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Ontario Flour, Equipment, and Bakeries
I thought I'd start a quick thread listing where to get supplies locally in southern Ontario. Please feel free to comment with your favorite places and I'll add them to this list.
Flour / Grains:
A and E Fine Foods, 19811 Woodbine Ave, Queensville, 905-478-1500
Stocks some organic flour
Arva Flour Mill, 2042 Elgin Rd, London, 519-660-0199
Mills and sells organic flour directly
Bulk Barn, Various locations listed on their website
Usually a good selection of flour and baking ingredients
Merrylynd Organics, #3010 Hwy 28 (formerly 134), Lakefield, 705-755-1081
Mills and sells organic grains/flour directly
New-Life Mills, Hanover, 1-800-265-5510
Local mill, see Liam's posting
Oak Manor Farms, 756907 Oxford County Rd #5, RR#1, Tavinstock, 519-662-2385 (website down?)
Mills and sells organic grain/flour directly
Organic Abundance, 3066 Bloor Street West, Toronto, 416-234-5258
Stocks some organic flour
Ouderkirk and Taylor, 3 Wyndam St. N, Guelph, 519-827-9378
Stocks some organic flour from La Meunerie and Ontario-grown Red Fife
Baking Supplies
Ayres Baking Supplies, 354 King St. N, Waterloo, 519-886-7001
Mostly cakes and decorating but some useful supplies.
Golda's Kitchen, 2885 Argentia Road, Unit 6, Mississauga, 1-866-465-3299
Both retail and online stores for kitchen supplies.
Harvest Corporation, 249 Watline Avenue, Mississauga, 1-888-925-6644
Baking/Restaurant supplies.
McCall's, 1290 Fewster Drive, Mississauga, 1-800-541-3415
Mostly cakes, decorating & chocolate.
S.T.O.P. Restaurant Supply, 206 Centennial Crt., Kitchener, 1-800-265-2961
Restaurant supplies with sales to the public.
ACE bakery, 1 Hafis Road, Toronto
Altitude Baking, 1346 Queen St. East, Toronto
Bonjour Brioche Bakery, 812 Queen St. East, Toronto
Blak's Backery, 1022 Langlois Ave, Windsor, ON
Brick Street Bakery, 55 Mill Street, Toronto
Cob's, Toronto
Epi Breads, 1526 Bayview Avenue, Toronto
Golden Hearth Baking Co., 343 King St E, Kitchener
Pan Fresco, 414 Locust Street, Burlington
Sproll's Fine German Bakery, 300 Trillium Dr, Kitchener
St. John's, 153 Broadview Ave., Toronto
Thuet, 609 King Street West, Toronto
Foodlink lists farms with local produce for sale in Waterloo/Wellington. There is also a Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) directory and a listing of farmer's markets in Ontario for those that are interested in buying and supporting local farmers.


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Mobster 'Whitey' Bulger Worth $25 Million, Prosecutors Claim
By MICHELE McPHEE
BOSTON - Crime did pay for notorious Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, according to the government's claim in a court filing.
The U.S. Attorney's office made a detailed tally of testimony from Bulger victims who recounted form the stand extortion and drug-deal shakedowns, and "rent" paid by other criminals. Prosecutors determined the earnings of Bulger and his criminal compatriots "spanned decades" and totaled $25,162,800 in ill-gotten gains.
The government wants a judge to force Bulger to reveal where his money may be hidden. The mob boss had opened safety deposit boxes around the world.
Bulger was convicted last month of murdering 11 people, extortion, money laundering and weapons charges after a trial that came nearly twenty years after he was tipped off to a pending federal indictment by a corrupt FBI agent.
Police found $822,000 in cash secreted in the walls of his Santa Monica hideout, where he and his longtime companion spent 14 years living a life on the lam. Bulger was second only to Osama Bin Laden on the FBI's Most Wanted List.
In his opening statement, Bulger defense attorney Jay Carney admitted his client made "millions upon millions upon millions" of dollars, and now the government wants the 83-year-old to relinquish any assets. He is slated to be sentenced in November.


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Mamas & Papas Strollers Recalled Due To Safety Hazard
Pram specialists Mamas & Papas have announced a huge product recall after discovering that a default in the seat set-up can cause baby to fall OUT of the stroller.
The Armadillo Flip and Armadillo Flip XT are both billed as suitable for children from birth until four years old but, the company warns, when the seat is clicked into the parent-facing position, it can slip and cause the chair to tip backwards.
The problem is believed to lie in a faulty latch system.
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05/30/2013 (10:01PM - 11:00PM) (Thursday) : BAU investigates a murder in which two victims' faces are similarly mutilated; given a "Glasgow Smile." For the first time, Will (Hugh Dancy) contaminates a crime scene thinking he committed the first murder and an MRI shows he suffers from Advanced Encephalitis. But Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen) intimidates the attending physician, Dr. Sutcliffe, (John Benjamin Hickey into telling Will he's okay. Meanwhile, the team doubts Will who says, while revisiting the crime scene alone, he saw a mysterious, "dead-looking" woman (Ellen Muth) who may be involved. With his fears fed by Hannibal, Will returns to Dr. Sutcliffe for more mental health tests, when the doctor is murdered.
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Struggling pizza chain Sbarro and its 30-plus affiliates filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday for the second time in less than three years, according to reports.
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This comes about a week after The Wall Street Journal first reported that Sbarro was soliciting votes due by the end of last week for a prepackaged restructuring plan that would help expedite a potential stint through bankruptcy.
The Melville, N.Y.-based fast-food pizza chain has roughly $140 million in debt, and in court filings it lists between $100 million and $500 million in both assets and liabilities.
Last month, Sbarro announced a plan to shut 155 of its 400 North American restaurants, a cost-cutting move stemming from weak sales that have failed to recover from the 2008 financial crisis.
The company did not immediately respond to FOX Business for comment, though a spokesperson did tell the Journal recently that Sbarro was "thoroughly evaluating the business."
Sbarro is privately held, but shares of rival chains Domino's Pizza (NYSE:DPZ) and Papa John's (NASDAQ:PZZA) were down 0.40% to $79.04 and 0.62% to $53.18, respectively, in recent trade, tracking an overall decline in U.S. equities.


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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Perennial from fleshy taproot; caudices 1many
Stems erect
Leaves ± basal, few cauline, long-petioled; blade entire to 13-pinnately lobed
Inflorescence: heads 1few, radiate; peduncles long, bracts 0few; involucre hemispheric to bell-shaped; phyllaries in 24 series; receptacle flat; chaff folded around fruits
Ray flowers showy; ligules yellow
Disk flowers many; corollas yellow, tube short, throat cylindric to narrowly bell-shaped; style branches tapered
Fruit oblong, 34-angled; pappus 0
Species in genus: ± 12 species: w North America
Etymology: (Greek: balsam root, from sticky sap of taproot)
Reference: [Weber 1982 Phytologia 50:357359]
Hybrids common.
Horticultural information: TRY.
Stems 26 dm
Leaves: basal generally 2050 cm, blade lanceolate to elliptic, pinnately divided into linear to ovate segments, finely strigose, green to silvery canescent; cauline often 23 near base
Inflorescence: head 1; outer phyllaries 1340 mm, generally 510 mm wide, ovate-lanceolate, tip wide, flat, obtuse to acute, appressed to spreading, finely strigose, minutely glandular
Ray flowers: ligules 23 cm
Disk flowers: corollas 710 mm
Fruit 58 mm
Ecology: Dry slopes, valleys
Elevation: < 1800 m.
Bioregional distribution: e Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada Foothills, Sacramento Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, Modoc Plateau
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Design Crush: Bonesteel Trout Hall/
Vintage poster by Belgian artist Albert Detry sets a beach front tone. Vintage lamp from Dana John. Credenza from Mecox Gardens. Love, love, love this combination.
Slipcover in Victorian Hagan linen. Coffee table from Mecox Gardens. Pillow fabrics from Fortuny and Raoul Textiles. The designers used coral to punch it up and make it more youthful" for the young woman who has just graduated from college. (Pretty nice digs for a recent college grad I'd say!!) The blue and white china lamps, the matchstick blinds. Sigh...I want them all.
Sutherland Bamboo Chair with fabric from John Robshaw Textiles. Clate Grunden light fixture in Dining Room. Bielecky Brothers Dining Chairs. Hard to imagine this room is not in the Caribbean somewhere. The light fixture is amazing, and I think we all could use a little John Robshaw in our lives.
Now that I've seen this bathroom, can I live without this Clarence House Fabric? The designers have backed it with paper to cover the powder room walls. Matched with the shell encrusted mirror.....more than charming!
Raoul Textiles fabric covers the headboard. Ankasa palm leaf pillow. Walter's Wicker nightstand. And this is the Guest Room. I think I could manage a long stay in this room.
This is a close up view of the 1920 wallpaper panels from Chapman Radcliff Home that the designers used to flank the Master Bed. Nicely done tablescape with the silver bowl with blue interior, blue stones in the rose vase.
This is a bigger view of the Master Bedroom. The article refers to the bed as "bamboo", but I am pretty certain it is from Oly Studio, as are the zebra benches at the end of the bed. I can never get enough of beautiful, classic white bedding.
This is the sitting area of the Master Bedroom: loving the Moroccan table here.
Heidi Bonesteel and Michele Trout have joined forces to become the new owners of the company formerly known as Hannah Gordon Design. They have offices in Pacific Palisades and Newport Beach for those of you in SoCal. If you haven't yet followed the link on over to the Bonesteel Trout Hall website, you might want to take a looksee. Lots more projects to see.
And I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to Western Interiors & Design magazine for being so GENEROUS with all of the very easy to find sourcing throughout their editorial. Some magazines ( no names, but you know who you are) are not quite so forthcoming. As a designer, I am always on the lookout for great sources. So I, for one, have great appreciation for your efforts to include the info.
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Webcorp needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 29 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
New Music Video Website needs a logo.
Site title says it all. Every music video ever made is accessible from this site. Any artist, any genre. An early beta of the site is live. Check out the RadioHead page for instance.
- The logo must fit existing site theme at everyvideoevermade.com
- Logo should convey music (duh) and a sense of speed
- Logo should be simple but not simplistic
- Not too flashy
- Logo should be 975px x <=120px
- Logo should be light-weight <=25K optimized
- The tagline "every music video ever made" must show up in the logo
- Must leave room to incorporate the existing search button within the logo (see site)
- Must state "beta" somewhere on the logo (so people know we're web 2.0)
- No artist or instrument photos
- Nothing busy that will show lots of aliasing when optimized
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Jenyphur needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 84 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
We are parents with kids of the 'Generation Now' / 'Me Generation' / or the 'Entitlement Generation'. We are tired of the entitlement attitude of the kids these days (ours included..lol). You know what we are talking about...kids want this and want that and think their parents just owe it to them. :) With the economy the way it is, we are just trying to get kids to realize that if they want something, they have to 'Go Earn It Now'.
We don't want to give out too many details about our concept but the basic idea would be that kids set their own goals and then achieve them and get rewarded. Again..there are many facets to it, but we just want to be careful about giving away too much info.
Our target audience will be both kids ages 6-15 (before they can legally work) as well as their parents.
We want "Go Earn It Now" to be the standard answer that a parent will tell their kid when they "Want It Now".
- Recognizable, iconic logo that can be used on website, print media, car decals, shirts, bumper stickers, etc.
- Should have GoEarnItNow.com but would also be interested in incorporating a visual identity symbol/mascot.
- Something COOL, SIMPLE, MODERN, CLEAN, CONTEMPORARY, THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX
- We don't have a tagline but would like to see what you come up with...
- Vector based
- Must appeal to both kids (6-15) as well as their parents.
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The entwined subjects of immigration and race have always hit home in our household.
Technically, I'm an immigrant, based on the laws in effect when I was 14 back in the late 1960s. My dad was born in England, my mom in Massachusetts, and I was born in England. I had to choose between England and the United States. I chose here; my dad already had.
My wife's dad is also first-generation Irish, and one of our sisters-in-law is a first-generation immigrant. And let's just say that our extended family is diverse.


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Ok, so someone is bound to say I'm just using a blog entry to complain about a company and although I am, it was not me that got the bum end of a deal from Dell. My friend, does not use computers every day and is self employed in the building industry but needs better records for his tax and the production of bills and would like to watch a DVD or two. He found a laptop he liked but could not find anyone selling it and found something almost equivalent from Dell.
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala to 10.04 Lucid and my Oracle SQL Developer stopped working entirely. I didn't bother trying to look in to it as my SQL Developer was rather old anyway so I downloaded 220.127.116.11 and it didn't work either. Seeing the warnings on the SQL Developer page about supported JDKs I first checked what I had installed.
In the last few days on and off I've been trying to locate a problem with a fairly complicated Perl daemon using POE which was taking a huge amount of time to return a large file via LWP::UserAgent. It's taken a while since in reality we were not doing a simple HTTP GET and the circumstances under which the problem occurs are difficult to set up. However, I've at last tracked it down to taint mode.
A great deal of issues arise in the dbi-users mailing list and to me personally concerning ODBC connection issues so I thought I'd describe the ODBC connection process here (with a slight Perl angle since I look after DBD::ODBC). The information here should be of general interest to anyone using ODBC.


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Dear Rick:
Last time I wrote you an open letter, it was because of your outburst on a fan in Minnesota. The last time I wrote about you in a blog, it was when you took some personal time to yourself to deal with personal matters. I meant every word I wrote in those to entries and I mean every word I write to you now. I cannot pretend to imagine what you went through in your day to day life. I cannot pretend to know what your struggles really were on a personal level, so I won't.
I write this to you, as someone who watched from the stands and on TV. I was… no strike that, I am a fan of Rick Rypien.
When I heard the news yesterday afternoon of your passing, I was immediately saddened. Although you became a Jet in the off-season, to me you're always going to be a Canuck. In fact, you were my favourite tough guy to ever don the jersey. That puts you up there with the likes of Gino Odjick, Kurt Fraser and Brad May. You never backed down from a challenge on the ice, no matter at what disadvantage you were facing. Many of us fans admired that about you. Not many would have taken on the likes of guys like Hal Gill giving up the size and weight, but you did, without hesitation.
I just wanted to thank you for the memories. You were an exciting player to watch and I rooted for you from the get-go. You inspired many out there: Undrafted, moderately talented, but boy did you ever have heart. That alone gave you a reputation in the NHL. You thrilled fans in Regina, Winnipeg, Vancouver and around the NHL. A pit-bull or a wolverine. The ultimate underdog fighter, but you sure showed them on the ice. Truly inspiring.
I hope you find the peace in the afterlife that you were looking for in this life. I hope you keep fighting the good fight where ever you are, because I don't expect any less.
This year, I hope your friends and former teammates can "Win one for the Ripper".
You were our champion, our Rocky Balboa, and now we say goodbye, and thank you. Goodbye Rick, we will all miss you. My condolences to your family and friends. God speed.
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The New York Jets have been tied to practically every breathing quarterback potentially available this offseason, so a report from the New York Daily News on Thursday does not come as a surprise.
Manish Mehta reported David Garrard recently worked out for the team. Last with the Miami Dolphins in training camp last year, Garrard is trying to resurrect a career stalled by back problems. In a free-agent market bereft of quality options, someone figures to give Garrard a job.
The Jets have also been tied to Brady Quinn and Garrard's former teammate Matt Moore as potential players who could compete with Mark Sanchez for a starting job. (Tim Tebow is expected to be released shortly.) Matt Flynn is another name that makes some sense in Gang Green.
A lot of people have been poking fun at the Jets for this murderer's row of quarterback options. As tempting as that is, can't we wait for new general manager John Idzik actually to sign one of them before we kill the Jets for it?
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Friday, May 30, 2014
FIR on Higher Education #11: Professor Vincent Mangematin on MOOCs' Disruption
MOOCs are hotly debated and many questions linger. There is no doubt that they are causing disruption. Vincent Mangematin, a professor at France's Grenoble Ecole de Management, wrote in the Financial Times that MOOCs will leave behind a trail of failed global business schools.
Given this disruption, how should academics innovate in the way they go about presenting knowledge and fostering learning? How can marketers use MOOCs as an opportunity to position programs and their school's brand? These are among the questions that I ask Vincent on FIR on Higher Education episode 11.
If you are a professor, have you changed the way you teach given new technologies? And if you are a marketer or communicator, have you been involved in a MOOC project to help in a branding effort? We would love to hear your experiences. Feel free to share in the FIR Google+ community.
In our reports segment, I discuss how Wabash College used social media to raise over $465,000 in one day, while technology correspondent Harry Hawk discusses hastag use in the classroom.
About Vincent Mangematin
Vincent Mangematin is associate dean of research and senior professor of management and technology at the Grenoble Ecole de Management in France. Vincent's research interest focuses on innovation processes in technological competition situations. He has successively worked on technology transfer, especially individuals' movement between organizations and technology platforms, on creation and growth of high-tech startups, on clusters' influence and on the emergence of new business models.
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This original artwork has been sold. You could see the other paintings in the gallery, or choose a print below /if available/.
81 x 65 cm, Oil on canvas
The paintings in the FRESH category will send strong green vibrations on to you. Green is the colour of life and the colour of all things fresh. It signifies those biochemical processes that, influenced by sunshine and water, give rise to life and production of oxygen. It is the colour of chlorophyll, which underlies photosynthesis and there will be no oxygen without.
When feeling tired or stressed out, you can just sit and stare one of the paintings with shades of green and it will bring relief.
Green is a fantasy. Green is optimism and health. Mitkov's paintings have the unique capacity to immerse viewers in this living environment. The works themselves are full of life! You can feel the smell of grass, flowers, a waterfall and water lilies when looking at them.
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The most fascinating period is from 2012 on. Mitkov highlights two particular dates in it: 21.12.2012, supposedly the end of the world, and 10.02.2013, the beginning of the Age of Aquarius and the Chinese New Year. According to the artist, that was the time when the mankind chose its future 2000-year cycle and the good prevailed. Always positive, always filled with a lot of energy, Mitkov turned his latest period into a life mission. It is not about just composing paintings but rather about creating and putting enormous love into canvases. The painter believes a painting can make a real difference in a man's life.


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Last summer Mark Spencer's 17-year-old son received a phone call from a military recruiter. Mr. Spencer told the recruiter not to call his son again. An hour later, the recruiter called their Mesquite, Texas, residence a second time. The next week he left phone messages.
"It's a predatory practice," says Spencer, "to keep calling students even if their parents object."
Predatory practice or civic responsibility? The government, parents, and some school districts disagree.
"It's a George W. Bush thing," says Santa Cruz, Calif., school board commissioner Cece Pinheiro, referring to the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind federal education act, which became law in 2001. "We've been fighting this for some time."
Deep in the education law's 670 pages lies a provision that requires public secondary schools to give military recruiters the names, addresses, and phone numbers of their students (mainly high school juniors and seniors). Some school districts responded to the new law by designing consent forms. Unless parents signed them, information about their children was not sent to the recruiters.
This summer, however, over 20 California school districts - including those in San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and Santa Cruz - were warned that such consent forms did not comply with the law.
The problem: These consent forms automatically withheld student information from military recruiters unless parents stated that their child's information should be released. School officials refer to it as an "opt in" form because it contains only a "Yes" box to mark. There isn't a need for a "No" box because an unreturned form means a "No" decision, they say.
Jill Wynns, a commissioner on San Francisco's decidedly antiwar school board, says fewer than 80 out of nearly 19,000 district high school students returned the forms the previous school year.
The procedure didn't satisfy the US Department of Defense.
On July 2, it issued a joint letter with the Department of Education that read, "Contrary to an 'opt-in' process, the referenced law requires an 'opt out' notification process, whereby parents are notified and have an opportunity to request the information not be disclosed." In other words, an unreturned or missing consent form should indicate that a parent wanted his or her child's information given to military recruiters, and not the other way around.
Since parents and students often don't return school forms in a timely manner, "that's what the issue is really about," says Josh Sonnenfeld, student organizer of the current "opt out" campaign in Santa Cruz.
Sonnenfeld, who's trying to get all parents and students to send back their forms by the district's Dec. 19 deadline, says the military relies on the default procedure to increase its access to more student names.
Rather than risk losing federal funding for noncompliance (San Francisco, for instance, could lose $36 million), school districts are changing their consent forms to meet the government's demands.
But some dissenting school districts are protesting even as they comply, inviting antiwar groups to speak at their campuses. School officials in Eugene, Ore., have put a disclaimer on their consent forms that reads, "[We] do not support or endorse the Federal Law requiring information to be provided to military recruiters, but will comply with Federal Law."
San Francisco's response to the law, however, has now raised another issue. Back in November, when the city's school board approved a new consent form, school officials allowed students to complete and sign their forms in their own homerooms as a way to ensure that every form got returned. Parents eventually received their own consent forms through the mail - but, according to district procedures, if the parents' and child's responses on the consent forms differed from one another, any "No" response would override a "Yes" response.
In other words, a student's decision could override his or her parent's.
"We actually haven't come up against that scenario," says Ms. Wynns, who insists that the federal government's preference for an "opt out" notification process would logically place a greater value on any "No" answer.
Maj. Sandy Burr, press operations officer for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, criticizes San Francisco's student-signed forms. "The school district shouldn't be doing that, because it's not what the law says," says Burr. "The law states that parents be made aware of the 'opt out' opportunity."
Major Burr refers to a notice issued by her office stating that, under the 1974 Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, student information would be available "unless parents have advised the [local educational authority] they do not want their student's information disclosed."
Wynns disagrees. "Our forms] are specific to No Child Left Behind, which says that the parent or the child can opt out. Nothing in the compliance letter we received said anything about the students not being able to opt out themselves."
So far, San Francisco's school district, which will start counting its returned consent forms this week, hasn't received any new warning letters.
Spencer has since hand delivered his consent forms to his school district in Texas to get both of his sons off the military's recruiting list.
He says he would have rather not gone to the trouble, but plans to remain vigilant. "It's up to parents to tell the schools that, where military recruitment is concerned, they'd prefer their children be left behind."


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NHGRI Prioritizes Next Organisms to Sequence
NHGRI Prioritizes Next Organisms to Sequence
First group includes chicken, chimpanzee and the honey bee
May 2002
BETHESDA, Md. - The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has prioritized the next group of organisms to be considered for entry into the sequencing pipeline as the current efforts with human, mouse and rat approach completion. The organisms designated as high priority for having their genome analyzed include chicken, chimpanzee, several species of fungi, a sea urchin, a microscopic animal commonly used in laboratory studies called Tetrahymena and the honey bee. The institute designated two other organisms - the rhesus macaque and a protozoan - as having a moderate priority for sequencing.
The decision does not specifically launch large-scale sequencing on any of these organisms. Rather, it creates a pool of candidate organisms on which the institute-supported sequencing centers can choose to begin working as capacity becomes available. NHGRI supports large-scale sequencing at the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research in Cambridge, Mass., the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo., and the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Tex. Since the sequencing capacity of these centers is currently committed to the human, mouse and rat projects, new genomic sequencing efforts may not start for some months. Before the centers can start sequencing any of these other organisms, they must get final permission from NHGRI. The institute will indicate on its Web site when a sequencing center has begun sequencing one of these organisms, as well as the strategy to be employed, and a timetable for the project.
"We've recently learned surprising things by comparing the mouse to the human genome," said Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of NHGRI, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "The addition of other genomes helps us find the important parts of the genome that have been conserved. For example, we already have good matches between 22,500 genes in the mouse with genes identified in human. But that leaves more than half of the closest matches between the mouse and human genome without an explanation. These matching regions are highly conserved and must be important, but we don't yet know what they do."
Acquiring the sequence of various genomes is driving the development of a new field of biological research called comparative genomics. By comparing the genomes of different organisms, researchers can understand the structure and function of the human genome. It also will provide a powerful tool for studying evolution. Currently, researchers are completing analysis of the human, mouse and rat genomes. A number of other organisms also have been sequenced, including a long list of microbes, yeast, fruit fly, roundworm, rice and a plant called Arabidopsis thaliana.
"The best way to tease out the secrets of the human genome is to compare it with the other organisms' genomes," said Eric Lander, director of Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research. "By finding the features that evolution has carefully preserved over hundreds of millions of years, we should be able to pinpoint the signals that control gene function. This information will, in turn, translate into practical biomedical knowledge that will spur the development of better therapies in the future."
An evolutionary perspective should also prove valuable for medical researchers. "Chimpanzees, for example, do not suffer from some of the diseases that strike humans, such as malaria and AIDS," said Robert H. Waterston, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Washington University School of Medicine sequencing center. "If we see genetic variants in the human population that we don't see in chimp, then we'll know that the genetic change occurred after humans evolved from the non-human primates and may be important for disease susceptibility."
The successful sequencing of the human genome showed that such large projects could be done for a reasonable cost and that the sequence data are of inestimable value for biomedical research. As a result, interest in sequencing the genomes of many other organisms has risen dramatically.
Last summer, NHGRI gathered leading researchers interested in various experimental organisms to help the institute decide how to select the next ones to be sequenced. A unique process emerged in which advocates for each experimental model were encouraged to submit white papers to NHGRI (researchers were also encouraged to publish these white papers to stimulate discussion in the research community). The selection process is based on peer review of the white papers by a distinguished panel, with a focus on the scientific issues to be addressed by new sequence data. This process allows the broad scientific community, the sequencing centers, and the NHGRI to participate in a process for setting priorities. New organisms will be prioritized for genomic sequencing on the basis of specific, well-defined scientific goals.
"This selection of high-priority organisms will bracket some of the most important evolutionary transitions," said Richard Gibbs, director of the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center. "The white papers are the ticket to the 21st century Noah's Ark."
The first set of white papers was submitted in February 2002 and reviewed by a new NHGRI review group called the Genome Resources and Sequencing Priority Panel (GRASPP) in March 2002. The review included an assessment of the medical importance of the proposed project, its importance to basic biological and evolutionary studies, the size of the research community interested in the DNA sequence, and the availability of additional research tools that would allow investigators to take maximal advantage of the new genomic sequence data. Based on this assessment, proposals were ranked as high, moderate or low priority, with no intention of providing rankings within each category.
The panel's recommendations were then reviewed by the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research and approved at its May 21, 2002, meeting. Before sequencing can begin, a center must show that it has capacity to commit to a new sequencing project. The center's principal investigator will need to negotiate with NHGRI to select the next organism to sequence from the approved priority list, and the investigator will prepare a detailed plan, including a strategy and timetable for sequence. The plan will then be reviewed by the Sequencing Advisory Panel (SAP); approval by the SAP will be necessary, and sufficient, for the sequencing project to begin.
The Approved Sequencing Targets judged to be of high priority for sequencing and the rationale for the recommendation are (listed in alphabetical order):
- Chicken (Gallus gallus) - The chicken is widely used as a non-mammalian vertebrate system for investigating several important biomedical research problems, including the development of the embryo (particularly the nervous system) and the causes of birth defects. It is the only avian (bird) system with sufficient research resources currently in place to justify a genome-sequencing project. The chicken genome sequence is also important in agriculture; the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has expressed interest in helping to support the project and discussions are underway about possible co-funding by NHGRI and USDA.
- Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) - The interest in sequencing the chimpanzee genome arises from its very close relationship to the human; there is only 1.2 percent sequence divergence between the two genomes. It may be possible to better understand the distinct differences between the two organisms by studying the two sequences. Comparing the human and chimp genomes, in particular, may provide insights into human diseases because there are a number of medical conditions that affect humans but not chimpanzees. Chimpanzees themselves cannot - and will not - be used in any experimental studies. A working group will be established to advise NHGRI on such issues as the appropriate strategy, timetable, and cost. As an additional benefit, it is hoped that the availability of the chimpanzee genome sequence will assist in conservation efforts of the species.
- Fungi (various species) - The genome sequences of a number of fungi are of interest because of their medical significance, evolutionary position, and agricultural and industrial importance. Fungal infections are an important cause of illness, and learning more about the genomes of a set of well-chosen fungi should facilitate the development of better treatments for disease.
- Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) - The honey bee is a very interesting organism from several points of view: 1) its powerful social instincts and unique behavioral traits make it particularly useful to neurobiologists; 2) It is important to the agricultural community in the United States as a pollinator; and 3) it is relevant to human health in several ways, including the potentially serious consequences of bee stings, and as a model for antibiotic resistance, immunity, allergic reaction, development, mental health, diseases of the X chromosome and longevity. Because of its agricultural relevance, other federal agencies, such as USDA, are also interested in collaborating on the sequencing of the honeybee genome.
- Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) - The sea urchin has been an important model system for many years in the study of basic biology, particularly in developmental biology. The sea urchin occupies an important evolutionary position with respect to vertebrates and humans. There is a large body of information about gene expression in the sea urchin and there are a number of genomic resources available, making the sea urchin an ideal organism for learning how pathways of genes and proteins regulate growth and development, with potentially profound implications for understanding human biology.
- Tetrahymena thermophila - Studies of the protozoan Tetrahymena have made major contributions to genetics and cell biology. Scientists used this organism to study the structure of telomeres (ends of chromosomes) and the telomerase enzyme, which has profound importance in cancer and aging. Tetrahymena research also has shed light on general phenomena of biology including programmed genome rearrangements.
Two organisms, a protozoan (Oxytricha trifallax) and the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) were accorded moderate priority for sequencing.
A white paper proposing the sequencing of the cow was deferred. Although there are persuasive reasons to sequence the cow's genome, white papers for other organisms from this evolutionary group (dogs, cats and pigs) have yet to be received, but are expected. The panel felt that it could not prioritize the cow genome without considering the related genomes at the same time. The considerable size of genomes in this group (the same size as the human genome), and budget limitations require careful decision-making. For some of these organisms, such as the cow and pig, there are potential major agricultural benefits that will likely lead to a partnership with the USDA.
"USDA is excited about this new collaboration with NHGRI to sequence the genomes of important agricultural species," said Joseph Jen, Ph.D., USDA undersecretary for Research, Education and Economics. "The peer review process that has placed the chicken and honey bee in the high priority category is good news to these industries. As coordinator of the newly established Domestic Animal Genome Interagency Work Group (IWG), it is USDA's hope to eventually investigate DNA sequencing of all important livestock species that are an integral part of our nation's food system. We look forward to NHGRI's contributions as an important member of the IWG. This is an excellent example of inter-agency cooperation to leverage the nations infrastructure of high-throughput DNA sequencing."
As researchers submit additional white papers to NHGRI, more organisms will be added to the priority groups that can be sequenced by the centers. NHGRI currently allocates $155 million per year to the support of the sequencing centers. Many other NIH institutes have provided additional funding in the past, usually for specific sequencing projects such as the mouse and rat genomes. Several institutes have already expressed interest in supporting additional sequencing efforts in the future.
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I just bought a Pro 100M Wireless Shutter Remote Control Release fits Nikon D90, D3100, D5000, D7000 Digital Cameras from Amazon supplied by BV-electronics for £13.99 delivered.
I have a Nikon D3100.
Ordered Sunday night and arrived Wednesday morning.
I've just uploaded the DBD::ODBC 1.40_3 development release to the CPAN. If all goes well this will be the official 1.41 release in a weeks time.
I've just bought an eTRV from Chalmor for £59.99. There are much cheaper electronic TRVs but the reviews on screwfix slated them for noise, low battery life, losing settings when battery fails and other faults.
Until recently it has been difficult to insert unicode characters above 0xFFFF into MS SQL Server. DBD::ODBC could do it in such a way that you can select them back correctly but the built in functions (like length, sorting and upper/lower etc) did not treat the surrogate pairs as such so it was limited.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 introduces a new collation suffix (_SC) and it supports surrogate pairs (although there is an indication that the UTF-16 encoded data must be sent little endian and I've not managed to test on a big endian machine as yet). Here is some test code:
I have released a new development release of Perl DBD::ODBC. This contains some important bug fixes and changes so I strongly advise you to test this out.
There was a problem introduced in the test suite in 1.40_2 when run to non MS SQL Server which results in a few tests failing because done_testing is called twice (please ignore this - it is fixed in subversion trunk).
I got my Raspberry Pi a week ago and wrote up my first impressions about the RP and whether it would work to get our children programming at Raspberry Pi - will it get our children programming? and if so why not in Perl?.
Since then I wanted to get DBI and DBD::ODBC installed and install an ODBC Driver.
I've just sent to the CPAN the 1.39 release of DBD::ODBC. This contains some bug fixes, one major enhancement to support TAF and one change in behaviour you should note.
I'm sat in my study writing this on my new Raspberry Pi - how cool is that? It arrived yesterday from Farnell from whom I preordered it nearly 6 months ago. Bare with me as I'll get to the Raspberry Pi and Perl but first some observations on what got me into programming.
What got me into programming
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Yanick and I have been trying to keep on top of DBD::Oracle RTs but the time I have to do this is short. There are also some issues I don't feel in a position to investigate. There are 35 outstanding RTs which is a significant improvement on 2 years ago when it was over 50 but that is still a depressing number in my mind.
A week ago one of our air conditioning systems blew up and took the others out with it. Temperatures quickly rose and before long nagios spotted a machine had gone down. Nothing really bad had happened at this point but when we could not get the air conditioning back online we had to temporarily turn off some non essential systems to keep the heat down. Could we have spotted this earlier?


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In other games, Mount Abraham used a late goal to post a road win, and Vergennes dropped a tight game to a top Division II team.
On Saturday, the Otters came out strong in their homecoming game vs. MUHS, pressuring the Tigers and taking a 1-0 lead when Taylor Aines lofted a shot home in the seventh minute.


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Contrary to what I wrote earlier today, Mona Charen did not err when she referred to Andrew Breitbart's offer of a $10,000 reward to anyone producing video of racial epithets being shouted at Reps. Emanuel Cleaver et al. as they made their way to the Capitol on March 20,2010. As I am reminded through Jack Cashill's video Capitol Hill Conspiracy (below), Andrew's initial offer was indeed in the amount of $10,000. Andrew later upped his offer to $100,000 when he drew no takers. My apologies to the great Mona Charen. Coincidentally, looking through our archives on this point, I came across my post "Leave it to Mona," on a related point.
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Biological Sciences
Research Highlights
July 2005
PNNL part of NIH protein production center contract
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists are part of the Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium (NESG) (http://www.nesg.org/), which has been awarded one of four Large-Scale Production Centers funded as part of the National Institutes of Health's Protein Structure Initiative. The award will initially be funded at $10 million/year and will total more than $50 million over the next 5 years.
PNNL will receive ~$4 million total for its role. The award, which began in July, follows an initial 5-year study by the NESG group, and results from intense competition for a second-phase participation in the Initiative. PNNL scientists Michael Kennedy, John Cort, and Theresa Ramelot in PNNL's Biological Sciences Division are part of the nuclear magnet resonance (NMR) component of the NESG. They will develop improved technologies for NMR-based protein structure characterization and work toward solving the three-dimensional solution-state structure of proteins as part of an overall effort to populate the universe of protein folds found in nature. The team will use the High-Field NMR Facility in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory and, with supplemental funds from the NIH and the Battelle Memorial Institute, have purchased a 600-MHz NMR spectrometer dedicated to data collection for the NESG project. The team expects to contribute about 60 protein structures to the NESG project over the next 5 years.
This contract win solidifies a strong PNNL role in a major NIH initiative. The NESG is led by Gaetano Montelione, Rutgers University. Other participating institutions are Columbia University, Cornell University, Hauptman Woodward Research Institute, the State University of New York at Buffalo, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the University of Toronto, and Yale University.


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arc automount[<PID NUMBER>]: rpc_get_exports_proto
arc kernel: automount[<PID NUMBER>]: segfault at 28 ip .... .... 0 error 4 in lookup_hosts.so[....]
Seems you are running on the autofs bug, so verify if you have "autofs-5.0.5-54.el6.x86_64" or lower, by running:
rpm -q autofs
If so, raise the package to "autofs-5.0.5-55.el6_3 " or higher by running (as root):
yum install autofs
Then restart ClearCase.
Note: If the problem was on CC installation/Upgrade process and the task was not completed you shoud reinstall/upgrade CC again.
Reference: https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/155523
Note: This problem could be also related to install hanging with "Starting ClearCase services" on Red Hat.
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Corporate governance is the system, through which owners, direct or indirect, controls the company. Within Axis, governance, management and control is divided between shareholders, the board and the CEO, in accordance with laws, regulations and instructions.
Axis is a public Swedish limited company based in Lund, Sweden. In 2000, Axis was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and is now located on Nasdaq Stockholm's main market.
Axis is governed by the Swedish Companies Act and Swedish stock exchange rules. Axis has not been guilty of any breaches of the rule set of Nasdaq Stockholm, nor of good conduct on the stock exchange market.
Axis applies the Swedish code for corporate governance ("the Code"). Axis does not diverge from the Code, other than in the regard specifically stated below. Information about the Code is available at www.bolagsstyrning.se. The report of corporate governance describes in what ways corporate governance have been conducted at Axis throughout the business year.
Deviations from the Code
In light of the ownership structure in Axis where Canon Inc. for some time owns 86.6 percent of the shares and votes, the 2016 Annual General Meeting (AGM), like the 2015 AGM, did not appoint a nomination committee. The company thus deviates from the Code's rules with regard to a nomination committee. The duties of the nomination committee under the Code will be performed instead, where appropriate, by Axis' largest shareholder Canon Inc. or by the company's board of directors. As far as election and remuneration of auditors is concerned, the board has appointed a special group that prepares the procurement process. This group has special experience in questions relating to appointment and remuneration of auditors, which is considered to be of benefit to Axis and raises the quality level.


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By Chase Stallo and Aaron Hansel
Terrifying Three-Peat
In sports, the use of the term three-peat is usually associated with something positive, but in Jeremy Martin's case, it's just the opposite. Considered a 250SX East title threat before the season started, the Yamalube/Star Racing Yamaha rider has yet to qualify for a main event in 2014. At this point, title thoughts are gone and Martin is no doubt just looking to avoid getting zapped by lighting for a third straight time when the gate drops in Indy. –Aaron Hansel
Heat Race Main Event Hero
After sixty-three 250SX starts, Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki's Martin Davalos finally broke through for a win in Atlanta last Saturday. He did it in convincing fashion too, taking the lead immediately and leading all fifteen laps. With the first win out of the way, will the rider who earned the nickname Heat Race Hero start clicking off a series of main event wins? - Hansel
Hahn It
The Georgia Dome is a special place for GEICO Honda's Wil Hahn, who took his first 250SX win ever there last year. It showed last Saturday night, too. Hahn was on it all day, setting the fifth-fastest qualifying time, transferring straight out of his heat and nabbing a strong fourth place in 450SX. If he has another night like that in Indianapolis he'll be looking at another top five, or perhaps even a podium. -Hansel
Simple Solution
Who knew all Ken Roczen had to do to repeat his winning performance from A1 was get a haircut? The Red Bull KTM rider showed up in Atlanta sporting a fresh cut and battled hard with Ryan Villopoto to take the win and reestablish himself as a contender who can vie for this championship not by consistent podiums alone, but by winning races outright. Look for Roczen and his manicured mane to be fighting for another win in Indy this weekend. -Hansel
Getting Set Up
With the dirt trending more in the harder, drier categories these last few years, teams are being forced to constantly revise their setups in the quest to find the perfect balance between stiff suspension that can handle big jumps and whoops without being so stiff that it loses traction on slick racing surfaces. As a result, riders have to rely even more on the expertise of the teams behind them as they struggle to achieve the best possible setup. Let's see whose supporting cast nails it in Indy, and who forgets their lines. -Hansel
Wharton's Redemption
Depending on how you look at the glass, Indianapolis has either been half full or half empty for Blake Wharton. Half full people will point to his 2012 win and his near win in 2013 before a final lap crash. Half empty people will just point out his last lap blunder a season ago. Indy has seen Wharton at his height and lowest. What cards will Indy deal Wharton this weekend? – Chase Stallo
RV Goes For Five Straight
You have to go all the way back to 2009—Ryan Villopoto's rookie 450 season—to find the last time RV has lost in Indianapolis. The three-time defending champ has found comfort in the Hoosier state, winning the last four main events. With a nine-point gap on last week's winner Ken Roczen and nine races to go, will RV push his lead wider with his fifth straight win in Indy? – Stallo
Still In Contention?
One week after slicing RV's led by seven points in Dallas, James Stewart's early mistake in Atlanta tossed twelve points back in Villopoto's direction. Now, Stewart is twenty-six points back with nine rounds remaining. Have the curtains drawn on Stewart's title chances? Depends on whom you ask. But for Stewart to win the title, he would have to pick up an average of 2.8 points a round over the next nine. A tall order, but as we've seen, anything can happen in Monster Energy Supercross. Can Stewart get back in the title chase this weekend? – Stallo
Podium Streak
Since his four-race podium drought, stretching from A2 through San Diego, Ryan Dungey has rebounded with back-to-back podium performances the last two rounds—the only rider with two podiums during that stretch. Like Stewart, Dungey has a lot of ground to make up on Villopoto—thirty points to be exact. Can Dungey inch closer with his first win of the season? – Stallo
Wilson and Seely Welcome
Indianapolis will mark the 450SX debut for Dean Wilson. Filling-in for the injured Chad Reed on the Discount Tire/TwoTwo Motorsports Kawasaki, Wilson will be the first rider not named Reed to ride for the team since it started in 2011. Wilson has a little more than a week under his belt on the bike and told Racer X contributor Eric Johnson following the deal that "[he] just want to ride at my best potential and wherever that ends up is where it's going to end up." Wilson will have company in fellow 250SX West rider in Cole Seely, who will carry the flag for Honda Muscle Milk with Trey Canard and now Justin Barcia out. How will they fare on the big bikes at Indy? -- Stallo
Bonus! The Claddaugh! St. Elmos! That piano bar! Steak and Shake when you're done! Much to see and do at Indy…


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I'm working on my Trench Gold Medal, only about 50ish unique defeats away. I create about 10 games per week and it always seems to be the same players joining them, so I'm creating 50 private games on 5 different maps and settings.
Just post the game# and Map and if you want to team up with me in a dubs game or not or have dubs challenge; just post in this forum which you are interested in and will invite you with the pass word.
I have map rank, it's a progam that indicates if you are a unique player for the trench medal or not; so if you don't get invited it's because I've either beat you already or we both we both have and win or loss against each other.
I'm also open to those who want a re-challenge, the goal here is to have fun, make new friends and maybe get a bonus of getting a nice shinny medal!


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I am stuck with a little problem that I cannot solve mith the standard methods I learn at university. I have a system of coupled ODEs:
$f'(t) = P \cos(k t + \Phi_1) g(t)$
$g'(t) = Q \cos(k t + \Phi_2) f(t)$
From what I read, the is no teaching book-way to solve such a system. I found question 66172 to be similar, but my values are $P,Q$ up to $\approx 10^3-10^4$ and $k$,$\Phi_{1,2}$ basically arbitrary ($k$ ranges from $-10^5$ to $10^5$ explicitly including 0). Only $t$ may be restricted to the order of magnitude around $10^{-2}$. Boundary conditions may be $f(0)=1$, $g(0)=0$ and nice to have would be $f(0) \approx g(0)$
I have done numerical calculations and for my numbers, the solutions do not look to crazy. For $k=0$ the system is solvable and basically gives oscillations between the two functions. For $k\neq0$ I basically geo Oszillations withs higher frequency and lower amplitude (e.g., $f(t)$ oszillating between 1 and 0.8 and $g(t)$ between 0 and 0.2). For $k\gg10^5$, the system becomes mostly stationary.
I would really appreciate suggestions for an analytical approach, at least as an approximation.


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When I was younger I assumed that drunks and stoners must inherently hate each other, at least philosophically. Really my silliest assumption was that anyone only did one or the other. Every stoner I know loves beer, and every drunk I know gets excited when someone busts out a joint. Only jerkoffs are purist. Nonetheless, booze and weed are different beasts and there are strengths and weakness to each.
Endurance: Being drunk all day can be awesome, but it's a plan rife with potential disaster that can lead to puking and gross errors in judgment. Whereas any wake'n'bake fan will tell you, all it takes to be stoned from sunup to sundown is the desire to do so and an appropriate supply.
win: weed
Party: When I was in Amsterdam the thing that struck me most about the "coffee shops" wasn't that I could legally buy weed (I live in California after all), but how quiet the places were. People chat softly or just sit in a daze. You can't really have a "crazy" stoner party. There are no weed keggers. Get a room of people stoned and you'll probably all end up playing video games or watching a (bad) movie.
win: booze
Sports: A bit of alcohol dulls your inhibitions, which can actually improve your reaction timing. Of course that all goes out the window once you get shitfaced. But everything from softball to bowling is more fun with beer. Weed doesn't make you worse at sports so much as it makes you not want to do them; touch football out, Madden on the PS3 in.
win: booze
Conversation: Drunks speak a language only other drunks can understand, and stoners tend to prattle meanderingly like nursing home inhabitants. Talking to either while you're sober is awful.
win: neither
Chores: Painting or building IKEA crap seems like a great time to throw back some booze. Yes, it'll make the process more fun, but your work will likely turn out embarrassing once you sober up. Getting high can greatly improve boring tasks like laundry and vacuuming, with little-to-no effect on your skill level. Though you are prone to dumbass gaffes like leaving your clothes in the drier all day.
win: weed
Sex: Sex is great both drunk and high. Drunk sex is wild; involving positions you're not sure how you knew and on top of things that aren't your bed. Stoned sex is hippie sex; slow and full of childlike wonderment. "Wow, this is great!" I've actually said out loud before during stoned sex.
win: both
A tie! More research is necessary. Who has some kush? I'll bring the Scotch.


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Venus (also known as Valerie, Miss Venus, Venus Rising, Angelica Costello, and Venuss) was born in Plattsburgh, New York on June 5, 1978. Her Native American roots graced her beautiful face with cheekbones most women could only dream of, while it must have been hours in the gym that gave her that body. Sexually active from a young age, Venus was discovered while performing as a dancer at Cheetah's, a Las Vegas club. Since her 1998 debut, Venus has appeared in hundreds of films, including several fetish features, and has received such accolades as Penthouse Pet of the Month for June 1999. In 2005 she won two AVN Awards, one for Best Couples Scene and a second for Best Group Sex Scene. Venus admits to loving sex more than the average person, which is why she loves being in the industry.
In her personal life she's just as kinky as she is on film, although she does prefer sex with just one person as opposed to the group scenes she's been cast in. In the future Venus would like to get into fashion design. Her goal is to open a boutique, featuring all one-of-a-kind designs, in Los Angeles and eventually London and New York. Aside from her work in porn Venus has also acted in several B movies, many of which can be seen late at night on HBO, Showtime, and Cinemax.


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Contingency Operating Site Marez-East, Iraq — When soldiers stationed near Habur Gate, Iraq, had trouble finding time to visit their Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) gyms on base, they decided to create a new gym in an empty room of their company area for quick workouts.
Keeping fit is important to the soldiers in the Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 146th Field Artillery, Washington Army National Guard, under the 18th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, about a third of whom are on call 24/7 with a 40-minute mission readiness time, says 1st Sgt. Scott Catlett, a native of Vancouver, WA, who helped spearhead the new gym project.
Upkeep of exercise equipment can be challenging in the Iraqi terrain, he says, especially cardio machines.
"Cardio can be a bit of a problem," Catlett writes in an e-mail from Iraq. "Of course, we run and we sprint outside all the time, but we do have sand storms almost every week this time of year. I would love to have a couple of rowers and exercise bikes for the dusty days."
Since dust and dirt "play havoc" with treadmills in the larger main gyms, and their gym is alongside one of the main dirt roads on the base, Catlett says treadmills especially could be problematic in their location.
Catlett formerly worked as a civilian law enforcement officer and was trained in police and military fitness programming. In addition to designing workouts that don't require gym equipment, Catlett and his company developed some unique homemade fitness equipment.
"Everything we have in the gym we have begged, borrowed or had it made on the base," Catlett says. "Some items, like the kettlebells, we pitched in money and bought ourselves. The pull-up bars, dip station and squat rack were all made here on the base by our own welders."
Catlett says the soldiers lift weights for strength training using a series of Olympic bar lifts, combined with pull-ups, push-ups, dips, jumps, balance and core exercises.
The company also developed some specialty items, such as DIY medicine balls made from old soccer balls and basketballs that were cut open and filled with gravel.
"Sand would have been used, but it's hard to come by. Who would have known in Iraq?" Catlett says.
Catlett also developed strength, power endurance, strength endurance and interval weight training workouts for the soldiers based on the CrossFit and Gym Jones 300 workout models.
For cardio exercise, Catlett instructed the soldiers in Tabata Interval training, which involves 20 seconds of maximum intensity exercise followed by 10 seconds of rest, repeated six to eight times.
Most of the workouts are timed and the results are posted to measure performance and progress.
"We have a saying around Bravo Battery that sums up our goals — as strong as I can be; as light as I can be," Catlett says. "I have soldiers that can bench press and squat heavy loads, but can't pass the two-mile run on the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) — they are out of balance. Others lack the knowledge and/or motivation to improve their fitness level. I provide both at no cost."
Many of the soldiers in the program have lost a lot of weight, Catlett says. The training not only prepares them for the APFT, but also makes them better soldiers.
"The new gym and the workouts have started an incredible fitness craze in my unit," Catlett says. "And soldiers that have never passed an APFT since arriving at Bravo are passing it now with great scores. I tell the soldiers [that] the purpose of our training is not to help you pass the APFT; it is to make you more proficient at your chosen profession — soldiering. Passing the APFT with a good score is just a by-product."
Catlett says the exercise groups have grown from three or four troops to as many as 20, and he has scheduled four daily workout periods to accommodate everyone.
"Soldiers from other units have stopped me in the chow hall or out on the street and asked if they can join in on the workouts," he says. "I have had to put in additional work orders to have new equipment made, and we no longer have enough kettlebells or Olympic bars to go around. The PT [physical training] program for Bravo has grown almost out of control, and I like it."


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On a hot July afternoon, Martin Riese sits in a suit at one of the patio tables at Ray's and Stark with eight bottles of water and 16 glasses in front of him. He laughs as museum goers pause in front of his table to smirk or make a comment about the odd man with all that water.
There are bottles from France, Norway, Fiji, Germany and the United States, all neatly lined up, from flat to sparkling, ready to be poured for a water tasting.
In case it's not clear, Riese is crazy about H20. He's taking the clear liquid most of us take for granted as a simple necessity and attempting to turn it into a serious business.
Reise is the water sommelier -- yes, there is such a thing -- for the Patina Group of Retaurants. He's launching a water menu Monday at Ray's and Stark, the restaurant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where he is also the general manager. Some of the bottles will be priced as high as $20.
If you're rolling your eyes right now at the thought of water sommeliers, water menus, and pricey bottles of water, know this: Glasses of curated cold water are one of the hottest things showing up on menus.
The concept of water menus has been attempted in Europe, with perhaps the most famous being from Le Water Bar Colette in Paris. It has even been tried in L.A. The Bazaar at the SLS offered a water menu a couple years back, but the concept never really took off.
Riese is hoping his menu with 20 waters from around 10 different countries will create a new experience for diners, one that goes beyond "flat or sparkling."
But on this hot day, one of the glasses in front of Riese is half full with tap water he retrieved from the men's bathroom.
"Smell this tap water. It smells like chlorine," said Riese with a look of disgust. "As a restaurant person here in L.A., I can say I would never drink that water. When you have good food, good wine and good spirits, you don't want to contaminate that with this water."
Riese was certified as a water sommelier after taking a weeklong course in Germany at Doemen's, one of a few schools in the world that offers certification for water specialists, but he insists he was largely self-trained by tasting.
He's worked at Michelin star restaurants all over the world and in 2005, he introduced a 40-label water menu at a German restaurant. He also wrote a book in 2009 about water and his knowledge on the subject earned him a special O-1 visa to live and work in the United States from Germany, awarded to individuals with extraordinary abilities and typically given to scientists and inventors.
"All waters have unique tastes, and a lot of Americans think water is just water, but I completely don't believe in that," said Riese. "Water has so many interesting nuances."
He pours a glass of Fiji water and swirls it like a glass of wine. He then takes a sip, puckers his lips and chews on the water for a bit before swallowing. He then pours a glass of Voss water and follows the same tasting procedure.
"Fiji is more in the smooth area and very light when I'm tasting it," said Riese. "Voss has more of a bitter taste to it. Right away I'm getting it on my palate when I drink the Voss. But Fiji, I don't have that."
Riese recommends Voss, with its bitter notes, for salads and Fiji, with its sweet notes, for desserts. After the water menu launches, Riese will make himself available to guests who would like water pairing recommendations for their food.
Riese's water menu will include 20 brands, including a water he crafted called Beverly Hills 90H20. It retails for $12 a bottle and is made from spring water from the Sierra Nevadas and added minerals. The bottles are made in limited editions of 10,000 individually numbered glass bottles. Other waters on the menu include Fiji water from Fiji, Voss from Norway, Badoit sparkling water from France and Berg from Canada. They will range in price from $8 to $20 a bottle.
"The hardest thing is to get the different waters into the country," said Riese. "For instance, I'm a huge fan of Tasmania rainwater, it's completely cool, but I can't get it here in the United States. So I had to find like waters that I can actually access."
One of his favorites that he'd like to include on the menu is called Iskilde "cold spring" from Denmark. It's a still water that has oxygen bubbles rather than carbon dioxide.
"This water is extremely sweet with a little bit of earthy notes to it as well and it's really interesting."
The menu will include a photo of each water bottle, the history of the water, whether it's sparkling or flat, the content of what's in the water and a dot taste rating system meant to show people how bitter or sweet a certain water tastes.
The prototype menu, if successful, will be introduced to other Patina Group restaurants.
"For me, I want to make it accessible, and I just want people to have fun trying it," said Riese.


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In our Behind the Scenes series, CNN correspondents, producers and photojournalists share their experiences in covering news and analyze the stories behind the events. CNN's Cliff Hackel talks about his experiences while on location for the documentary "Latino in America."
Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, resident Jaelynn Mackalonis wants people to know that her town is not racist.
SHENANDOAH, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Jaelynn Mackalonis was angry.
The upcoming trial in the killing of Luis Ramirez had rocked the town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, and Mackalonis urgently wanted to speak out.
She hung out on the street, overhearing CNN's interview of her neighbor Lou Ann Pleva. As Pleva recounted the various opinions around town about the street fight that killed Ramirez, Mackalonis' blood began to boil. She whistled and waved her arms to get our attention. Finally, she exploded.
"We just want to let you know, the neighbors around here, it's not fair that one person is going to speak for us," Mackalonis insisted. "This wasn't a racial crime."
Pleva stood up and tried to defuse the situation.
"I'm sorry; do I know you?" Pleva asked.
"I don't care if you know me or not," Mackalonis answered. "Do not say this town is racist."
"I didn't say that," Pleva said.
"Don't speak for anyone else," demanded Mackalonis.
"I promise you, I don't," Pleva said.
The exchange went on for minutes. It was highly unusual to have a formal interview interrupted in that way. But, the emotion of that moment typified the anxiety that gripped Shenandoah, a down-and-out former coal town in central Pennsylvania. Mackalonis interrupts CNN interview »
On July 12, 2008, a group of white high school students, out on the prowl after a night of drinking, encountered one of their female classmates in the company of Luis Ramirez, a 25-year-old migrant worker from Mexico.
Racial insults were exchanged, and, in no time, a fight ensued. Police reports claim that at least one kick was delivered to Ramirez's head while he was unconscious on the ground. He died two days later.
One of the boys was charged as a juvenile. Another teen pleaded guilty to federal civil rights violations in a plea deal. The other two teens were charged with ethnic intimidation but were ultimately acquitted of those charges.
The crime cast an unwelcome spotlight on Shenandoah, according to Mackalonis.
"It's putting Shenandoah on the map for being a rotten town. It's not a rotten town," Mackalonis said. "I talk to people, and it's, 'Oh, yeah, you're from Shenandoah, where that illegal immigrant got beat.' "
Shenandoah has a rich cultural history. In its heyday, during the productive coal mining years of the 1920s, the town boasted nearly 30,000 residents. St. George's Roman Catholic Church became the nation's first Lithuanian parish. St. Michael's became the first Greek Catholic church in the country. There were so many diverse immigrant groups that the town was dubbed "Little New York."
When the coal mines dried up in the 1950s, Shenandoah began its economic slide. Today, the town's population is just over 5,000.
But immigrants still come to Shenandoah. The latest influx has been Latinos, who account for less than 10 percent of the town's population. It's inexpensive to rent or buy a house here, and most immigrants are able to send money home.
Although some in town accept the new residents, many of them from Mexico, others feel threatened by those who are here illegally. One person said that when he hears Spanish spoken, he "feels out of place. Like you're not in America no more."
Luis Ramirez was one of those illegal immigrants from Mexico. His death divided the town. One group wanted a long prison term for the boys. Another side called it "a street fight gone bad" and claimed that the boys acted in self-defense. Still others felt a degree of ambiguity and uncertainty as they waited for the trial to sort things out.
But Mackalonis, a local bartender, had made up her mind.
"Get your story straight before you go babbling anything," she admonished Pleva. "If he wasn't here illegally, I think it wouldn't have happened."
Getting the story straight in Shenandoah proved difficult. Mackalonis herself gave three possible scenarios for the crime: the rape of a 14-year-old, a drug deal gone bad and a fight that started spontaneously.
In our dozen trips to Shenandoah, we heard many more rumors of gangs, violence and drug dealing by Latinos. They were hard to substantiate, and fear seemed to rule the day.
Both Latinos and white residents told us they were afraid to walk the streets at night, even though we saw little evidence of any major crimes. Residents talk about crime, racial overtones
After her tirade during our interview with Pleva, Mackalonis stormed across the street to her home. We caught up with her to learn more about her opinion of undocumented workers.
"If you're here legally, fine. But if you're here illegally, and you don't want any of these problems, go back, get the green card, come back," Mackalonis said.
But one resident said many people in Shenandoah think every Latino needs a green card.
Carlos Ramos, who was born in Puerto Rico, is an American citizen. Despite that, he is often asked for his green card.
"If you're Puerto Rican or Dominican or whatever, you know, to them you're considered a Mexican," Ramos said.
Pleva tries to understand such differences. She has been outspoken in her attempts to help Shenandoah heal. She spoke at a candlelight vigil just days after Ramirez's death, urging racial harmony. All of which leaves her confused about Mackalonis.
"It hurts. We live across the street. We don't know each other. I just now found out her name when she told it to you! And yet she has all of this animosity toward me," Pleva said after the confrontation.
It has been months since our surprise interruption. In that time, the residents of Shenandoah have put the murder trial behind them. But little has changed. Some high school students see the convicted boys as heroes. Undocumented workers still find jobs around town. Rumor, distrust and disinformation fill the air, and anger simmers just below the surface.
Brian Rokus and Jacinth Planer contributed to this report.
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School Sports
All-district basketball
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- Category: Sports News
- Published on 29 February 2012
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
Eight members of the Mount Vernon High School Lady Tigers basketball team received honors at the 2011-12 15-3A All-District Basketball Coaches meeting this year. Maddie Thames was named Co-Most Valuable Player of the Year. For more information, see the March 1 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.