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Bob Bedford has been a full-time farmer in Harrison County, Kentucky for 35 years. He currently raises cattle, corn, soybeans, hay, and seven years ago he started Longview Nursery on his farm.
He once grew 10 acres of tobacco along with 100 acres of tobacco plants and 50 acres of tobacco plugs for other farmers in the area, and when the tobacco quota started being cut, he looked for something else to grow. He now has two acres of nursery production in the field as well as four large cold frames, some of which were converted from growing tobacco plants to growing landscape plants.
"When the quota started being cut, I went to a cooperative Extension meeting in Montgomery County, and they were talking about different things you could do besides tobacco. Some people in Fleming County were talking about growing trees, and it sounded like something I could do. I have always enjoyed growing things, and this seemed to fit the bill," said Bedford.
Bedford talked to the University of Kentucky and some Tennessee folks when he was getting started in the nursery business. "I asked people what to grow, and no one could tell me. There's a lot of guesswork because you're always looking two or three years down the road. There are trends in this business, but it's the most unpredictable business I've been in," Bedford said.
To minimize risk, Bedford started small and began with a large variety of plants. He also installed a pot-in-pot system so he could market his plants year-round. This system requires intensive irrigation during the summer, but he believes it has helped with fall sales. He markets his plants to landscapers and garden centers within a 50-mile radius of his farm and has also sold plants to the Louisville parks system, Berea College, and large horse farms around central Kentucky.
Bedford farms his 165 acres along the south fork of the Licking River by himself with no outside labor. He has kept his operation profitable and manageable by remaining small-scale but highly diversified. "This is something I can do without help that I couldn't do with tobacco," said Bedford.
He said it's best to have a good variety of plants. "I like to grow odd stuff that other people don't grow. Most people come for the unusual things and then buy additional plants once they are here."
Bedford believes there is room for more nurseries in Kentucky, but his advice is to start small and work your way into it. "I knew there was a lot of potential, but didn't know how to capture it. It takes a long time for people to know you're here," Bedford said
Bedford is a member of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture's Kentucky Proud Program and regularly exhibits at the Central Kentucky Ornamental and Turf Association trade show in February.
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Leads one to think that the suit may be without merit.
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Paul Ceglia - the alleged half-owner of Facebook - has enlisted yet another lawyer in his increasingly desperate case brought against Mark Zuckerberg. The latest attorney to represent Ceglia has reportedly been ordered, in a separate suit, to cough up $300,000 after he "morphed" stock images of minors and used them to defend …
It's a bit of a stretch, but the idea is that other people see the fiddled pictures of the child, recognize the child and start to treat the kid* as though (s)he was fiddled instead. And then, to stretch the imagination further, the child* starts to feel ashamed of the fiddled pictures, instead of just annoyed about the whole farce.
Of course, if the media find out who the kid is, then they show up with photographers, reporters and camera men and make a big deal out of the fiddled pictures and the child*, but no so much that the pictures were fiddled and not the kid. So, soon everyone in town recognizes the kid* as "The Fiddled Kid" and everybody treats him/her funny, cause they're all sure (s)he's gonna go postal one day from the stress of being fiddled.
And then one day, the kid* goes to get a job. But a quick search on Google turns up the fiddled pictures of the kid and the recruiter decides it's just not worth the publicity to hire a fiddled kid* and tosses the resume without a second thought.
I did say it was a stretch, but it's possible... thoretically. ...Actually, the later parts of that actually seem rather likely after all.
*The child is likely to have grown up at least a bit during all this.
Not so much of a stretch, really. It certainly happens to adults with 'fake' porn pictures which often aren't labelled as such, so a search for pictures of them returns some 'fiddled' ones. And in many jobs having such pictures on the web can mean that you don't even get to the interview stage (unless it's interviews for starring in porn movies!).
Remember that in both the US and the UK "child porn" is defined as 17 year olds and younger, not just infants, and those are likely to be very recognisable many years later.
The legal view is that fantasizing about violating minors is never a good idea, under any circumstances. I'd say that's a reasonable viewpoint, and would rather not hear your personal reasons to the contrary, as I'd like to sleep tonight.
Fantasise about what you whatever you can do with a type of individuals who can give their consent, but not without those who can never --- animals and children.
Whatever anyone fantasises about is their own business, as long as no-one is hurt by it. A person can fantasise about minors, animals, plants, or you as long as that does not hurt anyone else. In the mind, consent is an irrelevant issue.
Fantasy has nothing to do images or actions.
"The legal view is that fantasizing about violating minors is never a good idea, under any circumstances"
Please point to what lawyers have stated this "legal view", their qualifications, and in what jurisdiction.
"those who can never [give consent] --- animals and children"
Define 'children'. In the US, that's anyone under 18 (for actual sex), but in the UK it's 16, and in some countries not far away from us it's 14 (in some further away it's even younger). Then there are the laws about pictures which mean that it's fine for a 16 year old couple to have sex (and have children) as long as they don't take pictures of each other until they are 18. And then there are even laws which say that if a person -- or even a totally imaginary drawing -- /looks/ under 18 it's illegal to take unclothed pictures of them.
Which of those would you say can and cannot give consent -- and which countries' courts would agree or disagree with you?
As for fantasies, until someone develops a way of reading minds reliably they belong to the person fantasising. If they want to fantasise about sex with whatever, that's their own business and no one else's. Or if they want to fantasise about killing whoever, or blowing things up, or anything else. There is no evidence that fantasising about such things causes actions, and actions alone are punishable.
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Yeah, no, that's not the "legal view" at all, at least not in the US. That's the popular view, which is quite a different thing. The legal justification for banning child pornography despite the first amendment was based on the harm presumably caused by production, not a thoughtcrime on the viewer's part.

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From: Benjamin F. Quillian
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 require that qualified individuals with disabilities be provided equal access to programs, services, or activities. California Government Code 11135 applies Section 508 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, as amended in 1998, to State entities and to the California State University (CSU). Section 508 was enacted to eliminate barriers in information technology, to make available new opportunities for people with disabilities, and to encourage development of technologies that will help achieve these goals. The CSU policy statement on accessibility was articulated in Executive Order 926. Implementation of this policy was guided by the Accessibility Technology Initiative (ATI), outlined in Coded Memo AA-2007-04 issued in 2007. This coded memo revises the overall approach, tasks and timelines described therein to reflect updated implementation steps. It also includes specific guidance regarding governance and roles for the ATI.
Vision: The CSU system will excel and provide leadership in using technology that is fully accessible through universal design (see Principles of Universal Design) to its students, faculty, staff and the general public.
Mission: The Accessible Technology Initiative will provide the resources, tools, training and expertise for the CSU system to ensure that instructional materials and the technology that are used will be accessible to all. Information materials and technologies include, but are not limited to "computer and network access and services, computer-delivered or enhanced instruction, library electronic information resources, library online catalogs and homepages, campus informational web sites, computer-delivered or assisted administrative services, and voice and video programs and services." (E.O. 926)
Scope: The ATI applies to all CSU campuses and to the CSU Office of the Chancellor. It applies, but is not limited to, academic programs and services, student services, auxiliary programs and services, information resources and technologies, and procurement of goods and services.
Now that the CSU has three years of experience in implementing the ATI, a revised Coded Memo is needed to modify the basic approach. In 2007, Coded Memorandum AA-2007-04 established the basic requirements for implementing the Accessible Technology Initiative in response to legal requirements amplified by experience at four campuses with the Office of Civil Rights regarding accessibility. Since then, the CSU system has made steady progress in implementing the ATI, and much has been learned about what is required on campuses to achieve the goals of the ATI. When Coded Memo AA-2007-04 was written, the CSU had little experience in working towards the ATI milestones and goals on a system-wide scale. The CSU is now integrating the accumulated knowledge and experience of the CSU campuses and the Chancellor's Office into this revision of the original 2007 Coded Memo.
Technology is constantly improving, expanding and increasing in scope; ensuring accessibility requires continuous attention. Coded Memo AA-2007-04 includes specific goals, requirements and milestones, with a target of 2012 for full implementation. The CSU now understands that implementation of the ATI is a continuous activity, and while many of the milestones in implementing the ATI have been and will be accomplished within the timeframe envisioned in the 2007 Coded Memo, several important activities are more ongoing in nature. The technology in use on campuses is constantly changing, with new updates and innovations continuously added to the many campus functions. The ATI will need to evolve to include these improvements in its scope. In addition, new breakthroughs in methods for making technology accessible will also need to be tracked and incorporated into the ongoing ATI effort on the campuses.
The ATI requirements and milestones should be flexible, allowing campuses to follow different plans for accomplishing them. Campuses may not reach the various ATI goals and milestones at the same time. Individual campuses have demonstrated leadership in many of the ATI areas, and others will be able to build upon their successes. Many different factors influence how each campus manages the goals of the ATI. Each campus needs to develop and update its own plan for ATI implementation and measure its accomplishments in each area. The approach of the CSU and its campuses is to demonstrate steady progress in reaching the broad ATI goals set forth in E.O. 926.
For FY 2009/10, the Chancellor's Office Information Technology Services (ITS) published and disseminated a set of documents to be used by campuses on a voluntary basis for conducting self-assessments of their accomplishments and challenges to date. Campuses should use these self-assessments as the basis for updating existing ATI implementation plans and for determining the current baseline of ATI accomplishments for their campus. Campuses that have elected not to conduct a self-assessment with these documents must still update their existing plans and determine a current baseline of activity for their campus. Campuses are expected to make continuous improvements in the level of ATI accomplishments, based on the campus plan. Campuses are not allowed to cease work on achieving ATI goals. Campuses are still expected to accomplish the ATI goals delineated in AA-2007-04. Through this Coded Memo, campuses are allowed to establish their own timeframes for achieving them (see appendices A and B for more guidance on principles and priorities of ATI).
The Chancellor's Office ITS must play a vital role in monitoring and facilitating the implementation of the ATI on campuses. With a system-wide perspective, ITS will analyze the overall effort and determine how to support the campuses through provision of guidelines, tools, training and other common resources that can help accelerate the implementation of the ATI and to minimize the economic impact of the ATI for individual campuses. The information submitted to ITS in the annual reports will be used by ITS to identify specific areas where campuses are experiencing challenges and to address them on a system-wide basis through a variety of tools and approaches.
The Chancellor's Office ITS will determine, on a regular basis, at least every three years, which ATI goals and success indicators (from the annual reports) have become adopted by a majority of CSU campuses and establish a baseline expectation for ATI system-wide implementation that will expand over time. In addition to actual CSU accomplishments, ITS may take into account commonly-accepted and adopted practices and tools that are widely available for establishing the baseline.
Starting in June, 2011, ITS will analyze the data from the prior year's annual campus reports to ascertain what level of accomplishment, if any, has been reached by a majority of campuses for each goal and success indicator. The collected information will be published in the same format as the annual reports and will become the baseline requirement for the CSU system. When the baseline requirements are published, ITS will also announce the period of time that all campuses will be given to bring their practices up to at least the baseline level for each goal and success indicator. See Appendix I for an example of a baseline requirement and Appendix F for more information concerning the timeline of the ATI process.
Campuses are required to conduct a self–assessment during their preparation of their annual report for AY 09/10 and to revise their ATI plans according to the results. The revised campus plans should make note of accomplishments to date and also any significant changes in approach with respect to ATI objectives. These revised plans should be used by campuses for purposes of assessment and measuring progress. The revised campus plans should include a separate section indicating when the campus plans to accomplish the broad ATI goals from AA-2007-04, and this section should be submitted to ITS along with the annual report for AY 10/11.
Campuses must submit annual reports to the Chancellor's Office ITS detailing their progress to their plan, activities and challenges in each of the ATI priority areas: web accessibility, instructional materials accessibility and procurement. Once a baseline is established, campuses will be required to assess their status for the goals and success indicators as required by the baseline and will need to include specific plans for satisfying to baseline requirements, if necessary, in the annual report that is submitted subsequently. Annual reports will be due in November of each year beginning in 2010. ITS will establish the specific date that the reports will be due for each year and will notify the campuses of this date by the end of June of that year.
The documentation from campuses of their status and accomplishments in achieving the specific indicators will be collected and published online. Data from the reports will be analyzed by ITS for overall trends and themes, and ITS will identify common areas for which campuses have requested assistance, guidance or opportunities for collaboration with other campuses.
ITS will prepare a summary analysis for campuses and for the system as a whole in a version appropriate for high level policy makers with broad observations and recommendations, as well as in a version with more specific details for those involved in ATI implementation. These analyses will be published in March of each year for the preceding year.
ITS will consult with the ATI Leadership Council to develop a recommendation for ATI annual priorities, based on the results of the reports. These recommendations will be presented to the Executive Sponsors Steering Committee (ESSC) for their review and input. See Appendix C for more information concerning the governance of ATI.
ITS will also keep track of system-wide accomplishments for the purpose of setting a baseline set of expectations for the CSU system as a whole. In consultation with the ATI Leadership Council and the ESSC, ITS will develop and publish an ATI Baseline based on AY 09/10 campus reports by June, 2011. Baseline requirements will consist of ATI goals and success indicators that have been met with the same levels of success by a majority of CSU campuses. This baseline will become the ATI requirement, to be met by all campuses within a timeframe to be announced when the baseline is published. ITS will revise this Baseline every three years.
In determining how to implement the ATI, campuses will need to set priorities for allocating resources and determining which projects should be undertaken before others. The following factors should be considered in setting these priorities:
ITS should provide campuses with guidance with respect to using these factors for setting ATI priorities.
Ensuring the accessibility of information technology and resources is a shared responsibility that is spread across the campus and will require ongoing, overall institutional attention and commitment for its success. One of the common expectations within each ATI priority area is the identification of roles and responsibilities for each aspect of accessibility. Achieving accessibility will require collaboration among administrators, faculty, disability resource centers, bookstores, academic and student services departments, academic technology and other institutional staff, and students with disabilities. Campuses should institutionalize their accessibility compliance efforts by establishing policies that support the three ATI priorities.
The following expectations and responsibilities are necessary for ATI implementation:
Administrative Website or Webpage: A website or webpage is administrative if its primary function is governance, commerce, or navigation to institutional resources or publication of institutional information.
Critical Administrative Websites: These are websites determined by the campus to be important for its mission and operation.
Instructional Website or Web Content: A website or webpage, as well as the contents of such pages, is instructional if its primary function is as an informational resource for course completion. This includes but is not limited to items such as course syllabi, reading materials, test materials and multimedia.
Instructional Materials Priority Area: The Instructional Materials Priority Area encompasses all materials that are used as an informational resource for course completion, as well as administrative materials that are disseminated in electronic form to faculty, staff, students and/or the public. This includes documents, multi-media, software and equipment. The timely adoption requirement applies to documents and multi-media.
Learning Management System: A Learning Management System (LMS) is an administrative website. Content placed within the LMS may be either administrative (committee materials) or instructional (course materials) depending on its primary function.
The Procurement Priority Area includes, in addition to procurement as it is understood within the CSU system, the development, adoption (including when no funds are exchanged), maintenance or usage of electronic and information technology. Section 508 specifically includes all of these functions.
Equally Effective: Equally effective communication for persons with disabilities is based on:
Aids, benefits, and services, to be equally effective, are not required to produce the identical result or level of achievement for disabled and non-disabled persons, but must afford disabled persons equal opportunity to obtain the same result, to gain the same benefit, or to reach the same level of achievement, in the most integrated setting appropriate to the person's needs.
Fundamental Alteration: A modification to a university program or service may constitute a fundamental alteration if it changes the essential purpose of the product or service or any of its components. In situations where a fundamental alteration can be documented, an equally effective alternate form of access must still be provided.
Undue Burden: A modification to a university program or service may constitute an undue burden if it involves "œsignificant difficulty or expense". Because the Office of Civil Rights generally considers the institution's entire budget when reviewing claims of undue burden, the decision to invoke undue burden should be carefully weighed and sufficiently documented. In situations where an undue burden can be documented, an equally effective alternate form of access must still be provided.
System-wide guidelines: ITS will publish guidance or guidelines that campuses can follow for addressing common challenges and tasks. These might take the form of recommended processes or practices, a recommended approach to analyze and address a nee or, principles to apply.
Annual priorities: Within the annual report form, each campus will list key plans for each goal. Taken together, these goals become the campuses annual priorities for the upcoming year.
Success Indicators: Within the annual report form for each ATI priority area, there is a list of goals for which campuses provide information. Under each goal, there is a list of indicators of success about which campuses are also asked to supply information as to their status and completion.
These requirements are no longer required to be accomplished by the indicated dates. Along with the required annual report for AY 09/10, campuses are required to submit a statement indicating which of these requirements have already been met by the campus and when the campus plans to meet those that have yet to be accomplished.
|Date (Starting June 2010)
|June 2010
|Publication of AY 09-10 Campus Report Framework. This framework will be updated at least every four years to keep it up-to-date. Updates will not be a major revision. The Campus Report Framework will be published annually, whether or not it has been updated.
|Repeats annually
|November 2010
|AY 09-10 Campus Reports Due;
|Repeats annually
|March 2011
|Publication of High Level Summary Analysis of Campus Reports and Detailed Version
|Repeats annually
|November, 2011
|Revised campus ATI plans are due, along with this year's annual report
|One time only
|June 2011
|Publication of 1st Baseline, followed by revised Baseline every three years thereafter. The deadline for system-wide implementation of Baseline goals will be established when the Baseline is published. Each new Baseline will be accompanied by a deadline for system-wide implementation.
|Repeats in three years
|June 2014
|Publication of the 2nd Baseline.
|Repeats every three years
1. Under the new ATI Coded Memo, what is the status of the past milestones and goals?
These are the milestones from Coded Memo AA-2007-04 that have already gone into effect:
If a campus has not yet reached any of these milestones, this should be noted in the updated ATI campus plan, and the revised plan should describe how and when these milestones will be met. A separate statement accompanying the AY 10/11 should indicate which have been met and when the campus plans to accomplish those that have not yet been met.
2. What is the status of the milestones and goals that had not yet gone into effect (i.e., the Procurement milestone that all procurement card acquisitions greater than $2,500 be included in an accessible procurement process)?
Some milestones were deferred until June 1, 2010 by Coded Memo AA-2009-19. Others would have gone into effect on future dates. It is expected that campuses will include these goals in their revised ATI plans, and that campuses will assign their own target dates for accomplishing them. A separate statement accompanying the AY 10/11 should indicate which, if any, of these have been met and when the campus plans to accomplish those that have not yet been met.
3. What will the baseline requirements look like and how will the baseline approach work?
The baseline requirements will use the same format as the campus reports. Each goal statement and each indicator of success will reflect the status level that has been reached by a majority of the campuses. See Appendix I.
4. Won't campuses be developing plans that result in an inconsistent approach to ATI implementation? Will vendors have a negative reaction to that? Could it prompt challenges?
The CSU Procurement Manual establishes basic processes for campuses, but within that structure, campuses have latitude to adopt their own practices. It is not unusual for campuses to develop different technical or other requirements for the same product. Campuses operate differently in many ways and also have developed different procurement procedures within the structure of the more general CSU system-wide requirements. Vendors, like many others, may have an initial expectation that all campuses operate in the same way. However, our campuses function with a large degree of autonomy. This would not be the basis of a procurement challenge, so long as each campus follows its own published procedures.
5. What should campuses do to revise their plans and bring them up to date?
Campuses will assess their current status for ATI implementation as a part of the process of preparing the annual report for AY 09/10. They should revise their plans for each ATI priority area based on the results. This should include a section, to be submitted along with the annual report for AY 10/11, on overall goals. That section should set forth which of the goals in Coded Memo AA-2007-04 have been met and when the campus expects to reach unmet goals.
6. In Appendix B, there is a list of factors to consider in determining the establishment of priorities for ATI implementation. The last question reads "Will it be used by a program or service with a primary audience of persons with disabilities?" Does this mean that technology that will not be used for an audience of persons with disabilities does not need to be accessible?
The sixth question is only one of six factors, all of which will need to be considered in determining campus ATI priorities. This question is a statement of an obvious consideration, that if a program or service using technology is known to be used by or intended for an audience of persons with disabilities, it must be accessible. Other factors can also lead to this conclusion, as well as positive answers to several of these questions. The CO will issue more detailed guidance regarding how campuses should use all of these factors.
This is a theoretical example of the ATI Baseline requirement for Goal 1.1 of the Web Accessibility priority and the success indicators within that goal. It is provided in order to illustrate the form of a Baseline requirement and is not an actual requirement. Placeholder for text indicating that the ATI website will host recommended resources, practices, and names of campuses who have offered assistance with specific success indicators…
Identify and repair or replace inaccessible websites, web applications, and digital content.
Required Status Level
|Success Indicator
|Distribution of Campus Status Levels (09/10 AY)
|Required Status Level (12/13 AY)
|1.1.1 Assigned responsibility for the evaluation process to a body (person(s) or business entity).
|1.1.1 Inventoried all campus administrative websites.


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NBAD reduces water consumption 43pc
Abu Dhabi, March 22, 2012
The National Bank of Abu Dhabi, a leading bank in the UAE, has reduced water consumption by 43 per cent in 2011 in all its branches and buildings in the UAE, and has achieved one of its 2011 sustainability commitments.
The conservation was achieved by installing water saving devices on taps, fitting devices in cisterns and raising awareness about reducing water waste.
"On World Water Day 2012, the National Bank of Abu Dhabi celebrates its success in reducing our water consumption. This is a key achievement because using water wisely and reducing waste is a vital sustainability goal globally and even more so in this region," said Belinda Scott, senior manager of Corporate Sustainability &Responsibility at NBAD.
NBAD initially installed water-saving devices on the taps at One NBAD Tower, the bank's head office; the NBAD Khalidiya branch and office; the NBAD Academy in Abu Dhabi; and the NBAD Etihad branch. The bank continued with installing the devices at all its facilities throughout the UAE.
The bank also implemented a methodical system to report water leaks and engaged internal sustainability champions to help educate staff.
"Of course awareness is one of the most effective ways to realise the goals of sustainability, and special occasions such as World Water Day and Earth Hour remind us that we can all make a difference," Scott said.
International World Water Day is held annually on March 22 to highlight the significance of freshwater supplies. – TradeArabia News Service


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Americans resort to padlocking their dumb meters
We don't like smart meters round here
Campaigners across America are resorting to padlocks and metal cages to protect their 'leccy meters, convinced that the smart versions will damage their health.
The Georgia Senate is busy passing a bill allowing customers to opt out of having a smart meter fitted, and without cost, but some of the locals are concerned that while they're out Georgia Power (and others) will assume consent and upgrade the meters. These anti-smart-meter residents believe the new meters will poison their brains and bodies, so are turning to physical protection of their dumb meters.
There are many arguments against smart meters, primarily that they're justified on the baseless assumption that once we know how much electricity we're using we'll start using less, but there are also legitimate privacy concerns and suggestions that at some point in the future we'll end up ceding power to the power companies, who might get to decide when we can wash our clothes or run our heaters.
But these protests aren't about that, they're about the installation of a radio transmitter, which is part of a dastardly plan to infiltrate American homes without asking, as one protestor puts it in his complaint about the Pacific Gas & Electric Company:
A 'SmartMeter' is actually a general-purpose digital radio transceiver including an unknown array of sensors, which would form a node in a PG&E wireless mesh data network ... to use its 'foothold' on customer premises at the gas and electric meters to effect an uncompensated taking of valuable radio transceiver and antenna siting rights.
But it's the health risks of placing a radio transmitting into homes which really has people upset:
"A lot of people are getting sick, they're getting symptoms of insomnia, ringing in the ears, heart palpitations, some diabetics are having trouble controlling their blood-sugar levels" says Leah Spitzer, talking to CBS Atlanta.
But Stop Smart Meters Georgia doesn't rely on hearsay and anecdotal evidence, it can call upon the impressively named "American Academy of Environmental Medicine", an organisation researching such ignored treatments as "Hepatic Detoxication Enhancement" and "Sauna Depuration", not to mention a few we couldn't make head nor tail of, including "Total Load Phenomenon".
Here in Blighty smart meters won't be compulsory, but how one opts out has yet to be decided. In America the process is already underway, so Stop Smart Meters has posted pages of recommendations on how your can secure your dumb meter to prevent anyone sneaking in and upgrading it. The group reckons that everyone who opts out should get $300 too, as they've saved the electricity company that much by declining the meter. ®
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Lady Gaga Wants a Hat Made of … Cockroaches!
When you wear a meat dress, complete with a meat beret-type hat. nothing, not even an insect, is a strange fabric. Word is Lady Gaga wants her Haus of Gaga fashion team to construct a hat made out of cockroaches. Why those nasty little buggers? Because a scientific study showed that the bugs reacted to her music in a controlled environment. We can't make this up. #Srsly.
Gaga did not arrive at the decision to have a cockroach hat arbitrarily, either. As if.
The Sun reports that Gaga wants a cockroach hat as she has grown fond of the bugs since finding out that they respond to her music more than that of any other artist.
A source said: "Lady Gaga has been looking to top her famous meat dress for some time — and this could be it. She dubbed cockroaches 'my real life monsters' after hearing of the recent study. Now she wants to incorporate them in a headpiece by having them crawling around inside a netted cage."Okay, so it sounds like the critters won't actually touch her head or hair.
But overall, meat and bugs? What a combo! What's next? A wig made of snakes, Medusa-style? A dress made out of cake frosting? Let's hope that she doesn't wear the meat dress and the roach hat at the same time. That would be a disaster.
As for that study? New York students were recording the engineering and movements of cockroaches. They then played music to the insects to get them moving after they failed to respond to electric pulses.
After material from pop rockers Weezer and metal mavens Avenged Sevenfold failed to generate movement, Gaga's songs were played and the roaches reacted.
Nothing, not even a cockroach, is safe from the power of 'Born This Way' and beyond! We wonder how the roaches would respond to the music of, say, Madonna?


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Whilst rummaging through my larder cupboard this week I found something I'd bought a while back and not really considered since: cream of coconut. I got it from a large off-licence and it's meant for making cocktails, hence the rather snazzy squeezy bottle. Far more practical too as, once you open a tin how do you store any leftover coconut cream?
But what to do with my coconut cream? As I pondered the question the Universe revealed the answer to me. Maybe Noel Edmonds was right with his 'cosmic ordering'. Maybe I have stumbled upon a baker's belief system 'cosmic cake ordering'? For no sooner did I think of how to use my ingredient than I came across this recipe!
I would describe this cake as a classic crumbly coconut sponge teamed with a rich, flavoursome buttercream. The addition of the jam adds a fruity kick and stickiness that works well with the sponge.
We all agreed that the buttercream to sponge ratio was spot on – usually you wouldn't top a sponge sandwich with buttercream but this is so flavoursome with coconut that the more the better! I love it when you fill a sponge with jam and buttercream and the two start to amalgamate – mouth wateringly yummy!
And that concludes another successful day's baking:
For the cake:
175g unsalted butter, at room temperature
175g golden caster sugar
175g self raising flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
3 eggs
50g desiccated coconut
2 tablespoons coconut cream
For the buttercream:
280g icing sugar
100g unsalted butter, at room temperature
3 tablespoons coconut cream
For the filling:
5 tablespoons raspberry jam
Preheat the oven to 180˚c/fan oven 160˚c/350˚f/gas mark 4
Line the base of two 20cm round sandwich tins with baking paper.
Place the butter, golden caster sugar, flour, baking powder and eggs into a food processor and blitz until completely smooth. You can also do this with an electric mixer.
Stir in the coconut and coconut cream.
Spoon the mixture into the two prepared pans and level the surfaces.
Bake for approximately 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the sponges comes out clean.
Cool in the tins for 10 minutes and then turn out the sponges to cool completely on a wire rack.
The cakes can be stored in a tin at this point and kept for a day until you fill them.
Now make the buttercream: place all the ingredients in a bowl and mix until smooth and light.
Now you can assemble the finished cake: place one sponge (flat side up) on a plate and spread the jam over it.
Spread just under half the buttercream on top of the jam and top with the other sponge (flat side down).
Spread the top with the remaining buttercream.
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Amy Smart used a rainbow of colorful fabrics to make this beautiful Spectrum Half Square Triangle Quilt.
Here's what Amy had to say about her quilt and working with half square triangles:
"This is one of those quilts that has been in the works for a long time. Maybe because it was just for me, it kept getting put on the back burner while other more urgent sewing needs rose to the top on the list. Finally this Fall I bit the bullet, cleared the sewing table and finished. I couldn't be happier with the result.
I'd been wanting to make a half-square triangle quilt for a long time. The inspiration finally came with a Freebird (Moda) charm pack. From there I pulled bits and pieces from the stash that coordinated with the bright, primary Freebird colors.
My original plan was to mix the colors for a scrappy layout, but it seemed to muddy the bright colors. When I played with a spectrum layout it really made the colors look vibrant.
The other additions I wasn't sure about at first were the extra triangles 'bleeding' into the border and the bias striped binding. I was determined to not buy any new fabric to finish this quilt, and I found a stripe in my stash in the right colors. I think it's growing on me. The triangles bleeding into the border were a risk as well. I wanted to give this quilt an unpredictable element and a modern feel. You know how you work on something so long that you're no longer able to view things with a neutral eye and you start to wonder if you're a little bit crazy? That's how I felt about those triangles. It took sharing the finished quilt with fresh eyes to convince me they weren't too far 'out there.'
I really love the versatility of such simple half-square triangle blocks. They are quick to assembly line piece and there is such a wonderful variety of ways they can be used. I played with these blocks before I decided on a final layoutI think the simplicity of this layout allows the eye to focus on the colors, fabrics, and overall design of the quilt. I love it equally from up close or at a distance."
There are quite a few different methods for making half square triangles. Jennifer Jenkinson of That Girl, That Quilt tells you about 3 of them here.
You can read more about Amy's process on her blog.


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Pens aim to extend lead in Game 2 vs. Sens
The Pittsburgh Penguins will try to extend their lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals, as they host the Ottawa Senators in Friday's Game 2 at CONSOL Energy Center.
The top-seeded Penguins breezed to victory in the opener of this best-of-seven series on Tuesday, claiming a 4-1 decision over the visiting Senators. On Friday, Pittsburgh will try to improve to 4-1 on home ice in this postseason and grab a 2-0 lead in the series before it shifts to Ottawa for Games 3 and 4.
Evgeni Malkin paced Pittsburgh's offense in the opener, as he continued his stellar postseason play with a goal and an assist. Malkin registered at least one point in all six games of Pittsburgh's first-round victory over the New York Islanders and added two more in the Game 1 triumph to push his point total to 13 (3G, 10A). Only Boston's David Krejci has more points this postseason with 14 on five goals and nine assists.
Meanwhile, Tomas Vokoun recorded his third straight victory since replacing Marc-Andre Fleury prior to Game 5 against the Isles. The veteran netminder made 35 saves Tuesday and has turned away 101-of-105 shots since taking over between the pipes.
"Vokoun, since he's come in, he's been great," Pittsburgh forward Jarome Iginla said. "You can tell he's feeling good, and I think it's definitely a good situation to have as a team when you have two confident goaltenders like we have."
Chris Kunitz also notched a goal and an assist, with Paul Martin and Pascal Dupuis potting the other goals for the Penguins, who finished 2-for-4 on the power play and added a short-handed goal in the victory.
Dupuis has six goals in seven playoff games this spring, tying him with Chicago's Patrick Sharp for the postseason lead.
"I think he's always had the speed and strength, but he's going to a lot of tough areas and he's getting opportunities to put it in the back of the net," Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said of Dupuis.
The seventh-seeded Senators, who beat Montreal in five games during the opening round, fell to 2-2 on the road in the 2013 playoffs after dropping Game 1 in Pittsburgh.
Colin Greening scored the lone Ottawa goal, while Craig Anderson was tagged for all four goals on 30 shots for the Senators, who failed to score on all five of their power-play opportunities.
"The difference of the game is obviously the execution of their power play," Ottawa coach Paul MacLean lamented. "And giving up a shorthanded goal accentuates our special-teams play much more."
Ottawa hit on 6-of-25 chances with the man advantage in Round 1 against Montreal.
On the injury front, Senators defenseman Eric Gryba is questionable for Game 2 after taking a hard hit from Pittsburgh's Brooks Orpik in the opener.
Jason Spezza is nearing a return from back surgery, but Ottawa's top centerman has been ruled out for Friday's game. Spezza hasn't played since the fifth game of the season, but he could be ready to jump back on the ice when the series heads to Canada's capital city.
The Senators will host Game 3 on Sunday.
This is the fourth all-time playoff series between the clubs. Ottawa won the first encounter in the 2007 conference quarterfinals, before Pittsburgh ousted the Sens from the first round in 2008 and 2010.
The Penguins won all three meetings with Ottawa during the regular season.


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Having tried parallel actuator and gas strut combination I decided to work on an idea of combining to two internally, scoured the internet and international patents office and nothing like it so I protected it with a world wide copyright. Amazed at the cost of a patent though, just not viable.
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Fungal Infections
October 27, 2015
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What Are Fungal Infections?
A fungus is a kind of germ. Many fungi (plural form of fungus) exist normally in and on our bodies. Fungi also live in the surrounding environment -- in soil, dust, food, water, and plants. Most fungi are harmless to humans, but there are several that can cause harmful infections, especially in people living with HIV (HIV+).
Candidiasis (Includes Yeast Infections and Thrush)
Candidiasis is a very common fungal infection usually caused by Candida albicans. This yeast-like fungus is found in all healthy people. The immune system and bacteria normally found in the body generally keep Candida in check. When Candida is not kept in check, it can cause problems like vaginal yeast infections or thrush, which are described below.
When there is an overgrowth of Candida, it can cause problems in the mouth, food pipe (esophagus), or vagina (birth canal). This happens more often when the immune system is weakened by HIV or when you take antibiotics. Antibiotics can kill "good" bacteria that keep Candida in check.
The medications used to fight Candida are anti-fungal drugs called "azoles." Examples are Nizoral (ketoconazole), Diflucan (fluconazole), Sporanox (itraconazole), Vfend (voriconazole), or Noxafil (posaconazole). Pregnant women should not take oral azoles (pills or liquids), because they may cause damage to the developing baby. Topical azoles used inside the vagina like Monistat (miconazole) or Gyne-Lotrimin (clotrimazole) creams, however, are safe for use during pregnancy. In addition, several of the anti-fungal drugs interact with specific HIV drugs such as the protease inhibitor Norvir (ritonavir) and non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors such as Sustiva (efavirenz), Viramune (nevirapine), Edurant (rilpivirine), and Intelence (etravirine) .
Candidiasis can come back over and over again. Some health care providers prescribe anti-fungal drugs on a long-term basis, but this can lead to drug-resistant Candida that is more difficult to treat.
Candidiasis of the Vagina (Vaginal Candidiasis, Vaginitis, or Yeast Infection)
Candidiasis of the Mouth (Thrush)
Candidiasis of the Esophagus (Esophageal Candidiasis)
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Seahawks ink seven draft picks, including Hill
Renton, WA – Defensive tackle Jordan Hill and wide receiver Chris Harper were among seven members of the Seattle Seahawks' 2013 draft class to agree to terms on Friday.
Hill was a third-round choice (No. 87 overall) out of Penn State, while Harper was selected in the fourth round (No. 123) out of Kansas State.
Seattle also signed a pair of fifth-round picks, Alabama defensive tackle Jesse Williams and Rice tight end Luke Willson, as well as its two seventh- round selections, Vanderbilt guard Ryan Seymour and Harding linebacker Ty Powell.
The Seahawks have yet to strike a deal with their top pick of this year's draft, Texas A&M running back Christine Michael, or fifth-rounder Tharold Simon.
Seattle tabbed Michael with the final pick (No. 62 overall) of the second round. Simon is a cornerback who played collegiately at LSU.


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Sheriff's captain to become Heber City Police Chief
November 27, 2012
Summit County Sheriff's Office Captain David Booth was recently selected to become the next Heber City Police Department chief.
"I'm excited," he said. "It will be a good opportunity for me."
Booth has been with the Summit County Sheriff's Office for 10 years, having served in the Vernal and Park City police departments during the previous 10 years.
"I've enjoyed the opportunity to do a lot of different things in the Sheriff's Office, but my true love is law enforcement," he said. "That's my natural fit, my niche. As much as I think it has been fun working with the Sheriff's Office, with all these different areas you get to explore, the natural position I gravitate toward is law enforcement, and that's what the police department is. That is, so to speak, what I grew up in."
Booth moved to Heber 14 years ago, after being hired by the Park City Police Department, and has coveted the Heber City Police Department chief position ever since.
"I've always had my eye on it," Booth admitted. "I've always told everyone that when that position comes open, I'll be interested in vying for it. It's just something I've always wanted. And it's the only administrative position I've applied for since I've been with Sheriff Dave Edmunds. I've never applied for anything else, or looked for anything else."
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Edmunds was supportive and helped him through the hiring process, Booth said.
Booth was selected among 65 applicants from around the country.
"We found there were several of these applicants we felt would be excellent police chiefs," Heber City Mayor David Phillips said.
The Heber City Council looked for someone who demonstrated strong leadership skills, had several years of law enforcement experience and had practical experience in the field as well as administrative experience, Phillips said.
Strong personnel and budget experience, as well as an ability to cooperate with Edmunds, Wasatch County Sheriff Todd Bonner and Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter, as well as other law enforcement departments throughout the state, also topped the list of necessary qualifications.
Booth's experience as a patrol officer, field training officer, school resource officer, first line supervisor, and his experience in narcotics and gang enforcement, bicycle patrol, S.W.A.T. and hostage negotiation, made him "tops among several highly qualified individuals to fill this very important position," Phillips said.
Edmunds said Heber City is getting one of the finest professional peace officers he's ever known.
"I can tell you that just by virtue of his hiring, public safety in Heber City has increased by a factor of 10," Edmunds said. "And the citizens are going to be well served by that. They are getting an exceedingly competent peace officer with a lot of credentials and tremendous capabilities."
Hiring Booth himself was one of the best decisions he ever made, Edmunds said.
"For the last 10 years, he's been by my side and has been my right-hand man," he said. "And I can tell you, he's as responsible for the changes at the Summit County Sheriff's Office as anybody. And the respect and admiration I have for him is boundless."
Booth helped Edmunds campaign for Summit County Sheriff in 2002, and assisted in reorganizing the Sheriff's Office into what it is today, first as chief deputy, then as captain, Edmunds said.
"Booth was someone with whom I had worked extensively over the years, previous to 2002," he said. "I developed a great respect and admiration for the way he conducts business. When I got elected sheriff, I could have picked a lot of people for my chief deputy to come over with me and, hand-in-hand, go through and literally wholesale change the department."
Finding someone with Booth's character and leadership abilities will be difficult, Edmunds said. To fill the vacant captain's position, he plans to search both internally and externally, beginning in December.
"It's an arduous process, because finding someone that is in his league will be extremely difficult for me to do," Edmunds said. "But I'm confident that we do have either an internal or an external candidate that is capable of doing the job. It will certainly take a couple months, minimum. But it's something that cannot be rushed. It's too important."
Booth's last day with the Sheriff's Office will be Nov. 30, and he will begin work in Heber City on Dec. 3.


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Mbodell, on 2011-August-19, 19:33, said:
#1. There is some issue in the news.
#2. To report on the issue in a fair and impartial way here are two people to represent both sides of the issue.
#3. The news reporters/anchors do not report facts and just give the two people a soap box and don't correct them. On the "good" shows the hosts facilitate discussions. On the "bad" shows the hosts facilitate shouting matches.
Report the facts. Don't let people get away with lies, distorted and misleading statements, or other propaganda.
I have heard of programs like that. Searching my memory way back, isn't that where one of the soapbox people finally says to the other, "Jane, you ignorant slut..."? Or is that a no-no these days?