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Sesame, also called benne, erect, annual plant (Sesamum indicum) of numerous types and varieties belonging to the family Pedaliaceae, cultivated since antiquity for its seeds, which are used as food and flavouring and from which a prized oil is extracted. The whole seed is used extensively in the cuisines of the Middle East and Asia. Halvah is a confection made of crushed and sweetened sesame seeds. In Europe and North America the seeds are used to flavour and garnish various foods, particularly breads and other baked goods. The aroma and taste of sesame seed are mild and nutlike.
The chief constituent of the seed is its fixed oil, which usually amounts to about 44 to 60 percent. Noted for its stability, the oil resists oxidative rancidity. It is used as a salad or cooking oil, in shortening and margarine, and in the manufacture of soaps, pharmaceuticals, and lubricants. Sesame oil is used as an ingredient in cosmetics. The press cake remaining after the oil is expressed is highly nutritious.
Probably originating in Asia or East Africa, sesame is now found in most of the tropical, subtropical, and southern temperate areas of the world. Before the time of Moses, the Egyptians used the ground seed as grain flour. The Chinese used it 5,000 years ago, and for centuries they have burned the oil to make soot for the finest Chinese ink blocks. The Romans ground sesame seeds with cumin to make a pasty spread for bread. Once it was thought to have mystical powers, and sesame still retains a magical quality, as shown in the expression "open sesame," from the Arabian Nights tale of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves."
Depending on conditions, varieties grow from about 0.5 to 2.5 m (2 to 9 feet) tall; some have branches, others do not. One to three flowers appear in the leaf axils. The hulled seeds are creamy or pearly white and about 3 mm (0.1 inch) long and have a flattened pear shape. The seed capsules open when dry, allowing the seed to scatter. Considerable hand labour is needed in harvesting to prevent loss of the seeds. With the development of a nonscattering variety of the plant in the mid-20th century, mechanized harvesting of the crop was made possible.


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It's often hard to find the inspiration to get out of your nice, comfortable bed when you're still so tired. But according to Kundalini yoga, a built-in supply of energy lies dormant at the root of the spine, like a bulb that rests underground, waiting for a cue to bloom. By accessing this vitality, you'll have the charge you need to fire up your day -- without having to resort to a double latte.
"When you awaken your Kundalini energy and get it flowing up your spine," says Maya Fiennes, a London yoga teacher and star of the DVD "Kundalini Yoga to Detox and Destress," "you become alert and uplifted instead of sluggish and stressed." We worked with Fiennes to develop this series of simple moves that stretch and strengthen the spine, increase vitality, reduce tension, release impurities, and improve focus -- everything you need to face what lies ahead.
Camel Ride (pictured)
The lower spine.
What It Does
Releases lower-back tension, opens the hips, stimulates the digestive and immune systems, and promotes mental focus. "When you flex the spine," says Fiennes, "you flex the mind."
How to Do It
Sit cross-legged on the floor with your hands resting on your ankles. Bring your ribs and chest forward, gently arching your back, as you inhale. Then move the rib cage backward and round your lower spine as you exhale. Keep your neck relaxed and your chin parallel to the ground. Continue doing this exercise in unison with your breath for about two minutes.
Sufi's Circle
The middle spine.
What It Does
Creates more space in the torso and encourages the lungs to expand; further stimulates digestion; soothes the nervous system. "The spiral is a familiar pattern in nature," says Fiennes. "It's very calming to move this way."
How to Do It
Inhale and rotate your ribs forward and to the right, then exhale as you continue back and to the left, drawing a big circle with your chin and rib cage. Your spine will arch slightly and then round throughout the exercise. Rest your hands on your knees, using them for leverage. After two minutes, reverse and repeat for two more minutes.
Spinal Twist
The upper spine.
What It Does
Promotes detoxification; stimulates the lymphatic system; encourages energy to flow throughout the spine.
How to Do It
Sit with your hands on your shoulders, elbows parallel to the ground, and shoulders relaxed. As you inhale, twist your torso, shoulders, and head to the right. Exhale and twist to the left. Alternate between the right and left sides, gradually increasing your pace. After a minute, make the "okay" symbol with your fingers and begin to slowly straighten your arms with each twist until they are straight above your head. To finish, bring your hands into a prayer position and feel the energy coursing along your spine.
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Cozy Weekend Retreat Welcomes Luxuriant Vegetation
Vivid and enchanting, the Case Inlet Retreat is located in the middle of the woods, in the Puget Sound region of Washington. Since nature plays such an important role in our lives, MW/Works Architecture & Design thought of integrating it into the inhabitable space. The environmentally-oriented house aims to eliminate the boundaries between the indoors and the outdoors, welcoming trees and luxuriant vegetation inside the house. The floor to ceiling windows flood the living area with light. Warm and cozy, the wooden cedar details adorn the living area, creating the perfect spot for relaxing and taking a break from today's hectic lifestyles.
Despite the rustic location, the house has a modern look. The water views are simply staggering. The woods, mystic-like in their appearance seem to be the perfect setting to recharge your batteries. You can practically touch the trees from your bedroom. A small balcony and a wood terrace complete this gorgeous picture. Simple, elegant and relaxing, the Case Inlet Retreat aims to satisfy even the tastes of even the most demanding vacationer. Now, we would like to know how do you feel about this "weekend retreat?" Does the concept fit your style?


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Natural Gas Injection
Gas Injection
In the oil industry, gas injection refers to pumping different sorts of gasses to the subsurface oil reservoirs in order to stimulate crude oil. Gas injection is categorized as the tertiary recovery of the petroleum. The composition of the gas may be different such as carbon dioxide and nitrogen.
Gas Reinjection
Gas reinjection is the reinjection of natural gas into an underground reservoir, typically one already containing both natural gas and crude oil, in order to increase the pressure within the reservoir and thus induce the flow of crude oil or else sequester gas that cannot be exported. This is not to be confused with gas lift, where gas is injected into the annulus of the well rather than the reservoir. After the crude has been pumped out, the natural gas is once again recovered. Since many of the wells found around the world contain heavy crude, this process increases their production. The basic difference between light crude and heavy crude is its viscosity and pumpability – the lighter the crude the easier it is to pump. Recovery of hydrocarbons in a well is generally limited to 50% (heavy crudes) and 75-80% (light crudes). Recycling of natural gas or other inert gases causes the pressure to rise in the well, thus causing more gas molecules to dissolve in the oil lowering its viscosity and thereby increasing the well's output. Air is not suitable for repressuring wells because it tends to cause deterioration of the oil, thus carbon dioxide or natural gas is used to repressure the well. The term 'gas-reinjection' is also sometimes referred to as repressuring – the term being used only to imply that the pressure inside the well is being increased to aid recovery.
Injection or reinjection of carbon dioxide is primarily used for enhance oil production, but can also be used also to reduce the emission of CO2 into the atmosphere, a form of carbon sequestration. This has been proposed as a method to combat climate change, allowing mass storage of CO2 over a geological timescale.


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State of New Jersey
Public Advocate Negotiates Balanced Utility Infrastructure Projects
Increased reliability, energy improvements help consumers and state's economy
Newark, N.J.—Newark, N.J.— Public Advocate Ronald K. Chen today said he was pleased that the negotiated agreements between the Division of Rate Counsel, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) Staff and five of the state's gas and electric utility companies for capital investment energy infrastructure projects were approved today by the BPU.
"These agreements achieve the right balance of protecting ratepayers from significant increases while providing them with the reliability benefits of infrastructure improvements and an economic stimulus for New Jersey's economy," said Chen.
The agreements, which were negotiated by Rate Counsel and the other parties, resulted from the submissions of petitions to the BPU by seven utility companies. The companies responded to Governor Jon Corzine's 2008 request to accelerate approximately $956.1 million in infrastructure programs in 2009 and 2010. Advancing public infrastructure projects is a key component of Governor Corzine's Economic Assistance and Recovery Plan to encourage statewide job creation and long-term economic growth.
Proposals that were approved were for the following companies: PSE&G, New Jersey Natural Gas, Elizabethtown Gas, South Jersey Gas and Atlantic City Electric. The projects involve replacement and repair of aging gas pipes and mains; distribution system improvements, such as pole replacements; and the replacement of transformers and street lights with new, and in some instances, more energy-efficient, equipment.
"Rate Counsel reviewed each of the proposals to ensure that the projects are reasonable and that the rate impacts are minimal," said Rate Counsel Director Stefanie A. Brand. "We wanted to ensure that the infrastructure investments would be incremental, create jobs, improve reliability and that there would be parameters established for a thorough examination of prudence and reasonableness in a rate case for each company."
Brand said that the rate increases for the utility projects would amount to less than one percent and that the charges and expenditures will continue to be reviewed closely by Rate Counsel. She added that the projects could help create as many as 1,300 direct jobs, and could result in as many as 14,000 indirect jobs.
The Division of Rate Counsel is a division within the Department of the Public Advocate and represents the interests of consumers of electric, natural gas, water/sewer and telecommunications and cable TV service. Additional information on this and other utility matters can be found at the Division's website at http://www.state.nj.us/rpa/. The Department of the Public Advocate website is http://www.njpublicadvocate.gov.


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For those of us narcissistic enough to regularly self-Google, there's always that ever slightly more famous person who's coming out on top. Do you have an internet doppelgänger/moral enemy? Or is your name so unique you can gloat about your Google search ranking?
In light of this hilarious New York Observer piece about @sambiddle, a nail art mogul who is also regularly the target of invectives directed at @samfbiddle aka Valleywag's Sam Biddle, we want to hear about yours. My internet doppelgänger is a reality TV show producer in China, whose Linkedin also boasts of "directing a project starring Jet Li for the World Health Organization where Jet needed to speak in an archaic form of Mandarin." It really could be a lot worse, given how common my name is.


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I can talk the talk with my brain in low gear (thankfully, after 10 years of working in the field the information is embedded in my cortex) but I just don't have access to all the materials anymore to be able to 'throw together' a workshop in a moment. Images of larynxes. Statistics on vocal problems in teachers/trainers. The latest warm-up techniques. That sort of thing. That stuff has gone from my hard drive.
I got off the phone,
I spent a lovely hour this afternoon putting together my presentation. Reminiscing about the days I spent working with voice clients and running workshops for teachers like the one I was putting together. I had a little pang as I thought about how long ago it is now (4 years) since I did this kind of work. I loved it. I loved it every day I did it. Until I didn't anymore. And then I stopped.
A little piece of me will always be a speech pathologist. Let's hope I can channel her tomorrow and produce an awesome presentation for my group.


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Olin necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 72 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
Create a site design for a small winery, Olin Wines.
We are looking for a clean, artistic, elegant design delivered in a .psd file - we will do the coding. Because we want the emphasis on your design we have kept the front page content to a minimum.
Our wine is a higher-end Cabernet Sauvignon. Help us a create a feeling of luxury.
Please read the brief for colors to use, links to our artwork, and a couple website designs we commented on to get you started.
Thanks in advance for your submissions and time!
Ourwinery is preparing to release our first wine. This fairly expensive, higherend Cabernet Sauvignon. I'd like a design for a website that is clean, simpleyet sophisticated, and uses the great contrast of Black and White with Redaccents.
Colors and Logo/Label Examples
Thedesign should incorporate the colors of the logo: black, red and white. Click here for the logo and label designs I like.
A Picture I like
I envision a horizontal,header-type, picture of old twisted vines in black and white. I have posted a photo I like. However if you have another you like or this does not work, that is fine.
http://olinwines.com/sites/default/…nes.jpg(BW slice)
http://olinwines.com/sites/default/…%20Pic.jpg (Full Picture)
Perhaps a textured background
Maybea textured white background (like linen) might be nice? Something similar to this. http://www.grsites.com/archive/text…iew/source
Nav Bar
I'd liketo see the following sections in the navigation bar:
Home, Wines,Join, About Us, Events, Olin's Blog, Trade & Media, Contact Us
Main Section of Website
In themain body, I'd like to see three sections, kind of like thefirst website in the "websites I like":
· View Current Wines
· Learn about our winemaking
· Read Olin's Blog
If you canfit it and it looks good, I think a space for the most recent few additions to "Events"would be good.
The bottomcan have a standard: "Copyright © 2009 Olin Wines. All rights reserved."
Websites I like
WhatI like:Ilike this website's simplicity and modern feel. I also like the fact that youcome onto the site and it is clear what you can do. I like the three main choices.
WhatI don't like:Thebright colors. Looking for something richer. I would like the fixed graphics ontop to take less of the page (I would prefer about 25% narrower that what thissite features)
WhatI like:Again3 quick choices so people who don't read can instantly do something. Clean design.
WhatI don't like:Wouldprefer the 3 choices on the left. Do notlike the grey bar in the about us section (with the about us and the rssfeed). It is a template with no designcharacter.
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A seven-year-old British girl who was struck down by a brain haemorrhage woke up from a week-long coma after her mother sang Adele's hit Rolling in the Deep to her.
Charlotte Neve from Trawden, Lancashire had suffered the haemorrhage in her sleep on April 13 - after a normal night of watching DVDs with her family, her mother, Leila, told Britain's Telegraph newspaper.
After she was hospitalised, doctors found a 12mm aneurism on the main artery in the back of Charlotte's brain.
Following two operations to stop the bleeding on her brain, Charlotte had a series of strokes and was left in a coma. Doctors at Leeds Hospital warned her family to prepare for the worst, and told Leila to say her final goodbyes.
That, says the Telegraph, is when Adele's Rolling in the Deep - a song the mother and daughter used to sing together - came on the radio.
Leila, 31, starting singing the track to her daughter, and Charlotte started to smile, recalled the mother.
"It's a complete miracle. Doctors told me to say goodbye and I thought I was going to lose my little girl," Leila told the newspaper.
"I climbed into her hospital bed to give her a cuddle - she was wired up to machines and unresponsive - and Adele came on the radio," she explained.
"I started singing it to her because she loves her and we used to sing that song together.
"Charlotte started smiling and I couldn't believe it. It was the first time she had reacted to anything since the haemorrhage. The nurses were astounded and told me to keep singing - and she smiled again.
"The nurses said it was like I unlocked her and from that day she started getting better and better."
Within a few days, Charlotte - who has been left with partial blindness and memory loss - began speaking and was able to get out of bed.
After some physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy, she was allowed to go home, the Telegraph reports.
"Charlotte has been brilliant. She is so determined and brave," Leila said. "The doctors have stopped telling us what she should be able to do - because she has amazed them so much.
"From the scans, she shouldn't even be able to walk again - never mind talk, ride her bike and run around like she has been doing," she added.
"She's gone back to dance class now where she does street, ballet and tap which she loves, although it really tires her out now.
"Music is a big part of her life - she loves music. She loves singing and dancing along to Adele, Katy Perry and Pink. So it shouldn't surprise me that Adele was the song that woke her up. She's a miracle marvel."
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You tie your shoes, put on your headphones, take your first few steps outside. You've barely covered a hundred yards when you hear them. They must be close.
You can hear every gutteral breath, every rattling groan - they're everywhere. Zombies. There's only one thing you can do: Run!
Zombies, Run! is an ultra-immersive game for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android where you help rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse. By going out and running in the real world, you can collect medicine, ammo, batteries, and spare parts that you can use to build up and expand your base - all while getting orders, clues, and story through your headphones.
It doesn't matter where you run.
It doesn't matter how fast you run.
It doesn't matter how far you run.
Just run.
So... it's about running?
Zombies, Run! is about making the thrill of running even better with a game and a story delivered through your headphones. We're making running more fun, more exciting, and more addictive for everyone from couch-to-5k newbies to weekend joggers and marathon runners. And Zombies, Run! works anywhere - in a park, along a beach, in the city, even on treadmills!
Also: we don't make you watch your screen while you're running; we don't make you change your favorite routes; and you don't need to buy any fancy armbands or tracking devices. All you do is press a button when you start, and another button when you're done. That's it. We follow your lead.
Story, Game, & Fitness App: A Triple (Zombie) Threat!
You're Runner 5. Hundreds of lives are counting on you. You've got to help your base rebuild from the ruins of civilization by collecting critical supplies while avoiding roving zombie hordes. Can you save them?
You receive orders and hear the story told through radio messages and voice recordings between your own custom playlists. Missions last around 20-30 minutes in real time and there'll be over 30 unique missions in Season 1.
You'll automatically collect items like medicine, batteries, and ammo while running, and once you're back home, you get to assign them to different parts of your base. Who needs the vitamins more, the soldiers or the doctors? Which buildings need extra defenses? It's up to you - and the bigger your base, the more missions you'll have access to.
But what are the leaders of your base scheming about? How did you get there? Where did the zombies come from? There's a deeper mystery to be uncovered, puzzles to be solved, websites to be discovered, documents to be viewed so you can learn the truth of what's happened to the world.
Zombies, Run! records the distance, time, pace, and calories burned of all your runs, and we're keen to add RunKeeper integration. There's also the option to hear audio notifications of for time, distance, and pace during your run. If you want to get fit while also saving the world, this is the game for you.
Why we need your support
Zombies, Run! is a pure indie game. We're self-funding the development, art, writing, and promotion 100% from our own pockets, and we're happy to do that because it's a game we've wanted to make for a long time, and it's real labour of love.
We want Zombies, Run! to be the best game it can possibly be, and that's where your support will be incredibly valuable to help pay for great voice actors, better sound production facilities, exhaustive testing, and of course, making your rewards!
What we'll do with any extra funds
- Create extra couch-to-5k and marathon training mission packs
- Add data export, web integration, RunKeeper integration, and multiplayer support
For each extra $5k raised, we'll recruit one special guest of your choice to lend their voice to a character in the game. You'll be able to vote on who you'd like to hear, and we'll do everything within our power to secure their talents. Imagine Nathan Fillion, Ellen McLain, or Felicia Day as zombie-killers - it could happen!
The T-Shirt!
This is a mockup of our T-shirt which comes in 3 different colours on high quality fabric (think American Apparel) - it's what we imagine Runner 5 actually wearing in the game. Even if you get turned into a zombie, people will still be able to identify you from your good-looking corpse!
T-shirts will come in a range of sizes, and in both men and women's cuts.
The Poster!
This is the artwork we're planning to use for our Zombies, Run! poster, which will be printed at A1 size (that's 85cm x 60cm). Very stylish, we think you'll agree.
A note about ideas
Of course we welcome your comments and suggestions on Zombies, Run! but please don't make them if you are going to claim rights in them; and please be aware that if we use them you won't be able to turn round and say that you somehow own bits of the game. Therefore by submitting comments you are agreeing that we can use them and any rights in them in any way we like.
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Welcome to the hyperventilating stage of Round Three of the Stanley Cup playoffs, Montreal-style.
Peggy Curran: Cheering for the Habs can be exhausting
The swear jar is full. Your lucky shirt stinks. You're pleading with atheist friends to toss coins in foreign fountains and light candles in churches, shrines and temples from Jerusalem to Jaipur.
People you thought you liked have been unmasked as non-believers, know-nothing know-it-alls, nervous chatters, hopeless drunks, pedantic experts or the worst of the worst, closet Don Cherry fans.
All you want to do right now is curl up in a fetal position in a dark room, lulled to sleep by the flickering light of the television replaying highlights from the Bruins series, with the soft voice of Pierre Houde shouting "ET LE BUTTTTT!"
Obviously, you need help.
Welcome to the hyperventilating stage of Round Three of the Stanley Cup playoffs, Montreal-style.
Such is the agony and the ecstasy of the true Habs fan heading into the stretch.
It's late May, the sky is bright blue and sidewalks are dappled with apple blossoms. But there is no joy in Potholeville, for Les Glorieux are down by two. We have no lives. As the games dwindle down to a precious few, hearts are thumping with a toxic cocktail of anticipation and optimism, disappointment and dread. The euphoria of "We'll always have Boston" has given way to the numb sullen despair of a post-Price, smothered Subban, lineup.
Yes, we still believe. It's just that loving the Canadiens is so exhausting, so laden with ritual and superstition and tangled up with legend and city pride.
If only Ginette Reno hadn't worn that sparkly scarf or done that poofy thing to her hair in Game 1 of the Rangers series. Or maybe there is a way to blame Stephen Harper.
We have followed the saga of Carey Price's dog rescuer and Max Pacioretty's blessed jerseys and whether Peter Budaj kicked a lucky puck during practice.
We believe in ghosts and the revenge of Canadiens' coaches past, returning to haunt us in waves this spring. We fret about the mayor's crazy bagel bets and about pulling the goalie ever and about the yahoos at the Bell Centre who chant "olé, olé, olé" when there's 10 minutes left in the third period.
Not only do we take it personally, we believe that our own behaviour, and that of those around us, is as directly related to the outcome as whether Thomas Vanek tips a pass to Tomas Plekanec.
Intellectually, you know it is not really your pal's fault the Rangers scored on the Habs at the exact moment he came into the TV room with that tray of nachos. Still, you can't be too careful. Which is why he has been banished from visiting your house, calling, or texting until the playoffs are over. And while you're at it, that's it for the nachos.
Playoff hockey isn't really life and death. We know that. Of course, we know that. It is just that it has been such a long time since Montreal has delved this deep into post-season psychosis it is difficult for some of us to keep a clear head and an even temper.
Think I am making this up? Even the Montreal diocese of the Catholic Church decided to get in on the act. For $1, it is offering fans a chance to light a candle at their virtual shrine (www.laflammedesseries.com/) noting that "in the Catholic tradition, light is the symbol of hope."
And while the Church makes no promises of divine intervention on behalf of the Sainte-Flanelle, it doesn't rule it out either. "If you truly believe in it, who knows?" All that, and tax receipts, too.
It's true, there are people in this city who do not care what happens, who have no idea who or what a Milan Lucic is. They do not know how to use the verb "to Kreider" in a sentence.
Diehard Habs fans may not understand these people, but we do not begrudge these fellow citizens their obliviousness. They are certainly easier to stomach than those who feign interest, or worse, cheer for the opposing team just to be ornery. Sometimes, we envy them their nonchalance and even blood pressure as they saunter along Ste-Catherine St. blissfully unscathed by the bleu blanc et rouge mania swirling around them.
But there is time enough to be Zen in late June.
What we need now is passion and faith, and the combustion engine of collective hysteria.
Wash the defeat out of your lucky shirt if you feel you must.
Then go light a candle and make a wish for les boys.
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The character of "Rosie the Riveter"—as feminist symbol, World War II icon and mid-century heroine—is so ingrained in the American psyche that it's sometimes difficult to remember that there was a time when Rosie didn't, in fact, exist. In the early 1940s, though, as American women flooded the labor force in order to replace the millions of men who had gone off to war, a wide variety of songwriters, illustrators—like the Saturday Evening Post's Norman Rockwell—and photographers effectively invented the archetype on which all subsequent Rosies were based.
(Pittsburgh artist J. Howard Miller's famous 1942 "We Can Do It!" poster, created for Westinghouse House and featuring easily the most famous and recognizable "Rosie" of them all, was not widely known during the war years, and only assumed its current, iconic status decades later.)
Among the photographers who documented this massive and, in a very real sense, revolutionary influx of female workers into traditionally male factory jobs—as welders, lathe operators, machinists and, of course, riveters—was LIFE's Margaret Bourke-White.
A pioneer herself (one of LIFE magazine's original four staff photographers, America's first accredited woman photographer during WWII, the first authorized to fly on a combat mission, etc.), Bourke-White spent time in 1943 in Gary, Indiana, chronicling "women ... handling an amazing variety of jobs" in steel factories — "some completely unskilled, some semiskilled and some requiring great technical knowledge, precision and facility," as LIFE told its readers in its August 9, 1943, issue. The magazine went on to note:
In 1941 only 1% of aviation employees were women, while this year they will comprise an estimated 65% of the total. Of the 16,000,000 women now employed in the U.S., over a quarter are in war industries. Although the concept of the weaker sex sweating near blast furnaces, directing giant ladles of molten iron or pouring red-hot ingots is accepted in England and Russia, it has always been foreign to American tradition. Only the rising need for labor and the diminishing supply of manpower has forced this revolutionary adjustment.
The women are recruited from Gary and nearby East Chicago. A minority has drifted in from agricultural areas. They are black and white, Polish and Croat, Mexican and Scottish... The women steel workers at Gary are not freaks or novelties. They have been accepted by management, by the union, by the rough, iron-muscled men they work with day after day. In time of peace they may return once more to home and family, but they have proved that in time of crisis no job is too tough for American women.
Here, LIFE.com presents a series of pictures from the Gary mills in 1943, in the very midst of the Second World War. Here are portraits of individual women, pride shining from their faces, as well as characteristically marvelous Bourke-White shots of enormous machines, grease-lathered gears, powerful tools—photographs that capture the grit, grime and rugged, unexpected beauty of a factory and its workers in full production mode.
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizabethRonk


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(PRETORIA, South Africa) -- Oscar Pistorius' family is "shaken by the graphic images" released by a British media news outlet that show the bloody crime scene where the Olympian fatally shot his model girlfriend earlier this year.
"We were shaken by the graphic images, leaked into the public domain this week, of the accident scene at Oscar's house," the family said in a statement Sunday after Sky News released images Friday of the blood-stained bathroom where Pistorius fatally shot Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day at his home in Pretoria, South Africa.
Pistorius, 26, says he shot girlfriend Steenkamp, 29, by accident, mistaking her for an intruder.
Pistorius, dubbed "Blade Runner" for his prosthetic legs, is accused of premeditated murder. He is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday in a pretrial hearing.
"It has always been our plea that the legal process be allowed its run its course with integrity," the Pistorius family said. "The leaking of evidential material into the public domain, before the court case, does not advance this process."
One of the images released by Sky News shows a large pool of blood near the toilet in the bathroom along with two police markers that appear to indicate bullet holes below the door handle. Some analysts say the low position of the bullet holes supports the runner's claim that he was not wearing his prosthetic legs when he shot Steenkamp.
Her family has not commented publicly on the photos.
Prosecutors alleged that Pistorius took a moment to put on his prosthetic legs, indicating that he thought out and planned to kill Steenkamp when he shot her three times through the bathroom door.
Others say these photos are inconclusive.
"It's very difficult to assess crime scenes from photos when you have an incomplete set," ABC News consultant and former FBI agent Brad Garrett said.
Police say they don't know "the origin of the photos," although sources told ABC News that a police officer took them on a cell phone.
Sky News said it "obtained" the collection of photographs of Pistorius' home, but did not divulge the source.
One picture shows bloody shoe footprints, possible evidence that investigators contaminated the crime scene. Former lead investigator Hilton Botha previously admitted police had walked through the crime scene without wearing protective foot covers.
"I would be surprised if it were enough to cause a judge to throw out the case," Garrett said.
Meanwhile, the Paralympian's uncle, Arnold Pistorius, told CNN in an interview that his nephew has grown a beard, surrounded himself with photos of Steenkamp and barely goes outside anymore.
"What can you say if the person you love the most dies," Pistorius said, "and you were the instrument? How would you feel?"
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Transfer news: Manchester United's Jesse Lingard joins Birmingham on loan
Birmingham have signed Manchester United's Jesse Lingard on a one-month loan deal.
Last Updated: 19/09/13 3:42pm
The attacking midfielder, 20, arrives at St Andrew's to bolster a Blues squad which has struggled so far this season, winning just one and losing five of their opening seven Sky Bet Championship matches.
Lingard, who can play anywhere across midfield, arrives as one of United's most highly regarded assets on the fringes of David Moyes' first team.
Capped by England's Under-21 side last month, Lingard is yet to make his senior debut for United but spent two months on loan at Leicester last season, making five substitute appearances.
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StopTheSpin is a new site that encourages people to explore why they believe what they believe, and find constructive ways to make the change come those issues they care about.
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We're looking for a logo that communicates the platform we've developed to allow a better way for people to discuss and debate issues that are important to them, from healthcare, to the iraq war, abortion, marijuana, green energy policy, stem cell research, you name it. Every issue is broken up into a series of defining questions that people can debate one side or the other. For example a question might be "Is it ever okay to take a human life?", and people can add arguments to either the YES or NO side, persuading the next reader to consider their viewpoint.
Stop the Spin's goal is to inspire people, and bring the best out of public forums, much like wikipedia, but in a manner that lets everyone consider issues for themselves.
Design wise, our current logo is based on change.gov andwhitehouse.gov, since so much of our site is targeted towards peopleconcerned about public policy. This color scheme is not necessary, but we would like a logo that both tapsinto the desire to affect change from the ground up, and a sense of abetter future.
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Gracie Lewis is on a crusade to save the Toxics Release Inventory, a trove of federal pollution data vital to helping her - and activists nationwide - win community battles for cleaner air and water.
Until a couple of years ago, Mrs. Lewis was at her wits' end over the stew of chemical odors wafting into her home from nearby factories in the industrial heart of Louisville, Ky., a neighborhood known as "Rubbertown."
Though she still smells them today, the city now has a plan for beating back toxic emissions, in part because of TRI data gathered annually by the Environmental Protection Agency, she says. With those crucial numbers in hand, she and other activists can ferret out companies releasing harmful chemicals. "Once we smell it, we call the odor hot line," she says.
But that ability to check the numbers may be changing as the EPA mulls over whether to lower the TRI reporting requirements. Small businesses have welcomed the proposal because it eliminates extra paperwork. But Lewis, environmentalists, and first responders have become part of a vocal national backlash since the changes were first proposed in September. These groups argue they would lose vital data and would not be able to hold polluters accountable.
"The administration's recommendation is dangerous and cavalier and should be withdrawn or blocked by Congress," opined the Columbian, a daily newspaper in Clark County, Wash., in October.
Under the new EPA plan, TRI reporting would be done once every other year instead of annually. It would also substantially raise the thresholds for amounts of many toxic emissions that have to be reported - from 500 to 5,000 pounds. But it would save millions of dollars in paper shuffling by small businesses that emit little pollution anyway, EPA officials say.
"EPA's proposal would collect 99 percent of the same data and allow small businesses to meet their reporting obligations to EPA in a more streamlined way," says Eryn Witcher, the agency's press secretary.
But in a teleconference last Thursday, environmentalists, first responders, and health advocates unveiled an analysis showing that under the new EPA plan, at least 922 communities nationwide - more than 10 percent of the nation's ZIP Codes - would lose all numerical TRI data on local polluters, according to the National Environmental Trust, an environmental group in Washington.
In Kentucky, at least 13 ZIP Codes would no longer receive TRI data under the new EPA proposal. In Jefferson County, Ky., 15 of some 75 TRI facilities would not have to report data if the plan is implemented, the NET analysis shows. In the county, data on 45 tons of toxic releases would not have been reported if the EPA's proposed standards had been in place, says the NET study.
"The EPA plan would result in an inaccurate picture of pollution at the local level, hamper our ability to prepare for emergencies, and provide an incentive for facilities to pollute more in our communities," says Tom Natan, director of research for the NET.
Besides the 3,849 out of 21,489 TRI facilities nationwide that would be excluded from reporting toxic release data, another 1,608 among the 8,927 ZIP Codes with TRI facilities across the country would have the reportable amounts cut in half, Dr. Natan says.
Many activists say it is not time to decrease reporting requirements because the TRI program continues to be effective. It is widely credited with helping reduce almost 65 percent of toxic chemical releases since its inception, Natan says. And more, not less, information is needed on industrial toxic releases, many activists say. They point to the chemical soup generated by industrial facilities after hurricane Katrina struck; a big benzene spill in China last month; and a chemical spill that killed more than 2,000 in Bhopal, India, in 1984.
The TRI program came into existence under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, in the aftermath of the tragedy in India and a chemical spill in West Virginia. The act mandates that emissions of toxic chemicals be made public. Today, more than 23,000 facilities nationwide report the release of about 650 chemicals in the air and water, as well as those deposited in landfills.
But groups like the National Federation of Independent Business, which represents smaller companies, have a different view of the situation. They've been pushing for EPA revisions to TRI.
"This has been a top-tier issue for our members, and we've worked closely with folks at EPA to see some manner of TRI reform," says Andrew Langer, NFIB's manager of regulatory policy.
"It's simply not true," he says of the claim that businesses might emit more in nonreporting years. "Small businesses are not going to drastically change their operations to hide their emissions."
In Louisville, the American Bluegrass Marble Company has struggled with the EPA's red tape. According to the NET data, the 50-employee company, which makes marble vanity tops and other bathroom fixtures, would be among those let off the hook by new EPA rules.
In 2003, the company reported emitting 14 pounds of styrene, a chemical used in sealants, into the atmosphere. Despite this low level, it took employee James Feeney and a hired consultant a week to fill out the TRI paperwork, he said.
"I won't say it's a hardship, but it's been expensive, and the company has had to hire a consultant just to figure the paperwork out," he says. "If we were exempted, it would be great. Some of the things EPA has made us do are just ridiculous."
In Maryland, some first responders and environmentalists are worried because the EPA plan would mean losing all TRI data in 15 ZIP Codes.
"We need all the information we can get," says Mike Donahue, battalion chief for the Montgomery County Fire Rescue Services. "I'm opposed to the plan" to squeeze back the TRI, he adds.
The comment period on the proposed changes ends Jan. 13.


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Eatwells Cookies is a 100% certified nut-free product that features all natural ingredients, no trans-fats and no preservatives, aimed at giving moms a healthy snack alternative for kids lunches.
This is a premium snack item. We have four flavours, chocolate chunk, double chocolate, oatmeal-raisin and ginger bread. Contains essential vitamins and nutrients, protein and fiber – not "empty calories"
Our competitors include:
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We are targeting moms who are interested in buying healthy, nutritious foods for their kids. Moms who have children who suffer from food allergies. These moms shop at places like whole foods (http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com).
Our audience is very educated, and proactive, they are a middle to upper middle income audience. They lead active lifestyles and encourage their families to do the same.
Our moms are 24- 44 years of age with children between the ages of 3 & 13.
We also need to appeal to children as we need them to demand these cookies.
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Logo must be clean, simple with special emphasis on typography.
Please use a color pallet that uses edible colours
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• Illustrations are fine but we do not want anything too "cartoonish"
• Logo MUST work in monochrome as well as color, if a color logotype is presented
• Impeccable typography please - no dingy fonts, we will pay for the font if need be.
• Needs to be scalable – We will use this logotype for everything from a large wall sign, website and t-shirts to business cards. Absolutely no clip art please.
• We will require a full color and black & white high res .jpg, an .eps, a .gif and a .psd (RGB) & (CMYK) psd (layered) so we can separate the images and also be print ready.
• We will also require a stacked or horizontal variation of the logo if the design allows.
• Verb Strategy & Creative will own the logo 100% with no usage by anyone else.
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Executive Summary
• Unauthorized application use: 70 percent of IT professionals believe the use of unauthorized programs resulted in as many as half of their companies' data loss incidents.
• Misuse of corporate computers: 44 percent of employees share work devices with others without supervision.
• Unauthorized physical and network access: 39 percent of IT professionals said they have dealt with an employee accessing unauthorized parts of a company's network or facility.
• Remote worker security: 46 percent of employees admitted to transferring files between work and personal computers when working from home.
• Misuse of passwords: 18 percent of employees share passwords with co-workers. That rate jumps to 25 percent in China, India, and Italy.
In-Depth Survey Exposes Risky Behavior
• China has such a high level of information technology abuse that IT decision makers audit computers for unauthorized content.
• In Japan, 65 percent of end users do not adhere to the corporate IT policy all of the time, and the research indicates that end-user abuse of information technology is increasing.
• End users in India tend to use email and instant messaging for personal use and change IT security settings on business computers so they can view unauthorized websites.
• Employees in Brazil use business computers for personal communications and for activities such as downloading music.
• End users in France have the lowest rate of IT policy compliance of all the countries surveyed, with only 16 percent of employees claiming that they adhere to security policies all the time.
Risky Behaviors Revealed
Unauthorized Application Use
• 78 percent of employees accessed personal email from business computers. This number is approximately double the level of authorized use.
• 63 percent of employees admit to using a work computer for personal use every day, and 83 percent admit to using a work computer for personal use at least sometimes.
• 70 percent of IT professionals believe the use of unauthorized programs resulted in as many as half of their companies' data loss incidents. This belief was most common in the United States (74 percent), Brazil (75 percent), and India (79 percent).
Misuse of Corporate Computers
• Bypass corporate policy and IT security settings
– China: 42 percent
– Brazil: 26 percent
– India: 20 percent
• Share sensitive corporate information outside the company
– Brazil: 47 percent
– India: 27 percent
– The United Kingdom: 26 percent
– Italy: 22 percent
– Germany: 24 percent
• Share work devices with non-employees without supervision
– China: 43 percent
– India: 28 percent
– Overall: 44 percent (32 percent of respondents shared work devices with co-workers, and 19 percent shared work devices with non-employee family and friends)
Figure 1. Frequency of Personal Use
Unauthorized Physical and Network Access
Figure 2. IT Decision Makers Encounter Unauthorized Physical and Network Access
• 39 percent of IT professionals said they have dealt with an employee accessing unauthorized parts of a company's network or facility, with almost half of IT professionals reporting this in Brazil (49 percent) and the United States (46 percent), and 63 percent in China. Although Japan (28 percent) and Germany (26 percent) featured the least incidents among IT professionals, every country showed at least one fourth of its IT professionals encountering these types of incidents.
• Unauthorized physical and network access was more prevalent among midsize and enterprise businesses (46 percent), but small businesses also have frequent incidents (32 percent).
• 22 percent of German employees allow non-employees to roam around offices unsupervised.
Remote Worker Security
• 46 percent of employees admitted to transferring files between work and personal computers when working from home.
• More than 75 percent of employees do not use a privacy guard when working remotely in a public place. This number is much higher in Brazil, China, and India-countries that have the most reckless behavior.
• 68 percent of people do not think about speaking softly on the phone when they are in public places outside of the office.
• 13 percent of those who work from home admit that they cannot connect to their corporate networks, so they send business email to customers, partners, and co-workers via their personal email.
Misuse of Passwords and Login/Logout Procedures
• 28 percent of employees in China store login and password information for personal financial accounts on their work devices.
• 18 percent of employees share passwords with co-workers, and that rate jumps to 25 percent in China, India, and Italy.
• 10 percent of employees in India, the United Kingdom, and Italy keep written notes of login information and passwords on their desk at work, leaving sensitive data accessible if the machine is stolen even if the computer is logged off.
• 5 percent of employees in the United Kingdom and France leave passwords to personal and financial accounts printed on their desks at work, so their information can be stolen with any other computer even if their work computer is safeguarded.
Why Employees Put Data at Risk
Figure 3. Reasons for Altering Security Settings
Prevent Data Leakage
• Establish tools and processes that track your data's movement so you know where it is stored, how it is accessed, and who is using it.
• Identify the types of data that require a unique protection regime within and beyond your company's walls.
• Consider new security approaches for next-generation tools and capabilities.
• Protect systems by using only authorized application and access methods, maintaining security software such as antivirus applications, respecting and maintaining security settings, understanding the consequences of agreeing to or negating Cisco® Security Agent pop-up actions, and preparing for spamming, malware, phishing, and other attack methods.
• Protect portable devices by keeping them in your possession or locked up at all times, not sharing your work devices or using them for personal activities, not forwarding confidential information from work systems to personal devices, and not accessing inappropriate sites or downloading inappropriate information.
• Prevent unauthorized data access by logging off or locking systems when you walk away for a few moments or leave for the evening, using sound password creation techniques and not sharing passwords, and storing passwords securely.
• Prevent data theft while traveling by speaking softly when you have to discuss confidential information in public, using privacy filters to prevent over-the-shoulder viewing, using a VPN, and never using a business printer unless you are there to pick up the paper.
• Conduct daily business activities according to the company's code of business conduct- particularly those pertaining to information security.
• Be constantly aware of their surroundings and conscientious about security in every action they take in the office, at home, and on the road.
• Learn how to handle the different levels of confidentiality for their company's documentation. This includes understanding the differences between "public," "confidential," "highly confidential," and "restricted."
• How to avoid security mistakes by spotlighting areas of high vulnerability.
• Proper practices to protect systems and data.
• What a computer security incident is and how to report it.
• Educate and train employees about company expectations for protecting data.
• Include security awareness and practices in new-hire orientation events.
• Train employees about security considerations when answering the phone and connecting to Web 2.0, social networking, and collaboration sites.
• Train employees about physical security concerns, such as allowing only employees with badges to enter buildings.
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Commissaries will close on Wednesdays if the spending cuts known as sequestration go into effect March 1, according to a Feb. 21 memo to all commissary officials obtained by Military.com.
The Wednesday closures would begin the week of March 31 and last through September. The closings would impact all stateside commissaries and most commissaries overseas, according to the memo.
"While we still hope sequestration will be avoided, we must, nevertheless, be prepared and plan accordingly," DeCA Director, Joseph Jeu wrote. "Consequently, after much deliberation, analysis and consideration, we developed several actions that will reduce spending to the level mandated by Congress, should sequestration happen."
The closures come on the heels of other cost-cutting measures, Jeu wrote, including canceling all May case-lot sales and an agency-wide hiring freeze.
Closing the commissary on Wednesdays will furlough every commissary employee once a week for up to 22 days, the memo says. The move is the result of the Defense Department's decision to furlough all DoD civilian federal employees -- including those who work at the commissaries.
Poll: How would commissary closings impact you?
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Officials with American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), a union which represents civilian federal workers, many of whom are military spouses and family members, said the furloughs could cause major financial problems for their members.
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Land Tensions Roil Uganda
She wondered how government could "come out with a Bill without consulting the owner if it is in good faith?�
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Addressing a charged meeting here in
The Ugandan lawmaker said President Museveni had paved the way for his generals to grab land from their rightful owners. The issue of control over land has created much anxiety in the East African country, which recently hosted the Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting. In
In Acholi, members of parliament from that region have also denounced strong arm tactics by the government to award land to investors—in some cases the rightful owners of the land are still confined in wretched camps where the World Health Organization reported in 2005 that up to 1,000 excess deaths occurred per week. Some Acholi have for years claimed the camps were created to depopulate Acholi and redistribute land by foreign investors.
Earlier this year, when the government wanted to award land in
The member of Parliament, who spoke here in
"This Bill was amended without any consultation from Mengo establishment, the
She was addressing
"The government passed the Amendments to the Land Act 1998, claiming to be vesting all the powers to the minister of land and the RDCs to do with land registration, distribution, arbitration, determining ground rent with a sinister plan," she continued. "The law grants powers to the squatter to sell or subdivide the land holding or registration and if the landlords don't reach agreement the squatters will have to run to the minister—Given the powers to the squatters, the only reason he or she can be evicted is when they default the rent."
"Surprisingly, in
She urged Diaspora Ugandans to unite as a "single voice," and "pass resolutions from here." She added: "Send formal petition from the Diaspora to the Speaker of Parliament, addressed to the president, Parliamentary Buganda caucus and to the human rights commissions."
She called on Ugandans in other parts of the country to resist the land-grab: "What is done in
The meeting formed a committee led by Fred Semugera to file the Diaspora's resolutions on land issues—other members are Christine Musaala, Dr. Rashid Kasaato, a spokesman for G-6, which is an umbrella for all Uganda's opposition parties, Michael Senyonjo, Sam Lubega, Derrick Mutema, and Sylvia Lubega.
Some attendees proposed petitioning the United Nation's Peace Conflict Resolution, and the British Parliament, with the position that land disputes could spark civil unrest in the troubled East African country.
"Other nations have filed charges against Museveni, why not petition to those who are funding his regime which encourage civil unrests in the country?" one speaker, Godfrey Nkata, said.
"The former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan already proposed to the donor countries not to fund African regimes that encourage conflicts, then what is stopping us from petitioning the country that pledged to fund
Nkata was referring to the recent pledge by the
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A Power Not To Be Denied: Santa Claus
There are some forces in the galaxy you don't want to challenge, and one of them is Santa Claus, as in "Santa Claus Rally." It is a ripe old Wall Street cliche that come November and December, the market rallies just as surely as children gather round the Christmas tree (or equivalent).
To illustrate the possibility that this cliche has some merit, at least recently, I prepared this chart:
Please go to www.oftwominds.com/blog.html to see the charts.
Well gosh darn it, at least in the past few years, Santa Claus has come very reliably to Wall Street. This seems to be true even in low-volatility years bound in long-term trading ranges.
Even though MACD is trending down right now, we note that MACD was also trending down in 2004--yet Santa Claus delivered a rally anyway.
Supporting Saint Nick's possible delivery of a powerful uptrend through the first week of January is the fact that the DJIA has just bounced off the Bollinger bands and the long-term 50-day moving averages.
One highly astute reader has repeatedly called my attention to the fact that fund and institutional investors have a strong incentive to juice the market at the end of every quarter so their performance is improved by quarter's end. And how much more important for one's calendar year performance to rise up by December 31.
Another explanation given for Santa's largesse into January is the massive flood of 401K and IRA retirement money flowing into mutual funds' waiting hands--some of which is often promptly put to work goosing the market higher.
Is this advice? No, just hearsay and personal opinion. Santa could always deliver a load of coal to Wall Street which, in a year of astoundingly insane risks gone bad and stuffed under the bulging carpet, richly deserves it.
Nonetheless, the Santa Claus Rally is a multi-year trend with a significant pedigree.
Since I wrote about "returning to averages" on Friday, frequent contributor Harun I. was kind enough to forward several charts of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1900 to the present which illustrate the point I was trying to make much better than my graph by displaying Standard Error Channel trendlines over actual price data. Here are Harun's comments about Standard Error Channels:
I am sure that you understand the concept of regression analysis. The Standard Error Channel has at its core a linear regression line.
Since I wasn't sure I understood, I went to this Wikipedia entry for help: regression analysis.
Here is Harun's first chart and his commentary:
Just to return to the top of the channel, or the lower line of the recent channel, the DJIA would need to decline to 10,000. A move to the regression line would require a move down to 5,000, and a test of the lower channel would take it, as Harun noted, to about 1,000.
If this strikes you as impossible, recall that no one predicted the Nasdaq would fall from 5,000 to 1,100 in less than three years, or that in 1929 (as Harun observed) that the DJIA was about to start a slide which would eventually erase 90% of its value.
In the second chart, the red channel is drawn from the 1932 low to the present highs, and the blue channel is drawn from 1900 to the 2002 market low.
Even with this revised channel, the DJIA would have to decline to 11,000 to reach the top channel, 7,000 to drop back to the regression line and 2,500 to the lower channel. Whatever channel you draw, it's clear the U.S. stock market has risen far above long-term regression channels. As someone who thinks in terms of standard deviations, a standard deviation of 3 suggests a very high probability of a reversion to the mean, another way of saying probabilities favor a huge decline.
Does any of this negate a Santa Claus rally? Not at all, for a Santa Claus rally occurs over the course of a few weeks, while the long-term trends occur over the course of years and even decades.
Recall that the DJIA has equaled an ounce of gold at Bear Market bottoms such as 1982 (i.e. 800 on the DJIA and $800/ounce for gold). Could gold rise to $2,500/ounce and the DJIA decline to 2,500? Perhaps the question should be: why not?
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The Giants championship parade was a sea of orange and black, but it was Sergio Romo's blue T-shirt that had everyone talking.
"I Just Look Illegal," read the shirt Romo wore as he soaked in the cheers from fans along the parade route. Romo has referred to his Mexican heritage in the past by wearing a "Made in the USA With Parts From Mexico" T-shirt.
Though he didn't specifically mention the shirt, Romo praised the team's and the Bay Area's multicultural makeup while addressing the crowd at Civic Center Plaza.
"Look at the diversity ... the different faces from different places, the different strokes," said Romo, who was born in Brawley, about 30 miles north of the California-Mexico border, and played winter baseball in Mexicali. "We all had one, how do you say, dream. ... You should be proud. ... I am very proud."
The provocative shirt had parade viewers headed to eBay and other online vendors selling the design. More than 100 people ordered the $12 shirt Wednesday from Wicky Tees of Los Angeles. Founder Jack Chan said he usually only gets five to 10 orders a day.
"For some reason, my sales went 'boom,' " said Chan, who never even heard of Romo until Wednesday. "It's been a very busy day."
Supervisor John Avalos, a third-generation Mexican American and an advocate for undocumented immigrants, said Romo doesn't have to worry about being racially profiled in the city.
"It's not like he's in Arizona," Avalos said. "San Francisco's a sanctuary city."
Romo's political fashion statement was also praised by immigration activists on Twitter.
"You cannot tell who looks 'illegal,' " tweeted Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented immigrant, activist and journalist. "No human being is illegal."
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09-05-2015 #1
I have no welding experience yet, but intend to learn.
Ultimately, when I've done some small projects for experience, I want to put together a gantry-type cnc router... Probably with 5mm thick box section tubes.
I have no welder, and there seems to be a load of choice/advice on whether to use mig/tig/arc.
I have no welder rig yet, need to get one. What do you folks recommend ?
09-05-2015 #2
I have all types of welding gear gas oxy/acy arc welder mig and tig
but for a starter set get a mig 160-180 amp and a rent free large bottle
you should be able to get that for £100-200 and £100 for the bottle or rent one from boc if you think you may only want it for the one project.. or you dont mind paying £40 a year for ever
This will do all you want with mild steel and be nice and easy for you to learn with
Dont think about gas free sets or using the small disposable bottles.
and if you can get a set with a euro torch though that may be difficult at £200 budget
My 2p worth
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09-05-2015 #3
or buy a 50 quid stick/arc welder and a box of 2.5mm rods. and your welding, plenty of stick welding vids on youtube to get you started
11-05-2015 #4
I welded half of my first frame using DC stick welder, i agree, pretty easy to learn watching you tube videos. Plus you can grind and cover the sh*t when painting so at the end you will finish with pretty frame.
Bought a proper MIG then- 250A and changed the Chinese gun with bran new Wurth 250A gun, which is re-branded Binzel gun. Obtained from a boot sale for say 50 euro but similar could be obtained for 150euro new on ebay.
Wow, thats a monster combination for a serious manufacturing. Welds 10mm stuff like butter and it has never stopped due to duty cycle limitation, i believe it was something like 100% on 200A
Its good for aluminum also, due to the high amperage plus you will have the second gun for aluminum, when you upgrade one day the one that comes with the unit, which is short by the way, you really will need something like 4m gun hose. The unit on the link is exactly like mine though rebranded.
11-05-2015 #5
Hobbyweld do a rent-free tri-gas bottle for £60 plus about £30 for the gas.
09-11-2017 #6
I went to the Tig route so that I could weld Steel but also be able to weld Aluminium, Although I still haven't done that as yet. Tig welds look nice and are strong But mig can make beautiful looking welds too , but Tig is harder to learn because you have a foot control (Normally) the torch in one hand and the welding rod in your other hand so each is doing something.
Mig is more forgiving when welding where as with Tig everything has to be as clean as possible to get a good weld, Firstly cleaning the weld material with Acetate before welding.
I am still learning and most of the time things look okay and stay stuck together, well I have blown through material that is thin so thicker material is easier to learn welding on.
Don't forget to budget for a welding helmet and Good Welding gloves and always wear clothes that cover you up. welding can cause Sunburn type burns on your skin.
Most definitely look on the forums because I didn't realise that welding zinc coated items e.g. Nuts and bolts is dangerous to your health so grind Zinc off because you do it and wear a mask if not sure.
Tig is a Higher cost than Mig because you have to use a different gas which the Price is higher using Argon and the Startup costs are higher. I brought a cheaper Chinese tig from ebay and Its fantastic and I still love how much you can make with these things. but still cost a few Hundred pounds but I want it to last for years to come.
Our local college at Coalville does a Welding course sometimes and that is worth looking at your local college first to see if there is a course and they will teach you but also let you get your hands on the kit before you buy.
I brought a rent free bottle from Barnett welding supplies a small family run business and you pay for the bottle for the first time but then it is the Delivery and the cost of the gas.
The gas goes pretty quickly to a bigger bottle is better it lasts in the bottle so can still be stored.
09-11-2017 #7A DEAD (in a ditch) STATESMAN
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
from EPITAPHS OF BREXIT 2016 - ????
Thanks to ― Rudyard Kipling 1865 - 1936
09-11-2017 #8
With my Smashweld 180 MIGs, using appropriate gas and wire, I weld Steel, Stainless Steel, Cast Iron, Brass, Bronze, Copper and Aluminium, sometimes I also MIG Braze Steel.
I don't know why people think MIG is more limited than it is.You think that's too expensive? You're not a Model Engineer are you? :D
17-07-2018 #9
I am new to welding - been at it about a year now.
Started off with stick inverter, then bought a TIG torch and bottle of Argon to go with it.
I found I wasted too much gas having to control it manually with a knob on top of the torch, and lift TIG was a pain.
Then I upgraded to a DC TIG.
I love it. It is a very clean process. Minimal if any cleaning afterwards. No sparks so I can do it in the garage. The metal has to be very clean. No welding rusty panels for MOT.
I haven't got a foot control. I have been told it is not necessary if only welding steel.
TIG allows a great range of control I have welded everything from 7mm plate and 3mm box section, to the tips of Stanley knife blades together.
I still have a lot to learn. I am fairly successful at sticking the metal together and getting pretty (and I hope strong) welds. My biggest problem is metal distortion. Maintaining the accuracy would be my biggest concern if I was to tackle a frame for a CNC.
17-07-2018 #10
To start I would go with a stick welder (arc welding)
For the price point - say £150 to £200 you can weld all types and thicknesses of steel. a mig to weld over 5mm you are looking at some serious investment + the bottled gas ££££
You can often buy a TIG torch for many of the good Arc welders and do TIG at a later date - but you will need gas ( Argon or Argon Helium mix - this can be used on both steel and aluminium)
Many cheap MIG machines claim they can weld 5mm+ thick but they are really poor welds as the metal does not pool enough to create good adhesion.
You don't need gas to use stick welding
The welding electropdes (sticks) are the cheapest consumable. Normally depending on the thickness of the steel usually determines the thickness of the rod - however people can have preferences - i.e. I like using 2.5 or 3.2mm for most welds unless less than 1.5mm thickness
Stick welding can weld through rust paint ect (however - all steel should be cleaned prior to welding otherwise you will get foriegn objects and porosity that weaken the weld) - but it is the most forgiving
Go watch the videos @ weld.com and follow some of the instructions
There are things like DC+ or DC- (which way the torch and the return is plugged in)
How many amps to use for different thicknesses
Types of weld angles and joints
Type of electrodes (sticks) i.e in UK ppl mainly use 6013 however in the states they use 7018 - they differ as to how much penetration and what position you can weld.
hope this gives you something to look at :o)
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They don't understand their anger. "In a culture where it's easy to fire of a snippy e-mail or text," reported Elizabeth Bernstein in her Wall Street Journal column 'Friendly Fight: A Smarter Say to Say I'm Angry,' "most of have a hard time honestly expressing anger face to face. If someone upsets us, often we shout, stomp off, roll our eyes, refuse to speak to the person or complain to everyone else. Or we kid ourselves that we aren't upset and subconsciously fume – until one day we explode over the seemingly littlest thing." And no one likes to be on the receiving end of explosive anger.
Sound familiar? I bet it does. In the research I conducted for my book, 60% of all Americans reported seeing their boss get angry with someone on the job during the past year. And yet, none of us are ever taught how to deal with managing our anger or how to deal with others.
Anger is a biologically driven response to threat. When threatened, we release the hormone epinephrine, followed by norepinephrine (noradrenaline), prepping the body to react – increasing our heart rate and blood pressure, and narrowing our focus as we prepare to flight or flee. And this is what is at the crux of the issue for modern homo sapiens in the workplace: pretty much as they did 200,000 years ago, our bodies continue to automatically process psychological threats as physical threats. Deep inside we are all irredeemably very old school. But the reality is that reacting to a psychological threat with a physical response is wildly inappropriate. And this disconnect – this evolutionary lag in the development of more emotionally calibrated or sophisticated responses to psychological challenges – is a huge contributor to what makes navigating modern life so incredibly hard. As the economist Terry Burnham, the author of Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit From the New Science of Irrationality, put it, "The caricature view would be, the caveman wins the battle, has more babies, crushes his enemies, then puts on a suit 10,000 years later and goes into a boardroom and still wants to crush his enemies."
To be effective at work we need to learn how to handle this evolutionary gap in responding to non-physical threat. I have created many tools to aid us in developing this challenging skill and one of the best is something I call DING. Which relates to the concept of self-reflection or meta-cognition, which I'll address in another post.


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Koplan previously served as the ITC's Chairman from June 17, 2000, to June 16, 2002. He has served as a Commissioner since August 4, 1998. He was appointed by President Clinton for the Commission term that will expire on June 16, 2005.
Koplan has been admitted to practice law in both Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. He began his career as a prosecutor in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He served in the Department for a total of 12 years (Tax Division, five years; Civil Rights Division, seven years). While there, he gained both criminal and civil trial experience and ultimately headed up a section responsible for the enforcement of those laws intended to assure nondiscrimination in federal financial assistance programs. Subsequently, he served for six and one-half years as the Legislative Representative for tax and international trade issues for the AFL-CIO.
Koplan also served as staff attorney for three years to former U.S. Senator Lee Metcalf (D-Montana), for whom he had the responsibility for all federal tax and foreign trade legislation referred to the Senate Committee on Finance. Koplan returned to the Senate to serve as the General Counsel of what was formerly the Post Office and Civil Service Committee. His business experience includes five years as the Vice President of Governmental Affairs of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., where he directed the federal legislative and regulatory operations of the corporation with an emphasis on tax and foreign trade. He has also served as a principal in two Washington, D.C., law firms, Bayh & Connaughton and the McNair Law Firm, for a total of five and one-half years. Most recently, he was the Director for Governmental and Conservation Affairs of Safari Club International.
Koplan is originally from Belmont, Massachusetts. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandeis University, a Juris Doctor degree from Boston University School of Law, and a Master of Laws (in Taxation) degree from the Graduate Tax Program of New York University School of Law. He resides in Fairfax, Virginia, with his wife, Harriet. They have four sons, Michael, Bruce, David, and Adam, and three grandchildren, Jacob, Zoe, and Matthew.
The ITC is an independent, nonpartisan, quasi-judicial federal agency that provides trade expertise to both the legislative and executive branches of government, determines the impact of imports on U.S. industries, and directs actions against certain unfair trade practices, such as patent, trademark, and copyright infringement. Commissioners are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate for nine-year terms, unless they are appointed to fill unexpired terms. The Chairman and the Vice Chairman are designated by the President for two-year terms in those positions.


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Denver Nuggets: JaVale McGee, J.J. Hickson, Darrell Arthur, and the Knicks 2014 first round draft pick.
Sacramento Kings: Jason Thompson, Carl Landry, Jason Terry, Ben Mclemore, and their 2017 first round draft pick.
Boston Celtics: Gerald Wallace, Jeff Green, Joel Anthony, and Brooklyns 2016 first round draft pick.
Milwaukee Bucks: O.J. Mayo, Ersan Ilyasova, Carlos Delfino, and either Giannis Antetokounmpo OR Milwaukees 2015 first round pick and one more future pick.
Detroit Pistons: Brandon Jennings and Josh Smith.
I only like the Detroit trade .. I doubt Detroit would make that deal
Or Denver would give us back the 12th pick of the draft


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The Yankees are staying at the Westin in downtown Detroit for their four-game series with the Tigers, and one guest was kind enough to send along this photo of radio announcer John Sterling strolling the immaculate Westin lobby in sneakers and a robe. He's "been doing this for 2 days in a row so it's not rare," tipster Ryan says.
We'd all better hope that sash is tied tightly. Or it'll be JOHNNY JUICED ONE! EL COCKITAN! HANGING LOW, DONCHA KNOW?! LIMPALICIOUS! (Suzyn: "Oh, my good goodness gracious! Of all the dramatic things I've ever seen!")


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