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Buffalo network-attached storage series
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The Buffalo network-attached storage series are network-attached storage devices sold by US and Japanese computer retailers, and have been reviewed by the computer press. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] They can be modified[9] into miniature general purpose Linux-based computers. The LinkStation and TeraStation are intended for the general public, while the Kuro Box is intended for expert hackers as a cheap platform for Linux development .
The LinkStation is a network-attached storage appliance sold in North America and Japan, that is significantly notable among the Linux community both in Japan[10][11] and in the US/Europe[12][13] for being "hackable" into a generic Linux appliance and made to do tasks other than the file storage task for which it was designed. The Linkstation has Ethernet, USB, and serial ports, but does not have a video output. It is made by Buffalo Technology [14] a division of Melco. Produced in Japan, as of 2006 it is also available at American retailers such as Best Buy and CompuUSA, as well as in Europe.
The Linkstation has undergone various improvements since it was first produced[15]. For example, the first generation of this device had a 100BASE-T network adapter using a Parallel ATA hard drive. The most current version includes a 1000BASE-T-capable connection. Most versions of the device use a PowerPC processor but one uses a MIPS processor. Future versions of the device use the SATA interface[16] [17] for the hard drive.
Kuro Box
The Kuro Box is the name for a series of PowerPC processor based computers intended for use as a network-attached storage device. The original Kuro Box was made from spare hardware components the manufacturer[18][19] had from the Linkstation. Recent versions of the Kuro Box use later Linkstation hardware or hardware very similar to the one of the Linkstation[20]. All Kuro Box versions are provided without a Hard Drive. The case has the same physical dimensions and shape as the LinkStation, but it is black in color and has the Japanese symbols for Kuro Box - 玄箱 (Literally: expert box) in silver lettering on the side panel.
The TeraStation is network-attached storage device using a PowerPC processor similar to the LinkStation. It uses 4 internal Hard drives mounted in a RAID array[21]. It comes in a grey Cube shaped box.
Linux community
As the device runs Linux, Buffalo was required to release their Source code as per the terms of the GNU General Public License. Due to the availability of source code and the relatively low cost of the device, there are several community projects centered around it. There are two main replacement firmwares available for the device: the first is OpenLink[22] which is based on the official Buffalo firmware with some improvements and features added. The other is FreeLink[23], which is a Debian distribution. It also may be possible to run Gentoo Linux on the device.
The product was designed by the manufacturer to accept a user supplied Linux distribution for the PowerPC. Several[24] including a Kurobox specific distribution called Sylver, Debian, Gentoo Linux, and Fedora Core have been ported to it by various user groups in both the USA/Europe[25],and Japan[26] .
Like the LinkStation the device runs its own version of Linux. Supposedly[27] Debian, NetBSD, and Gentoo Linux distributions have been ported to it.
UsesThe device in various iterations ships with its own Universal Plug and Play protocol for distribution of Multimedia stored on the device. It can also be configured as a variety of different media servers [28] TwonkyMedia server, a SlimServer, an Itunes server using the Digital Audio Access Protocol[29], a Samba server, MLDonkey client, as well as a Network File System server for Posix based systems. For use as a backup server, it can be modified to use it with Rsync to backup/synchronize data from one or many computers in the network pushing their data, or even having the LinkStation pulling the data from remote servers - beside the use of the Buffalo provided backup software for Windows. It has also found use in a number of other ways. Notably through it's USB interface which comes configured as a Print server but can also use the Common Unix Printing System to act as such for a USB Printer. Users have managed to get it to use a number of other USB devices[30] with the device and the version 2.6 Linux kernel's[31] enhanced USB support. Additionally, because the Apache HTTP Server web server software is already installed for the purpose of providing the Buffalo configuration screens, the device is easily converted to be a lightweight web server (and the Buffalo content deleted) and then can serve any content of the operator's choice.
- ↑ CNET/ZDNET:LinkStation
- ↑ CNET/ZDNET:TeraStation
- ↑ LinuxDevices.com:LinkStation
- ↑ LinuxDevices.com:TeraStation
- ↑ PC Magazine:LinkStation
- ↑ PC Magazine:TeraStation
- ↑ Tom's Networking:LinkStation
- ↑ Tom's Networking:TeraStation
- ↑ English version of "Why don't you hack the LinkStation/Kuro Box."*
- ↑ http://linkstation.yi.org/ - A Japanese website dedicated to hacking the LinkStation.
- ↑ http://www.type-g.com/ - A Japanese wiki which contains some LinkStation information.
- ↑ http://linkstationwiki.net - The Linkstation Wiki
- ↑ w:Yahoo! Groups: LinkStation General
- ↑ Buffalo Technology
- ↑ LinkStationwiki.net: Hardware comparison (LinkStation and Kuro Box)
- ↑ LinkStation - SATA Version
- ↑ TeraStation - SATA Version
- ↑ Revogear.com- American suppliers of KuroBox
- ↑ www.kuroutoshikou.com- Japanese supplier of KuroBox
- ↑ Hardware Specifications for the Kuro Box Original,HG, and HG WR models
- ↑ Buffalo's Terastation Listing
- ↑ LinkStationwiki.net: Openlink
- ↑ LinkStationwiki.net: Freelink
- ↑ www.kurobox.com: Projects
- ↑ http://www.kurobox.com/ - The Kurobox Page
- ↑ http://www.kurobox.info/ - A Chinese language forum covering the Kurobox and LinkStation.
- ↑ http://www.terastation.org/ - The Terastation Wiki
- ↑ LinkStationwiki.net, Category:Mediaserver
- ↑ Alan's KuroBox-DAAP Information (Bonjour/DAAP/iTunes)
- ↑ LinkStationwiki.net, Category:USB
- ↑ LinkStationwiki.net, Category:Kernel


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MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) Connor Hill scored 19 points and Kyle Barone added 15 points and 12 rebounds to lead Idaho to a 66-63 victory against San Jose State on Saturday night.
The Vandals (9-12, 5-6 Western Athletic) held on despite not getting a field goal in the last 5:22.
D.J. Brown had 18 points and Nick Grieves and Louis Garrett added 10 each for the Spartans (9-13, 3-8). Chris Cunningham had five points and 18 rebounds.
Barone's layup gave Idaho a 56-52 lead and was its last successful shot from the floor. But the Vandals protected the lead by going 10 for 12 from the free-throw line down the stretch.
James Kinney, who leads San Jose State with his 20.2 points per game, missed a seventh straight game due to a suspension for violating team rules.


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Brussels, 31 January 2011
Contract law: Commission considers way forward
As part of the EU's action to tackle bottlenecks in the Single Market and to boost growth, the European Commission carried out a public consultation on bringing more coherence to contract laws in Europe (IP/10/872) – the rules that apply to businesses and consumers buying and selling goods or services. The seven-month consultation closes today at midnight. The Commission will now examine the 181 responses received so far and carefully evaluate all policy options on the basis of the results. A Commission proposal will be made in the autumn. The goal is to make it easier and less costly for businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to do business abroad and to enable consumers to reap the full benefit of the Single Market while maintaining or improving their protection.
"I want both consumers and businesses to benefit fully from our Single Market, without having to navigate a legal maze when buying and selling in another EU country," said Vice-President Viviane Reding, the EU's Justice Commissioner. "With 181 responses to our public consultation so far and submissions from across the EU, it is clear that there is strong interest in a more coherent contract law. All options are still on the table and the Commission will now look at these replies before making a concrete proposal."
Contracts are the essential tool for establishing the terms and conditions of any transaction, either between two businesses or between a business and a consumer. Different rules on contracts complicate cross-border trade. The parties have to find out which law applies and what exactly it means and have to adjust their agreements accordingly. This leads to additional transaction costs for translation and legal advice. Businesses, especially SMEs which make up 99% of the EU's companies, can be deterred from extending their activities to other Member States and often refuse to serve customers there. The lack of competition harms consumers who would often find a better deal buying abroad, particularly on the internet.
On 1 July 2010, the Commission launched a public consultation on different ways to make contract law more coherent. The Commission's Green Paper put forward a range of different policy options from the publication of (non-binding) model contract rules to the creation of a full-fledged European Civil Code, replacing all national rules on contracts.
The Commission will present a follow-up measure to the consultation in the fourth quarter of 2011 on the basis of the public consultation's results and following a thorough impact assessment.
The European Parliament is preparing a resolution in response to the Green Paper. Vice-President Reding will present the results of the consultation to Ministers over an informal lunch discussion with justice ministers at the Council of Ministers in June.
Under the Europe 2020 strategy – launched on 3 March 2010 (IP/10/225) – the Commission is currently tackling bottlenecks in the Single Market to drive economic recovery. The policy options presented in the Green Paper on contract law could help to achieve this strategy. Businesses selling to consumers (B2C) could realise synergy gains by using only one contract and the same IT platform across many Member States. For business to business (B2B) transactions it could lead to overcoming the "lack of trust" factor by putting parties on an equal footing, and achieving cost savings from the reduced need to negotiate applicable law. Consumers would also win by gaining access to a wider range of products and lower prices.
On 12 May, the Commission convened an expert group to transform the so-called "Draft Common Frame of Reference" – a first draft for a European contract law developed by academics over the past years under the EU's Research Programme – into a simple, user-friendly workable solution adapted to the needs of consumers and the reality of the business environment (IP/10/595). The group, which is composed of legal experts and practitioners from all over Europe, is currently meeting once a month in Brussels. The Commission has also convened representatives from European umbrella organisations of industry, retailers, consumers and legal practitioners to discuss the work of the experts as it develops. Upstream involvement of representatives is intended to provide greater opportunity for stakeholder input and to ensure a user-friendly solution.
The public consultation (which closes at midnight today) has been longer than usual to ensure as wide as possible participation in the policy discussion.
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With BeoCom5, we have created a cordless phone that captures every nuance of your conversation - delivering a sound so real, it's the next best thing to being there. Based on the same acoustic competences we apply in our Bang & Olufsen loudspeakers, we designed a speaker phone that lets you truly listen.
The elegant BeoCom 5 gives you easy access to more than 400 contacts and the possibility to customize the display specifically for each person in your household.
Freedom of choice is an operative phrase for BeoCom 5. You can choose between layouts in the display, select among nine different colours and get as much as eight different handsets for one phone. Its innovative speaker phone/hands-free feature is made practical and enjoyable while still offering something quite unique for a cordless phone, namely
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Suddenly feel like inviting more people to the conversation? The round BeoCom 5 speaker phone in sturdy aluminium is easy to take along anywhere in the house. A lot of focus has been put on achieving natural speech reproduction that is easy to distinguish and gives the illusion of being in the room with far-away relatives or business associates – even when several people speak at once.
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Carrie Underwood Wishes She Would Have Taken Care of Her Skin as a Teen
If you're one of those people who skimps on skincare and spends a lot of time in the sun (or even worse, a tanning bed) this message is for you: You should really take care of your skin while you're young. Even Carrie Underwood -- one of country music's most beautiful celebrities -- admits that if she could go back in time, to her teenage years, she would treat her skin right.
"If I could go back and talk to my 15-year-old self I'd be like, 'Seriously, listen to your mom,'" Underwood told People magazine. "Drink more water, put more sunscreen on, moisturize. There are a lot of people like me who wish they did more."
And while Underwood sounds a bit like she's reciting lyrics from Baz Luhrmann's 'Sunscreen,' these days, the fresh-faced country star and new spokesperson for Olay has her skin care routine down to a science. She emphasizes that taking care of your skin doesn't have to be a labor-intensive process, though.
"I don't have time for complicated," she says. "I don't have space in my luggage for 20 things that do different things for my skin — I don't know anyone who does."
So Underwood carries a skin care 'kit' with her whenever she's out on tour. She'll of course have that kit in tow this summer as she teams up with Olay to promote the Beauty by Example initiative -- a charitable campaign where women can visit Olay's Facebook page and sign a declaration saying that their mom is beautiful, both inside and outside. For every signature, Olay will donate one ounce of their products to Look Good, Feel Good, an organization that helps boost the self esteem of women who are being treated for cancer.
As expected, Underwood is proud and excited to get behind this initiative.
"My mom is a great example to me and my sisters, she's just the best," she says. "If I ever had one of those days when it's like, 'I don't feel so great about myself,' she'd always tell me, 'You're beautiful, you're funny, you sing well.' She was always a positive person in my life, which is important," she adds. "People need more positive influences."


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How do bumble bees plan their route to find the most rewarding flowers in the shortest distance?
That "is a mathematical puzzle which has vexed academics and traveling salesmen alike," according to an article in the June 29th edition of Science Daily.
So lead researcher Mathieu Lihoreau of Queen Mary, the University of London's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, set out to find why.
The researchers monitored the movement of a bumble bee, Bombus terrestris, and published their work in the British Ecological Society's Functional Ecology.
How are bumble bees like traveling salesmen/women?
Co-author Nigel Rain told Science Daily: "The Traveling Salesman must find the shortest route that allows him to visit all locations on his route. Computers solve it by comparing the length of all possible routes and choosing the shortest. However, bees solve simple versions of it without computer assistance, using a brain the size of grass seed."
For the project, the researchers made some flowers more rewarding than others, so the bees had to decide "between following the shortest route or visiting the most rewarding flower first," Lihoreau told Science Daily.
"We have demonstrated that bumblebees make a clear trade-off between minimising travel distance and prioritising high rewards when considering routes with multiple locations," concluded co-author Professor Lars Chittka in the Science Daily piece. "These results provide the first evidence that animals use a combined memory of both the location and profitability of locations when making complex routing decisions, giving us a new insight into the spatial strategies of trap-lining animals."
Interesting research. Interesting research, indeed. As an aside, foraging bumble bees don't appear to be as navigationally challenged as their traveling human counterparts--many of whom would not dare travel without GPS, maps, a front-seat passenger skilled in navigation, or handwritten notes from Aunt Mary.
Just wondering--might this research also correlate with human travelers' fast-food stops? Why do some hungry travelers stop at the first fast-food restaurant, without considering what heart-healthy, nutritious foods lie ahead?


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'Splashing' Into Summer
By Jacqueline Garcia, EGP Staff Writer
As Estela Montoya watches her son Fernando Ramirez keeping a close eye on the younger kids in the swimming pool, she can't help but remember that it was just a couple years ago that he started the lifeguard-training program. Now, at age 17, he is one of the lifeguards who will be on duty this summer at the Glassell Park swimming pool.
Montoya and her son are among the thousands of families who will benefit from "Operation Splash," a program that offers a variety of swim programs to low-income families.
She told EGP that it was friends and neighbors who a few years ago first told her about the free swimming lessons available at Glassell Park, and she decided to enroll her son. "This is good for most of us because we don't have swimming pools at home," she said. "It gives us a fun place to bring our children," she told EGP.
Just in time for summer, Operation Splash is back for its 9th consecutive year at 33 pools throughout the City of Los Angeles. The three-month program from June to August, offers free-swim lessons to low-income youth and adults. At 22 pools, youth, ages 10-17, can take part for free in the junior lifeguard program, the same program that prepared Ramirez for his lifeguard job this summer.
"He works here and enjoys it very much," said his proud mother. "Now he knows how to take care of the kids" as they swim, she said.
On Tuesday morning, the 2014 Operation Splash summer program was kicked off at Glassell Park pool. Among those attending the opening ceremonies was First District Councilman Gil Cedillo, who represents the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood. "The one thing government has to do is get more public space for the community," said Cedillo as he welcomed the group of children standing by ready to jump into the pool.
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"Through Operation Splash low-income families are able to come and learn how to swim for free," Dr. Jack Der-Sarkissian with Kaiser Permanente told EGP. "We want kids to be active this summer and enjoy [their] local pool," he added.
Operation Splash is a partnership between Kaiser Permanente, LA84 Foundation and the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. It is part of Kaiser Permamente's Healthy Eating, Active Living (HEAL) program, focused on reducing obesity by encouraging more safe physical activity and healthy, affordable food.
LA84 Foundation is a legacy of the 1984 Olympic games and its vice-president, Patrick Escobar, told EGP that for the last 28 years they have given yearly grants to the City of L.A. Department of Recreation and Parks for the swimming programs.
"After they learn how to swim they can participate in other activities, such as water polo, synchronized swimming and diving, which we also support," Escobar said.
Although the Kaiser grant is only for the summer programs, the LA84 Foundation's grant is good year-round and helps support the lifeguard and water sports programs.
"We are very fortunate to have the Junior Lifeguard program," said Vicki Israel, assistant general manager of parks and recreation. She said her department eventually hires many of the junior lifeguards to work as [real] lifeguards. "We do not only get them hooked on swimming, but they get jobs in the future," she said. "There's nothing wrong with learning about swimming and water safety," she added.
This year, with the help of the $265,000 grant from Kaiser Permanente and $84,000 grant from LA84, the Operation Splash summer program will offer 6,000 swim-lesson scholarships to low-income families; 780 youth will take part in the Junior Lifeguard program, and parks and recreation centers will host over 2,000 youth in its competitive swim programs, including Special Olympics athletes-in-training.
Richard Rincon, aquatics facility manager at Glassell Park pool, told EGP that their site stilll has about 75 scholarships left for youth ages 4 to 17 and adults.
"For the 4-7 year-olds class, we have the parent go with the child in the water," Rincon said.
In total, out of the 6,000 scholarships available, only 3,500 have been given out across the city, Israel said.
Escobar said the LA84 Foundation encourages parents to teach their kids to swim, because "drowning is the second highest cause of death among children," He said it's also never too late for parents who also want to learn to swim, since they offer classes are for all age groups.
"Parents shouldn't be afraid to bring their kids if they don't know how to swim," Escobar said, "We have lifeguards that are properly trained to take care of them," he said confidently.
In Northeast L.A., the pool programs taking part in Operation Splash this summer, include; Glassell Park, Highland Park, and the Yosemite Recreation Center in Eagle Rock. On the eastside, Costello, Pecan, Richard Alatorre and Roosevelt are in the program.
For more information and locations, visit www.laparks.org or call (323) 906-7953.
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Wankcity (Popular in new culture by meat loving people all over the world)
This little marginal city just next to Aalst is known for the corrupt police apparatus and mayor, who owns the nightlife by starting a shitty club called "de kuip", you can recognize carrot men by their unibrowns. Also look out for the graanmarket, the epicenter of marginality!
The most fearsome city of the world it it famous because of the dictator J. Vanslembrouck69 and his "movies", he is helped by his warriors (called The Psychopatics ), his coup of beernem is legendary
leen vs liese made an award hit single
die ben
thats over the tirany that vanslembrouck uses. mommy killed a kitten and daddy keeps peeing. fire walk with me. its morphing time. sorry can't come up with more contextless clutter
The beautiful city of Stalhille is famous because of its superior resident WYBO.
It's located not far from Jabbeke who lies in new new bruges.
Biggest city of whole Belgium. This is the place were the most bright & smart people live(sure it is). Belsele is best known for it's skylane, wich is made up of hunderds of huge skyscrapers and shopping complexes. It's also home to the most advanced research centers in western europe.
Paris Hilton got kicked out Belsele because she was stealing AGAIN !
Also hometown of the famous torrent site: The Pirate Bay, which has attracted a nice population of prostitutes and drunks.
If u want to, u can come watch to a show of "vincent van driese", it's called: "Look at me, i'm gay and wearing Pink clothes!"
Strange little place, located somewhere near the river schelde(have no idea where that is, do you know where?)
Ruled by the benevolent dictator: Gertjan Van Damme aka wargarurumon aka graaf tel tot tien aka just plain smarter than you( known to be the slayer of the 50 ft chicken/VB'er of Berlare, to be the best fuck the three armed prostitute of Haut-Katanga has ever had, to have won this guy's Nobel prize, and the only person in the world to have ever won from Marc Reynebeau in a staring contest).
Dendermonde is well known for its escape artists, a giant wooden horse that strangely isn't filled with Greeks and to be the current base of operations of the penguin army of doom.
The city/citadel/glorious kingdom/town/hol/whatever you want to call it, is at the moment in a fierce struggle with the city of aalst. A struggle which nobody except for a handful of bearded guys and drunk college boys care about, but sadly has cost the lives of many hippies, apple fanatics, a bunch of my little ponies and the last remaining nun in the city, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, eh eh I mean, how sad.
It all started in the year 70,48945² B.C. when eh, eeeeehhhhh, ehm eehh well ehm they started it.
P.S. well so can I
Town that attracts tourists by claiming it's coastal, while really it's just close to a river, called Chechenskoe More (usual abbreviation: 'tsètche") by its main Gastarbeiter contingent (Chechens who were lured there thinking it was the capital of judo and discotheque refurnishment). Traditionally, local elections are decided in a mud wrestling match between the best local basket ball player and the best local judo fighter. In 2006, the basket player (Johan Vande Lanotte) for the third consecutive time beat the judo fighter (Jean-Marie De Decker).
Varsenare City[edit]
Home of the wonder that is called Vandamme, Jan Vandamme. Varsenare is a typical idyllic city lying in the hart of Belgium: the polders. It's also one of the first settlements of mankind, dated back as far as 1984 AD. But the myth says that a group of homo erectus, who were very horny at the time, started a camp near the Gistelsestoneroad. Fortunately for them a group of lesbian erectus came from the other side and joined the herd. The homo's and lesbians mated which started an enormous growth of the population. Last counting reported over 6 citizens and still rising.
Brugge ( Bruges )[edit]
The Capital City, not only of West-Flanders, but also of the world. Brugge (or Bruges in English) recently restarted annexing neighbouring cities, including Assebroek, Dudzele, Koolkerke, Lissewege, Sint-Andries, Sint-Kruis, Sint-Michiels and is now looking for more Lebensraum, especially focusing East-Flanders. Bruges has no university, because the Belgian Government is afraid that a West-Flemish university could lead to West-Flemish independence and world supremacy. There is, however, a campus of KU Leuven in Kortrijk, but 90% of their students are West-Flemings in the age bracket [7-12] so no-one in West-Flanders takes that campus seriously. Because of this, thousands of young West-Flemish go to the University of Ghent. This has lead to tensions however, because West-Flemings are generally smarter than their East-Flemish counterparts. Some East-Flemings therefore founded the party "Nieuw-Gentse Alliantie", which wanted to expel all West-Flemings out of Ghent. However, they didn't had the intelligence to back up their movement and thus failed miserably. As a result West-Flemings still dominate the University of Ghent.
Home of the terrible socialistic dictator Freddyy WIlloXxx and his jumping (as in Dj Furax) followers. It is generally accepted that WIlloXxx is only a puppet and that the real dictator is wil|y lam0n, who's planning to opress the whole region by hitting his opponents with his stick.
In a nearby village there lives a creepy Dutch teacher too. He teaches all the kids DUTCH...
Sint-Niklaas is the home of SNC Punx. But what's most amazing about these citizens is that they really are all so cool... you can't believe it.
some quotes: "sinnekloas, hell yeah" "can we stay here?"
home to hooverphonic
Home of one of the world's most famous wingman, "chilly willy". And we ain't talking about wingman in the nerdy 'I can fly' kind of way, nono, we're talking about the .
This is probably the only city in the world where being bald ("KAAL") is an actual sport. Home of one of the oldest universities in Europe, the K.U.L. ("Kale Universiteit Leuven"). Famous citizens: Senator Lonsdale and Judge H. Ardcore, both known for their policy about foreigners. (Also known as drug abusers or "Die Ausländer".) With great places such as The colff, The Rock Café with earlier whole lotta rosie as bartender, and now a communist boy) and Johnnies (referring to mindless fools listening to hardcore music) call Leuven their true home.There's also a school called the Ring and it's full off hippies and dumb communists. I would like to kill them bunch of faggots. Thursday nights are of great importance to the inhabitants of Leuven, since it is the only time they have an opportunity to drink and get laid like hell. The university owes its greatness to the FAKBARS, where academics meet and play Fussball during exchange of ideas. Also, the term "Marginale Driehoek" (marginal triangle) originates from here, which says much about the populace of Leuvens' social skills and respect for their neighbours.
Also known as "oilsjt" for the local citizens. This city is mostly inhabitated by hairy monkeys who listen to Kettle Metal. Every year at carnival, they are taken to Leuven, to make sure they don't overpopulate. Aalst is exclusively inhabited by transvestites, men caught not wearing fishnet stockings and Basques are routinely lynched.
Village of the ice farmer. Village that hates Tienen. It was struck by an earthquake, making it the largest ghost town in Belgium. The mayor of this town is Piet Piraat.
This city recently made the world press announcing a 'devils pact' with Brugge. Seems like 'die Drang nach Osten' was simply to strong. Waffles? Under the brave leadership of Sir Maarten Tielt is trying to maintain and fortify its position as world leading economy in the production of dead socialists . Great and noble times are ahead of us my friend. You can also call it Matthiastown, named after the most incredible creator of that town. The only problem is that nobody believes him. But that doesn't bother him. The mayor of tielt, Mao Zhedong recently opened up the free market so Tielt can now start exporting dead socialists. Starting with Johan Vande Lanotte, he is believed to be worse than Stalin, Mao and Kim Jong Il together!
Home town of cone head Ben crabbé, the drummer of The Kreuners. It's a part of the 'Marginale driehoek'. It's for your own good to stay the hell out of Tienen. (Also known as the town of sugar.)
Is the hardest village to describe, this is the only town in the world where men are able to have children. They are usually dressed in clothes that are sent by third world countries in order to get rid of the poverty. It's also a part of the Marginale driehoek. (Yes.)
Homebase of "Lethal Bregt", also known as "Crimegt". One of the leading artists on the Hardjump Scene, he is known to be very stupid, which is because he listens to Jumpstyle and calls it something even more stupid and also because he calls himself lethal bregt, common who the fuck calls himself like that.
Sometimes spelled as "Loqeren". Home of "Jump Crew Lokeren".Basically a group of random people dancing around spasmic on techno.Jumping is for hyperactive disabled retards how try to fly. Famous Citizens: Gabber Freddy.
English: "Antwerp". This harbor city was originally founded after someone cut off the founder's hand and threw it in the river. Currently the local citizens ("Führers") are at war with Morocco. In British English, "twerp" is a slang term meaning an idiot or fool. This might be a coincidence, though it's not bloody likely, is it? The only three remaining Whelks in the world live here. Mostly because they feel this is the only place left in the world where the people arn't completely retarded. They call all black people "makakken" which you can get killed for if you say it too loud in the wrong place.
Manneken Pis ( Peeing Boy ), period. Oh yes and some kind of Old Mountain, meh who cares? Also home of Croatian mob branches,the most famous being the Malfrovices, lead by the mighty Andriy Malfrovic. the school (KA Geraardsbergen) is also terrorised by disformed creatures claiming to be teachers, an example of this is HangWang De Jonge (in english: flappingcheeks The Young), in contradiction to her name she is believed to be well over 500 years old and tortures students by showing them used anticonseption devices. Please note that this is the most dangerous city in Belgium. "Marginalen" often get in fights with eachother, that means : lacostenikewearing tuningboys and retards calling eachother gay and saying "dikken a bakkes" (roughly translated : fat guy, keep your mouth shut!). They don't go to school, but if they do they're probably part of the KA. Their other hobbies are: smoking on the playground without getting noticed, beating up the cool kids and getting drunk before 10 am. Which is not that weird, coz Geraardsbergen is the city with the highest alcoholaddict-rate.
This is the city where people decide whether or not you will be wearing red or purple underwear next year. It is the capital of the European Union. Brussels is also famous for its large red tape industry. It is also where the Commission européenne isn't based or as the locals call it, the Belgian. it has over 10,000 ppl put there.
Bornem is the booby-capital of the world. On November the 29th a booby-conference is held in the C.C., led by a guy named Homomanpiet(http://nl.netlog.com/Homomanpiet). Booby-festivities include giant bras, confetti and boob-shaped pies, booooooring look if you want to see transvestites you can always go to aalst, apparently there are allot of them during carnaval.
|This article was mentioned in Humo (Belgium), further diminishing what little credibility the media had left. You can read all about it here


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I'll love you forever,I'll like you for always,As long as I'm livingMy baby you'll be.
the story of a letter. prompted by an email.
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- Natalie* said...
mmm.... i love that.
how precious to have such an open and accepting dialogue.
with both mother...
and the man who guides the getting it on....
and i think i'll love you forever is my motie's favorite book as well.
- Saturday, April 04, 2009
- Alexia said...
What a darling thing for your mother to do! I'm super close with my Mam but she doesn't encourage me to 'explore' as it were. I think she'd like it if I dated more though. Hell, she'd like it if I dated it at all.
I'm so inspired by your 25 by 25- I'm going to go make my own list now! I've only got 9 months though. Oh crap, I just reminded myself that I'm almost 25.
I know I'm a bit late but... who's Ned? Feel free to ignore this question. I have a knack for asking inappropriate question. Last night I interrupted a woman to ask her if she was gay. She wasn't gay or insulted. My mother was mortified. Super fun.
- Saturday, April 04, 2009
- miss sarah darling said...
i think it's lovely that your mother wrote that letter! it was yet another way of her saying, "i love you no matter what."
what a fantastic message to get from one's mother! that sexuality is part of your womanhood. that it is YOURS! and you were now armed with words from your trusted mother, on that subject that is probably so hard difficult to broach with a child, as you chose to enter or not enter into that world. i think it shows bravery, honesty and shows that she has a great deal of respect for YOU and YOUR life.
how fantastic.
i think your mom sounds great :)
- Saturday, April 04, 2009
- sheila said...
this is totally off the subject, but I LOVE your photo in the entry "i hate when people use their headshot as their profile pic for facebook. hate it." post.
thats all.
- Saturday, April 04, 2009
- Maggie May said...
I think it's wonderful that your mom did that, for numerous reasons, but mostly because love, love, love- that's all there Really Is, in the end.
- Saturday, April 04, 2009
- Tina Tarnoff said...
I was just absolutely blown away by this post. You're very lucky to have such a wonderful relationship with yor parents. My mother and I are always struggling with ours. She's trying too hard to be my friend and I'm not trying hard enough to be her daughter.
Anyway, love reading you. You are a wonder, you are:).
- Sunday, April 05, 2009
- Helen said...
What a great post, Meg. You are so lucky to have a mother who is not squeamish over the topic of sex, and sex as it pertains to her daughter. That is incredibly rare.
I don't think I ever told you this, but I adore your blog header. Back when I was an anonymous reader, I thought it was a stock photo because it seemed just so perfect and beautiful. It's one of the most joyful photos I've ever seen.
- Sunday, April 05, 2009
- heisschic said...
thank you for sharing.
im very envious--- i consider my relationship with my mother to be very close, but ive never been able to bring myself that im not the innocent flower she believes i am. i actually just starting dating someone new, so she's trying to bring me to a chastity talk tonight.
she once thanked me for only telling her the truth she could handle. i dont like lying to her, but i know how much more the truth would hurt. not an easy place to be.
- Monday, April 06, 2009
- Alexia said...
*insert HTML heart here*
- Monday, April 06, 2009
- Carolyn said...
Your mom sounds a lot like my mom, so I completely appreciate the value of that letter.
Growing up without a dad (although it sounds like a crutch/excuse) forced me to figure out that difference, that fine line, between sex and love. It's something I had to learn on my own, and boy do I wish I had a letter like that from my mom.
You're a wonderful person Meg.
- Monday, April 06, 2009
- Hanako66 said...
It sounds like you guys have a very special relationship. My mom and I have never had an open dialogue when it comes to sex/love.
- Monday, April 06, 2009
- Micaela said...
LOVE this post. Love your Mom :) endearing, sweet, hilarious. I love it.
- Monday, April 06, 2009
This is such a great post. Thanks for sharing this and being so open!
- Monday, April 06, 2009
- Signorina Svizzera said...
I really liked this post! I also come from a catholic family and while my mother never sent me a letter, I believe she shares your mother's sentiments. Also, we did have a very similar convo the car once. And I too was about as far away from that then as I am now (good or bad I'm not sure).
p.s. you don't know me- I found you through naomi who also does not know me :)
does that make me a creeper? I hope not!
- Tuesday, April 07, 2009
- SD said...
wow ... good wow
- Tuesday, April 07, 2009
- Valerie said...
ahhh, i am so doing this for my future bebes. your mother is an inspiration!
- Wednesday, April 08, 2009
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- Wednesday, April 08, 2009
- Former Fat Chick said...
I'm not sure how I got to your blog- but it's amazing...call your Mom and tell her the I LOVE HER! The first time my mother even mentioned sex, I was already having it (unprotected) and was no where near prepared in any sense. I talk to my poor son's about sex all the time, and we are open, but as a woman, I know it is different for girls. I may go buy the book and I am 37 and have been married for 18 years! ha-ha
- Wednesday, April 08, 2009


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This week I'm catching up on some odds and ends.
First up is Persuasions of the Dead, a two-CD set of the great a capella vocal group The Persuasions singing Grateful Dead songs, occasionally joined by various other singers and a handful of musicians. Now, if this sounds familiar, it may be because 11 years ago a CD called Might As Well: The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead came out. That fine disc, conceived by Rip Rense and co-produced by Grateful Dead Hour host/musician David Gans and Persuasions leader Jerry Lawson, has been out of print since 2002, coincidentally the year that Lawson left the group. The new version, produced by Rense, contains all 15 songs that appeared on Might As Well—"re-mixed, re-thought, shortened, lengthened, augmented with new parts, new solos, tweaked and even rearranged," Rense writes in the liner notes—plus five other new tracks, two of them "rescued and spruced up" from the original sessions, two new ones and an oddity we'll talk about in a moment.
I think Might As Well was pretty damn good the way it was—a splendid collection of tunes that showed off Jerry Lawson's soulful lead vocals and the full group's other-worldly harmonies to wonderful effect. If you know the gospel/doo-wop stylings style of the legendary singers, you can imagine what they could do with songs such as "Ripple," "It Must've Been the Roses," "Black Muddy River" and "He's Gone." But the unexpected gems were "Ship of Fools" (featuring basso profondo Jimmy Hayes), "Liberty," "Might As Well" and "Loose Lucy" (with "Sweet Joe" Russell on lead). Judicious and always tasteful accompaniment was added by the likes of Vince Welnick on piano, Pete Grant on dobro, Eric Thompson on mandolin, and the four-woman vocal group Mary Schmary (including eerily cool "voice trumpet" by Alyn Kelley on a couple of tunes).
The newly remixed versions of those songs retain all those guest parts, but there are some changes I'm not so thrilled with—such as having Country Joe McDonald sing a verse on "Liberty" (and play harmonica on "Sugaree"); adding a needless Mark Karan electric guitar part to "One More Saturday Night" (I love Mark and his playing is great, but to me it feels out of place on this disc); and putting so-so harmonies from Jackie LaBranch and Gloria Jones from the JGB on too many numbers. That said, I dig the squonking and screeching bari sax of James King added to "Might As Well."
And the new tunes, with one exception, are excellent! "Greatest Story Ever Told" has the drive of the original, but it taps into a gospel vibe that the Dead only hinted at in their versions. "Don't Ease Me In," with each of the Persuasions (except the departed Lawson) taking a verse and dipping into their doo-wop bag for the choruses, is also a delight. "New Speedway Boogie" is powerfully rendered by Lawson and company—it sounds as if it were designed to be sung this way. Best of all, the version of "Stella Blue" that closes the second disc (and which reunited Lawson with the remaining current members of the Persuasions for this one-shot) is sublime. Lawson nails it, and Rense made an inspired decision to feature a haunting solo by a musician playing a bowed Chinese stringed instrument called an erhu. Beautiful!
However, I must quarrel with Rense's inclusion of a new five-and-a-half minute track called "Here Comes Sunshine 2/Drums/Space." This piece is obviously supposed to mirror some of the weirdness that used to go on in Grateful Dead second sets, but it does not belong on this project. The "song" features layers of odd, occasionally random-seeming vocal fragments, a rather uninteresting mouth percussion excursion, and then a really hard-to-listen-to collage of assorted vocal craziness—dozens of chopped-up and seriously altered parts and fragments—that seem intended as a modern version of the infamous GD nitrous oxide experiment "The Barbed Wire Whipping Party." It's not a good idea, it's not well-executed, and it's a drag on the otherwise excellent Disc Two. But hey, maybe it sounds really great if you're tripping.
All in all, though, the glory of the Persuasions shines through song after song, and Persuasions of the Dead is definitely worth checking out! You can learn more about it and order it there here.
Turning to books, I want to give a shout-out to a marvelous biography that came out a few months ago (but which I just got around to reading) called And on Piano… Nicky Hopkins: The Extraordinary Life of Rock's Greatest Session Man by British writer and musician Julian Dawson. The brilliant English pianist is relevant to this blog because from mid-September through New Year's Eve in 1975, Hopkins played piano in the first incarnation of the Jerry Garcia Band.
By the time Hopkins teamed up with Garcia, I was already well aware of his talents, having admired his work with the Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver (with whom he played at my first concert at the Fillmore East in February 1970) and many others. I was, frankly, a little burned out on the sax-heavy jazz and Latin vibe of the Legion of Mary by the time that Garcia-Saunders group called it quits (I like it more in retrospect). So when Garcia turned to a more song-oriented format in the new band with Hopkins, I was delighted. I spent a number of great nights digging that band at the Keystone Berkeley, the Concord Pavilion and Winterland. I know Nicky's florid and occasionally domineering style was not everyone's cup of tea, but I always loved that he seemed to push Garcia with his imaginative flights. That Nicky was clearly soused at every show I saw him play with Jerry didn't bother me at all—he was always a genial and funny emcee, and his playing amazed me.
In the grand scheme of Hopkins' career, the brief time he spent playing with Garcia is a mere blip—and author Dawson treats it as such, devoting a scant two-and-a-half pages (out of more than 300) to their work together and offering little insight into the partnership beyond stating the obvious fact that Nicky was an alcoholic, coked-up mess at the time. Considering the amount of scholarship and detail evident in almost every other episode in the book, it's disappointing that Dawson didn't try harder to come up with more about the Nicky-Jerry liaison (though only drummer Ron Tutt survives from that quartet).
But these are the niggling complaints of a Dead Head. Overall the book is a lively and fascinating account of a quite extraordinary life. I love reading about the British music scene in the '60s (it was my favorite part of the autobiographies of Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Eric Clapton), and this gives us the flavor of what it was like from a top session player's perspective. There are copious anecdotes about the Stones, The Who, The Kinks and many other bands from that era, and when the action shifts to America in 1969, a whole new cast of characters emerges, from Steve Miller to John Cipollina. There is a chapter devoted to Hopkins' work with all four Beatles, and the Stones are in and out of his life regularly—it is his most enduring and most frustrating professional relationship.
Hopkins' personal story is compelling and often tragic. He was dogged by crippling internal health issues for most of his life—indeed, his frailty is one reason he mostly worked as a session pianist rather than joining or touring with bands. He was seriously impaired by alcohol and drugs for much of the 1970s, making him a nightmare to deal with when he did tour with Joe Cocker and others. It wasn't until he became a Scientologist and straightened out through that group's Narconon program at the end of the '70s that he regained his bearings. Unfortunately, synthesizers were more in vogue than piano in the '80s, so Hopkins went through some lean periods, even as he continued to turn up on hit records. Further complicating his life was a pushy and abrasive wife with whom he battled for years and who alienated many friends and workmates. (To be fair, she was also the hopelessly unassertive musician's biggest supporter through good times and bad; but it was a caustic mix.)
The combination of Scientology, a new wife and a move to Nashville at what turned out to be the end of his life seemed to finally bring Hopkins a calm and happiness that had long eluded him. Alas, his myriad health issues — diagnosed too late as Crohn's disease — finally caught up with him and he died painfully in a Nashville hospital in 1994 at the age of 50.
It's quite a tale, and Dawson tells it very well. Dozens of musicians who worked with Hopkins opened up to Dawson, so the book is rich in detail about sessions and tours and both fond and harrowing recollections of the gifted pianist. The author has also assembled the most complete and authoritative Hopkins discography ever. Here is a link to Amazon's page on the book.


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Undergrads devise solutions to help 1,000 people
For the first time this semester, freshmen enrolled in the honors section of Contemporary Management (MGMT 1001H) were tasked with conceiving solutions to grand challenges and given a chance to win funding for their ideas. College of Science and Engineering students along with Carlson School of Management undergraduates generated ideas for how to best help 1,000 people in 1,000 hours, using only $1,000.
The five teams sought solutions to challenges related to food security, energy and water consumption, and more. And although they were instructed to propose an idea that starts small, the students were encouraged to generate ideas with the potential for global reach.
"So much work today requires collaboration among people with very different knowledge and experiences," says associate professor of organizational behavior Mary Zellmer-Bruhn. "Likewise, big problems require creative and critical thinking skills. Our coursework forms an important foundation to address these challenges, but we were looking for opportunities for students to experience the benefits and challenges, and apply their learning to real problems."
About the competition
The teams were given five minutes to present their solution to a panel of faculty that spanned business and science disciplines. All five teams demonstrated a strong solution, with substantial impact, that made effective use of the time and funds available.
"In designing this project, we wanted to encourage students to take risks," says Civil Engineering Associate Professor Julian Marshall. "Typically in a class assignment, teachers want the students to get the 'right' answer; mistakes mean losing points. But in this case, we encouraged them to grapple with big ideas and feel safe to fail."
Although one team scored highest among the five, the instructors secured enough funding to support all the projects, should the students choose to move forward. The course instructors will use feedback from students to fine tune the project requirements, and hope to offer it in future classes.
The Big Ideas
Students enrolled in Contemporary Management proposed the following strategies for how to best help 1,000 people in 1,000 hours, using only $1,000.
Team rEgeneration would lead awareness efforts to educate students about the harms of e-waste - discarded computers, appliances, and mobile phones. The team hopes to reduce the 3,800 tons of recyclable material generated by the University of Minnesota each year.
Team Yellow Mellow would manufacture a device that eliminates the color and odor of urine in a toilet, eliminating the need to flush. Not only would fewer flushes save water, it would reduce pollution produced by water treatment plants.
Team Erase Waste would implement new strategies for reducing food waste in elementary schools. The team would recommend schools compost select items, change the menu that encourage students to eat what they take, and offer a station where students can trade unwanted pre-packaged foods for foods they prefer.
Team Smart Strips would use the $1,000 to purchase power strips for incoming U of M freshmen to curb energy consumed by electronics when in standby mode. This electricity, phantom energy, wastes roughly $3 billion per year in the United States. By supplying students with power strips that prevent devices from consuming energy when powered down, the effort could pay for itself within one year in energy costs.
Team UFresh would implement an affordable, subscription-based service that delivers fresh produce to college students who have limited access to healthy foods. UFresh would provide a weekly delivery of affordable, seasonal foods to students in exchange for a monthly fee.
Reprinted with permission from Carlson School News.


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Winner #2 is Sherri who said: "We haven't finalized summer plans yet, but hoping for a week in the mountains and a week in Southern California...I love the beach and didn't get there last year...hopefully this summer!" Both those ideas sound like fun! Sherri wins the Ruler Holder!
Now you're probably wondering if we're really moving again - only within the Squash House - thank goodness!! We decided to move the guest room downstairs to the "ensuite" room, which means Mr. Squash will move his office into the current guest room next to my studio. We cleared out the old guest room last night as the painter is working in there today. He should be done with that room today so over the weekend we'll move Mr. Squash in. Never a dull moment around here!
I've been trying to take photos of the painter's progress, but I really can't get the colors to show as true in most of the photos. Below is the chocolate wall in the dining area. We can't believe how great it looks - the wood surrounding it really "pops". The other walls are painted a warm honey color, but in this photo it shows as olive!
And to show you that I've actually done some sewing, here is the finished flimsy for Anne Sutton's Tisket A Tasket. I did it in what I call "pink-work". I have no idea where I got the pink fabric, or whose line it is - something from my stash. I set the blocks in Posies by Sandy Gervais. I bought a fat quarter bundle of it from Anne over at Cottons 'n Wool a while back and found that it coordinated well with the pink fabric. Now to figure out how to quilt it!


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In the final days of the Texas Senate primary campaign, the major question for political junkies is this: Can David Dewhurst win the majority necessary to avoid a runoff.
Every poll shows him in the lead. But no public poll has him at the magic 50 percent mark.
A new poll released today shows the lieutenant governor enticingly close, however. The Public Policy Polling survey showed Dewhurst at 46 percent, followed by former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz at 29 percent and former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert at 15 percent.
For Dewhurst, the doubly good news is that PPP has him gaining ground on Cruz in the past month (from a 12-point lead to 17).
In addition, PPP found that Dewhurst leads Cruz in a head-to-head matchup, 59 percent to 34 percent. That's because Leppert voters prefer Dewhurst over Cruz, 77 percent to 13 percent.
Dewhurst told our Austin bureau chief, Peggy Fikac, downplayed the prospects of winning a majority in the primary.
"I think if we're fortunate enough to end up next Tuesday night with over 50 percent of the vote, I'm going to be very grateful," Dewhurst said after an event at Austin's Scholz Garten.
Cruz, in an interview with Texas on the Potomac, dismissed the poll as "an outlier" and said called the primary "a single-digit race." What's more, he expressed confidence he would win a runoff with Dewhurst.
"If we go to a runoff, we win this race," Cruz said. "We will win decisively."
His reasoning: "Turnout will drop significantly" in a runoff, and he will be the favorite of "hard-core conservative voters."
The latest poll bears out Cruz's logic. According to PPP, 49 percent of Cruz's voters are "very excited" about voting for him, compared to 27 percent of Dewhurst's supporters. Among "very excited" Republican voters — those most likely to show up on primary day — Cruz led Dewhurst, 42 percent to 37 percent.
"That pro-Cruz enthusiasm gap won't be enough to put him in first place on Tuesday," said PPP president Tom Jensen, "But if he does force a runoff it could give him a fighting chance in a low turnout election further down the line."


text: Market Outlook: Former Soviet Union nations jump exports; CME takes wheat futures February 26, 2013 08:27 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Top Producer Editors Email by Jeanne Bernick and Ed Clark KC Wheat Markets Move to Chicago CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, has announced it will transition open outcry trading of Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) hard red winter (HRW) wheat futures and options to its Chicago trading floor beginning July 1, pending CFTC review. This transition will accelerate efficiencies and trading opportunities for customers trading both the HRW wheat and CBOT Soft Red Winter (SRW) wheat varieties. KCBT wheat futures and options will continue to trade on CME Globex and be listed by and subject to the rules of KCBT. The last day of open outcry trading on the KCBT floor will be June 28. CME Group will continue to operate an electronic trading center in the former KCBT floor space until the end of September, providing a place for Kansas City-based traders to execute trades on CME Globex. "Throughout the integration process, we've remained focused on our customers who manage global price risk associated with these two classes of wheat," said CME Group COO Bryan Durkin. "By moving Kansas City wheat to the Chicago floor later this year, we will make it as efficient as possible for our customers to trade both products and the spread between the two." In addition, beginning April 15 and subject to CFTC approval, customers will benefit from the integration of KCBT clearing services into CME Clearing, which will provide cross-margining and other capital efficiencies for a larger group of market participants. Major Exports From former soviet Nations A not-so-new kid on the grain production block is emerging as a growing export competitor—the former Soviet Union nations of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. From 2006 to 2011, grain exports by the three countries averaged 41 million metric tons (mmt), about 14% of the world's total (including rice). That percentage of exports is expected to rise to 22% by 2021, according to USDA projections. In a new report, USDA says that Russia wheat exports alone are projected to almost equal those of the U.S., and total wheat exports by Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan will exceed those of the U.S. by some 87%. However, growth of the livestock sector within those countries, aided by government policy, could mitigate these developments as expanding livestock herds reduce feed grain surpluses available for export. Growth of the region's exports will also require infrastructure improvement for storing and transporting grain. This abrupt change is in contrast to the late Soviet period, when the Soviet Union was a large grain importer. Key reason for the abrupt shift: Breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 as the nations transitioned from centrally planned to market-driven economies. During the 1990s, grain imports largely ended, and these countries collectively became a small net grain exporter. During the 2000s, the region emerged as a large grain exporter. Average annual grain exports rose from 9 mmt during 1996-2000 to 24 mmt during 2001-2005, increasing during 2006-2011 to 41 mmt. The movement of the region from a large grain importer to net exporter has created a swing of more than 50 mmt in the volume of grain available on the world market. The main grain exported is wheat, accounting for more than 70% of its grain exports from 2006 to 2010, followed by barley with a 20% share. USDA economists attribute increased grain output, along with slow growth of domestic grain consumption, to the creation of surpluses for export. Another key reason is the contraction of the region's livestock sector. The future will be one of increasing corn production, too. Compared with 2006-2010, corn area in Russia and Ukraine is expected to rise by 46% and 91%, respectively. Grain yields are expected to increase to a greater extent than grain area. For both Russia and Ukraine, area, yield and production of corn all increase more than wheat and barley. Back to news


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Sioux Falls Offers Fraud Prevention Class
Education is key when it comes to keeping yourself safe and preventing fraud. Attend this educational session with a Sioux Falls police officer who will be discussing topics such as how to protect yourself from identity theft, avoiding scams, and other important issues. Protect yourself and join us to learn more about the current issues that could affect you.
Street Smarts: Protect Yourself will be held on Thursday, November 29, 2012, from 1 to 2 p.m. at Kenny Anderson Community Center, located at 3701 East Third Street. The class is free, but please register by Tuesday, November 27, as space is limited.
For more information regarding this and other programs, please refer to the current fall Activities Guide; find us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube; log on to www.siouxfalls.org/parks; or call the Park Office at 367-8222.


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Even if you're not getting bored with my search for the perfect mascara, I certainly am. I must have about 35 mascaras now, all that I have bought with hard earned moolah, all with varying results, from:
URGH! to
MEH! to
HMM to
I actually got a little sample size of Shiseido's latest offering, Perfect Mascara thus saving myself money (Why didn't I think of asking for samples from the counters before? Oh, because they are manned by evil bitches!). Anyway here's the 'Perfect' mascara:
My, my, my. Don't you know better than to enter the Candy Cavern with such proclamations?
So here is my eye bare:
They say:
All-day Beautiful Finish. Proven Smudge-proof formula. Easy to Remove with Warm Water. Creates amazing volume, length and curl — all benefits in one mascara. Intense lustrous color that never dulls. "Flexible", non-clumping formula stays smudge-free all day. Contains Pro Vitamin B5 – a treatment ingredient, that makes formula gentle for lashes.
This is also my bare eye with a little clump in from yesterday…ahem. WE WON'T COUNT THAT AGAINST SHISEIDO, OK?
The Perfect mascara has a pretty standard bristle brush, so I guess we are not playing the battery-powered-rotating-spikey-ball-square-grass lined brush game here. We are relying of formula, baby.
One Coat:
The texture of the mascara is a little creamy, and fibery. For length, it is fantastic (as you can see on my lashes). Volume….well let's try a few coats to see. But length, it is stellar. Texture is rather nice too. So far not affecting my curl too much, which you may know, is a major bugbear of mine.
A bit of floppage….and a big spidery, isn't it? On the verge of clumping:
With 2 coats, there is even more lovely length, but no real volume and I can sense without careful application, its going to clump. It is not one of those mascara's that is resistant to clump.
It also also began to make my lashes flop…not majorly, but it certainly isn't boosting any curl. There's still something about it that looks a bit bitty – its not quite as rich as I'd like.
2 Coats:
From the side, you can see its made my lashes flop at the sides and there's those little bitty bits on my lashes. I still love how black it is and I love the length though, and it comes of quite easily:
** I also tried this with Shiseido Lash Base and it made my lashes flop even quicker than previously although it added more volume.
Of the expensive (£16+) mascaras I have bought lately, I prefer Dior Iconic Extreme (Waterproof) combined with Shiseido Lash Base the most.
Calling your mascara 'Perfect' it a little bold and guess what, I had (like the Wii Fit also told me) unrealistic expectations.
In this case, the mascara was almost there, like how Victoria Beckham is 'almost' .
It's nice to apply, it looks good, it makes my lashes long. But it also makes them flop a little, it's a bit bitty, its a bit dry.
It's not perfect, but it's not that far from perfect. But almost doesn't count.
And on that positive note, this 'perfect' kitten says HAI!:


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VANCOUVER, WA -- Although Sherborne Investors is claiming victory at yesterday's meeting of Nautilus shareholders, Robert Falcone, CEO of the equipment manufacturer, told one media outlet that it was too close to call.
A Nautilus spokesperson said today that it's too early to know the results.
"Preliminary results aren't due for another two weeks. Speculating at this point would not be appropriate," says Ron Arp, spokesperson for Nautilus, Vancouver, WA.
However, based on preliminary figures it says was provided by proxy solicitation firm DF King & Co., Sherborne Investors released a statement that its four nominees to the board were approved by the shareholders. Those four nominees are Edward J. Bramson, managing director of Sherborne, executive chairman of Spirent Communications plc and formerly chairman of Ampex Corp. and Elementis plc; Gerard L. Eastman, managing director of Sherborne Investors and formerly managing director of Citigroup Global Markets Inc.; Michael Stein, formerly CFO of ICOS Corp., Nordstrom and Marriott International; and Richard Horn, formerly general manager of the Pets Hotel Division of PetSmart.
If that is true, then Falcone, Ronald Badie and Marvin Siegert are the three board members that remain from the original board.
Sherborne Investors, which owns 23.5 percent of Nautilus' stock, began to seek removal of board members this fall after the company announced a continuing decline in its stock price that began two years ago. In the third quarter, the company announced a loss of $13.45 million.
Prior to the Dec. 18 shareholder meeting, four proxy advisory firms had advised shareholders not to approve Sherborne's full proposal. Two of those firms had suggested replacing just two of the board members.
Falcone became CEO in August and has already put in place several efforts that he says will turn around the company. The former Nike executive laid off 9 percent of Nautilus' workforce, cut expenses by $10 million annually and put the company's clothing line, Pearl Izumi, up for sale.


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They didn't have a plan to transform the corner of Broadway and N. Fourth Street, home of the old junior high school, into a bustling, brick call center. They might have envisioned, but couldn't predict, the 320 jobs that business would create, or the force of change it would become in the world of technical customer service when they sold their company to Sykes in 1992.
But what a difference two decades can make.
Sykes celebrated its 20th anniversary in Sterling Thursday afternoon with a sunny, outdoor luncheon for privately invited guests, ranging from city council members to Chuck Sykes, the CEO of the now $1.2 billion worldwide company.
A small crowd listened to speeches congratulating Sykes' impact on Sterling and detailing some of the more important highlights of the company's history.
"We drive by the big, brick building and we don't really think about what's inside," said Sterling Mayor Heather Brungardt during the celebration, "and it's amazing that something on the forefront of technology is in rural Sterling, Colo."
The call center was the first of its kind for Sykes when they built it in the early 1990s - an "industry model" as Laurie put it. It was one of the first call centers designed to work as a call center, from the way the chair were laid out to the cubicles, telecom and infrastructure.
For Sykes, that model has been copied at about 80 other locations worldwide. More are planned in Eugene, Ore. and Fayetteville, N.C.
But it took a lot of work and a lot more things to go right for the business to thrive and expand the way it did.
When Dan and Laurie moved to Sterling from California in 1989, back to Dan's hometown, it immediately became apparent that the city needed business.
"I got back and the town was dying," Dan said after the ceremony.
But he and Laurie had an idea: a business that provides customer service for tech companies.
It would require a population that was underemployed, but highly educated. But according to a demographic study, Sterling and Logan County fit that category well (one of the highest degrees of post-high school education in Colorado at the time, Dan said).
A rural area also worked because tech and agriculture have opposite busy seasons; when farmers have less work in the winter, tech companies are at their busiest, and tech companies slow down in the summer when agricultural work increases.
So after weeks of planning and research, they started Jones Technologies -- called JTI -- and started expanding. Laurie handled the marketing and operations responsibilities while Dan handled the technical aspects.
Laurie said the company was successful, calling 500 of the 700 software companies they identified in their first year. But like many expanding new businesses, they hit a snag: They needed money.
Software companies needed their services because their own help desks couldn't handle their quickly expanding call volumes, but they didn't have the funds to expand.
"The venture capital community didn't believe me," when she pitched their company's worth, Laurie laughed.
But through connections, a meeting was arranged between Laurie and John Sykes in which neither knew why they'd been matched with each other. The two talked until the topic of Laurie's company came up, and by the end of the conversation Sykes had offered to buy it from them.
"He said, 'name a number' -- it was in the millions... not to buy, but to expand," Laurie said. "And within 30 days of acquisition, we signed our first major client. We had to hire 40 to 50 people."
The company grew fast.
Dan said their center reached 10,000 customers in their first year, and doubled to 20,000 by their second.
Chuck Sykes told the crowd that he was in St. Louis, Mo., running an IT service after the acquisition when he got a call: He had about two days to pack up all of his office's furniture, load it into a truck and drive 17 1/2 hours to Sterling.
"I didn't know what my dad (John Sykes) had done," Sykes said.
Talk to anyone involved in the company's early years and you'll get dozens of stories about close calls and quick fixes, as the company grew to meet the demand for its services. Laurie spoke of another time in the company's infancy, for example, when they had to gather 100 new employees over a weekend to meet a client's demands (that project was later put on hold, to their relief, she said).
But even after Sykes bought the company, Dan and Laurie continued to contribute to it up to the new millennium, seeing it earn a number of service awards and designations and grow through hard work and business acquisitions. They relished the moment in 1996 when the company went public and started trading on NASDAQ.
"We had to learn to adapt quickly, make informed decisions," Dan said, adding that he and Laurie had some previous entrepreneurial experience to back that up. "You're going to make wrong decisions. The question is, how are you going to deal with it?"
"Sometimes you're at the right place at the right time," Laurie later added.
Still, she agreed that the whole situation was a little surreal -- looking at a now global company that, for the Sterling branch, started in a cramped space with folding tables and a handful of employees.
The company continues to grow and the Joneses continue to stay remotely involved. But they agreed that the company has reached a point when, "you need the experts to keep moving forward." Laurie said they were okay with that when they left, and they're still okay with it.
"There's a limit to how long you can dance at that speed," Dan said.
But for the company in the big brick building at the north end of the one-way, it looks like it'll be a long time before their feet get tired.David Martinez: (970) 526-9283; email@example.com.
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"Sober nations acquire all at already become atrocious gamblers, and risked about their actuality aloft the about-face of a section of paper. To trace the history of the a lot of arresting of these delusions is the article of the present pages. Men, it has been able-bodied said, anticipate in herds; it will be apparent that they go mad in herds, while they alone balance their senses slowly, and one by one." –Charles MacKay, 1841
Have you heard about the abstract tulip ball chic that absorbed seventeenth-century Holland? The aiguille of the aberration saw a individual tulip ball affairs for the agnate of $150,000 or it ability acquire been $1,500,000, depending on which historian is accomplishing the talking. This adventure is true, it absolutely happened, and it could appear again.
In 1559 Conrad Gestner brought the aboriginal tulip bulbs from Constantinople to Holland and Germany, and humans fell in adulation with them. In actual abbreviate adjustment tulip bulbs became a cachet attribute for the affluent — they were actual admirable and difficult to get.
Early buyers were humans who absolutely admired the admirable flowers, but it wasn't connected afore speculators got invovled and abounding buyers were alone in for the money. They created trading activity, and eventually tulip bulbs were placed assimilate the bounded bazaar exchanges. By 1634, the appeal to own tulips had advance from the affluent chic into the average classes of Dutch society. Merchants and shopkeepers began to vie with one and addition for individual tulip bulbs.
How bad was it? It was so bad… it was so bad that at the acme of the tulip ball balloon in 1635, a individual tulip ball was awash for the afterward items:
o four bags of wheat
o eight bags of rye
o one bed
o four oxen
o eight pigs
o 12 sheep
o one accouterment of clothes
o two casks of wine
o four bags of beer
o two bags of butter
o 1,000 pounds of cheese
o one argent bubbler cup.
The present day amount of all these items comes to about $40,000! For a individual tulip ball we don't even apperceive the blush of. Things became so camp that humans were affairs aggregate they endemic – their homes, their livestock, aggregate – to buy individual bulbs on the apprehension that the bulbs would abide to abound in value.
By 1636, tulips were accustomed on the Amsterdam banal barter to board the speculators and gamblers who had become the primary purchasers of tulip bulbs.
Tulip notaries and clerks were appointed to almanac transactions, and accessible laws and regulations were developed to ascendancy the craze. Backward in 1636, a few tulip owners began to cash their holdings. At aboriginal prices began to abate slowely, again added rapidly as aplomb was destroyed. By again agitation bedeviled the market.
Within six weeks, tulip prices comatose by 90%. Defaults on affairs and liens on owners were boundless and the Dutch government banned to interfere. Instead, it artlessly brash tulip holders to accede a part of themselves on some plan to balance prices and restore accessible confidence. Eventually accumulated assembly in Amsterdam declared absent and abandoned all affairs that were fabricated at the acme of the mania, these were the ones fabricated above-mentioned to November 1636. Tulip affairs fabricated afterwards November 1636 were acclimatized if buyers paid alone 10% of the prices to which they had beforehand agreed.
Tulip prices connected to fall. Next, the bigoted board in the Hague was asked to ad-lib some admeasurement to balance tulip prices and accessible credit. Tulip prices connected to fal. In Amsterdam, board admired tulip affairs as bank activities and cloister rules captivated that bank debts were not debts in the eyes of the law. No cloister in Holland would accomplish payment. Tulip collectors, speculators, and gamblers who had tulips at the time of the collapse were larboard with annihilative losses.
Tulip prices anon plunged accomplished the present agnate of a dollar each. Is it accessible for you to brainstorm affairs an investment for $76,000, alone to ascertain six weeks after that it was account no added than one dollar? Commerce in Holland suffered a astringent shock it did not balance from for abounding years.
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Convoy of Hope: Next Stop Sioux City, Iowa, to Give Away $1 Million in Food, Services
Convoy of Hope, a faith-based organization known for its food relief work in times of disasters, continues on its national community outreach tour with a stop on Saturday in Sioux City, Iowa, giving away $1 million in food, giveaways, and services.
Like several of the Convoy of Hope events that have already taken place this year, the free community outreach will feature services including haircuts, dental check-ups, health services, workforce development services, and kids' carnival.
"Convoy of Hope leaders in Sioux City are super-excited about bringing a poverty-free day to that community," said Rick Zorehkey, a special assistant to one of the organization's co-founders.
Convoy of Hope officials say that each year in the United States the organization holds up to 50 community events with the help of thousands of volunteers who serve tens of thousands of guests. At each event free groceries, job and health fairs, and activities for children are provided.
"In doing so, volunteers are given an opportunity to connect with members of their community, and guests are shown love and respect regardless of age, race, physical appearance, or spiritual condition," Convoy of Hope states.
"What we have found is that those who help out at these community events today are the volunteers of tomorrow," Zorehkey told The Christian Post.
The organization states that it takes pride in its "guest of honor principle." Every aspect of the outreaches are based on this principle, according to Convoy of Hope. "During an outreach all areas of service demonstrate this principle. We unconditionally love and accept each guest without regard to age, race, physical appearance, or spiritual condition."
"Our goal at every outreach is to let every recipient know he or she is valued and respected," Zorehkey said.
More than 1,000 local community volunteers in the Sioux City area are expected to "share hope and tangible help" with more than 5,000 anticipated neighbors, organizers said.
Convoy of Hope is also working with the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) at the outreach. NBCF will provide education, support and early detection services to underserved women in the community.
The event on Saturday is scheduled to take place at the Tyson Event Center beginning at 10 a.m. (Rain or Shine).
On the Web, http://siouxcity.convoyofhope.org.


text: Adelaide - Faf du Plessis battled dehydration and cramping during a match-defining century on Monday, but said the pain and fatigue had made carrying South Africa to a draw in the second Test against Australia all the more sweet. Du Plessis scored 78 in the first innings to help his team avoid the follow-on and an unbeaten 110 in the second as he steered South Africa to safety with only two wickets in hand in a dream debut at Adelaide. "I think it just makes it a little bit more sweet," the 28-year-old all-rounder told reporters of his exhaustion, having batted through the whole day in stifling heat.Australia v South Africa 2nd Test Day 5 Highlights "The story wouldn't have been that nice if my body was all feeling fine. One day when I look back, I can look back and say I pushed through the physical side of things. "It just shows how far you can go if you're mentally strong enough." Named man-of-the-match, Du Plessis came to the crease with South Africa reeling at 45-4 shortly after tea on day four and with seemingly little hope of salvation. Anchoring watchful partnerships of 89 runs with schoolmate AB de Villiers and 99 with injured all-rounder Jacques Kallis, Du Plessis found himself thrust into the role of saviour as his batting partners crumbled around him late in the day. Along the way, Du Plessis survived two lbw decisions given by umpire Billy Bowden in quick succession when in the 30s, with both overruled on video review. He edged a catch to Matthew Wade off the bowling of pace bowler Ben Hilfenhaus but the wicketkeeper fumbled the chance to grant Du Plessis another reprieve on 94. After moving to 98 after tea, Du Plessis was stuck there for about half an hour as Australia's bowlers ramped up the pressure. "AB and Jacques really helped me a lot. I had a lot of questions for them and they kept me calm, especially in the 90s," Du Plessis said. "I was going through a lot of emotions. I had goose bumps - it's the record for the longest goosebumps ever. "I said to myself, 'don't think too much of your hundred, let it come to you. The team wants you to be defensive here and be solid and wait for it'." Du Plessis pushed a drive through the covers for two to secure an emotional ton but was soon fighting cramps in his legs amid constant "chirping" from the frustrated Australian fielders. "They thought I was wasting time, but it was me trying to get some fluids in," said Du Plessis, who was called into the side after JP Duminy was ruled out of the series with an Achilles injury. "I was surprised, compared with yesterday and today, today they didn't stop (sledging) for five minutes. "They just keep chatting in my ear the whole day. We'd have done the same thing. "They were fighting, firstly, then they were getting frustrated. Credit to them for speaking the whole day." In the final over, Du Plessis was reduced to a nervous spectator with paceman Morné Morkel facing the fiery Peter Siddle, who had taken two late wickets to keep Australia in the hunt. He need hardly have worried, as Morkel punched two consecutive boundaries before blocking the last ball. "Morné played it beautifully," Du Plessis said. "He played two straight drives. I went up to him and said, 'keep playing it straight', and he said, 'Don't worry, I've got this'."