confirmed the launch of a simpler homepage, which is suspiciously similar to Facebook's newsfeed. While LinkedIn is promoting the redesign's ease of use, what may not be so apparent is LinkedIn's slow transformation from a resume network to a content sharing platform.
LinkedIn heralds its redesign as a necessary step to simplify the navigation of its homepage and make it easier for users to discover which of their connections are sharing and updating. "We've started to roll out a simpler and easier way to navigate Homepage experience that offers quick access to the relevant information and updates that help you be great at your job," Caroline Gaffney, product manager at LinkedIn, announced.
But when you compare the current design and the soon-to-be implemented redesign, the structure of the homepage in fact has not changed. The placement of "People You May Know," homepage updates, "Jobs You May Be Interested In" and other features on the homepage are positioned in the same exact position. The only changes that have been implemented that we can see are that the borders around images are absent, there's an emphasis on larger images, and following the "LinkedIn Today" update, users will be able to engage with updates by liking, sharing, or commenting.
But what's important to note about the update is what's going on under the hood. Once LinkedIn launches its redesigned page, you'll begin to notice that the updates at the top of your LinkedIn Homepage will be comprised of articles and updates that are based on what your network is reading, sharing, and commenting on, much like Facebook's Newsfeed. Eventually, you'll see less "So and so made a new connection" and more status updates or shared links.
The homepage and LinkedIn Today redesign coupled with the integration of social features is evidence of LinkedIn's strategy to become the user curated content and news platform that Facebook and Twitter have been aggressively competing to become. It's an important move for LinkedIn as it could increase user engagement through its new social features, and increase the time users spend on the site, as we've noted earlier.
The update will be rolling out in a few weeks.
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Category Archives: Geekiness
Ramblings, geekiness, fun facts in the science community and things that I just find awesome in general.
I am not a fashionista
Apparently someone found my site by searching "beren jones clothing." Frankly, I'm a tad bit confused, but hey, the internet's a strange place, we knew this, moving on: Threadless.com
If you're connecting my name with any form of apparel, Threadless is probably involved. They make up 3/4ths of my wardrobe, the rest is UCTV shirts, I think. They're pretty awesome, check them out.
Nuclear Reactors ≠ Nuclear Bombs
This is what I like to refer to as uninformed lunacy. It disturbs me that ANY educational system could spawn someone that believes this would work. It also disturbs me how horribly little people know about nuclear reactors. Nuclear reactors are not nuclear bombs, the only way a reactor can explode is the same way your water heater might explode, the pressure gets too high and the lid blows off, that's what happened in Chernobyl, and that's the worst possible outcome of any disaster involving a nuclear reactor, that's it. Now, that pressure explosion is a terrible thing and will almost certainly kill anyone in the facility, but you're not looking at a mushroom cloud situation that destroys the area for several miles around. Instead, they act more like a dirty bomb, wherein the actual explosion is relatively minimal, but the release of highly radioactive fission-products into the environment causes intense radiation sickness and death in the area immediately around the bomb for hundreds of years (until they decay into a stable state) and terrifies the populace due to the fear of radiation and nuclear power. It's nasty, yeah, but a nuclear bomb it is not.
I'd also like to point out that the tsunami that swept away entire towns didn't come close to destroying that reactor; they're built to withstand natural disasters, they're built to withstand 747s crashing into them, they're strong buildings and exceptionally well-designed. And the amount of radiation that escaped when the rods were uncovered within the reactor vessel (which just means the water level went below the height of the rods, not that they were out in the open or anything)? ~110 millirem/hr the first time they were exposed, ~313 millirem/hr the second time. To put that in perspective, you can get that in about 8 cross-country flights or 6 chest x-rays or two weeks on the beach in Mexico or just simply living anywhere on the planet for 8 months (cosmic radiation and radon gas will cause about 500 millirem/yr). It's not a significant amount. Having worked on nuclear reactors for 5 years of my life, and more importantly lived on this planet for 28 years, I've been exposed to a lot more than 300 millirem, it's not a problem.
Phil Plait, over at Bad Astronomy, posted a most excellent article on this issue.
In which I receive a fancy piece of paper and prove I'm Indiana Jones
So that's four years of my life right there. There were parts of it that sucked. A lot. I'm looking at you, Comm Dept. But there were more parts that were awesome. UCTV was a lot of them; I met some wicked cool people (that wicked's for you, Amy), made some cool things, and had a place to hang out, a home away from home, ya know.
And there might have been some drinking. Maybe just a little.
Though to be honest, I'm not sure if that piece of paper is worth more than this one.
In the realms of film, what's worth more: a diploma or a feature story in America's longest running daily newspaper? Either way, they're both pretty nifty.
Also, more people need to use the word 'nifty'. It needs a comeback, let's get on this, people.
But one of the coolest things for me about that diploma is that now I've got a snazzy piece of paper that has my full name on it, so I've got another thing to prove that I really am this guy:
Go ahead, be jealous.
A Mind is Truly a Terrible Thing to Taste…Zombie Poetry!
Via the wonderment that is the interwebz, I found someone (Roz Kaveney) who wrote some pretty great zombie poetry. Yes, you read that correctly, zombie fucking poetry. Here are some of the better ones:
Zombie 3:
Some of them run at you – you must be fast
to hope to get away. And some are slow.
The key to your survival is to know
which ones are which. There was a time, now past,
when they all shambled, all stank of the grave
that they'd left recently. And they were made
by hand, by craftsmen. You were still afraid.
But they were tame, somebody's household slave
The quick wild ones are feral, a disease
that you'll catch if they catch you. Yet they treat
the old slow kind politely if they meet.
Offer them bits of people. On their knees.
The dead are snobs. The stench of long decay
outranks the slick young beast who rose today.
Zombie 7:
The blank expressions, dull eyes, of each face
May lead you to believe they have no soul,
whereas their death and rebirth made them whole
united corpse and spirit in one place.
Their bodies punish sinners, free them too
to see the living God and serve His will.
It's Him who pulls them from the grave to kill
to tear apart, and bite, and gnaw, and chew.
His servants work their fingers to the bone.
Killing the clock around. It's how they pray
watching the movements of His face each day
He whispers that he knows them for His own.
And we pray too – we hope they'll pass us by
that only unbelieving sinners die.
Zombie 9:
If, shambling past, they smash a porcelain bowl,
a marble faun, perhaps embed a shard
inside their putrid foot,it may be hard
to understand their sudden frenzied howl
is ecstasy not pain. They all love art
but not as we do. Their long drawn out screams
are gorgeous music . Sometimes in your dreams
you hear it and it terrifies your heart.
That'ss just a fragment of its dark effect
on their decayed and very different brains.
Eyes drop out, ears fall off, but there are gains
refined and subtle senses. They select
the finest brains to eat. For them a taste
so fine, that, in our skulls, it's just a waste.
Zombie 11:
They are so many. Stand on a high place
and watch them shamble. Gray as winter cloud
the sea of faces, and they moan so loud
it's like a scream. And every single face
is marked with all the signs of quick decay
and yet they still stand up, and wander round.
It's like a flood. Those standing on high ground
watch each last bit of dry land fall away
and know there's no way they can stop the tide.
Sooner or later tides will always turn
but meanwhile there's no wood for you to burn,
no food to eat, and no friend at your side.
They are all dead. Don't tell yourself the lie
that you'll survive. Just walk down there and die.
Zombie 13:
And some are children. Thin, and fierce, and fast.
It takes them quickly, and it dries them out..
The old ones moan; the small dead children shout
and yell as if in playgrounds. They'll run past
you, double back. You see their teeth
and their dead eyes, and open bloodless wounds.
Their shrieks are wordless, just unthinking sounds.
And through their wounds you see dried bone beneath.
They're many. You can fight them off. You cut
them down, and trample them. Something will break
inside you. Once you thought it for hope's sake
you went on fighting. Bitter in your gut
an acid sense, that hope has told you lies.
The future's vicious jaws and mad dead eyes
Zombie 14: (this one's pretty Survivors-esque)
They eat as many of us as they can.
And then they slowly start to fall to bits.
It's a slow process. Cell by cell it hits.
Bones disconnect. They stumble. In a span
of weeks they will be rot, tatter and shard.
Some of us live. We hide. We eat cold food
from cans. Snare and kill rabbits. In a wood
we have a cabin. Our survival's marred
by what we've lost. The cities turn to dust
take art books music with them. We forget
all that we were,or loved or hoped for. Yet
the worst of all the things we lose is trust.
All strangers are the dead returned. Our fear
will go on killing, year by bloody year.
Twin Suns of Tatooine Taught Me Everything I Know…
Watch it. You won't be disappointed.
Carol Zara's Open Letter to Facebook
Carol Zara wrote a poignant open letter to Facebook in response to their dropping the ban-hammer on her. It's a damn good letter and she makes a lot of excellent points about the nature of Facebook right now. Here's hoping they see the light and un-ban our sexy geek.
I've copied the text of it here, but do yourself a favor and go to her site, Digitally Blonde, to check it out and lend your support. Also, hers has pictures you'll probably want to see. Here's her letter:
This is my open letter to Facebook:
Dear Facebook,
I've been banned from your website, FOREVER. And NO ONE can understand what I could possibly have done, that was so wrong to be treated like a criminal by you.
Apparently, you deleted my profile for "regularly contacting strangers."
I had been trying to keep my personal profile private. I made that decision when I had about 3000 friends on Facebook and was getting SO MANY invites to stupid apps and events in different countries and virus messages and freaking pokes… POKES! gah. I couldn't even keep up with my personal friends updates, they thought I was a jerk!
I was honest with my followers and told them that maybe it was time to have a fan page. Unfortunately, that also meant that I'd have to delete them from my profile. We joked about the South Park Facebook episode, which is hilarious, don't you think? So, from 3000 friends I went to about 600 friends. –By the way, your system had SO many bugs that it took me a lot longer to delete people. Sometimes I would delete a profile and it would come back to my friends list.
Even after doing everything I could to hide that profile and "force" people to 'like' my fan page instead (I hid my profile from your lists, but left the "add as a friend" option so my personal friends and family could add me), I was still getting over 50 friend requests/DAY. Hell, I couldn't change the URL (which was my name, like totally obvious, and even appeared on Google search) and some friends would link people to pictures on my personal profile: "Hey guys, have you all seen Carol Zara's latest photos??" Great, this was not helping.
I couldn't just ignore all of those friend requests and give them no actual reason (I'm not like you, Facebook). So what I'd do was send everyone a friendly message:
"Hey hotness,
I would love to add you, but I don't really use this profile anymore.
You can find me at my fUn page: http://www.facebook.com/iamcarolzara
See you there?
xoxo, CZ"
It's true. I wasn't really using that profile anymore, except for "liking" friends' pictures, and keeping in touch with people I knew. My updates and pictures were all on my new fan page. I had 2 on the site, by the way: Carol Zara (the new page with close to 4000 members) and Digitally Blonde. The Carol Zara fan page only had myself as an admin, so it was disabled/deleted together with my profile.
My Twitter followers and I first thought that my account was disabled because of the sexy Octopus pictures I had recently posted (they were provocative, but no full nudity shown -I'd add black banners to the pics that I thought would make you mad).
Last year, you deleted a cartoon of me (fan art) where a famous comic book artist used his imagination and drew me sitting down with a naked back.
How would I guess that that C-A-R-T-O-O-N is inappropriate to you? It wasn't like it was a cartoon of Homer Simpson fucking his daughter or the chicks from Family Guy sucking a dildo.
Which makes me think IS THE POPE THE CEO OF YOUR WEBSITE?
Thinking that it was because of the sexy pics -I agree with not allowing porn, but sexy pictures shouldn't be a problem, considering your "meet local girls now" ads that feature REALLY young chicks.
My friends and I started doing research on how models behaved on Facebook, specially Playboy models and porn stars. We found full-on nudity -no black bars- on a page entitled "Larissa Riquelme" (not sure if it's the model's official page, but photos were added by the admin, not the fans).
We also found this on a porn star's page (again, not sure if it's an official page, but it's there being hosted by FACEBOOK):
I was ready to start a tumblr account called "Faceburka" to showcase all our FB finds (oh, because we found MANY things on your website that are apparently against your rules. You should totally hire me as a cyber detective. That's a sexy title.)
Finally on Aug. 13, I get a response from you -and it WAS final, with NO right to appeal *single tear left cheek* :(
Let's clarify things once again:
Sending friend requests to people I don't know? No, I haven't been sending friend requests randomly. In fact, my personal profile used to have about 3000 friends (because I accepted everyone's friend requests) and I was getting so many invites to stupid apps and virus messages that I decided to delete a good chunk of the friends list and keep only people I knew and long time fans.
Regularly contacting strangers through unsolicited Inbox messages? aka Replying to random friend requests asking them to add my fan page instead. I'd get about 50 new friend requests EVERY DAY. What to do if I don't want to add all those "strangers" to my private account? Send them a polite message asking them to find me at my new fan page instead. Yes, it was exhausting to reply to all those messages myself. Yes, I wished there was an app that would save me time. Yes, sometimes after copy/paste'ing the message, I had to type those words to prove that I'm human, which was a lot more work.
Soliciting others for dating or business purposes? huh DATING?! No way! Business purposes, nope. I'd add or send a "hello" message to people that I have worked with in the past or whom my friends had introduced to me. That is all!
Question is:
1. Will you delete all the users that send friend requests to people they don't know (I was affected by it), considering the fact that your app "People You May Know" usually features people we don't know 98% of the time? It should actually be called "People You Have No Effin Clue Who They Are" feature.
2. Isn't social networking a way of interacting with "strangers" aka "world citizens" who share common interests? No wonder why Twitter had such a fast growth and has been kicking your ass since 2009. I met so many wonderful people there. I don't care if I don't know them in person (some I have met IRL). They make me happy and I learn a lot from them.
Also, how can you call me a threat? I'm only 5′3" and 100 lbs. My friends made fun of me when I dressed up as Darth Vader for Halloween, so I gave up being evil. :S
So FB, we've had a serious spat, and you've kicked me out of your house, and now I'm standing outside your window with a big boombox, letting you and everyone else know how I feel.
Maybe you could man up and let me in? The fight was really one sided, and I didn't receive any warning at all.
In other words, let's put this fight behind us so we can get to the make up sex already!
And just for you, I promise to wear the burka.
Thanks Hotness!
In yet another turn of how Facebook is fucking stupid, they've banned internet celebrity Carol Zara, the owner of the blog Digitally Blonde. According to Zara's twitter account, the reason the idiots at Facebook have given for the ban is that she "regularly contacts strangers."
The reason she regularly contacts strangers? It's because she's fucking awesome and talks to her fans, replying to each friend request a fan would send her way. I can't think of a dumber fucking reason to ban a celeb than that. Perhaps if they were rescuing kittens; that MIGHT be a shittier reason to slam them with the ban-hammer. Maybe.
Most of her fans, including me and Zara herself, initially thought the ban stemmed from some racy, but censored, pictures she put up of her posing sans clothing with naught but an octopus to cover her naughty bits.
"You will no longer be able to use Facebook. This decision is final and cannot be appealed."
Facebook, you're a bunch of idiots.
She can regularly contact me anytime she likes. If you feel the same way, join the #FreeZara campaign on Twitter and tell any news outlets you know of that Facebook has decided that celebs shouldn't talk to their fans.
UPDATE: Zara said she had contacted the people that friend requested her to add her fan page instead because she'd transferred her activities there.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Carol Zara has added an open letter to Facebook on her site, Digitally Blonde. Check it out. #FreeZara
Et tu, Vader?
Star Wars + Shakespeare = scalding hot coffee coming out via my now burnt nasal cavity as I laugh too damn hard
I'm not sure whether to love you or hate you, o' geeks of twitter. #SWShakespeare on twitter is guaranteed enjoyment for any nerd/geek, but be warned: hot beverages are hot and should not be drunk immediately before laughing. The consequences of ignoring this rule are painful…
Some of the better ones are on the fancy dancy Star Wars blog (which @bonniegrrl writes for and you should follow her because she's awesome). Though here are a few of my favs:
RT @TroyBeast: A plague on both your droids!
RT @RHicks: Tis a trap!
RT @gaikokujin: TK-421, TK-421, wherefore art thou TK-421?
RT @inter_zone: A bantha, a bantha, my empire for a bantha!
RT @pixelmatt: Hath not a Jedi eyes? Hath not a Jedi midi-chlorians?
RT @IndieEwok: Something Wookiee This Way Comes
RT @TheRobertPalmer: Alas, poor Vader! I knew him well young Skywalker. A fellow of infinite hatred, of most terrible wrath.
RT @7diane: Out, Out Damn Ewok
RT @rollotomasi: Cry havoc and let slip the Ewoks of war!
RT @OMG_Ponies: Once more unto the DEATH STAR trench, dear friends, once more; Or close the exhaust port up with our Rebel dead.
RT @OMG_Ponies: Now is the Hothian winter of our discontent.
RT @DeathStarPR: What's in a name? That which we call a Wookiee by any other name would smell like wet carpet.
RT @MightyHunter: We few, we happy few, we band of clones…
And my very favorite:
RT @johncullentv: Frailty, thy name is Jar Jar.
Who is Twitter recommending you follow?
So far, it's recommended a few shitty celebs to me, a bunch of the Eureka writers (who I actually followed) and Russel Blair (whoever the hell that guy is…)
StarCraft II: Ghosts of the Past Trailer
I do believe I just had a nerdgasm. My own little fan-boy freak-out as the waves of awesomeness coming from that trailer crashed into me.
If you want any form of social interaction from me, you'll have to get it sometime before the midnight release on monday; because once I get my hands on the full version of this game, I check out of real life and you'll only find me on Battle.net.
P.S. Kerrigan rawks. That is all.


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2011: Lettered as a first-year ... expected to be one of the team's top runners again as a sophomore.
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SKOKIE – Oakton Community College will launch its first hands-on nanotechnology course this month. Fundamentals of Nanotechnology introduces the world of nanotechnology to
students, including topics in nanophysics, nanochemistry, and nanobiology.
Students can apply to Oakton and register for the course, which begins Jan. 14, at Oakton's website, www.oakton.edu.
"The Fundamentals of Nanotechnology class will provide students with a foundation of nano-focused knowledge and skill, and will help prepare them for exciting jobs in the fast growing field of nanotechnology," said Bob Sompolski, dean of mathematics and technologies at Oakton. "We are thrilled to be launching this new course for our students and the Oakton community."
The nanotechnology course at Oakton launches the Nanotechnology Employment, Education, and Economic Development Initiative, a collaborative effort with Oakton, the village of Skokie, the Illinois Science and Technology Park, and the North Suburban Educational Region for Vocational Education to bring nanotechnology education to Oakton and area high schools.
According to the 2012 Illinois Nanotechnology Report published in the December 2012 issue of IEEE Nanotechnology , "the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition identified 74 businesses in Illinois that are directly involved in the nanotechnology industry either through their work on the nanoscale or through their use of nanoenabled products."


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DUBLIN, Ohio, 3 March 2014—Julie Presas has been promoted to General Counsel and Vice President of Legal Services of OCLC, the Dublin-based library cooperative that provides services and research to libraries worldwide.
Ms. Presas has been Assistant General Counsel since 2009, and has been with OCLC since 2001. Prior to joining OCLC, she was General Counsel for Fiber Network Solutions, Inc., a tier one network provider for businesses in the Midwest region of the United States.
She serves on the boards of two local non-profit organizations, the Short North Stage and Besa Community. She also provides pro-bono services through the Columbus Legal Aid Society Adult Shelter Assistance Project.
Ms. Presas earned her undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University and her J.D. from the University of Toledo College of Law.
"Julie's skill as an attorney and her commitment to libraries and the OCLC membership will serve her well in this leadership role," said Skip Prichard, OCLC President and CEO.
Ms. Presas follows Jim Houfek, who retired effective March 1 as OCLC Vice President and General Counsel after 21 years of service to the cooperative.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing library costs. More than 74,000 libraries in 170 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world's largest online database for discovery of library resources. Search WorldCat.org on the Web. For more information, visit the OCLC website.
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Is Will Smith Working on a New Album?
It's been a long time since Will Smith focused on his music career — and even longer since his days as a chart-topping, multiplatinum hitmaker.
But for Smith, who achieved fame in the '80s and early '90s as one half of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince before launching a wildly successful acting career — and then returning to music with 1997′s massive 'Big Willie Style' — a comeback is never out of the question. And it sounds like that might be exactly what he's planning.
During a recent interview with XXL, producer La Mars "Mars" Edwards, whose roster of clients includes Snoop Dogg and Wiz Kalifa, casually mentioned that he's manning the boards for a project with Smith. "We're working on Will Smith, bringing him back. That's actually him on the other line right now," he told the interviewer, sparking immediate speculation.
Smith, who has focused on producing movies in recent years, is currently filming 'Men in Black III,' so Edwards could be helming the soundtrack single…or it could be a full-length album.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
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Herschel Levit (1912-1986)
In the 1976 edition of "Who's Who in American Art", Herschel Levit is described as "painter, illustrator". Ten years later, in the 1986 edition, the year Levit died, he is described as "photographer, historian". Levit was also an author ( he both wrote and illustrated a book called "Just Point" ), muralist ( The Rowan School in Philadelphia, Recorder of Deeds building in Washington, US Post Office building in Leisville, Ohio & Jenkintown ) and teacher ( at both Pratt and Parsons ).
His work was exhibited at both the Met and the Whitney museums in New York, at Columbia University, the Chicago Institute of Fine Art, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art, among others.
I can't tell you if this terrific portrait, a bit reminiscent of the album cover art being done at that time by David Stone Martin, is typical of Levit's style, because I was unable to locate any other examples of his work.
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Herschel and Janice Levit were family friends when I was growing up in NYC. The portrait of Belafonte I would say is typical of his album-cover style as I remember it. He also illustrated books in a similar style including, as I recall, a children's book about the winged horse Pegasus from Greek mythology. There are also echoes of this style in his original art work. He was a superb photographer, I visited his home studio, and I own a copy of his photograph of the head of Michaelangelo's Moses. He was a very kind and gentle man, and I remember him fondly.ReplyDelete
He did a splendid, moving, imaginative painting of Beethoven which is on the 1967 Cardinal LP of Beethoven's String Quartet #15 played by the Yale Quartet.ReplyDelete


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Sunbeam Quarterback Review
What do you think of when you hear the word "Quarterback?" Probably football, right? Well, the job of a Quarterback on the football team is to lead the way to victory and keep everyone working well together, which is what Sunbeam wants from its case, the Sunbeam Quarterback. Sunbeam wants the Quarterback to grab the attention of the consumer with not only its name, but also by its bold looking face, which somewhat looks like the guards on a football helmet. Sunbeam has put its patented Core-Fan technology into the Quarterback to give it a boost against the competition when it comes to performance. Let's see if it will be able to make the catch and beat out the competition.
Closer Look:
The packaging for the Sunbeam Quarterback is very simple and plain. The package is printed in all black and white with a very simple picture of the case's front bezel on both the front and back sides of the case. The only words that are on these sides of the package are Quarterback and the Core-Fan installation availability. When you look at the two sides, this is where Sunbeam decided to place all of the specifications of the case. Both sides are exactly the same, except that the specifications are written in four different languages, English and Dutch on one side, French and Spanish on the other.
When you pull the case out of the box, you can see that Sunbeam has packaged the Quarterback very carefully by adding a plastic protective cover over the case and then fitting molded Styrofoam to both the top and bottom of the case to help prevent any damage that may occur during the shipping process.
Now that we know how the Sunbeam Quarterback has been packaged, it's time to get an initial look over and see what is inside of the case and what makes it different from the others out in the market.


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Besides it came along with the 3-sen water issue, so it is more of a face fight* rather than anything else.
1 month of social studies lessons wasted on that. I am glad I skipped most of those classes rather than listen to some propaganda (Most of the views given to the teachers are seriously lopsided but well phrased to influence the students. If the neighbour is distributing propaganda brochures, do we have to sink to their level in our schools?).
* - The politically correct word should be "sovereignty", but I don't really give a damn.
P.S I am not an opposer to that red dot's rules and regulations, and neither am I a wholesome supporter, but they certainly deserve the vehement criticism for wasting time, effort and resources on something so pointless, just like any other country which does the same.
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 33
The issue of the Spratly's would never be resolved, as long as one country refuses to go in a resource sharing deal. Basically, the stuff is there, but good luck actually using any of it.
One of my history profs was asked to do some translations on Dutch (I believe) documents relating to the case. Also, I do believe that it was Malaysia who raised the hoo-ha in the first place. So, Singapore won because of better house-keeping.
Still, it's probably good exercise for the lawyers involved. Legal affairs always elude me.
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U.S. asked Japan to suspend Nakasone's visit to Iran
Not sure why this is even an issue over a week after the visit, I mean.. Its not like that the United States are making strong protests or complaints over the visit. Besides, it is good that Nakasone is trying to improve relations with Iran considering that they did released a suspected agent of the United States after a review. Its a good sign!^^
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Lobbiests are of course the reason I support public financing for political campaigns. They'll lose a lot of their influence if they don't have campaign donations to promise and actually need to convince politicans that they should support the issue that's being lobbied for rather than buying that support.
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Now, we gotta have a capable navy to prevent that from happening, but that's an internal problem we cant even act on.. Frustrating.
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Protests at Obama's abortion speech -
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Does China have one? Soon.
Very soon it is that big ship that will make a whole of difference in the ownership of Spratly. Like what Zhanquan said, it will no longer be a fair issue concerning justice in the end.
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The biggest draw for these islands, from what I understand, isn't the islands at all but the relatively large exclusive economic zone that the sea would provide. The water is valuable for a high probability of containing an undetermined amount of oil and natural gas. So they have a relatively large potential value.
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US's Carrier 5th Fleet is always ready to strike, but with China's new equipment, it could end up as a naval stalemate.
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A New Era of Change
Hatoyama eager to face off with Aso in Diet debate
Hatoyama's strategies seem to be pretty good. Placing the one he defeated in the leadership battle as second-in-command within a party or group is typical action for party unity and is also a test of success. If Okada refused, then their party unity will suffer a blow. However, not just that Okada had accepted the position as secretary-general, even his supporter Noda has taken the seat of acting secretary-general to back up Okada when necessary implies that Hatoyama has managed to gain party unity which is essential for a rebellion.
Considering that Hatoyama was less popular than Okada prior to the election Saturday managed to garner more than 40% of public approval, it generally implies that it has been a given that if the Democratic Party of Japan maintains their approach and stance for the next couple of months, Hatoyama will no doubt become the next prime minister replacing Taro Aso.
Only problem is that the DPJ have yet to come up with some clear policies since Ozawa had ditched most of the diet debates, especially the ones concerning how the DPJ will deal with Japan-US bilateral relations under the new leadership of Hatoyama. As of now, it appears that the DPJ intends on promoting the position of Japan to a more equal ground, such as becoming actual partners of the United States in dealing with global issues as to the position of a subordinate-type now. This is a very good proposal but will it actually work out?
American president Obama plans on keeping his focus on Afghanistan, where the Talibans are frequently setting roadside bombs killing many soldiers daily. However, the shadow minister whom Hatoyama-san had devoted his loyalty to, Ozawa had plans to withdraw the SDF from lending aid to the Americans in Afghanistan which will eventually harm ties with the Obama leadership, even though Ozawa had been comparing his leadership with Obama's. If this is the case, how will Japan-US relations improve without first suffering severe deteriorations?
Considering how good Okada is with money issues, it would be awesome to see him in the seat of the finance ministry; the new government will no doubt be a non-corrupted one. Maybe, he will even manage to come up with some good ideas to resolve the financial turmoil. More over, Okada seems to be in opposition to Ozawa's previous unrealistic financial proposals in which the source of the fundings necessary for his plans to work out was never clearly identified. It would be nice if the DPJ led by Hatoyama and Okada will manage to resolve all these questionable issues and come up with some clear-cut policies. When it comes to political competition, policy debates are vital to making things lively and interesting.
As of now, I see that the DPJ will most likely win the next general election and that Hatoyama will become the new prime minister. It seems that most people have become tired of the LDP who has already led the nation for more than 50 years in which the last few years consist of the one-year resignation prime ministers and a worsening economic situation generally implies that this new era is one of "change", like Obama's slogan. Actually, a change of government also benefits the Liberal Democratic Party depending on how well the new government of DPJ will work things out. If they do a good job, they will most likely extend their term. If they do a poor job, the LDP will no doubt win back the position of government. More over, there is no powerful candidate to replace Taro Aso in the LDP that wields awesome charisma and powerful policies. There is Koizumi Junichiro but it is obvious that he is too smart to take the helms of the LDP when it is already in a state of beyond repairs. Generally, anybody who replaces Taro Aso in the LDP right now will no doubt get piled by stress and unsolvable issues. This answers the question as to why Taro Aso is still in charge of everything, most people are simply avoiding the fate of dealing with the severe issues of the economy as well as other issues of importance. Thus, it is best for the LDP to finally pass the baton over to the DPJ and during the years in which Hatoyama leads a new government, the LDP should regain its strength and restructure the party so that it will focus on both party unity and some good policies, as well as find all the right candidates who can replace the current ones as next generation hawks. And thus, I support the ousting of the LDP by the Democratic Party of Japan in the upcoming general election. It is a win-win situation for both political parties in the long-run; the best solution if nothing goes wrong.
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Yes Exactly. I find it frustrating to have little dingy boats as a "Navy"
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Realising Dogger Bank's potential will take time and, in the interim, Statkraft would like to co-develop another offshore wind farm, although Rynning-Tønnesen would not comment on the timing of any likely investment announcement.
Statkraft describes itself as Europe's largest renewable energy company. It generated 16.4GW in 2011, with the vast majority derived from Norwegian hydropower plants. The company has been investing globally in onshore wind for some time.
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A friend asked me a question by email that is above my pay grade:
Any ideas on which sutra this quotation may have come from? I had guessed the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, but I'm not sure this is so.A student of mine quoted something in reference to a famous symbol on Ryoanji Temple which basically means, "I only know what is eough." He said the symbol was based on the last teaching of the Buddha before he died. He quoted that teaching as, "You Bhikku! If you want to escape from suffering, you have to comprehend the realization of enough. The basis of realizing enough is comfort and peace. The one who realizes enough would be comfortable even if he slept on the ground. The one who does not realize enough would be uncomfortable even if he were in palace. The one who does not realize enough would be poor even if he were rich. The one who realizes enough would be rich even if he were poor. That is called realizing enough."


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The return of migrating hummingbirds is a much-awaited gift of nature for bird enthusiasts. Though they eat small insects for protein, hummingbirds also rely heavily on flower and prepared nectar for their energy needs. You might be able to successfully attract them to a backyard feeder with a proper combination of timing, consistency, and cleanliness.
Hang nectar feeders about 5-10 days before the average spring arrival date in your area. This ensures hummingbirds will see them, take a drink, and possibly stay the whole season in your neighborhood. Remove your nectar feeder a couple weeks after you see your last visitors in the fall.
Strength in Numbers - Hummingbirds, especially males, can be very territorial when it comes to nectar sources, and may chase away any competitors that try to use your feeders. The best way to deal with the occasional greedy customer is to offer several feeders, in different locations. This gives timid hummingbirds a place to feed if a "bully" is overprotective of one feeder.
Placement is paramount: Feeders should be high enough to deter domestic predators, but in plain sight, near flowers or windows, for a good view. Hummingbirds also like to have a branch nearby to observe a feeder from before approaching it.
Nectar: Use Sugar, Not Honey - If you mix your own nectar, the widely-recommended mix is 1 part sugar to 4 parts water. Using more sugar than this can dehydrate hummingbirds. Cane sugar contains the same kind of sugar birds get from flower nectar, so it is the only sweetener recommended. Do not use honey, molasses, or artificial sweeteners.
Keeping Feeders Clean - Perhaps the most important aspect of hummingbird feeding is feeder cleanliness. Hummingbirds are very particular and will easily abandon a neglected feeder for a cleaner alternative. Depending on the outside temperature, nectar can spoil in as little as 2-5 days, causing fermentation and mold growth. You can ensure safety for your visiting hummingbirds by offering an amount that can be consumed within a few days. This way, you're prompted to wash the feeder when you take it down to refill. Cleaning is relatively easy. Simply use a mix of hot, soapy water and our Bottle & Tube Brush to get hard-to-reach areas. Scrub stubborn spots with a
Best 36" Long Brush or similar cleaning tool. To keep nectar fresh longer, move feeders out of direct sunlight in extremely warm temperatures.
Feeder Selection - Hummingbirds, as well as orioles, are attracted to the bright red or orange coloring on parts of nectar feeders. If your feeder has no red or orange coloring, simply tie red ribbons to the hanging wire. They'll find it. Dish-style feeders often have perches so you can get a rare, motionless view of hummingbirds feeding. Gravity-fed, bottle-style feeders are generally known for their ease of filling and cleaning. Some of the newer feeder styles have a straw-like feeding tube, which does not offer pests, like wasps and bees, a place to land. There are more and more artistic styles to choose from including
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"Outland" is punishing, and not in the way you think.
I beat Outland, and overall I really liked it (I'm a huge fan of Ikaruga). I almost gave up a few times, however, because some of the boss fights are frustrating. The main reason? No halfway checkpoints! Actually, that's not even accurate, it's that the checkpoints come before a long stretch of nothing for some inexplicable reason. It's like putting a checkpoint before a cutscene. Let me show you.
There's a spider boss, but when you start the section you have to run down a hallway, then complete a quick "hit two switches" section. It might be a little tricky the first time, but it's no big deal. After that the spider drops down, and you have to run through a bunch more stuff to get to the real fight. It takes a minute and a half to get there in this video, and he's fast:
1:30 may not sound like a lot of time, but chances are it's going to take you multiple tries to beat this boss. You're going to spend 1:30 just to get to the part where you die trying to figure out the patterns. It took me four or five tries, I don't remember. It's frustrating, more than it is actual wasted time, and it's needless. Just add a checkpoint there!
Example two is the final boss in the game, so don't watch the whole video if you don't want to spoil it (watch the first 45 seconds).
Thirty seconds of climbing up a ladder, every time you restart! Then another 15 seconds for the fight to begin. Again, not a ton of actual time, but imagine climbing that ladder ten times. If they wanted that for dramatic effect, fine, show that the first time you load the game, but if you die or restart, have a temporary checkpoint at the top of the ladder!
I don't mind if the game is hard. Hell, you can even make the game harder, just stop punishing me by making me replay these boring sections!


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A November deadline is looming for individuals to decide whether they want to opt out of a BP court settlement and pursue further legal action, but thousands of fishermen and businesses have no idea how much money they'll be offered as part of that settlement.
A November deadline is looming for individuals to decide whether they want to opt out of a BP court settlement and pursue further legal action, but thousands of fishermen and businesses have no idea how much money they'll be offered as part of that settlement.
Local fishermen still mired in the claims process complain that without an indication of how much BP is willing to settle for or whether they'll even be declared eligible for the settlement, they're being asked to make a life-altering decision without enough information.
"Our shrimp seasons aren't any better. It's been four seasons now... if BP isn't the culprit then what is?" said Kim Chauvin, who owns two Terrebonne Parish shrimp companies with her husband, David. "So the fishing people are stuck. We can't get the answers, and we have no redress."
Local businesses and fishermen involved in the BP claims settlement have until Nov. 1 to decide whether they'll take the settlement or opt out to pursue further legal action.
A fairness hearing on the settlement is scheduled for a week after that opt-out date, on Nov. 8, the stage at which the court will decide whether BP's settlement with fishermen is fair.
Fishermen still have many questions and concerns about the settlement, but after two years and a number of poor harvest seasons "a lot of people will be forced to take it," said Clint Guidry, president of the Louisiana Shrimp Association and chairman of Go Fish, an organization that's filed objections to the settlement.
"Because of the terrible fishing seasons we've had, it becomes survival," he said.
Patrick Juneau, a Lafayette lawyer who has been serving as the court-appointed claims administrator, defended the pace of the claims process.
Juneau said his offices essentially began the claims process anew when they set up the process in June.
"There are 60,000 new claims that we're dealing with," he said.
He added that his office is settling claims at a "record pace" and is set to ramp up the process this month.
"I was given this momentous task, and we're doing in spades what we said we were going to do," Juneau said. "If there's someone expecting more than that, I can't speak to that."
As of Wednesday, the settlement officials were handling 7,066 seafood compensation claims, 5,916 Vessel of Opportunity program claims and 333 vessel physical damage claims, Juneau said. That was out of a total of 63,992 claims.
So far, 646 seafood claimants have been notified that they were eligible for the settlement and received a notice of their settlement award. A total of $92 million has been offered to those businesses and fishermen.
Of the Vessel of Opportunity program claims, 4,122 have been declared eligible and offered a total of $175 million.
Out of the vessel physical damage claims, only three have been declared eligible, and those claimants have been offered a total of $15,588.
Between June 4 and Oct. 3, the office had notified claimants of more than $405.8 million in settlement offers, Juneau said.
"The resounding response to those is that people have been ecstatic. They said: 'That's exactly what I thought I should get,'" Juneau said. "It means that what we're doing to meet our goals is working."
Juneau added that in class action suits, many times claimants don't know their exact settlement amount before the opt-out date.
"We aim to put out sufficient claims to get a sampling for people to know what's being done is being done," Juneau said.
Guidry said he disagrees that fishermen have been satisfied with the new settlement process and the money that has been offered.
And local fishermen argued that with poor fishing seasons that have no sign of turning around, fishermen need to be able to make educated decisions about their future and their participation in the settlement.
"A lot of these fishermen are going to be making life-altering decisions," said shrimper Ronnie Anderson of Montegut.
Between filing claims for her boats, dock and processing plant, Chauvin said she's already paid her accountant more than $25,000 to help process the paperwork. But she's still waiting for a response with an offer from the claims office.
Between taxes and fees for lawyers, that offer could end up being miniscule, she said.
She knows of others on the bayou who have received their settlement offers and were devastated, she said. Fishermen with smaller boats and less means to last out the poor fishing and long, convoluted claims process are having a harder time, Guidry said.
"I've watched people sit in here and cry," Chauvin said. "The elder generations lost a lot."
Chauvin said after many fisherman got nowhere during the previous claims process headed by administrator Ken Feinberg, it's frustrating to be stuck in another legal process that "seems to have no rhyme or reason."
"You wonder why people feel like they have nowhere to go," she said. "BP should have already taken care of the people. Start shelling it out."
The opt-out date has already been extended once, from Oct. 1 to Nov. 1. So for fisherman the clock is ticking.
"We've got 22 days to make a decision," Guidry said. "Should I accept this money not knowing what I'm going to get for the rest of this claim? I don't think any commercial fishery people should have to make a decision without having the complete picture."
Staff Writer Nikki Buskey can be reached at 857-2205 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Ford Atlas
Ford's F-150 has been the best-selling pickup for almost 40 years, but the manufacturer has introduced a set of advancements in the form of the rugged Atlas. This truck features a next-generation EcoBoost engine with a massive improvement in fuel economy. The bed boasts hidden ramps for loading and unloading, numerous 110-volt outlets and an array of nifty tailgate tricks. While Ford has no immediate plans to produce the Atlas, expect to see its new features in a few of Ford's future pickups.


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Niese shines as Mets pound Padres
Flushing, NY – Jon Niese allowed just two runs over 6 2/3 innings and helped his own cause with a pair of hits, an RBI and a run scored, as the New York Mets opened their 2013 campaign with an 11-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Monday at Citi Field.
Niese (1-0) scattered four hits and walked two with four strikeouts, while Collin Cowgill clubbed a grand slam and scored twice for the Mets, who have won 34 of their last 44 Opening Day games and own the best winning percentage (.654) on Opening Day in major league history.
"The adrenaline was pumping, I'm not going to lie," Niese said of his first Opening Day start. "As far as the anxiety, it really wasn't much."
Marlon Byrd finished 2-for-5 with two RBI and a run scored, while John Buck and Ruben Tejada each added two hits, an RBI and two runs scored for New York, which finished 74-88 last season.
Yonder Alonso stroked a solo home run and Carlos Quentin knocked in the other run for the Padres, who struggled to a 76-86 mark a year ago and missed the playoffs for a sixth straight season.
San Diego starter Edinson Volquez (0-1) was tagged for six runs on six hits and three walks over three-plus innings in defeat.
"The ball-strike ratio wasn't great," San Diego manager Bud Black said of Volquez. "There were a lot of two-out hits. He just couldn't make pitches at critical times."
The Mets jumped on top in the second inning, as Buck kept the frame alive with a two-out walk before coming around to score on Tejada's double into the left- field corner.
Tejada alertly moved to third on the throw to the plate before Niese slapped a single the opposite way to score Tejada for a 2-0 lead.
San Diego cut the margin in half on Quentin's two-out RBI single in the top of the third, but the Mets answered with a pair in the bottom half to seize control.
David Wright got things started with a one-out single and promptly stole second before moving to third on a groundout. Byrd then delivered a two-out, two-strike single to left-center field and after Lucas Duda worked a walk, Buck scorched a line-drive single into center field to score Byrd and give the Mets a 4-1 cushion.
Volquez ran into more trouble in the fourth, as he issued a leadoff walk to his pitching counterpart before Cowgill followed with a double. Anthony Bass then replaced Volquez and Daniel Murphy smacked his first offering into right field to score Niese.
Murphy then moved to second on a wild pitch before Cowgill scored on Wright's groundout. Bass looked poised to escape the jam after striking out Ike Davis, but Byrd belted a two-out single to left field to score Murphy for a 7-1 lead.
San Diego got one back in the sixth on Alonso's leadoff blast, but Cowgill's grand slam in the bottom of the seventh put to rest any hopes of a San Diego comeback.
Game Notes
Cowgill is the second Met to hit a grand slam on Opening Day after Todd Hundley accomplished the feat in 1995 ... New York was 4-3 against the Padres last season ... Niese became the 22nd pitcher in team history to make an Opening Day start ... The Mets announced Saturday that pitcher Johan Santana will undergo season-ending shoulder surgery to repair a torn anterior capsule in his pitching shoulder ... Volquez was making his third straight Opening Day start ... Wright finished with an RBI, a run scored and two stolen bases.