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Every so often, I share a bit of my trip to Europe, last summer. I know that this summer is fast approaching (and I haven't made a dent in telling about this trip), but I love to write and reminisce about visiting Scotland, London and Paris. This is part four – here is part one, part two and part three, if you feel like reading. As always, if this is a place where you're only in search of recipes, then no worries! Come back soon. If not, grab a cup of tea and enjoy!
The next morning, we were up at a much more reasonable hour, even making breakfast in the main house! We started by driving to Dunstaffnage Castle, just outside of Oban. It was strong, and you could feel the power of the land forming around this former battle front. Clearly a place of survival rather than luxury, it looked over the water as well as a forest that held the chapel. As Dad told us, that forest wouldn't have existed in the 1200s, as to survive, you would build it in a place where you could see as far as possible, on land and sea.
Inside this roofless fortress, the stairs were slightly uneven, as to ensure that any intruders would surely stumble. The kitchen, which could easily have been the furnace as well, had remnants of sculpted stonework surrounding the oven. I could only imagine how it operated in it's prime (back when it had a roof). Would there be bread? Haggis? Fiddleheads? Would the cook be inspired or a warrior doing this because they were told? Would it be a place of happiness, sadness or invention? There is no way to know, but I do know that that place would have been essential. It may have been full with food at times, and empty at others. It would have been a place that everyone needed.
Wandering through the rest of the castle (it was not an enormous one, but definitely important to many people), I imagined little kids running around, through the open air.
In the turrets, there was growth emerging from the rain-coated rocks. To make sure that this place would never be gone, they nestled their way into the tiniest of crevices and grew with the endurance that all former inhabitants must have possessed.
Walking outside, through the forest to the chapel, it was hard to believe that the trees weren't there at one point. It felt like a true enchanted forest, with trees that had been there for hundreds of years and moss covering every bit of them. The moss seemed to protect those trees and keep them from spilling any secrets to unsuspecting passerby. The chapel itself was simple and honest, just like the castle. To the rear, there were burials, some of which were recent and others that were not. They were clearly remembered though, with fresh flowers peeking through.
Relishing in the first castle that my brother and I had seen, we drove to Oban. It was a sweet place, where we had lunch. Honestly, I only needed food. It didn't matter what it was, as long as it wouldn't get me sick. A baked potato, with a surprisingly great view was what we found. It disappeared faster than almost any meal on the trip. Once we'd been refueled, we explored this memory-filled place. My parents had experienced their first bite of Scotland nearly 20 years earlier, on their honeymoon. Oban, in this adorable little shop, was where they bought each other wedding presents. Stepping inside, looking at all of the sweet things, I knew I couldn't leave without something. A little necklace in a celtic knot was what I purchased. Looking around that shop, I played with the rings, wishing I had the power to pull them off. I know myself well enough to know that one that fit wrong (as all of those did) would drive me up the wall. It would end up in my pocket, no doubt getting lost to the abyss of the washing machine, rather than always on my finger.
We stepped back out onto the street, the boys already heading somewhere else, and mom and I admiring the art in the window. The water was meters away and I loved that. I've never lived in any place where water is so close. As we wandered through a street or two, we stopped at various places. We admired the cashmere (the real stuff, not the 2 for 10 pound nonsense), we gazed at the tartans, Dad and I inevitably ducked into a camera shop, Mom and I inevitably ducked into a store with cards and local art. As we left those two side-by-side shops, the rain started to come. We rushed about, wondering if a museum was where we wanted to go (it wasn't), or what else we might see in the hour or two we spent here. Dad brought us to a whisky distillery, which was in the heart of town. He was dreaming of possibly going on a tour, but it was hours away, and no one really cared either way.
Getting back into the car, we drove the way back. Just as we were about to cross a bridge, I mentioned that we had thought about going to a blacksmithing furnace ruins. Everyone was game for that, so we went over that one-way bridge, turned back and drove out through the sweet road to the ruins. They were delightful. I'm so glad we stopped.
Well preserved, a huge space with buildings for horses and the furnace and so much else. The rain there, it was beautiful. I felt it coming, then stepped onto the grass. That grass was like a series of springs, it wrapped around your feet and breathed with dew. Lush and comfy and filled with life. It wasn't just a green covering of the land, but an essential part of it. It contributed to the land, making it better and more fantastic.
The rain though, it fell onto that gorgeous grass and comforted the soil. It dove into puddles, sputtered off the roof, and highlighted the colours of everything it touched. I was enamoured with that rain.
When we were done, having imagined the life of this place in a time not so long ago, and having seen enough moments for us to enjoy it, we drove back to Fort William. It was lovely and fantastic. One place that had stood out to us while driving out was a little cafe called Castle Stalker. It looked out onto the water, where there was a teeny tiny island holding a castle. When we got there, the rain was just about to come. It was spitting, warning us of the impending tumble of water. We raced out to the view point, and saw what we could of this castle. The wind picked up then. It was rushing and gushing and coaxing the rain to come. Laughter filled the air. Our smiles from that moment, laughing at our luck, with the excitement of hot chocolate ahead, those were unforgettable. I'll cherish those photos forever.
Hot chocolate for all, some cake or pie or whatever sweets they had for everyone else, and a moment to breathe in the comfy seats. I think they were closing up in a few moments, but they didn't rush us or anything. When we were all done, we browsed through the gift shop, buying a few postcards. Then, it was really to the B&B. Once we got there, I was hit with a ton of bricks. Carsick for the first time in my life. Dinner? No thanks. A touch of something from the grocery store is all I wanted. Yoghurt, fruit, easy things. Along with some joyful and unexpected local television, I was set.
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Go Ahead—Judge Me, I Might Need it!
In 1877 the historian John Russell Bartlett published Dictionary of Americanisms. One of his entries was, "Pinky—a common term in New York, especially among small children, who, when making a bargain with each other are accustomed to confirm it by interlocking the little finger of each other's right hand and repeating . . .
Pinky, pinky bow-bell,
Whoever tells a lie
Will sink down to the bad place
And never rise up again."
It's the pinky promise. Apparently it crossed the great pond in an English folk rhyme that young boys would say to one another when they made a promise. They would link their pinkie fingers together and say . . .
Ring finger, blue bell
Tell a lie, go to hell.
—A History of Warwickshire, Samuel Timmins
A wedding wouldn't be a wedding without the exchange of rings and a promise to be faithful. This passage from the Book of Ruth is often used in wedding vows.
Entreat me not to leave you,
Or to turn back from following after you;
For wherever you go, I will go;
And wherever you lodge, I will lodge;
Your people shall be my people,
And your God, my God.
Where you die, I will die,
And there will I be buried.
The Lord do so to me, and more also,
If anything but death parts you and me.
—Ruth 1:16-17 NKJV
Most folk these days omit that last phrase about God bringing judgment on them for breaking their vow. The Pinkie Promise has been modernized too, removing the penalty for breaking a promise. It's seems, in the contemporary world, we are reluctant to call down fire and brimstone upon ourselves. I suspect there were many broken vows in the Middle Ages, when serfs trembled in gothic cathedrals, and gazed in awe at gargoyles, and feared the clergy. Those folk lived with a certain sense of shame and doom. They believed they deserved to be punished for their sins. They were probably like us in their dishonesty, but they were different in their willingness to embrace judgment. We have evolved past that. We scorn judging one another and ourselves. Maybe we have thrown out the baby with the bathwater.
When Shakespeare penned, in Hamlet, to thine own self be true, the Middle Ages were done and the Renaissance was in full swing. A huge shift had taken place in western civilization. Human dignity was rising and the Age of Enlightenment was around the corner. By the Twentieth Century, true-to-self had evolved to what we call self-esteem.
Now, we are post-modern: mass media, mass commercialism, mass politics, mass think, globalism. To thine own self be true has become a permission for unrestrained passion with no fear of judgment from humankind or God. We are accepting, forgiving, understanding, and non-judgmental. But we are often unkind, and we lie . . . a lot!
Over twenty percent of us betray our lovers, at least forty percent of our marriages fail, and few of our close friendships last more than a half-decade. In 1940 twenty percent of high school students admitted to cheating on exams. In 2010 over 80 percent of students admitted to cheating. Surveys vary but by 2014 sexual assault statistics reveal: eleven percent of women were raped while in college, one in five women are raped in their lifetime, and forty-five percent experience some form of non-rape sexual violence. (U.S. Center for Disease Control statistics)
I want to be kind to folk and I want folk to be kind to me. But maybe a little shame is not such a bad thing. And maybe a little fear of judgment is not such a bad thing either. As a postmodern apocalypsephobe might say . . . "Not judging, just saying."

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the toy store after the mad Christmas rush, the Ninja Hamsters jump out to destroy you. Hoping to continue the wild popularity of the Zhu Zhu pet robotic hamsters during the holiday season, the manufacturer of these little furballs have unveiled something dangerous at the American International Toy Fair in New York. Starting in June this year, you can buy both Ninja Warrior Kung Zhu pets as well as Special Forces Kung Zhu pets.
The Kung Zhu are warrior Zhu Zhu pets that the company hopes will appeal to young boys where the cute and cuddly Zhu Zhu pets failed. Basically these appear to be your traditional little pet hamsters but dressed up in warrior outfits complete with weapons and such.
Having just caught a glimpse of them, it's hard to say if there is much more to them than your traditional Zhu Zhu, but the company says that these pets will gain new abilities and sounds when placed within a "Tablet of Zhu" or special warrior hamster area that will likely cost extra of course.
While scarcity is still fueling Zhu Zhu mania, there is something to be said for the little guys. Our boys were purchased their very first Zhu Zhu's by their grandmother today while on a trip to the mall and they love them. As seven year olds attending a Waldorf school, they have no idea that such virtual hamsters existed and do not know how popular they are nor how scarce, yet they can't stop playing with them over their other toys, at least today.
Their greatest discovery was finding a small little passageway in the kitchen between the counter and a small table where the Zhu Zhus could be placed at either end and let loose for hamster races to see which could pass the other and emerge first. I can't imagine how excited they would be to deck them out in warrior armor and have them do hamster battle.
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To be honest, I didn't know if we'd make it getting the issue up on time this month. Our area has been home to a cold/flu/thingy that is quite debilitating and evidently wasn't part of the flu shot this year. So, the issue got up in time and I'm planning to spend the next several days sleeping -- hopefully dreaming of the many books I want to read. Hope you'll share your great finds with us.
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Conceived and choreographed by Mark Morris. Mark Morris Dance Group, Lane, Braun, Monoyios, Saunders, Hall, Butterfield, Tafelmusik Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Image Entertainment: ID8741CLDVD (1 DVD/56 minutes).
This dance version of Henry Purcell's chamber opera Dido and Aeneas (1689) was conceived and choreographed by Mark Morris, one of the most imaginative and innovative figures in the world of dance. Directed by Barbara Willis Sweete, with stunning photography by Milan Pod sedly and inspired editing by Petra Valier, this 1995 Rhombus Media film features a stellar cast of international singers along with the Tafelmusik Orchestra (Jeanne Lamon, leader) and Tafelmusik Chamber Choir (Ivars Taurins, director).
Although under an hour in length, Purcell's unassuming little masterpiece is remarkable for the depth and eloquence of its expression. In the opera, Dido, the Queen of Carthage, has fallen in love with Aeneas, the Trojan prince. An evil Sorceress--who hates the Queen and all "in pros'prous state"--plots Dido's downfall by conjuring up a vision of Mercury, who orders Aeneas to leave Carthage immediately for Troy. After a painful farewell, Dido resigns herself to death.
Morris's vision of the opera is as much pantomime as dance. It is also controversial, in that he chose to perform both the roles of the Queen of Carthage and that of the Sorceress himself. …


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The Reality, Eric Decker & Jessie James Not a Fairy Tale
We know how much you kids value our insight and biting wit. So when we hear birds chirping around the Twin Cities about local celebrity folks, we feel it is our duty to share. Especially if those squawkers are directly connected to the so-hot-right-now "it" couple of Denver Bronco – and former Golden Gopher – Eric Decker and country singer Jessie James.
It was just a few weeks ago that the sexy duo tied the knot in Denver, of which we discussed at length. Big timers like TMZ grabbed on during their honeymoon and now everyone expects the two to succesfully start their E! reality show Love and Other Contact Sports later this summer, make crazy beautiful babies and live happily ever after. Well …
Turns out things for pretty people aren't as easy as us common folk would think. The thing about it is, fairy tales aren't real life. What we are hearing now is there was a lot of unspoken – and spoken – drama up until and during the wedding. Let's break it down, shall we.
For one, Decker's entire family refused to sign the waiver(s) that would allow them to appear on the couple's upcoming television show. Apparently Eric was informed of this on the big day, and was so upset about it he ran up to his hotel room distraught and crying a mere hour before the ceremony.
Add to that the wedding couldn't compete in a NFL game, because very few of Decker's Bronco teammates were in attendance … Even more concerning, Decker's sister Sarah – who use to be super close to her brother – wasn't a bridesmaid. How often is that the case?! This might have something to do with Jessie calling her a "slut" earlier this year – in the locker room they would refer to this as a schism – but we digress.
Basically what we are hearing is everyone on "Team Decker" per se – friends, teammates, family – aren't fans of Jessie and thus don't support the relationship. Decker himself on the other hand is loving and embracing the celebrity of it all, and we're hearing it has all gone to his – normally grounded – head.
Now we have our opinions on the whole situation, but just for our edification, what do you think about the Decker / James relationship?
Side note, what a perfectly annoying photo Jessie posted to her Instagram today to compliment this article so well!
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– U of Minny Spring Jam Just Got Eric Decker-ed
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Busulfex (Intravenous)
Generic Name: busulfan (Intravenous route)
Busulfan causes severe or prolonged myelosuppression at recommended doses. Hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation is required to prevent life-threatening or fatal complications of severe or prolonged myelosuppression .
Commonly used brand name(s)
In the U.S.
- Busulfex
Available Dosage Forms:
- Solution
Therapeutic Class: Antineoplastic Agent
Pharmacologic Class: Alkylating Agent
Uses For Busulfex
Busulfan injection is used in combination with cyclophosphamide as a conditioning regimen prior to allogeneic hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation for treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia.
Busulfan belongs to the group of medicines known as alkylating agents. It seems to act by interfering with the function of the bone marrow. Since the growth of normal body cells may also be affected by busulfan, other effects will also occur. Some of these may be serious and must be reported to your doctor. Other effects may not be serious but may cause concern. Some effects may not occur for months or years after the medicine is used.
Before you begin treatment with busulfan, you and your doctor should talk about the benefits this medicine will do as well as the risks of using it.
This medicine is to be given only by or under the direct supervision of your doctor.
Before Using Busulfex
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of busulfan injection in the pediatric population. Safety and efficacy have not been established.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of busulfan injection in the elderly.
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|All Trimesters
|Studies in pregnant women have demonstrated a risk to the fetus. However, the benefits of therapy in a life threatening situation or a serious disease, may outweigh the potential risk.
Breast Feeding
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Interactions with Medicines
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are receiving this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
- Ketoconazole
- Metronidazole
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines may cause an increased risk of certain side effects, but using both drugs may be the best treatment for you. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
- Fosphenytoin
- Itraconazole
- Ketobemidone
- Phenytoin
Interactions with Food/Tobacco/Alcohol
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
Other Medical Problems
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
- Anemia or
- Bone marrow problems or
- Head injury or
- Seizures, history of or
- Thrombocytopenia (low number of platelets)—Use with caution. May make these conditions worse.
- Infection—May decrease your body's ability to fight infection.
- Thalassemia—Busulfan may cause increased pressure within the heart in children.
Proper Use of Busulfex
A nurse or other trained health professional will give you this medicine in a hospital. This medicine is given through a needle placed in one of your veins.
Busulfan must be given slowly, so the needle will remain in place for 2 hours. You may also receive medicines to help prevent seizures after using busulfan.
Precautions While Using Busulfex
It is very important that your doctor check your progress at regular visits to make sure that this medicine is working properly. Blood tests may be needed to check for unwanted effects.
Using this medicine while you are pregnant can harm your unborn baby. Use an effective form of birth control to keep you or your sexual partner from getting pregnant during or after treatment. If you think you have become pregnant while using this medicine, tell your doctor right away.
Busulfan can temporarily lower the number of white blood cells in your blood, increasing the chance of getting an infection. It can also lower the number of platelets, which are necessary for proper blood clotting. If this occurs, there are certain precautions you can take, especially when your blood count is low, to reduce the risk of infection or bleeding:
- If you can, avoid people with infections. Check with your doctor immediately if you think you are getting an infection or if you get a fever or chills, cough or hoarseness, lower back or side pain, or painful or difficult urination.
- Check with your doctor immediately if you notice any unusual bleeding or bruising, black, tarry stools, blood in the urine or stools, or pinpoint red spots on your skin.
- Be careful when using a regular toothbrush, dental floss, or toothpick. Your medical doctor, dentist, or nurse may recommend other ways to clean your teeth and gums. Check with your medical doctor before having any dental work done.
- Do not touch your eyes or the inside of your nose unless you have just washed your hands and have not touched anything else in the meantime.
- Be careful not to cut yourself when you are using sharp objects such as a safety razor or fingernail or toenail cutters.
- Avoid contact sports or other situations where bruising or injury could occur.
This medicine may cause hepatic veno-occlusive disease (HVOD). This usually occurs if you receive too much busulfan, or receive this medicine before radiation treatment, or have a prior progenitor cell transplant. Call your doctor right away if you have a bloated abdomen or stomach, upper right abdominal or stomach pain, weight gain, or yellow eyes or skin.
While you are being treated with busulfan, and after you stop treatment with it, do not have any immunizations (vaccinations) without your doctor's approval. Busulfan may lower your body's resistance and there is a chance you might get the infection the immunization is meant to prevent. In addition, other persons living in your household should not take oral polio vaccine since there is a chance they could pass the polio virus on to you. Also, avoid persons who have taken oral polio vaccine within the last several months. Do not get close to them, and do not stay in the same room with them for very long. If you cannot take these precautions, you should consider wearing a protective face mask that covers the nose and mouth.
Before you have any medical tests, tell the medical doctor in charge that you are using this medicine. The results of some body tissue studies may be affected by this medicine.
Talk with your doctor before using this medicine if you plan to have children. Some men who use this medicine have become infertile (unable to have children).
Do not take other medicines unless they have been discussed with your doctor. This includes prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicines and herbal or vitamin supplements.
Busulfex Side Effects
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor or nurse immediately if any of the following side effects occur:More common
- Black, tarry stools
- bloated abdomen or stomach
- blood in the urine or stools
- blurred vision
- chest pain
- cough or hoarseness
- dizziness
- fast or irregular breathing
- fast, pounding, or irregular heartbeat or pulse
- fever or chills
- headache
- lower back or side pain
- nervousness
- pain and fullness in the upper abdominal or stomach
- painful or difficult urination
- pinpoint red spots on the skin
- pounding in the ears
- skin rash or itching
- slow heartbeat
- swelling of the eyes or eyelids
- tightness in the chest
- trouble breathing
- unusual bleeding or bruising
- weight gain
- yellow eyes and skin
- seizures
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:More common
- Acid or sour stomach
- back pain
- belching
- bloody nose
- depression
- diarrhea
- difficulty having a bowel movement (stool)
- fear
- heartburn
- indigestion
- loss of appetite
- lack or loss of strength
- sneezing
- stomach discomfort or upset
- stuffy nose or runny nose
- swelling or inflammation of the mouth
- tenderness, pain, swelling, warmth, skin discoloration, and prominent superficial veins over affected area
- trouble sleeping
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
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The SEC ends the regular season this weekend with each squad in conference play. Seven squads have booked a spot in the SEC Tournament with Kentucky and Vanderbilt battling for the eighth spot. There are currently five squads which could win the SEC Regular Season title this weekend with LSU, Alabama, Ole Miss Florida and Georgia all having a chance.
ALABAMA (36-15, 17-9 SEC) at AUBURN (29-24, 9-18 SEC)
Friday: Bama RHP Austin Hyatt (8-1, 3.13 ERA) vs AU Fr. RHP Jon Luke Jacobs (3-4, 6.10 ERA)
Saturday: Bama Jr. LHP Del Howell (5-2, 5.94 ERA) vs AU So. LHP Grant Dayton (2-6, 6.10 ERA)
Sunday: Bama Fr. LHP Adam Morgan (3-1, 3.57 ERA) vs AU Fr. RHP Dexter Price (4-2, 5.40 ERA)
Brian's Prediction: Bama sweeps
Colin's Prediction: Alabama 2-1
Alabama Series Notes
Auburn Series Notes
OLE MISS (37-15, 17-10 SEC) at ARKANSAS (32-17, 14-12 SEC)
Thursday: OM So. LHP Drew Pomeranz (5-3, 3.58 ERA) vs ARK Jr. LHP Dallas Keuchel (7-2, 3.99 ERA)
Friday: OM Sr. LHP Brett Bukvich (8-2, 4.31 ERA) vs ARK So. RHP Brett Eibner (4-4, 4.25 ERA)
Saturday: OM Jr. RHP Phillip Irwin (6-3, 3.76 ERA) vs ARK Sr. RHP Justin Wells (2-0, 3.43 ERA)
Brian's Prediction: Razorbacks sweep
Colin's Prediction: Arkansas 2-1
Ole Miss Series Notes
Arkansas Series Notes
KENTUCKY (27-24, 11-16 SEC) at FLORIDA (36-17, 17-10 SEC)
Thursday: UK Jr. LHP James Paxton (5-2, 5.30 ERA) vs UF Sr. LHP Stephen Locke (3-1, 5.08 ERA)
Friday: UK Sr. LHP Chris Rusin (6-4, 3.96 ERA) vs UF Fr. RHP Anthony DeScalfani (5-2, 3.81 ERA)
Saturday: UK Fr. RHP Alex Meyer (1-4, 5.27 ERA) vs UF TBA
Brian's Prediction: Kentucky 2-1
Colin's Prediction: Florida 2-1
Kentucky Series Notes
Florida Series Notes
GEORGIA (35-17, 15-12 SEC) at SOUTH CAROLINA (34-19, 14-13 SEC)
Thursday: UGA Sr. RHP Trevor Holder (7-3, 4.73 ERA) vs SC So. RHP Sam Dyson (7-4, 5.70 ERA)
Friday: UGA Jr. LHP Alex McRee (4-2, 4.35 ERA) vs SC Fr. LHP Nolan Belcher (3-3, 5.48 ERA)
Saturday: UGA So. RHP Justin Grimm (2-3, 4.36 ERA) vs SC Jr. RHP Blake Cooper (7-4, 4.74 ERA)
Brian's Prediction: Georgia sweeps
Colin's Prediction: Georgia 2-1
Georgia Series Notes
South Carolina Series Notes
LSU (39-14, 18-9 SEC) at MISSISSIPPI STATE (24-27, 8-18 SEC)
Thursday: LSU So. RHP Anthony Ranaudo (6-3, 3.10 ERA) vs MSU So. LHP Tyler Whitney (3-4, 5.25 ERA)
Friday: LSU Sr. RHP Louis Coleman (10-2, 2.45 ERA) vs MSU Fr. LHP Nick Routt (5-3, 3.89 ERA)
Saturday: LSU So. RHP Austin Ross (5-6, 5.09 ERA) vs MSU TBA
Brian's Prediction: LSU sweep
Colin's Prediction: LSU sweep
LSU Series Notes
Mississippi State Series Notes
TENNESSEE (23-29, 8-19 SEC) at VANDERBILT (31-21, 12-14 SEC)
Thursday: UT Jr. LHP Nick Hernandez (2-5, 5.58 ERA) vs VU Fr. RHP Sonny Gray (4-1, 4.74 ERA)
Friday: UT TBA vs VU Jr. LHP Mike Minor (5-4, 3.72 ERA)
Saturday: UT TBA vs VU Jr. RHP Drew Hayes (4-3, 5.72 ERA)
Brian's Prediction: Vanderbilt sweeps
Colin's Prediction: Vanderbilt 2-1


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Beginner woodworking projects are a great way for individuals who want to get started in woodworking. Woodworking projects for home can bring a unique style of décor to your house and is very friendly on your budget. You can customize your projects into anything that appeals to your eyes. Easy woodworking projects can be a way to earn a living, and is also a great way to spend your free time. However, before getting started in woodworking, there are a few basic requirements that you need to know to make your work easy and exciting.
As a beginner in woodworking [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodworking], there is some essential equipment that one needs to have before getting started:
Woodwork projects for beginners come with simple kits. Sites like Tedswoodworking provides easy-to-follow instructions and simple illustrations. These projects are safe and meet quality standards. The projects range from basics to grand woodwork projects that require skills. For those who are masters of the wood and its art, these projects are an excellent way to brush up on those rusted talents!
Plans are necessary guidelines that you refer to when working on a project. The right plans, especially for a beginner, can be found by googling the internet or can be bought in home improvement stores.
When you're eager to start a project, taking the time to obtain the right materials can seem like a drag. Anxious to get going, you might be tempted to use whatever is at hand. Don't disregard this part of the building process —the wrong materials can cause significant problems. If you choose wrong, you'll have trouble fitting the joints or perhaps will spend more time than is necessary finishing (or refinishing). Worst of all, using the wrong materials can weaken your project and make the finished item less durable. Take the trouble to learn about your materials, and you can look forward to successful woodworking with a minimum of fuss and bother.
As young children, we've all dreamed of customized arboretums and birdhouses. Wood, if manipulated and modeled correctly can form an incredible selection of objects. Learn how to build a great looking birdhouse with our simple beginners birdhouse plans!
Buying new equipment can burn a big hole in your pocket of when starting on new projects. Learn how to build your own router table and save all that money! This article will show you how to build your own router table using the provided router table plans.
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Below is a list of both popular indoor and outdoor cool woodworking projects that one can try and refine their skills with.
You can make an amazing white indoor sofa set for your home. White sofa sets are the choice of many people because they look simple and adorable. If you have sufficient space in your home or want to replace the existing sofa then this woodworking project is a great beginner's undertaking. To make a simple and stylish white sofa set you need few things. For instance, you need some wooden pallets, cozy cushions, and screws. You will also need the proper basic tools including saws, drill machines, nails, sandpaper, paint, etc.
The design of a white sofa is fairly simple, which is why it is a good beginner's project. Next to it get the right wood to make a white table for this sofa set. Join the wood and attach the wheels as well. When you are done constructing the table and sofa paint them in white and set it aside to dry. After painting, purchase cushions that fit the sofa's frame. Note that this is a white sofa, therefore, you need to get white covers for the cushions to give it an elegant look.
You can make a vintage wooden sectional sofa by yourself. If you have less space in your home and want a vintage look, then you can go for this idea. A vintage sofa is a part of beginner woodworking project that is easy and inexpensive as well. To make a vintage pallet sofa, you need to get some pallets. Secure the pallets to make the base of sectional sofa. Cut the pallets in the same overall width. It's also called L shape sofa. After making the base, you need to get the mattress for your sectional sofa. The size of the mattress and sofa should be same. Get some cushions large or small with the same color or different colors according to your needs and place them on the sectional sofa. For adorable indoor look, multicolor cushions are advisable and avoid paint to give it more vintage look.
You can make this woodworking project to hang most of your things that are placed haphazardly in your room. Often your children are too lazy to keep the things in place, and such a pallet project would be a good idea to tone their behavior. This is simple beginner woodworking project that will look so enchanting in your room irrespective of the size of the room. You can hang your scarfs, mufflers, shoulder bags and hats over there hence keeping your room tidy. To make this you need to get 9 wooden pallets. Secure the pallets with the wall of your room first. Place three pallets horizontally at the back then join the six pallets vertically with three pallets. After securing the pallets with nails, next, you need to paint the pallets. To make them colorful and cool, you can paint each pallet in different colors. When the paint is properly, dried then hang your things and save more space in your room.
You can also make a pallet sofa with some storage capacity. Often you have plenty of things in your home that you can't place anywhere. So in such cases, you want to go for such woodworking projects that save space on one hand while on the other side they look highly beautiful for indoors. One good idea is to make a multipurpose sofa. You can make storage sofa for your kid's room or your living room as well. Your children will love to sit and study on such sofa as they can serve as a storage facility for their books. To make this incredible storage sofa, you need few pallets, a sofa mattress, and three cushions. First join the pallets and you might choose to paint the pallets or not. Next to it you need to place sofa mattress over the pallets and to make it more elegant use the one that covers its backside as well. Then place three cushions over it to get a comfortable sitting. Now you have your sofa with some plenty of storage places you can utilize.
Wood can make a lot of amazing and unique things besides the normal furniture. The beauty of your home it's not entirely dependent on furniture, but also some other crafted wood designs that can be placed on the table or hanged on the walls can also give a fabulous look at your home. To make a vase, you need some small wood logs. Cut them in a proper size. The diameter should be 2 inches while the length can also be 1.5-2.5 inches. Note the length should be the same. Now get some vase or use some old bucket and join the logs with it by using wood gum or wood glue and secure the logs. You can paint in the color of your choice to give it a brilliant look. Now place some flowers of your desire in it. The wooden vase can be placed on the side table and can do well if used in outdoor tables.
After the long hectic day, you want to release your stress and tension. One of the easiest thing that you can do in this regard is that make an indoor pallet swing chair for your home by yourself. This is really a great beginner woodworking project for those who love swing. But before starting this project make sure that the roof of your home is strong enough to support this swing chair and your weight as well. If the roof is not that much strong, then don't choose it for indoors rather choose it for outdoors. To make an indoor swing chair you need to gather and secure some pallets. Paint them in white and place a cozy white mattress over it. But before placing the mattress you need to do some other things such as use some rope or metal chain to fasten this swing chair with the roof or with a tree in case of outdoors.
This is another simple project to decorate your kitchen and save a lot of space. A pot rack will make your interior have an awesome and unique look. To make a pallet pot rack, you need to gather some pallets and cut some lumber in accordance with your desired pot rack length. Tie them up in an appropriate square or rectangle shape. Add screw hooks on the top of the rack for the purpose of hanging your kitchen items such as pans and spoons. Moreover, don't forget to attach hooks with it so that you may fasten it with the walls using a strong chain. To make a pot rack more stylish and astonishing, you can paint the pallets with same or different colors that will give your kitchen a cozy country theme.
You can also decorate your study table by making rusting pencil holders. If you want to make something for your children as a beginner woodworker, then don't forget to try this project. Rusting pencil holders look fantastic when placed on the study table. Moreover, it becomes convenient for your children to place and take out pencils out of these pencil holders. In addition, your child will be finding it easy to pick any color by just rotating the holder. To a pencil holder you just need a log. Get an appropriately sized log that may fit in perfectly on the study table and make some holes using drill machines. The holes should be deep enough to hold the pencils.
You can make a pallet daybed for your children as a beginner woodworker. This indoor daybed can decorate your space in a very good way. This daybed is good and can be used for so many purposes. Your children can sleep and study on this bed. It can serve a lot of other functions as well. To make this daybed, you need to get a lot of equal sized pallets. These pallets are should be clean and without any damage, because otherwise, they will not last longer. For daybeds, you need only to make a base. Make proper base and paint any color of your choice. Then place a mattress over it. Use some pillows and cushions to give it a complete look.
There are a lot of woodworking ideas to make book shelves. You can make wooden bookshelves for your home in an amazing way. If you have a lot of space at your disposal, then you can decide a corner where you make wooden book shelves. In case there is no space be creative and exploit the underneath of your stairs. Usually, such place goes to waste as you don't use them for any particular purpose. But making wooden shelves in such a place is really a great idea. The woods should be painted to make them have an elegant look. To complement the area, you can place a table below the shelves and make it a sturdy area or your point of placing you PC.
Building a cabinet is not as difficult as it is sometimes made to believe. All you need is a passion for DIY projects, some basic woodworking skills, a great guide and patience for following instructions. This article will show you how to build your own cabinet using the provided DIY cabinet plans.
On an intermediary woodworking level, most dresser carpentry jobs would involve either refurbishing an old piece or maybe recreating a dresser from another wood article, or constructing a compound piece. Our article will teach you how to build your own dresser using the provided DIY dresser plans.
An outdoor cat house comes in handy during spells of bad weather. A DIY cat-house is very convenient since you can adjust it to your cat's size and build. Learn how to build your own cat house using the provided cat house plans.
You can also make fantastic and outclass pallet fence for your backyard garden or patio. This kind of fence is really easy to make than any other woodworking project and has so many advantages attached to it. First of all, it separates the area of your garden, so it works like a partition. Secondly, it keeps pets and other animals out of the garden, so your plants and other things remain safe. Thirdly it adds the beauty to your patio. So going with such an amazing project is highly thoughtful. To create a pallet fence, you need a drill, hedges, nails, and pallets. Remember your style of the fence reflects your interior
If you lack sufficient space in your backyard garden, then make a beautiful wall garden with wood. Wall garden not only does it look beautiful but also you can place different pots in it as well. Place some vegetable plants and ornamental plants to make the garden more beautiful and eye catching. To make this wall garden, you need some pallets. Get some pallets in extra-large size for the back and small pallets for the pots where you will place different plants. First join the long pallets and then arrange the pots inappropriate way. Within a few weeks when the plants mature you will have a beautiful wall garden.
You can decorate your outdoor space area with a bar table and stools. This is also a somewhat easy beginner woodwork project that can meet your outdoor needs. You can have fun with your friends in the evening while sitting on such an arrangement. An outdoor bar arrangement is similar to the arrangement that you see in different clubs and casinos. First, make the bar with pallets and paint it. Use any paint color but keep it simple. On the top area, you can use oil paints to give it an elegant look. Next, make stools while keeping the size of the bar in mind. Without proper measurement, you will either make too big or too small stools. So get an appropriate measurement before working.
If you just want to make an outdoor pallet table as a beginner woodworker, then it's also a good idea. If you have metal chairs and want to make pallet table, then you can start this project. This woodworking pallet table project is very easy. All you need is to get some pallets to start this project. To make this pallet table, you need to gather pallets of equal size and join them together. Look for four wheels and attach them at the bottom and by doing so, you're able to drag your table easily on your backyard garden.
You can easily try to make a comfy outdoor daybed as a beginner. A daybed will meet your comfort needs, and you will love to sit there during your leisure time. To get this, you need some pallets, four wheels, mattress, and cushions. Don't paint this comfy sofa and give it rusting look. If you are using if for summers, then keep the covers in light colors while for the winters you can get the dark colors for cushions.
Woodworking is an easy job, and everyone can be a skilled woodworker if you're able to utilize the essential tools and follow simple instructions. If you have never considered trying woodwork, I will urge you to tackle one, and it's a guarantee you'll be compelled to take another project. Beginning woodworkers should take heart in the fact that these awesome woodwork projects are perfected with time and sooner or later you will get it right. Beginner woodworking projects prove that building great furniture doesn't require an intricate design or a master craftsman's skills.


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The Internet, and how we use it, has changed a lot in just a few years. One of the changes, probably as a result of the increase in overall bandwidth available to users as well as the emphasis on visual content, is that images are now as important as text content.
Unfortunately, a lot of us only know how to apply SEO principles to text, leaving a lot of images with unused potential for driving traffic. Here are a few things you can do to optimize images for search engines:
Ensure that all of your images are saved in formats that Google supports
To optimize images for search, be aware of the file type. Google only indexes image files that are saved as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WEBP, and SVG. Avoid saving images in other formats like TIFF or PSD.
Besides, any image format that isn't supported by Google would probably be too large for web use, so you're probably already following this part by default.
Use image filenames that are descriptive and relevant to the content of the image
If you search google for "marketing matrix", would the search engine show you a file called "marketing matrix.jpg" or will it show the one named "DSC0870.jpg"?
The more descriptive a filename is, the better you can optimize images for search. Google said that they use filenames as the image's snippet if there's no relevant text on the page it was found on.
Take advantage of the Image Alt Text for descriptions
Since there is a limit to how long you can name your images on the web (it supports long filenames, but some browsers, and maybe even search engines, tend to truncate the filenames if it's too long), you can use the image's ALT tag to describe the image better and optimize images for search.
This also has another important purpose. It lets people who can't see the image know what the image is about. There are visually impaired people using the Internet everyday. There's also a minority of surfers who have their browsers' image loading turned off as a way to save on bandwidth or in order to minimize annoying ads and banners.
Use the content surrounding the image to provide context
Google's search engine is very comprehensive, to the point that it will also index the content surrounding an image. If you're trying to ensure that an image is categorized or indexed according to a specific topic or subject, you can take advantage of this by making sure that the content is relevant to what you want the image to represent so you can optimize images for search.
Just make sure you don't turn the text into spam, as Google dislikes any attempt to manipulate their search engine result pages (SERPs), and you'll end up hurting your your site.
Submit an Image Sitemap to Google
Much like a sitemap, an image sitemap will help the Google Team learn about your website's new images as they come, and will also help them better categorize and index your site and all of its contents.
Do not use images for important text
Avoid using image files for important text in your website, such as the page's banner titles or a subsection's categories and names. Google discourages this because there are countries or instances when internet connection is too slow. Images, no matter how small, may appear broken. Also, search engines can't "read" images. It is better if you use the HTML itself for any important text.
When Linking to Images, Use Descriptive Anchor Text
On the same principle as using descriptive filenames for the image, you need to use anchor text that perfectly describes the image it is linking to so you can optimize images for search. For example, "This picture" being used as an anchor text for a picture of a pink flamingo would be much better if changed to "This picture of a pink flamingo".
Protect Your Images
It's true that the internet is designed to allow the users to share content. The sharing of content and information is what keeps it alive.
According to Google, what happens when a piece of content or an image is reposted is, the original source may get get buried in SERP rankings by its copies, especially if the other copies are better optimized using the tips outlined above.
Unfortunately, there is no effective way for you to prevent copying. Utilizing tricks like disabling right click actually hurt legitimate users more.
One way you can protect your images, or at least actually turning copying into an advantage, is by watermarking your site URL to the image.
Consider User Experience
One thing that SEO specialists tend to forget when they try to optimize images for search is the human factor. Don't forget that even if you succeed in optimizing an image for search, you still need to ensure that the image is actually what the user wants to look at.
For example, make sure you use high quality images, since poor quality ones will fail to encourage users to actually check it out and you'll lose traffic that you worked so hard to attract.
Additionally, high quality images also encourage other sites to link to it, giving you more referrals. We all know how much google likes sites with lots of backlinks.
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Rummy picks up a clue, as shown by this late memo published in the NYT.
Clearly, what U.S. forces are currently doing in Iraq is not working ...
Some of his ideas might have made sense, if tried two or three years ago. Some excerpts:
¶Initiate a reverse embeds program, like the Korean Katusas, by putting one or more Iraqi soldiers with every U.S. and possibly Coalition squad, to improve our units' language capabilities and cultural awareness and to give the Iraqis experience and training with professional U.S. troops.
¶Retain high-end SOF capability and necessary support structure to target Al Qaeda, death squads, and Iranians in Iraq, while drawing down all other Coalition forces, except those necessary to provide certain key enablers for the ISF.
¶Initiate an approach where U.S. forces provide security only for those provinces or cities that openly request U.S. help and that actively cooperate, with the stipulation being that unless they cooperate fully, U.S. forces would leave their province.
¶Withdraw U.S. forces from vulnerable positions — cities, patrolling, etc. — and move U.S. forces to a Quick Reaction Force (QRF) status, operating from within Iraq and Kuwait, to be available when Iraqi security forces need assistance.
¶Begin modest withdrawals of U.S. and Coalition forces (start "taking our hand off the bicycle seat"), so Iraqis know they have to pull up their socks, step up and take responsibility for their country.
¶Provide money to key political and religious leaders (as Saddam Hussein did), to get them to help us get through this difficult period.
¶Initiate a massive program for unemployed youth. It would have to be run by U.S. forces, since no other organization could do it.
The last one would have been a good idea right after the invasion. It's almost certainly impossible now, though it might still make sense to try, starting in provinces that are relatively stable.
Advice, said Gildor, is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise. From the foolish to the moronic, it's probably just useless. Besides, Bush and Cheney are already plotting to build the Death Star.


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The Principles of Clinical Cytogenetics
This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a highly praised classic, The Principles of Clinical Cytogenetics, includes the many advances that have occurred in the field. Among the highlights are a full section devoted to advances in fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) technology, increased coverage of cancer cytogenetics-both hematopoietic neoplasms and tumor cytogenetics-and new chapters on chromosome instability and the cytogenetics of infertility. The book offers physicians who depend on the cytogenetics laboratory for the diagnosis of their patients, students in cytogenetics programs, and cytogeneticists the clear understanding they need to carry out and interpret their test results rapidly.
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Yesterday, I saw hubby exercising. I know he has not been feeling well lately and he must realized it's linked to his not exercising. If only I can find him a safe weight loss pill I would but for now I know exercising would do the trick. Night shift is really not for him and I'm glad he'll be going back to day shift any time soon. We would then have time to exercise together – well not me, I can accompany him with daily walks and he would have to do the sweaty stuff all by himself. He would have time to even go to the gym if he wants to. This is the change he has been waiting for and I hope he takes advantage of it to get back in shape.
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Night shift is really very tough. I can't blame your husband for probably got tired to go exercise.↓
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Si hubby needs to exercise too. And laki na ng tyan nya. 😀↓


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Huckleberry Finn River Project
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Since we missed out on last week, I scrounged a lab day up for you to finish/print off/upload your projects to the drop box. If you are done with your Huck Finn Projects, turn them in! Physically hand it to me, put it in "the box," or, if it's in electronic format, save it to my drop box (s:\drop boxes\hudson\). If nothing else, talk to me to let me know where you're at.
Remember, just because people put it on a poster, does not mean it is correct information. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you include in your project. "That's what they put on the poster" is not an excuse!
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Purdue University is planning a ceremony to mark the opening of a nearly $29 million facility that will consolidate drug research centers at the school and a $16 million expansion of a cancer research center.
The two new buildings are joining Discovery Park, the university's hub for interdisciplinary research. Purdue President said the school hopes the Drug Discovery Facility and the Bindley Multidisciplinary Cancer Research Facility will help recruit star researchers and students and make major contributions to a healthier world.
Discovery Park Executive Director Alan Rebar says the buildings will accelerate the school's efforts to develop a curriculum and learning culture that focuses on all aspects of drug discovery and cancer research.
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This is Part II of a synopsis of the book The Culture of Collaboration by Evan Rosen. This post is written by guest author Sham Karandikar. Here's the link to Part I.
True global companies go well beyond marketing, selling and supporting their wares worldwide. They design, assemble and produce both products and services concurrently around the world. Today's Global Collaborative Enterprise (GCE) is a collection of inter-dependent companies that engage in the shared creation of value, often in real-time. The GCE exploits time zones and global work-sharing to design, assemble and create products and services 24 hours a day.
For example, Boeing has re-invented itself as a global collaborative enterprise which includes the supply chain, customers and even the customer's customers (i.e. airline passengers). Boeing's largest multi-media room in Everett - where employees can participate in video and web conferences and share 3-dimensional CAD/CAM software - is named the Global Collaboration Center. Moscow, for instance, is almost exactly on the other side of the world from Everett, with a time difference of 11 hours; so, when Everett is sleeping, Moscow works; and vice versa.
Types of Collaboration
Collaboration can be classified into three types, based on the level of interaction among the participants:
- Low-level: Involves exchanging information through threaded text discussions, video conferencing, web conferencing and document-sharing.
- Mid-level: Involves a more elaborate collaboration tool set, that allows companies to share information with external organizations via the web. These organizations may be partners on some projects and competitors on others.
- High-level: Involves designing parts, plans, tools and processes concurrently among global partners.
High-level collaboration is truly the highest form of sharing. At Toyota, product designers, manufacturing specialists and business partners connect globally through its visual and virtual communications system, which reduces cycle time, enhances product quality and boosts production efficiency. Toyota now manufactures vehicles at over 50 sites in 26 countries and must bridge many regional cultures as engineers collaborate.
Boeing and Toyota are setting the standard in the aerospace and automobile industries respectively, utilizing the best talent regardless of location.
As the culture of collaboration permeates work and life styles, our habits are changing faster than we realize. While asynchronous interaction has its place, collaboration is increasingly rich, real-time and spontaneous. Increasingly, businesses are rejecting bureaucracy as wasteful and costly. In contrast to red tape and a serial approach, we create greater value when we engage one another directly, design products concurrently and collaborate across functional, business unit, corporate and regional boundaries. The current economic trend is to exploit the best talent at the best price, regardless of geography. The clear lesson from Toyota, Boeing, Dow Chemicals, Mayo Clinic, Proctor & Gamble and other organizations is that good decisions include the perspective of people throughout the organization at every level. The necessity of maximizing time, talent and tools in the global economy gives the culture of collaboration an edge. The quest to innovate and create greater value drives the desire to collaborate as organizations embrace the global collaborative Enterprise.
This point - that the global collaborative enterprise has to design, assemble and create products and services concurrently around the world - is explained very well in Evan Rosen's book. Following the lessons of the leading corporations described in the many examples in this book is essential in order to survive and thrive in the economy of the future; I highly recommend this book. Good Luck.


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Rex Huffman & Associates, Inc. Privacy Policy
Protecting your privacy is important to Rex Huffman & Associates, Inc. and to our employees. We want you to understand what information we collect and how we use it. This policy serves as a standard for all Rex Huffman & Associates, Inc. employees for collection, use, retention, and security of nonpublic personal information.
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"Nonpublic personal information" is information about you that we obtain in connection with providing insurance services to you. You typically provide personal information when you complete an application for insurance or request an insurance quote and we obtain medical information about you from health care professionals. This information may include, but is not limited to:
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Updated 11/17/2014 – Please note: When we moved from our blog to a full-service website, we lost our links. We are re-building them here and on a separate list of our favorite cheesemakers. If we haven't added you yet, please drop us a line and we'll link you immediately. (send your link to marcellathecheesemonger (at) gmail.com) – Far from done – so many great blogs – more added regularly…
American Cheese Society – Professionals dedicated to protecting and nurturing Artisan Cheesemaking in the Americas.
BarfBlog – Three Food Safety experts share information on those pesky bugs that make us sick and the places where they can grow.
Beer and Cheese Project – Beer with Cheese… yep, works for me!!!
Beverly Hills Market and Deli – Fresh and Fabulous Specialty Foods
Cave-Aged Blog – One cheese lover's adventures…
Cheese – Database of more than 500 different cheeses.
Cheese and Biscuits – Written by one of "1000 Most Influential Londoners"
Cheese and Champagne – Two Ladies who love cheese as much as The lady and I do.
Cheese Chick – Christine Hyatt's website is amazing. She is also currently the President of the American Cheese Society.
Cheese Connoisseur Magazine – The Lady worked with and got to know the Publisher, Lee Smith, and fell in love with her and her great love for all things cheese.
Cheese Cupid – What cheese pairs with what wine or beer? You'll find out here.
Cheese Is Alive – A trained cook who fell into cheese several years ago and decided to stay.
Cheese Lover – Fiona Beckett's Blog
Cheese Lover's Blog – The official blog of Ile de France
Cheese Nerds – Does it Take a Nerd to Know a Nerd??? Not necessarily…
Cheese Please – Jess' of cheese and life.
Cheese Underground – Jeanne Carpenter's Blog recounting her passions for cheese, especially Wisconsin cheese.
Christopher's Wine and Cheese Blog – From North Carolina.
Culture Magazine: Kate and her staff bring us up-to-date news in the cheese world and they use a megaphone to do it!!!
Curd Collective – New site with lots of cheese resource info.
Dairy Goodness – All you need is cheese.
Edible Obsessions – Great website/blog – you'll love it!!!
Farmstead Cheese and Wine – An occasional blog about Jeff and Carol's travels to find good food and wine.
Formaggio Kitchen – A blog about cheese, farms, food and friends.
Fromage Bob – Bob Galivan from Miami shares his cheese obsessions…
Fromage du Mois – A Shared quest for cheese excellence.
Gordon "Zola" Edgar – Cheesemonger for the People.
Grilled Cheese Social – She works in a cheese shop; she loves cheese… what more do you need…
Hillsborough Cheese Company – Small, personal and occasionally quirky.
It's Cheese – One stop blog for all things cheese-related
It's Not You; It's Brie – Kirstin, a trained chef can't get enough cheese.
Just Add Cheese – Meesh and Jacki's cooking and dining adventures.
Lost in Cheeseland – Amy Thomas' Cheese Blog
Madame Fromage – Another turophile consumed with anything and everything cheese.
Market of Choice Cheese Blog – The "Go tO" place to find fine specialty cheeses in Oregon
Mary Quicke's Dairy Diary – Life on the Quicke Farm.
My Blog of Cheese – a gastronomic journey into fromage; one cheese at a time, one day at a time.
News From the Cheese Mines – the official blog of Artisanal Cheese.
North Carolina Cheese Trail – Everything "Cheesy" in North Carolina
Pacific Northwest Cheese Project – Author and Attorney, Tami Parr, has spent several years exploring and getting to know the Artisan Cheesemakers of the Pacific Northwest.
She Writes Food – Cheese, Chocolate & Champagne; the passionate pursuit for the best of Irish food.
Shooting the Bries – Website of ACS CCP Leah McFadden. Read Spaulding's interview with Leah.
The Bloomy Rind – From Nashville, Kathleen Cotter talks cheese
The Cheese Blogs – from Market of Choice
The Cheese Mistress – Based in Austin, Texas.
The House Mouse – Robin shares her cheese adventures.
The Joy of Cheese – Check out the reviews – excellent!!!
The Saxelby Almanac – Blog of the Anne Saxelby and her army of Mongers.
The Whiskey Chicken – Home of Andrea Horton, ACS Certified Cheese Professional at Whole Foods in Atlanta
Tim Gaddis – Trained at Murray's Cheese, Tim now runs the cheese department at Star provisions in Atlanta.
Tips on Food and Drinks – The Name of the Site tells it all: Great Tips on Food and Drinks!!
Tout un Fromage – In French
Whole Foods Cheese Blog – Cheese from some of the best retailers in the U.S.
Wine! Beer! Cheese! – Mark guides you through the world of wine, beer and cheese!!
Wisconsin Cheese Originals: Have Fun. Do good. Eat Cheese. A group dedicated to promoting the Artisan Cheeses of Wisconsin and awarding scholarships to young cheesemakers.
Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board – This website tells you everything, and I mean everything, about Wisconsin Cheese. (California could learn a few tricks from these folks when it comes to marketing cheese.)
World According to Cheese – Anna, who writes this blog, has more guts than The Lady and I… read her 11/26 entry…


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Release Notes: The shim now provides multi-version support for API levels 17 through 49 (the current IB TWS server API level) so that message formats as parsed vary to accord with the output of the IB TWS for that API level. This provides access to a number of previously inaccessible message attributes, such as the commission information included with the newer versions of the open order message.
Release Notes: As part of ongoing work on extending API level version coverage, this release adds a generic tick type list argument to the market data command, enlarges the set of tick indices and labels, and extends the number of market tick message types. In brief: you may now add a generic tick type list, e.g.: [100, 101, 104, 106], as the last argument of your market data commands, after the contract expression, and before the semicolon; or not, as you wish. Note: there are other, not yet documented tick types, ticks, and tick message types that will be added later as discovered.
Release Notes: This release adds the OrderLag configuration variable to control order pacing. This time delay works to avoid 2102 errors from the IB tws ("Unable to modify this order as it's still being processed"). This release validates the shim for server-side API levels of 46, 47, and 49 (IB seems to have skipped 48), and fixes the version mismatch warnings for market data.
Release Notes: Work on history has continued. This release fixes a significant latency bug for history query answer processing, adds timers and maps to prevent history query pacing violations, and adds configuration variables with which to control the various timers. The related data-100528 symbols file, with the new database version embedded in that file --- so that it will work out of the box with the new shim --- is also available.
Release Notes: This release adds various features to improve bulk history query processing, including the wait option in order to offload history query delay queueing from the client, and matching of history query requests with message answers in order to detect query cancels caused by pacing violations.
Release Notes: Bugs on Debian Lenny were fixed. There was a related code cleanup and memory allocation improvements for the hash table container component, and a number of changes to account code processing. The shim now checks the Account configuration variable if it has been defined, stopping if it doesn't match with the account code from the upstream, and the AccountCode table has been eliminated from the blob file, making the distributed blob file portable. There is a new data tarball as a result, and the database version has incremented.
Release Notes: New "dump" and "blob" options were added for dumping the database symbols to a file and loading that file at start-up, respectively. The blob option is only available in data mode, since in risk mode, a database is needed as the target for journal writes. A new symbols directory tarball, data-100226, was added, including a sample blob file for the default symbols load files, so that as long as you only need to use the shim in data mode, say to collect market or historical data, and if the default symbol set suits your purposes, you can now avoid creating the MySQL trading-shim database at all.
Release Notes: In addition to bugfixes, a new command line option, the init option, has been added to allow configuration input to be read from the start of the command stream. This means that it is no longer necessary to use a configuration file to change installation defaults.
Release Notes: This release provides internal improvements for efficiency and bugfixes.
Release Notes: This release modifies log formatting to retain the floating point precision used by upstream input data, e.g. price, with the result that no display precision from message input is ever lost. It modifies the buffer class to dynamically expand its char vector as needed, so that input and format processing adaptively discover the appropriate buffer size for character text, and the large buffers needed for fundamentals data are allocated only when needed.


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SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation ALTR, +1.13% today announced its scheduled participation in the following events with the financial community:
Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet ConferenceSan Francisco, CAFebruary 12, 10:20am PT
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Interested parties may access a webcast of Altera's presentation at these events on our website at www.altera.com.
About Altera
Altera® programmable solutions enable designers of electronic systems to rapidly and cost effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their markets. Altera offers FPGAs, SoCs, CPLDs, ASICs and complementary technologies, such as power management, to provide high-value solutions to customers worldwide. Follow Altera via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and RSS, and subscribe to product update emails and newsletters. Visit www.altera.com.
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As discussed prior to the holiday season, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) went from four members to three, when Member Brian Hayes' term expired on December 16. While the Board still has the requisite three members to maintain their quorum, so the agency can continue to function by issuing case decisions and rules, one has to wonder whether these decisions and/or rules will be thoughtful and well-rounded with these remaining three members. After all, the three current members are all of one school of thought and one political party. Although in the past few weeks the Board has issued case decisions still containing the lone alternative legal approach articulated by Brian Hayes through his dissents, those will soon become a thing of the past. We soon will no longer receive the benefit of hearing all sides of an argument, a benefit which is crucial for a fully functioning and respected NLRB.
As some of have mentioned, historically it has been rare for the Board to issue case decisions or rules when only three members are sitting and they are all of one political persuasion. This is particularly noteworthy and something the Administration should be aware of if they wish for the agency to be a considered a fair arbiter in the labor law sphere. This is not about Republicans versus Democrats, but rather, it is about issuing well-rounded decisions which take into account all facets of an issue. Waiting for a minority member to be appointed and confirmed before issuing decisions would assure due process and integrity in the NLRB. It is vital to have another opinion heard, but as we have seen time and time again with the NLRB, under this Administration, deep-rooted precedent and tradition are often ignored or overturned.
This is true with the current Board, as they have announced business will continue as usual, despite there being no voice of opposition. How can employers, or the public as a whole, believe in a fair labor process from this Board when differing view will never see the light of day until someone from the opposing party is appointed to fill Member Hayes' vacant position? The only way for there to be any trust in the process and for the system to be taken seriously, is to have a fully functioning NLRB, which not just a one-sided opinion, but opinions and rules with alternative reasoning and rationale.
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