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REINRay needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 9 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
Real Estate Investment Network (REIN™)
REIN™ is a unique network of highly successful Canadians who have been taught how to build long-term wealth for themselves and their families through a proven method of investing in real estate.
The network is made up of
•Thousands of successful investors – our Members
•Their expert instructors
•Service providers (such as mortgage brokers, lawyers, and realtors)
REIN™'s primary purpose is to educate and support our Members so they achieve their financial goals. This education and support is provided through;
•An exclusive country-wide Membership program with many features and benefits
•An unbeatable line-up of action-oriented seminars, events and workshops.
Because we have a membership-based model, and are completely dependent on the success of our Members – we only succeed when you do! What sets us apart from other investment groups is that we do not sell real estate, nor do we bring you in to seminars to pitch the follow-up $40,000 mentoring course! Because we have chosen not to promote property or sell expensive mentoring programs, (unlike the others in our industry), we pass on the opportunity to earn large amounts of commission revenue. Instead, our business is focused completely on giving our Members the very best real estate investment support and education in the country – and helping them operate their own successful real estate businesses.
The print ad will be for a glossy tradeshow publication that will be put into the hands of the ~ 3000 Attendees. The Attendee profile will be primarily male (67%), middle to high income earners, interested in real estate, interested in purchasing property (some interested in primary residence, but also recreational property and investment property). Our specific focus at this tradeshow will be to attract the Attendees that are interested in investment property (forecast to be about 44% of the total Attendees). Our goal is to have the ad "speak" to those Attendees who are interested in real estate investing, and to let them know that REIN is at the Show to teach them about real estate investing and to help them overcome the hurdles they might be facing as they consider becoming active real estate investors. They are probably a little overwhelmed and scared by all the steps, legal stuff, financial stuff and renting stuff that they need to know and do, and so we want to offer them the comfort of knowing that we can help them how to handle all those concerns.
The goals of this ad will be;
1. To tell Attendees what REIN is
2. To tell Attendees that we have two top headline Speakers at the Show
3. To encourage Attendees to come to our Booth
4. To sell Guest Passes to our November 16 REIN meeting in Toronto
There will be two calls to action;
1. Come see Don Campbell and/or Russell Westcott Speaker Presentations
2. Come to the Booth and purchase your Guest Pass for Nov 16 meeting
REIN is successful because we are a credible organization. We provide top-notch eductaion and training seminars, and so we have great credibility with our customers. Our ad needs to reflect that credibility, so we need a creative design that:
1. Shows us to be a professional, credible educational organization
2. Is clean and crisp
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4. Incorporates our corporate colour scheme (found in our logo)
5. Has dimensions of 7½" x 10"
6. Is formatted as 300 dpi JPG or High-Res PDF
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DropEmJayBird wrote:pens2005 wrote:Dan H wrote:Terrible call. How do they miss that even given replay?
It was close.
It was right at the cross bar.
It was right at the crossbar with a camera that was 10 feet high.
Common sense - which I won't argue is absent from most hockey people in Toronto - tells you that it's easily a few inches above the crossbar.
Yeah, the crossbar is 4 feet high, and although Ott's body position definitely lowered his head from its usual height, his head wasn't lowered by 2 1/2 feet. He's 6'0" when he's not wearing skates. The replay made it clear he contacted the puck above the top of his head. In skates, the top of his head is about 6'4" minus however much he crouched. So he needs to have his head lowered at least about 2 1/2 feet for that puck to be below the crossbar when he hits it.
I think it was about 6 inches above the bar. The camera angle they showed on my crappy video feed was from an angle, but even I found it pretty conclusive.
Doesn't really matter in the long run. The game was meaningless for both teams. What's important is if the Pens are getting ready to play playoff hockey and that nobody gets hurt.

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So, I get a lot of PR pitches. Most cocktail, wine, and food bloggers do. Some of them are smartly targeted and personalized, but many of them are just kind of dumb. I opened my Gmail account one day to see an email that started "Dear Dash." An amusing nickname, true, and I suppose that's better than the "Dear <vname>" message I got one day. And, frankly, I can't even begin to imagine what the PR folks for Women's Health magazine are thinking in sending me information on dieting, women's nutrition, and Madonna's organic lifestyle.
Now you'll understand why it was a delight to read a PR email that started this way:
Hey Michael,
Hope all is well. I couldn't help but notice, from reading your blog, that you have a thing for ginger.
Pitch-perfect PR. By my rough count, there are… let's see… 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 posts that feature or mention something gingery as a drink ingredient. So thank you, Yun Yu, from Fox Greenberg Public Relations, for actually paying attention to what I do and what this blog's about–not specifically ginger, but about creatively pairing strong flavors and fresh ingredients with spirits.
Thank you, too, for sending up a bottle of Xanté pear and cognac liqueur while all my pals were at Tales of the Cocktail. This stuff is tasty. It's hard to balance the flavor in a product like this, to keep it from being cloying, but the distillers did a fine job on this one. Morgenthaler describes it well, in a piece where he rightly and humorously sends up its marketing (Xanté's PR firm is great, but its marketers are insane):
The opening nose is reminiscent of pears poached in cinnamon and wine. The first sip reveals a moderate amount of heat, which dissipates quickly leaving behind an extended finish of basic sugars, pear, light caramel, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and banana.
I find it just a little too sweet to sip neat or on the rocks, but it blends beautifully into cocktails. I think my favorite use for it is in a sidecar variation, with lime juice instead of lemon, and the triple sec reduced just a smidge.
I also find that it pairs well with rum, in an old-fashioned, with Fee's Whiskey Barrel Aged Bitters. In fact, the marriage of pear, vanilla, and Fee's warm Christmas spices reminds me so much of Yuletide that I'm going to tuck some of the Xanté away for the holiday season.
Now, what's this to do with ginger? Well, Yun, in contacting me, suggested the Xanté Ginger Martini cocktail. I know, I know, I know; I'm not crazy about the name either. A martini is strictly a drink with gin and vermouth and maybe some orange bitters. It's not a drink with cognac liqueur and anything else. But call it what you may, it's a damn fine drink. Here's the recipe as Yun sent it.
Xanté Ginger Martini
- 1-1/2 ounces Xanté
- 1-1/2 ounces lemon juice
- 1 ounce simple syrup (I'd cut this back to 1/2 ounce, personally, but I was using a rich 2:1 syrup made with Turbinado sugar)
- 1 piece of fresh ginger
- 1 thin slice of fresh ginger, for garnish
In a mixing glass, muddle the ginger. Add Xanté, lemon juice, and simple syrup. Shake over ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and float garnish on top.
Tell you what. Not only is this a fine drink, where all of the elements play well together, but the ginger really helps to bring the pear to the fore. And as we found out last night, Spanish Marcona almonds make a perfect accompaniment to this cocktail. I almost didn't want to have dinner.


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Restaurants have come under fire in recent years for serving up unhealthful fare that's making Americans fatter - but have they cleaned up their acts? Not hardly. A food watchdog group has pinpointed eight dishes from a variety of chain restaurants that go over the top in calories and saturated fat. "It's as if the restaurants were targeting the remaining one out of three Americans who are still normal weight in order to boost their risk of obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, and cancer," says Bonnie Liebman, Nutrition Director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. So what are these dish dishonorees? Keep clicking to see the winners of CSPI's Xtreme Eating Awards 2011...
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If one wedge of cheesecake isn't enough, how about another? And if cheesecake alone isn't enough, how about red velvet cake - times two? This dessert from The Cheesecake Factory contains four layers of cake layered on top of another, topped with cream cheese frosting, chocolate shavings and whipped cream. Each slice - averaging three quarters of a pound - contains 1,540 calories and 59 grams of saturated fat - three days' worth, says CSPI, joking that they "oughta rename the place The Cheesecake Fattory."
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Denny's describes its dish as "four fried mozzarella sticks and melted American cheese grilled between two slices of sourdough bread, served with wavy-cut French fries and a side of marinara sauce." "Grilled cheese with a twist," says Denny's - the twist being its 1,260 calories and 21 grams of saturated fat. At only $4, it's no wonder that Americans can eat so much so easily.
More than your average burger, The Cheesecake Factory's Farmhouse Cheeseburger includes grilled smoked pork belly and a fried egg in addition to the usual toppings. The thick slabs of bacon help bring the burger to 1,530 calories with 36 grams of saturated and 3,210 milligrams of sodium. Want fries with that? They're an additional 460 calories and 1,460 mg of sodium.
What kind of sauce do you want on your pasta? Applebee's dish will give you both marinara and cream, in addition to meatballs stuffed with cheese. The pasta plate contains 1,520 calories and 43 grams of saturated fat - two days' worth, says CSPI, with one and a half teaspoons of sodium. CSPI says eating all this is the same as eating two ribeye steaks with mashed potatoes.
These king-sized fries weigh roughly one and a third pounds and deliver 930 calories and 2,490 milligrams of sodium, says CSPI. But that's just the regular size. An extra-large King Fries contains 1,500 calories and 4,90 mg of sodium. Full of cheese, bacon, and sour cream, these fries are more than just a light snack.
No need to worry about ordering bacon as a topping - this burger from IHOP has bacon blended right into the beef. The bacon-infused burger contains 1,250 calories and 1,590 milligrams of sodium - a day's worth, says CSPI.
Not your cheap fast food join, Morton's still joins the ranks of extreme eats with its Porterhouse steak, which weighs 24 ounces before cooking. It's 1,390 calories, with 36 grams of saturated fat - you get what you pay for?
Cold Stone's PB&C shake manages to squeeze a full day's worth of calories (2,010) and three and a half days worth of saturated fat (68 grams) into a cup, says CSPI. That's the large, "Gotta Have It" size. The smaller size has "only" 1,280 calories.


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Symbian CEO finds his 'inner caveman'
Ugg! It's Andrew's round-up
Smartphone Show The 1990s mania for Flintstones anthropology has been on the wane for some time. It was freighted with too many dodgy agendas, and people twigged fairly quickly that you can simply make up any "evolutionary psychology" you wanted. Studies such as the one that suggested rape provided evolutionary advantages didn't exactly help the cause. Stephen Jay Gould called it "Just So Stories", and EP turned out not to be an exciting new branch of science, or even social science, but gothic fiction - to be filed under "Creative Writing".
However, Symbian's CEO Nigel Clifford gave the cause an improbable lift yesterday. He used his keynote address to tell us we were really all just cavemen.
Yes, we're cavemen, said Clifford, only cavemen who want to take our environment with us. "Connected cavemen", in fact.
"Twenty thousand years ago, life was simple," he reckoned.
He described how he'd found himself in Budapest, but felt the inner Neanderthal inside him call out - he wanted to watch the Rugby World Cup.
So he cranked up the Sling Player on his smartphone, and tuned into the game.
Now for a British executive in Budapest, watching 80 minutes of streaming video results in a fairly hefty roaming data bill. The reason he was able to indulge in this had nothing to do with the Stone Age, and everything to do with that very modern invention: the Expense Account.
So his misguided speech didn't persuade us of the primacy of the cave so much as the virtues of modern life. An attendee who'd heard Clifford describe how the CEO and his wife had whiled away a taxi trip to the airport by fiddling with their phones, told us:
"I felt like bursting into tears. It was a Houellebecq novel: life as completely atomized." What makes executives say such dumb things? Answers on a postcard, please.
Although it dominates the Symbian smartphone, Nokia keeps a very low profile. It isn't one of the sponsors. That's not surprising, as Symbian wants to demonstrate the plurality and diversity of its "eco-system" (dodgy Darwinian metaphors are everywhere), and having the 800lb gorilla in the room doesn't help.
But oddly, Nokia held a party to coincide with Symbian's lavish do in the evening - and succeeded in siphoning off the blogging representatives.
This gives credence to the idea that Nokia is embracing the "blogosphere" not because it wants to "create a buzz", but because it needs to be told what it wants to hear.
Sony Ericsson's director of content acquisition is called Mikael Nerde - no puns, please. Mikael resisted gloating to us yesterday about Nokia's portal difficulties.
Nokia wants to cut into the operators' business by doing a portal of its own, Ovi, bypassing them completely. In response the UK operators have succeeded in garotting Nokia's big Xmas phone, the N81, by way of a warning shot.
Nerde told us SEMC was investing in generating portal-type demand, traffic - such as the PlayNow service that identifies what song is being played - but is happy to share this with operators.
"Rather than saying 'we will own all of it', we have to strike a balance," is how he put it, diplomatically.
But at the company's party the previous evening, SEMC staff were grinning from ear to ear, we hear.
With the N81 gone, that's Nokia's main challenger to Sony Ericsson's prized Walkman range snuffed out.
According to Motorola's Ron Schaeffer, there are four births every second but 32 mobile phones sold every second.
No wonder that in contrast to the robust and almost indestructible GSM hardware of ten years ago, the modern phone is prone to crap out within weeks. It has to.
Nokia "buzz" strategy involves giving bloggers - or in fact anyone who asks - a Nokia mobile phone if they promise to talk about it in public. We heard that there are 10,000 of these human billboards about - an astonishing figure, if true.
The joke doing the rounds at the Smartphone Show is that bloggers can expect as many N81s as they ask for this Christmas, given that UK operators won't touch it.
That sure beats burying this fine phone in a landfill site.
Samsung had a serious presence for the first time this year, launching three excellent new devices. All three are blazingly fast. But then Samsung develops its own silicon for Symbian, which is apparently three times as fast at context switches than the TI hardware.
Nokia's Touch UI had developers despairing. It's only single touch, rather than multi-touch like Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch - and doesn't represent much of an advance over the company's N800 Tablet - which does finger navigation really quite well.
Nokia's input APIs don't offer much to developers, who are eyeing a rejuvenated UIQ with much more interest, two developers told us. UIQ offers a single binary, whether the application is "soft key" (like the Z8), "touch screen" or both.
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Golden State Warriors (4 - 2) @ Toronto Raptors (1 - 5)
Start time: 4:00 PM PST @ The Air Canada Centre
Local TV: CSN Bay Area
Probable starters for the Golden State Warriors:
C - Andris Biedrins
PF - David Lee
SF - Dorell Wright
SG - Monta Ellis
PG - Stephen Curry
Probable starters for the Toronto Raptors:
C - Andrea Bargnani
PF - Reggie Evans
SF - Linas Kleiza
SG - DeMar DeRozan
PG - Jarrett Jack
Team leaders:
PPG - M. Ellis (28.6) | A. Bargnani (20.3)
RPG - D. Lee (12.2) | R. Evans (13.0)
APG - S. Curry (7.7) | J. Calderon (5.7)
SPG - M. Ellis (3.0) | J. Jack (1.3)
BPG - D. Wright (1.4) | A. Bargnani (1.3)
Game Thread: Warriors @ Toronto Raptors 2010-11-08
Talk about the upcoming Warriors game here
Moderators: Mr. Crackerz, JREED, Guybrush, 32
This is the type of team you try and bully, become aggressive with, labeled as soft minus Reggie Evans. Go at them hard and the Warriors should win.
They need to find a way to match up with Amir Johnson, he could go off, just keep Wright on him.
Jlin with a dime
Jlin with a dime
They said something like Curry gets a checkup during quarters.
That David Anderson dude, has the nicest jumper ive seen for a big man.
That David Anderson dude, has the nicest jumper ive seen for a big man.
Lets hope we blow them out, attack attack, B-Wright finally healthy and showing aggressiveness on both ends of the floor
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The difference between this game and the last? Going with Brandan Wright instead of Vlad Rad. Big difference.
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Wright comment was right on. I think K Smart is adjusting to who can play. Also glad to see Lin out there running the team. Bummer that it came at the expense of a hurt Curry but I think this is so valuable to get court time. Monta again is carrying the team, and great team d especially on transition.
So far so good, just did not see Reggie Williams ? maybe injury will have to check
8th ave wrote:warriorsstepup wrote:So far so good, just did not see Reggie Williams ? maybe injury will have to check
oh yeah, i totally forgot about reggie...
Didn't see an injury report on him, maybe J-Lin taking his PT time, we shall see.
David Lee showing that showcasing that jumper
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Something really subtle but wright, d wright, picked up at superstar pump fake... 9/10 times he gets fouled...
Jarrret Jack has no jumper play off him


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In her essay, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor shares her thoughts on the importance of a fair, impartial and independent judiciary at the national, state and local levels. She notes that close to 98 percent of the litigation in this country takes place in state courts, and most states select or retain their judges through partisan or non-partisan elections. Furthermore, in many states, judicial elections have turned into expensive, partisan political campaigns. The upcoming 2008 elections of state supreme court judges in several states is of grave concern in this regard. Justice O'Connor admits that it will not be easy to change the systems in those states where judges are elected, but she offers some steps that might be taken to improve the systems.
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and biological systems. ProMoT has its origins in process engineering.
Together with the simulation environment Diana it provides capabilities for the development of dynamic models based on differential-algebraic
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For the application in Systems Biology key features of ProMoT are the development of modular models, the use of specialized modeling-libraries, and the support for model-exchange via the international standard SBML.
Of specific importance for successful work in interdisciplinary teams is the availability of graphical methods for model editing and exploration, because this defines a common language for direct communication about models without the need for in-depth mathematical knowledge. ProMoT already implements graphical tools for both the implementation, and the exploration and visualization of models.
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Who's the better villain? It's your turn to vote and decide! You can't blame us for the outcome of this contest of criminals, it's all up to you and your fellow readers. This isn't a contest of strength, a battle of wits or a show of power. You're task isn't to choose which villain would win in a fight. Instead, you're picking who makes the better villain.
You can click the voting link to check the results throughout the week. Then come back Monday, November 7 for the final results and the next round of voting.


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Like a whirlwind tour across the globe, a walk through Mady Schuman's spacious house, tucked away in the woods of Amagansett, offers a glimpse of the common threads that run through disparate artistic objects.
"I've always traveled a lot," Ms. Schuman said as she greeted a visitor. Here, as at her Greenwich Village apartment, are extensive and eclectic collections of such things as decorated World War I-era shell casings, which are known as trench art, carved cowrie shells, horn cups, and beaded belts bearing the names of places from Nantucket to Seattle and of notable people. Ms. Schuman said her collecting "just has to do with places I've been and things that interest me."
"My background is in theater history and performance art, so I got very interested in ritual," Ms. Schuman said. "Tattooing is ritual in many of these cultures. The images on the trench art, the idea of carving those shells, it's really tattooing the shells the same way the skin is tattooed."
Artillery shell casings decorated by French, British, and American soldiers in France bear inscriptions such as "Allied Expeditionary Forces, Verdun 1917-1919," and depictions of soldiers, flags, the Statue of Liberty, even an angel following troops into battle.
"The iconography of the trench art is very similar to sailor flesh art and tattooing," Ms. Schuman said. "It's not everybody's taste, but it's taking something that's bellicose and making something beautiful and patriotic."
Other areas in the house display curling stones, sets of miniature books, baskets, canes, Maori and other ethnographic tattooing prints, and serpentine stone lighthouses from Cornwall, England.
Pointing, however, to a collection of cups fashioned from animal horns, Ms. Schuman said, "Those [artillery] shells have been 'tattooed,' if you will, and the horn cups have been inked. So there's a common theme."
"They're from everywhere," she said of the cups, which fill several shelves. "They were used as shot glasses, whiskey glasses." A Hungarian spa, the French Alps resort of Chamonix, Iceland, Yellowstone National Park, Geneva, Switzerland, and Killarney, in Ireland's breathtakingly beautiful County Kerry, are among the places commemorated on them.
Then there are the carved cowrie shells. In one of the world's most beautiful and coveted beach communities, Ms. Schuman has assembled a globe-spanning collection of 1,000 or more. Choose one at random and be transported to the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939, Newport, R.I., Catalina Island, Calif., Orchard Beach in the Bronx, Ormond Beach, Fla., St. Joseph, Mo., or even Australia. The signs of the zodiac, the Liberty Bell, the words "Home, Sweet Home" — complete with sheet music — and Hebrew text around the word "sister" (in English) are among the shells' messages.
One cowrie shell, commemorating the 1901 assassination of President McKinley, is placed between others showing the president before he was gunned down at the Pan-American ExExposition in Buffalo. "It was a global phenomenon," Ms. Schuman said of shell-carving, "which is what I find fascinating about it."
Perhaps more closely related to the East End's beaches is a whole community of bearded old salts, lined up and ready for Mother Nature's worst. The cast-iron figures look as if they have taken a beating from gale-force winds, or doors flung with similar force, but one of the smaller figures is also a bottle opener, suitably prepared to quench the fishermen's thirst.
As testimony to some of the places Ms. Schuman has visited, is her collection of beaded belts. Cripple Creek, Colo., Maine, Niagara Falls, the Catskill Mountains, Yosemite, Utah, Vancouver, Alaska — there simply has to be a belt for every stop she made. "These were sold in just about any souvenir shop at any national park or monument," Ms. Schuman said. "Amusingly," she added, "they were all made in Hong Kong."
Okay, but what's with the beaded belt bearing the name "Elvis"? And the suspiciously leash-like specimen spelling out "Goodd Dog"?
"They're really marvelous, and it brings back memories," Ms. Schuman said. "I used to say to friends, 'I'm a really cheap date: for $3.95, you can make me very happy. Go into a souvenir shop wherever you're traveling and look for these.' "


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A Baldwin Borough police officer accidentally shot a fellow officer in the back as they responded to a report of a man with a gun inside a home early Sunday, Allegheny County police said.
The wounded officer, identified as Sgt. Ralph Miller, was conscious and alert when he was taken to UPMC Mercy, Uptown, Baldwin police Chief Michael Scott said.
"He was in good spirits," Scott said. "He was certainly very supportive of the officer that injured him."
Miller, 54, suffered a shattered hip and pelvis and possible nerve damage in a foot, Scott said. The amount of swelling and bleeding prevented doctors from completely assessing his injuries, Scott said. Miller underwent three surgeries, and a fourth was planned for Monday. He was in and out of consciousness throughout the day.
"We're just hoping for the best," Scott said.
County police Superintendent Charles Moffatt did not identify the officer who fired two shots from his patrol rifle.
The officers were among four responding to a 911 call received about 3:45 a.m. A woman told dispatchers her boyfriend was distraught and carrying a loaded shotgun as he walked around the home they share with their two young children, Moffatt said.
The woman locked herself in a bedroom, then told dispatchers the man had calmed down and unloaded his weapon, Moffatt said.
Three officers from Baldwin and one from Whitehall responded to the home in the 5100 block of Elmwood Drive, police said.
Miller, who has at least 14 years on the force, knocked on the door while a second Baldwin officer moved into a backup position behind him, police said.
A man answered the door but refused repeated orders to show both hands, showing one holding a milk jug, Moffatt said.
Miller could see a woman holding a child in the house and wanted to speak with her when the man began shutting the door, Scott said. The second Baldwin officer put his foot in the door, and Miller put his shoulder into the door to try to force it open wider, Scott said.
The second officer fired two shots with his patrol rifle, striking Miller between the bottom of his bulletproof vest and his belt. It's unclear whether Miller was hit once or twice. Police could not find the second slug from the officer's gun, Moffatt said.
Neither Moffatt nor Scott could say why the officer fired.
"That's what we're still trying to sort out," Moffatt said.
Police sent the rifle to the Allegheny County Crime Lab for analysis and to check for a possible mechanical problem, Scott said.
Scott said he doesn't know whether the second officer realizes how or why the shooting happened.
"That's why they want to take a look at the weapon," he said.
When Miller fell, a third Baldwin officer fired a shot and hit the house, Moffatt said. Police did not release that officer's name.
The two who fired their weapons have been placed on administrative leave, and the department has brought in grief counselors.
No one else was wounded, and no charges have been filed as county police investigate, Moffatt said. Police said the man's shotgun was thrown out the window of the home.
Scott said the officers followed their training. They set up a perimeter, blocked off roads and approached with their patrol rifles, he said.
"We follow the one-plus rule, one level above the force the person has," Scott said. "It's not supposed to be fair. We're going to take every precaution we can," and everything went well up until the point of the shooting, he said.
"It's just a thing we need to find out exactly why it happened and ensure it doesn't happen again," Scott said.
Scott said Baldwin police recently refreshed training on responding to domestic calls because of an incident on New Year's Eve, when two Pittsburgh officers responding to a woman's 911 call left without talking to her. The woman's boyfriend said everything was OK and refused to open the door to police. She later was found dead in her home, and her boyfriend confessed to killing her before committing suicide, authorities said.
Miller is the department's traffic supervisor and coordinator of the South Hills DUI Task Force. He runs the borough's infant car seat installation program.
Scott said Miller worried after the shooting because he was supposed to help a woman install a car seat, and he wanted to make sure it was rescheduled.
Miller held no ill feelings toward the officer who fired the shots, Scott said.
"He understood that's the risk you run, and he understood that nobody felt worse than the one who did it," Scott said. Miller's wife also was supportive of the other officer, Scott said.
A man and woman at the home where the 911 call originated declined to comment on Sunday.
The "pop, pop, pop" awakened neighbors on both sides of the house where the shooting happened.
"It sounded more like a cannon," said Jean Kimmick, 75, a 40-year resident of the street. "I was shocked, just shocked."
The couple involved in the domestic call are quiet and keep to themselves, neighbors said. They have two daughters, neighbors said.
The couple's names were not released.
Baldwin Mayor Alexander Bennett, who served on the Baldwin police force for more than 20 years, called Miller one of the department's finest officers.
"He's outstanding," he said. "He never drops the ball. He's always putting his job and community first."
Bennett declined to comment on specifics of the incident.
Miller is the first Baldwin police officer to be shot while on duty, Bennett said.


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Towards a Community Environmental Ethic
Number 22 - July 2001
A. Attiti
Different Kenyan communities hold different cultural views and beliefs on the relationship between humans and nature. Any attempt to understand this relationship without any understanding of the culture of a community is bound to fail. Culture therefore, forms a vital content of environmental ethics. In the context of this article, culture can be said to be a set of shared values, beliefs, norms, knowledge and assumptions about nature that are transmitted from one generation to the next through the processes of socialisation and education.
Plant resources were purely protected through cultural practices and beliefs in many communities. To some extent, this is still true even today. Traditional forest management in some local communities involve the use of elaborate taboos, myths, folklore and other culturally controlled systems to bring coherence within a predetermined community environmental ethic. Many local communities still regard certain plant species as sacred; cutting down such sacred trees is regarded as unethical and taboo. In the event one cuts down a sacred tree a ritual must be performed; such a ritual entails sacrificing an animal at the place where the tree has been cut. One example of a sacred tree from Kenya is Kigelia africana (the sausage tree) that is believed to shelter communal spirits of female fertility. In the community where this tree is sacred, it is unethical to cut it down; this ensures its conservation.
Other than sacred trees, most Kenyan communities still preserve specific sites for cultural reasons. Such sites or sacred groves have been found to possess high species diversity compared to the areas neighbouring them. Depending on the cultural perceptions of a community, a preserved site may be a rock, a cliff, a volcano crater, a lake, a hill or a forest.
Sacred Groves and Environmental Ethics
Kenya has over 1000 traditional sacred groves that differ in their use and size. The majority of them are small and are only used by a particular family or clan. But a few are still famous and are known to an entire community and thus communally conserved. Turning such sites into community gardens can improve their management and the sharing of cultural values across communities. The type of management of sacred groves varies from strict cultural rules permitting no entry, to more lenient ones that allow limited exploitative activities. Community elders usually control activities within sacred groves.
Due to community shared cultural values, sacred groves have acted as refuges for plants and animal species. In this way, a community's culture is associated with the conservation of biodiversity through an already established community environmental ethic. Sadly, in recent years there has been an erosion of cultural values in many local communities leading to less respect for sacred sites. Nevertheless, some local community dwellers are still proud of cultural values and preserved sacred sites. A community garden established within such cultural environment can immensely draw on the cultural experiences of these community dwellers. There is an imperative need to conserve traditional sacred groves as part of an existing local natural resource and a part of our national heritage. To effectively realise this, research was undertaken to establish written documents about sacred places within libraries or in the communities. Such research was carried out in 1998 by the Kenya Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge (KENRIK) of the National Museums of Kenya. The research, which was funded by UNESCO, took the form of a survey to determine the status of some selected traditional sacred groves in the country. Its goal was to document baseline data on the past and present cultural values associated with the sacred sites. The survey demonstrated a direct link between cultural values and biodiversity conservation. A total of 19 sacred groves were surveyed and the majority were found to have higher plant species diversity than their immediate surrounding areas. One such sacred site that showed a higher plant species diversity was Thui Hill, situated about 100 km east of Nairobi.
Traditionally, the local people around Thui Hill offer sacrifices on top of it in the event of disease outbreaks, before the rain season for good harvest and before using a new harvest. Only elderly men and women of good morals should perform these sacrifices. There are several do's and don'ts relating to Thui Hill which, in my view have contributed towards a community environmental ethic. For instance:
- one is not supposed to settle, farm and plant trees on the Hill
- visitors are not allowed on the Hill unaccompanied
- one cannot point at the Hill
- one should never make a complete circle around the Hill
- only locals who have previously made donations towards offerings are allowed to take part in offering ceremonies.
There is no doubt that these cultural rules (ethics) have contributed to the existing rich plant species diversity at Thui Hill sacred grove. The KENRIK research team made several discoveries on the Hill: one plant species that was probably new to plant science, three plant species that were first records in the entire floral region, one plant species that had only been previously collected from Uganda, and a number of rare plant species. Such discovery can only be attributed to the sacredness of the site and therefore further contributes to our understanding of the interrelationship between culture and environmental ethics.
Other than being sacred, Thui Hill is also used in several other ways by the local community e.g. it is a source of fruits and medicinal plants. However, to enable one to collect medicinal plants one is required to inform the community elders, this ensures sustainable harvesting.
Many of the sacred sites are however faced with a number of threats: human population pressure, negative attitudes of the younger generation towards cultural values and modernism. If these sites are to survive together with their associated biodiversity, then quick conservation actions are needed. One strategy, as mentioned earlier, is to transform them with the approval of the local communities into community gardens. The community gardens can then be used to teach cultural values for sustainability.
Communicating Cultural Values Through Community Gardens
Cultural values contrast markedly with science-based values that form the foundation for most conservation and botanic garden management strategies today. In many of the botanic gardens the emphasis is on the teaching of the science-based values, which are associated with the notion that sustainable development is the true ethic for human beings.
In my opinion, community gardens are best placed for the teaching of cultural values in the local communities where they are situated. If well incorporated into education and awareness in programmes at community gardens, cultural values have a lot to contribute towards a community environmental ethic. However, critical to the success of any community garden's education and awareness programme is a sound understanding of the local cultural context by an educator. Aspects of cultural beliefs and perceptions of a community that contribute to sustainable living need to be identified and documented for dissemination through appropriate education programmes. Not all cultural values contribute to sustainable management of plant resources or biodiversity conservation. Therefore, before communicating cultural values and practices to an audience in a community garden, special consideration from an ecological standpoint must be made so that the practice may not become unethical. Consequently, more emphasis should be placed on those cultural values that complement the sustainable development ethic that comprises of ecological, social, economic and personal values. To effectively achieve this, an educator at a community garden would be required to engage in cultural introspection to understand clearly the cultural dynamics to be taught.
One major shortcoming of cultural values however, is they do not reflect discussion, reason and compromise. They are normally principles or accepted standards of what a local community perceives as worthy, ethical or desirable and thus there is no room for dissent. Nevertheless, the acceptance of a shared set of cultural values ensures the existence of a community environmental ethic as opposed to a personal environmental ethic. This reduces tensions and conflicts in biodiversity use thereby encouraging trust and security.
Resumé:Pour une Éthique Environnementale Pour la Communauté
Depuis des temps immémoriaux, les populations locales du Kenya ont des pratiques culturales et des croyances qui vont dans le sens de la conservation de la biodiversité. Elles changent avec les lieux et dépendent des groupes ethniques. Bien qu'un assez grand nombre de communautés locales ait encore des pratiques culturales et des croyances qui vont dans le sens d'une éthique environnementale communautaire, il y a une rapide décroissance des pratiques indigènes et des valeurs culturelles dues à l'avancement du modernisme et de la christianisation. Ces valeurs et pratiques disparaissent rapidement et perdent leur prestige plus particulièrement auprès des générations nouvelles. Pour renverser la vapeur, des efforts sont faits pour installer des jardins communautaires auprès des populations locales affectées, dans le but de conserver des pratiques et des croyances culturales à travers des programmes d'éducation et d'éveil. Une fois cette nouvelle initiative mise en place, les jardins communautaires au Kenya pourront jouer un rôle significatif pour la promotion d'une éthique communautaire environnementale issue des pratiques culturales anciennes pour le développement durable. Les idées sous jacentes sont la responsabilité sociale, le respect des différentes formes de vie, la vie en harmonie avec la nature et la prise de conscience de l'intérêt du travail en commun.
Resumen: Hacia Una Comunidad Ecológicamente Ética
Desde tiempos inmemoriales, las comunidades locales en Kenia, han tenido una cultura y creencias que favorecían la conservación de la biodiversidad. Esto varia de un sitio a otro dependiendo del grupo étnico. Aunque algunas comunidades locales todavía tienen prácticas culturales y creencias que fomentan una comunidad ecológicamente ética, hay una pérdida rápida del conocimiento del modernismo y del cristianismo. Estos valores y prácticas están desapareciendo y perdiendo su prestigio especialmente en las generaciones jóvenes. Para cambiar esta tendencia se están haciendo esfuerzos para llevar a cabo el establecimiento de jardines comunitarios en las comunidades locales afectadas con el objetivo de conservar las prácticas culturales y las creencias a través de la educación y programas de concienciación. Una vez que esta iniciativa se haya establecido, los jardines comunitarios en Kenia empezaran a jugar un papel significante para mantener una comunidad éticamente medioambiental que surge de la práctica de los valores culturales para la sostenibilidad. Estos valores incluyen el sentido social de la responsabilidad, una conciencia hacia todas las formas de vida, una vida en harmonía con la naturaleza y el compromiso con el trabajo en grupo.


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Concerns on the pressures affecting ecosystem and rural communities' resilience are increasing across the European continent. The excessive use of wood biomass combined with low energy efficiency are some of the factors responsible for this trend. Export of illegally harvested raw timber, the unsustainable use of natural resources and limited recycling options exacerbate an already tenuous situation.
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With just one more (franchise-altering) game to play, the Seattle Seahawks haven't given up hope on Percy Harvin.
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"We're counting on him to be ready. I've got to check with the doctors, but that's what I'm hoping," Carroll told reporters later in the day.
Harvin didn't practice at all last week after being knocked out of Seattle's divisional round win over the New Orleans Saints with a head injury. Carroll said Friday that he expects the pass-catcher to practice this week after playing just 40 snaps all season on the heels of August hip surgery.
Harvin's presence against Denver would amount to a godsend for Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, who passed for 200-plus yards for the first time since Christmas in Sunday's NFC title game win over the San Francisco 49ers.
We'll unpack Seattle's matchup with the Broncos every which way over the next two weeks, but there's no bigger X-factor than Harvin. He hasn't contributed much this season, but Percy has a shot to lend a hand in the biggest spot imaginable two Sundays from now.
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The journey that took the Blackhawks through two head coaches, a game played outdoors on a baseball diamond and into the Western Conference finals for the first time since 1995 has come to an end.
The Detroit Red Wings eliminated the Hawks from the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 2-1 overtime victory in Game 5 Wednesday night at Joe Louis Arena. The Wings won the series 4-1 and advance to face the Pittsburgh Penguins in a rematch of last year's Stanley Cup finals, won by Detroit.
Cristobal Huet, starting in goal for the Hawks in place of the injured Nikolai Khabibulin, was stellar, making 44 saves, but lost for the second consecutive game. The veteran made amends for a Game 4 performance when he was shelled, but was outdueled Wednesday night by Detroit's Chris Osgood, who earned the victory with 30 saves.
Darren Helm scored the game-winning goal 3 minutes 58 seconds into overtime to end the Hawks' season. Patrick Kane's goal with 7:07 remaining in the third period had tied it at 1-1 and sent the game into OT for the third time in the best-of-seven series.
"That was a battle out there," Huet said. "We gave everything we had. It was a tight game. Osgood made some good saves and they forced the puck to the net every time they had a chance. We can be proud of what we've done in that game and the series.
"I felt pretty bad after last game, but at the same time you can't do it without your players and the guys played hard [Wednesday] and made my job easier. I saw the puck better, I moved better and everything was clicking. Every time you don't win the Cup it's always a disappointment."
Huet did everything he could to avoid the disappointment by keeping the Hawks in the game during a first period when Detroit had 21 shots on goal.
"[Huet] was awesome," Hawks defenseman Duncan Keith said. "He made a lot of big saves, especially in the first period.
"We had chances and we might have been playing a little tentative in overtime. It's over now. Obviously, they're a better team. They beat us. It's tough to take right now. We had a long road the whole year and we went pretty far in the playoffs. We got a taste of getting close to the finals. It's over and done with now and we have to take some time to relax and look to improve upon this next year."
Huet's best effort came in the waning seconds of the third when, while lying on his stomach in the crease, kicked his leg up just as Johan Franzen shot the puck toward the open net.
Osgood matched Huet save for save, yielding only Kane's goal on a terrific individual effort when the winger skated around the Wings' Jiri Hudler and then beat Buffalo Grove's Brett Lebda before lifting a backhander over Osgood's left shoulder for his team-leading ninth goal of the postseason.
"We had a lot of good chances," Hawks captain Jonathan Toews said. "[Osgood] found a way to make those saves. It's frustrating to take, but ... every guy played hard and every guy laid it on the line. It's tough to admit, you've got to give them credit for being the better team in this series."
After two scoreless periods, Dan Cleary's goal opened the scoring and came on the Wings' 34th shot of the game. Cleary redirected a shot by Lebda from inside the blue line.
Helm's goal came off a scramble in front and he tucked a loose puck into the net from near the right post setting off a wild celebration on the ice and in the stands.
"We blew them out one game, but by no means was it easy," Osgood said.
In addition to Khabibulin, the Hawks also played without top scorer Martin Havlat, who left Games 3 and 4 after taking big hits in both contests by Niklas Kronwall and Brad Stuart, respectively.
Detroit was also short-handed as star defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom missed his second consecutive game with a lower-body injury and Pavel Datsyuk (foot) missed his third in a row.
"Everybody picked up the slack," said 47-year-old defenseman Chris Chelios, who played only because Detroit's blue line was so thin.
The Red Wings are matching up with Pittsburgh in what is the NHL's first Stanley Cup rematch since the Edmonton Oilers beat the New York Islanders in 1984 after losing to them the previous year.
"To have the opportunity against Pittsburgh should be a lot of fun," Detroit coach Mike Babcock said.
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Mortgage rates snoozed this week as superstorm Sandy forced financial markets to shutter for two days and delayed loan closings nationwide.
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The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 3.57% from 3.61%, according to the Bankrate.com national survey of large lenders. The mortgages in this week's survey had an average total of 0.43 discount and origination points. One year ago, the mortgage index stood at 4.23%; four weeks ago, it was 3.52%.
The benchmark 15-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 2.89% from 2.9%. The benchmark 5/1 adjustable-rate mortgage fell to 2.72% from 2.73%.
Borrowers who locked a rate while the markets were closed Monday and Tuesday may have been quoted slightly higher rates than borrowers who waited for the storm to pass, says Brett Sinnott of CMG Mortgage Group in San Ramon, Calif.
"Since the markets were closed, companies that were taking in locks were artificially pricing, so they had to be conservative," he says. "But we're talking an eighth of a percentage worse, if that."
Closing Delays
Sandy also put many refinancers and homebuyers across the country in a holding pattern as lenders postponed closings in cities affected by the superstorm and nearby areas. They want to reinspect the homes with pending closings to make sure that banks are not financing a damaged property.
Even borrowers whose homes were not damaged should anticipate closing delays, says Michael Becker, a mortgage banker at WCS Funding in Baltimore.
"Some (loan) investors want a reinspection of every single property in or near a disaster area," he says. "I've talked to a lot of my borrowers, and they say that their homes are fine, but someone will have to go out there to reinspect the properties, at least the outside."
Some lenders have been more flexible and are allowing borrowers to speed up the process by sending pictures that show that their homes did not suffer any storm damage.
Borrowers whose closings are postponed because of the storm should reach out to their lenders, says Matt Hackett, operations manager at Equity Now in New York City. If their homes are not damaged, they should send the lender pictures of the home with a date and time stamp, he says. The lender may still require an inspection, but it doesn't hurt to try.
Lenders are likely to honor a borrower's locked rate if the rate expires due to delays related to Sandy, says Neil Garfinkel, real estate attorney and partner with Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson LLP in New York City. He represents various lenders, and says that when Hurricane Irene delayed closings, lenders were willing to extend the rate.
But for those with damaged homes, Sandy may have killed your refinance or purchase for now, Becker says.
"If something is damaged, it will have to be repaired or else the loan won't close," he says.
Buyers Under Contract
Buyers who are under contract to purchase a home in an area affected by the superstorm may also have trouble closing their loans even if the house didn't sustain major damage. That's especially true for Federal Housing Administration borrowers, because the FHA has strict inspection policies, Becker says.
A buyer who is under contract to buy a house that has been damaged by the superstorm can likely walk from the deal if the home can't be repaired by the closing date, Garfinkel says. It depends on how the contract was written and how badly the property was damaged, he says.
Whether you are a buyer, a seller or a refinancer with a pending closing, patience will be important in coming days and weeks, Becker says.
"It will be painful, but you need to be patient," he says.


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When I first saw this video, I just couldn't believe it. These animatronic dinosaurs in Australia's Queensland Museum of Natural History are so life-like and real, I think I would be like some of the children that were a little overwhelmed! And while I don't know what type of technology they use to walk, roar and just plain-old frighten everyone, it's worth a look even if it's not fluid power.
What blows my mind most is that when I was a kid watching sci-fi movies or television, robots like these seemed so far off in the future—even if it was described as being in our own present time. Now that we are more than a decade into the 21st century, it still amazes me what scientists, engineers and inventors can create. And although I'm the last to pretend I'm a science or engineering type, I am glad to say I work in this field and can learn about fascinating technology like this every day. It makes the work day that much more enjoyable.


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Yeah! It's spring break!
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Oh the glorious days of spring break! As a parent of four school-age children, I have to say spring break is the saving grace of a very pressured family life in this day and age.
Algebra tests are done, presidential campaign speeches given, appropriately styled papers written, photography collections complete, and past-due assignments turned in. While students may think spring break is for them, it is really designed for concerned parents who think, feel, and walk with their children through every facet of their school life, whether they realize it or not.
Now that it is spring break, I have the glorious pleasure of sleeping in two more hours than usual. I do not have to get up at 6 a.m. to do farm chores, get everyone up, and fix breakfast, because I am on spring break. I only have to take care of myself before rushing off to work because my teen-agers have their own farm chore schedule worked out. Those not milking goats and feeding hay in the morning likely won't get up until noon anyway … no need for breakfast.
Now that it is spring break, I often come home to children folding laundry, cooking supper, and sweeping the floor. How awesome is that!
Of course, this means that my husband and I have to put up with uproarious laughter in the back game room until the wee-hours of the morning, as all four of our children enjoy sibling bonding and rivalry around the Xbox and Wii stations. It is music to our ears however, to have the college boys home and to hear the high school and junior higher getting along.
Despite lack of sleep, spring break has become a time in our family to get many long-undone projects completed, inside and outside our home, because of the added muscle-power. Just having everyone home is motivation to rearrange the furniture, get the roof back on the back shed, and clean up the yard. I love spring break.
The only thing I do not like about spring break is that it is only one week long. There are so many more things to be done and so little time to do them. But never fear, summer is right around the corner.
It seems like just yesterday we were digging out from over a foot of snow. Today I am digging out from several feet of laundry in the back room … oh the joys of spring break.


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Beginning in December of 2009 I had a series of break-ins that occurred in my home while I was serving in the Army at Ft Stewart and in Iraq. The first break in occurred a little before Christmas while I was on block leave right before my second deployment to Iraq. Although I did have an ADT alarm system it did not work and the burglar stole my xbox, TV, and more importantly my stack-on gun safe with thirteen guns inside. He was able to remove the entire safe with all of the guns inside about half of which were family heirlooms handed down from three or four generations. ADT and the police were of little help other than filling out the proper paperwork so I could make an insurance claim and the police officer noting that if I had not had a big screen TV the burglar would have never bothered to break-in and rob my house. I knew I had to do something to protect my valuables and family before leaving my wife and two young daughters for a year to again deploy to Iraq. So I changed my alarm system to Brinks and purchased a National Security safe from my Uncle who was moving. He explained to me that when he bought the safe it was the best available and they would not be able to simply walk off with the 900 pound safe. Within the first two months of my deployment my house was broken into while my wife was away but the alarm worked and I assured her that they would surely not try again. Finally six months into my deployment right before coming home for leave my house was again attacked by the same person. This time he disabled the alarm and spent three days in the house trying to break into my National Security safe. He used and broke nearly all of my power tools attempting to get into the safe to no avail. He had also loaded my car up with all of my valuable electronics which he planned to drive off with as soon as he got into the safe. He became so fixated with trying to get into the safe that he never actually got away with anything. The neighbor finally noticed a suspicious man and went to investigate which scared him away. I spent half of my leave moving everything I owned into storage while my wife and daughters were forced to live with my parents for the duration of my deployment because they were too afraid to move back to our house after the three break-ins. The police and alarm company were again no help. The only solace that I maintained during the last break-in was the fact that all of my valuables were secure inside of my National Security safe. I intended on writing this letter a long time ago but my friend who took the pictures of the safe just now found them again after he thought he had lost them so I am finally writing to thank your company. I would never trust my valuables with a safe other than a National Security and would once again like to express my deepest gratitude towards your company for building such a fine product that is truly able to stand up to an intruder and attempted forced entry even over a three day period.


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A Peak at My Day
21 comments:
- Jennifer said...
I'd love to be able to fall asleep in the middle of the day.... =( Oh trust me...it's not that I'm NOT sleepy. lol I just have too much on my mind and too much to do to nap. ;)
Hope you're feeling better soon!!!!
Happy Easter!
- April 19, 2011 at 7:43 AM
- Nikki said...
Hope you feel better soon! Don't most doctors prescribe tollhouse for illness? They don't? They should.
- April 19, 2011 at 7:51 AM
- stephanie said...
oh what i a life! i'd love to fall asleep in the middle of the day for no reason! and yeah that's some seriously blinged out nails. love it. hope you feel better friend!
- April 19, 2011 at 7:52 AM
- hannah singer said...
love that footprint;) hope you are well soon, friend! xo
- April 19, 2011 at 7:52 AM
- Emily said...
that footprint is darling! love little feet.
feel better jami friend!
- April 19, 2011 at 8:56 AM
- Alyss said...
I love that little footprint. Hope you all fell well soon!
- April 19, 2011 at 9:06 AM
- Nessa said...
Now that is a manicure! Feel better soon.
- April 19, 2011 at 9:11 AM
- the lowes said...
feel better soon...sick here too...NO fun! but ive had some cookie dough too...glad to know im not the only one that digs that when they're sick. :)
- April 19, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- Stephanie said...
I don't know what it is...but chocolate chip cookies ALWAYS call out to me when I'm not feeling well. Comfort food for sure!
- April 19, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- Handbags*N*Pigtails said...
WHAAAAT? You cant be sick! Get better girlie. How's your little man's eye today?
- April 19, 2011 at 10:15 AM
- Mamasita said...
Sending happy, healing thoughts your way!!! Eat a cookies for me! :-)
- April 19, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- tracy said...
hope you feel better soon!
- April 19, 2011 at 2:28 PM
- Karrie said...
The drywall footprint is too sweet!! So is sleepy boy!
- April 19, 2011 at 4:38 PM
- Simply Domestic said...
Love the nails! I'm so sorry that you have been sick...get well soon!
- April 19, 2011 at 7:11 PM
- Kelly said...
Those nails are great! Have fun taking that off! :) Hope you feel better very soon and get to enjoy your the break with your kiddos!
- April 19, 2011 at 7:30 PM
- BARBIE said...
Hope you feel better soon. Chocolate chip cookies are a must when you aren't feeling well. And a nap in the middle of the day, I so wish I could do that.
- April 19, 2011 at 10:42 PM
- Heather Mullin said...
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog! I hope we can be blogger friends! Have a wonderful day and I will talk to you soon!
Heather Mullin
- April 20, 2011 at 7:35 AM
- richelle jean said...
LOVE your blog. very encouraging and indeed reminds me of how blessed we are. :)
- April 20, 2011 at 2:41 PM
- Kelly said...
feel better lady. easters a comin'. the pic of the footprint is soo cute. love the nail, love the napper (my ten year old loves to nap)
YUM!!! who doesn't love cookie dough anytime rain or shine sick or well???
- April 21, 2011 at 12:23 AM
- Megan said...
new follower by the way :)
- April 21, 2011 at 6:46 AM
- xo katrina said...
sweet pics! i hope you're feeling better by now. and that j of yours is after my heart...if you want anything done right, you have to do it yourself! haha. i really need to get over that though... :)
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Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NYSE:AMD) forecast a steeper-than-expected fall in current quarter revenue, signaling that sales of gaming consoles were not growing fast enough to offset slowing PC sales.
Shares of the company, whose processors are used in Microsoft Corp's and Sony Corp's latest game consoles, were down about 11 percent after the bell. The stock has risen 15 percent in the past month.
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"When you look at the stock action going into earnings, there was some expectation that consoles would drive better growth in the first quarter," Evercore Partners analyst Patrick Wang said.
AMD has long competed against larger rival Intel Corp to supply chips for PCs, but as consumers buy fewer laptops and desktops, the company is looking at gaming consoles to drive revenue growth.
Microsoft sold more than three million Xbox Ones, while Sony said PlayStation 4 sales reached 4.2 million from their launch in November to the end of the year.
AMD on Tuesday said it expects revenue to decrease 16 percent, plus or minus 3 percent, in the first quarter, compared with the fourth quarter ended December 28.
This translates to revenue of about $1.34 billion, plus or minus 3 percent. Analysts on average were expecting revenue of $1.36 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Sales of AMD's chips used in PCs, its core business, fell 13 percent in the fourth quarter. The business accounted for over 45 percent of total revenue in the quarter. Total revenue rose 37 percent to $1.59 billion.
Last week Intel gave a lukewarm forecast for first-quarter revenue that did little to dispel concerns about a slowing PC industry.
AMD's net profit was $89 million, or 12 cents per share, in the quarter, compared with a loss of $473 million, or 63 cents per share a year earlier.
Excluding items, AMD earned 6 cents per share.
Analysts on average were expecting a profit of 5 cents per share on revenue of $1.54 billion.
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Test the System, Test Yourself
June 27, 2013
Today is National HIV Testing Day.
Across the United States of America service providers are testing people for
HIV in central locations, for free.
In thinking about testing, we at Visual AIDS think about many things. Most urgently we think about HIV Criminalization, and we remember the work of the Testing the Limits collective.
"Get The Test, Risk Arrest"
This is a common saying among young people deemed high risk for HIV, who are also at risk for jail time. The phrase speaks to the fact that across the U.S., once people know they are living with HIV, there is a huge onus on them to not only disclose their status, but also be able to prove that they disclosed if it should ever become a conversation for the courts. This is unfair. What other group of people has to account for personal conversation between consenting adults? What other group of people are made to take full responsibility for something shared?
HIV is not a crime, yet people living with HIV are being treated as if they are a threat.
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From 1987 to 1995 a group of artists and AIDS activists came together to form the Testing the Limits collective, using video to document the early days of the AIDS crisis in the face of being ignored or incorrectly represented by the mainstream media. TTL provided a point of view of the epidemic from the front line. TTL did not shy away from difficult discussions around access to treatment, the role of sexuality and gender, and violence. Their cameras rolled as heady issues were worked out in real time.
In a day in age when many of us have cameras on our phones and are broadcasting our every move to the world, TTL provides a reminder of what can be done with technology we may be taking advantage of. How different would our understanding of HIV/AIDS in New York in the late 80s and 90s be without video artists and activists? What is going on now that we should be documenting, considering, archiving and presenting?
The Testing The Limits collective reminds us not only to test the authority ofmainstream media, but also to test ourselves to use representation, ourselves, and the tools at our disposal, to make a difference.
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Demand-Controlled Ventilation
A tremendous amount of energy is wasted ventilating spaces unnecessarily. Demand-controlled ventilation regulates the amount of outside air drawn in based on a building's actual occupancy, and can save as much as $1.00 per square foot annually. Find out if this approach will be effective for you.
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JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) is looking to ease the pain for unhappy Americans on Nov.7 -- the day after the presidential election. The discount airliner is offering 1,006 round-trip certificates or 2012 free seats to consumers whose candidate didn't win the White House.
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The "Live Free or Fly" contest requires people to complete a registration form, select their desired presidential candidate and an international destination. All entries are due by 11:59p.m. on Nov. 5, and contestants who picked the losing candidate will then become entered into the sweepstakes. Winners will be selected around Nov. 7.
With a little more than a month away from Election Day, the airline's poll shows President Obama with a solid lead — 59% to 41% over Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
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Illuminate 2013 is a series of pre-Eureka! one-day Workshops on Entrepreneurship and business planning across India, by Nurture Talent Academy, in collaboration with E-Cell, IIT Bombay. These workshops will precede E-Cell, IIT Bombay's flagship annual event, "Eureka!" – the annual B-Plan competition to encourage youth towards entrepreneurship. Eureka! Organized by E-Cell, IIT Bombay has been acclaimed as "Asia's largest Business Plan Competition" by Thomson Reuters in 2010. These workshops will be conducted in leading colleges across 40 leading colleges of India in top cities.
This workshop aims to inspire and train young students who have a desire to do something fruitful for themselves, their institution, family, society and the nation. The workshop will be completely interactive, with movies, games, teamwork and exercises for students to generate ideas, make business plans, learn about investments and identify their strengths in area of entrepreneurship. Participants at these workshops will be encouraged to write and submit their business plans to Eureka! It will be conducted by leading entrepreneur, IIT/IIM alumnus and investors. All students whether from engineering, management or other background are invited to take part in the workshop. Entrepreneurship is not for the young or old, fresher or experienced, rich or poor - it is for everyone, and it is better to start learning as early as possible.
The participating students will be honored with certificates of participation of E-cell IIT Bombay and Nurture Talent. Moreover, students will get a chance to take part in Eureka 2013, and if selected, they will be invited to IIT Bombay for the grand finale and stand a chance to win prizes worth Rs 40 Lakhs.
Amit Grover, an IIT-IIM Alumnus and Ishank Joshi founded Nurture Talent Academy, India's top-most institute for entrepreneurs, from their sheer passion for entrepreneurship. It conducts training and mentoring programmes which are highly interactive, with games, teamwork and planning exercises. NTA has conducted over 350+ programmes across 125+ cities since inception in 2010, which have been attended by 25000+ startups, students and professionals likewise. NTA has a satisfaction score of over 90% from it's program. It has in the past collaborated with Entrepreneurship Cells and Business Plan contests of IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Calcutta, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur and many more.
Workshop Fees: Rs 650/- per participant, including course material. Each student will get a an exclusive startup kit free during the workshop by Nurture Talent Academy.
During the workshops you will be encouraged to interact with the speaker and the other participants through Case Study discussions, interactive games. And various questions like- What are the most common mistake by and entrepreneur, when to startup, why is a B-Plan necessary, what do VCs look for in a B-Plan, will be answered.
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After founding (and failing) a bunch of companies early on in his career, Jon Oringer noticed the same thing with each startup – he needed photos to sell his products and services.
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Joseph Campbell & The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers
When Bill Moyers sat across from Joseph Campbell in the library of George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch a quarter of a century ago to begin a series of conversations that would continue over two summers, neither of them could anticipate the extraordinary impact their collaboration would produce. Campbell was the foremost interpreter of the world's great mythologies - the stories told by humans since the dawn of history to explain the mysteries of the universe - who had collaborated with Lucas on the film director's "Star Wars" trilogy. But despite his vast learning, his almost 40 years as a remarkable teacher, and the scholarly acclaim for his major works ("The Masks of God" among them), only a handful of people had ever seen or heard him in person. That changed when Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers was broadcast on PBS. It fired the imagination and intellect of millions of people and became a phenomenon.
Joseph Campbell & The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers Previous Broadcasts
Sacrifice & Bliss / Love & The Goddess / Masks of Eternity (Episode #104B)
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Sacrifice And Bliss
This program examines planting cultures and their emphasis on death, sacrifice, and rebirth. Also discussed are the importance of sacred places and the creative imagination to psychological well-being.
Love And The Goddess
This programexamines the importance of romantic love, the holy grail, and marriag e as sacrifice in human history. Also discussed was the symbolic significance of the virgin birth in relation to the importance of the goddess image.
Masks of Eternity
This program offers insights into the emotions associated with art, eastern versus western religions, the idea of god, the meaning of human suffering, and experiencing the rapture of being alive.
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- KQED Life: Sun, Jan 18, 2015 -- 11:30 AM
Part 1 (Episode #101B)
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The Hero's Adventure
This program explores what heroes of all cultures have in common and how everyone must undertake a similar hero journey of his/her own in order to find fulfillment.
The Message of the Myth
This program examines the creation story in "Genesis" and compares it to other creation stories from around the world. Campbell explains why the snake was blamed for the fall, how computers are related to mythology, and why myths are clues to the spiritualpotentialities of human life.
The First Storytellers
This program examines the myths of early hunting societies, the roleof ritual in the transition from child to adult, and what happens whe n a society no longer embraces a powerful mythology.
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- KQED Life: Sun, Jan 18, 2015 -- 7:30 AM