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Laurel.burton necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 20 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
G5, the leader in Local Marketing Management (LMM), gives business owners visibility into which advertising efforts produce their most profitable customers. The G5 Local Marketing Platform is a proven single source for managing the shift from offline to online advertising. The Platform drives traffic to a client's website, generates leads, measures marketing efforts - including Yellow Pages, direct mail, print, and Internet - and optimizes to those sources with the best return on marketing investment. The company, which serves over 150 clients representing more than 2,300 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada, was recently named the 146th Fastest-Growing Privately-Held Company in America by Inc. Magazine.
Headquartered in beautiful Bend, Oregon, G5 is a privately held company. Founded in early 2005, the company has grown to almost 100 team members with extensive Internet Marketing experience dating back as far as 1995.
We believe in great customer service, cool technology, stopping for pedestrians, enjoying life, and delivering results for our clients. Our company mantra is Work Hard, Play Hard, Live Life.
This project is in response to our Senior Living vertical specific audience. This audience is comprised of senior's adult children (aged 45-64) with annual incomes over $50,000. Up to 80 percent of the residents living in private-pay private-pay assisted living facilities or their adult children meet these age and income parameters and live within the primary market area, which is within three miles of the facility, unless otherwise demarked by natural or manmade boundaries, such as coasts, rivers or freeways.
At G5, in addition to our custom sites we also offer a series of portfolio (template) sites. Due to increased demand for our portfolio sites, we are expanding our current series to an additional specialty vertical -- senior living. Selected designer will develop a portfolio series of our senior living vertical as specified below in scope of work. You can view our current portfolio sites here: http://www.myg5site.com/g5layouts/design/.
Homepage template
- Must adhere to G5 web best practices guidelines (see attachment)
- Must include on-page components as specified in page details / web-outline attached
- Final files must be prepped as stated in best practices guidelines
- Final files must roll-over states for all buttons defined
- File must have palette layer included with styling defined for font and links.
The only element that is changed out for the client is the header and/or logo – so please keep this in mind when designing. Buttons, body layout, and etc all stay the same – the only client customizable element of a portfolio is the header. So it needs to be generic enough to accommodate each client while still being creative enough for the client to want -- think Wordpress templates and etc..
For this design you will need to use "mockup" elements - since this is a template design no logo, brand guidlines or photos will be provided. Which will leave plenty of room for creative freedom based on the guidelines and samples provided.
On page elements required (please reference sample sites provided)
- Community Logo: You can use either a "mock" logo or simple a placeholder box that says logo.
- G5 Logo & Standard Footer: Details are located in G5 best practices and also on sample sites.
- Photo Slideshow: All sites need photo gallery above the fold
- Font Sizer: Please feel free to be creative - placement needs to be above the fold, above the content (otherwise with font increase it will get pushed down the page)
- Our Communities
- Phone Number: Please add in "call" proceeding number
- Calls To Action – Schedule a Tour
- Call To Action – Request a Brochure
- Call To Action – Special Offer
- Contact Us
Please reference attached project scope for additional details on interior.
See attached web-outline document for a few different ideas for layout, etc.
Here are live examples of a few of our current senior living clients - these are custom sites - but our portfolio options will follow this same methodology:


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Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall have revealed they have named their baby daughter Mia Grace - in a tweet to the rugby star's 78,000 followers.
The former England international rugby star Tindall tweeted: "For everyone who has asked what our daughters name, it's Mia Grace Tindall."
Zara gave birth last week to the 7lbs 12oz girl, who is 16th in line to the throne and is the Queen's fourth great grandchild.
Tindall took to Twitter after the birth to describe his joy at becoming a father for the first time, saying it was "definitely the best day of my life".
Zara, a silver medal-winning Olympian, who is one of Britain's leading equestrian riders, gave birth to her first child at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital with her husband at her side.
The early betting was on a more traditional name for the new royal baby with Charlotte, Victoria, Anne and Elizabeth among the front runners.
But bookmakers William Hill said Mia entered the betting yesterday afternoon at odds of 16-1 and finished as the 5-1 favourite.
William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams said: "It looks like a few people managed to get Mia correct and we have now lost for the second time running.
"We might have to close that betting early for the next royal baby - be it William or Harry."
The baby girl follows Zara's brother Peter Phillips' two children and Prince George to become the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's fourth great grandchild.
Peter Phillips' daughters Savannah and Isla Phillips were also born at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester.
Zara and Tindall moved back to Anne's Gatcombe Park estate last January after selling their regency home in Cheltenham.
The pair first met in a Sydney bar when Tindall was in Australia for the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
They married in July 2011 in a ceremony staged in Edinburgh and attended by the Queen and senior royals.
Zara won a silver medal at London 2012 with eventing equestrian teammates William Fox-Pitt, Mary King, Tina Cook and Nicola Wilson, and is planning to take part in the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016.

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Colorado aerospace companies give students a two-week internship opportunity
Twelve Colorado students wrapped up a two-week, first-of-its-kind summer aerospace internship program sponsored by several Colorado companies on Friday.
The idea blossomed out of last year's Aerospace Road Trip stop in Durango where the discrepancy between students' opportunities on the Western Slope and the Front Range came into focus.
"Students on the Front Range have access to many more programs than do students from the Western Slope," said Joe Rice, director of government relations for Lockheed Martin Space Systems.
CSBR launched its pilot internship program this year for students ranging from 15-25 years old.
Each intern was given a day-in-the-life experience for employees from host companies and organization that included aerospace behemoths like United Launch Alliance, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, as well as midsize companies and nonprofit organizations.
Braxton Technologies, CU-Boulder, Space Foundation, Webster University and 100 Year Starship rounded out the sponsorship list.
"The Colorado aerospace industry is the third largest in the nation," said Stacey DeFore, chair of the Colorado Space Business Roundtable. "It is crucial to the survival of this industry that we provide a platform to which we allows the next generation to engage with the current workforce. STEM programs such as the Colorado Aerospace Internship Experience give students the chance to gain insight into our nation's leading aerospace organizations, an experience which few are lucky enough to experience."
CSBR's ultimate goal is to have the capacity to accept and manage as many students as are interested in participating.
"I envision the program being the perfect catalyst to educate young people that Colorado is a premier aerospace employer," DeFore said.


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WAREHAM -- Child rape charges against a former Middleboro man may have two local congregations reeling.
The accused, Jeremy S. Haber, is the son of a Baptist pastor who preached in Middleboro for six years and is presently ministering at a church in Randolph.
Haber, 24, of Holliston, was arraigned on Thursday at Wareham District Court on five counts of rape of a child with force under age 14 and three counts of indecent assault and battery of a child under 14.
"We're not sure what to expect, we'll see in the days ahead," said Randy Keeley, pastor of Middleboro's Central Baptist Church.
"Many people who were part of the church when Jeremy Haber was part of the church are no longer here," Keeley said. "The Habers left the church four years ago. We don't know what to expect. We don't know if that many were affected by what happened."
"Nothing I saw indicated he was a sexual predator," said Laura Stearns, a former member of the Middleboro congregation. "But, in retrospect, there might have been red flags with some of his behavior." Stearns said when concerns over Jeremy Haber's behavior surfaced his parents took offense and chastised her, calling her a gossip.
But Stearns said Jeremy Haber seemed to be a nice kid and that the allegations are shocking. "It's very said if someone was hurt because he didn't get the help he needed."
Dr. Roger Haber was pastor in Middleboro from 2002 until 2010, living with his family at the parsonage on 6 Marilyn Brooke Lane, before he abruptly left the church. Keeley did not elaborate on why Haber left the church, simply saying, "He left over church issues."
Keeley is focusing on his congregation. "We don't know who has been impacted. We will make sure everyone that has been involved gets professional help to deal with the situation," Keeley said. "We're here to help people who are hurt, that's what we do."
Calls to the First Baptist Church in Randolph, where Haber's father is pastor, were not returned.
Middleboro police said the charges stem from two victims, who were raped repeatedly over the course of several years. Because Jeremy Haber was a juvenile when the alleged rapes occurred, Thursday's arraignment was held in a juvenile session and not open to the public.
The case was continued to Sept. 3.
WAREHAM -- Child rape charges against a former Middleboro man may have two local congregations reeling.


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CES 2013: Velodyne LIDAR
We know Velodyne for their subwoofers, and lately, headphones. This isn't all they do, though.
They also love robots.
Self-guided, thinking, driving, car-sized robots.
You may have heard of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA, yes, that DARPA) Grand Challenge. It's basically a push for self-driving cars. The first was held in 2004, and Team DAD (Digital Audio Drive), finished third out of a field of highly-funded competitors. Team DAD was none other than Velodyne co-founders David and Bruce Hall. The following year, they developed and used a LIDAR system. LIDAR is an acronym for "Light Detection And Ranging" and now you're probably starting to get what these pictures are.
How good is Velodyne's LIDAR system? In 2007 as part of DARPA's more difficult Urban Challenge, 5 of the 6 teams who finished used it, including the first and second place teams.
Which is the long way round to discuss the pictures you see here. At CES in a small booth at the Venetian, Velodyne had a car with their LIDAR system on top (the HDL-64E, I believe). You can see it spinning blurrily on top of the 4-point roof-rack. Here's a better picture:
Below is what the HDL-64E "sees." It's a little hard to make out in low-rez, so I'll try to describe what you're seeing. The car is at the center of the image, front facing left. The HDL-64E is spinning at the top center of the car (you can see a white circle with line, that's where the sensor is). The rectangular yellow-red in the lower center of the image is the curtain you see in my top image. I'm standing as part of a two-person blob off the right front fender, or just off center towards 11 o'clock. Our squiggly shapes moved in real time.
It's a pretty awesome display of modern and future technology.
Check out more, plus some cool videos, at velodynelidar.com.


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Pseudocolored images of changes in intracellular free Ca2+ in AtT-20/D16v-F2 cells, monitored at 9 sec intervals with fluo-4, AM (F14201, F14202, F14217, F23917).
In order to induce an influx of Ca2+, the cells were depolarized with 50 mM KCl in frame 2 and exposed to 5 µM ionomycin (I24222, a Ca2+ ionophore) in frame 8. The images are pseudocolored according to fluorescence intensity, with red representing high Ca2+ concentrations and blue representing low Ca2+ concentrations. The images were acquired using a fluorescence microscope equipped with a longpass filter set appropriate for fluorescein and a Photometrics Quantix cooled CCD camera.


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Okay, so we will continue on with some characters from the old game 'Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door'. This lesson is on "how to draw Admiral Bobbery", step by step. He is a short stubbed guy that is one of the seven partners to Mario in the game. Bobbery is what you call a 'Bom-omb' and he has a lot of pain he is dealing with due to the loss of his wife Scarlette. Drawing Admiral Bobbery will be fun, easy and fast. Once again I will tell you that there is more drawing fun on the way so stay put. Peace out mi amigos.
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WASHINGTON — One of the nation's largest coal producers will pay a $27.5 million fine and spend $200 million to reduce illegal toxic discharges into hundreds of waterways across five Appalachian states, according to a proposed settlement Wednesday.
The agreement includes the largest fine ever for violations of water pollution permits, with many of the violations reported by the company to state environmental officials. The Associated Press obtained details about the settlement before it was filed Wednesday in federal court in West Virginia.
The discharges occurred at mines and coal processing plants in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
"This is the largest one, period," said Cynthia Giles, head of the Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement office. "It's the biggest case for permit violations for numbers of violations and size of the penalty, which reflects the seriousness of violations."
The government said that between 2006 and 2013, Alpha Natural Resources Inc. and dozens of subsidiaries violated water pollution limits in state-issued permits more than 6,000 times. They discharged heavy metals and other contaminants harmful to fish and other wildlife from nearly 800 outfall pipes directly into rivers, streams and tributaries, according to the government. There is no evidence that any of the violations contaminated drinking water, EPA officials said.
Monitoring records attached to the complaint show that in some cases, the releases exceeded permit limits by as much as 35 times.
Under the agreement, the mine operators will install wastewater treatment systems and take other measures aimed at reducing discharges from 79 active coal mines and 25 coal-processing plants in those five states.
Bristol, Va.-based Alpha, the nation's third largest coal supplier, estimates those steps will cost about $200 million.
Gene Kitts, Alpha's vice president for environmental affairs, said the company, which has 700 state water permits and 5,000 different discharge points, is in compliance with the Clean Water Act 99.8 percent of the time.
"That's a strong record of compliance," Kitts said. "But our goal is to do even better, and the consent decree provides an opportunity to proactively focus on improving the less than 1 percent of the time that permits are exceeded."
Half of the $27.5 the fine will go to the federal government; the other half will be divided among West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky.
But advocacy groups said state and federal authorities needed to do more to prevent the pollution from occurring in the first place.
"Levying fines after the fact does nothing for the communities and waterways already harmed," said Mary Anne Hitt, director of the Sierra Club's coal campaign.
Alpha's Kitts said the states lack resources to keep tabs on the violations the companies report and to follow up.
"That system has not worked very well," Kitts said. "The states get the reports, the question is what happens at that point."
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, D-W.Va., said his share of the fine — $8.9 million — will be spent on stricter enforcement of the laws at the state level.
"We still appreciate coal mining jobs and the investments here in West Virginia, but they've got to be responsible," Tomblin said.
The settlement comes nearly two months after the water supply for 300,000 people in and around Charleston, W. Va., was temporarily undrinkable after the spill of a coal-cleaning chemical on the banks of the Elk River.
Last month, a ruptured pipe underneath a coal ash impoundment at a Duke Energy power plant polluted the waters of the Dan River in North Carolina. State environmental officials in that case have cited Duke for not obtaining the proper permits for discharges into waterways.
The settlement with Alpha covers a different source of water pollution from coal — from mines and from the processing plants where the coal is prepared for shipping.
Still, for the Obama administration, the settlement is likely to generate more criticism from the coal industry, their lobbyists and supporters in Congress. They have said that this administration is going after coal with new regulations aimed at reducing mercury and other toxic air pollutants from power plant smokestacks, as well as the first-ever proposal to reduce carbon from yet-to-be-built coal-fired power plants.
But when it comes to water and coal, the administration mostly has played catch-up.
The EPA says coal mining and the burning of coal for electricity are some of the largest sources of water pollution in the country. But the agency has struggled to get a hold on the problem.
Efforts by the EPA to address pollution from mountaintop coal mines have been vacated by a federal court. That decision is under appeal.
There are no federal limits on the vast majority of chemicals that power plants pipe directly into rivers, streams and reservoirs from coal waste sites. The EPA last year proposed setting limits on a few of the compounds, in what would be the first update since 1982.
Also, more than five years after a spill from a coal ash pond in Tennessee covered 300 acres, the EPA has not issued final rules governing the disposal of coal ash.
Before Wednesday's settlement, Alpha already was hurting financially, but the company said the civil penalty would not result in any layoffs. Last year, Alpha lost $1.1 billion on total revenues of $4.9 billion.
The company acquired Massey Energy in 2011, and more than half of the violations covered by the new settlement stemmed from that company's operations. Massey was fined $20 million in 2008 by the federal government for similar violations of water pollution laws.


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Cult music star Mark Everett, the frontman of Eels, has been awarded the freedom of the City of London - four years after he claimed he was mistaken for a terrorist on a previous visit.
He was given the honour at a formal ceremony at the Guildhall, just hours before performing at the Barbican Centre.
Everett - also known as E - achieved top ten hits in 1997 with Novocaine For The Soul and Susan's House and the 51-year-old has continued to release a series of albums.
The bearded singer, who wore a grey suit and hat to the ceremony, said: "To go from being a suspected terrorist, to having the Freedom of the City is quite amazing. It shows that anything is possible in London. I love this place."
Everett - whose father Hugh was a pioneering quantum physicist - was nominated for his honour by two of the City of London Corporation's senior officers.
Previous musical recipients have included Bob Geldof, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti.
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Chicago HS Student Paralyzed in Shooting Goes to Prom
(CHICAGO) -- A Chicago high school senior who was paralyzed in a shooting last year didn't let his injuries stop him from enjoying one senior year highlight, his prom.
Miles Turner, a student at Leo High School in Chicago, was talking with his cousin when they became the targets of gunshots last October. Although police said Turner's cousin was the main target, Turner was hit five times. His cousin was killed.
Chicago's murder rate has risen over the last year even as it has decreased in other major American cities.
Turner survived his injuries after spending two months in the ICU and six weeks in a coma. The former 300-pound linebacker lost a third of his body weight while in recovery.
Although his spine was not hit in the shooting, it is unclear how much mobility he will have in the future. He was confined to a wheelchair after the shooting, he has very limited mobility in his legs. Turner was recently released from a rehab center.
Turner's mother, Angela Turner, said doctors weren't sure if he would be able to walk again due to his injuries, which have left his spine in "sleep mode."
"The way he's fighting, saying, 'I'm going to do it,' who knows?" she told ABC News station WLS-TV in Chicago.
On Friday, Turner prepped for his prom by cutting off his dreadlocks and dressing in a white tux with a blue vest. His family made him pose for a photo before he left for the dance.
Surrounded by family and friends eager to get a picture of him, he summed up how he felt about their support in three words: "Good. Honored. Surprised."
At the dance, Turner was joined by a group of friends wearing variations on his tuxedo. They crowded around him for a group photo.
"We played football for four years together. I was shocked to hear the news what happened that day," fellow student Jordan Smiley said. "I'm glad to see him now."
Turner is set to graduate in June and plans on attending college. Although he cannot currently walk, Turner plans on accomplishing another goal: playing college football.
"I want to go to college and play football," Turner told WLS-TV. "Football is my favorite sport. It's all I know."
While Turner has a long road ahead of him before he reaches a full recovery, he's determined.
"Just don't stop, don't quit, keep fighting," Turner said."Good things will happen."
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I find this post interesting just for the nature of the post. As some are aware, I, along with others, have been involved in developing a wiki, and some of us have been copying some of our posts to the wiki to carry over discussion to that "outlet." However, in this post, I'm carrying over something I wrote on the wiki to this blog. Some might be critical of such a practice as some may think that the result will be thoughts scattered across two outlets, but considering the nature of hypertext, why not? Why can't the exchange of thoughts be carried over in two different environments? But to the point of why I am posting today…
What IS formal digital history and what IS informal digital history… and is blogging really informal if there is intent behind posting?
It's just my opinion, but I don't think "formal digital history" has to be defined as a completed website ready for consumption by readers. I think the practice of digital history (blogging being part of that) is more complex. The key word in the phrase is "digital;" or, more importantly, what is behind that one word when considering the environment of the Web. When considering the theory behind hypertext and various other features of the Web environment, this is where the historian should want to modify his/her practice for that environment. Continuing in the traditional style by placing materials that might otherwise be found in a book is simply doing the same thing as before, but putting it in a new medium. It might make the information available to a larger (or different) audience, but is not the historian who does this missing major opportunities for more efficient delivery of the content (or more importantly, a more effective way for helping others understand content or concepts behind the content)? [Making a note to myself here, but this might be where using a blog format makes the delivery of content unique].
Blogging is informal, but perhaps the informality has just as much potential as a formally structured website. In the act of "doing" digital history, is the act of educating others (I use "educating" here more as a word to express the intent of making other people think AND consider many possibilities as opposed to one alone… thus, multi-linear paths) not at the very core of why we practice digital history?
I think, in various blogs, there are instances in which the historian is thinking and the reader has the opportunity to "virtually" look over the historian's shoulder. This, I believe, presents significant possibilities in conveying historical concepts. It's informal, but considering the fact that the historian is opening up his/her thoughts for public consideration, it's quite personal (which might lead to another topic regarding the personalization of history). I think this holds greater appeal to a broader audience specifically because it IS personal. As for presentation of material, I can see a difference in formal and informal work, but the very practice of digital history should not be held to the limited confines of traditional presentation of history (I really can't place enough emphasis on this).
Maybe I'm rambling (after all, I haven't had my first cup of coffee yet), but I think there is something to it. I just believe that the environment of the Web needs to be appreciated for what it really is. Are we forcing too many of our ideas of formality and informality from practice with the print medium to the practice on the Web?
On a sidenote, note that in the last hyperlink above, I used the hyperlink feature of WordPress.com to create a mouseover popup. I just left the link URL blank, set the target to "new window" and placed my comment in the "Title" box. Think of how, without blatantly interjecting your thoughts [in brackets for example] in an historical document that you are transcribing, how you can still interject your thoughts about specific passages. The fact that the reader is likely drawn to the blue hyperlinked words is a part of interaction between the reader and the transcriber/author. The act of hovering over the hyperlink and the result of hovering being the popup is another means of interactive design. Think of the possibilities of such dynamic features in works of digital history… this example is but one.


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Staybridge Suites Corpus Christi
Guests Love Corpus Christi, Texas Upscale Extended Stay Hotel
Conveniently located off HWY 358, the Staybridge Suites® Corpus Christi Hotel boasts superior amenities and lux accommodations, along with the comforts of home. Guests at this Upscale Extended Stay Hotel receive first class service and top notch quality.
From Monday to Wednesday, indulge in a complimentary evening light meal with wine and beer during our social receptions. Each morning, begin your day with our complimentary Hot Deluxe Breakfast, which includes our popular Texas shaped waffles.
Our Extended Stay Hotel features, such as full kitchens in every guestroom, are a perfect fit for corporate relocations, project teams and long term or periodic visitors. Convenience is key at Staybridge Suites Corpus Christi. This Upscale Extended Stay Hotel is centrally located, only a few miles from several area beaches, including Corpus Christi Beach, Mustang Island, and JP Luby. We are a short drive from local attractions, such as the USS Lexington and Texas State Aquarium. Or, visit the newly renovated La Palmera shopping mall located only minutes away.
Within walking distance, you will find several restaurants to choose from. Enjoy our SportsCourt, heated whirlpool, outdoor swimming pool as well as our hugely popular BBQ Pavilion. At Staybridge Suites Corpus Christi Hotel, you will find everything you need and much more.
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Here is a picture of some of my piles of this-and-that (oh, I confess, I do have more piles!)
And this picture shows the start of my transfer of the piles to the Neat Containers.
So yes, I'm slowly making progress. (Applause is appropriate here.) :)
I am using my set of containers in my sewing room, and I'm still working on filling them up. (And believe me, I have plenty of craft and sewing stuff to fill them all---really, I should de-stash!) The biggest size (shown in the middle) would be great for 12"x12" scrapbooking paper. I could see these containers nicely used totally for scrapbooking and rubber stamping supplies. (Does anybody still rubber stamp?!) I also think they would work wonderfully in a closet filled with belts, purses, scarves, socks, shoes, and so on.
Let me tell you what I love about the Neat Containers. They are clear--easy to see what's inside. They are stackable, and what's really cool is that you can pull them out kind of like a drawer and the rest of the stack does not fall over or collapse. The containers are easy to assemble, and the configuration can be changed easily at any time. Mostly, I love that my assorted supplies will all be in one place, easy to see at a glance, and readily available for use.
The Giveaway!!!
To enter, you must:
1. Have a U.S. shipping address and not a PO box. (Sorry, but no international addresses).
2. Go to http://www.neatcontainers.com and browse around.
3. Comment on this post and tell me which Neat Container product you would like and how you would use it.
I will randomly draw a winner on November 27th. The winner will receive the small combo set pictured below.


text: Marion Bolognesi makes emotive watercolor portraiture that seems to appear out of the nothingness of their stark, white backgrounds. She often uses drips and large blots to echo the transient feelings that make us human. This technique also adds a nice aesthetic to the artist's work, which has spawned a few biters and copy artists. Bolognesi demonstrates a lot of economy- the artist's ability to do a lot with a little is commendable. With such fundamental subject matter, it's probably best to keep things simple anyway. It's not always easy to capture the deeper elements of life with grace, but she pulls it off. The artist, who also does illustration and design work, lives in NYC.


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British police stop man with knife from entering Buckingham Palace
LONDON – A man with a knife was arrested after he tried to dart through a gate at Buckingham Palace in London on Monday, police said. The palace said Queen Elizabeth II was not in residence.
Breaches of royal security are rare, but just a month ago police arrested two men over a suspected break-in at the palace.
Police said Monday a 44-year-old man was apprehended as he tried to run through security at a palace gate that serves both pedestrians and vehicles.
They searched him and found a knife. They arrested him on suspicion of trespassing on a protected site and possession of an offensive weapon.
The man is currently in custody at a London police station, the force added, stressing that the man was apprehended "immediately."
That was not the case in September's embarrassing breach, when an intruder was discovered prowling around the palace after scaling a fence, and an alleged accomplice was also arrested. That was judged one of the most serious incidents since Michael Fagan managed to sneak into the queen's private chambers in 1982.


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Britney Spears Most Searched Celeb in Last 12 Years
These days, it's considered a major feat to maintain online interest for more than a few months, but while Kim Kardashian may be the most searched person of 2012, it's pop princess Britney Spears who has been dominating the Internet for the past 12 years.
For the second year in a row, Kim K topped Yahoo!'s annual list of top searches, but while the reality show star has been at No. 1 in 2011 and 2012, Spears has been making the list for seven of the last 12 years, reports the Huffington Post.
To put that in perspective, the Yahoo.com domain was created in 1995, and Google was founded in 1998. Spears' debut album, '... Baby One More Time,' was released in 1999. So, basically people have been searching for Spears since she came onto the music scene. Talk about a career artist!
Of course, many newsworthy moments in Brit's life have kept her in high demand. She released six more albums, had baby-daddy drama with Kevin Federline, a very public breakdown and an 'X Factor' comeback, all of which have contributed to the star's place in pop culture.
Kardashian has been making plenty of headlines lately, especially with Kanye West by her side, but she's not the only celeb to make Yahoo!'s list. Whitney Houston, Jennifer Lopez, Lindsay Lohan, Kate Middleton and Kate Upton were also highly searched in 2012.
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Mesmerizing time lapse of Saturn and Jupiter from spacecraft
One of the single greatest advantages of the modern age of astronomy, in my opinion, is that digital images from telescopes and spacecraft — and telescopes on spacecraft — have been placed in the hands of everyone. It can take years of training to correctly process and interpret astronomical data, but even without that these images can be put together to make art, scenes of surpassing beauty that professional astronomers might not even think to create.
Dutch video editor Sander van den Berg looked at Cassini and Voyager images, and saw beyond the raw data into the beauty of motion in them. He created a video that is stunning. Stunning. He calls it, simply, "Outer Space".
The events depicted take days, even weeks to play out. Yet somehow, the quick shots and fast cuts — necessary because in many cases there really aren't very many images to play with — add to the majesty and grandeur of what you see. I suppose that's no more paradoxical than having canvases far bigger than Earth, yet loaded with detail packed into those vast frameworks.
The Universe is magnificent on every scale, both in space and time. That's one of the reasons I like working there.
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"I got to figure that out. That's what I'm paid to do," the coach said on Thursday. "I've said all along: it's not how many minutes you get. It's what you do with the minutes that you get. I'm a big believer in that. I'm not here to satisfy anybody. I'm here to coach this team the best way I'm capable of coaching it along with the staff. When you get in the game, you've got to perform and play."Mike Woodson via ESPN New York
With Marcus Camby ready to make his season debut tonight against the Mavs, this appears to be the big question of the day. With Camby still the most spry of the Knicks' veteran bigs, as Camby is still an excellent defender and rebounder, it's obvious he's the one who will get the bulk of the backup center minutes, so the question is whether Kurt Thomas or Rasheed Wallace should sit?
The beauty of this question is that it really doesn't matter, I don't think the play of Wallace or Thomas will be the determining factor in how this Knicks season turns out, both are just there for some extra depth in the interior. My guess would be you stick with Thomas, who appears in better shape than the, shall we say, doughy Wallace, even though, yes, Wallace does currently have the highest PER in the league, and is automatically the league's current best player (I think that's how that works).
It's true that Wallace does give you the extra intangible that people just seem to smile when he's around, and he gives the team a lovable goofy quality that would serve them well were they currently working on a screwball sports comedy based on the Knicks. He's also shown he can still hit the occasional three-pointer, which is nice.
When it comes to Thomas, I would imagine Woodson's hesitation would just be having to actually tell Thomas he'll be losing minutes and stare into the abyss of those cold, dark, frightening eyes that pierce into your soul until you emerge as a shell of the person you once were.
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I am stuck when it comes to finding the end value of a trig function. I have the following question:
$$ \tan^5x - 9\tan{x} = 0 $$
I worked the problem and got:
$$ \tan x = 0\\ \tan^4x-9 = 0\\ x = 0, \pi, \frac {\pi}{3}, \frac {2\pi}{3}, \frac {4\pi}{3}, \frac {5\pi}{3} $$
My book answer is $x = \frac {\pi k}{3}$ how do you get that? I understand that tan uses $ \pi $ and sin, cos use $ 2\pi $ but I'm not sure how they got to that answer.


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Time to expand your thinking. Philosopher Chris Cosans asks a radical question: Was Darwin a Creationist? Let me share a rather interesting excerpt from Cosans' paper (Cosans C. 2005. Was Darwin a creationist? Perspect Biol Med. 48(3):362-71):
Darwin's assertion in the Origin that all the living things we observe descended from one organism can be traced back to speculations he had made on theology during the 1830s.When considering the transmutation of species in his notebook from 1837 and 1838, Darwin considered the theological meaning of whether or not transmutation follows from a fixed natural law. He remarks at one point in his private notebook that:
"Astronomers might formely [sic] have said that God ordered each planet to move in its particular destiny.""In same manner God orders each animal created with certain form in certain country, but how much more simple, & sublime power let attraction act according to certain law such are inevitable consequences let animal be created, then by the fixed laws of generation, such will be their successors." (Darwin 1838, p. 185)
Just as Newton showed the greatness of God in his Principia by explaining how the one law of gravity governs the motion of all the planets, Darwin is interested in showing that God did not make each species but created one organic being from which different species could be generated by fixed laws.
Although his beliefs about God developed over the ensuing 20 years, Darwin framed his biological Principia in a theological context. He opens the Origin with two epigraphs on natural theology. The first, by Whewell, refers to the British theological reconciliation of science and religion by holding that the laws discovered by science are secondary causes, while God, as the Creator of these laws, is the primary cause:"events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws." A second quote, from Bacon, states no man can "be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works," implying the need to study both scripture and science to understand the world in which we live. Almost 500 pages later, Darwin brings the Origin to a conclusion with a reference to Genesis that echoes his 1838 remarks about science and religion:"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved" (Darwin 1859, p. 490). In a single sentence Darwin interweaves the metaphysical breath of Genesis with the physical gravity of Newton's Principia.
Cosans also notes:
Popular culture views Darwin's theory as providing scientific evidence against religion. However, this is not supported by a close analysis of the text of the Origin and its implications. A simple way of reading the Origin as supporting theistic thinking is to see the first progenitors and the laws of reproduction, variation, and selection as the results of God's action. In his autobiography, Darwin confesses that this indeed was his conviction when writing the Origin. Many historians of science have discussed the ways Darwin's analysis drew upon the Christian theology of his time (Brown 1986; Gillespie 1979, p. 124; Richards 1999, pp. 130″35). Although later in life Darwin began to entertain an agnostic perspective, this was after he had conceived of his theory. (emphasis added)
Although usually ignored by neo-Darwinists, Darwin's hint about the supernatural origins of life is actually a critical aspect of his framework of analysis. Throughout the Origin, he usually contrasts his account not with that of other evolutionists such as Lamarck or Chambers, but with that of someone we would now call a "special creationist." The position of Darwin's hypothetical creationist is the dialectical opposite of that endorsed in the Origin.The Origin's creationist would seem in fact to be a younger less sophisticated version of Darwin himself. In the introduction to the Origin, Darwin tells us he used to believe that "each species has been independently created" (p. 6). While the Darwin of the Origin believes all life is united by its common ancestor, his creationist rejects the unity of life. Darwin believes "all living and extinct forms can be grouped together in one great system" (p. 433), but his creationist believes each form is special and unique. Darwin accounts for the diversity of life as the result of natural selection acting on existing variation; his creationist accounts for it as the result of God creating the progenitors of the varieties of organisms.Whereas Darwin believes life came into being only once, his creationist believes "that at innumerable periods in the earth's history certain elemental atoms have been commanded suddenly to flash into living tissues" (p. 483).
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Owen claims that the special creationist and Darwin both ultimately rely on the action of God. Insofar as Darwin concludes the Origin with the Biblical phrasing, Darwin recognizes:"a direct creative act, something like that supernatural or miraculous one which, in the preceding page, he defines, as "certain elemental atoms which have been commanded suddenly to flash into living tissues" (Owen 1860, p. 191). Darwin is no less a creationist than his dialectical rival merely because he limits God to one intervention. Indeed, Owen argues that in Darwin's theory, God's act of creation is even more miraculous. For it requires God, at that one moment, to impart to the progenitor the capacity to vary in such a way as to eventually result in the present organisms' "infinity of complications and their morphological results, which now try to the utmost the naturalist's faculties to comprehend and classify" (Owen 1860, p. 191). Darwin's theism requires God to have an incredible amount of foresight.


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State Secrets Panel – Center for Constitutional Rights
We bring the voices of lawyers who are suing the government for keeping state secrets. What is a state secrets privilege and why should we be concerned? State secrets have been used by the Bush administration to dismiss public interest lawsuits, such as when in April of this year the Electronic Frontier Foundation challenged the legality of the NSA's domestic spying program or the wrongfully-accused and tortured victim Maher Arar who sought to sue Attorney General John Ashcroft for his role in deporting him to Syria to face torture and extract false confessions.
Most recent, the Justice Department moved to preempt the Center for Constitutional Rights challenge to warrantless domestic surveillance by invoking the state secrets privilege. The Bush Administration is arguing that CCR's case could reveal secrets regarding U.S. national security, and thus the presiding judge must dismiss it without reviewing the evidence. We go now and listen to a segment of the State Secrets panel.
We play excerpts from a speech by Bill Goodman, legal director with the Center for Constitutional Rights where he's led a team of attorneys challenging the worst excesses of the Bush administration since 9/11 and representing Guantanamo detainees before the Supreme Court. Bill Goodman was one of the first to take on the Patriot act and having a portion of it ruled unconstitutional. He also sued against private military contractors at Abu Ghraib.
We also hear from Center for Constitutional Rights staff attorney Shayana Kadidal. He breaks down the history of the state secrets privilege and how the Bush administration is using it. Shane has worked on a number of cases since September 11th, including working on two cases of citizens detained as enemy combatants and a case on behalf of a class of hundreds of immigrants held in detention long after their final deportation. He's also counsel on CCRs pending challenge to the NSA's warrantless surveillance program in CCR versus Bush.
Amnesty International's General Meeting – Audio Collage
During this year's Amnesty International's General Meeting in Portland, Oregon, Law and Disorder co-host Dalia Hashad and producer Geoff Brady collected audio from various interviews, panels and rallies being held at the 2006 General Meeting.
In this recording many Amnesty International staff members and activists gathered to speak out, listen and share their stories. This is an audio compilation from the anti-torture rally in Portland's historic Pioneer Square mixed and produced by Geoff Brady.
Attorney Paul L. Mills on Tasers – Part III
In our last interview from the Law and Disorder Taser series, co-host Dalia Hashad talked with Paul L. Mills, attorney and co-director with L.A. Police Watch about how police misuse the Taser weapon, the case of a 33 year old man who while being handcuffed was stunned by police with a Taser and later died and the future of Taser include wireless implants into human beings.
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Heat stress can reduce pregnancy rates
The effects of heat stress on reproductive performance of beef cows has been discussed by many animal scientists in a variety of ways. After reviewing the scientific literature available up to 1979, one scientist wrote that the most serious seasonal variation in reproductive performance was associated with high ambient temperatures and humidity. He further pointed out that pregnancy rates and subsequent calving rates were reduced in cows bred in July through September.
Typical Oklahoma summer weather can fit the description of potential heat stress, where many days in a row can exceed 95 degrees and night time lows are often close to 80 degrees. Many hours of the day can be quite hot and cause the slightest rise in body temperature of cattle. Research conducted several years ago at OSU illustrated the possible impact of heat stress of beef cows on their reproductive capability. These cows were exposed to bulls as one group (while in a thermoneutral environment) and one week later exposed to the environmental treatments listed below in Table 1.
Table 1. Effects of Imposed Heat Stress on Reproduction in Beef Cows (Biggers, 1986;OSU)
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They found that heat stress of beef cows from day 8 through day 16 affected the weights of the conceptus (embryo, fluids, and membranes) and the increased body temperature may have formed an unfavorable environment for embryo survival. As noted in table 1, the percentage of pregnancies maintained throughout the week of severe heat stress was considerably reduced.
Florida scientists studying dairy cows reported that for high conception rates the temperature at insemination and the day after insemination was critical to success. They stated that the optimal temperature range was between 50 degrees F. and 73 degrees F. Marked declines in conception occurred when temperatures did not fall in this range.
Beef producers conducting Artificial Insemination or Embryo Transfer may want to take heed of this information. Make certain that cows are allowed access to shade and adequate air movement, at breeding, and immediately following breeding. Of course, adequate cool water is important anytime during the summer months. Avoid forcing recently inseminated cows to stand in treeless, drylot situations where relief from the Oklahoma heat is impossible.


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Webster J. Tarpley – Press TV March 3, 2013
John Forbes Kerry, the current United States Secretary of State, is a blue-blooded patrician oligarch and member of the infamous Yale Skull and Bones secret society.
Kerry has already signaled that he will be more aggressive and ruthless than his predecessor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, when it comes to implementing the US program of destroying the sovereign and independent nation states of the world, and replacing them with micro states, mini states, rump states, failed states, warlords, and chaos. Accordingly, Kerry wants to increase aid to the Syrian rebels, whom his own department has branded as terrorists.
Even in a millionaire's club like the United States Senate, Kerry stood out as the richest senator. His father, Richard Kerry, was a foreign service officer for the US State Department involved in United Nations affairs. Kerry's paternal grandparents, the Silesian Fritz Kohn and the Budapest-born Ida Löwe were Jews from a suburb of Vienna, Austria-Hungary who came to the United States and converted to Roman Catholicism at the beginning of the 20th century, changing their name to Kerry after selecting it at random from a map of Ireland. Fritz Kohn/Kerry had a shoe business which went bankrupt during the crash of 1921, leading to his suicide. Today's John Forbes Kerry was raised as a Roman Catholic, which he says he has remained.
John Kerry's pedigree and the initial money for his education come from his mother, who was born Rosemary Isabel Forbes. The Forbes family had arrived in Massachusetts in the mid-18th century, much later than many of the Boston Brahmins, but Ralph Bennett Forbes soon married Margaret Perkins, a daughter of the notorious family controlling Perkins & Co., one of the selected American firms partnering with the British East India Company in shipping opium from India to China, and tea from China to Europe and North America. Thanks to this strategic marriage, the Forbes were directly allied to families like the Cabots, the Cushings, and others. Ralph Bennett Forbes worked for the Perkins syndicate as an opium-runner. His son, John Murray Forbes, was for a time one of the dominant personalities of the foreign clique controlling the Chinese emperor.
John Murray Forbes made a strategic move for the family to go legit, shifting their fortune from opium and slaves into investments in US railroads. John Murray Forbes later played a prominent role in the committee of Boston Brahmins who financed and incited John Brown to carry out murderous provocations against the slaveholding states, not with the goal of ending slavery, but rather with the goal of fomenting a civil war which would destroy the United States government.
John Murray Forbes managed the acquisition by the Perkins interests of Alexander Graham Bell's innovations in the telephone. His son became the president of the American Bell Telephone Company in 1879. The Forbes family is also noted for having financed Ralph Waldo Emerson and his transcendentalists.
This intermarried cabal of New England opium families has historically dominated the Skull and Bones secret society at Yale University, a freemasonic death cult to which presidents like William Howard Taft, George Herbert Walker Bush, and George W. Bush have belonged. In the presidential contest of 2004, George W. Bush and his opponent, John Forbes Kerry, were both members of Skull and Bones, guaranteeing that nefarious association profound influence on the presidency no matter which party would win.
As a child, Kerry summered at the Forbes family estate in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, France. Here he became a close friend of Brice Lalonde, his first cousin and later one of the leaders of the French radical environmentalist movement. Kerry attended the Fessenden School near Boston, and then St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. His tuition was paid by his great aunt, Clara Winthrop. One of Kerry's schoolmates at St. Paul's was Robert S. Mueller III, who has implemented the fraud of the global war on terror over the past 10 years in his capacity as FBI Director. Kerry also signaled his Anglophilia by founding the John Winant Society, named after a pro-British US ambassador to London. Kerry met President John F. Kennedy and dated a half-sister of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
Kerry's Skull and Bones Pedigree Is Ominous for the World
With his profile as a well-connected although not rich preppie with a strong family link to the New England opium syndicate of the 19th century, Kerry at Yale had the inside track for membership in the elitist Skull and Bones, otherwise known as the Russell Trust.
Kerry's St. Paul's and Yale background does not make him an intellectual – quite the opposite. Those institutions, as Harvard President Charles Eliot once observed, were designed among other things to serve "the stupid sons of rich men." A review of Kerry's career suggests that he is superficial, narcissistic, and lacking any mental depth.
One of Kerry's roommates was fellow Skull and Bones member Harvey Bundy, who was the grandson of Harvey Hollister Bundy who had worked closely with US Secretary of War Henry Stimson during World War II. Stimson and Bundy were part of a Skull and Bones clique which included Robert Lovett and George Harrison who were responsible for many of the worst actions of the United States during World War II, including the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan.
Harvey Hollister Bundy's two sons, William and McGeorge, along with Averill Harriman – all Skull and Bones – were leading advocates of US military escalation in Vietnam. McGeorge Bundy was also the National Security Council Director on whose watch President Kennedy was assassinated. (Boston Globe, June 15, 2003) Super-hawk William Bundy came to Yale to deliver a warmonger speech and spent an evening talking with Kerry and his roommates. He urged them to become officers and to go to Vietnam. Skull and Bones members have committed some of the greatest crimes in American history, most recently with the two Bushes. What will Kerry add to this chronicle of infamy?
Even before he graduated from Yale in 1966, Kerry enlisted to become an officer in the United States Navy. He had asked his draft board to allow him to study in Paris for a year, but this had been rejected. There is some indication that he planned to use his military career as the basis for running for political office. Kerry first served as an ensign on board a guided-missile frigate in the waters off Vietnam. He soon volunteered to command a fast-patrol craft or swift boat, and was stationed at Cam Ranh Bay. In the course of various combat actions, Kerry was awarded three purple hearts for wounds received, plus a Bronze Star and a Silver Star.
Kerry's military service became controversial during the 2004 campaign, when a group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth alleged that some of his decorations were undeserved. They maintained that Kerry's three purple hearts were awarded on the basis of trifling injuries which may have had nothing to do with combat. These allegations are discussed in the book Unfit for Command by O'Neill and Corsi. All but one of Kerry's surviving subalterns substantiated his story against these criticisms. Kerry was defended by the pro-establishment historian Douglas Brinkley, noted for his attempts to shore up the reputations of ruling class figures like James Forrestal and Dean Acheson.
In any case, three purple hearts in those days meant that Kerry could avoid combat duty, which he did. In November 1969, Kerry requested and soon received an early release from serving in the Navy because he wanted to become a candidate for Congress. According to some accounts, Kerry had expected to run as a war hero, but was taken by surprise by the massive shift in US public opinion against the Vietnam War, which had occurred after the Tet Offensive in 1968, and during the mass protests of 1969. Kerry soon acquired the profile of an opponent of the Vietnam War, as reflected in an article published in the Harvard Crimson of February 18, 1970. He failed to gain traction and dropped out of the race. But one of Kerry's ancestors had been the Whig Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1838 to 1840, and he was determined to claim what he felt was his birthright of a political career.
Kerry Admitted to War Crimes in Vietnam
Kerry joined the Vietnam Veterans against the War, which provided him with his springboard to fame. In April 1971, Kerry became the first veteran of the Vietnam War to testify in Congress in favor of ending the conflict. He spoke before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he was sponsored by the powerful chairman, J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. The next day, Kerry took part in a famous demonstration in which he joined thousands of other veterans in throwing their medals, ribbons, and memorabilia over a fence in front of the United States Capitol. Kerry soon became a media celebrity on the ABC network's Dick Cavett Show and other programs. On NBC's Meet the Press, Kerry acknowledged that he and other US personnel in Vietnam were committing atrocities and war crimes in violation of the Geneva Convention.
American history offers some examples of politicians from the wealthy, old money elite who could nevertheless transcend the prejudices and self-interest of their own background and become authentic national leaders. This escape from the stultified elite consensus often involves intense personal suffering, which forces the individual to reflect on the real meaning of life. Franklin D. Roosevelt was crippled by polio. John F. Kennedy suffered acutely from Addison's disease. Has John Forbes Kerry ever had his character tampered by suffering?
The answer is apparently no. Based on a quick scan of Kerry's life, his only brush with suffering came as a result of his own reckless driving: during one Yale summer vacation in the mid-1960s, Kerry was involved in a serious accident near the family estate in Brittany. According to one account, the French police first thought he was dead. In the event, he spent many weeks in the hospital.
Kerry ran for Congress again in 1972 on a ticket headed by Senator George McGovern, but lost to a Republican. Kerry went to law school and soon became the district attorney of Lowell, Massachusetts. After setting up a successful private law firm, Kerry ran for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts on the Michael Dukakis ticket. One of his main issues was acid rain and pollution.
Kerry ran for United States Senate from Massachusetts in 1984, taking over a seat left vacant by Paul Tsongas. In the Senate, his record was that of a center-left liberal of the Kennedy machine. One of Kerry's few significant accomplishments was the April 1986 report of his subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which exposed drug trafficking operations by the Contras in Nicaragua. Kerry also ordered an October 1986 staff investigation denouncing the illegal gun running activities in Nicaragua of Lt. Col. Oliver North, of other figures of the Reagan National Security Council, and of the CIA. These reports contributed to blowing the lid off the Iran-Contra scandal in November 1986.
A Hollow Man of Monumental Complacency
My only meeting with Kerry came in 1992 at the Democratic National Convention in New York City. Kerry and I were both scheduled at about the same time to address a meeting of the New Hampshire state delegation in the Hotel Pennsylvania, across the street from Madison Square Garden. I offered to let him go first, but he declined. My speech was a call to the New Hampshire delegates to support a plank in the Democratic platform demanding a federal law to abolish the death penalty. This was a time when Gov. Bill Clinton was cynically presiding over the execution of poor, mentally impaired black convicts like Barry Lee Fairchild in Arkansas as a means of demonstrating his "New Democrat" centrism.
When Kerry spoke, I was struck by his massive persona of complacency, arrogance, and pride – and at the same time by his mediocre and pedestrian intellect. In the 2004 campaign favorite Republican epithet for him was "haughty," and this is accurate. He was also ridiculed for his boring speeches; one comedian mocked him as "Al Gore without the flash and the sizzle." When Kerry spoke to voters in Spanish, a late-night comic praised him for showing everybody he could be boring in two languages.
In 2000, Kerry was on a short list of possible vice presidential candidates to share the Democratic ticket with the environmentalist oligarch Al Gore. In October 2002, Kerry – who had voted against the first Gulf War in 1990 – voted to give George W. Bush authority to attack Iraq. When no weapons of mass distraction were found, he blamed Bush for misleading him.
Flip-Flopper Kerry Unable to Defeat the Unpopular Bush in 2004
Kerry's 2004 failed campaign for president must stand as a monument to his mediocrity, superficiality, and lack of direction. He was a man without a core. He was unable to defeat G. W. Bush, who was becoming increasingly unpopular. The comic David Letterman quipped: "Gas prices are up, the stock market is down, Iraq is a mess and John Kerry is saying 'How am I going to beat this guy?'"
Kerry was never able to offer a convincing rationale for why he should be president. Jon Stewart estimated that Kerry had tried to use six different messages in 18 months. It was said that Kerry's campaign commercials concluded with the candidate saying "I'm John Kerry and I approved this message – if I have one." His personality was perceived as wooden, along the same lines as Mitt Romney's last year. Letterman reported: "John Kerry spent the day reading to preschoolers… and the kids said Kerry actually lacked warmth and failed to articulate a clear message."
Kerry lacked the courage needed to call for an end to the Iraq and Afghan wars, and instead claimed that he could wage war more intelligently and more effectively than G. W. Bush. In the November 2004 election, Kerry was aware of powerful evidence that the Bush forces had stolen the vote in Ohio using rigged voting machines, but he declined to fight this blatant vote fraud.
Kerry was widely attacked by Republicans in 2004 as an incorrigible flip-flopper on many issues. The Republican attack machine cited Kerry's March 16, 2004 remarks at Marshall University in West Virginia that he had voted in favor of an $87-billion supplemental appropriation to finance combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan – before he had voted to eliminate this expenditure. "I was for it before I was against it" became the Republican paraphrase of this incident, which did significant harm to the blasé Kerry. Careful observers of Kerry were able to catalog almost a dozen significant flip-flops by Kerry.
Kerry's super-rich lifestyle has given him problems over the years. In 2004, he foolishly invited the press to photograph them while he was windsurfing, which provided film footage that the Republicans used to illustrate his habit of flip-flops – he went whichever way the wind was blowing. It was revealed in 2010 that Kerry had ordered a custom-built $7-million yacht, which he kept at Portsmouth, Rhode Island to avoid paying $437,000 in Massachusetts sales-tax.
Kerry, who served for many years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was associated with the foreign policy of the Obama administration from 2009 on. Obama's initial Middle East policy was heavily influenced by the 2006 Iraq Study Group, which represented an attempt by the broader foreign policy establishment of the US ruling elite to restrain the reckless aggression of the Bush-Cheney regime.
One of the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group was to carry out negotiations with Syria with a view to breaking the alliance between Damascus and Tehran. This outlook was bluntly expressed by James Baker III, a co-chair of the study group. Kerry was part of the attempt to implement this approach, undertaking a personal charm offensive of shuttle diplomacy towards President Assad of Syria and his wife in 2009 and 2010. When the NATO destabilization of Syria began in early 2011, Kerry's contacts with Assad became acutely embarrassing to him.
"I was for Assad before I was against him" might sum up Kerry's egregious flip flop on this topic. Kerry's current speeches demanding the immediate ouster of Assad make a sharp contrast with his expressions of friendship from as late as 2011. In recent years, Kerry has become a more and more outspoken warmonger. In the spring of 2011, Kerry was one of the first voices in the US Congress to be raised in favor of a no-fly zone over Libya.
Kerry's first wife was the late Julia Thorne. Jet-setter Julia Thorne was the twin sister of David Thorne, Kerry's roommate at Yale and a fellow member of the Skull and Bones cult. The Thorne family had gotten rich on Wall Street. It appears that Julia Thorne's inheritance was used to finance Kerry's law degree and his initial political campaigns. By 1982, Julia was suffering from severe psychological depression and separated from Kerry.
Kerry Wants More Power for Agenda 21 Demagogue Beppe Grillo
David Thorne, Kerry's roommate and former brother-in-law, had a career as a businessman and political consultant before becoming Obama's appointee as US ambassador to Italy in 2009 – doubtless in exchange for big money contributions to the Obama campaign. Kerry's well-established commitment to radical environmentalism may well be reflected in the efforts of right-wing demagogue Beppe Grillo to impose the Agenda 21 program of energy austerity on Italy, in effect destroying the country. In a meeting last week with Italian politicians at Villa Taverna, the residence of the American ambassador to Italy, Kerry stressed that the State Department considered the dangerous crackpot Grillo as a "credible interlocutor."
Kerry's second wife is Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferrara Heinz, whom he married in 1995. Teresa was born in the east African nation of Mozambique, at that time a part of the Portuguese colonial empire. Her parents were both members of the Portuguese colonial elite during the fascist regime of dictator Antonio Salazar, who ruled from 1932 until 1968. Portuguese colonialism was especially racist and oppressive towards black Africans. Teresa's father was a medical doctor specializing in tropical diseases. Her mother, who was born Irene Thierstein, came from one of the colony's wealthiest British families.
Teresa became fabulously rich through her February 1966 marriage to Henry John Heinz III, an heir to the H. J. Heinz Company fortune, based on ketchup, mustard, pickles, and other food products. Heinz was a former Republican member of the House of Representatives from the Pittsburgh area who served in the US Senate from 1976 until his April 1991 death in the crash of a helicopter with a small plane. Teresa was left as the chairwoman of the $1.3-billion Heinz Endowments and the Heinz Family Philanthropies, where she supervises the disbursement of grants to various oligarchical causes. One of her favorite causes is naturally radical environmentalism. Senator Heinz introduced Teresa to Kerry on Earth Day, 1990. She serves on the board of the Environmental Defense Fund. In 1992, she was a delegate to the Rio Earth Summit representing nongovernmental organizations. This means that Teresa Heinz Kerry was present at the creation of Agenda 21, currently at a vital prong of the US-UK offensive against the nation state, as seen with Beppe Grillo.
Teresa, who was a registered Republican until 2003, was notoriously abrasive during the 2004 campaign. She told a Pennsylvania newspaper that "only an idiot" would refuse to support Kerry's healthcare policies. "The common man doesn't look at me as some rich witch," she assured the public. Teresa also clashed with a writer for the Pittsburg Tribune-Review, owned by the reactionary blueblood Richard Mellon Scaife. "Shove it," said Teresa, accusing the paper of misquoting her. On the one hand, Teresa may lack the necessary qualifications to join in her husband's diplomacy. On the other hand, she may be the perfect choice for a "getting to know you" session with Beppe Grillo.
Kerry and Teresa: Life Styles of the Rich and Famous
As the haughty Kerry showed during his presidential campaign, the couple is totally out of touch with the real problems of ordinary Americans, to say nothing of populations in the developing countries. Kerry's personal fortune, including a number of Forbes family trusts, gives him assets worth between $230 million and $320 million. This already makes Kerry wealthier than that infamous plutocrat, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
According to Forbes magazine (no known relation to Kerry), Teresa's personal net worth is estimated at about $750 million, although the Los Angeles Times pointed out that guesses about her wealth have ranged from a mere $165 million to as much as $3.2 billion. If the latter figure is correct, then Teresa would have been able to buy Mitt Romney a dozen times over. Her botox bill alone is said to be beyond the reach of most American working families. In 2004, it was reported that Kerry paid $1,000 to get his hair cut. Kerry also showed his class prejudice by warning disadvantaged students to study hard and get good grades, or else they would have to join the US military and get stuck in Iraq. Kerry has recently asserted that Americans have the right to be stupid – which he obviously thinks they are, if only for not making him president. Kerry and Teresa are typical of the powerful Lear Jet Liberal faction of the Democratic Party.
In 2004, Kerry was widely satirized for marrying for money. Conan O'Brien reported that, when Kerry needed $80 million for his campaign, he had two ways to raise the money: he could either appeal to Democratic donors, or else go through his wife's purse. Jay Leno joked: "Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is to find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it."
Kerry and Teresa have a $7-million townhouse on Boston's Beacon Hill, a $9-million seaside estate on the island of Nantucket, a $5-million ski chalet in Idaho, a $4-million estate in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh), and a $5-million residence in Georgetown, close to Kerry's new office at the State Department in Foggy Bottom.
Kerry's Reckless Love of Danger
One more aspect of Kerry's character deserves mention: from time to time he has recklessly exposed himself and others to needless danger. In a 1967 incident, Kerry almost got Thorne and himself killed when he tried to fly a small plane under the span of the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge. Kerry flew the plane into a flock of seagulls, and he and Thorne were lucky to get out alive. We have already recalled his reckless driving and automobile crash in France. Some say he was gung-ho in Vietnam.
Do these incidents belong to Kerry's youth, or is this dangerous impulse still with him? If Kerry is still drawn to danger, he has now for the first time in his life acquired a position that might allow his advice to influence high-level decisions in favor of lunatic military adventures.
During her time as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton contributed much to the destruction of Libya and helped launch the attack on Syria. Kerry seems determined to outdo her, seeking to complete the destruction of Syria and to place Italy on the road to ruin. And after that? Let the world beware of John Forbes Kerry of Skull and Bones.


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Understanding Monk Fruit: The Next Generation Natural Sweetener
With stevia laying the groundwork, luo han guo seems poised to be the next natural non-nutritive sweetener.
By most measures, stevia has become a gradual smash hit, a nearly perfect storm convergence of features when it comes to sweeteners. It is sweet, very sweet; up to 300 times sweeter than sugar. It's low in calories; in fact, its calories are negligible, along with its effect on insulin secretion. And it's natural. The sweet leaves of the stevia plant (a member of the sunflower family) have been used as a sweetener for decades in many countries before stevia extracts entered the U.S. sweetener market.
The sweet and low- or no-cal attributes have been givens probably forever in the non-nutritive sweetener game. Taste was a trade-off most dieters have been willing to make. But truly natural was never an option until stevia. And it has been a huge part of that sweetener's success.
Playing that same card is the next big sweetener to hit the market. A fruit of the herbaceous perennial vine Siraitia grosvenorii, native to southern China and northern Thailand, is called by several names, including luo han guo, Buddha fruit or, more recently, monk fruit.
Known in traditional Chinese medicine as a sweetener for cooling drinks and used to treat obesity and diabetes, monk fruit contains fructose and glucose as natural sugars. But it's the mogrosides, compounds similar to those that sweeten stevia, that make the monk fruit up to 300 times as sweet as sugar.
BioVittoria Ltd. was an early advocate of the sweetener. The New Zealand-based company claims to have locked up 90 percent of the world's supply of monk fruit.
It's vertically integrated, supplying its own seedlings to Chinese farmers who are contracted to supply the company. The seedlings are the optimized result of natural plant breeding, not genetic modification, emphasizes Paul Paslaski, vice president of sales and marketing in the U.S. office in Libertyville, Ill. BIoVittoria then processes the monk fruit extract into a powder, which is then sent through distributors around the world. It buys no monk fruit on the open market, he says.
Actually, it's not an extract, Paslaski claims. "Since it comes from a fruit, it basically starts as a juice," he explains. Only water is used in the extraction/processing. The mogrosides are separated from the fresh-pressed juice of the monk fruit that contains carbohydrate sources, fructose and glucose. And that could be a key advantage over stevia. A true "natural" claim for some stevia could be questioned, as some suppliers of that plant-based sweetener use solvents to extract the steviol glycosides.
Paslaski also notes that while most of the current interest in monk fruit is due to its sweetening ability, there are several other bioactives in the fruit that could become valuable and marketed ingredients down the road.
BioVittoria's first milestone was the January 2010 notification from the FDA that its Fruit-Sweetness-branded monk fruit concentrate is GRAS (generally recognized as safe). Then came a partnership with London-based Tate & Lyle PLC, with U.S. headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Ill., which resulted in Tate & Lyle buying an equity stake in the company and becoming the exclusive distributor worldwide.
Tate & Lyle launched industrial products under the name Purefruit and just recently supplied BioVittoria's monk fruit to McNeil Nutritionals LLC, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, for Nectresse, a consumer/tabletop sweetener that is just rolling out nationally. It's advertised as a combination of monk fruit extract and other natural sweeteners including erythritol, a sugar alcohol that is fermented from sugars present in many vegetables and fruits.
That Tate & Lyle-McNeil deal parallels the partnership the two companies have for Splenda, McNeil's consumer brand for the London company's sucralose.
Blue California, Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., also sees great potential, and earlier this year debuted its BlueSweet monk fruit extract. "It's a really good product but has a different profile than stevia," explains Cecilia McCollum, executive vice president.
She notes that interest is keeping the price high, so Blue California is experimenting with fermentation production of the mogroside, instead of extraction, which the company successfully did with stevia. "That would increase the yield, lower the price, ensure availability and control the purity of each batch," she adds.
At a November ingredient show, U.S. Niutang Chemical Inc., Chino, Calif., provided samples of a monk fruit sweetener. Tentatively called Fruit20 and Fruit50, denoting the percentages of the mogroside, Niutang has aligned itself with a highly regarded Chinese manufacturer. Niutang is just getting started marketing the new sweetener. It has a large portfolio of non-nutritive sweeteners, including sucralose, aspartame, acesulfame potassium, stevia and erythritol.
"Monk fruit has a different taste than sugar, as does stevia," says Nancy Hughes, vice president of of sales and marketing. But she notes it has less of an aftertaste than even the purest forms of stevia. "Monk fruit is very new to this market. It's being welcomed by companies who make natural food products. But it will take time for more product developers to fine-tune it and consumers to accept it," she says.
Just like stevia.


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Mr. Bill Park
Mr. Bill Park is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Defence Studies, King's College, London University, and is based at the United Kingdom (UK) Defence Academy, Shrivenham. He is a frequent visitor to Turkey, and has spoken on Turkish affairs at various academic and official workshops and conferences around the world. Mr. Park has appeared as a Turkey expert on British, U.S., Turkish, Russian, French, Iranian and Australian TV and radio, has given written and oral testimony on Turkish issues to both UK Houses of Parliament, and occasionally consults on Turkish issues to various UK government agencies. He serves as a trustee and council member for the British Institute at Ankara, and is an Advisor to the Dialogue Society in London. Mr. Park is the author of journal articles, book chapters, and monographs on a range of Turkish foreign policy issues, including its European Union accession prospects, Turkey and the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), the Cyprus problem, Turkey's policies towards Northern Iraq, Turkey-U.S. relations, the Fethullah Gulen movement, and the Ergenekon affair. Among his publications are "Turkey's policy towards Northern Iraq: problems and prospects," Adelphi Paper No. 374 (International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2005), and Modern Turkey: People, State and Foreign Policy in a Globalized World (Routledge, 2011). He is currently conducting a longer-term study of the three-way relationship between Turkey, the United States, and the Kurdish Regional Government in Northern Iraq in the wake of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq.
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Turkey-Kurdish Regional Government Relations After the U.S. Withdrawal From Iraq: Putting the Kurds on the Map?
March 12, 2014
Authored by Mr. Bill Park.
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The withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq at the end of 2011 left behind a set of unresolved problems in the relationship between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), and the Federal Government in Baghdad, compounded by Erbil's subsequent pursuit of an energy relationship with Turkey. This has deepened both Turkish-Iraqi and regional sectarian tensions and, along with developments in Syria, has raised the specter of wider Kurdish self-determination, a prospect that Washington has been slow to recognize.


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Oh yeah! It does resonate! I'll have to get the Stone's song Mona on my I Pod!
Oh yeah! It does resonate! I'll have to get the Stone's song Mona on my I Pod!
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
May I play too? Here I am with Rita on one of my favorite rides.
(I'm sorry to say that I'll be stuck at home during Redmond. )
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. -- Mae West
Absolutely! I'll print it out and you will be there in spirit! Sorry to hear y ou won't make it!
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Great looking bike, Vagabird.
Rode through your town last fall, surviving a blizzard over the pass on my 07 RT.
Sorry you can't make it to Redmond, but there's always next year.
Karen Jacobs
OK, sappy grandmother pic, but I couldn't resist. My 2-year-old granddaughter on my bike:
Cute!! Is she the next biker in the family? My 2 yr. old grand daughter spotted my helmet with pink flames on it and had to put it on. I posted it on face book...she had her sponge bob pajamas on with it....ha ha ha
Life is short - eat dessert first!
I can just see our granddaughters riding together in the future! Yes, she will be the next biker in the family and I can hardly wait. Meet you at camp gears when they attend. Probably the two of them will be wearing something that we will consider even funnier than a helmet and sponge bob pjs.
Here are from my january cold ride on the RT
My first and second bike. Started on the f650gstwin and upgraded to the 800 when the hubby got an hp2 enduro! Because I ride in the boonies a lot I must admit how impressed I am with the F800 off-road capabilities... they are definitely different motorcycles!!!!
btw - the pic was taken on my first long ride... Victoria B.C Canada to the Baja and back - in two weeks typical snowbird
'Hey Voni" Look what my son Nathan just picked up.
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Amazingly I actually managed to convince Diann to look at new motorcycles this summer.
Her stock response was that BMW didn't make anything she wanted to buy, apparently her 1977 R60/7 was the last "good" bike they made.
Long story short, she bought an F650GS and is making progress towards liking it, after 2 weeks she's now only complaining about the seat and the turn signal switches. (She misses the "Riding a BMW is a down right, up lefting experience").
So since Diann never visits the forum, here's a photo the rider and new bike leaving the dealership.
Regards, Rod.
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