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18-02-01, 15:20 #1
I am just wondering, after another cool and hair raising blast round the local trails, how and why people have made the changes in biking from rigid to suspension.After years of riding fully rigid and laughing at full and front suspended bikes, some 6 years ago I bought a pair of quadra 21's to see what all the fuss was about.It transformed my riding, and I progressed up to my dream bike (A ZaskarLe with pace forks and the odd xt and xtr bit on it) Now this was my ideal bike and I had a year of amazing riding and still thought that full suspension was for wimps who couldn't handle having to pick lines through the rough stuff etc etc.About 12 months ago, my mate bought his new bike and at the time, the best bike for the money happened to be a heckler.I was a bit amused at his choice to go full suss, but then I had a ride.... Oh dear, my zaskar wasn't much fun anymore. So, whilst there isn't really any point to this thread, I now own a superlight and have never had as much fun riding as I do now, which is strange considering I scoffed at all the full suss riders for so many years and didn't realise how much fun a good suspension bike can be.One thing though, is that I now get strange looks and comments from people outside the cycling world who are amazed by the fact that I have spent virtually all my money on bikes for years, and now I have a nice bike, I am called a snob, even though it comes back from every ride, having been given a hard time up and down hills and in need of a good wash.Having said all that, I am in the middle of building the Zaskar back up fully rigid to have a go at trails...Aint the cycling life strange lol
18-02-01, 16:34 #2
I think it's horses for courses Adam. Well, that and the fact that people like different things. As far as your mate's bike goes, it might be more accurate to say that In his opinion at the time, the best bike for the money happened to be a heckler" mightn't it? People are always going to look for slightly different things from their bike, I suppose that's why there are so many models out there. There are some things for which a FS bike is more suited and some for which a hardtail/rigid is more suited, at the end of the day it's just personal preference. I wouldn't scoff at anyone for riding either, myself. I still reckon the rider is the most important part of the bike."
18-02-01, 17:50 #3
Hi Alistair, thanks for your response. I suppose I was pointing out my own naivety towards other bikes during all the years I avoided suspension, and yes I very much agree that it's the rider that is the biggest part of any bike..
19-02-01, 13:33 #4Nicky BirkinGuest
I recently got my old Kona Hahana back on the road - only the frame and rigid forks are the original. The first time I rode it I couldn't believe how fast it was, not that my other bike is a slug (front sus stumpjumper). In all this gloop we've been subjected to rigid forks have been a bonus, although going downhill at speed does make your arms suffer. I'd recommend riding a rigid bike, it helps sharpen your skills - although I will be going back to suspension if the ground ever dries out!.
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Marc Chagall
by Jonathan Wilson
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Chagall was born Moishe Shagal in 1877, in Vitebsk, a town in Belorussia. His parents were Orthodox Jews, were poor, yet his childhood was filled with a sense of stability. His father was a laborer. Chagall lived through the Russian Revolution, World War I and World War II, and was extremely cognizant of his childhood environment and what was occurring on the very streets where he grew up. His Jewish roots can be traced within the lines and strokes of his paintings. His memories of time and place are distinct in his art, no matter the time span. He is humbled by his roots, and one can sense a longing in some of his paintings for his childhood days and his memories of home. Often you will find him depicting himself soaring or floating above the scene or setting in his paintings, often in a tallit/prayer shawl. He was determined to be a man of all seasons, a person who a Russian Jew could look up to, an individual who could appeal to anyone from anywhere.
Marc Chagall is a story that lingers in this reader's mind. Jewish history is depicted with brilliance throughout the pages, not only through Chagall's artistic and creative paintings, but through Jonathan Wilson's vivid imagery and poetic prose paintings of the artist.
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Novelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel. Marc Chagall's work addresses these transforming events, but his ambivalence about his role as a Jewish artist adds an intriguing wrinkle to common assumptions about his life. Drawn to sacred subject matter, Chagall remains defiantly secular in outlook; determined to "narrate" the miraculous and tragic events of the Jewish past, he frequently chooses Jesus as a symbol of martyrdom and sacrifice.
Wilson brilliantly demonstrates how Marc Chagall's life constitutes a grand canvas on which much of twentieth-century Jewish history is vividly portrayed. Chagall left Belorussia for Paris in 1910, at the dawn of modernism, looking back dreamily on the world he abandoned. After his marriage to Bella Rosenfeld in 1915, he moved to Petrograd, but eventually returned to Paris after a stint as a Soviet commissar for art. Fleeing Paris steps ahead of the Nazis, Chagall arrived in New York in 1941. Drawn to Israel, but not enough to live there, Chagall grappled endlessly with both a nostalgic attachment to a vanished past and the magnetic pull of an uninhibited secular present.
Wilson's portrait of Chagall is altogether more historical, more political, and edgier than conventional wisdom would have us believe–showing us how Chagall is the emblematic Jewish artist of the twentieth century.
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Nine people missing after boat capsizes in California found
Nine people who went missing after reports that a boat capsized off the San Diego coast have been found.
The U.S. Coast Guard located the group on their vessel, which was beached about a half mile south of Tijuana, Mexico.
The Coast Guard launched a search for the missing people after receiving an incident report saying that a 30-foot vessel had capsized.
"The nine people are all accounted for, and the Mexican authorities are handling the situation from there," U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Connie Terrell told CNN.


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Perturbative solution of the motion of an asteroid in resonance with Jupiter
Version of Record online: 15 SEP 2008
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03450.x
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume 316, Issue 3, pages 459–463, August 2000
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Vrbik, J. (2000), Perturbative solution of the motion of an asteroid in resonance with Jupiter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 316: 459–463. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03450.x
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- Issue online: 15 SEP 2008
- Version of Record online: 15 SEP 2008
- Accepted 2000 January 31. Received 2000 January 11
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- chaos;
- celestial mechanics, stellar dynamics;
- minor planets, asteroids
Using a new technique, we derive general formulae for the rate of change of orbital parameters of an asteroid with negligible mass, perturbed by a massive planet (such as Jupiter) having a commensurable period. The relative strength of the perturbing force defines the perturbation parameter, but our results are also expanded in terms of both eccentricities (of the perturbing and the perturbed body) and the mutual inclination. This approach can serve as a valuable tool in the ongoing study of the so-called stable chaos, and may facilitate its ultimate explanation.


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An East Jerusalem resident close to Ja'abis family tells Ynet that suspect worked for family firm in nearby project, was 'not interested in politics.'
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The source who lives in the village said that the Ja'abis family owns a company for heavy industrial equipment, including diggers. According to the source, Mohammed Naif Ja'abis worked in the family firm as an excavator operator. "He worked with the digger in a project on HaNevi'im Street where the incident occurred."
The source said Ja'abis had no connection to Hamas, Islamic Jihad, or any political faction. "This was a man who was content with a pack of cigarettes and Red Bull, he was not interested in politics." He also claimed Ja'abis came from an affluent family without any history of attacks on Israel.
Last week Hamas Spokesman Fauzi Barhum called for exactly such attacks: "Do you not have cars, motorcycles, knives, clubs, diggers and trucks? If you do and do not hit Jews or settlers, and do not kill dozen of Zionists - then you are not Palestinian."


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FOLLOWING the goalless draw at Swansea City's Liberty Stadium on Sunday Brendan Rodgers declared the result satisfying, even going as far as to say it was an improvement.
Of course, it's hard to argue with the fact that it was definitely an improvement on the 1-0 defeat we suffered at the same ground in our last game of last season.
But to argue that a goalless draw at Swansea City is a good result for Liverpool FC sounds a lot like something Roy Hodgson once beamed during his post match press conference following Liverpool's 'legendary' 2:1 victory against the Turkish behemoth from Trabzon in 2010.
In fact, the more I hear the word 'outstanding' following another disappointing result (whether goalless draw or toothless defeat), the more I'm beginning to wonder whether Brendan Rodgers is beginning to read from the gospel of Roy Hodgson himself.
Way back in 2010, many of you may remember that the current England manager set about on a campaign to systematically delude Liverpool fans into believing we were a sub-par club, that should be happy to finish in the top 10 and expect nothing more from our season than a good cup run occasionally.
He did this by squandering money on shocking purchases such as Christian Poulsen (who I actually felt sorry for, at the time), Joe Cole and Paul Konchesky. That's right, Paul Konchesky was once a Liverpool player; I tried to banish that unwholesome fact as well.
Roy followed this up by declaring results – such as the win in Turkey – as 'legendary' and 'historical'. Then he would kowtow to the Scottish wino down the motorway after his best player was on the end of one of his verbal assaults, post-match.
None of this worked, of course because, as a breed, Liverpool fans know the score. And given the absolutely dire results and poor-bordering-on-abysmal results, no amount of pressure from the Southern tabloids just pleading with us to give one of their old boys more time was going to pull the wool over our eyes.
Now, before I get a slaughtering for getting on the manager's back, I'm not criticizing him or the team, not without grounds at least. I thought we played great at Swansea [and for parts of the Spurs game], just as we did against Young Boys and also the weekend before, v Wigan. However, I refuse to be informed that a goalless draw away at a club that he left for us – as the bigger club – is a good result.
I am also concerned that the pressure of being Liverpool manager and not exactly getting off to the start he might have hoped to is getting to Rodgers and he is now trying to bring our expectations down by constantly bigging the teams' performances up, regardless of results. It would be refreshing to hear him come out after a game like today and tell the associated press that, yes the performance was good enough but the players really need to begin to take their chances.
But hearing a Liverpool manager say "I'll never say coming here is two points dropped because it's a difficult place to come. Our performance level is continually improving. We're just chipping away at climbing up the league, and we'll do that." following a goalless draw away at a team like his former side smacks of attempting to polish a turd.
Of course, any attempts to criticize statements such as these is often met with contempt (from both press and our own fans) so I need to make one thing clear: I am more than happy to give Rodgers time, provided we start to see some definite improvements over the coming months, and see some genuinely impressive signings in January; chasing after former Swansea loanees or Chelsea reserves isn't good enough and is no longer acceptable.
I will also not sit back and let myself be kidded that our inability to win games has its positives, not every single week – change the record, Brendan. There are times when you're unlucky and times when you deserve to win but when you've already drawn 7 of 14 league games this season and won just three, the manager needs to show a bit of realism too.
As the months draw on, Brendan will come to find that, while Reds are a forgiving bunch and also quite a patient lot, we're not stupid and our patience isn't endless. Results must improve, dead-wood must be moved on (not played at left-back, week in, week out!) and the squad must be improved when the money is available.
And in the meantime, please stop informing us all that we were outstanding and please, please… get the idea out of your mind that finishing a whole place higher than Kenny Dalglish last season will be an acceptable achievement.
Liverpool Football Club is a massive, world-renowned institution – please adjust your expectations accordingly, Brendan.
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Get this self-absorbed , lying muppet of a manager OUT of our club
Am hoping that FSG would sell,& take Brendan Rodgers along.this two clowns have started a process of reducing LFC to laughing stock.
Rodgers is a piece of garbage to me, don't really like d guy cos he looks so confuse at time n seems inexperience. Suck rodger! Sooner or later, I knw u leave our club but I predict d sooner for u
I've been saying so for long enough. It's good to hear some more sane voices. It may not look like Hodgson but it feels like it. His utterances have been xeroxed since game three. Same old same old. The media lectured us about Roy's quality, too, just as they do with Rodgers. They blamed the squad Rafa left for Hodgson's woes. Henry even apologised to Rodgers for giving him a squad featuring Reina, Agger, Skrtel, Johnson, Lucas, Gerrard and Suarez. Poor. poor Brendan.
Anybody who actually looked at Rodgers' record and didn't just get a woody at Swansea staying up would've seen he had a worse win % and a higher loss % than Hodgson. At least he's improved his draw stats but really, it's all exactly as advertised.
good points – all true
next few fixtures are easy , but even if we win them ,rodgers needs to be sacked for the sake of our clubs future


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LONDON -- Even the day after Brady Ellison culminated a six-year quest by winning an Olympic silver medal, Julie Nichols was close to tears talking about her son.
"The emotions from when they first walked in, we got kind of teary," said Nichols of Glendale, who was in the stands Saturday with Ellison's fiancée, Sami Novak of Payson, and other family members.
"When they shot against Korea and won and we knew they were going to have a medal, we were all crying. That emotion held all the way through. When they walked up on the podium, it's so hard to put into words what you feel. It's been his dream to have an Olympic medal, and he realized it. It was just amazing. Silver is the most beautiful color in the world."
The celebration included Ellison's stepfather, Mel Nichols, who is U.S. assistant coach.
Julie was back at Lord's Cricket Ground on Sunday to watch the U.S. women, who lost 218-213 to China in the quarterfinals. As of mid-afternoon, she still had not seen Brady other than immediately after the medal ceremony. There was heavy media demand for the archers since they won the first American medal of the Olympics.
"Sami was with him doing the media stuff because he could only take one person," Julie said. "I'm sure we'll get to see him before he starts individual," on Wednesday.
Ellison, Jake Kaminski and Jacob Wukie rallied to beat Japan and upset three-time defending gold medalist South Korea before losing by one point to Italy in the gold-medal match.
"They made a show of it," Nichols said. "They fought back every match. It was really exciting to watch. They showed amazing composure against Korea and fought to the end. The excitement of that match was amazing to all of us. It reaffirms they are one of the best. There was so much hype about Korea, and it goes to show it's not always matter how you rank but how you finish."
Ellison was 10th out of 64 in the ranking round Friday, and the world-ranked No. 1 opens against Mark Javier of the Philippines. He potentially could meet Taylor Worth in the second round in a rematch of a World Cup match won by the Australian last month in Ogden, Utah.
Ellison and Kaminski could possibly meet in the quarterfinals Friday.
Great Britain, with six-time Olympian Alison Williamson, who attended Arizona State, lost in its opening team round to Russia 215-208.
"We stuck to our plan, but it just didn't happen for us," Williamson said. "We've never shot in front of such a crowd. The Olympics should be held in London every time."
Former ASU post Ike Diogu had 13 points and 10 rebounds in leading Nigeria to a 60-56 win over Tunisia in its Olympic debut.
Tunisia never led yet kept it close with 3-point shooting but lost again to Nigeria, which it has not beaten in an international game since 1987.
The U.S. men had no trouble winning their opener, 98-71 over France. James Harden, who also played at ASU, had five points in his Olympic debut, and former University of Arizona guard Andre Iguodalascored one point.
Harden said coach Mike Krzyzewski "did an amazing job of rotating our guys and mixing and matching, especially with us getting into some foul trouble."
Host Great Britain, playing in the Olympics for the first time since 1948, lost 95-75 to Russia. Former ASU center Eric Boateng failed to score in 3:59 of playing time.
Former ASU runner Desiree Davila announced Sunday was dropping out of the marathon on Aug. 5 due to a hip-flexor injury then later said she is postponing any decision.
Her coach Keith Hanson told the Detroit Free Press initially that Davila was out.
"It is with great sadness that we must inform everyone that Desiree Davila has not been able to successfully overcome her hip-flexor injury," Hanson wrote in an e-mail.
"After much thought and deliberation we have made the very difficult decision to not run the Olympic marathon. The decision has been incredibly challenging and heart-wrenching, but we feel it is the correct decision. I can assure everyone that this setback will only make Desi stronger and more determined for the remainder of her marathon career."
Davila was second at the U.S. Olympic trials in January and second at the 2011 Boston Marathon in a U.S.-record 2:22:38.CQ She was All-America at ASU in cross country and track during her 2001-05 career.
July 28, 2012 - Brady Ellison celebrates after the victory over South Korea in the semifinals of the men's team archery semifinals at Lords Cricket Ground.
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Marshall University scientist has received a $432,000 cancer research grant.
The National Cancer Institute grant is going to Vincent E. Sollars, an associate professor of biochemistry and microbiology.
The grant will fund a three-year project in epigenetics. That is a relatively new concept in cancer therapies that has shown promise.
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As UPA 2 enters the last full year of its tenure, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh needs to devote substantive energies to advance Indias three most important bilateral relationships with Pakistan, China and America. He must overcome the current political conservatism on foreign policy in the government, and make some big moves towards Islamabad, Beijing and Washington in 2013. Failure to act boldly, however, could see major setbacks on all three fronts.
Eight and a half years ago, the UPA government inherited an ambitious foreign policy agenda from the BJP-led NDA regime. Breaking the defensive tradition of Indian diplomacy, Atal Bihari Vajpayee set out to transform Delhis ties with America, China, and Pakistan.
If Vajpayees decision to conduct the nuclear tests in May 1998 put India in crisis mode with the three countries, his post-Pokhran diplomacy attempted to restructure relations with all of them. Vajpayee sought to end Indias prolonged international nuclear isolation in collaboration with the US and find a way to address Indias long-standing territorial disputes with Pakistan and China.
Unlike the Congress leadership, Vajpayee had no baggage to carry from the past and was unconstrained by the conventional wisdom on foreign policy. Although he could not bring any of his initiatives to fruition, he successfully altered the political framework for engaging America, China and Pakistan.
In the first term of the UPA government, Manmohan Singh ran with the baton. He invested much of his political capital to negotiate and implement the historic civil nuclear initiative and deepen the partnership with the US. Vajpayees search for an early boundary settlement with China saw the first substantive results under Singh when Delhi and Beijing signed an agreement in 2005 defining the political parameters and guiding principles for the resolution of the dispute.
With Pakistan, Vajpayees exploration on Kashmir became a full-fledged negotiation under UPA 1. It is now well-known that the back channel between Singh and General Pervez Musharraf made much progress in the only serious talks on Kashmir since 1962-63. During UPA 1, Delhi and Rawalpindi also came close to finding mutually acceptable solutions to the disputes on Siachen and Sir Creek.
Delhis political lassitude under UPA 2, however, resulted in the steady loss of momentum on all the three fronts. The mismanagement of the nuclear liability legislation has cast a dark shadow over the prospects for Indias civil nuclear cooperation with other powers.
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Singaporean officials took strong measures to enhance maritime security in nearby waters, especially the Strait of Malacca, including countering terrorist threats, piracy, and other criminal attacks. The three littoral states – Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore – continued their surface, naval, and air patrols in and over the Strait of Malacca. The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) continued construction of the Changi C2 Centre, which will house a multi-agency Port Operations and Control Centre, a Multinational Operations and Exercises Centre, and an Information Fusion Centre, the latter to be staffed with International Liaison Officers. The Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) Information Sharing Centre (ISC) continued its operations, connecting 14 governments in Asia to enhance piracy-related information sharing.
The RSN participated in the annual bilateral exercise "Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training" with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard, and the multilateral "South East Asia Cooperation Against Terrorism" (SEACAT) exercise. Singapore conducted its own internal, annual exercise, APEX, which tested the government's interagency response to a maritime terrorism incident.
As of December, Singapore-held detainees included members of JI who in 2001 and 2002 had plotted to carry out attacks in Singapore, and members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Under detention orders, the detainees were required to undergo a program of religious counseling with a group of volunteer religious counselors. Singapore enlisted the support of religious teachers and scholars to study JI's ideology, develop teachings to counter the group's spread within Singapore's Muslim community, and provide counseling to detainees. One JI detainee was released on a Restriction Order (RO) in February; and five JI members were released on ROs in September. Singapore authorities determined that the released detainees had cooperated in Singaporean security investigations and responded positively to rehabilitation, including religious counseling. One person with links to terrorist groups was newly detained in 2008. The recidivism rates among detainees released in Singapore is unknown.
In February, Mas Selemat Kastari, the Singapore leader of JI, escaped from detention. Despite a massive manhunt, the Singapore authorities failed to locate and re-capture Kastari, who had reportedly escaped by climbing out of a restroom window located in a meeting area of the detention center.
In February, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published the results of its review of Singapore's anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing regime, finding it compliant or largely compliant with most of the FATF's recommendations. The evaluation noted that Singapore had improved feedback to financial institutions, enhanced supervisory oversight and stepped up training. However, concerns remained over the effectiveness of Singapore's money laundering regulations and new system for declaring cross-border transactions. In December, the government amended the Terrorism (Suppression of Financing) Act to allow the government to respond to requests for extradition from Parties to the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, even in the absence of an extradition treaty, for all terrorism financing offenses.
In September, Singapore cooperated with U.S. authorities to investigate and subsequently apprehend a Singapore suspect who had allegedly sent terrorist threats by e-mail to several airlines and embassies around the world.
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The Chicago Tribune has posted the text of the federal complaint against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. It's a fascinating read. And one of the specific charges seems to strongly imply that the Governor or his representatives contacted someone in the Obama campaign seeking to trade the designation of Barack Obama's successor in the Senate for the job as Secretary of HHS. Did Obama or someone | Read More »


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Books | Author offers a useful reexamination of race and drugs in America
In this heated election season there's one issue on which Prison Fellowship-oriented conservative evangelicals and their opposites on the left can agree: We have too many people in prison and not enough opportunity for ex-prisoners. Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press, 2010) provides evidence that legal defense for the indigent is not what it should be, that plea bargaining and justice often do not go together, and that sentencing rules for minor drug offenses should change.
But that's not all: Conservatives should pay attention to this book because it challenges many assumptions about both race and drugs. Both 15-year-old African-Americans on the streets and 30-year-old whites in public defender offices know what many of us don't want to admit: that race plays a significant role in the criminal justice system. Another hard admission, because I don't have an alternative to recommend: The war on drugs isn't working, not only for all the readily visible reasons but because it rips apart families.
The New Jim Crow also argues that affirmative action statistics have blinded us and made us think we're further along on race than we really are-but the warped criminal justice system shows us how far we have to go. Affirmative action has contributed to the expansion of an African-American middle and upper class, but it hasn't helped blacks on the bottom. It's also hurt poor and middle-class whites who cried foul and received the "racist" tag. Alexander notes that "civil rights advocates offered no balm for the wound, publicly resisting calls for class-based affirmative action."
She suggests that "the time has come to give up the racial bribes and begin an honest conversation about race in America." The topic of the conversation should be "how us can come to include all of us." She suggests "giving up fierce defense of policies and strategies that exacerbate racial tensions." Maybe it's time for a bargain: Liberals acknowledge that it's time to declare victory and end the affirmative action that has helped better-off African-Americans who can now stand on their own feet. Conservatives pitch in for reform of drug, sentencing, and prison laws and rules that further harm the already hard lives of poor blacks (and whites).
As Alexander writes about those accused of even minor drug crimes, "Once swept inside the system, people are often denied attorneys or meaningful representation and pressured into plea bargains by the threat of unbelievably harsh sentences." Reforming that can start with a recognition by more Christians that the people who have been most penalized and stigmatized by the war on drugs are worthy of our concern.
Destructive leaders
Thomas Sowell's Dismantling America (Basic, 2010) is a collection of his recent columns on governmental policies and a wide variety of issues. The title comes from his consternation about the Obama administration's attack on so much of what has made America great, from political liberty to economic opportunity. He notes that "what is especially disturbing about the political left is that they . . . tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves."
Joe Flood's The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City-and Determined the Future of Cities (Riverhead, 2010) is a cautionary tale about trying to decide complicated political and social problems by running numbers rather than listening to stories. Flood is right to be concerned about the way that "statistics have implanted themselves so deeply into the way cities and governments are run." Stats are useful, but the decades of experience of people who have lived through problems sometimes teach us more. Flood's specific reporting on the way that Mayor John Lindsay and others destroyed their city during the 1970s is also fascinating.


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Reading Pointers for Sharper Insights
To better appreciate Crane's "The Open Boat," take note of the following concepts:
Historical Note:
Stephen Crane actually experienced a situation similar to the story; he was stranded in a lifeboat with other sailors for over 30 hours after the ship he was on sank in the waters off Florida.
One of the more simple settings in all of literature: a small boat in the ocean
Life is a constant struggle and a test; people must fight against death, even though the strongest may not survive, and the least likely may be the winner. Man's free will and desires do not come into play because Fate will always hold the upper hand. Also note the conflict between man and nature and how Crane contrasts nature's indifference to man's desperation. These themes are a few basic elements of Naturalism.
Crane draws each character as a distinct individual with strengths and weaknesses. Pay attention to the cooperation of the men as they focus on their one goal.
The curt, precise dialogue among the men sustains the tension and suspense in "The Open Boat." Crane's use of imagery emphasizes the deadliness of the sea and sky, which appear almost to be characters in the story. At times he presents the scene as if it were viewed from a different vantage point, which both distances the reader from the action and heightens the contrast between calm and fury.


text: Squaw Valley is the best resort in the Lake Tahoe area. In fact, it's the best resort in any of the three contiguous West Coast states — and that's a big deal, as there are a lot of great ski hills between Los Angeles and the Canadian border. On a weekend day, you can watch some of the greatest skiers in the world shoot big lines down the Palisades and, a mere 20 minutes later, you can be skiing amongst giant throngs of San Francisco weekenders who ski like people from Texas.Greg Wright's Celebrity Match: Shane McConkey. Greg further comments: "I know, obvious but that's just how will forever be for me."


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Cannes-worthy local films, fun in the sun at Pulau Ubin, lots of parties and brunches, you name it.
The buzz: The latest bespoke cocktail bar on the scene's located along North Canal Road, a short walk from 28 HongKong Street.
The décor: Here's a tip to finding the place first: the entrance is tucked behind new eatery Shoebox Canteen—it's currently only open for lunch but will be opening for dinner come mid-February—with discreet signage on the mailbox. Opt for one of eight prime seats at the marble-topped bar counter so you can watch the bartenders in action or park yourself at a more private table at this slick yet comfy spot, with stripped bare walls and old-school floor tiling for an anti-establishment aesthetic in the vein of The Vault and Broadcast HQ.
The drinks: Menu, what menu? Instead, owner-barkeeper Din Hassan wants to encourage interaction with a personal touch, so explain to the bartenders what flavor profiles (fruity, sour, sweet or bitter) and spirits (there's even hard-to-find booze like Monkey 47 gin and NZ Broken Shed vodka—made from whey) you're into and they'll whip something up for you; most drinks cost between $17-23 nett. Aside from concoctions such as an unusual Kaya Toast ($19), with dark Mount Gay rum, Earl Grey tea, fresh lemon juice, honey and kaya, and a spicy yet refreshing mix of St. Germain Elderflower liqueur, Skyy 90 vodka, cucumber, lemon juice and Tabasco ($19), they also do a mean version of the classic Penicillin ($22).
The food: Pad your stomach with very decent bar food like the B&L sandwich with jamón, homemade tomato jam and melted mozz ($8), Egg-ruption, crusted lava egg with truffle oil, paprika and Maldon sea salt ($6) and Rangers Valley 300-day grain-fed Wagyu beef cubes ($22); all great complements to the drinks.
The music: Upbeat jazz tunes and '90s hits.
The crowd: Mainly professionals who work in the area and trendy folk looking for the latest place to check out.
Why you'll be back: It's the ideal spot to be more adventurous with your tipple, you never know what you're going to get. Plus, it's a pretty relaxed place, despite its chic factor.
Cannes-worthy local films, fun in the sun at Pulau Ubin, lots of parties and brunches, you name it.
Just not the kind we had hoped.
Vibrant lights, Thai street food, and more...
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Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
Following up one of the greatest games of all time was surely a daunting task, but the sickos behind Vice City have pulled it off with style. Shifting the cop-killing action from the East to West Coast, San Andreas finds a merciless thug returning to his hometown to avenge his mothers murder.
This time there are three sprawling cities to explore loosely based on Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco with huge stretches of country in between littered with redneck villages and trailer parks. Best of all, though, you can now fully customise your hero, right down to his clothes, physique and garish bling.


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Ready, Set, Go!: On a ride in the classic red and yellow buses inside Glacier and Yellowstone national parks
By Ednor Therriault
Whether you're nudging your way through a road-blocking herd of grumpy bison in Yellowstone National Park's Hayden Valley, or trying not to wet yourself as you look over the edge of Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road at the sheer half-mile drop into thin air, riding shotgun in a vintage National Park Service tour bus is the best seat in the house.
If you've experienced both of Montana's national parks from the unique perspective of the throwback tour buses, you might think that apart from the paint jobs, Glacier's iconic red buses and Yellowstone's historic yellow buses are all the same.
But that would be like comparing apples and bananas.
There are plenty of tours to experience at both parks, from eight hour treks up mountain passes to quick evening rides.
Here's more about the two tours writer Ednor Therriault took.
The Firehole Basin Adventure in Yellowstone: A three hour tour that takes riders to geyser basins along the park's valley. Riders can also request drivers stop at specific sites throughout the drive. The tour leaves from the Old Faithful Inn and runs numerous times throughout the day.
There are plenty of more "adventures on land" inside Yellowstone. You can read about them all and fill out reservation forms here.
The West Side Crown of the Continent Tour in Glacier: An eight to nine hour tour that takes riders through Lake McDonald Valley and up along Going-to-the-Sun Road. Riders can eat lunch at the Many Glacier Hot, the tour then continues through St. Mary Valley and into Swiftcurrent Valley. The tour leaves from various sites around the park daily from June 20 through Sept. 21.
To learn more about all the tours, including the "Big Sky Circle Tour" and "East Alpine Tour," click here.
To view the entire story on the famous park buses, find this issue on newsstands now. To read more about Montana all year, subscribe now.


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"Muddle Through" Economy
For clients who think the economy will continue to muddle along —or— For clients who think the economy will continue to muddle along but are concerned about rising interest rates
Double Dip Recession
For clients who believe the economy will suffer another downturn leading to a recession.
Improving and Inflationary Economy
For clients who think there will be an improving economy with the potential for rising interest rates and higher inflation.
It is important to note that not all fixed-income sectors react the same way to economic and interest-rate changes. Bonds are affected by interest-rate movements. Bond prices and, likewise, a bond fund's share price generally move in the opposite direction of interest rates. As the prices of bonds in a fund adjust to a rise in interest rates, a fund's share price may decline. Investors should be aware of the special risks involved with investments in high-yield bonds and floating-rate loan funds. High-yield bond and floating-rate funds invest in lower-rated, higher-yielding instruments, which are subject to increased risk of default and can potentially result in loss of principal. Mortgage-backed securities are susceptible to prepayment risk. Changes in the financial strength of a bond issuer or in a bond's credit rating may affect its value. For this reason, it is essential to make sure the fixed-income allocation of your portfolio is well diversified. Please remember, past performance does not guarantee future results and diversification does not ensure a profit or protect against a loss. It is important that you work with your clients to determine which fixed-income allocations would be most appropriate for their situation, based on their investment goals, risk tolerance level, and investment horizon.


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The Union Cabinet is all set to consider a proposal to amend the Constitution for implementing a protocol for exchange of land with neighbouring Bangladesh which was agreed between the two sides during PM Manmohan Singhs visit to Dhaka last year.
Though New Delhi and Dhaka agreed for a protocol to implement the 1974 India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement during the PMs visit last year, the constitutional amendment has been necessitated in wake of the fact that the agreement involves acquisition and cessation of territory in form of exchange of land enclaves on either sides.
According to the agreement, India will be ceding control of over 17,000 acres of land spread across 111 enclaves within Bangladesh while it will gain over 7,000 acres spread across 51 enclaves located in our territory as agreed between the two sides.
However, the issue of potential returnees from the Indian enclaves within the Bangladesh territory remains an issue of concern. Sources said the government has discussed and dealt appropriately with this issue with Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government for compensation.
Though the protocol with Dhaka was agreed in September last year, the Cabinet has taken up this proposal after the Attorney General suggested the need for a constitutional amendment under Article 368 that will be required for ratification in July this year.
While the proposal moved by the Ministry of External Affairs claims that written concurrence of state government has been obtained for the draft protocol, the strained relationship between the West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee with the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre is likely to pose an irritant in the proposed move that will require the consent of at least two-thirds of Lok Sabha members present at the time of voting.


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ELYRIA — The Lorain County commissioners decided Wednesday to put two property tax levies before voters in May to support Lorain County Transit and the county's Crime Lab.
The proposed 0.08-mill levy for the lab comes as the Lorain County Adult Probation Department in is the process of shutting down the county's Forensics Laboratory. The two labs had operated with shared staff and space in the basement of the old Lorain County Courthouse.
The Crime Lab handles analyzing evidence such as drugs and fingerprints, while the Forensics Lab is responsible, through Jan. 31, for conducting drug tests on probationers.
Lorain County Administrator Jim Cordes said without the financial support of the Probation Department, which is overseen by the county's judges, the Crime Lab won't have the resources to pay for staff, equipment and materials.
The proposed levy would generate $495,759 per year for the Crime Lab, according to figures prepared by county Budget Director Lisa Hobart, who said that amount still needs to be certified by county Auditor Craig Snodgrass.
The Crime Lab cost $249,340 to run last year, but only generated $171,944 in revenue, most of which came from an old levy the lab shares with the Lorain County Drug Task Force.
County Sheriff Phil Stammitti said having the Crime Lab allows law enforcement agencies in the county to prepare cases more quickly than if they had to send drug evidence to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification's lab in Reynoldsburg to be tested. He said the BCI lab is better suited to handle DNA and other evidence in more serious crimes.
Cordes said it's important that law enforcement have a tool that's necessary for them to do their jobs quickly and effectively.
"The bad guys have resources," he said. "We need resources to fight back for the safety of our community."
Commissioners Tom Williams and Ted Kalo both said after the meeting that they hope voters will be able to separate newly revealed problems with evidence handling at the Probation Department from the needs of the Crime Lab.
"It's two totally different issues," Kalo said.
Transit levy
Although Williams, Kalo and Commissioner Lori Kokoski were unanimous in putting the five-year Crime Lab levy on the ballot, Williams voted against seeking a 0.065-mill levy for transit that would generate $402,804 per year if it passed, according to Hobart's initial figures.
He said voters rejected a similar 0.04-mill level last year by a wide margin and he doesn't think the larger levy his fellow commissioners are seeking this year has a better chance.
"People keep rejecting this and they are rejecting it because they don't see the benefit," Williams said.
But Kalo, Kokoski and Cordes all argued that the county has a definite need for public transportation, particularly in urban areas. They said the county consistently has to pass on state and federal funding because transit doesn't have the money to put up matching funds to win those grants.
"I still believe this needs to be a community approach and sometimes everybody needs to throw something in for the good of the community," Cordes said.
Williams, who is pushing for the county to alter its transit system in a way that would allow individual communities to seek smaller-scale levies, said although he doesn't support the transit levy, he won't actively oppose it, either.
"I will be a no vote on this, but I'm not going to oppose you guys trying to get it passed," Williams said. "I think the focus needs to be on the Crime Lab."
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Track your dependencies with PHP_Depend
To provide a flexible and extendable software, it is a good OO practice to reduce the dependencies between implementing classes. This could be achieved by developing against abstractions which means both, abstract classes and interfaces. By using abstractions instead of real implementation in the application you provide some sort of contract, that could be used by others to hook into the application with their own classes that fulfill the contract. Except the extensibility of an application a good abstraction reduces the risk of breaks in multiple subsystems when something was changed in a single package. But how to get rid of all these dependencies, doing this by hand will become an impossible job, at least for larger projects. At this point a tool should be used to assist the development process.
PHP_Depend is an adaption of the established Java development tool JDepend. This tool shows you the quality of your design in the terms of extensibility, reusability and maintainability. All these facts are influenced by the inter-package dependencies and the package abstraction that PHP_Depend visualizes in form of an abstract/instability chart and as a detailed XML report of all detected dependencies.
PHP_Depend calculates the following metrics by counting classes, interfaces and dependencies.
With these values we can create a chart that visualizes the relationship between the instability (I) on the y-axis and the abstraction (A) on the x-axis.
Because in a project not each package can achieve the optimal values of A = 1, I = 0 or A = 0, I = 1, we draw a diagonal between the two corners. This line is called the Main sequence and represents an average between abstraction (A) and instability (I). This means that packages near this line have a good mix between abstraction and instability. You can call these packages balanced. Because it is desirable for packages to be close to the Main sequence we have a fifth metric, the package distance (D) from this ideal.
If you are interested in this subject and PHP_Depend you can check out the latest version, including the unit tests, from the subversion repository or simply install the PHP_Depend PEAR package. But be aware this software is at a very early stage.
mapi@arwen $ pear channel-discover pear.xplib.de mapi@arwen $ pear install xplib/PHP_Depend-alpha
Now you can run PHP_Depend with the following command.
pdepend <source-dir> [<output-dir>]
If you are interested in the code coverage follow this link .
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The Harrisburg School District's athletic programs and band will continue.
School officials had planned to cut the programs to help balance the budget, but the Harrisburg Public Schools Foundation, a nonprofit group that supports students, raised $389,000 in five months.
The funding will save all athletics and band.
Foundation officials said they got help from the Central Dauphin High School band, which raised $1,800 by holding a car wash.
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Jigs and Reels and Words for the Homeless at St. Aloysius Catholic Church
Sunday, 24 February, 2013|
The 6th Annual
Father McKenna Center
Irish Concert and Fundraiser
In the space below the great Church of St Aloysius in Washington DC, the young and old will gather again. In a simple sharing of themselves, the young people of The Bog Band , Eye Street Irish of Gonzaga High School, Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance and the Shannon Dunne School of Irish Dance , supported by veteran Irish singers Paul Gannon and Connie Mckenna, will come to help support the mission of the Father McKenna Center.
Join us on February 24, 2013 at 4pm for some inspired Irish Music, Dance, Poems and Prose.
900 North Capitol Street, NW , Washington, DC
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MES students learn emergency preparedness with Pillowcase Project
The American Red Cross Delmarva Region presented The Pillowcase Project to Milton Elementary fourth-grade classrooms recently. Created in 2005 after discovering that college students carried their valuables in pillowcases when they were evacuated for Hurricane Katrina, The Pillowcase Project curriculum follows three essential teaching steps: learn, practice and share. Students learn how to prepare for emergencies, enhance coping skills, practice what they have learned and share their knowledge with friends and family.
The program also teaches students how to create their own emergency supplies kits by packing essential items in a pillowcase - a common household item - for easy transport during an emergency. Each student has the opportunity to decorate and personalize his or her pillowcase.
Through the program, the Red Cross aims to incorporate preparedness education into elementary school and after-school curriculums nationwide.


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Randy Pausch Passes Away (1960 – 2008)
Posted By Jim On 07/25/2008 @ 12:14 pm In General | 9 Comments
Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.
Randy Pausch taught Building Virtual Worlds [3], a class that started sometime in my sophmore or junior year, at Carnegie Mellon University and was a force on campus even before his famous Last Lecture. I always wanted to take Building Virtual Worlds but demand for the class was tremendous those first few years. I wasn't going to get in the first few years it was offered but I'm upset I didn't try harder. The class was well known around campus and it's not surprising he was able to turn that into the ETC.
In listening to his Last Lecture, I understood where all his passion and his energy came from. He was following every dream he had and is an inspiration. If you haven't seen it, I recommend watching it, you'll be inspired.
Here's his Last Lecture:
The following email was sent to CMU Alumni from President Jared Cohen:
Dear Alumni:
It is with great sadness that I inform you that our dear friend and colleague Randy Pausch passed away today, July 25, after a brave struggle against pancreatic cancer.
Randy captured the minds and hearts of millions worldwide with his Carnegie Mellon lecture, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," and his book, "The Last Lecture."
Randy, who earned his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon in 1988, returned to the university in 1997 as an associate professor of human-computer interaction and computer science. Along with Carnegie Mellon Professor Don Marinelli, Randy was the co-founder of the Entertainment Technology Center, a leading interactive multimedia education and entertainment center.
At Carnegie Mellon, Randy was also the director of the Alice software project, a revolutionary way to teach computer programming. The interactive Alice program teaches computer programming by having kids make animated movies and games. A fitting legacy to Randy's life and work, Alice may in the future help to reverse the dramatic drop in the number of students majoring in computer science at colleges and universities. Randy was also known as a pioneer in the development of virtual reality, and he created the popular Building Virtual Worlds class.
An award-winning teacher and researcher, Randy was also a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. He used sabbatical leaves to work at Walt Disney Imagineering and Electronic Arts (EA), and he consulted with Google Inc. on user interface design. He is the author or co-author of five books and more than 70 articles.
Perhaps the greatest lesson, however, Randy taught us all was how to live, even in the face of great challenges, and how to follow our passion. While Randy's greatest passion was clearly his family, he did not shy from sharing his passion for his work as a professor, for his students, and for Carnegie Mellon. We will miss Randy, but we will carry the memory of him and all that he did to make Carnegie Mellon a better university and each of us who knew him a better person.
A memorial service for Randy will be scheduled at a later date. For more information, visit www.cmu.edu.
Jared L. Cohon
President, Carnegie Mellon University
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Wasting Opportunities in Morocco
Improved purchasing power, changing consumption patterns and improved industrial output, along with rapid demographic growth, are all by-products of the steady growth Morocco has enjoyed in recent years – but so too are pollution and waste.
The scale of these problems has prompted the government to step up working to reduce the negative environmental externalities resulting from economic development, Global Arab Network reports according to OBG.
Waste disposal in particular has become a significant challenge, in part because Morocco suffers from underdeveloped waste management systems. Littering is commonplace and illegal dumps are found throughout urban areas.
With the aim of bringing the percentage of recycled waste up to 20% by 2015, the government launched a 15-year programme in 2007, the National Solid Waste Programme (Programme National des Déchets Ménagers et Assimilés, PNDM), which targets an improvement in solid waste collection through the expansion of collection services to 90% of the urban population by 2015 and 100% by 2020. To finance its operations, the Dh40bn (€3.58bn) programme has received support from the World Bank, which contributed €200m in February 2011.
Crucially, a large part of the plan depends heavily on increased private sector participation. As of the end of 2011, 32% of household waste was transported to controlled sites managed by the private sector, up from 10% in 2008. This was expected to reach 62% by the end of 2012, with five new waste management facilities planned in Casablanca, Beni Mellal, Ifrane, Khouribga and Safi. As of October 2012, private companies were responsible for collecting 76% of solid waste, up from 44% in 2008. The daily output of domestic waste among urban residents is estimated at 0.76 kg per person.
The France-based firm Groupe Pizzorno, which operates in Morocco via its subsidiary Segedema, is one international company operating in this sector, employing some 3000 people. The firm is active at the Oum Azza dump in Rabat, where some 700,000 tonnes are processed every year. In 2007, Sagedema signed a 20-year agreement to manage the 100-ha site.
In addition to its current activities, which consist mainly of waste collection in urban centres and waste treatment, the French company has plans to begin recycling and exporting 400,000 tonnes of waste annually. This will be done in the recycling facility at the entrance of the Oum Azza dump, where workers from an unregulated Akreuch facility in Rabat have been hired.
Indeed, one of the main pillars under the PNDM is to regulate all rubbish facilities across the country and rehabilitate some 300 informal dumps by 2015. So far, 21 informal dumps have been rehabilitated and 64 are undergoing rehabilitation.
In addition to household waste, the Oum Azza dump also manages non-hazardous industrial waste. However, to achieve the goals of the PNDM and accommodate the rise in industrial activity, industrial waste will need to be managed outside of Oum Azza.
Foreign players are moving in to take advantage of the increased demand. In November, the France-based firm Elec-Recyclage, which specialises in recycling industrial waste, established itself in the Tangier Free Trade Zone (TFZ). French Elec-Recyclage, already present in Tunisia and across the US, invested Dh35m (€3.13m) in its Moroccan plant within the TFZ. The factory, which covers some 7000 sq metres, will manage various types of industrial waste, such as electronic, wood, metal and plastic waste. It will collect this waste from industrialists both within the TFZ and nationwide, then export the recycled products. In 2012, the company handled more than 15,000 tonnes of waste worldwide.
"When you look at the typology of waste in Morocco, 80% of waste is organic, so with that, one can utilise technologies such as digesters which generate energy and produce organic fertilisers from organic material," Ahmed Baroudi, the general manager of Société d'investissements énergétiques, told OBG. "This can cut down on expensive energy imports that can be replaced by reusing organic waste material."
Although an economic segment like any other, waste management in Morocco is still heavily underexploited. A large part of it operates in an informal manner, with an estimated 10,000 people delving through bins and dumps for recyclable goods. As the country looks to further regulate this activity, more doors will open up to investors, in turn allowing the sector to develop and encourage more sustainable demographic and industrial growth.
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Sunoco � which has maintained an 8- to 10-mile pipeline under the township for the past 60 years � purchased the land in the last year �unbeknownst to us,� said Township Supervisor Leo Savoie.
Bloomfield Township will hold a special meeting to discuss a pipeline equipment installation at 7 p.m. Sept. 16 at the township auditorium at 4200 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills. Call 248-433-7700.
Pipeline equipment installation subject of Bloomfield Township meeting Sept. 16


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Why smart multinationals are creating awards for social innovators
What would the Academy be without the Oscars? What would NCAA basketball be without March Madness?
NGOs of every size and mission discovered long ago that contests and awards are a terrific way to build their brands. So it makes sense that as more for-profit corporations embrace social missions, they've started learning the same tricks.
Exhibit A: the Nestle Prize in Creating Shared Value. The Swiss food processing giant, which is pursuing major initiatives to make its supply chains more sustainable, is accepting applications until March 31 for the third installment of its annual award for "innovative, commercially viable and high impact intiatives" in nutrition, water and rural development.
The winner gets 500,000 Swiss Francs (about $530,000) to invest in their project. Nestle's inaugural 2010 laureate was a network of Cambodian farm advisors; the 2012 winner was a self-sustaining agriculture school for Paraguayan teenagers.
For Nestle, it's a triple win: The company helps spread ideas that will be useful to the company's long-term viability, supports a project worth investment and gives media organizations around the world a reason to write about Nestle's latest laureate.
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app to alert on non-arrival of email / sms
This is proving difficult to Google. I'm looking for a service that generates an alert when an expected email does *not* arrive at the expected time (with some leeway). Double plus good if it can do the same for an expected SMS. [more inside]
How do I get a really nice but simple delivery fruit basket?
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Behavior or nutritional strategies for hastening labor
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How to get an envelope sent from Ohio to Texas, arriving by wed 8AM?
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Flying w/ equipment into the US - Duties, Brokers and Customs, oh my.
I am flying a contractor to Montreal today to pick up some very important, time-sensitive packages for my business, and then flying him back to the US tomorrow with the parcels. I'm really out of my element here and it's super critical that the delivery go off without a hitch. Please help walk me through the process of retrieval, customs, dealing with agents and brokers, paying duties, etc. [more inside]
Furniture Delivery Tipping
Would you tip for this and how much? [more inside]
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Travel problems! Stitches and Credit Cards?
I'm in Vietnam, soon to be India, and I have a medical problem and a credit card problem. (1.) How to treat stitches in my leg from an injury I got 17 days ago? YANMD, but you speak English. (2.) Credit card: My card is lost, where in Northern India should I get the replacement sent? [more inside]
Not Harry and David
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Mailing from Mexicali or Calixeco
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Side of beef or similar large delivery order for Toronto?
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It was a dark and stormy night..
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My sister has invited me to the delivery room, and I don't want to go.
My older sister is having a baby in a couple of months. She has decided she wants the entire immediate family (parents/siblings/sibling spouses) in there. I really would rather not go, but I also don't know if I'm being unreasonable or selfish, and I don't want to push back if this is something that I need to just say, "Okay, you're the one pushing the baby out, you call the shots." [more inside]
Wine delivery in NYC?
I would like to gift some wine to a friend in Manhattan. What's the best way to do this? [more inside]
Buying firewood in Seattle area
Hello, We have a fireplace for the first time ever and it's getting chilly enough to use it. Need to know how/where to get wood delivered to us. [more inside]
How can I give the gift of easy meals in Oxford?
My sister just had a baby, and I was hoping to get her a gift certificate from a food delivery service. I've checked out hungryhouse, which does not deliver to her postcode, and Just Eat, which doesn't have gift certificates. Is there any other service like this or anything else that would accomplish the goal of getting some easy meals in the Oxford (UK) area?
Sending a gift to someone in NYC
Dear NYC-ers, I need to have a new baby gift delivered to someone. [more inside]
Order from an Amazon wishlist and have it delivered to their address
I just tried to purchase something for someone from their Amazon.co.uk wishlist. I pressed the 'Add to Basket' button next to the item, which then turned into a 'Proceed to Checkout' button. I pressed this, then it asked me to log in, then it prompted me to select a delivery address. Which is stupid, as I clearly want it to be delivered to whatever address the person who set up the wishlist specified. But that's not an option. What am I doing wrong here?
What were your labor & delivery hospital bag special items?
What were the special items or things you took with you to the hospital for a birth in your family? [more inside]
Puzzling Mail Carrier Behavior
Can someone familiar with post office procedures tell me if this is a messed-up as I think it is? One day, two independent packages expected that day were, according to the USPS tracking page, scanned as both "Notice Left (No Authorized Recipient Available)" and "Delivered". All four scans had the same timestamp, 2:16 pm on the day they were due. Someone was present at that time, no delivery attempt was in fact made. [more inside]
Restaurant delivery service in Gainesville FL?
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How much to tip delivery of lumber
I bought $500 of lumber from the local hardware store/lumber yard. They will delivery it tomorrow. Assuming there are two guys and it takes them 5-10 minutes to unload it, how much should I tip each of them, if anything?
Is Amazon outsourcing to this extent?
I just received an Amazon delivery (a Kindle, actually). The package was delivered by two guys in street clothes in a beat-up sedan -- no uniformed driver in a marked delivery truck. Is this the new normal for Amazon? [more inside]
Cheap Door to Door Delivery of Flyers
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Someone send that lady a hotdog!
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Upload tricks on a Mac
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Food Delivery for Senior Citizen
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It's cold back here
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Help me do basic things like feed myself
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I swear it's not a Double Secret Quonsar!
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Mar 27, 2010
What do you wanna do after modeling?
You can't believe how many times I've heard that question in my life.
So tell me cesar, what do you wanna do after modeling???
To be honest, I don't really know... It's very difficult for me to answer that question.
I got discovered the last year of high school and I really didn't know what to study after... So I thought, why not give it a shot as a model for a year and then you'll know what to study. And here we are 3 years later: working as a model and still don't know what i want to do in my life. hmmm... It scares me!!
I know I'm working at the moment but still this job is not forever and what next?? working at McDonald, i don't think S-O.
This week i made a list of jobs i would like to do:
- chef cook
- having my own coffee bar
- editor for a fashion magazine
- Booker at a model agency
- journalist
- having my own shop
- travel agent
- a buyer for a big fashion store like barneys NY or Collette in Paris.
- food critic
- inheritor
- actor
I hope i will figure it out by the time i need to! ;-)
Mar 25, 2010
Ceesie LOVES Gazpacho!!
Mar 22, 2010
Ceesie misses NYC
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French fries/Belgian fries
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A reject from my attempts at satisfying last month's assignment for the Lancaster County Photography Meetup: DIY Lighting. Lighting isn't my strong suit, so this month's photos were a bit of a stretch for me. In my opinion, the candy doesn't have a really strong anchor so once you get beyond the nice mix of color there's nothing to keep your eye on the image for an extended period of time.
Despite my shortcomings, I enjoyed trying to come up with different scenarios and objects to light for the assignment, but I generally gravitated back towards illuminating small objects using a DIY light tent. What can I say, I'm just a details guy at heart!
The second part of our monthly Meetup revolved around a discussion of RAW files and digital negatives in general. Who knew folks could get so fired up about file formats? There were some pretty strong opinions shared on RAW vs. JPG, RAW vs. DNG, and someone even brought up JPG2000! No fists were bared, but let's just say that if you thought people had entrenched opinions about Canon vs. Nikon, that discussion seems like a night at the high school debate club compared to this.
For what it's worth, here's my take on how I personally handle file formats. I shoot exclusively in RAW, and I use the word exclusively not in a snobby "holier than thou" sense, but more in a practical "I don't shoot anything else because I like to keep my work flow consistent" sense. I like having as much flexibility in the post processing environment as possible, and shooting in RAW delivers the most bang for the buck in the data department for me not to consider doing otherwise.
If I make mistakes out in the field (and I do, all the time) I like having the ability to correct them after the fact. I think even if I were 100% certain I was getting the desired exposure and white balance every single time I tripped the shutter, I still wouldn't shoot JPG. What if I wanted to do something creative with the exposure that didn't jive with the original parameters of the shoot to begin with? I like having options, and RAW gives you options.
On import, I convert all of my RAW files to DNG. Why? I say why not? It doesn't take any extra appreciable time to convert my Canon CR2 RAW files to a format that is non-proprietary and allows me to bake additional metadata inside the file itself without adding a sidecar. When you also consider there is no degradation of quality or performance and DNG files are generally smaller than their proprietary counterparts it becomes a no-brainer for me.
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Bushnell Trophy Cam is my choice..I have 3 of them..2 New Camo No-Glo and a older 8mp ($132.00 on Ebay) with view screen...I have had them all and have had the best service from the Trophy Cams...The LED version isn't the brightest in Night Videos but the No-Glo's are Impressive in my opinion...Good Luck and WELCOME to the site...Whats the story behind your alias? lol
Gobblintom, I'm a diehard turkey hunter and live in Pitt County. Thus pcgobbler.
Gobblintom, from all the reading on the net of reviews and such I have done. The trophy cams seem to have the best reviews, plus they have a two year warranty.
Welcome to the forums pcgobbler!!
Bushnell does make a good camera. I have had issues with them all but their customer services is really good. I have a bunch of friends on another site that really like the DLC Covert's as well. I haven't tried them yet but I will soon. Creek07(NCS Moderator) really believes in the Reconyx...I would love to try them but they are costly.....I have to many people with sticky fingers around lol....The Cuddeback in my opinion take the best pictures....At least you have some choices lol....
Obviously everyone has their own opinion based on their particular experience with game cams. Mine is that I love the Moultrie M80 mini cams. I have several of the M80XT (and XD - same cam w/ different colored case) and just recenlty got 2 of the M80Blk (Black - same as 'No Glow') and I really like them. I had 2 Bushnell Trophy Cams and 2 Moultrie M100 cams and I sold all 4 of them. I liked the M80 series over the M100 and over the Trophy Cams. My trophy cams were not the 'no glow'. I thought the pics/vids looked better on the Moultrie cams.
When the Moultrie cam is set on Video mode it will take a pic first and then record the 30 second video. I like this feature but you may not.
New on ebay the M80XT (or XD) have been selling for $115 and the M80BLK for $150.
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