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Matzo Balls:
2 eggs
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup melted schmaltz (I use butter)
1 tablespoon dried parsley
3/4 cup Matzo Meal (Manischewitz in the 16 oz canister)
1/4 cup water
Beat together eggs, melted butter, parsley, salt, pepper and water. Stir in matzo meal and blend well. Refrigerate at least one hour before shaping into approximately 2-inch balls. Bring 2 1/2 quarts water plus one tablespoon salt to a rapid boil. Gently drop balls into boiling water. Simmer, covered, for 25 minutes. Add to chicken soup a few minutes before serving. (2 balls per serving)
Yield: About 6-8 balls (Triple the recipe for a festival meal serving 20 people)
Note: Matzo balls can be frozen before cooking. After shaping, put them on a cookie sheet to freeze, then transfer to heavy-duty freezer bag. Cook when ready to use..)
Chicken Soup:
1 whole chicken, cut up
1 package chicken wings
1 large onion, quartered
6 carrots, peeled and sliced in rounds
3 ribs celery, cut in half, including leaves
1 turnip, quartered
1 parsnip, sliced
3 cloves garlic
Handful of fresh parsley (about 3 tablespoons)
Handful of fresh dill (3 tablespoons)
Pinch of nutmeg
10 cups water
Salt and pepper to taste
Combine ingredients in large soup pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for at least an hour. Skim foam from pot and simmer another 30 minutes. Strain, keeping carrots in broth. Remove fat from top of soup.
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GAZA CITY — Israel's Cabinet extended a humanitarian cease-fire for 24 hours but said it would respond to any attacks from Gaza, according to an Associated Press report.
The AP quoted a government official who wrote in a text message that the truce would be extended through midnight on Sunday, but that operations targeting Hamas military tunnels would continue. He requested anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters on the development.
Hamas had earlier rejected Israel's four-hour extension of a humanitarian cease-fire Saturday as the Palestinian death toll in the conflict rose to more than 1,000. A short time later, the group said it fired five rockets from Gaza, two pointed directly at Tel Aviv.
Meanwhile, at least 130 bodies were recovered Saturday, Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra said, as Palestinians used the cease-fire to move medical supplies and tend to the dead and injured in the Gaza Strip.
As the initial lull in hostilities began at 8 a.m. Saturday, Gazans poured onto the streets to find food supplies, look for missing family members or return to homes they left for shelters. The nearly three weeks of fighting has left swaths of rubble, destroyed roads and damaged power infrastructure in residential neighborhoods across the strip.
More than 1,000 Palestinians, mainly civilians, have been killed since the conflict began on July 8. Another 6,000 have been wounded. In Israel, 43 have died, including 40 soldiers, two civilians and a Thai worker.
Imad Nasrallah, 38, said he and others have made it a point not to forget the living.
"With my brothers and neighbors, we volunteer and go help others, in case their homes were targeted," Nasrallah said. "We transfer the wounded to hospitals or go carry the martyrs and bury them."
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Welcome to the wonderful world of wax!
This is going to be an exciting hands-on introduction to the most magical of mediums: encaustic. In this 1-day workshop we will be covering the basics of encaustic painting including information about materials, tools, safety and studio set-up. This workshop is limited to only four students so you will have plenty of one-on-one support. We will not be working towards a "completed painting" in this workshop; the emphasis will be on familiarizing ourselves with the application of the wax by creating multiple sample boards. In addition to having painted a handful of encaustic creations, you will walk away with an understanding of why this medium is so alluring (and I warn you, addicting!) There will be a 45-minute meal break mid-workshop.
So what is included in the workshop?
Most of the materials are included but I am including a small list of things you should bring as well:
Please submit the above form as the classes fill up fast and are limited to 4 students. PayPal is accepted / credit cards are easily accepted through "Square" (preferred) and will finalize your registration! Encaustic class cancellations must be made 2 weeks prior to the workshop. All PayPal refunds will be redeposited into your PayPal account. Refunded money may take up to 7 business days to appear in your bank account depending on payment method and bank processing. If you've registered for the workshop and don't show up (have not cancelled within 2 weeks) your payment will be retained.
Where to park? Check out these Midtown Sacramento parking tips to help you have an awesome workshop experience!


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February 13, 2003
U.S. Forest Service to turn over unredacted Thirtymile fire report
WASHINGTON, DC - Energy & Natural Resources Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-NM) and U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) today secured a commitment from the Department of Agriculture to release the 4,000 page unredacted report on the Thirtymile Fire.
Senator Maria Cantwell's statement:
"Although I'm pleased with today's decision, it's long overdue. I've been asking for the unredacted Thirtymile Fire report for the last nine months because it is critical to our oversight of the Forest Service. We need to make sure the Forest Service learns from this report, to help prevent another tragedy like the Thirtymile Fire from ever happening again."


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Verizon Communications has agreed to buy optical fiber from Corning for at least $1.05 billion over the next three years as the No. 1 US wireless carrier aims to improve its network infrastructure, the companies said on Tuesday.
Corning will sell up to 12.4 million miles of optical fiber to Verizon each year from 2018 through 2020, with a minimum purchase commitment of $1.05 billion, according to the agreement. The announcement sent Corning shares up 2.5% to $27.21 in midday trading. Verizon shares rose 3 cents to $48.84.
In a statement, Verizon said the deal would help it meet its roll-out schedule for a fiber-optic network in Boston.
The company also views fiber as critical for a next generation, or 5G network. Verizon is testing a 5G fixed wireless service with equipment maker Ericsson in 11 US markets and expects a commercial launch as early as 2018.
Both Verizon and competitor AT&T Inc have been buying assets in preparation for 5G. On Friday, sources told Reuters that Verizon is considering making a buyout offer for wireless spectrum license holder Straight Path Communications Inc that would top AT&T's (T.N) $1.25 billion bid.
Verizon has said it would evaluate opportunities to build out or buy fiber on a market-by-market basis. In February, Verizon said it had closed on its acquisition of XO Communications' fiber-optic network business for about $1.8 billion.
Verizon has also hinted at an interest in buying cable provider Charter Communications Inc, which would give it access to a fiber and cable network across 49 million homes.
Verizon chief executive Lowell McAdam told investors in December that a deal with Charter would make "industrial sense," igniting takeover speculation.
But in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, McAdam said the company had not found the right "architectural fit" that would justify doing a big deal.


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Shocked at the conditions endured by animals on film sets and in zoos, Pat Derby, herself a trainer in Hollywood, set out to improve their lot. Thirty years on, her work for elephants in particular has transformed their lives. Martin Pearson visits her sanctuary in California
A nine-ton African elephant was silhouetted against a hazy horizon, partly hidden by billowing plumes of dust. It lumbered across the landscape towards a small woman dressed in a pink silk blouse, khakis and a crushed cowboy hat on top of her red pigtails, who nestled beneath its swaying trunk and cooed as if it were an overgrown pussycat.
This was Pat Derby, a 65-year-old English woman, originally from East Sussex, who has spent three decades dedicating herself to animals in general, and to elephants in particular. A Hollywood animal trainer before she became a wildlife activist, she has survived cancer and near bankruptcy, and now faces a yet bigger challenge.
We were in San Andreas, an hour and a half east of San Francisco, and the parched land that stretches for as far as the eye can see is owned by Derby's organisation, the Performing Animal Welfare Society (Paws), which is dedicated to the wellbeing of captive elephants.
I was standing a couple of trunk-lengths away from Derby and her pride and joy, who goes by the name of 71 - so named because she was the 71st of almost 100 elephants collected by an eccentric millionaire and who came into Derby's hands after the millionaire's divorce broke up his collection. 'I was born in love with elephants,' Derby explained.
Derby enjoyed an idyllic childhood in Seaford and moved to America when she was 12 after her father, a teacher, died. After leaving school she studied ballet, then drifted into Broadway before heading west, first to Las Vegas and then to Hollywood, where, while trying to make a career as an actress, she began helping out the animal trainers on set.
She became a highly respected trainer in her own right, and her credits include Lassie movies and television classics such as Gunsmoke and Flipper. Derby specialised in non-abusive training using positive reinforcement, unlike most Hollywood trainers at the time who relied on dominance and physical force.
'I went into that occupation with the feeling that if people earn their living off animals, they must love them a lot,' she said. 'But it was really horrifying to me when I saw how even little dogs who worked on films had to live.'
In 1976 she published a book, The Lady and the Tiger, which described in gruesome detail her years in the business and the shocking scenes she witnessed. After publication, her career came to a grinding halt. 'I had never perceived it as an exposé, but it was,' she said. 'I was persona non grata.'
Derby retired the animals she owned - she bought a resort among the redwoods of northern California and kept several animals there - and threw herself into full-time activism, education and fundraising, with the help of her partner of 31 years, Ed Stewart, who worked in human resources for a car company, and had no background in animal welfare.
The couple founded Paws in 1984 to focus on raising public awareness of the plight of performing animals. First they set their sights on circuses. Unlike in the UK, American big tops, then and now, routinely incorporate elephants into their shows. 'Ed was out all the time with a video camera,' Derby said. 'He stood there when the circus train pulled in and filmed what was happening right out in public.'
Hours of videotape documented the heavy-handed treatment and sub-standard conditions that many circus animals endured. The exposure helped garner support from congressmen and fuel political action.
In 2000, Derby testified in front of US Congress in support of a bill to regulate the treatment of captive elephants more tightly. But it faced fierce opposition from the circus industry, and eventually failed. 'I don't think we can ever legislate against cruelty,' Derby said. 'You have to kill the demand. If people refused to go to the circus or to see a movie with a live animal, then you wouldn't have to legislate.'
In zoos around the globe, elephants remain a popular draw. But in the past few years an alarming number of them have died due to illnesses exacerbated by confinement.
According to the animal welfare group Peta, 39 elephants, about one in 10 captive elephants, have died in American zoos since 2000. Most suffered fatal foot infections brought on by a lack of movement and cold, wet concrete floors. Arthritis is another common killer.
Europe fares little better. A 2002 report for the RSPCA, called Live Hard Die Young, found that Asian elephants in European zoos are half as heavy again as their wild counterparts with an average life expectancy of just 15 years, compared with up to 65 years in their wild state.
One in four captive-born calves were stillborn, and almost one in 10 were rejected or killed by their mothers. Many captive elephants also display what is politely called 'stereotypic behaviour', repetitive tics or swaying.
'We see all the time the results of poor diet, poor treatment, restraints on chains; we see all the joint problems, the mental problems,' Derby said.
The combination of physical and mental duress sometimes provokes these ordinarily peaceful animals into acts of violence. Indeed, the US government once ranked the job of elephant-keeper as the most dangerous profession in the country.
In 2001 a veteran keeper was killed at London Zoo, which then moved its elephants out to Whipsnade Wildlife Park, leaving the capital void of elephants for the first time in 170 years.
'There is no benefit of captivity. None,' Derby said. 'It provides nothing to elephants. They're victims of confinement. I don't think elephants should be in captivity - ever. Including at my place.'
But return to the wild is not an option. After years in captivity these elderly and often sick elephants will never again possess the skills and instincts to be entirely self-sufficient. Paws recreates their natural environment as best it can.
Derby currently provides refuge for 11 elephants, nine of them here at Ark 2000, the largest of three local sites run by Paws, and one of just two elephant sanctuaries in America. The newcomers include Ruby, a much-troubled former circus elephant from Los Angeles Zoo, who arrived here earlier this summer.
Her departure was a controversial, drawn-out affair, involving celebrities, lawsuits, protest and political grandstanding. But Ruby seems to have landed on her impressively sturdy feet.
If Paws can afford to take them, more elephants will soon be on the way. New national guidelines from the American Zoo Association require more space and better socialisation. Some zoos plan to expand their elephant enclosures to meet the new standards, but several others simply don't have the resources; their elephants face eviction.
Six American institutions recently announced plans to phase out their elephant programmes altogether.
In Europe new industry guidelines mandate that elephants can't live healthily, never mind happily, in the cramped enclosures provided by most big city zoos. The 2002 RSPCA report laid out in stark terms that there is no future for elephants in zoos in Europe. The best that can be done is to make life tolerable for existing captive animals, and end importation and breeding programmes.
The RPSCA is working with the British Government to expand laws governing captive elephants, and there is serious discussion of banning the use of elephants altogether in circuses. Public opinion has turned: only one elephant remains in a British-based circus, a 54-year-old named Anne in the Bobby Roberts Super Circus.
Last month East Ayrshire Council banned Anne from performing, after pressure from animal rights advocates. 'The groups in Britain are 1,000 years ahead of the groups here,' Derby said. 'They're effective. They get stuff done.'
More than 300 elephants remain in American zoos, and although Derby might not have the money to take them all in, she certainly has enough acreage. The majority of her sanctuary occupies a 2,300-acre former cattle ranch, which she and Stewart took over in 2002 with the help of celebrity friends.
Kim Basinger chipped in, as did her then husband Alex Baldwin, who won $250,000 for Paws on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and their long-time friend Bob Barker, the veteran host of the US version of The Price is Right.
The sanctuary is not a zoo, or a wildlife park, but something altogether different. The general public is never allowed through the wrought-iron gates trimmed with elephant motifs. The animals wander at will, often far from human gaze, over open brush bristling with trees for grazing and spattered with mud-holes in which to wallow.
Here, they are treated with respect, kindness and cruelty-free management methods. Paws bans traditional elephant-keeping techniques, still used in most American zoos and circuses, which involve a sharp implement called a bull-hook and, when necessary, forceful domination using chains, pulleys and cattle prods. Derby's elephants amble through a leisurely schedule of feeding, bath time and medical check-ups enticed by an endless supply of treats, gentle words and patience.
The place exudes calm, but Derby and her team are frantically struggling to raise the millions of dollars needed to cope with a growing population. The relative freedom that Paws provides doesn't come cheap or easy. The organisation has an annual budget of $2.5 million, yet room and board for just one elephant can cost $50,000 or more per year.
'If they're sick or have medical problems, it costs a lot more,' Derby said. (Paws goes through 70,000 ibuprofren tablets a year.) The Asian and the African elephants live apart, spending nights in heated, fortified barns that cost $1 million each. The open spaces are enclosed by three miles of steel fencing, as thick as a lamppost and 10ft high, at close to $1 million a mile.
Paws is run by two dozen staff members, with a cadre of volunteers and cash raised exclusively from private donors, and is also home to hundreds of other animals, including big cats, bears, primates and birds.
A few miles away at another Paws compound, I met two new arrivals who were sealed off in strict quarantine. Gypsy and Nicholas came here from a circus training facility in Illinois, which was ordered to give up its elephants by federal officials because of mistreatment.
Nicholas, in particular, presents a unique, and potentially dangerous problem for Paws: he is young, male and captiveborn. 'So he was deprived from birth,' Derby explained. 'My expectation when he came here was that we'd have the worst problems that we've ever encountered, times 100. All bulls are dangerous, in the wild and in captivity.'
Before Nicholas moves to Ark 2000 and its acres of space, he must take a test for tuberculosis, which is common among circus elephants. To find out how an elephant is taught to gargle, I donned a surgical mask and ventured into the quarantine barn.
From behind steel bars, Margaret Whittaker, a trainer, was putting the enormous animal through his paces, coaxing rather than forcing him to perform each stage of this vital test; first, he took a saltwater solution down the trunk, then swilled it around for 30 seconds before finally spitting the liquid into a plastic bag.
She used food treats and a giant 'target' stick that looks like a 6ft-long cotton wool bud to guide the elephant. 'Those targets are simply a point of reference,' Whittaker said. 'First, he learns to put his head on a target, then we can start using a second target to direct other body parts, be it the hip or foot. And then he gets a food reward and praise for doing each of those steps.'
When he arrived at Paws a few weeks ago, many experts considered Nicholas erratic and unmanageable. Now Whittaker's deft movements and gentle praise have him shuffling around his enclosure with the grace of a ballet dancer.
He is not quite gargling yet, but he is close. 'Nicholas has made amazing progress,' Whittaker said. 'Before he came here he was thought to be a very aggressive elephant, but I didn't really believe that. I thought, "He's just a 14-year-old boy with lots of energy," and he's been a complete delight.'
This kind of 'protected contact' training is slowly being adopted by some zoos. It not only protects elephant keepers, but also, Whittaker says, creates a more respectful environment for the animal itself. 'If they want to get mad, if they want to swing their trunk, they can do that. They can say, "I've had enough, you've pushed me a little too far and I'm done." They're allowed to do that and I respect their right.'
In the wild, elephants live a nomadic existence, roaming habitats of 20,000 square miles or more, over varied terrain, in search of a diverse vegetarian diet and water for drinking and bathing. They also form lifelong bonds.
All females and many males live their entire lives in close-knit, hierarchically complex herds. Calves stay with their mothers for life. And in death, elephants, just like humans, indulge in days-long grieving rituals. Captivity disrupts this natural existence on every imaginable level, all too often terminally.
'Almost every captive elephant in this country has seen its herd slaughtered, and its mother killed,' Derby said. 'They're all neurotic. 71 is one of the least neurotic elephants in the country, because we raised her from a tiny baby, and gave her all that attention. But she's still deprived in many ways.'
Gay Bradshaw is a vocal critic of conventional methods of elephant keeping in the West. A fast-talking psychologist and ecologist, she has studied post-traumatic stress disorder in both wild and captive animals and, in a 2005 essay in Nature, came to some controversial conclusions.
'The symptoms that we're seeing in zoo elephants - stereotypic behaviour, decreased longevity, infanticide, hyper-aggression - are the types of things that are observed in humans who have been subjected to similar conditions,' Bradshaw writes. 'Elephants in captivity experience an array of stressors that undermine their wellbeing: difficult transportation, poor housing and living conditions, social isolation, and in circuses they are routinely beaten. These are all things that have severe psycho-physiological effects- commensurate with the incarceration of a human.'
Around the world, the shortcomings of captivity are becoming too severe to ignore. Over the few weeks that I visited Paws, a zoo elephant went on a rampage in Romania before being mauled to death by security dogs. In a Berlin animal park, a crowd watched horrified as a mother elephant seemed to try to stamp on her newborn baby.
A six-year-old calf, Hansa, born at Seattle city zoo, died of a mysterious virus. And in Alaska, Maggie, a 24-year-old African elephant collapsed and became seriously ill - many felt that she was paying the price for years living in a near Arctic climate. But the most high-profile recent case - and the longest running - involved Ruby, a 46-year-old African elephant and one of the most famous residents of Los Angeles Zoo;- a creature with an especially tangled past.
Snatched from her herd back in Africa around the same time that Derby was making her mark as a trainer in Hollywood, Ruby landed at a safari park south of Los Angeles. There she gave birth to a male calf, but soon afterwards both mother and son were shipped to a travelling circus. They were trained to do tricks together, before being separated for good.
In 1987 Ruby was sent to Los Angeles Zoo, an institution with what its former curator Les Schobert calls 'a very sad history' of keeping elephants, while her son was sent to a breeding facility in Arkansas. Ruby formed a tight, trans-species 15-year bond with a fellow resident, an Asian named Gita, despite the fact that Asian and African elephants do not usually get along.
But in 2003 the zoo's administrators decided to move Ruby - to a Tennessee zoo, where, they said, she would act as an 'aunty' for a planned breeding programme.
Protests erupted from animal activists who felt the Ruby and Gita should remain together, and the story helped put elephant rights on the map. 'Ruby became the first poster elephant,' Catherine Doyle, a long-time Ruby campaigner, told me on a blustery day outside the gates of Los Angeles Zoo. 'It really touched people that these two long-time friends would be separated so casually and cruelly.'
With the backing of the Humane Society of the United States, Doyle filed a lawsuit alleging misuse of city funds and asking a judge to stop the move. But while the judge mulled over a restraining order, zoo workers loaded Ruby on to a trailer in the dead of night, and drove her 2,000 miles to Tennessee.
'They moved her out after I quit in disgust,' Schobert, who has now joined forces with animal rights groups, said. 'I always said that when I start to have trouble looking at myself in the mirror in the morning it's time to get out. And I was having trouble. Zoos have to rethink what they're doing with elephants. They are still clinging to the idea that they're going to be put out of business if they lose their elephants.'
In the following weeks there were worrying reports from Ruby's new home. She was swaying and rocking repetitively, a symptom of neurosis and loneliness. After knocking down one of her fellow elephants, she was separated from them. 'There was no interaction between her and any other elephant,' Schobert, who made a covert visit to Tennessee, said. 'There was no integration whatsoever. It was a very dysfunctional situation. I came away very disturbed.'
Tennessee officials called in a consultant, Alan Roocroft, a man once infamous in animal rights circles. Roocroft was the keeper in charge during an especially ugly incident at San Diego Wild Animal Park in 1988. Roocroft was accused of, and admitted, leading a team that chained an aggressive elephant named Dunda, then beat her over the head with axe handles for several days.
Despite widespread outrage the district attorney declined to press charges, calling the act an 'accepted technique' among reputable animal facilities. Roocroft was cleared of any wrong-doing but, he says now, 'I have to live with that day in, day out, the regrets.'
Today he runs a successful consultancy working with zoos and elephants all over the world, and admits that the beatings triggered a personal transformation, which in turn began to change attitudes in the industry as a whole. Roocroft helped to pioneer a new way of working with elephants, in stark contrast to the domination techniques he had used as a young man. 'If you have an ounce of conscience, or remorse,' he explained, 'then it's not hard to make a change.'
By the time he arrived in Tennessee to see Ruby, Roocroft had become a leading advocate of positive reinforcement, training with praise, treats and a whistle instead of a bull-hook. He was immediately unhappy with Ruby's condition in her new home. 'I found an elephant that was out of place,' he said. 'My advice to them was to move her back to a place she knew where she probably felt more comfortable.'
In LA, public pressure finally produced a result. The city's mayor, Jim Hahn, announced that he was ordering Ruby's return, after a year and a half in unhappy exile. But it was not the sweet victory Doyle had hoped for. The relationship between the two elephants was permanently damaged. 'I got to see them one time back in LA,' she said. 'It wasn't good. For decades Gita suffered from terrible foot problems, and she was standing in a pool of her own blood. Ruby was in a back area and she was swaying back and forth like crazy.'
Within six months Gita was dead, after suffering a cardiac arrest. Ruby was alone again. Doyle and her colleagues switched tactics, insisting that Ruby, now 46 years old, deserved to retire in peace with her own kind. Derby's rescue centre was their first choice. 'I love the Paws sanctuary,' Doyle said, adding that it is the only place she has ever seen a captive elephant run. 'Pat and Ed provide the highest quality care. There's a natural source of stimulation, from the environment to the social situation. They really set the standard.'
Inside one of Paws's two existing barns, buckets of corn, mango, papaya and bagels lined the walls. Derby and Stewart were tossing treats to Ruby and another African elephant, Lulu. Lulu took up Stewart's offer of a warm hose bath, trumpeting, trotting and flapping her ears with enthusiasm. Ruby headed straight outside.
In just a few weeks she has formed a strong bond with Lulu, just as she once did with Gita. 'Ruby has a life that all elephants in captivity deserve,' Doyle said. 'It's the first time she's able to walk on soft surfaces, choose her own food. She can do things that are natural for elephants to do.'
After leaving the barn, Ruby threw a few trunk-fuls of dust over her back and headed over to the fence separating her from Mara and 71, Paws's two other African females. In a subtle but important display of acceptance, Ruby and 71 turned their backs to each other, which means there is a good chance that soon all four elephants can be integrated into one, free-roaming group, as Derby plans.
'Ruby has progressed so rapidly,' she said. 'Her next step will be to go out into the big habitat with the other girls. Not a herd, because there are no herds in captivity. These are unrelated dysfunctional individuals who've learnt to get along. That's the best you can hope for in captivity.'


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This style of kayak, used in the Sea of Okhotsk, is the only distinctive Asiatic type, says Howard I. Chapelle in the Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America. It is a hunting boat designed for calm waters. Chapelle notes that it shares the same form as hunting and fowling stiffs used in America. He also notes that the Koryaks weren't daring canoemen and stayed out of rough water. Paddlers of the boat drawn in this week's free kayak plans used two ping-pong-looking paddles to move the boat. It is, reportedly, highly maneuverable.
This kayak was seriously easy to model. It's also the shortest boat that I've modeled in Delftship, and it's the last boat for January. Only two more months and eight more boats in the Free Canoe and Kayak Plan Project. If you have a request, get it in soon.
Length: 8 feet 10 3/8 inches
Width: 25 1/4 inches
Depth: 8 1/4 inches
Kayak Building Books
To build a kayak from the free plans, you need info on how to do it. Buy one of these three books to get started.
- The Strip-Built Sea Kayak: Three Rugged, Beautiful Boats You Can Build: If you only buy one book, then buy this one.
- Building Strip-Planked Boats: Contains updates to lots of the techniques found in The Strip-Built Sea Kayak.
- Kayakcraft: Fine Woodstrip Kayak Construction
- Consider buying The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America for more info about this kayak.
For a more in-depth list, check out my canoe and kayak building books review.
Get the Drawing Package
The drawing package includes the full-sized study plan and each station and stem drawn separately on a PDF that prints full sized on ARCH D size paper (nestings). You can cut these out and glue them to plywood to cut full-sized forms. A pdf of the electronic drawing package. is available for this kayak. You can print the file on 24- by 36-inch paper on your own.
Free Kayak Plans Downloads
The free kayak plans come as a pdf (free Adobe Reader required to view) that you can print off at photocopy stores.
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i loaded up a world with the "hotel california" seed at 3:45PM, wandered the caves and when i looked at the clock again it was 6:30PM
gargamel is the best seed i've seen.
Thats the seed my server uses, its pretty good.
"Did you know that only 30 percent of british males wank with their feet"
I know, I know, but it's quite good with lots of flat desert area's.
Can't believe this seed hasn't been posted yet
So much awesome weird scenery in it just pick a direction and walk. Here's a thread about it with a big map pointing out lot's of interesting locations' coordinates.
Just that, v.
No spaces, no caps, just v.
You start here. Go up towards the mountain.
It's not bizarre, but it's a far sight better than the mundane scenery, and there's some impressive mountains to fly around.
rome is pretty neat
There's a strange pattern.
Why is there no grass in your world? :psyduck:
oh god dead faggot 5 you're hilarious.
/no sarcasm intended.
Personally, I just type in a load of swear words into the seed box. It's amazing what you come up with. I also think writing things like VaginaTitsFuckDickLol is fun!
Anyone know a good seed that has a lot or is mostly snow and ice? Every world I spawn on, I can't find any snow at all, not even a small biome of it.
"penis tug session" comes up with the biggest fucking frozen ocean I've ever seen
I also found a huge pumpkin orgy (literally like 5 pumpkins all in a straight line and a shitload around it) on "Seed for the World Generator"
I typed in the national anthem for America. Awesome results. Though, the easily typed numeric value is -1367773044 so you don't have to type the whole song.
Randomly generated. It's basically a giant snow biome with an endless iced ocean :byodood:
Seed is "2849567255131199075" (without the quotes obviously)
Big mountains.
"I want to fuck you in the ass"
Amazing seed, basically a desert with large mountains strewn everywhere with lakes of water beneath them-Contrast of desert and mountain is always great in my opinion.
"PuntoBlanko" is a great snowy map.
The lyrics to Party in The USA... largest mountains I have ever seen in minecraft
I also love "NeverSayNether". It has what looks like gods' pool in it.
And if you want a place with the shittiest weather in existence, use my nickname as a seed.
I typed in 'Bartlesville' once and spawned in a cave.
Was on my cousin's PC so I can't provide cords.
My favorite is superrobotmonkeyteamhyperforcego
Tons of giant caves, Obsidian and Redstone abound.
haxxor or haxors. amazing your spaw has a lava fall above ground near it
Version 2.0 is pretty nifty. At least I like it.
This seed has over 13.5 MB of CLIFFS... i had to go into fly mode just to find the end of them...
I don't remember the seed but I was so happy when I got it.
I closed my eyes, put in a random number, and got exactly what I wanted. Tons and tons of islands all around, just islands.
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Merely the premise of "Rust and Bone" sounds uncomfortably maudlin: A wayward single father and part-time fighter falls into an unexpected romance with a beautiful whale trainer who's just lost both her legs below the knee in a freak accident. Both must undergo drastic transformations that render them as vulnerable as newborn babies. Both are literally and metaphorically broken and must help each other heal.
But it's the stripped-down way director and co-writer Jacques Audiard tells this story that, for the most part, makes it more compelling than the feel-good plot suggests. Audiard avoids trite, sentimental uplift. This has a quiet intensity and, ultimately, a hard-won sense of optimism.
At its center, "Rust and Bone" features two vivid performances that allow their actors to strip away all traces of vanity. A strikingly de-glammed Marion Cotillard stars as Stephanie, a trainer at Marineland in Antibes in the south of France. One night she goes dancing at a club, gets into a confrontation and leaves disheveled and bloodied.
Her escort home is the club's bouncer, Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts). He's recently arrived in town with Sam (Armand Verdure), the 5-year-old, towheaded son he barely knows. Together they're just surviving, living temporarily with Ali's sister as he puts together random security jobs and trains to be a mixed martial arts fighter.
Months later, when a terrifying accident during an orca performance leaves Stephanie a double partial amputee, she finds herself calling Ali, the blunt brute who'd left her his phone number. It's precisely that unapologetically non-nonsense demeanor that she craves. She doesn't want to be pitied; she wants to feel like a woman again.
And so they embark on a tricky friends-avec-benefits relationship. Audiard renders these scenes frankly and honestly, with an awkwardness that eventually gives way to animalism. These are people who never would have connected under ordinary circumstances; they end up needing each other desperately. Only in the movies.
Cotillard won the Academy Award for best actress for transforming herself into Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose," and has embodied a certain romantic femininity in films like "Inception" and "Midnight in Paris." Unadorned as she is here, her talent and presence feel even more vibrant and accessible. And Schoenaerts is just a force of nature, all masculine magnetism and impulse.
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BROOMFIELD — Vail Resorts claims a teenager's own negligence caused his avalanche death on the front of Vail Mountain.
Taft Conlin was 13 when an avalanche on Prima Cornice killed him last January. Conlin's parents sued the ski company, claiming their son died because the company's negligence created an "avalanche trap" that killed him.
The ski company filed its answer Monday afternoon in Broomfield County District Court, claiming Conlin caused his own death.
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text: Anybody else own this game? Anybody export your draft class to your Madden 12? Seems like a cool idea. The college game is more addictive in dynasty mode than Madden is in franchise because you have a turnover of about 15-20 players every year. Recruiting is done every week and rather time consuming but fun. The online play is limited in that there are basically only 2-3 teams you can play with to have a chance to win. Bama is sick, based on the 2011 team and only a couple of teams can really compete. So you either have to be Bama or you are playing against them. Much of the time both teams are Bama.


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We have a fairly light news cycle this week (as the industry PR machine takes a breather in between Sibos and Money 20/20), but Techcrunch has helpfully provided a six-part web doc on Bitcoin and Blockchain. The series is based upon Nathaniel Popper's recent book Digital Gold and it walks thru the origins and challenges of Bitcoin, the rise of Ethereum and ends with a chapter featuring R3's Charley "Hollywood" Cooper (your author plays the uncredited role of "offscreen voice trying to crack up Charley Cooper"). It is a really well done series and will jump to the top of my list of "links to send to my Dad to explain what I do for a living."
Speaking of Popper, he has a follow up article to last week's speech by Fed Governor Brainard entitled Central Banks Consider Bitcoin's Technology, if Not Bitcoin. The article echoes much of what the final Techcrunch episode above discusses, about how the promise of blockchain tech needs to coexist with the realities of the current and future regulatory system:
"There are so many things going on that it is hard to keep track of all the contacts," said Mr. Berndsen, the head of market infrastructure at the Dutch central bank. "I hear from other central bank colleagues that it is the same everywhere."
[SNIP] Ms. Wilkins said the Bank of Canada was interested in the technology as a way to build a single, shared record of all the transactions among several institutions. That could leave much less money sitting idle while banks reconcile their different ledgers, as now happens.
It would also create a standardized way of recording transactions that would allow all the players in the system to communicate more seamlessly.
"There is currently a whole industry set up to reconcile and audit all these separate ledgers, and you can't easily connect them," she said. "This comprehensive shared data source could be a real benefit."
This sentiment is also picked up by Currenex's David Newns in this Global Custodian article (thanks for the shout out David!):
"There is a reason banks have the regulatory frameworks around them and in the long run nobody can be immune from those even if you are a technology company and not a bank," said Newns. "Just because you're not acting as a bank today, it doesn't mean that you cannot avoid acting like a bank and it may be less comfortable to start doing so tomorrow. There remains a question over how Wall Street and FinTech get along but FinTechs should be aware that if you want to play in that pool you have to play by the rules."
"Looking at R3 they have the right mindset and character to bring both of these communities together. The industry needs to think about how FinTechs are going to interact with legacy systems and the cultural divide is being addressed by larger industry initiatives."
Blockchain Hype
Former UBS CIO Oliver Bussman sprinkles a bit of cold water on blockchain hype with FT article entitled Banks will not adopt blockchain fast (note to FT editors: "blockchain fast"? Aren't the British meant to be more gooder at grammar and usage?):
Over the next 12 to 24 months, I expect we will see significant, if still limited, moves to blockchain-based platforms in areas like cross-border payments or trade finance. But financial services as a whole is much broader than just these isolated use cases. I therefore expect widespread blockchain implementation in other industries first — for example supply chain management, healthcare, real estate, or e-governance.
No doubt financial services will follow; when it comes to blockchain, I do not think you can escape destiny. But the dream of a fully blockchain-enabled financial system will take some time to fulfil.
The Streetwise Professor eschews a sprinkle of cold water for a fire hose of skepticism in this post on the potentially facile arguments and hidden dangers within completely decentralized clearing. He does a very nice job of highlighting the many roles of a CCP above and beyond the blocking and tackling of moving margin, such as mutualizing and managing default and liquidity risk. He also offers this sobering take of smart contracts:
When I think of these "smart contracts" one image that comes to mind is the magic broomsticks in The Sorcerer's Apprentice. They do EXACTLY what they are commanded to do by the apprentice (coder?): they tote water, and end up toting so much water that a flood ensues. There is no feedback mechanism to get them to stop when the water gets too high. Again, perhaps it is possible to create really, really smart contracts that embed such feedback mechanisms.
But then one has to consider the potential interactions among a dense network of such really, really smart contracts. How do the feedbacks feed back on one another? Simple agent models show that agents operating subject to pre-programmed rules can generate complex, emergent orders when they interact. Sometimes these orders can be quite efficient. Sometimes they can crash and collapse.
In sum, the proposal for "distributed clearing to disintermediate CCPs" illustrates some of the defects of the blockchain movement. It overhypes what it does. It claims to be something new, when really it is a somewhat new way of doing something quite common. It does not necessarily perform these familiar functions better. It does not consider the systemic implications of what it does.
For an antidote to this skepticism, please read Massimo Morini's excellent paper from earlier this year: From "Blockchain hype" to a real business case for Financial Markets
R3 Around the World
To wrap up this week, we are happy to share two "firsts" for R3 and our membership. R3's Rob Sagurton shared this field report from Sao Paulo:
We are often get the question of, "Are historical bank competitors really collaborating positively within R3?" Case in point was the Blockchain Forum in Sao Paulo this week co-sponsored by Itau and Bradesco (together with R3). We were extremely proud to be invited by these two important Bank Members to co-sponsor the first full day Blockchain conference in Latin American specifically focused on DLT for regulated financial markets. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive on both the content and "energy" from the over 125 senior financial executives and regulators in attendance from Brazil and Latin America. Among the esteemed presenters were the Central Bank of Brazil and their Securities and Exchange Commission - CVM, along with R3 Members Emmanuel Aidoo (Credit Suisse) and Carlos Kuchkovsky (BBVA), to whom we owe special gratitude for making the trip to Brazil to provide their valuable global perspective.
And finally, we are very happy to announce our first Russian member Qiwi, the leading Russian payments service provider. Welcome aboard!


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Martin Glenn, former Pepsico UK president, has teamed with private equity firm CapVest on its bid for Unilever's Bird's Eye and Iglo brands, which have been put up for sale.
Mr Glenn is being backed by the CapVest's consortium, which includes US buyout firm KKR and CVC Capital Partners. It's thought the consortium has submitted a £970m first round bid for Bird's Eye.
Final round bids are due in August, so the deal could be completed at the end of the summer.
Elsewhere in the private equity industry, it emerged that BC Partners has teamed up with Axa Private Equity to buy French care home business Medica for Euro750m from Bridgepoint and Alpinvest.
BC Partners and Axa are backing the existing management and plan to grow the group with further acquisitions.
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Lord Young saw the value of his 15.5pc stake in the seller of software and networks for digital photography jump 21pc yesterday.
Pixology's shares rose 6 to 35p after the company said it had had an encouraging first half with a "marked improvement in revenue over 2005". The company also signed a four-year supply deal to supply Tesco with software for in-store kiosks in the period.
However, the jump following the trading update is from a low base - the shares which were trading above 190p last year hit an all-time low of 27.5p last week.
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James Horler's 1.83pc stake in La Tasca, the Spanish Tapas chain, fell in value by £86,000 after the company warned it had suffered from the World Cup.
Many pubs have enjoyed a booming trade during the tournament, but customers have deserted restaurants, according to Mr Horler, who said the company would be hit by up to £400,000 from lost sales. "It was worse than we thought," he said.
The warning took the shine off a good set of results, with pre-tax profits up 55pc to £6.1m. The shares fell 9.5 to 121p.


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Is it me or this forum is basically consist of single digit frequent members? Maybe not exactly single digit, but, certain very few. All I can remember is the typical MS haters, about 3. 1 super MS supporter. 1 guy who always complains LCD and shooter games. 1 guy who post politics. And randomly have some threads talking about geeky toys or stuff that I cannot comprehend, which is about 10 people. And then there is me being me.
Roughly counted 20 members are frequent forum users.
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Richard Lidinsky, Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), has confirmed that his first public speaking engagement following the upcoming Presidential election will be at the Coalition of New England Companies for Trade (CONECT) Northeast Cargo Symposium on November 8, 2012.
Chairman Lidinsky's appearance at the symposium will be very timely. Since his nomination by President Obama and confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Lidinsky has been very active in regard to critical issues in international ocean shipping, including those related to U.S. ports' ongoing longshore labor negotiations. For this reason, Chairman Lidinsky has been designated the kickoff speaker of CONECT's 11th Annual Northeast Cargo Symposium, to be held at the Boston Marriott Newton. He will address symposium attendees at 9 a.m.
The FMC has jurisdiction over international ocean carriers, freight rates, surcharges, marine terminal operators, and charges related to cargo transiting port docks on all coasts of the United States. Importers, exporters, ocean carriers, marine terminal operators, freight forwarders, and customs brokers are impacted by the negotiations between the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and USMEX (the marine terminal operator negotiation group), which currently are under supervision of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services. The FMC continuously scrutinizes actions taken by all parties affected by these negotiations. The parties have agreed to extend the current East Coast and Gulf Coast longshore contract until December 30, and to continue negotiating, without disruption of port operations, through that date.
In addition, the FMC has been active on a number of fronts, including a proposal to create an export freight rate index, which attracted global attention from all sectors of the maritime community. Chairman Lidinsky will discuss this concept as well as his agenda for the Commission at this critical juncture.


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China's Graduates Face Low Rates of Employment and Reduced Salaries
According to a government survey, there will be over four million college and university graduates in China in 2006. This is 75,000 more than in 2005. These graduates not only face the difficulty of finding a job, but will also see monthly salary offers below 1000 yuan (US$125). Industrial experts believe that China is seeing a period of reduced income.
According to recent information released by China's National Development and Reform Commission, the 2006 forecast for job hunters in urban areas nationwide is about 25 million people. However, there are only 11 million expected job openings, which leaves an oversupply of 14 million job hunters. Compared with 2005, this is an increase of one million jobless.
15 Percent Decrease in Salary Compared to the Same Time Last Year
Chengdu newspaper Tianfu Morning Page reported the results of a survey of typical placements for university graduates in 2005. After six months of employment, the positions with the highest income are professional technical positions, with an average monthly income of 2,000 to 2,185 yuan (US$250 to $275). The second position is management with monthly incomes of 1,650 to 1,880 yuan (US$205 to $235). Manufacturing operations ranked third, with an average monthly income of 1,200 to 1,500 yuan (US$150 to $190). Compared to 2004, monthly salaries have decreased 15%, 12% and 10% respectively.
The study revealed that college graduates in the Beijing area were paid around 1,580 yuan (US$200) in 2005, which is down 16% compared to 2004. Some experts predict that the pay offered to graduates in 2006 may be 22% lower than in 2005.
Undergraduates Hired for 500 yuan (US$62) Per Month
Last year, it was reported that some companies only offered 600 yuan (US$75) per month to senior students from Henan province. This unbelievable situation was the source of much internet discussion by people from all walks of life. This January, real estate companies in Chengdu offered as little as 500 yuan (US$62) per month during the probation period. Despite this low wage, the company hired nearly 40 senior college students.
According to vocational experts, instances of companies offering graduates only 500 yuan (US$62) per month are rare; most companies will offer college students 700 to 800 yuan (US$85–$100) a month. This was the case at all the employment conventions in Chengdu this year.
University professor, Zhu Nan, calculated that it generally costs a family 150,000 yuan (US18,750) to put their child through university. If university graduates can't get higher pay, this means they are not getting a return on their education investment. This will lead some families to think that education is not worthwhile, which is a disadvantage to improving the nation's labor quality.
Supply-and-Demand Dynamics in Big Cities
The monthly salary offered to college graduates has been falling annually in recent years. According to the recruitment industry, many universities take in an ever increasing number of students, which in fact results in a massive increase in the number of graduates each year. However, most graduates still look for jobs in the big cities, thereby creating an ever greater imbalance between the supply and demand of jobs in cities such as Guangzhou and Shenzhen. It is inevitable that wages for these graduates will decrease drastically.


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Mar 13, 2013, 05:00 ET from Neusoft Corporation
SHENYANG, China, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Neusoft Mobile Solutions, a fully owned subsidiary of Neusoft Corporation (Neusoft), announced that its innovation, 'Family joyn,' received the Silver Award from GSMA joyn Innovation Challenge. The joyn Innovation Challenge was an initiative to encourage innovations based on RCS. The challenge stimulates mobile and web app developers and technology innovators to build on the core capabilities of joyn and explore ideas for new and attractive services. Using the joyn 'innovation accelerator,' a developer can use APIs on a live GSMA Rich Communication Services (RCS) network. As these APIs have already been standardized, it will be easy for any new services to be transferred to a live operator commercial network as they become available.
A competition was held and 17 ideas from 12 companies were short listed. The companies were then asked to present their ideas to the judging panel. The best new ideas were showcased at the GSMA Pavilion at the Mobile World Congress 2013.
Neusoft's 'Family joyn' client is expanding the communication capability within the daily life. The application is mainly targeted at family members who are the most vulnerable and at the same time most valuable – children and elders.
The application offers a simplified and locked RCS user-interface, which ensures the right functions are continuously available. The most important contacts are available under one-click for immediate Voice and Video Share connection. With the RCS real-live location information pull, parents can have continuous information about their children's location and safety.
"The approach for the innovation was set to be very practical and the ground-rule was to create something that can be actually used within real-life" explained Customer Services Manager, Antti Miikkulainen. "Actually the whole idea then started from the daily need at home," he laughs.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seventeen nonprofit organizations will receive Bank Enterprise Award grants from Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE: RF) to support their financial education efforts among low-income people and in economically distressed communities.
The Birmingham-based bank, which earned a Bank Enterprise Award of $126,000 from the United States Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, opted to distribute the money to a variety of community organizations operating in the 16-state area Regions serves. Recipients were selected from among 125 that submitted proposals.
"The benefits our community development partners provide through the financial education programs they offer help make life better for low-income people in our communities," said Jon Davies, Head of Community Affairs for Regions. "Regions is proud to support them with this Bank Enterprise Award money as well as through the involvement of Regions associates, who frequently volunteer their time and expertise to help such groups teach financial education programs."
Regions is awarding $26,000 to Jobs for Mississippi Graduates, a nonprofit organization based in Jackson, Miss., that provides financial education to disadvantaged young people in rural areas of the state as part of its high school dropout prevention services and school-to-work-transition training opportunities.
"The dedication and resources committed to us by Regions Bank will aid us in our mission to further reduce the state's alarming dropout rate and in our efforts to attract and retain a quality workforce," said Executive Director Ramona Seabron-Williams. "Jobs for Mississippi Graduates is delighted to have Regions as a corporate sponsor."
Regions is awarding $25,000 to the Jackson Medical Mall Foundation, a nonprofit organization also based in Jackson that promotes health care and economic development benefiting an underserved population in a designated revitalization district.
"This grant allows the Jackson Medical Mall Foundation, in partnership with Regions Bank, to further improve the financial literacy and the quality of life of families living and working within the boundaries of the Jackson Medical Mall District," said Executive Director Primus Wheeler. He proposed using the funds to offer multi-generational financial education programs to low-income patients, consumers, and employees at the medical complex's Thad Cochran Center, which provides physical, psychological, and emotional health care.
In addition, grants of $5,000 each are going to the following organizations to support various financial education efforts such as teaching low-income people how to manage their personal finances better, guiding potential buyers of affordable housing through the process of becoming homeowners, and helping small businesses launch, grow, create jobs, and provide stability in economically distressed areas:
- Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Montgomery, Alabama
- Alabama Poverty Project, Birmingham, Alabama
- alt.Consulting, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
- AIDS Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
- Avenue Community Development Corporation, Houston, Texas
- Beyond Housing, St. Louis, Missouri
- Communities In Schools of Marietta-Cobb County, Marietta, Georgia
- Fair Housing Agency of Alabama, Mobile, Alabama
- Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Miami Children's Museum, Miami, Florida
- Neighborhood Development Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Public Education Foundation of Marion County, Ocala, Florida
- Shepherd House Catholic Charities of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
- Urban League of Greater Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Woodbine Community Organization, Nashville, Tennessee
Investing these funds through nonprofit partners multiplies the impact Regions has on the communities it serves and generates opportunities for low-income people who ordinarily have very limited access to financial education or to banking products and services.
About Regions Financial Corporation
Regions Financial Corporation, with $120 billion in assets, is a member of the S&P 500 Index and is one of the nation's largest full-service providers of consumer and commercial banking, wealth management, mortgage, and insurance products and services. Regions serves customers in 16 states across the South, Midwest and Texas, and through its subsidiary, Regions Bank, operates approximately 1,700 banking offices and 2,000 ATMs. Additional information about Regions and its full line of products and services can be found at www.regions.com.


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The city of Hardeeville has seen some positive changes since it hired an outside firm last year to manage its information technology, City Manager Bob Nanni said.
When he outlined the budget at last month's City Council meeting, Nanni described the hiring of Ricoh's Teknoforce as part of a "multi-year plan" to improve IT.
"We brought Teknoforce in and they act as our IT staff. We save a lot of money this way," Nanni said. "The best part is that we have a corporation of people working with the city right now as our staff that can provide hardware engineering, software engineering, system engineering and a multitude of others; whereas, if we were going to one single IT person, they would have to provide all of that."
Ricoh targets small- to medium-sized businesses and provides data backup, network support, server monitoring and support at the application level. Council voted in January 2013 to pay the company $57,400 a year for its services.
Nanni said Hardeeville will save roughly $10,000 dollars a year by using Ricoh instead of employing a single IT manager.
"They are very professional," Nanni said. "We have three or four people that buzz in and out when they have to, and a guy named James Johnson who has been very, very good at putting up with so many of the unique issues we have here."
Said Johnson, a Ricoh solution integrator: "(Hardeeville) had one guy who was the IT manager a couple of years ago. He would sometimes call us in for assistance with different projects when he got overwhelmed. When he left the city of Hardeeville, they had an opening for IT management.
"Hardeeville chose us basically because they wanted to take the team approach."
When Teknoforce first arrived on the job, a plethora of unique problems needed to be addressed.
"We've finally gotten a lot of our problems fixed," Nanni said. "(Johnson) spearheaded working with Hargray so that our Internet connection is not at City Hall but in a different location, which is a much better place for it. There's a lot less problems with interference now."
Johnson said his team found problems with the infrastructure being out of date, the incompatibility of software with computers and email being hosted by a provider in Savannah.
Since its initial inspection, the IT team has updated the network infrastructure and installed a local exchange server to host email. Hardeeville now has access to a 24-hour help desk in Atlanta.
"I'm very pleased with the amount of professionalism and production of that group and the amount we've saved by going with them," Nanni said. "I think we made a very solid decision there and we're going to put ourselves in a good position in the next year through IT."


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July 9, 2012: In a noontime ceremony at the State House yesterday, Governor Deval Patrick signed the FY2013 state budget, which included the long-awaited CPA legislation!
The Governor made no amendments or vetoes to the CPA sections included in the budget. The legislation also included the additional $25 million in funding for the statewide CPA Trust Fund from the FY 2013 budget surplus. As we reported in our last newsletter, legislative leaders have indicated their full intention to provide $25 million from the budget surplus in future years, as well.
The legislation passed yesterday amends eight different sections of the CPA statute, and the Coalition has prepared two documents that will help explain the major changes:
A red-line version of the CPA statute, as amended, with all changes highlighted.
A companion section-by-section that provides short explanations for the major changes.
CPA changes signed into law: Coalition press release
The Coalition will be providing additional analysis of the legislation in the coming weeks, including a live, online training presentation.
We are grateful to our CPA advocates across the state for your support and advocacy for this critical legislation!


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I did not start this diet to lose weight. But somewhere along the way I seem to have misplaced 20 pounds.
Twenty. Pounds. In three months!
Gone, without even trying.
I have not been counting calories. I have not been avoiding fat. (In fact, I eat more butter, cream, and whole milk now than I did before.) I have not been exercising. I eat all day long and never, ever let myself get hungry. I don't spend a single second thinking things like "is this fattening" but just eat whatever sounds good to me at the time and is "legal" on this diet.
Did you catch everything in that last paragraph? Go back and read it again if you need to. Take a moment to be shocked. Think "but how can that be?!" It's all true, I swear!
The only thing that is different is that I'm eating real, whole, natural foods. And, it seems, eating real, whole, natural foods has this great side effect of dropping the pounds. It's been coming off gradually, at a rate of about 1-2 pounds a week. I assume that I'll continue to lose weight until my body reaches the weight it's supposed to be, and then it'll even out. I'm guessing, based on my height, that that'll be after another 10 pounds.
What this says to me is that my body is basically working now the way it's SUPPOSED to. All the systems and hormones and whatnot are healthy and happy, and as a result I'm not only feeling better, but I'm looking better too.
Pictures always illustrate things better than words in cases like this, but I don't really have any good "before" pictures because – as I said – weight loss wasn't remotely on my mind when I started this. So I've had to just pick the best I could find from old snapshots to get front and profile "before" pictures. Here they are.


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A little wine word of the day for all of you - Tannin - A naturally occurring chemical that helps to preserve red wine and adds a savoury edge to the flavour. Tannins are present in grape stems, pips and skins. Tannin also comes from oak ageing of wine. As the grape ripens on the vine so do tannins, making them less astringent. Bottle age also lessens tannins, which will eventually precipitate as sediment.
So simple question today...Do you prefer a strong tannin in your wine or no?


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Head-on collision in Ohio kills 5, including 2 Michigan children
There are 24 comments on the WZZM Grand Rapids story from Dec 31, 2007, titled Head-on collision in Ohio kills 5, including 2 Michigan children. In it, WZZM Grand Rapids reports that:Ohio authorities say a woman and four children are dead after their minivan collided with a pickup truck going the wrong way on a Toledo interstate.
Join the discussion below, or Read more at WZZM Grand Rapids.
#1 Dec 31, 2007
I hope that drunk driver rots in Hell for what he did! What a worthless piece of trash. Too bad he couldn't have just hit a barrier and killed himself.
Such a shame that so many innocent people lost their lives because of this idiot! Stories like this infuriate me!!!!
#2 Dec 31, 2007
That H E L L, where he can ROT and then BURN!
#3 Dec 31, 2007
They are making all kinds of laws to prohibit smoking. When are they going to come down hard, really hard, on drunks? More than likely, never, because the ones who make the laws are some of the biggest drinkers, and they probably get much financial help for their reelection campaigns from the liquor industry. Prohibition didn't work the last time, and wouldn't work today, but we can demand that there are some really tough consequences for drinking and driving, starting from the first offense.
#4 Dec 31, 2007
Hanging would be to good for this drunken creep!
#5 Dec 31, 2007
Or a firing squad.
This piece of **** just destroyed all of those lives.
United States
#6 Dec 31, 2007
No driver that drinks ever thinks that this could possibly happen to them, but yes it can. I am certain this young man did not intend for this to happen, and he will be living with this for the rest of his life, but at the same time yes he should be punished. I feel so sad for the family that he hurt so badly, but yet I do feel some pain for him as well. I am certainly praying for all.
Since: Nov 07
#7 Dec 31, 2007
"Praying" dosn't bring back the loss of all the deaths!
Since: Dec 07
#8 Dec 31, 2007
this story is a little different than what tv8 reports.
"Go TIGERS!!"
Since: Nov 07
#9 Dec 31, 2007
I am sure people know that but for those of us that choose to,it helps. prayers are not only for the families but for us as we know we can't do anything else. Is there a reason for you comment?
#10 Dec 31, 2007
This isn't accurate. Haley, Lacie and Beau Burkman and Vadie Griffin are Bethany's children, they are all from Maryland.
Jordan and Sidney are Danny's daughters and they are from Michigan.
Regardless, a man has lost his wife and 4 daughters. A little boy has lost his mother. Not to mention the father of the Burman girls or Jordan and Sidney's mother and all of their extended families. Bethany also has a 16 year old son.
Bethany was an incredibly vibrant woman and a fantastic mother, and a Christian, so I'm sure she and her family appreciate prayers. Rest in peace Bethany, Haley, Lacie, Jordan and Vadie. And may God wrap his arms around Daniel, Beau and Syndney and the rest of the family.
"Go TIGERS!!"
Since: Nov 07
#11 Dec 31, 2007
my heart goes out to all of them. know that many people in michigan are thinking of you all and praying for you all as well. thank you for giving the right information.
#12 Dec 31, 2007
This hits home for me I ;ost a 16 year old sister from a drunk driver in 1984 you never forget the loss ,I feel for everyone involved. My parents fought for years to keep the man in jail and yes he did all 15 years manditory in Florida. On this new years eve please pick up a phone, call a friend or cab.
#13 Dec 31, 2007
Unthinkable that this happened. They are in my thoughts and prayers! And no, prayers won't bring them back, but it will bring comfort to all those affected by this tragedy!
#14 Dec 31, 2007
No sympathy should be shown to the murderer of an eight week old innocent. No one forced him to drink. No one forced him to drive. Those where his decisions and he needs to face the results of his actions. How can someone who ends the lives of five people that meant him no harm be shown any mercy. He is a baby killer.
#15 Dec 31, 2007
On this new years eve please pick up a phone, call a friend or cab. i am with you on that, pick up a phone.and call a cab.i am so sorry for your lost.and to all who have lost someone.god dose love us all
#16 Jan 1, 2008
this why boozing and cruising is ilegal
Since: Oct 07
out in the sticks
#17 Jan 1, 2008
Oh what a horrible shame!
Prayers and sympathies to the families
Since: Dec 07
#18 Jan 1, 2008
It figures that the drunk didn't die. B*stard! To ruin those families lives.=(
#19 Jan 1, 2008
My son was critically injured by a drunk driver in 1996,..by the grace of God he lived..but our family suffered by someones choice to drink and drive. No family should ever have to go through this because of someones choice. In court this drunk driver wanted the judge to believe he was the victim in all this not our son..Even after 11 years I get so angry when I read or hear the news about a drunk driver causing an accident that injures or kills someone....It saddens me to think that we cant seem to get the drunk drivers of the road..I would be willing to bet this man has a previous arrest for driving while drunk
Since: Dec 07
#20 Jan 1, 2008
I have heard 3 different ages on the baby: 6 months, 8 weeks and 8 months.
Regardless of any ones age, I am so sorry for the loss of these beautiful children and their mother. May you have the comfort of God and others during this very difficult time. God Bless.
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Using Electrical Stimulation For Alzheimer's Disease
The ADvance Study is researching the use of a surgically implanted device that delivers mild electrical pulses to specific areas of the brain in people with Alzheimer's. This deep brain stimulation (known as DBS) will be given to the fornix, a place in the brain that plays a central role in memory. Based on results of a small study of 6 patients with Alzheimer's*, the ADvance study is designed to determine if DBS of the fornix (DBS-f) is safe and has potential clinical benefit for patients with mild Alzheimer's.
The ADvance Study will initially involve about 20 people between the ages of 55 and 80 that have been diagnosed with mild Alzheimer's disease. The study is being conducted at sites in the U.S. and Canada. The neurosurgeons participating in this study have extensive experience with DBS surgery. All subjects in the study will have a DBS-f system implanted, with the stimulation device turned on for half of the subjects, and off for half. For those with the device left off at the start of the study, they will have it turned on after 12 months. All study participants will be regularly assessed for at least 18 months to measure their rate of Alzheimer's progression. The DBS-f system or certain components of the system are likely to remain in the body of study participants for the rest of their lives.
All equipment and surgical procedures related to the ADvance Study will be provided without any cost to study subjects. Study-related memory tests, physician exams and laboratory tests will be provided at no cost. Subjects will be reimbursed for travel expenses associated with each study visit. The ADvance study is sponsored by Functional Neuromodulation.
With a lack of effective long-term treatments, researchers are working hard to find new and better future treatments for patients with Alzheimer's. Advances in treatment are possible through volunteers participating in clinical research studies like ADvance. At this time, it is unknown whether patients will benefit from participating in this study. As with all clinical research, there are potential benefits and risks associated with participating. Study physicians will review all these with patients and their caregivers before being enrolled in the ADvance Study.
Caution: Investigational Device. Limited by Federal law to investigational use.
* Laxton AW, Tang-Wai DF, McAndrews MP, Zumstag D, et al. "Phase I Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation of Memory Circuits in Alzheimer's Disease. " Ann Neurol, no. 68 (2010): 521-534.
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About Nihalidea
Nihalidea is a concept developed by graphic designer, marketing and media manager Nihal Yazgan based in Istanbul. She has an extensive work experience with local and international companies stretching over a decade. More recently, she has designed and revamped the covers used by Transnational Press London for their series of periodicals and books.


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Mumbai Crime: Robbers loot one house, get beaten up in second
When a group of eight tried to rob another family after stealing jewellery worth Rs 1.2 lakh and Rs 10,000 in cash, two brothers fought them tooth and nail, forcing the gang to flee
After robbing one family in a building in Ambernath yesterday, a group of eight motivated robbers broke the next door, where two brothers managed to shoo them away.
(From left) Gajanan Kadam, Abhishek and Nikhil Bansode
First robbery: a success
The robbers stole gold ornaments worth Rs 1.2 lakh and Rs 10,000 cash from a family of four — Gajanan Suresh Kadam (38), a businessman, wife Sarita (28) and daughters Shradha (8) and Shreya (5) — at their flat in Gajraj Society during a 30-minute ordeal in the wee hours of Thursday.
Gajraj society in Ambarnath
At around 2.20 am, when the Kadam family was asleep in the hall of their flat, the robbers broke in. "When I heard someone trying to break the door, I woke up and saw people trying to come in. I rushed towards the door and shouted to my wife "Chor aale, uthh. (Thieves have come, wake up)". We tried to close the door but the four robbers pushed it open," said Gajanan, adding that the criminals were wearing masks and jackets and had sharp knives that they used to threaten them.
He added that one of his daughters got scared and wet the bed when they threatened to kill her. "They took my wife's earrings, mangalsutra and pressured us to give them more. They tied all four of us, covered us with a bed sheet, had two cups of water and stole the remaining jewelery in the house with R10,800 cash kept in my wallet," said Kadam.
Second: Not so much
Now, they thought of trying their hand at the next flat, where Nikhil Bansode (32), a senior sales executive with a Navi Mumbai-based private firm, his brother Abhishek (27), a gym trainer in Bandra and father Abhimanyu Bansode (63), a retired administrative officer with MIDC, were asleep.
"I was sleeping in the hall and woke up with the sound of someone banging the door. I got up to see four men coming right at me and one of them kept a knife on my neck. I held the knife and screamed. Abhishek, who was sleeping in the bedroom with our father, came out running and both of us started hitting the robbers," said Nikhil, adding that after a five-minute brawl, the gang of robbers ran away.
Abhishek, who then went out to see if everybody else was fine, untied the Kadam family.
"It was good that my brother screamed and woke me up. Before they could come inside the bedroom, I came out and we shooed them away. My brother's hand got hurt during that," said Abhishek.
Case registered
A case has been registered against the robbers at Shivaji Nagar police station under Sections 395 (Dacoity), 397 (Robbery, or dacoity, with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt), 452 (House-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint), 457 (Lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 342 (wrongful confinement) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Arms Act.
Cop speak
When Hement Shinde, Police Inspector, Shivaji Nagar police station did not respond to mid-day's calls, we contacted the Thane Police Commissioner.
"We have got some clues and our teams are working on it. We will soon arrest the accused," said Parambir Singh, Commissioner of Police, Thane.
A crime branch senior officer, who had visited the spot, told mid-day, "There is no CCTV footage but an auto-rickshaw driver claimed he saw a group of six people on three different motorcycles, wearing masks and jackets."


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Last week was not the first time the United States was transfixed by an act of terror. In 1964, three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi were (quoting Wikipedia) "threatened, intimidated, beaten, shot, and buried by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia Police Department." It took 44 days and an FBI-initiated act of torture to locate their bodies.
The FBI, in a nod to the theory of comparative advantage, subcontracted the torture to the Mafia, more specifically to the Colombo family associate Gregory Scarpa. Here's the story as relayed by Selwyn Raab, the New York Times investigative reporter who covered the Mafia for 25 years:
[Scarpa] went down to Mississippi for the FBI and kidnapped a KKK guy agents were sure was involved in disposing of the bodies. The guy had an appliance store. Scarpa bought a TV and came back to the store to pick it up just as he was closing. The guy helps him carry the TV to his car parked in the back of the store. Scarpa knocks him out with a bop to the head, takes him off to the woods, beats him up, sticks a gun down his throat and says "I'm going to blow your head off". The KKK guy realized he was Mafia and wasn't kidding and told him where to look for the bodies.
(Source: Raab's book Five Families, which is fascinating throughout. Raab says the story has been verified by "former law enforcement officials who asked for anonymity and lawyers who are aware of the circumstances".)
The moral of the story is that torture sometimes works. Other times it doesn't, eliciting either no information, or false information, or whatever "information" the victim believes the inquisitor wants to hear. I am almost 100% ignorant, and hence virtually 100% agnostic, about the relative frequency of these outcomes in those cases where the torturer is both skilled in his art and genuinely interested in eliciting the truth. I will be very glad if any educated reader can shed light on this question. I doubt that we're likely to learn of any controlled experiments, but I'll settle for sketchy data or even well-chosen anecdotes. Failing that, I'll settle for plausibility arguments.
Tales of the Inquisition (which always seem to come up in these discussions) are not terribly relevant here, for at least two reasons. First, not every agent of the Inquisition was an objective truthseeker. Second, even when they did seek truth, they were constrained by the technology of their era. A lot of things didn't work very well in the 16th century. Medicine, for example. The techniques of medicine have improved a lot in the past several hundred years, and plausibly so have the techniques of torture.
It should of course be obvious that the positive question "How well does torture work?" is very different from the normative question "Should we empower government officials (or, as in the Mississippi case, government subcontractors) to employ torture?". Powers that can be employed competently for good can also be employed incompetently or for evil. But surely the positive question is relevant to the normative one, as well as being interesting in its own right.
So: What can you tell me about the efficacy of torture? And if you wanted to be better informed about this question, what sort of plausibly available evidence would you find most useful?