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Under U.S. Trademark law, 15 U.S.C. §1062(a), a trademark or service mark must be published for opposition before it can be registered on the Principal Register. This Publication and [short] time period (30 days) give someone who may be harmed by a registration of a federal trademark a way to oppose (or object to) the registration.
Under U.S. Trademark law, 15 U.S.C. §1062(a), a trademark or service mark must be published for opposition before it can be registered on the Principal Register. This Publication and [short] time period (30 days) give someone who may be harmed by a registration of a federal trademark a way to oppose (or object to) the registration.
Any person who believes that he/she/it would be damaged by the registration of the mark and can prove both Standing and Grounds may oppose a registration during this time period.
Note: Only potential Principal Registrations have opposition periods. Marks allowed for the Supplemental Register must be cancelled rather than opposed if any person who believes that he/she/it would be damaged by trademark having registered and can prove both Standing and Grounds. There is no set time period to cancel a Supplemental Registration but it is a good idea to cancel before the mark has a chance to acquire distinctiveness or acquire any other rights in the mark or cancellation may be more difficult.
15 U.S.C. § 1062 Publication
(a) Upon the filing of an application for registration and payment of the prescribed fee, the Director shall refer the application to the examiner in charge of the registration of marks, who shall cause an examination to be made and, if on such examination it shall appear that the applicant is entitled to registration, or would be entitled to registration upon the acceptance of the statement of use required by section 1051(d) of this title, the Director shall cause the mark to be published in the Official Gazette of the Patent and Trademark Office: Provided, That in the case of an applicant claiming concurrent use, or in the case of an application to be placed in an interference as provided for in section 1066 of this title, the mark, if otherwise registrable, may be published subject to the determination of the rights of the parties to such proceedings.
15 U.S.C. § 1063 Opposition
(a) Any person who believes that he would be damaged by the registration of a mark upon the principal register, including the registration of any mark which would be likely to cause dilution by blurring or dilution by tarnishment under section 1125(c) of this title, may, upon payment of the prescribed fee, file an opposition in the Patent and Trademark Office, stating the grounds therefor, within thirty days after the publication under subsection (a) of section 1062 of this title of the mark sought to be registered. Upon written request prior to the expiration of the thirty-
The current fee for a Notice of opposition, per class is $400.00 and the Notice must contain certain information in order to be accepted by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). A Suggested Format for an opposition is provided by the USPTO at www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/ttab/oppositionformat.pdf. A Petition to Cancel has the same $400 filing fee per class.
30 Days Seems like a Short Time Period!
The actual time frame to oppose after publication is only 30 days (or more with an extension) but a trademark or trade name owner (or their attorney) who is diligent about protecting their rights can search for marks to oppose long before this period starts. A claim of likelihood of confusion is the most frequently encountered issue in Board (TTAB) inter partes proceedings (309.03(c) Grounds).
The Opposition period is not just a formality to make sure the examiner did not miss a likelihood of confusion issue during examination. The USPTO only looks at the Right to Register a mark with respect to other federally registered or pending federal registrations during the examination of a mark before opposition. The Right to Use is much broader and incorporates common law rights as well as federal registration rights. The Right to Use a mark is not examined by the USPTO and can only be enforced by prior users of a mark who believe that a registration will damage their prior rights and protect those rights through opposition, cancellation or suing through the courts. An opposer may be an owner of a registered trademark, an unregistered trademark, or a trade name.
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Portland It's not uncommon for politicians to request campaign donations. But Oregon's Republican chairman is asking for people's urine.
Along with being a failed congressional candidate and current head of the Oregon Republican Party, Art Robinson is a scientist. He hopes to collect thousands of samples to help researchers develop urine tests capable of detecting diseases years before symptoms arise.
"You may know me through my family's recent efforts to improve our representation in Congress," Robinson writes in his plea for urine, mailed last week to all 42,000 addresses in Josephine County. "There is, however, something more that I hope you will help us with. Please consider giving my colleagues and me — a sample of your urine."
Human urine contains thousands of chemicals deposited by cells in the body.
Robinson is trying to recruit thousands of people to send him samples of their urine every six months, he told The Associated Press. He hopes to be able to look for patterns consistent in the urine samples of people who eventually develop a degenerative disease such as cancer. Identifying the pattern might allow researchers to develop a urine test to detect the very early signs of disease.
Early detection can allow doctors and patients to take preventive measures.
"We know that the effects are there for many years before the person knows he's sick," Robinson said. "It would be nice to find it before he knows he's sick and fight the probability of illness."
Robinson said he's already receiving replies from people interested in participating, though he declined to say how many. His letters ask people to fill out a reply card with their name and address to get a sample kit in the mail. Their urine will be cryogenically frozen in his lab.
A graduate of the California Institute of Science and Technology and University of California, San Diego, Robinson studied with Linus Pauling, a two-time Nobel prize winner, and other well-known scientists early in his career. In 1981, he moved with his family to a remote property near Cave Junction, just north of the California border, and founded Oregon Institute of Science and Technology with his wife. He still conducts research there with some of his six children.
His work is funded by private donations he solicits from about 1,000 people a year, Robinson said.
Robinson has been a provocative figure in Oregon politics and in some segments of the scientific community for years, and he's best known for his views that diverge from the majority of scientists. He argues, for example, that climate change is not caused by humans.
His urine research, however, sounds both scientific and relevant, said David Wishart, a professor in the departments of Computer Science and Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Wishart and colleagues this month published a study detailing the 3,000 metabolites they detected in human urine. They're trying to map the entire "urine metabalone" like genetics researchers have mapped the human genome.
Massive collections of bodily fluid samples are common in Europe, where the health care systems allow researchers to collect samples from entire populations, but much less so in the United States, Wishart said. Researchers have already shown success at using a urine test to determine the presence of colon polyps, a precursor to colon cancer.
"People have been studying urine since ancient Egypt," Wishart said. "it was actually the original kind of diagnostic fluid that physicians would analyze."
Robinson's request for urine was first reported by the Grants Pass Daily Courier.
As chairman of the Oregon Republican Party, Robinson is trying to recruit a candidate to run against Democratic Congressman Peter DeFazio next year, he said. But if he can't find someone better than himself, he'll make a third run. As of now, it looks like Robinson will be running himself, he said.
Robinson doesn't see any overlap between his political life and his urine research. If he's elected, the research will go on without him, he said.
Politically, Robinson has shown a tea-party ideology critical of what he calls an overreaching government. Still, he's not concerned his supporters would be squeamish about sending their urine to a member of Congress.
"I won't see anything wrong with a guy collecting urine samples while sitting in Congress," he said.
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The Best of ICFF: Tools at Schools
We saw a plentitude of desk designs on the show floor at this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair, but ironically the one that stuck out from the rest wasn't designed for home office use, nor designed by one of the usual suspects from the design world. No, our favourite design from this year's ICFF show came from the minds of 44 middle school children...
The School at Columbia University's Tools at Schools was awarded this year's 2011 ICFF Editors Award for Design School award, the product of a partnership between The School at Columbia University, design studio Aruliden, and Bernhardt Design, beating out the "older kids" from Parsons, Otis and RISD...and rightfully so...thanks to designs which left plenty of us old folks scratching our heads in amazement over the quality and detail of their work.
Designed for flexibility for both form and function, forty-four 8th grade students partnered up with Bernhardt Design and Aruliden to create the perfect classroom desk and lockers for kids of the 21st century. What they came up after working together from the point of brainstorming, to 3D modeling, to model creation, finally to actual production of prototypes, was a trio of locker, desk and chair that garnered a large crowd at ICFF, both because the designs were beautifully executed, but also because the kids at the booth offered an impressive understanding and enthusiasm of the designs they helped create.
Highlights of the designs include: the intuitive flexibility of the desk's utility, various storage surfaces and options specific to a classroom environment, the ergonomic comfort of the seat (we can vouch they not only look great, but sure trump our memories of school chairs), the door knob security lock and even the perforated trays for laptop storage. These kids showed themselves to be the most exciting, yet thoughtful, new designers at this year's show. Learn more about The School at Columbia University and Tools at Schools at their website.


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Despite a rapidly changing sales environment—escalating fuel prices and concerns about exhaust-gas content previously regarded as innocent—trucks still claim a big chunk of our new-vehicle market. Does this seem strange? If we're worried about mpg and CO2, why do we love vehicles with carbon footprints reminiscent of the tracks left by stegosauri?
Style figures into the equation, particularly with SUVs, but there are really two key reasons. One, we still want the added utility to be found in this realm. Coupes and sedans don't cut it when we're loading mountain bikes, pop-up tents, and other vacation essentials. Two, those big carbon footprints are shrinking. Hybridity has found its way into the truck world, including even traditional body-on-frame big boys, Chevy's Tahoe hybrid being the first example.
It certainly won't be the last. More important, though, the nature of the vehicles classifiable as trucks is changing in response to changing times. This is particularly true among SUVs, where crossovers—a handily amorphous term we use for want of anything better—are well on their way to dominance.
To review, vehicles identified as crossovers usually have unit-body structures that trace their engineering heritage to front-drive passenger-car origins. The reasons for this trend are easy to understand. Unit-bodied vehicles are generally lighter than body-on-frame designs, with higher structural rigidity. Higher structural rigidity is a prime prerequisite for ride and handling goals, and nothing beats lower curb weights for achieving higher mpg.
A word on our categories. Vans and pickups are self-defining. Three of our five categories are devoted to SUVs, and beyond the required availability of four-wheel drive, two of the three are defined by size, the third, obviously, by price. The borderline for small is a max overall length of 184 inches. We also have a minimum height requirement—64.4 inches. Below that height, we consider the subject vehicle to be a car.


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Fight Back: Anthony Gucciardi Gives $1,000 to Church Targeted By Govt for Feeding Homeless
In what amounts to a concerning attack on basic human rights, we have told you about the church groups and other organizations that have been targeted and harassed by various government entities simply for feeding the homeless. And in the case of the Acts 2 Worship Center, which NaturalSociety's Anthony Gucciardi has directly supported to feed even more homeless individuals in the face of opposition, the group was told that they could not even offer free meals to those in need on Thanksgiving day.
Quite simply, this is beyond what many would consider 'insanity' and very much so into the dimension of Orwellian. It is for this reason that it is essential we draw attention to these matters, as we have achieved recently thanks to the support of NaturalSociety readers who have spread the word surrounding not only the attack on Acts 2 Worship Center's ability to feed the homeless, but street groups like 'Crazy Faith' as well — a grassroots family-based group that was halted from delivering 5,000 meals a month to those in need.
In an effort to encourage others to feed those in need and support real charities that actually offer the powerful fruit of benevolence to those who need it, NaturalSociety's Anthony Gucciardi has provided Acts 2 Worship Center $1,000 for the sole purpose of feeding even more homeless in the face of tyrannical attack by bureaucratic control freaks. When in doubt as to how you can support the homeless, however, always be aware that the best way to support the needy directly is to offer food, clothing, and other items (not cash) directly to them.
Here is a recent report by Anthony Gucciardi regarding the attack on church groups and others who have attempted to feed the homeless among government crackdown:


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Palit GTX 570 Sonic Platinum Review
It's been more than two months since the release of NVIDIA's GTX 570. Since this time, we've seen many different versions of this card from different manufacturers and we already know quite a lot about this card. For instance, it uses the extremely powerful GF 110 core and it's a very affordable high performance card. So where do manufacturers go from there?
Today we will be looking at an offering from Palit, the GTX 570 Sonic Platinum. This is an overclocked edition with a custom dual-fan "Mercury Design" cooler. According to Palit, the factory-overclocked Sonic Platinum edition of the GTX 570 will give a 6% performance increase in DX11-based games. This is a nice little performance boost straight out of the box. Along with the performance boost, we should also see the card run silent and cool.
Closer Look:
The Palit GTX 570 Sonic Platinum arrived in a box that was very similar to the Palit GTX 470. The box featured Palit's logo, a picture of the card, and some brief information about the card. Flipping the box over reveals some more information about the card, as well as some information about the card's features. Underneath the features of the card, we can see a list of features from NVIDIA. At the very front of the box is a picture of Palit's frog robot mascot.
Opening up the box reveals a very secure GTX 570. The card is encased in an antistatic bag and surrounded by foam. Removing the foam padding that houses the card reveals the included accessories. These are a DVI to VGA adapter, a 6-pin to 8-pin adapter, a driver CD, and a user's guide.
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Now That It's Been Exposed, DOJ Plans To 'Review' Information Sharing With DEA
from the oh-sure,-now-they-review-it dept
The Justice Department is reviewing a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit that passes tips culled from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a large telephone database to field agents, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday.Reuters also points out that the DEA officials they had interviewed claimed that the DOJ had reviewed the program regularly, and deemed it legal. The fact that the DOJ is suddenly kicking off a new "investigation" the day after the program becomes public is really questionable -- but par for the course. Over the last few months, as we've seen revelation after revelation of very questionable law enforcement and data collection practices by the government, each time we're first told this is "no big deal" and then when the feds realize that no one's buying that, suddenly they need to "review" the program.
Gee... it's kind of like when they keep all this stuff totally secret, it doesn't receive the level of scrutiny that it really needs, huh?


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About Plan Review
Why is Plan Review required?
Minnesota Rules, part 4720.0010 states that prior to the installation, alteration, or extension of any water supply infrastructure, plans and specifications must be submitted to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) for review and approval. Review of these projects is necessary to:
- Protect public health.
- Verify that the design complies with rules and standards that are enforced by the MDH.
- Allow changes to be made before construction begins, which is typically less expensive than making changes after construction is completed.
What standards are referenced in the review of projects?
- Minnesota Water Supply Regulations (Minnesota Rules, chapter 4720)
- 10 State Standards (Great Lakes Upper Mississippi River Board Recommended Standards for Water Works)
- American Water Works Association (AWWA) Standards
- City Engineers Association of Minnesota (CEAM) Standard Utility Specifications (PDF: 844.79KB/79 pages)
- Minnesota Plumbing Code (Minnesota Rules, chapter 4715)
- Minnesota Rules Regarding Wells and Borings (Minnesota Rules, chapter 4725)
- National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) Listings for Certified Drinking Water Chemicals (Standard 60)
- National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) Listings for Drinking Water System Components (Standard 61)
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- Underwriters Laboratory (UL) Certifications Directory
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Who can submit plans to the MDH for review?
For municipal projects, the plans and specifications must be signed and submitted by an engineer registered in the state of Minnesota. It is recommended that projects for non-municipal systems also be planned and signed by a registered engineer. However, plans and specifications for non-municipal or non-community systems may instead be signed and submitted by a licensed contractor who is performing the work.
What sizes of drawings are acceptable?
We accept full- or half-size drawings. If half size drawings are submitted, the relevant piping and equipment must be shown so that it is easily readable. It is recommended that site plan drawings have a scale of 1-inch equals 50 feet.
Can I submit plans and specifications electronically?
We currently are not able to accept submissions of plans and specifications electronically. However, addendums or minor modifications to plans may be submitted electronically as e-mail attachments or by fax provided that they are easily readable. Plan sheets must be sized to print on 11-inch by 17-inch paper.
How long is a report on plans valid?
A report on plans is valid for 2 years from the date it is issued. If a project is not constructed within that time, plans will have to be resubmitted and approved prior to construction. However, another plan review fee would not be required.
Does the plan review process differ between community and noncommunity water supply systems?
Yes. Please click on the links below for more information on the plan review process for each type of system.


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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Dave Brubeck, the pianist whose performances helped define West Coast "cool jazz" during the 1950s, died Wednesday of heart failure at the age of 91, the Associated Press reported. Brubeck, who would have celebrated his 92nd birthday on Thursday by performing in Waterbury, Conn., was on his way to a cardiologist appointment in Hartford when he was stricken, the news service said. Brubeck's legendary quartet of the '50s and '60s, featuring alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, was one of the most popular jazz acts of all time. Its 1959 LP "Time Out" was a great hit for Columbia SNE, -2.67% 6758, -3.09% sparked by the Desmond composition "Take Five," which became Brubeck's signature tune. Last year, "Time Out" was awarded Double Platinum status by the RIAA in recognition of sales of more than two million copies in the U.S.
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Hey Guyz! Do you have Romantic Poems? If you do can you please post it here? I want to read romantic poems, I've already read so many poems, but I want more. I like the poems that is not so revealing.
I know that there is another thread about
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If you have please post! Thanks!
PS - I am not EMO
To God be the Glory :)
damn no emo jokes then...
roses are red violets are blue sugar is sweet and so are you
bad ass one right?
Why do 13 year olds add me, send chain letters, then get pissy when I yell?
Roses are reds
Violets are black
monkey is in the tree
then we are free
there is so many roses roses thingy, is there others?
To God be the Glory :)
Well here are two of mine...
My Love for You
When you are compared with the morning dove,
By the dawning sun, your song is lovelier,
Your face is prettier than that of sacred love,
Hearing your name could not make me happier,
For I would be soothed if you were with me,
And the farther away from me you are,
The more broken my heart, as you can see,
So be with me please, you will not stray far,
To you I give the whole love of my heart,
None other in this world is as lovely as thou art.
Beauty to you,
Is just a flick of the wrist.
What do you do,
When you've just been kissed?
Everything with you,
Is a joyous occasion.
Then how are you so good at evasion,
From men like me?
You are a flirting sight,
To men like me,
A shadow of love in the night.
Blah blah blah blah...
- by Edgar Allan Poe.
Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing,
Among the green leaves as they shake
Far down within some shadowy lake,
To me a painted paroquet
Hath been- a most familiar bird-
Taught me my alphabet to say-
To lisp my very earliest word
While in the wild wood I did lie,
A child- with a most knowing eye.
Of late, eternal Condor years
So shake the very Heaven on high
With tumult as they thunder by,
I have no time for idle cares
Through gazing on the unquiet sky.
And when an hour with calmer wings
Its down upon my spirit flings-
That little time with lyre and rhyme
To while away- forbidden things!
My heart would feel to be a crime
Unless it trembled with the strings.
(I realize he isn't known for his love poems but this is actually one of the poems I like best from him.)
Where is my pumpkin?!
no idea if this is a romantic poem but here you go.
Dark Dawn of the heart
Let the future fade, let the darkness be cut asunder by the light filled blade. let people's hearts finally awake. let them wake from their heart filled pain. the pain in which they lain since time's dawn. there is no might... no fight... only a strand... a strand of memories. I remember those who died, those who cried, those who dared to live their life's trying to dream of a brighter better future. one which we can live our life's in equal love and peace, one in which our hearts are free from a dark dawn of the heart.
I walk a road full of heavy burdens..laugh,and struggle with me:)
Edgar Allan Poe is my favorite poet... Here is my favorite of his:
Annabel Lee
It was many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my ANNABEL LEE;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me
And this was the reason that, long ago,
IN this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
So that her high-born kinsman came
And bore her away from me
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- That was the reason (as all men know, in this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my ANNABEL LEE.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither angles in heaven above,
Nor demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling-my darling-my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea
In her tomb by the sounding sea…
Also, I recommend Emily Dickinson. Her poems are deceptively simple, but if you let them sitn and have a flare for the more profound side of words, then you will find them quite thought provoking. She's my second favorite poet, and has a lot of poems about love…
You know.. I wish my lawn were Emo. Then it would cut itself! :p Jk, of course.
And, if your wondering why Annabel Lee is in caps so many times… I have no clue. I just copied it from a book, which was a pain by the way! So I hope your happy! :p, jk again.
Hopchow.. I love you for posting that poem! I haven't read it in a loong time!
Last thing: Incase you are wondering, a seraph is an arch angle. They are described in the bible as having sixs wings. They apparently use one set to hide their feet, another set to hide their faces, and another set to fly. And a sepulchre is a term used in the U.K (I think...) Here in America we say sepulcher. They're the same thing. Its pretty much a burial vault... Something like that.
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could...
He takes my hand and caresses my fingers
He touches my cheek and kisses my lips
He wraps me in warmth and holds me in adoration
He makes my heart laugh; my eyes are singing
He makes me feel beautiful when I feel ugly
He is my source of happiness where there is no other
People say there is nothing funnier then laughter
You can even chuckle some long hours after
You laugh at what is sometimes seen
You laugh at things you do not mean
Yet some where in all hilarity
In amongst that crazy parody
Will Someone please tell me, I'll give you money
What makes laughter, so darn funny!
Why, when you laugh do people laugh too?
Laugh not at things you say or things you do
Its crazy how when nothing's funny
People laugh and clutch their too tummy
Will anybody tell me? Wouldn't you? please, sonny
What makes laughter so gosh darn funny!
Yes, What makes laughter so gosh darn FUNNY!
Ty Bohls
ty. bohls
what is perfect love???~♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡
you're like a beautiful flower
that only comes around once a year
it's so rare that we'll meet
that you'll blossom just for me
let's make this day our best
before there's nothing left
^^ i just wrote this - i am not a poet lol
somewhere I have never travelled,
gladly, beyond any experience,
your eyes have their silence.
In your most frail gesture
are things which enclose me
or which I cannot touch
because they are too near.
Your slightest look,
easily will unclose me.
Though I have closed myself,
as fingers, you open always,
petal by petal, myself, as Spring opens
Touching skillfully, mysteriously
her first rose.
Or, if your wish be to close me,
I and my life will shut,
very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower
imagines the snow carefully
everywhere descending.
Nothing which we are to perceive
in this world equals the power
of your intense fragility,
whose texture compells me
with the color of its countries
rendering death and forever
with each breathing.
I do not know what it is about you
that closes and opens
Only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.
- ee cummings
I know it's a bit sensual, but I wrote this another poet I know.
Her name is uNeEk.
I wanna walk with you with my eyes closed, hold your hand as you lead me through this physical
And with my blinded eyes I wanna envision a feeling thats in the same division of affection, and it likes to play along the border of my mental.
I wanna feel that cool blue tingling down my spine as we generate that sweet red heat, that'll never die, but will always flow underneath my brown skin, untill were ready to go again.
I wanna dance that dance using only our lipps, entrancing one another untill we cant sit still...
And with that I will touch you only to have ny fingertipps melt away. My liquid body spilling into the room untill you're bathing in me. And with your every movement creating pleasurable sensations rippleing, vibrating, and resonating in waves thoughout my aquatic being
Drink me as I envelope your body while we develope a synchroninity allowing my masculininty to merge with your femininity creating a feeling with the intensity of infinity, allowing me to fill you up more than physically, Baby you're satisfied spiritually.
Five hours later as we lay with your tatse in my mouth touching, caressing,embracing, and kissing untill your body gives out. I will open my eyesand whisper with as much emotion as a shout my thoughts, my cravings, and my feelings about you.
Alot of my poetry are blogs on my myspace page. www.myspace.com/cesoul
Love & Light.
Here is an oldy but one of my favorites...its funny too
To his Coy Mistress
by Andrew Marvell
Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day;
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood;
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball;
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
William Butler Yeats - Brown Penny
I whispered, 'I am too young,'
And then, 'I am old enough';
Wherefore I threw a penny
To find out if I might love.
'Go and love, go and love, young man,
If the lady be young and fair.'
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
I am looped in the loops of her hair.
O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
One cannot begin it too soon.
Simply Perfect
This essence is,
Genuinely perceived.
It is in your smile, eyes and soul.
How we feel,
When we are together.
Something is missing when we are not.
We will always be,
Intimate and unbounded.
Our love will prevail and grow.
Never questioned as,
We are absolutely connected.
Ours hearts are forever shared.
Our touch brings,
Passionate sensations.
Our energy is combined as one.
That is us,
Our greatest strength.
Our eternal destiny together.
(dedicated to my special someone)
♫♪♫~whew! im back~ ♥♥♥~wow! 1 and a half year~ tsk.tsk~♫♪♫


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"I have eclectic fans because I've had a very eclectic career. When someone comes up to me, they may be from the days of 'The Chosen'; it may be completely from Broadway," says actor Robby Benson. "So I'm never sure what might surprise them the most. Maybe the fact that I'm still alive."
He laughs, but the more one learns about him, the more surprising it becomes that he's alive — after four open-heart surgeries to correct a congenital defect.
"People can learn from so many things I did wrong," says Benson by phone from his Cape Code, Mass., home, "that they're not alone when they think they shouldn't tell someone, they think they should pretend it's just indigestion or, if they're feeling blue, say, 'Naw, it's nothing.'"
Benson's new interactive iBook, "I'm Not Dead … Yet!," which is available from iTunes (formats for print, Nook and Kindle are soon to follow), is part celebrity memoir, beginning with his sometimes wild and woolly days as a youth on Broadway and his rise as a teen idol in films such as "Ode to Billy Joe."
His career has been truly eclectic: The "One on One" and "Ice Castles" star voiced the Beast in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast"; he began his Broadway career at age 12; his screenplays include "One on One"; he's an accomplished musician, composer and bestselling author; and he has directed dozens of television shows, including a complete season of "Ellen."
His book also reads as a multimedia valentine to his wife of 30 years, Karla DeVito, whom he met in the famed Joe Papp production of "The Pirates of Penzance." Mostly, though, it's an amiably written primer for heart-surgery patients and their loved ones.
"It's not just the bad and good experiences I've had — and I've had some nightmarish experiences — but I've also mishandled things," he says. "I've also had cardiac depression and it took me forever to allow myself to discuss it."
The hyper-athletic Benson started experiencing shortness of breath and dizziness in his teens, but he hid the symptoms for fear of health problems ending his acting career. After such misdiagnoses as "too much stress" and "too much candy," the escalating problem was finally properly identified when he underwent an insurance physical as an adult. The diagnosis? Bicuspid aortic heart disease: He was born with two flaps on his aortic valve where there should be three to control blood flow.
"I'm Not Dead … Yet!" is filled with excruciating details, including an attempted removal of a still-inflated catheter, and nuggets of enlightenment, from the need for a patient advocate to the importance of simply having a pillow handy.
The digital work's enhancements include about 20 songs Benson wrote, slideshows of his photography, clips from his films, and live links to the Cleveland Clinic's website to illuminate some of the cardiac concepts he discusses.
"Let's say patients want to watch one of the slide shows that I scored and pictures I took — I thought maybe that could calm them down," he says. "But also for the person sitting in the chair at 4 a.m., the family member, the advocate who can't sleep — for them to read it and put on some ear buds to listen to some music, to go to one of the websites because they heard the doctor or nurse come in, in the middle of the night, and say something they want to check out before the patient wakes up — I wanted to give everyone the best tool possible."
Among the mostly rosy show-biz recollections are startlingly harsh assessments of certain well-known figures, such as producer Jon Peters and director Stanley Donen. The author insists he went easy on them, including the stories for something beyond shock value.
"I tried to show what I was going through medically and what I was dealing with professionally," he says. "You don't have to be in show business to understand that your boss may be giving you so much stress that you feel that tightness in your chest or you can't breathe, and something suddenly is becoming symptomatic.… I had this problem that I was trying to hide from everyone because I knew I would never work if I didn't. It just so happens that, working with them, the symptoms became immeasurably worse."
Today the 56-year-old Benson says he's "the healthiest I've ever been, thanks to the surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic who performed a miracle on me." He does continue, however, to wrestle with cardiac depression.
"But I have better tools now," he says. "One tool is, I don't feel like I'm crazy."
In the book, Benson adds, "there's a moment where we're all sitting around, waiting to see the surgeon. And everyone is so shy. All of us are open-heart patients. And some brave soul mentioned that they were depressed and it was as if, in 10 minutes… we were all friends. Unreal. We were like, 'I have that too! I thought I was nuts. What do you do to help?' That was one of the most helpful moments in my life, which was why I put it in the book. Maybe it will help someone."


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On Oct. 1, the farm bill officially expired due to inaction by the U.S. House of Representatives. Their fumbling over budget cuts and money allocation has led us to the first full expiration of the farm bill in history, leaving many programs without funding to continue their essential actions toward advancing agriculture in this country. One such program is the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program (NOCCSP), which stopped accepting applications after Oct. 31.
Organic farmers are required to pay an annual fee for certification. The NOCCSP gives farmers the opportunity to offset those costs by up to $750 per year. Without this low-cost program, we are likely to see the number of enrollments to organic certification programs in Ohio slow and re-enrollments decline. Being organically certified helps consumers know that their food is held to the standards set by the National Organic Program, which approximately one-third of Ohio's organic operations utilize.
The loss of such a program could have devastating effects on the growing organic movement, but all hope is not lost. Congress can replenish funding by voting in its current lame-duck session to reauthorize the farm bill. A call to your congressmen can help make this a reality.
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… Snowboarding seems very focused on the next young kid, yet you won this award at 30 years old. What do you think about the age factor?
The bar is getting raised all the time, but snowboarding has so many different paths. There are so many ways to ride what the mountain offers to you. I guess I started snowboarding when I was 15 or 16 and started with kids who were 5 or 6 years younger than me. I just saw footage from Mark Schultz, this guy who is our guide for sledding. His kid is one-and-a-half and he has his first filmed run already. Look at Terje—he is breaking world records. How old is he? That air obviously woke people up. You have guys like Shin Campos in Whistler; maybe some guys get lost in the backcountry—you don't see what they are doing, but it's going on. They don't call that guy the Wizard for no reason. You have to put in a lot of time in a place as big as Whistler to know the terrain, like that. Look at surfing, guys like Mark Occhilupo, guys like Danny Way. These guys prove you can you can step it up after 30. No problem. But the creativity, the whole movement of snowboarding depends on the youth. Its so cool now to see kids like Kevin [Pearce] and Scotty [Lago] coming up to AK—its really sick to see them ride and see the flavor they bring into snowboarding. The best heat ever this year, was watching Danny [Davis] and Kevin at the Air & Style riding together. Such good friends, throwing down back-to-back frontside 10s and then chest-bumping in the landing. It's rad, man.
… And now kids start and get go straight to a perfect park, first day.
I'm telling the kids at home, you've gotta leave the park at one point. You see all those natural talents like Nicolas Müller and Freddi Kalbermatten and Gigi—they all started in parks, not well maintained ones, but then they left. Some Whistler crews and crews in the Northwest, Mount Baker kids, some of them still don't give a shit about the parks! It's just different skills. Like, to ride as good as Temple [Cummins], how old is he? Kids would need to train their whole life and would be lucky to ever reach that level of board control. With jibbing coming back and the whole progression thing— it's not pushing something out of the sport, its actually adding more to the sport. It's all just creating more paths for everybody to go on. I rode with BJ [Leines] for the first time, he was a big-time hero for me and the crew—you know him from the Forum movies. To see him ride ride, I think he is a year older than me, and he blows my mind, and Terje. Its important for the kids to know, to know that you have to take care of yourself, eat good, take care of your body—especially your knees, and you can shred a long time.
Is that how you've stayed healthy?
When you're young, you're just drinkin', smoking cigs. At one point I started traveling and eating fast food—especially when I came over here to North America, and then thought, I gotta change something and that is when I started to become a vegetarian—been a veggie for like 8 or 9 years. I didn't really start it with any belief, you know? I think it just has so many positive effects if you think about it after. But at first I just thought it was a healthier way to be and it just cut out all the fast food for me. That's when I started being more conscious. When I first became a vegetarian, I had some people around me who were totally poison-free, who were just kind of an inspiration—they showed me some books … there are lots of different strategies, but what's important is being conscious about your body and finding out what's best for you. Not to sound too proud about it, but these days with so many people living on the world, vegetarians can feel good about this choice. The stuff going on with genetics is scary— if you see some movies like We Feed The World and Our Daily Bread and see whats really going on with companies like Monsanto, who are seeking patents on genetics—there must be some natural things that are better for us. The best advice is maybe local food and organics.
… It seems like among riders, the most popular contests right now are events like the Arctic Challenge, this Natural Selection. Contests organized by the riders themselves.
The rider driven contests just have that personal touch to them, where you feel like its real. If there's a riders meeting and Travis jumps in, and asks, "How do you guys feel about that?" and he sees some faces that don't look stoked, he's like "lets solve this problem. In these types of events, you feel taken care of.
… And what about mountains you haven't ridden yet—where do you still need to go?
Well, one place I really want to go is like Kyrgistan and Uzbekistan. Maybe go for fun to India, shred one day in the Himalayas. But the last frontier will always be Alaska. Even though I've been there so many times, there are so many mountains still to explore. That's always a big goal—hoping for a good winter.
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More storms, rising sea level in forecast
Ellen Mecray offered a forecast Tuesday and it wasn't too good for Rhode Island.
Mecray is the regional climate services director for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and she was in Warwick Tuesday for the Clean Water Legislative Breakfast sponsored by the Narragansett Water Pollution Control Association and the New England Water Environment Association.
Mecray said that, since the 1970s, there has been an increase in extreme weather, which appears even more frequent in recent years. Most recently, those episodes include the flood of 2010, last year's Hurricane Sandy and this winter's blizzard.
"The likelihood of those events has increased," she said.
On top of that, she provided graphs showing an average increase of 10 inches of precipitation, from 40 to 50 inches a year, since 1931 and an average rise in temperature by more than 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit for the same period.
Mecray likened the atmosphere to a super athlete on steroids. As a super athlete, he or she is already capable of doing extraordinary things, so one can't say for certain whether the steroids are enhancing performance. As for the weather, conditions have become more pronounced with the increase in greenhouse gases – an atmosphere on steroids.
Sea level is another issue. Mecray said indicators point to a greater than a one-foot rise in sea level by 2100.
"Three to five feet, that's what we need to think about," she said.
Mecray's audience was largely the operators of wastewater treatment plants and, for them, more storms and a rise in sea level would be problematic.
"What can you do to prepare?" she asked.
Mecray didn't offer specifics, but she pointed to work being done by North Kingstown, Newport and Bristol wastewater treatment facilities, and in general about Rhode Island, she said, "No one else in the country is doing this level of planning."
Funding such projects was one of the issues touched on by Curt Spalding, regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency. No stranger to Rhode Island, Spalding directed Save the Bay for many years. Spalding spoke of some federal funds in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, but generally offered a gloomy picture of funding.
He said "things at the federal level are a bit unstable" and with sequestration, the regional office is heading toward furloughs for 79 people. He hopes that the current level of fiscal uncertainty is temporary and that "things will level out." He said having a predictable budget and steady programs are important and enable the agency to work and respond.
Spalding called for an integrated approach, where wastewater and storm water are handled as a whole system. And Spalding also talked about thinking differently.
Speaking about other parts of the country, he said, "Wastewater is actually resource water. It is no longer waste but reused."
Spalding tied investments in clean water to the economy and jobs.
"It's not just about wastewater. It's about building a strong and viable community going forward," he said.
Spalding called Rhode Island a "place that protects its assets." He said the state cleaned up the waters of Narragansett Bay long before Boston cleaned up its harbor.
Organized and moderated by Janine Burke, executive director of the Warwick Sewer Authority and Rhode Island director of the New England Water Environment Association, other speakers at the breakfast included Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis; Jay Manning, state revolving fund coordinator at DEM; Raymond Marshall, executive director of the Narragansett Bay Commission; and Jeffry Ceasrine, Narragansett town engineer.
Mollis called on the group to heighten awareness of the urgency to address an infrastructure that is largely out of sight and taken for granted. As part of that education, he felt it important that it be made known that this work creates jobs, and that every $1 million spent on construction creates 47 jobs.
Manning talked about the importance of federal matching funds and low-cost loan programs. He said it is essential to keep the pressure on Congress to keep those funds.


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Pay for CIOs and IT Staff on the Rise
Pay for IT professionals has risen from about $77,770 to more than $79,300 over the last year, according to an annual tech salary survey from Janco Associates. Translation: Compensation levels are now back to pre-Great Recession levels. And CIOs at large enterprises are clearly benefiting from this as their overall mean compensation, including bonuses, has climbed more than 6 percent within this time period. Other notable trends include: Outsourcing is "out," as many companies are moving help desks and data-center oversight back in-house. In special demand are positions associated with quality control, records management and data-center operations management. And the median CIO tenure has increased from four years and two months to four years and three months. While that may not seem like a huge increase, it's part of the reason why compensation is going up for this position, Janco reports. Not all of the news, however, is encouraging. In fact, a wide range of corporate benefits, including health and savings plans and bonuses, are on the decline. Data from nearly 250 large and 785 medium-sized organizations was analyzed to produce the findings, which clearly depict an earnings gap between tech pros at medium-sized enterprises compared to large ones.


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Jewish World Review April 19, 2012/ 26Nissan, 5772
Christie will get GOP nod in 2016
By Michael Smerconish
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | (MCT) I can easily see Chris Christie as the 2016 Republican nominee. Here's how I get there:
Rick Santorum. Marco Rubio. Paul Ryan. John Thune. Maybe Sarah Palin. They're the "usual suspects" for 2016 should Mitt Romney lose to President Obama, which current polls suggest will be the case. There's lots of time on the clock, and anything can happen, but assuming that's the way the current presidential race ends, the seeds are already being sown for yet another battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party.
You can already hear Santorum in an Iowa cornfield, telling people, "I told you so." Just last month, he told Wisconsin voters Romney was "the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama." All he'll need to do is change the tense of many speeches he delivered in 2012 and he'll be good to go. Like this one, delivered March 2:
"Look at the races in the last 30 years. We nominated a moderate: McCain, Dole, Gerald Ford. When George Bush ran for re-election back in 1992 ... all lost."
Then Santorum will drill down on a parallel between 2012 and 1976, when Ford won the nomination over a more conservative Ronald Reagan, and suggest he is the proper heir to the Reagan throne. Santorum said as much the night he lost the Wisconsin primary:
"This was back in 1976. They said, 'Get out of the race; we need a moderate.' In 1976, Ronald Reagan didn't get out of the race. He was able to stand tall in May, win in the state of Texas, which we have every intention of doing.
"He took that race the entire way to the convention and he fell short, and in the fall, Republicans fell short because we nominated another moderate who couldn't galvanize our party and bring those votes to our side to get the kind of change we need in America."
Of course, an alternative view will be that the GOP went off the rails with religious and social litmus tests in the 2012 primary season, and its conservative candidates cannibalized moderates. The conservatives then split the right-wing vote among the likes of Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, and Herman Cain, and allowed the most liberal of the field to survive the nomination process. And make no mistake, Romney did not win it he survived it. He was the tortoise in a race that had no hares.
But history could repeat itself.
Because if trends continue, the Republican Party will be even more conservative in 2016. The party has done nothing to broaden its tent, and registration figures document the resulting growth of independents.
Fast-forward to 2016. Santorum, fresh from a lucrative tour on the speakers' circuit and a stint on Fox News, will run again. (Recall that when Rupert Murdoch began tweeting in January, he was quick to offer: "Can't resist this tweet, but all Iowans think about Rick Santorum. Only candidate with genuine big vision for country.") But the conservative field will not clear for him. Instead, he'll face opposition from the likes of Ryan, Rubio, etc. They'll divide the evangelical vote and create an opening for anyone who can cobble together whatever GOP independent thinkers never got the memo and stayed in the party.
Who will benefit? Anyone with less than a doctrinaire view of the world. The trouble is that there are few Republicans with national stature who are not ideologues. Jeb Bush could be that person. So, too, Christie. Last week, he was the beneficiary of a nearly 60 percent approval rating among New Jersey voters in a Quinnipiac survey, and in 2016, he could be on the heels of an unsuccessful bid as Romney's VP candidate.
In September, New York magazine offered "five things conservative voters would hate about Chris Christie." To wit: In 2010, Christie told Politico that America needs to come up with a "clear path to citizenship"; his support for some form of gun-control laws; his embracement of true heresy among GOP voters, that "climate change is real"; his solicitation of money from the Obama administration for its Race to the Top education initiative; and his appointment to the state bench of a Muslim lawyer who once represented a terror suspect (which prompted Christie to respond to criticism by saying, "I'm tired of dealing with the crazies").
A list like that would make him the anomaly in a crowded conservative field which would be a strategic advantage.
You can clip and save this column and feed it to me as crow. Or I'll be a soothsayer.
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Michael Smerconish writes for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Jacksonville Beach FL Real EstateIn Jacksonville, locals often lump all of the communities lining the Atlantic Ocean under one title: "the beaches". But this moniker actually can refer to any of the three beachfront communities in Duval County: Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach and Jacksonville Beach or Ponte Vedra Beach, located just south in St. Johns County. All three of the Duval County communities are separate municipalities with their own elected officials; however, they are all also part of the incorporated Duval County. Each community has its own personality and style, but they all center around what their residents treasure most - the Atlantic Ocean.
Jacksonville's beaches remain relatively undiscovered by snowbirds and other northerners seeking respite from the cold weather. But in recent years, the demand for beach real estate has escalated tremendously. Atlantic Beach is the northern most town, and is possibly the most popular of Duval County's beach communities right now. Old fashioned clap-board houses and tree lined streets make Atlantic Beach a picturesque little town. Some condominiums are also available in the beach communities.
Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach meet at a retail intersection that has been revitalized in recent years into a popular restaurant spot. Several restaurants occupy the charming spot, and attract diners from the beach communities and from 'in town'. Furthest south is Jacksonville Beach, the largest of the three beach communities. Jacksonville Beach also has a much broader mix of residential, commercial and retail space within its borders. Jacksonville Beach has a decidedly more bohemian, casual feel and is home to many of Jacksonville's newest restaurants.
With any of the beach communities, prices vary depending on the home's proximity to the water. A variety of waterfront options are available, including beachfront, Intracoastal and marshfront. There are also many properties in the beach communities that are inland, but still close to the beach. Home styles range from 1950s and 60s ranchers to modern Florida style homes.
Downtown Jacksonville is about a 45 minute drive, with the business parks on the Southside a much shorter commute. J. Turner Butler Boulevard is the newest route to mainland Jacksonville, complementing Beach and Atlantic Boulevards, Jacksonville's original beach access roads.
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Sweet & Light: 15 Easy Weeknight Desserts
Do you like a bite of something sweet after supper? All of us here at The Kitchn certainly do. But who needs brownies or a big slice of cake every night of the week? We love our indulgences, but on weeknights something lighter is called for. Here are 15 simple desserts — some of them very light indeed — that will end the meal on a sweet grace note, but not weigh you down.
There's a lightning-fast orange cake that happens to be vegan, and that magic one-ingredient banana ice cream. There's a glamorous little bowl of yogurt with figs, and a luscious mango dessert. There are oatmeal cookies with a touch of savory cheese, and extra-light angel food cupcakes! Read on for these and other intriguing weeknight sweets!
• 1 Sticky Orange Cake with Marmalade Glaze - A vegan cake that you can whip up extra-quickly!
• 2 Harvest Cake with Goat Cheese Frosting - A hearty cake stuffed with grated veggies and other delicious things.
• 3 Coconut Milk Bread Pudding - Avoiding dairy? This bread pudding is so good — and dairy-free too.
• 4 Yogurt With Caramelized Figs - Simple and light, fruit and yogurt.
• 5 Green Tea Shake - Milk, ice, matcha — easy and sweet.
• 6 Airy Angel Food Cupcakes with Naturally Pink Icing - Extra-light cupcakes, airy and sweet.
• 7 Blood Orange Crostatas - A simple tart, with oranges providing most of the sweetness.
• 8 Mango Dessert - Mango and cream — nothing could be simpler.
• 9 Pomegranate Yogurt Pops - Light and fresh yogurt pops.
• 10 Oranges With Lavender and Mint - Yes, oranges can be a dessert — especially when they are as pretty as this.
• 11 One Ingredient, Elegant, & Easy Sweet Wine Slushies - A simple and elegant frozen slushie.
• 12 Avocado Cacao Mousse - A simple, creamy, chocolate mousse.
• 13 Apple Gouda Oatmeal Cookies - Sweet weeknight cookies with a touch of the savory.
• 14 Thai Mango with Coconut Sticky Rice - A simple coconut and rice dessert with slices of mango — delicious yet not too sweet.
• 15 One-Ingredient Banana Ice Cream - And last but not least, that famous banana ice cream — easy and light!
What's your favorite weeknight sweet?
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Over the last couple of years, there has been a lot of innovation around of technologies that make it easier for the end user of an application to interact with systems. This innovation has been a boon for the end user because it has provided them a more natural interface with systems that span the web, computer, and phone. However, this has caused the complexity of systems architecture and development to increase. The focus of this session will be on how to prepare and manage this complexity within your organization.
Facilitated by Microsoft, the premise of this event is to provide an open forum where architects can meet to discuss technologies with their peers. This forum will provide first-hand experience and best practices that will enable its members to learn from each other and transfer knowledge. Please join us for this great opportunity to learn, share and network with your peers and other company leaders.
The Value of the Client – In the past, the choice of how an end user interacts with an application has been dictated by IT and often without regards to the usage. Recently, as the population has become more tech savvy and are experiencing interactions on the web, computer, and the phone their expectations have increased tremendously. Many organizations now have to support multiple standards and technologies to accommodate their user base. We will discuss the opportunities and challenges this presents.
Creating Powerful Applications on Computers and Devices – The web has been a boon to application development and deployment, but it doesn't always fit every scenario. There are certain classes of applications which provide a better experience when running on a device and utilizing local hardware. The ubiquity of the mobile device has also extended the expectations of users with anytime/anywhere access.
The Future of the Client – The pace of change in client technologies over the past few years has been tremendous and is expected to continue to evolve. From support of new device types such as tables and walls, to continued improvements in interactions on the web, client, and the phone the client will become more and more important from a technology perspective and more strategic to the organization.
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Before joining Microsoft in 2005 he worked for as a Principal Engineer for a Microsoft partner, InterKnowlogy. He has been involved in software and system architecture, code, development and infrastructure reviews and analysis of several fortune 500 companies for salability, security, performance and standards & practices. He is also an accomplished author, having written Microsoft Official Curriculum and has authored several published magazine articles.
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BioPlan Associates tracked these trends in its 9th Annual Report and Survey of Biopharmaceutical Manufacturers (1). As biologics companies contract out of more sophisticated projects, global outsourcing has moved from a tactical to strategic decision for many companies. The decision calculus surrounding the choice of a global CMO reflects many of these changes. For example, perceptions of offshoring are changing, and drug innovators have become far less concerned about whether their CMO is based locally. Of 19 CMO attributes identified in the BioPlan study, "being local" came in last in terms of importance with only 6.3% of the 302 respondents identifying this attribute as "very important" (1). In 2005, 10.4% of respondents cited a CMO's location as "very important," but only 6.3% did in 2012. This change reflects greater acceptance of offshoring outsourcing activities due to industry globalisation, more production projects being successfully offshored and improved expertise of sponsors in managing offshored outsourcing.
Future of offshoring
A large percentage of biomanufacturers in 2012—as much as 36%—expect some manufacturing offshored by their facility during next five years (see Figure 1) although the percentage expecting to offshore more than half of their operations rated only in the single digits. This finding suggests that it may be too soon to assert that offshoring will become a mainstream activity although there are reasons to expect that offshoring will become more accepted, especially as regional operations outside the US and Europe begin to meet regulatory standards and as single-use bioprocessing devices enter commercial-scale manufacturing. These integrated, fully disposable facilities will enable manufacturing in more developing regions as many of the quality-management processes required for traditional facilities can be "built in" to the disposable devices.
In comparing survey results on offshoring in 2012 and 2011, the survey showed an across-the-board increase in the percentage of respondents who said they expect offshoring of at least some of their operations during the next five years (see Figure 1). Specifically, the survey showed that:
Looking ahead
According to BioPlan's Top 1000 Global Biopharmaceutical Facilities Index, 37.5% of global biopharmaceutical manufacturing capacity exists outside of North America and Europe (2). Holding respectively 8.5% and 8.1% of global biomanufacturing capacity, China and India are emerging on the global scene, followed by Japan and other Asian countries, which have 9.6% of global biomanufacturing capacity and Latin America at 6.5%.


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The Dolphins boast a pair of conference standouts as red-shirt sophomore Kayla Ouellet ranks third in hitting (.375) and senior right-hander Ashley Iveson's 2.11 ERA ranks tenth among A-Sun competitors.
On Saturday the Lady Bucs will face a UNF team that sits at 20-21, 6-4, and the Ospreys are eligible for the conference tournament for the first time since joining the A-Sun. Prior to taking on ETSU on Saturday, UNF will play two against USC Upstate on Friday.
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There's a lot of talk about the limitatons of Citi Bikes: they're heavy, people say, they're slow, and they're more suited to boring workday commutes than cycling that's exciting in any way. In the spirit of testing those supposed limits, we asked street BMX king Tyrone Williams–co-owner of Chinatown bike shop Dah Shop and Animal Bikes team rider–to take one for a spin and show everyone how it's done. See the video above.Tweet Print


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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier says he'll discipline defensive tackle Kelcy Quarles for punching a player at LSU last week.
Spurrier said Wednesday the discipline would probably involve missing game time. A video on YouTube shows Quarles punching LSU center P.J. Lonergan in the facemask after a first-quarter play in the Tigers' 23-21 victory.
Spurrier says he's seen much harder punches during games than the one Quarles threw. Still, Spurrier says he does not condone what Quarles did.
Quarles has started all seven games this year and has 30 tackles and 2 1/2 sacks. He's dealing with a shoulder injury and Spurrier said the sophomore defensive lineman may not be physically able to play Saturday when the ninth-ranked Gamecocks (6-1, 4-1 Southeastern Conference) play at No. 3 Florida (6-0, 5-0).


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Hidden Desks for the Closet Workaholic
I'm a big fan of armoires, shelves and cabinets that also function as desks. They offer a great way to hide away all your work mess and tech when guests are over, and are also ideal for small spaces. On top of that, I think it's just fun to have things hidden spaces at home!
Hemnes: This bureau from IKEA was made to function as a desk and is equipped with cable management to keep your cords neat and hidden. The shelves are adjustable so you can customize your workstation accordingly.
Reese Tobacco Compact Office: What appears to be a set of drawers with a glass top actually works as a compact office system. The drawers can be used for storage of course, while the pullout shelf can hold either a keyboard or laptop. When you're finished working, just push the shelf back in and the system turns into a storage unit.
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Women's Oversized Trapezium Backpack in Black
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Crafted in Perugia, Italy, Marvielab is a label encompassing different ongoing and long-lasting clothing projects. Multiple projects have been developed so far, each of which interprets certain pieces of clothing through their considered concept. Not adhering to the pace set out by the current fashion market, Marvielab reflects over the forms, volumes and materials for every collection and focuses on a sustainable philosophy that excludes the use of leather. By deconstructing and re-arranging classic items, the label continues to study form and functionality through their essential designs in trans-seasonal materials. The label explores the relationship between wearer and garment, the garment is seen as a variable element and the wearer as a changeable form.
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UNION, SC-- Mr. Noah B. Green, Jr., age 84, husband of Frances Williams Green, of 106 Culbreath Heights, passed away, Thursday, April 4, 2012, at his home.
Mr. Green was born in Cocke, TN on January 1, 1929, a son of the late Noah B., Sr. and Otie Toby Green. He was a Veteran of the US Army and US Air Force and was retired from the South Carolina National Guard - Union Unit. Mr. Green was a member of Crestview Baptist Church where he was a deacon and was retired from Torrington Company Tyger River Plant. He was an avid fisherman, bowler as long as health permitted, and was the last surviving member of his immediate family.
Surviving in addition to his wife of 55 years, are two sons, James Larry Green and wife Marcia of Springfield, VA and Jerry Williams and wife Susan of Union; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by two brothers, Astor and Herman Green; and a sister, Dixie Horne.
Funeral services will be held 3:00 PM Sunday, April 7, 2013, at Crestview Baptist Church conducted by the Rev. Josh Freeman. Burial will follow at Union Memorial Gardens.
Active Pallbearers will be Mike McMillian, Francis Ramsey, Dennis Teague, Ernest Crocker, Charles Williams, and Gerald A. Alman. The following are asked to assemble at the church at 2:45 to serve as the honorary pallbearers, Lawrence Price, Randolph Whitehead, Von Holland, Ronnie McNease, and Mike McNease.
Visitation will be held from 1:00 until 2:45 PM prior to the services at the church.
Memorials may be made to Crestview Baptist Church, 1100 Furman Fendley Hwy, Union, SC 29379 or to Hospice Care of South Carolina - Union Unit 408 North Duncan Bypass, Suite 6, Union, SC 29379.
The family will be at the home, 106 Culbreath Heights Union.
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UNION, SC-- Mr. Noah B. Green, Jr., age 84, husband of Frances Williams Green, of 106 Culbreath Heights, passed away, Thursday, April 4, 2012, at his home.