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Scallion pancakes was the first recipe I had in mind when I decided to start making cooking videos. It's a simple dish, but one where it's very beneficial to see the process in video or photos before starting out. In my new cookbook The Chinese Takeout Cookbook, I have a photo guide on rolling out the pancakes, but it seemed fitting to do an accompanying video as well.
This recipe is a more simplified version of a recipe involving yeast that I first published in May 2009. But it's no less delicious. The secret to getting flaky layers is all in the folding. Just watch the video and refer to the recipe below!
Of course, there are countless Chinese restaurants where you can satisfy your cravings for scallions pancakes. They make great appetizers when the entrees happen to take longer than five minutes. They absorb the sauce of your moo shu pork like a sponge. And your vegetarian friends can eat them with abandon. But I've eaten or seen too many that are too thick, too oily, or lack the flaky layers that define Chinese scallion pancakes. Also, they aren't supposedly to be as enormous as a Frisbee. As with many other foods, scallion pancakes are really best made at home and served hot off the stove.
For the dough, all you need is flour and water. The basic ratio I use is 3 parts flour to 1 part water, but of course, there are many variables to getting the dough right. Some flours are higher in protein content, so they absorb more water. Sometimes in more humid climates you'll need a bit more flour, and in dryer climates you'll need a bit more water. However, the 3:1 ratio works well in most circumstances, so start with that and adjust if you need to.
Once you get used to rolling out the dough, these pancakes will easily become part of your reportoire. There are few ingredients, most of which are pantry staples. And once you coax the dough into little patties, they can be refrigerated or frozen for future use. The one requirement is to put your woks away; use only a flat-bottom skillet for pan-frying.
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Serves 6
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more if necessary
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 3 tablespoons peanut or vegetable oil, plus more as needed
- 3 scallions, thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Oil a large mixing bowl and set aside.
- In a separate large bowl, mix together the flour and water until a smooth dough forms. If the dough seems sticky, as it tends to do in humid weather, add a little more flour (starting with 1 tablespoon and up to 1/4 cup total, if needed) and mix again until the dough is no longer sticky.
- Roll out the dough on a lightly floured work surface and knead for 5 minutes. Place the dough in the greased mixing bowl and turn until it is lightly covered with oil all around. Cover the dough with a barely damp towel and let it rest for 30 minutes.
- Flour your work surface again and roll out the rested dough. Divide the dough in half, then roll each half into a 1-inch-thick cylinder. With a pastry scraper or butter knife, slice the dough into 2-inch-long segments. Dust your rolling pin with flour and roll out each segment into a 5-inch circle.
- Lightly brush the top of each circle with peanut oil, about 2 tablespoons total for all the pancakes. Sprinkle with the scallions and salt.
- Roll up each circle into another cylinder, making sure the scallions stay in place.
- Coil the dough so that it resembles a snail.
- With a rolling pin, flatten again into disks about 1/4 inch thick. The pancakes will get a little oily from the scallions popping through the dough. Place the rolled-out pancakes on a plate and repeat with the remaining dough. If you stack the pancakes, put a piece of parchment paper between each layer to prevent sticking. (Whatever you don't cooking immediately can be frozen for future use.)
- Heat a nonstick flat-bottomed skillet or cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat and add the remaining 1 tablespoon oil. Working in batches, pan-fry the pancakes until golden brown, 2 to 3 minutes on each side. If the sides or middle puff up during the cooking, press them down with a spatula to ensure even cooking. (You may also need another tablespoon of oil between the batches.) Transfer the pancakes to a plate, cut into wedges, and serve, either alone or with chili sauce or soy sauce and vinegar on the side.
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With a limited outlook for international climate negotiations, some hope can be found in a battle currently underway between the United States and Europe over the regulation of airline emissions. This is the first major international conflict over a specific climate policy – and it may be the catalyst necessary to get the European Union, the US, and China engaged in serious bargaining at an industry level.
The fight is between the EU and several other countries, including the US and China, regarding carbon taxes on airlines. The EU has a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas regulation, the European Trading System (ETS), which requires European industries that emit greenhouse gases to buy "credits" sufficient to cover their emissions. This program includes European airlines, which must purchase credits for their airline fleet's emissions on intra-European and international flights.
Starting January 2012, the EU extended this tax to foreign airlines for the segment of the trip landing in any European airport. The issue is now coming to a head because the emission credits from foreign airlines are due in April 2013. The penalty for failing to pay is 100 euros per credit and an obligation to make up the emissions credits deficit the following year.
The EU attempt to regulate incoming airline emissions has been extremely controversial internationally. In August 2012, 17 countries met, including China, India, Japan, South Africa, and the US, and issued a statement opposing the inclusion of foreign airlines in Europe's cap-and-trade system. India and China have announced that their airlines will boycott the scheme as well.
At the end of November, the US raised the stakes again by passing legislation that could forbid American companies from complying with the EU law. The EU Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act, which passed with the support of the airline industry, is designed to shield American companies from EU emissions tax liability.
It directs the secretary of Transportation to determine whether prohibiting domestic airlines from participating in the European system is in the public interest. If it is not, then US law will ban domestic airlines from paying any taxes under Europe's cap-and-trade rules.
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The US has passed such prohibitive legislation before, such as laws banning engagement with apartheid South Africa and with Middle Eastern states participating in the boycott of Israeli goods and companies, but it is a rare and provocative move. The US has never previously applied such rules to countries seeking to address global environmental concerns.
A transnational fight over climate change legislation might be a positive development, however, particularly if it brings parties to the bargaining table and provides governments with a reason to move forward with some multilateral regulation. The EU appears receptive to the idea of such a compromise.
In part because of the US legislation, the European Commission – the executive arm of the EU – has proposed suspending the taxes foreign airlines owe for 2012 and instead negotiating a global solution. The European Parliament has not yet voted to adopt the suspension, but the European Commission could choose not to enforce the law for 2012. Both the US and the EU have agreed to start negotiations at the International Civil Aviation Organization.
These negotiations have some prospects for success in regulating airline emissions globally. The EU extension of their emissions tax system to airlines provides some immediate economic consequences for US parties if the negotiations fail. And US and other foreign airlines cannot realistically cease service to European airports. Therefore all parties have some incentive to reach a compromise in the near future.
Domestically, the threat of EU taxes may give the Obama administration the policy space necessary to design climate policy for the aviation industry as part of an international compromise that could receive congressional support. Moreover, if the US and EU agreed on the terms of a compromise, this joint action would be hard for the rest of the world to resist. China and other states could lose access to European and American airports if they don't agree to a compromise involving similar regulations.
An airline industry-level agreement on emissions is not a comprehensive solution to the threats posed by climate change, but it may provide a new model for international negotiations on the topic: unilateral state action followed by sector-specific talks. This model requires real leadership on climate change, a mantel the EU is currently bearing, and avoids the sweeping model of many countries bargaining over hundreds of climate issues (such as at the Doha climate talks).
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Alkalinity is the name given to the quantitative capacity of an aqueous solution to neutralize an acid.[1] Measuring alkalinity is important in determining a stream's ability to neutralize acidic pollution from rainfall or wastewater. It is one of the best measures of the sensitivity of the stream to acid inputs.[2] There can be long-term changes in the alkalinity of streams and rivers in response to human disturbances.[3] Alkalinity does not measure the same property as the pH (namely basicity).
- 1 Simplified summary
- 2 Detailed description
- 3 Theoretical treatment of alkalinity
- 4 Example problems
- 5 Oceanic Alkalinity
- 6 See also
- 7 References
- 8 Carbonate system calculators
- 9 External links
Simplified summary
This section relies largely or entirely upon a single source. (May 2015)
Alkalinity roughly refers to the amount of bases in a solution that can be converted to uncharged species by a strong acid.[4] The cited author, James Drever, provides an equation expressed in terms of molar equivalents, which means the number of moles of each ion type multiplied by (the absolute value of) the charge of the ion.[dubious ] For example, 1 mole of HCO31− in solution represents 1 molar equivalent, while 1 mole of CO32− is 2 molar equivalents because twice as many H+ ions would be necessary to balance the charge. The total charge of a solution always equals zero.
Quoting from page 52, "Ions such as Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, Cl −, SO42−, and NO3− can be regarded as "conservative" in the sense that their concentrations are unaffected by changes in the pH, pressure, or temperature (within the ranges normally encountered near the earth's surface and assuming no precipitation or dissolution of solid phases, or biological transformations)."
On the left-hand side of the equation is the sum of conservative cations minus the sum of conservative anions. Balancing this on the right side is the sum of the anions that could be neutralized by added H+ ions (non-conservative anions) minus H+ ions already present.[clarification needed] All numbers are molar equivalents.
This right side term is called total alkalinity. It is, quoting Drever, "formally defined as the equivalent sum of the bases that are titratable with strong acid (Stumm and Morgan, 1981)".[5] The listing of ions shown on the right in Drever was "mHCO3− + 2mCO3−2 + mB(OH)4− + mH3(SiO)4− + mHS− + morganic anions + mOH− - mH+". Total alkalinity is measured by adding a strong acid until all the anions listed above are converted to uncharged species. The total alkalinity is not (much) affected by temperature, pressure, or pH, though the values of individual constituents are, mostly being conversions between HCO3− and CO32−.
Drever further notes that in most natural waters, all ions except HCO3− and CO3−2 have low concentrations. Thus carbonate alkalinity, which is equal to mHCO3− + 2mCO3−2 is also approximately equal to the total alkalinity.
Detailed description
Alkalinity or AT measures the ability of a solution to neutralize acids to the equivalence point of carbonate or bicarbonate. The alkalinity is equal to the stoichiometric sum of the bases in solution. In the natural environment carbonate alkalinity tends to make up most of the total alkalinity due to the common occurrence and dissolution of carbonate rocks and presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Other common natural components that can contribute to alkalinity include borate, hydroxide, phosphate, silicate, dissolved ammonia, the conjugate bases of some organic acids, and sulfate. Solutions produced in a laboratory may contain a virtually limitless number of bases that contribute to alkalinity. Alkalinity is usually given in the unit mEq/L (milliequivalent per liter). Commercially, as in the swimming pool industry, alkalinity might also be given in parts per million of equivalent calcium carbonate (ppm CaCO3).
Alkalinity is sometimes incorrectly used interchangeably with basicity. For example, the pH of a solution can be lowered by the addition of CO2. This will reduce the basicity; however, the alkalinity will remain unchanged (see example below).
Theoretical treatment of alkalinity
In typical groundwater or seawater, the measured alkalinity is set equal to:
AT = [HCO3−]T + 2[CO3−2]T + [B(OH)4−]T + [OH−]T + 2[PO4−3]T + [HPO4−2]T + [SiO(OH)3−]T − [H+]sws − [HSO4−]
(Subscript T indicates the total concentration of the species in the solution as measured. This is opposed to the free concentration, which takes into account the significant amount of ion pair interactions that occur in seawater.)
Alkalinity can be measured by titrating a sample with a strong acid until all the buffering capacity of the aforementioned ions above the pH of bicarbonate or carbonate is consumed. This point is functionally set to pH 4.5. At this point, all the bases of interest have been protonated to the zero level species, hence they no longer cause alkalinity. In the carbonate system the bicarbonate ions [HCO3−] and the carbonate ions [CO3−2] have become converted to carbonic acid [H2CO3] at this pH. This pH is also called the CO2 equivalence point where the major component in water is dissolved CO2 which is converted to H2CO3 in an aqueous solution. There are no strong acids or bases at this point. Therefore, the alkalinity is modeled and quantified with respect to the CO2 equivalence point. Because the alkalinity is measured with respect to the CO2 equivalence point, the dissolution of CO2, although it adds acid and dissolved inorganic carbon, does not change the alkalinity. In natural conditions, the dissolution of basic rocks and addition of ammonia [NH3] or organic amines leads to the addition of base to natural waters at the CO2 equivalence point. The dissolved base in water increases the pH and titrates an equivalent amount of CO2 to bicarbonate ion and carbonate ion. At equilibrium, the water contains a certain amount of alkalinity contributed by the concentration of weak acid anions. Conversely, the addition of acid converts weak acid anions to CO2 and continuous addition of strong acids can cause the alkalinity to become less than zero.[6] For example, the following reactions take place during the addition of acid to a typical seawater solution:
- [SiO(OH)3−] + H+ → [Si(OH)40]
It can be seen from the above protonation reactions that most bases consume one proton (H+) to become a neutral species, thus increasing alkalinity by one per equivalent. CO3−2 however, will consume two protons before becoming a zero level species (CO2), thus it increases alkalinity by two per mole of CO3−2. [H+] and [HSO4−] decrease alkalinity, as they act as sources of protons. They are often represented collectively as [H+]T.
Alkalinity is typically reported as mg/L as CaCO3. (The conjunction "as" is appropriate in this case because the alkalinity results from a mixture of ions but is reported "as if" all of this is due to CaCO3.) This can be converted into milliEquivalents per Liter (mEq/L) by dividing by 50 (the approximate MW of CaCO3/2).
Example problems
Sum of contributing species
The following equations demonstrate the relative contributions of each component to the alkalinity of a typical seawater sample. Contributions are in μmol.kg−soln−1 and are obtained from A Handbook of Methods for the analysis of carbon dioxide parameters in seawater "[1],"(Salinity = 35 g/kg, pH = 8.1, Temperature = 25 °C).
AT = [HCO3−]T + 2[CO3−2]T + [B(OH)4−]T + [OH−]T + 2[PO4−3]T + [HPO4−2]T + [SiO(OH)3−]T − [H+] − [HSO4−] − [HF]
Phosphates and silicate, being nutrients, are typically negligible. At pH = 8.1 [HSO4−] and [HF] are also negligible. So,
AT = 2480 μmol.kg−soln−1
Addition of CO2
The addition (or removal) of CO2 to a solution does not change the alkalinity. This is because the net reaction produces the same number of equivalents of positively contributing species (H+) as negative contributing species (HCO3− and/or CO32−).
At neutral pH values:
At high pH values:
Dissolution of carbonate rock
Addition of CO2 to a solution in contact with a solid can (over time) affect the alkalinity, especially for carbonate minerals in contact with groundwater or seawater . The dissolution (or precipitation) of carbonate rock has a strong influence on the alkalinity. This is because carbonate rock is composed of CaCO3 and its dissociation will add Ca+2 and CO3−2 into solution. Ca+2 will not influence alkalinity, but CO3−2 will increase alkalinity by 2 units. Increased dissolution of carbonate rock by acidification from acid rain and mining has contributed to increased alkalinity concentrations in some major rivers throughout the Eastern U.S.[3]
Oceanic Alkalinity
Processes that increase alkalinity
There are many methods of alkalinity generation in the ocean. Perhaps the most well known is the dissolution of CaCO3 (calcium carbonate, which is a component of coral reefs) to form Ca2+ and CO32− (carbonate). The carbonate ion has the potential to absorb two hydrogen ions. Therefore, it causes a net increase in ocean alkalinity. Calcium carbonate dissolution is an indirect result of ocean acidification. It can cause great damage to coral reef ecosystems, but seems to have a relatively low effect on the total alkalinity (AT) in the ocean.[7]
Anaerobic degradation processes, such as denitrification and sulfate reduction, have a much greater impact on oceanic alkalinity. Denitrification and sulfate reduction occur in the deep ocean, where there is an absence of oxygen. Both of these processes consume hydrogen ions and releases quasi-inert gases (N2 or H2S), which eventually escape into the atmosphere. This consumption of H+ increases the alkalinity. It has been estimated that anaerobic degradation could be as much as 60% of the total oceanic alkalinity.[8]
Processes that decrease alkalinity
Anaerobic processes generally increase alkalinity. Conversely, aerobic degradation can decrease AT. This process occurs in portions of the ocean where oxygen is present (surface waters). It results in dissolved organic matter and the production of hydrogen ions.[9] An increase in H+ clearly decreases alkalinity. However, the dissolved organic matter may have base functional groups that can consume these hydrogen ions and negate their effect on alkalinity. Therefore, aerobic degradation has a relatively low impact on the overall oceanic alkalinity.[10]
All of these aforementioned methods are chemical processes. However, physical processes can also serve to affect AT. The melting of polar ice caps is a growing concern that can serve to decrease oceanic alkalinity. If the ice were to melt, then the overall volume of the ocean would increase. Because alkalinity is a concentration value (mol/L), increasing the volume would theoretically serve to decrease AT. However, the actual effect would be much more complicated than this.[11]
Global temporal variability
Researchers have shown oceanic alkalinity to vary over time. Because AT is calculated from the ions in the ocean, a change in the chemical composition would alter alkalinity. One way this can occur is through ocean acidification. However, oceanic alkalinity is relatively stable, so significant changes can only occur over long time scales (i.e. hundreds to thousands of years).[12] As a result, seasonal and annual variability is generally very low.[13]
Spatial variability
Researchers have also shown alkalinity to vary depending on location. Local AT can be affected by two main mixing patterns: current and river. Current dominated mixing occurs close to the shore in areas with strong water flow. In these areas, alkalinity trends follow current and have a segmented relationship with salinity.[14]
River dominated mixing also occurs close to the shore; it is strongest close to the mouth of a large river (i.e. the Mississippi or Amazon). Here, the rivers can act as either a source or a sink of alkalinity. AT follows the outflow of the river and has a linear relationship with salinity. This mixing pattern is most important in late winter and spring, because snow melt increases the river's outflow. As the season progresses into summer, river processes are less significant, and current mixing can become the dominant process.[15]
Oceanic alkalinity also follows general trends based on latitude and depth. It has been shown that AT is often inversely proportional to sea surface temperature (SST). Therefore, it generally increases with high latitudes and depths. As a result, upwelling areas (where water from the deep ocean is pushed to the surface) also have higher alkalinity values.[16]
Measurement Data Sets
Throughout recent history, there have been many attempts to measure, record, and study oceanic alkalinity. Some of the larger data sets are listed below.
GEOSECS (Geochemical Ocean Sections Study)
TTO/NAS (Transient Tracers in the Ocean/North Atlantic Study)
JGOFS (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study)
WOCE (World Ocean Circulation Experiment)
CARINA (Carbon dioxide in the Atlantic Ocean)
See also
- Alkali soils
- Base (chemistry)
- Biological pump
- Dealkalization of water
- Global Ocean Data Analysis Project
- Ocean acidification
- ↑ "Alkalinity". The WQA Glossary of Terms. 31 March 2000. Retrieved 6 March 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Total Alkalinity". United States Environment Protection Agency. Retrieved 6 March 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- ↑ Drever, James I. (1988). The Geochemistry of Natural Waters, Second Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. pp. 51–58 [52]. ISBN 0-13-351396-3.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Stumm, W. & J.J Morgan (1981). Aquatic Chemistry, 2n Ed. New York: Wiley-Interscience. p. 780.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Benjamin. Mark M. 2015. Water Chemistry. 2nd Ed. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc.
- ↑ Thomas, H.; Schiettecatte, L.-S.; et al. Enhanced Ocean Carbon Storage from Anaerobic Alkalinity Generation in Coastal Sediments. Biogeosciences Discussions. 2008, 5, 3575-3591
- ↑ Thomas, H.; Schiettecatte, L.-S.; et al. Enhanced Ocean Carbon Storage from Anaerobic Alkalinity Generation in Coastal Sediments. Biogeosciences Discussions. 2008, 5, 3575-3591
- ↑ Thomas, H.; Schiettecatte, L.-S.; et al. Enhanced Ocean Carbon Storage from Anaerobic Alkalinity Generation in Coastal Sediments. Biogeosciences Discussions. 2008, 5, 3575-3591
- ↑ Kim, H.-C., and K. Lee (2009), Significant contribution of dissolved organic matter to seawater alkalinity, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L20603, doi:10.1029/2009GL040271
- ↑ Chen, B.; Cai, W. Using Alkalinity to Separate the Inputs of Ice-Melting and River in the Western Arctic Ocean. Proceedings from the 2010 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2010, 22-26.
- ↑ Doney, S. C.; Fabry, V. J.; et al. Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem. Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci., 2009, 69-92. doi:10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163834
- ↑ Thomas, H.; Schiettecatte, L.-S.; et al. Enhanced Ocean Carbon Storage from Anaerobic Alkalinity Generation in Coastal Sediments. Biogeosciences Discussions. 2008, 5, 3575-3591
- ↑ Cai, W.-J.; Hu, X. et al. Alkalinity Distribution in the Western North Atlantic Ocean Margins. Journal of Geophysical Research. 2010, 115, 1-15. doi:10.1029/2009JC005482
- ↑ Thomas, H.; Schiettecatte, L.-S.; et al. Enhanced Ocean Carbon Storage from Anaerobic Alkalinity Generation in Coastal Sediments. Biogeosciences Discussions. 2008, 5, 3575-3591
- ↑ Millero, F. J.; Lee, K.; Roche, M. Distribution of alkalinity in the surface waters of the major oceans. Marine Chemistry. 1998, 60, 111-130.
Carbonate system calculators
The following packages calculate the state of the carbonate system in seawater (including pH):
- CO2SYS, available as a stand-alone executable, Excel spreadsheet, or MATLAB script.
- seacarb, a R package for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (also available here)
- CSYS, a Matlab script
External links
- Holmes-Farley, Randy. "Chemistry and the Aquarium: What is Alkalinity?," Advanced Aquarist's Online Magazine. Alkalinity as it pertains to salt-water aquariums.
- DOE (1994) "[2],"Handbook of methods for the analysis of the various parameters of the carbon dioxide system in sea water. Version 2, A. G. Dickson & C. Goyet, eds. ORNL/CDIAC-74.
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So we've been mulling over this Maurice Clarett playing indoor football story, and we're really kind of amazed. First off, it's important to point out that this is not the Arena Football League; that league has been around for 20 years and even though it just lost its NBC contract, it seems likely to continue to thrive.
No, this is the Eastern Indoor Football League, a startup league whose Web site claims will be begin play in "Winter 2007." Clarett's team, the Mahoning Valley Hitmen, currently has four players but plans on "holding a tryout sometime soon." The league has three teams and also has a stirring rules page.
As for Clarett:
"I've never seen a player this excited at this level of play," Hitmen "coach" Jim Terry said of Clarett. "This isn't a runner's league. It's a passer's league. And (Clarett) is going to try to make it on the ground."
By the way: We have a league too. It plays its games on the fields right by our bathroom and has a television contract with the network that houses itself in our refrigerator. We're more of a runner's league, though, and we exist every bit as much as the Eastern Indoor Football League does right now. Good look, Mo!
Indoor Team Might Put Clarett Back On The Field [Columbus Dispatch]
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Trayvon Martin's supporters pack churches, swarm rallies and wear hooded sweat shirts in solidarity while friends and family of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot the unarmed teen to death, remain largely out of sight. The few who have defended Zimmerman have done so reluctantly, most fearing public backlash.
Zimmerman, 28, has gone into hiding. His version of what happened on the rainy night of Feb. 26 has only trickled out from police and his attorney. Zimmerman said he was pursuing the 17-year-old Martin because Martin was acting suspiciously. He said he lost sight of the teenager and Martin attacked him as he headed back to his sport utility vehicle.
Listen to Zimmerman's 911 call that night (edited by the Times-Union)
Watch surveillance video of Zimmerman after the shooting
Zimmerman told police he fired in self-defense and police did not arrest him, touching off widespread public outrage and protests across the country.
Martin's supporters believe race played a role in the shooting. Martin was black; Zimmerman's father is white and his mother is Hispanic.
"The family has had death threats, the father and mother, George has had death threats. Anything related to George is a target," said Miguel Meza, who identified himself as Zimmerman's cousin.
George Hall, a retired Presbyterian minister, said he was Zimmerman's neighbor for 20 years in Manassas, Va., until about 2001. Hall said Zimmerman and his brother attended church, and he wrote a recommendation for Zimmerman for a police academy in 2004.
"Their parents taught them to treat everybody with respect. I'm tired of hearing about this race thing," Hall said. "It could be an element in it ... but I never would have thought of him as being a racist. His father was in the Army and was a white American and his mother was Peruvian. That makes him 50 percent Peruvian. A lot of stuff I hear, it irks me because people are drawing their own conclusions with very little evidence."
It wasn't immediately clear if Meza had talked to Zimmerman since the shooting, but he said other relatives are afraid to comment publicly, even though they think he is being treated unfairly.
"The media has been quick to demonize George, but Trayvon Martin was no angelic boy walking," Meza said.
Zimmerman's father in an interview airing Wednesday night on WOFL FOX 35 in Orlando reiterated what his son's attorney, Craig Sonner, has said about the confrontation with Martin. Robert Zimmerman, 64, said the teen confronted his son when he got back to his car that day. When his son started reaching for his cellphone, Martin "was punching him in the nose, his nose was broken and he was knocked to the concrete."
He said Martin, "continued to beat George, and at some point, George pulled his pistol and did what he did."
The Orlando Sentinel, citing anonymous sources, has reported that Martin grabbed Zimmerman's head and banged it several times against the sidewalk. A statement from Sanford police said the newspaper's story was "consistent" with evidence turned over to prosecutors.
George Zimmerman said he began crying for help, which his father said his family believes after listening to the 911 tapes. Martin's family thinks it was their son who was crying out. Witness accounts differ and 911 tapes in which the voices are heard are not clear.
Martin was at least 6 feet tall, several inches taller than the 5-foot-9 Zimmerman. Meza said Martin was not the child he appears to be in photos flashed across television and newspapers.
"George was in a fight for his life," Meza said.
Robert Zimmerman said several break-ins had happened in the neighborhood and his son became suspicious that someone would be walking on a rainy day between the town homes. When he called police dispatchers, they asked for an address, his father said. He wasn't sure what street he was on so despite police advising him to stop following Martin, he continued so he could get an address, his father said.
Martin's supporters, including a host of outspoken celebrities and civil rights leaders who have appeared on television for the past two weeks, don't believe Zimmerman's story. They want him arrested and prosecuted, and his parents think their son is being painted in a negative light by a police department leaking information to the news media.
The teenager was suspended from school three times this year. In October, he wrote obscene graffiti on a door at his high school. During a search of his backpack, campus security officers found 12 pieces of jewelry, a watch and a screwdriver that they thought could be used as a burglary tool, according to a school police report obtained by the Miami Herald.
When campus security confronted Martin, he told them a friend had given him the jewelry, but he wouldn't give a name. The Miami-Dade Police Department said Tuesday the jewelry could not be tied to any reported thefts.
Martin had previously been suspended for excessive absences and tardiness and, at the time of his death, was serving a 10-day suspension after school officials found an empty plastic bag with marijuana traces in his backpack.
His parents spent Tuesday at a forum organized by Congress on racial profiling and hate crimes. They spoke briefly before a Democrats-only congressional panel as cameras clicked noisily in front of them.
"Trayvon was our son, but Trayvon is your son," Sybrina Fulton, Martin's mother, told the panel. "A lot of people can relate to our situation and it breaks their heart like it breaks our heart."
Another of Zimmerman's friends said Zimmerman would tell the teen's parents he's "very, very sorry" if he could.
Speaking Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Joe Oliver said Zimmerman is not a racist and has virtually lost his own life since the shooting.
"This is a guy who thought he was doing the right thing at the time, and it's turned out horribly wrong," said Oliver, one of the few blacks to come forward in support of Zimmerman.
Victor Rodriguez, who lives in Zimmerman's neighborhood, said he often saw him walking around, but he didn't know if that was part of his patrol. Now, he's not sure what to think.
"It makes you feel a little bit safe but knowing what happened and everything, it's kind of like confusing in a way. We don't want people to be in the neighborhood. You have kids running around. You don't want robberies going down," Rodriguez said.


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This is a second sermon based small group that will be following the weekly lessons and Scripture passages of James in "Practically Speaking". Our hope is to provide an excellent opportunity to re-visit the Sunday sermon and deepen our understanding of it and especially to discuss ways of applying it in daily life. We will be meeting for the duration of the James series in the home of Einar and Jenn Skolseg. Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com for more details.
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The Folgar-Tucker equation (FTE) is the model most frequently used for the prediction of fiber orientation (FO) in simulations of the injection molding process for short-fiber reinforced thermoplasts. In contrast to its widespread use in injection molding simulations, little is known about the mathematical properties of the FTE: an investigation of e.g. its phase spaceMFT has been presented only recently. The restriction of the dependent variable of the FTE to the setMFT turns the FTE into a differential algebraic system (DAS), a fact which is commonly neglected when devising numerical schemes for the integration of the FTE. In this article1 we present some recent results on the problem of trace stability as well as some introductory material which complements our recent paper.


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Ok Delia co-composed it because the sounds are just as important as the time and pitch.
Im with you Darren. Using samples to make new sounds is where Im at. That's why I love music by Art of Noise, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Future Sound of London and Amon Tobin.
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Moscow is a city of contrasts, where the bohemian and the glamorous merge in an idiosyncratic fusion - do not be surprised to find a golden-domed 16th century church next to an ultra-modern glass skyscraper. Here, salty fish eggs (caviar) are washed down with bubbly champagne and worn-out commuters travel by the elaborately decorated, elegant metro - one of the city's main attractions.
Russian ruble (RBL) 1 ruble = 100 kopeks
Emergency: 01
Police: 02
Ambulance: 03
Moscow Tourist Helpline: +7 800 220 00 02 (English)
The Moscow Times
The Moscow Tribune
Most shops are open from 9/11am-7pm on weekdays. Banks are open from 10am-5pm. Some offices are closed an hour for lunch. Many museums are closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Moscow Tourist Information Centre
Gostiny Dvor, 4 Ilyinka, Moscow
+7 095 232 5657
Information can also be found at travel agents and upscale hotels.
The Kremlin has long served as headquarters for Moscow's many rulers - Ivan the Terrible and Stalin once issued their orders from here and today, the Kremlin's walls protect some of the country's most precious treasures.
Outside the Kremlin microcosm lies Russia in constant flux. Since Gorbachov introduced perestroyka (restructuring) in 1985, the Communists have given way to a new generation of business-minded men and women, hungry for progress. However, old traditions are being honoured and kept alive - excellent performative arts (ballet, opera, and instrumental music), beautifully restored Orthodox churches, Soviet architectural and cultural heritage, and the national cuisine are only a few of the things modern Moscow has to offer.
Moscow might be one of the world's most exciting cities, an embodiment of the intricate fusion of the old and the new. You will definitely be able to fill your time here with history, art, culture, and great food. Visit the many churches and cathedrals, enjoy a show at the Bolshoi Theatre, or go for a walk in one of the city's many parks - Moscow certainly has many ways to enchant you.
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art
The Tretiakov Gallery
Armoury Chamber in The Kremlin
Red Square and the Lenin Mausoleum
St. Basil's Cathedral
Moscow Metro
Izmaylovo Market
Gorky Park
Sparrow Hills
Arbat Street
Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
Seven Sisters
Gulag History Museum
Cathedral of Christ the Savior
Bolshoi Theatre
Zaryadye Park
It is truly an adventure to go out for dinner in Moscow. The city teems with extravagant themed restaurants where one is transported through both time and space. You may suddenly find yourself in Thailand, on a farm or in a past century. If you want to have good food and spend less, you can go to some of the city's many Georgian and Armenian restaurants. There are also food chains such as Moo-Moo and Yolki-Palki, where you can serve yourself inexpensive, simple Russian fare. For most restaurants it is recommended to book a table in advance.
Restaurant Expedition
Café Pushkin
Noev Kovcheg (Noah's Ark)
El Gaucho
Rybniy Bazar
Mary Jane Bar
Pane & Olio
Chicago Grill & Bar
Lavkalavka Farmer's Restaurant
Moscow is a city teeming with cafes to suit all tastes and wallets. In the summer, city parks turn into visitor magnets with abundant outdoor cafes - the recently re-conceptualized and ever-evolving Gorky Park being one of the main summertime hot spots. Outside of parks, there are multiple cafes at nearly every corner, ranging from local and international coffee shop chains to quirky themed establishments.
Stolovaya 57
Lyudi Kak Lyudi
Upside Down Cake Company
Margarita Bistro
The nightlife scene in Moscow is varied, and long-gone are the days when the only kind of venues in operation were luxury establishments guarded by stern-looking bouncers. Although some places still enforce FC/DC, many are now leaning towards a more casual approach to entry - the recent decade has seen a rise in number of casual bars modeled after hip urban haunts of west European capitals. Wine bars, craft breweries, bohemian cafes, indie bars, and glitzy nightclubs are all to be found in abundance, spread throughout the city's many neighbourhoods.
Vogue Café
Night Flight
16 Tonn
Hookah Bar Friends
Chinese Pilot Jao Da
In order to satisfy the wishes of Russian business men and women, many chic designer stores have opened their stores in Moscow. Today there is definitely a risk that tourists will return home with considerably more expensive souvenirs than fur hats and Russian "matryoshka" dolls, which are readily available throughout - a good place to start browsing for these is the souvenir market right next to the Red Square.
Popular Shopping Streets
Eliseyevskiy Store
Russian Gift
Izmaylovo Market
Vnukovo International Airport
The city's third and most compact airport, Vnukovo is located approximately 28 kilometers southwest of the city center. The air hub is best reached by Aeroexpress trains departing from the Kievskaya Railway Station. Several mini-buses also run here from Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station (south end of the red line).
Phone: +7 495 937-55-55
Website: www.vnukovo.ru/en
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Sheremetyevo International Airport
The largest international airport in Moscow is Sheremetyevo International Airport, located 30 kilometres from the city centre.
The easiest and fastest way to reach any of Moscow's three major airports is by Aeroexpress - a fast train designated for air travelers (train departs from Belorussky Railway Station). The train ride takes 35 minutes.
Another way to get here is by taxi. At the airport you can order taxis at the operator desk. You can usually book a taxi in advance through the hotel or travel agency when going to the airport.
Alternatively, there are different bus routes. The buses take about 30-70 minutes depending on the route and your final destination. When traveling by car or bus, do keep in mind that rush hour traffic may sometimes be very dense, and significant delays are possible.
Address: Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow
Phone: +7 495 578 65 65
Website: https://www.svo.aero/en/main
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Domodedovo International Airport
Another large airport in Moscow is Moscow Domodedovo Airport. The airport is located 22 kilometres away from the city.
You can also reach the airport from Domodedovskaya underground station by mini-bus or bus and from Paveletsky railway station by train. The train from Paveletsky railway station takes 40-50 minutes going on the Aeroexpress train, and 1 hour and 10 minutes on the commuter train. The express buses and shuttles from Domodedovskaya underground station take 25-30 minutes and leave every 15 minutes. Buses run from 6am-12am.
Taxis can be ordered at the domestic and international arrivals hall.
There are car rental services at the airport.
Address: Moscow Domodedovo Airport, Moscow
Phone: +7 495 933 6666
Website: www.domodedovo.ru
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Moscow has one of the world's most beautiful underground railways which operates very efficiently. If you carry big luggage on the metro, make sure you buy a special luggage ticket. Tickets can be bought at station entrances - either at vending machines or special staffed kiosks.
Phone: +7 495 688 02 93
Website: www.mosmetro.ru
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In Moscow there are also buses, trolley buses and trams apart from the beautiful metro. Tickets can be bought from the kiosks in the street or from the driver and validated once aboard.
Phone: +7 495 950 4204
Website: www.mosgortrans.ru
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In Moscow the easiest way to get a taxi is the traditional way: to stand in the street and hold out your arm. Civilian cars like to operate as taxis, it is therefore recommended to only use professional taxi services. Taxi meters are not always used, so agree on a price before travelling. English-speaking taxi services in Moscow:
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There are many post offices around town. If you want to send a letter you can drop it of in one of the dark blue post boxes.
Main Post Office:
Address: Ul. Myasnitskaya 26, Moscow
Phone: +7 495 623 67 01
Website: https://www.pochta.ru
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Its hard to believe that it is already the middle of February. Time has a way of disappearing like a blink of the eye! I guess the older you get the faster it goes. Since we are still in winter lets have some more snow! Our snow around Maine is going very fast. Since we do snowmobile some and have a camp further north in Maine where usually snowmobiling is great we are all praying for those white flakes. Vacation week is the time we go with our grandkids and their parents. We have such a great time. In the meantime I am making new things for my website lizziesraggs and thinking Spring creations. Hard to get in that mood but I`m trying. Hope to hear from you and share what your all doing to get through this season.


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WATCH: New Hampshire Man Reunited with Dog 10 Years Later
(MANCHESTER, N.H.) -- Jamie Carpentier of Nashua, N.H., had always wondered whatever happened to Ginger, the dog that dropped out of his life nearly a decade ago.
On a whim, he logged on to the website of the Humane Society of Greater Nashua one night last month and looked through the dogs that were up for adoption, according to a report from ABC News affiliate WMUR in New Hampshire. One click brought him to the listing of a 13-year-old basset hound named Ginger.
There was something about the description of Ginger that reminded Carpentier of his long-lost dog. Though there were no pictures attached, Carpentier was struck by the dog's description, which read: "I have the longest ears and the biggest heart of any dog you will ever meet! I am an older girl, but I still have a lot of spunk left."
Without Carpentier's knowledge, his ex-wife had surrendered Ginger to the Nashua Humane Society shelter in 2003. An older couple adopted Ginger, but they returned her to the shelter last October when caring for Ginger became too difficult, according to the shelter.
It's a tough adjustment for older animals coming into the shelter, and members of the Humane Society staff opened their homes to Ginger while waiting for a new family to adopt her, Noelle Schuyler, an event and outreach coordinator for the Humane Society shelter, told ABC News.
To Carpentier, the dog on the shelter's website sounded like his lost companion.
"Just the paws, that's the thing I remembered about her," Carpentier told WMUR. "She had these 'ginormous' paws."
It was not until Carpentier was on the phone with staff members, who excitedly compared Ginger's spots with the markings in the old photos that Carpentier had sent to them, that everyone realized Ginger could be the same dog.
"She's a little bit more white now," Schuyler said, "but she has three markers on her side that matched up."
Shortly after that call, Carpentier met Ginger at the shelter. Ten years had passed, and many of the staff members wondered how Ginger would react when Carpentier came down to the basement, where she was sleeping, Schuyler said.
Carpentier nudged Ginger gently out of her sleep, and Ginger began to sniff at Carpentier, Schuyler recalled.
"At one point he was petting her head, and he bent his face down, and she started licking his face. That was the moment we saw that she recognized him," Schuyler said, as Ginger had never done that with anyone before.
"She just seemed like she knew it was me," Carpentier told WMUR. "It was me and my father that were there. She just recognized us."
After 10 years and some slobbery kisses, Carpentier and Ginger were reunited for good.
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Japan should continue to use nuclear power as a key energy source despite the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant disaster, a government panel said on Friday in a reversal of a phase-out plan by the previous government.
The draft energy plan issued by the panel underscores Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to restart as many nuclear reactors as possible under new, stricter safety requirements that took effect this past summer.
Currently, all 50 of Japan's reactors are offline for safety inspections or maintenance.
The draft Basic Energy Plan says nuclear energy should remain "an important and basic power source that supports the stability of Japan's energy supply and demand structure."
It says Japan should also try to diversify its energy mix, without giving numerical targets.
Nuclear energy supplied about one-third of Japan's energy needs before the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident in March 2011, and the country had planned to push that to 50 percent. The draft plan also urges Japan to continue with its plan to reprocess spent nuclear fuel to extract plutonium despite international concerns about the country's large stockpile of the highly toxic element that can be used to make nuclear weapons.
Japan has 44 tonnes of plutonium after unsuccessfully pushing to establish a system in which it is extracted from spent fuel rods and then made into hybrid fuel that can be reused.
Experts say the stockpile poses a nuclear security threat and raises questions over whether Japan plans to develop nuclear weapons, which the government denies.
Japan also has more than 17,000 tonnes of spent fuel in cooling pools at its 50 reactors. Some pools are expected to be full in several years, and the spent fuel is expected to be moved to a dry cask facility just completed in northern Japan.
Japan has no final nuclear waste repository, not even a potential site.
Earlier on Friday, the top US nuclear regulator said atomic energy users, including Japan, must figure out how to ultimately store radioactive waste.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Director Allison Macfarlane said in Tokyo that developing an underground repository remains a challenge despite a global consensus on the need for such facilities to deal with waste from nuclear plants.
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BART workers on strike - no service Monday
(07-01) 00:54 PDT Oakland -- The first BART strike since 1997 is now under way.
The final trains of the Sunday shift will finish up their runs. But there will be no service Monday, with the transit system's workers and management agreeing only on the fact that the two sides remain far apart in contract negotiations. Instead of reporting to work, BART union employees will carry picket signs and distribute leaflets at most stations.
"Regretfully, we have to let the riding public know that we will not be operating" Monday said Antonette Bryant, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, which represents 945 train operators and station agents. "Our members aren't interested in disrupting the Bay Area, but management has put us in a position where we have no choice."
Management's position was different, that labor had shown no interest Sunday evening in working to continue to settle the remaining contract issues.
"Obviously, we're disappointed. We feel we have a very good offer on the table," aid Rick Rice, a BART spokesman. He also said "the mediator will be reaching out to all of us to resume the talks as soon as possible," although it does not appear any talks are scheduled for Monday.
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At midnight, a dozen members of Service Employees International Union Local 1021 filed out of the union's offices near the Oakland waterfront to make it official that no last-minute reprieve for commuters was at hand.
"There are times when you have to make a statement, and that's what we're doing now," said Des Patten, president of the BART professional chapter of SEIU. "BART management needs to offer us something new to consider."
Talks between the two sides came to an end shortly before 8:30 p.m., when union negotiators left the state office building in Oakland that had been opened for the day as a neutral meeting ground.
'No progress'
BART officials said they had doubled their salary offer - to 8 percent over four years - but that the unions had reduced their proposal for a 23.2 percent raise by one-half percent. They said it was the unions' turn to make a proposal.
"It's not even dark yet and the unions left for the evening," said Alicia Trost, BART spokeswoman. "BART negotiations have a tradition of going until midnight - even past midnight. We apologize to our riders. ... We're sorry they've been dragged into this labor mess."
Commuters Monday now must puzzle out how they will get around the Bay Area without BART, which carries 400,000 riders on an average weekday.
San Francisco Bay Ferry will add boats from the East Bay, and AC Transit, in the midst of its own labor troubles, will run extra buses. AC's workers were planning to bargain until midnight. If talks failed, they said, the soonest they would strike would be Tuesday morning.
As the midnight deadline neared, one of the top union negotiators was asked if there had been any final effort by decisionmakers to avert a strike that is likely to leave commuters fuming at both sides.
"We have heard from some elected officials who called us in the last few hours, asking if there is anything they could do," said Josie Mooney, a chief negotiator for Service Employees International Union Local 1021, which represents 1,433 mechanics, maintenance workers and staff. "We said yes. Have BART management send us a new offer."
Earlier in the day, union negotiators had returned to the bargaining table after walking away a day earlier. Some carried suitcases or food and appeared to be prepared for a long night.
"We are hoping the district brings us something substantive that we feel we can take to our members so we can settle this," said Bryant.
Frustrated by a lack of progress, union bargaining teams had previously walked away from negotiations in the Kaiser Center, which houses BART headquarters, on Saturday afternoon, saying a strike was all but inevitable.
After they left the talks, BART bargainers sent a new proposal by e-mail. But union officials said they were unimpressed and weren't inclined to return to bargaining.
Governor intervened
Talks resumed only after state Labor Secretary Marty Morgenstern called SEIU representatives to say that Gov. Jerry Brown wanted them to return to the table. Brown also told ATU officials he was rejecting their request for a 60-day cooling-off period that would delay a strike.
The key issues in the labor dispute are economic: wages, contributions to pensions and health insurance payments. Currently, BART employees, union and nonunion, make no contribution to their state pension plans and pay $92 a month for health insurance.
Rice said BART's latest proposal offers a 2 percent annual raise, up from its initial proposal of 1 percent. The latest proposal, compared with the previous proposal, also reduces the amount that the district would require employees to begin contributing to pensions and to pay toward health insurance premiums. Rice said the proposal would mean a raise for every union employee.
Union officials disagreed. Part of the raise BART offered in the latest proposal is contingent, they said, on factors ranging from ambitious ridership increases and sales tax revenues to reductions in the number of employees seeking Family Medical Leave Act absences. Many employees would lose money every year, union officials said.
"On the surface it looks like a raise," Bryant said. "But it's not really a raise. It certainly leaves us in the red - 3 to 4 percent lower than our wages now."
BART says it wants to reach a fair deal with its employees but that it needs relief from skyrocketing pension and health benefits. It says that while its operating budget generates a surplus, it needs to reinvest that money in modernizing and improving the system. To accommodate that growth, it needs to raise billions to pay for its share of 1,000 new railcars, a new train maintenance facility and a new train control system.
Ridership has risen
The unions say their employees are responsible for keeping the aging system running well enough to transport more passengers than planners envisioned even four years ago.
Unionized workers have gone without raises for five years, and four years ago made $100 million in concessions to help the district when the economy was struggling. Now that BART is booming and making a surplus, it should share that with its workers, the unions say.
A typical BART station agent or train operator is paid a salary in the low $60,000 range. According to BART, they also make an average of $11,000 to $16,000 annually in overtime. The value of their benefits, the district estimates, averages an additional $50,000 a year.
Online updates: For information on the status of BART negotiations, go to www.sfgate.com.
Michael Cabanatuan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: ctuan


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foliageweb necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 140 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
Invitation Buzz
Invitation Buzz is brand new online marketplace for designers, retailers, publishers and all those related to the greeting card and stationery industry. We will offer a business directory as well as an online submission system for anyone to hold design contests to keep their collections fresh. Behind the scenes are a group of enthusiastic women in their 30's ready to give this industry a tool that will help streamline their ever changing design collections and market their companies & products.
Our audience consists of consumers, retailers & designers of anything stationery, invitations, cards & announcements.
Looking for a logo and lettering to identify us. We have a passion for finding fashionable cards and announcements - connecting invitation buyers to amazing, unique and hip designers! We blog & talk about everything trendy & stationery.
We need to present ourselves as classy, stylish, and trendy.
Simple & easy on the eye, but unique.
Colors we like are shades of Black/Purple/Kakhi, but we are open to any other color choices.
It needs to say "Invitation Buzz" along with some sort of logo or illustration. Our primary presence for this business is online. Logo version must be suitable for reproduction in print & online, but clearly visible & branded online.
We are open to your creative ideas! We'll provide feedback as quickly as possible to help provide guidance. We've got the Adobe Suite, so Illustrator, Photoshop formats all acceptable. We prefer Illustrator or .eps format for ability to edit/scale.
Website contest to follow, so watch for that after this contest ends!
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11 Things You May Not Know About Mad Men
Mad for AMC's Mad Men? Try these fast facts about the show
The mad men of Sterling Cooper, from left: Pete Campbell (played by Vincent Kartheiser), Don Draper (Jon Hamm), and Roger Sterling (John Slattery)
Photograph courtesy of AMC
This Sunday saw the much-awaited return of Mad Men. And, while the show is off answering one big question — who is Don Draper? — we found out the answers to some Mad Men questions you didn't even have to ask. Some not-common-knowledge facts about the show:
- It's not just the Drapers who are wealthy. Their fans are, too. Almost half of the show's viewers live in households that make $100,000 per year.
- ...And they're going to need all that dough: It'll cost at least $300 (plus tax) to get a sweet set of four Mad Men Barbie dolls.
- Sure, everyone you know and every blog you read is obsessed with Mad Men. But the show doesn't actually have blockbuster ratings. More people watch Burn Notice on USA. When was the last time Burn Notice came up in conversation at a cocktail party you attended?
- Based on the quality of its viewership, it costs $20,000 to $25,000 to run a 30-second ad during a new episode.
- Even though the show has a good ad rate, don't get too attached: Series creator Matthew Weiner's contract expires after this season, and AMC's agreement with Lionsgate ends after the fifth. Cross your fingers that contract negotiations between all three parties goes well.
- Then again, it's possible you might not want a next season. Weiner is upfront in saying that he doesn't put any stock into fan input, and doesn't mind frustrating his followers. When asked if he cares what his audience wants, he told New York magazine's Vulture, "Not that much. I go with what interests me... If I were to give them what they wanted, I don't know if they would like it." (But, honestly, you know that even if they sent Don Draper to the moon, you'd want a fifth season — and it's better when showrunners don't capitulate to their audiences.)
- Fans have found ways of asserting their own control over the show, anyway. They're maintaining their own, not-AMC-approved Twitter feeds for each character — including Betty Draper's deceased dad. (I wonder what he thinks of his daughter's marital situation?)
- The new season of Mad Men takes place in 1964. Other TV shows that debuted in 1964 include The Addams Family, Bewitched, Gilligan's Island, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and The Munsters.
- But forget about the shows — what about the ads? Ads from Don Draper's era, reposted in Paste, include campaigns for authentic Beatle wigs, chicken-flavored candy, and Kellogg's Pep.
- Embarrassing before-they-were-famous roles: Christina Hendricks (Joan) got her start on MTV's extra-campy soap opera Undressed, and January Jones (Betty) was a bitchy sorority sister in a pilot of the aptly named TV show, Sorority, where her character name was "Number One."
- Did you — heaven forbid! — miss an episode? Mad Men recapping is a growth industry. Every blog seems to employ a Draper chronicler. If you couldn't DVR, catch up on missed episodes by reading Flavorwire, Salon, Slate, Vulture, or one of many, many others.
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Life is pretty good just now, but doesn't involve much hacking on anything. A few items...
- Got married earlier this year. 8-) I'm now
mcra, but changing user ID generally looks like a
lot of trouble.
- Rediscovered my desk during a recent archaeological
into the study. There's still a desktop machine under it.
It still contains about three copies of each filesystem off the
knackered disk, in various states of attempted repair.
- reiserfsck had already brought the leftovers back in a self-consistent state.
- Self-consistent is all very well and good, but it doesn't show where the holes are.
- lost+found is OK, in its tedious way, because if I want the data badly enough I can probably figure out where each file belongs. Vast swathes of md5sums match backup copies of old junk in ancient backups, telling me that I didn't need most of those files anyway.
- ...but what happened to the inodes with bad sectors? It looks like the valid data is dropped, giving no chance to look at the leftovers. I started another recovery, to fill the lost sectors with a breakage-marker, instead of marking them bad. This doesn't work on the superblock and root directory though...
- Fishing through old backups is a sorry fallback position.
- unison-synced copies of the data are much better, when they're recent and complete. My old CVS repository now appears to be intact! (I'll skip the migration to Subversion and go straight to Git.)
- I'm wondering whether I want to translate some old ~/.unison/ar* archives into a form that show me missing files, when I only have half the sync.
- I did start fishing through the fsck logs looking for info about files that got left in the bitbucket. I'm as interested in filesystems as the next general purpose geek, you understand, but I'm not sure I wanted the in-depth practical just now.
- In all, it's shocking that 299.5 KiB of bad sectors can do so much damage to a 68 GiB filesystem. I guess the popular sectors took the worst hammering.
- Strangely, the idea of automated push-backups from all
my machines has come alive - again.
- This time I've chosen rsync -axSWH with an ssh private key per filesystem to give access to the destination tree. Writing into a root-owned encfs seems to work, in the sense that special files, hard links and owners can be preserved. [later] But not sparse files, which will explode to full size.
- Last time I preferred an rsync pull, with an ssh key per source machine, and a custom set of --excludes per filesystem. I think I didn't set up the cronjob because Life got Busy. Sigh.
- gibak looks like a good idea, but pruning out large temporary/intermediate files or decimating the history could be hard/slow/large. Maybe some neat loopy branch structure would work? A problem for another day.
- What I need now is something simple and flexible. cp -al is looking tempting.
- Looking forward (?!) to a similar expedition into $MAIL . I expect to find many lost things, neglected and overdue things, and many incomprehensible notes-to-self.
- Discovered Advogato now has password reminder mailer. Woo! I can just log in, instead of messing with the cookie from some ancient homedirectory. It's a great relief, actually, to see pieces of World just quietly carrying on while I'm not getting involved.
- Above all, it's time to start making things again.


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They've tried edgy and tinkered with experimental. But the producers of the 86th Academy Awards telecast believe that what America really wants is tradition.
This year's Oscar show Sunday will bring back 2007 host Ellen DeGeneres, a likable, benign daytime television presence. Backstage, Broadway-oriented veterans Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are back producing for a second consecutive year.
Not present? Seth MacFarlane, the "Family Guy" creator who polarized audiences last year even though he did manage a ratings jump. Ditto for the podium kibitzing of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who have brought an air of controlled raucousness to the last two Golden Globes ceremonies.
"It's the kinder, gentler Oscars," said Dave Boone, an Emmy-winning writer who has worked on more than a half-dozen Oscar telecasts. "It would be a surprise and a mistake if Ellen did what Seth did or what Tina and Amy did. That's not what this year's Oscars are about."
By offering a kind of television comfort food, the Oscars are hoping to consolidate their base, particularly women. Those viewers are more drawn to Ellen — they comprise the core of her 25 million-strong Twitter following — and less disposed to the tomfoolery that MacFarlane brought to last year's show, when bits like "We Saw Your Boobs" struck some as crude. The Oscars audience is typically more than 60% female.
But in its return to tradition, the telecast could be missing an opportunity to draw younger audiences. Last year, MacFarlane reversed a median viewer age that had risen steadily from 42 in 1993 to nearly 53 in 2012. His presence pushed the age down to 51.4, but DeGeneres could well pull it back up. If the median tops 2012's 52.8, it would be the oldest Academy Awards audience since they began keeping records.
The stakes are high for the Oscars and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that stages them. Outside of post-season football games, the telecast is the most-viewed program of the year, with advertisers this time around paying an average of $1.8 million for a 30-second spot, up 9% from last year.
Experts say that the academy is willing to roll the dice on DeGeneres because the talk-show host presents a safe, reassuring image within Hollywood — vital to attracting A-list presenters. Her ability to move between singing, dancing and joking provides a potent combination for audiences.
"Ellen can do the variety show in a way few people today can," said Tom Nunan, the veteran film producer and TV executive who teaches at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. "Producers might be on to something with someone like that — an incredibly durable presence who can fill those shoes for years to come, versus a name du jour who's learning on the job."
Or as academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs told The Times this week, "We love the idea of continuity."
The Oscars have long had a traditional undercurrent, exemplified by recurring host Billy Crystal, who last presided in 2012. But the decision to follow that mind-set so closely is a notable switch not just from MacFarlane last year but the 2011 Oscars, which saw James Franco's and Anne Hathaway's mixed hosting turn, and the 2009 ceremony, which shook up how awards were presented and given out.
Adding to the classic feel of this year's show, which airs on ABC starting at 5:30 p.m. Pacific time, is a reunion of Judy Garland's three children to mark the 75th anniversary of that most iconic of Hollywood creations, "The Wizard of Oz."
Still, for all the appeal of familiarity, pop culture's interest in the next shiny face can be inhospitable to repeat hosts. Jon Stewart drew the smallest number of viewers in several decades during his sophomore stint in 2008, and Whoopi Goldberg's fourth and final turn, in 2002, hit a then-13-year low.
Conversely, rookie MacFarlane landed the second-highest rating in eight years, with 40.4 million total viewers, up 12% from the previous year. And one of the most popular shows in history was hosted by a panned first-timer — David Letterman, who in 1995 drew nearly 49 million viewers. Outside of 1998's record-setting year of "Titanic," it stands as the most watched Oscars since the early 1980s, as Letterman's gaffes became water-cooler moments.
Social media can enhance that must-see effect for contemporary awards shows, as the Golden Globes has found with Fey and Poehler bits, whose popularity on Twitter and YouTube drove a 10-year high in total viewers in January.
The "Titanic," audience, meanwhile, shows how a popular movie can juice the ratings. When the best picture nominees are also commercial successes, more people tend to watch the telecast.
This year, average box office for Oscar best picture nominees, $87 million, is the second-lowest in the five years since the category was expanded to increase the blockbuster quotient.
Producers will lean on hits nominated for lower-profile awards, such as the animated blockbuster "Frozen." Onstage, Idina Menzel will sing the nominated song "Let It Go," which has become a kind of anthem for its young girl audience.
Stars can also make a difference — among this year's celebrity nominees are Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and Julia Roberts — but not in the way they once did.
"There's no longer one person who can bring together everyone," said Ron Simon, curator of television and radio at the Paley Center for Media. "So producers look for a spectrum [among nominees] — Jennifer Lawrence as the very popular young actress, Matthew McConaughey reinvented himself, Bruce Dern toward the end of his career." Indeed, "American Hustle" star Lawrence's victory-walk fall last year was the trip seen around the world and boosted the show's profile among younger viewers.
Still, don't count on too much teen-friendly edginess, at least of the planned kind.
"At the Globes Tina and Amy did a joke about George Clooney and 'Gravity' that had to do with his love life," said Boone, who wrote for this year's Globes telecast. "If Ellen makes a joke about 'Gravity' it will be very different — it will probably be a more self-deprecating joke about how she saw 'Gravity.'"


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Miley Cyrus bleaches her eyebrows
At this point, is anyone surprised?
With Miley Cyrus, there always seems to be something new.
The latest? The controversial singer has bleached her eyebrows.
The platinum blond eyebrows made their debut on Tuesday night in Los Angeles when Miley partied with Miranda Kerr and Lily Allen. Fashion photographer Mert Alas posted a photo on Instagram that showed Miranda and Miley. The shot was later reposted by Kerr — Orlando Bloom's ex — with the caption "Shot by the master @mertalas with the gorgeous @mileycyrus."
Miley also reposted the photo, along with another shot with Alas where she's sticking her tongue out. Shocker.
But then the eyebrows seem to reappear! At 4:22 a.m., Miley posts yet another photo on Twitter showing her curled up with her dog, eyebrows fully restored, along with the caption, "The best medicine. Night night." Not sure if this was taken earlier or what.


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Kevin Kouzmanoff grinned as he discussed the paradox.
"I don't want to be seen just as a defensive third baseman," Kouzmanoff said yesterday after a Petco Park ceremony that saw him turn over his black Rawlings glove to the Hall of Fame.
Kouzmanoff made National League history this season with a .990 fielding percentage, becoming the first third baseman to commit only three errors with more than 300 chances — which led to the call from Cooperstown.
However, when he came to the Padres from Cleveland three years ago in a trade for Josh Barfield, Kouzmanoff had a "good hit/no field" reputation.
"I didn't want to be known that way," Kouzmanoff said. "I have really worked hard on my defense."
The proof goes beyond the fielding percentage.
Kouzmanoff didn't make a throwing error this season. And he made great strides charging bunts and topped rollers.
"Third is a reaction position," Kouzmanoff said. "The quicker you react, the more plays you make."
But third is also a hitting position. And Kouzmanoff knows there is still work to be done in the half of playing third that was considered his forte.
"I think the power is there, I think the bat speed is there," Kouzmanoff said. "I think I can be a 25 (homer), 100 (RBI) player."
After a third straight slow start with the bat — .214 with one homer and nine RBI after 36 games — Kouzmanoff came on strong over the second half of the season.
From July 5 on, Kouzmanoff hit .288 with 20 doubles, eight homers and 48 RBI in 62 games. Almost as importantly, his on-base percentage over the span was .336 compared to .278 — the lowest for any regular position player in the majors — for the first half of the season.
Kouzmanoff had moved ahead of Adrian Gonzalez into the Padres' RBI lead in the first week of September when he suffered a left calf strain that, combined with a lower back injury, forced him to miss 18 of the season's final 22 games.
"I felt like at the point in the season right before the injury, I was starting to feel locked in," said Kouzmanoff, who was on a 100-RBI pace. "I was seeing the ball really well and had developed a different mind-set.
"I'm looking forward to next season."
Not that the 28-year-old Kouzmanoff knows what this offseason will bring.
Kouzmanoff will be one of the first questions facing the Padres' next general manager.
The third baseman is arbitration-eligible for the first time, meaning one way or another he'll get a healthy raise over the $432,400 he made this season.
But the Padres have an option at third in Chase Headley. With Kouzmanoff having more value than Headley on the trade market, the Padres might even choose to trade Kouzmanoff.
"I have no control," Kouzmanoff said yesterday. "I want to stay here. I'm excited about how the entire team played over the last two months. But what happens, happens.
"I'm just like everyone else, waiting to see what does happen."
The glove Kouzmanoff gave to the Hall of Fame, which will be displayed in the Padres exhibit at Cooperstown, was one of two he used last season.
"I started the season with this glove, which is smaller and lighter than the one I used in the second half," Kouzmanoff said. "I'm honored because I came into this with a reputation of being a poor fielding third baseman."
Padres trim four
Infielder Luis Rodriguez and catcher Eliezer Alfonzo elected to become free agents yesterday after they were out-righted to Triple-A Portland along with outfielder Drew Macias and right-handed starting pitcher Josh Geer.
Rodriguez, 29, hit .202 in 93 games this year in his second season with the Padres.
Alfonzo, 30, the Padres' starting catcher for most of July while and Henry Blanco were on the disabled list, hit .175 in 37 games with three doubles, two home runs, eight RBI.
Macias, 26, considered by many the best all-around defensive outfielder in the Padres system, hit .197 in 51 games over four different stints with the Padres this season.
Geer, 26, made 17 starts for the Padres this season, going 1-7 with a 5.96 ERA. He gave up 27 homers, the fifth-highest total in the National League, in just 102⅔ innings.


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Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, Eighth Edition
Joseph T. DiPiro, Robert L. Talbert, Gary C. Yee, Gary R. Matzke, Barbara G. Wells, L. Michael Posey
McGraw Hill Professional, Apr 25, 2011 - Medical - 2700 pages
The landmark text on how to achieve optimal patient outcomes through evidence-based medication therapy
Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach is written to help you advance the quality of patient care through evidence-based medication therapy derived from sound pharmacotherapeutic principles. The scope of this trusted classic goes beyond drug indications and dosages to include the initial selection, proper administration, and monitoring of drugs. You will find everything you need to provide safe, effective drug therapy across the full range of therapeutic categories.
This edition is enriched by more than 300 expert contributors, and every chapter has been revised and updated to reflect the latest in evidence-based information and recommendations. Important features such as Key Concepts at the beginning of each chapter, Clinical Presentation tables that summarize disease signs and symptoms, and Clinical Controversies boxes that examine the complicated issues faced by students and clinicians in providing drug therapy make this text an essential learning tool for students, patient-focused pharmacists, and other health care providers.
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Poland is important to many Chicago-area residents, but what does Chicago mean to Poland? Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski stayed a day past the official NATO summit to visit Polish-Americans and the Chicago Tribune editorial board Tuesday. During the visit here, he said Chicago held "a special place on the map of Polish emotions."
Much of the official meeting had to do with questions about NATO's missile defense plans and Russia's reaction to them (Poland supports phases 1-3 of 4, and notes Phase 4 is what gives Russia fits), the Polish economy (it's growing, but U.S. investment there lags other countries) and Afghanistan (their 2,500 troops will stay to the end in 2014).
Earlier, Komorowski visited with Chicago-area Polish-Americans to talk about investing in Poland, and with U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk to discuss pending legislation to lay a path for Polish participation in the U.S. Visa Waiver Program.
My colleague Dahleen Glanton wrote about those stories. Locally, Komorowski's political affiliation makes him a controversial figure for many Polish immigrants of older generations -- though many younger American Poles are interested in Poland's economic dynamism. Dahleen's story dwells more on those elements.
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What struck me -- despite the global stage on which Poland also was negotiating -- was how much Chicago and the Chicago area's Polish Americans meant to the Polish government.
Why did Komorowski extend his stay in Chicago? "It would be weird not to," he told the editorial board.
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Treat your Blog as your online homePosted by Mark White, Blog Consultant in Blogging for Small Businesses , Corporate Blogging , New Media Marketing , Social Media
There have been a number of comments over recent weeks (and indeed months) about the imminent death of blogging, to be generally replaced it seems with newer tools such as Twitter and lifestreaming.
For a small minority, it's possible that this may well be on the cards – however, for the vast majority, and particularly those using these tools for primarily business purposes, I would say that this prediction is premature in the extreme.
Indeed, with the growing presence of social media as a marketing and comms tool in its own right, are we going to be seeing a decline in the role of blogging as one part of that? My answer is a resounding no and I'll explain why.
Blogs will play a central role
It is true that there are major changes afoot – the industry is currently developing quickly ahead of an undoubted period of consolidation. As a result, I am constantly looking at the variety of social media which now exist, of which a business blog is certainly one. In the future, while the number of potential avenues for social media continues to expand, I still see a blog playing the central role for companies wanting to engage with customers and prospects using social media and general online methods.
For instance, if we take some of the more popular social media tools as examples:
- Microblogging in the current guise of Twitter is great but a little restrictive – it's difficult to save evrything in 140 characters, so is often used to make people aware of other sources of information or to initiate connections;
- Social networks are proliferating in many different forms from the monsters such as Facebook to the niche forums on systems like Ning – they come and go (some quicker than others obviously) but each time a new one takes hold you need to establish a whole new infrastructure and set of contacts;
- Podcasts and video have their own key sites like YouTube or iTunes but in most cases, businesses fail to achieve an independent identity or forum with them alone, although cases such as "Will it Blend?" from Blendtech prove that it is possible.
A blog, however, allows a business to bring all of these other elements together, creates a focal point for a community of customers, provides the company with its own social network hub whatever else goes on in the market and allows it to expand on the information disseminated on Twitter, YouTube or iTunes.
A personal analogy
To put it another way, if I make a personal analogy, if I meet friends in a bar or a coffee shop, then they will get a certain picture of me through a number of different factors: what I am wearing, what I look like, where we are meeting, what I'm drinking, who I am talking to and about what etc. All of these things give a certain picture of me as a person but it is still a superficial one.
However, if you come and have dinner at my home then you have a much more complete view of me. You see where I live, the type of house, the décor, the books and music I'm interested in, the decoration and style of fixtures and furniture, what I cook and what I serve for drinks etc etc. In short, you get a much more complete sense of me when you visit my home because it is much more multifaceted.
To my mind, social networking sites, discussion forums, Twitter etc are all types of coffee houses where you can a first image of me. My blog, however, offers much more of an insight and is essentially the online equivalent of my home.
You need a place to invite people to online
Don't take this as putting down the other social media tools or indeed other general online marketing tactics – it is just the opposite. All the other elements are great when used in line with a business' commercial aims, but you still then need to have somewhere to "invite" friends back to online rather than always meet in proverbial bars / coffee houses. That's where a blog comes to the fore, bringing all the other elements together as well as contributing in its own right.
Think also that as you engage with other bloggers on their own blogs, there is only so much that you can convey when you leave comments, no matter how erudite and pertinent they are. What you need to have in conjunction is a place to develop your ideas further. A place to continue that conversation that you have started – once again, a role that your own blog would ideally fulfil.
Effectively, as you look at the world of social media and the innumerable opportunities that it brings with it, to me it is clear that a blog sits solidly at the core of this activity. Personally, I see it as driving and conducting the online activity that a company undertakes and as the place to develop a community of readers that links from other social media will help grow and promote.