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I used to work in the Toronto Jewelry trade and it's amazing how many former Russians work in the trade. My first, well only, boss was a Russian Armenian and he happened to be the son of a famous Russian basketball player. When my bosses father moved to Canada he got into the jewelry trade almost immediately and he still works in the business. They'd been involved in the jewelry trade in Russia and brought their skills to Toronto with them.
So now, when I think of Russians, I always seem to think back to my days in the jewelry trade. I remember those times fondly because I really enjoyed the people that I worked with. We got to be friends and I learned some of their language and customs.
Imagine my surprise when I visited a website called Lovers Planet that specializes in dating. Particularly matching up Russian women with potential suitors in other countries.
The woman listed in LoversPlanet.com are, in most cases, true Russian brides. They've listed their profiles on the site and they are hoping to hear from foreign men who are also interested in online dating and possibly marriage.
When a Russian woman applies with the dating service they undergo a short phone interview. Now, I can tell you from my experience with both Russian men and Women they are generally good people. The women are brought up to be marriage minded so it's not at all odd to me that they would list themselves at LoversPlanet with the specific hope of finding a man they could love and eventually marry.
New members of the site are welcome to send free introduction emails to the Russian girls. The womens profiles list photographs as well so interested parties will have an idea of what the woman they are interested in looks like. The site states that most of their female members are educated, employed, computer literate and have at least a basic knowledge of English. Many of them work in the fields of marketing, banking, accounting and some are even police officers.
One feature that some of you might like is the Top one hundred Russian Bride List. I suppose this is a list of the most popular women listed on Lovers Planet.
Visit the site if you are interested in dating and getting into a serious relationship. Perhaps you'll find a Russian woman similar to some of the ones that I met in the Jewelry trade. If you do – you'll be a lucky guy!

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I found Madeline W's article "First Day Back" extremely moving because not only is it telling an experience that not many people can live to tell, but for the matter in which she states it. She makes it seem like its nothing to dwell about and I find that incredibly admirable. Her story serves as an example for everyone with cancer that have survived it . Also, losing a leg is not of a short coming, she is a very brave young girl.
First Day Back
September 25, 2012


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August 12, 2013
DAT announced the availability of DAT RateView, enabling carriers to see market rates paid by shippers as well as current spot market rates on all lanes inthe United States and Canada.
Equally important, RateView automatically suggests backhauls as well as TriHauls based on highest paying lanes returning trucks to their point of origin. TriHauls take advantage of the most profitable triangle routes that can give carriers options for return trips that pay at a higher rate. The TriHaul feature in DAT RateView takes into account load availability and competing truck capacity at the origin, and suggested intermediate points. Rate calculators let carriers compare the linehaul and fuel surcharges to immediately understand the revenue potential of the TriHauls and backhauls under consideration. Carriers can quickly compare the rates they are being paid against the market rates on lanes they are running as well as explore new lanes. DAT RateView also provides 13 month rate histories, information critical to seasonal trend analysis and for quick and easy RFP response. The simple-to-use lane bulk-download feature can reduce the time necessary to respond to RFPs from hours to minutes.DAT RateView is based on $20 billion per year of actual freight transactions and adds a powerful complement to DAT load boards.
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Voluntary guides conduct public tours within the cemetery on the first Sunday of every month, from March to November. Tours commence at 10am.
Public tours depart from Necropolis Circuit near the Chapel of St Michael the Archangel. The starting point is easy to find as you will find our tent and a group of eager volunteers.
Twilight tours are held from 5.15pm until 7.30pm, in the cool of the evening, and they depart from the small pedestrian gate in East St Lidcombe. Twilight tours are conducted from November until March, excluding December.
Tour days provide us with the funds to assist in the restoration of projects within the cemetery.
Tours cost only $15.00 per person ($10.00 for members). Children 11-16 years half price. Children under 11 are free.
The Friends of Rookwood conduct general tours of the Heritage areas each month & also a "theme" tour from the following list.
- Heritage Walk, parts 1 & 2
- The Irish Tour
- Tales from the 20th Century
- Plague and Pestilence
- The Railway Walk
- Ships and Shipwrecks
- Murder and Mayhem
- 1800-1900 Sydney: A Century of Incredible Change
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Big Ten Spring Football Preview: Michigan State Spartans
What can Mark Dantonio do for an encore after taking Michigan State from a 3-9 mark in 2016 to a 10-3 finish in 2017? It was the biggest single-season improvement in school annals.
What can Mark Dantonio do for an encore after taking Michigan State from a 3-9 mark in 2016 to a 10-3 finish in 2017? It was the biggest single-season improvement in school annals.
DJ Durkin is looking for a breakthrough as he begins his third season at Maryland. The program took a step back in his second year, going 4-8 overall and 2-7 in the Big Ten. But Durkin still continues to recruit well, offering hope for big things in the future.
Which in-conference win by a Big Ten team has been most impressive this season? The BTN.com team weighs in.
Tony Carr scored 30 points and Penn State routed No. 8 Ohio State 79-56 on Thursday night to sweep the Buckeyes.
Ethan Happ had 21 points and 12 rebounds, and Wisconsin secured its biggest win of a challenging season, beating No. 6 Purdue 57-53 on Thursday night.
Jim Harbaugh has work to do this spring. And the heavy-lifting is on offense, as he looks to push Michigan up the pecking order in the rugged Big Ten East coming off his worst season in Ann Arbor.
Minnesota basketball center Reggie Lynch says the senior center is dropping his appeal of sexual assault allegations and leaving the school.
Juwan Morgan was one of three Indiana players to score 14 points Wednesday night and he posted his eighth double-double this season to lead the Hoosiers past Illinois 78-68.
Senior co-captains Duncan Robinson and Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman each scored 18 points to help No. 22 Michigan beat Iowa 74-59 on Wednesday night. It was a win that both young men looked at as another stepping stone toward greater achievements.
The 2018 season will be the 20th in Iowa City for Kirk Ferentz, matching the number of seasons for predecessor Hayden Fry. The 2017 season was another strong campaign for Ferentz, who capped an 8-5 season with consecutive wins including a victory vs. BC in the Pinstripe Bowl.


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On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes: >> I'm not sure I have anything intelligent to add to this conversation - >> does that make me the wisest of all the Greeks? - but I do think it >> worth mentioning that I have heard occasional reports within EDB of >> the query planner refusing to use extremely large indexes no matter >> how large a hammer was applied. I have never been able to obtain >> enough details to understand the parameters of the problem, let alone >> reproduce it, but I thought it might be worth mentioning anyway in >> case it's both real and related to the case at hand. Basically I >> guess that boils down to: it would be good to consider whether the >> costing model is correct for an index of, say, 1TB. > > Well, see the cost curves at > http://email@example.com > > The old code definitely had an unreasonably large charge for indexes > exceeding 1e8 or so tuples. This wouldn't matter that much for simple > single-table lookup queries, but I could easily see it putting the > kibosh on uses of an index on the inside of a nestloop. The reported behavior was that the planner would prefer to sequential-scan the table rather than use the index, even if enable_seqscan=off. I'm not sure what the query looked like, but it could have been something best implemented as a nested loop w/inner index-scan. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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I wish more people really understood this is a secured debt, and that there's no need to slink away in shame.
Seriously. If I ever buy a house again, I'll pay cash. They're still too overpriced.
I wish more people really understood this is a secured debt, and that there's no need to slink away in shame.
Seriously. If I ever buy a house again, I'll pay cash. They're still too overpriced.
I have to agree with the Times' public editor. Their Jerusalem chief needs to be reassigned.
And the killing continued. As you hear in other videos, the Israelis were shooting as they boarded the ship, not in response to attacks. Those people were defending themselves.
Emily Henochowicz, a 21-year-old American student, was hit in the eye with a tear gas canister and her eye was removed yesterday. She is an art student at Cooper Union. A witness said, "It really looked like they were trying to hit us."
Tear gas canisters are commonly used against demonstrators in the occupied West Bank. In May 2009, the Israeli State Attorney's Office ordered Israeli Police to review its guidelines for dispersing demonstrators, following the death of a demonstrator, Bassem Abu Rahmah from Bil'in village, caused by a high velocity tear-gas projectile. Tear-gas canisters are meant to be used as a means of crowd dispersal, to be shot indirectly at demonstrators and from a distance. However, Israeli forces frequently shoot canisters directly at protesters and are not bound by a particular distance from which they can shoot.
John and Yoko:
Andrew Sullivan, in response to reports of activists attacking Israeli soldiers as they boarded their aid ship:
A simple point. The violence by the activists is pretty abhorrent. These are not followers of Gandhi or MLK Jr. But the violence is not fatal to anyone and it is in response to a dawn commando raid by armed soldiers. They are engaging in self-defense. More to the point: they are civilians confronting one of the best militaries in the world. They killed no soldiers; their weapons were improvised; the death toll in the fight is now deemed to be up to 19 – all civilians.
It staggers me to read defenses of what the Israelis have done. They attacked a civilian flotilla in international waters breaking no law. When they met fierce if asymmetric resistance, they opened fire. And we are now being asked to regard the Israelis as the victims.
This is like a mini-Gaza all over again. The Israelis don't seem to grasp that Western militaries don't get to murder large numbers of civilians because they don't like them, or because they could, on a far tinier scale, hurt Israelis. And you sure don't have a right to kill them because they resist having their ship commandeered, in international waters. The Israelis seem to be making decisions as if they can get away with anything. It's time the US reminded them in ways they cannot mistake that they cannot.
From Steve Hynd at Newshoggers:
Reuters reports that between 14 and 16 are dead after Israeli commandos used live ammunition against a humanitarian flotilla which was trying to reach Gaza with supplies yesterday evening. Reuters reports at least 30 injured too, while KUNA puts the injured at 60.
One Israeli serviceman was "moderately injured" by a knife wound during the assault, which took place just after dark and after Israel had attacked vessels flagged in America, Europe and Turkey, while they were still in international waters. The passengers included a holocaust survivor, USS Liberty survivors, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, EU MEPs & hundreds of humanitarian workers.
I'll have more in the morning, especially on reactions from around the world, but this is a shocking crime against humanity showing no conscience whatsoever. President Obama has to realise at this point that supporting Israel is akin to Reagan's support for the Botha regime in South Africa in the 80's.
Update: Here's some Sky News footage of the assault, via The Guardian, which is constantly updating its report here.
I've always been a little uncomfortable with the big Memorial Day parade that wends its way through my neighborhood every year. Yes, we're honoring the service of those who fought. But why are we always fighting? No one ever seems to answer that question.
I'd love to see Iraq Veterans for Peace marching in my local parade, but I don't think it would go over too well.
Doesn't it seem like the earth is crying out against the various indignities we've visited upon her in the last 50 years? She just can't take it anymore, and she's trying to let us know: scorching heat, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes. "Enough! Please, stop hurting me."
I've never been one of the Gaia worshipers who personalize the planet, but lately, that's how I think.
And now today, the Israelis massacre people for trying to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza. Oh yeah, the Israeli PR machine is already in full swing (hey, if the activists really had guns, why were they trying to fight you off with sticks and poles?) and by the time the American right wing is done, the attackers will be the victims and the dead will be forgotten.
We are so vulnerable to the official version of events. Do you really believe everything we're told? Hell, we still don't have the truth about who killed the Kennedys, and Martin Luther King.
When after all, it was you and me.
I never wanted to be an activist. I just wanted all this stuff to go away, so I could live some semblance of a normal life. Enough to pay the rent, put food on the table and keep the car running while I write – fairly modest goals, right?
But that corporate war machine keeps getting in the way.
It sucks up all the money. The defense companies get paid, the contractors get paid, and the politicians get paid. (Oddly enough, soldiers barely get paid – and their injured bodies and spirits are certainly not sufficiently tended to.)
We always have money for bombs. We rarely have money for food.
And when it comes to protecting the planet, well, I think it's too late. The first clue came decades ago with the shameless corporate and right-wing lobbyists and their fake campaigns, telling us global climate change is perfectly normal.
What planet do these amoral monsters live on? Where do they think their grandchildren will live?
So no, today I'm not going to honor the corporate war machine and its affiliated enablers. I'll remember the soldiers who died, the ones who served, and all the human wreckage we left behind – both here, and in other countries.
And I'll remember what the Gulf of Mexico used to look like.
But this is the only flag I'm going to fly.
System of A Down:
Told ya. And no, it's not going to get better anytime soon. The next two years look pretty damned chaotic – expect the unexpected.


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The following information was gathered from incident and arrest reports obtained from the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.
Feb. 24
Noon — 5100 Lakewood Ranch Blvd. (Lakewood Ranch YMCA). Battery. The victim was reportedly in the weight room when his friend entered and confronted him about being intimate with his wife. The suspect grabbed him by the elbow and pushed him outside. There were no witnesses to the incident. The victim stated the suspect told him that if it were true he would put a bullet through his head. The victim also stated both parties separated after the threat. No physical injuries were observed. Post-Miranda, the suspect told the responding deputy that he did push the victim because he was angry. The suspect was arrested and transported to jail.
Feb. 24
9 a.m. — 200 block of Gates Creek Road. Burglary. Unknown person(s) entered the residence by reaching through the unlocked window of the garage door and unlocking the deadbolt. The person(s) then entered the main section of the residence and walked to the oldest son's bedroom. The person(s) then removed an item from the wall. The person(s) then fled.
Reported Feb. 21
8:22 p.m. — 12700 block of Penguin Drive. Identity theft. Unknown person(s) used the complainant's identity in fraudulently applying for numerous loans using the complainant's personal information.
Feb. 23
8:40 a.m. — 200 block of Petrel Trail. Petit theft. The complainant reported an unknown person stole her bicycle. She let her son ride it to the neighborhood's school bus stop. He reportedly parked the bike but did not lock it. The son spent the night at a sports function at the school, and when he returned the next day, the bicycle was missing.
Feb. 23
7:10 a.m. — 27800 block of Brandiff Road. Armed burglary. An unknown person entered the residence through an unlocked door. Once inside, the person removed five guns, two guitars and $30. The total value of the items is $730. The residence was left in total disarray with clothes thrown about in every direction. The person then fled the scene by unknown means.
Feb. 22
2 p.m. — 4900 block of Creekside Trail. Burglary to a conveyance. Unknown person(s) entered the unlocked vehicle and stole $2,764 in items. The person(s) then fled in an unknown direction by unknown means.
10 p.m. — 2957 University Parkway (Quiznos). Burglary to an unoccupied structure. Unknown suspect(s) attempted to enter the business by prying open the rear door. The suspect(s) did not succeed in prying open the door. No fingerprints were obtained at the scene.
Reported Feb. 25
1:31 p.m. — 8400 block of Tuttle Avenue. Scheme to defraud. The victim entered into a fuel club contract that involved purchasing gas certificates from the suspect. The victim was then guaranteed cash rebates for gasoline purchases made along with the redemption of the purchased certificates. The victim reported the suspect did not adhere to the terms of agreement, failing to send the victim some or all of the rebates that had been guaranteed to them. The victim reported the suspect still owes her $6,094.25 in unpaid rebates. Three other similar incidents were reported.
Feb. 24
4 p.m. — 5200 block of 71st Street East. Criminal mischief. The complainant reported unknown person(s) damaged the air and water machine located behind his car wash. The person(s) tried to gain access into the coin deposit section of the machine. There are no security cameras at the location. The estimated cost to repair the machine is $750.


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I don't want to mention my age, but let's just say I have teenage children and I wasn't a child bride. In general, getting older is great, you gain more confidence as you worry less what other people think. I've even found I'm more attractive to a lot of guys. But I've discovered that women of a certain age attract one group that I could do without.
I'm on various social media websites. In theory, this is so I can tell people how wonderful the next book is going to be—and yes, A Touch of Passion will blow you away. In reality, it's because I love to talk. Most of the people I meet are lovely, warm and genuine. But there are exceptions.


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The Military Libraries Group of DC/SLA invites you to an Evening Reception and Tour of Grant Hall on the grounds of Ft Lesley J. McNair, Washington, DC. Begin the evening with a Wine Reception, Ft McNair Officers' Club (4th & P Sts) followed by Tours of Grant Hall, Ft McNair.
The newly renovated building, formerly known as "Building 20," was originally part of Washington Arsenal and the Federal Penitentiary during the Civil War. The third floor of Grant Hall was the site of the Lincoln Conspirators Trial in a specially prepared Courtroom. A tour of the Grant Hall Courtroom is a unique opportunity to learn about the sad aftermath of the Lincoln Assassination, as much of the country mourned the fallen President and struggled to regain its "Nationhood."
This tour is a very special opportunity as this building is not generally open to the public. Docents from Special Collections of the National Defense University (NDU) Library will conduct the tours. Visitors will need to walk up two flights of stairs to the renovated Grant Hall Courtroom. No special accommodations are possible in this historic building.
A maximum of 40 members and guests can be accommodated on the special tour. We will maintain a Waiting List. More details below:
WHEN: Thursday, May 9, 2013, 5:30-8:30 p.m. R.S.V.P. by May 7th. Walking Tours depart O'Club at 6:15 and 7 p.m.
WHERE: Ft Lesley J. McNair, located in Southwest Washington DC, between the Anacostia River and the Washington Channel not far from Arena Stage, and Waterside Mall (under reconstruction). METRO: Waterfront – Green Line, Three/four block walk to the Main Gate or auto access gate.
Free Parking is available in the Officers' Club Lot. Picture ID required for entrance to Ft McNair.
HOW: Register for this tour NOW! Cost: DC/SLA Members/DCLA/LLSDC – $20, Guests – $25,
Students/Retirees/Job Seekers – $10
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He (K.) asked me to. He did.
So these are their essentials. Enough room, or enough stuff?
For some reason...snowmen here are built not as spheres but rather cones. At least they haven't lost their buttons. Well, they are replaced with Coke and Iced Tea bottle caps.
Gina and I at this party
Minus the rat
'Didi' on the balcony preparing our food
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A matter of respect
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As australians, we tell ourselves many stories that stimulate our sense of self-righteousness and moral superiority; most societies do this sort of thing fairly regularly. Our myth-making is powerful - and very comforting - in a world of violence and destabilisation.
Recent reveries on the meaning of the London bombings for Australia's so-called multiculturalism abound in such spinning of indignation: the "Other" has emerged from its lair and its name is Islam.
Well no, not really. Multiculturalism has very little to do with extremist factions engaging in the aesthetics of murder (Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent portrayed all this a century or more ago). If anything, it is the failure of multiculturalism to generate real reciprocal respect and provide legitimate avenues to social participation that provides the psychotic self-justification the murderers indulge in as part of their vision of nirvana. These are self-obsessed individuals with desires for "meaning" - too often provided outside society in places such as fundamentalist madrassas in Pakistan, as we have failed to provide it effectively inside.
So let's be a bit clearer about the processes that channel young men into aggressive practices that result in the deaths of dozens, hundreds and thousands of people.
Hyper-masculinity is nothing new; it is a phenomenon in communities all over the world, and finds its most obvious expression in cults of violence and the power of the body (the Leeds bombers met and trained together in a weight-lifting gym). Muscle-bound thugs drive hot cars up and down the streets of the ethnic suburbs of big cities all over Australia; they enjoy the psychic thrill of threatening what the Hells Angels - not Muslim but very nasty - describe as "civilians".
Immigrants often see the self-serving nature of social practices of the "host" society far more clearly than members of that society's own chattering classes and politicians. Their children, imbued with the lessons of democracy and fairness in the new world, shed their parents' acquiescence to the contradictions and demand that its claims to justice and equality be realised.
But they often are not. Thwarted, and told or believing that their exclusion is because of their ethnicity/religion/class, they band together and find justification for aggression in the failures around them, the societal marginalisation of their lives and interests.
Let's look for a moment at three of the key institutions of Australian society that the Federal Government has some control over: cabinet, the High Court, and the board of the ABC. Can we find in any of these institutions people of colour? A Muslim? An Indigenous person? Zero, in each case. Sure, there is mobility in the states, and in some areas of government. But the creation of Australian multiculturalism in 1999 - in a deal designed to seduce the Prime Minister from his intransigent hostility to diversity into a grudging acceptance of a cultural admixture - has moved cultural respect to the edge of the playing field, and cemented some multi-directional inter-ethnic hostilities into place.
Could this have been avoided if assimilation had been the name of the game? Well, no. Assimilation failed because immigrants didn't enjoy being told they had to abandon everything that had been their soul and being, and adopt some stereotypical homogeneous Australian profile as a condition of being allowed to work long hours in dangerous jobs.
Most immigrants welcomed the freedom and the opportunity they found - but not the arrogance and the parochial narrow-mindedness that invested Australian culture of the '50s, '60s and '70s.
Multiculturalism began to emerge as a way of doing three things at once. 1. Mobilising ethnic communities to meet their own needs in terms of welfare and culture (the mainstream was failing abysmally in this regard); 2. Recruiting the intellectual and cultural capital embodied in the mobile global elites seeking new careers and homes in the "West" who would have none of this assimilation nonsense (they wanted cosmopolitan cities not small towns); and 3. Kick-starting the mainstream society's re-orientation from inward-looking nationalism towards a more global and interactive consciousness.
There was also the recognition that demanding commitment from newcomers required mutual respect - not a position enhanced by policies that told them their cultures were irrelevant and inferior.
So let's deal then with this "Arab Muslim thing" - everyone from Terry Lane in The Sunday Age to Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun is blaming Islam for murder. Two separate issues need to be clarified here: the Iraq war and related matters, and Islam.
There are hundreds of millions of people throughout the world - Christian, Muslim, Jew and atheist - who believe the war in Iraq is immoral and based on lies and corporate self-interest. Some people feel that they are justified in bringing home to the societies whose governments prosecute the war that the vulnerability of the Iraqi people should be reciprocated. If they also feel that it is the religion of the people that allows them to be the targets of coalition violence, then self-justification for murder is easy.
Is this Islam? No. Is it "acceptable"? No. Is it caused by multiculturalism? No. A policy of assimilation would not solve any of this. The only "solution" in such a model is the forced baptism of the majority and the expulsion in boats of the remainder.
The second issue is the development of cliques and gangs of quasi-criminal thugs drawn to messianic demagogues, leaders who are able to manipulate the anti-Islamic rhetoric of the mainstream to galvanise young men (and some young women) into extremist acts. They have been allowed to do this for a long time - and not all are "imported" (the idea that local kids might be misled by foreigners is another self-comforting myth).
These gangs, increasingly politically organised, are problematic. But labelling the problem as Islam plays into their hands.
An effective multiculturalism would recognise that it means sharing power - giving up some power so that others are able to practise the responsibility demanded of them by columnists from the old culture. Perhaps when Terry Lane and Pamela Bone and Andrew Bolt and the others take on Muslim young people as work-experience trainees, and are prepared to admit ignorance and seek to listen and learn, the young people might be more willing to sit on the heads of the thugs who threaten them just as much as they threaten the rest of us.
Andrew Jakubowicz is professor of sociology at the University of Technology, Sydney, and producer of the website www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au
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Into the wild – game, that is – with Burger Lounge
Burger Lounge, the San Diego-based chain that's making its way into the Los Angeles area, has started offering a seasonal wild game menu with a different featured burger every two months (priced at $9.95 each and available at all locations). The first special, available this month and through December, is the grass-fed Minnesota bison burger with bleu cheese and pickled red onions.
Here's the rest of the lineup:
January/February 2013: Grass-fed Texas wild boar burger with applewood-smoked cheddar, oven-roasted tomato relish and sriracha aioli
March/April 2013: Grass-fed elk burger with fontina, duck cracklings and jicama slaw
May/June 2013: Grass-fed BBQ venison burger with house-made BBQ sauce, crispy onion rings and smoked mozzarella
You may have noticed that all the meat on these burgers is grass-fed. That's Burger Lounge's thing: free-range, grass-fed meat, which applies to both the beef and turkey on the regular menu, too (the salmon burger uses wild Alaskan salmon). The company makes efforts toward environmentally sustainable choices, too.
As for Burger Lounge's everyday menu offerings, don't overlook the turkey burger, which is made with basil ground into both white and dark meat for a juicy, flavor-packed patty. It's my favorite item on the menu. The salmon burger, with fried green tomatoes, sounds good, but the patty is too fishy-tasting for me. Whichever burger you get — even the very respectable house-made quinoa veggie burger — make sure to get a milkshake (they even come in small sizes!), which don't contain any gross syrups, or a fair-trade Maine Root soda made with organic sugar cane.
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October 4, 2012 2:54:16 PM
It might be interesting to other Mississippians to see what was being taught about Mississippi in 2003 in Texas. Here is an excerpt from The Houston Teachers' Institute (University of Houston) that was included in a teaching curriculum.
"Some states like Mississippi had no schools for Blacks nor Whites prior to the Civil War. The federal government had granted certain lands to the state of Mississippi - from this land, proceeds were to be used to develop public schools, but monies were embezzled. The first public school in Mississippi was established when federal troops came after the Civil War."
I left a comment on their website, letting them know that Franklin Academy was established as a free public school in 1821 and is still thriving today.
It's no wonder that so many northerners hold our state in such low regard when blatant mistruths like this are being "taught" in public schools in "friendly" southern states!
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Exelon (EXC) reports its fourth quarter earnings on Thursday, February 7, 2013.
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It's unclear whether or not Ian Ziering was ever asked to return to 90210.
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"It's not really where my career goals are focused right now," Ziering said. "I'm really looking down the line pretty far and this might be a step backwards."
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"You know, Steve Sanders lives on in our hearts and in our minds," he said.
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A South Westerly wind change moved through Gippsland this afternoon, challenging our fire fighters and providing little relief. 16 fires are still listed as "going" in parts of East Gippsland including Club Terrace, Goongerah, Gelantipy and Goongerah.
Residents of Goongerah were advised to evacuate yesterday evening with fire crews, SES and Victoria Police knocking on doors. The Goongerah – Mount Jersey fire did not impact on the township as the predicted strong winds did not have the expected impact. The fire has been active today and has been water-bombed by aircraft. Southerly winds continue to push the fire away from Goongerah. There has been 2 to 3mms of rain on the fire ground this afternoon.
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Sound waves are vibrations in the air with two basic properties: the first is frequency, from low (bass) to high (treble); the second is amplitude, from soft to loud. Together they form a simple sine wave. The wave's amplitude is represented by its height; the further the curve swings above and below its center line, the louder the signal. Its frequency can be represented by the number of times per second the wave goes through a complete "cycle". The more cycles per second, the higher the wave's frequency. The average young human ear can hear frequencies from about 20 cycles per second (20 hertz, or 20 Hz), a very low base tone, to about 20,000 cycles per second. The distance between peaks is the wavelength, which becomes shorter as the frequency rises.
The camcorder's microphone picks up sound and outputs an analog signal consisting of minute voltage changes. This signal is then passed through an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter. In a digital recording, the original sound wave is measured at thousands of sampling points per second, and records those voltage samples as numbers. In playback, the sampling points are recreated, and the audio is processed by a digital-to-analog converter (D/A).
The quality of the reproduction depends on how detailed the blueprint is, and how well the reconstruction is done at the playback end. The amount of detail mainly depends on the number of samples per second (which controls frequency response) and the number of binary digits, or "bits" per sample (which controls noise and distortion).
Most sound waves are complex mixtures of simple sine waves. We only need to record two points per cycle of such a wave's highest frequency to be able to reconstruct the wave in playback. The sampling frequency (the number of times the signal is measured per second) must be high enough to ensure at least two samples for every wave of every audio frequency—at least 40,000 samples per second for an audio band going up to 20,000 Hz.
Digital systems measure in steps, but the analog signals they're measuring are continuous. An analog signal that ranges between +1 and -1 volts goes through an infinite range of values between those points, but a digital system can record only a finite number of those values. The more digits it has, the more steps it can distinguish and the more closely it can match its readings to the variations in the original signal. Because digital systems use finite means to record infinite signal variations, some mismatch is inevitable, and every such mismatch adds noise and distortion to the signal.
Digital systems use the same binary numbering systems found in computers; that is, each digit only has two possible values, 0 or 1. Each digit added doubles the number of possible values the system can handle: a one-digit number has two values (0 and 1); a two digit number has four values (00, 01 10, and 11; a three-digit number has eight possible values; and so on.
Every time a digit is added to a digital recording system, the amount of its inaccuracy—and, therefore, its noise and distortion—is cut in half. This increase in accuracy is equivalent to cutting noise and distortion by 6 dB; so you can roughly gauge a digital system's dynamic range by multiplying its digits, or bits, by six. For example, a fourteen-bit system has 84dB of dynamic range, and a sixteen bit system (such as the compact Disc) has 96 dB.
The number of bits in a system, limits the dynamic range. Slight signal overloads don't cause slight increases in distortion, as they do in analog. In digital systems, they cause sudden, intolerable distortion. Weak signals, no stronger than the system's noise, are simply not recorded at all. Even though the digital system's dynamic range is firmly limited, its limits are far wider than those of most analog systems. At 96 dB, those limits are wide enough to accommodate the entire dynamic range of music.
When you copy a signal, you degrade it. In analog, this limits frequency response and adds noise and distortion. There is no degradation in digital reproduction.
Digital has another virtue—no wow or flutter. The tiny speed variations that cause wow and flutter in analog tape recorders are also present in digital ones, but you never hear them. As samples are read off the recording, they're fed into a buffer circuit, which smooths out the speed variations.
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April 24, 2010 -
Duncan B.C.
Exciting World Title action took place last night in Duncan,
B.C. Border City Boxing Club's Jeannine �Heartless� Garside,
(9-3-1 4KO�s), TKO'd �Lethal� Lindsay Garbatt, (4-3 3KO�s),
of Oshawa, ON at 1:24 of the 3rd round to claim the the vacant WIBA
Featherweight Title! Garbatt suffered the first stoppage loss of her
career. Garbatt was knocked down three times in the third
round. Referee stopped the bout after the third knockdown when
Garbatt was unable stand before the count was completed. With the
win Garside reclaims the title she lost in a controversial decision
in Sarajevo in December 2008. Garbatt was ranked number two in the
World and suffered the first stoppage loss of her career.
2010-04-24 Chaguanas,
Trinidad and Tobago
Etsuko Tada, 102, had a majority draw with Ria Ramnarine,
104. The two were fighting for the WBA Straw / Interim WIBA Straw.
April 24, 2010 -
Herning, Denmark
This night where Vinni Skovgaard won a six-round unanimous
decision over Diane Schwachhofer. This fight was on the
undercard of the Carl Froch vs Mikkel Kessler WBO Super Middleweight
bout in the Super 6 series.
April 24, 2010- Alster Sporthalle,
in Hamburg, Germany
Susi Kentikian won a controversial split decision against Nadia Raoui.
The judges scored the bout 96-94, 96-94. 95-96 in favour of Kentikian. The
fight was fought at an extremely high pace, and one of the best womens'
bouts seen in Germany. The two were fighting for the WBA, WBO and WIBF
flyweight title. The fight was the main event of the card and was
shown on ZDF.
Germany Fight
Video -complete
April 24, 2010 - Hotel Playa Inn,
Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico
Heavyweight Berenice Cubillas won by a third round KO over Denise Pino.
The fight was scheduled for four rounds.
April 24, 2010 - Tennishalle,
Gallneukirchen, Austria
Eva Voraberger, 113, won by a first round TKO [:57 seconds] over
Natascha Vetter, 109.5, in a scheduled four round bout.
2010-04-23 Swindon, United Kingdom
Alicja Dabrowska won a six-rounder over Juliette Winter.
Full Fight report with photos by
John Wilson
2010-04-23 Calgary, AB,
Bantamweight Michelle Nelson, 117�, won a four-round split
decision over Peggy Maerz, 114.
2010-04-23 Rosario,
Daniela Bermudez, 115�, KO 'd Maria Terriaza, 117, in the second
round of a four round bout.
April 22, 2010 -
Arena Roberto Duran, Panama City, Panama Super bantamweight
Shantel Martinez, 122, of Panama, won by a six-round TKO over
Maria Andrea Miranda, 121, of Colombia. The fight was scheduled
for eight rounds.
2010-04-22 Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Junior Flyweight Chantel Cordova, 106, won a six-round unanimous
decision over Melissa Shaffer, 104.
Berlin, Germany
Junior welterweight
Marie Riederer,139, TKO'd Ramona Hartwig, 138.
2010-04-17 Cruz Alta,
Bantamweight Alessandra Silveira KO4 Marta De Souza.
2010-04-17 Magdeburg,
Christina Hammer TKO 2 Patricia Braesick middle.
2010-04-17 Montreal, PQ,
Dominga Olivo, 124�, won a six-round unanimous decision over Nathalie Forget, 122�.
2010-04-17 Rosario,
Fernanda Alegre won a six-round unanimous decision over Paola Munoz.
2010-04-16 Barranquilla,
Mayerli Altamar, 104, KO'd Jenny Ramirez, 105, in the first
2010-04-16 Buenos Aires,
Junior featherweight
Soledad Matthysse, 122, won a six UD 6 Silvia Zacarias 121� jr feather
2010-04-13 Monterrey,
Karen Gaspar Maj.Dec. 4 Esther Escobar jr bantam
April 10, 2010 - Ce.De.M.
N� 2, Caseros, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alejandra Oliveras KO'd Antonina Ayala Vazquez in the second
round of a scheduled six rounder.
April 10, 2010 -
Las Vegas, Nevada
Super featherweights Jennifer
Han, 129, and Crystal Hoy, 129, fought a very competitive four
round fight. The fans were cheering on the fighters. Jennifer Han
was in control of the fight for most of the rounds out punching Hoy.
Hoy seemed to come out slow the first two rounds maybe showing a
little ring rust being inactive for two years, Hoy continued to try
to work herself in past Hans long reach but got tagged by Han's jab.
Hoy connected a few of her own strong punches resulting in Han's
nose bleeding. Hoy's camp said Hoy will probably go down to 126 lb
for her next fight. Both Hoy and Han put on a very good fight in
front of the Las Vegas fans, hopefully we will see more females on
major undercards.. Han won a unanimous decision.
Photos and
story by Mary Ann Owen
April 9, 2010 - in a province of
Japan WBC flyweight world champion Naomi Togashi (7-0/4KOs, 34 years old
and from Tokyo Watanabe Boxing Gym) fought with the world champion Thai
interim Nongmuay Sithkruleor (8 � 1-1/sin victory by KO) for the WBC title
unificatory flyweight. Japan�s Naomi Togashi won by unanimous decision in 10
rounds and became the champion WBC flyweight and at the same time came in
the fourth successful defense of his title as the Thai Nongmuay Sithkruleor
lost his unbeaten. From the early rounds, the puncher Togashi Naomi took the
baton of the fight and made a positive boxing blows based on the cross from
the right hand. Japanese Judge Yuji Fukuchi 97-94 framework, the judge gave
Filipino Rey Danseco 96-95, Judge Kim Jae-bong was 97-95, all for Naomi
Togashi. full copyrighted story: suljosblog.com
April 9, 2010 - Germany
Iin the only female boxing match of
Arena Sportspromotion fight night in Schwerin, Germany, It was a tough night
for �zlem Sahin (8-0-1, KOs 4), the undefeated minimum weight boxer. Sahin
was up against Svetla Taskova (4-28-1, KOs 1). In female boxing, Taskova is
like a �gatekeeper� of the lower weight classes - whoever wants to get to
the very top has to beat her first,.Full Story
April 3, 2010 -
Brittany cruz, 126, won a four-round unanimous decision over Jessica
Sanchez, 126 lbs. Judges scores were 40-36.
April 3, 2010 -
Club Social y Deportivo Sarmiento, Villa Sarmiento, Cordoba,
Featherweight Sonia Edith Paladino, 126, won a four-round
majority decision over Veronica Orecchia, 123�. Final judges
scores were 39�-36, 38-37, and 38�-38�.
April 3, 2010 - River Rock
Casino, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Junior lightweight Wendy Roy, 130� won a four-round bout by points
over Sarah Marshall, 135.
April 3, 2010 - Coliseo
Olimpico de la UG, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Junior flyweight Katia Gutierrez, 103�, won a six-round unanimous
decision over Yesenia Castrejon, 105�,
April 2, 2010 -
New York (Story by Bernie McCoy)
In boxing, there are
unanimous decisions and then there are UNANIMOUS decisions. Alicia
"Slick" Ashley's six round win over a game, but outclassed, Jackie
Trivilino on the O'Shea Brothers six bout card at the Masonic Temple
in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn on Friday, April 2, was,
assuredly, in the upper case category. The ring announcer's post
fight declamation that all three judges scored the bout, for Ashley,
60-54, had a "blinding flash of the obvious" ring to the assemblage
packing the floor and balcony..Full
April 2, 2010 - Bangkok,
Teeraporn Pannimit won a 10-round unanimous decision over Eun Young
Huh for the jr strawweight WBO Minimum title.
April 2, 2010 -
Washington, DC, USA
Adelita Irizarry, 147, won a split decision over Molly McConnell,
146 in a six-rounder.
April 1, 2010, at
Korakuen Hall, in Tokyo, Japan
There were two women's bouts on the card. In one match, Naoko Fujioka
(Japan) won by KO in round two
over Pornboonon Por Vongporramet from Thai. The fight was scheduled for
eight rounds. Also, In another non-title bout, Fujin Raika won by KO
in round three over Ramduan Saicam from Thai. The fight was scheduled
for eight rounds. Photos
April 1, 2010 - New York
(Story by Bernie McCoy)
Keisher "Fire"
McLeod-Wells used her superior reach, faster hands and quicker ring
movement to win a unanimous four round decision over Laura Gomez on
Lou DiBella's six bout program in the intimate setting of ..Full
WBAN� (WOMEN BOXING ARCHIVE NETWORK) Copyrighted�


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S&W Seed Company to Present at Craig-Hallum 4th Annual Alpha Select Conference
Sep 19, 2013, 08:00 ET from S&W Seed Company
FIVE POINTS, Calif., Sept. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- S&W Seed Company (Nasdaq: SANW) announced today that Mark Grewal, Chief Executive Officer, and Mark Harvey, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, will present at the Craig-Hallum 4th Annual Alpha Select Conference on Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 1:25PM ET. The conference is being held at the Convene Conference Center in New York City.
The presentation will be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed on the Company's website, www.swseedco.com. The audio-recording of the presentation will be archived on the Company's website for approximately 30 days following the conclusion of the presentation.
S&W management will be available for one-on-one meetings with investors on Thursday, September 26, 2013. Investors interested in arranging one-on-one meetings should contact Robert Blum, Managing Partner, Lytham Partners at (602) 889-9700 or a Craig-Hallum representative.
About S&W Seed Company
Founded in 1980, S&W Seed Company is a global agricultural company, headquartered in the Central Valley of California. The company is the largest producer of non-dormant alfalfa seed varieties in the world, with production operations in the San Joaquin and Imperial Valley's of California, as well as in South Australia. The company has worldwide sales and distribution through both a direct sales force as well as dealer-distributors. The company's proprietary varieties are designed to meet the shifting needs of farmers that require high performance in poor and highly saline soil conditions and have been verified over decades of university-sponsored trials. Additionally, the company is utilizing its research and breeding expertise to develop and produce U.S.-based stevia leaf. Stevia is an all-natural, zero calorie sweetener from the food and beverage industry. For more information, please visit www.swseedco.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. "Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "may," "future," "plan" or "planned," "will" or "should," "expected," "anticipates," "draft," "eventually" or "projected." You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors and other risks identified in the Company's 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012, and other filings made by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Company Contact:
Investor Contact:
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Officer Joe Dorame, Robert Blum, Joe Diaz
S&W Seed Company
Lytham Partners, LLC
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Phone: (602) 889-9700
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Posted by amber | My Diary | Posted on November 9th, 2010
Well not so long ago I was feeling the best I have in 2 years! I had just been on a long walk (for me) along the beachfront in Camps Bay and Clifton. And then I sat down for a croissant and tea to watch the world pass by. Next a glorious afternoon in the sun, followed by another small walk and sun downers. It was the crowning glory to 10 or so magnificent days when CF was there but not THERE and my life had a semblance of normality.
And I see CF sufferers cringing … "You did to much!" "You didn't bank the excess energy!"
Well that is probably so but needless to say it was like
a kick in the nuts
a headbutt
a smack to the back of the head
a blow to the solar plexus.
What I am saying is I didn't take it like a man and I didn't expect it at all!
Any way I went down hard. And proceeded to have the worst week in a VERY long time. I felt like I had done 5 rounds with Brock Lesnar during a UFC fight.
A time-out was declared. I was totally buggered. My body felt as if I had down 5 New York Marathons back to back with CF. And I am still paying. Yet again the lesson is hard learnt and having a time-out is no fun as I felt so horrific I could hardly eat let alone shower. Anyway I am hoping that things will improve rapidly and that some sense has been beaten into me????


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|Basking Shark © Jane Young/Manx Basking Shark Watch.
|Basking Shark © Niki Clear.
As for the live sharks here in Manx waters there has been a definite lull in the number of sightings over the last few weeks with only 19 sightings from the 11th to the 21st. But thankfully, on the 22nd they came back with a bang! 93 sightings reported in 3 days mostly along the coast around Peel (on the west coast). On the 23rd, during a chance outing on the tour boat 'Pegasus', an amazing 17 sharks were counted at the surface along a 3km stretch north of Peel in the space of an hour. But still the weather is stopping us from getting out on the MBSW boat and getting our shark encounters. Happy Jack has been out 3 days now in the last 2 weeks with no shark sightings, at least porpoise and Minke Whales are keeping us entertained. Fingers crossed for some good sharking weather for tomorrow..."


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Last week I posted an article about exploring chronic disease data with data visualizations, in particular bubble, plots using Density Design's free online visualization tool RAW. As I was putting that article together I came across another free online data visualization tool, Plotly.
Plotly is new, only about 5 months old, and like RAW, is in beta. I thought it would be interesting to try some of the same chronic disease data I used in RAW to kick the tires on Plotly. Below is an interactive data visualization of the Correlation of Physical Activity to Obesity and Deaths Due to Heart Disease that I explored in the my previous article and below that I'll outline the basic process of making your own similar bubble chart using Plotly. Note: I've noticed that the embedded iFrame doesn't always load as it should. If you only see an empty white space below, refresh your browser. That often works for me to 'force' the embedded iFrame plot to show up. If that doesn't work, see the larger plot hosted on the Plotly site.
See a larger version on the Plotly site.
Like, RAW, Plotly makes it easy to grab some data and either upload it or paste it in. Since I already had my heart disease correlation to obesity and physical activity in a Google Docs spreadsheet I just grabbed that same data and pasted into Plotly's grid. Here's a look at my data from Google Docs in the image to the right.
Then, in Plotly, just click on the + sign in the top left corner and select Grid.
You'll get a small spreadsheet-type interface.
Select the top left cell and paste in your data.
You can also enter the data by typing directly into the grid or upload a file.
Next, select Make a Plot and choose Bubble charts from the drop down menu.
In the UI that follows you select which of your columns you want to be on the x axis and which on the Y axis by clicking the corresponding intersecting row and column. Here I've selected that I want Physical Activity to be on the X axis and Obesity Rate on the Y Axis.
The next part is a little less intuitive. On the left of you'll see a box with some instructions:
Choose x and y columns to graph. Then choose a "Size By" column to make the size of each point proportional to the row in this column. The optional "Text" column adds hover or floating text to each point.
To associate values in your data to the size of the bubbles in the bubble chart you need to click the Size By button on the left to get a new row at the top that will be labeled "S" and then you click which column of data you want to represent the bubble sizes. Here I selected the Heart Disease column to represent the bubble size.
There are currently no instructions for the Group By option. From what I can tell it will allow you to group some of the data and color code it. In my example, I used the Group By for the state name to give each state a different color. To get a new row that allows you to select a column or columns to group by, you need to select the Group By button in the options pane to the left of the data grid. Click the Text button to get a new row to define what columns should show up as text.
Finally, click the blue button that says Bubble Chart . Clicking that button will open up a new tab within Plotly with your bubble chart.
There are a lot of options for styling the plot, adding annotations, etc. Click on the main title and axes labels to type in a new title and label the x and y axes. In my exploration of the tool I kept the styling to a minimum within Plotly in order to get a better idea of how it compares with Density Design's RAW tool with just the default settings. The main parameters I've adjusted in this example are the layout to change the width and height of the plot and hiding the legend. To change the layout size, click on Layout to get access to the width and height fields. If you plan to embed the iFrame version of the plot into your website or blog you'll definitely want to adjust the width and height. More about this later.
To turn off the legend, click on Legend and select the Hide button from the Visible? option. Most of the time you would probably want the legend but in this example I didn't think it really added any value since it was just showing the color for each state.
You also have a few options for downloading and exporting your plot. You can download it as a .png, .PDF, .svg, or .eps. Click the Download menu item to get access to those options.
The plot is available in its fully interactive glory on a page hosted at Plotly. The URL for this link can be found on your main dashboard that shows all of your files. Click on the blue file folder icon in the top left corner to access that.
Tips for Embedding an iFrame of your Plotly Bubble Chart in WordPress
You can also embed the interactive version of the plot on your own website or blog by using iFrame. I've found some glitches in displaying embedded iFrames within WordPress so you may need to set the size of the Plotly chart within Plotly to a size that will fit within your WordPress page or else your embedded iFrame will likely be larger than your page on your website and may not show up at all (I think this is a WordPress issue and not a Plotly issue). While in Plotly and editing your plot, click the Layout menu item and edit the width and height. If you want to embed your plot on a WordPress blog or similar blog structure you'll want to know how wide articles are on your website, measured in pixels. For this site, the main content area of my articles is just over 600 pixels wide since the sidebar on the right side takes up several hundred pixels of width of the site. So, I changed my width and height of my plot to both be 600 pixels. That width that you set includes the margins and legends of the plot, so the width of the actual graph in my plot is only about 445 pixels wide.
Once you have your plot the size you need to fit into your website it's time to get the iFrame embed code. Below is an example of an iFrame embed code that would embed my plot at 600 pixels wide by 600 pixels high.
Swap in your URL and edit the width and height values to match the size that you edited within Plotly.
That's the basics of creating a bubble chart in Plotly to show correlations in your data. I'd encourage anyone to give it a try that wants to quickly explore correlations between 3 and even 4 variables. As far as formatting the bubble chart, Plotly does a much better job than RAW. With RAW, you'll need to adjust the axes in Adobe Illustrator if you don't want some of your bubbles lying right on top of an axis grid line. I also really like the ability to embed the fully interactive version of the plot. Plotly makes it very easy to create an interactive visualization to explore correlations – a great tool to explore correlations in health and health care data. So far, the main feature missing that I think would make Plotly's bubble charts even better is to have the ability to display some corresponding text for each bubble that shows up without any rollover required, and then on rollover show the remaining data.
Apparently, there's currently not an easy way to do this. Update: Apparently this is available; Check under Traces –> Style –> Lines / Markers. See Jack's comment below for more.
For more information about the bubble charts, the Plotly team recently published a nice article about the Power of Bubble. Good luck and have fun playing with Plotly!


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Sawa World Solution: Making Lemongrass Tea
Every morning millions of Ugandans wake up and start the day with a hot cup of tea. An avid tea-drinker, Sawa Spark Muyonja Andrew, saw an opportunity to lift himself and his community out of poverty through this simple morning ritual.
Since 2008 Andrew has been teaching his neighbours in Wakiso District how to add value to regular tealeaves by making lemongrass-flavoured tea. The high levels of unemployment among youth in his community inspired him to start this project, and today his students can be seen selling soft-scented lemongrass tea throughout Kampala.
Rita Agaba is a beneficiary of Andrew's brilliant solution. After learning to make and sell lemongrass tea Rita is able to support herself and buy her own books for school. She admires Andrew's generous spirit and advises other youth, "Do not underestimate small jobs, but instead ask what someone is benefiting out of it."
Learn to make your own lemongrass tea by watching the Solution Video.


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The soul of Afghanistan
Written by Tech. Sgt. Nathan Gallahan Thursday, 11 February 2010 00:00
Kabul | Day 4 – I'm all about eyeballs. There's something truly beautiful about them. If you give me a good eyeball, I'll stare at it for hours like it's a sneak peek at the next big movie.
The beauty doesn't stop on the surface, where the rich blues, browns and greens reside. The beauty continues below the surface and if you let yourself go, you will be carried on a journey into their owner's soul.
I was taken on such a journey by two Afghan college students today. Their words were interesting and informative but they shared something deeper with me, and I felt honored.
Manizha, 21, was a little girl when coalition forces started liberating the Taliban from her country. For years, the Taliban had prevented her from going to school, forcing her parents to home school her. As she spoke of her past there was sadness in her eyes but as she talked about the future of Afghanistan, they lit up.
Mohammad, 23, and his family fled to Iran during the Taliban's rule and came back when they heard coalition forces were here. Three months after their return, the Taliban showed up and cut his hair off. They also kidnapped one of his brothers and forced him to fight within their ranks. His eyes were angry when he talked of them and burst with happiness as he talked about the first time he waved at a coalition soldier, and the soldier did his best to wave back while wearing all of his armor.
I didn't approach the interview with the sole purpose of finding out whether they liked coalition forces though. I wanted to find out who they were, where they came from and what their everyday lives are like. I was surprised at the similarities were between their lives and ours.
Manizha wakes up at 5 a.m. every morning, she goes straight to school, then goes to work in the afternoon. After work, she goes home to study, read and on occasion she watches a Bollywood movie because they make her feel good.
Mohammad, says he's lazy, so he wakes up at 5:30 a.m. every day and goes straight to work. He works all day and then three days a week he tries to hit the gym. Afterwards, he goes to school at night and before bed studies a bit.
As they both described their lives, their voices and their eyes, made special note when they mentioned they prayed five times a day.
The biggest difference I found was they were living these lives amongst a level of poverty and hardship many in the world have never seen firsthand. They both live in a world where a rocket attack or explosion could devastate their lives, yet they continue fighting for what means most to them, education and to make a difference.
They understand they're the future of Afghanistan and their country needs them but they also understand the road ahead is pot holed with challenges, which will take the world's best road engineers to repair.
In the meantime, I asked Manizha what she did for fun. Her eyes dimmed a bit as she explained there was nothing fun to do here. She said this while knowing other college age students are out and about in a world full of adventure and experiences. There are no cinemas here, there are no parks, and there is no recreation.
Mohammad's life is no different, nothing fun to do except for read, study and watch movies. He mentioned how he can't watch many of the Western movies because they are immoral.
Perhaps there's some good to be had in the fact college students across Kabul are stuck reading under the flickering lights of their mud and straw homes. Perhaps their dedication to reading and studying everyday is exactly what Afghanistan needs, a generation of talented, intelligent and dedicated young adults who are aware of the truths here.
I was accompanied on a journey today by two youths of Afghanistan. A journey that not only took me to the surface of their eyes, but down a path to their souls, and I learned the only thing the world needs to do is maintain the same level of hope and dedication for Afghanistan as Manizha and Mohammad have. Because if the world gives up on them, and the Taliban are allowed to retake power, they will once again take away the opportunities these two need to take what is rightfully theirs – the future of Afghanistan.


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The Penguins play the Edmonton Oilers tonight at 9:30PM it will be shown in HD on Fox Sports Pittsburgh.
Wow, the power play last night looked amazing, there was movement, they were blocking the goaltender's view and the best part was that they weren't just standing there. The players were actually using their skills and rotating around the ice so Calgary couldn't get the matchups the liked. Wow.
Alex Goligoski seems to be in a slump, he's a -6 since returning from his groin pull injury in the middle of December, but when you consider this is his first full season in the NHL, he is #6 in scoring on the Penguins even though he has missed 10 games and he is still a plus 5 overall, it is hard to complain about the job he has done.
Brian Burke has had one of my favorite quotes of the last few weeks with "We can't just take the 23 best players, If we just take the 23 best players and try to beat Canada and Russia, we're going to lose at that game." You are in charge of the USA team Brian, you are allowed to take the best players.
I don't know if douche bag Ron Cooke from the Post Gazette's goal is to get Evgeni Malkin to leave town or if he's trying to get Penguins fans to hate Malkin, but the 2nd rate journalist from a midwest agricultural college that doesn't have a hockey team who doesn't go to most Penguins games and doesn't have an ounce of hockey knowledge sure has convinced other fans of lesser hockey knowledge that he knows what he is talking about. Stick up for Malkin, stop reading the douche bag Ron Cooke, I have.
If you were wondering why there were weird echoes and other goofy stuff happening during the Penguins broadcast last night it may have happened because FSN suspended it's producer Lowell MacDonald Jr. for not forfeiting a replay the other night in a timely fashion that conclusively showed the puck crossing the line on a Flyers goal. Just a tip for the FSN crew in the truck: If you have conclusive evidence of something that you wish to hold back, don't show it on the air a minute later. The Flyers TV crew destroyed the evidence of Hartnell biting Letang.
Max Talbot's new commercial aired last night with the players in the commercial no longer wearing Penguin Jerseys. I guess the Penguins or the NHL or whoever holds the rights to that sort of thing made them stop using the Penguin Jerseys. You can view the original commercial where they are wearing the Penguin Jerseys below before they pull it from youtube:
Hopefully the Penguins will have an easy time of it tonight with their powerplay rolling and playing Edmonton who is ranked 29th out of the 30 NHL teams, with the 3rd worst goals against. As of the time of this post, Fluery is penned in to be playing goal.


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Aside from the steer horn trappings that come off as more Southwest American than Mexican, Adelita is a Mexican cantina. Though the dining room lacks a portrait of its namesake, a brave lass who fought in the 1910 Mexican revolution, the place is not without color or action.
A television, pinball machine and dart board outfit the lounge in the rear of the restaurant. And on Sunday, the place erupts with a lively darts tournament.